How to Choose Adventure | The Adventurous Life Week 1

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Hi, I'm Brian Tome, Senior Pastor at Crossroads.

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Hey, new series we're starting today called The Adventuresome Life.

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An adventure I've been increasingly embarking on

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is the adventure of racial reconciliation,

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the adventure of noticing that there are systems of injustice

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that exist in our country

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that make it more difficult for people who don't have my skin tone.

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There's an event I'm going to be a part of and Crossroads is.

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And I hope you can get there.

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If you can get to Cincinnati that would be great.

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July 11, it's call Unified: A Prayer Walk

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We're going to walk from Sawyer Point to Fountain Square

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praying for the racial situation in our country

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Churches from all over the place are going to be coming in for this.

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And we're just going to be praying, not demonstrating,

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we're going to be praying.

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In the Bible, when people walk powerful things happen.

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People walked around the city of Jericho and walls fell down.

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The apostles would take walks at different cities.

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We're going to take a walk

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to see if God doesn't change and heal our hearts and heal our land.

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We're going to have more information for you via social media

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and other ways, but just put it on your calendar.

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Please, be with me July 11, 10:00 in Cincinnati.

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There is a reason you aren't satisfied with the ordinary.

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You were made for adventure.

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A life with God doesn't have to be boring.

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It can be a pulse pumping, heart pounding life of purpose,

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and we can guide you there.

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The adventure awaiting you is bigger

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and more life giving than you could ever imagine.

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Join us every weekend for 30 minutes of challenge,

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hope and encouragement to guide you on your spiritual adventure.

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Hey, everyone, and welcome to Crossroads.

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My name is Hannah and I am so glad that you're with us today.

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Today we start a new series called The Adventurous Life

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and our Senior Pastor, Brian Tome, is going to talk to us about

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how when we push past our comfort zones our lives can change.

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Man, 2020 has felt like a real kick in the teeth

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with global pandemics, racial injustice, political turmoil, and even killer hornets.

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You might be asking yourself, "Adventure? Hey, I'm just trying to survive."

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Well, even in the face of all of that, we still believe

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that God has adventure for each of you

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and we're going to dig into that a little bit today

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You may have noticed some changes to our look and to our feel.

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Today marks the beginning of a new adventure for Crossroads.

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It's not just a new logo, but it's who we are.

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We are spiritual outfitters that are here to equip

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and guide you along your adventure with God.

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You'll hear more about that at the end of today's episode,

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or you can go to crossroads.net/spiritual outfitters.

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Let's get started.

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Adventure and church aren't normally two words that go together.

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But at Crossroads we don't believe in doing church as usual.

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In fact, we believe that a life with God

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can be a pulse-pumping, heart-pounding life of purpose

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and our job is to guide you there.

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The history-making adventurers who explored new worlds, climbed Mt. Everest,

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fought through jungles and crossed deserts didn't get there alone.

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They used outfitters to equip them

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for journeys full of rough terrain and dangerous obstacle.

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An outfitter is a place where you can both get gear

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and person who guides you to your destination.

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At Crossroads we are spiritual outfitters

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because as great as those historic adventures were,

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they're nothing compared to the spiritual journey God wants to take you on.

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So instead of tents, Yetis, and pickaxes,

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we'll gear you up with spiritual training, life-changing trips,

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connection to other people on the journey,

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motivation, inspiration, and challenge

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from guides who have been where you want to go

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and can help get you there.

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We have the tools you'll need because the adventure awaiting you

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is bigger and more life giving than you could ever imagine

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Crossroads Church, your guide to the adventurous life.

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- No matter who you are, no matter where you live,

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no matter how old you are,

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no matter where you like, what you don't like,

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all of us are born for and want adventure.

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For most of my life, I've followed where

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other people thought my life should be,

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and that isn't very adventurous at all.

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I did what I did in high school because I was trying to please

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and fit in with a bunch of people

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who I shouldn't have been trying to please as much as I did.

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I went to college because my parents said I should go to college

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because they were big college people.

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I went to seminary in large part because

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other people I respected went to seminary.

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I used to teach what I taught because I wanted

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my seminary professor to approve of what I thought

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and what I taught.

