{"id":306037,"date":"2020-05-23T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/joyless-or-joy-filled\/"},"modified":"2020-05-23T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T11:00:05","slug":"joyless-or-joy-filled","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-this-week\/joyless-or-joy-filled\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyless or Joy-filled"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Eric Metaxas talks with MIchelle Hill about the ripe opportunity the church has, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to display the hands and feet of Jesus to a troubled, hurting world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"http:\/\/d2c17sq0nj1f7e.cloudfront.net\/flw2020-05-23.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:28:00","filesize":"25.64M","filesize_raw":"26883023","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2867,2848],"tags":[],"podcast_series":[],"cwp_profile":[9260],"series":[10388],"class_list":["post-306037","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","hentry","category-church-involvement","category-cultural-issues","cwp_profile-eric-metaxas","series-familylife-this-week"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/10\/FLTW-Podcast-Cover-2-1400x1400-1-300x300-1.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/306037\/joyless-or-joy-filled","player_link":"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/306037\/joyless-or-joy-filled","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-this-week","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Fo1BpqAqCm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-this-week\/joyless-or-joy-filled\/\">Joyless or Joy-filled<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-this-week\/joyless-or-joy-filled\/embed\/#?secret=Fo1BpqAqCm\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Joyless or Joy-filled&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"Fo1BpqAqCm\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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Like many, he was concerned for where the church in Germany was going, but there was something else\/something deeper that troubled him more. Here\u2019s Eric Metaxas.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Eric:<\/strong> The church in Germany was kind of similar to the church in America right now, in the sense that it had been mightily blessed; there was incredible tradition. They had really something to be proud of; but of course, when you have something to be proud of, you know, you can be prideful. Of course, that\u2019s fatal; because the church cannot be the church at that point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Eric Metaxas has some words for you and for me today about the dangers of pride and how to live a joy-filled Christian life on this edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week. <\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife This Week. <\/em>I\u2019m Michelle Hill. If you\u2019re like me, there is a lot weighing on your heart right now; but maybe you\u2019re part of the two percent that are calm and care-free, and just happy to be alive! No matter who you are, there are a lot of people who are concerned for the next few months and, really, what\u2019s beyond that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSeven years ago, I was at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention; it\u2019s a conference for Christian radio people. The speaker was a <em>New York Times <\/em>number-one best-selling author of several books; he\u2019s written children\u2019s books; he\u2019s the host of a nationally-syndicated radio program; keynote speaker of various events. I could go on and on because, well, his credentials are quite long. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe speaker was Eric Metaxas, and he had a burden on his heart for the church\/the people of God. It moved me seven years ago; I remember the exact seat I was in. I pulled it out of our archives, and I dusted it off; I wanted to share it with you today. It\u2019s a call for God\u2019s people to really step up, and to be a joy-filled people, and to start laying some things\u2014well, to cast them off to the side. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, many of you have heard Eric\u2019s conversion story; it\u2019s unusual. God came to him in a dream; it\u2019s almost unbelievable. That\u2019s where Eric started his story as he addressed the National Religious Broadcasters Convention. Here\u2019s Eric.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Recorded Message]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Eric:<\/strong> You know, it\u2019s a funny thing to go to sleep, not believing anything, and wake up knowing Jesus is Lord and the Bible is true. I mean, it\u2019s pretty dramatic. It\u2019s like going to sleep single and waking up married. You know, you can\u2019t really\u2014\u201cWhat happened?!\u201d Everything is different, right? It\u2019s like the end of a fairytale; you\u2019re looking for this thing, and you find it. It\u2019s just the most beautiful, glorious thing <em>imaginable<\/em>. You wonder why you hadn\u2019t found it before, and why is it that there are people in the world that don\u2019t know this joy\/this truth?\u2014the most glorious thing in the universe! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd it changed everything. Of course, from that point on, I kind of handed my career over to the Lord. I think that\u2019s a good move at this point. But the real issue for me\u2014(and it gets to the idea that I\u2019m speaking to media leaders here; I hope I am. Is this the right room?\u2014media leaders?\u2014yes)\u2014was that I realized that there is a grotesque disconnect in our culture. I had been to Yale University, and I had never heard<em> any<\/em> of the stuff that most of us in this room know. I had watched TV my whole life\u2014you know in the \u201870s, it was not all hellish\u2014but I had never heard most of what we all know and live. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd it angered me\u2014right?\u2014because I thought: \u201cI would have liked to know this stuff, growing up. It could have saved me some pain,\u201d and \u201cI\u2019d like everyone I know to know this stuff; because this is the secret of the universe, in case I\u2019m missing something.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut we don\u2019t live in a culture where this stuff is in the mainstream; and so I had a passion, from the beginning, to share what I knew with everyone. By \u201ceveryone,\u201d I mean the folks who aren\u2019t getting it: the folks who\u2019ve never <em>heard<\/em> of Moody Radio; they\u2019ve never <em>heard<\/em> of the Colson Center; they have never <em>heard<\/em> of any of you or the stars in our world; they have <em>never<\/em> heard of <em>any<\/em> of those people; they don\u2019t know who they are. It\u2019s a separate reality, and those people are <em>lost<\/em>. They will watch tons of media, and they will <em>never<\/em> encounter what we know. