Fatal Distractions, Part 1: Great Work! // Joel Thomas

North Point Community Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Great work is often found on the other side of a terrifying longing. How could clarity
regarding your “terrifying longing” reduce the allure of the distractions you’re most susceptible to?

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Andy, welcome back to the North Point Community Church podcast.
0:10.5	Hey, at the end of this episode, please take a moment to subscribe to our YouTube channel
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0:24.1	and it's the easiest way to keep up with everything going on around here at North Point.
0:27.5	But most importantly, I hope the following presentation inspires you to take your next step
0:32.9	in your faith journey. Enjoy.
0:41.8	Well, I want to welcome all of you who are joining us around the Atlanta Metro area.
0:45.2	Those of you who join us cross-country and around the world. It's an honor to be able to steer us
0:49.9	the next couple of weeks as we start something new. I want to begin today with a question.
0:55.6	And as you think about distractions in our world, I'm curious, how many of you think there
0:59.7	are less distractions today than there were 10 years ago? Less distractions. No hands for that.
1:05.9	How many of you think of the same number of distractions that we had 10 years ago?
1:10.9	Wow, we may not need the sermon today. How many of you think there's more distractions
1:14.9	than there were 10 years ago and all the hands go up at all the locations?
1:20.2	Today in our world, we're really swimming upstream. There's so many distractions in our world
1:25.2	and there's so many people in different parts of our society that get distracted in so many ways.
1:29.7	And if we're really honest, there's some distractions or when some people are distracted,
1:34.4	it's potentially fatal. There's some people we just don't want to be distracted like this guy
1:38.6	right here. Nobody wants to be in the ER when the doctors checking the scores from the game.
1:46.8	Not at all this guy. You can see his face there. Or how about this guy? If you can't see,
1:51.8	these are airplanes on the screen. Your air traffic controller, playing solitaire, caught not a good
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