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ROB CASEY

SHERMAN, TEXAS

“A big part of my story is that Jesus saved me when I was 29 as a pastor. So the path of doing ‘Jesus things’ for me was very wrapped up in acceptance and approval. I had a sense of a very transactional relationship with God and family. Like, what do I have to do in order to get? Who do I have to be in order to belong? How do I have to behave?”

“I think like a lot of young men who grow up in divorced homes, I had a lot of questions that weren’t being answered, and constantly felt like God was just mad at me, you know, that I wasn't ever gonna find a way to be good enough, smart enough.

I began to recognize in my life that the more that I knew about the Bible, the more people in my circles were okay with me. like this was the path to people being proud of me. Legalistic, manipulative with God's Word. I knew it backwards and forwards because it became my tool, or weapon, to control my world.”

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“I I began to recognize in my life that the more that I knew about the Bible, the more people in my circles were okay with me. That's how it felt. It seemed like this was the path to people being proud of me. And so what ended up happening Luke (08:32.951) Wow. Rob Casey (08:40.226) really by my own choices, etc., and by my own lack of receiving the provision of His grace. was that I became a pretty staunch Pharisee. Legalistic, rough, around the edges, manipulative with God's Word. I knew it backwards and forwards because it became my tool, or my weapon, if you will, to make my world controlled. Like, this was how I could control my world, was by all the things that I saw, both Old Testament and New, you know. the whole counsel of God's Word, and yet you really can manipulate what God has provided for our good into something that is not for His glory.