The phrase #NotWillingThatAny comes directly from Scripture and reflects a conviction about God’s heart toward humanity. In 2 Peter 3:9, we are told that the Lord is patient, “not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” This phrase captures the belief that God’s posture toward the world is not one of exclusion or predetermined destruction, but of patient mercy and genuine desire for repentance and life. It expresses the conviction that God does not create image bearers with the intent that they be lost, but that He actively seeks restoration, calling people to turn and live. At its core, #NotWillingThatAny is about taking God’s stated desire seriously and letting that revealed heart shape how we think about salvation, people, and the gospel itself.

It is not just about how God views us, but about how that view reshapes the way we treat one another. If God is patient, pursuing repentance and restoration rather than exclusion, then His people are called to reflect that same posture in their relationships. Jesus taught that loving God and loving our neighbor are inseparable, because love for God is proven by love for those made in His image. The heart of #NotWillingThatAny pushes against indifference, dismissal, and division, especially within the Church. Sin fractures relationships, isolates people, and turns neighbors into categories. God’s work, by contrast, is always aimed at reconciliation, drawing the lost back to Himself and restoring broken relationships between people. To take God’s desire seriously is to resist writing others off and to actively pursue unity, forgiveness, and restoration wherever sin has created distance.

This website exists to reflect the conviction that God loves every person and genuinely seeks the restoration of all image-bearers. The illustrations found here are tools, not the end goal. They serve to expose ideas and systems that can unintentionally distance our hearts from God’s revealed character. Scripture presents a God who is not willing that any exist outside of relationship with Him or with one another, and this concern should shape how we think, speak, and act, especially within the Church. No person is disposable, no image-bearer is beyond concern, and no theological framework should dull our desire to see reconciliation, repentance, and restored fellowship. Our aim is to encourage reflection that aligns our hearts more closely with God’s heart, marked by truth, love, and a longing for restoration rather than exclusion.

Why is relationship so important? It is because we are all image-bearers. To be an image bearer is to possess inherent worth and dignity grounded in God’s creative act, not in ability, morality, belief, or usefulness (Genesis 1:26–27; Psalm 8:4–6). Every person reflects something true about God, and that reality establishes how they must be treated. Scripture calls us to love our neighbors and even our enemies precisely because they are image bearers, not because they deserve it or return it (Matthew 5:44–45; Luke 10:33–37). James confronts the contradiction of blessing God while cursing people made in God’s likeness, insisting that such speech is incompatible with genuine faith (James 3:9–10). The image of God remains even where sin distorts it, which is why murder, contempt, and dehumanization are treated so seriously in Scripture (Genesis 9:6; Matthew 5:21–22). To honor image bearers is to align our hearts with God’s heart, reflecting His patience, mercy, and desire for restoration in how we speak, act, and pursue peace with others (Colossians 3:10–14; Romans 12:17–21).

At its core, this site exists to affirm the worth of every image bearer and to pursue reconciliation rather than exclusion. The goal is not merely right thinking, but right loving: loving God with our whole heart and loving one another as those made in His image. The phrase #NotWillingThatAny reflects a conviction drawn directly from Scripture that God’s posture toward humanity is patient, merciful, and oriented toward repentance and life, not toward predetermined loss. If God truly desires restoration, then His people should resist frameworks that dull compassion, justify division, or make reconciliation feel secondary. Truth must correspond to reality, and reality includes real people with real dignity. No image bearer is disposable, no relationship is beyond concern, and no theology should lessen our desire to see God reconciled with all His image bearers and image bearers reconciled with one another.