Tim Tebow
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 23 Feb
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And ultimately, you get to share, and you do it, and God's taking on a journey, and you're getting to show that journey to the world of that story of figuring out the truth. And so it's just cool. I love hearing it, because it's an encouragement to me. Thank you.
Well, thank you for carrying the burden of it, because it's so important. One of our core values is that we embrace the joy and the burden of the calling. and it's not enough just to do the joy. And sometimes that's more fun times, but there's also a burden with it. But I actually believe
We have a burden because of the kindness of God, that He would let our lives and our choices and the impact that comes from that, that we would care enough about it, that we would be burdened for something, that you would be burdened to tell these stories, that we would be burdened enough to care for the MVP to do whatever and leverage everything so that they could experience freedom and faith, hope, and love.
Burden, while it comes across as a negative connotation, I don't view it that way. It's heavy and it's hard, but it's worth it. And if you didn't have a burden, why would we do it? And I actually really believe, and this is a journey for me over probably the course of the last three years, that, man, we're so burdened for something or someone that, why? Because we care.
Because there's something deep in our heart that has moved us, that stirred us to that, that we believe we can move the needle, make an impact, change a life. And we are so burdened to do so. And so I just encourage you that when you say you're burdened, I think you can also view a burden as a blessing.
It's a blessing that God would give me a burden to tell these stories, to try to tell the truth, to try to shine the light. I'm burdened to do so because of the kindness of God. He would give me this platform or let me borrow this platform. And then you mentioned stewardship on that. Stewardship is a fascinating concept that gets thrown out all the time.
But in the Greek, it goes back to the Greek word oikonomia, which just means a house manager. Because it's not my home, I'm just taking care of it till the owner comes back. And that's, in my opinion, how we should try to use our lives, our platforms, our bodies, our energy, our mindset. It's not even mine. God just let me borrow it for a little bit.
But when the owner comes back, is everything in order?
That's such a good way to say that. And I'll get fired up about this because sometimes it, to be honest, sometimes it really bothers me when people will talk about it. in such negative ways or say, no, I don't want to be burdened by that.
Or I will have some people, like I'll be in certain groups and someone in that group might ask me, if it's a small group, they'll say, hey, can you tell me about some of the fight against trafficking or exploitation? Can you tell me some stories or some of the, and you'll start to tell. And then you'll have other people that, and this isn't rare, this happens quite often.
They'll say, no, no, don't tell me because it reminds me of my kids. Don't tell me because I don't want to know that. Don't tell me because I don't want to hear that. And one time, I was with a small group at a fundraiser on a golf course, and I was asked by one of the guys, and the other guy, a couple other guys said, no, no, don't tell me.
Very, very successful, powerful, could help a lot of people. And I was so burdened by them saying, no, I don't want to know. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to have those thoughts because it will remind me of my kids.
And I probably shouldn't have responded this way, but out of a little bit of maybe temper or irritation, I responded and I said, if the boys and girls that are going through this evil could hear you right now, what hope do you think they would have? Wow. And maybe it was disrespectful. What did they say to that? Nothing for a few minutes.
And it maybe was disrespectful, and I maybe could have coded it nicer. But it was like, yes, there are burdens, and there is evil. If we don't stand up and do anything, who's going to do it? You think it's somebody else's responsibility? Yeah. I mean, this is literally going back to Kitty Genovese, and I think it's 1963 or 61 or something like that.
And it's the story that led to the bystander effect, where Kitty Genovese is walking home late at night and she gets attacked and stabbed four times or something like that. And the lights turn on from the apartment complex where she's walking into and the attacker runs away and hides behind a car.
And she gets up and stumbles into the hallway of the apartment complex and he sees no one goes to aid. And so he comes all the way back and attacks her again. I think stabs her maybe eight more times. I think steals $49. I believe he also rapes her. And supposedly over 30 people saw some of this or some most of it.
And it's even reported that one of the guys in the hallway opened the door and looked out, but nobody came to her aid. Nobody came to her aid. And so anyways, to make a longer story short, she died on the way to the hospital. And it was a big story. And everybody's writing and talking about it. And they started studying this case.
And it was where the bystander effect came from, that the more people are present, the less likely someone is to do something, because they all feel like it's somebody else's job. And this is also the start of where the 911 call came from. It was from this night in New York City of Kitty Genovese losing her life.
And there's some controversy of how many people actually saw, how many people didn't see. But the point is there were a lot of people that saw, that knew something bad was happening, but they all thought somebody else is going to call, going to go, going to do. We just, as people in society, as believers in church and ministry and just life, we can't think somebody else is going to go.
It's not somebody else's job. It's my job. And we talk about that with our team all the time. You can't think this is somebody. This is our job. Regardless of what somebody else does, it's our job. So the definition we use for calling is an urgent and divine invitation to to accept responsibility for a particular task. If God is calling you, it doesn't matter what anybody else does.
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