Why We Want To Let Our Redemption Show
When we can be honest about where we’re at with our problems and in our own spiritual life, it permits others to do the same. Ask yourself, do others feel safe to approach you, even with their sins and screw-ups?
This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll show you why it’s important to let others see the redemption that is taking place in your life. Letting others know that you are truly a work in progress and that God is still at work shaping and changing you will transform your relationships.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
- The one thing we have most in common with every other human being.
- How your own redemption lights a path to God for others.
- How to make God the hero of your life in every conversation.
- Why it’s important to stop worrying about “who’s in” and “who’s out”.
From this episode:
“Give God the credit due for the changes that are happening in your life and faith. This will give others hope that He can do the same in their life! Start living more openly about all of this with your spouse and others who are close to you and really know you. Speaking about your own redemption is part of growing in gospel fluency.”
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The Consistency of How God Now Sees You
Transcript
Let others know that you are definitely a work in progress and that God is still at work teaching, transforming, and changing you.
Caesar Kalinowski:So when we can be honest about where we're at in our own lives and our own spiritual needs, it also gives others permission to do and feel the same way.
Caesar Kalinowski:Something shifts in our hearts and in our interactions with others.
Caesar Kalinowski:If we can stop pretending that we have all the answers and that our lives are perfect, we can also drop the need to win the argument, fix everyone, or close the deal on their salvation.
Caesar Kalinowski:Ask yourself if others feel safe to approach you, even with their sins and their screw ups.
Heath Hollensbe:Welcome to the Everyday Disciple Podcast, where you'll learn how to live with greater intentionality and an integrated faith.
Heath Hollensbe:That naturally fits into every area of life.
Heath Hollensbe:In other words, discipleship as a lifestyle.
Heath Hollensbe:This is the stuff your parents, pastors and seminary professors probably forgot to tell you.
Heath Hollensbe:And now here's your host, Caesar Kalinowski.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hey Heath.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here we are, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Another glorious day.
Caesar Kalinowski:Living the dream, the Pacific Northwest.
Heath Hollensbe:I love it.
Heath Hollensbe:I love that every time we say that because I'm like,
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't want to live anywhere else.
Caesar Kalinowski:I know.
Caesar Kalinowski:How do we get to live here?
Caesar Kalinowski:It's
Heath Hollensbe:amazing, right?
Heath Hollensbe:Big holiday this week, Turkey
Caesar Kalinowski:week.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep, we talked a little bit about that last Monday, but here we are.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's this week.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's coming up.
Caesar Kalinowski:You have a favorite
Heath Hollensbe:side that is a mandatory that
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, too many, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, that's part, you know, Polish food, bro.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's true.
Caesar Kalinowski:Bring one of everything.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, it's, there's too many things, like, and some of them I could use the, I only know the Polish words for, but those are my favorites.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, certain Polish food.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's this thing called kluski, which really means noodles, but you've had them.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, it's amazing.
Caesar Kalinowski:Polish type of, uh, egg noodle with sauerkraut and onions and butter like crazy.
Caesar Kalinowski:And people are like, I don't like sauerkraut.
Caesar Kalinowski:You'd like this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, you'd like it in that.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's probably the first thing that comes to mind.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now it's interesting, Tina, she's kind of picked up on this and, yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Being sort of the consummate missionary, she's, she always asks people like, what can we bring?
Caesar Kalinowski:She'll say, bring your favorite side dish from growing up, something that like growing up you loved, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:And then she'll always ask to tell the story of how they learned to make it, who taught them, why it's their favorite.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's always this little precious little insight into grandma or mom, or my sisters and I used to get to help my mom or my dad make this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:That is really funny.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Pretty cool.
Heath Hollensbe:I think the thing that, um, the two mandatories for me, one is cranberry sauce, and I don't care if it's canned and cheap and gross or.
Heath Hollensbe:If it's the kind with the good berries, I just have to have cranberries.
