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Well welcome, we are glad that you are here in the Prescott location,

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Prescott Valley Park Collective. We are happy to be journeying alongside you as

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well and so welcome to you as we walk together as a family in many places that

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includes Paul and Baghdad. Welcome to you guys today, Paul and I hear that you're

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having a Super Bowl party. We'll talk about that in a minute but welcome to you

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and also anyone in the online family, McGinnis family, I think I'm saying that

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right but welcome to you. I saw that you guys were there. Welcome to you from our

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Heights Fam and that you're a part of that we get to journey alongside and

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along with that Elizabeth she says that she is in the snowy woods of Wisconsin

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today. So we love that you're with us, we're glad we're not with you in person.

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So just saying but welcome wherever you are, however you got here, welcome, we're

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glad that we get to do this together. One of the things I love is that we are

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family. We don't choose that, God chooses that for us. He's the one that says we are

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in family and so as a family we just get to journey alongside all seasons of life,

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all moments of life. There's a big one coming today apparently. There's two

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teams that nobody cares about and they're gonna they're gonna meet, oh sorry

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Walt you know maybe you care, you care but so let's just get it out of the way

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chiefs fans where are you? I was alright. Eagles fans where are you? If you're in the

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chat just write I don't care or Eagles or Chiefs whatever it is. If you don't

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care about football where are you at? Okay you realize that they're gonna be the

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happiest people at the end of the day because what they did is they got to show

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up to a party, eat a whole bunch of good food and they don't care who wins or

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loses. It's great they go home and they're content right like so some of you

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may be thinking the green is a nod to the Eagles. Truth be told they changed my

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cast this week and it's the only one I can get over or not the only one but one

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of the few I can get over my cast so that's why we're in green today but

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here's the thing right like Kansas City cheats does that sound like right?

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We'll see who paid the refs we'll see we'll see we'll see fourth quarter last

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minute that holding call right that everybody else goes I don't know if

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that was or not and some refs like yes it was but whatever you whatever

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side you're on whether you know whether your chiefs are not whether your

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chiefs are not or Eagles like just just have fun just have fun I know for me the

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win is the party the win is the party today my grandson gets to be there

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there's lots of food lots of friends that we call family and that's what we're

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gonna do so there you go whatever you do have fun hopefully this is fun for you

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today hopefully that as we journey together there's a piece of this that

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you go okay this fits with us moving as a family right like like one of the

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things that's this beautiful as we get to do these collections where we anchor

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into a conversation if you were here last week you know that we started the

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critical journey what I need you to know about the critical journey it is not

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ours as a church it is not mine we did not create it it is a book that we're

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taking it from you just need to know something that while we look at this

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this is the book and we use other resources to help us understand what it

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is to be on this journey and so the critical journey is a way of doing that

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and so the idea behind the critical journey is that there is a way that God

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created you and shaped your soul that as a human you develop spiritually and so

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this is true of every single person on the planet and you can go into different

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religions different followings and what you'll find is that those that people in

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different spaces that we are all formed in the same stages now I don't love the

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word stage stage feels to me like you go from this one to that one to that one

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life is never that clean right there's it there's I like to refer to it more

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like a bird's nest is what and we'll talk about that in weeks to come where you

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go and you shore up another part of the nest is what you're doing but you have a

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home base so if you think of a stage is a home base and what you do from a home

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base is you launch outward and so last week if you were here I mean getting to

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see the Holy Spirit go to work is amazing but to get to see it in every single

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service across every location it's just a gift right it's something we should

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never get old of seeing Jesus save people never gets old agreed right like

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that's something we should celebrate we should be for we should we should lean

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into and the hope is the hope is that what happens within the spiritual journey

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there has to be an awakening there has to be a moment where somebody has

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recognition of God in our case there has to be a moment when you see Jesus as

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Savior of your soul there has to be a moment when you trust him and last week

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we talked about that that's stage one is recognition of God now something

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naturally happens within stage one as you recognize okay I understand who Jesus

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is you begin to live in that you begin to enjoy that you begin to understand

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wait there's way more to this than I originally thought and so it creates this

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need in you where you begin to go there's stuff I got to learn because when I

