FORGIVENESS

FORGIVENESS

FORGIVENESS

• Psychologist generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness.

• Forgiveness is “letting go of bitterness and revenge.

Poll

Have you ever forgiven something for something they did?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Have you ever wanted to be forgiven for something you did?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Do we always have to forgive others, and accept their apologies?

• Yes

• No

• Depends

FORGIVENESS in BIBLE

• Ephesians 4:32

  Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you

• See about Joseph.

• Forgiveness is choice

Open Ended

What does forgiveness mean to YOU?

Open Ended

Why is forgiveness better than bitterness and revenge?

Open Ended

How does it feel when someone forgives YOU?

Open Ended

What makes it hard to forgive?

How does forgiveness show strength of character?

Multiple Choice

Forgiveness is a choice

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

I need to feel like forgiving before I can really forgive

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

When someone forgives me, I may still have to receive consequences for what I did. (if I break the windown when mom told me not to kick the ball there - she might tell me that I need to help pay to have it fixed)

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

When someone says 'I am sorry' , you should say 'I forgive you'

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Forgivness means I will keep trying to be your friend

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Forgiveness means that I won't bring up something you did wrong and use it against you

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

When someone says 'I'm sorry' should you accept their apology

• Yes - but it doesn't mean that the hurt will dissapear immediately

• No - I am still hurt

Multiple Choice

Forgiveness excuses another persons bad actions

• Yes

• No

READ

"I'm incredibly sorry if this offended you, then, now, whenever. It doesn't need to exist, it shouldn't have existed. I shouldn't have said that, ever. It's not cool, it's not cute, it's not okay and I'm embarrassed that I've ever made that, period."

Poll

Would you accept this apology?

• Yes

• No

• Yes with condition

READ

" I just have to say I'm sorry. It's so important to me that you guys know how sorry I am and how embarrassed I am. This has just been shocking. I messed up in more than one way, I was way too over confident in my launch and I was not enough involved in quality control. I overhyped it for you guys, I trusted the wrong people - I did a lot of things that I should not have done"

Poll

Would you accept this apology?

• Yes

• No

• Yes with condition

READ

What occurred was unintentional, completely regrettable, and I apologize if you guys were offended.

Poll

Would you accept this apology?

• Yes

• No

• Yes with condition