You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan continues sharing about a story worth living, an upcoming film about a backcountry motorcycle adventure he participated in last summer.

Dan wrestles with the traditional idea of mission trips and invites us to pursue adventures that lead to deeper encounters with the heart of God.

If you'll recall, this brief series on adventure began as I wanted you to know a bit about our significant motorcycle film that will be coming out on May 19th.

I invited you to look at a website called a storyfilm, a storyfilm.com.

And the presentation of the film will be out in theaters near you on May 19th.

And so you can go to that website to find out what theaters will be showing and what times.

But that began a discussion on adventure, and especially given that this is early April,

and it's a time to begin to ponder what things you'll

engage over the spring and summer. And just a quick review, the notion of being able to create

trips, vacations, breaks is a lovely gift and one that, as I tried to describe, the whole notion of a mission trip, and what a mission trip is meant to be, it is in no way saying that we do not need breaks, two-day, three-day breaks, that we don't need vacations of a week or more, a cruises, all sorts of ways to go play, to go rest, to go have experiences

that we have not had before, or, as often summer vacations are, return to a place that, indeed,

holds a lot of tradition and meaning for our family. But what I wanted to invite people to is a question of what kind of adventures are you creating for yourself and the people who are close to you?

And last time I covered four categories that I think are very important for adventure.

It needs to involve some level of a danger.

Another word for that is new risk.

Risk that requires you to engage things you've not engaged quite the way that you're

being invited to do so now, which will open unquestionably a third word, and that's humility.

You will be humbled by learning something new and then trying to bring it to pass in the real world.

And that's the context where I believe we're met, met by one another, met by God, engaging in story

where we have the privilege of writing a story, creating a story, and yet where the story

has a chance to create us and to write us. That is, where the spirit of God gets to meet

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