Today I want to suggest a few ways that we are called to follow God's example of outrageous behavior. First, I believe we are called to be outrageous with forgiveness. We really need to update those words. That's the real point and when we really get it, we will understand that it is outrageous. If we can't forgive those who sin against us, God will not forgive us.
Forgiveness is such an outrageous thing to do.
Ernest Hemingway tells a story about a Spanish father whose relationship with his son Paco had become strained and eventually shattered. When his rebellious son ran away, his father began a long and arduous search to find him. As a last resort the exhausted father placed an ad in the Madrid newspaper, hoping that his son would see it and respond. All is forgiven. Well, Paco is a common name in Spain, and when the father goes to the square he finds eight hundred young men named Paco waiting for their fathers.