Uncover Your Super Powers | Heroes Week 5

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- Hey, this is Crossroads, and I'm Kyle.

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We believe that you were born for adventure

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and we exist to guide you and equip you

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for that adventurous life.

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Now I've heard this a lot, if you have too,

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let me confirm a couple of things.

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I'm not like Tom Cruise.

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For one, I'm way taller.

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I'm 5 foot 6 and 6/17 of an inch.

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He's only 5 foot 5 and 7/12 inch.

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And I get it, you might confuse us,

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because like him, I broke my foot.

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He was jumping off a building in a movie.

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I was very similarly jumping into my pool.

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Regardless, whether it's Mission Impossible

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or The Journey, we have a mission for you,

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a challenge that we want you to lean into.

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Our senior pastor, one of my mentors, Brian,

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is going to give us that challenge right now.

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- You can have little or you can have much.

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The decisions you make with the things

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God's given you will determine that.

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Hey, my name's Brian, Senior Pastor at Crossroads.

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Treat to be with you today.

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Last week, Kyle did a great job saying

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there's no civilians in the Kingdom of God.

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All of us need to be in the fight.

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All of us need to be soldiers.

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Today is going to be a big day for you.

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It can be a big day

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or just be another day where

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you stream some churchy stuff on your screen.

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But you're going to leave here today making a choice.

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I'm going to do a deep dive

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in something that Jesus talked about,

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which is critical for anybody who is to be heroic,

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anybody who is to be great.

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It comes the Book of Matthew 25,

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and I don't know if you see this or not,

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but it's all red letters.

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So red letters means Jesus,

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it means it's important.

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Let's just go ahead and read this,

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and then I'll talk about it. Here's what says:

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Now it says money, but I got to be clear,

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we're not talking about money today.

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This is not a money thing.

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There's no money ask here at all.

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There is financial principles in this passage

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that can be applied,

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but we're not looking at those today.

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We're talking about our talents.

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There are three things that God blesses

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you and I with, three things,

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and you decide how you're going to use them.

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And how you use them will determine

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whether or not you have little or much.

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Your time, your talents, your treasure.

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Now we're not talking about treasure at all today.

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We're talking about our time and talent.

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Now interestingly enough in this passage,

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it talks about talents,

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but this is actually a unit of financial currency.

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A talent was equal to about 6,000 denari,

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and they used to have a phrase back then

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or saying: another day, another denari.

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So a talent is worth 6,000 days' labor,

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which is about 16.5 years' labor.

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What's the big point there?

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No matter what God's given you,

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you've got stuff to put into the field of play.

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The goal isn't to just be well known.

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The goal is to use what God's given you.

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Billionaire Jay-Z says this, he says:

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The person who goes away that Jesus

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is talking about, this landowner,

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he represents God

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and God disperses to three different people,

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three different talents, three amounts;

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five, two, and one to all of us.

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All of us do not have the same

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as the person next to us,

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but we all have been given something

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or some things that are incredibly valuable.

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And you finding and unearthing

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what those things are

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and putting them into play will determine

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whether or not you have little

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or whether or not you have much.

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Here we have these guys.

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The guy who has five, he invests it.

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He makes it work for him.

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The guy who has two, he invest it

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and makes it work for him.

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Here's what it says, God comes

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to those people at five and two, he says:

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So they had little.

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Actually, five talents is actually more than two,

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and two talents is more than one,

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but they had little relevant to what they could have,

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relative to what they could have.

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So you and I decide, will we have little

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or we have much?

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And the determining factor is what we do

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with the abilities and capacities that we have.

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All of us have different things.

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One guy decides to take what God has given him

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and bury it.

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When you bury what God's given you,

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other people can't get blessed

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and you're not being heroic,

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you're being a weenie boy and a weenie girl.

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You're being lazy. You're being conservative.

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God has given us things to bless people,

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put them into play.

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Let me tell you some things that

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I've been tempted to bury.

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Oh, what do I -- oh, here.

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Oh, I got something here.

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Tempted to bury. What do I have?

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Oh man, I haven't seen this for a while.

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You know what?

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This is my birth certificate.

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I was born at a very early age.

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- What did he say?

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- Born at a very early age and then I was adopted.

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And this is my birth certificate,

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which has my birth parents,

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who are my parents on it.

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Richard Earl Tome and Eileen C. Costello.

