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Welcome to Technically Short with two of my favorite people right now and that

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will be Thomas and I'm back Andrew Vergato. Yeah today's episode we're gonna

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talk about community. It's gonna be really good so get your chair, get you a

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popcorn, get whatever you're about to do for the day and get ready to listen

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about community. Yeah so we're gonna be talking about, sorry, talking about

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anything around community about like Shawn was saying before we started

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recording about what the meaning of community is, what a meaning of

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what it's like to have good community, what it's like that you can have, also you

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can have bad community around you, what it's like to have, to not have community

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around you and our own experiences within that. And Andrew, since you're the

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guest, do you have a particular experience with community with maybe

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whenever you first realized that you wanted community, that you would want to

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share? Sure, actually in the last episode that I was a part of I ended up talking

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a little bit about my youth experience and I can probably dive a little bit

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more into that now with community. Before that I was a loner, I didn't have any

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community, I would spend all my time in my room by myself and so I was very

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isolated, I was very separate from other people and once I started getting around

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youth I was so awkward because of my isolation, my self-isolation, like I

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could not speak more than one or two word answers to any question anyone would

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give me, like even my closest friends in youth, even the people that I would

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quote-unquote talk to the most, they were doing most of the talking, I was sort of

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just sitting there twiddling my thumbs. I was completely awkward, completely shy

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and but it felt better than being by myself. I'm a very big introvert, I've

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always been an introvert but as time has gone on, but as time has gone on

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I've sort of been, I'm not switching so much, I could probably call switching,

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like I find that I need a whole lot less time with myself, yeah and I need a whole

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lot more time with other people and I love hanging out with people, I love being

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a goofball, I love making people laugh and just entertaining people and I think

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that really started back in youth but it really grew once I started getting into

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our young adult ministry, shout out Inspire Collective, Wednesday nights, young

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adult come, be there, exactly or be square, be square because you're not around.

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Wow, so deep, so deep, so deep, so deep, but it really started manifesting more in me once I

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started getting into the adult ministry that I was like, wow, I'm actually with

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people who love Jesus, genuinely love one another and care for one another, like

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when I was younger part of the reason I have always had a hard time interacting

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with people is because I always thought everyone was internally judging me, like

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everywhere I'd go, everything I would say, I always thought everyone would like

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whisper behind my back whenever I would enter a room or leave a room like, man

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I'm glad you're gone now, but just seeing like the genuine love of everyone around

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me, the genuine care for everybody really helped me start to crack open that shell,

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open me up a little bit to get into the community more and it started making me

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fall in love with interacting with people and building people up and being

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there for people and listening to people and just talking to people, just

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experiencing life with others. I have a kind of a similar experience with

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whenever I first started coming back going to

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Amplify, that's where really my first exposure to, like in the most

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recent years to community really came from and because I was in a state where

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I was living by myself for maybe about a year at that time and Andrew's over here

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taking pictures. Be real time. And I remember I was invited by a friend a few

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hours before at the time the Inspire Collective wasn't called that, it was called

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the U before and she wasn't particularly a person of faith, but she was

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dealing with a friend who had recently passed away and she didn't know how to

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she was trying to figure out how to handle that, the grief of that and a

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friend invited, one of her friends invited her to go to the U at Amplify

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so she invited me. I go there for the first time, I walk in, I go with her for

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the first time and I walk in the doors and I think it's the weirdest thing ever

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because I didn't realize that was a healthy community. I walked in, I just

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see all these people smiling and I'm like why are these people so happy? What

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the heck? Like what do they have to be? I thought it was like, I just walked into a

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cult. I got Nick Pike just beeline for me, like hey man how's it going? He came and

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shook my hand and I was still very much inwardly inward on myself, but like

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eventually like you said Andrew, the more I started coming back and

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showing up, whenever I started to become more consistent with that, I

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started opening up more and I kind of also can express the point of like being

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an introvert but also realizing I'm having more extroverted tendencies and

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well I've heard this from somebody before where I forget who had said it,

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but like somebody who said it, but they were pretty much

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saying there's no such thing as introvert and extrovert, it's just you

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have a leaning, more of a leaning in one direction or the other and there's

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benefits in both. So people that are more tend to be an introvert should

