the servant, in turn, is called to show mercy to his fellow indebted steward (the horizontal relationship). Sometimes the appearance of dispositional forgiveness is deceiving. What some people claim to be dispositional forgiveness (“I’ve forgiven him in my heart”) is actually an unwillingness to be reconciled, a cover for bitterness. We know that a person has little disposition to forgive if he or she will not go and show the offender his or her fault (Matt. 18:15), rebuke the one who sins against