A manual, a listener in London writes in, hello Pastor John, how should Christians handle

failure?

For example, failure at school or at work, not necessarily failures that are sinful per

say.

How does the Bible address this issue or does it?

It does, and it does in at least a couple ways.

I'm sure more, but too, that I thought of.

And I'm thinking of positive, hopeful ways that it addresses Emmanuel's issue.

The first thing the Bible wants to say is that all of us have failed.

None is without failure.

If you think you haven't failed, two things are true of you.

One is, you're blind to your failures, and the other is, you probably haven't taken

enough risks to try enough hard things, so you'd be aware of your failures.

So the first thing the Bible says about that, about those failures, is that there isn't

any sinless failure.

I know Emmanuel asks about, what about failures that don't involve sin?

So the first thing I'm going to go there, I know what he's talking about, but the first

thing I want to say is that there aren't any.

Now that's devastating news and wonderful news, because the gospel exists for all failures,

which is the, this is freeing because we don't have to figure out whether we have sinned

or not in a failure.

We can just assume we did.

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