Podcast: "The Way" through The Sacred Gap (Part 5), Ep. 25

Healing our Relationships (Healing through Forgiveness)

The more we understand Jesus' invitation for the Kingdom life, the more compelling it is. Listen in as Tyler and Aric continue to explore Jesus' compelling vision for Kingdom life through his opening words of his Sermon on the Mount. As we discussed in our previous series, he offers a promise of healing and transformation that frees us from our shadow stories into lives lived more and more fully in the true story and the Kingdom realities that you are loved, you belong, you are chosen, and you have nothing to prove. The difference between those two realities is what we have called The Sacred Gap and once that gap becomes clear, so does an obvious question: "How do I get through that gap?" Well, it turns out there is an answer. The early Kingdom communities of Jesus' apprentices, not coincidentally, referred to themselves as practitioners of "The Way." What "Way" is that? It is "The Way" that Jesus himself taught in the greatest and most compelling sermon ever given.

In this podcast, we look at Jesus' next surprising revelation of "The Way." In the first three "blessed are" statements, Jesus has taken us on a journey within. As apprentices of Jesus, we learn with him the art and skill of paying attention to our inner worlds. We learn to listen to our hearts and discern God's invitations for growth and healing that our hearts reveal...healing our perception and relationship with God as well as healing our perception of ourselves. Now Jesus turns outward. He speaks to our deep desires for meaningful and fulfilling relationships and for our longings for life to be good...for things to be made right. He speaks to the desire and offers an amazing promise: satisfaction. It is an incredibly lofty and hopeful promise. So we shouldn't be surprised, then, that with such a promise, it is also hard. The road is getting more narrow but the promises are also getting more profound. "Right relationship" is something we can experience. But we cannot get around the need for forgiveness as "The Way" to that promise. Forgiveness is hard. And it is made even more difficult because there is so much misunderstanding and confusion around it.

Listen in as Tyler and Aric explore this difficult and often misunderstood topic, Jesus' sobering teachings about it, and why it is so important...and essential to the Kingdom promise of satisfaction.

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