Sacrificial Love | Edge 5th & 7th Grade Summer Camp 2026 | Pastor Doug Atterbury

Main message: God’s love is not something we earn by performance, feelings, or blessings — he chose to love us and proved it by Christ dying for us while we were helpless, ungodly enemies. We must respond by repenting and receiving that gift of salvation through faith in Christ.

Key points:

• Realize your helplessness: no amount of good behavior, worship, or effort can earn God’s love.
• Recognize your undeserving status: the Bible calls us ungodly/sinners — enemies of God apart from Christ.
• See how great God’s love is: he demonstrated it by Christ’s sacrificial death for the ungodly (not for the deserving).
• The effect of that death: through Christ’s blood we are justified, reconciled to God, and saved from His wrath.
• Your required response: receive God’s love by repentance and trusting in Jesus (not by trying to earn it).

Scriptures mentioned: Romans 5:6-11