Have you ever noticed that the great documents like this perfect pattern prayer, the Apostles'' Creed, the Nicene Creed, doctrinal statements of various church traditions, all affirm our need for forgiveness and God providing the means and methods by which we are forgiven?

As we continue in our series on The Lord''s Prayer, I want to share with you why I believe this is the hardest petition for any of us to fulfill. To put it simply, it is difficult. To demonstrate how difficult it is to forgive, as soon as The Lord''s Prayer is completed, Jesus immediately in verses 14 and 15 reminds us of our need for forgiveness and our need to reflect the forgiveness given by God by forgiving those who have hurt us.

In the 1970s, a brilliant Korean student was enrolled at the University of Pennsylvan…