Your Brokenness Is Not the Problem

About this episode

Pastor Sam Weitman discusses how God chooses the unlikely and how our feelings of inadequacy do not define our worth in His eyes.

Most of us walk around with this quiet feeling that we're just... not enough. Not qualified enough. Not put-together enough. Too much baggage. Too many mistakes. And somewhere along the way, we decided that means God probably can't do much with us. But what if that's 100% wrong? This week, Pastor Sam Weitman preaches from Acts 1:6-8, and what he unpacks might stop you in your tracks. Because it turns out — from Abraham to Moses to a young unwed teenager named Mary — God has always had this pattern of choosing the people nobody else would have chosen. And He hasn't changed. This message is for you because more than likely, that thought "God could never use someone like me" has crossed your mind more than once — and more than likely, there's someone in your life you love deeply who doesn't know Jesus yet. And if you're curious about faith but feel like you're on the outside looking in, or you've been following Jesus for years but feel like you're just going through the motions — this message is for you too. Nobody's asking you to have it all figured out. Sam's not going to guilt you into anything. He's just going to tell you the truth — gently, honestly, and in a way that might…

People in this episode

Host: Sam Weitman

Topics covered

• brokenness
• faith
• God's choice
• self-worth
• Christianity
• spirituality

Keywords

• brokenness
• faith
• self-worth
• Acts 1:6-8
• Christianity
• God's choice
• spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Acts 1:6-8

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