October 2nd, 2022 - TBH/Full Disclosure

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The Roman Road
...of Reconciliation
1. TBH/Full Disclosure

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Real conversations and holding on

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'You are the biggest obstacle to transformation in your church.'

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The Internal Struggle
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

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The Great Debate - A
5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

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The Great Debate - B
6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

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Debate #2 - Blame the Law
For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting.

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#2B Sin used the commandment
 in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

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Debate #3 - Rotten to the Core
18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

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#3B - Inner Delight
 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;

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Expressed Existential Angst
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?

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Gate to Eight
25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

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Humble Heartfelt Honesty
Guides from Guilt to Grace and Growth