Department of Health Sciences Faculty Articles

Balancing Accountability and Grace

Document Type

News Article

Publisher

Grif Blackstone

Publication Date

3-2016

Abstract

Florida youth who have committed a community offense are benefitting from services that promote positive change and redemption through the Faith and Community Network and the PROMISE Program. While some believe that all those who commit a crime or community infraction should pay for their offense, others understand that each of us have made regretted mistakes and are in need of grace or a second chance to learn from those mistakes. Matthew 6:14-15 states, “If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins” (NLT). We will be judged by the standard we judge others. To challenge our view of justice a little more, we are invited to consider the limits of our willingness to forgive in Matthew 19:21-22, as Jesus reminds us that we are called to forgive another “seventy-seven times.”

Volume

17

Issue

12

First Page

29

Last Page

30

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

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