We Outside I Ryan Leak I Social Dallas

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spk_0 We have a word for 2025 every year our church has a word and our word for this year is planted.

spk_0 We believe that we're going to flourish because we're planted in the house of the Lord.

spk_0 So to remind us every single Sunday we declare songs 92 versus 13 through 15.

spk_0 So let's read it together as one big family with uplifted voices.

spk_0 You're ready?

spk_0 Come on. Here we go. One, two, three.

spk_0 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord.

spk_0 They shall still be fresh and flourishing.

spk_0 He is my wife.

spk_0 Come on. Y'all sound good.

spk_0 It sounds good.

spk_0 It's amazing.

spk_0 I hope you don't ever take for granted the power of reading scripture together and declared it.

spk_0 Our team, some of our team was at a prison just yesterday and it's amazing how many people

spk_0 who are incarcerated watch our service on a pando app and they went into the verse of the year

spk_0 and they knew it. I'm telling you it was incredible to hear these men of God declare our scripture

spk_0 of the year. So I'm just saying we're part of a big global family and God's doing all some things.

spk_0 You're in for a treat today. Somebody who has been a friend to me for years is going to bring

spk_0 God's word today. This is his first time here at Social Dallas and he is one of the most incredible

spk_0 voices that God has raised up for this time. His name is Ryan Leak. There's so many things I

spk_0 could say about him. He is a New York Times best-selling author. God is able to use him uniquely in both

spk_0 sacred spaces and in secular spaces. This deal will preach at a church on Sunday then on Tuesday.

spk_0 He'll go speak to like Will's Fargo's team. He is brilliant. He's amazing. But I'm just so glad

spk_0 that he's here today and I want you all to make him feel welcome. Come on social fan. Put your hands

spk_0 together for my brother, Ryan Leak. Let's go. That's great to hear you man.

spk_0 Social Dallas, it is such a privilege to be with you today. What an honor to see what God has

spk_0 done with your church. I would be remiss if I didn't take a moment to honor your pastors who

spk_0 are incredible human beings. They have been good friends. They have been confidants and

spk_0 you know one of the things that I always say is if you have somebody in your life that you admire

spk_0 you should always ask the question what does it cost to be them?

spk_0 And when I think about Robert and Taylor Madu I think about some great human beings. But then I

spk_0 always ask myself what does it cost to be them? And I just wanted to take a moment to just honor

spk_0 who you guys are and the prices that you've paid to be who you are.

spk_0 The dedication to your craft, you know PR is so good at what he does he makes it look easy.

spk_0 It's not easy. That's dedication. That's late nights. That's early mornings. That's studying the

spk_0 word of God to be able to provide a meal for this house so that you have something that can go

spk_0 inside of your heart to change your life and so on on behalf of a bunch of thousands of people

spk_0 that may never get to have a one-on-one conversation with you. I just wanted to say thank you for

spk_0 being dedicated to the Lord and everything that you do. I am praying for this house. This is a good

spk_0 house. This is a good place to be planted and I'm praying that every person that is supposed to come

spk_0 here and serve would show up. I'm praying that every dollar that's supposed to be given would be

spk_0 given. I'm praying that today somebody's going to give six million dollars in Jesus name. Who knows

spk_0 what could happen? But super, super honor to be here. Can we all just take a moment and pray before

spk_0 we get started? Father, I thank you so much for the opportunity to preach your word. We don't take

spk_0 that for granted. We don't take for granted the fact that we get to gather and lift up your name.

spk_0 And so God, I pray that you would wake us up on the inside today. That purpose would come a lot.

spk_0 That we would be the church on the move. That everywhere we go today, we would be an example of

spk_0 who you are. May we not leave the same way that we came in. In Jesus name, we pray, everybody said,

spk_0 amen. Go ahead and have a seat. Thank you so much. I'm honored that your church would break the

spk_0 bank to fly me in all the way from McKinney. My family and I reside in the Frisco McKinney area.

spk_0 And the helicopter ride here was very, very short. And this is a picture of my family. This is the

spk_0 Queen Amanda. And our oldest is Jackson and our youngest is Roman. Roman plays one sport on his

spk_0 way to quitting it. That will be basketball. Our oldest Jackson plays two and a half sports. He

spk_0 plays basketball football and we started family golf lessons yesterday. That's our half. We're

spk_0 not good enough to tell people we do it. Nevertheless, I love being a husband. I love being a dad.

spk_0 I'm jealous of my kids. They got more options than I have. They have a life that I've provided

spk_0 them and I'll get mad at the life that they have that's been provided by me. I should be mad at

spk_0 myself, not them. And the photo you just saw was our Easter photo. They put those suits on for a day.

spk_0 Now I'm going to show you this next photo. This is me growing up. This was a Tuesday.

spk_0 This was a Tuesday prayer meeting. Like this one even church. I grew up in the African methodist

spk_0 Episcopal church. If you don't know what African methodist Episcopal means, it just means a black

spk_0 church. I could try and you know, vinegar that a little bit more. But that's what it was. Small church,

spk_0 one service started at 830-ish. The reason we say issues is because it started when we got there.

