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Helping Christians who feel disconnected find their way home to Love.From years of experience Anna Harris has come to see that coming into the revelation of God as a loving, perfect Father is the foundation for life and healing. Her passion and ministry is to help both Christians and Christian leaders recover from religious & relationship trauma finding their first love again. She is the founder of Defined by God Ministries and is a certified trauma & resiliency life coach. Her informed and insightful teaching, intertwined with her own life story allows others to receive God’s healing love in their lives more readily. Anna spent many years as the senior leader of a Catch the Fire church, during which time she also founded and lead their school of ministry. She is the proud mom of 4 adult children and lives in central Texas with her two Maltese “babies”.
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Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
What did Jesus REALLY say about forgiveness? We trust that this teaching will bring you a lot of freedom when it comes to the forgiveness message that many of us have been taught in the church.
This is an open, honest conversation about the responsibility of both parties when it comes to forgiveness. I'm sure we've all been taught the famous passage about forgiveness in Matthew 18. We are told to forgive - YES! But sometimes this teaching is taken out of context.
Some teachings imply that as Christians we should "shove the offense under the rug" so to speak and just simply forgive, over and over and possibly stay in an abusive situation. When in fact, we need to speak up and confront wrongful actions.
Modern day teachings on forgiveness tend to be very heavy on the victim's responsibility to forgive, but not enough emphasis on accountability of the one who's causing the offense. What is their responsibility? There are two sides to this coin.
In this episode, Anna talks about current forgiveness teachings and some of the problems with them, and about thinking about forgiveness when Jesus was on the earth. And, we're honored to have Diana back as a returning guest on our podcast. She shares some of her story in this episode, as well.
In this podcast we see that the Bible instructs us to confront the abuser or offender and how it's actually a loving act to do so. It is beneficial for the offender because it offers them an opportunity to realize they are wrong and change their ways.
To read Anna's blog, "When forgiveness teaching is harmful". Click here: https://definedbygod.com/when-forgiveness-teaching-is-harmful/
To watch Diana's previous podcasts, ""When the abuser is both your husband and Pastor", Click here: https://youtu.be/bsbFCF7egqo
For full episode, podcast and shownotes, visit: www.definedbygod.com/episode27
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