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We're going to leave a couple of links right there in the description, so you can do just that. I'm starting to feel the harsh realities of winter coming on, that kind of gunk in the throat, like when you wake up in the morning and then you just are in the shower and you're like practicing singing bass, and then it's just like kind of hurts. And then it's like, Ellie, Ellie, I need you to, I need you to stop burning the dishwasher. It's too, the water's too cold. It's too cold, Ellie, please. But this is, this is what you like, man. You like the winter, don't you?
Love it. And you like the switch of throat, too? You know why?
I'll tell you why I like the winter. Listen to this. Do you hear that clear inhale? Yeah, I heard it.
You hear that? No congestion. You get congestion in the summer? Spring and fall.
Wow. Spring and fall. Hate it? Anything blooming? Hate it? Kill all the living things? Hate it?
Kill all the plants? Cold, gray, and dead. Cold, gray, and dead. That's what I want, baby. So I've got some good news and I've got some really bad news. Oh, dear.
And I'll give them to you in whichever order you prefer. Give me the good news first. I'm back in the gym. Good for you. It's been, it's been, it's been a little bit, it's been like legitimately- Well, life's been a little bit busy, kind of upended, crazy schedule, so.
Yes, we, we had, we constructed our new worship center. And then at the tail end, I pretty much was like, you know what? I can't afford to be in the gym right now. I should be, but it's just not realistic. So I'm back in. Good for you. The, that's the good news. That's awesome.
The really bad news is I took my family out to a pleasant lunch at a local steakhouse. Okay. Um, and I- Is this related to the gym? Sort of. Okay.
Sort of. Okay. I took my family out for a pleasant lunch. Sure. And I had a burger.
Right. I had fries. Okay. I had some of Holden's chips. Okay. I had some of, uh, half, uh, some of Ellie's chips. All right. And then I had, I don't even know what the name of it was, but it was like a hot fudge sundae with cake baked inside it. Okay.
Settle down. It was meant for four people. And you ate it? I ate- Alone? I didn't eat it alone.
Gavin had some and Holden had some. Ellie wanted some. Um, and I, I, I ate too much of it. I ate like a wild hog. Why would you do that to yourself?
I don't know. Did you think I'm back in the gym so- I hadn't gone back to the gym. You didn't have every calorie. I hadn't gone back to the gym yet. Oh no.
I was planning to stay home and not go to the gym and just continue the cycle of just staying home and not going. Yeah. But I went to lunch and I got that burger and for some reason, this particular place, I'm not going to mention the name of the place, but it's great food, but at their lunch portions are pretty small. And so they gave me, uh, the burger and like maybe six fries. And I was like, seriously?
Yeah. So then Holden wasn't eating his chips. So I got some of his, then I ate pretty much all his chips and then Ellie had some chips. So I ate some of hers.
And then Gavin was like, I ate all my corn dog. Can I have dessert? And normally I'd be like, no, but I wanted some dessert. So I was like, yeah, but you ate all your corn dog. So she brings out this, I thought it was going to be like this little bowl of hot fudge. She was like, do you want four spoons?
And I was like, yeah, that'd be kind of cute. I see why she asked that now because the plate was like as big as this laptop. Goodness.
I'm not joking. The plate, I mean, it was huge. It was crazy how small their lunch portions were.
It was like a burger and six fries, but you got like an entire cake for dessert. Yes. Yes. Wow. Pretty much. It was like the Trunchbulls chocolate cake.
Oh no. But it had like ice cream. Bruce Bogtrotter style. Yes.
Bruce Bogtrotter style. It had ice cream and hot fudge on top of it. And it had four cherries and Holden ate the cherries and I ate almost all of the dessert.
It was insane. Sure. Like I was ashamed. Well. And I left there feeling not so good. You ever had one of those days? Uh, I have.
Yeah. Typically it happens to me when, like sometimes on a Saturday when we don't have really anything going on, we don't, we might think it's like a late breakfast and it's like a big breakfast, like scrambled eggs, pancakes, bacon, sausage, like a huge amount of stuff. And so then we just kind of graze throughout the rest of the day. Cause we'll eat breakfast at like 9.30, 10. If we don't have anything going on that day, we'll eat a little bit later. So then we just kind of like pick and graze throughout the day. So I'll have some chips and then, you know, have a little bit of dip here and then maybe some of this and then some of that. And by the end of the day, I'm like, I've eaten like a hog today.
So, so that's what I was about to say. You strike me as the type to where you're eating a meal and you're like, I'm full, I'll stop now. But like me most of the time, but I also, we've talked about this on the show before, but I also have that, uh, you have to clean your plate. Like that was kind of drilled into me as a kid. So even if I am full, you're going to force myself to finish that plate. Same, same.
