Oh boy. All right. So, um, I am gonna use a lot of my HSM.

512
01:14:17.625 --> 01:14:19.125
Can we turn these down a little bit?

513
01:14:19.585 --> 01:14:22.605
I'm not used to all this. It's gonna make me uncomfortable.

514
01:14:23.175 --> 01:14:26.965
Thank you. Okay. Like, uh, Ben said, my name is Ryan Jurgielewicz.

515
01:14:27.085 --> 01:14:30.085
I am the self-titled, uh, Student Life Pastor.

516
01:14:30.905 --> 01:14:33.685
Um, I've, wait, oh, you gave me the title. Okay.

517
01:14:33.795 --> 01:14:34.845
Well, I asked for it

518
01:14:35.045 --> 01:14:36.805
'cause it just sounds better than youth pastor sometimes.

519
01:14:37.425 --> 01:14:39.525
So I, yes, I've been coming to Heritage Fellowship

520
01:14:39.545 --> 01:14:42.085
for like 24 years, 25 years.

521
01:14:42.105 --> 01:14:43.885
And so this is, I'm a product of this house.

522
01:14:44.665 --> 01:14:47.915
So that is a good thing. Wow.

523
01:14:50.105 --> 01:14:52.205
I'm excited. All right. So, hi, I'm Ryan.

524
01:14:52.355 --> 01:14:53.965
Just run that again. So usually

525
01:14:53.985 --> 01:14:56.205
how we start Wednesday nights off is I do a lot

526
01:14:56.205 --> 01:14:58.565
of bantering in the beginning to the point to

527
01:14:58.565 --> 01:14:59.885
where my awesome volunteers,

528
01:15:00.065 --> 01:15:02.165
if you volunteer in HSM, can you please stand up?

529
01:15:04.585 --> 01:15:06.405
You volunteer, come on, stand up. You know who you are.

530
01:15:06.835 --> 01:15:08.285
Okay? And if you are past people

531
01:15:08.285 --> 01:15:09.445
too, I still wanna honor you.

532
01:15:09.785 --> 01:15:11.965
So, Joe, Emily Tate, stand up too.

533
01:15:12.685 --> 01:15:13.885
I want you guys to stand up. All right.

534
01:15:14.035 --> 01:15:15.685
Nathaniel up in the booth working.

535
01:15:16.135 --> 01:15:19.645
These people are incredible. Alright. They're amazing.

536
01:15:19.875 --> 01:15:23.445
They're awesome. I literally cannot do anything

537
01:15:23.445 --> 01:15:26.325
that I do without them.

538
01:15:26.805 --> 01:15:28.725
'cause if, if so, you guys could sit down now if,

539
01:15:28.965 --> 01:15:31.365
'cause if, if so, it would be a lot of me just rambling

540
01:15:31.385 --> 01:15:33.365
and talking and being like, oh, we have this going on.

541
01:15:33.365 --> 01:15:35.525
We have this thing going on and these students are gonna be

542
01:15:35.525 --> 01:15:36.845
really good today.

543
01:15:37.425 --> 01:15:38.725
But typically on a Wednesday,

544
01:15:39.085 --> 01:15:40.365
whenever I get the microphone up in the front

545
01:15:40.425 --> 01:15:44.925
and I start talking, they just start asking really random,

546
01:15:45.615 --> 01:15:50.165
silly questions that just make zero sense.

547
01:15:50.165 --> 01:15:51.605
You're like, what? What? Why are you

548
01:15:51.605 --> 01:15:52.685
asking me this right now?

549
01:15:52.685 --> 01:15:55.125
In front of everybody? So, because I have the microphone

550
01:15:55.585 --> 01:15:59.125
and I have the microphone, I wanna announce two things.

551
01:15:59.385 --> 01:16:02.725
So we have youth camp coming up

552
01:16:03.275 --> 01:16:05.405
July 23rd through the 27th.

553
01:16:06.015 --> 01:16:08.605
Let's go. We're so excited. It's so awesome.

554
01:16:09.785 --> 01:16:12.525
And likewise, like a typical HSMI forget

555
01:16:12.525 --> 01:16:14.085
to send graphics to have put up.

556
01:16:14.305 --> 01:16:17.725
So what you should all have on your phone,

557
01:16:17.915 --> 01:16:19.925
it's the church center app.

558
01:16:20.745 --> 01:16:21.965
If you open it up

559
01:16:22.625 --> 01:16:25.125
and you go on the bottom tab where it says signups,

560
01:16:25.385 --> 01:16:27.165
if you have a student that is in sixth

561
01:16:27.225 --> 01:16:29.605
to 12th grade, sign them up.

562
01:16:29.825 --> 01:16:30.965
And if you do it

563
01:16:31.705 --> 01:16:34.645
before March 31st, you don't have

564
01:16:34.645 --> 01:16:36.045
to put any money down to do this.

