{"id":1406,"date":"2010-01-15T09:35:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2010-01-15T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:35:05","slug":"the-crisis-of-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2010\/the-crisis-of-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crisis of Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Compassion<\/h2>\n

Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.<\/i><\/p>\n

Matthew 18:27<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Reading:<\/p>\n

Matthew 18:21-35<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Despite our own imperfections and failures, most of us humans at times find it difficult to sincerely forgive another. So personalizing this lesson shouldn’t be too difficult….<\/p>\n

Isn’t it unfair for me to have to forgive another’s injustice against me?<\/p>\n

By what criteria do I forgive others?<\/p>\n

Is there anyone whom I have not forgiven from the heart?<\/p>\n

Why would I want to not<\/i> forgive someone, especially a friend?<\/p>\n

If I quit forgiving someone, what will I do instead?<\/p>\n

How is compassion an improvement over patience?<\/p>\n

How do I become compassionate as that king was?<\/p>\n

Of what benefit is it to me to forgive another?<\/p>\n

But I keep remembering the offenses against me! Now what?<\/p>\n

Recently I was treated as the servant treated his fellow servant. What should I do?<\/p>\n

How do I confront (Matthew 18:15-17) and yet forgive (Matthew 18:22,35)?!<\/p>\n

“Jesus saith unto him,
\nI say not unto thee, Until seven times;
\nbut,
\nUntil seventy times seven”<\/span> (Matthew 18:22).<\/p>\n

\"[The<\/a>
\nfrom Matthew 18:33<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Compassion Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. Matthew 18:27 Reading: Matthew 18:21-35 Despite our own imperfections and failures, most of us humans at times find it difficult to sincerely forgive another. So personalizing this lesson shouldn’t be too difficult…. Isn’t it unfair for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[43,44,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-1406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-matthew","7":"tag-eternal-life","8":"tag-live-right","9":"tag-warning","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-mG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}