To receive forgiveness is a life-changing event.

And gifts which alter the course of your life should never be sought or received with an attitude of indifference.

You see, if we're not forgiven, the full weight of our guilt has to be born alone. And that's not a circumstance in which any

one of us would want to find ourselves. So this issue of forgiveness, it's more than just a

traditional Christmas topic or an idea that I'm familiar with.

It's a word that I think is overused or certainly needs some definition in the frequency with

it's used in our culture.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.

We've been working through a series on the theme of forgiveness and if you haven't heard the previous couple of

sessions they're available they're archived online you can hear them there in this

particular session I want to got a turn to the assignment we have towards forgiveness.

Previously we've looked at how God has made forgiveness available to every one of us

and why that's important and how it can be processed in our lives.

But in this session, I want to talk to you about the challenge,

whether to forgive or not to forgive,

because it's the choice we make, typically on a daily basis.

We're walking through a season of awakening in the church at least in the West. I think

God is calling his people to a different kind of awareness. It seemed to begin

about the time that we heard about that virus from China and we all had to grapple with the pandemic but most of the things we're seeing didn't begin then.

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