1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Welcome to Technically Short. Hey guys, how's it going? So yeah, welcome back. I 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:14,800 think this is episode 6, I might be wrong. Or 7. Or 5. I don't know. But like, but yeah, so as 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:21,000 promised on Tuesday, you guys got an interview where Sean interviewed me. 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,480 You got to get to know me a little bit more about a little bit more about my 5 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:33,440 backstory and like who I am as a person. And so now this time, this is probably 6 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,560 going to be the only week like this for a while where we have two episodes. This 7 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:41,160 episode we're going to be doing the exact same thing for Sean. I have some 8 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:47,400 questions, a few questions I prepared beforehand, but I also expect that it may 9 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,900 go in, it can go in any direction. So I only have like four questions set up 10 00:00:51,900 --> 00:00:55,440 because I figured it couldn't go in. I like asking questions on the fly because 11 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:06,200 that's what coaches do. But I think it'll be great. But alright, so just to start, if you haven't already, go ahead 12 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,880 and subscribe, go ahead and subscribe, give us a five star review if you 13 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,960 subscribe. Give us a five star review, no one stars, you got nothing nice to say, 14 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:21,400 don't say anything at all. And the, yeah, go ahead and turn on 15 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:27,560 notifications so you don't miss an episode. And so, and then on Spotify, I 16 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:32,440 found this out recently, you can let us know what you think about the episode. So 17 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:37,160 if you like this type of episode, if you don't like this type of episode, let us 18 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:42,760 know on Spotify if you love us on Spotify. But alright, so let's jump in. So Sean, just to 19 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:47,200 start off, just give a quick backstory about yourself, like who is Sean Edwards 20 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:54,320 Short? Okay, easy. Who is Sean Edwards Short? Sean Edwards Short is a guy who 21 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:59,120 loves God, who chases after God, who has a great purpose in life, which is to lead 22 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:06,240 more people to God. And that's the quick backstory of Sean Short? Give a little 23 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:11,660 bit more. Okay, let's see. I grew up in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was born on 24 00:02:11,660 --> 00:02:18,020 Westmoreland Hospital. I went to Greensburg High School, I didn't really go to 25 00:02:18,020 --> 00:02:23,080 high school. High school, I went to Cedar Grove High School in Atlanta. I moved to 26 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:28,240 Atlanta when I was 14. Atlanta was like a true life Wakanda, was a definitely 27 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:33,200 culture shock. Everything was different completely from Greensburg. The 28 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:38,160 education down there is not as great. Pennsylvania's top five, Atlanta is number 29 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:46,800 48 in education, so I was pretty easily getting A's. So going back to, you 30 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,840 talked a lot about your faith in the beginning, and obviously we share the 31 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:57,400 same faith, but whenever you're talking about leading people to God, for you 32 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:01,800 specifically, because we're all called to do that in different 33 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:08,080 ways, like what does that mean for you specifically? For me, specifically, God has 34 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:13,600 given me a calling on my life to be a pastor, and He's given me the gift of 35 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:20,240 evangelism. So like I'm able to just go up and talk to random people without fear, 36 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:25,840 without doubt, without shame, because God has given me such a gift where I can just 37 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:32,080 talk to anybody and just be completely open with them about Jesus Christ. Like 38 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,400 we could be playing our video games, we could be playing basketball or football 39 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:40,200 or whatever else, and I'm easily able to tell them about Jesus during whatever 40 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:47,240 we're doing. It's good, it's good. So I think that's really good. I want to move 41 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,760 on to the next question real quick, and we'll probably tie what you just talked 42 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:57,280 about back into it, but let's move into the next question. So I have written here, 43 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:02,880 now like from living with you for over a year, I know something that I would say 44 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:08,760 that you value highly, but what would you say is one thing that you highly value 45 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:16,360 and why? I think the highest thing I value is keeping my eyes on Jesus, and 46 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:21,360 that is because like when you have your eyes on Jesus, your focus is on Jesus, 47 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:29,000 your heart stays on Jesus, your actions stay on Jesus. The moment you take your 48 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:35,880 eyes off of Jesus, then your values drop, your situations change, and 49 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:41,200 everything goes more negative, and it happens when you just like lose focus. So 50 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,800 like the most thing I would value is a close relationship with God, and then the 51 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:51,600 second thing would be like community. Community is big. Thomas is my brother, 52 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:58,280 Amplified Church is my family, spiritual family, they have been amazing to me, and 53 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:03,960 like I have grown so much because of them, because in other environments I 54 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:09,640 didn't grow as well, and that's just being honest. I think I've also noticed 55 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,720 like the one thing, you kind of touched on it, the one thing I was mentioning 56 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:17,360 that I would say you highly