Rediscovering Joy | The Book Of Philippians Week 5

How can we experience joy like we did when we were children? Life throws challenges and tragedy at us that can rob us of that feeling. Join us as Andy Reider shares how we can relearn joy. You will find out how to experience healing and wholeness using a framework found only in the Bible.

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    - Life is like a never ending pursuit of happiness.
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    We're always looking for something
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    better than what we have.
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    But problems, trouble, pain, life, death all get in the way.
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    Just when we think we're almost there,
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    we get knocked back down.
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    But what if joy didn't mean what you thought it meant?
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    What if you could have joy
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    no matter what circumstances you're facing or will face?
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    In this series of videos,
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    we're exploring five keys to Chasing Joy.
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    And today we're actually going to
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    relearn how to be joyful.
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    - Every amusement park has that one ride,
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    that one ride that's so intense, it'll make you black out.
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    It's so intense it puts your stomach into your shoes.
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    Now, a few years ago,
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    I was at this park on that ride with a friend,
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    and I was looking over and like, what's the big deal?
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    This seems pretty lame.
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    In about 0.2 seconds later, the bottom dropped out
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    and we started plummeting towards the earth
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    at like a billion miles an hour.
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    And man, that's how life is sometimes,
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    it feels like it's straight and level
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    and then the bottom drops out.
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    And what's scary is when you don't know where you are
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    on the roller coaster or in life.
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    Today, we're going to be talking about
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    how we can experience more joy by understanding
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    where we are on the roller coaster of life.
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    But before we do that, I want us to hear from some joy experts.
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    Who are the joy experts in your life?
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    Well, they're kids.
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    I want us to hear from some kids about joy right now.
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    - You know what? Jayce said the same thing.
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    That just means giving this, that's all.
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    So you can, like, flip your hair, boom, like famous.
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    Oh, yes.
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    You want to say action? - Action. - Good job.
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    What brings the biggest smile to your face?
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    - My friends, my family.
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    - Sometimes play basketball.
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    - Sloths.
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    - Sloths. Okay. How slow do sloths move?
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    What makes you the happiest?
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    - Food. - What kind of food?
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    - Skyline.
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    - Tortellini.
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    - Ice cream. - Oh, my gosh.
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    What makes you laugh the hardest?
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    - Frankie dancing with me. - Your dog?
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    - Put him on his back legs and he's like [vocalizing].
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    - Tell me about one of the happiest days of your life.
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    - A new family, I got adopted. - Yeah.
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    - How much money do you think you need to make you happy?
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    - Maybe 20 - 50 hundred dollars.
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    - That's a good amount. What are you going to buy?
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    - A huge pony.
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    - Not much. - Zero.
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    - None, I guess.
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    - None. You can't buy happiness.
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    - Some people need love to be happy.
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    - If you're a rich person, you could just use money too but...
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    - They could also maybe buy love.
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    Is that what you're saying? - Yeah.
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    - But if you aren't rich, where do you get the love from?
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    - Jesus. - That's a good answer.
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    How do you keep being happy? - By dancing.
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    Let me see some of your best moves.
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    - That's so good.
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    - What cheers you up? - Getting hugs.
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    - You like hugs?
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    So some folks who are watching this,
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    they might not know where to start.
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    They don't know how to be happy.
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    What would you tell them?
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    - Just let your inspiration go wild.
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    - That's good advice.
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    - Man, I love that picture of childlike joy.
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    Hey, for the last four weeks,
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    we've been in the book of Philippians.
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    Philippians has a lot to say about joy.
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    Joy in Jesus, joy in humility,
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    joy in the process, joy in suffering, all kinds of joy.
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    Now, let me show you something really cool
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    about Philippians.
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    Even the structure of the book
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    tells us something about it.
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    You see, Philippians isn't just a single theme.
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    It's actually a series of vignettes
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    that refer back to a central idea
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    right in the middle of the book, in the form of a poem.
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    Philippians shows how living as a Christian
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    means seeing your own story
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    as a lived expression of Jesus's story.
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    Now, did you catch that?
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    Let me say it again, because this is important.
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    Philippians shows that living as a Christian
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    means seeing your own story
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    as a lived expression of Jesus's story.
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    And if you're wondering,
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    what does any of this have to do with joy?
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    Well, I'm getting to that.
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    Now I'd propose to you that
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    one of the biggest reasons you and I
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    don't experience more childlike joy in our lives
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    is that we don't understand where we are
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    in the narrative arc of God's story.
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    It's like we expect things to be straight
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    and level all the time, but that's not how life
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    or a good roller coaster work.
