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So if you grew up in any kind of religious environment, regardless of what kind of religious environment it was, you probably heard something that went something like this. God loves you

just the way you are. And regardless of where you are on the religious

spectrum, if there is a God, we all certainly hope this is the case, right? That God loves you

just the way you are. And Christians have always believed this. And the reason Christians have

always believed this is because in the New Testament, Jesus modeled this and essentially said this.

And of course, the most famous, perhaps verse in the Bible is John 316, which says, for God so loved the

world. And the implication is that for God so love the world just the way the world was and that

God loved the people in the world, the way the people in the world were before they made any change

or knew anything about God. So this is true, and again, Christians have always believed that.

But this is only half the equation.

Because God, who invites us to refer to him as Heavenly Father

or the perfect parent, like any good parent,

God does love you as his child just the way you are,

but God loves you too much to leave you the way that you are.

And as we're going to discover today, if necessary, God, like a good parent, is willing to hurt your feelings to get you to move on from the way you are

so that you can become everything you could be and everything you should be and everything

God knows that you have the potential to be. And that is a good thing. Today we're in part two of our

series, paper walls, moving beyond the excuses that hold you back. As we said last time, there are things

that we should carry forward, season to season year to year. And then there's some things that we should leave behind. And this series is about one of those things that we should carry forward season to season year to year. And then there are some things that we should leave behind.

And this series is about one of those things that we should all leave behind,

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