spk_0 And nobody was in a hurry at our church. You get out to 3 p.m. You need to bring a snack to our

spk_0 church. Okay. No children's ministry. You sat on the front row with your mama. Okay. That's all

spk_0 you had. The reason church was so long was because of two reasons. Number one, we had choirs on

spk_0 deck. Okay. We had a choir for everything. We had a choir with a men's choir, women's choir,

spk_0 elderly choir, young adult choir, children's choir, divorced people choir. We had a choir for

spk_0 every kind of segment you can think of. And they all had a A, B and C selection. And then my

spk_0 dad would get on the stage. He preached for 50 minutes an hour, no big deal. But before he would

spk_0 preach, he would say, this is the time in our service where we're going to have testimony time.

spk_0 Now, I don't know if you've ever been in a church where there is testimony time. If you don't

spk_0 understand that, allow me to explain. It's open mic on a Sunday. Okay. Anybody is viable to hit

spk_0 the stage and share how God has been good to them in their life. And so my dad would stand on the

spk_0 stage and says, hey, God is good. And all the time, why don't you go ahead and come on the stage and

spk_0 tell us how he been good to you. And then all of a sudden there'd be a line of people and that would

spk_0 take a good three hours. Okay. So that, that was how I grew up in church. And then, unfortunately,

spk_0 when I was in the fifth grade, my father suffered a stroke. And we couldn't, no longer, my dad can no

spk_0 longer pass through that church. And so I was going to this private school that was connected to a

spk_0 predominantly large white church. So my parents said, hey, why don't you just start going to church

spk_0 with your friends? I said, okay, cool. Listen, I will never forget the first day I went to white

spk_0 church. Okay. New ball game. Okay. When they said, server started at nine, they wouldn't bluff it.

spk_0 Okay. That was not a joke. That was a nine o'clock. That click track started team, team, team ready to go.

spk_0 I walk in, you know, 8.59. I'm like, oh, we good. And then they had something I had never seen in

spk_0 church before in my life. They had a cafe. I said, y'all got snacks here. What's going on?

spk_0 Walk into the building probably about nine o' seven. Worship was over. I said, what's going on?

spk_0 And then something happened at 10 o'clock that I had never experienced before in my life.

spk_0 The pastor said, hey, y'all have a good weekend. I said, where are everybody going?

spk_0 Well, y'all got intermission at your church? What's happening? I had never had free time a day

spk_0 in my life on a Sunday. I was like, I don't even know what to do. What do people do on Sunday mornings

spk_0 with free time? They said, we're going to brunch. I said, what's brunch? I said, you can get chicken

spk_0 or waffles or chicken and waffles. I said, I think I'm ready to get my life to Jesus right here at

spk_0 this brunch. Then I went to, after high school, I started going to the church that was a mixed

spk_0 church. And they had black people, they had white people, Hispanic people, Asian people, all singing

spk_0 the same song, star Heavenly Father. And I thought it kind of looks like heaven. Kind of looks like

spk_0 social Dallas. A little bit of everything. And then when I went to college, I started going to

spk_0 the church that my friends categorized as a prosperity gospel church. They said, Ron, you better be

spk_0 careful going to that church. Because you know, it's one of those prosperity gospel church. I

spk_0 said, man, people seem pretty nice. I don't know why you yelling at me. It ain't that serious.

spk_0 That following Sunday, gentlemen walked up to me and said, sir, you don't know me, but God just

spk_0 put it on my heart to give you $100. I said, this is my favorite church. I haven't been to in my life.

spk_0 She's talking about it. Everybody talking about they blessed to be a blessing, but don't never

spk_0 pull out their venom. No cash. No apple. Pay me about it. You're going to talk about it.

spk_0 Be about it. Show me something. Two archos. Show me. And I'll never forget that church.

spk_0 One Sunday, they were celebrating their 1 millionth person giving their life to the Lord.

spk_0 There's a guy on the staff who would literally walk around Minneapolis talking to people about

spk_0 Jesus. And in that moment, I realized that at my dad's church, my friend's church, the mixed

spk_0 church, and the prosperity gospel church, they all had one thing in common. They gave people

spk_0 an opportunity to have an anchor for their soul. And that was the day I fell in love with the big

spk_0 sea church. And I realized something about the church is that men for a lot of us were very

spk_0 comfortable with our faith inside the four walls of the church. But the minute we get outside,

spk_0 man, it just gets hard. And it's interesting. It's like the thing that's the most important

spk_0 us is our faith. But it's the thing that we feel like we're going to show the least.

spk_0 And the scripture tells us this. You've heard this scripture before. It's found in Matthew,

spk_0 where Jesus gives what we often know is the great commission. And it says this,

spk_0 therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,

spk_0 and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Teaching them, no, obey everything I have commanded you.