My dad was, was real big on finishing the plate. So when you get up, are you like, Oh man, I ate too much. I feel kind of bloated and full.
Rarely sometimes, but, but, uh, this rare doesn't really happen much. Well, it resulted in something good cause I'm working out again. I went, I went to the gym that night.
I got back in. It was, it was pretty embarrassing. I couldn't bench.
I benched 185 for like six and felt exhausted. Yeah. And I was like, this is a shadow of where I was. They, they really are not joking around. If you don't lose, if you don't use it, you lose it. That's true. But I mean that you took a step in the right direction. That's right.
That's right. That's a good thing. We'll, we'll, uh, we'll get dr shine on that conversation cause I didn't even tell him about the, I didn't even call him and tell him about the meal. No, it was bad.
It was really bad. Let us know if you've never, if you've ever had one of those meals where you get done and you're like, why did I do that to myself? Now I will say on some like Thanksgiving, like I'll get to the end of the meal and I'm like, well, every year, why did I do this to myself?
Why? I think, you know, a meal was really, really good or really bad. If you have to like now introduce different life choices to combat what, what I just did in that restaurant. Or if I need to, if I feel like I need a rest, like a break at the end of the meal, I'm going to go lay down. Write it in the letter.
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If you have any questions or suggestions for new topics, send us a text to 252-582-5028. That's right. We're here once again in the Clearview today's studio with Dr. Abbadon Shah, who's a PhD in New Testament textual criticism. Dr. Shah, have you ever been in a restaurant, just post meal in a restaurant, filled with regret? Just like looking at your empty plate, like what did I just do? Taking inventory of everything that you ate.
Like is it good or is it bad? Good. Delicious. But like, you know, you just went overboard. I just ate way too much. Like I did a few minutes ago.
Did you do a few minutes ago? Yes, we just had, we had like desserts. Somebody brought us a meal. Yes.
Somebody very special in our church decided to go out and they went to Olive Garden. Yep. Delicious.
Yes. And they got us this salad, main course, and then dessert, even bread. I mean, everything was Olive Garden and the desserts were something that she made. Homemade dessert. Homemade desserts. And it was brownie as well as strawberry cake. It was delicious.
And this woman, this person's strawberry cake is absolutely legendary. Yes. Like it's on all the church functions. So you know, what you do in a time like that is you eat only one. You pick. Right. Right. I mean, you got to pick one and just stick to that one. That's your dessert.
Sure. I had both. I had both too. I had a little piece of strawberry cake when everybody was watching and then when nobody was in there, I went back and got it.
So there are some regrets today. I did that. I did that a couple of days back where I, it was so bad. I went to a local steakhouse here in our, in our town.
I think you're very familiar with it. We eat there at lunch all the time. And I had a burger. I had some fries. I had some of Holden's chips. I had some of Ellie's chips.
And then Gavin was like, Hey, I ate all my corn dog. Can we get some dessert? And I was like, yeah, I've never had their dessert before. Not realizing how enormous their dessert was. It was like hot chocolate cake with ice cream. He ate a corn dog and thought that was an accomplishment.
I have eaten an entire corn dog. And then it was like, it was like slathered with hot fudge and cherries and whipped cream. And I was like, yeah, I mean, I guess we're eating this. And I mean, when I, when I say we ate it, like I, I felt so ashamed. I got back in the gym that night. I went back to the gym finally.
Yes. I was so, I walked out of that restaurant just like filled with regret. Hang your head. I had that a few minutes ago when I had both the cake and the brownie and then it was sitting on the counter. So I was like, let me put it away. And as I'm putting it away, a voice said, take another piece of brownie.
You want one more? It's like, well, have another one. And then it's like, well, but she brought it though.
It'd be rude not to do it. But these are homemade brownies. This is not like you're getting it out of a box. You know, this is not like some rest, some, some, some fast food place. I mean, this is a good brownie. Yeah. Very true.
I didn't take it. Yeah. Well, hey man, it happens to the best of us. It happens. And maybe some good will come out of it. Like I said, I really wish I hadn't ate that meal, but at least I'm back in the gym. I was so ashamed. I was like, I've got to make, I've got to make a healthy life choice.
Something productive came out of your bad decision. That's right. That's right. Our verse of the day today comes from Deuteronomy chapter 11, verse 19. You shall teach them to your children.
Speaking of them, when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up. Funny because it was my child that led me to that bad decision, wanting all that dessert. One of the things I love about Clearview church so much is its focus on children. You know, when I say that my son loves coming here, I don't mean that like, Oh, he just liked, like he loves being at this church.
