Follow Me: Practices That Form Who We Become

When does a person stop being an apprentice? Notice this definition. An apprentice is no longer an apprentice when the work of the apprentice is indistinguishable from the work of the master. The work of the apprentice is no longer the the work the the the work of the apprentice is indistinguishable from the work of the master, meaning you cannot tell the difference between who did it, the apprentice or the master, which means it sets it up for that there is a a possibility for a whole life of being an apprentice. [00:50:48] (35 seconds)  #masteryThroughApprenticeship

And whether or not we wanna agree, whether or not we wanna acknowledge it, there is no not being formed. There's no place in which none of us are just gonna stop being formed into something. The better question isn't really, you know, like, am I being formed? But it's really about, like, by who or what or into what am I being formed. The more helpful question for us because every single one of us is being formed into something. The question is by who or by what, but also into what? What what exactly am I becoming? What am I being formed into? [00:38:38] (28 seconds)  #whoShapesYou

In effect, what he's asking is a question, and maybe this might sound he's essentially asking a question as he's meeting Jesus, and he's heard all about Jesus. Jesus, at this point in his ministry, has got a kind of a reputation. And he shows up there to talk to Jesus, and effectively he's asking us this question. How do I have a life changing encounter with Jesus without changing my life? How do I have a life changing encounter with Jesus without changing my life? And the answer to that is, maybe, maybe, maybe he's already living the life he always wanted. [00:54:19] (32 seconds)  #meetingThatChangesYou

About eighty minutes of a week for people who are Jesus people, you're in you're in a church service. You know, it's sixty five minutes of for us, it's sixty five minutes of a service, then you get a donut, and you have to deal with our parking and all that other kind of nightmare stuff out But it's a give it eighty minutes. And that's basically about 1% of your week. So what do you do with the other ten minutes is this question. And what his point is, which is so good, is if eighty minutes if you're a person who's like, I'm I wanna be my life to be changed to be more like Jesus. If it's eighty minutes only per week that you're looking for, then that's a recipe for a life changing encounter with Jesus without changing my life. Life changing encounter with Jesus without changing my life. [01:01:33] (35 seconds)  #beyondSundayService

to kind of set the stage of the whole series, is that 95% of our lives, according to research, is done almost entirely without directed efforts, just unconscious, which means only 5% of what we're doing is actually the result of our conscious intention to do a particular thing. Most of the time, we're just going through the proverbial motions, just kind of living stuff out. Which means for better or for worse, we're constantly being being formed into a particular kind of thing. [00:38:13] (24 seconds)  #habitsShapeUs

and which in its particularity leaves no doubt as to who is deploying the formative power. Notice that the intent of this disciple person is to attach themselves and to have their whole life transformed by the nature of that attachment. And it also implies that the one who's doing the transformation is not this apprentice, but the master. That their life, their whole life is being transformed. A disciple is a person intending to be transformed by attaching themselves to a particular thing. [00:51:42] (26 seconds)  #transformationByAttachment

And in it, it says this, to get the idea. It says, there is a limited amount of resources, a limited resources budget that we all have, not just sort of, you know, money. That's part of it. But we have a limited amount of time, money, attention, and energy. And you and I are already living out. We're already voting on what it is that's most important to us. We've made choices on the basis of our particular budget of time, effort, and energy live the way that we want. In other words, whatever we whatever we value the most gets the most of our budget, which is a reflection of our choices. You with me? So this, by the way, is different than what ought to be valued the most. It's just what is value. We're we're voting by how we're spending our resources, our resources budget. [00:40:28] (40 seconds)  #voteWithYourTime

And maybe this idea is why when the Bible describes Jesus calling people to faith, the most common phrase he uses when he's calling people to faith isn't the phrase believe, although he does use believe a lot in the gospel of John. And he doesn't use the phrase, if you wanna be saved, although he does sometimes. And he does not more than anything else, he doesn't he doesn't say the phrase, hey. How is it that you do you wanna go to heaven when you die? That's not any all of that stuff is sort of, like, way pushed down. Even the phrase go to heaven when you die doesn't show up in Jesus' ministry. He says something else. [00:46:43] (31 seconds)  #followNotJustBelieve