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Apologize
(Getting Past Your Past, Part 3) Speaker: Michael Shreve November 20, 2011 at 1000 Mountain West Church |
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Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.
Matthew 5:23-24
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.Matthew 5:9
Peacekeepers - Avoid confrontation
Peacemakers - Embrace confrontation
Two Thoughts
The biggest hindrance to peacemaking is pride
The best friend of peacemaking is humility
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes
wisdom.Proverbs 11:2
How to really apologize and mean it
• Confess specific actions and attitudes
• Don't make excuses
• Accept the consequences
• Change
• Ask for forgiveness
Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember
that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in
front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come
and offer your gift.Matthew 5:23-24
MY NEXT STEP TODAY IS TO...
Commit my life to Christ for the first time
Choose humility
Stop making excuses
Ask for forgiveness
Join us next week for the last part of our seires
'Getting Past Your Past' - overcoming personal failures.