Courage
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· 7 viewsGod set up a leadership succession from Moses to Joshua. It was an obligation he accepted when he became #2. The baton of leading Isreal to the promised land - a mission for a people not yet ready for it - was now his.
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Succession Plans
Succession Plans
Succession Plans are not a new thing
Businesses - CEO
Families - take over the family run business
Churches
Designated Survivor.
President - VP and more: Designated Survivor. is an individual in the presidential line of succession, usually a member of the United States Cabinet, who is arranged to be at a physically distant, secure, and undisclosed location when the President, the Vice President, and the other officials in the line of succession are gathered at a single location, such as during State of the Union addresses and presidential inaugurations.
Only Cabinet members who are eligible to succeed to the presidency
Poetic like history of God's reminder about what he expects for those called to leading his people.
TV show Designated Survivor - the HUD Secretary becomes president. Season 3 starts June 7! Think he’s prepared?
Most of us Aren’t
Most of us Aren’t
He went up to the mountain of God with Moses and served Moses during the wilderness wanderings.
Different word used to describe his role with Moses - not the one used for Moses who was God's servant.
Joshua's relationship with Moses was different, special.
Believed that special relationship set him up to succeed Moses to take the reigns of leading Isreal into their promised future.
But was Joshua really ready?
Reading Joshua
Reading Joshua
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
On the surface, we think it’s about leadership. But it’s also about ALL of us.
Moses died and Joshua takes the reigns of leading Isreal into their promised future.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Jesus’ Succession Plan
Jesus’ Succession Plan
But it is also about u.
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Mt 28:
It Takes Fierce Courage to Step into the Future
It Takes Fierce Courage to Step into the Future
Phase 2 of YFC revitalization. The work begins...our crossing and "walking into what God has given vision for (promised through Jesus)
The realities of who we are becoming will start to take shape. It will take a fierce courage to embrace it.
Two weeks ago: Cultivate belonging.
Today: Courage to become.
Fierce: furiously active, determined to embrace who we are called to become.
Fierce - furiously active or determined.
Joshua had an obligation...the baton was passed. He must have known this was part of the gig when he accepted being #2.
A Mission for a People
A Mission for a People
Do You Wonder: Are We Ready?
Do You Wonder: Are We Ready?
He went up to the mountain of God with Moses and served Moses during the wilderness wanderings.
Different word used to describe his role with Moses - not the one used for Moses who was God's servant.
Joshua's relationship with Moses was different, special.
Joshua was hand picked and groomed to take the reigns of leading Isreal into their promised future.
But was Joshua really ready to lead God’s people through battle to the land they were promsied?
What was on the baton - lead God's people to the promised land. A battle.
To get there, had to embrace something they were told about themselves but hadn't yet fully
Be Strong and Courageous
Be Strong and Courageous
Our first child: Not prepared. No training. No manual. We’ll pay for your therapy later.
My first ministry role: Armed with mentors, education, a guitar, and a lot of confidence. Then I was introduced to parents, teachers and leaders, the property committee, custodian and secretary.
You can be hand picked, groomed and still not be prepared For the Job
You can be hand picked, groomed and still not be prepared For the Job
Joshua was told 3 times
Trained by the best.
Know the JD like you know your name.
Reviewed the hiring packet and gone through the onboard training.
Onboard training?
Identified the path to success/advancement.
Of all things God could say, why this?
AND NOT BE PREPARED.
Training?
Fortune 100 companies will not hire Harvard Business School grads. Know a lot but not prepared. They lack something you can’t learn.
Joshua has been reliable working behind the scenes
Joshua has been reliable working behind the scenes
NOTHING HAS OR CAN PREPARE HIM FOR WHAT THE RESPONSIBILITY HE’S ABOUT TO STEP INTO.
The choice: be courageous with his life: show up and step up to the big arena or step out.
It will require him to live in the arena and be brave with his life.
Advice
Advice
Joshua has a decision to make: step up our step out.
1:9 This is the third command to be strong and courageous. Of all things God could say, why this?
Commands are around movement, psychological state, focus, comprehension.
Trained by the best.
Where’s the path to success/advancement
Warnings of what not to do.
Training?
What if I fail?
What if I fail?
He’s been comfortable behind the scenes. Now it’s next man up and he has to live in the arena and be brave with his life.
Maybe for the first time, he will encounter the possibility of failure.
Thrown into such an important responsibility, Joshua has a decision to make: step up our step out.
3 times: Be...
3 times: Be...
