Message Notes

Series: It's Complicated

Message Title:I'm Offended

Speaker: Pastor Scott

Date: 10/10/21

Series Verse: Philippians 2:5

Bottom Line: Choose to let others refine you, not define you.

Points:

Offense is the fuel of fractured relationships.

• Proverbs 18:21

Jesus offers a better way!

What does offense look like?

• Luke 17:1

• James 1:20

How to get and stay offended:

1. Get - decide that someone else has the power to define your value

2. Stay - talk about your offense with others - often!

How to build resistance to offense:

• Proverbs 19:11

1. Decide that my value is fixed

2. Decide that others will not be the source of truth in my life

• Proverbs 17:9

3. Ask God to help you shed unfair expectations of others

4. Give Jesus the final word