How God Uses Broken People

• a couple of years ago i was standing outside of a sunday school class and this girl came flying up to me it was between worship service and you know the next one we had these these classes she came flying up to me almost breathless and she went i just have to tell you i am so glad you were leading this connect class because before you came like all the girls in women’s ministry were like all perfect they were all thin and blonde but then you came and then she stopped because she realized i’ve basically just accused you
• of being chubby and brunette and i started laughing i said you know you don’t have to apologize i said i think what you’re trying to say is you feel like you can be honest with me and she goes that’s exactly what i’m saying you’re just not perfect you don’t seem to have it all together and you know that’s the whole point of the gospel god didn’t come to save us because we’re perfect people who can justify ourselves he loves mistake prone people like us his grace is sufficient for us and the cool thing is especially for those of y’all
• who are thinking man with my bio there’s really no way i could be used to help other people at elevation i just need to sit here and be a consumer but to be a leader i’m not so sure because of my history i want to encourage you that god doesn’t call the the gifted necessarily he equips those who recognize their need for him and i’ll prove that to you by the gospel of mark mark was my least favorite gospel until i really began studying the gospel of mark and the origins of the gospel of mark what i didn’t know is when they canonized
• scripture and that’s just a fancy word that means when they collated it into a literary list when they canonized scripture they listed the gospel of matthew as the first gospel but actually the gospel of mark is the very first gospel it was the first written compilation of the life and ministry of jesus christ and here’s the deal you probably assume it’s written by mark and you would be correct since it’s called the gospel according to mark by the way the word gospel comes from the greek word yuan jelliance the word we get