Incredible service yesterday. I missed the first week of the “F-Bomb” series at Rock City Church due to a 13.1 mile distraction, so I was really looking forward to yesterday. It didn’t disappoint. Before the sermon even started, the worship team dropped the incredible worship song “How He Loves“. I’m not sure how anyone can sit through that song and not feel something. It oozes with grace and the tension that exists in trying to wrap your head around a God that loves us.
Scripture: Matthew 18: 21-22
- Forgiveness is not weakness; forgiveness is power.
- Forgiveness isn’t about minimizing evil or rationalizing an offense.
- Forgiveness is the operating system of Christianity.
- Jesus wanted Peter to know that he was missing the essence of true forgiveness so long as he was focused on finding its limitation or discovering the “lid”.
- Jesus didn’t come to raise the standard of forgiveness, but to create a new system of forgiveness altogether.
- We have the Gospel not solely to share with those who don’t believe, but also to remind ourselves of the price that was paid for our salvation.
- Every time I don’t forgive, it’s me that’s trapped in a prison and tortured.
- It is impossible for me to forgive others if I have not first received forgiveness for myself.
- Unforgiveness, at its root, is unbelief in the Gospel.
- It may be that the greatest casualties of forgiveness occur long after the initial F-Bomb is dropped.
- Forgiveness isn’t something I grant to myself; it is received.
- Forgiveness is a one player game. Reconciliation is a two player game.
Great job dear! Thought about doing this myself, but why? Very thorough job!
It was a great morning. Hard to capture the essence of the message in words on a screen. Great stuff.