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI had a passion, from the beginning, to communicate the stuff we know in a way that I might be able to share it with my neighbor or my friends\u2014who would not read if I gave them a copy of something spectacular like <em>Mere Christianity<\/em>\u2014probably wouldn\u2019t read it unless they were really smart and really hurting. In all seriousness, the point is that the culture\u2014the cultural elites, in particular\/academia\u2014but the culture\u2014we don\u2019t hear these kinds of stories. You know, you\u2019re not going to turn on the TV and see a mini-series on the Bible, for example. [Laughter] Well, praise the Lord! Very lately, there\u2019s some good news in this direction, very lately.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI always had this passion. When I heard the story of Bonhoeffer, it so touched me; because my grandfather was killed in the war. My mother is German, as I said. My mother lost her father when she was nine years old. He was 31 years old, a genuinely reluctant German soldier, who would listen to the BBC, with his ear literally pressed against the radio speaker; because if you recall, listening to the BBC in those days, you could be sent to a concentration camp. So this history is part of my life and part of the pain of growing up, knowing that your mother grew up without a dad and all this stuff. When I heard this story of Bonhoeffer, I was <em>transfixed<\/em> and <em>blessed<\/em> to think that a man, because of his faith in Jesus\u2014a hardcore Christian\u2014did the right thing. Of course, I wrote the book about Bonhoeffer. There are a number of things to think about; but Bonhoeffer, in Germany, was facing a church\u2014I think a lot of people have noticed parallels between the story of Bonhoeffer in my book and some things that are happening in America today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think one of those principal parallels has to do with the church, because the church in Germany was kind of similar to the church in America right now in the sense that it had been mightily blessed; there was incredible tradition. They had really something to be proud of; but of course, when you have something to be proud of, you can be prideful in a bad way, or you can take things for granted; you can take this great legacy for granted. You can lose your first love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think it\u2019s safe to say that many Germans, probably most Germans, were mere Lutherans; they were church-goers, you know? This is just: \u201cI\u2019m German, so I\u2019m Lutheran,\u201d which leads, of course, to this idea of cheap grace\/that you really somehow miss what it\u2019s all about. Maybe you knew once, but you\u2019ve kind of moved on and you\u2019re going through the motions. You\u2019ve become merely religious somehow. Of course, that\u2019s fatal; because the church cannot be the church at that point. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBonhoeffer was a prophetic voice, speaking into that culture, trying to wake up the church to be the church. That\u2019s what prophets always do, right? They try to wake up the people of God to <em>be<\/em> the people of God. And the people of God always don\u2019t listen to the prophet; and then, thousands of years later, they say: \u201cIsaiah was just an awesome guy, was he not? Yes, I think we killed him; but you know, we didn\u2019t know.\u201d We tend not to hear what God is saying through His prophets. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think the story of Bonhoeffer is a cautionary tale for us, and I think that the Lord offers us this story to keep us humble. I praise the Lord that He loves us enough to keep us humble.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Eric Metaxas, reflecting on the story of Isaiah through the story of Bonhoeffer. Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, \u201cThere is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.\u201d Those are deep words and deep thoughts. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEric Metaxas is going to continue unpacking the story of Bonhoeffer and giving us hope in these uncertain times. Stay tuned. We\u2019ll be back in two minutes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Radio Station Spot Break]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. We are listening today to Eric Metaxas. He addressed a congregation of some media leaders about seven years ago. It was a charge to the church; it was a charge to say: \u201cOkay, something\u2019s not quite right. We\u2019re supposed to be joy-filled people.\u201d It has me wondering, \u201cHow are we doing right now?\u201d You know, in uncertain times, and COVID, and rebuilding, are we joy-filled people? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet\u2019s go back to Eric Metaxas.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Recorded Message]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Eric: <\/strong>The story of Bonhoeffer is God\u2019s story, which I think He offers to the church today. I can speak to you as leaders in the church\/as a microcosm of the American church, and ask you what I think Bonhoeffer would ask you, which is whether you have lost your joy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know that Chuck Colson <em>dreaded<\/em> speaking to this group. I can say that now, because he\u2019s passed on; he <em>dreaded<\/em> speaking to this group. Now, I\u2019m sure it was a slightly different group, so don\u2019t be offended, unless you\u2019ve been here before. [Laughter] He said: \u201cYou know, they\u2019ve heard it all. You can say anything; and it just bounces off, like BBs off of a brick wall.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe question is\u2014those of us who are, to some extent, professionals in the religion business\u2014that\u2019s a scary place to be\u2014it\u2019s very easy, <em>very easy, <\/em>to begin seeing these things in a way that is not fresh anymore. It\u2019s easy to lose your joy. So the first question I want to ask\u2014and maybe the most important question is\u2014\u201cHave you lost the joy of Jesus? Do you have the <em>joy<\/em> of Jesus?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, I <em>know<\/em> many of you <em>don\u2019t<\/em> because I work with some of you; I\u2019ve worked with many people in this room. I know people in this room, so I can speak from experience. I <em>know<\/em> that many of us do not have the <em>joy<\/em> of Jesus. I think that\u2019s the ultimate arbiter of faith; because you can\u2019t really fake joy\u2014and because it\u2019s very clear, from Scripture, the way Jesus talks about the little children\u2014and you know, \u201cHave you lost your first love?