Celebration | Anywhere Service

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- Well, hey, welcome to Crossroads. My name is Andy.

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And today we're talking about all things celebration.

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All things celebration.

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You might remember this one on July 4th, 1776,

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the signers of the Declaration of Independence

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named three Inalienable Rights

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that they believed came from God.

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And what were they?

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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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Do you remember those?

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Well, if that's literally part of

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what our nation was built on,

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then why do so few of us seem happy?

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Please hear me, this isn't a political thing at all.

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It's just meant to be an honest recognition that

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we're missing out on some of the ideals and values

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that I think we most desire.

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And that's true not just of our country,

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but I believe, of our faith.

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Did you know that Jesus wants you to be happy?

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He really, really does.

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And today I want to help you step into a practice,

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the practice of celebration that can help you

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experience more of the happiness

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that Jesus has and wants for you.

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- In 1996, in the suburbs of Cincinnati,

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a handful of regular people who followed Jesus

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had a crazy idea to start a new church

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to reach their friends who had given up

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on church as they knew it, but were still seeking God.

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- We were so tired of church being a place

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where everybody that was really good at faking it

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got together to compare notes, you know?

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And just the idea of being a real place that

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that was through everything.

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We're not -- we're not getting together to fake this.

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We're not getting together

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to pretend that we have it all together.

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That, for me, was a huge breath of fresh air.

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- God has used a scrappy group of people

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willing to say yes to whatever He asked,

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no matter how bold the division,

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no matter how impossible.

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He took our yes, it exploded it

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way beyond our expectations every single time.

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Today, we celebrate more stories than we can possibly tell.

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This isn't us. This is God.

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- You've met this Jesus.

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There are so many things wrong with

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this picture of Jesus, I don't even know where to start.

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Well, here we go. Jesus wasn't white.

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He wasn't this, like, well groomed,

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pretty dainty looking guy.

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He was a construction worker who was accused

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by the religious of being a glutton and a drunkard.

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He just looks so freaking sad.

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He looks like He's overcome by the weight of the world.

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That's not the Jesus of the Bible.

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Do you know what?

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Jesus is described in the Bible as being anointed

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with the oil of gladness more than all his companions.

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There's even a translation of that line that

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articulates this as saying

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Jesus was the happiest person alive.

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And I love that.

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I love that Jesus was the happiest person alive,

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and that He invites you and me

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to follow His lead and example.

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So, think about it.

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What was Jesus's first miracle?

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It was a wedding, okay?

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And the party had run out of wine and there was

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still two days left in the celebration.

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So what did Jesus do?

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He turned that water into wine,

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and not just boxed wine,

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not even Barefoot or Yellowtail.

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He turned it into the most amazing, vibrant,

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flavorful drink that people had ever had.

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I don't if you guys have heard of the show The Chosen,

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it's like a show that tells the life of Jesus.

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I just immediately thought it was going to be terrible.

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A buddy of mine was on me for months

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telling me I should watch it.

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Man, I could not have been more wrong.

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This scene in particular is an incredible depiction

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of a guy you'd like to hang out with,

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a guy who was the life of the party,

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who served and cared for people and joked and laughed

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and was just a joy to be around.

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He was the happiest person alive,

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and He's apparently also the guy

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who's willing to make a supernatural beer run

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so that the celebration can keep going.

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So, Jesus was one of the guys

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that was invited to the party, right?

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I know we've all met some Christians that you

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wouldn't really like want at a party of any kind.

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Hey, that's not the kind of guy that Jesus was.

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He's also the kind of guy who helped

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keep the party going by celebrating.

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That whole water into wine thing.

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Jesus took jars, big, like, vats, big jars of water,

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and told the servants to fill the jars to the brim.

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Then He proceeds to turn that to the brim water

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into the biggest chef's kiss.

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Wine, like, best tasting wine anybody had ever had.

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Now Jesus uses really similar language in John 15

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to you and me when He says, "I've told you this

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so that my joy may be in you

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and that your joy may be complete."

