Gospel Motivation: The Key to Changing Our Desires Pt.2
If you’ve ever tried to motivate others toward a lifestyle of discipleship and mission beyond a weekly meeting… you know it’s not easy. And let’s be honest—sometimes our own motivation could use a little tune-up, too.
In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we continue our conversation on Gospel Motivation—how what we believe shows up in our actions and rhythms. We’ll talk about the power source behind lasting discipleship and the signs that a leader (or a church) is motivated by something other than the gospel.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
- Why Jesus’ words to his would-be disciples may surprise you
- What to look for in a leader’s life to spot gospel motivation
- 3 things you absolutely can’t leave out if you want to make mature disciples
- Where real power for living on mission comes from
From this episode:
“Jesus was serious about the cost of discipleship. But he was also clear about the benefits and results of living in light of the gospel of the Kingdom. Be aware of the subtle ways that disobedience, self-preference, and complacency creep into your heart and replace a gospel-motivation with a self-motivation.”
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Transcript
You know, at the end of the day, when you're just kind of fried and you know, you've got that one more meeting or end of the day and someone calls and says, I could really use a hand with ax and you go like, man, I want to be Missional and live like a family.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, oh, I know.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'll pray and ask the spirit for strength and you do, and you pray, oh, holy spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm so fried right now.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm tired of, you know, the day I've had.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I'm sure it was from you and your sovereign.
Caesar Kalinowski:Could I just have some strength right now?
Caesar Kalinowski:And if you throw in a dash of good attitude to go with it, I'd love to go serve them.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I found the spirit shows up every day.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh like really like, boom, I'm revived, like seriously, every time I've ever prayed that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And usually he throws in the dash a good attitude to go with it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Then this is the Duh factor.
Caesar Kalinowski:Then it dawned on me this year.
Caesar Kalinowski:Why go through your whole day and your own strength.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then when you finally tap out, pray and ask for some holy Spirit's strength to get through that last part.
Caesar Kalinowski:Why not try this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Why not start your day by going holy spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:I want to do this day in your strength and power.
Caesar Kalinowski:I think the day holds X, Y, and Z. It's yours to reorder it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Will.
Caesar Kalinowski:I want to do all this in your strength.
Caesar Kalinowski:None of mine.
Caesar Kalinowski:I only want to say what I hear you say.
Caesar Kalinowski:Amen.
Caesar Kalinowski:Guess what happens then?
Caesar Kalinowski:You get that strength for the whole day.
Heath Hollensbe:Welcome to the Everyday Disciple podcast, where you learn how to live with greater intentionality and an integrated faith that naturally fits into every area of life.
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Caesar Kalinowski:Now, if you listen to last week's podcast, you already know how powerful this understanding of gospel motivation is for all of us, not just church leaders, but for us individually, for how we lead our families, our communities, even how we interact with others at work in all of life, the gospel changes all of that.
Caesar Kalinowski:It changes our motivations and our desires.
Caesar Kalinowski:This really is a message about how the gospel changes our affections and reshapes all of our lives.
Caesar Kalinowski:Our calendar, our pocket book, all of that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I think all of you listening will really benefit and be challenged by this.
Caesar Kalinowski:So if you missed last week, if you didn't hear the first part part one, would you just stop now?
Caesar Kalinowski:I'll wait for you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Go back, listen to part one.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's powerful.
Caesar Kalinowski:This whole thing follows.
Caesar Kalinowski:And again, it's a part of something from a live talk.
Caesar Kalinowski:I was giving in the past to a group of leaders though, this applies to all of us and you can tell, I get pretty excited.
Caesar Kalinowski:I start really going for it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:I get passionate, but this is important.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we pick up the talk today with part two, thinking about what it looks like to be both hearers of the word and doers of the word, listening and obeying God's call and commands to us, his family.
Caesar Kalinowski:So listen in, I'll be back at the end with some thoughts and I'll wrap up with the big three for today.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now what you believe thirdly, with your hands or with your life.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's kind of a weird way of saying it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, what you believe with your hands?
