Show more interest in their story than your own.
Is your transgression forgiven?
As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
It's not so much what you win, it's what you become.
The platform God has given me is the platform of exhortation.
If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.