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practice being more extroverted and vice versa because whenever like you

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want to be in community, you want to be talkative, you don't be kept to

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yourself, you don't want to be all closed off, but then whenever

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you're by yourself or maybe like you like maybe you're

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there just like you want to get your work done or you have to put, yes the

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time you have to put your head down and not be in community. There are times when

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there are times not like a season but like maybe like times during the day or

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days where being community isn't the best thing in the moment for what you

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want to accomplish. So like it's learning how to navigate between the

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introverted and extroverted tendencies. I think that that's something I feel like

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if more people understood, there'd be, I think people would be a little

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more curious about the other thing that they could be doing. I feel like a lot

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of people cut themselves off because they're like oh I'm extrovert so I can't

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do that. I'm an introvert so I'm an introvert so I can't go out and do those

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things. I'm too introverted for that and I think that's a mistake a lot of people

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make. How about you Shawn? Honestly for me I think community is so important

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because to be honest I didn't have community most of my life and I was an

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introvert when I was younger like when I was a kid. I became an extrovert later on

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because of cells and stuff like where you just have to speak or you didn't eat.

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So like you you either gonna die of starvation metaphorically speaking or

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you wouldn't have to be able to be able to talk to people. So I became really

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good at speaking to people because of that. But community is so important

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because like there is a time in my life where I didn't have any community and I

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had a couple people who would support but there's a difference between a couple

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people supporting you and the community right. So like most of the churches I

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grew up on in life they did not have any community. So like you would go

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to church you would sit down the pastor knows your name and you might have like

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a couple people you know and they would say like hey how are you doing blah blah

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then it would just you would just go right back to live in however you wanted

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to live. And if you were hurting in any type of way nobody was reaching out to

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check on you or if they were hurting in any type of way they wasn't really

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reaching out to get somebody to help them as well. And when you don't have

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community you don't grow. So I would be in a constant state of before I

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got the amplify I'd be in the constant state of going to church then Monday

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through Friday living kind of mediocre lukewarmness and Friday Saturday party

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and then coming back to church on Sunday. Because I didn't have any community so

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it's just me. So I'm out here just doing my own thing and I would say friends or

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it friends when it comes to community or not like it's not just your friends you

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have to have like a community a whole support system and God gives you those

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and healthy homes but I didn't have a healthy home for most of my life. My mom

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was really good and my brother was really good but like I didn't have my

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dad he was he had stepped out of that area so I grew up not having what a

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healthy home was but like it was just one of those things where you just had

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to like you were like you just my mom knew then like hey God can fix to all

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the stuff that she can't do right. She's a mom who was working for two kids

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single mom married by the way which is even more crazy the story gets way

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crazier. My dad became a good guy later on in life but that's not a point

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the point is community he didn't have that when he grew up either but community

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is so important for you to grow and take off where you need to be. I think like

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one thing we all kind of mentioned is how community kind of allowed us to open

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up more and be it being in good community being surrounded by good

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community like what that does what that does for us it goes along with the

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concept of iron sharpening iron if you're in good community and if you're

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alongside your brother or your brothers and your brothers and sisters in

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Christ then you're going like you're gonna make each other sharper you're

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gonna make each other stronger and make each other stronger firmer you're

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going to and like Shawn is going to cut each other that you're gonna cause

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people to grow you know you're not just gonna grow the people around you are

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gonna grow and I have a particular story about like it's a very prominent point

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about whenever like well probably a prominent point of like the first time I

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opened up in the you and a pastor Kels who was the was I guess the college

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pastor at the time and he he was talking about his sermon was about agoraphobia

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it was about like whether it was like about your innermost fears and he does

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things I've never seen any I still haven't seen other pastors do and I

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really want something else to do it at some point he opened up the mic mm-hmm I

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think you were there for this you I feel like you were I think you were coming

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I think you might have been I don't know if you were at that you yet

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I definitely was at that time okay I was there before Kels got oh gotcha gotcha

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okay um and he opened up the mic and he was like okay if anybody forget his

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exact words but he was like okay if anybody wants to share their pretty much

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thing that anybody want to share their inner most fear with everyone mm-hmm

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that's like just raise your hand we give you this mic and I remember thinking

