Matthew 5:3 Broken - “reduced to a begging dependence” In today's culture broken things are thrown away and replaced. Pictures of broken things, ask do we fix (use again) or replace?(engineered obsolescence) God’s kingdom operates on a much different principle. Only if it is broken can it be useful. 

Fortune cookie example. 

Example: Peter “the rock.” Convinced of his own adequacy. 

Matthew 26:31-35, 26:69-75 See also Matthew 16:23 

Peter hit a wall at 100mph, all the rest of the disciples were scattered Zacheriah 13:7, Peter should have been shattered. 

Luke 22:31-32 “strengthen your brothers” (someone other than yourself) But then we see Peter step into roles of leadership in God’s Kingdom (Acts 2, 4:13)

Application: We can’t do the work of God’s kingdom on our own power. The people that God can use for great things, are the broken.