Off Script | John 11

Southland Christian Church

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 531 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

When life throws you a total curveball, do your prayers stay polite or do you take off the mask and get real with God?

This week on Off Script, Neil sits down with guest teacher Carl Kuhl to discuss the raw honesty required for a true relationship with Jesus. They dive into the story of Lazarus to explore how we can trust a God who is often unexplainable and seemingly out of our control. From the emotions of a morning check-in to the risks required by true faith, this conversation is a call to stop performing for God and start abiding in Him.

The Challenge

This week, move beyond your typical prayer list and try a "morning check-in." Take a few deep breaths and be honest with God about where you are emotionally and whether you're sad, angry, scared, or excited. Once you've met Jesus in the morning, look for one "risk" you can take today that proves your belief is more than just a statement, but an action.

Hosts: Neil Gregory and Carl Kuhl

What We Discuss

Why the "Bible Belt" culture in Kentucky makes it easy to say you have a church without actually following Jesus
Funny college stories about Scott and how Jesus "sanctifies people over time"
Why pain is the only universal language that doesn't need to be contextualized for a sermon
The comfort of an "unexplainable" God: Why God's mind is so much bigger than our logic
How realizing we were never actually in control is the first step toward true freedom
Why "faith is spelled R-I-S-K" and what it looks like to take those steps in daily life
Overcoming the embarrassment of Jesus to invite others without "being weird" about it
Distinguishing between inviting people out of a checklist of performance versus a fresh encounter with God

About Southland Christian Church

Southland is one church meeting in multiple locations across central Kentucky. We believe Jesus came for the lost and the broken, which means there's a place for everyone here. Around here, that means we worship defiantly, speak truth unashamedly, and extend grace generously.

To support this ministry and help us continue to reach across Central Kentucky and all around the world, visit: https://southland.church/give

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0:00.0	Welcome to Offscript, a Southland Christian Church podcast. Each week, we sit down with our teacher to talk through what didn't make it into Sunday sermon. Thoughts, stories, or questions that got left off the manuscript, but still matter. Thanks for being with us. Let's jump in.
0:16.5	Well, hey, everyone, and welcome to Offscript. My name is Neil, and today I am so excited to have Carl Kuhl from Southeast Christian Church with me. Carl, how are you, man? I'm good, man. Yeah, we just had the service, just ended the second service today. So coming in from Louisville, how was it at the Southland campus? Dude, it was great, man. I love, so one thing I love about Southland is because I get to teach a lot of different places. Sure. And you can really tell when a place is used to great teaching. And because they just, like, respond at the right times. They listen well. And so you get up here. And it's like a pressure. You're like, okay, you're used to good teaching, but it's also fun. like, hey, they're leaning in, they're hungry. Yeah, that's awesome. Do you, I mean, you travel, you've traveled quite a bit. You used to teach in Baltimore at Mosaic. Yep. That was a church that you had founded, correct? Yep, we were there from 08 to about 2022, so about 15 years. What's it like starting from scratch as a church planned?
1:15.2	Oh, man. It's like the worst thing ever.
1:18.5	So the loneliest time we ever had in our lives was the first six months we moved to Baltimore.
1:23.8	Because there's two different ways to plan a church.
1:26.3	One is you have one church send a group of
1:30.9	people to plant a church. Another is what we did called a parachute plant, where you just
1:36.8	parachute in is my wife and daughter and I, where you knew nobody in the state. No church
1:41.6	connections or anything out there. I mean, we started making them. Like somebody said, you should talk this pastor and talk to this church. And as we got to know them, they were supportive, right? But at the beginning, we had nothing. Wow. And so at first, you know, we would go to different churches each Sunday, and it's like, oh man, that kind of fell apart there, and I don't have to worry about it, about it because it's not my church. But then after like a month of that, we thought, man, we just want a church. Like, we want friends. Yeah, totally. We're lonely. And it was really lonely. And I think the one thing that church offers that you can't get anywhere else is community. I mean, it's built on grace, obviously grace, but it's
2:19.1	grace-based community, right? Like, I can listen to worship songs in my car. I can listen to a sermon
2:25.0	podcast on my own. I can't get community on my own. Like, that's what we are. Yeah, yeah,
2:31.0	I love that. And you've got four kids.
2:34.4	Four kids, one daughter, three boys.
2:35.7	When you moved to Maryland, you just had one and she was like a newborn, right? Yeah, man. Okay. And we had three boys there. We thought we'd be there forever. Yeah. And now you're back at Southeast. Yep, we're in Louisville. Are you from Louisville? I am from the Louisville originally, but had not lived there in like 20 plus years.
2:53.0	I'm sure it's changed.
2:53.7	So people said... I am from Louisville originally, but had not lived there in like 20 plus years.
2:53.0	I'm sure it's changed.
2:53.8	So people said, well, the Louisville never changes, but people said it must be good to come home.
3:01.4	And I'm like, well, we actually had made Maryland home.
3:03.5	Totally.
3:03.8	When we live there, okay, so two quick things.
3:06.8	One, because Louisville and Lexington have a lot of similarities.
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