![]() Not only does it provide a snapshot of your culture of Generosity… but most importantly, helps you understand what might be possible if you implemented a few key measures in YOUR church. You will see the behavior of your givers, not just the financial numbers. This tool assesses the current health of your church’s giving and provides deeper clarity into your financial reality beyond the total given to your church in the most recent year. Thankfully our friends at Generis have developed just that with the free Generosity Pulse Report. ![]() What if there was a tool that would eliminate the guesswork and provide your team with significant insights into the state of generosity in your church? You likely already know what your total giving was for last year, but do you have a good perspective on what happened IN your giving database? ![]() Keeping track of generosity and giving is important all year long, but especially in January/February as you gear up for a new year. And that’s the health of your church’s Generosity. But there is another really important health factor in YOUR church that you need to have a pulse on. Tim Keller touches on some really important topics about the health of The Church today and thriving in the future. Welcome to Episode 548 of the podcast. Listen and access the show notes below or search for the Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and listen for free. TANWIN TANOTO IS A MINISTER AT HURSTVILLE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN NSW.In a wide-ranging interview, Tim Keller talks about the decline of the mainline and evangelical church, how forgiveness and justice get mishandled during pastoral moral failures, the threat to liberal democracy, civil dialogue and how nominal Christianity created consensus. Moreover, I pray this book can raise awareness of what forgiveness can do in God’s beautiful churches.Īvailable online and at Christian bookstores. I hope this book can be a resource for anyone who needs to grant or receive forgiveness. This book helps me affirm a few things about forgiveness – that forgiveness is needed, forgiveness is revolutionary, forgiveness is hard, and forgiveness is costly. Yes, there is plenty of brokenness in the Church, not to mention the number of people who leave the Church due to lack of forgiveness. Churches are filled with stories of broken people whose hearts are broken by other broken people. There are too many stories where forgiveness is not granted or received. The very nature of sinners gathering together every week, rubbing shoulders and living together in a community, means forgiveness needs to be a part of a balanced diet in local churches. While the Church embodies forgiveness through our worship of Jesus and our teaching of the Bible, sadly it is sometimes also a place where forgiveness is hard to find. ” was countercultural back then, and is still countercultural today. To have the Son of God cry out, “Father forgive them. Ancient Greeks and Romans didn’t forgive – it was beneath them. Culminating in the life, teachings and sacrifice of Jesus, Keller explains how the concept of forgiveness was revolutionary in Christianity. I believe that a crucial element to forgiveness is to understand what it is not. To understand the need and importance of forgiveness in our community, Keller explains the nature of God through a biblical survey. ![]() Things like conflict over forgiveness, where many argue that forgiveness helps perpetrators to escape accountability the fading of forgiveness, where the concept of forgiveness becomes increasingly problematic and the indelible need for forgiveness – that the need to grant and to receive forgiveness cannot be ignored. In typical Keller fashion, he brings to the surface aspects of forgiveness that we may or may not realise. So yes, forgiveness is a timely, important and hard topic to write about. We live in a cancel culture where removing someone rather than forgiving them is supposedly more virtuous. Was this a waste of his brilliance and insights? After all, hasn’t this topic been written about and discussed ad nauseam by other writers and thinkers?įorgiveness is a topic that can make or break people, and it is controversial. So when I found out that his next book would be on forgiveness, I found it a bit underwhelming. Tim Keller has written a lot of books on big topics: biblical theology, contemporary apologetics, preaching, prayer and even biblical commentaries. Why is forgiveness a crucial part of Christianity? In his new book, Forgive, Tim Keller explores the biblical foundations of the practice and shows how Christ’s decision to forgive was so countercultural.
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