\u201d\u2014how many times have you heard that sermon? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut <em>joy! <\/em>If you know what He\u2019s done for you\u2014and now, we say, \u201cOf course, I know; and I can give a sermon on it,\u201d\u2014but not to know it intellectually, but to know it <em>viscerally<\/em>. If you know that, the response is joy. But it\u2019s very easy for us, in this room\u2014I think easier than anybody\u2014to lose sight of that, and to have kind of a rote response that lacks the passion that it might have had when you heard it for the first time. I want to say that, as from the Lord tonight.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you would say, \u201cYes,\u201d to that; if you\u2019d say: \u201cYes, I\u2019ve lost\u2014I don\u2019t have joy. I\u2019ll be honest; I don\u2019t have joy,\u201d\u2014first of all, if you can admit that, praise Jesus. That\u2019s God; that\u2019s God, right? Because without that, I really think we can do nothing; because I think that, when Scripture says, \u201cRejoice in the Lord always,\u201d the Lord puts these things in there to make us see ourselves; right? And you hate it when He puts that stuff in there because, you know, \u201cBe anxious for <em>nothing<\/em>\u201d\u2014 like: \u201cCome on! There is plenty of good stuff to be anxious about, Lord.\u201d No; the Scripture says, \u201cBe anxious for <em>nothing<\/em>,\u201d so we do not have excuses. It\u2019s very clear; the Lord calls us to rejoice in Him always\/to be anxious for nothing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to say to this group of religious professionals, among\/of whom I am one, \u201cGod cannot use us if we do not have His joy.\u201d And if we do not have His joy, it is evidence that we don\u2019t <em>really, really, really believe<\/em> what He\u2019s done for us; or somehow we\u2019ve lost the ability to apprehend it as a person. Intellectually, we apprehend it: \u201cI get it\u201d; but it doesn\u2019t move us anymore. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf that\u2019s your story, I just want to say\u2014I want to beg you in the name of Jesus\u2014to pray that the Lord would restore that joy to you, because your colleagues see whether you have the joy of Jesus or don\u2019t. Your neighbors\/your enemies see that. I really do think that\u2019s the thing that speaks most powerfully about whether you actually believe the <em>crazy idea<\/em>\u2014because it\u2019s an insane idea\u2014except it\u2019s true, right? But if you believe that, you have joy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think, unless the church believes in that way\u2014that people see our joy\/that we have been blessed with the <em>amazing<\/em> grace of God and we\u2019re just giddy; it doesn\u2019t mean our life doesn\u2019t have problems\u2014but if people see that, then they know you can argue and argue, but they can\u2019t argue with that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think, ultimately, that\u2019s the question Bonhoeffer was asking the people of his day: \u201cDo you <em>really<\/em> believe this? Because if you do, it will change the way you live, and it will change the way you die.\u201d You can go to the gallows, as he did, with the peace of Jesus; because you know what you know. You\u2019ve got a little secret. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs I go around the country, and I speak to the church, I really believe the Holy Spirit <em>wants<\/em> to say to the church: \u201cYou\u2019ve got to wake up. You\u2019re sleeping; you\u2019re sleeping. You have to reconnect with Me in a way\u201d\u2014and this can happen in any number of ways; it can be through terrible persecution, or it can be through suffering in our own lives\u2014but we know God can do that. We need to reconnect with Him, because we cannot possibly be the church unless we repent and really find Him in such a way that that childlike joy is restored. He cannot use us; we cannot say much to the world if we don\u2019t have that joy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBonhoeffer was trying to wake up a corpse, right? Isn\u2019t that what God does? God\u2019s trying to wake up a corpse. Spiritually, we are dead; we know this, right? And He\u2019s trying to wake us up and bring us back to life. I think there are so many pieces of this. I don\u2019t want to go on much longer, but I do think that, if we\u2019re speaking in a religious way\/if we\u2019re communicating in a religious way, you can fake that. We can all fake that; we know how to speak that language, right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember a friend of mine once said to me, \u201cThe Lord has quickened us financially.\u201d [Laughter] You know, he couldn\u2019t just say, \u201cI got a raise\u201d; he had to use the religious lingo. We know that religious lingo: \u201cThe Lord has quickened us financially.\u201d So we can fake that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think where we are, as a nation\/as a culture, God is calling His church\u2014and I do think that the story of Bonhoeffer has focused this for a lot of people, certainly for me\u2014He\u2019s calling us to wake up, to stop faking it, to stop being religious. To some extent, most of us are, right? So the only question is: \u201cTo what extent?\u201d; but we\u2019ve got to repent of that! We\u2019ve got to repent of any place, where we have bought into something that is <em>not<\/em> of Him; because I do think we\u2019re going to face some tough stuff. I think we are facing some tough stuff. He needs His church to be His church; that\u2019s His call. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve got to have a broken heart for the lost. We\u2019ve got to care about the salvation of people, like Katie Couric, who\u2014my flesh just wants to hate her, right? It\u2019s much safer caring for the cannibal on some island someplace and say: \u201cOh, apart from the grace of God, I would be just like that cannibal,\u201d but \u201cKatie Couric can go to hell; I don\u2019t care.\u201d That\u2019s somehow how we think sometimes, right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think there are many people hungry for what we have and know. And somehow, they are not getting it\u2014to get back to the beginning\u2014they are <em>not<\/em> getting it; they are just not finding. We must find a way! If we become alive in Christ\/if we find our joy, we will find\/we will want to find creative ways to communicate what we know: the greatest knowledge\/the greatest truth in the history of the universe. We will find ways to communicate that to a world that\u2019s not getting it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s really what I want to ask tonight: \u201cAre you still grateful for your salvation? Do you know that you don\u2019t deserve it?