Best Advice
Best Advice
When people take on a new role, there is no lack of people willing to dish out advice; what they’ve found to be the secret keys to success.
Time management
Moses to Joshua: Lessons Learned
Moses to Joshua: Lessons Learned
Productivity hacks/tools
Strategy
Don’t hit the rock twice
Don’t leave the people unsupervised when you go off to spend time with God.
Don’t give them any gold - they’ll make crazy idols
The People to Joshua
The People to Joshua
Morning routine
Productivity hacks/tools
Strategy
Here’s who you need to win over
Of all the things Moses and the people could have told Joshua, they said be strong and courageous.
Three times.
1:9 This is the third command t
Doing flows from being.
Be/Become
Be/Become
Productivity
Strategy
More important than the specifics of the job are movement (don’t get paralyzed), mental/psychological state, their focus and understanding.
Message: Doing flows from being
Message: Doing flows from being
Keep moving, growing (don’t get paralyzed)
Keep moving, growing (don’t get paralyzed)
From Moses’ perspective: Being given the responsibility of God’s mission has more to do with who he is than what he can do.
Emotional health
Focus and understanding
Focus and understanding.
From the people’s perspective: Joshua, we know you don’t know what you’re doing (might know the what but not the how), you’re probably scared, but we will follow you. But listen: we need you to step into this new arena, put yourself out there and take this risk.
To step into God’s promises, engage the discontented, and cultivate belonging means this:
We might not know what we’re doing or how to do it
but God is calling us to grow and move into a new arena
and it has more to do with who we are becoming (because we’re not there yet) than any skills, knowledge or abilities we might have.
Work on emotional health
Stay focused.
It’s Scary
It’s Scary
Brene Brown: People I’ve talked with about stepping into the arena: Fear of being vulnerable. Don’t want to disappoint. Fear of shame.
it’s a moment where
Shame - the feeling you get if you walk out of a room of people who know you and they say such hurtful things about you and you don’t know if you could ever face them again in your life.
Shame - the feeling you get if you walk out of a room of people who know you and they say such hurtful things about you and you don’t know if you could ever face them again in your life.
Fear of shame and criticism can be so great we keep our lives small (socially, etc) and don’t take chances; don’t step into our power and play big.
Parable of the Talents
Two took a risk with varying outcomes but both positive.
Two took a risk with varying outcomes but both positive.
One decided to do nothing but return to his master what was given to him because he was afraid (of shame for failing and being criticized). Turns out he got both.
One decided to do nothing but return to his master what was given to him because he was afraid (of shame for failing and being criticized). Turns out he got both.
Decisions to do with what was given driven by fear of shame and criticism.
Where Shame and Criticism comes from: One of the consequences of sin. And we’ve gotten really good at it.
Where Shame and Criticism comes from: One of the consequences of sin. And we’ve gotten really good at it.
Fear of shame and criticism can be so great we engineering smallness in our lives, don’t take chances. Don’t step into our power and play big because we can’t stand the criticism.
The story I’m making up right now
Men, women, young: others, self
When something hard happens, the brain is wired to protect us wants a story to understand how to protect you. Wants bad guy/good guy, safe/dangerous, against you/for you so we make up stories.
3 dots on text and goes away
Friday Lunch with Patti after picking her up from the airport
Text, email someone and they don’t respond right away...happens a lot with teens.
Tell someone I love you and they say, “I think you’re awesome!”
Created Culture of shame and criticism: workplace, families - never good enough, interwebs - read through a FB post thread; if you don’t agree with my ideology...
From Outside
Women - body, clothing, being single, SAHM, working mom, nursing their babies.
Men - Action movies: heroism, strength, adventure. Celebrated in the movies but less so in reality.
Emotionally emasculated in every respect. Conceding rather than engaging, second guessing, avoiding.
John Eldredge: Let them experience the full weight of who you are.
3 dots on text and goes away
Text, email someone and they don’t respond right away...happens a lot with teens.
Tell someone I love you and they say, “I think you’re awesome!”
Often even more destructive than the shame and criticism that comes from others is what comes from inside us
Often even more destructive than the shame and criticism that comes from others is what comes from inside us
The Story I’m Making up Right Now
When something hard happens, the brain is wired to protect us wants a story to understand how to protect you. Wants bad guy/good guy, safe/dangerous, against you/for you so we make up stories.
When something hard happens, the brain is wired to protect us wants a story to understand how to protect you. Wants bad guy/good guy, safe/dangerous, against you/for you so we make up stories.
Men - emasculated…
3 dots on text and goes away
Text, email someone and they don’t respond right away...happens a lot with teens.
