Forgiveness is central to who God is and how he loves us. In week four of Heart Smart we look at the process of taking baby steps towards both receiving forgiveness and extending it to others.
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Baby Steps
• Brianna Millett
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This week of the Heart Smart series we look at the process of taking baby steps towards both receiving and extending forgiveness. In order to learn how to forgive others, it is important to understand why it is we are called to forgive. The call to forgive comes from our identity in Christ. The Apostle Paul teaches extensively throughout his letters that at the core of our identity in Christ we are to become and live as one unified humanity. Since God’s plan for us as his creation was to live in unity, we know that this plan will also look like the Creator. Forgiveness is central to who God is and how he loves us. Being able to receive this forgiveness from God that was given fully on the cross, begins with our ability to forgive others. Learning how to forgive others is a process that involves many baby steps. As we learn what this process involves and does not involve we will become more equipped to both receive God’s forgiveness as well as extend it to others.
Hide Extended SummaryTopics: Conflict, Forgiveness, Relationships
Sermon Series: Heart Smart
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Colossians 3:12-13
12 As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. 13 Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
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"Thank you for this ministry! It has transformed my life in some really radical ways. God has broken down so many barriers and exposed so many lies that have taken some serious burdens from my heart. It has given me hope, freedom and purpose I never could have imagined possible."
– Jenny, from Wisconsin
Great Message!
The irony within movie of course – “What about Bob”, is that Richard Dreyfuss’s character, psychiatrist, “Dr. Leo Marvin” takes an involuntary journey 180˚ from his comfy high-rise office suite as a “Popular Therapist”, to being a catatonic mental patient himself. This inversion of “fate” although much less humorous, reminds me of King Nebuchadnezzar’s fall from power as described in Daniel 4, where he ends up eating bugs and grass on all fours!
I think God sends “Bob-like” people into our lives every once in while, in order to knock us off our arrogant high horse and to remind us just how much we really need to share the tremendous Love and Grace we ourselves have received freely from His hand.
The “Death Therapy” scene though has to be my favorite!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_bxkVFK3Wc