The Church as Forgiving Community: An Initial Model

The Church as Forgiving Community: An Initial Model

Summary of the Article

This article is written by Robert Enright and Chad Magnuson in the year 2008. After reviewing this article it has been identified that this article explains and offers a model of forgiveness for churches. The model is specifically designed for the facilitation of churches to turn out to be a place where people can receive forgiveness and it is given in church settings and a place where it become a safe harbor for impairing people. The main concept behind laying out this model was to demonstrate churches a place for forgiveness and chances where the rest of the members of the community visit and others will follow them if they will be given forgiveness. Both the authors have acknowledged that every individual has done wrong with someone at some point or another. The authors have used the bible to elucidate the way in which forgiveness is the termination of offense and hatred and the resumption or implementation of beneficent response headed towards an offender. Forgiveness according to them is not disregarding the wrong that has been done by someone. It do not entail that the relationship needs to become the same as it was at the time when everything was right, but it means that an individual who has been gone through wrong has planned to put forward mercy to the person who has done something unjustly and acted wrong with him. The concept of forgiveness is a point to leave the transgressed individual from the reformatory of hate and anger and it needs to show mercy and some specific steps for the forgiveness of the transgressor. In this article those steps are given in detail and some of the models are also discusses ...