Heath Hollensbe:You like both
Caesar Kalinowski:and?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep, both equally.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay, Facebook group, uh, Cranberry Sauce.
Caesar Kalinowski:The canned gel.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:With no chunks.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or do you like with the berries in chunks?
Caesar Kalinowski:Because that's kind of like briefers, you know, briefs or boxers.
Heath Hollensbe:And the other one that I, is mandatory, and it's harder and harder to find, is a straight rhubarb pie.
Heath Hollensbe:I don't want strawberry
Caesar Kalinowski:rhubarb.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, you and I are brothers from another mother.
Caesar Kalinowski:We've talked about this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah,
Heath Hollensbe:I don't want strawberries in my rhubarb pie.
Heath Hollensbe:No, no.
Heath Hollensbe:Just
Caesar Kalinowski:rhubarb.
Caesar Kalinowski:You see, I don't necessarily connect that to Thanksgiving, but I should.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, on pie?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Tina started growing, uh, rhubarb outside of the house, and you know, the first year you're like, hey, we got some rhubarb, second year you're like, hey, the whole yard is rhubarb.
Heath Hollensbe:Third year's like, foundation might be splitting.
Heath Hollensbe:I
Caesar Kalinowski:think so.
Caesar Kalinowski:Call, is there someone to call about this?
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, what is going on?
Caesar Kalinowski:So no, now, and she knows this, she only makes straight up rhubarb.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, rhubarb.
Caesar Kalinowski:Straight up rhubarb.
Caesar Kalinowski:I said rhuberry.
Caesar Kalinowski:No, rhubarb.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, my mouth is watering, dude.
Caesar Kalinowski:I love them so much.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's so good.
Caesar Kalinowski:Have you had Tina's?
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, yeah, she
Heath Hollensbe:made me one for my birthday last year.
Heath Hollensbe:Oh, that's right.
Heath Hollensbe:It was so good Well, okay.
Heath Hollensbe:So here's something as we move into the topic This is a season where you're probably having a lot of people in your house And if you try to be perfect all the time, this is a this is a holiday that's really going to test those limits because No kidding.
Heath Hollensbe:You can't hide it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:When you've got family members.
Caesar Kalinowski:No one is, no one is perfect.
Caesar Kalinowski:You don't have a perfect home or table or Martha Stewart cooking skills.
Caesar Kalinowski:Unless you're Tina, but.
Caesar Kalinowski:Fights are going
Heath Hollensbe:to happen, right?
Heath Hollensbe:So scripture and literally virtually all of human history has shown us that if there's one thing that we most have in common with every other human being, it's our sinful nature.
Heath Hollensbe:No, one's perfect.
Heath Hollensbe:Not even by a long shot.
Heath Hollensbe:And it seems like this week's episode, we're going to go on an all out assault on behavior.
Heath Hollensbe:Modification techniques, correct?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, really, because like you said, no one's perfect and like trying to hide that stuff is behavioral modification.
Caesar Kalinowski:It really is.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's like, like, I know that's in your heart still, but you know, it's that whole, like with the kids, you know, like I'm sitting on the outside, but inside I'm standing up, you know, exactly.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so, yeah, we want to talk about this today and about You know, not hiding imperfections, letting why we want to let our imperfections actually show to others and how it affects them and it takes the pressure off of us and everybody around us and all that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, it's big.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's actually, and it's kind of counterintuitive.
Caesar Kalinowski:It really is.
Caesar Kalinowski:But there's such freedom in it.
Caesar Kalinowski:There really is.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's one thing I really
Heath Hollensbe:appreciate about you.
Heath Hollensbe:And if I, I think I know you well, and if I know you at all, I would assume that you would argue that when we're being open and honest with our imperfections, that that's the time that we actually really get a chance to model the kindness and the redemption and the patience of God
Caesar Kalinowski:on our lives.
Caesar Kalinowski:Absolutely.