spk_0 And surely I'm with you always to the very end of the age. We're very familiar with the great

spk_0 commission, but it can feel like a great anxiety sometimes. You know, especially if you have like,

spk_0 you're sitting next to him on a plane, or you had a restaurant, or you're at work, you're like,

spk_0 I mean, do what, what, what, what, what, and you feel like if you bring up Jesus, they're going to

spk_0 punch you in the throat, and you're like, I don't know what to do right now. But this is,

spk_0 this is what I want you to know. The great commission has nothing to do with you being extroverted.

spk_0 The great commission has nothing to do with your personality type.

spk_0 The great commission is not for people who went to Bible school, or people who are talented,

spk_0 or people that preach the gospel on the stage. No, no, the great commission is for all of us.

spk_0 We are all in full-time ministry. We are called to go. And the reason that Jesus gave us the

spk_0 great commission is not because of our talent. He gave us the great commission because of our

spk_0 proximity to people in pain. And there's people you work with, people you live next to, people

spk_0 in your complex, people you are Jim, who may never walk through the doors of the church.

spk_0 But the church is going to walk right past them with you every single day.

spk_0 And so I want to guide us with some scripture today that I think is going to help us

spk_0 begin to share our faith outside. Colossians 4 verse 5 says, walk in wisdom toward outsiders.

spk_0 Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. I was at a Mavs game and there

spk_0 was a guy with a megaphone on the corner screaming at people, turn the burn. Your sinners,

spk_0 you need Jesus, or you're going to hell. And I just thought to myself, man, I hope somebody does

spk_0 give their life to Jesus through this medium. But I'm not sure it would fall into the walking

spk_0 in wisdom toward outsiders category. Today I want to help us lean on the side of walking in wisdom.

spk_0 I'm not passing on any megaphone today. Please don't go order them at home and start going to

spk_0 soccer game screaming at kids to turn or burn. Please don't do that. But I do think that it would be

spk_0 awesome for you and I to pause and consider, Lord, how might you use my life to point somebody to

spk_0 Jesus? By the way that I work, by the way that I treat people, by the way that I love, by the way

spk_0 that I show up in the spaces that I'm going to go. Lord, would you help me be one of those people

spk_0 that have a Jesus inspired life that points other people to you? I think about this woman in the

spk_0 scripture found in Mark chapter 5. We might be familiar with her story. She's got one of the most

spk_0 infamous Jesus stories. She's the woman with the issue of blood. She's been to many doctors. She's

spk_0 given up, except she hears Jesus is walking by, but he's got a crowd. She dives through the crowd and

spk_0 has this thought. If I could just touch the hymn of his garment, I could be made whole and she does.

spk_0 Jesus turns around and says, who touched me? And then he finds out it's her and he says, these

spk_0 words, daughter, your faith has made you whole. I wish that her story ended there, but her story

spk_0 actually continues in another chapter. It's actually at the end of Mark chapter 6 and it says this.

spk_0 And it says it says, and wherever he went, talking about Jesus, he worked here wherever. Do you know

spk_0 where ever is? That's area where. Everywhere he went into villages, towns or countryside, they

spk_0 placed the sick in the... Wait, where? Where did they place Jesus? Where do you work? It's interesting. It

spk_0 says they would place the sick in the marketplace as they begged him to let them touch even the

spk_0 edge of his cloak and all who touched it were healed. My friends, this woman's faith is trending

spk_0 on Twitter, hashtag touch the hymn, okay? Like she is trending on TikTok. People are making videos

spk_0 about, okay, if you're going to dive into a crowd, this is how you want to do it. But literally,

spk_0 this has changed the ministry of Jesus Christ everywhere. From now on, when you read the scripture,

spk_0 wherever you find Jesus, I just want you to imagine right before he does whatever you read about,

spk_0 before that happens, somebody said, hey Jesus, we're so glad you're here. Hey, could you just,

spk_0 we just want to bring you to the marketplace. So that, and here's what the scripture says,

spk_0 all who touched it were healed. This blew my mind. In fact, it made me study the scripture a little

spk_0 bit more. I went through all four gospels and I wanted to study the miracles of Jesus. And I didn't

spk_0 just want to study what he did. I wanted to really zoom in on where he did them. And here's what I

spk_0 discovered. Did you know that only 8% of the miracles that Jesus performed in scripture happened

spk_0 inside the synagogue? 8%. That means 92% of the miracles that Jesus performed in the scripture

spk_0 happened outside the gathering of God's people. It's almost as if Jesus knew for us to reach

spk_0 outsiders. We might actually have to go outside. If you're taking notes today, the title of today's

spk_0 message is entitled, we outside. I want you to look at five people right now and say, we outside,

spk_0 we outside, we outside. Hey, if you find yourself employed today, if you find yourself in the

spk_0 market place today, here's what I want to communicate to you loud and clear miracles can happen.

spk_0 Breakthrough can happen there. You and I have some friends that no matter how many times we invite

spk_0 them to church, they haven't come. I'm not sad about that because the church is on his way to them.