\u201d These are basic things; you\u2019ll hear these things in Sunday school. This is nothing theologically sophisticated; but to say it to a group like this, because we know it all so well, how can we hear it as from the Lord? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI will again say that this issue of joy for the Christian church: \u201cIf non-believers, especially, do not see the joy of Jesus in us and the love of Jesus\u201d\u2014obviously, we\u2019re talking about joy\/the love of Jesus\u2014\u201cthen they know, because they are created in the image of God, so they have the ability to tell the difference between lies and truth, and right and wrong, or whatever; so they can <em>smell<\/em> that something is off.\u201d God has given them the ability to respond to truth; so the love of Jesus and the joy of Jesus, they can\u2019t help but respond to that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, thinking of the story of Wilberforce, he did so much for the poor and just poured himself into so many projects that, even the people who wanted to <em>despise<\/em> him, had to admit\u2014they <em>hated<\/em> to admit it\u2014but they had to admit that: \u201cThere was something there that I can\u2019t account for; I don\u2019t know why he\u2019s so cheerful. I <em>hate<\/em> that.\u201d He was <em>very<\/em> cheerful. That\u2019s what people have to see; that\u2019s what people have to see. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSpeaking to a tremendously elite\/august group like this, I say with all humility that that\u2019s, I think, what Bonhoeffer would say\u2014and what the Lord would really want to say through Bonhoeffer to ask us\u2014because, again, you know \u201cTo whom much is given, of them much is required.\u201d I hate when people misquote that; people say, \u201cTo whom much is given, much is required,\u201d\u2014that\u2019s wrong. \u201cTo whom much is given, <em>of them<\/em> much is required.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>So much<\/em> has been given to the wonderful people in this room. The Lord has given us <em>so much<\/em>; and of course, He will judge us for that, right? You know the teachers\/the leaders\u2014we\u2019re going to be judged more harshly\u2014so if this group could think about that issue, I do believe Jesus is speaking that. I don\u2019t say that lightly about that issue of joy and love. If you have <em>lost<\/em> that, whatever you do, get that back! Get that back, because we cannot possibly be the church and be <em>effective<\/em> unless we do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd in conclusion, I would say, <em>if<\/em> we do\/if the church\u2014represented by the microcosm in this room\u2014were to be the church, <em>easily<\/em>, we could combat the tremendous difficulties that are facing us in this country. If the American church were to <em>be<\/em> the church of Jesus Christ and wake up, as the German church did <em>not<\/em> until it was too late, we could change <em>everything<\/em>. The level of creativity in this room and what God has poured into us is sufficient, friends. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is hope! When I think that we\u2019re missing Roma and Mark\u2019s [Burnett] Bible series tonight\u2014talk about a sign of hope!\u2014that something like that could get made in Hollywood. Now, that\u2019s a drop in the bucket; but the point is that the Lord has a passion to communicate with all these people, who are watching TV, and never seeing what we know. We\u2019ve got to figure that out. We\u2019ve got to care about those people; we\u2019ve got to care about those people. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI will just say, in closing, I think that many of us know that the church has gotten sort of overly political; and it hasn\u2019t worked out so well. But I think that we have to understand that we ought not to shrink from being political. We need to avoid, at all cost, making an <em>idol<\/em> of politics\u2014God forbid\u2014but the Lord calls us to be involved in <em>every<\/em> aspect of a culture. What Chuck Colson quoted over and over again, the line from Abraham Kuyper: \u201cThere is not one square inch of creation over which Jesus Christ does not say, \u2018Mine!\u2019\u201d We\u2019ve got to be in <em>everything<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI praise God that we finally got involved in politics about 30 or so years ago; and let\u2019s get it right, and let\u2019s be involved in the right way; because there are people depending on us to be involved in those things. But if we stop there\u2014if we are not involved in the wider culture\/if we\u2019re not involved in making mini-series and doing all kinds of things like that\u2014then we\u2019re not doing enough. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI believe that the Lord wants to wake His church up to the lost, such that we would begin to get our hearts broken again for them; and that we would try to reach them in a <em>new<\/em> way, speaking their language, not speaking religious language. I believe that\u2019s God\u2019s calling on His church. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd on that tremendously sober note, I\u2019ll say, \u201cGoodnight; God bless you.\u201d [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Eric Metaxas, giving a charge to the church. You know, what he said, he said seven years ago; but it\u2019s still true today. We need to be joy-filled people, who speak of God and radiate Him as we go about our days. You know, now, in these uncertain times, after we\u2019ve watched COVID ravage through our world\u2014not just one area\/the <em>whole<\/em> world\u2014we need to be joy-filled; and we need to be radiating Christ to those around us: to our neighbors, to emergency workers, to the store clerks, to <em>everyone<\/em> we come in contact with. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEric Metaxas wrote a biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and I want to leave you with a few choice Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotes. He said: \u201cSeek God, not happiness. This is the fundamental rule of all meditation. If you seek God alone, you will gain happiness; and that is its promise.\u201d He also said this: \u201cWe pray for the big things; and forget to give thanks for the ordinary small, and yet really not so small, gifts. How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThose are some very meaty quotes. I want to challenge you to think through those quotes. We\u2019ll have a link to more Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotes on our website. Go to FamilyLifeThisWeek.com; that\u2019s FamilyLifeThisWeek.