1 / 18

Path to Healing: Embracing Relationships for Forgiveness and Amends

Explore the power of forgiveness and making amends in relationships based on Christian teachings. Engage in steps 8 & 9 of the Christian "12 Steps" for reconciliation, following biblical principles for peace and reconciliation.

casandram
Download Presentation

Path to Healing: Embracing Relationships for Forgiveness and Amends

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Healing Choice #6 “The Relationship Choice” (Part One) I Evaluate all my Relationships, Offer Forgiveness to those Who have Hurt me…

  2. Healing Choice #6 “The Relationship Choice” (Part Two) … I Will Make Amends for Harm I’ve Done to Others, except when to do so would Harm them or others.

  3. Steps 8 & 9 of the Christian “12 Steps” “We have made a list of all the persons we have harmed and are now willing to make amends to them all.” “We will make direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.”

  4. Matthew 5:9 • (New Living Translation) • “God blesses those who work for peace,for they will be called the children of God.”

  5. Romans 12:18 “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”

  6. Proverbs 14:9 • “Fools mock at • making amends for sin,    but goodwill is found among the upright.”

  7. Matthew 5: 23-24 • 23 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front • of the altar. First go and • be reconciled to your brother; • then come and offer your gift.”

  8. Zacchaeus: • A • Portrait • of • Biblical • Recovery • Luke 19: 1-10

  9. Luke 19: 8-9 • 8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! • Here and now I give • half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody • out of anything, I will pay back • four times the amount.” • 9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house”

  10. Ezekiel 33: 15-16 • 15 “If he gives back what he took in pledge for a loan, returns what he has stolen, follows the decrees that give life, and does no evil, • he will surely live; he will not die. • 16None of the sins he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.

  11. Romans 13:8 • “Let no debt • remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves • his fellowman • has fulfilled the law.”

  12. Types of Amends: • Material or Physical • Moral Wrongs • “Acts of Omission”

  13. Creating My “Amends List”

  14. Response Question #1: Who are you currently ‘on bad terms’ with in your life? Is there anything that you can Say or Do to help make peace?

  15. Response Question #2: For those that you know you have hurt or offended, Are you willing to Freely and Humbly ask for their Forgiveness?

More Related