Hey, everyone.
Welcome back to the right call.
Wisdom.
Simply applied.
My name is Jeff Cochrill, and I am your host.
And over the last few episodes, we've been examining modern day servant leadership.
And be constructing it a bit so that we can lead like Jesus did and get and actually be closer to getting it right.
Cause previously, so we've examined the importance of buying into our identity as a servant.
And what that really means? In this episode, we're taking aim at obedience.
So we can see the difference between how it's seen today versus how we can turn it into a powerful strength when we approach it correctly as Christ talked about it.
Because obedience has meant coercion, I think, and slavery been associated with slavery for a long time.
I mean, I think back and we've been fighting against that way back in 1776.
Thomas Jefferson actually put words in the original constitution calling out King George the third for waging cruel war against human nature itself.
Kidnapping people into slavery, transporting them across the ocean.
And we recognized it was something that needed to be eliminated in 1787 when the constitution was passed.
There was a twenty year clock that started ticking.
Said in twenty years, we're gonna abolish the importation of slaves into the in The United States.
About that same time in Great Britain, William Wilberforce.
Started his two decade long crusade in Great Britain to ban the slave trade.
And in eighteen o seven, Jefferson was able to sign the ban of the importation of slaves in The United States.
And that same year, was when William Wilberforce was able to get slavery banned in Great Britain.
And then in the early eighteen hundreds, the United States First War was actually against the Barber Coast pirates because they were capturing US merchant sailors and selling them into slavery.
And by 1833, Great Britain had abolished the slave trade internationally and a lot of uh there was a lot of A lot of the the actions of the British fleet were against slave traders.
And our own civil war really turned into a crusade against slavery once Northern soldiers actually saw it.
And it was sealed by the thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
So, literally, for nearly two hundred and fifty years, at least in The United States, we've been fighting slavery because it was an evil.
And and we rebelled against anything that it smelled of limited freedom.
Because for us, obedience was almost always seen as coerced.
But that's not how Jesus modeled it.
His obedience was complete and completely voluntary.
And he was serving a perfect master who still asked everything of him, even death.
And so thinking about this, we're gonna unpack obedience.
What does that mean today in our world? Because, you know, slavery has existed since the dawn of time and since the dawn of time, slaves had no power.
They just obeyed.
And obedience comes from that, and it's literally the hallmark of a slave.
And none of us wants to be one of those.
We hate that idea.
We recoil as a people at the thought of being forced, controlled, or limited.
Western culture celebrates freedom.
It celebrates autonomy celebrates the self made life.
In fact, the whole point of the protestant reformation was to protest against forced obedience to the Catholic church, hence the term protestant.
So we've spent a long time fighting the cruelty and coercion of slavery so that we don't have to obey.
But have we really stopped it? Have we stopped slavery or is it the masters just look different today? I mean, think about what we do willingly.
Even enthusiastically, we'll surrender hours scrolling social media.
Driven by FOMO, terrified we're gonna miss something.
We'll binge the latest must watch series, whether it's Yellowstone, Landman.
It consumes our evenings.
Sometimes relationships, even sleep.
We'll chase money career advancement, internet fame will sacrifice family time or health without a second thought.
We'll pour ourselves into an ideology, a political party, a politician, a celebrity, a sports team, defending them fiercely, even fanatically.
I mean, studies on FOMO show that it drives compulsive social social media use.
I mean, leads to burnout, digital burnout, anxiety, depression, emotional exhaustion, Med analyses link it link it to problematic use where people feel trapped.
They're unable to stop even when it's draining them dry.
Now, we wanna do sports betting online.
And other and other gambling online.
I mean, addiction expert, experts like Nora Volkow explain that literally the brain gets hijacked.
What starts voluntarily becomes a compulsion.
We say we don't wanna be enslaved as we enslave ourselves at the same time.
We think real freedom is submitting voluntarily to these masters.
These ideologies, this chasing after fame or accolades or achievements or these distractions.
And in return, after the initial dopamine hit, we we still get resentment isolation and burnout, which is ironically the same drain as obedience that has been coerced.
But we chose it so it must be okay.
Right? It's kinda funny, isn't it? We hate anyone else's chains while we forge our own.
Link by link master by master.
Just like Jacob Marley told Scrooge.
I wear the chain I forged in life.