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That word complete means to the brim and then some.

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It means overflowing.

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Now, Jesus didn't come to make your life easy

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and all your troubles go away.

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I'm sorry, but He did make a way for you to be filled

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to the brim with happiness in the midst of life,

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no matter what comes your way.

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Today, as promised, I'm going to give you one habit,

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one habit you can lean into, you can step into

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to experience more happiness.

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And I'm not just going to tell you about it.

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We're actually going to practice it together today.

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Those vases, if you imagine

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Jesus filling them up to the brim,

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they're a lot like yours and my spiritual

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and emotional gas tank.

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There are lots of things that want to drain you.

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Maybe it's your phone,

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maybe it's social media in general.

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Maybe it's your work, your family.

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I don't know, it could be all kinds of things.

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But there's also things that want to fill you up,

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and that's what we're going to be looking at today.

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I want you to experience more of that

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to the brim happiness so that you and I can be filled up.

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And one of our best tools to fill us up is to celebrate,

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to intentionally take time away, to acknowledge

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that while your life may not be perfect,

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there good things in it that you didn't put there.

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Right?

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To spend some time recounting the good things in your life.

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Maybe they're small day to day stuff, like your kids,

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maybe that cup of delicious coffee from this morning,

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maybe it's your home,

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that you have a home or your community.

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Or maybe it's bigger, like,

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part of your life story stuff,

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the moments you shouldn't have survived, those --

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the challenging seasons of your life

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that you came through stronger.

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The times in your life when God showed up

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celebrating the stories of how God has moved

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increases your and my spiritual and emotional bandwidth.

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It resets our equilibrium in a way that, man,

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the near-constant tide of bad news from our phones

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just -- just can't most of the time.

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Celebrating really is simple. It's telling stories.

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Revelation 12:11 says that we overcome

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by the Blood of the Lamb.

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That's the stuff that Jesus did.

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And by the power of our testimony.

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There's stuff that Jesus does, the Blood of the Lamb,

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and then there's stuff that you and I do,

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which is just the recognition of the stories

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that God has done in our lives.

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This is something we do every Wednesday as a staff team

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when our whole 300 plus staff members are together,

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we always spend 30 to 60 minutes,

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not just looking at spreadsheets

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or PowerPoint presentations, but just telling stories,

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celebrating the good things that God has done

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since we were last together.

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So that's what we're going to do right now,

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to hear stories of how God has shown up

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and showed off in the lives of people

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just like you and me.

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Let's hear our first story right now.

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- Hi, my name is Chris Mester, and I'm

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the Crossroads East Side Student Ministry director,

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and I have a story to share with you today.

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In our high school ministry,

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I have a leader named Chelsea,

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and Chelsea leads a group of high school girls.

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And in her group she has a student.

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And that student in parts of her life

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has been deemed the bad kid.

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But here's the thing, Chelsea didn't believe

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that about her, and neither did I.

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I don't believe there's such thing as bad kids.

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There's bad behaviors.

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If we're being honest,

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this student did have a lot of bad behaviors.

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She was making a lot of poor choices

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that were affecting her life and her relationships.

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She was also using drugs and abusing alcohol.

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And she was also struggling with a lot of things

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like depression, things that a lot of high schoolers

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deal with today.

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And with all of that, Chelsea makes a choice.

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See, Chelsea decides to not give up on the student,

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but to run after her.

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And Chelsea ran after her like I've never seen

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somebody run after somebody else before.

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See, Chelsea brings her into our life.

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She consistently spends time with her.

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She communicates with her just to let her know

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that somebody cares about her,

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to let her know that she is loved.

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And Chelsea ends up having a significant impact

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on this student's life.

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And this student this last summer goes to camp

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and has this life changing experience at camp.

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And I believe she had an encounter with God.

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And she opens up with Chelsea for the first time

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and she tells Chelsea that earlier this year

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she attempted to commit suicide.

