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The Value of Vulnerability
Pastor Jerrid Fletcher
November 09, 2025
This message traces an honest journey from unforgiveness to restoration, using a personal story of reconciling with a father to show how vulnerability is the doorway to grace, healing, and trust. It dismantles common myths about vulnerability, reminds us that this season can intensify hidden aches, and anchors us in Jesus’ Gethsemane prayer—“O My Father… nevertheless, not my will but Yours”—as a model for praying uncomfortable prayers, telling the truth before God, and choosing surrender over image. Vulnerability isn’t oversharing; it’s truthful presence in the right spaces with the right people, where authenticity, empathy, and sound judgment (the “trust triangle”) can grow. Like Jesus inviting Peter, James, and John closer, we’re called to discern who’s “in,” practice courageous honesty, and meet others’ pain—and joy—with care, so private surrender can precede public victory.
1. Where do you most feel the tension between guarding your image and telling the truth—what would a “nevertheless” look like there this week?
2. Think of a relationship that needs repair: what is one step—from the speaker’s process (place of safety, prepared words, honest tears)—you could take in the next seven days?
3. Which myth about vulnerability (weakness, oversharing, loss of respect, only pain-focused, one-time event) has shaped you most, and what truth replaces it for you now?
4. When someone shares joy with you, how can you respond in a way that honors their vulnerability and resists comparison or “one-upping”?
5. Who belongs in your “inner three” right now, and how can authenticity, empathy, and steady judgment practically deepen trust in that circle?