CHURCH NAME: Grace Community Church SERMON TOPIC AND SCRIPTURE: Walking in forgiveness — Ephesians 4:31-32 PASTOR NAME: Pastor David Osei TONE: Warm and casual NEWSLETTER HEADER Good morning Grace Community Church family — and what a week it is to be alive and together. If you are reading this over your morning coffee or on your commute we are glad this found you. This week at Grace we are diving into one of the most personally challenging and genuinely freeing topics in Scripture — forgiveness. Inside this week's newsletter you will find Pastor David's personal note this Sunday's sermon preview a mid-week devotional to carry you through the week and everything happening in our Grace family community this week. Welcome in. PASTOR'S NOTE Dear Grace family, I was driving behind someone this week who cut me off in traffic — not once but twice — and I felt something rise up in me that I will not describe in detail in a church newsletter. And then I thought: this Sunday I am preaching on forgiveness. The irony was not lost on me. The truth is forgiveness is not a topic we master once and move on from. It is a daily practice. A moment by moment choice. And most of us are carrying something — a conversation that went wrong a person who let us down a wound that scabbed over but never fully healed — that is quietly costing us more than we realise. This Sunday I want to open Ephesians 4:31-32 together and look honestly at what God asks of us and more importantly what He makes available to us to make it possible. This is not a guilt trip. It is an invitation to the most liberating decision you can make. I cannot wait to be in the room with you. Come expectant. With love and genuine hope for your week, Pastor David THIS WEEK'S SERMON PREVIEW Is there someone in your life you have not fully forgiven? Not the surface level forgiveness we perform for others — the real kind that actually sets you free. This Sunday Pastor David opens Ephesians 4:31-32 and tackles one of the most personally challenging truths in the New Testament. What does it actually mean to forgive as God forgave us? And what makes that even possible on a Tuesday when the wound is still fresh? Join us this Sunday at [SERVICE TIME] at [LOCATION / ONLINE LINK]. Come ready for a message that will not just challenge you — it will genuinely release something in you. WEEKLY SCRIPTURE AND DEVOTIONAL It is Wednesday morning. Maybe the week is already feeling heavy. Maybe there is someone from the weekend still taking up space in your head rent-free. Ephesians 4:32 says: Be kind and compassionate to one another forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you. Notice what Paul does not say. He does not say forgive when you feel like it. He does not say forgive after they apologise. He says forgive as God forgave you — which means completely freely and before you deserved it. That is a high standard. But it comes with a power source attached. You do not have to do this in your own strength. The same grace that covers you is the grace available to give. Pray this today: Father I do not have enough grace in me for this. But You do. Fill me with what I cannot manufacture on my own and help me to re