I made it link by link and yard by yard.
I girded it on of my own free will.
And of my own free will, I wore it.
So if we're being honest, every one of us is already obeying something.
Every day.
We're already part of the coalition of the willing to be enslaved.
Here's the twist though.
We don't stick with any one of them for very long.
A few minutes, a few hours, maybe a few years, but then some other, some shiny object, something is shinier grabs our attention, and we switch.
And we get full obedience for a time, and it feels like freedom.
No one's forcing us.
We have just voluntarily chained ourselves to it.
So the question isn't, should I obey? Because we already do obedience and Unfortunately, we're actually pretty good at it.
The real question is, where do I hook the last link of my chain? I mean, imagine this.
Picture ourselves we're in a dark cell.
Filthy rags.
Got a metal collar tied around our neck.
A heavy chain is attached, and it's ours.
We forged link by link.
One end is attached to our collar, and we're holding the other end.
And we're scanning for a place to hook it because it's getting heavier by the second.
And there are rings on the wall.
Money, social media, career, family, Familiar, solid, right in front of us.
We know exactly how far these rings will let us move.
We know exactly what the pull is gonna feel like.
It's predictable.
At some level, it's safe.
It's known.
And then there's this voice that says, Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hand me your end.
Hook it to me.
I know the way out.
And we look at this person and we can see him behind him, all we see is darkness.
There's no light doesn't seem to be a clear path.
In fact, it looks like it actually might get darker if we head down the hall with that guy.
All we have is his word that he knows a way out.
The question is, Do you give the link you're holding to someone who lead you to real freedom? Or do you hook it to one of the rings that you already know and stay in prison just a little longer? And if we do hand it to him, what then? I mean, it sounds like I'm just gonna have to take up my cross and follow him.
Right? In fact, I'll bet you've heard someone say something along lines.
Probably your mom or dad who said, well, it's my cross to bear.
And maybe you've even said it yourself, I know I have.
Particularly when I have some thing going on that I just have to suck it up and deal with it.
In fact, the the phrase, my cross to bear has has really kinda become synonymous with personal hardship, some unavoidable burden that life has dumped on you or dumped on me, some tough job, difficult situation, a tough relationship, a chronic problem.
We'll sigh and shrug and say, well, it's just my cross to bear.
Sort of a passive acceptance, a grim endurance.
Or it sometimes that we look at as some tests we have to pass.
And if we say it right, It comes with a strong hint of martyrdom or moral credit.
Well, what's not surprising is that the is the research on burnout.
Passively accepting burdens residing ourselves to them is inevitable, It's actually not a strength.
On the contrary, it's a strong predictive of emotional exhaustion and cynicism.
The job demands resources model shows that people who habitually use passive coping, like resigning to burdens as inevitable.
They experience significantly higher burnout, moderately too strong across multiple studies and many meta analysis.
When the hardship feels unchosen and meaningless, man, this this depletion, it speeds up in a hurry.
And it's true, not just in studies.
Uh, in ministry, leaders will often say, this is just the cost of service.
Another catch phrase for this is our cross to bear.
The long hours, the criticism of the message, the financial stress.
42%, they cite the unavoidable burdens as a top factor in their burnout.
Or caregivers for family members who resigned themselves to, well, this is just my lot.
They experience higher depression and actually physical decline.
In the workplace, that the quiet quitting trend, people passively accepting toxic demands, has fifty percent of workers disengaged and burning out faster often thinking was just my cross to bear.
I mean, some of the leading burn burnout researchers, Christina Maslock points to chronic mismatches, burdens without purpose as an accelerator for burnout.
And so, just my cross to bear.
Is that really what we're supposed to do? Well, actually, no, it's not.
It's worse.
To take up your cross literally meant shouldering the particular.
The 100 pound cross beam and carrying it to your own death site.
This wasn't handle your daily burdens.
In first century Rome, the cross was the most brutal public and shameful form of execution.
It was reserved for slaves, rebels, the worst criminals, and especially traitors.
The Roman records in the historian Josephis, they describe it not just as a tool of punishment, not just as a tool of execution.
It was used as a tool of terror.
Specifically to deter resistance.
Because when you picked that up, there was no turning back.
No negotiation.
Judge had been passed, and you were going to die publicly.
