URGENT SHARE // The Great Distinction // Tim Hawkins

Welcome to the Movement Church Podcast. We want you to

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hear a sermon from one of our weekend services in

the Trilakes of southern Colorado. God is not a monument,

He's a movement. So we're praying that this message will

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Thanks for tuning in.

All right, Movement Church. I get the privilege of introducing

our guest speaker for today. It is mister Tim Hawkins.

Anybody know Tim Hawkins? Yeah, you know Tim Hawkins.

He'll tell a lot more about himself. However, he is

the a former pastor of this body. We used to

be part of a church called Vanguard Church and Tim

was our pastor like during that season, and I remember

serving alongside each other.

And he's now an executive leadership coach.

And I'll let him tell the rest about.

His amazing family. Give it up for Tim Hawkins leading

us out this morning. Thank you, well, good morning. As

John said, my name is Tim Hawkins and as of

two months ago, I was the lead pastor of Storied Church.

We were a House church movement meeting in the Northgate

area of Colorado Springs. We planted Storied five years ago,

and then about a year ago, my wife and I

started sensing the Lord calling us to a season of rest.

So I'm actually in my very first sabbatical after eighteen

years of vocational church ministry. And the joy of that

was when we decided, hey, we're going to take a

rest and step down. As John mentioned, I stepped right

into a role that I had been engaged in for

several years in coaching. And so if you're familiar with coaching, great,

If not, no worries, But that's what I do now.

I work with a firm called Novas Global, and we're

executive coaches and we're culture performance trainers, and so it's

a joy to be able to do transformational work like

we do in the church, becoming like Jesus, and now

I get to do it elsewhere. My wife Kayla's here,

I don't want to call attention to her, and I'm

pointing to her, so subsequently it's happening. Anyways, my wife,

Kayla and I love the Springs. Like I said, the

north Gate part of the Springs is our home. We

consider monument in the Tri Lakes area very much a

part of that. And we have three boys you may

see Jamison, Whitman and Sutton around here, all of them

under ten. It's a full house. Yeah, that's a little

bit about me. And if for any reason you think

Tim Hawkins that sounds familiar. Yes, there's a guy out

there that's funnier than I am. And it's totally okay. Yeah.

A couple of weeks ago, if I reached out to

me and said, Tim, would you be willing to come

and be a part of a sermon series that we're

doing called Urgent, And I thought, well, gosh, I love urgency,

I love sewing things. I like it when we get

snappy and start making things happening. So of course, of

course I'd be up for that. And over the past

couple of weeks, you guys have been engaged in various

aspects of this series. I know in week one Urgent

Care you talked about the Great Commission, or as Fike

stated it, the Great Expectation comes right out of the

end of the Gospel of Matthew when Jesus turns to

his disciples and he says, guys, all authority on heaven

and earth has been given to me. And so I

am calling you to go out and to make disciples.

That is the expectation. I like to say. Sometimes it's

the fine tune details of Christianity that sometimes can be

overlooked and missed. It's amazing to know that we have

been saved by our God, that we have been sacrificed

for that we have been given life now in eternity,

in full later. And yet Jesus says, if you want

to experience life to the full, go where I've gone.

Do as I do into my voice, follow obediently. And

so we've been apart. You've been apart two weeks ago

you got to hear a little bit of what we're saying.

Is the what, that there is no such thing as

an unsent Christian. We are all on mission together and

in the spheres of influence that God Us called us too.

And then last week you got introduced to what's the why?

So I send us on mission? God, you send us out.

You tell us that we're out to make disciples, where

to teach people about who you are, what you're all

about the Kingdom of God? And what's the why? And

fight did I believe it was a fight. Last week

you preached as well, got well, then it's all good.

Whoever spoke last week touched on the passages out of

Jeremiah where the nation of Israel is in Ready, they're

not in their home court, they're not in the safety

of their house. They're in exile. They are in captivity.

And you would imagine for a nation in captive, it's

like fend for yourselves, good luck, suckers. And God's like, no,

you're not there to simply get by matter of fact,

it's a subservient mission. I have you on right now. Yes,

you have been unfaithful to me, and I told you

that if you would be that I would put you

into exile. Country would come and take you away. But

that was just a part of the plan. You know why.