spk_0 Before they ever experience the church in the building, I pray that they would experience the church

spk_0 in you. I just have to wonder whose healing is waiting on you to open up your mouth. I have to

spk_0 wonder whose breakthrough is waiting for you to simply go first to say, you know what, I'm going to

spk_0 be one of those people that just decides I'm going to be outside. Today, I'm going to give you three

spk_0 things, three things that I believe can help us share our faith with the world outside. Number one,

spk_0 I believe we share our faith through our wounds. We share our faith through our wounds. John 4,

spk_0 verses 15 through 19, Jesus is having a conversation with a woman at the well. They're talking about

spk_0 water and then Jesus changes the conversation from a Fiji conversation to a, though we're going to

spk_0 talk about living water and we pick up in the story and it says the woman said to him, sir,

spk_0 give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water. He told

spk_0 her, go call your husband and come back. She says, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, you are

spk_0 right when you say you have no husband. The fact is you have five husbands. Man, the man you now

spk_0 have is not your husband. What you have said is quite true. Loki, Jesus, let her know you

spk_0 aside, peace right now. Her response is, sir, I can see that you are a prophet. You think?

spk_0 And then in a matter of moment, Jesus changes her life so much so that verse 39 says, many of

spk_0 the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony. He told me everything

spk_0 I ever did. Literally everybody around town like, oh, we know this woman. Yeah, yeah, she got a

spk_0 reputation and it's not good. And she's going around and she goes, let me tell you about a man

spk_0 who did not take advantage of me. Let me tell you about a man who called out everything I had

spk_0 ever done and still loved me anyways. Let me tell you about him and they go, where will he

spk_0 he knew everything you ever done? Well, then this man must be the Christ. This man must be awesome

spk_0 and people in droll started coming to know Jesus. Jesus turned a five time divorcee plus side

spk_0 peace into an evangelist in one moment. And let me just tell you what I love about this text.

spk_0 What I absolutely love about this text is that Jesus didn't say, hey,

spk_0 but before I can use your life to tell people about me, I actually need you to change first.

spk_0 Get it together. Come on. Hey, I asked, you know that guy that you're dating who's married?

spk_0 That's so wrong. And I actually need you to break up with him after that. I can use you.

spk_0 And what the text shows me is that sometimes your calling comes before repentance.

spk_0 Tell me why I'd be here today. You go Ryan. It's a cute message buddy, but this one ain't for me.

spk_0 You don't know what I did last night. You don't know the websites I've been on. You don't know who I

spk_0 lied to. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know. Guess who does know? God knows.

spk_0 God knows your list and calls your name anyways. He says, hey, I could use your life.

spk_0 And who knows if you're calling won't produce repentance. If you're just willing to say,

spk_0 God, I'm willing to bring my pain to you. And I have to wonder how your pain might become your

spk_0 platform. The longer you're a Christian, the more you are tempted to hide your past.

spk_0 The longer you're a Christian, the more you're tempted to go, I don't have any issues.

spk_0 What are you talking about? I don't have any angry issues because some of us, we have not been

spk_0 able to reconcile how a Christian can be depressed. And some of us find ourselves with mental

spk_0 health challenges and we're too embarrassed to tell anybody because we go, well, if they find

spk_0 out I'm depressed, they might think Jesus isn't who he says he is. And so I'll just pretend to be

spk_0 happy. Yes, bless and highly favored. That's true, but imagine if you could just be honest,

spk_0 you want to show your faith. Sometimes, what you have is a scar, which means God freed you from

spk_0 something and there's a scar there for you to remember it. Sometimes it's a wound, it's open

spk_0 right now. It's not I used to have angry issues. It's after a coffee cup last night and I've got

spk_0 a handkerchief and I'm super spiritual to reason my hands are up and churches because I still

spk_0 got some things I need to surrender to him. So if you're here today and you're looking around,

spk_0 it looks like these people know what to do and they know the song and the hands go up and they

spk_0 all go back down. Those aren't perfect people on your right and you're left. They are people that

spk_0 took their mess to God and said, Lord, would you use my life to point other people to Jesus?

spk_0 And so I have to wonder for you, for the breakups you've had, for the friends that go since you

spk_0 for the jobs that you lost and you go, man, I had a, I was in a dark place or sometimes it's,

spk_0 I'm in a dark place and what makes me special as a Christian is it's not a get out of a dark

spk_0 place free card. It's that hey, sometimes I don't have the light at the end of the tunnel,

spk_0 sometimes the light's in the tunnel with me and I can just trust that God is going to guide me

spk_0 to my next step and then I'm a work in progress and I'm going to be all right because I got an

spk_0 anchor from my soul. That's what it means to be a Christian. And so I have to wonder if you and I

spk_0 were the kinds of people that go, man, I'm going to hide my pain. It's, no, let me tell you what I've

spk_0 been giving to God lately. I'm no better than you. I got issues and I take those to God. I don't

spk_0 get a pretend to be more spiritual than I really am and I just have to wonder who in the building

spk_0 might relate to somebody that doesn't have it all together. News flash, none of us do. We just

spk_0 dress really nice sometimes. I have to wonder what would happen if we started sharing our faith

spk_0 through our wounds. And secondly, I have to wonder what it would look like for us to start sharing

spk_0 our faith through our work. Through our work, did you know the second Corinthians says this, it says

spk_0 all this from God who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation

spk_0 that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting people sins against them.

