Tonight: The Secret of Adequacy. Who is adequate for life? Is it true that deep down inside, everyone feels inadequate, even those who appear to be the most confident? If that’s true, then, what is confidence? Lying to yourself until you believe the lie? Why will there always be a market for motivational speakers? This is probably the pivotal session in our Catch On teleconference Bible study: Transforming the Marketplace. This is life-changing. If you’ve never before joined us, this would be the night for you. We’ve got room. We can take a few more callers.

Time: 7:00 p.m. Pacific; 10:00 p.m. Eastern.
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Desired result: Enough.

One of our regular readers always signs off, “I wish you enough.” How much is enough? Who has enough? We’re not talking about possessions here; we’re talking about adequacy. How will you know when you have it? This is what we will be talking about tonight. If you’re not sure you can answer any of these questions, you need to join us.

The secret we’re going to talk about tonight is real. I experienced it before I ever knew what it was. I was a senior in college and my life was slowly slipping out of control. Everything I had relied on up until then was taken from me. There was the girl back home I thought would always be waiting for me. Not. There was the ability to always pull out what I needed to pass my classes at the last minute. Not. There was my reputation as a strong Christian and my sense of being able to always rise above temptation to sin. Not. There was at least my solid faith in God. Not.

I can remember it as if it were yesterday. It was about this time of year, in fact… a very cold night in Wheaton, Illinois. The holidays were over; it was time for first semester finals, and in my pro-seminar course in my major field, I was slipping badly. I had to pull a decent grade on the final or I would fail the course and jeopardize my ability to graduate. The test was at 8:00 in the morning; it was 3:00 a.m.; and I still had two books to read. Whether it was lack of sleep, the coffee, the stress or my mental state that did it, I don’t know, but I came to a point where the pages in my book literally went blank. There was nothing on them. I felt the pages, fanned through the book, and it was totally blank. My textbook – the one I still had to read – had become a blank book.

There was nothing else I could do. I had to get out of there; I was losing it. I bundled up and went outside, and on that frigid walk, for the first time in my life, I was liberated. I found enough.

It wasn’t until a year later that I discovered the biblical precedence for what I found that night – something real enough and clear enough that I can pass it on to someone else, indeed, I can teach it to you, and I will… tonight. Hope you can be with us.

“And who is equal to such a task?” (2 Corinthians 2:16)