Growing People, Multiplying Leaders

E1 Shame On Us

Shame: The Great Relationship Killer - Wk 1

3 years ago

There is a story that God is always trying to tell us, but Satan also has his story. In week 1 of our series, we focus on the story that Satan tries to tell us. Satan's story always follows the same plot; It starts with sin (yours or someone else's), which leads to guilt (feeling bad for what you DID), and unless there is intervention - it inevitably leads to shame (feeling bad for who you are). But God also has a story, and His story is told through Jesus, our redeemer!

Launching in 1981 as just 30 people in a living room in Northwest Indiana, Living Stones has grown into a vibrant multi-generational church family. Stones are a product of God the Creator — formed in nature and no two are alike. As we come to faith in Jesus Christ, scripture tells us that we are like living stones in the hand of God and He is using us to build up a spiritual house. Our foundation was built on the work of nurturing and restoring healthy, biblical marriages. In continuing that mission, everything we do here at Living Stones is centered around loving, healing, and equipping individuals and families to grow into a greater likeness of Christ Jesus! By the Holy Spirit, we exist today to Renew Hearts, Restore Homes, Reform Culture and Reach the Nations with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:4-5 ”As you come to him who is the Living Stone — he was rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious — you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house.” We are a family — misfits, hypocrites, creatives, addicts, reformers, over-churched, unchurched, wanderers — each of us a stone, uniquely crafted by the hand of God, made alive through Jesus, and now living by the power of the Holy Spirit. Together, we are Living Stones.