The Jesus Challenge: Loving Your Enemy (Traditional)

• What cargo are we carrying? (how do we define our “enemies”?)
• Inventory your cargo (identifying specific grievances that need to be forgiven or let go)
• Identifying postures toward forgiveness that may actually interrupt the process
• Deciding to forgive
• Pen and paper (list and externalize what needs to be forgiven)
• Identify what is really behind our instinctual fears
• The log in our eyes (recognize and own our own mistakes)
• Unload your cargo

Daily devotionals:

• Taking the “opposite” stance toward our enemies of what would be natural
• Acknowledging our own grief and pain
• Log removal so we can see more clearly
• When we are our own enemy
• Relinquishing power for vengeance (righteous anger) to God
• Abide in God for power to forgive
• Slow down and rest