Episode 106 of TTUXA Breakfast Blend|The Chi Alpha Drip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTMFCkmr8Vg

Episode 105 of TTUXA Breakfast Blend|The Chi Alpha Drip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIEYOKITrI&t=277s

Episode 104 of TTUXA Breakfast Blend|The Chi Alpha Drip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82JNl1y2WdA

Episode 103 of TTUXA Breakfast Blend|The Chi Alpha Drip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rd1FtQevY4

Episode 102 of TTUXA Breakfast Blend|The Chi Alpha Drip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXtxZk_2Uw

Episode 101 of TTUXA Breakfast Blend|The Chi Alpha Drip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0w0wXYgawk

Part 4 of 5, over the next 5 weeks we will be talking about Relationship.

*** DISCLAIMER***

In regards to COVID-19 / etc.

PLEASE follow directions given by local authorities.

If you are sick, love others, by seeking medical attention and by physically isolating yourself.

Though you might be physically isolated, thanks to the amazing day and age we live in, through the proper use of technology that physical isolation does not equate to social isolation.

Also, in general... WASH YOUR HANDS!

***DISCLAIMER***

Man is not meant to be alone...

When you are left by yourself, it is usually not a wacky idea that comes to your head, but a bad idea... If you are alone then you become your own critic, and that critic tends to like all of the ideas... 

Isolation is one of the biggest things that can ruin community. You can not really have community if you are by yourself, and if you are isolating yourself you can not really have community.

There might be physical isolation, but thanks to technology that does not equate to social isolation.

Are You Isolating Yourself From People ? ? ?

Signs of the Cycle of Social Isolation Starting:

1. The Thought of Interacting With Other People Feels Impossible

2. You Feel Generally Anxious

3. You Create Reasons to Justify Your Choosing to be Alone

4. Leaving the House Feels Like Stepping into the Scary Unknown 

5. You Get Easily Annoyed at People on Your Social Network News Feeds

6. You Don't Want to Arrange Anything

7. Solitude is Spent Unproductively and in Fear

8. You Avoid Doing Anything That Feels Risky

9. You Feel Disconnected, and Blame Other People

If you have isolated yourself or you see yourself starting to be isolated... You have not reached the point of no return! Not even the Prodigal Son reached that point.

DO NOT let yourself get isolated!

DO NOT let Physical Isolation EQUATE TO Social Isolation!

Part 3 of 5, over the next 5 weeks we will be talking about Relationship.

There are two types of people in the world and it is what the narrative of any good story is centered upon. It is a narrative we tend to believe of about pretty much everything.

That narrative being one of Good Vs. Evil.

Good is always relative and tends to be defined as a biography of the one giving the definition. This definition being driven by pride and the desire to elevate ourselves.

In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis says that "Pride is competitive in its nature, that Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more than the next person." This type of Pride, evil sinnfull Pride that comes from comparison, "the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unfaithfulness, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind."

In Luke 18:4-9, Jesus draws the line between humble people and proud people; those who have humility and those who are prideful.

Is your story like that of the Pharisee and the Devil? If you want to be a rebel, you can be... but it will destroy you.

Humility, is having a sober sense of reality.

In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis says "In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that—and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison—you do not know God at all. As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"... If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize that you are proud. If you think that you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed."

Part 2 of 5, over the next 5 weeks we will be talking about Relationship.

We are not talking about numbers, but we are talking about names. In this world in which we live there are two types of people, those on the giving end of the gospel because they have already received it and those on the receiving end.

We are not going to talk about being motivated, or being inspired, but loving Jesus and having the willingness to do whatever it takes to honor Jesus across planet earth. 

You do not have the right to worship a Jesus who died for you if you will not go out and die for Him.

Part 1 of 5, over the next 5 weeks we will be talking about Relationship.

"Your love for one another will PROVE to the world that you are my disciples." John 13:35

We do not have to worry about having all of the right answers, because Jesus says this is the proof that we belong to Him.

BY THE WAY THAT YOU LOVE PEOPLE --> Community Speaks Louder Than Argument

Why is this the Commandment that John is so obsessed with in 1 John? Why is this the thing that the beloved spends so much time on?