{"id":302630,"date":"2012-11-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/becoming-spiritually-ambidextrous\/"},"modified":"2012-11-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T17:00:00","slug":"becoming-spiritually-ambidextrous","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/becoming-spiritually-ambidextrous\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Spiritually Ambidextrous"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we live our lives, we are writing a story.  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we\u2019re going to have great sections.\u00a0 There are going to be beautiful chapters in that story.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to want to retell those stories a lot and think about them a lot; but all of us at some time have dark chapters too, painful chapters, sometimes, shameful chapters.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut we have to remember those too, because they are all a part of the story; and God is in the business of taking the wreckage of our life and somehow, by His grace and discipline, I will say, work that out into a story that is redemptive and beautiful and healing and whole.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, November 13<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to learn today how God wants to take the mountain peaks and the valleys of your life and use both of them to advance the Kingdom.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Thanks for joining us.\u00a0 I think our listeners are going to learn a new concept today\u2014at least, it was a new concept for me\u2014the idea of becoming spiritually ambidextrous.\u00a0 Are you spiritually ambidextrous?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Let\u2019s find out.\u00a0 Jerry Sittser joins us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Jerry, welcome back.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you, Dennis and Bob.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Jerry is a professor at Whitworth University.\u00a0 He has won the Professor of the Year seven times at last count\u2014unless you\u2019ve added another recently?\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 One more.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, it\u2019s eight.\u00a0 Eight times Professor of the Year.\u00a0 He holds a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from the University of Chicago.\u00a0 He and his wife, Patricia, have five children.\u00a0 They live in Spokane, Washington, and he\u2019s written a book called <em>A Grace Revealed<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And spiritual ambidextrous, what does that mean?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, it comes from one of my favorite groups of people, the desert fathers, who thrived in sort of the Eastern Mediterranean area in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.\u00a0 I can\u2019t go into the historical background.\u00a0 They\u2019re just a very odd collection of Christians oriented toward what we\u2019ve called the Disciplines of Deprivation of setting disciplines.\u00a0 They fasted.\u00a0 They lived in solitude, lived out in the desert and so on.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the figures from the West, John Cassian, visited Egypt, interviewed a bunch of folks.\u00a0 Then, when he returned to Gaul, modern-day France, Spain, he wrote about it in two books.\u00a0 One of the books is called <em>The Conferences<\/em>, and it summarizes the interviews he did with a bunch of these desert fathers.\u00a0 One of them, Abba Theodore, introduced this concept called being spiritually ambidextrous.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, ambidextrous means that you are as comfortable using one hand as the other.\u00a0 So, in baseball, you might be a switch-hitter, for example, if you\u2019re ambidextrous.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 But he said that to be spiritually ambidextrous means that you are as open to God, as submissive to God, as obedient to God in both adversity and prosperity; that you don\u2019t require God to work only under a certain set of circumstances.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, when you think about it, we tend to associate God and God\u2019s work with prosperity.\u00a0 So, things are going great; then, we love God.\u00a0 He\u2019s doing a good work in our lives; we\u2019re grateful.\u00a0 But when we face adversity, it becomes much more difficult.\u00a0 Abba Theodore said, \u201cGod works in both.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sunday Pearson, who you also write about in your book, had to learn how to use the other hand because her life\u2014there was curve ball that got thrown.\u00a0 She had to learn how to hit it from the other side, didn\u2019t she?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sunday gave me permission to tell her story after I wrote <em>A Grace Disguised<\/em>.\u00a0 Over the years, I\u2019ve gotten thousands of letters.\u00a0 Sometimes they tell amazing stories.\u00a0 This is one of them, and she gave me permission.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, back in the \u201880\u2019s, her brother, a law enforcement officer in California, was shot and killed in a drug bust.\u00a0 It was catastrophic for the family, as you can well imagine.\u00a0 She had already lost a younger brother to cancer.\u00a0 She told me her mother really never recovered from this; but she was married, eventually, kind of \u201cmoved on\u201d, got better, realized one day that she had really forgiven him in her heart although she doesn\u2019t really give you an understanding of how that happened.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen, she got this word from God that said, \u201cYou need to find this man and visit him.\u201d\u00a0 Now, he was somewhere stuck in the California prison system.\u00a0 She started doing research, found out where he was, asked for permission to visit him, and so on.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut God gave her a very specific reason to visit this man.\u00a0 He said to her, according to her story, \u201cI have two words I want you to share with him: \u2018God loves you.