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Epic Fail

Epic Fail. Reasons, Opportunities and Reactions. @leadsu. We all love winners…. Failure is an event, not an identity. “When that story leads somewhere . . . it gives us hope.” Keller, Timothy. Making Sense of God. 1. Reasons why we fail. Psalms 32:3-4

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Epic Fail

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  1. EpicFail Reasons, Opportunities and Reactions

  2. @leadsu

  3. We all love winners…

  4. Failure is an event, not an identity.

  5. “When that story leads somewhere . . . it gives us hope.” Keller, Timothy. Making Sense of God

  6. 1. Reasons why we fail

  7. Psalms 32:3-4  When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long. 4 Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. a. Disconecting

  8. Proverbs 16:18 Pride leads to destruction, and arrogance to downfall. b. Pride

  9. One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.” John Ortberg b. Pride

  10. ‘Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,’ C. S. Lewis.

  11. "There is nothing so OFFENSIVE to God or so DANGEROUS to the human soul as PRIDE and SELF-SUFFICIENCY. Of all sins it is the most hopeless, the most INCURABLE." COL 154 b. Pride

  12. Proverbs 21:5Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity,but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty. c. Shortcuts

  13. 2. Oportunities from failure.

  14. Revealsproblems Job 13:23 Tellme, what have I done wrong? Show me my rebellion and my sin.

  15. 2. Brings people Micah 6:4 For I brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to helpyou.

  16. 3. Helps you understand His promises Psalm 119:140Your promises have been thoroughly tested; that is why I love them so much.

  17. 3. Reactions to failure

  18. a. Quit Revelation 2:3 You have patiently suffered for me without quitting.

  19. Lies that lead to Quiting 1. I’m the Only One Struggling 2. I Should Be Successful by Now! 3. Life is Not Turning Out Like it Was Supposed To 4. I Don’t Have What it Takes 5. I am a Failure

  20. The day after imperfect Might as well

  21. b. Blame Genesis 16:5Then Sarai said to Abram, “This is all your fault! I put my servant into your arms, but now that she’s pregnant she treats me with contempt. The Lord will show who’s wrong—you or me!”

  22. c. Grow Philipians 3:12 I have not yet reached my goal, and I am not perfect. But Christ has taken hold of me. So I keep on running and struggling to take hold of the prize. 13My friends, I don't feel that I have already arrived. But I forget what is behind, and I struggle for what is ahead. 14I run toward the goal, so that I can win the prize of being called to heaven. This is the prize that God offers because of what Christ Jesus has done.

  23. Thomas A. Dorsey

  24. Jesus tomb was empty

  25. Witnesses both friends and foes saw him Mary of Magdala (or Mary Magdalene), Mary the mother of Joses, Joanna, and also Salome the mother of apostles James and John, as well as Cleopas and a friend who was also a disciple of Christ as they were walking to Emmaus, the Disciples/Apostles of Jesus including Thomas (He appeared several times over a period of 40 days to instruct them in "the things pertaining to the kingdom of God" (Acts 1:3), to 500 believers at once (1 Corinthians 15:6), to James (1 Corinthians 15:7), to Stephen the martyr (Acts 7:56), and to Saul of Tarsus before he became Paul the Apostle (the office of Apostle necessitates a personal experience of seeing the Lord Jesus Christ).

  26. The accounts of the resurrection were early and often. Early enough to be discredited.

  27. Psalms 107:43 Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.

  28. Romans 6:3-4 Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? 4 For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.

  29. @leadsu

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