Vulnerability Quotes

“Trying to be a peacemaker aggravates two of my fears: rejection because of the hostility and failure if I cannot make peace happen. I forget that you call me only to be faithful, not effective.”
― Brad C. Hambrick, Vulnerability: Blessing in the Beatitudes

“Recognize that being a peacemaker requires being in awkward, tense conversations. This is where a Christian belongs. Often those who struggle to be vulnerable feel as though they are doing something wrong if they are in such awkward or contentious conversations. While you as a Christian should not be contentious (2 Tim. 2:24–25), you can rest in the fact that the call to be a peacemaker frees you from this guilt. When”
― Brad C. Hambrick, Vulnerability: Blessing in the Beatitudes

“A predominant value of our culture is that only things that are pleasant are good, that all things unpleasant are bad (suffering has no value). This false belief causes shame or awkwardness whenever we are not happy. We often live as though the command to “rejoice in the Lord always” (Phil. 4:4) made the command to “weep with those who weep” (Rom. 12:15) wrong. We miss the connection that mourning is celebrating through tears the goodness of some blessing now painfully absent. Therefore, we fail to invite others into that experience, especially if we view the grief as small (inadvertently “weighing” God’s blessings). Because of this privatization of our mourning, we usually see others at their best, and this false belief is further reinforced. Benefit”
― Brad C. Hambrick, Vulnerability: Blessing in the Beatitudes