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"Come and See :: 'What Are You Looking For?'" | Sunday Service | August 30, 2026 · Wesley at FSU & TSC

• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to continue our sermon series this week called Come and See.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to tell, look at the person next to you and say, Come and see.
• 1:06
  unknown: Come and see.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to turn to the other person next to you and say, What the Lord has done.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: Come and see.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: The invitation that Jesus gives us is to come and see.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to be turning to the Gospel of John today.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: John chapter 1.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: John chapter 1.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: If you have your Bible, I'd invite you to open that up.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's in the second half of it.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: We call it the New Testament.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: There's Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: If you get to Acts, you've gone too far.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: This is John chapter 1, and we are going to be in the 35th verse.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Hear now the reading of God's Word.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: The next day, John was standing again with two of his disciples.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: And when he saw Jesus walking along, he said, Look, the Lamb of God.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: And the two disciples heard what he said, and they followed Jesus.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: When Jesus turned and saw them following, he asked, What are you looking for?
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: They said, Rabbi, which is translated teacher, where are you staying?
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: He replied, Come and see.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Say, Come and see.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: Come.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you didn't do that.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: Come and see.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: And one of the disciples who had heard what John said and followed Jesus was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, We have found the Messiah, which is translated Christ.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: And we he led him to Jesus.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Then he looked at him and he said, You are Simon, son of John, you will be called Cephas, which is translated Peter.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Let's pray over the preaching of God's word.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Oh God, your word is a lamp into our feet, and it's a light into our path.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: May it speak to us and speak through us for the establishment of your kingdom on this earth.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: Oh God, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of all of our hearts be acceptable in your sight and in your sight alone, O God.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: You're our rock, you're our redeemer, and we love you because you first loved us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We pray this in your holy and precious name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: The question that Jesus asks there, what are you looking for?
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's the first thing that Jesus says in the entire Gospel of John.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: What are you looking for?
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: The very first thing that Jesus says in the entire Gospel of John, which means it's probably pretty important.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: Here's how John 1 starts.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: He was in the beginning with God, and in all things it came into being through him, and without him, not one thing came into being.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: What came into being in him was the life, and the life was the light to all people.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: Man, that is bars of a way to start a book, right?
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like Charles Dickens got nothing on that.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: No, like, bro, you look at John, right?
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: In the beginning, it was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: That word that he's talking about, and you may have heard this before, especially if you grew up in church, but that word that he's talking about is Jesus.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's very hard.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we get that confused with this, right?
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: Because we call this the word of God, and that's true.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: But this is only the word of God because it reveals the word of God to us.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: Do you hear that?
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: The Greek word for this is the Lagos.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: Say Lagos.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, this is Jesus, is in the beginning with God, and then all things come into being because of Jesus, which means that if he's gonna say something, we probably should listen, right?
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: So the very first thing he says to two disciples following him, do you remember?
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: What are you looking for?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're following so far.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are you looking for?
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: Turn the person next to you, say, What are you looking for?
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: What are you looking for?
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's a pretty personal and deep word.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's interesting to me because oftentimes this is not that deep of a question.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: Picture yourself at Best Buy.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: Any Best Buy fans in here?
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, I'm a Best Buy fan.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: Call me a nerd, whatever you want to call me.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: The other day I go to Best Buy, and some of you may, some of you may understand this because you feel me.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the other day I go to Best Buy, and I'm the type of guy who like I'm gonna look it up on the app.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: And if I go to Lowe's, I'm gonna find like aisle 14 base six, you know, and I'm gonna do that before I ever speak to a human.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I wish that I had the courage to go talk to some, you know,$15 associate, but I just don't want to.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: For some reason, I'm like, I don't want to talk to a person.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: I just want to find my thing and get out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the other day I go to Best Buy and I walk in, and there's four employees right there who definitely have been told by their manager to come greet, right?
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I walk in, they're like, What are you looking for?
