In the beginning, the abundant love within the Trinity overflowed and created the world, culminating in the creation of people. Humanity was created from love for love. Although humanity was created for a loving relationship with God and with each other, the first people chose to reject God’s loving boundaries and instead, chose disobedience to God. This choice resulted in brokenness and fractured relationships between people and God, between people, and with the created world.
However, God is love, and love wills the good of the other, so God set about a plan to restore a broken world and bring about that which is good for people—healing, wholeness and restoration. Eventually, when the time was right, this love broke into the world in a new way when God became a man, Jesus Christ.
Jesus lived among humanity, demonstrating what a life of flourishing looks like. He modeled a relationship of love and dependence on God the Father. Out of this relationship, his love overflowed into the lives of people, healing them, teaching them, and making them whole. Eventually, he showed his love in the greatest possible way, by giving his life as a sacrifice for sin, paying the price that people could not pay themselves, and through his death and resurrection, making a way for people to be restored and made new.