Episode 431 Accountability and Forgiveness (Matthew 18:15-35)

This week BibleWorm reads Matthew 18:15-35 – important and challenging texts about what happens on the ground, in the real and messy world of human community, when something has gone wrong. How can we hold each other accountable with a loving spirit - and when do we need to ask someone to step back from the community because of their behaviors? What is the relationship between compassion, fairness and punishment – between mercy and judgment – here and now, and in the future kingdom? These are hard questions that kinda we wish we didn’t have to think about – but we are messy creatures, us humans, so we do.