I've said it before and I'll say it again -- I love Scripture because of how human and accessible it is.
You've probably heard the argument that every Olympic event should have one average person in it just so we could truly appreciate how great Olympic athletes truly are. We take their greatness for granted because that's all we see during the Olympics, but if you saw me struggling to throw a javelin more than 5 feet or watched me fall on my tail 16 times during an ice-skating event, you'd probably recognize how great those athletes are.
When we read Scripture, we can take the same mentality into it if we're not careful. We can look at people like Peter and Paul and David and Abraham and think they're super-human and super-Christians, but the Bible doesn't portray them like that. The Bible tells us their flaws and shows us how broken they are. They don't hide their imperfections -- Mark tells us how Peter promised Jesus he would never forsake them and then reveals how Peter denied knowing Jesus shortly after. This is the same Peter who would go on to be a leader in the church, and everyone knew his flaws.
The message here is that your flaws don't disqualify you from membership in the church. There is a place for you, brokenness and everything, because the church is always and has always been a community of sinners, each of us redeemed through the love and grace of God.
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