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January 7, 2007
*/The Life You’ve Always Wanted/*
*Part 1: An Unhurried Life: the practice of slowing*
/Introduction:/ To be spiritually healthy, you can’t be in a hurry.
Many of us suffer from “hurry sickness”.
What’s the cure?
1.
______________________: making __________________________________.
Mark 6:30-32; Psalm 5:3, 27:14, 33:20, 37:7, 38:15, 40:1, 130:5-6, Isaiah 40:30-31, Acts 1:4
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Genesis 2:2-3, Exodus 20:8-11, Mark 2:27
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Mark 1:32-35, Luke 5:15-16; Matthew 14:23, Mark 6:46, Luke 6:12, John 6:15
January 7, 2007
*/The Life You’ve Always Wanted/*
*Part 1: An Unhurried Life: the practice of slowing*
*/Opening:/*
*ILL**:* A Tacoma, Washington, newspaper carried the story of Tattoo the basset hound.
Tattoo didn't intend to go for an evening run, but when his owner shut the dog's leash in the car door and took off for a drive with Tattoo still outside the vehicle, he had no choice.
Motorcycle officer Terry Filbert noticed a passing vehicle with something dragging behind it: it was "the basset hound picking them up and putting them down as fast as he could."
He chased the car to a stop.
Tattoo was rescued, but not before the dog had reached a speed of 20 to 25 miles per hour, rolling over several times.
How many of you feel like Tattoo: you’re picking them up and putting them down as fast as you can? There’s another way to live—an unhurried life.
Sound good?
Today we launch a new series: /The Life You’ve Always Wanted.
/ Today, I’m going to talk about “An Unhurried Life”.
*/Offering and announcements:/*
1. Sexual purity workshops
a.
Pure Warrior
b.
Women’s purity (runs concurrently)
c.
Women’s evening with Julie Stevens
2. Life Group sign-ups at end of month (back of tear-off)
3.
Offering.
*/Baptisms:/*
*/Introduction/*/:/
Can anybody here identify with that sketch?
Your motor is running at high rpm’s and you can’t seem to get it stopped, even on vacation.
If so, you’re probably suffering from hurry sickness.
*ILL**:* In November, our family shared a week’s vacation—it was one of the most relaxing, restful and fun weeks I’ve ever had.
At the end of the week I realized that I had been totally unplugged for a week.
No computer, no emails, no cell phone, no voicemails—nothing.
I’m embarrassed to admit that it was the first vacation in years where I’ve unplugged and been inaccessible to everyone but my family.
\\ When was the last time you unplugged—even for a day?
Hurry sickness.
Today I want to talk with you about “an unhurried life: the practice of slowing.”
*(((*In the next few weeks, we’re going to talk about /The Life You’ve Always Wanted/, and the kind of practical steps you can take to get there.
These steps are often called “spiritual disciplines” and have been practiced by Christians for 2000 years as a means to growth and transformation.
If you want to change and grow, I’m going to tell you how Christians have been doing it for 20 centuries, and you can join in the fun!
Don’t be freaked out by the “d-word”—disciplines. Here’s the basic idea: each of these disciplines or practices will help you get closer to God, which in turn will help you change and grow.
*ILL**:* Think of it this way.
Let’s say you want to run a marathon—26.2
miles.
How many of you could walk out that door right now and run a marathon?
Not many!
What would happen if you went out and tried today?
Pain!
You wouldn’t be walking tomorrow.
If you want to run a marathon, what do you have to do? Train.
You start by getting out of your chair.
Then you start walking, then you run a couple blocks, and gradually build up to a mile.
Then 2, then 3, and so on.
It takes most people months of training to be able to run a marathon.
You may not be able to run a marathon today, but if you train, you could.
This is the difference between trying and training.
Paul wrote to Timothy:
*1 Timothy 4:7-8 *Train yourself to be godly.
*8 *For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
Train yourself to be godly.
If you’ve tried to be godly and failed, maybe you should train to be godly.
It’s like running the marathon; training works better than just trying.
To live /The Life You’ve Always Wanted/, you don’t just try harder, you train.
You take specific steps that will bring you closer to God and change you from the inside out.
We’re going to talk about those steps.
I borrowed a lot of ideas for this series, including the title, from John Ortburg’s wonderful book, The Life You’ve Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People.
I’ve also gathered ideas from:
· Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation, by Ruth Haley Barton.
· Ordering Your Private World, by Gordon MacDonald.
All of these books are available at our resource center at our cost if you would like to read more about it.*)))*
At the top of your outline it says: To be spiritually healthy, you can’t be in a hurry.
John Ortburg says, “Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day.
Hurry can destroy our souls.
Hurry can keep us from living well.
We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.”
Many of us suffer from “hurry sickness”.
What is hurry sickness?
Faster, faster, more, more, go, go, go, faster, faster.
We’re skimming through life.
Rather than a definition, maybe a description will help.
Here are a few symptoms of hurry sickness.
*Constantly speeding up daily activities.
*We read faster, talk faster, and when listening nod faster to encourage the other person to hurry.
We eat faster.
Down on 3rd Avenue, on Maalox Mile, you’ll find Arby’s, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and many other restaurants which are known not for “good food” or “cheap food” but for “fast food.”
And when we realized all the time we were wasting eating at a table, they installed the drive-through so that we could eat our food in the car, as God intended.
Faster, faster!
Do everything faster!
I catch myself in the morning showering fast, shaving fast, dressing fast—and I have to tell myself, “Slow down.
Take a deep breath.
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