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHey, next week, we are going to check in with my friend, Lisa Anderson, who is the host of <em>Boundless<\/em> radio show for young adults. We\u2019re going to talk about just, well, maybe some of us need to rebuild relationships; some of us have <em>stronger<\/em> relationships because of COVID and all that has happened. We\u2019re going to check in with Lisa and see how things are going and maybe get some helpful advice for moving forward in life. I hope you can join us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHey, I want to thank the president of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, David Robbins, along with our station partners around the country. A big thank you to our engineer today, Keith Lynch. Thanks to our producer, Marques Holt. 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weekend, Eric Metaxas talks with MIchelle Hill about the ripe opportunity the church has, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to display the hands and feet of Jesus to a troubled, hurting world.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylife.com\/flw\/flw2020-05-23.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It was the 1930s, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer was watching the German church turn under the influence of Nazi ideology. Like many, he was concerned for where the church in Germany was going, but there was something else\/something deeper that troubled him more. Here\u2019s Eric Metaxas.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Eric:<\/strong> The church in Germany was kind of similar to the church in America right now, in the sense that it had been mightily blessed; there was incredible tradition. They had really something to be proud of; but of course, when you have something to be proud of, you know, you can be prideful. Of course, that\u2019s fatal; because the church cannot be the church at that point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Eric Metaxas has some words for you and for me today about the dangers of pride and how to live a joy-filled Christian life on this edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week. <\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife This Week. <\/em>I\u2019m Michelle Hill. If you\u2019re like me, there is a lot weighing on your heart right now; but maybe you\u2019re part of the two percent that are calm and care-free, and just happy to be alive! No matter who you are, there are a lot of people who are concerned for the next few months and, really, what\u2019s beyond that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSeven years ago, I was at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention; it\u2019s a conference for Christian radio people. The speaker was a <em>New York Times <\/em>number-one best-selling author of several books; he\u2019s written children\u2019s books; he\u2019s the host of a nationally-syndicated radio program; keynote speaker of various events. I could go on and on because, well, his credentials are quite long. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe speaker was Eric Metaxas, and he had a burden on his heart for the church\/the people of God. It moved me seven years ago; I remember the exact seat I was in. I pulled it out of our archives, and I dusted it off; I wanted to share it with you today. It\u2019s a call for God\u2019s people to really step up, and to be a joy-filled people, and to start laying some things\u2014well, to cast them off to the side. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, many of you have heard Eric\u2019s conversion story; it\u2019s unusual. God came to him in a dream; it\u2019s almost unbelievable. That\u2019s where Eric started his story as he addressed the National Religious Broadcasters Convention. Here\u2019s Eric.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Recorded Message]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Eric:<\/strong> You know, it\u2019s a funny thing to go to sleep, not believing anything, and wake up knowing Jesus is Lord and the Bible is true. I mean, it\u2019s pretty dramatic. It\u2019s like going to sleep single and waking up married. You know, you can\u2019t really\u2014\u201cWhat happened?!\u201d Everything is different, right? It\u2019s like the end of a fairytale; you\u2019re looking for this thing, and you find it. It\u2019s just the most beautiful, glorious thing <em>imaginable<\/em>. You wonder why you hadn\u2019t found it before, and why is it that there are people in the world that don\u2019t know this joy\/this truth?\u2014the most glorious thing in the universe! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd it changed everything. Of course, from that point on, I kind of handed my career over to the Lord. I think that\u2019s a good move at this point. But the real issue for me\u2014(and it gets to the idea that I\u2019m speaking to media leaders here; I hope I am. Is this the right room?\u2014media leaders?\u2014yes)\u2014was that I realized that there is a grotesque disconnect in our culture. I had been to Yale University, and I had never heard<em> any<\/em> of the stuff that most of us in this room know. I had watched TV my whole life\u2014you know in the \u201870s, it was not all hellish\u2014but I had never heard most of what we all know and live. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd it angered me\u2014right?\u2014because I thought: \u201cI would have liked to know this stuff, growing up. It could have saved me some pain,\u201d and \u201cI\u2019d like everyone I know to know this stuff; because this is the secret of the universe, in case I\u2019m missing something.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut we don\u2019t live in a culture where this stuff is in the mainstream; and so I had a passion, from the beginning, to share what I knew with everyone. By \u201ceveryone,\u201d I mean the folks who aren\u2019t getting it: the folks who\u2019ve never <em>heard<\/em> of Moody Radio; they\u2019ve never <em>heard<\/em> of the Colson Center; they have never <em>heard<\/em> of any of you or the stars in our world; they have <em>never<\/em> heard of <em>any<\/em> of those people; they don\u2019t know who they are. It\u2019s a separate reality, and those people are <em>lost<\/em>. They will watch tons of media, and they will <em>never<\/em> encounter what we know. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI had a passion, from the beginning, to communicate the stuff we know in a way that I might be able to share it with my neighbor or my friends\u2014who would not read if I gave them a copy of something spectacular like <em>Mere Christianity<\/em>\u2014probably wouldn\u2019t read it unless they were really smart and really hurting. In all seriousness, the point is that the culture\u2014the cultural elites, in particular\/academia\u2014but the culture\u2014we don\u2019t hear these kinds of stories. You know, you\u2019re not going to turn on the TV and see a mini-series on the Bible, for example. [Laughter] Well, praise the Lord! Very lately, there\u2019s some good news in this direction, very lately.