value, which I feel like I've learned from living 57 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,120 with you for so long, and I think a lot of other people will notice it too, is 58 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:27,400 it's not just specifically community that at least I see that you value, it's the 59 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,320 time that you spend with them, and how you spend that, and how you 60 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:36,560 intentionally spend that time, and like because we've had conversations about 61 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:43,360 like you liking how much you like going out to eat with people, and how much 62 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:50,120 that, how much joy you get out of that, because it's community even if it's not 63 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:57,600 with people of faith, it's a community with others 64 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,480 that you're friends with, and like what's that mean to you? 65 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:09,440 To me I feel like community is so big, and the reason why I have like to have to eat 66 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:16,160 with somebody and fellowship with them is because you get to see them in like a 67 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:22,400 pure sense, like there's no sugar coat, you get a quality time spending with 68 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,640 somebody when you're eating with that person, because when you're eating with 69 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,760 that person you're laughing, you're joking, you're talking about 70 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:33,840 situations, sometimes it even gets deep over dinner, so or lunch or breakfast or 71 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:37,240 wherever you're eating at, like I feel like you get some honest moments that 72 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:42,080 you normally wouldn't be able to, and because the way of scheduling and 73 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,920 everybody's always busy while I'm working, or you're working, or people are 74 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,760 working, so sometimes the only time you have a time to actually just hang with 75 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:55,440 your friends is just eating, so that's why it's so important to just eat with 76 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,000 your friends, eat with your community, eat with your own family, it's just 77 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,800 important so you can have great quality time. 78 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,480 Yeah, also you just really like to eat. 79 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,480 Yeah I do, I love to eat. 80 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,480 I'm not gonna lie, I do love to eat. 81 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,920 I had something in my mind, I can't remember exactly what I was gonna say, 82 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:23,480 it's gonna be about you eating a lot of food, but this kind of ties in, and it 83 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:28,080 wasn't even planned, like this question kind of ties in, and I think this is 84 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,160 something we've talked about a lot, and I wanted to bring it up on the podcast 85 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,600 because I want to know what you're gonna say, it's because it's a conversation 86 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,320 you've also had with a bunch of other people. 87 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:45,080 Yeah. In talking about going out to eat so much, and how much money that cost 88 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:52,960 you to do that, as referring to money and you, like what is your relationship 89 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,160 with money, what's that relationship like? 90 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:04,720 Me and money, jeez, I see, it is really deep, the way I see money I don't think 91 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,440 anybody else sees money the way I see money, because to be honest I see money 92 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:15,760 as an opportunity to get things you need to get done, so like for me money isn't 93 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:22,000 like the goal, money is what I have to use to get to the goal, so if I wanted 94 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,920 something to eat, it's like in my head I think okay that's two hours worth of 95 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:34,080 work to go to McDonald's or to go out to Red Robin or wherever else, or if I want 96 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:39,160 an action figure or a video game or a car or a house, I think about how many 97 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:44,160 hours I have to work just to obtain what I need to attain, I don't really care 98 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:48,960 about money, like if one of my friends was like hey bro I need $20 to go watch 99 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,000 a movie, I'm like alright cool here's $20, like everybody's different when it 100 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,200 comes to money because most people they use money as like a tool for them to 101 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,520 work, or some people they feel like money is everything so they keep it 102 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:08,480 with them and they don't like to share, but for me I feel like money is just it 103 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:13,320 is just a tool to me, it literally is just what I need to do so I can get where 104 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,960 I need to go, like it is the in-between guy, he's not my favorite guy but he's 105 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:25,320 the guy I need to see so I can go see my favorite guy. Going off of that I think 106 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:32,720 like you mentioned that money to you is like it's like it's like it's like an end 107 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,000 to the end to the mean, it's like it's a way it's a way to for you to accomplish 108 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,440 it's what it's essentially you said it but also we're like I don't see it this 109 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,920 way but like in retrospect you kind of do see money as a tool, as to be 110 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:50,760 able to accomplish a goal, and like I also know that our perspective of 111 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:57,000 what goals are are different, so like because like without going too far into 112 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,040 me because this is about you, like I would just say like my like whenever you say 113 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,380 like money to go buy food at McDonald's I'm like that's a pretty small dinky goal 114 00:10:04,380 --> 00:10:08,880 but like it's that's my opinion, that's