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But even more so, she tells Chelsea,

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"That it's because of you chasing after me

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that I kept going on."

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Because of Chelsea running after her,

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this student kept going on.

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And this student comes out of camp

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and is now thriving

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and passionately running after Jesus.

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And now she's even serving in our middle school ministry

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because she wants to have an impact because

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somebody had an impact on her life.

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God is doing something extremely drastic

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in this student's life.

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And my friends, that is just one of many stories

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of what God is doing in Crossroads' students.

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- What's up, Crossroads?

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I'm Craig. This is Judd from Man Camp.

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What? Do you want to say your name?

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- I'm Judd, apparently, from Man Camp.

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- Well, we were here.

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We were asked to tell Man Camp story.

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So, you have a pretty great one.

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- Yeah. Gosh, we're the ones --

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There's hundreds, literally hundreds of them.

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One of them that just jumps out to me is

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a guy came to one of the early Man Camps.

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I think it might be the first or second one on base camp.

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Didn't know anybody.

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Not even sure he went to Crossroads.

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Somehow heard about it, found out about it and came.

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And he tells a story that, like,

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the Monday before Man Camp,

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he finds out his wife's cheating on him.

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He's devastated. He's rocked.

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He almost doesn't come to camp, somehow decides to come.

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He said, "I'm walking in with these guys I never met

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and I don't know, ready to end my marriage,

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convinced it was done."

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Over the course of the weekend through solitude time

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and all the stuff that happens at Man Camp

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and discussions with these guys

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and just God working with this guy's heart,

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he left, he said, "With a band of brothers

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and a firm, resolute decision to fight for my marriage

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and to save it."

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And that's pretty astounding.

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I think that's a pretty great thing worth celebrating.

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So, yeah.

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- He said the Lord was working on him.

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- Yeah, the Lord just, he said, and this is --

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this sounds like this guy,

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church wasn't a whole part of his story,

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but it definitely was that weekend.

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Yeah. So he said that his heart literally was changed

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during the end, during the weekend.

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- I just love that picture of community.

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So, I say this a lot,

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I'm gonna say it again before this thing's done,

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we are not content, we're community.

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And if you want more people that are in your corner,

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more people praying for you, a more deep and beautiful

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and vibrant picture of what it looks like

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to have community, would love for you to join

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our upcoming community cohort.

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This is a way to get more understanding

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of what real life giving community can be

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and how to build it for yourself.

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And like, the best thing,

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it's not like a class that you show up for.

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It happens asynchronously.

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You can do it in a way that fits your schedule

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and you can connect with people all over the country

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in a way that is convenient and works for you.

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So, click the link to join our upcoming community cohort.

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We'd love to have you there and have you build

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this Crossroads anywhere community alongside us.

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All right.

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We've got another great story for you

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and another great reason to celebrate right now.

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- I went on a mission trip this year to go South Africa.

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An absolutely amazing trip.

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I went with my 17 year old daughter.

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While I was there, one day I got up,

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but I wasn't feeling right that day

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And I just was kind of feeling down,

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it's like I wasn't connecting.

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And Nikita reached out and just wanted to kind of

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get to know me a little bit, you know? It was great.

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She asked how I was doing that day,

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and I mentioned to her that I wasn't feeling that great

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and I wasn't sure why.

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And all of a sudden it kind of hit me.

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It was the anniversary of my mom's death.

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My parents had been in a car accident three years prior,

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both my parents, and they were hit head on

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by another driver that crossed over the line.

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And my mother was killed.

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My father was the only survivor of the accident.

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It had been three years since it happened.

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And in that time I had been handling

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a whole lot of settlement stuff.

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You know, after the car accident,

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there was a lot to take care of.

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But I realized I never really had time

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to mourn my mother's death.

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I never had that time to really just process what had happened.

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And Nikita and I started talking about it.

