Curiosity & Commitment: Qualities of a Well-Lived Story
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen welcome back former podcast guest Jimmy McGee, President and CEO of The Impact Movement, to have a conversation about the final two qualities of a well-lived story: curiosity and commitment. According to Dan, Jimmy is one of the most curious people (and voracious readers) that he knows. As they talk with one another about these two qualities of a well-lived story, you’ll hear how Jimmy came to be so deeply curious and his commitments to wholeness and formation and to passing on the gifts that he has been given.
Resources:
- Read Between the Dreaming and Coming True by Robert Benson
- Read Living Prayer and The Echo Within by Robert Benson
- Read Great Negroes, Past and Present by Russell L. Adams
- Read How to Be a Christian Without Being Religious by Fritz Ridenour
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Dr. Dan Allender. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cenn. |
| 0:10.5 | We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world. |
| 0:14.7 | And restoration for the heart. |
| 0:17.2 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:18.5 | Let's get this conversation started. |
| 0:25.2 | Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. We're back today and I'm here with Dan and we would really love to welcome back a former podcast guest and our friend and ministry partner, Jimmy McGee, |
| 0:34.8 | CEO and president of the impact movement. And as we have been in this |
| 0:39.9 | series on qualities of a well-lived story, and we've been journeying through what does it mean |
| 0:46.6 | for someone to exemplify a story that really embodies what we understand to be the gospel |
| 0:52.8 | of Jesus Christ, one who is in pursuit of justice, |
| 0:56.9 | who loves mercy, who walks humbly, and is bringing people along. And so as we come to today, |
| 1:04.7 | we're really going to be leaning into these characteristics of curiosity and commitment. |
| 1:10.0 | And Jimmy McGee, I would consider you a mentor, |
| 1:15.1 | a teacher, and a friend, and I see you as someone who embodies these characteristics in all |
| 1:23.5 | their complexity and would love to just dive in more with you. So, Dan, tell me, |
| 1:31.1 | you know, in some ways what you see and what draws you to this conversation with Jimmy. |
| 1:36.0 | Well, he's a troubled man. I mean, let's just say, you know, you can't trust any human being who's not deeply troubled. But on the other hand, |
| 1:49.5 | whose heart is really pure. I mean, whose heart really longs for goodness, individually, |
| 1:58.1 | corporately, culturally, longs to see redemption. And when you see those two things, |
| 2:04.8 | a broken human being who's got a holy heart that grows other people to become what they're |
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