Tell someone I love you and they say, “I think you’re awesome!”
Women -
Forgetting to water Patti’s plants (Two tomato plants a pepper plant and a pregnant plant).
Often the most damaging
Spiritual Director: You don’t need a critic do you?
Feel we have to be perfect, not fail or disappoint (not be vulnerable) and if there’s a chance, we’re not playing.
Feel we have to be perfect, not fail or disappoint (not be vulnerable) and if there’s a chance, we’re not playing.
May come from deep seeded messages, experiences -
Can’t be courageous, can’t create relationship and belonging without vulnerability
3 dots on text and goes away
Courage and vulnerability are two sides of the same coin. Can’t have one without the other.
Text, email someone and they don’t respond right away...happens a lot with teens.
Tell someone I love you and they say, “I think you’re awesome!”
When we show up
Can’t be courageous, can’t create relationship and belonging without vulnerability.
First date after divorce
Sitting with spouse with cancer making plans for your kids
Getting fired
Saying I love you first
If you are courageous with your life, create relationship and belonging you will risk being vulnerable and you will know failure. So Fail forward.
Fail forward
Vulnerability is the most accurate way to measure courage. Level of courage is related to how vulnerable you are willing to be.
First date after divorceSitting with spouse with cancer making plans for your kidsGetting firedSaying I love you first
Vulnerability is the most accurate way to measure courage. Level of courage is related to how vulnerable you are willing to be.
John Eldredge: Let them experience the fullness of who you are.
Brown: The cheap seats filled with people who will never get in the arena but make it a full time job to criticize and judge and say hateful things.
We have got to let it drop on the floor, step over it and keep going. Stop taking criticism and feedback from people who are not willing to be courageous with their lives. It will crush you.
Warnings of what not to do.
Decide who’s feedback matters: those people who love you not despite imperfection and vulnerability but because of your imperfection and vulnerability.
Those who will say you need to clean that up and I’m here to help and cheer you on.
Where Courage Comes From
Where Courage Comes From
Courage is not something we muster, create.
We become courageous from the source and his promises.
God Goes With Us
Every pace your foot will walk is what I have given you.
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.
Talking about land but...
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it.
Dt 11:24
2. God's presence.
The places where God goes with us today and the places we walk that he has given us is the emotional and spiritual ground humanity gave up in the Garden.
And he’s not going away
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Encouragement, promises of God’s
Synopsis
First date after divorce
Sitting with spouse with cancer making plans for your kids
Getting fired
Saying I love you first
In The Battle, No One Can Oppose
In The Battle, No One Can Oppose
Because God goes with you, when it gets tough and the battle heats up, no one will be able to overtake you.
No one will be able to overtake you because I will be with you.
How to Fiercely Embrace Who We Are to Step Into Our Future
How to Fiercely Embrace Who We Are to Step Into Our Future
Give it All You Have (by becoming who God says you are)
Give it All You Have (by becoming who God says you are)
The Message
Become: Keep moving/growing (don’t get paralyzed)
Show up when you can’t control the outcome
First date after divorce
Sitting with spouse with cancer making plans for your kids
Getting fired
Saying I love you first
Jump into something you’ve never done before
Be vulnerable: Work on emotional health
Take chances.
Vulnerability is weakness. Is uncertainty, risk, emotionally exposed. Example of courage that did not involve uncertainty, risk, emotional vulnerability. How many of us raised to believe courage is an important value (be brave with your life)? How many raised to believe vulnerability is weakness. Rub: Be brave but never risk.
I don’t do vulnerability. No. 2 options: you do vulnerability knowingly or vulnerability does you. If you don’t know ask a relative: Do I do vulnerability well and step back waiting for the truth. Why we need it: so much easier to cause pain than to feel pain. People work their pain out on others. When we don’t acknowledge our vulnerability, we work our pain out on other people.
I can go it alone. I’m going to try it...by myself and see how it goes. Then try it with other people. We’re hardwired for connection with others. In the absence of love, connection and belonging, there is always suffering. If so, introverts would have found a way.
You can engineer the uncertainty and discomfort out of vulnerability. Tech has tried to come up with an algorhythm to predict when its ok to be vulnerable with others. When its comfortable, it is no longer vulnerability.
Trust comes before vulnerable. Slow stacking over time of both. Start with little things and we build over time. Your story is a privilege to hear - share it with those who have earned the right to hear it. Minus boundaries, not vulnerability.
