Hello and welcome to the John Mark Coleman Teachings podcast. My name is Yinka 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 concluding our forgiveness series where we've been learning what it means to forgive as we've been forgiving.

In this week's episode, John Mark and Bethany Allen talked through the hard but redemptive

work of reconciliation, where we move beyond forgiveness to actually restore broken relationships.

They work through the four practical steps of reconciliation and challenge us to take

personal responsibility for the people we've hurt.

Here's Bethany and John Mark.

Hi, hello.

Hi.

Well, hey, hopefully you've been around the last couple weeks and you know that we've been working through the practice of forgiveness.

And this evening, we're just going to, we're kind of going to wrap it up together.

Over the past few weeks, we've spent some time unpacking what it means to forgive.

We've worked through what it means for God to use our pain and to catalyze it for good in the kingdom and in our lives.

And then last week,

Gerald walked us through just kind of the practical how-to's forgiveness. And if you've missed any of these teachings, we think they're quite good. And you should go back and listen to the

podcast. Now, tonight we're going to make a bit of a shift. We believe that the spirit over the

past few weeks has been leading many of us to places of great healing. We believe that the spirit over the past few weeks has been leading

many of us to places of great healing. We've been hearing really incredible stories of what God's doing.

But we also believe that he's been at work revealing to us, to a lot of us, the ways that we've

actually hurt others. And this is where this conversation gets a little messy, right?

A little bit complicated.

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