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The way that churches should operate, so I thought decades ago,

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were the way churches were supposed to be operating.

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It's just like, here's the plan.

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Just kind of trying to do this thing.

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Crossroads comes under a good level of criticism because

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people understand we're not trying to do what other churches do.

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It wonderful they do what they do.

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We're not just trying to have good music

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and halfway decent preaching.

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We're not trying to follow what the seminary professor says

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or the Christian author or whoever,

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we're trying to follow what Jesus says

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and that is going to be an adventure.

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We're on this body water.

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And much of Jesus's time recorded in the New Testament

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was spent on the Sea of Galilee.

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He would regularly say, "Follow me, follow me."

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Jesus says that same thing to you and I today, "Follow me."

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Not follow a culture wants, not follow what America wants,

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and follow what your parents want,

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not follow what all your circle of influencers want,

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not follow what the bloggers want.

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Can you hear the unique voice of Jesus calling you

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to something that's different that nobody you know has done,

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that those people don't understand?

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Crossroads is a bit adventurous,

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so we start calling ourselves outfitters.

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We're trying to outfit you for your adventure life.

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That's why our colors and pics are the way they are.

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We're trying to give you a picture of what your life could be like.

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We've been very adventuresome for a long, long time

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as a church, man, we started

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the largest privately funded AIDS hospice in South Africa

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and it failed a few years later, by the way.

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Yeah, adventures don't always go comfortably

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and they don't always have wins.

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That's why we sponsor thousands and thousands of children

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we feed and educate every day in Bolivia and Nicaragua.

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That's why we have mission trips and service projects.

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It's why we've got an Amazon Prime

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with something called Phantom Lake.

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I mean, who in the world tries to get something on Amazon Prime?

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It's an adventure to do that and to woo people in.

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It's why we talk about the things that we do,

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it's why we give you the opportunities you can have,

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because we want you to tap into the life

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that God has for you to see your adventure.

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It might not be boats, it might not be hiking,

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it might not be rappelling, motorcycling,

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but there's something more that you and I need

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that's beyond our COVID-19 social distancing lives.

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Have you heard about that writer, Forrest Fenn,

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that just came out recently that years ago

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he had buried a million dollars worth of gold and jewelry

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and he had hidden clues about where to find it in his writings.

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People have been going bonkers over this.

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There was a pastor from Colorado who actually died

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trying to get deep in the Rocky Mountains to find it.

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There were other people who had to get rescued.

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Finally, someone recently got it.

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And Forrest Fenn said he was happy for the person,

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but also bummed that the adventure was over.

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Jesus says the book of John 10:10:

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Our world is stealing from us. It's killing us.

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It's grinding us down to a nub,

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and you and I were meant for much more.

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We're meant to be alive, meant to see, meant to feel,

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meant to experience actually Jesus

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having a greater control of our lives.

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And He actually likes things like boats.

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Go!

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Woo-hoo, oh, yeah!

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There's something about being outside your normal element.

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Whenever you're outside of your normal element it's adventurous.

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That's what I want for you.

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That's a big part of why Crossroads exists,

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to get you outside your normal element,

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to give you adventure.

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We've got to do that to live a full life

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and to experience God and all His ways.

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I've only been doing this here

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for a couple two years right now,

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but I've been into this and camping and motorcycling.

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It's what pushes you outside your comfort zone.

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Here's the thing, whatever that thing is,

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that's not even the thing.

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Because thing we're going to talk about in a moment

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are the really hard things that change your life,

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the really hard things to change other people's lives.

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It's the things that go beyond and push us

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from being who we are right now to being a different person

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under the covering authority and approval of Jesus.

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And He actually approves of having fun

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and He actually approves of you doing some difficult things.

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Sometimes you've gotta throw away the rope.

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Ahh.

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Here I go, see how it goes. Ready?

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Until you get off script,

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until you get uncomfortable,

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until you start doing something

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that you aren't seeing other people doing,

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you're not living the adventuresome life.

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You're just living the life that everybody else is living,

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just trying to do it incrementally more efficient.

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That's not life. It's not adventure.

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It's not what God has for you.

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And to understand what He has for you

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and how to go through it there are two questions

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you've got to be able to ask yourself

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that we're going to look at in just a moment.

