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        00:00:02 A life with God is anything but boring. 
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        00:00:04 You were made for adventure. 
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        00:00:06 It could be a heart pounding life of purpose. 
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        00:00:09 Join us every weekend for 45 minutes of challenge, hope, 
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        00:00:12 and encouragement to guide you on your spiritual adventure. 
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        00:00:17 - Does this feel like your life right now? 
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        00:00:19 You can't control everything, 
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        00:00:21 but you can control more than you think. 
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        00:00:24 Taking Control: a new Crossroads weekly streaming series. 
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        00:00:27 Learn how to take control of what God gave you. 
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        00:00:33 - We all have gifts, mine include tormenting my dog 
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        00:00:36 and junior high humor. 
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        00:00:39 My name is Brian. It's great to be with you today. 
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        00:00:41 We're going to have Alli talk to us 
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        00:00:43 about understanding our gifts 
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        00:00:46 and how to leverage them and how to deploy them 
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        00:00:48 so we can have the most impactful life possible. 
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        00:00:51 Let's hear what she has to say. 
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        00:00:59 - Lately, I've been thinking
about all the pieces of my life 
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        00:01:02 that sometimes seem like
they're out of my control. 
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        00:01:06 Today we're going to stop and talk about 
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        00:01:08 the things that we actually are given to control, 
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        00:01:11 the things that God has given us 
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        00:01:12 the freedom in our lives to take control of. 
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        00:01:15 My name is Alli Patterson, 
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        00:01:17 and I'm one of the teaching pastors here at Crossroads. 
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        00:01:20 And I want you to know today that you have gifts. 
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        00:01:24 I don't know how you see yourself. 
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        00:01:25 Maybe you're somebody who's had 
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        00:01:27 one really visible outstanding gift since you were a kid 
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        00:01:30 and everybody knows it, everybody can see it. 
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        00:01:33 Or maybe you're somebody who just gets up every day 
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        00:01:35 and thinks, "Oh, well, I'm kind of good 
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        00:01:37 at a lot of different things, 
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        00:01:39 but maybe not gifted at anything." 
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        00:01:42 However you think of yourself, I think -- I hope today 
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        00:01:45 you will begin to see that you have incredible gifts 
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        00:01:50 and that you can manage them for a life that really thrives. 
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        00:01:53 We're in a bookstore, Duttenhofer's Books as a matter of fact. 
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        00:01:56 And I love places like this because 
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        00:01:58 one of the things that's in me is that I love books. 
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        00:02:02 I always have since I was a little girl. 
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        00:02:04 I remember going to the library checkout 
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        00:02:07 with a big stack of books to take home 
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        00:02:09 and every single time the nice lady who checked me out 
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        00:02:12 would say, "Now, honey, you can't take all those home, 
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        00:02:15 that's too many." 
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        00:02:17 And I would have to agonize over which three or four 
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        00:02:20 I was going to have to wait until the next week to read. 
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        00:02:24 And actually, that was a clue. 
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        00:02:26 It was a clue to some of the things 
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        00:02:27 that now operate in my life as true gifts. 
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        00:02:31 I would say today I have a gift of teaching. 
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        00:02:34 I have a gift of being able to process information 
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        00:02:37 like at deep levels and kind of translate that 
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        00:02:40 and communicate that back out, 
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        00:02:42 especially when it comes to the Bible. 
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        00:02:43 I love the words in the Bible. 
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        00:02:45 I love words in general. 
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        00:02:47 I've always loved words, not just in books, 
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        00:02:49 but actually also to write words, to speak words, 
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        00:02:52 to ask just the right question with just the right words 
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        00:02:56 or to use words to encourage people around me. 
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        00:02:59 I love the power of words. 
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        00:03:03 OK, hold up. 
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        00:03:04 - Alli and I are actually really good friends. 
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        00:03:06 There's a lot of things that she's really good at 
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        00:03:09 and there's a few things she's not so good at. 
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        00:03:13 We've been friends a really long time, like 17 years, long time. 
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        00:03:17 And over the years I've noticed some things 
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        00:03:20 that she's not so good at. 
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        00:03:24 Today we're going to have a little fun together 
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        00:03:27 noticing the things that Alli's not so good at. 
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        00:03:31 - Got it. Got it. 
