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How To Forgive
Teaching Forgiveness
- Practical Processes to Teach People How to Forgive
- Five Sermon Outlines
- Five Adult Forums with Exercise Protocols and Scripts
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Practical Appreciative Inquiry based strategies to effectively resolve grief and resentment.
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Teach Your Congregation How to Forgive
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Teach Your Congregation How to Forgive and Live in Love
If you are tired of living in a world that:
- Is saturated by resentment
- Places a huge value on revenge
- Confuses revenge and punishment with justice
- Doesn't know how to find the freedom of forgiveness
Then learn to teach the people you care about how to forgive and live in love with one another.
"Jesus told us we need to forgive but he never taught us how." - Steve Andreas
The reason people don't forgive is simple:
- They don't know what forgiveness really is and often confuse it with reconciliation or forgetting
- They don't know how to forgive
- Something inside of them resists the idea of forgiving
The solution is also simple:
- Teach people what forgiveness really is and what it is not
- Teach people how to forgive
- Resolve the internal resistance, which often occurs naturally when they learn what forgiveness really is what it is not
In this teaching series you will not only teach people to forgive, but also to live in love with:
- God
- Their Neighbor
- Themselves
Program Foundation
This teaching program is developed from material in Rob Voyle's book Restoring Hope: Appreciative Strategies to Resolve Grief and Resentment and includes:
Program leaders will need familarity with the first two sections in Restoring Hope
- Introduction to the Apprecaitive Way
- Core Processes and Resources
And then Section five:
- Forgiveness and the Art of Resolving Resentment
Teaching Forgiveness Materials and Session Outlines
- Five Sermon Outlines
You will need to "warm them up" with your own experience and spirituality - Five Adult Forums with Exercise Protocols and Scripts
These could be conducted at an adult education forum on Sundays or at a midweek soup supper.
Week 1: Living in Unconditional Love: Not All Gods are Created Equal
Sermon: Not All Gods are Created Equal
- Living in the Presence of the God of Love
The Only One Worthy of Your, Time, and Love
Forum Conversation and Practical Exercises
- Crazy God's Make People Crazy
- Cleaning The Temple of Crazy God's
- Metaphors of Unconditional Love
Week 2: Discovering the Golden Thread of Life Within Your Life
Sermon: The Golden Thread of Life
- Discovering the eternal life-giving qualities in the temporal things we love
- Doing what you love to do as a follower of Jesus
Forum Conversation and Practical Exercises
- The golden thread of life
- Resolving "I know it in my head but I need to know it in my heart."
- Wanting: the root cause of misery and how to gloriously fail at it.
Week 3: The Three Faces of Compassion: Tenderness, Fierceness, and Mischievousness
Sermon: Compassion as the temporal manifestation of Eternal Loving Kindness in the world
- Compassion as the agent of transformation
- Compassion is more than one thing
- Loving your enemies as an act of compassion
Forum Conversation and Practical Exercises
- Discovering how Jesus was tender, fierce, and mischievous
- Discovering our own way of being tender, fierce, and mischievous
- Discerning when to be tender, fierce, and mischievous as an agent of transformation
Week 4: Forgiving Others
Sermon: Discovering the Freedom of Forgiveness
- What do you have to do to be resentful
- Clarifying what forgiveness is and what it is not
- The stupidity of forgiving and forgetting
- Surrendering others into the realm of God's love
Forum Conversation and Practical Exercises
- Satisfying objections to forgiving
- Practical, sustainable, forgiveness: converting demands into preferences
Week 5: Forgiving Self
Sermon: If God forgives you why shouldn't you?
- Guilt as an act of arrogance
- Shame as a toxic affliction of the soul
- Living in the light of Love rather than the darkness of condemnation
Forum Conversation and Practical Exercises
- Creating a robust, realistic, reliable, self-image
- Rebuilding our self-image after we have failed
Program Cost
There is no specific cost for this program. We ask that you make a donation, perhaps a $1 per person for your average Sunday attendance.
Here is a question: What would it be worth to you and your congregation to be free from resentment, and perhaps more importantly to be in a community that lives in the reality of Love and is Compassionate to One Another and the World?
At that rate you probably couldn't afford it, so somewhere between that figure and zero will be fine.
Restoring Hope Tutorials and Webinars
We provide 6 week tutorials for people who have purchased Restoring Hope or attended a training program and want to receive just-in-time consultation as they develop their practical expertise.