spk_0 And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ ambassadors as though

spk_0 God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God.

spk_0 My friends, we are all ambassadors of Jesus Christ everywhere we go. I love a collusion three verse

spk_0 twenty three says it says, whatever you do work out it with all your heart as working for the Lord.

spk_0 Whatever you do, work it with all of your heart. And here's the deal, some of us, we don't work that

spk_0 hard at our job because we don't like our boss. And we're like, well, my effort will depend on who I'm

spk_0 working with and do I really like this job. I'm looking for another one, but I just, I got news for

spk_0 your boss. I think the boss you think it is. Listen, wherever you work, pretend Jesus is your boss,

spk_0 not pretend He is. If you've got a lot of cars, you act like you're driving Jesus's car. If you

spk_0 baby sit, then you act like you're watching Jesus's kids. By the way, you are. If you run the social

spk_0 media account, then you run in Jesus's social media account. If you're in accounting, then you count

spk_0 numbers for Jesus, okay? Like in whatever you do, you go, man, I'm doing this as if it's unto the Lord

spk_0 because some of us we work and hope our boss is watching so that he will give us a promotion.

spk_0 But if you have a mind to this, it says, God's watching me. God's in charge of my elevation. So,

spk_0 guess what? I'm going to walk into a job that I cannot stand and give my best because I'm giving

spk_0 God my best. I'm not here to give other people my best. And when you do that, you'd be surprised

spk_0 the place that you find yourself in. All of a sudden people go, man, the way that they work,

spk_0 the way that they show up, the way they volunteer for stuff, man, the way, man, all of a sudden

spk_0 you're showing before you're telling. By the time you invite somebody to church, they should go,

spk_0 of course, this person, I'll go anywhere they go to the best we got. I'm going to give you some

spk_0 fun stuff today. I'm going to give you 10 things, 10 ways to share your faith at work that don't

spk_0 require being extroverted or talented. We're going to put one up, each on the screen one at a time

spk_0 and then you can take a picture of it. Okay, take it home. Okay, you do these 10 things. I promise you,

spk_0 you will make sharing the gospel at your job 10 times easier. Number one, be on time.

spk_0 You're like, that ain't spiritual. Yes, it is. Be on time. It shows respect to the people that are

spk_0 meeting with you. Be on time. Number two, give your best effort. You should be the best there is.

spk_0 You should be remarkable. You should be studying to get better. You should be so hungry that

spk_0 they go, I want to be excellent at this. I want to be the best that they got. I'm not trying to

spk_0 be better than somebody else. I'm trying to be better than I was yesterday. Yes, I am trying to

spk_0 give my very best every single day. Number three, watch your body language. Some of us go to work

spk_0 like this every day. I ain't saying nothing really. Look at yourself. Okay, you're saying a lot.

spk_0 Some of you zoom camera off. Okay, you're like, I don't even really want to be here. Okay,

spk_0 we know you don't really want to be here because your body language doesn't. What makes you say that?

spk_0 What makes you say that? Look at the mirror every now and then. Number four, be prepared.

spk_0 Showing up the meetings, which I'll tell you what you mean. You said it in the email that

spk_0 really long one. Man, I ain't read all that email. No, you got to be prepared. Number five, keep

spk_0 a positive attitude. Keep a positive attitude. I wrote a book called How to Work with

spk_0 Complicated People. Strategies for collaboration with nearly anyone. We said nearly because some

spk_0 people are certified crazy and you can't work with everybody. Nevertheless, we did a national

spk_0 research study on this subject to understand complexity in the American workforce. We asked a

spk_0 few questions. One, we asked working Americans. How many of you work with a complicated person?

spk_0 82% of working Americans said, yes, I work with a complicated person. I'm curious. In the

spk_0 watch party room and in the building right now, how many of you would say I work with a complicated

spk_0 person? Don't look at them. In case you brought them. Look up here. If your hands not raised, you might be

spk_0 the complicated person. It wasn't a true question. You got to. You got to.

spk_0 One of the questions we asked in our service, we said, hey, what makes a person complicated to work with?

spk_0 I thought number one would be politics. It was dead last. You want to know what number one was?

spk_0 Attitude. That was the difference maker. You want to be the kind of person that people get to work with

spk_0 instead of half to work with? Fix your attitude. Walk in and say, you know what, I don't match the

spk_0 energy. I set the standard. Yeah, you come in here with your funky attitude. That's fine. But I'm

spk_0 coming in with my positive attitude. I'm going to have a good day today. Somebody going to say

spk_0 something smart to me today. Somebody going to do a little smart comment online today. That's okay.

spk_0 I woke up ready for your little smart comment. I'm going to have a great day today. I'm going to

spk_0 have a social downless cowboy. It's about to get this dumb. I'm good. You ain't going to ruin my

spk_0 positive attitude today. You don't want to. I travel a lot. Let me tell you where the angry is.

