How to Forgive Like Christ | Cornelius Plantinga
Channel: Henry Center
Date: 2014-05-20

Lecture Title - Rising with Jesus Christ: Forgiveness

In Colossians 3:12 ff., Paul counsels believers to "put on" a number of virtues such as kindness, compassion, and forgiveness. These virtues fit people who have been raised with Christ. In fact they are themselves instances of "keeping the rhythm going" when it comes to dying and rising with Christ. Forgiveness of those who hurt us is a spectacular example. But what does this Christian practice actually consist in? Why is it so hard? How do we practice the craft of forgiveness? And won't wily offenders figure out how to exploit us when we forgive them?

Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. (PhD Princeton Theological Seminary) is Senior Research Fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and President Emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary. He is author of Not the Way it’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin (Eerdmans, 1996), Engaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living (Eerdmans, 2002), and Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists (Eerdmans, 2013).

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