Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Martin Weber
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00074D
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00:12 Welcome back, I really have enjoyed our time together.
00:16 Martin Weber, you wrote a book and you talked about all 00:20 this stuff in your book and I am grateful that you put 00:24 it down, but I know you have a story that you told about 00:28 a funeral you did at the Salvation Army so I would like 00:31 you to share that with us. 00:32 You know the Salvation Army is there for people when they are 00:36 hurting and a fellow chaplain and I were involved with 00:41 a number of other pastors in the daily Ministry 00:44 to homeless people. 00:48 One of them died prematurely and we were having his 00:53 funeral and I was talking about how precious Scotty was. 00:57 Suddenly in the middle of hearing all this, somebody 01:02 jumped up in the audience and said precious, he is nothing 01:07 but a blankety-blank. - yeah cat litter. 01:10 - so he was angry? - yes, yeah! 01:12 He was disgusted that I would be talking about 01:14 preciousness in relation to this guy whom 01:16 he had roomed with. 01:18 Or he slept under a bridge with actually. 01:21 So it very disruptive to the service if you can imagine. 01:26 I had an intern there whose eyes were real big, 01:29 what do you do with this? 01:31 I couldn't just ignore it, so I walked on down the middle 01:35 row to where he was standing and I said, praying all the 01:39 while, I said why would you say something like that 01:42 about Scotty? 01:44 He said well he was nothing but a drunken son blankety- 01:46 blank, and he was getting worse. 01:49 I thought dear Lord this thing is getting out of hand. 01:52 What now, please make it in a teaching moment. 01:54 You know I like when you told me this earlier, it was like 01:59 everybody around this guy was almost smiling at the fact 02:04 that he was getting to the preacher. 02:05 Yes getting to the preacher, putting me on the spot. 02:08 It was amusing for them, even though it was a funeral. 02:12 So here he is nothing but a drunk, so then I asked him. 02:17 I said, did the fact that Scotty had a drinking problem 02:21 make him any less valuable to God? 02:24 All of a sudden everybody was quiet because they all did 02:28 too, so this was about them suddenly. 02:31 So thank you for that, I really wanted to end with that. 02:35 It is that our addictions don't make us any less valuable 02:39 to God, our craziness, our hormonal imbalances, our 02:45 biochemistry out of whack, anger issues, we're fearful and 02:51 all those things God says, you are so valuable to Me. 02:55 I'm just asking you, and especially this season is if you 02:59 are going to maintain and avoid relapse, if you are going 03:02 to get out of addiction and into recovery you have to 03:05 start doing this maintenance thing. 03:07 Let people around you, let God, let the Holy Spirit just 03:12 show you who you are. 03:13 How to heal from these things, fears like what Martin 03:16 Webber was talking about, he had to heal from those, 03:18 but more than that then how to step out and offer healing 03:23 to someone else, and I do that every day. 03:26 Every single time I talk to another addict and I see the 03:29 hope wake up in them, you see the fact that they get it, 03:32 I heal a little bit more so it is the way it works. 03:35 It is huge and it is the way God has always planned it. 03:38 He says I will teach you who you are and then please 03:41 stand up and really get a hold of that. 03:44 Let your life unfold like that and teach someone else. 03:48 It is amazing, I'm so glad you joined us. 03:51 I'll see you next time and until then always remember 03:55 that God is crazy about you and me too. 03:58 God bless! |
Revised 2014-12-17