Sunday Sermon | The Beauty of Warm Forgiveness and the Aroma of Christ | 2 Corinthians | Part 4

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 2:5-17. This passage draws our attention to the biblical norm of forgiveness and recovery.Being in a warm, loving congregation that reflects the love of Christ is one of the most important aspects of our relationship to the Lord Jesus. Healthy church life involves a normal process of confession, repentance, forgiveness, and reaffirmation of love.It’s much easier to say we forgive than to restore such a one with warmth and comfort. This would be full obedience by the congregation in their forgiveness, but we are prone to incomplete obedience.As we take time to involve ourselves in the full biblical process of forgiveness and recovery, we see the aroma of Christ.Only as congregations grow in their love and realistic experience with the living Son of God in a way that involves a transformational reaffirmation of love, will they then begin to truly enjoy a certain level of breadth of numerical and expansive growth.