Handling Change: Facing Our Failures, Prejudices, and Walls of Mistrust

This morning's sermon investigates some of the most challenging issues we face in serving the Lord

The first challenge is facing our failures and accepting God's forgiveness. We hang on to a feeling that God can not ever use us because of our pass.

A second challenge is letting our biases keep us from ministering to, or servicing with, people different then us.

The third challenge is getting past the Wall of Mistrust. These walls can be build through fear, hurts, anger, bitterness, and past history. We justify the walls we have built with statements like, "They stole from me," "They hurt my family," and "Their kind is always trouble." You or someone you respect must break through the wall. The Apostle Paul, when he was known as Saul, faced the wall of rejection after accepting Jesus as his savior. It was Barnabas who broke through the Wall of Mistrust and brought Saul to meet the Apostles.