Healing Relationships

Pastor Bill Bush · Dec 6, 2022

Drawing from 1 Corinthians 13:5 and the parable of the unforgiving servant in Matthew 18, Pastor Bill argues that keeping score in relationships breeds irritability and destroys love. Real forgiveness — understood correctly as letting go rather than forgetting, minimizing, or automatically reconciling — is the only path out of self-imposed imprisonment. Because followers of Jesus have been forgiven an impossible debt they could never repay, they are both compelled and empowered by the gospel to extend that same unconditional forgiveness to others, again and again, as the starting point of any healing.