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look at you you know Jesus in a way that I don't know Jesus and so I want to I

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want to know what that is right like or you watch somebody worship in this

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place and you go they worship different I want to know what it is in them that how

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they stepped into that with Jesus and so the idea is that as we continue over the

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weeks we're building the scaffold right and the idea of a scaffold is that you've

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got to have your first platform in place and that platform now for some of you is

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the recognition of God that you have a moment where you go I know I stepped in

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the relationship I know I gave my life to Jesus and you have that scaffold so to

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speak in place now you'll spend a lot of your life going back and reassuring and

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rebuilding up that piece of that scaffold but what happens is you move on you

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move forward you begin to build the scaffold further to prepare for stage

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two and stage two is wrapped around this idea of life of discipleship life of

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discipleship right that you enter into this moment where you go okay there's

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more to this and I need a place to belong those are two of the driving

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factors around it we see this pattern lived out in the life of Jesus and

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specifically in Luke chapter 5 and verse 1 it says this on one day as Jesus was

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standing by the lake of Genesereth the people were crowding around him and

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listening to the word of God he saw at the waters edge two boats left there by

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the fishermen who were washing their nets he got into one of the boats the

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one belonging to Simon and asked him to put out a little from shore then he sat

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down in the boat and taught the people from the boat when he had finished

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speaking he said to Simon put out into the deep water and let down your nets

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for catch Simon answered master we've worked hard all night and they haven't

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caught anything but because you say so I will let down the nets when they had

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done so they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break so

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they signaled to their partners in the other boats to come help them and they

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came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink when when Simon

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Peter saw this he fell at Jesus's knees and said go away from me Lord I am a

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sinful man and so there's this moment there's a story that we're told that

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that for the for the early disciples their meeting of Jesus was hey we've been

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out all night working we've caught no fish which was for them that's the

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business they're in so not catching fish is bad for their business bad for

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what's happening in life so they come back and you can imagine there's a

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there's an element of that like I'm discouraged and in their discouragement

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they're asked to push out by this rabbi this teacher so which they do so he

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didn't goes tell tells them go out and fish again which for them would have

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been annoying as it would be for us there would be a moment of this where

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you're like man we've already done this you're not a fisherman you're telling us

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to do this they do it and they catch so many fish that there's this moment that

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if we go back to last week there is a recognition of God that takes place in

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their life that there's this moment where where Simon says that you got to get

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away from me because I realized how different you are than I am Lord I'm a

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sinful man you you got to go and so so he uses the phrase Lord and he uses he

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uses a recognition of who he is and who Jesus is and so there's this

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recognition of God moment and then look what happens next verse 9 for he and

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all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken and so

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were James and John the son's disability Simon's partners then Jesus said to them

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don't be afraid from now on you will fish for people so they pulled up their

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boats up on shore left everything and followed him if you turn over to mark

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chapter 1 it's the same story found in verse 16 it says as Jesus walked beside

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the Sea of Galilee he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting and edded to the

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lake for they were fishermen come what's that next word follow me so so in this

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one we know from the other story there's recognition of God that takes place and

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then Jesus tells him and gives him an invitation after that in this story what

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we get is very clear you have this language of come which is an invitation

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right come follow me right and so so the idea is come to me which if we go back

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to last week the moment when you give your life to Jesus is you going I am

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coming to you to be my Savior and at some point like we were talking about last

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week there's a point when you step in and go hey I'm giving you my life as Lord

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you need control of my life and what happens in this moment is you have

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recognition of God but then you have an instant invitation into the life of

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discipleship where Jesus goes come follow me now to us there's significance

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around this when you put it in the context of the original story in the

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original culture because in that culture you would have a rabbi a teacher and

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that rabbi wouldn't just go up to anybody and say hey come follow me in

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fact you couldn't choose your rabbi the rabbi had to choose you and so in this

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context Jesus is coming to these fishermen that's already mind-blowing

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because they're not students of religion he comes to them and he says come it's

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an invitation follow me it's an invitation to be a disciple it's an

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invitation into the life of a disciple it's an invitation to apprentice under

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Jesus and so what you have in this moment is you have an invitation this

