Worthlessness

The 2018 World Cup was Iceland's first appearance in the tournament. Their population was 340,000, smaller than most major US cities. Their head coach was simultaneously a practicing dentist. The world had looked at the bracket and reached a verdict: Iceland doesn't belong here. Their opening match was against Lionel Messi's Argentina. Ninety minutes later, the score was 1-1. Messi had missed a penalty. Iceland walked off that pitch as themselves, a country that refused to let the world's verdict be the final word.

Most of us are carrying a version of that verdict. The assessment of who we are that got attached early and became the background noise: not smart enough, not attractive enough, not capable enough for whatever room we're trying to be in. A lot of people have been running that assessment so long it stopped feeling like a thought and started feeling like fact.

In this session, Pastor Holly shares what hit her after a trip to Banff: standing in genuine awe of what God had created, and in the same breath, running through the list of ways she fell short. We also look at Gideon, a man hiding in a winepress when an angel of God called him a mighty man of valor. His response was to argue. What he heard and what he believed about himself were two different things, and the distance between them is something a lot of people know.

If you've been living under a verdict about who you are that you've started to believe, this is for you.

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