That day, when the congregation moved to the Lord's Table, they moved with tears. All said that Christ was present as never before and from that day on they knew what being a real church was all about. Here is an even better one. She recalled a Sunday School class she taught years ago in which she asked her students to write a one-sentence definition of forgiveness. One answer has stuck with her.
Forgiveness is like meeting someone for the first time.
She asked the young lad what he meant. So forgiveness is like meeting someone for the first time. When the boy was finally found, he had been burned with cigarettes, stabbed with an ice pick, shot in the head and left for dead. Miraculously, young Chris recovered, the only permanent physical damage, blindness in his left eye. Chris Carrier, now a minister of the gospel, has forgiven his abductor.