John Eldredge on why Understanding Isn't Healing & Jesus Is The Integrating Force of the Universe

Wild at Heart

Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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John and Allen talk about how to see Jesus as he really is this Christmas season. He isn't simply the baby in the manger but the integrating force of the universe and the Co-Creator who has come to recreate us. Show Note: Sign up to receive John's free weekly video updates at wildatheart.org/weekly
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0:00.0	And it's really fascinating. This actually takes place. You become more whole. It's not just management.
0:06.2	Understanding is not healing and clarity is not restoration. What Christ is after is your reintegration. You don't just have to live
0:16.4	with a lot of internal chaos and manage it. Yes, it doesn't have to be pandemonium inside.
0:22.4	What we ask is Jesus. Yes, it doesn't have to be pandemonium inside.
0:22.6	What we ask is Jesus reintegrate me. All right, everybody, welcome back to the Wild at Heart podcast here in the week of December 11th.
0:45.0	Alan good to see you.
0:47.0	Good to see you John.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:49.0	And we are we are in the thick of the holiday season now and we want to do some reflecting on an
1:00.2	element of Jesus's mission to the world that you might not have reflected on before.
1:09.1	But before we do that, we're going to do what we always do. And if you're new to us or you're new watching the video
1:15.9	version of the podcast, let me explain why we pause. So a couple years ago we realized that by about 10 o'clock in the morning, we are all just
1:29.7	spun up, right?
1:31.7	Totally. And, and like already emotions and mental life and boom, boom, boom, boom, and like I'm just already like the
1:40.9	Tasmanian devil and learning to pause learning to release things learning to
1:49.0	let it go has been pretty wonderful. So helpful.
1:53.0	Oh gosh.
1:54.0	In fact, so wonderful that here in the outpost at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. every day,
2:01.0	monastery bells ring out in the building.
2:05.0	And it calls everybody to pause.
2:09.0	And the purpose of the pause is just to release it all for a moment because you can do it for a moment right right you can do it for a moment you can release your world you can release the crazy right and and that's why we do this at the start of every podcast just to help you at the
2:27.3	listener. You know if you're at the gym if you're in your car wherever you are in
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