CS Lewis warns us: “When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” When Christians live “careless lives, this sets the outer world talking; and we give them grounds” to “doubt the truth of Christianity.” […]
CS Lewis notes that in the middle of the Lord’s Prayer we pray: “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.” He observes: “There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive, we shall not be forgiven.”
Indeed, immediately after the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew, Jesus exhorts us: “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” […]
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