{"id":2369,"date":"2010-07-11T15:05:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2010-07-11T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T21:05:51","slug":"today-the-gathering-if-you-want-to-hold-onto-that-bitterness-go-right-ahead-%e2%80%93-step-8-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-if-you-want-to-hold-onto-that-bitterness-go-right-ahead-%e2%80%93-step-8-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering: If You Want to Hold Onto That Bitterness, Go Right Ahead \u2013 Step #8: Follow Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Today @ The Gathering we talked about one of the most powerful steps in any person\u2019s growth; and that is the ability, the willingness, and the strategy to extend forgiveness and grace to those who have wounded us.<\/p>\n

We talked about the four kinds of people who wound us: <\/strong>those who mean to<\/strong>, those who didn\u2019t mean to<\/strong>, those who don\u2019t care<\/strong>, and those who don\u2019t even know<\/strong> that they did.<\/p>\n

We talked about what Jesus taught about forgiveness; the two elements that are essential for forgiveness to happen.<\/p>\n

But maybe the most important thing we talked about today was, what is the cost of unforgiveness, as well as the cost of forgiveness?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Forgiveness costs us two things<\/strong> we can live without, but evidently we don\u2019t want to: our arrogance and our pride<\/strong>.\u00a0 For me to not forgive those who have wounded me means I have to put myself in a superior position; that I would never stoop to hurting anyone the way I\u2019ve been hurt.\u00a0 While I hope that would be true, I certainly can\u2019t guarantee it, because I do stupid things all the time.<\/p>\n

What does forgiveness cost us? More than you\u2019re willing to pay. I guarantee it.<\/p>\n

It is true that religion can make you a better frog.\u00a0 But only Jesus can turn frogs into princes and princesses.\u00a0 And we become that as we act like the Lord we serve, and extend grace and forgiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today @ The Gathering we talked about one of the most powerful steps in any person\u2019s growth; and that is the ability, the willingness, and the strategy to extend forgiveness and grace to those who have wounded us. We talked about the four kinds of people who wound us: those who mean to, those who … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering: If You Want to Hold Onto That Bitterness, Go Right Ahead \u2013 Step #8: Follow Up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}