Jesus’ Answer to Our Scapegoating Cycle

 In this message, Pastor Steve Ingold unpacks how scapegoating has shaped humanity from ancient times to today, and how Jesus completely upends the system. Through the story of the woman caught in adultery in John 8, we discover a God who stands with the condemned, not the condemners. Consider these questions:

1. Who do I secretly need to be “wrong” so I can be “right”?
2. Whose downfall do I find oddly satisfying?
3. Whose story or life experience do I refuse to hear because it might unsettle my certainty?
4. What stones are we carrying today? Self-righteousness? Fear? Shame?
5. What if we became a community of confession instead of condemnation? How would that play out in our communities?

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