Dr. David Stubbs is Professor of Ethics & Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. He is Co-Director of the Hope-Western Prison Education Program. His newest book, Table and Temple: The Christian Eucharist and its Jewish Roots, is available for pre-order on Amazon.
Paul’s words to Timothy raise many questions for us today. Do we have certain gifts given by God that we should be rekindling today? Do we feel different spirits blowing through us ... a spirit of “cowardice”? ... a spirit of “power and of love and of self-control”?
When one probes beneath the surface of the process of forgiveness, one finds a tangle of emotions, decisions, “statuses,” relational circumstances and issues.
