BOB RAMBO
Hi! I’m Bob Rambo, Lead Pastor at Central United Methodist Church. In the 1986 movie THE MISSION, a priest in South America meets a slave trader who has killed his own brother in a jealous rage and is then overcome with GUILT and DEPRESSION.
The priest offers this man another chance - by working with the Indians of the Amazon - the very Indians the slave trader has captured and sold into slavery. As a condition, the priest demands the slave trader drag the symbols of his former life [weapons; armor] behind him.
But when they arrive at the Indian village in the Amazon - the Indians cut the bundle away and throw it into the river. It is their way of saying: THOUGH YOU HAVE HURT US, WE FORGIVE YOU – BECAUSE GOD HAS FORGIVEN US.
Many of us have done things that we feel guilty about. We drag that guilt with us and it weighs us down. But God in mercy has offered forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
Can you accept that gift of forgiveness today?
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