Caesar Kalinowski:What we've realized as a church, we do a pretty good job.
Caesar Kalinowski:Usually it filling up the head, lots of knowledge.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're starting to wake up to like, does anybody believe any of this stuff?
Caesar Kalinowski:But usually it's not getting lived out and let's go back to what Jesus said.
Caesar Kalinowski:The mission was to make disciples of mine, teaching them to obey all I've commanded.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wouldn't it be awesome.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I've heard it.
Caesar Kalinowski:I've heard.
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't know who it was that did it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wouldn't be awesome.
Caesar Kalinowski:If you just got up at the end, you know, Sunday pastors and just said, I'm just going to preach last week's message again, because y'all, ain't living.
Caesar Kalinowski:Somebody did this.
Caesar Kalinowski:They preached the same message for like 10 weeks until they saw change.
Caesar Kalinowski:Not saying they should do that, but I've had to have that conversation in my own Missional Community.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hey, when are we going to get back to some deep teach in our Missional Community?
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, what do you mean?
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, you know, really studying, like we, like, we used to, like, what do you mean?
Caesar Kalinowski:We'll remember when we did that study a few months back on James or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:We'll see, we haven't been very faithful to live out any of that.
Caesar Kalinowski:So be honest with you.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm not going to spend my time to prep up some more teaching that you can bedisobedient to.
Caesar Kalinowski:How about we just repent and get back to like being obedient to that?
Caesar Kalinowski:Faithful, the little faithful with a lot.
Caesar Kalinowski:How about we go back to that?
Caesar Kalinowski:See scripture says, right, James says, be hearers and do.
Caesar Kalinowski:So are you being obedient?
Caesar Kalinowski:Are your people being obedient to the call of discipleship too?
Caesar Kalinowski:Some people will nod their head.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:They'll quote it, Matthew.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Boy here is, as I've been sent.
Caesar Kalinowski:So I sent you, I've heard all the pastor I've heard all pastor.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do you believe that?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yes.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yes, I do.
Caesar Kalinowski:Have you radically reinvented your life around that and not so much, so don't really believe it with their hands, with their life.
Caesar Kalinowski:We have an, we have an online assessment we do for discipleship, that measures sort of head heart, hands in every sort of category of discipleship.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's amazing to look at the distortion for what they know and what they'll actually what they believe with their head, but what they believe with their hands is so different.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or sometimes it's the other way, what they believe with their hands are out living it like crazy, but they don't believe in their heart.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, and I know it's legalism, so I got to go and give them some gracesome.
Caesar Kalinowski:What do they believe with their lives?
Caesar Kalinowski:What about this?
Caesar Kalinowski:Jesus said in Luke 1433, any of you who does not give up everything, he has cannot be my disciple.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wow.
Caesar Kalinowski:Thanks Jesus.
Caesar Kalinowski:Any of you who does not give up everything, he has cannot be my disciple.
Caesar Kalinowski:How are we doing at being obedient to that?
Caesar Kalinowski:Are we just calling people to be obedient to what Jesus has commanded.
Caesar Kalinowski:Not our programs, not our vision, just his simple call.
Caesar Kalinowski:there; simple.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we, and we teach around that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, what he's really saying here is any of you who you should be willing to give up all that you have.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not our stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:I, I say this to our people all the time.
Caesar Kalinowski:How many of you came into the world?
Caesar Kalinowski:Naked everybody, unless you're some sort of freak of nature or your mom and dad were doing something I don't even want to get a visual picture of you came in with no clothes on and no stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:Guess how you're going to go out of this world with no stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:That means everything in between was given to you by God, everything.
Caesar Kalinowski:Your family, your house, your education, all your stuff, your retirement account, your IRA, it's all God's.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do they believe that?
Caesar Kalinowski:Are they being obedient to that?
Caesar Kalinowski:Are they living out what they would?
Caesar Kalinowski:All, we all agree to this stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do they believe it with their lives?