565
01:16:36.315 --> 01:16:37.765
It's just if you register them

566
01:16:38.065 --> 01:16:40.085
before March 31st,

567
01:16:40.465 --> 01:16:43.525
you'll get $50 off your registration fee.

568
01:16:44.035 --> 01:16:46.765
Yeah. Cool. So parents, now that I have most

569
01:16:46.765 --> 01:16:49.405
of you in this room that have not signed your kids up

570
01:16:49.405 --> 01:16:51.205
yet, don't forget to do that.

571
01:16:51.205 --> 01:16:52.525
You don't have to put any money down.

572
01:16:53.115 --> 01:16:54.485
Just register so I

573
01:16:54.485 --> 01:16:55.565
can go ahead and figure out transportation.

574
01:16:56.125 --> 01:16:57.125
'cause I feel like this year we're gonna have a

575
01:16:57.125 --> 01:16:57.965
lot more students.

576
01:16:58.585 --> 01:17:02.205
Now with that, on April 6th, again, don't have a graphic,

577
01:17:02.305 --> 01:17:05.245
but it is also on the signups in planning center.

578
01:17:05.565 --> 01:17:06.565
I mean on church app.

579
01:17:08.045 --> 01:17:10.765
Um, we are doing a bake sale fundraiser

580
01:17:10.765 --> 01:17:12.805
that we're gonna raise money to help cover costs

581
01:17:12.985 --> 01:17:14.285
for camp last year.

582
01:17:14.345 --> 01:17:18.805
You guys just full stop, just you guys ate it

583
01:17:19.465 --> 01:17:21.845
and you left no crumbs and they did good.

584
01:17:22.185 --> 01:17:23.765
Am I good? All right.

585
01:17:23.945 --> 01:17:25.525
No, literally like you guys brought so much stuff.

586
01:17:25.525 --> 01:17:26.925
It was awesome. And it was incredible.

587
01:17:26.945 --> 01:17:30.005
And we were like, we brought the cost down to camp down to

588
01:17:30.005 --> 01:17:31.245
what was $50 a student.

589
01:17:31.585 --> 01:17:33.805
So like this year, if you go ahead

590
01:17:33.905 --> 01:17:35.725
and sign up in there, you can sign up

591
01:17:35.725 --> 01:17:36.565
what you're gonna bring and

592
01:17:36.565 --> 01:17:37.765
we'll get that all taken care of.

593
01:17:38.185 --> 01:17:41.405
So that is what I have to say about those things.

594
01:17:41.745 --> 01:17:43.365
If you have your Bible, which I hope you do,

595
01:17:43.565 --> 01:17:47.005
'cause you are at church, please turn to Philippians two.

596
01:17:48.635 --> 01:17:49.905
Y'all just gonna have to, I'm just,

597
01:17:50.125 --> 01:17:51.505
I'm gonna treat it like a Wednesday night,

598
01:17:52.625 --> 01:17:54.205
so you just bear with me.

599
01:17:54.275 --> 01:17:55.845
Alright, once you are there,

600
01:17:56.225 --> 01:17:58.365
if you could please stand for the reading of the word.

601
01:17:58.445 --> 01:18:01.805
I love this because, um, the students, they sit for so long,

602
01:18:01.805 --> 01:18:02.885
they get tired and they fall asleep.

603
01:18:02.885 --> 01:18:04.285
So I gotta stand them up

604
01:18:04.285 --> 01:18:07.205
and it's good muscle memory and things.

605
01:18:08.745 --> 01:18:10.165
So we're gonna be, uh, Philippians two.

606
01:18:10.165 --> 01:18:13.365
We're gonna read verses one through 11. Here we go.

607
01:18:13.365 --> 01:18:16.405
Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being united

608
01:18:16.425 --> 01:18:19.485
in with Christ, if any comfort from his love

609
01:18:20.105 --> 01:18:23.325
and any, if any, common sharing in the spirit,

610
01:18:23.625 --> 01:18:27.165
if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete

611
01:18:27.345 --> 01:18:28.445
by being like-minded,

612
01:18:29.345 --> 01:18:32.805
having the same love being one in spirit and of one mind.

613
01:18:33.305 --> 01:18:35.125
Do nothing out of selfish ambition

614
01:18:35.345 --> 01:18:38.725
or vain conceit, rather, in humility,

615
01:18:39.015 --> 01:18:40.685
value others above yourself.

616
01:18:41.425 --> 01:18:43.365
Not looking to your own interests,

617
01:18:44.145 --> 01:18:45.725
but each of you to the interests

618
01:18:45.725 --> 01:18:48.245
of others in your relationships with one another,

619
01:18:48.555 --> 01:18:52.365
with the same mindset as Christ Jesus who did,

620
01:18:52.585 --> 01:18:54.205
who being in very nature,

621
01:18:55.025 --> 01:18:57.445
God did not consider e equality with G.