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        00:03:35 - You were so close, Al. 
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        00:03:39 - Ladies, can you believe the weather we've been having? 
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        00:03:43 - I know it has been so unpredictable lately. 
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        00:03:46 - That's because the Earth is crying out in pain. 
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        00:03:49 It's the end times. 
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        00:03:53 - That's not how this goes. 
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        00:04:07 - That's not how this goes. 
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        00:04:12 - OK, so you guys, this guy, he walked into a barn. 
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        00:04:15 Wait, a barn, a bar? Was the guy in a bar or a barn? 
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        00:04:19 Was it a horse? 
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        00:04:21 - That's not how this goes. 
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        00:04:26 - I want you to get out your phone right now, 
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        00:04:28 or maybe if you're old school, a pen and a piece of paper, 
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        00:04:31 whatever the case might be, 
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        00:04:32 I believe that if you begin to think about 
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        00:04:35 the things that are in you, you are going to see gifts too. 
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        00:04:39 We all have these things. 
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        00:04:41 Maybe some of them are genetic things for you. 
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        00:04:44 They're just things that have always -- 
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        00:04:45 they were like literally in your DNA when you were born, 
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        00:04:48 your physicality, elements of natural ability that you have. 
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        00:04:52 Maybe you discovered when you go to the gym 
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        00:04:54 you build muscle 3 times faster than anyone else at the gym 
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        00:04:58 or you were born with a high IQ 
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        00:04:59 and so learning has just been easy for you your whole life. 
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        00:05:03 Or maybe you're the kid on the playground 
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        00:05:05 that got to walk everyone to the nurse when they got hurt 
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        00:05:08 because you just make people feel better. 
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        00:05:10 Maybe you're a maker 
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        00:05:11 and you're really good with your hands. 
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        00:05:13 That is not me, I'll tell you that much. 
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        00:05:16 And other gifts maybe you've discovered 
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        00:05:18 as you've lived a little, as you've had to work, 
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        00:05:20 you've discovered capacities for things in your life. 
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        00:05:23 Maybe you have a capacity for making money. 
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        00:05:26 And come to think of it, your lemonade stands 
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        00:05:29 did kind of crush it as a kid 
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        00:05:31 and today all your business ideas work. 
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        00:05:34 Or maybe you have a capacity for compassion 
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        00:05:37 and mercy and understanding 
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        00:05:40 every time you pass a homeless person on the street. 
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        00:05:44 I think we go looking for information about ourselves. 
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        00:05:47 We love to take all of those inventories online, 
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        00:05:51 all the quizzes on our phone. 
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        00:05:53 We just love to gather up information about ourselves. 
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        00:05:56 What Disney princess are you, by the way? 
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        00:05:58 I, I am Pocahontas. 
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        00:06:00 Ironically, that might be the one Disney movie I've never seen. 
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        00:06:04 But maybe you've been at work where you've had to take 
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        00:06:06 something called a DiSC inventory and you're a high D. 
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        00:06:09 Or you had to take the Myers Briggs like I did 
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        00:06:11 where I found out I was an INTJ, but not a strong I, 
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        00:06:16 but a really strong N. 
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        00:06:19 Long after I found out all this information about myself, 
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        00:06:22 like why I like to arrange flowers 
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        00:06:24 or why I hate small talk, 
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        00:06:26 I was actually no closer to taking control 
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        00:06:29 of those things in my life, to actually managing them well 
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        00:06:33 for a life that I loved. 
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        00:06:34 I wish I could say that there was a quiz 
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        00:06:36 you could take to do this, 
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        00:06:38 that there was one thing that helped me 
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        00:06:40 better manage all the pieces of Alli. 
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        00:06:43 But I'll tell you what I did discover, 
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        00:06:45 that looking for information about myself, 
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        00:06:47 self discovery without God always comes up short. 
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        00:06:51 What I really needed was to be connected 
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        00:06:53 with the God who made me. 
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        00:06:55 It wasn't until I started following Jesus 
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        00:06:58 that I began to notice the more I'm following Jesus 
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        00:07:01 day in and day out, the more I'm just 
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        00:07:03 putting myself in the concerns that He has, 
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        00:07:05 doing the things that He says to do, 
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        00:07:08 something new began to emerge in my life, 
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        00:07:11 a new kind of gift. 