Caesar Kalinowski:What we'll often say to our folks?
Caesar Kalinowski:Just so you know, we see you as your elders.
Caesar Kalinowski:We see you as all full-time paid staff.
Caesar Kalinowski:Full-time full-time.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's no, there's no divide here of like, well, these handful of people get a salary from the church.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're the missionaries.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then you guys are now see if, if you have clothes on that's everybody.
Caesar Kalinowski:And if you have eaten in the last 24 to 48 hours, I'm guessing that's everybody.
Caesar Kalinowski:Unless somebody.
Caesar Kalinowski:Probably a personal decision to fast.
Caesar Kalinowski:And if you slept sheltered in any way last night, then God has kept his end of the bargain to meet your needs, which means you've been paid,
Caesar Kalinowski:how he chooses to route your paychecks is up to him.
Caesar Kalinowski:And some He routes through XYZ community church, and some he routes through Soma and some of the routes through the journey.
Caesar Kalinowski:And some he routes through Boeing and some he routes through Starbucks and some, he routes through Kmart.
Caesar Kalinowski:It doesn't really matter.
Caesar Kalinowski:Can we just trust God to route it however he pleases, but the fact that you have clothes, eaten or shelter means you're paid.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is all his stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:Folks are, are we leading our people to live lives of obedience?
Caesar Kalinowski:We were really convicted this year, that as we were trying to be full of grace as a church, we also needed to be full of a call to obedience because the call there again, simple, Jesus says, make disciples, teaching them to obey, not just teaching them.
Caesar Kalinowski:If what we needed in America to get this thing all flipped around and righteous was one more awesome killer sermon.
Caesar Kalinowski:We'd have been there a long time ago.
Caesar Kalinowski:Not alone scripture talks about it, puffs up.
Caesar Kalinowski:Are we believing in our head?
Caesar Kalinowski:Are we believing in our hearts?
Caesar Kalinowski:Are we believing with our lives?
Caesar Kalinowski:Are we motivating people with the right beliefs?
Caesar Kalinowski:And that's gonna include a call to believe it with your life.
Caesar Kalinowski:For us short, you know, like when we're looking at leaders, boom, we go right to like how they live in.
Caesar Kalinowski:Are they in Missional Community to be an elder in Soma, you have to be a Missional Community leader.
Caesar Kalinowski:Who's making disciples who make disciples.
Caesar Kalinowski:If elders aren't, who's gonna, who's going to teach you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:We look at your finances, look at your budget.
Caesar Kalinowski:Are you faithful with God's stuff?
Caesar Kalinowski:Nope.
Caesar Kalinowski:You live like it's yours.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's some growth there.
Caesar Kalinowski:Loved and accepted regardless, but we want to still call you to this.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not your stuff you're living.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like it's your stuff,
Caesar Kalinowski:motivate people with that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do they do your people believe this is sort of moving from head of believing in their head, that making disciples is the mission.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do they believe in their heart?
Caesar Kalinowski:That the only way to make a disciple is.
Caesar Kalinowski:Going to be a gospel centered life in a community on mission.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do they believe that?
Caesar Kalinowski:So they'll give themselves to community life, not just church or ministry or mission on my own sort of terms.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's, here's why we harp on this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I just, I feel the need again to this gospel, my own heart here a little bit, but we love Sunday.
Caesar Kalinowski:We have rockin' Sundays.
Caesar Kalinowski:But two hours is two hours and 6 22.
Caesar Kalinowski:We need to make disciples as well.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so that's why you hear us really passionate about that and Soma, that's why I'm harping this today, but gospel community on mission is what we're were sent to do.
Caesar Kalinowski:So here's the thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:If it's not gospel centered and you're just hanging out, it's not church.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not Jesus' mission.
Caesar Kalinowski:It has nothing to do with God.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's just, it's a dinner party or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:We've got the neighbors they've thrown a dinner party in the neighborhood of one of our MC's.