\u00a0 He loves you because of Jesus Christ\u2019\u201d\u2014lesson number one.\u00a0 That seems well enough from a Christian point of view.\u00a0 It was the second message that seemed a little more astonishing to me.\u00a0 \u201c\u2018You can always become the man God intends you to be.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, I thought about that.\u00a0 I thought he\u2019s stuck in prison probably for the rest of his life, and she has the audacity\u2014or better put, God has the audacity to say to her to tell this murderer of her very brother, \u201cIt\u2019s never too late to become the man God intends you to be.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, she got permission.\u00a0 She went to visit this man.\u00a0 She tells the story in amazing detail how she went to the prison, her husband stayed in the car.\u00a0 She walks down this long corridor and through one steel door after another.\u00a0 Finally, arrives in the visitation room.\u00a0 She\u2019s sitting in a corner.\u00a0 All of the sudden, she hears a door open.\u00a0 She looks up, and for the first time in her life she looks into the face of the man who murdered her brother.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe comes and sits down, and they talk and share life for several hours together.\u00a0 She delivers these two messages, God loves him and that it\u2019s not too late to become the man God intends you to be.\u00a0 In the course of the conversation, she witnessed the miracle of this man\u2019s conversion.\u00a0 Since then, they\u2019ve been corresponding regularly; and he said he was terribly sorry and then repented, right in front of her, of what he had done and gave his life to Christ.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>Now, what\u2019s startling to me is to think about that second message.\u00a0 It\u2019s never too late to become the man God intends you to be.\u00a0 I think to myself, \u201cWell, there are a lot of people it\u2019s too late for\u2014people who are disabled, people who are old, people who are suffering from some debilitating pathology, and people who are going to spend the rest of their lives in prison.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the redemptive story tells us it\u2019s never too late, no matter what your circumstances are\u2014ambidextrous spirituality, in both adversity and prosperity.\u00a0 God is still God.\u00a0 God still does His work.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, one last note, Abba Theodore warned that prosperity may be more spiritually disadvantageous than adversity because it can lull us into a dull complacency and infuse in us a spirit of entitlement.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, Proverbs says \u201cGive me neither poverty nor riches.\u00a0 If I have poverty, I\u2019m tempted to go steal and bring dishonor.\u00a0 If I have prosperity, I\u2019m tempted to forget You and ignore You\u201d\u2014because why do you need God if you\u2019ve got everything else you need, right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 So we have to figure out how to live for God in our circumstances, no matter what they are.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thomas Carlyle made a statement.\u00a0 He said, \u201cFor every one hundred people who can handle adversity, I can only show you one who can handle prosperity.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOurs is a country of abundance.\u00a0 Bill Bright once looked me in the eye\u2014of course, Bill was the President and Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, and I was working for him\u2014but he looked me in the eye and he said, \u201cI believe, today, materialism is choking the Christian community to death.\u201d\u00a0 He looked at me sternly and exhorted me.\u00a0 He said, \u201cDennis, wear the cloak of materialism loosely.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, he\u2019s in good company.\u00a0 Alexis de Tocqueville, back in the 1830\u2019s when he was visiting America, warned that the two great dangers of American democracy were individualism and materialism.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No doubt about it.\u00a0 Your book is about redemption, but you use story to talk about this theme of redemption.\u00a0 You talk about there being two kinds of stories: the big story, which is what God is up to, His story on planet Earth, and secondly, how he engages us as we live out our stories and wants to show what redemption looks like in our lives, in our little stories.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>Of course, you tell your story of how you lost your mother, your wife, and your four-year-old daughter in a tragic car wreck to a drunken driver in 1991.\u00a0 One of the areas of the book that I got the most out of\u2014and it was a short section, Jerry, and I thought <em>I want Jerry to share this with our listeners because I think they can benefit from this.<\/em>\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou talked about how a story has a plot, a theme.\u00a0 It has something that is taking place that\u2019s very intentional.\u00a0 You actually dig into the Scriptures; and you say there are at least six that you\u2019ve found that are kind of mapped out for us in terms of what kind of plot may be occurring in our lives.\u00a0 I think it may be helpful for our listeners just to listen to these six and to determine which one is most like their story that they\u2019re living out right now.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, these six are only suggestive.\u00a0 I think there are many others, but my point is not to give an exhaustive list but to give some examples that they can think about, ponder, for their own lives as they consider how their little story\u2014because most of our stories feel very little, very local, very small\u2014how those little stories of our lives might actually fit into the larger biblical story of how God is literally redeeming planet Earth.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>I should add that one of my favorite biblical stories is the story of Ruth because it shows in very clear form the juxtaposition of big and little.