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    And if we don't know where we are,
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    straight and level, headed up the hill,
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    or flying face first towards the ground,
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    placing ourselves in the story as
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    a lived expression of Jesus's is really challenging.
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    But I'm getting ahead of myself.
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    Before I explain a framework for relearning joy,
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    let me describe the current situation
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    where most of us find ourselves.
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    Now, a few decades ago,
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    NASA was looking for a way to quantify creativity,
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    and they started with kids.
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    Now, the children of the study were first tested
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    at 5, then again at 10 and 15 years old.
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    At age 5, like my daughter, Mariah,
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    98% of children tested as creative geniuses.
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    By the age of 10, only 30%.
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    And by 15, only 12% were still genius level creatives.
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    Now, a fourth test was administered as adults
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    and it was only 2% retain that creative
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    and problem solving genius.
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    And I just propose, hasn't our child-like ability
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    to experience joy suffered a similar fate?
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    Man, who's the joy expert in your life? Kids, right?
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    They throw tantrums, but they're also capable
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    of a level of sheer delight
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    that aren't we all envious of?
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    I mean, come on.
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    Like my daughter Mariah is more joyful
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    with an ice cream cone and a balloon
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    than I am with a beach vacation.
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    Like, she -- and it doesn't matter.
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    Like, she could have a balloon and ice cream cone
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    in the middle of a hurricane
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    and she would be loving life.
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    She has a joy that is just incredible.
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    But somewhere along the line,
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    life conspires against us so that we unlearn joy.
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    Trauma, disappointment, misplaced expectations,
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    pain, brokenness, suffering, and a whole lot more
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    chip away at our ability to experience joy
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    until it feels like a distant memory.
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    You might remember when it happened to you,
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    when that disappointment or hurt or pain
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    changed something in you, or you might not.
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    Now everyone has a story, and mine is just that.
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    It's my own.
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    It's my own story of experiencing God.
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    And our stories have a profound role
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    in shaping who we are.
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    And mine has been one of relearning joy.
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    And that's what I want for you too.
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    - Hey, I'm Hannah, and this is Andy.
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    And you already know him because he is crushing it
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    doing an awesome job teaching us about relearning joy.
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    I know. I'm enjoying it, and I hope that you are too.
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    Now's the time in our service
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    where we get to engage in giving,
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    which is an area that I've relearned joy in my own life.
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    And if you want to partner with us to change the world,
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    not just the world, but also your own community,
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    you can go to Crossroads.net/give right now.
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    - Hey, we have something really important
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    coming up and it's called The Journey.
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    And if you wonder what's a journey
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    and why should I do it, I want you to check out
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    this video that it answers both those questions right now.
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    - This year's journey is called Grow
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    because God wants more for our lives
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    and to find that we must grow.
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    The Journey is five weeks long, starting September 18th.
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    There are three parts to the journey.
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    Step one: Attend the weekend
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    and receive weekly teaching at a site or online.
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    Get inspired with the good news.
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    Step two: Do your guide work.
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    You get your very own printed guide.
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    It'll help you create a plan of action to grow deeper.
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    And step three: meet with your group.
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    During the Journey we meet in groups
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    to talk about what we're learning, grow deeper together.
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    You might even make a new friend.
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    And if you don't have a group, that's okay.
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    We'll help you find one.
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    Recap: Attend the weekend,
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    do your guide work, and get in a group.
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    Go here for more.
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    Come Grow.
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    - My own personal journey with joy has many chapters,
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    but one of the most important happened years ago
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    at what was the darkest point in my entire life.
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    I grew up as the youngest of five kids
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    and I was pretty good, like, I rarely did anything
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    that I couldn't "I'm sorry" my way out of, right?
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    And I was generally rewarded for it.
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    This all worked pretty well until my early twenties,
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    until it didn't.
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    My life wasn't perfect, but in general,
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    the do good things equals get good things equation
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    was working pretty well for me.
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    Now, there was a season when all that changed,
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    when I had six people in my family die in two years,
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    culminated when my mom's cancer came out of remission.
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    I moved home to take care of her.
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    And in spite of chemotherapy, radiation,
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    and all kinds of prayers, she died.
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    Months later, my sister got a disease that was so rare
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    that our doctors were literally calling people in China
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    to find a similar case.
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    By the end, she was 90 pounds, lost her right eye,
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    and was in so much pain that it was unimaginable.
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    And just when her health began to improve, she died.
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    I was done. I was broken.
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    It was like the wheels had come off of my life.
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    I quit my job where I was working at a church
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    singing about how great God was.
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    I left home.
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    I bought a motorcycle and I just hit the road.
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    I wasn't sure where I was going.
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    I wasn't really even sure what I was doing.
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    All I really knew was
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    that I needed everything to change.
