Forgiveness

Tonight we watched a (somewhat bizarre) video about forgiveness. In this video, Rob Bell makes some interesting points about forgiveness. He explains that forgiveness = freedom. When you forgive someone you are obviously giving them freedom. But the other side of this is that by setting them free you are actually setting yourself free. Another good point he makes is that if you can’t forgive someone, you are basically telling God that you don’t trust Him to ‘take care of business.’

Today’s society makes it very clear that we are supposed to get even, whatever the cost. God’s kingdom is the exact opposite, though, and that shouldn’t surprise us.

That led us to discuss the way this works, and we came up with some questions.
Deep questions…
1) If we ask for forgiveness and God forgives us, will we still be ‘held accountable’ for it?
2) If we don’t forgive someone, or if we don’t ask for forgiveness, will God forgive us?

Think about those things, look up some verses that might help, and we will discuss them in two weeks.