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4-18-19 Thursday

Jeremy you did good bro… way to come through in a pinch. Now wear it with pride… and the rest of you, mind your own business this is just between Me and Jeremy.

 

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Shout out today to Ryan… binge listener from yesterday! Enjoy big man, please don’t get paint on my podcast. 

 

The TDA conference is smoking hot! $25, in Chicago, Altered 5 blues band is playing, great topics and great time! Mark it down. 

 

“Somebody told me that one in four Americans believe they don’t have friends,” said Cal Fussman. “And that they don’t belong to communities. You’d be surprised how more and more people are putting earbuds in their ears.”

 

4 ways to connect with others as seen by the disciple with Jesus:

 

   -  Ask questions

Break the ice. Be the first one to pursue new relationships.

How many times at the gym I see someone who you could second guess who they are. Stuck up, cocky, brash, egotistical, insecure etc…

and then you go up and talk to them and they break a smile, laugh and are not at all what people may have thought! 

 

Everyone thought they knew who Zachaeus was, but they didn’t. Jesus calls on him, hey lets eat dinner at your house. 

 

  -  Go to new places and meet new people

Routine kills connections- you need connections to meet new people.

Try a new bible study at a different church

Try a Saturday night service at another church

Get involved in a para church organization

 

  -  Serve others, even those you don’t know. 

Find ways to serve in your community. People who are willing to give of themselves are more open to giving themselves to others. 

 

Jesus constantly had the disciples in situations of serving. Feed the poor, cast out demons, heal the sick, pass out bread, go fishing for a coin, Go get a colt, go get a boat

 

  -  Check the ego and be a child (curios is charming and engaging and dismantling) 

Don’t talk about yourself.

Talk about them, ask them questions.

Ask them why

Ask them how they feel or felt about that.

 

Jesus gets the disciples alone and asks them “who do the people say that I am?”

That could bring some hurtful and uncomfortable answers… but it was curiosity at its highest. 

 

  -  Go beyond basic questions to build intimacy and trust.  

Enough of the what’s your favorite color, food, music

What was your hardest day in your life?

Who was your biggest influence and why?

How do you think you are as a parent?

 

James and John ask Jesus a pretty intimate question: Can we sit at your right and left hand in heaven?

The disciples all asked Jesus at the last supper “is it I who will betray you”?