Healing Relationships: Moving Beyond Forgiveness

10/21/24 • 24 min

What could be more important than restoring a broken relationship? But what happens when one or both parties involved in the conflict are unwilling to forgive or trust is too broken? In this episode, we discuss how to restore relationships that seem too far gone to repair. If the gospel is truly Good News, then we have a path toward reconciliation laid out and modeled by God himself. In This Episode You'll Learn:

The difference between forgiveness and reconciliation
Why forgiveness is a personal choice
How one person can forgive but it takes two to reconcile
What happens when the other person will not forgive and move on

Get started here... From this episode: "Jesus secured for us what we never could earn for ourselves: the forgiveness of sin and the restoration/reconciliation of our relationship with his Father. Both forgiveness and reconciliation! We can do the same in our relationships." Each week the Big 3 will give you immediate action steps to get you started. Download today’s BIG 3 right now. Read and think over them again later. You might even want to share them with others...

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The difference between forgiveness and reconciliation
Why forgiveness is a personal choice
How one person can forgive but it takes two to reconcile
What happens when the other person will not forgive and move on

Thanks for Listening!

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Everyday Disciple Podcast - Healing Relationships: Moving Beyond Forgiveness

Transcript

Caesar Kalinowski00:00:01.479

I think that's the actual gospel issue behind all this, is not believing that God alone is sovereign. Think about it. In a relationship where you're completely in charge, Heath, and everybody does exactly what you say, in the timing that you want it, in the way that you want it, like, in other words, you're sovereign, and they submit to your sovereignty, there's no, there's no, nothing's broken. Right? Yeah. It's when. We have disagreemen