Central to the gospel we proclaim is a belief that God is active in our story, inviting us to participate with him in restoring all things. For this reason, God loves to invite us to use our story—the broken family, lack of purpose, lustful, angry, shame-full stories—to bring personal and communal healing. In community, the trampled grapes of our collective stories are gathered and transformed into something more stunning than we could have ever conceived. God is the Master Vintner, taking stories of sexual shame and transforming them into the very wines of blessing. In God’s economy, nothing
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Embrace brokenness
