What do we do when following Jesus still leads us into pain? In this message, we face one of the hardest truths of discipleship — faith doesn’t exempt us from suffering, but it transforms how we walk through it. Looking at Jesus in Gethsemane, we see Him name His pain, ask for deliverance, and still surrender to the Father’s will. God rarely sends suffering, but He never wastes it.

Through C.S. Lewis’s story of Eustace the dragon, we see that some transformations only happen through pain — when God lovingly removes what keeps us from becoming who we’re meant to be. The question is whether we’ll let pain transform us or pass it on. At the communion table, we’re reminded that God’s greatest victory came through suffering — and that same grace meets us in ours.