Because I'm a faithful God. I disciplined my children and

I call them forward nonetheless. And the story out of

Jeremiah is for the nation of Israel in captivity, they

were to go and cause flourishing amongst the Babylonians. Yeah,

you're in captivity, but what you're really involved in is

a greater calling. And that's what you heard last week

that the stakes are real. They were real then for

the nation of Israel in captivity, and if you look

at the New Testament, the picture that Jesus paints for

all of us is that today the stakes are real,

they are urgent, and we as His disciples, get to

see them through. We get to we've been invited into it.

And today the message is about how how do you

take this concept of being a cent Christian where the

stakes are real into urgent. You and I have been

invited into taking part in the kingdom work that Jesus

has this side of eternity. How do you actually do that?

How do you go about making that a reality? So

today's message on urgent is going to play into that question. Now,

I thought I started off today with a confession. It's

always great when a pastor comes forward and says we're

going to start the message off with the confession. But

I thought, I confess to you that this past month

I watched an entire soccer game exactly, I watch not

only the entire soccer game. I learned that there's stoppage time,

and I was like, what stoppage time? It ain't when

the game stops, it's when it keeps going. Makes total sense, right,

Anybody here play soccer, Anybody here try to watch soccer.

Anybody here confused by soccer? Totally faked? Oh crazyh Like,

I hope this connects. Yeah, so everybody, if you didn't

know it, the few for World Cup took place and

go to Old Canada, Mexico, and USA. We were the

hosts of it. And so I'm not a soccer guy.

Just so we're clear, and I'm totally okay saying that

I grew up watching Florida State football. So anybody college

football fans here, thank you. Yeah, chop them up. Just

not the past couple of years and it hasn't worked

out too well for them. But I grew up watching

Florida State football and then I grew up playing basketball,

and I played basketball all throughout. College Basketball is my sport.

To play football is my sport. To watch soccer is

the thing. I think happened after the fall when Sin

entered the world, and I was like, it wasn't there beforehand?

Uh uh Adam tried to kick a rock after the fall,

and I was like, yeah, you should have stopped right there.

But I actually watched an entire World Cup soccer game.

Stop it time, extra time, all the time. And here's

how this actually played out. So we Caitlin I. We

have some close friends that live in Black Forest and

they have three boys, same age as ours, and he

loves soccer. They love soccer. I'm like, I'm sad for them,

but that's okay, Like they love soccer. And one of

the things I've appreciated about them is they're extraordinarily hospital

like hospitable people inviting us over to hang out. We

invite them over. I don't know if they've watched one

of our football games yet. I might do that here soon.

But when FIFA came up, I was curious because I

know nothing about soccer. I asked my buddy, I said, Hey,

what's this whole soccer thing about? And he's like, hey,

what do we do this? Why don't I invite you

over and you can watch a game? And I was like, gosh,

if I have to appease my friend just to honor him,

all right, lord, I can. I can appease him. I

can do this whole soccer thing. And so one night,

there were actually multiple families we came over and we

watched USA playing the World Cup. Soccer game was one

of like the kind of the open games at the

beginning of the whole FIFA World Cup. And while we

were there, I was like, Ryan, you gotta tell me

why do you watch this sport? Like what is it

about soccer that you are so infatuated with that you

think I would come over here and be just as

infatuated with it as you. And what Ryan did is

he took the opportunity to not convince me, to not

argue with me, to not tell me soccer is the

greatest sport in the whole world. And by the way,

soccer is, I believe the most engaged sport in the

whole world. I don't care, still don't watch it. But

nonetheless he didn't do any of that. What Ryan did

is he began to paint a picture for me. He

began to actually explain the context of soccer, some of

the rules of soccer, because I was like, what is

off sides in soccer? Like I don't understand this in football,

It's very clear in soccer, but he's moving. He began

to tell stories of the players and of the teams

that were involved. He began to paint a picture of

an ideal experience that I could have with soccer, and

you need to know my reason for not watching soccer

for the past forty years is because I've believed it's

too slow. They score way too little and then flopping,

Oh my goodness, like y'all the flopping. Do you know

what happened here? A butterfly landed on his nose? And

then you got this kind of stuff like where they

just belabor this is what stoppage time is just over clear,

it's to stop so all the players have an opportunity

to win an oscar and their dramatic experiences in the game.

