http://dannygutierrez.org/2010/04/100-natural-style/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=100-natural-style Wed, 02 May 2012 15:56:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dannygutierrez.org/2010/04/100-natural-style/comment-page-1/#comment-408 Danielgutierrez Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:51:19 +0000 http://dannygutierrez.org/?p=248#comment-408 You're absolutely right, Bobbi. I think part of the lack of forgiving ourselves comes from a message that demands we dig things up over and over again and beg for forgiveness over and over again, when Jesus settled it on the cross once and for all time. Grace is a message of complete forgiveness for those who are in Christ. I'm finding the church likes taking the "complete" out of forgiveness and replacing it with constant penance, guilt, and divine condemnation. Or the idea that the first time you were forgiven was simply for your past and it was the only freebie. The rest is up to you, your own self-sacrifice, and the amount of tear you wail for mercy. All grace comes for none other than Jesus, and it is always free and undeserved. You're absolutely right, Bobbi. I think part of the lack of forgiving ourselves comes from a message that demands we dig things up over and over again and beg for forgiveness over and over again, when Jesus settled it on the cross once and for all time. Grace is a message of complete forgiveness for those who are in Christ. I'm finding the church likes taking the "complete" out of forgiveness and replacing it with constant penance, guilt, and divine condemnation. Or the idea that the first time you were forgiven was simply for your past and it was the only freebie. The rest is up to you, your own self-sacrifice, and the amount of tear you wail for mercy. All grace comes for none other than Jesus, and it is always free and undeserved.

]]> http://dannygutierrez.org/2010/04/100-natural-style/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Bobbi Mortensen Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:19:39 +0000 http://dannygutierrez.org/?p=248#comment-406 I see a lot of us "checkered past" christians not fully living in God's grace because we feel that "does God really know what we did? I was bad! Really!" God is so wonderfully willing to forgive our sins, but we need to forgive ourselves of our sins too! Love how you think and how you make me think! I see a lot of us "checkered past" christians not fully living in God's grace because we feel that "does God really know what we did? I was bad! Really!" God is so wonderfully willing to forgive our sins, but we need to forgive ourselves of our sins too!
Love how you think and how you make me think!

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