{"id":2607,"date":"2024-09-11T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T20:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2024-09-12T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T13:20:47","slug":"when-forgiveness-has-no-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=2607","title":{"rendered":"When Forgiveness Has No Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been reading a book on forgiveness <\/strong>with some men in my church. I find it to be beyond enlightening. Can I say revolutionary<\/em>? It seems so, for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suggesting that forgiveness has roots in the divine, the book has helped me understand the cruelty of the world in which we live – a world with little room for the divine.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

One of the quotes that struck me:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

But what we have seen is that … there are frameworks of thought within which forgiveness can find no home. Forgiveness entered the world along with the recognition of divine and human worth … of rights, of duty, of guilt. It cannot occure where those are not recognized.<\/p>\nNicholas Wolterstorff as quoted by Timothy Keller in “Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I?” chapter 3<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Did you read that carefully?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder if, as we make less and less time for God, is our world making less and less time for the essentials of living, starting perhaps with forgiveness?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution, of course, isn’t a matter of making up your mind to forgive. No. It’s a matter of giving God your attention, finding forgiveness in him, and living it like you’ve received it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading a book on forgiveness with some men in my church. I find it to be beyond enlightening. Can I say revolutionary? It seems so, for me. Suggesting that forgiveness has roots in the divine, the book has … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-formation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvLb-G3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}