“We’re All in Recovery”: Scott Sauls
FamilyLife Today®
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🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
From his own darkness, Scott Sauls chose to share with his congregation his shame and fear—and discovered we're all in recovery. One person remarked, “Today, you became my pastor. Through your story I feel like now we can relate.” Beautiful people, he says, don't just happen.
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| 0:00.0 | I think one of the things that's so important, especially for Christians, the question of |
| 0:06.0 | like, why do I want to run from suffering? Well, because you're not made to suffer. |
| 0:11.0 | And yet we live in a tragic in-between time where we have to. We have to experience what |
| 0:17.7 | is not natural to the way that we're wired and the way that we're made. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships |
| 0:35.4 | that matter most. I'm Dave Wilson. And I'm Ann Wilson and you can find us at |
| 0:39.8 | FamilyLifeToday.com or on the Family Life app. This is Family Life Today. |
| 0:47.3 | So, yesterday in our program, we had a well-known pastor and author say he woke up in the |
| 1:06.0 | middle of the night with a panic attack. And he find that interesting that he was that |
| 1:10.6 | honest. I love that. I know. Because a lot of times people in positions of influence aren't |
| 1:19.2 | always super open with their lives. And he let us in. And I feel like really honored. |
| 1:26.6 | Like better listeners do too. Yeah, I was blown away by it because that is very rare. |
| 1:31.5 | It shouldn't be, but it is. And it's very honest and vulnerable. And he's still sitting here. |
| 1:36.3 | Scott Saul is back with us in the studio. Welcome back Scott. Yeah, I mean, we don't normally start a show |
| 1:42.7 | talking about the guy who sit across the table with us. No, it's like you guys talking about me. |
| 1:47.7 | Why don't we hear you guys? But I mean, nearly this is your sixth book. We're talking about beautiful |
| 1:54.2 | people. Don't just happen. You modeled it in some way. I mean, your pastor, Christchurch |
| 1:59.4 | criterion in Nashville. As I said, written books, very influential. I love what you write. I love |
| 2:06.9 | how you think. You're just one of those guys I follow and want to be influenced by. But you |
| 2:12.0 | don't often hear people in your position or not that are that honest. And you know, as we're |
| 2:18.8 | talking, your subtitles is how God redeems regret hurt and fear in the making of better humans. |
| 2:25.9 | I think, you know, we know the journey to get to become the better human God wants us to be |
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