Rent Crutches

Title: “Rent Crutches”

Mark 10:46-52

Don’t make permanent what was only meant to be temporary.

We don’t hold onto things that weren’t supposed to be there because we expect to be healed.

What was necessary in the present will often become a hindrance in the future.

We need to want more than the miracle, we need to want the new life as much as the moment.

Instead of allowing God to take us to a new level, we make a case for why we should stay here.

We ask God to work, but our kitchen is cluttered.

As you reflect on the message this week, use some of these questions to consider how God might be working within and around you.

Can you identify something (a behavior, a relationship, a habit, a possession, a goal, an attitude) that was necessary at one time, but that later became a hindrance?
What are you covering in your life?
What are you collecting that confirms the identity you have claimed?
What in your life might need to be pruned, thrown off, or cleared out to make room for something better?

LIFE IS NOT MEANT TO BE LIVED ALONE. YOU WERE CREATED TO EXPERIENCE LIFE WITH OTHER PEOPLE.