me, that's my opinion, but like I get it 115 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:15,480 this small it's easy goal, right and like what about big goals like what about big 116 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:24,960 goals that cost like big money do you have do you have like a way let me think 117 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,560 about this question without sounding like condescending or anything like the 118 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:34,520 like whenever you have a big goal that costs big money like your what's my goal 119 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:38,760 to achieve to have big money to yeah if you had if you ever yeah if you had a 120 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:43,960 goal that costs a lot oh yeah like how would you do how would you have what 121 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:50,160 would you have to do to be able to achieve that goal I feel like to achieve 122 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:55,240 the goals that you need to do in life they always cost big money which is 123 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:59,680 unfortunate for instance like going back to school from your perspective yeah 124 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:06,080 yeah which is like for going back to school it's like um school school itself 125 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,920 is expensive for me to get my pastoral degree it's probably gonna cost me six 126 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:18,040 grand each semester so um that's that's either six thousand dollars and I'm able 127 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:26,000 to finish or may even be up to twelve thousand dollars um but either way money 128 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:32,080 is something that you have to have in life right to achieve your goals like 129 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:37,080 when you're gonna marry your wife you're gonna have to buy her things or your car 130 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:42,720 there so like the way I see it is like okay if I need twenty thousand dollars 131 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:48,640 by the end of the year what I would do was I would I would work really hard so 132 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:53,560 I can achieve that where the or there's that's a second job or that would be 133 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:59,160 like okay I'm going to just leave the current job I'm at to achieve a higher 134 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:05,520 paying job so I can you know meet my goal I think setting a goal but you got 135 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:10,520 to set a timeline for the goal yeah so like the money when it especially when 136 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,960 it's big money if we're talking a little money you're always able to go to the 137 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:19,320 movies or buy some shoes or jacket or whatever but to achieve a big goal you 138 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:26,240 have to set a timeline yeah I think this is something like we I think we UK if we 139 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:29,040 like be line for a second yeah or sideline or whatever you want to call it 140 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:36,360 the essence of a big goal all it like that all it really is all it really is 141 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:40,200 is a bunch of smaller goals that you have to reach and like and like you break 142 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:44,040 it you break that down into small smaller pieces that seem more achievable 143 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:49,920 and like you said but you put a timeline to it so it's actually so you actually 144 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,600 have some way to quantify it if it's not a cool like something that it has a 145 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,520 number attached to it already and you're like I'm going to achieve this goal by 146 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:02,760 this date and so that means and then these are the things I need to do in 147 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:06,880 order to accomplish this goal and then to accomplish then in order to get those 148 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:10,560 things done to accomplish the goal you need to prioritize those things in a 149 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:14,760 correct order so that so that so that you so that you know that the things 150 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,480 that you were going to get the things that you need to get done first or the 151 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:23,360 things are blocking other things from getting done oh great and like the and 152 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,240 like I'm bringing all this up because this is like one of my passions and 153 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:32,120 like not to take the attention away from Sean because I want to my goal is to be 154 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:36,800 a life coach for people helping people develop to develop their goals and 155 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:41,720 develop goals and achieve these big dreams that they have and giving them 156 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:47,440 the tools to be able to do that the mindset to be able to do that so yeah I 157 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:52,920 just want to make sure I talk on that but yeah I wanted to see what else do we 158 00:13:52,920 --> 00:14:04,600 got hmm I don't want to do this whole one about grilling you on like money 159 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:09,640 stuff yeah that was actually my last question but I want to make sure we 160 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:18,160 have a little bit more we have a bit more time to a bit more time to go so 161 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:27,000 why don't we go into but why don't you talk a little bit more talk a little bit 162 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:33,400 more about one about your main goal about like what brought you to believe 163 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:38,680 that if you're calling to be a pastor okay oh that's it that's easy one um 164 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:46,040 to come back story to that okay so at the age of five I was preaching the 165 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:54,920 gospel I have visions of heaven and disciples and Jesus and all of it and 166 00:14:54,920 --> 00:15:03,720 from that very age of five I was just preaching the gospel it was so on me 167 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:09,080 like it was just in me like like God had placed this upon me that everywhere I 168 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:14,960 would go I would just preach of a gospel um and people who didn't even know me 169 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:20,760 would be like oh um God told me that you're gonna be a pastor and like plenty 170 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:25,280 of people said