Forgive Us as We Forgive - Part 3

By Rev. Martyn McGeown, pastor of Providence PRC. Previous article in the series: Forgive Us as We Forgive - Part 2 _________________ The Relationship Between God’s Forgiveness and Ours What, then, is the relationship between these two acts of forgiveness: God’s forgiveness of us, and our forgiveness of others? We begin with the negative. Our act of forgiving the neighbor is not the ground/basis, or the reason, for God’s forgiving us. The ground is Christ’s blood, not our activity of...