We got stuff like I don't even know what happened here.

I'm almost sure that's an AI created image. Same guy here,

same guy here. Here's my favorite one. I've for a

time fallen and I can't get up. This was the

stuff that I was like, I just I can't do this.

I can't do this. And you, if you're you're sitting

here listening, you've heard me and told you I sat

through an entire game. And here's the part that when

I confess this, it actually feels like self treason or betrayal.

I enjoyed it. I actually enjoyed it. I really enjoyed watch.

I watched the World Cup championship game between Spain and Argentina,

and I bet my wife was like, we don't watch soccer.

Why are we watching soccer? Why are we watching extra time?

I found a fascination with it, and what changed for me.

What changed for me was that a close friend was

willing to simply invite me in and then give me data.

He was willing to invite me into his home to say, hey,

I'm experiencing something. It's pretty unique. It's like the Olympics

of soccer. Would you like to come and participate with me?

And then he began to give me data. Now, just

so we're clear, if this was Tim before FIFA, this

is Tim now. I have not made a leap. I'm

not gonna be buying any tickets. I'm not a fanatic,

but I have shifted. And if you were to ask me, Tim,

would you ever watch a full soccer game again? I

tell you more than likely I will invitation and data.

The way I like to say this when I think

about what Ryan did for me is Ryan did not

try to convince me. He simply gave cause to consider.

Does it he gave cause to consider? Ryan believed so

much that the story about FIFA World Cup and soccer

and some of the details and gaps that I had

that he if he filled him in, I'd be able

to do the work in my own mind to begin

making some connections. And lo and behold, I was by

myself watching the World Cup. I needed nobody with me.

I was that enthralled in the moment. I haven't watched

the game since. But nonetheless, shift a shift, a shift,

and here's what I know about you, and here's what

I know about me. We all have stories like this.

We have stories in our lives of things that we

were completely like, confrontational about, pushback on that you now love,

that you now enjoy, that you now like now I'm

an interactive person when I preached and when I teach,

and so this is going to be an opportunity. I

would love to hear what is something for someone? Because

I like to think that my wife did not necessarily

find me the individual who I am today when we

first met, and now she loves me. But I would

love to hear, like, what's something that you were a

skeptic about that today you love. Just shout it out

that was not a shout, yeah, shout it out. What's

something you were a skeptic about you love? Now? So

you are a skeptic about Jesus and what? And I'm

hearing a lot in that too, And now it's like,

hmmm mmmm I love that. Yeah, thank you, thank you

so much for sharing that. Yeah? What else? Bro?

What?

Oh? You love basketball?

Now?

Okay, we're good. Sorry, So you did not like basketball?

Didn't understand it? I love your attitude. I love it. Yeah,

so basketball is one of them. I feel an affinity

to you, young man. Thank you. What else? What was

something that you had pushed back against that you now love?

I heard cycling, and I heard being a dad. Yeah,

so being a dad and now it's terrified of it.

Yeah m m yeah, I appreciate that. And then Johnny

said cycling. You did not like riding a bike, wanted

nothing to do with it. Well, here in Colorado, I

would agree with you absolutely. Yeah. So just notice we

all have stories, we have stories of something that perhaps

we have pushed back on, and then given the invitation

and perhaps given the data, you have shifted. And you

may not have shifted a lot at first, but you

have shifted nonetheless, and the reason we bring the reason

I bring this up is that no one in this

room I make up, No one in this room was

argued into something they love. That's just a theory I have.

You were not argued into something you love. You were

invited and given data to consider it for yourselves. And

if you have come to find like affection and love

for something or someone over time, you have been the

one doing the work of further convincing yourself of that.

And that brings us to the how of urgent care, prayer,

and today's share. How can the good news of Jesus

in your life give others that similar cause to pause?

How can the good news of Jesus in and through

your life give others cause to pause? How can it

naturally look for you to give someone in your life

a reason to take whatever a small step a giant

leap forward, through how you invite, how you engage, and

as you'll see today, through the words of Jesus, how

we get curious together. Earlier, John mentioned that I'm an

executive coach, and so when I share that with people,

people are like, oh, you coach executives, And that is

true in some regard. Executive coaching is actually about the

executive functioning of the brain. We coach people around their mindset.

