On The Shoulders of Giants with Brian Wells—Film Producer, Author, Friend

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sir Isaac Newton once remarked that he’d only been able to see further than others because he’d “stood on the shoulders of giants.” For Brian, one of those giants is his friend, Brian Wells. Get to know Beem, as Brian calls him, and trace his aggressive story from selling his dead grandfather's belongings as a child, to building a church from the ground up, to producing TV films for NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and the Hallmark Channel. One of Brian’s oldest friends in Cincinnati, Beem tells the story behind the story, offering wisdom and insight along the way.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:19.1	It was 1675, Sir Isaac Newton, you know, the guy who had the apple fall on top of his head.
0:26.1	He writes and letter to a friend, quote, if I have seen further than others, it's by standing on the shoulders of giants.
0:35.9	Behind every aggressive person.
0:41.4	There are others whose aggressive moves in the past lay a foundation that's worth standing on.
0:41.6	Today, I got a guest and a friend whose shoulders I stand on and who's actually changed my
0:48.0	life as much or more than anybody out there.
0:51.2	The aggressive moves that you make are the moves that somebody else thinks would be a good
0:57.1	idea, but they're just not up for doing it. But you think it's a good idea, and you actually do it.
1:01.6	You actually do it when it could actually cost you your financial future. You do it when it actually
1:06.9	could cost you a lot of other things you could do with your time.
1:15.6	This guy made an aggressive move 25 plus years ago that would completely rewrite the story of my life, my life.
1:20.1	And that was just the beginning.
1:21.5	In 1994, he's carpooling to work with another friend,
1:25.8	and they come up with the idea to start a church for their
1:28.4	friends who have given up on church, but not on God. A year later, the group has grown to 11,
1:35.3	and they went all in. They did crazy things like refinancing their homes in order to begin
1:40.0	this startup church, or at least getting their paperwork ready for it.
1:44.7	And as a young pastor, I saw an ad that they placed in a magazine.
1:48.9	And I applied for the job, interviewed, and I got the job.
1:55.4	And the first service of Crossroads Church took place in 1996.
2:01.3	He has got a pretty storied history.
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