Deal with individuals who need to cultivate love and forgive. Help your people to analyze problem areas among family members and friends, and make plans to bring God's grace to them. This may be done more effectively in home groups.

Find in Paul's letter to Philemon, guidelines for exercising forgiveness.

Find in Romans 12 more guidelines for cultivating fellowship.

Find in 1 Corinthians 6:7 a simple rule for our attitude toward 'getting even.'

Find in Ephesians 4:31-32 more guidelines for forgiving.

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If you work cross-culturally, find out what are the cultural ways of asking for and receiving forgiveness and effecting reconciliation.

• If the offense is the cross of Jesus, then the offended parties may refuse reconciliation.
• Usually the problem lies in one's misdeeds.
• If you conduct a community survey, then ask a question such as, "Have you found that your Christian friends are more, or less, forgiving when others have insulted or mistreated them?"