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, here\u2019s Ruth.\u00a0 She\u2019s living in this small town\u2014or ends up, I should say, in the small town of Bethlehem.\u00a0 When she dies, it seems like a pretty happy ending to the story; and it seems pretty quaint, a nice little bedtime story, until you realize that three generations later, born to the heritage of this foreigner, this woman from Moab, who just accidentally marries into the family line of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, that her great, great grandson is the great king of Israel, David.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut even then, the story is not done.\u00a0 Many generations later, another Son is born to this family line who just happens to be the Savior of the world.\u00a0 Now, Ruth didn\u2019t know any of this was going on.\u00a0 So, her little story taking place in this small town in Judea, in a backward period of Israel\u2019s history, ends up playing a major role in all of salvation history.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, I\u2019m not suggesting that all our stories are going to have that kind of significance, but we do need to realize that what seems little to us might not be little at all.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of the plot lines you suggest in your book is that our story may be the turning, the passing on of a different legacy.\u00a0 In fact, I like the way you said it.\u00a0 It may be the turning the deficit into a surplus\u2014inheriting a mess and bequeathing a blessing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 I call that passing on a new legacy.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s say you come from a family background that is virtually bankrupt.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u2014you come to know Christ in your teen years or your twenties or your thirties; and you have a mess on your hands, lots of dysfunction, lots of problems.\u00a0 You realize that you may be called to be, what I would name, a transitional generation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou\u2019re the pivot point.\u00a0 You take this mess that you\u2019ve inherited and, through submission and obedience to God and good decision-making and relationships with others and being grounded in a church and other things, you literally pass on\u2014it could be to your children, it could be to the next generation of Christian leaders\u2014a very different kind of legacy.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, there are many people in our culture that face that kind of script.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have a lot of strong, stable families now.\u00a0 Many people come from incredibly dysfunctional backgrounds.\u00a0 I see it all the time at the University where I teach.\u00a0 <br><br>In fact, I tell this story in this particular chapter of a young man named Greg who came from a family in which both of his biological parents were married five times.\u00a0 He was living on his own by the time he was 15 years old, working at McDonalds full-time while he was working his way through high school.\u00a0\u00a0 You hear about people working their way through college but not high school.\u00a0 He became a Christian while he was at work.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, he\u2019s married.\u00a0 He\u2019s got a baby.\u00a0 He\u2019s a pastor.\u00a0 He has literally changed the trajectory of his entire family story.\u00a0 I call him a transitional generation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 One day in staff meeting, Jerry, we had a young man who interrupted the very end of the staff meeting.\u00a0 He grabbed a microphone, walked down front, shot to his knees, and began to propose to a young lady.\u00a0 In his proposal to the young lady he said, \u201cAnd I want to leave a different legacy than the one I was given.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>It\u2019s like he was this young man you are talking about, because I contacted him after the staff meeting.\u00a0 It turns out his father had been married 15 different times to 13 women.\u00a0 And he, as a man, wanted to leave a different legacy to his descendents rather than the one he\u2019d been given.\u00a0 There is hope.\u00a0 That\u2019s what redemption is all about.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s what redemption is all about.\u00a0 Another plot or map\u2014I call them a plot line and a map\u2014is almost the exact opposite.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat is, you inherit a rich legacy.\u00a0 You come from a great family.\u00a0 You\u2019re the seventh generation Christian or something like that.\u00a0 You\u2019ve been given all kinds of amazing opportunities for athletics and music and education.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got relationships with people.\u00a0 Your extended network of friends and family is just astonishing.\u00a0 And in this case, you choose, instead of to squander that inheritance, to build on it and invest it in the next generation.\u00a0 You become a steward of the bounty that God has given to you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And that\u2019s a choice everybody faces.\u00a0 If you receive much, you can either squander it or you can invest it in the right direction, right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It seems like a lot of generations have squandered it in the past.\u00a0 Have been given a great legacy, but they don\u2019t steward it properly.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 I had a meeting about four or five years ago with my financial counselor, I guess you could call it, and I brought my kids in.\u00a0 I wanted them to meet him, and I wanted them to talk to him about stewardship.\u00a0 He said to my kids, \u201cOver 90% of my clients with any degree of wealth at all\u201d\u2014and we\u2019re not talking about millions, just any degree of wealth at all\u2014\u201cOver 90% of my clients, their children squander it.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>He warned my kids, \u201cDo not do that.