Should not reconciliation and forgiveness be our first response in a disagreement?
Read this before lawyering up
When Saint Paul heard that members of the church in the Greek city of Corinth were going into court and suing one another, he was incensed. For one thing he thought it shameful that Christians could not settle their disputes among themselves. For another, it was disgraceful to submit themselves to pagan judges. Be that as it may, Paul’s admonitions highlight the fact that the church should be a community of person-to-person reconciliation and that a Christian’s first instinct should be for forgiveness.
TODAY’S READINGS: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11; Luke 6:12-19 (438)
“It is . . . a failure on your part that you have lawsuits against one another.”
CONTRIBUTORS
Alice Camille, Daniel Grippo, Caroline Hopkinson, Father Larry Janowski, O.F.M., Ann O’Connor, Joel Schorn, Patrice J. Tuohy, and Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M.
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