Transforming Through Community: The Joy of Connection
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Very often, the thing that you didn't want is the thing that you need. Recently my wife's grandfather was in town and he was telling me a story. This is a true story. And one thing you got to know is my wife's side of the family is they're Italian. I know there's already a theme that has been established this morning. My wife's side of the family is Italian. What you need to know about Italian families is that they think about food in a much different way from other families." [41:40] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "We live in a world that is afflicted with loneliness. More and more, we are becoming isolated from each other. Like when my family first moved to Arizona, I remember one person at the Casa Grande campus put it this way. She said, 'Here's how it works. We stay in our air conditioners, in our air-conditioned homes, and we drive in our air-conditioned cars to air-conditioned grocery stores, and we don't have to talk to anybody if we don't want to.'" [58:03] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "The world needs joy more than ever. Our city needs a place where they can come and where people are actually excited to see them. They need a place where they can leave the terrors and the despairs of their lives behind and find brothers and sisters who love them, who are interested in them, and who are devoted to them. The world needs a place of genuine compassion and radical acceptance." [01:13:34] (24 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Joy is when we receive, joy is what we receive when somebody else is excited to see us. It's when you see somebody else's eyes light up the moment that they see you. It's when you walk into a restaurant and everybody yells Opa. That's joy. And it's what we receive when someone is glad to see us. In fact, we see this through the entire Bible. The idea of joy is all throughout the Bible and it's actually connected to faces." [01:00:46] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "We need joy if we want to be more like Jesus. Now how do we define joy exactly? Well, we get this from the book that we're going through, 'The Other Half of Church.' Here's their definition of joy: Joy is when we receive, joy is what we receive when somebody else is excited to see us. It's when you see somebody else's eyes light up the moment that they see you. It's when you walk into a restaurant and everybody yells Opa. That's joy." [01:00:46] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "We do not become more like Jesus simply by learning more about him. Now I may have told this story before, but when I was seven years old, I had just finished Sunday school on a Sunday afternoon. And at Sunday school that day, we had learned the story of Jesus on the Sea of Galilee in the boat where there was a storm and Jesus put his hands out and he said, 'Peace be still,' and the wind and the waves died down." [47:23] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "If we want to become more like Jesus, then we need to be connected to a community who follows Jesus. Because what we discover from the world of neuroscience is that the right side of the brain is relational. It interprets body language. It senses whether people are happy or frustrated. It gives you a gut feeling about who's the real leader in the room. It's that guy over there." [53:29] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "We need a church family full of people who are devoted. There's a philosopher out there who honestly, I don't love reading his stuff because he challenges me. Like he's a conservative communist, if that even makes sense. I don't think that makes sense. But his name is Slavoj Žižek. Maybe you've heard of him. And he wrote something so profound, about the existence of decaffeinated coffee." [01:12:13] (21 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "We need to be devoted to the same things that the first church was devoted to, to the apostles' teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. And so at Compass, here's what we sought to do. We sought to distill those essential truths of those four practices into four cores to ensure that whatever we're doing, whatever group experience that you are stepping into at Compass, that you are experiencing joy-producing community." [01:15:21] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "The world needs a church that doesn't just have groups. They need a church that is formed of groups, of small communities who ask each other questions, who listen to each other's stories, and who allow each other to figure it out as we all go along. The world needs a church that has been impacted by the truth that 2,000 years ago Jesus died on the cross and three days later he rose from the tomb alive forevermore." [01:13:34] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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1. "Very often, the thing that you didn't want is the thing that you need. Recently my wife's grandfather was in town and he was telling me a story. This is a true story. And one thing you got to know is my wife's side of the family is they're Italian. I know there's already a theme that has been established this morning. My wife's side of the family is Italian. What you need to know about Italian families is that they think about food in a much different way from other families." [41:40] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "We live in a world that is afflicted with loneliness. More and more, we are becoming isolated from each other. Like when my family first moved to Arizona, I remember one person at the Casa Grande campus put it this way. She said, 'Here's how it works. We stay in our air conditioners, in our air-conditioned homes, and we drive in our air-conditioned cars to air-conditioned grocery stores, and we don't have to talk to anybody if we don't want to.'" [58:03] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "The world needs joy more than ever. Our city needs a place where they can come and where people are actually excited to see them. They need a place where they can leave the terrors and the despairs of their lives behind and find brothers and sisters who love them, who are interested in them, and who are devoted to them. The world needs a place of genuine compassion and radical acceptance." [01:13:34] (24 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Joy is when we receive, joy is what we receive when somebody else is excited to see us. It's when you see somebody else's eyes light up the moment that they see you. It's when you walk into a restaurant and everybody yells Opa. That's joy. And it's what we receive when someone is glad to see us. In fact, we see this through the entire Bible. The idea of joy is all throughout the Bible and it's actually connected to faces." [01:00:46] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "We need joy if we want to be more like Jesus. Now how do we define joy exactly? Well, we get this from the book that we're going through, 'The Other Half of Church.' Here's their definition of joy: Joy is when we receive, joy is what we receive when somebody else is excited to see us. It's when you see somebody else's eyes light up the moment that they see you. It's when you walk into a restaurant and everybody yells Opa. That's joy." [01:00:46] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "We do not become more like Jesus simply by learning more about him. Now I may have told this story before, but when I was seven years old, I had just finished Sunday school on a Sunday afternoon. And at Sunday school that day, we had learned the story of Jesus on the Sea of Galilee in the boat where there was a storm and Jesus put his hands out and he said, 'Peace be still,' and the wind and the waves died down." [47:23] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "If we want to become more like Jesus, then we need to be connected to a community who follows Jesus. Because what we discover from the world of neuroscience is that the right side of the brain is relational. It interprets body language. It senses whether people are happy or frustrated. It gives you a gut feeling about who's the real leader in the room. It's that guy over there." [53:29] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "We need a church family full of people who are devoted. There's a philosopher out there who honestly, I don't love reading his stuff because he challenges me. Like he's a conservative communist, if that even makes sense. I don't think that makes sense. But his name is Slavoj Žižek. Maybe you've heard of him. And he wrote something so profound, about the existence of decaffeinated coffee." [01:12:13] (21 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "We need to be devoted to the same things that the first church was devoted to, to the apostles' teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. And so at Compass, here's what we sought to do. We sought to distill those essential truths of those four practices into four cores to ensure that whatever we're doing, whatever group experience that you are stepping into at Compass, that you are experiencing joy-producing community." [01:15:21] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "The world needs a church that doesn't just have groups. They need a church that is formed of groups, of small communities who ask each other questions, who listen to each other's stories, and who allow each other to figure it out as we all go along. The world needs a church that has been impacted by the truth that 2,000 years ago Jesus died on the cross and three days later he rose from the tomb alive forevermore." [01:13:34] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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