Balancing Work and Spiritual Mission in Life

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1. "Has work and stress ever followed you when you were trying to get a little bit of alone time? That just happened to Jesus. So Jesus, of course, draws upon his compassion. He teaches them for hours, and then he performs one of the most famous miracles in the scriptures, the feeding of the 5,000. As you were like, I know this. I know this from Sunday school as a child. That sermon is preached all the time. And it's amazing. It's amazing to think about this sermon." [01:01:56] (29 seconds) ( | | )

2. "Good things, the good works of God, are always connected to my time with God. Let me say that again. Good things, the good works of God, are always connected to my time with God. I don't walk on water because I've learned how to walk on water. I walk on water because in the time that I spent with God, God says, your friends are over there. That's all I have to say." [01:04:42] (27 seconds) ( | | )

3. "What if we saw our work as mission, instead of just our work? That we go to work, and then we get time off. But what if we saw all of our life as mission? What if instead of trying to do the work that we do, we did the work that we do? What if instead of trying to make money or make a living, which I think is the worst phrase that anyone ever created, why do I have to go make a living instead of just live?" [01:06:05] (25 seconds) ( | | )

4. "If we don't connect with the one whose mission it is, then it does feel like work. And we're spending our entire lives figuring out how to do the balance and never doing it right. But instead, we can heal our whole life, make it one life, make it one missional life. That's why we take communion. And that's why we're about to do that today. This is that moment where we can connect with God and to recognize the source of our mission." [01:07:31] (32 seconds) ( | | )

5. "There are people who will try and take that love from us, to criticize our love, to tell us that our love is to this or it's to that. But as we come and we take this cup, we are proclaiming to the world that no one can take our love. No one can take our unity. No one can take the fact that we belong in the heart of God." [01:19:36] (28 seconds) ( | | )

### Quotes for members

1. "Jesus didn't bask in the miracle. If I had just fed around 10,000 plus people with five loaves of bread and two fish, I would have sat on that for a little bit, and I would have been like, okay. I would have made a video like Kendall did, and I would have shown you all the things, like, and how amazing that would have been, came and told you all about it. But Jesus didn't bask in the miracle. What you get in the passage is that he immediately sent his disciples away and went off to pray." [01:03:10] (31 seconds) ( | | )

2. "Jesus knew that he needed time to be alone in the parade, to find strength in his own heart, to have God's power to draw upon, to fulfill the mission to which he was going. I know what the mission is, and I know that God is going to guide us on the mission. When Jesus was alone, I want you to hear this. When Jesus was alone, it wasn't because there was no more sick, that everybody was healed and full at the moment. The mission was still clear. But Jesus went off to pray." [01:06:05] (24 seconds) ( | | )

3. "For Jesus, he didn't have a work-life balance as we understand it. Jesus was on a mission, and he needed to draw upon the source of that mission. I'll ask you this question, and this is what I want you to meditate on through this week. What if we saw our work as mission, instead of just our work? That we go to work, and then we get time off. But what if we saw all of our life as mission?" [01:06:05] (30 seconds) ( | | )

4. "It is so important for us to gather together in these moments, to just take a minute, to take in the body, to take in the blood, because it reminds us of this mission that we are called to be, but not only that, it reminds us that we are one, because we take the same bread, and we take the same cup, regardless of who we are, regardless of what we came into today, regardless of our traditions, or our long-held belief, or our politics, or the things we like, or the things we don't like, or the things we don't like, or the things we don't like." [01:12:31] (33 seconds) ( | | )

5. "We find ourselves grateful, oh love, to be able to have these moments, to be reminded of our grace, of our welcome, of our belonging, of the power that we have when we connect ourselves with you and we link arms with each other. There is nothing that we cannot do together. No mission that cannot be accomplished. No love that is too big. We thank you for it. And we thank you for this beautiful time that we have had together to remember good." [01:20:41] (47 seconds) ( | | )

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