622
01:18:57.465 --> 01:18:58.925
Did not consider equality with God.

623
01:18:58.925 --> 01:19:00.845
Something to be used to his own advantage.

624
01:19:01.505 --> 01:19:04.365
Rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature

625
01:19:04.385 --> 01:19:06.325
of a servant, being made,

626
01:19:06.365 --> 01:19:08.765
a human being made in human likeness

627
01:19:09.665 --> 01:19:11.765
and being found in appearance as a man.

628
01:19:12.025 --> 01:19:15.405
He humbled himself by obedient, ob becoming obedient

629
01:19:15.405 --> 01:19:17.125
to death, even death on a cross.

630
01:19:17.915 --> 01:19:20.925
Therefore, God exalted him to the highest place

631
01:19:21.225 --> 01:19:23.365
and gave him the name that is above every name.

632
01:19:23.875 --> 01:19:27.405
That at the name of Jesus, every niche should bow in heaven

633
01:19:27.545 --> 01:19:29.045
and on earth, under the earth.

634
01:19:29.265 --> 01:19:32.725
And every tongue acknowledged that Jesus Christ is Lord

635
01:19:32.745 --> 01:19:34.445
to the glory of God the Father.

636
01:19:35.385 --> 01:19:40.085
You all sit down. So we have been in

637
01:19:40.485 --> 01:19:44.325
a long series of spiritual transformation

638
01:19:44.325 --> 01:19:45.405
and spiritual formation.

639
01:19:46.505 --> 01:19:49.365
And the thing that we are in right now is on hospitality.

640
01:19:49.385 --> 01:19:54.285
And, and, and, um, the thing, um, I keep saying,

641
01:19:54.305 --> 01:19:55.325
um, I'm sorry Pastor Jim.

642
01:19:56.425 --> 01:20:00.205
Uh, the thing with hospitality is

643
01:20:00.205 --> 01:20:01.525
that we have spent a lot

644
01:20:01.525 --> 01:20:03.885
of time talking about being hospitable to the people

645
01:20:03.995 --> 01:20:05.805
outside these four walls, right?

646
01:20:06.635 --> 01:20:09.325
Tonight, today I want to take a perspective

647
01:20:09.745 --> 01:20:13.125
and look at the people sitting to the left and right of you

648
01:20:13.595 --> 01:20:17.605
because it's how we treat each other in this place

649
01:20:18.865 --> 01:20:21.605
is really going to dictate how well we treat the people

650
01:20:21.795 --> 01:20:24.725
outside this place and in worship

651
01:20:24.785 --> 01:20:26.005
and all the things that were said.

652
01:20:26.025 --> 01:20:27.365
One of the things that really came to mind,

653
01:20:27.365 --> 01:20:29.045
and I'm, this is a really common phrase,

654
01:20:29.065 --> 01:20:31.965
but it's the Westminster, uh, catechism.

655
01:20:32.145 --> 01:20:33.645
You know, like what is the purpose of man?

656
01:20:33.675 --> 01:20:34.765
What is, what is that thing?

657
01:20:34.765 --> 01:20:36.445
And the thing that just drilled into my head this morning,

658
01:20:36.485 --> 01:20:41.285
I says, man's chief end is glorify God to enjoy him forever.

659
01:20:43.425 --> 01:20:47.525
And I think one of the number one ways we can do that

660
01:20:48.265 --> 01:20:50.965
is how we do relationships with one another,

661
01:20:51.745 --> 01:20:54.205
but especially how we do relationships with one another

662
01:20:54.505 --> 01:20:55.805
as followers of Christ.

663
01:20:58.315 --> 01:21:00.485
Now, HSM students know this

664
01:21:00.605 --> 01:21:01.725
'cause this is one of our code of conduct

665
01:21:01.725 --> 01:21:02.925
that I have in the youth room.

666
01:21:02.925 --> 01:21:05.285
On the wall is about honoring one another.

667
01:21:06.035 --> 01:21:07.325
It's like the top thing.

668
01:21:07.745 --> 01:21:10.845
How we honor each other is so important.

669
01:21:11.085 --> 01:21:14.405
'cause how we treat the person who is made in the image

670
01:21:14.405 --> 01:21:18.595
of God is how we are treating Christ himself.

671
01:21:21.555 --> 01:21:25.855
So I want that to be something that stirs up in us.

672
01:21:25.855 --> 01:21:27.615
This is not something like, as I was going to this,

673
01:21:27.695 --> 01:21:30.175
I felt like I was like, oh man, if I, if I come too high out

674
01:21:30.175 --> 01:21:32.255
of the gate with this, people are gonna think like, um,

675
01:21:32.355 --> 01:21:34.415
I'm pointing fingers like, oh no, we don't do that here.