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place now if I gave you an invitation today to the Super Bowl party I'm going

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to right so I handed every single one of you an invitation and said you got to

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come to the Super Bowl party who has the power of choice you do right you have

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the power of choice I invited you but whether you say yes or no that's

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entirely up to you this is how the life of discipleship works there is a

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commitment that has to come from you and can only come from you only you last

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week can go God I give you my life or at some point in your life there's only

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you that can go I need you to be my savior right when it comes to the life

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of discipleship only you only you can be the one to accept and go I am going to

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commit to follow Jesus with my life I'm going to commit to be a disciple of

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Jesus now here here's the problem around church world with this right like we

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start talking about this life of discipleship depending on how long you've

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been around church depending on what your background is here's what it often

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looks like okay you want to be a disciple you got to go take this class right go

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take this class so 101 on religion take 202 oh one on who Jesus is 301 on

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creation right and all of a sudden you go and you just start learning all these

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classes right and at some point the thought process is you get done with

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all this study you get to the end and tada you're a disciple no you're just

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really smart you'll learn the whole bunch of stuff the idea of being a

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disciple of Jesus is that it was actually it's in your life it's not how much you

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know it's how much you live and so the idea of being a disciple is that that

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you in those days that if you suggest to Jesus you were gonna follow Jesus

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closely enough that the very dust from his feet would kick up and you would get

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the dust of the rabbi the dust of the person that you were following would

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cover you you were that closely following this person the idea is this

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that even in the model that Jesus gave it goes from person to person it was an

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invitation to personally follow another person why because the intent was it was

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always transferred your learning would be done from person to person and

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somewhere along the way we eliminated relationship and we went to just take

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these courses and and when you look at this notice notice what else happens

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because you can get stuck right I took the courses right therefore I am notice

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what the point of being a disciple was verse 17 come follow me Jesus said and

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I will send you out to fish for people so there's a come follow me and I will

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send so from the very get-go the life of discipleship the the intent of

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discipleship is this you have those who are committing to there they're saying

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yes I will follow you because I need to learn and I need to belong you think

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about it in Jesus's context he's going come follow me and I'll teach you but he

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also put them what in a group of people the idea of being in a group of people

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is so central to your learning that's why last week when we were talking about

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it that that is so central that life groups that if you're in a life group

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that you're talking about this critical journey that you're identifying your

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home base why because if I can identify my home base I can take ownership of my

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maturing you realize it's nobody else's responsibility but yours to grow to be

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like Jesus right too many times people like I left that church they weren't

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doing this this this this this I left that church they weren't giving me what

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I needed I left that shirt no no no hang on the way this was intended is that you

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would spend time in a posture of learning in a commitment to learn and how is that

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learning from another person but the onus is on you to go I need that right and

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then and then what happens you learn you go through this learning process of the

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life of discipleship you belong and then what happens you move outward what you

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have been given you give away and that's what Jesus intended from the very

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start what you have been given you will give away so much so that he gets to the

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end of it right before he's gone to the cross he's about to ascend to heaven so

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the resurrected Jesus talking to his disciples what does he tell them I need

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you to go and make what make disciples go and help people apprentice to Jesus

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go and help people live a life of discipleship go and help them become

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disciples how do you do that teach them to observe everything I commanded you

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to do and so here's what's fascinating right you look at the early church Acts

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chapter 2 and verse 42 Acts chapter 2 the early church gets together and it says

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they the early church devoted devoted themselves to the apostles teaching to

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the fellowship to the breaking of bread and to prayer they devoted themselves

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what was the commitment of the disciples to take what they've been given and give

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it away how do we know they did that because now there's a whole group of

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people and what are they doing they are devoting themselves to what the

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apostles teaching they're devoting themselves to following them now that

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that idea of devoted is that they were showing up we also know from this passage

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they showed up daily in homes together why because they were so committed I

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would say this about you that if you're not in a life group and you're not

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connected to another group like a Bible study or something within women's and

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men's ministry I would encourage you to do this get coffee with somebody this

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week and sit with them and talk about this it has to be transferred from person

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to person Paul understood this so much that when Paul's writing to the church

