Awesome weekend.

This Scars series is tough to talk about, think about, and hear about. But it’s definitely touching some spiritual nerve endings. I know it’s bringing up some painful memories for people, but let me share my philosophy of church. It’s simple: you should always walk out feeling better than you walked in. Sure, you’ll experience some conviction. Especially on a weekend like this weekend when we’re talking about sexual scars and sinful scars. But here’s the deal: God never leaves us there. It’s His grace that turns guilt into gratitude. We walk in feeling guilty about what we’ve done wrong. We walk out full of gratitude because of what He’s done right.

By the way, one of the powerful dimensions of this series is having NCCers share their scar stories. Life-changing. This week’s video is a deeply moving story about an NCCer who killed someone in a drunk driving incident as a teenager. Amazing story of redemption. By the way, I forget to show it after my message in our first service. I’m so sorry! I beat myself up all night over that. But you can watch when the webcast goes live this week.