Making God Our Priority: Transforming Lives Together

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### Quotes for Outreach

1. "We adopt the culture of busyness. In fact, we're getting ready to start a brand new series next week called Rest. And I really want to encourage you to come check this series out because I think sometimes we're competitive with each other about how busy we are." [21:29]( | | )

2. "We have the idol of money. Like all of us struggle at some extent with just needing and thinking that we want more and more money, that if I had more money, then I would have happiness. Well, I think we battle with today's idols. Like we're not worshiping a sun or a moon God, but instead we're battling these idols, the idol of status. Like we just want people to approve us. That's why we are obsessed with social media and obsessed with the idea of people having approval and liking all of our stuff." [22:43]( | | )

3. "Every family that I know is a little overcommitted, right? We've all got too many things going on. And so we've got a lot happening. And I think sometimes our overcommitment makes us average at everything. And so that's just an observation that I make. Also, we're experience rich, but we're relationally poor. And so, man, our kids have some of the best experiences you can imagine. They've been to sporting events. They've been to concerts. They've been to Disney. They've done all of these things and they're experience rich, but here's the problem. They're relationally poor." [17:24]( | | )

4. "We can be patient with people that we're friends with, people that we're acquaintances with. We can be patient with people that we work with or even people that we're in small group with, but it's wild, isn't it? How easily irritated we can become with each other in family." [18:42]( | | )

5. "You confront the messes in your life. Here's what the reality is. We all have a mess, and here's why we have a mess, because we're a mess. What's amazing is that Jesus comes crashing into our mess, and He can make beauty from whatever the ashes are. You think about the ashes of your life. Maybe it's the ashes of addiction, or the ashes of forgiveness, the ashes of bitterness, the ashes of prior consequences, and mistakes that we've made, and guilt that we feel, and shame that we feel, and remorse that we have." [29:16]( | | )

### Quotes for Members

1. "We have the idol of money. Like all of us struggle at some extent with just needing and thinking that we want more and more money, that if I had more money, then I would have happiness. Well, I think we battle with today's idols. Like we're not worshiping a sun or a moon God, but instead we're battling these idols, the idol of status. Like we just want people to approve us. That's why we are obsessed with social media and obsessed with the idea of people having approval and liking all of our stuff." [22:43]( | | )

2. "Colossians 3, verse 5 helps us to understand that we got to work on us first. In order for our kids to change, in order for our spouse to change, in order for our extended family to change, it starts with us. And so here's what Paul writes. He says, so put to death sinful earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do, wow, this is good, nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don't be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater worshiping the things of this world." [24:11]( | | )

3. "You got to work on your own stuff. And a big part of that list, especially in verse 5, has to do with sexual sin. Like you look at this and you go, okay, this is a real problem, right? And how many marriages and how many families have been wrecked as a result, okay? So it's important to recognize and understand what is it that we need to work on? Is it our sexuality or is it our sexual life? Is it our sexual life? Is it our sexual life? Is it our anger and our rage and our bitterness? Hey, listen, you got to start by working on your own stuff. That's the first place that it begins." [25:28]( | | )

4. "You need boundaries. I think about sports that I like to watch, and you think about the sporting event that you like to watch. Maybe it's basketball, maybe it's football, maybe it's tennis, maybe it's track. I mean, heck, maybe it's even NASCAR, and that's pretty boring, or even golf, also very boring. You may enjoy watching these sports, but you know the one thing that's in common in every single sporting event is that there's always boundaries." [26:41]( | | )

5. "Seek the kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, to everything you need. God will give you, listen to this, everything, not that you want, but everything that you need as a result of serving Him, of putting Him first, seeking the kingdom of God first in your life, and I just don't know if we're doing that, and when we are doing that, it absolutely changes everything." [27:54]( | | )

6. "My hope for you is that you'd make a decision to say, He isn't just a part of my life. He's not just a supplement of my life. He's the Savior of my life, and whenever you make that change, it makes the change not only in your life, but it makes the change in your spouse's life, in your kid's life, in your co-worker's life, in your extended family's life. It makes a gigantic difference." [27:54]( | | )

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