Staff Talks with Francis: Faithfulness vs. Productivity

Crazy Love Podcast

Crazy Love Ministries

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion, Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Where do you find the right people to walk with through different seasons of life and ministry? How do you stay grounded in what matters when technology keeps changing the way we relate to each other? And what does faithfulness actually look like over the long haul? In this Staff Talk, Francis reflects on the kind of life that lasts - one marked by love, humility, and a steady dependence on God. Drawing from John 13 and 15, he shares why the people God places around us matter more than we realize, and how an eternal perspective changes the way we lead, serve, and care for others. This conversation is about slowing down enough to love people well, staying rooted in Jesus in a distracted world, and becoming the kind of person others can grow alongside for years to come.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast.
0:07.0	So much of life today pushes us toward efficiency and constant improvement.
0:13.0	Even in the church, it can become easy to think more about outcomes than people.
0:18.0	In this episode of Staff Talks, Francis shares why some of the most important things in the
0:23.6	kingdom are built slowly through friendship, faithfulness, and genuinely loving others over the
0:30.6	long haul.
0:32.6	It was just great catching up this morning.
0:35.6	You know, I just love him, love B, love their family.
0:42.5	And, but we were just talking about, we got into John 13, how Jesus just, in verse one, it's, he talks about having his loving his, having loved his disciples, he loved them till the end.
1:02.5	And then Ryan was bringing up how in chapter 15, you know, he felt like there's a climax in a not you use that word he always uses better words
1:14.9	but uh just the idea of friendship of jesus calling them his friends and and i was looking at
1:22.3	that too and thinking wow he's like no longer do I call you slaves.
1:30.0	Call you my friends.
1:35.7	Because a slave doesn't know his master's business.
1:37.4	I'm calling you friends.
1:39.9	I'm telling you what's about to happen. And it made me flashback to yesterday.
1:42.6	Zeke asked me a question from his Bible reading,
1:44.9	going, why do you think Jesus would sometimes say,
1:48.6	hey, don't tell anyone or, you know,
1:53.0	keep this quiet or even with the demons, like,
1:55.8	hey, shut up, shut up, you know,
1:57.0	telling everyone that I'm the son of God.
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