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God sent Eyes Wide Open for one reason: to show people what it feels like to be loved without conditions — so they can love a world that’s dying for it.
Here’s the thing about conditional love: it’s all most of us have ever known.
Love that comes with fine print. Love that requires performance. Love that gets revoked when you don’t meet the standard. And when that’s what you’ve been raised on — in your family, in your relationships, even in your church — you start to believe that’s just how love works.
But God’s love doesn’t work like that.
Pastor Terrence put it plainly: God said to him, “I need a church where people experience what it feels like to be loved carefully by me — so they can love carelessly in a world that’s dying for it.”
“God loves you hard. God loves you relentlessly. There is nothing you can do to make Him stop loving you.” — Pastor Terrence Sims
That phrase — careful carelessness — is the heartbeat of this church. It’s not recklessness. It’s freedom. When you know — not think, but know — that God loves you completely and without condition, you become free to love others without needing to protect yourself. Without needing to control the outcome. Without needing to get something back.
1 Corinthians 13:8 is not a hallmark card. It’s a divine decree: love never fails. It never expires. It never runs out of jurisdiction. It never bows down to the systems that tell you when you can come and when you can go. Love cannot be contained.
Every theological framework, every institutional debate, every religious argument — Paul says it all passes away. Knowledge fades. Eloquence goes silent. But love never fails.
That’s why Eyes Wide Open Christian Church doesn’t have an agenda beyond God’s agenda. That’s why the gifts God has placed in this community are already moving without anyone being asked. That’s why people are finding their way here from across the Inland Empire and beyond — not because they’re looking for church, but because they’re looking for a home. A place to be loved without conditions.
If that’s you — if you’re tired of performing, tired of earning, tired of the conditional version of love that’s left you exhausted — this message is for you. God is not asking for your perfection. He’s asking for your yes.
Let Him love you carefully. Then watch what happens to how you love everyone else.
Reflect on This
What would it mean for you to receive God’s love not as something to be earned, but as something already freely given? And who in your life is waiting for you to love them with that same kind of freedom?
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