Nick StumboExecutive Director driving healing from sexual brokenness

True Forgiveness vs Spiritual Bypass

31 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube talk (speaker Moskowitz) contrasting "spiritual bypass" with true forgiveness. The speaker warns that spiritual bypass encourages people to "get over" pain quickly ("don't be angry, don't talk about it") and emphasizes that forgiveness is a long-term process that people want once they understand it.

So this sense of some kind of spiritual. We call it spiritual bypass, where you're just going to jump over this horrible mess of pain and injury to. Well, you know, you need to forgive. Forgiveness is a long term process. I have not met anyone yet who doesn't want to forgive once they understand what that is and what it is for them. But what they're hearing is get over it. Don't be angry, don't talk about it. Forgive and everything will be better.