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In that verse we talked about,

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about Jesus coming to give us life, life abundantly.

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The crazy thing is He actually wants more for your life

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than you want for your life.

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He has higher expectations of your life

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than you have for your life.

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He's got great dreams for life and greater plans

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for you life then probably you have for your life.

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When he says, "Follow me,"

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He's inviting us to go someplace we're not right now.

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When He says, "Follow me," He's trying to tell us

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there's a different and better place for you to be,

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a different and better thing for you to do.

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You might say, "Well, I'd love to do that

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if heard him say, 'Follow me,'

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but I don't hear a voice from God

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or handwriting up in the up in the sky."

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When Jesus says follow him, it normally comes --

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there's a thought that comes to your mind

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that you go, "Oh, man," it won't leave you.

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And you think that's the kind of thought

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that God would approve of it.

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It might be counsel somebody gives you

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and the hair stands up in the back of your neck

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or your stomach grumbles because you think,

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"Oh, I don't want to do --"

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That's probably Jesus saying follow Him.

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There's something else to do and a place to go

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and you think that God wants to take you there,

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but you're concerned.

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That's adventure. That's life.

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And unless you're a little bit on edge about it,

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it's probably not the voice of God.

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It's probably not adventure.

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In the Book of Matthew 8 we see some people

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come to Jesus thinking that they want to follow Him

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and have a fun, nice life.

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And He's got some wakeup words for them.

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Here's what says in Matthew 8:

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Remember I told there was two things.

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The first is you say, yes. You move, you say yes.

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One person says, "I'm going to follow you."

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And Jesus says, "Are you sure you know what you're in for?

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Because I don't got a bunch of bed and breakfasts

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lined up from here to Jerusalem.

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Foxes know where theu're sleeping every night.

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We're not going to know where they're sleeping.

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Jesus is not homeless, but He's on a journey,

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He's on adventure.

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If people are going will follow Him.,

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they're going to have unpredictable days.

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He says, "Are you sure?"

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Another guy comes to Him and says,

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"Hey, I'll follow you, but first you gotta wait for my dad, me to bury my dad."

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And Jesus says, "Let the dead bury their own dead."

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This sounds like really tough.

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Wait a minute, I thought Jesus was the love guy.

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He's telling this guy not to attend his dad's funeral?

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Not quite. What this guy is really saying is,

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"As soon as my dad dies,

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I'm going to get an inheritance.

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I'm going to get set financially,

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and then we're good to go."

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And Jesus says, "No, you don't want me.

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You don't want it."

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You've got to want it.

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You've got to be willing

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to to push things aside in your life

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and not have some good things to have the adventure,

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to willingly embrace some unpredictability.

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I love interacting with people at Crossroad

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s who embrace unpredictability and go forward

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when they sense that God is saying, "Follow me."

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I've seen people start businesses

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and leave corporate America because they felt like,

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"God wants me to do this, not just for my family,

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but because I wanted to employ people."

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I love seeing people around Crossroads.

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We've got a huge, huge adoption contingency.

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It's amazing. There's some people I look, I go,

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"Wait a minute, you've got another kid?"

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"Yeah. We adopted another one,"

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or, "Yeah, we're fostering another one?"

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It's an adventure to take another life into your house

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and take responsibility for them and try to grow them up.

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It's an amazing adventure.

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Here's an adventure for you that's not happening very often.

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How about getting married? (gasps)

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"Getting married? Oh, my God. What is this, the 19th century?"

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No, it's actually a 21st century and it's amazing.

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We're getting married later and later and less and less,

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not because we have a big philosophical thing

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against marriage, but because we're freaked out.

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It's an adventure to walk up and talk to somebody.

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Hey, take your life by control.

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Take it by the throat.

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Don't do what everybody else is doing,

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keep pushing their life off.

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I'll tell you what,

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I'm so glad I got started early on marriage.

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I'm so glad I got started relatively early on in kids.

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Here I am able to enjoy life like

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at a friend's house on a lake. It's amazing.

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It's crazy.

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I'm so thankful for the early adventures God took me on,

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having me move from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati

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to start a church with eleven people,

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no denominational support, no mother church support.