Caesar Kalinowski:This lady has had a Monday night dinner for like 20 years in the neighborhood.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's legendary in Tacoma people die to get on the list because they want community like that.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's no gospel.
Caesar Kalinowski:In fact, I think they're atheists.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's not, that's not Missional Community life though.
Caesar Kalinowski:They've probably serve better food than a lot of Christians do at their Missional Community meetings and small group meetings.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's gotta be gospel centered.
Caesar Kalinowski:It has to be community.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's why you can't make a disciple one on one.
Caesar Kalinowski:it might be part of how God leads you to disciple somebody just like with your kids.
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't always have all three kids in tow.
Caesar Kalinowski:The other day, I had a conversation with just one of my daughters and I was gospel in her heart in a certain area.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's part of her discipleship.
Caesar Kalinowski:But see if, if you hang out and I was sharing this with some brothers last night, if you're hanging out with somebody, who's now starting to walk in the ways of Jesus.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you are their primary discipler and aren't you do one-to-one discipleship for the next say three years, who will they most begin to resemble spiritually in three years, you Caesar the mission is not make disciples of Caesar.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's make disciples of Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:And Christ said, well, you don't really look that much like me, except when you play your role as a part of a Body.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so you have to make disciples in a community because they need the foot rubbing on them and the lips and the ear and the knee and the calf.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you know what I mean?
Caesar Kalinowski:They need a whole body of different people types rubbing on them for them to be fully formed and become like Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:Otherwise they'll just become like you, which might be better than they were, but that's still not the mission
Caesar Kalinowski:and then it needs to be out on mission because until people are out there regularly, amongst sad, stinky, grumpy, hard to get along with people and those inside the church, until that occurs there, gospel need doesn't emerge that much for you to be able to apply the gospel to it, see sitting in a class, or like even like this today.
Caesar Kalinowski:Not a lot of discipleship happening in here.
Caesar Kalinowski:Not a lot of gospel need emerging.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hey, the temperature's about right.
Caesar Kalinowski:For most of us, fairly comfortable seats, the snacks seem to refill themselves back there.
Caesar Kalinowski:Magically we've got indoor plumbing.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're going to go eat something here in a little bit.
Caesar Kalinowski:See right now, if, if we're teaching on the works of the holy spirit in your life, oh, I'm the most sensitive to the spirit guy in the whole world.
Caesar Kalinowski:But go home, see, go home and someone's borrowed the truck again and it's banged up and it's out of gas again.
Caesar Kalinowski:How's my heart.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do I love people more than the truck?
Caesar Kalinowski:And my daughter said she do the dishes that were all totally left over from last night.
Caesar Kalinowski:Cause everybody's coming over today and she's gone and she didn't and I'm freaking out.
Caesar Kalinowski:And my neighbor, who's a freak.
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't know what his deal is.
Caesar Kalinowski:He has flung dog poo from his yard into our yard with a shovel.
Caesar Kalinowski:Again, we don't even own a dog.
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't know what his deal is.
Caesar Kalinowski:How are you?
Caesar Kalinowski:How's your gospel sensitive.
Caesar Kalinowski:How's your holy spirit sensitivity now.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, unless you live in on mission, your crap doesn't emerge.
Caesar Kalinowski:So the gospel can be applied.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so we sit in these perfect environments calling it discipleship, but there's no need.
Caesar Kalinowski:Get out on mission amongst people that don't agree with you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't like, you don't want to hear what you have to say.
Caesar Kalinowski:Aren't even that thankful that you're serving them and all your muck come up and you get to bring the gospel to bear on each other from all these different perspectives in the body.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you really can't make disciples outside of gospel communities, living on mission do people believe.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then do they believe it with their lives and theirs?
Caesar Kalinowski:Are they giving themselves?
Caesar Kalinowski:So when I, when I see people who don't want to live in community, I wonder, do they not want to be discipled or do they just not know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Have they not been motivated to understand that?
Caesar Kalinowski:And I know for I've had conversations with lots of churches, well, we've got this way of doing things, but we'd like to be having Missional Community, but our people won't make it.