If you're pursuing something massive in an aspirational sense, you

have a relationship to where you are and the gap

between where you want to be, and so we coach

that gap. And the part of our coaching that I

wanted to at least introduce you to today for no

other reason, is the conversation we're about to have about sharing,

about the urgency of actually being somebody who believes that

I can make an impact in somebody else's life, who

doesn't know the Lord, who's never heard the good news.

It is what we call a deeply entrenched belief system. So,

for instance, if you're here today and you're going, I

don't share the good news with Jesus, I would sit

and go, Okay, sounds like we have an action or

an action. You probably have a feeling about sharing the

good news, and it's because you have a deep belief.

Does anybody here again, this is I told you very interactive.

So we're all going to do this together. Anybody willing

to be a volunteer this morning who has what you

would say, maybe a negative feeling toward like sharing the

good news or talking about the Bible? Can I get

a volunteer? You were not going to This is going

to be help full and resourceful to everybody here. Anybody

have like a feeling where they're like, nah, just I

don't I don't like sharing the gospel, or I feel

like I'm gonna get it wrong. Anybody, I'm gonna raise

my hand just to work clear. Now, would would you

be willing to be a volunteer this morning? Thank you? Hey,

give her a round of applause. Yes, ma'am, please come

out for just a moment. And your name is Sue. Sue.

It is so good to meet you. So so I'm

actually gonna I'm gonna stand if you'll stand here, So, Sue,

when you think about sharing the gospel story, when you

think about talking about matters of Christianity or faith, what's

the feeling, so think emotion, what's the feeling you have

when you think about doing that with somebody? Inadequate? Inadequate? Okay,

so I'm hearing. Actually what I think is that play

here is like a belief system too. Can you share

more to like? I feel inadequate in what ways? By

the way, I know probably half of us in this

room have a similar feeling or an experience or an

evaluation of work. So you are being an amazing resource

right now. Thank you.

The belief system that.

Listen to me, M why me?

Why me? And so my belief system and my feeling

in it.

Is that I live it. Okay, I don't.

I cannot go out and say, hey, you want to

meet Jesus Christ someone to come to your front door?

Sure, but I will walk it out in my life.

Love it. So when we think about the behavior or

the action of like sharing the gospel, being more verbal

talking about it, what I'm hearing is is there's an

inadequacy like why me? Why not somebody else? Why not? You?

Name it? We all have those stories and there's probably

some feelings, uncertainty I'm making up, maybe some fear. Yeah, totally. Okay,

First of all, thank you so much for sharing. Hey,

real quick, does anybody resonate with that? Yeah? Yeah, Like,

let's normalize. Let's normalize the moment here. Anybody here feel

like they have one understanding of the scriptures to the

point where it's like, you know what, if God took

a break or it's a vertical I could step in

take over for him. No, like like all of us

probably feel a sense of inadequacy at one point or another.

And thank you because you have given us resource for

the room. So I have a gift for you because

because do you like to read excellent? So I only

hand out books that I've read multiple times. This is

one of my top ten books, and so I give

it to you as a gift. Thank you for stepping

up here and being a resource to everybody. Yeah, thanks too. Yeah,

So just notice this. What I'm about to introduce to

us for the next fifteen minutes is this part here.

What if we're willing to shift our beliefs around evangelism.

What if we're willing to shift our beliefs And I'm

not talking about your tier one doctrinal like have to

be saved beliefs. I'm talking about the beliefs where it's

like I don't have it all figured out yet, I'm

not walking on water yet. I have not successfully brought

fifteen thousand people to Jesus in one gathering yet. And

all of those beliefs that might be true and extraordinarily

unresourceful and useless when we think about the very spheres

of influence of people who the Lord is granted to us.

This is what we're gonna play with for a moment.

Anybody excited about having some of your beliefs all stirred up?

I am. I love this work, all right. So here's

the thing to remember about all of this. Notice behavior

if you're a person who has found yourself, and inaction

as it relates to sharing the good news of Jesus,

talking about faith, maybe even the concept of discipleship that

we see Jesus call us to. If there is a

behavior that is not occurring, it stems from a belief.

