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Nathan HoffHost
Eric PetersonGuestNathan HoffHost
I was going to say, where do you want to start in this, Eric? Where's the on-ramp? Or where's the off-ramp?
And it may be one of the great reasons, the wisdom of having a lectionary, that it kind of invites us to attend to and preach and consider the whole counsel of God and not just linger over our favorite texts.
I don't remember the last time I preached on this, but as I've been thinking about the passage and anticipating this conversation, it did bring to mind an experience of forgiveness And maybe that can be an entry point.
But I think I want to preface even that by saying there's just a whole lot of big, disturbing language.
I mean, even when you do the kind of the equivalency of these debts, you know, the first debt is, man, if my calculator is right, it's like something in excess of $7 billion.
In the message, it renders it just to use round numbers, $100,000 in the first case and $10 in the latter.
And that same slave in turn – doesn't you know doesn't even come close for just a ten dollar debt he's there's no extra time you just there's no forgiveness at all just throw him in jail so you get that sense of um sort of exaggeration and then the language of torture you know comes in and
um I don't feel like I need uh torture to be you know hanging over my head as a motivation I'd like to be a part of the kingdom of God.
And I'm going to use a big exaggerated exclamation mark language to make sure you get the point.
Forgiveness as a discipline is a central act of what it means to be a part of my kingdom.
I was going to say, where do you want to start in this, Eric? Where's the on-ramp? Or where's the off-ramp?
And it may be one of the great reasons, the wisdom of having a lectionary, that it kind of invites us to attend to and preach and consider the whole counsel of God and not just linger over our favorite texts.
I don't remember the last time I preached on this, but as I've been thinking about the passage and anticipating this conversation, it did bring to mind an experience of forgiveness And maybe that can be an entry point.
But I think I want to preface even that by saying there's just a whole lot of big, disturbing language.
I mean, even when you do the kind of the equivalency of these debts, you know, the first debt is, man, if my calculator is right, it's like something in excess of $7 billion.
In the message, it renders it just to use round numbers, $100,000 in the first case and $10 in the latter.
And that same slave in turn – doesn't you know doesn't even come close for just a ten dollar debt he's there's no extra time you just there's no forgiveness at all just throw him in jail so you get that sense of um sort of exaggeration and then the language of torture you know comes in and
um I don't feel like I need uh torture to be you know hanging over my head as a motivation I'd like to be a part of the kingdom of God.
And I'm going to use a big exaggerated exclamation mark language to make sure you get the point.
Forgiveness as a discipline is a central act of what it means to be a part of my kingdom.
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