spk_0 Worst attitude people go on the planet every single day. DFW airport. And then they get on mental

spk_0 tubes together and expect it to go well and just be yelling at each other. I go to them like,

spk_0 I'm going to have a good day today. We're delayed. What did you think was going to happen?

spk_0 Huh? Is it hurricane outside? You want to go flying away? I don't. I'm good. I've already decided.

spk_0 I'm going to have a good day today. I've already chosen my attitude. And you'd be surprised how far

spk_0 a positive attitude will turn you into a complicated person to somebody that go, I get to work with this

spk_0 person. On number six, you really got to write this one down. This is huge. Check on people

spk_0 when you don't need anything. You want to make a difference at your job? Check on people

spk_0 when you don't need anything. Why? Because everybody needs, you'll be the one person at the job. They

spk_0 always, they call for no reason. They don't even know what to do. It's like, what's up? What do you need?

spk_0 Nothing. I'm just calling the check on you. You know, many people live in this world and they have

spk_0 this mantra. Nobody cares. Except you. They work with you. And now you get to be the church.

spk_0 Number seven, follow through. Do what you say you was going to do. You tell me I got projects.

spk_0 You say, yeah, I'll get to it. That was in 2023. What's going on? Talk to me. Be coachable. Be the

spk_0 kind of person that says, I'm low on the learn from anybody. You go, man, but I work with some

spk_0 idiots. You can learn from idiots if you're trying to learn. Anybody with a pen and pack can learn

spk_0 anything. I'm a lifelong learner. I'll never arrive. Stay coachable. Number nine, talk positive

spk_0 about people behind their backs. I called it great vine glory. People should be going, I heard through

spk_0 the great vine that you doing a great job. Who told you that? Yeah, Tonya. Yeah. I mean, it is. What it

spk_0 is. I may have since replied all and told them all about you, but you just decided I'm not going to

spk_0 be a gospel. No, I'm going to be somebody that speaks positive about people behind their backs.

spk_0 They're going to find out a month later. Hey man, I heard you been talking about me. I have been. You

spk_0 doing a great job. Number 10, do more than once required. Why? Because of who your boss actually is.

spk_0 Some of us have this mantra. That ain't on my job description. You don't pay me enough to be

spk_0 doing all of that. Well, remember who's watching. God's watching you. You do this. Let me just ask

spk_0 you this question. When you want to work for this person? When you want to date this person?

spk_0 When you want to marry this person? Imagine if we all were this person. Yeah, this changes the game.

spk_0 And then by the time you share the gospel, it's like, I would gladly hear the gospel from this person.

spk_0 Versus the person that's late, unprepared, and only calls me when they need something. I love

spk_0 a first-assologian's four verse 11 through 12 says, it says, and to make it your ambition to lead a

spk_0 quiet life, you should mind your own business. Another message for another day. I'll be back. Okay.

spk_0 Mind your own business and work with your hands just as we told you so that your daily life may

spk_0 win the respect of outsiders. It is going to be difficult to share your faith with somebody who

spk_0 does not respect you. And so if you're going to earn their respect, earn their respect, that is the

spk_0 gateway to be able to share the gospel, but they should look at your life, they should look at the

spk_0 way you treat people and go, I respect this person, and not even if I'm not a Jesus person, I would

spk_0 gladly have a Jesus conversation with them because I respect them so much. The third and final

spk_0 thing that I think we can do is we can share our faith through our words. We got wounds, we got

spk_0 our work, and we've got our words. Oftentimes you don't know what to say. Opportunities don't always

spk_0 come with warning labels. Hey, you're about to have an opportunity on Tuesday at two o'clock to share

spk_0 the gospel. It's not like that. It's not a calendar invite. It happens in a moment. You go, man,

spk_0 something's going on with them and you're like, okay, what do I say? And I love what first Peter

spk_0 chapter 3 verse 15 says, it says, always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to

spk_0 give the reason for the hope that you have. Church, I want to encourage us today to be prepared.

spk_0 Oh, you should write something in your notes. You should have something in your phone, some go to

spk_0 statements to go, man, what is the reason for the hope that I have? I'll give you a couple of

spk_0 examples from my own life. I talk a lot in corporate America about how to work with complicated

spk_0 people. I talk about giving grace to people and giving them the benefit of the doubt. Every now and

spk_0 then I'll go to the place, delta called me and said, hey, could you come talk about forgiveness?

spk_0 I said, you want me to talk about forgiveness? Like, at your office they go, yeah, it's the biggest

spk_0 problem we have. People holding on the bitterness from 20 years ago. I said, it would be my pleasure.