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI always had this passion. When I heard the story of Bonhoeffer, it so touched me; because my grandfather was killed in the war. My mother is German, as I said. My mother lost her father when she was nine years old. He was 31 years old, a genuinely reluctant German soldier, who would listen to the BBC, with his ear literally pressed against the radio speaker; because if you recall, listening to the BBC in those days, you could be sent to a concentration camp. So this history is part of my life and part of the pain of growing up, knowing that your mother grew up without a dad and all this stuff. When I heard this story of Bonhoeffer, I was <em>transfixed<\/em> and <em>blessed<\/em> to think that a man, because of his faith in Jesus\u2014a hardcore Christian\u2014did the right thing. Of course, I wrote the book about Bonhoeffer. There are a number of things to think about; but Bonhoeffer, in Germany, was facing a church\u2014I think a lot of people have noticed parallels between the story of Bonhoeffer in my book and some things that are happening in America today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think one of those principal parallels has to do with the church, because the church in Germany was kind of similar to the church in America right now in the sense that it had been mightily blessed; there was incredible tradition. They had really something to be proud of; but of course, when you have something to be proud of, you can be prideful in a bad way, or you can take things for granted; you can take this great legacy for granted. You can lose your first love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think it\u2019s safe to say that many Germans, probably most Germans, were mere Lutherans; they were church-goers, you know? This is just: \u201cI\u2019m German, so I\u2019m Lutheran,\u201d which leads, of course, to this idea of cheap grace\/that you really somehow miss what it\u2019s all about. Maybe you knew once, but you\u2019ve kind of moved on and you\u2019re going through the motions. You\u2019ve become merely religious somehow. Of course, that\u2019s fatal; because the church cannot be the church at that point. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBonhoeffer was a prophetic voice, speaking into that culture, trying to wake up the church to be the church. That\u2019s what prophets always do, right? They try to wake up the people of God to <em>be<\/em> the people of God. And the people of God always don\u2019t listen to the prophet; and then, thousands of years later, they say: \u201cIsaiah was just an awesome guy, was he not? Yes, I think we killed him; but you know, we didn\u2019t know.\u201d We tend not to hear what God is saying through His prophets. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think the story of Bonhoeffer is a cautionary tale for us, and I think that the Lord offers us this story to keep us humble. I praise the Lord that He loves us enough to keep us humble.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Eric Metaxas, reflecting on the story of Isaiah through the story of Bonhoeffer. Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, \u201cThere is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.\u201d Those are deep words and deep thoughts. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEric Metaxas is going to continue unpacking the story of Bonhoeffer and giving us hope in these uncertain times. Stay tuned. We\u2019ll be back in two minutes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Radio Station Spot Break]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. We are listening today to Eric Metaxas. He addressed a congregation of some media leaders about seven years ago. It was a charge to the church; it was a charge to say: \u201cOkay, something\u2019s not quite right. We\u2019re supposed to be joy-filled people.\u201d It has me wondering, \u201cHow are we doing right now?\u201d You know, in uncertain times, and COVID, and rebuilding, are we joy-filled people? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet\u2019s go back to Eric Metaxas.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Recorded Message]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Eric: <\/strong>The story of Bonhoeffer is God\u2019s story, which I think He offers to the church today. I can speak to you as leaders in the church\/as a microcosm of the American church, and ask you what I think Bonhoeffer would ask you, which is whether you have lost your joy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know that Chuck Colson <em>dreaded<\/em> speaking to this group. I can say that now, because he\u2019s passed on; he <em>dreaded<\/em> speaking to this group. Now, I\u2019m sure it was a slightly different group, so don\u2019t be offended, unless you\u2019ve been here before. [Laughter] He said: \u201cYou know, they\u2019ve heard it all. You can say anything; and it just bounces off, like BBs off of a brick wall.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe question is\u2014those of us who are, to some extent, professionals in the religion business\u2014that\u2019s a scary place to be\u2014it\u2019s very easy, <em>very easy, <\/em>to begin seeing these things in a way that is not fresh anymore. It\u2019s easy to lose your joy. So the first question I want to ask\u2014and maybe the most important question is\u2014\u201cHave you lost the joy of Jesus? Do you have the <em>joy<\/em> of Jesus?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, I <em>know<\/em> many of you <em>don\u2019t<\/em> because I work with some of you; I\u2019ve worked with many people in this room. I know people in this room, so I can speak from experience. I <em>know<\/em> that many of us do not have the <em>joy<\/em> of Jesus. I think that\u2019s the ultimate arbiter of faith; because you can\u2019t really fake joy\u2014and because it\u2019s very clear, from Scripture, the way Jesus talks about the little children\u2014and you know, \u201cHave you lost your first love?\u201d\u2014how many times have you heard that sermon? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut <em>joy! <\/em>If you know what He\u2019s done for you\u2014and now, we say, \u201cOf course, I know; and I can give a sermon on it,\u201d\u2014but not to know it intellectually, but to know it <em>viscerally<\/em>. If you know that, the response is joy. But it\u2019s very easy for us, in this room\u2014I think easier than anybody\u2014to lose sight of that, and to have kind of a rote response that lacks the passion that it might have had when you heard it for the first time. I want to say that, as from the Lord tonight.