What Does Forgiveness Even Mean? (Matthew 18:21-35)

September 13, 2020 / DBCC

So, what does that forgiveness look like? When, and under what circumstances should I offer it?

I wish there were an algorithm into which I could plug my experience, the depth of the hurt, the nature of the offender’s remorse and recovery, and have it spit out answers to those questions.

But I don’t have such an algorithm. All I have is a community—a community that, paradoxically, teaches me both that I’m always in need of forgiveness for my own boneheadedness and my complicity in systems that abuse and neglect those who are more vulnerable than me, as well as my own need to learn how to forgive others.

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Sermon text: [ web][1] | [ doc][2]

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