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right before that kind of feeling he's opened up the mic before if I build if

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I remember I he opened up the mic before so I told myself like okay if I had a

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voice my and I was like okay if he opens up the mic this time I'm gonna say I'm

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gonna speak but and what about whatever it is and he opened up the mic and so I

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was maybe the second first or second person to take the mic and at the time

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I was like yes okay well like what is that almost what are you afraid of I was

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like I'm afraid of people I was I was afraid I was afraid to I was like I'm

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afraid of people about what they think like I say I even a polite remember

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apologizing I in the might not look I was looking at the ground handling at my

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feet and I was like I was like I'm sorry for the people I just stare at because I

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don't know I just don't know the words to say I kind of just look at you

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wanting to say something I don't know so like don't think that I don't like that

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I don't like you or that I angry at you or something for some reason I just have

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no word no words are coming to my mind and it was then then like I like other

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people start opening up and they came up to me afterwards after everybody else

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opened up they came up to me like thank me for opening up yeah because I pretty

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much gave almost like gave them permission to do it because they're like

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oh if he can be that vulnerable I can be that vulnerable too and it also helped

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like opening up in community also help with like you know you guys know Stephen

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press and he came up to me at some point and he was like after eventually he came

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up to me start talking to me at some point in the future but eventually he

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told me though that was that when you opened up then that's what that's what

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let me know that I actually could be your friend because I thought you didn't

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like me yes that's really yeah I really like that I go off of what you were

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saying about iron sharpening iron I mean yeah it's it's riddled throughout the

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whole Bible I mean go all the way back to the beginning in Genesis is not good

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for man to be alone God did not intend for us to be alone it's not just talking

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about man and woman but he's talking about brother and brother sister and

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sister he's talking about people on linking arms and being there for each

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other how did the apostles go out how did they got to preach the gospel they

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go out by themselves they went out in pairs to keep each other accountable to

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keep each other going to keep each other motivated I mean the times that I'm

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around people is when I feel the most motivated to be the most honest to do

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the best I mean when people go out to exercise it's so much easier by yourself

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to be like okay that was enough but whenever you're like man this person

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I'm still standing beside my friend he's like got ten more reps than me right now

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I keep on going I got you know it's a healthy and good competition and I'm

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being around other people in a healthy way it's a healthy community that

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you're surrounding yourself with man it just builds you up and grows you and

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when you have that vulnerability like you did and I actually remember that night

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specifically that's one of my earliest memories of you that's probably my first

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core memory of you that was like this is like standing out to me about you was

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your vulnerability it's your openness and like that just can shift the room in a

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moment from a happy fun mood to a okay this is let's get into a deeper subject

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this actually open up and grow with each other and actually solve issues that are

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much deeper mm-hmm I see that's the beauty of having a healthy good

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community you can be vulnerable yeah because when people are healthy they're

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able to help others get to a healthy state when people are unhealthy if you

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try to do that so I've all be vulnerable when you're in a bad community they would

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just lead you to not want to do it again because the the ridicule and neglect and

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people saying things and people doing things that were not positive would help

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you to go further in the shell rather than you to get out the shell you know

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and it's it's very important because God called us all of the believers all

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believers as Christ to be the church right so being the church being the

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ecclesia which is like a family on steroids if I can say it like that like

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it's somebody who really truly cares about you in every single way back in

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the day that's how it was and when you have a good Godly community that's how

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it still is yeah and um that's one thing I love about amplify I've never seen my

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entire life and I've been to plenty churches Catholics Pentecostal Methodist

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Pentecostal you name it I've probably been there and been a whole bunch of

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different churches but having a community I've never had one like

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amplified that's why I'm here today because it's like so refreshing to know

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that everybody loves and cares about you and you love and care about everybody

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else and you guys are on one mission which is the focus of God like the love

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of God the to pursue God like never before and as you're doing so then you

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are able to bring other people to God because it's a healthy it's like an

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overflowing love that like first you seek the father then the father's love

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comes on you then you just bring it to your friends and your family in your

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workplace or your school wherever you're at and just like that more people are

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coming to the community because it's a healthy place actually this is hit me

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real quick just directly to the people listening right now if you're having

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trouble with being consistent in community in a community and maybe it's