Vulnerability is not disclosure. Live tweeting....sharing the intimate details of your pain on FB, not vulnerability. Not measured by amount of disclosure. Measured by amount of courage to show up and be seen when you can’t control the outcome.
Vulnerability is not about winning or losing bout about the courage to show up when you can’t control the outcome.
Sitting with spouse with cancer making plans for your kids
Getting fired
Saying I love you first
Giving all we have requires trust - it is a courageous act.
Opposite of belonging is fitting in (assessing and acclimating - what I should look, speak, etc).
Giving all we have requires trust - it is a courageous act.
True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are but be who you are. Requires vulnerability.
First date after divorce
Sitting with spouse with cancer making plans for your kids
Getting fired
Saying I love you first
Stay on Point and Focused on the Mission
Stay on Point and Focused on the Mission
Don't get off track.
8 - ponder and meditate on the book of the revelation day and night. Practice everything written in it. Then you'll get where you're going.
When the battle gets tough, easy to look left and right...way out, easy button.
Getting off Track (Brene Brown)
Getting off Track (Brene Brown)
Believing that vulnerability is weakness. How many raised to believe we’re to live courageously? How many were raised to believe vulnerability is weakness. Rub: Be brave but never risk.
I don’t do vulnerability. No. 2 options: you do vulnerability knowingly or vulnerability does you. Ask a relative: Do I do vulnerability well and step back waiting for the truth. People work their pain out on others. When we don’t acknowledge the need to be vulnerable, we work our pain out on other people.
I can go it alone. I’m going to try it...by myself and see how it goes. Then try it with other people. We’re hardwired for connection with others. In the absence of love, connection and belonging, there is always suffering. If so, introverts would have found a way.
You can remove the uncertainty and discomfort out of vulnerability. Tech has tried to come up with an algorhythm to predict when its ok to be vulnerable with others. When its comfortable, it is no longer vulnerability.
Trust comes before vulnerability. Slow stacking over time of both. Start with little things and we build over time. Your story is a privilege to hear - share it with those who have earned the right to hear it. Minus boundaries, not vulnerability.
Believing vulnerability is disclosure. Live tweeting....sharing the intimate details of your pain on FB, not vulnerability. Not measured by amount of disclosure. Measured by amount of courage to show up and be seen when you can’t control the outcome.
Carry out the mission, every bit of it out of who we are.
Carry out the mission, every bit of it out of who we are.
Meditate and Reflect on God’s Instruction and Do It
Meditate and Reflect on God’s Instruction and Do It
Ponder and meditate on:
Scripture. It is direction, instruction, authority for faith and practice.
Jesus.
Do/Practice everything written in it.
Do/Practice everything he says.
Then you'll get where you're going.
Law - Direction, instruction, law, decision, rule.
3. His word - scripture, Jesus. Meditate on them; reflect; do what it says.
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
This will make you prosper.
Move Forward in Attitude and Action
Move Forward in Attitude and Action
Reflection
The faith community is what gives place to vulnerability and empathy.
Trust
Action
Another part of the baton - servanthood. servant, adviser, minister.
No vulnerability, no creativity. No tolerance for failure, no innovation, shallow relationships and inability to be hospitable.
Give Effort and Take Chances
Listen and learn, identify blind spots, build bridges.
Choose courage over comfort.
Brave people are never silent around hard things.
Brave people are never silent around hard things.
We have a responsibility to show up in our faith community joyfully and wholeheartedly, and bring our whole hearts and selves.
Stay Focused on the Mission
Stay Focused on the Mission
The word success (Hb sakal; cp. succeed in v. 8) is found frequently in the Wisdom literature to describe one’s mastery of the world and insight into its challenges (“prudent” in ).
No Fear, No Discouragement
No Fear, No Discouragement
Becoming new sounds exciting…until it isn’t. Going on a new adventure sounds exciting (for some) until you run into a problem you can’t fix.
Discouragement is ready to step in.
Discouragement - Unhappiness arising from a loss of confidence in one’s own abilities, in the reliability of God or in the power of the gospel.
Becoming new sounds exciting…until it isn’t. Going on a new adventure sounds exciting (for some) until you run into a problem you can’t fix. They both require strength and courage to battle being fearful and being dismayed.
That’s a Wrap
That’s a Wrap
Vulnerability is hard, scary and dangerous. But not as scary as getting to the end of our lives and wondering what would have happened if I would have shown up, been seen, answered the call?
Taking people to a new place requires strength and courage. They battle fear and being dismayed. Where does it come from? Word of God: Jesus, his teaching.
Discouragement
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