Everyone Needs Second Chances
First, let me say that last weekend, our first at Archbishop Murphy High School, was amazing. I loved celebrating our 3rd birthday by focusing on the mission that God has given to His people in being His ambassadors in the world – reconnecting people with their Creator. What better way to do that than with six baptisms and I know that there are several in the works. The weekend was near perfect.
This weekend we kick off a new series entitled, “Everyone Needs Second Chances”. We’ll take a look at people in Scripture who were in need of second chances, what that looked like and what they experienced in the aftermath.
I found this community on the web and I thought it describes well the role of the church.
The People of the Second Chance is a community of individuals who advocate radical grace and second chances. We champion lost causes and think that a second chance is a human right.
What does it mean to champion lost causes? What might radical grace look like? Why might second chances be a human right? Questions for us to ponder.
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
last week i looked at the question “what does it mean to champion lost causes?” and i wasn’t sure how to answer it.
but i so appreciated dean’s comment sunday morning when he defined failure as the moment we choose to walk away and stop trying instead of getting back up and trying again after things don’t go the way we hope they will. i’ve been so challenged by that thought relationally and have taken a new look, in my particular world this particular season, at several now twenty-somethings who were once a part of the youth group i helped to staff in another city. among that group there are two or three individuals who, to their once fellow-youth-groupers, are now “lost causes” and are wandering around the moral and philosophical world cut off from the group they once called “home”. they have each taken their turn at lashing out at the Christians they’d grown up with and have, admittedly, drawn verbal lines in the sand concerning their journies and where they now stand. interestingly enough, it is these very ones the Lord has nudged my heart to keep on loving and reaching out to, and it’s been SO COOL (sorry for the old folk terminology there) to see them respond to something different than the judgment they’ve experienced so often lately. it’s certainly new ground for me but i’m lovin’ the chance to love on them and i’m asking the Lord to keep me listening and available to be one of their open doors back to Him, if He so chooses to use me that way. i admit i’m wayyyy out of my comfort zone but since it’s not about me, that’s ok. 