My name is Melody Rose White. I am 21 years old. I am currently living in Cambodia, traveling around to different villages and volunteering in projects with my team of 12 awesome people. In a few weeks I will be settled in Japan. Then I’ll go to back to Hawaii for a bit. It has always been my goal to see the world and experience new cultures. In it actually happening, I have learned countless valuable lessons, become pretty tight with my creator, and realized that I took everything for granted. After all of this is over, I’ll go back home to Oakland, Maryland in America. It is an awesome place. You should go there. I can’t imagine growing up anywhere else. 2016 has been one heck of a year. Life could not possibly ever be the same. .
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The Parable of the Rejected Gift: Chrysostom and Milbank on Matthew 18
“For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. When he began the reckoning, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him; and, as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, and payment to be made. So the slave fell on his knees before him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ And out of pity for him, the lord of that slave released him and forgave him the debt. But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat, he said, ‘Pay what you owe.’ Then his fellow slave fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’ But he refused; then he went and threw him into prison until he would pay the debt. When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place. Then his lord summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?’ And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured until he would pay his entire debt. So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”
(Matthew 18.23-35, NRSV)
The above passage, popularly known as the “Parable of the Wicked Servant”, is difficult in both its theological message and its application in orthopraxy. It can be summed up as “if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you” (Matthew 6.14, NRSV). This forces us to ask the question: does God only forgive us when we forgive? This question of divine and human forgiveness is incomplete and starts off on the wrong foot. Forgiveness begins as a gift from God.
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