JOURNEY CHURCH

Throughout this series, we're examining the three questions from the song "Do You Hear What I Hear." Those three questions are, "Do you See What I See?" "Do You Hear What I Hear?" "Do You Know What I Know?" We will find where we see these three questions in the Christmas story, but more importantly than that, we’re going to see how the answers to these three questions have the potential to forever change our own story.

Throughout this series, we're examining the three questions from the song "Do You Hear What I Hear." Those three questions are, "Do you See What I See?" "Do You Hear What I Hear?" "Do You Know What I Know?" We will find where we see these three questions in the Christmas story, but more importantly than that, we’re going to see how the answers to these three questions have the potential to forever change our own story.

Throughout this series, we're examining the three questions from the song "Do You Hear What I Hear." Those three questions are, "Do you See What I See?" "Do You Hear What I Hear?" "Do You Know What I Know?" We will find where we see these three questions in the Christmas story, but more importantly than that, we’re going to see how the answers to these three questions have the potential to forever change our own story.

As people, we default to the path of least resistance. We cling to comfort, not because it’s what we desire most in our lives, but because it’s easy and when we do this, we settle for less than God’s best. The truth is, the life we long for, the more we were made for is found in the challenge. The results are in the resistance. It’s when we take the step, venture out, do the hard thing, embrace boldness that what we want and who we want to be becomes our reality, and sometimes that reality isn’t reality right now which is why we choose to be circle makers, drawing a circle around the thing we need, the thing we desire, the thing we long for, but be warned, as we begin this adventure, the practice of being a circle maker is a practice that requires effort and discomfort, but it’s a discomfort that get us where we long to be.

As people, we default to the path of least resistance. We cling to comfort, not because it’s what we desire most in our lives, but because it’s easy and when we do this, we settle for less than God’s best. The truth is, the life we long for, the more we were made for is found in the challenge. The results are in the resistance. It’s when we take the step, venture out, do the hard thing, embrace boldness that what we want and who we want to be becomes our reality, and sometimes that reality isn’t reality right now which is why we choose to be circle makers, drawing a circle around the thing we need, the thing we desire, the thing we long for, but be warned, as we begin this adventure, the practice of being a circle maker is a practice that requires effort and discomfort, but it’s a discomfort that get us where we long to be.

As people, we default to the path of least resistance. We cling to comfort, not because it’s what we desire most in our lives, but because it’s easy and when we do this, we settle for less than God’s best. The truth is, the life we long for, the more we were made for is found in the challenge. The results are in the resistance. It’s when we take the step, venture out, do the hard thing, embrace boldness that what we want and who we want to be becomes our reality, and sometimes that reality isn’t reality right now which is why we choose to be circle makers, drawing a circle around the thing we need, the thing we desire, the thing we long for, but be warned, as we begin this adventure, the practice of being a circle maker is a practice that requires effort and discomfort, but it’s a discomfort that get us where we long to be.

As people, we default to the path of least resistance. We cling to comfort, not because it’s what we desire most in our lives, but because it’s easy and when we do this, we settle for less than God’s best. The truth is, the life we long for, the more we were made for is found in the challenge. The results are in the resistance. It’s when we take the step, venture out, do the hard thing, embrace boldness that what we want and who we want to be becomes our reality, and sometimes that reality isn’t reality right now which is why we choose to be circle makers, drawing a circle around the thing we need, the thing we desire, the thing we long for, but be warned, as we begin this adventure, the practice of being a circle maker is a practice that requires effort and discomfort, but it’s a discomfort that get us where we long to be.

As people, we default to the path of least resistance. We cling to comfort, not because it’s what we desire most in our lives, but because it’s easy and when we do this, we settle for less than God’s best. The truth is, the life we long for, the more we were made for is found in the challenge. The results are in the resistance. It’s when we take the step, venture out, do the hard thing, embrace boldness that what we want and who we want to be becomes our reality, and sometimes that reality isn’t reality right now which is why we choose to be circle makers, drawing a circle around the thing we need, the thing we desire, the thing we long for, but be warned, as we begin this adventure, the practice of being a circle maker is a practice that requires effort and discomfort, but it’s a discomfort that get us where we long to be.

There is a very real Ghost who either lives in you or desires to live in you and the question we need to answer is whether he has taken up residence in us or not, because the answer to this question impacts not just our eternity, but our life here and now.

Men, what if you were a man who was confident, secure, intentional, and on mission, not just drifting through life? A man who is trained, prepared, and knows what to do when something is put before him; a man who doesn’t lock up and freeze up and resort to inaction. A man who knows how to love, provide, protect, sacrifice, and do whatever needs to be done so that those entrusted to him thrive and flourish under his leadership, care, encouragement, and protection.

There are two deals on the table, and because being a man like that seems really hard, really tough, really difficult, what we often do is we pick up this deal where we say, “I’ll just change what it means to be a man. I’ll just redefine it.” We dumb it down and blame everyone else for why we can’t step into our strength. "It’s my dad’s fault. It’s my mom’s fault. It’s society’s fault. It’s my ex’s fault. It’s my past’s fault.” We have all kinds of people and things to blame as to why we can’t be that definition of a man and then we become passive and we let someone else tell us what it means to be a man, someone else tells us how to run our life, someone else tells us how to raise our kids. We just abdicate responsibility.

But what if we take a breath, and say, “Ok. I’m going to go for it. I’m going to engage instead of lie down. I’m going to rise up instead of stay seated. I’m going to go on this journey to redefine what it means to be a man based on the Operator’s Manual which is God’s Word, because when men start moving closer to who and what God designed us to be and is still calling us to be now, everyone wins. Women, children, men, everyone wins, and this is what it means to cross The Thin Red Line.