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Teach Your Congregation to Forgive: Five Week Lenten program
Posted: September 26, 2016 by Rob Voyle
If you are tired of living in a world that: • Is saturated by resentment • Places a huge value on revenge • Confuses revenge and punishment with justice • Doesn't know how to find the freedom of forgiveness Then learn to teach the people you care about how to forgive and live in love with one another. "Jesus told us we need to forgive but he never taught us how." - Steve Andreas In this program designed for Lent you will receive the resources to: • Teach people what forgiveness really is and what it is not • Teach people how to forgive • Resolve the internal resistance to forgiving, which often occurs naturally when they learn what forgiveness really is what it is not. Program Outline: Week 1: Living in Unconditional Love: Not All Gods are Created Equal Sermon: Not All Gods are Created Equal Living in the Presence of the God of Love The Only One Worthy of Your, Time, and Love Forum Conversation and Practical Exercises Crazy God's Make People Crazy Cleaning The Temple of Crazy God's Metaphors of Unconditional Love Week 2: Discovering the Golden Thread of Life Within Your Life Sermon: The Golden Thread of Life Discovering the eternal life-giving qualities in the temporal things we love Doing what you love to do as a follower of Jesus Forum Conversation and Practical Exercises The golden thread of life Resolving "I know it in my head but I need to know it in my heart." Wanting: the root cause of misery and how to gloriously fail at it. Week 3: The Three Faces of Compassion: Tenderness, Fierceness, and Mischievousness Sermon: Compassion as the temporal manifestation of Eternal Loving Kindness in the world Compassion as the agent of transformation Compassion is more than one thing Loving your enemies as an act of compassion Forum Conversation and Practical Exercises Discovering how Jesus was tender, fierce, and mischievous Discovering our own way of being tender, fierce, and mischievous Discerning when to be tender, fierce, and mischievous as an agent of transformation Week 4: Forgiving Others Sermon: Discovering the Freedom of Forgiveness What do you have to do to be resentful Clarifying what forgiveness is and what it is not The stupidity of forgiving and forgetting Surrendering others into the realm of God's love Forum Conversation and Practical Exercises Satisfying objections to forgiving Practical, sustainable, forgiveness: converting demands into preferences Week 5: Forgiving Self Sermon: If God forgives you why shouldn't you? Guilt as an act of arrogance Shame as a toxic affliction of the soul Living in the light of Love rather than the darkness of condemnation Forum Conversation and Practical Exercises Creating a robust, realistic, reliable, self-image Rebuilding our self-image after we have failed For more details please see: Teach Your Congregation How to Forgive.
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