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I'll tell you what's significant about this.

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It isn't just that God gave me a gift

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of birthing me when some people are

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from conception don't have the opportunity to be born.

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It wasn't just that that was a gift.

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What was a gift is recognizing that

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this was a spiritual reality.

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God was pulling me into his family through adoption,

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and this is the way it happens in the Bible.

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We're not born into the family of God.

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We're adopted in the family of God.

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And this is something that I've had to unearth

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because it's why I want people to be part Crossroads.

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It's why I want you to come to know God in a deeper way.

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It's why I want to interact with somebody

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who's waiting on a table where I am or wherever it is.

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I'm always going, "What's your spiritual story?

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Who are you?"

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I want to have some sort of spiritual conversation,

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that's critical.

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What else might we have?

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I want to unearth that.

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I want to put my birth story out there.

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Oh, geez, oh, here we go.

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Huh? What we got here?

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We got a Crossroads mug. That's what we got here.

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Now Crossroads, I didn't create Crossroads.

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God created Crossroads,

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but I had something to do with it.

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And what I had to do with it was

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using the gifts that God has given me.

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And Crossroads, it's a thing that as a leader,

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as a leader, I can make decisions

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to put Crossroads into play

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or make decisions to bury Crossroads

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and keep it very, very safe.

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When we do compassion international days

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where we try to get people to adopt kids financially,

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adopt kids through Compassion International

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and feed them and educate them, for their entire childhood,

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for like $38 a month.

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We do that at great risk

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of Crossroads' financial future

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for people cannibalizing their giving

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because we don't want to bury the power

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and force that Crossroads can be.

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We want to unearth it and and bless people.

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That's what we have to do.

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Oh, what else we got here?

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We've got -- Oh, oh, oh, this is nice.

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Oh, we've got a microphone here.

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Hello. I have the microphone.

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You do not have the microphone

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and you will sit here and you like it.

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Yes, a microphone.

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Don't you wish you had a bullhorn?

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Do you have your earplugs in your ears, Mr. Cameraman?

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Okay.

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- All right. Loser. Loser, you're a loser (screaming)

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- There actually is a story behind this from my past.

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When I was in high school, my high school

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had a very clear pecking order of who is at the top,

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who are the cool kids, who are the popular kids,

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and then who was at the bottom.

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I was in probably the top 25%.

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To do that you had to be an athlete

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or a cheerleader or something like that

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in my high school at that time.

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But I wasn't in the top, top, top, top.

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So come time for homecoming,

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all the school would be gather together

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for a mandated assembly at the end of the day.

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And they needed like six senior football players

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to go up and and give it a little speech.

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And first five are very obvious

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who people wanted to hear from,

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who was popular, all that kind of stuff.

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They were obvious and they only needed six.

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And they went, "Six. So well, let's get Brian.

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Let's get Brian Tome. He'll be fine."

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And so they line me up last just because

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I was picked last because I was at least worthy.

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I spoke last.

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And I sat there in that assembly

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looking at the students bored out of their gourd

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and very cynical.

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We had a losing team year after year

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after year after year, so people

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just didn't have any expectations.

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And I felt this and I was starting to get angry.

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So when I went up and I took the podium,

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I said, "Look, here's what we need.

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We don't need you being down on us

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and being negative.

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We need you supporting us. We represent you.

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We need you to get to a new place."

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I don't know exactly my words, but that's basically I did.

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I called the student body out, and everyone like listened.

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Wow.

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That night we had a tradition to take

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a dummy of the opposing team

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and you take a man sized thing

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and you stuff them and you have the colors

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of Plum Borough High School,

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which was what it was, and a helmet.

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You could never get away with doing this today,

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but this was the '80s. It was awesome.

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You could do virtually anything you wanted.

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And we would have this guy

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who looked like a Plum Borough guy

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and then somebody would throw it into the fire

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and give a rah-rah speech of how

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we're going to win the next day's homecoming game.

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And they came to me and the cheerleaders said,

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"Hey, would you do that?" I was like, "Me? Yeah, OK."

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And I got to be the guy who threw the dummy in the fire

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and I had a bullhorn and I motivated people

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to do the best they possibly could the next day.

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That was when I realized that God

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had given me something that had on Earth.

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I never took a public speaking lesson.

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I never watched somebody who was a mobilizer motivator.

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I didn't.

