Welcome to all you Joyriders out there. This is a fantastic show from the guys you know. I'm speaking of none other than the Band of Brothers. My name's Keith, producer for such fine truth network programming like The Masculine Journey and Masculine Journey After Hours. In this podcast, you can expect to laugh and smile with godly men who want nothing more than to honor and glorify God.
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So I hope you have no plans for the next 72 hours because this will take a while. Wait, one sec, hold on. Uh my supervisor just sent me a note. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, okay.
Yeah, that's a fair point. Hey Joyriders, so apparently there are just way too many episodes of The Masculine Journey to summarize right here and now.
So let's just get to this week's clip. You know, come to think of it. The Masculine Journey has been around for a while. I mean, at least since the Eisenhower administration. But hey, don't quote me on that.
I'm just spitballing here. That's what the smaller story to me is: we just take God out of it. Take any of these purposes, any of this thing bigger than what's sitting right here before me.
So anyway, yeah, I thought it was a good one. It was Katie Nicole and Big Daddy Weave.
Okay. And what was the name of the song? God is in This Story. Oh, well, you said that, I guess. I just didn't catch it and all that other stuff.
Something about stories. There's a story about a story of a story of there, I think. That's like being present. Indeed. Indeed.
Darren, you were making a point where we're at the break. If you'd like to touch on that a little bit.
Well This idea of the larger story was really huge in grabbing my interest and kind of pulling me into this understanding of God's doing so much more. into the masculine journey, into the battle that we are called to fight, the beauty in the world that we're called to rescue, the adventure that we're called to live, all of those things are part of that larger story. And what I discovered once I finally got to a boot camp. Was that my story was very, very small, or at least I thought it was, to Andy's point. God's been doing so much more for so long, generations, in fact, often.
And I thought my story was tiny. I thought it was all about me, and I thought I was the only one. that was as dumb as I am. I was the only one as broken as I am. I'm the only one that had a sexual addiction.
I'm the only one that couldn't, you know, pull it off in a marriage. I was the only one, bl you name it, I was the only one. That was my story. And it wasn't until I got to a boot camp With a few hundred of my closest friends who I had never met before, because I went by myself with no friends when I went, and I suggest that's the best way to go.
However, it wasn't until then that I met some guys. Um and found out oh Uh I'm not the only one that struggles with that. I'm not the only one who's blown it here. I'm not the only one who doubts my place in the story. And that's the power of a boot camp.
That's the power of getting together with some other guys. And, you know, we'll have guys at our boot camp. We'll have everybody, we've always said this, from pastors to parolees, literally. We'll have guys. That have just had a broken marriage, or they're struggling with addiction, or they're struggling with anger, or they've been fired from their 13th job like me, or, you know, whatever.
And so that sort of thing is The kind of thing that draws you out of that small story because you begin to realize, oh. This assault that Satan has been waging against me. He's been waging it against a lot of other people too, and we are in a much larger story than we once believed. Yeah, there there was one category of the people that we'll find at boot camp. That you didn't mention, and it's the one that, well, I really think this was for other people until they get there.
Yeah. And then God hits them between the eyes and says, oh no. There's something here that I need you to know. Yeah. I wish Sam was here.
He really needed it. Exactly. It rocks their world when they let it happen. And it's all God's work at a boot camp. We we're just there to Do what we can do, and he does all the heavy lifting and coordinates all of it.
And so, if this is not a boot camp you can come to this time, come to the next one. Right, because God will have you there when you're supposed to be there, but if you're feeling called to be there, You need to be there. He's got something in store for you. It's not listening to us. It's listening to him.
And he's the power of the weekend. We'll just help facilitate some of that and help it along the way. Andy, we're going to be finishing up the. Are you going to talk about a clip or I need to go back to Darren? This is on the end.
No, no. I'm going to do this again. Pick a clip, any clip. I'm the point guard. I tell Sam where to pick through.
You kept dishing it. I wasn't sure, so.
So from the Guides A Masculine Journey, I'm Keith and we'll see you down the road.