Another way of saying this is we behave according to

what we believe. So whatever you believe about evangelism, sharing

the good news of Jesus talking with others, your action

or in action will naturally flow from that. And what

I want to do this morning is I want to

give all of us the way that Jesus simply engaged people.

Now he did it for a long time, he did

it for three years. But Jesus message that he began

his ministry with is one that every single one of

us can employ immediately. So at the beginning of jesus ministry,

we're gonna look at the Gospel of Matthew. If you

want to open your Bible as you can, we are

looking at one passage today we are going to unpack it.

At the beginning of jesus ministry and the Gospel of Matthew,

we're giving a glimpse of a man who stems from

a specific line of King David. And because he comes

from the line of King David, he is in life

to become the Savior in the king of the nation

of Israel and of the world. And what we learn

in Matthew is that Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist, is

the forerunner, kind of prepares the way, sets the stage.

And as he sets the stage, Jesus comes on the scene.

And we're told by Matthew in particular that he began

to say something. This is what we learn in the

Gospel of Matthew, from the time in which John the

Baptist began to prepare the way, from that time Jesus

began to preach this message repent. See, I told you

it was gonna be easy this morning. You're just gonna

leave here and you're gonna go tell people repent, Repent, repent, repent,

repent of soccer repent Now, real quick, real quick, when

you hear the word repent, if we go back to

our image here, how many of y'all have a healthy

relationship with the word repent? Anybody here have a healthy

relationship with the word repent? You got experiences in the

past that you get all one in bubbly inside you

just love the word. How many here have a very clouded, shrouded,

maybe even a negative relationship to the word repent. Anybody

wanting to share hands? Yeah, if you came up in

the generation of turn or burn, you heard this word

in a very schismatic way. And I'm gonna put it

front and center for y'all. It was misused and abused.

This is actually one of the most beautiful words in

all of the scriptures. We don't often think that way

because of how it has been weaponized in Christianity and without.

But this is a powerful word. And it is a

powerful word not simply because I say so. Notice it's

the word that Matthew decides to record very first when

Jesus begins to declare something new has happened. Now, I

want to unpack this for you real quick. The word repent.

If you were to go to the original Greek. Here,

the word repent is a verb called metah oh. Metanoia

is the noun meta oh is the verb, and it's

made of two different words, meta, which is a preposition,

and news, which is a noun mind knowledge. Now, if

you were not following Jesus at this time and you

heard this word, you were just a normal Greco Roman

individual in the first century. What you would understand about

this term is, Hey, I'm going this way. I'm a

call to repent. I have an intellectual exercise that takes

place in my mind. Somebody has given me reason to repent,

and then I just turn. And then I get more data,

and I just turn. The basic concept of repent is

simply to change one's mind, to turn. That was it.

Notice what's not in there. There is not a call

to a reorientation of your morality, to your ethics, to

your existential beliefs, your relationship to yourself, to others, to

the world. It was simply a word that meant, in

light of new data, change your mind if you want to.

But in the scriptures, the word is redeemed in the

most powerful of ways. Every time you see the word

repentance in the New Testament in particular, it is a

call to radical reorientation of your entire being in relationship

to who you were and what you were about in

the past, most specifically the old person, and in relationship

to sin. But one of the things I love about

this word is, at its core nature, it is an

invitation to reconsider the direction of your life. When Jesus

uses it, it's an reorientation of your life in relationship to God.

Now here's the fun part about this word, because if

you've never heard this before, in no worries. This word

was originally understood by people to say turn one time,

or burn, be saved, or go to hell, or be

judged or condemned. That's not how Jesus uses it. Jesus

actually uses this word. We call it a present active imperative.

He commands it, yes, but he actually commands repentance in

a habitual state. In other words, when he calls people

to follow him, he's saying, you are going to engage

in this work of changing your mind for the rest

of your life. It's not a one time thing. It's

going to be a consistent engagement with new data. You're

going to grow up, You're going to have a new

experience with the Lord, with his Church, with his people,

and you're going to get an opportunity to challenge presuppositions

and beliefs that you've held without ever questioning, and you

get a chance to reorient your life even more so

in the direction of Jesus. This is a transformative word.