spk_0 And so when I talk about these things, they'll say, hey, so Ryan, how do you do this? How do you

spk_0 have this mantra that says you should move towards people and be gracious and give them the benefit

spk_0 of the doubt and leave margin for people to make mistakes? I said, well, it's not because I'm a great

spk_0 person. It's not because I'm a kind person. I've had an encounter with a kind God. The reason I

spk_0 encourage people to give grace is because I was given it. The reason I encourage forgiveness

spk_0 isn't because I'm a forgiving person. I am a petty person. Okay, I promise you, high key. I am a

spk_0 petty person. I'm not a forgiving person. I'm a forgiving person. In the forgiveness of God has

spk_0 wrecked my life. And so when I tell you to give grace to the people in your life, I'm telling you

spk_0 to give away what you didn't deserve. Yeah, I got, I won the eternal jackpot. That's what I won. And so

spk_0 because I was given something that I didn't deserve, it makes me want to give away what I don't deserve.

spk_0 Yeah, because you could go, Ryan, they do not deserve my forgiveness. I know I agree with you.

spk_0 They're terrible, but so were you. And your name made the list anyways. That's the God we serve.

spk_0 Another one you could use John 316 for God's soul, love the world that he gave is one and only

spk_0 son. So maybe your prepared statement is, hey, I don't know what you believe about God. Maybe you've

spk_0 been told he's mad at you or he's got a lightning rod at the end of his finger ready to judge you,

spk_0 but I just want to say, you know, he loves you so much. He tipped the odds in your favor.

spk_0 Yeah, he sent the son to trade places with this. And that amazing. Yeah, you think about the

spk_0 greatest trade in human history. It's not the wildest one. Isn't Luke getting traded to the

spk_0 Lakers? No, no, the wildest trade in human history is that Jesus switched places with us.

spk_0 And it's crazy. It's scandalous. It shouldn't have happened. But we're grateful that it did.

spk_0 It was all the part of the plan a whole time. God's going to plan for your life and I believe that.

spk_0 I want you as you as you go through the scripture. I want you to have your own prepared

spk_0 statements as you say, man, I want to be the kind of Jesus follower who's prepared to share the hope

spk_0 in healing of Jesus Christ in any minute. And I'm going to give you one last statement.

spk_0 One last statement that I think is going to change your life. And it's simply this, I want you

spk_0 to ask anyone who serves you one simple question. Is there anything going on in your life

spk_0 that I can pray for? The reason it's anybody who serves you is because they're already paid to pay

spk_0 attention to. So anybody who serves you asked them a very simple question. Is there anything going

spk_0 on in your life that I can pray for? They are required to engage with you. Yeah, anything going

spk_0 on in your life, I can pray for. I've been doing this for about 10 years. It's absolutely changed my

spk_0 life. It's changed my life so much. My kids asked strangers, is there anything going on in your life

spk_0 that I can pray for? The principal at our son's school called us the other day and he said, hey,

spk_0 your son's awesome. I said, well, you don't know him that well. Nevertheless, just kidding. He's

spk_0 awesome. He goes, he walked up to me and he said, hey, Mr. Thomas, anything going on in your life

spk_0 that I can pray for? He's like, man, it's just, it's just, it just touched me. That's the fifth

spk_0 greater making an impact at a school. So I believe it can happen for any one of us. I'll just give

spk_0 you a few. And literally I could do this all day long. We can literally all day I could just tell

spk_0 you stories. I was written a car at National Rental Car. I said, hey, man, anything going on in your

spk_0 life that I can pray for? Her name was Claudia. She said, pay for? No, man, I'm already paid for

spk_0 the car. Okay, we're, we're, we're, we're done with that part. I said, pray with our pray for. She goes

spk_0 and tears began to well up in her eyes. She says, I'm four and a half most pregnant and I just

spk_0 had three miscarriages and I'm worried that this is going to happen again. I said, well, he loves pray.

spk_0 And I began to declare purpose over a life. I said, I think more is going to be burst in your

spk_0 life than just a baby. I think a, a renewed spirit is going to be within you. And sometimes you

spk_0 just got to go there. And her coworkers are looking like, whoo, what, what, didn't you just give this

spk_0 guy just a car to rent? No, we're not just renting cars today. We're living life on purpose wherever

spk_0 you go. We outside. I was at Crackleboro, older lady. I said, hey, I'm,

spk_0 anything going on in your life I can pray for. She said, uh, yeah, my, my son, no, her grandson.

spk_0 She said, my grandson has Huntington's disease. And there is no cure. And I said, so you said,

spk_0 but I serve a God who specializes in incurable diseases. So let's pray.

spk_0 I was at a hotel on time. I was at the hungry. Just wanted some pizza, ordered some Papa John's,

spk_0 a guy showed up with a pizza. I said, hey, man, thanks for the pizza. You got anything I can pray for?

