Making Ourselves Vulnerable
I was a rotten kid. From...say the age of 10-25? I was haughty, proud, selfish, hypocritical, hateful...where do I end? What's worse is that I have lived in the same small town for my entire life. It's one of those towns in the middle of nowhere, with lots of cows and cornfields and where everyone knows your business before you do. The really bad thing is that for most of those years, I lived a lie. It's a lie I wasn't even aware that I was living. I confessed Jesus Christ was my Saviour and although I changed many outward behaviors, I was still so full of sin inside. I was a false convert and wasn't even aware of it. Jesus spoke many times of the false convert inside of the church... The parables of the wheat and the tares (Matthew 13:25), the good fish, and bad fish (Matthew 13:48), the sheep and the goats (Matthew 25: 31-46) I was the tare. I was the bad fish. I was the goat. I served in the nursery, then went onto the toddler ministry, the b