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here's what he says 1 Corinthians 11 verse 1 follow my example so Paul's

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going follow my example as I follow the example of Christ follow my example Paul's

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going I'm giving it away there's that word follow again it's an invitation into

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you and so here's here's a kind of a caution in this whole stage to home base

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that if you're going I need to learn I need to follow somebody right can I

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just give you a caution make sure the person that you choose to follow looks

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like Jesus make sure that the person you follow is actually following Jesus we

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we talked about this thought about this and and what I would love to do is just

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give you a picture of what this looks like there's a gift to our church and

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his name is pastor Bob and often you hear Bob and I got a joke coming I don't

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have a joke coming Bob is an absolute gift to my life and to this church when

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you talk about this of pouring your life into somebody else of taking what you

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have been given by Jesus and in relationship giving it away to somebody

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else there is no one else that has been more influential in my life of what

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discipleship looks like than our very own pastor Bob and so what I would love

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you to do both here part collective online lose your minds for pastor Bob and

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Abe this morning please gentlemen good morning how are we you're so nice to me

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you can pay me later it's fine Abe you doing okay singing and speaking how is

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my little hyped up I've had a okay too much Celsius so I'm trying to bring it

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back down control my breath yeah so here's where I love to start Bob for you

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I've watched this pattern in your life of giving away but that had to start

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somewhere for you there had to be a moment where you were invited to come

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follow and so what did that look like for me I came to Christ I became a

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Christian on my 18th birthday so it's easy to remember but the couple that led

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me to Christ moved within the month after I accepted Christ so they plugged me

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into a church but I didn't know anybody I met like a couple people but I would

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sit in the back row and before the pastor would say amen I was out you know

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and I was living a lifestyle very contrary to what God would want I was

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partying on the weekends and doing all that stuff and then I'd go to church on

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Sunday and do all that and this was up in Cleveland and I was a mailman

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and there was a guy on my route that attended this church and I remember the

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time he's an older guy but he came out one Saturday goes if you ever needed

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anything here's my business card and I'm like yeah I'll get right on it you know

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so put it away and then continue to live a wild lifestyle while I was saying I

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was a Christian and so one night I was in downtown Cleveland on a Friday night

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and I thought you know what I know if I die right now I'd go to heaven so I'm

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gonna kill myself on the way home so I thought I'll get the car up to a hundred

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and hit a pole and I thought well the people that I was partying with would

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be like this is gonna happen sooner or later and my Christian the couple of

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people that knew me at church would be like always in a better place so I got

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the car up to a hundred I was on the freeway and all sudden I just started

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crying so I pulled the car over and I'm parked on the side of the road and I'm

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sitting there and all sudden the Holy Spirit just laid down my heart that

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business card in your pocket you got to call this guy so I didn't have cell

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phones back then so I went to the nearest phone booth and I called was that

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phone booth out of curiosity so funny so it was like two in the morning and I

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call this and he's an attorney for LTB steals season business like but I call

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him up I go hey I don't know if you remember me from church who's no I

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remember you I go well I am a Christian but I'm not living this out and I said

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I can't do this anymore live in two lives and he said well come on over which I

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think it's funny now that he had me drive 20 minutes drunk but I got to his

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house and his wife got up they made me coffee and they said so do you really

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want to follow Christ I said well this was gonna be my last night so he said

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well I will need you twice a week he said my wife will make you dinner but he

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said we're gonna do Bible study together we're gonna do life together we're gonna

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walk this out and so he took me under his wing and it was two years of intense

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twice a week Bible studies with him which is amazing yeah he made me

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memorize verses and because he's very structured if I did one word wrong he'd

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make me write it 50 times and he told me and I go well you got the right idea he

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goes well Satan tried to put scripture to and I'm okay well I'll fix it which

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was fun if you know Bob and know his personality that's perfect for you

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that's that's what you needed so from that moment what did it what did it look

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like and so so you spent time with him kind of what what happened after that

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what that looked like he would challenge me on different things which was

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really good and at the time I could never be in front of people at all so I'm

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in one time he said you're gonna meet me downtown Cleveland at this one office

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building and I said yeah I'll be down there so I go down and it was a crowd as

