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🗓️ 27 January 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Thomas. I want to take a moment to tell you about my new book with Faith Matters at Onement. |
| 0:06.4 | When I was young, a teacher pointed out to me a dimension of the gospel that was so subtle I had spent my entire life looking right past it. |
| 0:17.3 | But once I saw it and connected to it, it became as a portal opening up to a new world, a new dimension. |
| 0:25.0 | Slowly it dawned on me that this is what the New Testament was pointing to, |
| 0:31.0 | the possibility of becoming a new creature in Christ. |
| 0:36.0 | This book is a chronicle of my last 25 years of practice, of transformation, of my deepening faith and discipleship. I'm grateful the faith |
| 0:47.7 | for the opportunity to produce it and I hope you'll join me in this |
| 0:52.1 | adventure. |
| 0:53.0 | Hey everyone, this is Tim Chavez from Faith Matters. |
| 0:56.0 | In 2018, Pete Davis was graduating from Harvard Law School |
| 1:00.0 | and was chosen to give a commencement address that ended up going |
| 1:03.9 | unexpectedly viral having now been viewed over 30 million times. |
| 1:08.2 | The thesis of Pete's Peach was that our culture has entered what he calls infinite |
| 1:12.4 | browsing mode. |
| 1:13.8 | With so many options to choose from and devices that present those options to us literally |
| 1:18.4 | endlessly, we can become paralyzed by choice and inadvertently live out our lives without ever dedicating ourselves to |
| 1:25.3 | something. |
| 1:26.3 | And this lack of choosing and committing over the long haul has real consequences, |
| 1:30.6 | Pete argues. |
| 1:31.7 | It prevents us from finding the meaning and impact that we're longing for. |
| 1:35.6 | Pete's ideas eventually crystallized into a really incredible book, Dedicated, which explores these ideas in depth. |
| 1:45.2 | We loved this book and found it to be so relevant to the conversations we seem to always be having. In this conversation |
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