Caesar Kalinowski:Absolutely.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I think that when we feel like we still, even as believers, have to like keep the masks in place, What we're saying is you, if you knew the real me, you wouldn't love me.
Caesar Kalinowski:But then that, that kind of is only like a kick away from God does know the real you and he's crazy about you.
Caesar Kalinowski:He loves you, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:But I think well, yeah, but God does so it's okay, but everybody else No, like wait a minute.
Caesar Kalinowski:God's the glorious one.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's the most glorious.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so when we've got his approval And we know he loves us enough to send his son to die in our place.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, oh my goodness, like we are set free.
Caesar Kalinowski:So absolutely.
Caesar Kalinowski:When we, when we let our imperfection show, when we let our redemption show, I used to say like, just let your freak flag fly, you know, just let people see the real you because then you don't have to ever wonder.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, like I'm asking place, like, how did I say that?
Caesar Kalinowski:Whatever you're free and you're modeling, you know what?
Caesar Kalinowski:God's glorious and he loves me like crazy and I don't have to hide.
Caesar Kalinowski:And guess what?
Caesar Kalinowski:Neither do you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that's, that's such a picture of, of the gospel because God does know us and he knew us in, in our depth of our worseness.
Caesar Kalinowski:He still sent his son, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and let's embrace that and let's show people we really believe that, that it's transforming ourselves, our lives.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:You know, one thing that you've talked about, and I know you've written on this a bit in the past too, is how often we let other people's sins, uh, both, define them and divide us.
Heath Hollensbe:Divide a relationship, right?
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:How do we go about changing that?
Heath Hollensbe:Because I don't want that to be the case.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah,
Caesar Kalinowski:but you're right.
Caesar Kalinowski:It is.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's like, think about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And like, God's not this way.
Caesar Kalinowski:It says that in God, our sins are as far as the east is from the west, that he remembers them no more.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not like, oh, he kind of sort of doesn't remember.
Caesar Kalinowski:No, he's chosen in his sovereignty to say, when your sins were forgiven, they were put away.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I think of you, Heath, and I go, what sin?
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm like I it's not like oh, he's he's the guy I know I forgave Heath of this this and this that's how God thinks of Heath yeah, but you know he's my son, so that's why I did it you know I'm gone Yeah, no, it's like what sin and yet.
Caesar Kalinowski:We usually like let other people sin sort of define them.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, yeah, okay used to be tweaker, you know, he used to be hooked on fill in the blank, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or, you know, I used to go, um, I used to be in business with that guy, but yeah, he was kind of a cheater.
Caesar Kalinowski:He kind of cheated me and everything.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was like 30 years ago and we're friends and all, but you, but it was like, you still had to define your relationship.
Caesar Kalinowski:You let it define them.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's, it's really that part of that do equals be distortion.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like what people have done is how we place value on them, but God doesn't.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so how do we begin to change that?
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, for instance, like, do you struggle with a certain attitude?
Caesar Kalinowski:in life about something or certain types of people or a certain sin in your life, don't hide that.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, that's usually the thing we want to hide the most.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, I'm kind of a pretty good person and most people don't know this about me, but I'm kind of a racist or something, you know, or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's the way I was raised or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't hide that from others, especially If you think they might have similar challenges, it's a good place to start off a conversation about that issue is by admitting your own weaknesses and that you, but you're sitting in forgiveness now and God's changing that about you, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Or how about this?
Caesar Kalinowski:Have you experienced forgiveness for past sins or hurts and pain in your life?
Caesar Kalinowski:Revel in it instead of like, Oh man, that's, yeah, I sucked.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you know, but no revel in the fact that you've experienced forgiveness now that that's passed, that God's not remembering.
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't pretend it never happened or that moving past the issues somehow due to your amazing willpower and strength, give God the credit due and give others hope that he can do the same in their life.
Caesar Kalinowski:Amen.
Caesar Kalinowski:My dad was not a believer when I was growing up.
