Chapter 6 and 7

A breif summary of what we talked about:

We went through chapters 6 and 7. We started talking about forgiveness. Someone started us off by asking what happens if someone doesn't forgive themselves? We ended up concluding that if you don't understand that God's forgiveness surpasses all, it means you don't really understand that God's forgiven you. Furthermore, it could mean that you value your own forgiveness more than God's forgiveness.

We went through more about forgiveness, mainly tangenting what John Piper wrote in each of the sections, why we forgive, how forgiveness brings us closer to God and how we make others glad through our forgiveness. (pretty much all of what he talked about in that chapter).

Chapter 7 was more intense. We started off by talking about how we should live out our lives so that other people would notice the hope that we have in Jesus Christ. We talked also about not just doing things to let other people know that we are Christian (a la Matthew 6), but we should just live it out. We ended up just talking about materialism in the world, how our culture values money because it's the only thing they can turn to. We also talked about giving and talked about how it's more the attitude in our giving that makes it important, not the amount. As students, we may need more money to support ourselves, but if we don't offer to God what is his, and save up just because we want to get more stuff, then we should look at our attitude of giving.

Then we had to hurry because it was already 6:30. We talked about how cool the war-time attitude was and how it gives a different view of the world today. We lightly touched on each of the stories that Piper mentioned, just about saving every little bit, about the diseases being a tool of Satan, about television and internet being a waste of time, about what "cool" means and how values of our culture are so wrong.

Feel free to add anything I've missed!