It's one of it's, it's the highlight of his week to come here. I've never thought I'd see a four year old memorizing scripture to the point where he can recite it back to you without like drilling and drilling and drilling and drilling it. But it's just such a love of God that it's here that we have literally four year olds, five year olds reciting scripture to you.
I couldn't do that when I was like in my late teens, early twenties. You know what I mean? When I first started reading the Bible, we have several kids, several families that have said that to me, our kids don't want to leave church. In fact, I would say tons of families who say that that's the case for most kids.
Yeah. They don't want to leave church Sunday morning. They just want to hang out here Sunday night. Of course we have our students ministry, our college and career and the students don't want to leave.
Wednesday night we have a wanna here. They don't want to leave. It's because we've created an environment where they can have fun and still learn about God, his holiness, his word, what it means to follow Jesus Christ, what it means to share the gospel with the lost, what it means that the Holy Spirit is in us and we love one another. It's just, it's an awesome place.
And I hope and pray that God will keep his hand upon us. And then maybe we can, maybe we can talk about that for a little bit, you know, cause when we talk about creating a culture, creating an environment, people think they almost go the opposite way where it's like, we're going to take the restrictions off, we're going to chill, we're going to hang out. But Clearview is actually, I don't want to say rigid cause that has connotations, but Clearview is very firm in its boundaries and its structure.
Yeah. The structure is the biggest thing. It's not just this amorphous thing where people just attend. They're just kind of like hanging out. It's, there's a very specific design in place.
There's a very specific goal that's set forth and that gives kids and teenagers and parents peace of mind, knowing that. Did you just say amorphous? I did. Uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Is it like, like, did you mean the word allogenous? No, amorphous. Really? Was that yours? I was trying to get past that. I was like, amorphous was not my secret word. That was good.
That was really good. I don't know what it is. I forget when it's not my word.
I forget that we're playing the game. I was like, maybe I'll use it, but it didn't work. Dr. Charles, what was yours? Elogenous?
Elogenous, which is like something of a different kind. That was pretty good. I never heard that word and I was like, you had to be pretty sharp, right? Cause that would have got past me. I would have been like, no, no, that wasn't my word.
No, I would be like, okay, that's fine. There you go. Well, that's out of the way. It's all good. Now we can talk normal.
Yeah. But we're focused on creating a culture where students and children grow up understanding that church is not just something that you have to attend. It's a place where you should want to be. It's a place where you belong. It's an allogenous place. It's a place of a different kind as it should be. It creates the leaders that God would have our young people to be.
There's something unique at Clearview, and maybe Dr. Shaw, if we want, we can spend some time talking about this, because it's something that goes against what I think and I think what a lot of people think, and yet it's undeniable that it works. Because like you said, there are so many kids and teenagers and students who don't want to leave here. Again, I think a lot of people put so much emphasis on freedom and lack of structure that they think that's going to draw people in. And you spent a lot of time before, well, maybe concurrently as a pastor, you also spent time as a principal of a Christian school. And so you know better than anybody, you can't just do what you want.
You can't just be free flowing and up in there. There has to be structure. Well, I used to tell my teachers that, and it's not unique to me. It's been said by principals and supervisors to their teachers for years and years and years, which is have a plan.
If you don't have a plan, rest assured your students will have a plan. Absolutely. So if you don't have a structure, people will create a structure. And that's not always a good thing. That's true.
That's true. So maybe that kind of ties into your answer, because I was going to say, how do you translate? And you do it very well.
You do it really well as well, Ryan. I'm bringing in this structure. Here's how this is going to go. Somehow everybody ends up having fun and not wanting to leave. So where's the, where's that bridge?
You know what I mean? Like how do you make a structure and a plan? Like, cause our, our children's ministry is very structured. Blaze is very structured. Awana is extremely structured.
Illuminate is very structured. Our catalyst Converge that you lead, Ryan, is very structured. I'm sorry. Sorry. I was talking to Dr. Shah. Converge, by the way, is our young adult ministry, our college and career ministry that Dr. Shah and Ms.
Crystal lead as well. How do you get all that structure to translate to genuine fun? Very simple. You have to have a goal. There should be a purpose, a vision. And once that is very clear and evident to you, and you know in your heart of hearts that this is a worthy goal.
This is the structure. This is the goal, the purpose, the vision for which God has called us. Then you drive towards it with everything you have. That's what you live for. That's what it is. And what happens is it kind of frees you up to have fun along the way, frees you up to make mistakes, frees you up to know what the boundaries are, where people can do things and it's okay. And it's fine. Once you have that vision and goal, if you don't have that vision and goal, that's when you think nothing matters or everything matters. Right.