\u201d\u00a0 Set a course for 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\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, there is a third plot line of pursuing a noble vision.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I could hear Dennis Rainey cheering in the background as I read this one.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have to say, \u201cI did like this one.\u201d\u00a0 (Laughter)\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you know a lot of people.\u00a0 You\u2019ve had many people come through this radio program over the years that have done exactly that.\u00a0 You mentioned Bill Bright.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 There\u2019s a telling example, an outstanding example, of a person who\u2019s pursued a noble vision.\u00a0 It\u2019s simply people who listen to God; and by virtue of life experiences and a sense of calling from God, they simply embrace some kind of great cause for the sake of the kingdom.\u00a0 And who knows what it is?\u00a0 Could be lots of different things\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014could be in higher education, could be in business, could be some kind of entrepreneurship, could be starting a new non-profit; but they have this steely sense that God is calling them to do this.\u00a0 They figure out how to make it happen by the grace of God.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019m thinking of Elisabeth Elliot.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had the privilege of interviewing her\u2014Henry Blackaby, both of them were calling people to a noble vision.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have to be big either.\u00a0 Noble visions can be small.\u00a0 I use\u2014I have two examples in the book of\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Good.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014Whitworth grads, both still young men, who have started little non-profits in the city of Spokane.\u00a0 They\u2019re probably not going to go national.\u00a0 One works with street kids.\u00a0 The other one works with refugees; and here, these young men forming a team, raising money, accomplishing a noble vision that is small scale but still significant.\u00a0 Frankly, everything in the end has to be small scale.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I think of two families I know\u2014two young families, lots of kids, who in recent years have packed up everybody and everything; and they are now living in Uganda, in much less adaptable conditions than they were living in over here, but it\u2019s for a noble vision.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 They are there because they have a higher purpose in mind.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I love the fact that you included things that are done not on a national scale but on a local scale as well.\u00a0 Is this next one yours, Jerry?\u00a0 This fourth\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This plot line of bearing a heavy burden?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Even given the tragedy you went through in your family?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 I really thought about that.\u00a0 In fact, I even talked to my kids about this one.\u00a0 We did experience a catastrophic event.\u00a0 I grant that, and it was very hard; but if you look at sort the trajectory of my whole life, it\u2019s actually been a very good one.\u00a0 I would rather put myself in maybe number six, the one I give, honoring the ordinary.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Where most of my life has been just a good, solid, ordinary life of welcoming neighborhood kids in and putting three meals on the table and coaching my kids and teaching at a university.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a pretty rich life, all things considered.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how you could call yourself ordinary.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry, Jerry, I\u2019m not buying that description.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou did skip over the fifth one which is triumph through suffering.\u00a0 Frankly, as I thought about your life, I thought, \u201cTo move from <em>A Grace Disguised<\/em> to <em>A Grace Revealed<\/em> given the circumstances your life has been taken through, triumph through suffering pretty much describes what I\u2019m sitting here looking at in terms of how you\u2019ve used the lessons God has taught you to pass on to other people.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis book\u2014the thing I like about this book\u2014and others have said this to you I know as well\u2014is this is hope-filled.\u00a0 This is talking about how redemption really fuels our souls as people who are attempting to follow Jesus Christ.\u00a0 You\u2019re talking about how God is at work within us both to will and to work His own good pleasure.\u00a0 He\u2019s working out His big story even through our own little-story lives.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, for you to figure out \u201cWhat is my story and how is God working that into His bigger story,\u201d you may need a little coaching.\u00a0 You may need somebody who has given that some thought to help direct you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think that\u2019s what we\u2019ve tried to do on today\u2019s program.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s what you do so well in your book, Jerry.\u00a0 It\u2019s called <em>A Grace Revealed<\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a follow-up to a book that we\u2019ve recommended many times on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, a book called <em>A Grace Disguised,<\/em> that tells the story of the tragedy of your life when you lost your wife and your mom and one of your children in a car accident, and how you saw God\u2019s hand in the midst of that.\u00a0 <br><br>Now, twenty years later, in the book, <em>A Grace Revealed<\/em>, you have a fresh perspective on how God uses our stories, the good and the bad, to advance the Kingdom.\u00a0 So, I\u2019d encourage listeners, \u201cGet a copy of both books.\u201d\u00a0 <br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to FamilyLifeToday.com for more information.