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Our Mess Is Real, But So Is The Miracle Of God’s Love (Eyes Wide Open #6)

August 17, 2025

Our Mess Is Real, But So Is The Miracle Of God’s Love (Eyes Wide Open #6) | Dr. Troy Doucet | August 16th, 2025

 

Dr. Troy Doucet opened with gratitude for his four years of ministry at Suncoast Community Church, celebrating the shared journey of growth, joy, and faith. He introduced the 6th in and final installment of the series, Eyes Wide Open, which challenges cultural and religious assumptions about Christianity and calls believers to see God’s truth more clearly.

Using humor and everyday examples of things we take for granted (like paper towels, AC, and Wi-Fi), Pastor Troy led us into the deeper theme: the gift of spiritual sight. God reveals Himself not always in dramatic signs, but often in subtle, ordinary ways, through whispers rather than earthquakes (1 Kings 19), in the breaking of bread on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24), and in the quiet miracle of a boy’s lunch feeding thousands (John 6). The extraordinary is often hidden in the ordinary.

From 2 Corinthians 4:4–7, Pastor Troy reminded us that we are fragile jars of clay carrying God’s light, so that His power, not ours, is what transforms lives. With “eyes wide open,” believers learn to dismantle three common assumptions in the church:

  1. Point 1: Eyes Shut: All Christians are perfect, loving people. Eyes Open: Our mess is real, but so is the miracle of God’s love.
    Christianity is not about flawless people but about flawed people experiencing grace. The mess of life is not a glitch; it is the very place where God’s love shines. Grace makes the mess the stage for the miracle.

  2. Point 2: Eyes shut: Pastors & ministers are more spiritual than other believers. Eyes Open:  When you put your pastors on a pedestal, don’t be surprised when you can’t see Jesus anymore.
    Pastors are shepherds and servants, not saviors or celebrities. When we put leaders on pedestals, our faith can collapse with their failures. Pastors need accountability, not adoration, and their calling is to point people to Jesus, not to themselves.

  3. Point 3: Eyes Shut: Dr. Larry, Dr. Troy, Pastor Brett and Pastor Kevin are the ministers at Suncoast. Eyes Open: Pastors are equippers, not performers. Ministry doesn’t happen from this stage; it happens through you + into our community.
    Ministry is not a performance done on stage; it is the everyday calling of the entire church. According to Ephesians 4:11–12, pastors are equippers, and every believer is a minister. The church doesn’t need an audience; it needs an army of Christ-followers living out His love in the community.

Dr. Doucet closed with a personal story about a missed opportunity to invite his best friend “Froggie” to church, who tragically died the next day. What once felt like a regret has become a renewed calling: to invite everyone, not out of fear that they might die tomorrow, but in hope that today might be the first day they truly start living in Christ.

The message ended with a charge: to live in the truth of God’s love, to see with eyes wide open, and to share that love with the world.