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This is a six-week small group discussion guide for the Brian Zahnd book, Unconditional? It provides material and instruction for studying Unconditional? is a small group setting. Each week readers will prepare at home by reading the chapter from Unconditional? that corresponds with the week’s study. Each week’s study is broken into five sections. They are all key parts of learning to practice Christ’s radical vision of forgiveness. The READ sections of each chapter explain what to read at home, and they give a brief summary of the main parts in those chapters. The REFLECT sections are intended to get you into the Word so you can study the topic before the discussion begins. That way everyone will have had time to think deeply about these concepts before talking them over with the group. The DISCUSS sections are just that—questions for you to discuss and explore together as a group. Ideas for continuing the application of the important truths in each chapter will be found in the WRAP UP section at the end of each chapter. Each chapter ends with a POWER WORD, motivating readers to write God’s Words on your heart, and to grow in your knowledge and understanding of Christlike forgiveness.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 The Possibility of Forgiveness
Using the story of Corrie ten Boom’s forgiveness of a Nazi guard, and of others, to show that although forgiveness can be difficult, in Christ it is possible.
2 The Imitation of Christ
Using Pope John Paul II and his forgiveness of his would-be assassin Ali Agca to show how we are to imitate Christ in forgiveness.
3 No Future Without Forgiveness
Using Desmond Tutu’s story of reconciliation in South Africa to show that only through forgiveness can we move forward into a hopeful future.
4 Forgiveness and Justice
Using help from Miroslav Volf’s Exclusion and Embrace to explore the difficult relationship between forgiveness and justice.
5 The Golden Rule and the Narrow Gate
Working from the Sermon on the Mount to show how the Golden Rule is the Narrow Gate of radical forgiveness which alone leads to life.
6 The Prince of Peace
Working from Isaiah 9 and the Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote—“No peace is peace but that which comes through the forgiveness of sins”— to show how the hope for peace is found only in forgiveness.
Overview
This is a six-week small group discussion guide for the Brian Zahnd book, Unconditional? It provides material and instruction for studying Unconditional? is a small group setting. Each week readers will prepare at home by reading the chapter from Unconditional? that corresponds with the week’s study. Each week’s study is broken into five sections. They are all key parts of learning to practice Christ’s radical vision of forgiveness. The READ sections of each chapter explain what to read at home, and they give a ...