Reactions Speak Louder Than Words, Part 1: Cause and Defect // Andy Stanley
North Point Community Church
North Point Community Church
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Our actions rarely tell the whole story, but our reactions most certainly do. And Jesus instructs us to leverage them for good.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Andy, welcome back to the North Point Community Church podcast. |
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| 0:27.5 | But most importantly, I hope the following presentation inspires you to take your next step |
| 0:32.9 | in your faith journey. Enjoy. |
| 0:40.8 | So here's something that always causes us to stop and stare. |
| 0:46.4 | Perhaps at times, duck and run for cover and it's an over reaction, an over reaction. |
| 0:52.8 | You've seen this. You've seen people overreacting to something and you just have to stop |
| 0:56.8 | and stare. In fact, somebody might say, don't stare. Just just listen. It's like, I mean, |
| 1:00.7 | it's when somebody overreacts, it always gets our attention. It's, you know, typically, |
| 1:05.6 | you know, or something we've all experienced is the parent and the grocery store are at the mall |
| 1:09.3 | who's over-disciplining their child because the child has embarrassed the parent and the child |
| 1:16.2 | embarrassed the parent by acting like a child. And now the parent is acting like a child, right? |
| 1:22.5 | And they're over-disciplined. They're over-reacting. And it's just, you know, you don't know |
| 1:26.0 | whether you want to rescue the child or get your phone out and just, you know, post it somewhere |
| 1:29.4 | because it's just, like, it's, you know, or maybe at work, we've all seen somebody overreact |
| 1:34.4 | at work. And when they overreact at work, I mean, the whole office freezes everybody gets, you know, |
| 1:38.3 | kind of tense stuff. If you're overhearing this in an office or a cube or you walk by or walking |
| 1:42.2 | on a conversation. And when you see somebody overreacting or what you consider as an overreaction, |
| 1:48.3 | we always think the same thing. We generally think, wow, there must be something else going on, |
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