The emphasis on forgiveness is nice enough, but it assumes there must also be something to be forgiven, that we must be very busy at sin to keep pace with its remission, when in truth I doubt there is anyone in the congregation who can recall or anticipate doing sufficient wrong in a moment, much less on an ongoing basis. Even were we to think in terms of a human condition of which sin may have been an aspect, we would not meet the standard. There is too much forgiveness for what may require forgiving.
Either we are forgiven or we are not. If we are, we should move on to a different topic. If we are not, it makes no difference. By considering only this aspect of God's relationship to us we may be overlooking, or diminishing the significance of, all else he does or what he might prefer to see as identifying traits.
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