Southpointe Community Church Sermons

Generosity- Love compelling me to live sacrificially for the betterment of others. 1. The danger of not forgiving Luke 17:3-4 "So watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him." Hebrews 12:15, “See to it no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.” 2. The practice of forgiveness “Forgiveness is impossible when you exclude your enemy from the community of humans and exclude yourself from the community of sinners.” -Misoslav Volf “Forgiveness is to deal with our emotions by denying ourselves the dark pleasures of venting them or fondling them in our minds.” "There is such a big difference between forgiveness and reconciliation. It takes two to reconcile, so it is not always possible to be reconciled. But it takes only one to forgive. So if people do you wrong, forgive them, whether or not they ask for forgiveness. You cannot cancel thei