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not necessarily even your fault maybe it's something to do with your work

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maybe it's something like if community want to be a part of but you can't make

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it in person maybe it's something that you want to be consistent with but for

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some reason it feels like you can't and I would do encourage you to try to find

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other avenues that other avenues or other groups other things that you can

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be consistent with even if you want to keep going to that one on that base is

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the basis that you are I want to encourage you to find a community that

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you can be consistent with whether it be a on online community with people with a

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good Christian community if that's all you're a physical actually able to do

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or if it's it is an in-person community which would be preferable but if it is

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an in-person community something that where you feel comfortable where people

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are able you feel not just where people are being vulnerable but where also you

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feel comfortable with being vulnerable and where it's very where it eventually

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becomes obvious that it's a place where everybody is for everybody and where

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everybody's there for everybody else's benefit so I kid if you go into a

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position where the leader is a head the leader is just there to be on a platform

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be for themselves like then you don't want to be there you want to be in a

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community where the person at the head sees themselves at the bottom and sees

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themselves as a servant so that whenever you walk you walk in you feel

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like you've been served and that you feel like okay I didn't know what I was

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walking into but I'm believing feel I'm leaving feeling like I found it found a

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healthy home yeah yeah and I would say this is just coming in my mind that I

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know a lot of people I didn't deal with social anxiety I was just very awkward

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but I know plenty of people who have social anxiety or who had social

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anxiety and it can be difficult and it can be not just like oh it's a struggle

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to go and get in a big community but sometimes it can be unhealthy to get

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into a giant community and open up to everyone all at once if you're doing

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all these big struggles I would just encourage people who are having a hard

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time getting into a community that you don't have to start in like some if

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you're a Christian in a ministry with like a couple hundred people in it or

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and if you're just trying to find it in like a different place like you don't

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have to find it with like 20 30 50 different people you can find it with

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just that one person that you might see occasionally that you connect with the

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best the person that you find the most comfort in the person that you trust the

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most to be more vulnerable vulnerable with and to go deeper with because

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sometimes it's hard and also unhealthy to get into a big community and then air

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all your dirty laundry to everybody it's it's best to do that with one-on-one

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interactions or one or two interactions people that you can rely on and trust

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because there are going to be a lot of very good people in every ocean say in

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every community but like in a good healthy community there's gonna be a lot

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of healthy people but that doesn't mean that everyone's always gonna use what

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you are saying in the best way possible so sometimes it's you have to have

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different levels of that you have to go more intimate with the people that you

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can trust the most and then as you get deeper and that as you feel more

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comfortable with that maybe open up a little bit with some more people and then

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just open up your community a little bit more because it's because social anxiety

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is not a small thing to deal with it's something that needs to be dealt with

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over time something that also cannot be treated or dealt with by completely

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isolating yourself or shutting yourself off from everybody right it's it can

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definitely feel easier to do that but it's definitely not the healthy way

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either if you're struggling with that I would say find somebody and if you can't

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find someone directly then find a therapist because there's always gonna

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be a therapist who can help you walk through that and they're paid to listen

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to your problems so they'll listen to you and it'll take care of you in the

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best way possible yeah I am but yeah I think that's really good like the stress

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the point of like if you aren't comfortable amongst a lot of people to

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focus on maybe just the one and because like you already yeah you said Andrew

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where like you they went out in pairs mm-hmm and where they possibly went out

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in pairs and they feel like you can have community that just like by finding

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that one person that you can be vulnerable with and like he said maybe

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expounding later you know I there's like obviously you don't need me you don't

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need to or you and you shouldn't tell every single person your deepest darkest

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secret so um but there are some people that should know those there are people

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that you should feel comfortable with with giving those two kids holding those

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things in you is it any good and if you tell the wrong person that's dangerous

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too yeah so I feel like it takes a little bit of like self-reflection but

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also it takes like okay who am I the most comfortable around it just like

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sometimes those things just kind of happen you're like okay this person I

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can relate to more yeah for me it like for me it's like Andrew Andrew and I

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kind of just like I don't know how we just started talking and you were a nice

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and so I'm just moved in so yeah no you have to have those different levels you

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have to have different layers you can't put everyone at the same layer you can't