Caesar Kalinowski:got to motivate them.
Caesar Kalinowski:They need to know the power and the purpose.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're going to have to believe it in their heart, that this is best for them.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they're going to, and they're going to, they're going to have to start to be obedient, to that call in their life.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or you're going to have to wonder if they're really in Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is a good, it's a fair question.
Caesar Kalinowski:The last thing we motivate with and you get to look at is what gives you the power?
Caesar Kalinowski:What gives you the power to live?
Caesar Kalinowski:So we had what you love, what you believe in your head, your heart and your hands.
Caesar Kalinowski:What gives you the power to stay motivated and on-mission, and probably have guessed it already.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's gotta be the holy spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's gotta be the holy spirit living in us.
Caesar Kalinowski:Christ didn't die.
Caesar Kalinowski:Just so we could avoid.
Caesar Kalinowski:Christ died so that when we were forgiven of our sins and washed clean, he could put his spirit in us and dwell in us and empower us.
Caesar Kalinowski:That was the point of the cross.
Caesar Kalinowski:That is where we get our power.
Caesar Kalinowski:Paul says, it's the power that raised Christ from the dead.
Caesar Kalinowski:I was saying that earlier.
Caesar Kalinowski:That is pretty powerful.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:But our budget's really tight.
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't think we could really give to that.
Caesar Kalinowski:I think the power of the gospel that the power that raised Christ from the dead is bigger.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm afraid of what my neighbors will think, or I don't know how to say this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's see.
Caesar Kalinowski:Raise, Christ from the dead,, helping hand.
Caesar Kalinowski:I think it's strong enough for that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Trust kids to community college versus university.
Caesar Kalinowski:Cause I'm just not going to spend that kind of money on it.
Caesar Kalinowski:There is just too much mission to do in this city.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, just have to trust God for their future power that raised Christ from the dead to believe that yes, you have it.
Caesar Kalinowski:I I've.
Caesar Kalinowski:I felt like the biggest duh thing it occurred this last year in my life recently, I've, we've been as a community, really trying to focus on this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, where are we getting the power to do this?
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, are we doing this in our own strength?
Caesar Kalinowski:Are we doing this in our own strength?
Caesar Kalinowski:How's it going?
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, and we've had to repent as elders actually of being really smart and working really hard.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're probably not that smart, but we do work pretty.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we've actually had to repent of that being smart and working hard because we realized we weren't doing things in the power of the spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we've started to call each other to accountability on that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like seriously, like we'd be stoked about something.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're all in agreement, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're going this direction as a community, as a church, as leadership team.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let me just check your heart a second.
Caesar Kalinowski:How do you, whose power are you doing that in right now?
Caesar Kalinowski:Or whose power are you planning to go to this city or go do that?
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, what's crazy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Scripture says that even our righteous acts done without faith I eat without the power of the spirit done in our own strength are like filthy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Rags
Caesar Kalinowski:our killer church plants done in our own strength and not in the church power.
Caesar Kalinowski:The spirit filthy rags before the, before the king.
Caesar Kalinowski:Whoa.
Caesar Kalinowski:All of our Missional workout in the neighborhood where we worked really hard and kept a big smile face on.
Caesar Kalinowski:And everybody, we made everybody happy, but we never invited the spirit at any of it.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was all of our plans and we read somebody else did it in a book.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we thought it looked cool to do it here.
Caesar Kalinowski:We worked really hard and super tired now, and I don't think we ever stopped and asked the spirit for power.
Caesar Kalinowski:We did that all on our own strength and it went really well ; filthy rags.. So in many cases, I've actually led my people and my family and myself to go out and stack up tampons before the king, because I did it in my own strength.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so we've been starting to learn to go like, you know, at the end of the day and when you're just kind of fried and you know, you've got that one more meeting or end of the day and someone calls and says, I could really use a hand with X and you go like, man, I want to be Missional and live like a family.
