My notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon There’s a Hole in Your Story. From Elevation Church in March 2020.

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Sermon Notes : There’s a Hole in Your Story

• Acts 11:1-19
• “Look into it!”
• Thank God for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, infinity chances
• Get out of God’s way
• From protest to praise.
• There’s always the story within the story.
• Sometimes we don’t even realize how many missing pieces there are in the stories we tell ourselves.
• The space between what you know and what you think you know is the story that you tell yourself, and that’s where you can get stuck.
• “A lie can make it around the world before the truth gets it’s shoes laced up.”
• Beware of second hand stories
  • of what you believe that you have not seen for yourself.
  • stop letting our opinions of others be determined through the filter of the opinions of others.
  • when something else makes you feel insecure, you shield yourself by saying it’s weird
  • over time, tradition gets in the way of truth, so then you start thinking that your tradition is the truth
  • we stay stuck in stories that we can break out of if we believe the voice of God.
  • what stories are you holding on to that are old that are keeping you from what’s new, and what’s now, true and real.
• beware of self centered stories
  • if you put yourself at the center of every story, you will always have an upset stomach
  • it’s not you
  • it makes us take on unnecessary stress
  • stop using your thumbs instead of having a real conversation
  • God, help me to stop making it about me!!!
  • it’s bigger than you
• beware of selective stories
  • when you don’t know what is going to happen next in your life.
  • you don’t get to choose every situation, but you get to choose the story you tell yourself.
  • what you’re going through is hard enough without writing God out of the story
  • you tell me what you heard, and I’ll tell you what I saw
  • it’s not your story!
  • let the devil know, come hell or high water, I get to choose the story that I tell.
• short stories
  • sometimes you let doubt cut you off in the middle of a sentence that god is speaking in your life.
  • your life can not be summarized into one neat little story
  • what are you going to fill the hole in your story with 
  • some of us are stuck in part of our story that was never meant to be the end – 
  • acts 10:39-40
  • don’t stop at the comma
  • resurrection is possible when you realize that He didn’t stay on the cross.

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