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, I wish I was wearing a shirt that says please don't talk to me, you know.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: I and so I was like, okay, I think I know where I'm going.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I walk over, I get the thing.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: Now that a couple days later, Eli and I go to Best Buy to buy some stuff that we needed for the stage, and we kind of needed it in quick order, and we we didn't, we've we've we went on the app, we saw that it was there, and we walk in and we can't find it.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: And man, we went to the theater section, we went to the TV section, we went to the camera section.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: We're looking for this like Weshmeyer or uh this mesh that holds wires together, and so we're we're like looking all over the place for it.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: We ended up in the computers, we got distracted by the Apple stuff, you know.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: And so we're like looking around this entire place, and the thing that we can't find is one human being that works there.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like the one time that I need them, they're not there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We finally find this one guy, and he's like, What are you looking for?
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, bro, we're really looking for this like wire mesh thing, and he's like, and he shows us something, he's like this, and I was like, Absolutely not.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I show him to it on the app, right?
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: This this is, it says you have four of them, and he takes us and then he can't find it.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: We had looked in, and I'm not kidding, I'm not even being like hyperbolic here.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: We looked in every single aisle except for the one it was in.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it ends up being at the front of the store, and we end up finding it.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: This question of what are you looking for can seem very small, and it also can be very big, it becomes almost existential.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: So when Jesus first mentions this, he looks at these people that are following him, he turns around because he was wondering, and he says, What are you looking for?
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: He's asking them to name what they are seeking.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's a gentle question, but it's a big question.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_00: What are you seeking?
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: It reaches underneath like the things that you put on.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: We talked about the kind of the pretending and the mask last week that you have to put on because you gotta feel like you're this, you know, great Christian or you want to fit into the whatever uh model that you feel like you need to fit into.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: But it asks something deeper than that.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: It reaches underneath first impressions, it reaches underneath religious language, and it asks what's actually driving us, and because of that, I feel like it's a helpful thing to ask ourselves at the beginning of a school year.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: What are you looking for?
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: What are you looking for?
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: Some of these are obvious, but I would argue that they're not specific.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: So, what I often hear uh when I ask what's Wesley or what's Wesley searching for, or what is a student looking for when they come here?
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: And the word I often hear is community.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, which is fine, community is awesome.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's not necessarily specific.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does that mean friends?
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: Does that mean accountability partners?
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  SPEAKER_00: Does that mean somebody that I can actually call when I'm having a hard time?
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: It means all of those, but it's underneath this kind of vague thing.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_00: I think all of us are looking for friends, all of us are looking for community.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: We're looking for a future, you're looking for a place to fit in, you're looking for a version of yourself that you can be proud of.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: I've found some other common threads, particularly with people in romantic relationships.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: You are looking for a partner in your romantic relationship that makes you feel chosen, it makes you feel desired, it makes you feel prioritized.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: Can you get an amen?
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: You're looking for approval, peace.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: I would say that a lot of us are looking for purpose.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: I hope that in some way you're looking for God.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: Now, you may have been brought here this morning by somebody who's like, I'm taking you to church, you don't have any other option.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: Don't look at the person, okay?
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: But like you may be doing that.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: But the truth is we are all looking for God in some way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think part of the beauty of this first word that Jesus says to the disciples that are following him is recognizing their seeking.
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  SPEAKER_00: He honors their seeking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hear that in a big way.
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  SPEAKER_00: He honors their seeking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Church does no good if it doesn't let you bring your questions with you.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: Church does no good if it doesn't let you bring your questions with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, some of them, hopefully a lot of them, are gonna be led by this text.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the truth is, you got to bring your questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: You got to be honest about your questions, you've got to present your questions in an honest way.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I think Jesus is helping us name the thing that we are seeking.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, they're vague often.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: Oftentimes I find myself being like, I just gotta get my life together, you know, or I need to be better.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but what does that mean?
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: I need to be better, I need something to change, okay?
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: But that vagueness is really hard to chase.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, I would say it's even exhausting.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: I learned uh a little bit about specificity, and I am getting better at this because I am so ADHD and I am so not type A that uh I'm really bad at what I'm about to talk about.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so just know that this is a hypocrite telling you about these things.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: But I think it's great.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: I read this book uh by David Allen called Getting Things Done.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: You may have read it, may not have, but it's really fascinating because it's all about trying to be more efficient with your time, not by just like coming up with something you're going to do, but actually coming up with principles and ways in which you're going to do it.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: And so, in other words, like he says the very first thing he says is don't rely on your brain, your brain will forget.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: Write it down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever the thing is you need to do, write it down.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: That's probably something you need to do, especially if you're not somebody who keeps lists and has task lists and all that sort of thing.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: You're like one of those fly by night people, you know what I mean?