Caesar Kalinowski:So.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, I know I'll pray and ask the spirit for strength and you do, and you pray, holy spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm so fried right now.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm tired.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's, you know, the day I've had, and I'm sure it was from you and your sovereign.
Caesar Kalinowski:Could I just have some strength right now?
Caesar Kalinowski:And if you throw in a dash of good attitude to go with it, I'd love to go serve them.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I found the spirit shows up every time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, like really like, boom, I'm revived, like seriously, every time I've ever prayed that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And usually he throws in the dash of good attitude to go with it.
Caesar Kalinowski:But then this is the duh factor.
Caesar Kalinowski:Then it dawned on me this year, like baby Christian here, toddling along.
Caesar Kalinowski:Why, why go through your whole day in your own strength?
Caesar Kalinowski:And then when you finally tap out, pray and ask for some holy Spirit's strength to get through that last push.
Caesar Kalinowski:Why not try this brainiac?
Caesar Kalinowski:One Why not start yourday by going holy spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:I want to do this day in your strength and power.
Caesar Kalinowski:I think the day holds X, Y, and Z. It's yours to reorder it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Will.
Caesar Kalinowski:I want to do all this in your strength.
Caesar Kalinowski:None of mine.
Caesar Kalinowski:I only want to say what I hear you say.
Caesar Kalinowski:Amen.
Caesar Kalinowski:Guess what happens then you get that strength for the whole day.
Caesar Kalinowski:What gives us the power for mission?
Caesar Kalinowski:Are we motivating our people to work harder, try harder, put in longer hours, show up more, give more, or are they, can they do it actually in the strength of the spirit?
Caesar Kalinowski:Like seriously when people say now like, well, I tell you the truth.
Caesar Kalinowski:Why we don't give more is I don't want to give more to the mission.
Caesar Kalinowski:Would you be willing to do this with me?
Caesar Kalinowski:Would you talk to the holy spirit right now and ask the spirit to give you the motivation and the heart to want to be more generous in light of God's generosity?
Caesar Kalinowski:I'd be willing to do that.
Caesar Kalinowski:All right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's ask the spirit to do that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Done deal done.
Caesar Kalinowski:What gives you power?
Caesar Kalinowski:Is it hard work?
Caesar Kalinowski:Isn't this interesting.
Caesar Kalinowski:If you go through, I don't have the time to do it right now.
Caesar Kalinowski:If you go through and you, and you bust it out, like a lot of the common scriptures that sort of outline the work of the holy spirit out there, what is, what does scripture teach that the holy spirit does in and, or for us?Some stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:What is the for once, you know, you know of scripture, what is the spirit?
Caesar Kalinowski:The holy spirit do either in, or for us, for his people, this call it out real out.
Caesar Kalinowski:Convicts, comforts,
Caesar Kalinowski:intercedes,
Caesar Kalinowski:instructs,
Caesar Kalinowski:renews.
Caesar Kalinowski:Huh helps strengthens leads in all truth.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wait a second.
Caesar Kalinowski:Helps reminds convicts teaches leads, counsels reveals truth.
Caesar Kalinowski:I thought that was the job of the pastor help remind convict, teach lead counsel.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's the holy Spirit's work family!.
Caesar Kalinowski:Take a deep breath with me right now.
Caesar Kalinowski:*sigh*
Caesar Kalinowski:pressure's off the yoke is in fact easy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hallelujah.
Caesar Kalinowski:The spirit, the power that raised Christ from the dead lives in us lives in every one of your people.
Caesar Kalinowski:This sounds like the work of the church.
Caesar Kalinowski:To me, help remind convict, teach lead counsel.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not your work.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's his work.
Caesar Kalinowski:He might do it through you.
Caesar Kalinowski:He might do it through your people.
Caesar Kalinowski:You need to motivate them to trust the spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like let's just stop relegating, the holy spirit to sorta, like, you know, that weird uncle who only shows up like once in a while and Thanksgiving, and we don't quite know what to do.
Caesar Kalinowski:And he says funny things to us.