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        00:07:13 And this kind of gift has actually been the key 
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        00:07:16 that I needed to successfully manage all the other things 
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        00:07:20 that I kind of already knew about myself. 
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        00:07:22 The Bible calls these spiritual gifts. 
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        00:07:26 They are gifts given to us by God. 
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        00:07:28 We don't start with these, we actually are gifted them 
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        00:07:32 the moment that we come to faith in Jesus. 
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        00:07:35 Spiritual gifts come from the spirit of God 
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        00:07:39 at the moment of our faith in Christ. 
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        00:07:41 The Holy Spirit actually comes to live in us. 
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        00:07:43 And he's so good He brings gifts. 
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        00:07:46 These gifts should not feel like they're out of left field. 
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        00:07:49 There's one God that made us, 
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        00:07:51 they should feel very consistent 
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        00:07:53 with how you're put together from the beginning. 
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        00:07:55 Like the gift of teaching to a girl that always loved books. 
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        00:07:59 Or if you're the kid on the playground 
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        00:08:00 that took everyone to the nurse, 
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        00:08:02 maybe you have a gift of mercy or even healing. 
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        00:08:05 Or if you're the one that makes great money, 
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        00:08:08 maybe you have a gift of giving. 
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        00:08:11 There's all kinds of different gifts, 
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        00:08:14 but they're from the same God, the same Spirit. 
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        00:08:17 Listen to how 1 Corinthians 12 talks about just this. 
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        00:08:39 You all, when we come to follow Jesus, 
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        00:08:41 that's when things start to unlock. 
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        00:08:43 There is one God and He comes to live in you 
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        00:08:46 with His one Spirit that brings all kinds of different gifts 
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        00:08:50 and brings us to life in the Kingdom. 
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        00:08:53 We are part of a family and we're connected to each other 
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        00:08:55 and we're all so different. 
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        00:08:58 But we are -- the same Spirit lives in us all 
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        00:09:01 and when we follow Jesus we get to see our gifts clarified 
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        00:09:06 and empowered for His purposes. 
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        00:09:08 And all of who we are begins to make a lot more sense. 
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        00:09:13 Do you want to unlock all of who God made you to be? 
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        00:09:16 Do you want all the things that He has for your life? 
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        00:09:19 It actually is possible, 
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        00:09:21 but it's not possible through a quiz on your phone. 
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        00:09:24 It's not an easy button, online test is going to do it. 
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        00:09:28 It is faithfully following Jesus. 
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        00:09:30 You have gifts and you can manage them 
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        00:09:34 by following Him into a better life. 
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        00:09:41 The surprising truth about our gifts is that 
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        00:09:45 they are not actually ours, they're on loan to us from God. 
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        00:09:50 I'm at a library, my favorite place to get things on loan. 
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        00:09:53 The only thing about a library is that 
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        00:09:54 you've got to bring what you take back to the owner. 
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        00:09:59 I think we're used to thinking 
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        00:10:00 of whatever is inside of us as ours, it's who we are 
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        00:10:04 and we can do whatever we want with it, 
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        00:10:06 to any end that we want. 
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        00:10:07 But actually, God says we are the manager 
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        00:10:12 and that our gifts are not ours, they're on loan. 
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        00:10:16 I really learned how to think about this concept 
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        00:10:19 of management when I managed a brand at Procter and Gamble. 
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        00:10:22 I did it with somebody else's gifts. 
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        00:10:25 Their gifts were the money and the resources 
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        00:10:27 that I needed to manage the business well. 
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        00:10:30 And my job as a manager was to take what I was given 
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        00:10:33 by the company and to get a return for the owners, 
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        00:10:37 To use all the tools at my disposal, but to be on their mission. 
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        00:10:42 I took the product, the price, 
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        00:10:44 the places where my product showed up and all the messages 
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        00:10:47 that I could develop through the advertising, 
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        00:10:48 but my company, end of the day, 
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        00:10:52 expected a return for what I was given. 
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        00:10:55 It is exactly the same between you and God with your gifts. 
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        00:11:03 Have you ever thought about the talents, abilities, skills, 
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        00:11:06 spiritual gifts that you possess as actually on loan? 