Caesar Kalinowski:In fact, far from it and pretty hard.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we have talked about that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, um, but, but praise God at about 50, he, he, he came to a true saving relationship with Christ and began to change radically fast.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like it was crazy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:But then year after decade, after year, after year, whenever we would say soemthing to my dad or we thank him for something
Caesar Kalinowski:well, yeah, praise God well yea praise God But, you know, I was, uh, I was a drunk and a mean, you know, like dad, every time he couldn't let it go.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and, you know, and he, he, but he, he had a hard time flipping it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, that's true.
Caesar Kalinowski:But let's revel in the fact that that's not who you are now and you're forgiven.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:And I hear a lot of Christians do the same thing.
Heath Hollensbe:Like, well, you know, I'm just, I'm such a sinner.
Heath Hollensbe:It's like, no, you're actually a saint first and foremost.
Heath Hollensbe:It's a, it's a lens with
Caesar Kalinowski:revel in that and give God the credit due because that's going to actually give hope.
Caesar Kalinowski:In fact, part of my own sort of Really, truly coming to like, uh, like I'm laying down my life to Jesus was watching my dad change so much because though I was Raised in the church and he was mean and wasn't a part of it Um, and I was a Christian quote unquote started said the prayer a million times I had never been discipled and Jesus was certainly not Lord But when my as a young man when I watched my dad lay his life down and start to change so radically Oh my and I knew it was God had to be God because all the fighting in the world hadn't changed anything you know all the hopes and promises and You know, all these things.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so that, that gave me great hope.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wait a minute.
Caesar Kalinowski:If my dad, maybe me, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, how about this?
Caesar Kalinowski:If you're waking up to new truths and insights from God and his word, like, like share that stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:You don't have to pretend and act like we have all the answers and have a lock on all biblical truth.
Caesar Kalinowski:So like when you're in the word and something like seems like, you know, I've read this a million times.
Caesar Kalinowski:It probably, I don't know how I've missed it.
Caesar Kalinowski:But today, boom, this is so new and fresh.
Caesar Kalinowski:It seems so simple.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, none of us were born with this knowledge and we don't have to pretend that we were.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let others know that you're definitely a work in progress and God is still at work teaching and transforming and changing you.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, because when we can be honest about where we're at in our own lives, and our own spiritual need.
Caesar Kalinowski:It also gives others permission to do the same, feel the same.
Caesar Kalinowski:Something shifts in our heart and in our interactions with others.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we've stopped pretending that we have all the answers, then our lives are perfect.
Caesar Kalinowski:We can also then drop the need to try to win the argument and fix everyone or close the deal on their salvation.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, you know, start by asking yourself if others feel safe to approach you, even with their sin and mistakes and screw ups, you know, truthfully.
Caesar Kalinowski:And please hear this.
Caesar Kalinowski:The pressure's off for you and for them.
Caesar Kalinowski:And by the way, I'm talking about with other believers too, not just with non Christians.
Caesar Kalinowski:Cause that's in our holy huddle is where we generally, you know, I gotta look like I really got this on lock and I know the word and of course I don't sin in that way anymore.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I understand all these things and it's like, no, not really.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like let your redemption show like the pressure's off.
Heath Hollensbe:Well, and the beauty of this too is the flip is that this goes from.
Heath Hollensbe:What we're talking about is speaking about the heart of identity who we are and so much less about action to do to be what we've done.
Heath Hollensbe:Right.
Heath Hollensbe:And so many times I've heard in the church, people lead with action and, and not ever truly be able to grasp their true identity because they're so stuck on their action, defining their identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:And how hard they're working at changing themselves now that they're Christians.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:I just got to try harder.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, and I'm really going to church now and I'm doing the 12 steps or, or whatever it is, reading my Bible.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I'm going to say none of those are bad.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:But if they're the main thing, identity, who's the hero, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:And what's beautiful
Heath Hollensbe:is thinking this way, starting with identity.
