Hey everybody welcome to the fight hustle and hurry podcast here we talk about the

cultural pervasiveness and problem of hustle and hurry and how as followers of Jesus we can resist them in our daily lives.

My name is Jeff Bethky and author living in Maui Hawaii and I'm joined by John Mark Comer, a pastor and teacher at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon.

Welcome to season one. What's up guys? Jeff and John Mark back for episode three and man I'm actually pretty jacked for this episode because I think this is the crux of the entire season and what I mean by that is this is the bridge this is the transitional episode where we're going to lean into how do you actually beat

and defeat hustle and hurry what is it and what's really cool is I think

simultaneously in our own walks and around paths over here in Maui the last couple

years John Mark and Portland.

We've kind of each been individually leaning into a little bit more of an ancient way of

Jesus if you want to call it that or rediscovering things that really aren't even actually that new at all but like I said are very ancient and very much a part of our church tradition that we've lost just very recently but bring so much life and you can call those rules of life I like to call those

formations in the book that I wrote and so John Mark I want to toss it to you but one

thing I'll say real quick to get us started is I one thing that was really helpful a couple years ago that we

did in our family is we basically tossed out the phrase goals we just said like

we're done with that and we're going to stop saying it right now

am I a little dramatic am I an eight on the anyagram and do I go a little like

black or white too much yes our goal is decent are they fine of course hear that

disclaimer but for us we said like we are done that word is not

allowed that's a swear word in our house now and I think why and why I say that is

because I think again a question we have to ask as followers of Jesus specifically or listening to the

podcast is who am I becoming by the things that I'm doing right and God is trying to mold

me and form me into particular particular image. And for us, at least in our family, the culture of goals is getting a little overwhelming. It's getting a little too intense. It was kind of impeding on us too much.

And for my book, I did some research. You can actually go into Google and search like past

historical books from the last 100 years. And you should do this if you have time.

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