Preparing the post-embezzlement church for forgiveness

Jim Melvin Wisland

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Preparing the post-embezzlement church for forgiveness

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Jim Melvin Wisland. Preparing the Post-embezzlement Church for Forgiveness. Western Seminary (Portland, OR). rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7c7a938a-304d-4c8c-a36c-30d14abb60c2?locale=pt-BR.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

J. M. Wisland. Preparing the post-embezzlement church for forgiveness. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7c7a938a-304d-4c8c-a36c-30d14abb60c2?locale=pt-BR

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Jim Melvin Wisland. Preparing the Post-Embezzlement Church for Forgiveness. Western Seminary (Portland, OR). https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7c7a938a-304d-4c8c-a36c-30d14abb60c2?locale=pt-BR.

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Jim Melvin Wisland

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Congregations--Internal conflict

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This dissertation attempts to build a model of forgiveness that is best situated for the post-embezzled church. In order to accomplish this goal, two assumptions regarding forgiveness are made: (1) A discussion of forgiveness must first be grounded in the nature and character of God; and (2) Forgiveness must be understood as a relational issue where sin has caused harm. To understand these two components of forgiveness, a careful study of Genesis 1-4 is undertaken. Agape love from offended to offender establishes the base of forgiveness, and forgiveness must address the dynamics of sin expressed in shame, power, self-righteousness, and rage. These four issues are applicable to both the embezzler and the post-embezzled church. In order to foster forgiveness in the embezzled church, the embezzler must undergo some kind of transformation. Shame should be turned into confession, power into humility, self-righteousness into repentance, and rage into repair.

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