It doesn't. Forgiveness and justice are two different things and they can both exist at the same time. God never asked you to choose between them. What He did ask is that you release the debt, even while other things are still being addressed. We have been walking through Eric's story this week. His wife and unborn child were killed in a car crash caused by another driver. Yesterday we cleared out a long list of myths about what forgiveness is not. Today I want to deal with t

It does not mean what culture told you it means. And if you have been trying to do culture's version of forgiveness and failing, that is not a faith problem. That is a definition problem. Let's fix the definition. We left off yesterday with Eric, a pastor whose wife and unborn child were killed in a car crash caused by another driver. His nineteen-year-old daughter survived. We asked whether Eric should forgive the driver. And we looked at Stephen, who forgave the people ston