Are Christians Supposed to Seek Influence? - S5, E1
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Jada Edwards
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Welcome to Season 5! In this episode, Jada walks through the story of Aaron and the golden calf to discuss the power of influence. Listen to discover the five alarms that signal that influence has become the driver instead of the tool God has given you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jada Edwards podcast and today we are talking about the power of influence. |
| 0:10.4 | This is the Jada Edwards podcast. Welcome to Season 5. As usual, we're going to get into the Bible in the Word of God, but we're also going to talk about friendship and overall wellness, what it means to be in various seasons of life. |
| 0:22.6 | Laugh a lot and go together. |
| 0:24.3 | I can't wait for you to see what's in store. |
| 0:28.1 | Okay, y'all, so you know this word is like the buzzword in our culture right now, what it means to have influence or be an influencer. |
| 0:39.8 | This idea, mostly that kind of sprang up out of social media has become so important it's like it's created job titles it's created |
| 0:45.0 | entire career path i mean we celebrate you know when we hit our followership milestones and we study |
| 0:52.4 | the algorithm we're trying to dig up analytics and figure out, |
| 0:55.6 | should it be a real, should it be a post, should I post multi-platform, or should it be |
| 0:59.7 | threads, it should it be X? It's just like there's so much going on. And I think social media |
| 1:05.0 | probably was the birthplace of the latest craze around influence. But truth is we all we all like it to a certain |
| 1:14.0 | degree and a lot of times we kind of equate influence with some level of approval um or the ability |
| 1:21.4 | to have a certain level of popularity but the truth is impact is about having an effect to impact the character or the |
| 1:31.2 | development or behavior of someone or something. That's real influence. So you, that's why you can see |
| 1:38.3 | people who might have a lot of followership and may even have a lot of buzz around them, |
| 1:43.5 | maybe even have a lot of exposure, but not necessarily a lot of influencehip and may even have a lot of buzz around them, maybe even have a lot of exposure, |
| 1:45.6 | but not necessarily a lot of influence. And so that shows up, I think, in a lot of different |
| 1:50.8 | areas in our life. But it is also creeping into the church. And so, you know, and I think about |
| 1:56.5 | what it means for us to be believers, what it means to be a part of a local church, to represent |
| 2:02.7 | Christ, this influence thing, y'all, it can mess you up. It just can get everything really |
| 2:09.1 | twisted. If you just look at the increasing amount of exposure, some local churches |
| 2:15.5 | have received over the years, it's not brand new right now |
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