You are listening to the Passion City Church podcast. To learn more about

Passion City Church, including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington

DC, visit us online at PassionCityChurch.com. Today's talk comes from Pastor

Buick Giglio. And today we're talking about joy thanks to Jared Butler and the

Baylor University men's basketball team. We're in this series in this journey of

talks called joy. In the final four, if you missed this set up a few weeks ago,

as Baylor is progressing to the championship game, ultimately winning the

championship game. Every interview, they're talking about how all year long we've

just played with a culture of joy. And on my this is a team that had a three-week

COVID knockout. This is a team that's been through incredible challenges. This is

a season that barely happened, but yet somehow they made it all the way through

because they were playing with a culture of joy. I'd never heard that phrase

before. Something blew up inside my heart. And I was like, I want to be a part of

a culture of joy. I want to join up for whatever a culture of joy looks like.

And so we made the pivot started on this journey. And I'm telling you, it's

doing something really good. I don't know about you, but this journey is doing

something really good on the inside of me. And today we're talking about

fighting for joy. We defined joy like this. A little bit different than

happiness. Happiness is an emotion that is based on circumstances and outcomes.

And happiness isn't bad, by the way. But happiness, you can be at the

pinnacle at 2.15 in the afternoon, and then you can be in the pit of sadness by

2.30. Because happiness is based on circumstances and outcomes. But we've

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