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And I started just really understanding

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what was going on that day, because it was

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the first day in three years

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where I had time in my life

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to just process what had happened,

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to mourn my mother's death,

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to realize it was the anniversary of her death

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and to process it on my own, you know,

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in a place far away from where everything happened.

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And to have the downtime to do so without having

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all the hustle and bustle of everything from life.

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Nikita explained to me what she and her family do

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when they have a death in the family

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and on the anniversary of that death

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they go out and they find a rock.

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And in order to kind of say goodbye or process

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that loss they kind of, you know, to say goodbye,

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to say goodbye to that loved one

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that is no longer on earth with them.

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I went back and later that evening after dinner

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and all of our other prayer and worship time that night,

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I went for a walk by myself and I came across a stone.

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And I picked up the stone and I held on to it

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and I prayed and I thought.

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And I thought and I prayed.

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And I kept trying to toss the stone over into the brush

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that was on the other side of of our cabin.

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And I couldn't do it. I couldn't let go.

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It probably was a good 20, 30 minutes later

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when I was finally able to toss the stone

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and let go and mourn and say goodbye

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and finally processed and put to rest

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what I'd been holding on to for the last three years.

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I'm very grateful that Nikita was there

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to share that with me, to give me that,

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the little nudge that I needed to say goodbye

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to my mom for one last time,

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the nudge I needed to get past it.

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- Is it just me or are you thankful for Kelly's honesty,

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like, for her vulnerability in talking about,

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man, One of the most challenging things, right?

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The loss of a loved one.

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I unfortunately know from personal experience

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that when I lost my mom, like, that burying a loved one

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and grieving a loved one are not the same thing.

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And that for us to grieve well,

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for us to move towards wholeness and healing,

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that's a really challenging thing to do alone.

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So, I love that Kelly was a part of a community

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where she had people encouraging her towards wholeness

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and encouraging her towards healing

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and even had an Nikita alongside her.

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I love that picture of going past your comfort zone,

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even to a place like South Africa

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where you can experience God in a fresh way.

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And that idea of going outside of your comfort zone

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to experience more of God, I think is really important.

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And there's actually something I want to invite you into

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that might be just a little bit of that.

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We do a thing every month, the first Thursday of the month

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called Monthly Night of Prayer.

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And it's a time where we've seen God

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show up in big ways.

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It happens on Zoom and hey, don't write me off,

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like, it's a good Zoom call.

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I don't know if you knew such a thing could exist,

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but there's a time of worship

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that actually I get to lead with a band.

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It's really, really fun and a time for you

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to receive prayer from one of our vetted, gifted,

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trained, equipped prayer team members.

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They're awesome and they will actually

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listen to God on your behalf.

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It's a thing called prophecy.

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And they'll ask God to talk to them and give them

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something encouraging and strengthening for you.

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It's a beautiful time where we've seen God show up

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and speak to people and even seen God show up

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and bring, like, emotional and physical healing

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in beautiful, beautiful ways.

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It's a whole list of stories that I could celebrate

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just on that.

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But I'd love for you to join us,

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11/3, November 3rd 7:30 p.m. Sign up.

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We'd love to pray for you and have you join us

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for Monthly Night of Prayer.

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All right, let's keep this party going.

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We've got another story to help you celebrate right now.

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- Last year, November 6th, my husband and I

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had a miscarriage of our first child.

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And through that, God showed up in many ways.

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But specifically, He helped us uncover that

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I had a couple underlying health conditions

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that was causing our infertility.

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We'd been trying for baby for about a year

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and we thought that we had an absolute miracle,

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and we did.

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Our baby was absolutely a miracle.

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But God helped us uncover some pretty significant issues

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that I had regarding our fertility.

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And through that I have now gotten the go ahead

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for my doctor that we are good,

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that all of my tests came back positive

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and that we are able to start trying for another baby.

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But also through that miscarriage,

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my husband showed up

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in a way that I've never needed him before

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and never seen him show up before.

