“When I started the Forgiving Path, I was skeptical thinking that the crimes committed will not only be ignored, “whatever” and my complaint won’t be heard, “so sad, too bad! Sucks to be you!”. After all, the judge of all the earth has much “bigger things to do”. After the station 7, I was able […]
When I went thru the Forgiving Path, I did so out of curiosity and with more of an academic mindset. I wanted to “check it out” to see if it really did work, if the FP could be an effective means to work out issues involving and understanding forgiveness. But I also wanted to understand […]
This quote is from an excellent paper “Justice: The Foundation of a Christian Approach to Abuse” (presented by Rachael Denhollander at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society) https://www.fathommag.com/stories/justice-the-foundation-of-a-christian-approach-to-abuse [bctt tweet=”…Forgiveness is not the foregoing of the claims of justice, but a recognition that in Christ, through the cross, the ultimate claims of […]
Check out this animated presentation by HonorShame.com. I love it. People who have been beat-up, robbed, oppressed, treated with disrespect, prejudice or bigotry, or abuse of any kind will always feel shame too. If you can’t forgive, one of the reasons is that you struggle with subconscious shame. The HonorShame folk have come up with […]
Check out this article by Dr. Andy Molinski. Very helpful. We have all had people badly apologize, and truth told, we’ve done worse. How does this fit in with the Forgiving Path for Christians? If I can tap into the love and compassion of the Spirit toward the person who I hurt, I am far […]