676
01:21:34.445 --> 01:21:35.855
Like, you guys need to do it better.

677
01:21:36.205 --> 01:21:37.975
Like, no people do it here.

678
01:21:38.515 --> 01:21:43.255
So, well, Ron walked down, I wanted to bill beat me

679
01:21:43.255 --> 01:21:46.815
to the punch, but I wanted to, to, you know, honor Ron

680
01:21:46.955 --> 01:21:49.735
for all that he does for that class back there.

681
01:21:50.315 --> 01:21:52.015
You guys don't know, but I know

682
01:21:52.015 --> 01:21:53.255
because of Lexi being in there.

683
01:21:53.675 --> 01:21:56.655
Ron Soderberg loves your six to 11 year olds.

684
01:21:56.805 --> 01:21:58.175
Like, loves them.

685
01:21:58.365 --> 01:22:02.695
Like with his whole being and fiber, he loves him.

686
01:22:02.695 --> 01:22:05.135
Like, I love seeing the kids run up

687
01:22:05.135 --> 01:22:06.895
to him on Sunday mornings or

688
01:22:07.055 --> 01:22:08.255
whenever they see him during the week

689
01:22:08.285 --> 01:22:12.815
because Ron is so invested, so intentional and so caring

690
01:22:12.955 --> 01:22:15.655
and honoring to those kids, it is mind blowing.

691
01:22:17.045 --> 01:22:20.775
Like it's something that should stir up our faith

692
01:22:21.155 --> 01:22:22.455
and it should stir up you right now

693
01:22:22.455 --> 01:22:25.175
because this guy is back there right now sharing the

694
01:22:25.175 --> 01:22:26.295
gospel with your kids.

695
01:22:26.605 --> 01:22:28.575
With that bill said that generation right

696
01:22:28.595 --> 01:22:29.935
now, like, that should be the thing.

697
01:22:29.935 --> 01:22:32.695
It should be stirring you up like, man, I wanna be like Ron,

698
01:22:33.175 --> 01:22:35.215
I wanna love kids the way Ron does.

699
01:22:38.285 --> 01:22:43.145
So man, uh, yeah, bear with me.

700
01:22:43.695 --> 01:22:46.985
This is weird up here. So, um, oh, thank you.

701
01:22:51.105 --> 01:22:53.965
I'm gonna be really quick. So it's just you teenagers,

702
01:22:53.965 --> 01:22:54.925
I love you made, made this good

703
01:22:54.925 --> 01:22:55.605
and you're gonna make everyone happy.

704
01:22:55.905 --> 01:23:00.805
So with that said, we, we, we, we need to,

705
01:23:01.305 --> 01:23:05.365
uh, are you would, okay, I'm,

706
01:23:05.385 --> 01:23:07.285
I'm gonna be really transparent, be honest and real.

707
01:23:07.865 --> 01:23:11.205
Um, talking to a room of adults freaks me out.

708
01:23:11.585 --> 01:23:14.525
So I am so like out of my element right now.

709
01:23:14.665 --> 01:23:16.805
So like, if it looks like I don't know what's going on

710
01:23:17.065 --> 01:23:18.605
or I'm rambling because I'm like, oh man,

711
01:23:18.605 --> 01:23:19.445
I'm looking at my notes and I'm like,

712
01:23:19.505 --> 01:23:20.485
wow, these are all terrible.

713
01:23:20.485 --> 01:23:21.565
These don't make any sense.

714
01:23:21.795 --> 01:23:23.645
It's because I'm talking to a room of adults

715
01:23:23.645 --> 01:23:26.605
that if you had this room full of a bunch of middle school

716
01:23:26.605 --> 01:23:28.005
and high schoolers, I'd be fine.

717
01:23:28.385 --> 01:23:31.325
And the reason being is if I started going off track

718
01:23:31.385 --> 01:23:33.965
or sounding like I didn't know what I was talking about,

719
01:23:34.355 --> 01:23:36.045
they would just tell me right off the bat.

720
01:23:36.045 --> 01:23:38.725
They'd be like, mm, no dude, that's, that's not good.

721
01:23:39.105 --> 01:23:40.165
That's not what the Bible says

722
01:23:40.315 --> 01:23:41.325
that don't know what you're talking about.

723
01:23:41.435 --> 01:23:42.805
Because they do do that.

724
01:23:42.965 --> 01:23:45.125
I just want people to know that your students do that

725
01:23:45.125 --> 01:23:46.645
to me on Wednesday nights all the time.

726
01:23:46.645 --> 01:23:49.365
Like, I'll get going. And they're like, that's not

727
01:23:49.365 --> 01:23:50.645
what my Bible says, Ryan, what are you reading?

728
01:23:50.665 --> 01:23:52.045
I'm like, oh, you're right. I'm in the wrong place.