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I'm so thankful for those times when I took a step

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and I didn't know exactly where my foot was going to land.

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That's an adventure, that's following Jesus.

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That's getting to a new place,

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Now, these are big things that we're looking at right now,

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but we've got to be able to bridge the gap

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in these big, huge life decisions,

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which are very, very important to normal day to day decisions.

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What are you saying no to right now that He wants you to do?

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What is it? Maybe it's one of the big things.

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Maybe you're saying no in a relatively small thing

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that God wants to do in your life right now.

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Let's talk about the normal stuff.

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- When we get out of our comfort zone

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and get serious about following God,

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we can go to a new level.

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Following Jesus has definitely been an adventure for me.

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And let me tell you, I have experienced Him

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in amazing ways when I'm willing to step aside

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and get out of my comfort zone.

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One of the ways that we follow Jesus

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and say yes to Him is by giving and tithing.

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If you want to do that, you can go to Crossroads.net/give

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or text Crossroads to 313131.

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We're more than just videos on a screen.

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We're about getting connected

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and growing with people where we live.

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There's a little bit more on that later,

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but for now, let's continue with Brian's teaching

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and see how everyday decisions we make

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can take us on an adventure closer to God.

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- The second thing to do is to focus on day to day decisions,

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not the mountain tops.

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Wakeboarding is awesome.

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Yeah, I have a friend who's got a house down here and everything

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and motorcycling or if rappelling is your thing

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or long distance hikes or whatever.

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All those things are great, but I've met

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a good number of people

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who medicate themselves through those things.

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I've met a good number of people who are escaping

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difficult, adventurous decisions they need to make

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in their normal day to day life and instead

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filling the void with all kinds of adrenaline activities.

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I'm here at a table and you know,

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it's around a table like this where life goes forward,

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where conversations happen that are a bit intense.

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When you're with your kids, with your friends,

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with your spouse, where you're interact with one another

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and you're saying things that are important and of meaning.

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You know COVID-19 has lasted longer

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than any of us thought it would.

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Come on, can we -- can we please move on?

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I'm not sure what we have to move on,

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but all of us are social distanced out. Right?

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And I've seen evidence

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that it's taking major toll on marriages.

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Nobody is meant to be in the same house

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with somebody 24/7 for months on end.

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If you're married, you may have your marriage

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in massive tension right now.

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I'm around our house all the time doing Zoom calls,

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just like the average person, and I'm seeing

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more things in Lib than I normally would.

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And she's bothering me in a number of ways.

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She's seeing more things in me than she would normally see,

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and I'm bothering her in a number of ways.

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There's just natural more tension and friction taking place.

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If you're with your roommates,

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probably the same thing is happening.

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And so the adventuresome thing would be

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to lean in around the table and say, "I see this.

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Can we talk about it?"

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To lean in and encourage,

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to lean in and actually have a maybe word of correction

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saying, "You need to change this or stop doing this."

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The adventurous life is when you make

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deliberate choices in the mundane environments

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like around your dinner table.

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When you say yes to the conversations

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Jesus wants you to say yes to,

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when you say yes to actually not bouncing checks

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and not overspending, that's an adventure.

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Getting out of credit card debt is a massive adventure

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that more of us need to go on

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to set yourself up for the future.

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Doing a shoot like this is an adventurer.

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It would be way, way easier for me to give you my points standing behind a podium with notes.

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I've done that before. I'll do it again.

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But we're doing this because we think

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it's going to be able to be more helpful for you.

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It's much harder. It's much more difficult.

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My life verse is Colossians 1:28-29

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where the apostle Paul says that his aim

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is to present everybody complete in Christ

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through his teaching and coaching and encouragement,

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be able to take a life, hold it up to God,

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say, "Here you go. Here you go.

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I've impacted this person to look very, very similar to Jesus."

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And he says in verse 29:

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He says "strenuously contend,"

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not, "Eh, it comes natural and I just like to do it."

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No, he doesn't say that.

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He says, "Well I just kind of -- I just kind of what feels comfortable in the moment when I'm with people.

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No, he strenuously does the adventuresome thing

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around the table,

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strenuously does the adventuresome thing

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in making calls, making encouragements in people's lives.

