For June 9, 2026
Beautifully Broken by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
MANY OF US strove throughout our lives towards poorly-formed goals. Our motivations were part of an embedded philosophy and set of expectations that we grew up in, and never thought to question. Peter calls this “the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers.” (1 Pet. 1:18) Paul, in a parallel frame of reference, says “The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.” (2 Cor. 2:14) Simply put, we were crippled at birth by something unseen, and didn’t know it. It didn’t seem abnormal, for everyone around us was maimed in the same way.