Transforming Through Failure

Intro

My Name is Jon Atchison...

And I am a failure

At the age of 15 i knew that my purpose was to be in ministry

Up and down life through High School

By 18 I was doing my own thing

At 20 I went to bible college to pursue that purpose

I remember sitting in orientation and they told us 1 in 3 would not make it. I vowed to not be one of the 2 that didn’t make it

3 years later I was

I went back home to Tennessee to start my family and then had the opportunity to finally begin in my purpose

3 years and 2 churches later I was fired 2 weeks before Christmas

A year later I was divorced, angry and hopeless

Ministry was done.

2 years later I had the chance to be a part of a new church and fulfill my purpose.

We thrived, we grew we multiplied!

Then we went to Bryant.

This was it.

God was taking me to the place he had promised me.

1.5 years later we closed the doors.

I had failed again.

But this time it was different.

We felt different

Many of you may be sitting in this crowd today and you feel like a failure.

Failed relationships, failed businesses...

You’re in this crowd and you know without a doubt that this is it.

There is no more for you.

You will always be a failure.

I’ve been there…reently

If I told you that I haven’t sat in this very room and say I was done I would be wrong.

If I told you that I have never looked at my wife and said, “God is done with me.” I would be lying.

We all have or will experience failure

Failure is not final

Failure is not rejection

Its not about the failure but the response to the failure