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    I was the picture of freedom,
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    but also the picture of what it is to be lost.
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    I was running away, running away from a life
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    and frankly, a faith that wasn't working.
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    I felt like God hadn't held up His end of the bargain
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    and I was pissed.
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    You know what happened? I just kept moving.
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    What ended up being an emotional and physical journey
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    of almost a year, crossed 36,000 miles
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    across deserts, jungles, 16 countries
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    and everything in between.
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    It literally took me from the Arctic Circle
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    to the bottom of Argentina.
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    It was an adventure, that's for sure.
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    If you want to hear stories, hey, buy me a beer.
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    Let's talk. Let's talk about it.
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    But I remember one day, one day that
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    I will remember for the rest of my life.
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    I was in Central America.
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    I was riding my motorcycle
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    down a beautiful mountain overlooking the Atlantic.
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    The weather was like this.
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    It was perfect, but I could barely see it.
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    Tears just clouded my eyes, and I was so angry
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    that I was shouting at God in my helmet.
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    I was so angry, I just kept rolling on the throttle,
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    accelerating down this mountainside
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    where there just been a rockslide.
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    Boulders were over here.
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    There was a cliff face over here.
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    And I was just daring the bike to hit something.
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    I don't know how long I went on this way,
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    but I was just pushing harder and going faster.
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    Man, I don't know if I wanted to die,
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    but I know that I didn't care if I lived.
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    When I reached the bottom of the mountain,
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    I pulled over and just laid there
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    on the side of the road, utterly exhausted.
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    And I just remember saying the God out loud,
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    "God, I can't do this anymore.
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    You don't owe me anything.
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    I'll follow You no matter what."
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    In that moment of exhausted grief and tears,
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    like, something change, it clicked.
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    It was as if I knew that I wasn't at the end
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    of the story, I was in the middle.
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    The middle where my misplaced expectation of God
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    were dying, where my good Christian behavior
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    was exposed for what it was,
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    an attempt to control God
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    so that I could get what I wanted.
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    The story didn't end with my pain, but instead
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    ended with God bringing me through to something better.
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    And that's what I want for you,
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    so that you can experience more joy,
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    more hope, more freedom, and more wholeness.
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    This is a process that I've experienced
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    in big and in small ways,
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    in my career, in my ambitions, in my plans,
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    in my relationships, in my identity,
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    and all the things that I try and make
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    the bedrock of my life other than God.
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    These are all opportunities for us to do that thing
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    from Philippians 2 which is remembered,
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    it's showing us how we can see our own lives
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    as a lived expression of Jesus story.
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    But if we learn to handle life struggles with Jesus,
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    there's a framework for handling those struggles
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    that won't rob us of happiness,
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    but instead will enable you and I to relearn joy.
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    If we don't realize that life is like a roller coaster,
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    that there are highs and that there are lows,
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    we don't know what to do with them when they come.
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    So here's a framework
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    that's going to go before, on and after
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    for noticing where you are
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    and embracing your place in life.
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    In our own ways, Jesus lived this out.
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    In Philippians 2 He created this model
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    that you and I get to follow.
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    Philippians 2:6-11 says this:
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    This is the before.
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    This is God recognizing an opportunity
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    to take a humble place to serve.
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    And that's what you and I have.
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    This goes and leads us to being on the Cross.
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    Continuing with our passage from Philippians 2, it says,
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    rather, Jesus made Himself nothing
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    by taking the very nature of a servant,
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    being made in human likeness
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    and being found in appearance as a man,
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    He humbled himself by becoming obedient to death,
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    even death on a cross.
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    But the story doesn't end there.
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    There's an after, after the Cross.
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    Before the cross, on the Cross, and after the Cross
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    that you and I are invited into.
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    In Philippians 2:6-11, it says this:
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    Man, we have an opportunity to allow God
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    to bring us through a healing and growing process
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    before the Cross, on the Cross, and after the Cross,
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    letting the imperfect parts of our character,
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    of our personality, of our history
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    to be remade, reshaped and renewed
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    more in the image and story of Jesus.
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    So, if things are challenging for you right now,
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    if you feel like the wheels are coming off,
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    hey, the story isn't over.
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    You're still in the middle where God is reshaping
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    and renewing and reforming
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    important parts of who you are.
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    And He cares enough to grow you
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    in the midst of that space
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    and to take that place of brokenness
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    and make it a source of strength,
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    to take that place of pain and make it a source of joy.
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    When we understand where we are
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    in the framework of God's story
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    and see our lives as a lived expression of His story
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    before the Cross, on the Cross, and after the Cross,
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    man, then we're not surprised when difficulty comes.
