Good to Great in God's Eyes - Pursue Great People, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 14 January 2025
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Summary
Relationships are a powerful tool to build character and determine personal direction. If you long to make an impact in this world there are some key relationships you’ll want to pursue. Chip talks about how to discover and develop those type of important relationships.
Main Points
Introduction: More is really “caught than taught.”- It’s true when we are young.
- It’s true when we grow up.
- Timeless Axiom: We become most like those we admire and those with whom we interact most frequently.
Practice: Pursue Great People! --Proverbs 13:20
I. Why pursue great people?- God's Word is emphatic about the company we keep. --1 Corinthians 15:33; Hebrews 13:7; 1 Corinthians 4:15-16; Proverbs 27:17
- Our baggage and backgrounds demand it! (Reference: The Wounded Healer by Henry Nouwen)
- Start by looking in the rear-view mirror. What four or five people have most positively impacted your life?
- Now, look out the windshield. We all need three kinds of people in our lives.
- A Paul to “learn from.”
- A Barnabas to “share with.”
- A Timothy to “help grow.”
- A warning to heed.
- A perspective to consider.
- An action plan to follow.
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | I've heard it said, show me your friends and I'll show you your future. |
| 0:06.5 | You know, relationships are a powerful tool to build character and determine personal direction. |
| 0:12.0 | And if you long to become great in God's eyes, there are some significant relationships that you'll want to pursue. |
| 0:17.6 | And today, we'll talk about how to discover and develop those |
| 0:22.1 | kind of relationships. Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. The |
| 0:30.6 | mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching |
| 0:35.2 | of Chip Ingram. And we're nearing the end of his meaningful series, Good to Great in God's eyes. |
| 0:40.3 | For these last couple of programs, Chip will examine how relationships shape our thoughts and lives, |
| 0:46.3 | and why great relationships are essential for spiritual maturity. |
| 0:50.3 | As always, if you miss a portion of this program, you can catch up through the Chip and Gromap. |
| 0:55.3 | It's a great way to listen to Living on the Edge anytime. |
| 0:58.6 | If you're ready to dig in, go to Proverbs Chapter 13 in your Bible as we join Chip for his message, pursue great people. |
| 1:06.9 | There is a phrase that you hear a lot, and I think it's true, and the phrase is, more is caught than taught. |
| 1:15.0 | In other words, you can go to a class and you can hear this or that, but you really catch more than actually is taught. |
| 1:22.4 | And I like to suggest that that's true. |
| 1:25.3 | It's true when you're young, and it's true when you're old. And I got to share a |
| 1:30.6 | story. My sister was dating like a star basketball player. He was about four years older than me, |
| 1:38.1 | so he was, I think, a junior, and I was in eighth grade, and his name was Rex. And I got to be |
| 1:43.1 | careful here because, I mean, Rex had the purest, |
| 1:45.5 | most beautiful jump shot I've ever seen. And I played him one-on-one for hours and I could never beat |
| 1:51.9 | him. And he was six-two and a real big kind of guy. And he just kind of became my hero. And he was |
| 1:58.6 | sort of stocky and didn't look like a basketball player, |
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