You're Not Too Far Gone
About this episode
Scott Manning discusses the importance of showing up for others, especially those who feel overlooked, through the lens of the Parable of the Ten Minas and the story of Zacchaeus.
Jesus didn't wait for people to clean themselves up. And neither should we. What if the most important thing you could do with your life was simply to show up for the people around you, especially the messy ones? In this message, College Pastor Scott Manning walks through Luke 19:11-27 — the Parable of the Ten Minas — where Jesus tells a story about a king who entrusts his servants with something valuable before he leaves, and then returns to see what they did with it. But before he even gets to the parable, we see Jesus stop everything to pursue Zacchaeus — a guy everybody else had written off. That's the kind of God we serve. And the invitation inside this passage is for everyone — whether you've grown up in church your whole life or you feel like you're too far gone for any of this to be for you. Here's what this message digs into: 🤍 Why Jesus actively pursues the messiest, most overlooked people — and what that means for how we live 🤍 The honest difference between building your own thing and joining something so much bigger than yourself 🤍 Why so many of us keep waiting for the "right time" to say yes to Jesus — and what that's actually costing us 🤍 Simple, real ways to…
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