Like any spiritual discipline, growth requires practice. This week, consider ways to live transparently and freely forgive; in other words, practice Gospel-shaped reconciliation.
Reconciliation is where transparency and forgiveness meet.
- Practice examined honesty - Before you defend yourself, examine yourself.
- Practice Timely Conversation - Timeliness prevents small fractures from becoming deep divides.
- Practice Tender Forgiveness - Forgiveness should feel like relief, not probation.
- Practice Community Protection - When reconciliation becomes normal, the church becomes resilient.
- Practice Entrusting Outcomes to God - Reconciliation does not guarantee restored closeness… It guarantees obedience.
