Main Session 05 from our FIRST LOVED: Winter Retreat 2021! Pastor Jordan Walsh closed out the retreat looking the story of God's redemptive and enduring love for His people through the lens of the prophet Hosea. Even in our unfaithfulness and wandering to other things, God loves us still and has purchased us with His precious blood! This love doesn’t make sense, but the love God has reasons of its own that surpass what we may think love is. The powerful truth is that He loved us first!

FIRST LOVED: Winter Retreat 2021

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us.” (1 John 4:18-19 NKJV)

As believers, we know and understand that God loves us, but often we struggle to live in the daily reality of God’s love for us! Over the Winter Retreat, we focused on the truth that God loved us first. It is this love that has been first communicated and shown to man that leads us to the realisation that we love Him simply in response to His love for us. And when we experience His love and love Him in return, there is a freedom and self-abandonment that comes in loving God.