In the most horrible manner the Roman Empire could devise.
Despite what it means today, when when Christ talked about it, take up your cross, was not a symbol of inspiration.
It wasn't some minor hardship that we could endure and come out of on the other side.
It signified the complete loss of autonomy and life.
As you knew it.
You were literally a dead man walking once you picked up that beam.
And that's not that's not all of it.
Before you picked it up, typically, the condemned was scourged.
The skin on they were whipped on their back and the skin was flayed from their back until literally was an open wound.
Blood was flowing.
Sometimes so badly, the ribs were exposed from the back.
They would lose control of their bowels so they'd be stripped of their clothing.
Then they gotta pick up this 100 pound cross bay and carry it barefoot and naked through crowded streets.
The crowds would spit They'd scream insults, hurl food, usually rotten food.
If they slowed or stumbled, soldiers beat them even more.
And in Jerusalem, they were headed to Calvary, the place of the skull.
In addition to a to basically 600 meters, maybe 700 meters, where they're carrying this thing? I mean, I think we're talking like like six football fields.
And then they've got and they and while they're doing it, they're actually going up about a half mile.
So it wasn't just level.
And once they once they get there, the soldiers, the the soldiers would yank that that continuum away, throw it on the ground.
They would throw them on top.
So now we're laying on their back with this open wound in the dirt, except where they are now laying across the Potibulum.
And then the the soldiers would pull out these seven inch iron spikes, and they drive them not even through the wrists, but below the wrist where the bones come together, just below it.
They dry seven seven inch iron spikes through your wrists.
Then they'd hoist the beam up.
So you're hanging from the beam.
As they hoist you up and boom, set you on top of the of the the stanchion, the the straight up piece, which of course is reused.
Gotta be gotta make sure we stay green even then.
Once that's done, they nail your feet to the vertical to the vertical piece of the cross, climb up, nail a sign above your head.
Everyone knows the crimes you committed.
And you're there anywhere from six to to nine feet above above the crowd so everybody can see you.
And then they just leave you.
The only reason there are Roman soldiers there is to prevent somebody from trying to rescue you.
And you die slowly.
Takes hours.
Sometimes it takes days.
Whether it's from asphyxiation or shock or blood loss or exposure, eventually you're dead.
So when someone says it was just my cross to bear, it seems like it sort of misses the mark.
So so what did he mean when he said, take up your cross daily and follow me? A lot of it was about voluntary alignment.
A few years after retiring from the Navy, my father became a New York life agent.
And he loved it.
He was really good at it.
And he thought it'd be a good it would be a great fit for me too.
So I left the Navy after eleven years.
I took his advice, and I joined New York Life as an agent.
It was not a good fit for me.
Intellectually, I understand that life insurance is important, and people should have it.
But it felt like such a negative sale.
Always talking about death and loss that I I struggled to sell it.
I didn't like making cold calls, I didn't like doing the fact finding, and and I really didn't like making people feel the pain.
And after about a year I left.
I truthfully, I don't think my dad liked those things either.
But nine months into his first year, he delivered a death claim.
And that's when everything changed for him.
Everyone else was showing up to that widow with a bill, and my dad showed up with a check.
And he saw firsthand the impact insurance has.
In a way that can't be explained to someone who hasn't seen it.
And that experience changed how he saw insurance.
And that changed how he did everything involved in selling it.
He saw a bigger purpose behind the cold calls.
The fact finding, and even making people feel the pain.
The work didn't change, but how he thought about the work changed.
And that's the power of voluntary alignment to a worthy mission intentional obedience.
Victor Frankl, who was a psychologist in Vienna at the start of World War two, was sent to the concentration camps by the Nazis.
And one of the things he observed was that Suffering lost a lot of it.
Well, actually it lost its power to destroy when there was meaning to it.
People who chose to attach their pain to something greater were able to endure far more than those who just resigned themselves to it.
I mean, and think about it in our real world, voluntary commitment builds resilience.
In our Dale Carnegie where we say people will support a world they help create.
If they help if they help build it, they're committed to it.
They'll work harder to bring these things about.
Business teams with clear goals that they've chosen themselves, higher productivity, lower burnout.
At least who voluntary voluntarily embrace the grind.
They hit flow states and peak performance more consistently and more often.
Elite military units, they thrive because members choose to be part of something special.