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        00:11:11 Maybe you wrote something down today in the notes 
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        00:11:13 you've been jotting down on your phone, 
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        00:11:16 but whatever it is that you have is actually on loan from God. 
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        00:11:21 One day God is going to be asking you, 
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        00:11:23 "Hey, how do you use that talent that I gave you? 
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        00:11:27 How did you use your ability to do hair, fix motorcycles? 
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        00:11:31 What about the ability that you have to run a business, 
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        00:11:34 to make money? Whatever came of that? 
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        00:11:37 What did you do with it? 
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        00:11:38 And did anyone benefit except for you?" 
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        00:11:41 Right now God is on a mission 
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        00:11:44 and He has given you the freedom to take control 
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        00:11:48 of some of His resources as He has planted them 
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        00:11:51 right inside you and He really does want them managed well. 
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        00:11:54 1 Peter 4 is one of my favorite verses. Verse 10 says: 
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        00:12:10 A steward is a manager. 
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        00:12:13 We are the managers of God's resources and they are not ours. 
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        00:12:18 I think there's some freedom in that; isn't there? 
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        00:12:21 And there's also some responsibility, 
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        00:12:24 responsibility to the mission of the giver of those gifts. 
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        00:12:28 And God has a purpose, it was buried in that verse as well. 
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        00:12:32 God's purpose is to pass out grace. 
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        00:12:35 We are the stewards, the managers of the various kinds 
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        00:12:39 of grace that God wants
passed out into this world. 
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        00:12:42 And your gifts
are that grace in disguise. 
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        00:12:46 God would love an unending flow of grace into this world, 
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        00:12:50 and we should be using our gifts 
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        00:12:53 and they should be feeling like grace. 
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        00:12:55 I think of my husband when I think of 
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        00:12:57 a use of gifts that comes together in the way of grace. 
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        00:13:01 He's an attorney. 
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        00:13:02 I know that probably surprises you 
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        00:13:04 to think of grace when you think of attorneys, 
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        00:13:06 but Bill has gifts of administration. 
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        00:13:10 He has gifts of a being an amazing problem solver. 
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        00:13:13 He's very decisive. He's very detail oriented. 
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        00:13:17 And when I listen to his clients, they don't say, 
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        00:13:20 "Gee, thanks for the 45 page contract, Bill." 
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        00:13:23 No, they say things like, "Thank you for solving a problem. 
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        00:13:27 Thank you for being my advocate." 
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        00:13:30 This feels like grace to somebody. 
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        00:13:33 When we put our gifts together in a way 
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        00:13:35 that feels like grace, it frees someone, 
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        00:13:37 it blesses someone, it relieves someone. 
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        00:13:40 If you want to know what you do 
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        00:13:42 that feels like grace to others, 
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        00:13:44 that's exactly what you need to ask. 
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        00:13:45 I want you to pick up your phone 
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        00:13:47 or just commit to texting this later today. 
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        00:13:49 I want you to to ask somebody today, 
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        00:13:51 "What do I do that relieves you, that frees you, 
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        00:13:55 that blesses you?" 
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        00:13:57 Because that's what Grace feels like. 
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        00:14:00 We not only can pass it out, 
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        00:14:02 we also can stop the flow of it 
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        00:14:04 if we don't manage well the gifts that we've been given. 
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        00:14:07 I know this has totally been me before. 
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        00:14:09 I will often think of something 
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        00:14:11 that's encouraging to say to someone. 
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        00:14:12 I told you I love words, I love books, writing words, 
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        00:14:16 I love using them to encourage, but sometimes I get lazy 
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        00:14:20 or maybe I just feel insecure about how that person 
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        00:14:23 is going to receive what I say so I keep it to myself. 
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        00:14:27 That stops the flow of grace. 
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        00:14:31 Our mission is as a manager of the grace of God. 
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        00:14:35 And we want to pass that grace out as much 
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        00:14:38 and as well as we can 
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        00:14:39 to as many people around us as will receive it. 
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        00:14:43 How do you know if you're doing it? 
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        00:14:45 Maybe you're already doing this. 
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        00:14:47 The way that you know is when God starts to look really good. 
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        00:14:52 Peter goes on to write: 
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        00:15:11 Man, I love that. 
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        00:15:12 Peter like almost launches into a prayer 
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        00:15:14 at the end of those sentences because he gets excited 
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        00:15:17 about the fact that it's about God. 
