{"id":2535,"date":"2007-08-21T00:10:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T00:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/08\/missional-jesus-42.html"},"modified":"2007-08-21T00:10:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T00:10:48","slug":"missional-jesus-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/08\/missional-jesus-42.html","title":{"rendered":"Missional Jesus 42"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a challenge tossed out by missional Jesus and it is a challenged that shakes human relations to the core, opens up the potential for a society constituted on the basis of grace, and presents the follower of Jesus with a challenge that does not come naturally. Missional Jesus summons his followers to forgive <\/em>others.
\nThe following parable contains at least the followng points:
\n1. Missional Jesus teaches that asking about forgiveness in numerical, quantitative terms is asking the wrong question.
\n2. Missional Jesus expects his followers to recognize the enormity of their own debt before God, that God has wiped the slate clean, and that they are to live a life out of that gracious act by God.
\n3. Missional Jesus teaches — read the last verse — God will forgive us at the End in light of how we have forgiven others.
\n4. How then shall we live?
\nThen Peter came to Jesus and asked, \u201cLord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?\u201d
\n22 Jesus answered, \u201cI tell you, not seven times, but seventy?seven times.
\n23 \u201cTherefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24 As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents [fn7] was brought to him. 25 Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
\n26 \u201cThe servant fell on his knees before him. \u2018Be patient with me,\u2019 he begged, \u2018and I will pay back everything.\u2019 27 The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.
\n28 \u201cBut when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him. \u2018Pay back what you owe me!\u2019 he demanded.
\n29 \u201cHis fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, \u2018Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.\u2019
\n30 \u201cBut he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.
\n32 \u201cThen the master called the servant in. \u2018You wicked servant,\u2019 he said, \u2018I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?\u2019 34 In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
\n35 \u201cThis is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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