Anvil Ministries E6: Fight Club Series- Living Safe
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Fight Club Series Sponsor: Anthology.Church
Intro song: (Modified) “Corporate World” by The Dust Brothers
Welcome- Hello, and Welcome to the Anvil Podcast E6!
Last week we started this new series on Fight Club. If you havnt already – Check out last weeks episode.
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This series is sponsored by Anthology Church.
Intro to Ep- This weeks episode is about…
Lessons from the cult classic movie Fight Club.
Before we get into the topic for today and get into this new series I have a challenge for you. I want to you focus on one thing for the rest of this series. One thing that you would like to change. One thing that is holding you back from living the life that God wants for you. Just one. If you have no idea what that one thing is, go back and listen to EP5. That should bring some clarity there.
Focus on that over these next few weeks. Pray about it daily. Talk about it with others in your life. Just one thing. Don’t get distracted with more then one. Just pick one, and commit yourself to it.
With that lets get into it…
The dangers of safe sanitized living.
Your going to have to learn how to take a punch, and get dirty.
Last week we explored Memento Mori and looked at the fact that our days are numbered, and how can that encourage us to use our time here wisely, and do the things God has called us to do.
This week we will be looking at the traps of safe, sanitized living. Roosevelt’s quote-
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Men- we live in a day and time where we go to great lengths to be safe, and sanitary, and protect ourselves. There is nothing wrong with that per-say. When it becomes wrong is when we begin to worship it. Much of our culture worships safety, and is quick to coverup things that are dirty, flawed, imperfect, dented, and otherwise blemished.
Too often we let fear prevent us from moving forward into the things God has called us to. Many times that fear is of things that may actually hurt us, and sometimes they do. What’s important is that we don’t let that stop us, we need to learn from them, expect them, and stop avoiding them.
We’ll talk more about that in a bit.
Moving to CO and Back. When I was a kid I used to go on these family trips to KY for family reunions. When we would drive out from CA we would pass through CO. Thats when I fell in love. From that first time I saw the Rockies I was hooked, and it was my dream to live there. Once I got married, we talked about where we wanted to move to raise kids, and we both loved CO. In the summer of 2011 we had a opportunity to make the move, so we did. Now the economy in 2011 was horrific, we were almost homeless,