Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Have you ever been to a job interview where the person asks you, what are your weaknesses?

Now, some may avoid giving a direct answer or flip

the question to brag a little bit by saying, well, yes, I do have a weakness. I work too hard and I

care too much. Well, what I want you to note is that your weaknesses are important. You need to know

what they are, because what we're going to learn today is that they can work for your advantage.

The Apostle Paul's final coaching tip for Timothy cuts against everything our culture tells us about self-improvement.

We live in a world obsessed with projecting strength.

But Paul says the path forward runs straight through honest self-awareness and embracing

our weaknesses. I'm Dave Drew. And today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram continues a series

called You Can Make Disciples, personal coaching from the Apostle Paul, with a pivotal lesson about

how to turn our weaknesses into advantages. If you have your Bible, please open it now to 1 Timothy chapter 6.

Now here's Chip with a message titled, Step Away.

Last coaching tip, life coaching from the Apostle Paul.

You ready?

Tip number six, know your opponent well and your own weaknesses better.

Know your opponent well.

The world system, the enemy,

and your own weaknesses better.

Now I can't end this time without telling one more basketball story.

I mean, when I went away to play in college, I was 135 pounds and six feet tall.

And I was always undersized, and so I always observed, and I learned, I learned from coaches,

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