Focus on the Family with Jim Daly Building the Bridge to Forgiveness (Part 2 of 2)
Jun 19, 2025
Dr. Gary Chapman, author of The Five Love Languages, dives into the heart of forgiveness and reconciliation. He emphasizes the importance of taking responsibility for our actions and the power of confession in healing relationships. With personal anecdotes and biblical teachings, Chapman discusses how small grievances can build walls between loved ones and the steps needed to tear them down. He also highlights the unique challenges of forgiveness in marriage and the vital role it plays in parent-child relationships.
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Walls Build Slowly In Relationships
- Walls in relationships build one stone at a time through small injustices and bitterness.
- Tearing down these walls starts by addressing and confessing our own failures first.
Steps To Tear Down Walls
- Identify your own failures in relationships through prayer and confession to God.
- Then confess these failures directly to the person you wronged to empty your conscience.
Briefcase Battle And Forgiveness
- Gary screamed at his wife over a lost briefcase but later found it himself.
- He confessed his wrong to God then to his wife, asking for forgiveness, illustrating the power of confession.