\u00a0 Again, it\u2019s FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 There is information there about Jerry Sittser\u2019s books <em>A Grace Disguised<\/em> and <em>A Grace Revealed<\/em>.\u00a0 You can also request those books when you call us toll-free at 1-800-FL-TODAY, 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That\u2019s 1-800- \u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then, the word, \u201cTODAY\u201d.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, we want to take a minute here today to say a word of thanks, thanks to those of you who from time to time get in touch with us and offer financial support for the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 The costs associated with producing and syndicating this radio program are significant, and it\u2019s only when folks like you go online or call to make a donation that we are able to move forward, to continue this ministry on this local station, on the internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tToday we\u2019d like to say thank you, if you are able to make a donation, by sending you a couple of CDs, a conversation we had recently with Nancy Leigh DeMoss, well known author and conference speaker.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe is the host of the daily radio program, <em>Revive Our Hearts<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>.\u00a0 We talked to her about the subject of gratitude, learning to be grateful both as individuals and how do we help our children capture this idea of gratitude.\u00a0 We\u2019ll send you the two CDs that feature more than two hours worth of dialogue on this subject when you contact us.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to FamilyLifeToday.com to make an online donation.\u00a0 Click the button that says, \u201cI CARE;\u201d and as you fill out the donation form online, we\u2019ll send you the CDs automatically.\u00a0 Or call 1-800-FL-TODAY, make your donation over the phone, and ask for the CDs with Nancy Leigh DeMoss or the CDs on gratitude.\u00a0 We 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life and somehow, by His grace and discipline, I will say, work that out into a story that is redemptive and beautiful and healing and whole.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, November 13<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to learn today how God wants to take the mountain peaks and the valleys of your life and use both of them to advance the Kingdom.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Thanks for joining us.\u00a0 I think our listeners are going to learn a new concept today\u2014at least, it was a new concept for me\u2014the idea of becoming spiritually ambidextrous.\u00a0 Are you spiritually ambidextrous?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 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\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And spiritual ambidextrous, what does that mean?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, it comes from one of my favorite groups of people, the desert fathers, who thrived in sort of the Eastern Mediterranean area in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.\u00a0 I can\u2019t go into the historical background.\u00a0 They\u2019re just a very odd collection of Christians oriented toward what we\u2019ve called the Disciplines of Deprivation of setting disciplines.\u00a0 They fasted.\u00a0 They lived in solitude, lived out in the desert and so on.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the figures from the West, John Cassian, visited Egypt, interviewed a bunch of folks.\u00a0 Then, when he returned to Gaul, modern-day France, Spain, he wrote about it in two books.\u00a0 One of the books is called <em>The Conferences<\/em>, and it summarizes the interviews he did with a bunch of these desert fathers.\u00a0 One of them, Abba Theodore, introduced this concept called being spiritually ambidextrous.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, ambidextrous means that you are as comfortable using one hand as the other.\u00a0 So, in baseball, you might be a switch-hitter, for example, if you\u2019re ambidextrous.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 But he said that to be spiritually ambidextrous means that you are as open to God, as submissive to God, as obedient to God in both adversity and prosperity; that you don\u2019t require God to work only under a certain set of circumstances.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, when you think about it, we tend to associate God and God\u2019s work with prosperity.\u00a0 So, things are going great; then, we love God.\u00a0 He\u2019s doing a good work in our lives; we\u2019re grateful.\u00a0 But when we face adversity, it becomes much more difficult.\u00a0 Abba Theodore said, \u201cGod works in both.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sunday Pearson, who you also write about in your book, had to learn how to use the other hand because her life\u2014there was curve ball that got thrown.\u00a0 She had to learn how to hit it from the other side, didn\u2019t she?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sunday gave me permission to tell her story after I wrote <em>A Grace Disguised<\/em>.\u00a0 Over the years, I\u2019ve gotten thousands of letters.\u00a0 Sometimes they tell amazing stories.\u00a0 This is one of them, and she gave me permission.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, back in the \u201880\u2019s, her brother, a law enforcement officer in California, was shot and killed in a drug bust.\u00a0 It was catastrophic for the family, as you can well imagine.\u00a0 She had already lost a younger brother to cancer.\u00a0 She told me her mother really never recovered from this; but she was married, eventually, kind of \u201cmoved on\u201d, got better, realized one day that she had really forgiven him in her heart although she doesn\u2019t really give you an understanding of how that happened.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen, she got this word from God that said, \u201cYou need to find this man and visit him.