729
01:23:52.425 --> 01:23:56.365
Anyway, the, the, the passages that I really,

730
01:23:56.565 --> 01:24:00.725
I really wanted to stick with were some challenging,

731
01:24:00.725 --> 01:24:02.325
but that stirs me up.

732
01:24:03.045 --> 01:24:04.685
Scripture is verses three and four.

733
01:24:05.115 --> 01:24:07.165
This says, do nothing outta selfish ambition

734
01:24:07.185 --> 01:24:10.725
or va conceit rather, in humility, value others

735
01:24:10.815 --> 01:24:14.045
above yourself, not looking to your own interests,

736
01:24:14.185 --> 01:24:16.725
but if each of you to the interest of others.

737
01:24:20.085 --> 01:24:22.185
If we are to practice hospitality

738
01:24:22.245 --> 01:24:25.825
and hospitable people, we need to take the moment

739
01:24:26.525 --> 01:24:31.105
and stop and be present and aware of the people around us.

740
01:24:32.555 --> 01:24:36.095
Now, it's great how we do that outside of this place,

741
01:24:36.715 --> 01:24:39.015
but I think too many times, like most of us,

742
01:24:39.475 --> 01:24:42.215
we are really quick to go

743
01:24:42.215 --> 01:24:44.295
and help people outside of our household.

744
01:24:44.795 --> 01:24:47.295
But then the people that we live with, we get like, ah,

745
01:24:47.685 --> 01:24:49.215
they're just being really whiny today.

746
01:24:50.035 --> 01:24:51.895
Oh man, they're really being annoying

747
01:24:51.895 --> 01:24:52.975
and I just can't put up with them.

748
01:24:53.235 --> 01:24:55.615
And I know this because I have a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old

749
01:24:55.615 --> 01:24:58.055
and I'm just like, ah, Jesus, help me.

750
01:24:58.175 --> 01:25:00.335
'cause like, I don't, this thing isn't,

751
01:25:00.335 --> 01:25:02.735
and then the time change, who you, who you all know

752
01:25:02.735 --> 01:25:04.255
that little kids with time change.

753
01:25:04.355 --> 01:25:07.735
It is the worst. I'm dying here.

754
01:25:08.605 --> 01:25:10.135
Like I'm running on caffeine

755
01:25:10.395 --> 01:25:13.665
and Celsius, alright?

756
01:25:13.805 --> 01:25:18.425
But if we took the time that we spend, the intentionality

757
01:25:18.425 --> 01:25:21.665
that we spend, that we look at the people outside

758
01:25:21.665 --> 01:25:25.595
of this place and how we can touch their lives

759
01:25:26.135 --> 01:25:29.035
and how we can practice hospitality with them, if we took

760
01:25:29.035 --> 01:25:32.275
that same intentionality and passion and fervor

761
01:25:32.415 --> 01:25:33.715
and we do to the people, to the left

762
01:25:33.715 --> 01:25:34.755
and right of us

763
01:25:35.185 --> 01:25:38.275
that sometimes are gonna be the most difficult people to do

764
01:25:38.275 --> 01:25:40.195
because they're family, they're the people

765
01:25:40.195 --> 01:25:44.285
that we spend the most time with, that it,

766
01:25:44.355 --> 01:25:46.045
it's gonna shake this place

767
01:25:46.755 --> 01:25:49.245
because then we are gonna stir up each other

768
01:25:50.185 --> 01:25:51.605
and how we are gonna do it out there.

769
01:25:52.195 --> 01:25:55.955
Because how would it look

770
01:25:56.665 --> 01:25:58.715
that if we didn't take the time

771
01:25:59.215 --> 01:26:01.435
to practice hospitality with one another?

772
01:26:01.625 --> 01:26:04.605
When we have guests, when we have outside people come in

773
01:26:04.605 --> 01:26:06.685
and they look and they go, oh wow,

774
01:26:06.685 --> 01:26:07.885
these people just really hate each other.

775
01:26:09.305 --> 01:26:10.675
They don't like being around each other.

776
01:26:10.675 --> 01:26:12.435
They don't like looking out for each other.

777
01:26:12.435 --> 01:26:15.755
They're so self-consumed with their own wants and desires

778
01:26:16.015 --> 01:26:17.555
and what they want in that moment that they don't look

779
01:26:17.555 --> 01:26:18.915
to the people to the left in the right of them.

780
01:26:19.735 --> 01:26:22.095
You know, this is a challenging word for myself

781
01:26:22.095 --> 01:26:24.135
because there's so many times that it is quicker

782
01:26:24.135 --> 01:26:25.575
to just be like, okay, hey, hi, bye.