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: We all know them.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, it's okay.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: What's that speaker doing up there, right?
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like that sort of person, like, okay, write it down.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: You need to do something, write it down.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: Don't rely on yourself to remember it even in three minutes, write it down.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: But he says, don't write down something vague, like I should deal with that later, or whatever, because your mind will keep reopening that tab and it's gonna take a while to load.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm talking about?
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like those tabs on Chrome.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: You all open way too many tabs on Chrome.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: Can we just say that?
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: So, like on the at the end, though those things are actually like you're searching for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the question is, what exactly is it that I'm looking for?
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: I often write down, this is not a joke, in my taste, like Wesley stuff.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: Homie, that's my entire life.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: Wesley stuff, not specific enough.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: How about if you were to write something like that that you're like, hey, I'm gonna text a friend and ask them to grab dinner this week by Monday at 6 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: or something like that.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: Don't write like, I just want to be more spiritual this year.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to read my Bible intentionally in the mornings.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to wake up 30 minutes earlier so I can read a devotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to go to church this many Sundays out of the month.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's four.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to, you know, I I want to I want to do something specific, not just be more spiritual.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus' question helps us name what we often want to be vague.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the vague desire is exhausting, because you can't chase all of these things at once and not understand why you're tired by that or you don't understand.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: I would also say this: Jesus asks what we're looking for, not because he doesn't know, he's omniscient, he gets you, he knows you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's because you don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are you looking for?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna do something I often don't do the begin in the middle of a sermon, but I'm gonna ask you to do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to actually just close your eyes right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna ask you a series of three questions, and I want you to name with specificity the answers to what I'm asking.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a thousand questions I could ask here, so it's not a perfect answer here, but what are you hoping in this moment that this semester will finally give you?
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: What are you hoping that one friendship or relationship will finally give you?
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: And what are you hoping that your church community will finally give you?
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  SPEAKER_00: And before you open your eyes, I want to invite you, if you thought it was specific enough, be a little more specific.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then what you're gonna do is you're gonna present this to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey God.
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  SPEAKER_00: This semester, I really want to make more strong friends that are good influences, not bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey God, I really need to have a hard conversation with my best friend that I've been avoiding for six months.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna do it by next Tuesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Present them without a face, a mask over it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just present them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if it's messy, even if it's not polished.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna add this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of you are like wondering when he's gonna let us open our eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you don't know what you're searching for, and maybe that's your honesty.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey God, I know I'm searching, I just don't know what's for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, you can open your eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are you seeking?
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  SPEAKER_00: They ask Jesus this, and they say, uh, he he responds to them, what are you seeking?
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  SPEAKER_00: And they ask Jesus the next thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, Rabbi, they say, Rabbi, where are you staying?
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: And that sounds strange at first.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like uh exactly where is your home?
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like they're looking for an address or something like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I actually think it's a lot more than an address because I've been thinking about this word staying.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: Staying, where are you staying?
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's actually the same word that John uses later when he talks about, when Jesus talks about abiding in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exact same word.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's mno.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Say meno.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know, now you learned a little Greek today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, mno, that that's the exact same word that he talks about when you're abiding.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not necessarily like, where's your house?
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because I want to be there for the right time for dinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, no, no, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: He they ask him, Where are you abiding?
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: Where are you staying?
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: How can we go and abide with you?
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's really, really helpful for us, particularly as we start to find out what we are seeking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Later he says, I'm the vine, you're the branches, those who abide in me, and I in them bear much fruit.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: He says, He says, Abide in me as I abide in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the question then of where your abiding is, where is your life?
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Where are you dwelling?
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: And what can be with you?
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: Another helpful thing for you to ask at the beginning of a school year.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: You got this transition from this odd thing of summer.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: Summer's like three months of nonsense, right?
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: Some of you take internships, some of you go home and twiddle your thumbs, some of you go to work at a summer camp or something like that.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: But the there's a lot of things that go on in summer, and the transition back to school is so freaking hard.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's so, it's like disorienting.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh yeah, I forgot about those humans that live in my life up in Tallahassee, right?