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big as this if not bigger and he said I want you to give your testimony to these

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people and I remember just freaking out but he would challenge me in different

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areas of my walk to make me grow and I was telling in the last service it was

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funny to meet John and I went to a conference in Cortal Lane a couple years

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ago and we're sitting there and people would ask questions to the main speaker

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and the one guy stood up and he introduced himself said I'm so-and-so

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and I'm part of the Cleveland Businessmen's Association blah blah blah and I'm

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like what do you think and I didn't say anything to John I go up to the guy after

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I go hey you're from Cleveland do you know Don Hall he goes Don Hall changed my

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life I'm not gonna mind too you know it was crazy yeah I love that sometimes the

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availability that God asks of you is 2 a.m. with a drunk guy on the phone but

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okay so so within that then obviously we're years and years from that how do

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you end up sitting with Abe today what what's that was it was funny you know

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when God lays someone on your heart so the worship team was back at that sound

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booth one day and I walked by and it's like I say something to him so talking

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to Caleb and the rest of my said hey I guess I gotta talk to him I said Abe I'm

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Bob Bobo I'm one of the pastors here and kind of what the guy threw out to me so

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I'm like if you ever need anything you just give me a call I said those guys

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have my number so Abe what in the world made you call Bob so I heard Bob was

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really struggling I'm kidding I'm kidding well it took three months but what

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really made me reach out to Bob was I was trying to try to connect with other

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people and the conversation we had back there in front of that sound booth some

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of the things that Bob was sharing with me that he was able to go through and

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get past sounded a little similar to some of the things that I was struggling

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with in that moment so I got to a point where I was just I can't do this just

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like you how you said like I can't keep living this double life like something's

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got to give and just something about those muscles and that smile really

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really drew me towards them and so so what's it been like so you you call him

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and then what what is that stepping into the life of the disciple what does that

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look like with Bob so you hear discipleship and you want to just

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immediately go to okay like we're gonna just meet up once a week and we're gonna

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go over some scriptures and good luck see you next week like no Bob and Sherry

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really opened up their home opened up their arms and made me feel like family

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and that's that's really what changed my mind about this whole discipleship

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process was it's not you're just you're not just teaching somebody how to how to

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live life but you're teaching them how to walk with Christ you're bringing them

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into your home I mean we spent Thanksgiving Christmas together so we

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really developed a relationship just outside of discipleship and it's it's

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been a blessing when you hear Paul in the Bible talk to Timothy or Titus he

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always says my son in the faith and so really is and we sit we talk about family

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here but I think when you get in that kind of relationship it's not just a

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Bible said we really are family so much so that do you know what he did this is

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really bad we don't need to go there it's when the forge came out it's a movie

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about discipleship I had to miss one of our meetings and I said hey here's ten

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dollars you need to go see the forge we're gonna talk about it next week when

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we get together so he comes the next week and we talked about it and I'm

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probably not supposed to say this but he cried at the movie and he told me you

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know and all this well then that's like six months ago and he tells me last

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month he goes by the way I got the movie for free and I just kept the ten

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dollars it's like one of my own biological kids right

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oh man I also understand that the term poppa Bob is is part of it which again

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speaks to this is more than just imparting knowledge right you are

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helping somebody navigate how to look and live and love like Jesus and it's

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got to come from you and so I love within your guys's journey that there there is

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the Christmas there is the Thanksgiving there is the the walking along the

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moments to make you family and so Abe on your side what what are some things

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you've enjoyed what maybe has surprised you in this journey yeah before I answer

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that question I do call him Papa Bob okay but he he's got a nickname for me

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you want me to tell him he calls the fear

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I call him baby him he calls me baby him and I blush every single time no but

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one of my favorite moments is really just going to his house having dinner and

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we we go over this book called follow and we're spending three hours at your

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house and maybe 30 minutes in that follow so we're having conversations just

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about life he's challenging me spiritually challenging me just as a man

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but I want to bring up one of the experiences if that's okay sure go for

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yeah so my favorite moment and we joke about this all the time but it was the

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week on forgiveness and the idea of this experience is we take a sheet of paper

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and we write we write down a name of somebody that we have to forgive and I'm

