Good to Great in God's Eyes - Pursue Great People, Part 2

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The road to greatness is not walked alone. In fact, greatness is never achieved in a vacuum. It is forged in community. Chip shares how you can build relationships that bring out the best in you and bless those around you.

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)

II. How do you pursue great people?

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.”

III. Get started without getting discouraged.

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	The road to greatness is never walked alone. In fact, greatness has never achieved in a vacuum. It's
0:07.7	foraged in community. Today I'll share with you how to spot the kind of relationships that produce
0:13.3	greatness in those you touch and how to find mentors that bring out the very best in you. Stay with me.
0:23.6	Thanks for joining us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. Chip's our Bible teacher for this international teaching and discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians live like Christians.
0:33.6	And you know there's no question that the people we surround ourselves with impact how we
0:38.7	think, behave, and live. But Chip will take it a step further as he wraps up our series
0:43.7	Good to Great in God's eyes. Hear how healthy, God-honoring relationships can actually help us
0:49.6	become all that God wants us to be and more. Well, with that, here's Chip with the remainder of his message,
0:55.6	pursue great people from Proverbs Chapter 13. Who are the people in your Mount Rushmore?
1:03.2	Mine was a coach, another my sister, another Dave, and the fourth over here is Howard Hendricks.
1:09.2	And you've heard lots of stories, but I learned from Howard
1:12.3	Hendricks that you could take your gift and you could dream a dream
1:16.3	and you could have clear, I still remember on the board him writing
1:19.2	objectives, priorities, schedule, discipline.
1:24.0	God will never love you more than he loves you right now, gentlemen.
1:28.7	He said, but his blessing, his blessing is dependent upon your obedience.
1:35.2	You can never earn his favor.
1:36.7	There's no brownie points, no gold stars on the refrigerators in heaven.
1:41.8	But every man needs to make up his mind.
1:44.0	What do you want to do with your life?
1:46.5	So you need to have an objective and a target.
1:48.4	You want to be a man of God, determine.
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