Embracing Vulnerability: The Power of Being Known
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Could it be that as we're talking about the brokenness of being known by other humans that as we put that on to God is that he's actually the one that knows us best. Knows the most about us and loves us more than we could ever imagine." [34:41]
2. "We are wired to connect. That is who we are. That is who we are created to be, is that we are wired to connect. In fact, see that ordering in Genesis. And then it continues as God is establishing humanity and establishing humankind and then giving them orders and instructions of how they're supposed to interact with God." [43:07]
3. "I believe that the farther away from the one who made you and knows you will make you feel less known. And we will then lash out in kind, because we believe that sin and that Satan are not real. And that that is not where this battle is. This battle is, is that if I can solve the Democrats' problem or the Republicans' problem, then we're going to have peace. And my friends, this side of heaven, we won't. The problem is spiritual." [53:15]
4. "You are known. You are known by the one who matters. J.I. Packer says it this way. He says, what matters supremely, therefore, is not in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it, the fact that he knows me. I'm graven on his palms of his hands. I'm never out of his mind. All that knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative of knowing me." [57:25]
5. "We are born into sin because of our humanity, and yet while God created us, we are still subject to death on the side of heaven. And he repaired that through the life of Jesus. Isaiah 53, 4, and 5 talks about Jesus coming and taking that on, that he was even considered... He took on our sin. He took on our shame. He took on our knowing. And it even says that he was cursed for that. He took all of that on so that we could remember that he was in a knowing relationship with God." [01:01:54]
### Quotes for Members
1. "It is interesting even walking out here there's just there's a weight to this and and I'm it's an honor that we can sit in this with you that we get to have this conversation together. This is the second in a 12 part series that we're going to be talking about and actually for the next couple weeks we're going to be talking about the different lies that we believe of ourselves. Pastor Larry kicked it off last week so fantastically. If you haven't had a chance to listen to Pastor Larry's message last week on it's okay to not be okay. I would really encourage you to because it frames the conversation and what we're going to be doing this summer." [35:36]
2. "So then with that I would say the one part that is very important for you to know right now is as he talked with medical professionals they really encouraged us to identify as we're talking about this idea of mental health. That there's four different buckets that we really operate out of and they're this they're situational clinical medical and spiritual and I think those four buckets what they help us to do is not only to recognize and identify what it is that we're going through but it's also to recognize that some of them some of the things that we are struggling with when it comes to mental health really are situational. Is it a time it will this pass. There's parts where it's clinical that there's somebody that I need to sit and I need to talk with. It's medical that there is wiring in my brain. And there's a chemical imbalance that I need to identify and then I think that there's a spiritual element that we're going to be leaning in heavily to this." [36:27]
3. "I think it's so wise that we are in this mental health series starting right here here with specifically this idea of knowing because sin and our lives are in this constant cycle of wanting to be known by God and other people, then covering that and then manufacturing a story and a narrative of what I want you to know about me. When actually, if I were to just go back to what is fully known, but the problem is if you fully knew that, then you wouldn't love me and you wouldn't accept me. And so then that becomes this very ugly cycle that I don't know if you've ever lived in that, but I don't know if you've ever lived in that. But I sure know that I have." [41:51]
4. "I believe that the farther away from the one who made you and knows you will make you feel less known. And we will then lash out in kind, because we believe that sin and that Satan are not real. And that that is not where this battle is. This battle is, is that if I can solve the Democrats' problem or the Republicans' problem, then we're going to have peace. And my friends, this side of heaven, we won't. The problem is spiritual. And so then the second lie is this, is that Satan is not real, but he is. And it is a spiritual battle, not one of flesh and blood." [53:15]
5. "I think it's interesting that in the wilderness, in the Old Testament, that at some points in times, it was only 10 to 12 miles wide, which housed millions of people. So you know that as this whole large group of people wandered for 40 years, they believe that they wandered over 3 million miles of wandering over 40 years. You got to believe that as they're wandering, they're like, I've seen that rock before. I've been here before. Maybe God's trying to get me to know and to learn something. Here's what he was trying to tell them. I haven't forgotten you. And as you may know, that's a painful lesson to learn sometimes." [58:50]
