Character IX: Forgiveness

Forgiveness is making a conscious decision to drop the backpack of grudges you have been carrying around, to let them go and leave them behind, and in the process, tear up the debt of repayment for someone’s wrongdoing.
-Merritt, James. Character Still Counts (p. 198)

1) Forgiveness is from ....

2) Forgiveness is in.....

3) Forgiveness is......

4) Forgiveness is......

5) Forgiveness Takes Offense.......

“Condemnation is not the heart of forgiveness. It’s the indispensable presupposition of it. The heart of forgiveness is the generous release of a genuine debt.”
-Miraslov Volf, Free of Charge

6) Forgiveness Doesn’t Require .......

7) Forgiveness is Consistent with......

“Without entrusting oneself to the God who judges justly, it will hardly be possible to follow the crucified Messiah and refuse to retaliate when abused. The certainty of God’s just judgment at the end of history is the presupposition for the renunciation of voilence in the middle of it.”-Miroslav Volf, Exculsion & Embrace, 302

8) Forgiveness is Evidence of ....

9) Forgiveness Acts