783
01:26:25.575 --> 01:26:27.855
And then just walk on by

784
01:26:27.855 --> 01:26:29.095
and forget that the person's even there

785
01:26:29.435 --> 01:26:32.535
or that you are so caught up in your own stuff

786
01:26:33.415 --> 01:26:38.045
that you miss the opportunity to be Christ as someone

787
01:26:38.145 --> 01:26:40.525
who just just needs it that day on a Sunday morning.

788
01:26:42.765 --> 01:26:45.945
Now with, with with the students at HSM, you guys

789
01:26:46.725 --> 01:26:48.465
do a fabulous job of doing this

790
01:26:49.095 --> 01:26:51.825
because you guys really do love people.

791
01:26:52.525 --> 01:26:54.465
Now, in the beginning when I took over as youth pastor,

792
01:26:54.485 --> 01:26:56.305
it was really rough because you guys were

793
01:26:56.305 --> 01:26:57.505
just, I don't know about any of these people.

794
01:26:57.505 --> 01:26:59.265
They're all weird. I don't

795
01:26:59.265 --> 01:27:00.385
know about this, like, I don't know.

796
01:27:00.805 --> 01:27:02.145
But through time

797
01:27:02.645 --> 01:27:03.825
and forcing you people

798
01:27:03.825 --> 01:27:06.265
to be in small groups, oh, look at that.

799
01:27:06.375 --> 01:27:07.545
It's a plug for home groups.

800
01:27:07.685 --> 01:27:09.705
If you're not a home group yet in one,

801
01:27:11.895 --> 01:27:13.065
your life is gonna change.

802
01:27:13.065 --> 01:27:14.745
You're gonna build relationships with people.

803
01:27:14.805 --> 01:27:16.385
You're actually gonna get to know people

804
01:27:17.655 --> 01:27:21.745
because if, if you're not, you're missing out on a lot.

805
01:27:21.975 --> 01:27:23.465
There's my shameless plug for home groups.

806
01:27:23.805 --> 01:27:26.985
But no, having small groups with HSM I've been able

807
01:27:27.005 --> 01:27:30.305
to watch God move in these students' lives

808
01:27:30.645 --> 01:27:32.505
and how they are interacting with each other,

809
01:27:32.685 --> 01:27:33.945
how they were talking to each other

810
01:27:34.165 --> 01:27:36.305
and encouraging each other nine outta 10 times.

811
01:27:36.705 --> 01:27:39.185
I don't even have to do anything or say anything.

812
01:27:39.585 --> 01:27:42.105
I just show up and go, Hey guys, here's some questions.

813
01:27:42.325 --> 01:27:45.985
And I watch them run wild in a good way.

814
01:27:46.295 --> 01:27:48.865
They love Jesus so much.

815
01:27:49.175 --> 01:27:52.625
They love encouraging, they love building each other up.

816
01:27:52.655 --> 01:27:54.945
They also are really quick to call out things

817
01:27:54.945 --> 01:27:58.145
that are untruth and they're friends in a loving way.

818
01:27:58.215 --> 01:28:00.265
It's not like, Hey, you're an idiot.

819
01:28:01.345 --> 01:28:03.235
Sometimes they need, other people need to hear that,

820
01:28:03.255 --> 01:28:04.275
but they're not like that.

821
01:28:05.615 --> 01:28:07.195
So I think it is very possible

822
01:28:07.195 --> 01:28:10.115
that if these teenagers can do it and practice it

823
01:28:10.215 --> 01:28:13.235
and walk it out, well you can too.

824
01:28:14.485 --> 01:28:17.585
But it requires you to be plugged in.

825
01:28:17.885 --> 01:28:20.025
It requires you to be invested.

826
01:28:20.405 --> 01:28:24.105
It requires you to chase after community.

827
01:28:27.375 --> 01:28:30.055
'cause you need that. There's one thing

828
01:28:30.055 --> 01:28:32.175
that I could talk about until I'm blue in the face,

829
01:28:32.875 --> 01:28:35.255
is living in community with followers,

830
01:28:35.645 --> 01:28:37.015
with fellow followers of Christ.

831
01:28:37.205 --> 01:28:39.295
Because that thing is awesome.

832
01:28:39.875 --> 01:28:41.535
If you looked all through scripture

833
01:28:41.635 --> 01:28:45.135
of all the different things that those people did

834
01:28:45.165 --> 01:28:48.215
because they were walking in community with one another,

835
01:28:48.445 --> 01:28:52.255
chasing after Jesus, you're here because of that.

836
01:28:55.945 --> 01:28:57.805
You are sitting in this place

837
01:28:58.475 --> 01:29:02.205
because there was a group of people that said, we are going

838
01:29:02.225 --> 01:29:03.445
to look out for each other.

839
01:29:04.745 --> 01:29:07.245
I'm gonna lay down my selfishness.

840
01:29:07.345 --> 01:29:08.605
I'm gonna lay down my flesh.

841
01:29:08.905 --> 01:29:11.725
I'm gonna lay down what I want in this moment for you.