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        00:15:20 God is the giver of the gifts inside you. 
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        00:15:24 God is the power behind them, 
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        00:15:26 and God's grace is the mission that we are on 
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        00:15:29 and you are the manager. 
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        00:15:32 The moment that we get that our gifts are there 
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        00:15:35 for the glory of God, and not us, 
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        00:15:38 is the moment that they begin to lead us to life. 
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        00:15:43 - You can start to realize the potential of your gifts 
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        00:15:46 when you realize they're not yours. 
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        00:15:49 Everything we have is God's. 
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        00:15:52 This is the foundation of being able to financially give. 
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        00:15:57 Jesus talks about where your treasure is, 
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        00:15:59 there your heart will be also. 
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        00:16:02 I recognized that the treasures that I have 
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        00:16:04 are actually God's treasures 
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        00:16:06 and my heart is more about Him 
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        00:16:08 than it is the treasures that He's blessed me with. 
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        00:16:10 If you'd like to find out more about that 
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        00:16:12 and more about things that could impact your life 
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        00:16:14 and be a giver at Crossroads, 
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        00:16:15 you can go to Crossroads.net/give. 
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        00:16:19 Your giving fuels all kinds of big stuff, 
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        00:16:21 like The Journey we're about to start, 
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        00:16:23 maybe the most important thing you'll do all year. 
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        00:16:28 Get ready. Let's get going. 
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        00:16:31 - Is God good? 
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        00:16:32 Is He good on day one of working from home? 
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        00:16:34 How about day 180? 
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        00:16:37 Is He good when school is online 
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        00:16:38 or when your business is struggling? 
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        00:16:40 Is He even when everything in the world 
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        00:16:43 makes you want to scream, "Good God, what is going on?" 
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        00:16:46 That's a fair question and actually a great prayer 
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        00:16:49 because we believe there is a Good God with good answers. 
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        00:16:52 Join us for The Good God Journey 
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        00:16:53 streaming online each week for 45 minutes of music, 
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        00:16:56 teaching, and inspiration. 
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        00:16:58 Start your Journey at crossroads.net/journey. 
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        00:17:05 - Well, having gifts actually means very little 
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        00:17:09 until you put them to work. 
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        00:17:11 Every single day, including today, 
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        00:17:13 is a chance to take control 
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        00:17:15 of how your gifts are being used out in the world. 
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        00:17:18 You know, you can do inventories online 
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        00:17:20 and quizzes on your phone. 
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        00:17:22 You can read and study about your gifts, 
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        00:17:24 which goodness knows I like to do. 
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        00:17:26 But until they're actually put to work 
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        00:17:29 with real people living real lives with real issues, 
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        00:17:33 you will make very little impact. 
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        00:17:34 For me, this is a place where the rubber meets the road, 
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        00:17:37 where my gifts actually come into action. 
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        00:17:39 When I'm gathered with other women, with other people, 
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        00:17:42 where I can sit and listen, where I can encourage, 
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        00:17:45 where I can teach, where I can pray. 
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        00:17:46 But that's my environment where my gifts help. 
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        00:17:50 What's yours? 
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        00:17:51 I know what it feels like to think that you need a better plan. 
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        00:17:56 You need to be something more. 
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        00:17:57 You need to plan more. 
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        00:17:59 You need to know more. 
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        00:18:00 You need to have experience more 
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        00:18:02 in order to offer your gifts to someone. 
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        00:18:04 But you don't. 
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        00:18:05 Today is the right day and it's time to offer your gifts. 
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        00:18:10 Jesus actually shared a lot of gifts 
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        00:18:13 with the men that he did life with, His disciples. 
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        00:18:16 Ad then He sent them out. 
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        00:18:17 He was like, "Go, go, it's time to use them." 
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        00:18:20 And when He did, He said this to them. 
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        00:18:23 Jesus said, "Freely, you have received, now freely give." 
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        00:18:27 He said, "I've given you all these things, 
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        00:18:30 now I want you to go out and give them away." 
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        00:18:34 That's the same with you and me. 
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        00:18:35 We've gotten all that we have, 
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        00:18:37 even the stuff inside of us that we think of as our own, 
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        00:18:40 we've actually gotten it for free from Him 
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        00:18:44 and it's time to give it away. 
