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We Mess Up
Welcome to another meeting of mess ups anonymous!
We fail at things.
Somewhat regularly.
Maybe not daily.
But, often enough.
Little ones.
Like me, last week.
I messed up the passage I was preaching from and confused all of you.
One of my seminary profs used to say, “If there is a fog in the pulpit, it’s missed in the pew.”
My brain was in a fog about where I was in the bible last week.
What happened was…I had prepared that sermon earlier in the week and put it away.
Then, Saturday, I started the research on this sermon.
That sermon was in John.
This sermon is in Luke.
I’m leaving after church today to take one of Sara’s dad’s cars to Jason in AR.
So, I had to get ahead on next week’s sermon.
So, as I started out last week, I forgot which passage I was in.
Sorry.
It happens.
Show of hands, who hasn’t failed in their life?
(Who are the liars in church?)
Little ways.
BIG ways?
Failed at a job, been fired?
A marriage?
Bad investments or too much debt?
Bankruptcy.
How do you handle that?
What do you do with that so that you don’t feel like a failure.
Just b/c you fail once in a while, even in a big way, doesn’t make you a failure.
We can feel that way.
How do we avoid that?
One of the ways we deal w/ failure around here, the church.
I warn everyone who takes on some responsibility, if you mess up, I’m not going to fire you.
I’m going to promote you.
I find that is a much more effective motivator.
How do you think we selected our elders?
You think it’s b/c the these guys don’t mess up?
How do you think I got this job?
But, seriously, you show me someone who’s never failed, and I’ll show you someone who’s not doing anything.
A good friend, I’ve ref’d him before, was in the radio station business in LR.
He got his start in a couple of ways.
In the army.
He retired a Lt. Col. and got some experience there.
And, his uncle in LR owned radio stations.
When he got out of the army he went to work for his uncle managing his stations, more than one.
One day, he made a big mistake, messed up bad, failed, and cost his uncle a LOT of money.
It was obvious, avoidable, poor choice.
He went, hat in hand, humbly into his boss’s office, his uncle, and said, “I wouldn’t blame you for firing me right now.”
His uncle, was a pretty hard man to work for.
If you own stations in the media bsns you develop a pretty hard crust.
I’ve become friends w/ him, too.
And since retirement, in his older age, he has softened quite a bit and it was hard for me to believe the stories I heard about him when he was a bsns owner.
Anyway, he was mad.
Ticked off.
To say he raised his voice was an understatement.
Among other things, he yelled at my friend, “NO, I’m not going to fire you.
I just spent a lot of money giving you experience and educating you.
Now get back out there, do your job, learn from your mistake and don’t do it again!
Get outta here!”
In the heat of the moment and thru the anger, that was grace.
My friend deserved t/b fired.
Both are believers.
Live and practice their faith in their families and did in their careers.
Failure is expected by God and baked into the spiritual cake we are in.
It’s discouraged.
Growth and wise decisions are possible.
But we mess up.
The bible explains how to deal w/ it.
Own it.
Apologize for it.
Accept the consequences.
Stop doing it.
The churchy word is repent.
This is how Jesus deals w/ us.
First, he modeled it.
Well, he never messed up.
But He showed us how to take the consequences as He took ours for us.
And He gave us a place to take our ownership and apology then gave us the ability to stop doing it.
With Jesus, our failures are educational experiences.
He will help us pick up the pieces then lead us back to where we should have been in the first place.
So, don’t consider yourself a failure.
Consider yourself highly educated and experienced.
This is what Jesus was teaching his disciples as he started preparing them for life and ministry after he was gone.
They needed to get this.
So do we.
It’s the story of the first time they caught so much fish it almost bankrupted them.
They learned this valuable lesson there.
The Classroom
The crowds are growing.
Curious?
Looking for magic show?
Certainly, listening to the Word of God.
He is God and He is explaining Who God is and how we live in light of that.
Which is my assumption b/c that’s what always did.
But we don’t know the exact teaching here.
We do the know the crowd had grown to the point he needed some space so more could hear.
Remember the old time pulpits were raised up in the air.
The preacher had to climb a spiral staircase to get up to it.
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