My Last Conversation With My Young Life Leader with Denny Pattyn—Brian's Mentor

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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"You're the reason I'm the person I am today." Brian sits down for an emotional final conversation with his Young Life leader, mentor and spiritual father, Denny Pattyn. With only weeks left to live, Denny offers funny, insightful, and touching wisdom, a fitting last chapter in a life well lived. Stick around for what happened after the official recording—the most emotional few minutes of The Aggressive Life to date.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome the aggressive life. This is Brian. I had a pretty, pretty emotional last hour and a half or so talking with a spiritual father of mine, which is likely going to be the very last conversation
0:26.2	I ever have with him.
0:28.3	We're going to go in a different territory here today with The Aggressive Life, and maybe I'm
0:32.6	not over what just happened, but I think there's some things here that all of us need to hear and process.
0:40.0	It may be slow for you at times, it may be emotional for you at times, but I want us to
0:46.2	grapple with some of the transcendent things that we oftentimes don't think about with our lives
0:53.3	and look at deeper questions and
0:56.0	deeper meaning and we're going to do it in the context of a conversation with a human being
1:03.8	whose means maybe more to me than any other human being on the planet that says a lot
1:10.1	no disrespect to my wife or my kids to me than any other human being on the planet. That says a lot.
1:14.0	No disrespect to my wife or my kids.
1:20.2	But this guy preceded them and has had a, has fingerprints all over my life.
1:25.7	And so we're just going to allow this conversation to play and hope it helps you.
1:33.5	Hey, welcome to the aggressive life.
1:34.8	What's the aggressive life about?
1:38.0	It's about not living passively.
1:41.6	It's about seeing opportunities and taking them.
1:49.3	It's about taking control of your life, seeing things that you have a passion about, and that God may have a passion about, and deciding to throw your weight behind it.
1:54.9	Today is going to be a very special one-of-a-kind podcast. I'm just telling you right now,
2:02.5	you're going to hear a lot of pauses
2:03.9	and a lot of weak voices from me
2:07.5	because I have a guy with me
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