Heath Hollensbe:It really does make Jesus the hero of the
Caesar Kalinowski:story.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep, that's right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Admitting our need, letting our redemption show, makes Jesus the hero of our story.
Caesar Kalinowski:It really does.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so much of this flows from us believing that our true value in life comes from the reality that we're his image bearer.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we, what we do does not equal who we are.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like he looked at all of our doing and went, whoa, not even close to holy.
Caesar Kalinowski:And nothing like my son Jesus.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:But we have to be first be willing to not be the heroes of our own story To be willing to die to the need of having to manage how others perceive us and our value Trusting God with who he says we are now and the blessings that he has for us.
Caesar Kalinowski:Nothing to earn.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:By putting on these hero masks and trying to make sure people perceive us as nearly perfect, but trusting our redemption to God and let others see that he gets the glory.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's the hero.
Caesar Kalinowski:And now they can believe, wait a minute, God sees who we are, not what we've done and who he's making us to be.
Caesar Kalinowski:And he looks at us and sees Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, that's so big and so beautiful.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's, and it's right there just by letting our redemption show instead of trying to hide it and keep the mask in place, keep that hero mask up.
Heath Hollensbe:Well, and the other thing that it does is the trickle down effect of it downstream is that it frees other people, like it frees us from having expectations of others having to be perfect in our eyes as well, right?
Heath Hollensbe:People, people can feel free to be themself, to like admit who they
Caesar Kalinowski:honestly are.
Caesar Kalinowski:When you're willing to cop on yourself and show how much God's at work and changing you, probably are.
Caesar Kalinowski:Holding me to some crazy high standard.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, right like man, you're being
Heath Hollensbe:gracious to yourself because of who you are Identity then then you're not gonna be so hard on me quick to pounce on my issues, right?
Heath Hollensbe:It's something amazing begins to actually
Caesar Kalinowski:happen.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's right.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's trust there.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's an openness.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's like hey, I feel safe with this person I mean, I really attribute I think a lot of my own God's blessing of leadership is that I'm a pretty big screw up and know it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and I can't even believe how much grace has been in my life and how much God has just blessed and blessed and blessed me and my family and my kids now into the next generation.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I don't, I, I don't know.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, it's maybe it's just, I can't hide it.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's just so much of it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I've had to repent publicly, you know, as pastor and as leader so many times I have.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I think in that though, God's grace.
Caesar Kalinowski:is sufficient and people see it and they go, well, he's not so great, but his God's great.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, and that's all he's really trying to help me see is more of God anyway He's not trying to make I don't want to be like him kind of screw up.
Caesar Kalinowski:I want to be like Jesus Oh, yeah, I know.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's amazing, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, and um, just like we talked about back at the beginning Today it starts to put us all back on level ground You know, all of us having this same common need for redemption and restoration.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's, that's our, that's our most common need that we have with everybody else.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, like you said at the beginning, you know, and, and the fact that we're all powerless to do this for ourselves, we all need Jesus.
Caesar Kalinowski:That is our common need.
Caesar Kalinowski:So regardless of what category you like to drop people in or define them by their sin or like their race or their political affiliations or their orientations or all these things, just remember.
Caesar Kalinowski:The thing you have most in common with them that overarches all of that and trumps all of that is our common need for Jesus and redemption.
Caesar Kalinowski:So letting our imperfections and redemption show to others acts as an invitation into our relationship and journey with Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It really does.
Caesar Kalinowski:You're kind of inviting them into lifting the lid of what God's doing in your life and in that journey.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then they find a seat at the table themselves.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's so big.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's so
Heath Hollensbe:powerful.
Heath Hollensbe:Well, the fun thing is, like, we've set here for the last few minutes, this whole episode has been about us talking about our sin, but in a way that makes Jesus the hero.
Heath Hollensbe:And it is, it's freeing and it's engaging and it's invigorating and it's beautiful because God is a God of redemption.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you notice, that's it.
