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A Sinner's Practical Guide to Christ's Atonement

The following is a talk that I prepared for sacrament meeting on February 25, 2024. I struggled a bit with this topic because there’s so much to say about the atonement. It's not only the most important aspect of our faith but of everything. At the same time, it’s one of the most incomprehensible concepts, considering that Christ accomplished an impossibly vast amount of atoning in such a short period of time. And if we set aside for a moment the infinite scope of the Atonement—applying to all sins, temptations, and trials of every person, everywhere, from the beginning to the end of time—just thinking about how it applies to a single person is overwhelming. I can hardly fathom what that looks like, let alone how it extends to all of humanity. So, when I was asked to speak on just "the atonement," I was left with all of that—where do I even begin? Everything I found was talking about how big and incredible the atonement is and all of the big and incredible reasons why we need it. As I…