In the final part of this message series on Good Baggage, we ask the question, where do we go from here? We look at this through the lens of the biblical story of the lame man by the Pool of Bethesda. Jesus asks him a question we are all being asked today, "Do you want to be well?"

Jesus tells the man, "Get up, take your mat and walk." In this story, the man is being invited to participate in his own healing, and I believe we also are each being invited to participate on our own healing as well. This is where we go from here.

A common way of coming to grips with the trauma of our childhood is to conclude, "Everything happens for a reason." This logic is well-intentioned, but we often say it without full awareness of what it implies about what we've been through or what it implies about God's role in it.

In this week's episode, we talk about this logic, where it goes wrong, and what a better, more bilblical notion of redemption looks like.

This week we look at the good baggage the undergirds everything else this series and my book has to offer: our passion to see our relationships go differently than the relationships we saw in our childhood. 

In this episode, we look at 3 things our childhoods taught us, and how we can leverage them for the health of our relationships now.