Caesar Kalinowski:So really be a functional Trinitarian.
Caesar Kalinowski:Would you lead your people to trust and listen and be empowered by the spirit?
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't lead them to just get out on more mission and more program in more.
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't make disciples in your own strength.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let the spirit do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's where the power is going to come from.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's where the peace to do this and get up every day and go like, I can't believe I get to, I cannot believe I was chosen for this work for this king and I, it's not even hard.
Caesar Kalinowski:I came in naked, leave naked.
Caesar Kalinowski:I get to use this stuff along the way.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm empowered by the same power that raised Christ from the dead.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's good news.
Caesar Kalinowski:The Spirit's the one that changes hearts and transforms lives, not us.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, you think about that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Anybody who's married knows that all they argued in the world and right reason that doesn't get it done.
Caesar Kalinowski:If you've got teenagers, it's gotta be the holy spirit, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:You believe this, motivate yourself, motivate others with that.
Caesar Kalinowski:The spirits, the primarily the primary discipler and equipper of people.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, let me just close with a couple of questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:In what ways you can say it audibly if you want, or you can just think it, in what ways
Caesar Kalinowski:have you been motivating your people rightly or not been?
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's start there.
Caesar Kalinowski:In what ways maybe have you been not motivating your people?
Caesar Kalinowski:Rightly when you think through that list,
Caesar Kalinowski:and can you, can you begin to see how things might change in your ministry, in your church, in your world, in your cities, if you were to actually use gospel motivation?
Caesar Kalinowski:No.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like really going after what they love, making sure your people really do love Jesus.
Caesar Kalinowski:Understand what they've been given, do they, do they, do they believe and know in their head power and a purpose of a gospel?
Caesar Kalinowski:Not a me centered it's about you and your happiness gospel, but that they know they've been saved for a purpose that was set aside for them before eternity.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'll tell you it's a huge motive.
Caesar Kalinowski:People are dying for significance.
Caesar Kalinowski:And when you'd point out the image of God in them and tell them that God has a purpose for their life from before time began uniquely, that's a great motivator.
Caesar Kalinowski:We got to get this stuff stacked up.
Caesar Kalinowski:Are you motivating with, should not should or what would it look like to motivate with, you know, you don't need to do that, but you need God in that way.
Caesar Kalinowski:are you call them people to be obedient to what scripture is taught or are you just okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Teaching it and allowing them to keep living?
Caesar Kalinowski:Like they never heard it or believed it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then the really good news of are we leading our people to be empowered by the spirit, like seriously.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that's going to start with us.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's going to start with us.
Caesar Kalinowski:People see us take a deep breath as leaders and start to trust in and be empowered by the spirit and guided and take stuff off our schedule and add stuff in and whatever, based on what the spirit is calling us to do and quit doing a righteous acts without faith.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wow.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'll tell you some of those questions that I was asking at the end there they're powerful.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they're re-convicting me right now.
Caesar Kalinowski:Weird.
Caesar Kalinowski:As I even hear myself asking those, I'm like, oh, what about you?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:People are dying for significance.
Caesar Kalinowski:Will you offer them a list of Christian todos or help them believe what God says is true of them, their gospel identity, and allow the gospel of change them and lead them on this amazing adventure that Jesus calls us to.
Caesar Kalinowski:I hope so.
Caesar Kalinowski:I hope this has been challenging to you, but in all of the best ways, and I wanna invite you to keep learning and I wanna invite you to a powerful, free training that I'm doing about the gospel in all of life.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it starts to speak into our marriages and.
Caesar Kalinowski:Priorities and motivations and our identity and hard things in life.
Caesar Kalinowski:If in conflict, in how we motivate all those things, I want to invite you to join me for that free training.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can go to Everyday Disciple dot com forward slash motivation to register for that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Pick a time that works for you Everyday.
Caesar Kalinowski:Disciple dot com forward slash motivation.
Caesar Kalinowski:I hope to see in there.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's get to the big three takeaways from today's topic.