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1. "Could it be that as we're talking about the brokenness of being known by other humans that as we put that on to God is that he's actually the one that knows us best. Knows the most about us and loves us more than we could ever imagine." [34:41]
2. "We are wired to connect. That is who we are. That is who we are created to be, is that we are wired to connect. In fact, see that ordering in Genesis. And then it continues as God is establishing humanity and establishing humankind and then giving them orders and instructions of how they're supposed to interact with God." [43:07]
3. "I believe that the farther away from the one who made you and knows you will make you feel less known. And we will then lash out in kind, because we believe that sin and that Satan are not real. And that that is not where this battle is. This battle is, is that if I can solve the Democrats' problem or the Republicans' problem, then we're going to have peace. And my friends, this side of heaven, we won't. The problem is spiritual." [53:15]
4. "You are known. You are known by the one who matters. J.I. Packer says it this way. He says, what matters supremely, therefore, is not in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it, the fact that he knows me. I'm graven on his palms of his hands. I'm never out of his mind. All that knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative of knowing me." [57:25]
5. "We are born into sin because of our humanity, and yet while God created us, we are still subject to death on the side of heaven. And he repaired that through the life of Jesus. Isaiah 53, 4, and 5 talks about Jesus coming and taking that on, that he was even considered... He took on our sin. He took on our shame. He took on our knowing. And it even says that he was cursed for that. He took all of that on so that we could remember that he was in a knowing relationship with God." [01:01:54]
### Quotes for Members
1. "It is interesting even walking out here there's just there's a weight to this and and I'm it's an honor that we can sit in this with you that we get to have this conversation together. This is the second in a 12 part series that we're going to be talking about and actually for the next couple weeks we're going to be talking about the different lies that we believe of ourselves. Pastor Larry kicked it off last week so fantastically. If you haven't had a chance to listen to Pastor Larry's message last week on it's okay to not be okay. I would really encourage you to because it frames the conversation and what we're going to be doing this summer." [35:36]
2. "So then with that I would say the one part that is very important for you to know right now is as he talked with medical professionals they really encouraged us to identify as we're talking about this idea of mental health. That there's four different buckets that we really operate out of and they're this they're situational clinical medical and spiritual and I think those four buckets what they help us to do is not only to recognize and identify what it is that we're going through but it's also to recognize that some of them some of the things that we are struggling with when it comes to mental health really are situational. Is it a time it will this pass. There's parts where it's clinical that there's somebody that I need to sit and I need to talk with. It's medical that there is wiring in my brain. And there's a chemical imbalance that I need to identify and then I think that there's a spiritual element that we're going to be leaning in heavily to this." [36:27]
3. "I think it's so wise that we are in this mental health series starting right here here with specifically this idea of knowing because sin and our lives are in this constant cycle of wanting to be known by God and other people, then covering that and then manufacturing a story and a narrative of what I want you to know about me. When actually, if I were to just go back to what is fully known, but the problem is if you fully knew that, then you wouldn't love me and you wouldn't accept me. And so then that becomes this very ugly cycle that I don't know if you've ever lived in that, but I don't know if you've ever lived in that. But I sure know that I have." [41:51]
4. "I believe that the farther away from the one who made you and knows you will make you feel less known. And we will then lash out in kind, because we believe that sin and that Satan are not real. And that that is not where this battle is. This battle is, is that if I can solve the Democrats' problem or the Republicans' problem, then we're going to have peace. And my friends, this side of heaven, we won't. The problem is spiritual. And so then the second lie is this, is that Satan is not real, but he is. And it is a spiritual battle, not one of flesh and blood." [53:15]
5. "I think it's interesting that in the wilderness, in the Old Testament, that at some points in times, it was only 10 to 12 miles wide, which housed millions of people. So you know that as this whole large group of people wandered for 40 years, they believe that they wandered over 3 million miles of wandering over 40 years. You got to believe that as they're wandering, they're like, I've seen that rock before. I've been here before. Maybe God's trying to get me to know and to learn something. Here's what he was trying to tell them. I haven't forgotten you. And as you may know, that's a painful lesson to learn sometimes." [58:50]
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