In this excerpt from Living Beyond Offense, Yana Jenay Conner shows readers that one can truly forgive sin even when it may be impossible to completely forget that sin.

In this excerpt, author Luke Cawley describes the cost of forgiveness as Jesus “bears the weight of reconciliation on his own shoulders so that our evasion, hostility, and all the accumulated grime of the years no longer need to come between us and God.”a