Messages

Week four of “Control Issues,” titled Responsibility vs. Surrender, brings a different voice to the stage: Pastor Shayla McCormick, TJ’s wife and co-pastor, who opens by admitting she’s “the queen of control issues” (just ask her about the imaginary brake pedal on her side of the car). But her honesty sets up the message’s biggest turn in the series so far — most of us are trying to control the wrong things entirely. We spend our energy managing circumstances, people, outcomes, and other people’s opinions of us, all things we were never designed to control, while giving up on the…