  Sorry I missed the topic while it was new, and intead posted a new topic, and now I'm getting back to the last one...but... To bring in common knowledge, Christians ask forgiveness from God for their sins, but doesn't that leave some people out? I'm all for someone feeling bad if they did something wrong, but just asking God for forgiveness doesn't seem like it's enough, basically, it can be looked at as just blatant disassociation.
Some sin is personal, but a lot of sin hurts more than just the sinner, and only asking God for forgiveness and grace is kind of shortsighted. Take for example this situation: Say you're a coke head who needs a fix, but you don't have any money, so you get on a bus and rob everyone at gunpoint, and somehow, even though you're so twitchy, you get away with it. Then for some reason you get clean, and you feel terrible for robbing those poor people on that bus. In your anguish, you say you're sorry to the driver. Isn't that leaving a few people out? What about all those other people on the bus with you who you stole from? Didn't they have bills to pay, kids to put through college, diapers to buy, coke habits to fill? You inconvenienced an entire busload of people, and you only apologize to one person, given that person was the driver, taking everyone to their destination, and guiding them (oooh...parallel), but those other people are still like, "What the hell, he took from me too, don't I deserve and apology.
" As another Christian on that bus, you probably shouldn't demand an apology from anyone, but what about the Hindu's, Jews, Muslims, and Aetheists on that bus? What kind of example are you setting to them? The Christian idea of only asking God for forgiveness is an old world attitude that I think needs to be redone.
Some would say that the best way to minister to someone is to show them through your life your love of Christ. Needless to say everyone screws up, so what kind of message are we sending people when we do screw up and only apologize to God, and not everyone else who was hurt by our failures? -Robb. 