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It's this strenuous thing that's going to set your life up,

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not the easy thing.

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It's this strenuous thing that's going to be an adventure,

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not the comfortable thing.

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It's this strenuous thing

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that's going to set you up for another level,

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not the current mode that you're doing right now

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that everybody understands and everybody likes.

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If you want something different,

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you're going to have to do something different.

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And it's going to be difficult.

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You're going to have to powerfully go after it

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with all the power of Christ.

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And you oughta -- you have to want

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the strenuous life, the adventurous life.

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Jesus wants that life for you. Do you want it?

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Jesus wants more for you. Do you want it?

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But you have to start by hearing Him,

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by trusting Him, by following Him

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in the small day to day decisions.

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If you say yes to Jesus and those things,

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get ready for a life that's on the next level.

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Let me pray for you right now.

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God, I pray for more lives to be in tune

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where You are, to be going where You're going

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and to be feeling what You're feeling.

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I pray for us to be able to just drop off,

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drop away the things have been hindering us,

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drop away the false expectations

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that other people have put on us.

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We want to give You our life

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and we want the life that you want for us.

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We commit that to happen this week.

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And I pray these things

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according to the character and identity of Jesus.

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What we're gonna do right now is we're also going to sing to Him,

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sing with voices all over the country,

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telling Him that He's important,

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telling him that we want to be closer to Him.

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Let's do that right now.

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At Crossroads we believe the church is meant to be a movement,

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a community that always moves towards

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greater adventure with God

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by following Jesus wherever He leads.

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The song was written as an anthem for us

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to raise on our journey together.

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We trust Him and where He leads us, we will go there.

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I don't know about you, but I want to go on an adventure!

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I want to do something different!

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This week try to make a little choice that brings you closer to God

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and invites Him into your everyday life

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To help with that you can download the Crossroads App

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to get weekly encouragement and challenge about The Adventurous Life,

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encouragement from the weekly teaching,

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We're here to help you on your journey

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and whether this is your first time at Crossroads,

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or maybe you've been around here for a long time,

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we'd still love to help you wherever you are in your journey.

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You can go to crossroads.net

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to chat with a real person to help pray for you or find your next step.

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And you can take that next step with God by giving to fuel life change.

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You can text CROSSROADS to 313131

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or go to crossroads.net/give.

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We mentioned earlier about our new look and new colors and logo.

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Here's a quick take on the heart behind all that.

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In a rented middle school with loud music and strong coffee, Crossroads was born.

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Sure, some things looked different; the colors were pink and teal.

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The Kid's Club was called Kingdom Korner.

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And for some reason our teachers strapped these huge cellphones to their belts.

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But the DNA of Crossroads was exactly the same.

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- We're a little different.

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- Committed people working together, inspired by God to change the world.

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In 2000 that pink and teal got turned into blue and black

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and Crossroads kept growing.

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In 2006 we got rid of this thing and added this thing.

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But today is a new day.

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Crossroads is now a church with

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well over 100,000 people engaged in this growing movement.

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We need something that will stand out in the crowd

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After months at the drawing board, we're excited to unveil the brand new look.

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Introducing the Crossroads of 2020,

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a bold new approach that matches the bold vision God has given us.

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One where we lock arms on the adventure of following Jesus.

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Our mission hasn't changed, we help regular people

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with real God questions find biblical answers for life

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We call that being a spiritual outfitter for the journey of faith.

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Where will that journey take us?

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God only knows, but we're ready to run.

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Let's do this thing. Crossroads Church, your guide to the

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Adventurous life. That was awesome.

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Join us next week when Brian talks about

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the one key to an adventurous life that most people overlook

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And stay tuned right now

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to learn how you can get connected to your local community.

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I hope you guys have a great week.

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Crossroads has communities all the country

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and I want to help you get connected.

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I'm Greg Aukerman

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and I lead an online church team whose job is doing exactly that.

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We also have locations in Cincinnati, central Kentucky, Dayton, Oxford, and Columbus.

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I'd love to help you find your people, get support and prayer,

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and take the next step on your spiritual adventure.

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Connect with us at crossroads.net/locations

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