(Un)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things

by Steven Furtick

This is a no-brainer, but I’m going to say it anyway: we all have weaknesses. We call them all sorts of things: hang-ups, slip-ups, screw-ups, mistakes, problems, sins, errors, faults, inner demons, addictions. But we all have them.

It’s about charging into the gap between who you are and who you sense you were meant to be and then connecting with God there.

I want to be me, just like you.

We are as priceless as we are complex. We are as valuable as we are unique. It wouldn’t be just unrealistic to oversimplify our identities. It would be tragic. Before charging into some self-restoration project, we need to take a close look at who God made us to be.

they outnumber the grains of sand.

Really? With one line, with one word, we sum up our entire identity, existence, and potential? With such flippancy we dismiss our calling and stamp ourselves unqualified?

Criticism is irritating because it reminds us our flaws are still showing even though we are trying so hard to hide them.