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        00:18:46 When you do, 
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        00:18:47 you actually don't know if it's going to be received. 
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        00:18:51 It's a pretty vulnerable thing 
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        00:18:52 to offer your gifts to somebody else. 
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        00:18:56 It ultimately comes down to a moment 
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        00:18:58 where you basically say, "Do you want what I have?" 
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        00:19:03 I just got out of seminary a few months ago 
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        00:19:05 and you would think, if anything, 
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        00:19:07 I would be confident in offering my gifts 
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        00:19:09 to help other people study the Bible. Right? 
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        00:19:12 I mean, duh. 
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        00:19:13 However, when I went to do that, 
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        00:19:16 just maybe a month or so ago, 
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        00:19:18 when I went to start a couple of new groups of study, 
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        00:19:21 I still tripped over that moment of vulnerability, 
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        00:19:24 that moment where you just have to say, 
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        00:19:27 "I think I have something to give you. Would you like it?" 
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        00:19:33 Romans 12 is a huge encouragement for us 
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        00:19:36 to get out there and use our gifts. Romans 12 says: 
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        00:20:02 Romans 12 says whatever you've got, do it anywhere, everywhere, 
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        00:20:08 in any role or environment that you have in your life. 
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        00:20:13 I stayed home, I wasn't working 
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        00:20:14 for about seven years of my life when I had four babies at home. 
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        00:20:19 And at first I was a little bit lost 
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        00:20:21 on how to use my gifts in that setting. 
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        00:20:24 I realized that I'd always really depended on a job 
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        00:20:26 to be an outlet for the use of some of my gifts. A 
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        00:20:29 nd I had to learn over during that time 
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        00:20:32 exactly how to use my gifts in a new way in that setting. 
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        00:20:36 And I fumbled it for quite a while. 
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        00:20:38 I got frustrated, but now I know 
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        00:20:40 I can use the same gifts in new ways, 
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        00:20:44 whether I'm a mom at a school, 
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        00:20:46 whether I'm a colleague at work, whether I'm a neighbor, 
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        00:20:50 in any setting God wants His grace to show up 
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        00:20:53 in different forms to all kinds of different people. 
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        00:20:57 Guess what happens when you walk in the door with your gifts? 
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        00:21:01 God himself suddenly has access to wherever you are. 
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        00:21:06 When you walk in, you represent the generosity of God. 
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        00:21:10 When you walk in, you're the wisdom of God. 
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        00:21:12 When you walk in, you're the leadership of God, 
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        00:21:15 or when you walk in, you're the beauty of God. 
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        00:21:18 You just have to offer your gifts. 
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        00:21:21 You just have to do what you've been gifted to do. 
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        00:21:25 You know, a couple of days ago, I went to get my haircut. 
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        00:21:27 You know, when a girl goes on camera, 
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        00:21:29 she needs to, you know, put things together, 
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        00:21:31 a little eyebrow wax, a little haircut. It's important. 
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        00:21:36 I talked to Ann who's my stylist. 
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        00:21:39 She said, what are you up to this week? 
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        00:21:40 So I kind of told her what I was doing 
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        00:21:41 and I told her that I was talking about using your gifts. 
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        00:21:45 And she seemed interested. 
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        00:21:46 And I said, "Hey, you're using yours right now. You know?" 
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        00:21:50 She said, "What do you mean?" 
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        00:21:51 And I said, "You have a gift, you have a gift 
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        00:21:54 that impacts how women that sit in this chair -- 
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        00:21:57 How many are you going to see today, 10, 12? 
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        00:21:58 Women that sit in your chair every day, 
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        00:22:01 you impact how they see their own beauty. 
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        00:22:04 You have the gift to influence them 
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        00:22:07 with your grace every single day." 
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        00:22:10 And so do you. 
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        00:22:11 Look around you. 
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        00:22:13 Do you have a shot at something? 
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        00:22:15 Are there circumstances in front of you 
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        00:22:17 that you could walk in and offer something that you have? 
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        00:22:20 I think God puts opportunities in front of us all the time 
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        00:22:24 and they don't have to be grand. 
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        00:22:26 Don't fall for that lie. 