842
01:29:13.235 --> 01:29:16.105
It's not easy. Practicing hospitality

843
01:29:16.525 --> 01:29:17.905
and living that way is not easy.

844
01:29:19.575 --> 01:29:21.035
If it was, we'd all be doing it

845
01:29:22.445 --> 01:29:23.625
and we would be doing it well,

846
01:29:25.815 --> 01:29:27.715
but it requires something of us.

847
01:29:29.145 --> 01:29:31.885
That's why it says in verse five, it says,

848
01:29:31.885 --> 01:29:33.325
in your relationships with one another,

849
01:29:33.325 --> 01:29:34.725
have the same mindset as Christ.

850
01:29:34.865 --> 01:29:37.445
And then he goes on and says, Jesus was humble.

851
01:29:38.425 --> 01:29:41.285
So when all your relationships

852
01:29:43.095 --> 01:29:44.065
walk in humility,

853
01:29:49.295 --> 01:29:52.225
that when we look out for the other person

854
01:29:53.015 --> 01:29:55.825
over our own self, we need to do it from a place

855
01:29:55.825 --> 01:29:57.625
of humility, not just a haughtiness

856
01:29:57.625 --> 01:29:59.305
of just going like, look what I did.

857
01:29:59.465 --> 01:30:00.625
I sacrificed for them.

858
01:30:01.695 --> 01:30:05.905
'cause the Bible's full of times when, when God was like,

859
01:30:06.025 --> 01:30:09.925
I required sacrifice, obedience is great,

860
01:30:09.925 --> 01:30:11.045
and following the rules is great,

861
01:30:11.045 --> 01:30:12.965
but if your heart's not in it, then what's the point?

862
01:30:16.275 --> 01:30:20.585
'cause that's the thing that God is after. He's like that.

863
01:30:20.615 --> 01:30:23.865
That is, that is our whole point of existence, is

864
01:30:23.865 --> 01:30:26.345
to glorify God and enjoy him forever.

865
01:30:29.595 --> 01:30:30.935
We are to do that together

866
01:30:31.315 --> 01:30:33.455
and how we do relationships with one another.

867
01:30:34.775 --> 01:30:37.115
We are here to enjoy God

868
01:30:37.455 --> 01:30:41.275
and enjoy each other as we're loving God and glorifying God

869
01:30:41.275 --> 01:30:42.355
and worshiping God.

870
01:30:45.785 --> 01:30:47.285
You guys good? Yeah.

871
01:30:47.385 --> 01:30:51.805
You look a little, any questions, any concerns?

872
01:30:51.955 --> 01:30:54.045
Well, I know the adults. I know you guys are loving it.

873
01:30:54.045 --> 01:30:55.765
You're doing great. It's these, these guys up in the front,

874
01:30:55.765 --> 01:30:57.165
they're just like, oh man, you made me sit up

875
01:30:57.165 --> 01:30:58.325
front and then you're being quiet.

876
01:30:58.705 --> 01:31:02.405
And now I'm like, oh man. So weird you guys not talking.

877
01:31:02.835 --> 01:31:03.885
It's making me uncomfortable.

878
01:31:04.425 --> 01:31:06.325
So yeah, you guys could talk to your neighbor. It's okay.

879
01:31:06.465 --> 01:31:08.085
Not, not gonna be rude, not gonna throw me off.

880
01:31:09.325 --> 01:31:13.725
Probably be a little better. Just, I just, I love Jesus

881
01:31:13.865 --> 01:31:16.525
and I like, and I'm, I'm, I'm the kind of person,

882
01:31:16.525 --> 01:31:17.645
yeah, I've already talked too long.

883
01:31:18.105 --> 01:31:22.755
Um, I I am

884
01:31:22.855 --> 01:31:25.635
so honored and privileged that you guys trust me

885
01:31:25.665 --> 01:31:29.235
with your students, that I get to be in relationship

886
01:31:29.255 --> 01:31:30.515
and be relational with them.

887
01:31:30.535 --> 01:31:34.315
And I got to see God working and moving in their lives.

888
01:31:36.505 --> 01:31:39.475
They are awesome. You guys have done a fabulous job

889
01:31:39.475 --> 01:31:40.515
and a fantastic job.

890
01:31:40.545 --> 01:31:42.475
Even when your kids can be knuckleheads

891
01:31:42.775 --> 01:31:47.245
and I just go, Ooh, Jesus, take the wheel.

892
01:31:47.355 --> 01:31:49.445
They, this is gonna be a fun conversation.

893
01:31:50.505 --> 01:31:52.165
But they love Jesus. They really do.