it so many times that like it was spoken over me even by 171 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:30,560 prophets who would just come into town to prophesy that I would be a pastor so 172 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:36,400 like it was just on me my entire life so I just accepted a calling and I knew it 173 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,920 was on me so I would do reckless stuff of like well God said I'm gonna be a 174 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:45,320 pastor so I jumped off a cliff being drunk literally into the river 175 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:49,400 in the river yeah yeah like I could have died yeah 176 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:55,280 drunk off a cliff into a river geez and literally should die because I can't 177 00:15:55,280 --> 00:16:01,360 swim but I knew I can't die because God has a calling on my life so I would use 178 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,120 that to the wrong ways all the times and go thank God for his grace not 179 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:11,300 recommended yeah not I honestly um yeah I don't I would recommend people not to 180 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:16,600 do that but I honestly don't test God yeah don't test God but I knew it was 181 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:21,360 like me standing on God's Word and I knew that I was standing on God's Word 182 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:26,160 for the wrong way but I was still standing on his promises that I would be 183 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:30,900 a pastor so I would just do reckless stuff and I've done so many reckless 184 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:36,360 things because I knew that God had put this calling on my life and if God is a 185 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:41,840 man he won't lie like you know I mean like God's the Bible says that like God 186 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:48,240 is like um he will never go back on his word and um so like I was like alright I 187 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:54,200 will do whatever because God can't have me dying till I become a pastor because 188 00:16:54,200 --> 00:17:02,180 he said I'd be a pastor so I would be reckless and it did really God made sure 189 00:17:02,180 --> 00:17:07,600 his grace and his mercy was on me still I even though you don't deserve it his 190 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:12,680 calling is his calling and if you pick up the mantle and just do what God asks 191 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:21,080 your life will change forever and I knew that so yeah so multiple churches 192 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:28,040 multiple denominations pastors priests bishops all have called me pastor before 193 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:32,720 I even know what it was so this was like this wasn't just like one person just 194 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:37,080 saying I'm sure you'll be a pastor and we go okay I'll be a pastor now this is 195 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:42,600 like everybody in different people who I've never even met or known coming up 196 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:46,440 to me and we're like hey God has a word for you that you were gonna be a pastor 197 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,720 that you're gonna preach the gospel that you're gonna do this and I was like 198 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:54,340 okay I believed it and I was just like whatever happens in life I even ran from 199 00:17:54,340 --> 00:18:00,320 God in college and all and he still hasn't brought me back I feel like that 200 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:06,200 was a lot yes that was good that was good I think like this is like this is 201 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,600 the point of this episode is to get to know you a little bit more but I 202 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,720 didn't expect you to go talk about you jumping off a cliff drunk but like you 203 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,760 did and I think that like that's like that's real yeah you know that's 204 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:21,000 something that's like not like that's people people do people do things 205 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:28,480 sometimes under false pretenses yeah and like it's like it's interesting to 206 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,400 it's interesting to hear because I've heard it before but it's been a while 207 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:40,600 since you took with if you've talked about that yeah it's like like you know 208 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:47,760 that takes me like you like don't test God that takes me to the Jesus forty 209 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,880 days in desert talking Satan being like yeah being like you wouldn't you was 210 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:57,480 telling him to jump off jump off the cliff yeah jump jump off the cliff he 211 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,240 said angel of the Savior said foot don't dash against the stone he said don't 212 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:08,680 don't test the Lord your God and like and like and like like that could have 213 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:14,240 like easily backfired on you mm-hmm but like God has a plan God has a plan and 214 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:19,640 like for some reason for some reason I get like if I feel I mean personally I 215 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,640 believe you do something dumb if people do something dumb they can take 216 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:29,680 themselves out yeah but like the in but God and I got would use that too yeah 217 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,520 God went whatever way he needs to and like he's like I had this calling in your 218 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,120 life but you squandered it so I'm gonna go so like we're gonna do this instead 219 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:45,480 right and but the by I think it's like oh this is good inspiring to know that 220 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,880 you came back to God after leaving him and like talking a little bit about what 221 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:58,120 you brought what brought you back okay that'd be easy um let's see at 19 from 222 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:04,120 so from zero to 19 I lived a really good godly life I walked really close with 223 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:13,440 God I had a really a heart for God the heart for learning God for being in the 224 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:19,200 word for worshipping for all that from zero to 19 I was on the right track the 225 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:26,640 age of 19 going to first week of college um the girls the drinking the partying 226 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:35,000 the fun I I started to be like okay well God loves me but I can do this I can 227 