The How-To of Forgiveness (ft. Gerald Griffin) | Forgiving As We Have Been Forgiven E3
5/4/202640 min
What do you do when you can't forgive? Gerald Griffin, pastor and coach at Practicing the Way, walks us through a practical, step-by-step process for moving beyond the decision to forgive into deep emotional healing.
Key Scripture Passages: Matthew 6v9-15
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First 90 secondsLinka Dawson· Host0:00
[gentle music] Hello and welcome to the John Mark Comer's Teachings podcast. My name is Linka Dawson, and I'm your host. Each week, we feature teachings by John Mark or other voices in the formation space, and it's great to have you with us. We're continuing our series on forgiveness, exploring what it means to release those who have hurt us and experience the freedom Jesus offers. In this week's episode, Gerald tackles one of the most difficult questions in the forgiveness journey: what do you do when you've tried to forgive, but you're still struggling? He walks through a practical step-by-step process from moving from decision to deep emotional healing, showing us that forgiveness isn't just about letting someone off the hook. It's about replacing the negative emotions attached to our wounds with empathy, compassion, and love. Here's Gerald.
Gerald Griffin· Guest0:48
Hey, again. Uh, my name's Gerald, one of the leaders here, and we are in a practice right now about forgiveness. Yeah. [clapping] How's... [laughs] Yeah. Whoo. My name's Gerald, and we are in a prac- [laughs] How's that going, though? You guys enjoying forgiveness? Whoo. Yeah. Yeah. We're, we're halfway through. Yeah. And some of you guys are like, "Dang it, I thought we were done." No, we're not. We're at that point where it gets hard and you wanna quit, but maybe you should press in. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Thank you. Um, and if you are really new to the BridgeTown story, what we've been doing is kind of, um, regular week to week we're teaching through a book of the Bible,