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be that vulnerable with everyone it's in a layer because not only does that open

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yourself up to people who might misuse that but also it might make you more

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callous to the problems that you're sharing it might make it a little less

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deep a little less true and authentic to yourself whenever you open up let's say

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you're open you're not about anxiety if you say it to every single person that

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you meet about it you are probably a whole lot less likely to get one good

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consistent answer from everyone because you're opening up to like 50 different

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people you get 50 different people's advice you get 30 different things and

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then none of them are gonna stand out from the other and you're just gonna end

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up taking out their advice and it's all gonna dilute each other so you need to

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make sure that you have those core consistent people and then a couple

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layers up you can open up about some smaller things and then you can have

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people who are a layer out from that where it's just like your broad

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community like hey you're my friend I can have a good laugh with you I can have

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a good chat with you but we never are like opening up like man this is the

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thing I'm really struggling with it's called your inner and outer circle yeah

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yeah discernment is something that you have to have for bringing people into

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your inner circle mm-hmm and like my brother Thomas and my brother Andrew and

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Silas and Brandon Josiah and a couple other people you can have to make a

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circle so like it's important to have a circle of but that all starts with

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having a good community so you have to go find a community so reach out send

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your nearest church if you're not near amplify we would love to take you in if

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you are near amplify we love to take you in but if you can't find another church

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that's about God and focused on God and you'll find a healthy community healthy

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communities exist make sure you're getting plugged into one because we need

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your health God wants your health we want we all want good health for you so

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yeah I think we didn't really I guess we touched on a little bit about very

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slightly on like unhealthy community well we should still talk about it and

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like I guess I will have to like there isn't like too much to say like to dive

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into a deep because we have already talked about the importance of good

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community and what good community does so it's like just to say like what what

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bad community is we can already like touch like it's like people that you if

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you tell them your if you tell them your secrets they do tell other people or

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they're either around you and they're influencing you in ways they're pulling

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you away from God yeah and that's like that that's I would say if they're being

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influenced by actually what me rewind I had the word influence is floating in my

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mind because anything everything is everything you do influences somebody

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else which means everything everybody else does around you influences you and

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it's stated so many other people so many people say it that you are the average

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of your five closest friends so like the five your five closest people to you are

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gonna be if that's how you're gonna turn out like somebody said you show me your

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five closest friends I'll show you your future yeah and I feel like that is like

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that can go one or either one way or the other that can either go actually go

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three ways it can go you can grow actually yeah you can grow you can go

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backwards but it's a lot easier to stay where you're at hmm so like if you want

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a community where you're gonna grow which is really the only kind of good

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community in my opinion then you want to be around you want to be around those

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people that are gonna hold you accountable whenever you mess up now

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the people that are gonna tell you it's okay yeah you want to tell me around the

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people that are going to like see they're gonna sit you down and say hey

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Shawn hey Andrew hey Thomas like what you're doing is like what you're doing

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just isn't right what you're doing isn't okay and like this is what you can be

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doing instead and like yeah I don't know something else want to take you know

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that's I like that a lot on that I would say in the port importance of that you

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need to definitely make sure that you're surrounding yourself with the best

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people possible the people that you want to be more like if you are struggling

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with alcohol don't sound or sound yourself with alcohol sound surround

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yourself with people who have gotten sober if you want to deal with issues in

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your life that you're showing with surrounding yourself with people who have

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overcome those things that you are trying that you're going through with

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right now because that's the best way to grow if you're starting yourself with

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people that are dealing with the same thing with you and are in the same spot

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as you but they're complicit in it they're just gonna drag you right down

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with them yeah but I also say that it's important to mentor and bring people up

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as well so if you're bringing if you're bringing a bunch of if you're surrounding

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yourself with a bunch of people that are better than you make sure that you also

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maybe not as many people but like if you have five really close friends that are

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extremely faithful extremely strong in their faith that can come continue

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continually growing and becoming better people every single day and are pushing

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you to be the same maybe add one friend to that who is not nearly as good in

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space and try and bring them up find that limit for you find that balance

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where you can be like okay if I am surrounding myself with these people I

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can grow is and I can continue to grow if I have one person that is that is in

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a worse spot but maybe if I have two people I'm not having that big of an

