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The Porch

Remembering Identity Over Feelings

The Porch

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Feelings and identities are important, and we've all got them both. The question is not whether feelings are powerful or whether identity is important. The question is, "Which one should come first?"

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, good evening here in Dallas and to friends back and forth where I spend most Tuesday

0:23.1

nights, Houston and around the country.

0:25.8

Dallas and for Amnesia Part 2, we are back and I want to start with a story.

0:30.2

Every once in a while you find $36 flights to Boulder and when you do that 100% of the

0:34.2

time you buy them.

0:35.7

So a group of friends and I just went seven of us to be exact.

0:39.4

Went to Boulder and spent a day there climbing to mountain and while we were there, a protest

0:43.8

broke out in the street in kind of the downtown-ish area of Boulder.

0:48.4

Now I don't know if you know but there was a new president elected.

0:50.9

This was November 12th the day we were there.

0:53.1

The election was just a few days removed and some people were upset about that.

0:56.9

And so they gathered, congregated, there was an all-out protest and so just to give you

1:00.2

kind of a picture of what's going on.

1:01.4

Thanks 75 to 100 people, shouting, banners, you know, the whole deal, love, trumps, hate,

1:06.8

everything you can imagine, anti-governmental system, pretty aggressive chance.

1:10.2

It wasn't anarchy.

1:11.2

Let's just call it messy, all right?

1:12.6

And so I started to look around and most of the folks who were participating in this just

1:18.0

appeared and proudly they wouldn't be upset with me given them this description.

1:21.9

They appeared to be living in alternative lifestyle and they waved that banner quite proudly.

1:25.7

And so that's what they were about.

1:26.7

And so as the protest was going on, I thought, you know, when a protest happens, there's

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