What an incredible weekend. What an expression of grace, forgiveness, and love.
To hear the story of Ted & Gayle Haggard was amazing. To live the forgiveness and love that was shared by the men & friends of Discovery Church was even better.
Here are just a few quotes from the weekend:
“When you displace responsibility & blame, you make that entity your lord.” Ted Haggard
Victimization is a double-edged sword.
- “I’m not worthy.“ (My worth is determined by the value of that which is used to buy me - 1 Pet. 1)
- And/or ”I’m okay, but you’re not okay.“
There is no way to be healed outside of the tree of life - only being good (according to the tree of the knowledge of good & evil) does not lead to healing but to a focus on performance, not grace and the self, not Christ.
Gayle made a statement at the beginning of her interview during the Sunday morning worship service that went something like this:
”Before the crisis, our marriage was stronger than I could remember. Ted was clinging to me more than ever and we were closer than ever before.“
I thought that to be a real challenge to the men of our day. We men think that clinging to our wives is a sign or act of weakness and that we grow weaker as we become more vulnerable to our wives. ”Au contraire!“ It is really just the opposite. And in Ted & Gayle’s situation, I believe that it was that intimacy that Christ developed in them that kept them together through their crisis.
”Sobriety is the control of an area of my life that, left uncontrolled, would be my destruction.“ Ted Haggard
And a thought to chew on for a while; it comes out of Rev. 21:8 - it is the cowardly who are thrown into the Lake of Fire first. Isn’t that interesting?
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