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2Co 11:23  Are they servants of Christ? I can go them one better. (I can't believe I'm saying these things. It's crazy to talk this way! But I started, and I'm going to finish.) I've worked much harder, been jailed more often, beaten up more times than I can count, and at death's door time after time. 

2Co 11:24  I've been flogged five times with the Jews' thirty-nine lashes, 

2Co 11:25  beaten by Roman rods three times, pummeled with rocks once. I've been shipwrecked three times, and immersed in the open sea for a night and a day. 

2Co 11:26  In hard traveling year in and year out, I've had to ford rivers, fend off robbers, struggle with friends, struggle with foes. I've been at risk in the city, at risk in the country, endangered by desert sun and sea storm, and betrayed by those I thought were my brothers. 

2Co 11:27  I've known drudgery and hard labor, many a long and lonely night without sleep, many a missed meal, blasted by the cold, naked to the weather. 

2Co 11:28  And that's not the half of it, when you throw in the daily pressures and anxieties of all the churches. 

2Co 11:29  When someone gets to the end of his rope, I feel the desperation in my bones. When someone is duped into sin, an angry fire burns in my gut. 

2Co 11:30  If I have to "brag" about myself, I'll brag about the humiliations that make me like Jesus. 

2Co 11:31  The eternal and blessed God and Father of our Master Jesus knows I'm not lying. 

2Co 11:32  Remember the time I was in Damascus and the governor of King Aretas posted guards at the city gates to arrest me? 

2Co 11:33  I crawled through a window in the wall, was let down in a basket, and had to run for my life. 

 

I would love to see a Christian program called scared or scarred where  they show different situations where kids either step up and take one for the team or fail miserably.  

 

What if you wrote this portion of scripture?  What could you say?  Uhhhh one time I uhhh had a bible verse stuck in my head… oh yeah and one time I called my teacher mom!  

 

1. Christianity won’t be easy…. There will be scars… or there should be scars unless you live a pathetic Christian walk. 

 

I love Challenges.  My favorite quote is “Do you like challenges, things that don’t come easy, problems and difficult situations?  Then you are going to love life, and probably be pretty good at it!  

 

But listen to me… life isn’t easy.  Whether you are a Christian, Buddhist, atheist, Hindu or Agnostic – But Jesus wants to be there for you no matter what you are going through.

 

 

ROADBLOCK! - IT’S GONNA BE EASY!

I think that this is one of the biggest road blocks to people really truly accepting Jesus.  They have been told it will make everything better!  But it won’t!  

 

The difference?  

It makes things have purpose, -It gives us a chance to experience 

Christ peace, 

To learn to rely on him and not us

To be more like him

…. the worst things in my life have been the best! 

 

 

How many people I know who have had everything.  And are even more miserable because they have no reason to be miserable. 

 

Knowing Jesus gives you an eternal purpose.  

 

VICTOR FANKL

In the book “Mans search for meaning” by Victor Frankl an Auschwitz death camp survivor said after years under Nazi rule in the prisons – those who had a purpose could withstand anything… but if you lost purpose you died!  

 

 

 

 

2. We can relate better – he says he feels it in his bones!  When we can empathize we can connect on a whole new level.  That is where we can share Christ more effectively and we make great and lasting friendships.

 

Why are war time friendships so lasting?  

They have faced death together, 

they have gone through the worst life has to offer!  

 

*I have many friends who have been in the service.  The ones who never faced battle or war very rarely stay in touch.  But however the ones who have gone through hell, they can never be separated.  

 

 

SCAR STORIES!

What happens when you are sitting around and people start to tell stories about scars?

First, everyone joins in, second people start laughing, third you really get to know each other!