Caesar Kalinowski:The focus isn't on our sinfulness.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's on his glory and redemption.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Because I know there's whole strains of the CH church family here that all they focus is on sin.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:God's not sitting there.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, Jesus isn't on the throne freaking out about sin in our life.
Caesar Kalinowski:Why?
Caesar Kalinowski:Because he's already paid for it on the cross.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's already been put aside far, far away.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like he's not freaking out about it, but we can be honest about the redemption that's happening, the restoration that's going on.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, you know what, you
Heath Hollensbe:know, I photo, you know, when I used to focus so much on the sin, I just, it was like a never ending, cruel game of whack-a-mole.
Heath Hollensbe:Cause when you start thinking you've got something figured out, something else pops up, and if you're just chasing that modification, it's going to
Caesar Kalinowski:exhaust you.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then everybody assumes you're chasing it in their life for them.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, exactly.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're just waiting for the shoe to drop, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Let Jesus be the
Heath Hollensbe:hero.
Heath Hollensbe:Exactly.
Heath Hollensbe:All right, man, let's get to the big three for this week, and you can get the big three as a printable PDF, as a download, by going to everydaydisciple.
Heath Hollensbe:com forward slash big three.
Heath Hollensbe:And these are the three takeaways, if nothing else, we want you to walk away with from this week's show.
Heath Hollensbe:Caesar, what are the big three?
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah, don't
Caesar Kalinowski:miss these.
Caesar Kalinowski:Real short and sweet today.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number one thing we have most in common with every other human being is our own sinful nature.
Caesar Kalinowski:No one's perfect.
Caesar Kalinowski:Not by a long shot.
Caesar Kalinowski:By not trying to hide, though, our imperfections, we actually find ourselves on the same side with others.
Caesar Kalinowski:instead of worrying about who's in and who's out.
Caesar Kalinowski:So it's a real leveler.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Beautiful.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:Next, remember it was when we were still in love with our sin that Jesus died for us.
Caesar Kalinowski:Huh.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's how God showed his great love for us, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:That's Romans 5.
Caesar Kalinowski:8.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that redemption and restoration within us is still happening today.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do you see yourself as a saved sinner?
Caesar Kalinowski:Or is God's child who still sins but believe that it's all been paid for and washed away?
Caesar Kalinowski:and it's far from your relationship with God now.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah, that's mind blowing, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number three, give God the credit due for the changes that are happening in your life and faith, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:That's back to making Jesus the hero of the story.
Caesar Kalinowski:This will give others hope that he can do the same in their life.
Caesar Kalinowski:Start living more openly about all of this.
Caesar Kalinowski:with your spouse and others who are close to you and you really know.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's where you start, okay?
Caesar Kalinowski:Maybe you're not ready to do this at work or, you know, stand up in front of the church and do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're not even suggesting that, but start doing it with your spouse and others close to you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Speaking about your own redemption is part of growing in your gospel fluency, by the way.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:And a bonus tip.
Caesar Kalinowski:Please, please, please talk with your own kids about how God is still changing your heart in your life.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm, this will encourage them to seek and trust him more instead of hiding from you and from God and others.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, if
Heath Hollensbe:God's doing this in dad and mom's life, then he's sure to do it in mine as well.
Heath Hollensbe:Amen.
Heath Hollensbe:Okay, those big three takeaways again, if you want them as a downloadable PDF for free, you get them by going to everydaydisciple.
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Heath Hollensbe:Hey, what's up next week next week?
Heath Hollensbe:We're going to talk about Christian stereotypes and how to change them There's a lot and they're not off.
Heath Hollensbe:They're not
Caesar Kalinowski:good.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're not good.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's stereotypes.
Caesar Kalinowski:Generally aren't that's true There are a lot of but we've we've got some well earned ones that are in need of some change.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's go a smashing All right, we'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.com and remember, you really can live with a spiritual freedom and relational peace that Jesus promised every day.