That's a good point. So years and years ago, I prayed, I said, God, give me a vision for my life. And this is, I mean, I'm going back to like 2004 or five, five or six, I think it is. I said, God, give me a vision for my life. And I actually spent time studying what a vision is, the power of vision. I read George Barna's book, The Power of Vision.
I think that's the name of the book. And learn how to craft a vision, learn how to have a vision for my life. What are my core values? What are the things that God has gifted me?
What are the things that will last forever, that go beyond this life? All these things, I spent a lot of time just studying it, backing it up with scripture. I mean, I took notes and I would keep that. And as I'm reading this book, I would craft this vision.
I would alter things and edit things to make it just right. And then when I knew, okay, this is who I am. This is what God has created me to be.
And it lines up with scripture and his purpose. Then I began to move with so much more freedom. And I was a principal at the time.
And so I began to work at the school with that kind of a mindset. Then the church began to, we went through some transition. We left our old building and stepped out in faith because where we were located was not going to grow.
We just knew it was done. So we need to move out. But moving out was not just, let's just go from location A to location B and we're going to grow.
No, it doesn't happen like that. You can have the best location in the world, but if your mission, vision and core values are blurry, you're not going to grow. So knowing God's vision for my life and knowing my vision for my life enabled me to then help create the vision core values mission for the church. And that's where we are today.
This is all led by God, superintended by God, but it required some work. Do you think people mistake or misinterpret leadership for charisma? You know what I mean? Like if you think like this person is a good leader, one of the first things that I think of and I think most people think of is that person is just very charismatic. They're charming.
They're a likable person. They never even think this person is, like you said, has a mission, has a vision and has core values that they're building their goals on. It's like that doesn't even enter into the conversation on what makes a leader. Because there's so many definitions out there. So many definitions, so many one liners, so many memes, so many GIF for GIF, whatever it is, so many things out there with so and so said this and Aristotle said that and Ralph Waldo Emerson said this, Billy Graham said that.
I mean, there's so many ideas and some of them are actually good and great and biblical. Some are not. So we try to live by all these principles. So a leader should be somebody who cares about people. A leader should be somebody who knows who they are. A leader is somebody who knows where he's going. So many things. A leader should know how to adapt or lead. And I think that's why a lot of leaders mess up or they end up becoming disillusioned because at the end of the day or end of the years or decades, they go, what am I doing?
What is wrong with me? What is something missing? If they would even ask that question, many times they just kind of exist. A good point. Good point. That's a terrible fate for a leader because that's like the last thing that you want to do is just kind of be there.
It's just like stall, just stagnate. Dr. Shaw, you talked about creating a culture and crafting a vision here at Clearview as someone who came on board after that vision was set, kind of crystallized. And this is where we're headed. You know, my first my first impression of you as a leader was that you were a very you were a gifted preacher. You were you were very relatable. You're a very charismatic leader.
But it wasn't until I was here for a little while. Not theologically, by the way. No, no, no.
Charismatic is unlikable. Not I know what you meant. Very solid theological.
I just had to get that. It's important clarification. But it wasn't until I was here for a little while that I really saw your vision and really began to catch that vision for myself. And that that informed everything from how we did things in Illuminate that informed how we do things in Blaze Kids that informed I mean, down to nursery, how things are structured, how how volunteers are communicated with how relationships are built, because it's all done in the context of this is where we're headed.
Right. And it seeing that vision up close really helped expand my mind on what it meant to be a leader and what it meant to to chase after a vision because it wasn't just my vision anymore. It was I believe in your vision and I'm chasing after your vision because that's that's what I want.
That's better than what I was going to set for myself. I am not a visionary because sometimes people think, you know, because you have the vision, you must be visionary. I don't think that's very helpful, valuable, fulfilling. And I don't think that's what God wants us to be, to be visionary people.
Right. What does that mean to be visionary? But if you say vision in the sense of you're adding value. John Maxwell often says that, you know, add value to others. A vision means you're helping people live a Christ center centered life.
If you're helping marriages to be more biblically based, if you're wanting children and teens and young adults to live in this world sold out to Jesus Christ, that to me is the good vision. Life will have problems. You're going to have problems. You're going to have financial problems. You're going to have health problems.
You're going to have relationship problems. You're going to have random accidents. Those are problems, trials. So life will have problems. How can you help people have the life that God intended them to have? Not a problem free life, but a life that glorifies God and builds his kingdom that doesn't end this side of heaven. It goes on into the life that is coming for everyone. How can you help people do that?
