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8-Minute MindShift Wk 21 · Mental Health and the Mission of the Church

• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning everybody.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: Happy New Year 2019.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh just to give you a heads up, I'm getting over some bronchitis, so if I sound weird or my voice is a little different, uh, I'm trying to protect it so you can hear me.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: So, what are you thinking as you get into the new year?
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: How do you how do you transition from one year to the next?
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: My wife and I uh we we love to kind of live in this tension between contentment and dissatisfaction, between uh gratitude and hunger, you might say.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: So we try to balance that out.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, how do you feel about where this year could go and what could happen and what breakthroughs you could have in your life?
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: I just want to I just kind of want to stir you a little bit this morning about some things that I've been pondering and that have been helping me as I uh prepare for this year.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: So again, let me ask you, where do you want to go this year?
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: What do you want to see God do?
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: What goals?
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm not necessarily a big goal setter, more more big picture-y sort of things.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: Or uh or what breakthrough do you need to experience?
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh do you have a plan?
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have a map?
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have directions?
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um I want to help.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's the whole deal of this.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: The whole eight-minute mind shift is to help you change the way you think, to help to change the way you see God, yourself, and others, and what you feel like you have to do to live the amazing life that God has planned for you.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want, um whether you're listening live or you listen later, put in the comments section some of the things that you want to see happen this year, some of the things that you want God to do.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, don't share anything you're not comfortable with, but um it'll help uh me to know what's on your heart, but it might also help encourage other people and uh just kind of challenge them and provoke them a little bit.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: But I want to talk to you about a thought, okay?
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: So um if you came to me and said, I want to get to um Yuba City.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you know where Yuba City is, but I just happen to because of an invitation I got one time.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: But uh so if you said to me, I want to get to Yuba City, and maybe you even pointed to it on the map.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's out actually, it's out in California.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: So uh I want to get to Yuba City.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: All right, can I give you, you know, we're on the phone and you called me and said, Can I uh give me directions to Yuba City?
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Can I give you directions to Yuba City based on that much information?
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: What are what are two things I have to know before I can give you directions from where you are to where you're going?
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I sort of just gave it away, didn't I?
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: The two things that I have to know to give you directions is your desired destination and your current location.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: Your desired destination and your current location.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: Here's what's kind of arrested me a little bit as I'm going into this new year.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: I don't ever have any problem thinking about, you know, gosh, wouldn't it be cool if this happened?
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Wouldn't it be cool if this happened?
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Gosh, if I could just get my butt in gear and get this done.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have any problem in a sense, you might say, shaping some of the desired outcomes.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: But sometimes what I don't do is stop and locate where I am.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: Because I can't say go two blocks up and left and uh three blocks right if I don't know where you're starting from.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: And you need to be able to sit down and and and think about where am I starting from?
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: We have uh 21-day prayer going on at church right now, and my dear friend Joey Svensson shared this morning, and God used him to provoke um a thought in me, and and the thought was that you know what, dude, no matter what else you think's going on, no matter what other consequences or objectives or cool stuff you believe God wants to do this year, don't ever drift from the most important thing of all.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: And the most important thing of all is my relationship with him, my love affair with him, the fact that uh that he loves me.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: So for me, here's what here here's what it did, and it kind of pushed me in a direction that I was already leaning to talk to you this morning.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: What's your destination?
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: What's your current location?
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh here I'm gonna give you just a couple quick thoughts.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: Stop before you start.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean the year, I mean the day, I mean everything.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: Anytime you're going into something, stop and locate yourself.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Stop and orient yourself to the reality of who God is, who you are, and whatever.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: And here's what I mean by that.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, as that thought hit me this morning, and I pondered it during our prayer time.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: Here's what I thought about.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know what, God?
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um I want to be your son.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: I want to be the son whom you love.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: Have I dropped the ball on some things?
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: Have I done some things that I'm pretty pleased with that you've helped and blah blah blah?
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: Uh are we excited about things that could happen this year?
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: But you know what, God?
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: I want to start by stopping and I just want to be your son.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: I I beg you guys, no matter what else you think God's up to, um stop and be his son, be his daughter.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh work on whatever obstructs you and hinders you from receiving and resting in that place of love.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um Christianity is an interesting thing.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um I like to say it this way.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: In Christianity, we start our race at the finish line.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: We start the race at the finish line.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: What in the world do you do?
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: What do you mean by that?
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: Well, here's the here's the crazy thing about Christianity.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, or about life, we we we do X to get Y, we do A, B to get C.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, there's consequences and causes, causes and consequences.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: But I think what happens is we bring the world's math into the church, into Christianity, and we confuse causes and consequences.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: Because, in a sense, you could say that in God's kingdom, he's trying to turn things upside down.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: For instance, um, do I work for God's love and approval, or do I work from it?
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: If we go back to my my map analogy, if God's approval is my destination, and I and I think I'm striving toward that destination, then my starting point is some version of inadequacy, inferiority, whatever.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: But in Christianity, Jesus did everything necessary for me to be accepted, forgiven, washed clean, and then um partnered with God to do all the cool things he's called me to do.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: So in Christianity, I start accepted.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: So my destination is not to be accepted and approved and loved.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's my current location.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: What if you practiced as you go into this year?
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: God, I want to practice starting at the finish line.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_00: I want to practice, yes, this has got to happen.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, oh God, oh God, oh God, this we need this.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm not causing myself to be accepted.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm already accepted.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: Receive it, enjoy it, plant your feet in it, and then move from there to the map toward what you want.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just kind of reset something in me again, happened hundreds of times probably, to just remind me that God loves me, period.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't love me if, when, and because.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_00: This order.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: Be a son, do what my father leads me to do, have what my father wants me to have.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: Be, do, have in that order.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: And being is the part that's hard for us.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: Because it entails slowing down.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: Stop before you start.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: Be a son, be a daughter, be a loved son, be a loved daughter.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: Then from that place of love, do the things he leads you to do, not to get his love, but to partner together to do the things that will benefit you and his agenda for your life.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: And then be his son, do what he leads you to do, and you'll have the results that he wants you to have.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, great to see you guys again.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: I know that's kind of dumb because I can't really see you, but uh great to hang out again, and I am very excited about the year, and uh, we'll talk more about that as we move forward.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: All right, love you guys.