It Is Okay To Not Be Okay

The Church must be a place where it is okay not to be okay. The culture of the Church needs to be a safe place for the weary, weak, and wobbly. Of all places, we should welcome those who are honest about their burdens, frustrations, and pitfalls. Our people cannot be honest about their shortcomings in the marketplace. The Church provides the release valve of grace that we all desperately need, leadership included.
–Matt Chandler

Oh that all of our churches would be a place where it is okay to not be okay.
Our churches should be places where “Fine” is not the only appropriate answer to “How are you?”

The church needs to hold out a powerful message of grace to allow people to be honest about their burdens.

This in no way requires the church to be soft on sin. Rather, it is the message that where sin abounds, God’s grace is even bigger and can swallow it up.

What will it take for our churches to become places of grace where it is okay to not be okay?
It will take you (and me) making the decision to hold out grace to others.

Until individual church members are willing to hold out God’s grace to others (the grace that we received by Jesus when we did not deserve it), we will not have churches full of grace.
It starts with you!

“Lord, Send a Revival of Grace, and Let It Begin in Me!”