The hardship becomes purpose driven not imposed.
One of the things the navy seal say is embrace the suck.
Not grin and bear it.
Not grit your teeth and endure it.
Embrace it.
One of my one of my favorite principles for dealing with stress from Dale Carnegie's book how to stop worrying and start living is cooperate with the inevitable.
And for a long time, I I kind of interpreted it as just suck it up and deal.
But what he's talking about is cooperate with it.
Use it.
Leverage it.
Make it work for us.
I mean, stoicism basically says in we endure the imposed fate with with a sort of detached calm.
I think it's a good thing.
Jesus talks about something radically different, actively choosing daily to follow him.
To deny ourselves to take up that cross and everything that it implies.
For his mission, it's not an assignment, by the way.
It's an invitation.
So it's not resignation to it.
It's actually empowerment if we look at it that way.
Meaning, I I think about think about Christ coming to earth.
I mean, he he knew why he was doing this.
He knew it was his father's will.
I he knew he was the lamb of god, that he was the ultimate sacrifice.
Now I doubt he looked forward to the pain of the cross or the humiliation that was going to be a company around it, but he knew why.
And the harder it got, the more closely he adhered to his father and to his father's will.
And similarly, Jesus doesn't ask us to step into an unknown.
Yes, the hallway behind him looks dark right now.
But we know where it ends up, and he put it plainly.
He said, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself.
And take up his cross daily and follow me.
Daily, not once.
Chosen, chosen, not forced, and follow him, not some random hardship.
And and this is the path to real life, not to to being drained.
One choice made every day, and the harder it gets, the more closely we need to stick to him and to his will.
That's voluntary daily choice with no daylight between us and him.
And when we live with it, everything changes.
Here's the thing.
That's what he challenges us to do.
With our earthly masters as well.
He calls us to live that way with the earthly masters that that we are called to serve.
And and maybe you've thought, uh, and maybe you haven't thought about it this way.
Or maybe you thought, well, I am I'm being obedient.
I I follow the rules.
I meet deadlines.
I support the team.
I do what I'm told.
In the spiritual sense, I pray I read the Bible.
I go to church, I and I tithe.
So Why doesn't my yoke feel easy? Why doesn't my burden feel light? Why do I still feel drained? Why do I hesitate? Why do I feel stuck in my life or in my career? And I think in both cases, it's because we have a tendency to practice partial obedience.
It's some level of compliance, but it's not a full heart level buy in.
I mean, even when we do more than the minimum, we we say I why did more than the minimum? But basically, we're we're we're now negotiating.
We're try we're trying to we're trying to figure out how much can I do How much do I need to do? What's the minimum that what's the what's good enough? We're bargaining.
You know, at some level, we're trying to figure out.
Okay.
How much will be enough? And it's I think it's it's almost a little bit like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
The active measuring or observing the particle changes its location or its energy.
Similarly, when we start measuring obedience against a minimum or a maximum, or some level that is quote enough, we're already creating daylight between us and our boss or us and our master.
Whether we ask this question consciously or subconsciously, it shifts us from full surrender to something other than that.
And that's what creates hesitation, doubt, inefficiency.
Cause these daylight gaps, they they amplify the ambiguity.
And that's what correlates with the emotional exhaustion.
And it's at our I mean, it's significant.
It's moderate to strong in our workplace.
When we're sort of aligned with second guessing every step or thinking I have a better idea, our energy, man, it leaks out in a hurry.
And if we're measuring effort against minimums or we're bargaining or trying to figure out what what is enough, we're not all in.
Because true obedience doesn't ask how much daylight is okay.
It says, how can I be even more aligned? How can I eliminate all daylight? How can I make sure that that is that when I when we get in when we bring it into focus, they can't tell where one ends and the other begins? How do we evaluate that? How do we evaluate our own level of obedience? Self determination theory gives us some options.
I think true obedience, the way we're talking about it feels volitional.
It feels enthusiastic.
It feels like it's a choice that we made.
It's owned.
It's not controlled by it's not forced on us by guilt or external pressure.
I mean, we can ask ourselves like, do I feel energized by the mission or am I just checking boxes? Is there hesitation or second guessing? Or am I do I feel like I am man, I could not there's no way to be more closely aligned.
