{"id":5445,"date":"2022-08-16T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/?p=5445"},"modified":"2022-08-16T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:07:08","slug":"what-is-forgiveness-why-should-one-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/?p=5445","title":{"rendered":"What is Forgiveness &#038; Why should One Do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of keeping no record of wrongs is learning the grace of forgiveness.  We often view forgiveness as motivated to restore or rebuild relationships.  However, from God&#8217;s standpoint there is an individual responsibility to forgive regardless of what an offender may do or not do.  Forgiveness is the way to experience freedom for a personally imposed prison of bitterness and pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this lesson we look at two elements of forgiveness:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What is forgiveness as defined by God<\/li><li>Why value exists is being a person who practices God&#8217;s style of forgiveness?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forgive - What it is &amp; Why to do it\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qgf9zqZmM8g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of keeping no record of wrongs is learning the grace of forgiveness. We often view forgiveness as motivated to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}