Teaching | The How-To of Forgiveness | Forgiving As We Have Been Forgiven E03
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Mark Commerce Teachings podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | My name is Yinka Dassen and I'm your host. |
| 0:09.8 | Each week we feature teachings by John Mark or other voices in the formation space, |
| 0:13.7 | and it's great to have you with us. |
| 0:15.7 | We're continuing our series on forgiveness, |
| 0:18.0 | exploring what it means to release those who have heard us |
| 0:20.7 | and experience |
| 0:21.5 | the freedom Jesus offers. In this week's episode, Gerald tackles one of the most difficult |
| 0:26.6 | questions in the forgiveness journey. What do you do when you try to forgive, but you're still |
| 0:31.7 | struggling? He walks through a practical step-by-step process from moving from decision to deep |
| 0:37.3 | emotional healing. |
| 0:38.6 | Showing us the forgiveness isn't just about letting someone off the hook. |
| 0:42.0 | It's about replacing the negative emotions attached to our wounds with empathy, compassion, and love. |
| 0:48.0 | Here's Gerald. |
| 0:50.3 | Hey again, my name's Gerald, one of the leaders here, and we are in a practice right now about forgiveness. |
| 0:58.0 | How's... |
| 1:00.0 | My name's Gerald, and we are in a practice... |
| 1:05.0 | How's that going, though? You guys enjoying forgiveness? |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.0 | We're halfway through, and some of you guys are like, dang it, I thought we were done. |
| 1:15.0 | No, we're not. We're at that point where it gets hard and you want to quit, but maybe you should |
| 1:19.0 | press in. You know what I'm saying? Thank you. And if you are really new to the Bridgetown story, |
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