894
01:31:52.225 --> 01:31:54.645
And watching them grow over the last two

895
01:31:54.645 --> 01:31:57.525
and a half years, two years that I've been youth pastor

896
01:31:57.705 --> 01:32:00.485
and just watching them from the beginning where they, a lot

897
01:32:00.485 --> 01:32:04.695
of them, they were very unsure of the relationship with God

898
01:32:05.075 --> 01:32:06.375
and where they stood with Jesus.

899
01:32:06.795 --> 01:32:08.055
But then over the last two years,

900
01:32:08.055 --> 01:32:10.415
just watching them just blossom

901
01:32:10.715 --> 01:32:14.695
and flourish, not just in their own personal relationship.

902
01:32:14.855 --> 01:32:16.495
'cause that is something, yes, a hammer.

903
01:32:16.555 --> 01:32:18.575
And I'm like, Hey, God is talking

904
01:32:18.595 --> 01:32:20.455
and the only way you're gonna know he's talking is if you're

905
01:32:20.455 --> 01:32:23.035
praying and you're studying the word.

906
01:32:25.685 --> 01:32:29.345
But then that other thing is you need to be in relationship

907
01:32:29.345 --> 01:32:30.785
and community with other believers.

908
01:32:31.935 --> 01:32:36.865
It's not an option. There's two things

909
01:32:36.865 --> 01:32:38.705
that you could walk, well, three things, I guess.

910
01:32:39.985 --> 01:32:42.775
Study the word, pray and be in community.

911
01:32:44.305 --> 01:32:45.885
That's how you're gonna grow as a believer.

912
01:32:46.665 --> 01:32:50.125
All those other things to me will come

913
01:32:50.125 --> 01:32:51.885
with time that is full of Bible.

914
01:32:51.945 --> 01:32:55.925
But if you can just trust that when you pray

915
01:32:56.225 --> 01:32:59.485
and that when you study scripture, God is going

916
01:32:59.485 --> 01:33:00.565
to talk and move in your life.

917
01:33:01.185 --> 01:33:02.605
But then when you take those things

918
01:33:02.625 --> 01:33:03.885
and you step into community

919
01:33:03.985 --> 01:33:05.845
and you step in a room full of people who are chasing

920
01:33:05.845 --> 01:33:09.705
after that same thing, the world is gonna change.

921
01:33:09.935 --> 01:33:12.505
Your, your world is going to shift.

922
01:33:13.015 --> 01:33:14.225
Your perspective is gonna shift

923
01:33:14.255 --> 01:33:17.745
because you are not gonna look out for your own interest,

924
01:33:18.605 --> 01:33:20.305
but you're gonna look out for the people around you.

925
01:33:21.285 --> 01:33:23.465
And that is what hospitality is.

926
01:33:25.725 --> 01:33:27.895
It's the care of other people.

927
01:33:31.055 --> 01:33:35.225
And in that book that Casey talked about that, uh, I, uh,

928
01:33:36.175 --> 01:33:37.545
suggested that really Lexi

929
01:33:37.545 --> 01:33:39.385
suggested unreasonable hospitality.

930
01:33:39.385 --> 01:33:41.425
It's about a, a book about fine dining

931
01:33:41.485 --> 01:33:43.585
and it talks about like this guy, how they went from,

932
01:33:44.005 --> 01:33:46.465
you know, being a, you know, zero star

933
01:33:47.465 --> 01:33:51.385
restaurant in New York to becoming the the world's best

934
01:33:51.945 --> 01:33:53.375
restaurant, right?

935
01:33:53.825 --> 01:33:57.575
There was a line in there that he said that hospitality

936
01:33:58.555 --> 01:34:00.015
is not transactional

937
01:34:01.965 --> 01:34:05.225
and is something that has just stuck with me the last couple

938
01:34:05.225 --> 01:34:08.195
of weeks after reading that that

939
01:34:08.955 --> 01:34:11.195
hospitality is not transactional should,

940
01:34:11.295 --> 01:34:13.235
so you should not practice hospitality.

941
01:34:13.735 --> 01:34:14.715
And the thing, George, like

942
01:34:14.715 --> 01:34:15.635
you're just checking something off.

943
01:34:17.585 --> 01:34:20.645
But also hospitality needs to require something of you

944
01:34:23.425 --> 01:34:26.915
because relationship, if it's a healthy

945
01:34:27.485 --> 01:34:31.035
whole relationship is gonna require something of you.

946
01:34:31.375 --> 01:34:34.035
It requires participation, requires sacrifice.

947
01:34:35.625 --> 01:34:39.985
Likewise with hospitality, it's the same thing

948
01:34:41.175 --> 01:34:45.745
that in order for it to work, it's gonna require you

949
01:34:46.165 --> 01:34:48.105
to give up something for someone else.

950
01:34:48.455 --> 01:34:51.985
Whether that be time, money, an evening,

951
01:34:54.245 --> 01:34:55.255
that is what it requires.

952
01:34:55.255 --> 01:34:58.825
It requires something of you.