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Sermon: Finding a Purpose in Your Pain - 2 Corinthians 12
Theme of this mini-series:
The apostle Paul is the New Testament’s version of an “unsinkable Molly Brown.” As was the case for the Titanic’s most famous survivor, Paul simply refused to go down with the ship … literally.
Three times Paul was shipwrecked, and he once spent a full day – “a night and a day,” as he puts it – on the open sea.
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Other problems along the way? Try being stoned, scourged (five times), and being beaten with fists, rods and words. He’d been scored, chased, scandalized and slandered. He’d been the focus of riots and death threats, and after one harrowing, near-death experience, he was snake bitten!
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His focus, energy, and resilience were nearly frightening. In fact, the only thing that seemed to discourage Paul were the problems in his young churches. To read Paul’s letters to those churches, one might come away with the idea that Paul was continually frustrated, and that his work wasn’t very successful.