\u201d\u00a0 Now, he was somewhere stuck in the California prison system.\u00a0 She started doing research, found out where he was, asked for permission to visit him, and so on.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut God gave her a very specific reason to visit this man.\u00a0 He said to her, according to her story, \u201cI have two words I want you to share with him: \u2018God loves you.\u00a0 He loves you because of Jesus Christ\u2019\u201d\u2014lesson number one.\u00a0 That seems well enough from a Christian point of view.\u00a0 It was the second message that seemed 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\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the redemptive story tells us it\u2019s never too late, no matter what your circumstances are\u2014ambidextrous spirituality, in both adversity and prosperity.\u00a0 God is still God.\u00a0 God still does His work.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, one last note, Abba Theodore warned that prosperity may be more spiritually disadvantageous than adversity because it can lull us into a dull complacency and infuse in us a spirit of entitlement.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, Proverbs says \u201cGive me neither poverty nor riches.\u00a0 If I have poverty, I\u2019m tempted to go steal and bring dishonor.\u00a0 If I have prosperity, I\u2019m tempted to forget You and ignore You\u201d\u2014because why do you need God if you\u2019ve got everything else you need, right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 So we have to figure out how to live for God in our 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American democracy were individualism and materialism.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No doubt about it.\u00a0 Your book is about redemption, but you use story to talk about this theme of redemption.\u00a0 You talk about there being two kinds of stories: the big story, which is what God is up to, His story on planet Earth, and secondly, how he engages us as we live out our stories and wants to show what redemption looks like in our lives, in our little stories.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>Of course, you tell your story of how you lost your mother, your wife, and your four-year-old daughter in a tragic car wreck to a drunken driver in 1991.\u00a0 One of the areas of the book that I got the most out of\u2014and it was a short section, Jerry, and I thought <em>I want Jerry to share this with our listeners because I think they can benefit from this.<\/em>\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou talked about how a story has a plot, a theme.\u00a0 It has something that is taking place that\u2019s very intentional.\u00a0 You actually dig into the Scriptures; and you say there are at least six that you\u2019ve found that are kind of mapped out for us in terms of what kind of plot may be occurring in our lives.\u00a0 I think it may be helpful for our listeners just to listen to these six and to determine which one is most like their story that they\u2019re living out right now.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, these six are only suggestive.\u00a0 I think there are many others, but my point is not to give an exhaustive list but to give some examples that they can think about, ponder, for their own lives as they consider how their little story\u2014because most of our stories feel very little, very local, very small\u2014how those little stories of our lives might actually fit into the larger biblical story of how God is literally redeeming planet Earth.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>I should add that one of my favorite biblical stories is the story of Ruth because it shows in very clear form the juxtaposition of big and little.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, here\u2019s Ruth.\u00a0 She\u2019s living in this small town\u2014or ends up, I should say, in the small town of Bethlehem.\u00a0 When she dies, it seems like a pretty happy ending to the story; and it seems pretty quaint, a nice little bedtime story, until you realize that three generations later, born to the heritage of this foreigner, this woman from Moab, who just accidentally marries into the family line of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, that her great, great grandson is the great king of Israel, David.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut even then, the story is not done.\u00a0 Many generations later, another Son is born to this family line who just happens to be the Savior of the world.\u00a0 Now, Ruth didn\u2019t know any of this was going on.\u00a0 So, her little story taking place in this small town in Judea, in a backward period of Israel\u2019s history, ends up playing a major role in all of salvation history.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, I\u2019m not suggesting that all our stories are going to have that kind of significance, but we do need to realize that what seems little to us might not be little at all.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of the plot lines you suggest in your book is that our story may be the turning, the passing on of a different legacy.\u00a0 In fact, I like the way you said it.\u00a0 It may be the turning the deficit into a surplus\u2014inheriting a mess and bequeathing a blessing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 I call that passing on a new legacy.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s say you come from a family background that is virtually bankrupt.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u2014you come to know Christ in your teen years or your twenties or your thirties; and you have a mess on your hands, lots of dysfunction, lots of problems.\u00a0 You realize that you may be called to be, what I would name, a transitional generation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou\u2019re the pivot point.\u00a0 You take this mess that you\u2019ve inherited and, through submission and obedience to God and good decision-making and relationships with others and being grounded in a church and other things, you literally pass on\u2014it could be to your children, it could be to the next generation of Christian leaders\u2014a very different kind of legacy.