Embracing Joy: God's Love and the Gift of Fun
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Guys, you got to think back to middle school, like when you're at recess, you're trying to get on a team, and God's like, I pick you first. Each one of us, you are my prize. I pick you first. I pick you first. I pick you first. That's what we're singing about, that God loves us. He picks us first, before and in front of everything." [21:45] (22 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "So let us think of communion today as a looking forward to the great feast, the great backyard banquet of family hanging out, having a fun summer afternoon. Amen? So let's come forward and just rejoice in the love that the Father's pouring out on us." [22:21] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "So we're just talking about like mild kind of versions of these things. So, but there is, there's something really interesting is that there's been a shift. So Jonathan Haidt and his book called The Anxious Generation. I should have put a slide. It's a very good book. He says that over the last 20, almost 40 years, there's been a shift from a play childhood, a play-based childhood where you have independent play to what he calls a phone-based." [42:19] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "So we need to learn how to have more fun. So, take your paper. Now, fold it, so all the folds are on the inside. Fold it in half, down that crease. Okay, and you can kind of give it an extra little crease. So it should be like this. And all the folds should be on the inside. Don't do the advanced way where it's all on the outside." [55:29] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "So, we need to learn how to have fun because fun is something that will last. So, be fun. I know, this kind of sounds like a weird thing, but be fun. Learn how to have fun. How to have fun. How do you learn how to have fun? Go on the game nights. So, there's different times where we gather together and have game nights or hang out. Like, go to them, even if you don't feel like it. Just go." [57:11] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "So we are continuing our sermon series on loves that will last. Loves that will last for eternity. What are the things that God has made that will stay with us forever? That's what we're talking about. Last week, Mike preached about how God has created a world, a world full of beauty, and how beauty is something that is going to last. Not beauty that we own and hold or hoard to ourselves, but beauty that we share, that we live within." [34:10] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "So why do kids like risky play like this? Why do kids like risky play? Well, it helps them to grow. It's like necessary for their development is to do this risky play. It helps them to grow in confidence in themselves and what they're able to do and in competence, not incompetence. I meant they grow in space. Space competence. So they're growing in their competence of being able to do different things." [38:35] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "So there's dancing with all of his might, there were shouts, there's trumpet playing, there was leaping, there's feasting and dancing. A lot of times when we hear this story, we think like the whole point is to learn how to worship, how to be undignified, how not to worry about what people are thinking of us. And those are all great lessons that we should learn out of this. But the thing we often miss. David was having fun, and he's a model for us about how to have fun, about dancing, running around, and doing all sorts of things." [54:42] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "So having fun is a love that's going to last. Because having fun is connected to worshiping God. It's connected to celebration. It's connected to joy. And in the presence of God is joy. In the presence of God is strength and fullness and fun." [55:29] (18 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "So, learn how to have fun. Play board games. Play card games. Play party games. Charades. Be silly. And I just want to say something to all of our youth. It's because you're right on that hinge between, like, I don't want to be a kid anymore because I want to be an adult. So, then sometimes you're like, oh, it's so below me to have that kind of silly fun. So, I just want to tell all of you youth and some of you adults who believe that, like, that is wrong. Like, you can have fun all throughout your life. Amen?" [58:04] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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1. "Guys, you got to think back to middle school, like when you're at recess, you're trying to get on a team, and God's like, I pick you first. Each one of us, you are my prize. I pick you first. I pick you first. I pick you first. That's what we're singing about, that God loves us. He picks us first, before and in front of everything." [21:45] (22 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "So let us think of communion today as a looking forward to the great feast, the great backyard banquet of family hanging out, having a fun summer afternoon. Amen? So let's come forward and just rejoice in the love that the Father's pouring out on us." [22:21] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "So we're just talking about like mild kind of versions of these things. So, but there is, there's something really interesting is that there's been a shift. So Jonathan Haidt and his book called The Anxious Generation. I should have put a slide. It's a very good book. He says that over the last 20, almost 40 years, there's been a shift from a play childhood, a play-based childhood where you have independent play to what he calls a phone-based." [42:19] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "So we need to learn how to have more fun. So, take your paper. Now, fold it, so all the folds are on the inside. Fold it in half, down that crease. Okay, and you can kind of give it an extra little crease. So it should be like this. And all the folds should be on the inside. Don't do the advanced way where it's all on the outside." [55:29] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "So, we need to learn how to have fun because fun is something that will last. So, be fun. I know, this kind of sounds like a weird thing, but be fun. Learn how to have fun. How to have fun. How do you learn how to have fun? Go on the game nights. So, there's different times where we gather together and have game nights or hang out. Like, go to them, even if you don't feel like it. Just go." [57:11] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "So we are continuing our sermon series on loves that will last. Loves that will last for eternity. What are the things that God has made that will stay with us forever? That's what we're talking about. Last week, Mike preached about how God has created a world, a world full of beauty, and how beauty is something that is going to last. Not beauty that we own and hold or hoard to ourselves, but beauty that we share, that we live within." [34:10] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "So why do kids like risky play like this? Why do kids like risky play? Well, it helps them to grow. It's like necessary for their development is to do this risky play. It helps them to grow in confidence in themselves and what they're able to do and in competence, not incompetence. I meant they grow in space. Space competence. So they're growing in their competence of being able to do different things." [38:35] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "So there's dancing with all of his might, there were shouts, there's trumpet playing, there was leaping, there's feasting and dancing. A lot of times when we hear this story, we think like the whole point is to learn how to worship, how to be undignified, how not to worry about what people are thinking of us. And those are all great lessons that we should learn out of this. But the thing we often miss. David was having fun, and he's a model for us about how to have fun, about dancing, running around, and doing all sorts of things." [54:42] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "So having fun is a love that's going to last. Because having fun is connected to worshiping God. It's connected to celebration. It's connected to joy. And in the presence of God is joy. In the presence of God is strength and fullness and fun." [55:29] (18 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "So, learn how to have fun. Play board games. Play card games. Play party games. Charades. Be silly. And I just want to say something to all of our youth. It's because you're right on that hinge between, like, I don't want to be a kid anymore because I want to be an adult. So, then sometimes you're like, oh, it's so below me to have that kind of silly fun. So, I just want to tell all of you youth and some of you adults who believe that, like, that is wrong. Like, you can have fun all throughout your life. Amen?" [58:04] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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