spk_0 He was like, what? I say, yeah, you got anything I can pray for. You gave me a pizza. I don't want

spk_0 to give you some prayer. What you got? He said, he's right now. I said, yeah. Tears for

spk_0 getting a willow. He says, my brother, my brother's not doing well. I said, what's going on with

spk_0 your brother because I can't get into it. But he needs, he needs prayer desperately. I said,

spk_0 what's his name? Let's pray right now. It doesn't matter where you go. You don't need a stage

spk_0 to be outside. I was at Starbucks. Well, that's one. I can do this all day. I'm having fun now. Okay,

spk_0 right? So I was at Starbucks, I'll pull up in the drive-through, and I ordered my wife's very

spk_0 complicated order and I, I keep it in a text just to just to read it out loud. Right? So I give

spk_0 that order and her name's Katie, right? And I was like, I said, hey, Katie, uh,

spk_0 you got anything I can pray for? And I don't know why, but at Starbucks,

spk_0 any permission to respond to that? She literally walked back, looked for a boss.

spk_0 Came back was like, yeah, actually, um, happiness. She said, I would really love to be happy.

spk_0 And I'm just in the car. I don't know what to do. I'm like, do I go inside and get the gospel

spk_0 to like, what do I do? Like, do I like to be pray for? Do we have to do churches? This is like,

spk_0 and I just say, hey, Katie, my, my, my assignment today is just to pray for you.

spk_0 It's okay. I'm going to be praying that she could have happiness. And so I just, I went home and

spk_0 then we just, that's to pray for Katie and came back a week later and and I said, hey, Katie,

spk_0 I'm not a stalker, but I don't know if you remember me, but, but I pray for you about a week ago

spk_0 and then she goes, you, I went, oh God, where's this going? What's happening?

spk_0 And this is what she does. She checks for the boss again. I don't know why.

spk_0 She goes, hey, um, I found God.

spk_0 And I am happy. I don't know what happened between those Tuesdays, but something powerful

spk_0 happens when we just go outside and just be who he's called us to be. I was writing a sermon

spk_0 in that Starbucks and the boss that she's been checking with every time she comes out with a drink.

spk_0 She goes, this one's on us. I said, well, that's very nice of you. Thank you. I said,

spk_0 why, why all the kind that she goes, you've been changing our Starbucks one order at a time.

spk_0 She's every time you pull up, people are like, he's here. He's here. He's here. He's here. I'm like,

spk_0 they don't know what I do for a living. I'm just a neighborly guy that goes to their Starbucks.

spk_0 That's why I believe you and I can make an impact when we go outside with every head bow,

spk_0 every eye closed. I want to give each and every person an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord

spk_0 and save your life. If you've never made that decision, it's the greatest decision you can ever make.

spk_0 You'll come alive like never before. You'll have purpose like never before.

spk_0 With every head bow and every eye closed, watch party room included, online included.

spk_0 If you're here today, you say, hey, Ryan, I want to give my life to Jesus. Maybe you've

spk_0 walked away from your faith for a little bit and today's the day you come back home on October 5th,

spk_0 2026, mark the date. It's show time. If that's you today, you say, Ryan, I want to give my life

spk_0 to Lord. Would you just flip up your hand and say, hey, Ryan, that's me. Ryan, that's me.

spk_0 Every head bow and every eye closed. I see hands all over the building. This is awesome.

spk_0 Anybody else will wait for you. Anybody else, Hayden's still going up. This is amazing.

spk_0 I see you all the way in the back. That's amazing. Anybody else, hey, can we all say this prayer as

spk_0 one big church family? Say, Jesus, thank you for dying on a cross. For my sins, I ask now that you

spk_0 be my Lord and savior of my life. I surrender my past, my present, and my future to you.

spk_0 And Jesus, thank you pray. Everybody said, hey, man, come on. Could you make some noise for

spk_0 every single person that gave their heart to Christ? Best decision you've ever made.

spk_0 Come on, church. Can we show our appreciation to Ryan for that word?

spk_0 I'm going to ask everybody in this room. Watch the board.

spk_0 You guys are not going to grab my feet. Again, we're going to officially dismiss in a moment.

spk_0 How many thankful for a word that you can start applying right now?

spk_0 You say all the time, this line, I don't know if you catch it in social news. It says,

spk_0 when you say yes to Jesus, you say yes to being social.

spk_0 And I realize when I hear a word like we just heard why I never tell our guest speakers what to preach.

spk_0 I say, listen to the Holy Spirit. This word was for our house. Come on, we gotta be a church that's

spk_0 outside. It's outside. Again, express your appreciation to Ryan for that word. I'm so grateful.

spk_0 If you prayed that prayer, I want to say welcome to the family, welcome to the family.

spk_0 And if you could just do us a favor and just tap the seat in front of you and please fill out the

spk_0 following Jesus link because we want to be the family that walks alongside of you inside.

spk_0 It's real out in the streets outside. You do need people on the inside that help you walk the

spk_0 journey and we want to be that for you. At the end, our prayer team is going to be a prayer if you

spk_0 want personal prayer. We'd love to pray with you. If you can't do any of that, if I were you,

spk_0 I would just keep showing up because if you keep showing up, if you keep showing up,

spk_0 you keep growing up. How many of your blessed to be in God's house today, amen?

spk_0 Social fan, we'll see you next Sunday, 830, 1030, 1245, but till then may the Lord bless you and keep

spk_0 you cause its face to shine upon you. Give you grace and peace now and forevermore. We'll see you next

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