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you would say, \u201cYes,\u201d to that; if you\u2019d say: \u201cYes, I\u2019ve lost\u2014I don\u2019t have joy. I\u2019ll be honest; I don\u2019t have joy,\u201d\u2014first of all, if you can admit that, praise Jesus. That\u2019s God; that\u2019s God, right? Because without that, I really think we can do nothing; because I think that, when Scripture says, \u201cRejoice in the Lord always,\u201d the Lord puts these things in there to make us see ourselves; right? And you hate it when He puts that stuff in there because, you know, \u201cBe anxious for <em>nothing<\/em>\u201d\u2014 like: \u201cCome on! There is plenty of good stuff to be anxious about, Lord.\u201d No; the Scripture says, \u201cBe anxious for <em>nothing<\/em>,\u201d so we do not have excuses. It\u2019s very clear; the Lord calls us to rejoice in Him always\/to be anxious for nothing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to say to this group of religious professionals, among\/of whom I am one, \u201cGod cannot use us if we do not have His joy.\u201d And if we do not have His joy, it is evidence that we don\u2019t <em>really, really, really believe<\/em> what He\u2019s done for us; or somehow we\u2019ve lost the ability to apprehend it as a person. Intellectually, we apprehend it: \u201cI get it\u201d; but it doesn\u2019t move us anymore. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf that\u2019s your story, I just want to say\u2014I want to beg you in the name of Jesus\u2014to pray that the Lord would restore that joy to you, because your colleagues see whether you have the joy of Jesus or don\u2019t. Your neighbors\/your enemies see that. I really do think that\u2019s the thing that speaks most powerfully about whether you actually believe the <em>crazy idea<\/em>\u2014because it\u2019s an insane idea\u2014except it\u2019s true, right? But if you believe that, you have joy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think, unless the church believes in that way\u2014that people see our joy\/that we have been blessed with the <em>amazing<\/em> grace of God and we\u2019re just giddy; it doesn\u2019t mean our life doesn\u2019t have problems\u2014but if people see that, then they know you can argue and argue, but they can\u2019t argue with that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think, ultimately, that\u2019s the question Bonhoeffer was asking the people of his day: \u201cDo you <em>really<\/em> believe this? Because if you do, it will change the way you live, and it will change the way you die.\u201d You can go to the gallows, as he did, with the peace of Jesus; because you know what you know. You\u2019ve got a little secret. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs I go around the country, and I speak to the church, I really believe the Holy Spirit <em>wants<\/em> to say to the church: \u201cYou\u2019ve got to wake up. You\u2019re sleeping; you\u2019re sleeping. You have to reconnect with Me in a way\u201d\u2014and this can happen in any number of ways; it can be through terrible persecution, or it can be through suffering in our own lives\u2014but we know God can do that. We need to reconnect with Him, because we cannot possibly be the church unless we repent and really find Him in such a way that that childlike joy is restored. He cannot use us; we cannot say much to the world if we don\u2019t have that joy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBonhoeffer was trying to wake up a corpse, right? Isn\u2019t that what God does? God\u2019s trying to wake up a corpse. Spiritually, we are dead; we know this, right? And He\u2019s trying to wake us up and bring us back to life. I think there are so many pieces of this. I don\u2019t want to go on much longer, but I do think that, if we\u2019re speaking in a religious way\/if we\u2019re communicating in a religious way, you can fake that. We can all fake that; we know how to speak that language, right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember a friend of mine once said to me, \u201cThe Lord has quickened us financially.\u201d [Laughter] You know, he couldn\u2019t just say, \u201cI got a raise\u201d; he had to use the religious lingo. We know that religious lingo: \u201cThe Lord has quickened us financially.\u201d So we can fake that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think where we are, as a nation\/as a culture, God is calling His church\u2014and I do think that the story of Bonhoeffer has focused this for a lot of people, certainly for me\u2014He\u2019s calling us to wake up, to stop faking it, to stop being religious. To some extent, most of us are, right? So the only question is: \u201cTo what extent?\u201d; but we\u2019ve got to repent of that! We\u2019ve got to repent of any place, where we have bought into something that is <em>not<\/em> of Him; because I do think we\u2019re going to face some tough stuff. I think we are facing some tough stuff. He needs His church to be His church; that\u2019s His call. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve got to have a broken heart for the lost. We\u2019ve got to care about the salvation of people, like Katie Couric, who\u2014my flesh just wants to hate her, right? It\u2019s much safer caring for the cannibal on some island someplace and say: \u201cOh, apart from the grace of God, I would be just like that cannibal,\u201d but \u201cKatie Couric can go to hell; I don\u2019t care.\u201d That\u2019s somehow how we think sometimes, right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think there are many people hungry for what we have and know. And somehow, they are not getting it\u2014to get back to the beginning\u2014they are <em>not<\/em> getting it; they are just not finding. We must find a way! If we become alive in Christ\/if we find our joy, we will find\/we will want to find creative ways to communicate what we know: the greatest knowledge\/the greatest truth in the history of the universe. We will find ways to communicate that to a world that\u2019s not getting it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s really what I want to ask tonight: \u201cAre you still grateful for your salvation? Do you know that you don\u2019t deserve it?\u201d These are basic things; you\u2019ll hear these things in Sunday school. This is nothing theologically sophisticated; but to say it to a group like this, because we know it all so well, how can we hear it as from the Lord? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI will again say that this issue of joy for the Christian church: \u201cIf non-believers, especially, do not see the joy of Jesus in us and the love of Jesus\u201d\u2014obviously, we\u2019re talking about joy\/the love of Jesus\u2014\u201cthen they know, because they are created in the image of God, so they have the ability to tell the difference between lies and truth, and right and wrong, or whatever; so they can <em>smell<\/em> that something is off.