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He was absolutely touched by God,

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specifically at Couples Camp.

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After losing our baby in May.

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We were due in May and Couples Camp was in May.

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And we went to the prayer tent together

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and that was the first time that he ever asked

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to receive prayer from anybody else.

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And it was the first time he ever felt moved by God

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or felt like God was in his presence.

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And through that, our marriage has grown tremendously.

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His faith has grown tremendously.

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God has shown up in other ways.

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It's opened a door for us to go back to school

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and to get our degree and just --

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just to start a great new journey.

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So, God has shown up in many ways,

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sometimes not the way that we want,

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but sometimes the way that we need.

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- Man. I love Hannah's story.

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I love hearing the story of someone

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who's really, really honest and real about, man,

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one of the most painful things that you can experience.

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But the story not ending there, right?

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Like, of her and her husband leaning in

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in the midst of that challenge,

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in the midst of that pain.

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Leaning in and going past their comfort zone

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and experiencing God and experiencing fresh hope,

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fresh life, fresh joy.

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I just love it.

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It's one of the things we say around here all the time,

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that we're not just content, we're community.

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We're not just stuff to watch.

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We're a group of people like Hannah

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who are trying to lean in and expecting to see

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more of God move in our own lives,

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that God will give us more reasons to celebrate.

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I actually want to tell you a story that I heard.

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I was having lunch with a guy and he shared this story

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with me of a guy named Tommy.

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And Tommy lives in Kentucky

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and is a part now of our Lexington community.

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But when the story began, his addiction had actually

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brought him to a really sketchy situation, we'll say,

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down at Red River Gorge.

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And he ended up falling off of a cliff,

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falling off of a cliff

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and breaking his foot really, really badly.

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And so much so that it took him two days

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to crawl back out to civilization,

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to crawl out of the woods, out of the wilderness,

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back where he was found.

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And over those two days,

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it was actually the weather was really bad.

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He had frostbite so bad that by the time

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he got to a hospital, his doctors were afraid

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they were going to have to amputate his foot.

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And it's in that moment he actually realized, like,

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he had a moment with God, had a moment with God

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where he felt like he needed to reach out

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and experience a faith community.

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And he did that with Crossroads

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through our Facebook page of all things.

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And you know what he did?

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He liked our Facebook page.

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And that's not the end of the story.

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One of our team members, a coworker of mine,

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reached out and just introduced herself

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and asked if she could pray for him for anything.

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He mentioned his surgery, mentioned his addiction,

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and and mentioned that he had a surgery coming up

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that would determine whether or not he got to keep his foot.

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This coworker prayed for him and the surgery went great.

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God showed up with those doctors

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and in the midst of that surgery

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and he was able to keep his foot.

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Well, he realized then that he didn't just need

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a moment with God or even just an answered prayer.

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He didn't need a moment with God.

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He needed more of God, on going as a part of his life.

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And he started watching Crossroads online.

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And then he started joining our community

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in Lexington, Kentucky, and experiencing God

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to the level where it's not just him,

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but actually he's inviting friends

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from the Recovery home where he lives

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to experience church alongside of him.

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I love those stories, stories that fill us up,

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that put gas in the tank,

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that don't drain the life from us,

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stories that, man, show us that God still moves,

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still shows up, is still for you and me today,

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that we can expect good things from God

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when we look to the future.

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Man, I love the chance to celebrate the good things

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that God is doing in your life

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and in the lives of people

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all over our Crossroads community.

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Man, we want you to experience happiness.

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We want you to experience joy.

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We want you to experience

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more and more reasons to celebrate.

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Hey, next week we've got a new series starting off

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called The Blessed Life.

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We hope you'll join us then.

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See you next time.

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Next week on Crossroads.

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- Growing up, things were tight.

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I always held money close to my chest

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and spent it my way.

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It wasn't until I decided to trust in God fully

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that the fear of not having enough faded away.

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Now I'm living a blessed life.

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God always gives me what I need.

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