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I never read books on being that.

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It was something that God gave me.

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And now I make the decision,

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how will I use that gift

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to be about God's purposes?

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I can have little less, if I keep it buried,

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it's a little less.

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If I use it, I could have much.

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And by much I don't mean

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I in my financial standing can have much.

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I mean much in terms of opportunities

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to use my voice, much in terms of joy,

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joy over seeing and feeling myself

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used by God with other people.

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Really, really good stuff.

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- We'll get back to Brian in just a second,

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but first I want to say thank you

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to all of the givers.

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You make videos like this

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and all the ministry at Crossroads possible

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and you're literally impacting thousands

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and thousands of lives.

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And if you want to join that community

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of generosity, it's super easy.

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You just go to crossroads.net/give.

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We even made a way to take some of

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the stress out of it for you

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called the 90 Day Tithe Test.

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You sign up, you try tithing for 90 days.

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And if at the end of those 90 days,

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you don't feel more of God in your life.

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We'll give you all of your money back.

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Again, just go to Crossroads.net/give.

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- I'm Lindsey.

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- And I'm Eric, and we go to Crossroads.

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- Our story starts with we

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went to Christian High School,

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we met in Christian college

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and got married right after school

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and just kind of lived our lives,

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but didn't really understand what it meant

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to have a real relationship with God.

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- We were about a year removed from my affair.

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I had left Lindsey, moved out of my own

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is when we stepped foot into Crossroads Oakley.

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We were visiting some family out here

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in the Cincy area from Philadelphia.

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Chuck was preaching on stage

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and I had heard God say,

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"This is where I want you and your family to worship."

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And I was like, "How are we going to do that

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if we live in Philadelphia

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and Crossroads is out here in Cincinnati?"

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- They had just started to launch Crossroads Anywhere.

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We started watching off and on,

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but it wasn't until The Brave Journey

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that happened that following year that we decided,

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"Okay, let's really lean into this."

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I reached out to Crossroads to see if

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there was a small group we could join

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and there wasn't one currently,

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but they asked me if I'd be willing to lead,

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and I decided, Sure, why not?

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We did it via video chat and we met every week

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just like the small groups did that were in person.

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We got to meet these people

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who lived all over the U.S. via video chat,

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and we probably got to know those people

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better than we knew some of our friends

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who we had had for many years.

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- It was during that Brave Journey that

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I had really felt God saying, "Hey,

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I want you to step up and be the man

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that I have called you to be

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and be that spiritual leader in your house."

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And so I started leading our small group.

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I led a few Man Camps. We co-led couples camp.

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We flew out to Oakley to be baptized

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and really took that role in our family,

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which was awesome.

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- Meanwhile, all of our friends

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who weren't really involved in Crossroads

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kind of saw this major change in Eric.

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They wanted to understand what was the difference.

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So one couple in particular we invited

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to start watching church with us every Sunday,

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and that was kind of where Crossroads Philly was born.

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So we just want to say thank you.

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Thank you for giving.

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It has made a huge difference in our lives.

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- Thank you for your generosity.

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Through that generosity Crossroads is able

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to stream live each week

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and develop those Anywhere communities.

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And without that Anywhere community,

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we don't know where we would be today.

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You've changed our life.

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You've changed our marriage.

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You've changed the trajectory of our kids' lives

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and you're changing generations.

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And that's good stuff, so thank you.

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- Well, what else do we have here?

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We also have, oh, family here, yeah.

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Oh, family, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I did something to make my family here,

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at least three of them, I did something to it.

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I won't -- You can figure out what I did,

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but I did something.

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But you know, these folks, they're not mine,

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they're they're God's.

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And how I act as a dad or a dad-in-law,

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father-in-law will determine whether or not

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I'll get much or little.

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If I just look at these as six relationships

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that don't matter one way or another,

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I'm not going to have more joy.

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I'm not going to have more descendants.

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I'm not going to have more.

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Let me tell you something, I've been around long enough,

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every other relationship in my life

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will come and go, every single one.

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These folks and this one are

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the most important relationships in my life by far,

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and I can have a little joy or much joy.

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And it depends on how I treat them

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and how I organize vacations,

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how I build into them as a father.

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I can't bury that.

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Oh, yeah, oh, here we go, we go.

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This is a jet boil.

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This is a thing where you take

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and you put it together

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and you boil water really quickly.