\u201d God has given them the ability to respond to truth; so the love of Jesus and the joy of Jesus, they can\u2019t help but respond to that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, thinking of the story of Wilberforce, he did so much for the poor and just poured himself into so many projects that, even the people who wanted to <em>despise<\/em> him, had to admit\u2014they <em>hated<\/em> to admit it\u2014but they had to admit that: \u201cThere was something there that I can\u2019t account for; I don\u2019t know why he\u2019s so cheerful. I <em>hate<\/em> that.\u201d He was <em>very<\/em> cheerful. That\u2019s what people have to see; that\u2019s what people have to see. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSpeaking to a tremendously elite\/august group like this, I say with all humility that that\u2019s, I think, what Bonhoeffer would say\u2014and what the Lord would really want to say through Bonhoeffer to ask us\u2014because, again, you know \u201cTo whom much is given, of them much is required.\u201d I hate when people misquote that; people say, \u201cTo whom much is given, much is required,\u201d\u2014that\u2019s wrong. \u201cTo whom much is given, <em>of them<\/em> much is required.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>So much<\/em> has been given to the wonderful people in this room. The Lord has given us <em>so much<\/em>; and of course, He will judge us for that, right? You know the teachers\/the leaders\u2014we\u2019re going to be judged more harshly\u2014so if this group could think about that issue, I do believe Jesus is speaking that. I don\u2019t say that lightly about that issue of joy and love. If you have <em>lost<\/em> that, whatever you do, get that back! Get that back, because we cannot possibly be the church and be <em>effective<\/em> unless we do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd in conclusion, I would say, <em>if<\/em> we do\/if the church\u2014represented by the microcosm in this room\u2014were to be the church, <em>easily<\/em>, we could combat the tremendous difficulties that are facing us in this country. If the American church were to <em>be<\/em> the church of Jesus Christ and wake up, as the German church did <em>not<\/em> until it was too late, we could change <em>everything<\/em>. The level of creativity in this room and what God has poured into us is sufficient, friends. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is hope! When I think that we\u2019re missing Roma and Mark\u2019s [Burnett] Bible series tonight\u2014talk about a sign of hope!\u2014that something like that could get made in Hollywood. Now, that\u2019s a drop in the bucket; but the point is that the Lord has a passion to communicate with all these people, who are watching TV, and never seeing what we know. We\u2019ve got to figure that out. We\u2019ve got to care about those people; we\u2019ve got to care about those people. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI will just say, in closing, I think that many of us know that the church has gotten sort of overly political; and it hasn\u2019t worked out so well. But I think that we have to understand that we ought not to shrink from being political. We need to avoid, at all cost, making an <em>idol<\/em> of politics\u2014God forbid\u2014but the Lord calls us to be involved in <em>every<\/em> aspect of a culture. What Chuck Colson quoted over and over again, the line from Abraham Kuyper: \u201cThere is not one square inch of creation over which Jesus Christ does not say, \u2018Mine!\u2019\u201d We\u2019ve got to be in <em>everything<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI praise God that we finally got involved in politics about 30 or so years ago; and let\u2019s get it right, and let\u2019s be involved in the right way; because there are people depending on us to be involved in those things. But if we stop there\u2014if we are not involved in the wider culture\/if we\u2019re not involved in making mini-series and doing all kinds of things like that\u2014then we\u2019re not doing enough. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI believe that the Lord wants to wake His church up to the lost, such that we would begin to get our hearts broken again for them; and that we would try to reach them in a <em>new<\/em> way, speaking their language, not speaking religious language. I believe that\u2019s God\u2019s calling on His church. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd on that tremendously sober note, I\u2019ll say, \u201cGoodnight; God bless you.\u201d [Applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Eric Metaxas, giving a charge to the church. You know, what he said, he said seven years ago; but it\u2019s still true today. We need to be joy-filled people, who speak of God and radiate Him as we go about our days. You know, now, in these uncertain times, after we\u2019ve watched COVID ravage through our world\u2014not just one area\/the <em>whole<\/em> world\u2014we need to be joy-filled; and we need to be radiating Christ to those around us: to our neighbors, to emergency workers, to the store clerks, to <em>everyone<\/em> we come in contact with. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEric Metaxas wrote a biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and I want to leave you with a few choice Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotes. He said: \u201cSeek God, not happiness. This is the fundamental rule of all meditation. If you seek God alone, you will gain happiness; and that is its promise.\u201d He also said this: \u201cWe pray for the big things; and forget to give thanks for the ordinary small, and yet really not so small, gifts. How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThose are some very meaty quotes. I want to challenge you to think through those quotes. We\u2019ll have a link to more Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotes on our website. Go to FamilyLifeThisWeek.com; that\u2019s FamilyLifeThisWeek.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHey, next week, we are going to check in with my friend, Lisa Anderson, who is the host of <em>Boundless<\/em> radio show for young adults. We\u2019re going to talk about just, well, maybe some of us need to rebuild relationships; some of us have <em>stronger<\/em> relationships because of COVID and all that has happened. We\u2019re going to check in with Lisa and see how things are going and maybe get some helpful advice for moving forward in life. I hope you can join us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHey, I want to thank the president of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, David Robbins, along with our station partners around the country. A big thank you to our engineer today, Keith Lynch. Thanks to our producer, Marques Holt. 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