“The Problem with Meeting Your Heroes”
Sermon given by Pastor Robb on October 19, 2025.
Continues the fall Companions to Conversion sermon series.
Covers Psalm 51:1-6 & 9-17 and selected verses in Hebrews 11.
We all are prone to looking to people that we can admire and be inspired by to help push towards our values, and that can even influence our sense of identity. There are plenty of examples of this in society, and we also may have figures of faith we look to in the Bible. This can sometimes take the form of viewing people as heroes that need to escape question or critique, and yet the Bible doesn’t do this with examples of faith - instead being honest about failure and frailty and encouraging us to see substantive faith of repentance, conversion, making things right and humbling continuing to be formed in the values of God’s Kingdom as we recognize our failures to live up to it. Can these values influence how we admire anyone and allow people to influence our values and sense of self?