Am I bargaining with how much is enough or am I asking Okay.
How can I align more fully? How fully can I align? Does the effort feel owned? Does it feel like we chose it? Or does it feel like it's being controlled or maybe it's being externally imposed? And if the answers lean toward duty, if they lean toward minimums, they lead towards some sort of bargaining, then we're in partial obedience, which is going to be a drain.
Full no daylight obedience.
Voluntary clarified alignment is freeing.
Teams with clear bought in goals are much more productive.
The burnout is lower.
People are the same way.
And I mean, when someone when when when Christ was saying this, he said, look, my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
I have come down from heaven, not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me.
I mean, even in the garden, facing the cross and praying for another option, he finished with not my will, but yours be done.
No daylight, no bargaining, full, willful, enthusiastic commitment to his mission.
And that is the standard for us as servants.
Whether we are serving the lord or whether we are serving the masters that are appointed over us.
Wholehearted obedience delivered to god or to our boss empowers every aspect of life.
And and there's a simple rhythm that we can use that I think is the hallmark of what it what it is to be faithful servant.
I was thinking the other day, and it I think about this servant identity in Christ is like a massive Traffic circle, massive roundabout.
Christ is right in the center.
He seated in glory atop as his heavenly arc de Triph.
And his servants, our home base is that traffic circle, we're circling him.
We're learning from him.
We're staying in his presence.
We're soaking in who he is.
We're letting him shape us.
And and it's not something we're not doing servanthood so that we can finally lead.
This is where we live.
It's where it's where we rest.
It's where we grow.
It's how we live.
It's how we rest.
It's how we grow.
It's the destination.
We're not rushing to an exit.
We're staying close.
We're centered in him.
And then at the right moment, he appoints us to a mission.
He points to an exit and says, go.
And we leave.
We go.
We leave them at we leave the the traffic circle.
Leave the roundabout.
Head out on the mission.
Sometimes it's leadership.
Sometimes it's not.
We stay in contact with him the whole time that we're that we're with what we've learned in the roundabout.
We stay in contact as we complete our mission.
We're listening to him.
We're following him.
We're aligned with him.
And when the mission's complete, we return to the roundabout.
Return back to the traffic circle.
Back to our identity as servants.
Actually, I guess, we never actually leave our identity as servants.
But back to center, back to his presence, and we get to keep circling as he prepares us for whatever's next.
And this isn't futility or wasted time.
And they're about waiting on the lord.
That's what this is.
It's identity, it's preparation.
It's rest in surrender.
Research proves this.
When we are intentionally aligned to a clear purpose, it brings a level of sustained energy and direction.
Aimless or forced movement leads to depletion.
I mean, I I think about going on vacation.
I'm good for about a week, and then I gotta do something.
I mean, I and typically, I start kind of drift drifting back into what I do.
Start reengaging with that.
But teams with strong core identities, they'll stay resilient, whether they're going through a quiet period or chaotic period.
Off season, athletes work on fundamentals so that they're stronger the next when the next season comes back.
Military units.
We train.
When I was in the navy, it was all about training and drilling.
So that when we were called to do something, we were ready.
And Jesus lived this perfectly.
He circled in constant servitude to the father.
The son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the father doing.
When the father sent him on the ultimate mission, the cross and redemption of the world, he took the exit without hesitation.
And when it was finished, he returned to the father, and he said, father, I have glorified you on earth.
Having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
Servin Hood is a roundabout.
Our home or place of presence or destination.
The mission is the exit.
He appoints to us when ready.
True obedience doesn't fight doesn't fight to stay in the circle or try to force an exit.
It stays centered until he says go.
We take the assignment.
We do we do it as we think he would do it.
We stay connected with him throughout.
We return to the center when we're done.
That's our ideal rhythm of service.
Always near him ready when he calls.
Returning to him when it's complete.
So the roundabout isn't just a nice picture.
It's a simple operating system that turns faithful servant hooded everyday reality.
And one of the coolest things about accepting our identity as servants, choosing him as our master and committing to his mission is this.
Staying close to him doesn't just keep us centered.
It elevates everything else that we do.
When we're aligned with him, we're learning, we're resting, we're growing in his presence.
Everything else gets better.
Relationships are deeper.
Decisions are clearer.
We're more productive.
We have more joy in our life.
