“Not Seven Times, But Seventy-Seven Times”

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod , owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

“Not seven times but seventy-seven times.”(Matthew 18:22)

In today’s world, we would call a person who showed that kind of forgiveness a doormat, a glutton for punishment, a masochist. “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me,” the saying goes.

And yet in a very few weeks, we’re going to see that Jesus isn’t just spouting pretty theoretical words here...