Forgiveness is one of the hardest teachings of Christianity.

It's one of the most essential.

I think people think other things are harder than forgiveness.

But man, if you've ever been hurt, forgiveness is one of the most radical and most difficult

teachings of Christianity.

In fact, in the center of the our Father, the prayer that Jesus gave us, we pray, God,

don't forgive me if I don't forgive those who've hurt me.

That's kind of what we pray.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And so we realize the stakes are really, really high when it comes to forgiveness.

And so what happens is this is a lot of times people struggle with forgiveness.

What does it mean?

So I want to tell you what it means.

Well, a little bit of what it means.

First thing, forgiveness doesn't mean you're no longer hurt.

Forgiveness doesn't mean that you have to be friends with this person again.

And forgiveness doesn't mean that you trust them.

Now again, those are huge things.

Sometimes people think that forgiveness means like, okay, I mean, it's okay.

I don't feel bad anymore or I'm not angry anymore.

I feel like I've forgiven them.

You don't have to feel like you've forgiven anyone at any point because forgiveness is

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