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| Summary: Many people bristle at conflict and avoid difficult or emotionally charged situations. Having strategies for confronting conflict can promote healing and growth.
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| Summary: We cannot avoid conflict in the church. In our conflicts we allow our egos to do damage to the church and its witness. If we imagine the risen Christ with us in our disputes, would we treat each other in better ways? |
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| Summary: The process that Jesus outlines for church discipline has much to teach about interpersonal relationships in a technology-saturated world. It is a gracious process that highlights the value and dignity of each party involved. |
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| Summary: The church is an eternal institution, judged by eternal standards, and it operates on the principle of divine love. |
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| Summary: Do you know the power of prayer? It is truly amazing. Christ said that when we join with others in prayer, even just two or three, he would be present with us. Have you claimed that promise? |
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| Summary: God uses the human connections between individual Christian as one way to speak to us. That is at least part of what Jesus meant when he said, “where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.” These words of Jesus call us to accountability to each other and responsibility for each other. |
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| Summary: We need the seriousness of extreme love that marked the first-century Christians. |
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| Summary: Rather than offering a simple message of “forgive or you won’t be forgiven,” this parable offers a picture of what life in the church should be like, and of what life in the kingdom the church represents will be like.
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| Summary: Jesus wants us to get stronger and healthier by making the decision to forgive. He then challenges us to turn that choice into an ongoing process, based on a willingness to forgive others because God has forgiven us. |
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| Summary: Even though Jesus warns us about our lack of forgiveness, we do not forgive others out of fear of punishment. We forgive because we feel grateful to God. The gratitude develops mercy and kindness deep within us. |
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| Summary: When Peter asks if it’s enough to forgive another person seven times, Jesus says, “No, seventy-seven times,” and goes on to relate our forgiveness of others to God’s forgiveness of us. Jesus is calling us away from the kind of perpetual conflict that results from lack of forgiveness and toward the kind of peace God makes possible by divine forgiveness. |
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| Summary: Jesus expects the forgiveness we receive from God to be a transforming event that enables us to forgive others. |
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| Summary: Jesus challenges his disciples with a radical view of forgiveness intended to mirror God’s forgiveness of us, and to provide a healthy way to deal with personal injury and pain. |
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| Summary: Jesus’ answer to Peter’s question about how often to forgive someone is a reversal of the ancient idea of unlimited vengeance. Jesus calls us instead to unlimited forgiveness. This is possible because God’s forgiveness of us is more than an exercise in bookkeeping. It is an act of reconciliation that changes peoples’ lives, so that they can be not only forgiven people but forgiving ones. |
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