"A Fictional Place" - part 5

I am continuing with the background history of Kye Valley's Morning Star Fellowship.  I left off last weekend with Ed, Jack, and Marty having a conversation about God's forgiveness.  Here's the rest of their conversation.

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Jack became silent while he remembered something from his childhood.  It was something that had always puzzled him in light of God's Word - including this very passage.

Ed noticed that Jack's face had grown serious.  "You're remembering an incident?"

"Yes."  Jack nodded.  "It happened a long time ago when I was a little boy.  I don't remember very many details about it now.  I had an uncle who was raised in the church.  But when he was grown he started getting into trouble, getting into sin, and doing things that he shouldn't.  Later he decided that he wanted to get right with God again.  But our church wouldn't let him come back.  He went over to a couple of other churches in town.  They wouldn't let him in either.  Then he disappeared, and no one ever heard from him again."

"I'm sorry to hear that."

Marty answered, "Hopefully he found a church that let him in."

Jack replied, "I have always hoped that."

Marty reminded them of Jesus' ministry on earth as recorded in the Gospels.  Jesus reached out to a woman at a well.  She had been married five times and lived with a man whom she was not married to.  There was a woman who had lived a sinful life.  She washed Jesus' feet with her tears and her hair, and Jesus forgave her.  Jesus also forgave a woman who had been caught in adultery.  There was the parable of the good shepherd looking for his lost sheep.  The shepherd found the lost sheep, brought it home and held a celebration for finding it.  There was also the parable of the prodigal son.  The father waited for his son to come home, hugged him when he saw him, and threw a celebration for his return.

"I'm sure you remember King David in the Old Testament?"  Ed asked.

Jack and Marty both replied, "Yes".

"He committed adultery and murder.  What was his reaction when he was confronted with his sins?"

Marty answered, "He immediately repented."

"Did God remove him from the throne?"

"No."

"I find it interesting that he still wrote psalms after that.  Didn't he write more than half of the psalms?  He was known as the sweet psalmist of Israel.  And Jesus was born in his family line."

"And Jesus was called the Son of David."

Jack questioned, "Isn't it in the New Testament where it says that David was a man after God's own heart?"

Ed replied, "Yes.  I think the Bible says that in a couple of places."