Journal Article Review II: The Church as Forgiving Community: An Initial Model Journal Article Review II: The Church As Forgiving Community: An Initial Model Summary Magnuson and Enright (2008) offer a discussion of forgiveness and how important it is to the complex human being. Forgiveness is first recognized in the Bible. It is a way of ending resentment and responding to others in a generously. Forgiveness does not involve forgetting the unjust act that occurred, but it offers mercy to the offender (Magnuson & Enright, 2008). Even though forgiveness is a part of the Church in that it is expressed in God's Word, social scientists such as Smedes (1984) and Worthington and DiBlasio (1990) explored the topic even more in the recent years.
He builds upon his message of the sinner’s guilt with each example. Each example is also a little personal to the actual anger of God. In paragraph one, Edwards begins with a slight comparison to the weight and wickedness, and then comparing God’s wrath to the undamed raging waters. Continuing, Edwards takes another step and shows a example of the “bow of God’s wrath”. This metaphor is a significant step from the weight example.
One author writes “healing is crucial not just for victims, but also for offenders. Both the rehabilitation of offenders and their integration into the community are vital aspects of restorative justice. Offenders are treated respectfully and their needs are addressed. Removing them from the community, or imposing any other severe restrictions, is a last resort. It is thought that the best way to prevent re-offending is re-integration.” Processes of this nature are sometimes all the victim wants.
Intervention Studies on Forgiveness: A Meta-Analysis Liberty University Summary The topic covered by this article is based on the effectiveness of forgiveness intervention done through clinical studies. The article consisted of various case studies and analysis reported by Thomas W. Baskin and Robert D. Enright. Throughout the study, the common purpose was to prove that forgiveness is effective. The offended must forgive the offender who created anger, resentment, anxiety, and psychological depression. “Forgiveness has been define as the willful giving up of resentment in the face of another’s (or others) considerable injustice and responding with beneficence to the offender even though the that offender has no right to the forgivers moral goodness” (Baskin & Enright, p. 80, 2004).
Gustavo Gutierrez: Poverty According to Gutierrez the bible responds to poverty by using an example of dealing with poverty on a personal level and teachings on how to help people in poverty. He offers the example of Job. Job is put to the test by the tempter, weaker men would have fallen short and cursed God. But Job resists the tempter. The bible also gives us Jesus’s teachings to show us how people in poverty and explain to us why it is so important to help people in poverty.
Though Romans says that human nature is that we are sinners. Human beings are slaves to sin and seem to be powerless against it. We understand that we are not righteous at all, and that we need a relationship with God, so that we can be empowered by His righteous. His righteous comes through our faith in Jesus Christ. Only he can redeem, justify, and sanctify us, and we need all three for our salvation.
Humans therefore sin because we have a corrupt and fallen nature. Ellis believed that clients needed to be encouraged to dismiss their ideas about sin. However, the Christian counselor must take sin seriously. It is impossible to deny the power that sin has over a fallen individual, and when counselors confront the idea of sin it is imperative that they do not attempt it by shaming the client. A proper understanding of human nature when combining REBT and Christian counseling is necessary.
13:49–50). Paul states his ambition to be pleasing to the Lord “for we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds…” (2 Cor 5:10). The fact that rewards and punishments are associated with self-interest and moral or religious obligation is clear throughout the scriptures. What is not so clear is just how to understand these passages from the point of view of moral theory. More specifically, do texts of this sort imply that ethical egoism is incompatible with the moral theory of the gospel?
2) Discipleship Counseling Through the use of personal and professional experiences, Dr. Neil T. Anderson (2003) lays the foundation for future counselors to use as a guide to reach mentally ill individuals in his book Discipleship Counseling (Anderson, 2003). This instructional piece gives current and future counselors the instruction and information needed to reach out and counsel the spiritually oppressed. Anderson (2003) breaks this piece of literature down into three main focuses: defining and understanding mental health; counseling the spiritually oppressed; overcoming false guidance, deception, bitterness and rebellion—and helping others experience freedom in Christ. Discipleship Counseling also gives the reader a better understanding of how discipleship counseling works and shows them the basis of
So it makes perfect sense that the guilty (the one who is morally culpable) deserves to suffer. So, it is intrinsically good when the guilty suffer. That would mean that the guilty that is accused of the crime should suffer the consequence of their actions, however big or small. So in turn, punishing the guilty and making them suffer is sometimes morally justified. Sometimes it is better that