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laughing because it's just the jokes that come with this but I wrote down my

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dad's name and just all the things that I was forgiving him for and what we did

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is we went outside Bob started a fire and we threw the paper in the fire and we

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prayed as that paper burned away but I cannot as much as I make fun of that

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experience I can honestly say that that really impacted me a lot. The whole time we're doing this is the stupidest thing I've ever done. I go write down those things and he goes this is so dumb and I go just write all this down and I go and say it out loud to me so then we go outside tomorrow and he goes it couldn't get any

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stupider than this and then I look while he's praying and the tears are coming down his eyes I'm like got him and by the way I do I do make him study so I'm trying to throw him off

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because he does have to memorize stuff so I want to see because I gave you a different

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verse last service do first John 5 11 through 13. Can I phone a friend? No alright.

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That's the that's the testimony one it's this is the testimony God has given us

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eternal life in this life is in his son whoever has the son has life whoever does

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not have the son of God does not have life I write these things to you who

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believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life

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let's go well done I memorized it because I don't want to write it 50 times

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maybe maybe just kind of wrap this up with this with somebody here who goes

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ham I'm feeling like I haven't experienced the life of discipleship or I know there's more to this Jesus thing I know there's a step forward for me

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any encouragement you have for them what it to take that step and and enter in oh

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yeah absolutely if you are really wanting to take your walk with Jesus

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seriously partner with somebody the best decision that I have ever made was

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recognizing that I can't do this by myself I've tried but really just taking

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advantage of the people that are around you and the love that people want to pour

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into you it's truly life-changing I mean the Bible says we're not supposed to do

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life alone even back to Genesis God was like everything is good and then he

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looks at man and was like it is not good for man to be alone so if you don't have

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a partner find a partner not romantically like just somebody who can walk

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alongside you in Christ and then the romance that that'll come but

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anyway sometimes a bromance apparently so I would say I would say this church

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that when it comes to stage two as a home base in this life of discipleship

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one of the catalysts to move you forward is that your isolation it's when you

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recognize I wasn't meant to do this life alone I don't have what I need to

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follow Jesus and I need someone to be a guide and so isolation is actually a

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catalyst to get you to move from recognition of God into hey I need

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someone to walk with me and so I would just say for you that if that's you

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where you're going there's a sense of belonging and learning that I'm lacking

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in my life I don't feel like I've ever had a discipleship experience where

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someone has walked me through the foundations of the faith and so my

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foundation feels that scaffolding feet doesn't feel like it's in place then I

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would just encourage you use that isolation to be a catalyst to to say hey

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I'm gonna I'm gonna step out and go I need someone to to walk with me so would

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you do this would you say thank you to these two for me part of part of this

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collection is that hopefully what you discover here is my home base and here

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is how I take ownership of my growth that requires opportunities to step

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forward and step into faith so just like last week if you don't have

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recognition of God if you need Jesus a Savior if there's a moment where you

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need to go I got to give him my whole life like that was a that was a moment

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to respond we want to do that all the way through this collection because

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every single one of us if you are human you have a moment to take ownership of

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your maturity with God and so we want to provide those all along the way and so

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with that if you're in the room and you go hey I I remember you're like Bob

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you're like I can remember someone walking with me I can remember the

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foundations of the faith that scaffolding being put in place that life of

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discipleship the learning and the belonging I can remember what that was

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like then then you have something to give so just like Jesus goes hey come

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follow me you've had an opportunity to follow and now he's gone hey I'm sending

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you you need to give away to be sent is to give away what you have been given

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and so if you are in the room and you go or across the screen or at part

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collective this morning and you go hey I've had a moment with Jesus where I

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have received and I have lived this life of what it means to become a

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disciple I've been under an apprenticeship to Jesus with someone

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and maybe that was a group maybe that was one-on-one but you go I know I've

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experienced that and my scaffolding feels secure than what I'm gonna ask of you

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what we're gonna ask of you is would you be willing to go hey I'll give that away

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but there's others of you that are here and you're going and by the way one of

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the things with this whole collection there is no shame for the stage you're

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at this is not a shame thing this is just a realization of hey this is where