I put it this way. Repentance is an invitation to

transformation when Jesus uses it. It's a command. In the Gospels,

what we see is the gospel writers utilizing this command

to invite people into a completely new way of living

and experiencing. So when we think about urgent share and

we look at the life of Jesus, one of the

things that Jesus did simply but often was invite people

to experience a whole new world. Not quoting any Disney movie.

There the whole new life, a whole new way of

experiencing themselves and their creator God. It's a deep re

examination of your basic beliefs about who God is, who

you are, your relationship to all of it. Now what

I appreciate, and I remember my story of Ryan. Ryan

invited me into his home and then he said, we're

gonna watch a game, and then Ryan did what Ryan

provided data to me, it's exactly what Jesus does. At

the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says, repent, Why,

for the Kingdom of Heaven is near now. To a

Jewish person listening to this or reading this, this would

have clicked immediately for them. They would have understood that

when Jesus talks about the Kingdom of Heaven, he is

talking about the rule and reign of God established on earth.

More specifically, for the Jewish people, they were like, Hey,

when our Messiah and Savior comes, he's going to militarily

rule us and lead us to overthrow the Roman Empire.

But nonetheless they would have heard this and they would

have thought that time is coming, the moment is near.

This concept of nearness is actually similar to the word

that we get urgent from. Hey, the Kingdom of Heaven

is urgently upon us. Therefore, change your orientation, change your

relationship to yourself, to sin to God, repent, for the

Kingdom of Heaven is near now. Anybody here Jewish hang

out with Jewish people, I don't imagine. So we're not

a Jewish nation, which is interesting because you know who

read this med Matthew read Mark who talks about it.

A whole lot of gentile people who did not have

any background when it came to the Kingdom of God,

the day of the Lord that the Old Testament prophets

talked of, They had no idea about that. All they

would hear in this sense is like turn for something

is about to happen. And I find this beautiful invitation

for all of us as Christians today because we do

life amongst gentiles, We do life amongst people who do

not have necessarily a background in Jewish theology and in

the Jewish scriptures. We do life amongst people who are

very much like the audience of the early Church, that

we get to invite them into something completely new, that

we get to give them data on something amazing, and

the invitation is simply for them, what do you want?

What do you want to do with this? What do

you want to do with this? Repent for the Kingdom

of Heaven is near. When I read this, the way

that I summarize this for myself as a way of

reminder is that Jesus created curiosity about reconciliation. The whole

reason Jesus came was to seek and to save the lost,

to reconcile them back to their creator, God, their heavenly Father.

And the way in which Jesus did that was by

means of curiosity. He created curiosity through his life, through

his interactions, yes, through his miracles for a very specific purpose.

But nonetheless, Jesus was in the work of creating curiosity

in and through his life that beckoned people toward him

so that they might get to hear about a weight

in which they could be reconciled to their God. Jesus

powerfully lived. And obviously it worked. Because we are one

of thousands of congregations of churches across the globe who

gather in Jesus's name. His curated curiosity has impacted us

two thousand years later. So clearly the approach and strategy

has some weight. And there's something else about this. So

when I read these words from Jesus, and I noticed

throughout the gospels about the ways in which he curated

curiosity that brought people in. And then he simply gave

them data and said, what do you want to do?

What do you want to do? This? Follow me, learn

some more, Sit with me, eat with me, learn some more.

Notice my life, ask the questions. I'm an open book.

There's something about this that draws me in and I

begin thinking like, how would I love my life to

create curiosity amongst others? How would you love your life

to create curiosity amongst others? How would you love for

your life just the daily ins and outs to impact

people in such a way that they're curious. This isn't

the first time you've probably heard this, but curiosity oftentimes

breeds questions. One of my favorite things as a coach

to do is to get extremely and radically curious about

the people I work with, asking questions, bringing them to

moments when it's like, Hey, I noticed you believe this

about it. How's that working out for you?

Hey?

I notice you've been going down this path in life.

How's that working out for you? Would you be open

to something different? And you know, the funny thing is

is that many people, when provided an option that could

potentially transform their life for the better, they're like, I'm

open to it. I don't know what it is. If

soccer could radically change my life, I'm open to it now.

