Your mom didn't treat you right, your daddy didn't treat you right.

Don't think that their action was the bottom line.

Dr. Tony Evans explores the relationship between emotional pain and spiritual progress.

God allows those events so you can save somebody else's life

who is abused and broken and in pain.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.

Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas

and president of the Urban Alternative.

It often seems like those who've accomplished the most for God

have been through the worst life has to offer.

Today, Dr. Evans takes a look at how our painful experiences can be used to blast

and build up the body of Christ.

Let's join him as he explains.

Even when you weren't saved,

God recognized all the good things about you,

the things that you had going for you, the stuff you had going on.

In your life and in your world, your background, your parental background,

your education opportunities that you got,

and the jobs that you have taken,

the experience that you have learned, the training that you have received.

And what he wants to do, or at least have the option to do,

now that you are a believer, it's sanctified them.

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