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impact if I'm at three people there then they're bringing me down yeah you have

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find that balance and try and bring people up with you because if other

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people are bringing you up I mean you're called to not just be brought up but to

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bring people up with you I think that's good I think truthfully as all of us all

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all Christians all people in general should have people who are pouring into

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us people who are on the same level as us and people were pouring into so we

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should have I agree 100% Andrew we should have we should and Thomas that we

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should have three like three sets of friends right like so you should have

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people who are wiser than you that you can go for wise counsel you have people

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on your peers who are same level as you and then you all the wisdom that you've

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been getting from wise counsel you should be able to give to your peers and

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the people you're leading on so like the people who are under you the people the

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next generation that you're leading into so those are important and all this comes

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from has having a good community because like if you have a good leaders because

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the Bible says it's plain as simple as um bad company corrupts good manners so

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if you surround yourself with bad company even if you're the strongest

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person and they'll bring you down right that's what the Bible says and God is

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right why because if all your friends are

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partying and drinking and you're the only one one day that it's gonna be easy

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for you to be complacent and to do and whatever they're doing so the best thing

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you can do is not surround yourself with something that you're struggling with

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like Andrew said that that would be the best thing so like if you're sleeping

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around you shouldn't be hanging around with people who also are sleeping around

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because then you both were not getting free right so you need to be called

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higher and the way you can do that is to surround yourself with people who are

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wiser than you and then your peers and then pour into them and for in the

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people the next generation yeah yeah I like going off the analogy of drinking

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if you had a problem if you had a problem with drinking but you were given

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but you were but because you surround yourself with people that had the same

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problem as you and then you got out of it now you can use that wisdom to help

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other people get out of it too absolutely and it's like it's not just

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like giving back sorry about that noise and you're made up see it's okay you're

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good man my train my train just crashed it's not about keeping back that's where

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you were yeah okay yeah it's not just well no it's not just giving back giving

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like giving what you're giving what you got back to the community it's like God

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gave you a gift to be able to give the wisdom to be able to get out of the

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position that you were in how the pit that you're in so that so that you can

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use that testimony to help and wisdom to bring others out as well absolutely

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so I think like that's the power of community in my opinion because

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everybody isn't everybody has a pit everybody has pits and everybody has to

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go through trials and they're never ever the only ones going through that trial

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never so like like that's one of the many many values of community but the

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main one is growth yeah the main the main value in community is growth and if

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there isn't growth in your community get a new community I agree because then

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it's not a good community yeah no growth its means is not good cuz you're either

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for my famous brother Thomas carney where's that guy that legend of a guy he

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said you either grow or you're dying I don't think I was the first one to say

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that I think I honestly think that's a good place to end it I think how do you

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feel like this was a really great conversation I really enjoyed this

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episode yeah it's probably one of my favorites definitely especially because

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Andrew's here yeah you add on to the Adelaide why yeah you add a lot of

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substance all the anointing coming off by Andrew no he's just naturally has red

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cheeks yeah guys so thank you for listening I don't really think we have

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do we have any fun questions that we want to do this time Shawn do you always

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want to wrap it up oh I guess we got a fun question fun question call it's

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coming from caller number one caller number one whoa

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yeah call it what we're always that's crazy

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all the caller number one say no he did does catch up belong on stake in any case

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in life no never never thank you it is a sin against heaven and earth may you

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experience the gnashing of teeth my answer for this was honestly I honestly

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thinking can only if like somebody cooked terribly and you don't want to

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offend so much like you use barbecue sauce to catch up on like the state so

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you're not telling how much are you covering the state though if it's really

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bad it just depends on how bad it is like I feel like that one of us like

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well done it's like super chewy that like the whole time like I like my stuff

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to have some pink and when I was a kid I didn't know that so I just say well done

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to everything yeah yeah yeah yeah I've already heard it too if you listen to

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the hallway through you know you know I also agree with Andrew and it's a sin

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but I think that's a good place to wrap up this episode guys thank you for

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listening if you already if you haven't already subscribe like share and give us

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a five star review five star review if you got nothing that feels you got

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nothing nice to say don't say anything at all but alright guys we will see maybe

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maybe possibly see you next time maybe has to unlock my son first we love you

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you guys later