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So this is my coffee every morning

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whenever I'm camping

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or it's how I do dehydrated food, boiling water.

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I use this when I do a backpack hunt,

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which I'll be doing in a couple of weeks

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in Colorado going after elk

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or I use it if I'm camping with people

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or overlanding with people or motorcycle trips.

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It's a big deal.

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And here's the thing, the reason I have this,

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what I find very interesting about this.

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Camping has become a big thing for me.

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It's something God has given me the ability to do.

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And one time I was sitting around a campfire

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with eight -- seven other guys

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and we were having a deep conversation

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talking about what's going on in life.

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We realized there's a lot of guys who need this,

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but we got here on motorcycles.

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A lot of guys don't like motorcycles

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or people don't like motorcycles.

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What can we do to have a camping environment

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where people are pushed and stretched

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and they're built into?

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And out of that came Man Camp, Woman Camp,

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Couple's Camp, and the rest.

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Thousands and thousands and thousands of people

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have been built into spiritually because

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I said, "Hey, God's given me something

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with the camping thing. I've got to use that.

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How can I put that into play?

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When I put that into play, maybe God can use it."

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And that's exactly what He did.

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32 different guys --

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or 32 states represented at last week's Man Camp

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because I and others made a decision

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to not bury the things that we liked,

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but to actually use them.

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Now let's keep going on

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And this is this is you. I'm talking to you.

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There's things God's given you that

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you can choose to keep it buried

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or you can unburied and put in the field of play.

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That is critical to you.

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I am who I am right now because of the people

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who unburied their gifts and built into me.

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Right now in your neighborhood,

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in Crossroads are people

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who could be different people.

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There's a person that could be different

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if you unbury your talents and gifts

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and you use your time to be heroic.

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Let me tell some of the people did it for me.

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Mrs. Geiger. She was my Sunday school teacher.

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She, which is kind of weird, you know,

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Sunday school teachers, you think, ehh.

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If you want kids to come to Sunday school,

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don't have it on Sunday and don't call it school.

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That's the key.

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But I was forced to go, so I went

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and Mrs. Geiger, she built into me

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and gave me the basic understanding

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of basic teachings in the Bible.

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When I open up the Bible and I have

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an understanding of the different structures

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and systems, it's because Mrs. Geiger,

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I had her in grade school in Sunday school.

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You have no idea if you serve in Kids' Club

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whose life or how many people you're affecting

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a generation later.

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Denny Patton unburied his personality,

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unburied his faithfulness,

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and he built into a teenager

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that has become your pastor.

00:19:37

And Denny right now is on his deathbed.

00:19:40

He's got not very long to live,

00:19:43

and he will be one of the very few people

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I've known who has been faithful to God

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since he gave his life to Christ till when he died.

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He unburied his life, and I'm on his down line

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because he put it into play.

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Joan Driscoll, Sharon Hinzman.

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These are women who in college, and then shortly after college,

00:20:00

they fulfilled a mother role for me.

00:20:02

They mothered me, they fed me.

00:20:04

They gave me wisdom.

00:20:05

They gave me nurturing. It was huge.

00:20:09

Cathy and Pete Beechem, long time Crossroads.

00:20:11

Pete's been dead several years.

00:20:14

Kathy dead for about three years or so.

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But man, they are servants who left a legacy

00:20:18

because of the things they would say to me,

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the way they would serve me,

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the way they were huge blessings.

00:20:24

And they had much as a result of it.

00:20:26

You want little, you want little?

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Then keep it all buried.

00:20:29

You want much? Then put it into play.

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If these people had buried their gifts

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I shudder to think where I would be right now

00:20:37

and where many people on my down line would be.

00:20:41

This is what God says to those who bury their gifts,

00:20:43

he says, this one guy says:

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Buried it. Didn't overcome it. Buried it.

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And God says:

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He calls them wicked, lazy servant.

00:21:11

There are some people who look very nice

00:21:14

and have high morals and don't do pornography

00:21:18

and pay their taxes and are acceptable to the masses,

00:21:24

who to God are wicked and lazy because

00:21:29

the unique ability is God's given you,

00:21:32

you buried them.

00:21:33

You haven't put them in the field of play.

00:21:35

You have no chance of getting much.

00:21:37

You have no chance of being great.

00:21:39

You have no chance of being heroic.

