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The Jess Connolly Podcast

How to Not Save the World with Hosanna Wong | Episode 107

The Jess Connolly Podcast

Jess Connolly

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8813 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Friends, you are in for an incredible conversation in this episode with our gal Hosanna. What does it look like to use our stories for God’s glory? Hosanna is exactly who we want to talk to to help us think through this. As Jess would say, Hosanna has the spirit of John, the Baptist, and this episode is sure to encourage and equip you today.

In this conversation, we’re diving into:

  • how to push past the insecurity, the fear, and the perceived inadequacy when telling our story
  • how to share our full selves - questions, imperfections, what you like, and what you don’t like - with the world, for the good of others and the glory of God
  • who the real Savior of our stories is

Hosanna is an author, pastor, and speaker, using what God has given her - a story of growing up on the streets of San Francisco to now living on mission to see lives restored by the power of Jesus - to bring hope to a broken world. She believes in your story, in the Church, and in Jesus. Hosanna shares a bit of her story in this episode, but for more, we cannot recommend her brand new book, How to Not Save the World, enough - grab it wherever books are sold! 

This conversation was filled with encouragement and hope, and we pray you finish this episode spurred on to go and tell the good news. We’re so grateful for you, friends. Keep going, God is mighty in you.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello friends. Welcome to the Go and Tell Gals podcast with Jess Connolly and Kanisha Bikes. Today we're talking to one of our friends, a woman who runs on mission.

0:22.2

We are praying.

0:26.7

This conversation leaves you fired up and ready to go right where you're at.

0:28.3

We're super thankful for you.

0:29.1

Let's go.

0:43.6

So your book is titled How Not to Save the World, which is actually really intriguing to me, because when I saw it, I was like, help me understand, especially in these times.

0:48.1

I feel like that could be taken like a multitude of different ways, right?

0:56.2

But can you tell us maybe more about the book and about why you titled it, how not to save the world. Like, where did that thought,

1:02.1

that concept come from? For sure. Yeah, well, they just told me to write about what I know and what I'm an expert at. And I was like, well, I'm not an expert at much. But I am an expert at how not

1:08.3

to show God's love to people, because I've done this so wrong. And I'm an expert at how not to lead God's love to people, because I've done this so wrong.

1:11.9

And I'm an expert at how not to lead people to Jesus.

1:14.5

I've said all the wrong words.

1:16.1

I've been pushy in relationships, aggressive in relationships.

1:19.9

Like, I'm an expert at how not to save the world.

1:22.6

I've done this really wrong by relying on my own power instead of gods by comparing myself to other people by waiting

1:30.7

for the perfect situation before I say yes waiting for that perfect step instead of taking the next

1:37.2

step by believing that I'm better off without community and that I'm better flying solo and by

1:43.6

believing that I should be fighting to be right in order to being pre-pole

1:47.9

into a relationship with Jesus, by never taking a breath and thinking it's all on me to

1:53.5

save the world when the truth is that Jesus is the savior of the world.

1:57.3

He's the one who saves marriages, who heals lives, who restores relationships,

2:01.5

who makes the impossible possible.

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