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A thought by Steven Furtick, (2016-03-01) from his book, (UN)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things (p. 119). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title of the book to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) We haven’t arrived. We are evolving.   I love baseball.   Today is the Dodgers, my favorite team’s home opener.   I love it. Back when my son Brett played baseball in Pony Ball there were these kids who physically had matured before the other kids.   And they were the best players.   The problem was for them they felt they would always be the best so they didn’t work as hard and later as some of those who weren’t as big did all they could to learn and grow better they eventually passed those other kids.   They knew they hadn’t arrived yet and they knew they would always have to keep at becoming better. And that can happen relationally.   We find that person and we have that exciting day where we have that big wedding and we believ

A thought by Steven Furtick, (2016-03-01) from his book, (UN)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things (p. 117). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title of the book to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Steven says, “God could have created us as fully formed humans. We could have started somewhere around forty years old. That seems like a nice spot, don’t you think? We would have some wisdom, but we wouldn’t have arthritis. But instead, he put us in the world in a state of complete dependency. Why? Because he’s a God of process.” He goes on, “The same holds true for our spiritual walk. When we put our faith in Jesus, that wasn’t the closing ceremony. It wasn’t the finish line. It didn’t mean that from that moment on we would think, walk, talk, and act exactly like Jesus. That may sound obvious, but I’ve met a lot of people who expect to come out of the phone booth with an S on their chests following their salvation experience.” No, e

A thought by Steven Furtick, (2016-03-01) from his book, (UN)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things (p. 113). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title of the book to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) But it is so much easier to say you should, isn’t it?   That makes us feel so much better.   I know that is easier for me too.   I am so ready with the instruction not the confession. But Steven says, “There is something about weakness that opens hearts. It disarms the defensive. It softens the suspicious. It endears the indifferent. It shows people that we aren’t to be feared or revered. We are ‘one of them,’ and as such, we are welcome to speak into their lives.” He goes on, “Case in point: Jesus. He made his grand entrance into the human race as a baby. That says a lot right there. Human infants are about the most helpless creatures on the planet. On top of that his mom was an unwed teenager. His dad was a working-class dude. They