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    We're not expecting everything to be straight and level.
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    That's not true of life.
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    It's not true of a good roller coaster.
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    Life has an ebb and a flow,
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    it has highs and it has lows,
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    it has twists and it has turns.
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    And all through every bit of it
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    God's working out His goodness in you and for you.
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    Now in just a moment, we're going to take communion.
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    We take communion, it's a recognition.
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    It's a recognition of God's ability
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    to redeem and to restore every part of us,
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    to breathe new life into the pain,
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    to breathe new life into the brokenness,
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    make old things new and broken things whole.
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    So, if you would, I'm going to use wine and bread,
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    grab whatever you have at home.
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    Thank you.
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    And Jesus gathered his friends,
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    his community around Him.
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    He said, "This is my body broken for you. Take and eat."
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    And He said, "This is my blood shed for you.
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    Do this in remembrance of me.
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    Take and drink."
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    These practical, tactile examples
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    of God's love for you and for me.
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    If you believe in Jesus,
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    you understand Him as your Savior
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    and as your source of redemption,
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    take that bread and eat it
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    and take that wine or whatever you're using at home
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    and drink that now.
  • 00:17:36
    Now, let me leave you guys with a passage.
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    Hebrews 12:2 says:
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    Let us fix our eyes on Jesus,
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    the author and perfecter of our faith.
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    Who for the joy set before him endured the cross,
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    scorning its shame, and sat down
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    at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • 00:17:53
    That's a beautiful articulation
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    of the journey towards joy
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    that God is inviting you and me into.
  • 00:17:59
    So, become an active participant
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    in your own growth and healing by allowing God
  • 00:18:04
    to take you on a journey, like you did with me,
  • 00:18:06
    from before the Cross to on the Cross to after the Cross.
  • 00:18:10
    Man, this has been my story in areas of pride,
  • 00:18:13
    selfishness, ambition, my career, my identity,
  • 00:18:15
    my family, and a whole host of other things
  • 00:18:17
    in big and small ways.
  • 00:18:19
    This is an opportunity to remind ourselves
  • 00:18:21
    that if the story isn't good, then the story isn't over.
  • 00:18:25
    Jesus isn't done with you.
  • 00:18:26
    He wants to bring you more healing,
  • 00:18:28
    wholeness and joy than you can imagine.
  • 00:18:31
    And while it's not easy, it's worth it.
  • 00:18:35
    Now, one more note from my story.
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    Remember that road in Central America
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    where my grief almost overwhelmed me?
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    A few years ago, I had the chance
  • 00:18:43
    to revisit some of those same roads,
  • 00:18:46
    except I wasn't alone and I wasn't grieving.
  • 00:18:49
    I had a wife and three kids with me.
  • 00:18:51
    I wasn't grieving. I was healed.
  • 00:18:53
    I wasn't alone. I had been restored to a family.
  • 00:18:56
    In big and small ways God can bring wholeness to you.
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    So lean in, be bold, and see how your own life
  • 00:19:03
    can echo Jesus's story of resurrection,
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    then you'll experience more of what it means to relearn joy.
  • 00:22:00
    - Hey, thank you guys so much for joining us today.
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    It is our sincere hope and prayer that you
  • 00:22:05
    learned how to experience more joy in your life.
  • 00:22:08
    Now, as we mentioned,
  • 00:22:10
    we have a really important thing coming up, The Journey.
  • 00:22:12
    I really think it could be an inflection point
  • 00:22:15
    to change the spiritual trajectory of your life.
  • 00:22:18
    And that doesn't happen just by watching something
  • 00:22:20
    or reading something.
  • 00:22:21
    It happens in the context of community,
  • 00:22:24
    growing with other people.
  • 00:22:26
    Man, join a group. Start a group.
  • 00:22:28
    Head to Crossroads.net/Journey
  • 00:22:30
    for more info on how to do that.
  • 00:22:31
    - And if you want one of these awesome guides
  • 00:22:33
    that Andy and I have,
  • 00:22:34
    more information of how to get that,
  • 00:22:36
    and you need to get it soon, by the way,
  • 00:22:38
    is at Crossroads.net/Journey.
  • 00:22:40
    Now I'm going to stop talking
  • 00:22:41
    because we have something very special,
  • 00:22:43
    something that you want to stick around for.
  • 00:22:45
    It is a sneak peek into the Grow Journey.
  • 00:22:48
    We'll see you next time on Crossroads.
  • 00:22:50
    - You can grow beyond where you are right now.
  • 00:22:54
    Everyone likes the idea of spirituality,
  • 00:22:57
    but, like, no one actually knows
  • 00:22:59
    you can actually grow spiritually.

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