That is the vision that I'm driving towards. So it's not just that, hey, in the bathroom, it needs to be clean. The bathrooms need to be spotless or we need to have a mouthwash in there, or we need to make sure we have antibacterial along with soap. We need to make sure we have toilet seat cups. I mean, I'm just using a random example.
Is that it? I mean, so that we can have the nicest bathroom so that people can come and go, you know, these people care about details. No, I'm hoping that people will not only see that, but in seeing that they will say, this is a good place for me to raise my family.
Well, so that's what I was, that's, that's what I was about to say. It ties back into how this whole conversation started. People come here and they genuinely don't want to leave. They like spending time here. And I can't think of a single place on earth that people should rather spend time than God's house, you know? And I think that's, that's the part of it is that we want our things to be nice and we want our things to be polished. Not so people are impressed, but so that they want to be here and raise their families here. You know, I think like when I think about my kids, they love being here because it's fun.
They're not really aware that they're being raised into good Christian citizens. You know what I mean? But like, even for us, like when people are sitting under their, under your preaching, do you think as going through people's minds, I'm being made into a better Christian, a better husband, a better father? Or do you think on the cert, like that's there, but on the surface it's like, that was a really good message.
I really needed to hear that. I think it's the last, it's the former. The former that they understand. They are understanding now. There are some who just got here and quickly picked it up, but then there are others who got here and still haven't picked it up. There are a few, I would say a handful who had been here for a long time and the connection is still not made that that's the goal we're going towards. They're either hung up on church polity, they're hung up on a position, they're hung up on some, some, some weird doctrine that they heard growing up or a YouTube video or some famous preacher on TV or a bestseller somewhere they got hung up.
And so they're not, they're not moving past that point. So when I come across a person like that, whether they've been here for years and years or they just got here, I'm sad because they can catch the vision, but they're unable to catch the vision. So they are sorta hung up on something. Sometimes it's hurts they've had in life. Sometimes it is some bad decisions they made. Sometimes it is some conflict they went through and they're recreating, am I right?
They're recreating that conflict here. And I'm thinking you're missing something wonderful because you have this burden that you're carrying. Now you can shed that burden by coming to Christ, cast all your burden upon the Lord. You can come to him, all those who labor heavy laden, come to me, said Jesus.
You can give him your burden and say, God, take it from me and help me now to live free, carrying your burden, your yoke. Is that person going to do it? Probably not, unless they totally submit themselves to God. It's almost like a set of blinders or better yet, those, those guys even have those goggles in school where they talk about like how to not to drive drunk and beer goggles, makes everything kind of woozy. You can still see, but it's really distorted. It's like that. I mean, they're, they're looking through that lens of that experience and they, they can take those goggles off, but they just won't.
And they're still seeing everything through that distorted lens. I remember, I remember I saw a kid fall flat on his face. Oh yeah. We had a kid's fall too.
Oh yeah. We had a kid just fall straight down and I remember everyone was like laughing. It's almost like you come up here next. And I remember one of the kids that was laughing, put those beer goggles on, walked straight into the wall.
It was crazy. But you know, I do, I do see that and I see that people, you know, they are sacrificing something so good. And I think there's people listening to the show who want this for their church.
They want it. Cause I mean, there's times on like, I remember being like a little bit younger and being here and just seeing the students be here like on a Sunday night, like eight, eight 30, nine, nine 30, not going home. I think we were here till like 10 30 this past Sunday night. And so, and so the older I've, the older I've gotten, the more it's starting to sink in for me. Like, man, this is a great place.
Yes. And I think there's people who are listening to this who want that for their church. I would say begin by praying and seeking God's vision for your life and for your church and work with your pastor, come alongside. Don't, don't try to attack him or try to, you know, teach him a thing or two about vision, but come alongside and say, pastor, what do you think if we were to ever craft a vision, how would you feel? How would you feel about leading us to find our vision? Great point. And then see where that may take you. You'd be surprised.
It may take some time, maybe a year or two, maybe even five years, but at the end of that, you will be so glad that you did and no better time to do that. And then now God is doing some great things in our nation. There's freedom. There's opportunity. There's economy is going to grow. A lot of good things are coming. What better time to say, Hey, let's go all in and sharing the gospel of Christ. That's right.
That's right. There's a new landscape. So set a new vision for the new horizon. If you guys enjoyed today's episode, write in and let us know two five two five eight two five zero two eight. Or you can visit us online at clearviewtodayshow.com. Don't forget, you can partner with us financially on that same website. Every gift that you give goes not only to building up this radio show, but countless other ministries for the gospel of Jesus. John, what do you want to plug as we end today? Make sure to pick up Dr. Sean and Nicole's book 30 days of praying for America daily devotions to heal our nation.
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