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, there are many people in our culture that face that kind of script.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have a lot of strong, stable families now.\u00a0 Many people come from incredibly dysfunctional backgrounds.\u00a0 I see it all the time at the University where I teach.\u00a0 <br><br>In fact, I tell this story in this particular chapter of a young man named Greg who came from a family in which both of his biological parents were married five times.\u00a0 He was living on his own by the time he was 15 years old, working at McDonalds full-time while he was working his way through high school.\u00a0\u00a0 You hear about people working their way through college but not high school.\u00a0 He became a Christian while he was at work.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, he\u2019s married.\u00a0 He\u2019s got a baby.\u00a0 He\u2019s a pastor.\u00a0 He has literally changed the trajectory of his entire family story.\u00a0 I call him a transitional generation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 One day in staff meeting, Jerry, we had a young man who interrupted the very end of the staff meeting.\u00a0 He grabbed a microphone, walked down front, shot to his knees, and began to propose to a young lady.\u00a0 In his proposal to the young lady he said, \u201cAnd I want to leave a different legacy than the one I was given.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>It\u2019s like he was this young man you are talking about, because I contacted him after the staff meeting.\u00a0 It turns out his father had been married 15 different times to 13 women.\u00a0 And he, as a man, wanted to leave a different legacy to his descendents rather than the one he\u2019d been given.\u00a0 There is hope.\u00a0 That\u2019s what redemption is all about.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s what redemption is all about.\u00a0 Another plot or map\u2014I call them a plot line and a map\u2014is almost the exact opposite.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat is, you inherit a rich legacy.\u00a0 You come from a great family.\u00a0 You\u2019re the seventh generation Christian or something like that.\u00a0 You\u2019ve been given all kinds of amazing opportunities for athletics and music and education.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got relationships with people.\u00a0 Your extended network of friends and family is just astonishing.\u00a0 And in this case, you choose, instead of to squander that inheritance, to build on it and invest it in the next generation.\u00a0 You become a steward of the bounty that God has given to you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And that\u2019s a choice everybody faces.\u00a0 If you receive much, you can either squander it or you can invest it in the right direction, right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It seems like a lot of generations have squandered it in the past.\u00a0 Have been given a great legacy, but they don\u2019t steward it properly.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 I had a meeting about four or five years ago with my financial counselor, I guess you could call it, and I brought my kids in.\u00a0 I wanted them to meet him, and I wanted them to talk to him about stewardship.\u00a0 He said to my kids, \u201cOver 90% of my clients with any degree of wealth at all\u201d\u2014and we\u2019re not talking about millions, just any degree of wealth at all\u2014\u201cOver 90% of my clients, their children squander it.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>He warned my kids, \u201cDo not do that.\u201d\u00a0 Set a course for your life of stewardship rather than simply inheriting, in this case, financial wealth\u2014could be any other kind of wealth too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Not squander it, invest it.\u00a0 Be a good steward of it for the common good of church and society.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 There\u2019s something about the human condition.\u00a0 When we are given what we did not work to earn, it kind of slips through our fingers like it\u2019s not really ours in the first place.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I see that happen over and over again as parents pass wealth on to the next generation, and the kids are\u2014they don\u2019t know how to handle it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, there is a third plot line of pursuing a noble vision.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I could hear Dennis Rainey cheering in the background as I read this one.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have to say, \u201cI did like this one.\u201d\u00a0 (Laughter)\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you know a lot of people.\u00a0 You\u2019ve had many people come through this radio program over the years that have done exactly that.\u00a0 You mentioned Bill Bright.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 There\u2019s a telling example, an outstanding example, of a person who\u2019s pursued a noble vision.\u00a0 It\u2019s simply people who listen to God; and by virtue of life experiences and a sense of calling from God, they simply embrace some kind of great cause for the sake of the kingdom.\u00a0 And who knows what it is?\u00a0 Could be lots of different things\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014could be in higher education, could be in business, could be some kind of entrepreneurship, could be starting a new non-profit; but they have this steely sense that God is calling them to do this.\u00a0 They figure out how to make it happen by the grace of God.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019m thinking of Elisabeth Elliot.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had the privilege of interviewing her\u2014Henry Blackaby, both of them were calling people to a noble vision.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have to be big either.\u00a0 Noble visions can be small.\u00a0 I use\u2014I have two examples in the book of\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Good.