By accepting his forgiveness in your life, you’ll be able to offer it to others. When you take a good look through God’s eyes, you see the forgiveness that only he can give. (RNS) Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren on Sunday (June 6) announced the church will begin the official search for his successor, signaling he will retire after 40 years. You are his creation, a masterpiece designed to live for him and bless others. Daily Hope Ministries is a 501c3 non-profit that provides hope in many forms, including a half-hour Bible teaching program called Daily Hope with Rick Warren, in which Pastor Warren shares a meaningful and applicable message from Scripture to encourage, equip, and train people to fulfill God’s purposes for their lives. But the important thing is how God sees you. Take a good look at yourself, and you may see ugliness, selfishness, and sin. A thirteen page, single spaced, double sided letter described how God provided healing. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others” (Colossians 3:13 NLT). It all started with a letter from John Baker to Pastor Rick Warren. How do you do that? “Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Once you recognize that you’re forgiven, you are then enabled and strengthened to forgive other people. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La., on June 13, 2023. You are forgiven if you accept that gift of salvation from Jesus. Former pastor Rick Warren speaks in support of Saddleback Church at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting at the Ernest N. What a relief! You don’t have to suffer or pay for your sins now or in eternity. He offers unconditional, complete, consistent, eternal, by-grace forgiveness in all of our lives. Condemnation is gone because of what Jesus Christ did for us. That’s why God can say this: “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1 NIV). None of it surprises him! Before you were born, God made a plan to offer you forgiveness for all the guilt that’s in your life. He knows every wrong thing you’re going to do. God wants to forgive, and he has done everything necessary to forgive your sins in Christ.Įven before the world was made, God was already planning in Christ to forgive your sins. I will not hold your sins against you” (Isaiah 43:25 GNT). Here’s what God is really like: “I am the God who forgives your sins, and I do this because of who I am. They picture God up in heaven, waiting to zap them for anything they do wrong. He serves as senior pastor and continues to be on the forefront of the evangelical movement and innovation.

A lot of people think God carries grudges. Rick Warren is founder of Saddleback Church (1980).

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