Summer 2023 news@God’s Acre
Enjoy the new Summer 2023 newsletter edition of the news@godsacre.
You wicked slave!…Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you? Matthew 18:32b–33
Jesus told a story about a man who had a large debt forgiven by his master, only to ruthlessly demand the payment of a much smaller debt owed to him by another servant. This is hypocrisy at its most virulent. When someone has been forgiven an immense debt, how can they justify their own unwillingness to return that same grace and mercy to others?
Jesus told this story so that we might understand the appropriate…