What Do You Do When Life Does What It Does?

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Gateway Church

Gateway Worship, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Gatewaypeople, Gateway Church, Dfw Church, Gateway Conference., Gateway Women

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🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Does it ever feel like the depths of disappointment are so overwhelming that you wonder if you can even have hope for the future? This weekend, Pastor Steve Carter dares us to experience grief, disappointment, and frustration as those filled with hope—hope in the God who is in the business of restoration, who heals, and who brought Jesus out of the tomb.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.
0:02.0	Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.
0:09.0	This has never happened before.
0:11.0	You get done teaching on a staff meeting and three elders show up.
0:16.0	And I'm like, oh, I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble.
0:19.0	And they're like, can you come back on Saturday?
0:22.5	And I'm like, I think so. I think so. And so called my wife and we were like, all right,
0:28.2	we got to do this. And just to even be and experience the worship, experience the presence.
0:36.3	I want you to know, friends, not very many people know what it's like
0:41.4	and what you're walking through, but I can honestly say I do. In 2018, the church of my dreams,
0:51.0	I was kind of the next lead pastor at a massive church in Chicagoland called Willow Creek.
0:58.6	And it just all started to crumble. Stories in the paper, allegations. And it really just kind of
1:08.9	rocked me at my center.
1:11.6	And if we're honest, it's probably rocked you.
1:14.6	And you really have to ask yourself, what do you do when life does what it does?
1:20.6	What do you do?
1:22.6	When life like punches you in the gut and you didn't see it, when pain shows up at your doorstep.
1:26.6	What do you do when life doesn your doorstep. What do you do
1:28.1	when life doesn't make sense? What do you do when something happens that you just can't put a bow
1:34.9	on it? What do you do? And you all are at the four-month mark. I was talking to Mark Job and Mark
1:42.9	said, hey, where were you, Steve, at the four month
1:46.3	mark? And I was like, I was in a U-Haul with Mr. Biscuits, my dog. We were leaving Chicago and
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