Welcome to the For the Gospel podcast, where we are all about sound doctrine for every

day people.

My name is Kosti Hin and I am your host and today I'm joined by a dear brother and a great

friend of mine, Pastor Matt Shackleford from Central Church, down in Tennessee, a thriving

church had the chance to preach with Matt and his team there, not more than just a few

months back and the Lord is doing some incredible things in Collierville, Tennessee, just not

far from Memphis, Pastor Matt is a contributor here for the Gospel and we're so thrilled

to have him on Pastor Matt, thanks for joining me.

Kosti, thanks so much for having me, man, what a joy to be in ministry together.

Love it.

Grateful for you.

Well, Matt, you have spoken a great deal about issues of bitterness and forgiveness, obviously

you preach every week, you are a biblical counselor, you're a well-educated, a studier and

deliverer of the scriptures and one of the key topics that we've discussed and I want

you to speak to our audience about is the idea of forgiveness but bitterness, the roots

of bitterness, where bitterness comes from, how to deal with it, battle it, fight it because

I know you know as well in the church today we are not immune to conflict and we're not

immune to harboring bitterness and so many Christians can be crippled by bitterness in the

local church, it divides us when we don't need to be divided, it can hinder us from being

useful in the work of ministry and in the local church and really rob our joy.

So why don't you take us on a tour today of bitterness, unforgiveness and forgiveness

and edify the audience it for the gospel?

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