Off Script | Provider vs. Performer
Southland Christian Church
Southland Christian Church
4.8 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to manhood, are you living as a provider or just performing for the crowd?
In week two of Toy Stories, Jon Weece sat down to unpack what didn't make it into his sermon, Provider vs. Performer. From Joseph's humility to David's restraint, and from his father's influence to his own lessons in leadership, Jon shares why meekness isn't weakness, it's strength under control..
This week's challenge: stop trying to impress, and start serving the people God has placed in your life.
Hosts: Neil Gregory & Jon Weece
What We Discuss:
• Joseph & David as models of humility
• Lessons from Jon's dad
• The difference between pride and humility
• Meekness as power under control
• What to do if you didn't have a strong father figure
• Handling criticism and compliments in leadership
• The nine most important words: "I was wrong. I am sorry. Please forgive me."
• Why serving is the simplest way to practice humility
• Investing in younger men and discipling the next generation
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the cutting room floor, a Southland Christian church podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Each week we sit down with our teacher to talk through what didn't make it into Sunday sermon, |
| 0:08.0 | thoughts, stories, or questions that got left on the cutting room floor, but still matter. |
| 0:13.0 | No script, just real conversations that allow us to go deeper into last week's sermon. |
| 0:18.0 | Thanks for being with us. Let's jump in. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, hey everyone, and welcome to the cutting room floor. My name is Neil, and across from me today, I have Mr. John Weiss. John, thanks for being here with us today. Good to be here, Neil. Yeah, hey, so we are, we're in the second week of our Toy Story series that we just launched last week. And today, we're in the men-women |
| 0:38.9 | marriage side of this, but we're in the men specifically. And today you talked about provider |
| 0:44.1 | versus performer. And I'm sure in a series like this, there's probably a ton of content that |
| 0:49.4 | you're trying to sift through and be like, well, what do I want to add? What do I not want to add? |
| 0:53.4 | And you're also trying to build off of Scott's message or sermon last week. So maybe today, if you can just set it up for us, what did you kind of leave on the cutting room floor? Or what were you trying to process and chew on as you're preparing this sermon for this weekend? Yeah, so the passage is Philippians 2, 1 through 11, and probably historically that was a hymn |
| 1:13.0 | or a worship song in the first church of some sort. |
| 1:16.1 | And we see this consistently in Paul's writing. |
| 1:18.4 | He does it in Romans twice. |
| 1:20.0 | He does it in 1st Timothy. |
| 1:21.9 | He puts the lyrics of a song that was probably being sung in the church at that time. |
| 1:27.3 | Okay. |
| 1:27.4 | And this feels like that. He's walking in the church at that time. Okay. |
| 1:29.0 | And this feels like that. |
| 1:33.3 | He's walking through the life of Jesus, you know, did not consider equality with God, |
| 1:36.2 | something to regret, made himself nothing, all those great lines. |
| 1:41.7 | And so Scott had asked me to just focus on the humility portion of that, do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility. |
| 1:43.9 | So, you know, |
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