Caesar Kalinowski:You don't want to miss these big three and maybe you were driving.
Caesar Kalinowski:Maybe you were at the gym or out for a walk.
Caesar Kalinowski:So I write these down for you.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can get a printable PDF of the big three as a free download by going to Everyday Disciple dot com forward slash big three VIG three.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can go do that right now.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:All right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's the big three for this week.
Caesar Kalinowski:First one, Jesus was serious about the cost of discipleship, but he was also clear about the benefits and results of living in light of the gospel of the Kingdom.
Caesar Kalinowski:Be aware of the subtle ways that disobedience, self preference, and complacency creep into your heart and replace a gospel-motivation with a self-motivation.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's sneaky.
Caesar Kalinowski:We've all got a little bit, a bit lurking there.
Caesar Kalinowski:Be aware that every human being was created to live their lives completely for God's glory, showing the world what he's like.
Caesar Kalinowski:And every Christian has been saved and called for the purpose of making disciples.
Caesar Kalinowski:Is this the primary focus of your life?
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm, here's number two Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:Didn't die just so we could avoid hell he died so that we would be washed clean and he could put his own spirit within us.
Caesar Kalinowski:Once again, dwell in us, empower us.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's the purpose of the cross.
Caesar Kalinowski:The apostle Paul reminds us the spirit is the power that raised Christ from the dead.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that is pretty powerful.
Caesar Kalinowski:We all have the same spirit dwelling in us.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now this sheds a whole new light on.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do not lean on your own understanding that we here in Proverbs three, five, we have the power that raised Christ from the dead, the wisdom of God, himself, dwelling in us.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I would add, do not lean on your old fleshly motivations to let the spirit and let the gospel reshape and change your motivations.
Caesar Kalinowski:And number three, the power to live.
Caesar Kalinowski:The life that the gospel motivates us to live must come from God himself.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like we were just saying we have the spirit in us.
Caesar Kalinowski:The holy spirit is the primary disciples of people and the motivator of hearts.
Caesar Kalinowski:We don't have to just push harder and push harder.
Caesar Kalinowski:The spirit encourages, reminds, teaches convicts and guides us.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's the work of the spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:If you've been trying to change people or corral people or grow your church, or get people into a new way of being, or doing the church on Sunday or any type of ministry, apart from faith that the holy spirit will do that work.
Caesar Kalinowski:You're set to fail.
Caesar Kalinowski:Even your righteous deeds and works apart from faith or like filthy rags.
Caesar Kalinowski:Remember Isaiah said that in 64, 6, no one wants.
Caesar Kalinowski:Trust the spirit, the Spirit's the primary discipler and motivator of our hearts.
Caesar Kalinowski:All right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, again, I would love to get to know you and help you increase your gospel fluency and your ability to motivate people rightly towards the mission starting in the mirror
Caesar Kalinowski:. Starting at your own table with your own family and then outward into your community and church.
Caesar Kalinowski:I love to set up a time to get to know you talk, have a short zoom call.
Caesar Kalinowski:Tell us a little bit about the coaching and mentorship that Tina and I offer.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can check this all out and set up a time to talk.
Caesar Kalinowski:If you're interested in it's no obligation.
Caesar Kalinowski:I just love to get to know you go to Everyday Disciple dot com.
Caesar Kalinowski:Forward slash coaching Everyday Disciple dot com forward slash coaching.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we'll set that time up.
Caesar Kalinowski:All right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Time's up for today?
Caesar Kalinowski:I sure hope this has been an encouragement and a challenge to you.
Caesar Kalinowski:I hope you'll join me again next week.
Caesar Kalinowski:As we continue to look at discipleship and mission as a lifestyle.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'll talk to you soon.
Heath Hollensbe:Thanks for joining us today.
Heath Hollensbe:For more information on this show and to get loads of free discipleship resources, visit Everyday Disciple dot com.
Heath Hollensbe:And remember, you really can live with the spiritual freedom and relational peace that Jesus promised every day.