It needs to be said that forgiveness is not to be confused with permissiveness, where you turn your head away from wrong and let it slide. When a leader responds that way, he doesn’t do so because he loves the one who wronged him but because he loves himself and doesn’t want to go through the hassle of tense and awkward moments that might result if he lovingly speaks truth into that wrong. Paul begins this wonderful call to forgiveness with a call to speak the truth, and he later describes what that
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