hi friends welcome back to another episode of therapy and theology with my friends proverbs 31 Ministries director of theological research Dr Joel mudumale and licensed professional counselor Jim Kress before we get into our conversation I want to remind you about the listener guide we’re making available for each episode of season three we know these episodes can be a lot to digest so this is a resource my team created to help you practically apply what you’re learning whether you’re listening on therapy and theology
podcast or watching us on the proverbs 31 Ministries YouTube channel we’ve linked the free listener guide for you in the show notes now in this installment of therapy and theology we’re going to cover forgiveness now I know the minute that I used to hear the word forgiveness I would cringe back up cross my arms because I immediately started thinking about the hardest things I’ve ever walked through and there was a lot of resistance there even though I was a Bible teacher and I knew God’s command was to forgive I felt like
surely there has to be an exception like surely we’re not supposed to forgive everything because at times forgiveness to me it felt like an unfair gift that I was having to give to the person who hurt me the most and I think a lot of that was just my misunderstanding about what forgiveness is and what forgiveness is not so first off we’re going to take a deep dive both from a theological standpoint and then also an experiential standpoint with the therapeutic side on forgiveness what is it what is it not and what does forgiveness mean when it’s
mentioned in the Bible I want to say at the very top of our show here that one of the biggest misunderstandings I had was I thought forgiveness and Reconciliation had to hold hands right like in order to forgive you had to reconcile so we’re going to address that and find out that’s not actually true those two concepts stand alone we’re also going to talk about another big concern I had and that was if I I felt like if I forgive this person and the other person isn’t saying they’re sorry isn’t owning what they did
