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What's going on, Pursuers? Welcome to The Pursuit

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of Calling, the podcast that provides you with

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the strategies and tools needed to successfully

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discover and pursue your calling. Whether it's

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through inspiring stories, thought -provoking

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interviews, or quick, insightful episodes on

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personal growth and development, we've got you

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covered. I'm your host, Thomas Carney. Enjoy

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the episode. Hey, so quick thing. I know you

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already listened maybe to an intro, but I'm kind

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of skipping this week. I'm in recovery mode for

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after the mission trip. I wanted to make an episode

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about the mission trip and talk to you about

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generosity and why it's more blessed to give

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than to receive. And it's going to give you the

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Bible verse Acts 20 verse 35. And then read it,

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and it says, in everything I did, I showed you

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that by this kind of hard work, we must help

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the weak. Remembering the words of the Lord Jesus

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himself said, it is more blessed to give than

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to receive. And I was going to explain that verse

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and explain why it is more blessed to give than

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to receive. And the benefit of what I saw in

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that, in Uganda, of the benefit of how The generosity

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of Amplified Church affected that community and

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then it affected multiple communities over there

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in Uganda that also have the generosity of a

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single person can change the life of a child

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and a family. And I was also going to talk about

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my experiences meeting my compassion kids, Shafiq,

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Elijah, and I also got to meet Katrina. who is

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the Amplify Young Adults kid, and I got to represent

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our yoga adult ministry and got to meet her four

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days in a row. I was going to talk about how

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sweet of a girl she is and how she has 11 people

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in her family, three bedrooms to the house. It's

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probably the size of a house with three bedrooms

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and a small little family room. It's probably

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about the size, it's probably smaller than a,

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about the size of my first floor townhouse, I'd

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say, relatively. And that's in the kitchen. I

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was going to talk about how there's a kitchen

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and there's a kitchen on the outside, which is

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just a wooden mud hut with a little fire pit

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that they cook on. And how the greatest need

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that they need right now is food. I was also

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going to talk about how blessed we are to live

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here, how blessed I am to live here in America

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where food is so easily accessible. And how blessed

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Katrina is to have a community who is supporting

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her, where we can max out giving every year fairly

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easily. We haven't yet, I don't think. And now

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that I know, the max. And now that it's put into

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perspective of what she needs to, how easily

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we can get it, how easily we can help her and

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her family get what they need as a community.

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It's going to talk about how I'm going to challenge

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that community to do it. But like I said, I'm

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taking a break this week. I just want to leave

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you with saying that this mission trip changed

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my life. This mission trip is the second time

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I've been to Uganda. Last year was a learning

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experience, and this year was a reinforcement

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experience. Reinforcing seeing those living in

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mud huts and people that care about people I

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love, like my sponsor kids. who live in mud huts,

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children who, even though they live in those

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circumstances, they treat people they don't know

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just like family. Jesus calls us to, if you're

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a Christian, Jesus calls us to help the lowly,

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help those who are Not as well off as you. We

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are blessed to be a blessing. We are called to

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be the light of the world and to not just help

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those who are outside the body of Christ, but

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also especially help those who are within it.

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Regardless of whether they are, we're called

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to love our neighbor as ourselves. So I don't

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really have a pursuit of calling -esque talk

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this week, but I just want to leave you with

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this, saying now that I'm back from Uganda, the

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background mission trip, that the perspective

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has shifted. Not for the podcast, not for that,

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and that's not what I'm saying, but my perspective

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has shifted over what generosity is, what it's

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for, and what it can do in somebody's life. I

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want to challenge you to be more generous. I

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want to challenge you to have more of a servant

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heart, to not just being generous with your money,

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but be generous with your time. be more interested

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in serving others and how you can serve them

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than how they can serve you. I do truly believe

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that the calling we have in our lives is all

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about serving others in ways and not at all about

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how people can serve us. It doesn't even make

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sense. If you're trying to Find out what your

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calling is. You're looking for how you can put

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others above yourself so you can see yourself

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as a servant and serve those people from a place

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of humility. And with that, I'm going to leave

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you. I'm tired. I'm like zonked. I'm ready to

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zonk out right now. I don't know if you can tell

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it by the timbre of my voice, but I'm tired.

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So guys, I hope you enjoyed this episode. Again,

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I'm not really, there's no lesson, there's a

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challenge, but no real lesson. I just, I just

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want to call you higher in this episode to give

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more, to be more generous and do it filled with

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joy because you know that. When you're generous

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and you're not doing it for you, you're doing

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it for those people around you to benefit their

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lives. So guys, thank you for listening to this

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episode. Not going to do any other outro stuff,

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but I love you guys. Thank you for pursuing your

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calling. Thank you for listening to this episode.

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Be more generous. I love you guys.