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One of our values at Christ the Redeemer is that we want to be the kind of people who embrace the courage to be vulnerable.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
I really like the way this is phrased because usually courage and vulnerability are not linked together.
One of our values at Christ the Redeemer is that we want to be the kind of people who embrace the courage to be vulnerable.
I really like the way this is phrased because usually courage and vulnerability are not linked together.
To be vulnerable is to be in a state of being exposed to the possibility of being harmed either emotionally or physically.
On the surface you would think in order to be courageous you would need to not be vulnerable.
But what we are saying is that we want to be the kind of people who take the risk to put down our self protective fronts, but there is always a risk when you do that, because their is the risk of rejection, of harm.
The alternative of keeping up our defensive fronts may be safer it leaves us cold and lonely.
The courage to be vulnerable
Ash Wednesday is one place where we can embrace the courage to be vulnerable.
It is a time we set aside to all come together and make ourselves vulnerable before God.
Where we kneel exposed before his eyes and we confess our sin, we drop pretensions and say I’v blown it in so many ways even more ways than I know.
I repent of my sins.
Brown explains how vulnerability is both the core of difficult emotions like fear, grief, and disappointment, and the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, empathy, innovation, and creativity.
She writes: “When we shut ourselves off from vulnerability, we distance ourselves from the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives.”
But confession of sin and repentance do not come easy for us, mostly because we have spiritual amnesia we mis-remember who God is.
As either not really that forgiving or as a displeased father.
So what we do is either try to convince ourselves that we don’t need to repent.
That we are a whole lot better than we really are, or we try and grovel and do penance and try and earn God’s forgiveness with how bad we feel about our sin.
FCF: Often we we don’t repent because we mis-remember God.
As either not really that forgiving or a Father who wants to see that you really
And when we are not actively re-experiencing his forgiveness and his fatherly care we will avoid repentance either, by trying to convince ourselves that we don’t need to repent.
That we are a whole lot better than we really are, or we try and grovel and not repent but do penance, so much that we try and earn God’s forgiveness with how bad we feel about our sin.
But what we should do is embrace the courage to be vulnerable and repent.
Why? well because as we see in
God is forgiving and compassionate,
we don’t remember that God is a forgiving God and we don’t confess because we think we don’t know is fatherly care
First we see the
To be vulnerable is to be exposed to the possibility of being harmed either emotionally or physically.
Proposition: We should Repent of our sin
The immeasurable distance of God’s forgiveness
On the surface you would think in order to be courageous you would need to not be vulnerable.
In verses 10-12 we read
Psalm 103:
God wants us to know that his love and forgiveness is so great that it is something that cannot be measured.
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