innovate: Ed Stetzer

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11:16 AM tonymorganlive - “Unconfessed sin impacts the power of God in our churches.”
11:16 AM tonymorganlive - (Ed is looking great btw… I think we’re going to be able to share clothes soon. Very exciting.)
11:18 AM tonymorganlive - “I don’t look promiscuous. I got that covered.” :-)
11:19 AM tonymorganlive - “Before God, sin is sin.”
11:19 AM tonymorganlive - “God change me. God forgive me. God make me right.”
11:21 AM tonymorganlive - (Love this. Ed is talking about sin with church leaders. We are not perfect. We still wrestle with sin. We don’t wear our sin on our sleeves, but we still sin. And there are consequences to our sin. God change me. God forgive me.)
11:22 AM tonymorganlive - “Compromise is Satan’s desire.”
11:23 AM tonymorganlive - “If Satan cannot compromise our beliefs, he’s happy to settle for compromising our character.”
11:24 AM tonymorganlive - “We need to be Gospel centered and repentance filled lives.”
11:26 AM tonymorganlive - “Secret sins are only that way for a short time.”
11:26 AM tonymorganlive - “God has a desire to bring secret sins out.”
11:27 AM tonymorganlive - “If you’re not repenting of your sin, your sin will catch up with you.”
11:27 AM tonymorganlive - “If you won’t come to repentance, God will bring you to repentance.”
11:28 AM tonymorganlive - “We have become too comfortable with sin in our lives.”
11:29 AM tonymorganlive - “Private sin can deliver the community of faith into public defeat.”
11:30 AM tonymorganlive - “Pastor, your sin saps your church’s spiritual power.”
11:31 AM tonymorganlive - “Just as faith is best lived out in community, so is sin. Get broken or God will break you.”
11:32 AM tonymorganlive - “The church’s toleration of sin distracts it from the mission God has called it to.”
11:38 AM tonymorganlive - “Stop trying to convince yourself that the sin in your life won’t impact the mission of your church.”
11:38 AM tonymorganlive - “A return to God’s mission begins with a repentance to God’s standard.”
11:43 AM tonymorganlive - The Bible says: “Sin is crouching at the door.”
11:44 AM tonymorganlive - “Your life is filled with sin. My life is filled with sin, but that doesn’t mean we have to be comfortable with it.”
11:46 AM tonymorganlive - “It’s so easy to think: I’m glad I’m not like him. Well, you are just like him.” (talking about Ted Haggard)
11:47 AM tonymorganlive - “We find ways to justify our own sin.”
11:48 AM tonymorganlive - “When I spoke here last year, I weighed 117 pounds more than I do today. I had to deal with the sin in my life.”
11:50 AM tonymorganlive - (This is very powerful. Ed is sharing his story. I’m not going to try to summarize here. You’ll need to hear it for yourselves at some point.)
11:55 AM tonymorganlive - “We’re spending too much time in the work of the Lord rather than with the Lord of the work.”
11:56 AM tonymorganlive - “Listen to the Lord. He’ll convict you. And tomorrow you’ll need to do it again.”