Off Script | Responsible vs. Passive
Southland Christian Church
Southland Christian Church
4.8 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
What does real manhood look like in today's world?
In this episode of Off Script, Neil sits down with Scott Nickell to dig deeper into week one of our Toy Stories series. Together they unpack what didn't make it into Sunday's sermon, everything from John Eldredge's Wild at Heart to the cultural pressure young men face to delay marriage and family. Scott challenges the myths of adventure and success, points us back to faithfulness in the everyday, and names the upstream issues that ripple through families and culture when men step back instead of stepping up.
Where might God be calling you to stop being passive and take on responsibility?
Hosts: Neil Gregory & Scott Nickell
What We Discuss:
• Why conferences can't replace week-to-week discipleship
• Every man's call to fight battles, live adventures, and rescue beauty, in real life, not just stories
• The cultural drift toward delay (marriage, kids, commitment)
• Faithfulness in "ordinary" callings
• The impact of fatherlessness and passivity in the home
• Practical steps for men to engage humbly and intentionally
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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. We want what He wants: for heaven to be really crowded. Around here, that means we worship defiantly, speak truth unashamedly, and extend grace generously.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the cutting room floor, a Southland Christian church podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | Each week, we sit down with our teacher to talk through what didn't make it into Sunday sermon, |
| 0:08.2 | thoughts, stories, or questions that got left on the cutting room floor, but still matter. |
| 0:13.1 | No script, just real conversations that allow us to go deeper into last week's sermon. |
| 0:17.8 | Thanks for being with us. Let's jump in. |
| 0:20.4 | Well, hey, everyone, and welcome to the cunning room's sermon. Thanks for being with us. Let's jump in. Well, hey everyone and welcome to the |
| 0:22.7 | Cunning Room Floor podcast. My name is Neil and sitting across from me today is Scott Nicol. |
| 0:29.2 | Scott, this has been a long. You got super nervous because I took a drink right as you were going to |
| 0:32.5 | like throw it to me. Well, yeah, this is like, that's the server tendency that I used to have. |
| 0:35.8 | Were you a server? I was, but I asked people questions right before they take a bite of their food. That's right. But long time coming, man. We've been talking about this podcast for months. Yeah, long time. Also been talking about this series, you know, coming up. We've been kind of teasing it out to the church for a while, and now we're finally in it. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah, you know, it was really cool. |
| 0:56.4 | This morning was in my office, and I opened up my journal to do some of my study time and all that. |
| 1:03.6 | And for whatever reason, it opened to a day from my sabbatical, and I was specifically praying about this series that we're starting today. |
| 1:12.9 | So it was kind of cool just to kind of read through my thoughts from back in July and what I was |
| 1:17.5 | praying about as I was literally getting ready to preach this first sermon. |
| 1:21.4 | So, yeah, it's been a long time coming. |
| 1:23.4 | I've been super excited about it. |
| 1:24.6 | Kind of the heartbeat behind it. |
| 1:26.7 | We talked about a while back but just to |
| 1:28.7 | catch anyone up was you get this a lot i get this a lot our staff get it a lot people will come up to |
| 1:34.3 | us and go hey when's women's conference or hey wins men's retreat or wins men's men's when's |
| 1:38.6 | marriage conference and we've never made any promises that any of those things would be recurring. |
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