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,720 sleep with these girls I get drink I could party God will forgive me blah blah 228 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:46,040 so I started living that way and I ended up before I know it literally being the 229 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:51,260 guy where you go to church on Sunday but you party all weekend and then you 230 00:20:51,260 --> 00:20:56,920 repent on Sunday and then that was me for ten years literally would not be out 231 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:04,640 of the same shape I was always in the same shape which is drink party church 232 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:10,600 on Sunday drink party church on Sunday so I was living a mediocre I would say 233 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:17,280 um Christian walk and it's it happens to a lot of Christians where they just are 234 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:22,200 like well going to church on Sunday is good enough right so like you become the 235 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:27,360 church goer and you don't like I wasn't doing anything for my community as much 236 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:31,960 as more than just like whatever was required of me if somebody asked me to 237 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,960 be like hey could you take chairs or something like that sure I would do 238 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,680 stuff like that but it was never like serving the house of God it was never 239 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:46,880 doing what God called me to do it was just more of me literally drink party 240 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:53,760 and repeat and then like my my my godfather who's a pastor he literally 241 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:59,080 um he took me under his wing and I would still even still then I would still drink 242 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:03,640 party and what do you call it because I wouldn't change but three years ago 243 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:10,240 around three years ago now um I came to amplify church and when I came to 244 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:17,560 amplify church I was broken I had um just recently slept with a woman and 245 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:24,280 then my little cousins like walked in and it like scarred them so my cousin 246 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,880 didn't want to talk to me for a while because she was like how could you have 247 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,520 a vital woman over while you have your little cousins while you're babysitting 248 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:37,360 and I was like oh I know I felt really bad so like they needed help for them to 249 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:42,760 like move so I was like okay I hope you guys move so I helped them move and when 250 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:51,400 I did so um she was like Sean God has this place for you and she's like I got 251 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,980 to take you there so and you're gonna love it I was like okay because they 252 00:22:55,980 --> 00:23:03,080 knew I honestly do love God so even in my backsliding state I was still loving 253 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:08,760 God but I was just having one my foot in the world and one foot in Jesus and they 254 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:14,600 took me to amplify and from there the Holy Spirit came upon me and then my 255 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:20,080 life changed and literally I got my car license, apartment, everything just changed 256 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:26,780 and as I got closer to God like everything that was ungodly about me 257 00:23:26,780 --> 00:23:31,440 started to fade away there's still some parts that has to die daily because you 258 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:36,640 pick up your cross right every day but I've been completely a different person 259 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:41,880 ever since the encounter I had with the Holy Spirit at amplify it was like a 260 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:47,480 restoring from being back to zero the 19 but on another level a higher level 261 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:55,840 that's good man now that we've gone backwards to the current time going into 262 00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:00,720 the future and ask question that everybody hates to be asked what do you 263 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:07,840 see yourself in five years five years from now I'll be a pastor at I hope 264 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:14,280 amplify Greensburg that's the goal guys um but if amplify doesn't take me 265 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:20,600 wherever God lays me or I might still be serving under um but like that's my goal 266 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,160 like that's but like it just has to be with what God says because what if God 267 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,360 doesn't make me faster in five years he makes me ten or what if he doesn't make 268 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:31,400 me a pastor amplify church he puts me somewhere else or what there's so many 269 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:36,920 different things where God can do but what I want what I honestly want is to 270 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:41,120 be like pastor of amplify church in Greensburg or amplify church in 271 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:47,080 California stars like I just want I just want to be able to be used by God and 272 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:53,480 the way he called me to do so but also to just like be able to lead as many 273 00:24:53,480 --> 00:25:00,160 people as possible to Jesus Christ that's good I think it's uh we have about 274 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:06,760 five minutes left think a good time like these you feel satisfied with um what 275 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:12,120 questions yeah okay I think it's time to actually we like to time to like kind of 276 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:16,880 wrap it up I was going through the fun questions I have here and I feel like we 277 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,080 could have a full just like fun episode off of this it would be about absolutely 278 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:26,680 nothing but it would be great so I it's like a paragraph of a question but I'm 279 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:34,240 gonna ask you excited okay you're gonna laugh is there anything that would make 280 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:42,080 you switch to Android wait initially I know your answer is no however what if 281 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,960 Apple did something to the iPhone that made it really bad what would that be 282 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:50,600 for you or Android gained a feature that was really great what would that be 283 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:56,760 