A Purpose for my Pain | Through | Week 6

A Purpose for my PainThrough • November 19, 2023Teacher: Adam Barnett-- Our pain connects us to people.2 Corinthians 1:3-6 NIVPraise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.The comforted are to be comforters.Comforting others is a form of evangelism.2 Corinthians 11:30, 12:9-10 NIV“If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. [The Lord] said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you; my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in my weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”My pain is a platform to share the gospel!Philippians 1:12 NIVI want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News.