I don't know if it will, but my one experience

has given me at least a little bit of evidence

that perhaps it could. But what's that for you? One

of the beautiful things about life is that every single

one of us has been created with extraordinary gifts and

talents and skill sets. We are so diverse. Give you your diversity,

the uniqueness of who you are as not only a

gift from the Lord, but a gift to the world

in which you get to create curiosity in the most

profound and powerful ways that I never will. And I'm

totally okay with that. How would you love your life

to create curiosity amongst others? So here's what I want

to do. I want to answer the question, and I

want to give just a little bit of time for

you to consider this for yourself, because again Jesus called

the repentance is simply an invitation into life. And here's data.

What do you want to do with this data? What

do you want to do with this evidence? What do

you want to do with this new way of potentially

relating and thinking about life and yourself and your God?

How can it look in your life to give others

cause to pause? I have a few points. These are

not capital t true, simply my thoughts that I offer

to you. If you're desiring to become a person who

urgently shares the good news with Jesus of Jesus with

others in a way that is unique and beautiful to you.

One is this, be a person of repentance. Be a

person of repentance. Remember metanoia, the habitual reorienting of our

lives to fall in line with the Kingdom of God

and the ways of Jesus. But here's my question. Are

you pursuing data? Are you pursuing evidence? Are you pursuing

answers that allow you to become more and more like Christ,

to challenge beliefs that you have held but have never questioned.

One of the beautiful aspects of inviting people into a

orientation of who they are is having the integrity to say,

I do this myself. I'm actually doing this myself right now.

Truth be told, I'm in a season right now where

I'm navigating two things, the work of the Spirit in

my life because I've grownup. I don't know if these

terms make sense to you, but I grew up as

a cessationist. I believe the Holy Spirits, gifts and works

through us ended when the church was established after the

first entry, because it wasn't necessary, And I was like,

you know what, I've never challenged my thoughts Lord, and

I wonder, I wonder I've also challenged my thoughts about

women in ministry. I know that's a big debate going

on right now, but I thought, you know what, I've

never taken the time to think about for myself what

the Lord might be speaking through his scriptures. So I'm

challenging that because if I'm off, I don't want to

be off anymore. I want to pursue being in line

with what the Lord has for his people and for myself,

so be a person of repentance, to be a disciple

in community. One of the amazing parts about doing life

with Jesus is we get to do it with others.

And just in case you're curious, you do not have

omniscience on yourself. Very well, one hundred percent objectivity on

who you are and how you engage and how you

do life is not possible. You cannot become like Jesus

without others in your life. And that's the joy of

life together. Others get to call us forward, reflect back

to us aspects of who we are that it's like

that doesn't look like Jesus. I mean you just you

just screamed at the TV Tim about the soccer game,

like I don't know anything about Like I like it

when people give me an opportunity to sit and go. Huh.

I never realized. I never realized I did that. I

never realized I spoke like that. I had a fellow

believer three months ago, tell me, Tim, did you know

that when you speak you mitigate your language? No, I

don't even think I know what the word means, Like

every time you speak, it's a little bit. It's what

if it's like you head to your authority And she's like,

what if you stepped into the full authority that God

has granted to you as one of his children empowered

by his spirit? How might that change and shift your life?

And I was like, I don't know, but I'm feeling

pretty good right now about what you just said. But

it was a reorientation of my life when somebody said

you play so small, you speak so small, you have

such a small view of who you are. Tim, Why

that did not occur without being a disciple in community?

And then lastly, is this beyond mission where you live

labor and leisure? This is the way I like to

tell people, you're on mission. We are sent. But do

you recognize that all aspects of your life are an

opportunity to beyond mission. In your home, in your neighborhood

where the Lord has called you to work, the places

that you leisure as well, the hobbies, the fun things

that you do. These are three ways that you begin

to answer the question how do we partake in urgently

sharing of the Gospel? And I believe these create curiosity

for us if you so desire and if you so

want to, And my prayer for all of us is

that we would connect this whole series to our transformation

into Christ's likeness. That the more that we pursue the care,

the more that we pursue actually praying and being a

people who pursue the flourishing and the thriving of others,

and the more we recognize you are more equipped than

you realize to impact the people around you with the

Gospel of Jesus. The more like Christ, the more peace

and shaloone you'll experience.

So what's God leading you to do next? And how

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