Reach Church Online My Story Workshop 3/13/2021
Every time I do this, it is a powerful reminder of my brokenness but also how amazing God and his grace is.
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Only Jesus has the power to save us from our sins, we can never do it alone. I’ve known this truth but it became more real to me and I more fully understood and believed it. He truly makes us free and removes our transgressions as far as the east is from the west. I have been feeding myself lies and have been able to better identify what those are. The story I have been given is valuable and can be used to advance God’s Kingdom. Many people have hard stories and a lot of the time we would never know. Makes me wonder how I can love people more. If Jesus is our agenda the person across the table is a target. If Jesus is our life, then the person with us is our friend. Jason and Chris, thank you!! I didn’t know what I was going into and I was amazed by how God worked through this training. Thank you for making a comfortable environment to get a little uncomfortable. Thank you for leading the way! I loved the training and am very grateful for getting the opportunity to join in.
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It was a very empowering and encouraging experience. I have always felt overwhelmed when attempting to share my story with others. This training gave me a structure to use when telling my story and it gave me amazing tools for effectively and compassionately responding to the stories of others.
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The look back on early life - considering the time of innocence and where brokenness started - was so incredibly helpful to uncovering how the enemy has threaded lies throughout my life, and bringing that out into the light has brought freedom!
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Of course, brokenness entered my life at a young age, but until this week I wrote it off because it's "nothing" compared to so many other people's stories. As I scribbled on post-it notes today and clustered different parts of my story into categories, my eyes and heart were opened to redemptive themes I was previously unaware of. I got to ask what innocence looked like for me, how darkness stole that, and how Jesus is inviting me into restoration in those specific areas.
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Only Jesus has the power to save us from our sins, we can never do it alone. I’ve known this truth but it became more real to me and I more fully understood and believed it. He truly makes us free and removes our transgressions as far as the east is from the west. I have been feeding myself lies and have been able to better identify what those are. The story I have been given is valuable and can be used to advance God’s Kingdom. Many people have hard stories and a lot of the time we would never know. Makes me wonder how I can love people more. If Jesus is our agenda the person across the table is a target. If Jesus is our life, then the person with us is our friend. Jason and Chris, thank you!! I didn’t know what I was going into and I was amazed by how God worked through this training. Thank you for making a comfortable environment to get a little uncomfortable. Thank you for leading the way! I loved the training and am very grateful for getting the opportunity to join in.
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It was a very empowering and encouraging experience. I have always felt overwhelmed when attempting to share my story with others. This training gave me a structure to use when telling my story and it gave me amazing tools for effectively and compassionately responding to the stories of others.
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The look back on early life - considering the time of innocence and where brokenness started - was so incredibly helpful to uncovering how the enemy has threaded lies throughout my life, and bringing that out into the light has brought freedom!
___
Of course, brokenness entered my life at a young age, but until this week I wrote it off because it's "nothing" compared to so many other people's stories. As I scribbled on post-it notes today and clustered different parts of my story into categories, my eyes and heart were opened to redemptive themes I was previously unaware of. I got to ask what innocence looked like for me, how darkness stole that, and how Jesus is inviting me into restoration in those specific areas.