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Healing From Church Hurt | Family Integrated Church
1 John 1:5-7 • Have you been hurt by deception in the church? Are you hiding behind protective walls, nursing bitterness, walking in darkness?
⛪ Preached at Pilgrim Baptist Church • Cookeville, TN • January 22, 2026.
📚 Our verse-by-verse expository series through 1 John
You can't fake light. Light either is or it isn't. After church hurt, the temptation is to retreat into darkness—suspicion, bitterness, isolation. But God doesn't give five steps to recovery. He shows us what He IS: Light. No mixture. No shadows. No compromise.
This expository sermon walks through 1 John 1:5-7, explaining:
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