00:21:41

That's what God wants to do.

00:21:42

That's what Jesus wants us to do,

00:21:43

that's why He tells this story.

00:21:45

He makes this story up,

00:21:47

but it's absolutely true to spiritual principles.

00:21:49

It ends this way, Jesus says this:

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Whoever has little,

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they'll have much when they bury it.

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People who gave me their time and their talent

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changed my future, changed my family's future,

00:22:22

changed a lot of people's future.

00:22:25

That's what happens when you take

00:22:27

the little that God has given you

00:22:30

and you put it on the field of play,

00:22:32

you have the possibility of it becoming much.

00:22:36

So your choice: little and buried,

00:22:41

or much and put into the field of play.

00:22:44

1 Peter 4:10 says each of us has received a gift,

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use it to serve one another.

00:22:50

As good stewards of God's very grace,

00:22:52

whoever speaks as one who speaks oracles of God,

00:22:55

whoever serves as one who serves

00:22:57

by the strength of God supplies,

00:22:59

nor that in everything God may be glorified

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through Jesus Christ.

00:23:08

Little or much?

00:23:12

You playing it safe or God getting glory?

00:23:15

You get to make that choice right now.

00:23:21

- They want you to behave, to settle in,

00:23:23

and settle down into your God, not make any waves.

00:23:27

They want you to be average

00:23:28

and build a nice, sensible house on Normal Street.

00:24:20

- This entire journey has been building to this moment.

00:24:24

See, you really were made for greatness,

00:24:26

you were made to be your hero.

00:24:27

But it's a choice that you have

00:24:29

to choose to step forward into.

00:24:31

And we're here to help with that.

00:24:32

This is a group of my friends who I actually work alongside of

00:24:35

as part of the online church team.

00:24:37

And they have an amazing, amazing amount

00:24:41

of volunteer opportunities for you to step into.

00:24:43

And we'd love to tell you just a bit about them.

00:24:45

I'm going to start over here

00:24:47

with my friends, Rachel and Animaesh.

00:24:49

These folks help lead everything that we do

00:24:53

when it comes to community and care and connection,

00:24:55

which is maybe extra critical in our world right now.

00:25:00

- Yeah, I know that when I first became

00:25:02

a volunteer at Crossroads,

00:25:03

the thing that was motivating to me

00:25:05

was getting to know other people.

00:25:06

And a lot of people don't realize

00:25:08

you can do that online.

00:25:09

This is not just a thing that you watch.

00:25:11

This is a thing that you can be a part of

00:25:13

and that you can know people and you can be known.

00:25:15

And we have so many roles that we need

00:25:17

to be able to connect people all over

00:25:19

the country to what we're doing,

00:25:21

to God and to one another.

00:25:22

So whether that's responding to chats

00:25:24

and texts and emails from your house,

00:25:26

whether that is joining the prayer team,

00:25:27

whether that's being a leader for your area.

00:25:30

There are so many different ways to get involved.

00:25:33

And with the way the world is hurting

00:25:36

and lonely right now, we need people to help us,

00:25:38

not just be a thing that you watch,

00:25:40

but a thing that you're actually a part of.

00:25:42

- Yeah, in line with what Rachel said,

00:25:44

we live in a big world and it's full of people

00:25:46

who are hurting and need care,

00:25:48

and you just might be that person

00:25:49

who can care for them.

00:25:50

And so a large need that we have is also group leaders.

00:25:53

And for Crossroads online, that looks like camp leaders.

00:25:55

It looks like coaches and it looks like guides.

00:25:58

All these roles are centered around the very reason

00:26:00

that I started volunteering myself,

00:26:02

which is caring for other people.

00:26:04

- What I know, I'm sure you guys experience this as well.

00:26:06

I get emails every week from people who are hurting,

00:26:08

more than I could ever possibly respond to,

00:26:10

get messages through social media,

00:26:12

all sorts of places.

00:26:13

And the thing here that I want you to see

00:26:15

and what you heard in Brian's message is

00:26:16

that the church isn't us, the church is us

00:26:20

and God's designed you to help.

00:26:21

If you're somebody who has a gift of compassion,

00:26:24

the gift of listening.

00:26:25

If you're somebody who just has the ability

00:26:27

to pray for people, have patience with them,

00:26:30

we need you. The world needs you right now.