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014Whitworth grads, both still young men, who have started little non-profits in the city of Spokane.\u00a0 They\u2019re probably not going to go national.\u00a0 One works with street kids.\u00a0 The other one works with refugees; and here, these young men forming a team, raising money, accomplishing a noble vision that is small scale but still significant.\u00a0 Frankly, everything in the end has to be small scale.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I think of two families I know\u2014two young families, lots of kids, who in recent years have packed up everybody and everything; and they are now living in Uganda, in much less adaptable conditions than they were living in over here, but it\u2019s for a noble vision.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 They are there because they have a higher purpose in mind.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I love the fact that you included things that are done not on a national scale but on a local scale as well.\u00a0 Is this next one yours, Jerry?\u00a0 This fourth\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This plot line of bearing a heavy burden?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Even given the tragedy you went through in your family?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 I really thought about that.\u00a0 In fact, I even talked to my kids about this one.\u00a0 We did experience a catastrophic event.\u00a0 I grant that, and it was very hard; but if you look at sort the trajectory of my whole life, it\u2019s actually been a very good one.\u00a0 I would rather put myself in maybe number six, the one I give, honoring the ordinary.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jerry:<\/strong>\u00a0 Where most of my life has been just a good, solid, ordinary life of welcoming neighborhood kids in and putting three meals on the table and coaching my kids and teaching at a university.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a pretty rich life, all things considered.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how you could call yourself ordinary.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry, Jerry, I\u2019m not buying that description.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou did skip over the fifth one which is triumph through suffering.\u00a0 Frankly, as I thought about your life, I thought, \u201cTo move from <em>A Grace Disguised<\/em> to <em>A Grace Revealed<\/em> given the circumstances your life has been taken through, triumph through suffering pretty much describes what I\u2019m sitting here looking at in terms of how you\u2019ve used the lessons God has taught you to pass on to other people.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis book\u2014the thing I like about this book\u2014and others have said this to you I know as well\u2014is this is hope-filled.\u00a0 This is talking about how redemption really fuels our souls as people who are attempting to follow Jesus Christ.\u00a0 You\u2019re talking about how God is at work within us both to will and to work His own good pleasure.\u00a0 He\u2019s working out His big story even through our own little-story lives.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, for you to figure out \u201cWhat is my story and how is God working that into His bigger story,\u201d you may need a little coaching.\u00a0 You may need somebody who has given that some thought to help direct you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think that\u2019s what we\u2019ve tried to do on today\u2019s program.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s what you do so well in your book, Jerry.\u00a0 It\u2019s called <em>A Grace Revealed<\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a follow-up to a book that we\u2019ve recommended many times on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, a book called <em>A Grace Disguised,<\/em> that tells the story of the tragedy of your life when you lost your wife and your mom and one of your children in a car accident, and how you saw God\u2019s hand in the midst of that.\u00a0 <br><br>Now, twenty years later, in the book, <em>A Grace Revealed<\/em>, you have a fresh perspective on how God uses our stories, the good and the bad, to advance the Kingdom.\u00a0 So, I\u2019d encourage listeners, \u201cGet a copy of both books.\u201d\u00a0 <br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to FamilyLifeToday.com for more information.\u00a0 Again, it\u2019s FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 There is information there about Jerry Sittser\u2019s books <em>A Grace Disguised<\/em> and <em>A Grace Revealed<\/em>.\u00a0 You can also request those books when you call us toll-free at 1-800-FL-TODAY, 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That\u2019s 1-800- \u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then, the word, \u201cTODAY\u201d.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, we want to take a minute here today to say a word of thanks, thanks to those of you who from time to time get in touch with us and offer financial support for the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 The costs associated with producing and syndicating this radio program are significant, and it\u2019s only when folks like you go online or call to make a donation that we are able to move forward, to continue this ministry on this local station, on the internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tToday we\u2019d like to say thank you, if you are able to make a donation, by sending you a couple of CDs, a conversation we had recently with Nancy Leigh DeMoss, well known author and conference speaker.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe is the host of the daily radio program, <em>Revive Our Hearts<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>.\u00a0 We talked to her about the subject of gratitude, learning to be grateful both as individuals and how do we help our children capture this idea of gratitude.\u00a0 We\u2019ll send you the two CDs that feature more than two hours worth of dialogue on this subject when you contact us.\u00a0 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