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        00:22:27 Don't fall for the idea that what you can do for one, 
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        00:22:31 you wish you could do for a thousand, 
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        00:22:32 so you don't even offer it to one. 
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        00:22:35 When I sit at a table like this, 
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        00:22:38 I wish that 6000 women could sit with me. I really do. 
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        00:22:42 I would love to be able to offer 
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        00:22:44 that whatever I'm doing to 6000 people. 
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        00:22:47 But honestly, six is good. 
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        00:22:51 It's fine for us to take whatever we have today 
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        00:22:54 and take one small step. 
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        00:22:56 Guess what? 
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        00:22:57 There's a grace of God inside you. 
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        00:23:00 You're sitting on it and it's time to give it up. 
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        00:23:05 - I am so thankful for the gifts 
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        00:23:08 that God has entrusted me with, there's so many things, 
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        00:23:10 it's hard to recount them all 
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        00:23:11 and the only thing that's consistent with them 
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        00:23:13 is that God has been generous to entrust them to me. 
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        00:23:17 That causes me and others to want to worship, 
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        00:23:20 to tell God, "I trust You because You've entrusted me 
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        00:23:24 with things and there's so many other reasons 
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        00:23:27 why I want to declare right now that I trust You." 
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        00:23:28 Let's worship him together and sing that to Him. 
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        00:32:23 Man, if you like that, there's more where that came from, 
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        00:32:26 just go to Crossroads.net/music. 
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        00:32:29 Well, next week we start The Journey. 
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        00:32:31 The Journey is a multipronged multisensory approach 
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        00:32:35 to get you and I to a whole new place spiritually. 
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        00:32:38 Man, I hope you want more for your life. 
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        00:32:39 I want more from my life and we need to have 
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        00:32:41 God having a greater control of our life. 
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        00:32:43 The one key thing, key thing for it is to get in a group, 
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        00:32:47 you got to be with other people. 
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        00:32:49 We want to make that as simple 
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        00:32:50 and as easy for you as possible. 
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        00:32:52 You can go to Crossroads.net/journey, 
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        00:32:54 learn more about The Journey 
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        00:32:56 and learn how to get into a group. 
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        00:32:58 The Journey starts next week. We'll see you then. 
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        00:33:02 - Every year, Crossroads does this thing called a Journey. 
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        00:33:06 It's a five week adventure. 
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        00:33:07 Everyone in the community, from kids to adults, 
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        00:33:10 zero in and go deep on one topic. 
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        00:33:12 This year it's the Good God Journey. 
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        00:33:15 Let's face it, 2020 has been a struggle. 
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        00:33:18 Even the most faithful may be asking, "Is God good?" 
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        00:33:21 It turns out that exploring that question 
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        00:33:23 can unlock new levels of peace, 
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        00:33:25 belonging and potential for your life. 
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        00:33:28 Interested? Great. Here's how you can get started. 
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        00:33:32 Step 1: Head on over to Crossroads.net/journey 
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        00:33:35 and initiate a group or join one. 
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        00:33:38 If you have a group, great, you're all set. 
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        00:33:40 If not, we'll get you connected to one. 
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        00:33:43 Depending on who you are, meeting with a group 
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        00:33:45 might sound exciting or terrifying, 
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        00:33:47 but trust us, this is where real growth happens. 
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        00:33:51 We'll even provide a group guide 
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        00:33:52 to help steer the conversation, 
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        00:33:54 either in person or over a video call. 
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        00:33:56 Step 2: Download the Crossroads Anywhere app. 
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        00:34:00 It's packed with a ton of features 
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        00:34:01 that can help you grow spiritually, 
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        00:34:03 including a Good God Journey Guide. 
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        00:34:06 Each week during The Journey, simply open the guide 
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        00:34:08 and discover something new about yourself and God. 
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        00:34:12 Step 3: Watch the weekend message online or live at a site. 
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        00:34:16 Part teaching, part challenge, part soul filling music, 
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        00:34:19 plus a couple of surprises you won't want to miss. 
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        00:34:22 It's that simple: Get in a group, 
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        00:34:24 do individual work in the app and watch weekly. 
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        00:34:27 Challenge yourself for five weeks, 
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        00:34:28 it might just be the best thing you do all year. 
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        00:34:32 Go to Crossroads.net/journey to get started.