“The word forgiveness evokes a variety of powerful emotions. Thinking about forgiveness, some of us smile as we are reminded of a process in our lives that led to the overcoming of pain and bitterness through the healing of an estranged relationship. Others of us grimace as we imagine angry faces trying to coerce us into a passive surrender of our resistance to abuse, betrayal, or injustice. As we reflect on forgiveness, particular human faces can rise to the surface of our consciousness—faces we have forgiven, faces who have forgiven us, or faces we have vowed never to forgive. All of us carry particular moral, political, religious, and therapeutic values into our attempts to understand and practice forgiveness. Our struggle with and for forgiveness is shaped by our deepest hopes and fears as we search for wholeness and salvation in a fragmented and oppressive world. We wonder . . . is forgiveness really good for us?”
The Faces of Forgiveness © 2003 by F. LeRon Shults and Steven J. Sandage Published by Baker Academic a division of Baker Publishing Group
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Matthew 6:14 (MEV): 14 *For if you forgive men for their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
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