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I've got to go back to that.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: So you're at this place where you're like your branches are kind of everywhere.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: What would it look like for you to figure out where you're going to dwell, where you're going to abide in this space?
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: And I love this picture of abiding in the Lord, abiding in the church community, abiding in the thing that will give you what you're searching for.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Because a lot of Christianity is more concerned with information and not abiding.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: I have a mentor of mine, a theological mentor of mine, who says, like, it's totally possible to get an A in Bible and fail Christianity.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: That like brings a lot of pictures to my mind of people I know.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: There's a difference between information and abiding.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because abiding is discipleship work, it's apprenticeship.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: Abiding is placing yourself in a place where the Lord can do his work in you.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: We do this thing here at Wesley, and we're going to start it up in a couple weeks.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I think it's a pretty helpful way of discipling other people and abiding in each other.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: And we call it dusting.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'll say more about it when we actually announce it.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: But the general premise is back in the olden days, when you were studying to be a rabbi, you would follow around a rabbi and you would learn how they talk.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: You would learn what they say, you would learn exactly what they eat, you would learn how they pray, you would learn all of these things.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: And you would learn it not by like them telling you, but you physically following them around.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: The reason they called uh dust is because you would be so close to the rabbi that the dust would kick up off their sandals onto you.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: It would be like this metaphorical thing of like the rabbi is teaching me who he is so that I might be able to follow in his steps.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: So we call we have a program that we, the mentorship program, we call dusting here, where we take an older student and a younger student and we we connect them.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully it's a good connection.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: Some are better than others, but we connect them.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: And and the idea is that you might abide in each other, that you might ask each other difficult questions, that you might get together pretty often, that you might dwell there.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I've seen some of the most powerful friendships and relationships come out of those moments of dusting.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's about finding somebody not who has everything figured out, but who can be with you that you might abide in them and together abide in the Lord.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Question is what have you been abiding in recently?
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: What you scroll on TikTok shapes you.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: And that's scary based on what your feed is, right?
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: What you scroll on Instagram, what you like, it's literally meant to give you more of that.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: And if it's the wrong thing to scroll, if it's the wrong thing, if it's something that's pulling you away from the Lord rather than bringing you close to the Lord, you probably ought to think about what is that that I'm spending so much time on.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: They have this awesome app in the setting or feature in the settings where you can check your screen time.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: I won't publicly do that to you, but uh, if you go, you might be shocked with how much time you're spending in those things because they shape you.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: I would tell you that the the people that you keep company with shape you.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know that to be true, just like internally, you know that you probably deny it because you really like hanging out with them.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: But like the people that you keep company with, they shape you.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Who are you abiding in?
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: I would also say this: the people that you let live rent-free in your head, they're shaping you.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: Let it go.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: You're always abiding somewhere.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: The question is, where?
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: Where do you go when you're anxious?
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Where do you go when you're lonely?
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: Where do you go when you feel like you're not enough?
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: Where do you go when you need to remember who you are?
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: Where are you staying?
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: For me, abiding in Jesus means abiding in his grace.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: It means that if I'm gonna, if I'm gonna spend this amount of time with the Lord, if I'm gonna ask the Lord about what God's gonna do in my life, I've got to lead with the thing he is known for, which is not hate, it's not, it's not like judgment, it's mercy, grace.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's what he's known for.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: And so when you're giving yourself a hard time, question whether you've been abiding in the grace of Jesus.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: Have I been spending enough knowing the goodness of God in my life?
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: An act of forgiveness, mercy.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: After he has this conversation with the disciples, they ask him, Where are you staying?
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: How can we come stay with you?
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: And he says, Come and see.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: Come and see.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: More and more people like get turned away from the church for one reason or another, and you know, we find ourselves having to explain it.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_00: Let me just tell you like, if you if you find yourself having to argue with somebody or having this kind of conversation or whatever, I don't try to do this logically.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: The guy rose from the grave.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: There's nothing logical about this, right?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: If you find yourself in that place, maybe your invitation is come and see where I abide.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Come and see what the Lord has done.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Come and see what God's doing in my life.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: What are you searching for?
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: Come and see.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: Are you looking for peace in your life?
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: Come and find it.