Our impact multiplies.
And when when we have a strong sense of purpose and alignment in our work, everything shifts.
In fact, gallop did a a massive meta analysis.
Of more than a 183,000 business units.
And they found that when there was a strong sense of purpose and alignment in their work, that teams were 14% more productive, Teams showed 18% higher sales productivity, and they also delivered 23% higher profitability.
Organizations that build cultures of real meaning and purpose, They see dramatically lower burnout, and dramatically higher long term performance and innovation.
When we give our earthly boss, our earthly supervisor, or our board the same no daylight obedience we give to Christ, Two powerful things happen.
First, it becomes a multiplier for our efforts.
When there's zero hesitation, zero second guessing, zero daylight between what they want, what we actually do, Our work gets done faster.
It gets done better.
A lot less friction.
I mean, the same research shows that the lift is even stronger when the when we are fully aligned with our direct with our direct supervisor, our direct leader.
Productivity, creativity, results all go up because the energy really stops leaking out.
And second, it becomes one of the most powerful witnesses possible to the people around us who don't yet know Christ.
Non believers notice when someone works with total and total integrity enthusiasm.
No office politics, no bargaining, no minimum viable effort.
They start asking why are you so different? Why do you care so much? And that opened the door to talk about the only master worthy of that kind of obedience.
And Jesus promised Exactly this.
He said, I am the vine.
You are the branches.
Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit.
For apart from me, you could do nothing.
And a few years ago, I read a book called Secret of The Vine.
And he was talking about this specific example.
And one of the points that was raised, I wasn't aware of this.
But when there is a mature grapevine, when it's pruned, when they cut off some grape wood, grape grape grapevine wood that has been separated from the vine is absolutely worthless.
You can't do anything with it.
You can't whittle it, can't make it into furniture.
There's nothing nothing you can do with it.
It's really only good for being tossed into the fire.
But if it logs it stays connected, it doesn't have to do anything that it just produces fruit.
Just stays connected to the vine.
And that's what Christ is telling us.
And so staying in the roundabout, staying in the traffic circle doesn't hold us back.
It's a source of elevation.
And when we're rooted in his presence, every part of life grows stronger, clearer, more fruitful, that's the power of intentional obedience.
It doesn't diminish us.
It lifts everything we touch.
And when we live this way, everything changes.
And we've covered a lot in this episode.
We started with the declaration of independence and the Western View of obedience as slavery without the chains.
Something that drains rather than empowers.
And also how misinterpreting take up thy cross has led to all sorts of mental gymnastics as we attempt to bargain with.
Uh, just 10 much obedience is enough.
And hopefully, we've seen how Jesus' servant identity is radically different.
It's mission first servanthood.
It's voluntary daily cross bearing, full no daylight obedience to a perfect master.
And we evaluated where we're at.
Are we bargaining minimums or fully aligned? Picture servanthood is the roundabout.
Our identity, circling Christ in his presence as home base, and we saw how staying centered there elevates everything else.
Relationships, decisions, work, our joyfulness, our impact, because fruitfulness comes from abiding, not striving.
If I had to say one thing to carry away.
Servant is your identity.
Servant hood is the destination.
It's not something we do for a while, so we can be better when we when we're put in charge.
It's not a it's not a method.
It's not a way to something else.
It's not a means to something else.
It's where we're supposed to be.
And when it allows us to do all those other things, but it's really about staying centered in him.
We learn, we rest, we grow.
And through that, we have a chance to serve the people who are appointed over us on our earthly plane.
Because that's the mission he may appoint to us.
And we take that exit with full obedience.
We stay connected to him through it.
We complete it, return to center, and watch how he elevates everything.
So take a few minutes today if you can, and ask yourself a couple of questions.
Where am I bargaining instead of surrender? Am I thinking is this enough? Because if we're thinking is this enough, it isn't enough.
And where can I stay more more centered in his presence? Because when we do that, we can tackle our mission with the full authority he's granted to us, and that is our next episode.
We're gonna talk about authority and how powerful that can be.
Thanks for joining us.
And if this resonated, please share it with someone who needs to hear it.
Until next time, stay in the circle.
Stay on the roundabout.
Hear him.
Be near him.
Be ready when he calls.
Good and faithful servants.
Go make disciples.
Talk to you next episode
