"Your sin does not disqualify you from your importance with what you are doing in life" 

"God can use your mistakes to enourage someone else with grace"

"1. God often rescues us from the pit and not the platform 

2. God does not need ability, he needs availability

3. Gods Grace is at its best when second-chance recievers become second-chance givers." 

 Our Greatest enemy in faith is fear. Fear that keeps us from moving forward. Fear that brings us to the pit. If you read through the bible you see so many examples of Jesus helping others when they are in their pit. You do not see him helping those who are doing well, and succeeding. Its the ones that ask him to become a water walker, the ones that can not see, the ones who have murdered, or betrayed. He does not need us to bring that grace ourselves. We do not even have to be open to it- he just needs us to believe in him and he will do the rest! That is the best part! He takes care of it all for us! As we learned last week. Open heart and open hands. With those open hands we can share our struggles and our pits and help others learn from them and help them rise from their darkness together. 

"what we did, is not who we are"