Facing Your Fears: Rejection, Failure, and Death

Pastor Randy Pope teaches on the topic of Facing the Crippling Fears of Rejection, Failure, and Death

Outline

1) We fear rejection when self-esteem is fragile

2) The fear of rejection creates an excessive need for acceptance

3) We overcome the fear of rejection when we matter to our most important audience

4) God intends for His people to know that they matter to him

Outline

1. We fear failure when we

2. We overcome the fear of failure when we focus on God’s adequacies

Outline

Death is inevitable
Death is not the end of life, but a transition to a different life
At the moment of death there is an immediate awakening of consciousness of one’s soul
There is an initial consignment of the soul
There is a future resurrection of the body
There is a final judgment and consignment of the body with the soul
As a believer death should be viewed as the Ideal
To die young is not to die prematurely
Heaven is the perfect place to be

2. We will feat death if we face it alone