Mart Green
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120 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Mart Green’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so that's my deepest heart longing because our family mission statement, we have a business mission statement, and you should, and that's very important to have a mission statement that we sat down and had one for our family because all of a sudden my kids are marrying and our family went from my mom and dad who were two, now there's 47 of us all live in Oklahoma City.
So we said, wow, we better get a mission statement so as to love God intimately and live extravagant generosity. Mm-hmm. And so to love God intimately, the number one way I know how to love God is through His Word. So if I want that for my kiddos, then I have to want it for all this world.
And when I found out that everybody didn't have God's Word in their heart language, it became a driving force for me.
Yeah, that's a great question. It feels like it comes somewhat naturally for me. And again, I get modeled through my family and just, again, thinking eternally. We always think about eternity. Think about 10,000 years from now. What's going to matter 10,000 years from now? And so when you think that way, it automatically kind of makes you make decisions a certain way, I think.
Some things become frivolous and stuff like that. Yeah, we go have fun. We go to basketball games. We do this. It's not like we do everything that's serious and all that kind of stuff. But at the bottom of my mind and thinking through, I'm thinking about eternity. I'm thinking about others and And I've got a mission statement to love God intimately and live extravagant generosity.
And so how do I do that in my family? And how do I make sure that others who want to can do the same thing?
Yeah, it was a co-author, David Bowden, another gentleman. He lives in Oklahoma City. Came to me and he said, Mark— Incredibly talented guy. Yeah, talented guy. Just ridiculously talented. Spoken gospel. He said, Mark, whenever you talk about God, it seems like he's chasing you down. In my life, he says, I always feel like I have to earn God's love.
And when he said that, I said, well, I never thought about that way. And when our family came up with Love, God, Intimately, Live, Extravagant Generosity as our mission statement, I started saying, well, how do you do that? How do you get intimate with God? And so over time, it took me five or 10 years, I wrote down 31 different ways. I call them gateways to intimacy.
Well, he had seen that document, and he kind of writes theologically from that perspective. And he was learning that God does pursue him, and that's why it's called Learning to be Loved, the book. And so he said, Mark, I'll write theology and some of that if you'll write 20 stories. So he asked me to take 20 of my 31 gateways of intimacy. and just write stories about those.
So I wrote about 20% of the book. David wrote the rest of it, and I'm glad.
Yeah, I know. I told people I wouldn't write books. I sell books. I said, no, no, I don't want to write books. I sell books. He happened to hit me on the one subject that he could do it, and he wrote 80% of it.
Yeah, I mean, there's several that are very important to me. I guess there would be one that I would share probably, and it's called wounds. Because a lot of times people don't think that wounds can be a way to intimacy with God. So what's my wound story? Well, I got married, you know, I found my wife in ninth grade, pursued her for six years.
And finally she agreed and we got married a few years later. And 43 years later, she's been my wife with four kiddos. But we were, we, in our marriage, we had some, you know, some complications and stuff along the way. And so we'll get it worked out. And then my son started marrying. I started, there's some of the same problems. I got to get these people fixed. Right.
So I brought a coach in to fix, you know, help my wife and help, you know, some of my kids who are marrying these people that I didn't raise. Right. And so, So they come, they talk about trust. I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, trust. I'm a pretty good trust builder. That guy's gifted me with that. And then he asked, how are you with emotional trust? And I'm like, oh, just a second here.
First of all, I don't know what you're talking about. Emotional trust. Well, I said, well, Mark, do people trust you with their emotions? And I'm like, oh, my gosh. So as we dug deeper in that, I realized that when my wife came to me with her emotions, I just naturally, because since I was 19 years old, every time somebody brings me a problem, they want me to fix it. And so I'm trying to fix it.
And he says, she doesn't want you to do that. She wants you to go down in the well with her. And I'm like, oh, no, I'm not going down the well with her. I'm trying to get her up out of that well. No, no, she wants you to feel what she feels. Her feelings are real and stuff like that. And so through a process, so that's one of my deep wounds is realizing I hurt some of my family members.
I had to go back, especially the more artistic they were because they live out of their feelings, that I realized that I'd hurt them because of my personality because I just assumed everybody's like me, right? And they're not. And so that deep wound of realizing that she didn't want me to fix it. So how can I let people trust me with their emotions? Am I a safe place?
For people to come with their emotions.
Yeah, yeah, but you know me in the later years there. In the earlier years, and so that's a wound. So anyway.
Yeah. Power dynamics are real. You know, even though you don't feel them or you want to, people know, oh, you have a lot of money or you've done these kinds of things. So they kind of feel that. You don't feel that toward yourself, but it's there.
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