We live in a success-driven culture and we the church mirror the corporate model with our prosperity gospel, with our emphasis on money, success and power, being a celebrity Christian for God. But what if...What if this is not God's doing but ours.
We all have huge hurts, pain and devastation in our lives. What If we don't try to get rid of it all, but see our point of need as a lightening rod to ignite our lives.
Our mess becomes our message and a revelation of God's grace.
We all have huge hurts, pain and devastation in our lives. What If we don't try to get rid of it all, but see our point of need as a lightening rod to ignite our lives.
Our mess becomes our message and a revelation of God's grace.
God is prepared to use the place of our deepest need as the point of our restoration to the whole world. Click to TweetIt's time to turn it upside down.
But God has chosen the foolish things in this world to shame the wise; God has chosen the weak things in this world to shame the strong. God has chosen the lowly things in this world and the despised things--and the things that are not--to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. But by his doing, you are in Christ Jesus who has become for us the wisdom of God in us, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption, so that as Scripture says, "If you want to boast, boast in God alone."
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