okay I got another three-parter but there is I don't hate Android that much 284 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,440 where I would not switch to it but it would have to be like something so 285 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,120 awesome and like something they like for instance like if you had like some type 286 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:08,040 of 3d thing that comes out of the phone or something like that I'm like oh yeah 287 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,760 forget Apple at this point but like if Apple beats you to it I'm just gonna 288 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,200 stick with Apple I love my Apple products but it would have to take 289 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:21,040 something to that level for me to switch to Android so we have to be so it would 290 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:25,860 have to be something super technological what if they what if I mean Apple 291 00:26:25,860 --> 00:26:31,440 products are so like overpriced yeah like they like they like that prices are 292 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,880 gonna keep going up and up like I was like so but like prices in a factor at 293 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:40,280 all no prices in the factor because if you like something like I didn't really 294 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:46,080 get my I like in life I feel like price is only a factor which you can afford 295 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,960 great so like if it's something ridiculously forward like I put Apple 296 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:55,160 20 iPhone 36 or something right like there would be like no way I could 297 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,800 afford it if it's too too expensive anyway but if I can afford it I'm gonna 298 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:03,600 get whatever is the best they have then you can't I mean you technically can't 299 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:12,000 afford it I can't afford anything I can't afford this I need to take it back 300 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:19,320 I'm probably gonna afford it Apple one maybe at least you're so yourself aware 301 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:26,400 I know I can't afford it I might be working two jobs at the current I get 302 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:32,520 we only get you on like the Dave Ramsey show and have him yell at you finances 303 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,360 finances he'd be like John back at lunch he would do what everybody else he was 304 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:43,000 good and finances tell me don't go out to eat for another year pretty much 305 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:49,560 that's exactly how much debt are you in like your car your car the price of your 306 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:54,320 car should not be double it should not be close to your pound of rent or 307 00:27:54,320 --> 00:28:00,720 something right no no it shouldn't be half your more than half of your of 308 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,920 your annual income right so if you make 50,000 a year your car doesn't cost any 309 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:09,640 more than 25,000 well I mean that's good for me because I make 50,000 a year so 310 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:16,680 my car is only 20,000 tops like yeah I mean currently still like the value of 311 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,960 my not the value like what you bought for it yeah pay for it I paid 17 for it 312 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:26,040 oh yeah well then you're not you know I mean like well you say you say 50,000 but 313 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,800 that's not really it's not really because that's what I was on paper though 314 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,480 paper that's what they look at they'll look and say how much did you make when 315 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:38,400 you look at your thing and I'll say $50,000 like on the do I really have 316 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:44,040 $50,000 no but on paper it says I make $50,000 a year 317 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:50,760 minus 20% I think I think I think they're probably talking what actually 318 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,640 goes into your paycheck right actually you know actually goes into your 319 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,000 pictures probably what he's talking about yeah known Dave Ramsey is what I 320 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:02,720 think it would work like I got jipped on my car because of the car payment itself 321 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:08,400 I'm gonna end up paying 30,000 when the cars only worth 17 yeah or 15 because 322 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,400 they doubled it but if they would have kept how they said they were in the 323 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:18,800 office before they signed the papers and yelled at me and stuff it would be $200 324 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,960 car payment instead of 500 or 430 so yeah it was the interest rate yeah and 325 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,320 then that's the same thing with everything else like that's what that's 326 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,160 what he's like you buy it that's why it's like you pay that you get those 327 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,800 payments you get and then there's way to get there are ways to get lower 328 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,760 payments I don't know what they are I personally don't know what those ways are 329 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:42,600 I just know they exist because I've never had a car payment yeah finance 330 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,640 alone so you have to like go through different company who yeah give you a 331 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,920 lower car payment but it's quite catchy you got a yeah you don't want to 332 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:59,520 refinancing is a sketchy business yeah that best but alright I think like yeah 333 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,360 that was kind of like a rough transition to like this section should we go any 334 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:09,120 more fun questions though I mean we've 30 minutes we've been talking about 30 335 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:13,080 minutes I think that's a good time okay unless you unless you have it you have 336 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,560 like anything you want to do you want to wrap it up oh no I was thinking we could 337 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:22,440 like speedball questions like we're not any questions people oh stay tuned in the 338 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:28,640 next episode yeah it was great so yeah if you haven't already well first thank 339 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,240 you we're listening to 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