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I'm at my spiritual journey and I need help I need to grow I need to step

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forward and so if you're here and you go I don't think I've ever had somebody

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walk with me I don't think I've ever experienced this life of discipleship I

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don't think my foundation is where it needs to be then today your commitment

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is I would like somebody to walk with me and so here's how we're gonna do this

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if you are able and you have a phone okay so if you're in the room and you have

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a phone and you are able okay so say it with me if I have a phone and I am able

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okay online if I have a phone and I am able okay park collective if you have a

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phone and you are able we would like for you to do this I'm gonna go a little

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further than that as a church family both here Baghdad, Paldon, Park Collective,

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online we need you to do this okay you ready got your phone out we're gonna do

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it right now okay there's like four of you moving you all have phones I know it

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take your phone out you're gonna see a QR code come up on screen I need you to

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scan that QR code I'm not even gonna help you you ready hit your camera button

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zoom in a link pops up don't take a picture it won't work if you take a

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picture just saying click the link it'll take you to a survey I need you to

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fill out the survey right here right now this is not a later thing you know why

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there's a football game right and you're gonna forget you're gonna eat too much

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food and you'll be in a food coma I know it but you need to fill out the

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questionnaire right now it's that important so if you have a phone and you

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are able you should be filling out a questionnaire on your phone right now and

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the lights aren't that bright I can still see you okay if you have a phone and

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you're able you're doing it if you don't have a phone and or you are not able

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raise your hand we'll get you a paper copy keep your hand up it'll get to you

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if you get a paper copy please fill it out and turn it in before you leave those

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of you online there should be a link that you can get to from YouTube this

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morning the link should be posted you can get to it there because obviously your

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phone and your screen your phone may be your screen that's a little tricky so

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you can get to the link there on on YouTube this morning back that paul then

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you can use the QR use your phone same with Park Collective and we're just gonna

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give you time the way God designed this you guys is that we walk alongside each

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other the way that God made us to form spiritually is that we would have

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somebody to disciple us somebody to help us apprentice under Jesus somebody to

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help us become more like Jesus so I'm gonna give you another 30 seconds can

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you imagine a church where the people that have received the privilege of

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knowing how to walk with Jesus okay it's a privilege that the people who know how

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to walk with Jesus and have been walking with Jesus turn around and go I'll

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give it away and they turn around and there's a group of people that go hey I

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don't know what it looks like to walk with Jesus yet but I really want to walk

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with him can you imagine the power of a church where people everybody in the

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family goes I know how to walk with Jesus and then they in turn turn around

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start giving it away that's how you change the world that's how you change

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communities that's how you change and we have the privilege to do that but it

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begins with you making a commitment to go what I have I will give away and

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somebody else going what I don't have I'm asking for it's a beautiful moment

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okay you got it you look like you're all done everybody's looking okay we have a

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privilege in here if you remember this stage life of disciple life of

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discipleship what it means to be a disciple it's about learning and

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belonging you know what happens in here every week when we sing we belong

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because we're all singing the same thing right we're all worshiping the same

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God and so in the room what happens in worship is there's a sense of belonging

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this standing shoulder to shoulder you begin to worship God together and it

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creates a sense of belonging that we're created for for all of eternity and

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then in the midst of that in the midst of that there's some of you that have been

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worshiping for a long time there's some of you that are experts when it comes to

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worship and song and so what happens is you get to be a part of helping somebody

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else learn right somebody else who goes I don't know how to do this karaoke thing

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and they get to look at you and they get to see how you worship and they learn

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from you it's this beautiful moment that what we're talking about in the life of

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discipleship gets to happen live in the room so if you would would you stand

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where you are and here's what we're gonna do we're gonna help people belong

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because you don't know who's next to you who just needs to belong today you can

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stand up we're gonna we're gonna sing and then you're gonna help people learn

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how to worship because you have been given the gift of worshiping God I don't

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know about you but last week when people came down for a moment with the Holy

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Spirit and God is saving people I don't know if you go back to when Jesus saved

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you the only thing I have when I focus on the person of Jesus and what he has

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saved me from is a hallelujah that's all I got is just thank you all I got is a

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hallelujah and so if you would would you worship together this morning