Elevator Moments: Reconcile Before the Judge Rules

Jesus reverses things at the very outset and throughout the sermon on the mount. Turns things sideways. He turns them upside down. He looks at them at a at from a different angle in order to find some some life transforming truth. [00:44:49] (18 seconds)  #FlipTheScript

And and the last thing that stands out for me, did you notice how the passage ends? It really ends on a kind of a sour note, doesn't it? It says, go to that judge, right, while you're on the way. Don't wait for the judge to rule. Because if the judge rules, how's the judge gonna rule? Against you. You're wrong. Did you ever think about that? [00:53:20] (23 seconds)  #ResolveBeforeCourt

so the thing is this business about outsourcing our problems is something we do all the time, sometimes without even thinking about it. Right? Instead of going to the source, one of the ways we outsource our problems is we talk about our problems not to the person we're having the problem with, but to anyone else, especially to someone who doesn't like that other person. [00:50:37] (26 seconds)  #GoToTheSource

There's something transformative that can happen on the way. When we enter into a relationship of trust and when we talk and when we listen, there's something where we're like, I didn't I never thought of it that way. [00:54:09] (19 seconds)  #TalkListenTransform

Perhaps this is a moment where time slows a bit and where you hear an opportunity to tear down the wall, not only that keeps you from your neighbor, but that's walling you in. You deserve better, and so do they. [01:01:22] (23 seconds)  #BreakDownBarriers

Now I see I see you shaking your heads. You're like, now, Bo, the whole point is not following the letter of the law only, but following the spirit. Right? Getting to something of the spirit. So instead of asking, who do I not have to kill? Right? It's or how do I not kill somebody? Then what we ask is, how do I give life? How do I impart life in relationships? How do I increase someone's life? How do I build them up? Right? It's a completely different kind of question. [00:46:34] (34 seconds)  #BuildNotBreak

And to to get to the why of someone, to get to those questions that Vicky was talking about, so what's going on there? How does that happen for you? Explore those feelings a little bit requires that we take time, that we invest something of ourselves. [00:48:34] (17 seconds)  #InvestToUnderstand

So one of the stories I read was a book called it was a nonfiction work called hope for cynics. And one of the he was the author was saying that cynicism is when you just give up on life, on people. I just give up. Boy, there's no better way to build walls around yourself that become a kind of a prison than cynicism. [00:54:47] (19 seconds)  #ChooseHopeNotCynicism