Escaping Survival: Embracing Abundant Faith in Christ
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different when you're in the middle of it. It's different when you're raising your kids believing that they're receiving the values you're trying to impart to them. Because when you are teaching your kids responsibility, they do not thank you and recognize you for being a voice of wisdom and an encouraging force of good in their lives. It's different when you're in the middle of it. The reason we can sometimes look at the biblical miracles and experience them and celebrate them is because we know how they end, but it's different when you're in the middle of it. It's different when you're in the middle of it, when you're having to stand in the middle of something and say, God, I know that you're faithful, and I know that you're good, but I don't feel that you're faithful, and I don't feel that you're good right now.
That's called a sacrifice of praise. That's where you have to dig somewhere deeper than your feelings or your knowledge or your certainty or your circumstance or your bank account. God, show me how to manage the middle. I have a hard time with that. I don't have a hard time being excited about the beginning, and I don't have a hard time celebrating the end, but this middle. Teach me how to manage the middle. One of my best friends pastors a big church, and they had three years where they didn't grow. In fact, they went backward. I said, what was the problem in those three years when you didn't grow? He said, middle management. We got so large, the organization got so big, that there was a layer of people in the middle who started to block the values that were a part of the organization in the early days, and it was middle management.
It wasn't the people who were executing the job. It wasn't the vision had changed. It was what happened in the middle that almost cost us the momentum of what God was doing. I wonder, is that how it happens in our lives? I wonder if sometimes the reason that joy stops flowing, the reason that faith stops growing, the reason that sometimes we lose our sense of perspective about who God is… It's not the end. It's not the beginning. It's middle management. We don't know how to manage the middle. We don't know how to deal with Monday, so we shout good on Sunday. But I need an MMA sermon. I need some Monday morning application. I need something to help me manage this middle, because I'm not fighting the devil on Sunday morning.
I'm fighting him on Tuesday at 337. So the key to this, Joshua says, take 12 stones… 12 stones. January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. 12 months, 12 stones. 12 tribes, 12 disciples. Everybody say 12. Take 12, pile them up, and in the future, when your children ask you, what's up with these stones? Or like my kids ask me, what's up with these cassette tapes? I still got some. When your children ask you, Tell them what the Lord did. Tell them. Show them the stones and tell them. We didn't know if we were going to make it through, but God did something only he could do, and we made it.
How does the speaker define 'the middle' and why does it matter for faith?
Tell the person next to you, you have no idea what I've been through. Look at them right in the eye and say, and God brought me over. Look at them one more time and say, how about you?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:57
2
How does the speaker define 'the middle' and why does it matter for faith?
4:57–7:53
3
What is a 'sacrifice of praise' and how can it help when feelings conflict with faith?
7:53–11:26
4
Why is 'middle management' used as a metaphor for stalled spiritual momentum?
11:26–17:20
Speakers
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