00:26:33

And if that's not you, don't worry, there's more spots.

00:26:36

God gave you a gift, and our job is

00:26:38

to help put that into action

00:26:40

no matter who you are, what God's made you to be.

00:26:43

Maybe for you, the place to serve is

00:26:45

more along the lines of our production team.

00:26:47

Good news, this is my friend Jamie,

00:26:49

who can tell us more about it.

00:26:50

- Yeah, if you would like to have an impact

00:26:53

on the very thing that people are experiencing

00:26:54

like this or other content and things that we create,

00:26:57

there's a place for you.

00:26:58

Our production team has plenty of roles

00:27:00

that are not only doable, but can have

00:27:02

a direct impact on what people experience

00:27:05

when they come across Crossroads online.

00:27:07

Whether you're a video editor

00:27:08

or you have audio experience,

00:27:10

maybe you have a background in graphic design,

00:27:12

no matter what, we have a role for you.

00:27:14

And maybe that seems a little too sophisticated

00:27:16

and that's not your bag,

00:27:17

and that's not what you're familiar with.

00:27:19

We also have simple ways for you to engage with us,

00:27:22

like commenting on our social media

00:27:24

or engaging with our social care coordinator.

00:27:26

- There's so many opportunities to jump in

00:27:28

and serve again the point is, God made you.

00:27:31

He gave you a gift.

00:27:32

We just want to help you put that into action.

00:27:34

And maybe you're somebody like me.

00:27:35

When I first came around Crossroads,

00:27:37

I was blown away that this message,

00:27:40

this idea that God made me to change the world

00:27:43

and Crossroads was letting me just go do it.

00:27:45

If you're somebody who has that same sort of like,

00:27:47

"Oh my gosh, I think this is what I feel called to,"

00:27:50

you need to meet my friend Victor

00:27:52

because Victor leads everything we do

00:27:53

with online church in terms of changing the world.

00:27:56

- Yes, so like Kyle said,

00:27:58

we're all about changing the world,

00:28:00

and that means that you and I and us,

00:28:02

we get to be a part of that world change.

00:28:05

And maybe that could be a role like

00:28:07

supporting folks that are wanting to serve

00:28:09

their local community or maybe people that

00:28:11

are looking to how can I have even

00:28:12

a bigger impact in the entire nation

00:28:14

or in the entire world?

00:28:15

So that could be an opportunity for you

00:28:17

to engage in and coach other folks.

00:28:20

It could also be that after the disaster,

00:28:22

we actually can go and help folks

00:28:23

that have been impacted, either folks

00:28:25

from our community or folks for just

00:28:27

the communities out there that have been impacted

00:28:29

by an earthquake or hurricane,

00:28:31

and so many other things.

00:28:33

And it world change seems intimidating,

00:28:35

but maybe communicating about world change

00:28:37

is something that you're interested in,

00:28:39

then maybe you can enroll with us

00:28:41

in brand and relationship marketing,

00:28:42

just even writing and editing articles.

00:28:45

- So many different ways to serve.

00:28:46

What you've heard is just a very like small taste of it.

00:28:50

We have over 400 different volunteer roles.

00:28:53

And I just have this belief about you

00:28:55

that this is a church that God's called you

00:28:58

to be a part of, that God's wired you to plug in

00:29:02

and to help and to serve.

00:29:03

You don't have to serve as part of Crossroads.

00:29:05

You can serve in so many different ways.

00:29:07

But here's the thing, Jesus is the head of the church,

00:29:11

and our job is to exist to help you plug in and serve.

00:29:15

These are the roles that we have.

00:29:16

We would love to help you find your spot.

00:29:18

You can go to online.Crossroads.net

00:29:21

and you can browse all 400 different roles there.

00:29:25

400 different roles, it's amazing to me.

00:29:27

We'd love to help you get plugged in.

00:29:29

We'd love to engage with you.

00:29:30

We're looking forward to emails, text,

00:29:31

phone calls with you, zooms,

00:29:33

whatever it takes to help you find your place.

00:29:36

Again, Online.Crossroads.net,

00:29:39

check out all of the roles.

00:29:42

We'll see you next week on Crossroads.

00:29:45

- Life is unpredictable.

00:29:48

So when the world is anything

00:29:49

but secure, stable and sure, we can be rock solid.

00:29:55

Come to Crossroads and find out

00:29:58

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