Why Shame Keeps Us Stuck

This message continues a seven-week series exploring the questions that shape how we see ourselves and God.

In Part 6, we face one of the most painful questions many of us carry beneath failure, comparison, and performance: Am I good enough?

This teaching names shame for what it is—not guilt over what we’ve done, but a belief that something is wrong with who we are.

Through personal story, Scripture, and Jesus’ encounters with people caught in shame, we’re invited to see how shame isolates, hides, and convinces us we need to disappear. But Jesus consistently does something different. He separates identity from behavior, meets vulnerability with grace, and restores people to belonging before they ever get their words right.

The answer Jesus offers is not “try harder.”

It’s a deeper truth: I am good enough.

Not because I’ve earned it, but because grace meets me where I am.