Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast. Today we're debuting a new series called Staff Talks with Francis,

where we occasionally share conversations from our Crazy Love staff meetings. These aren't sermons

or conference messages, just honest moments where Francis and our team reflect on leadership, discipleship, and following Christ faithfully.

In this episode, Francis talks about something he wrestled with during a long trip home from Brazil, the pressure to keep up with everything happening in the world.

But what if the real fear of missing out is missing what God wants to say?

I think there's one primarily thought I want to share here.

Afterwards, maybe I can talk with content team or whoever wants to about just some stuff on that.

I don't know if Brent will be able to join us for that, but more recorded somehow.

But I just got back from Brazil.

It was a lot of travel calculated it was 54 hours of just flying in layovers and drives and gosh I really wasn't gone that long and to be a you know but I just thought no I'm going to look forward to it I'm

to see it as a sanctuary I can just have some quiet and just in the first two hours

it was already awesome it was uh and the Lord was just revealing things and

showing me things and feeling like I I struggled with I guess a form of

FOMO where I just want to know about everything.

So you don't sound stupid.

Oh, there's a war in Ukraine.

You know, like I just, that there's so many wars to keep up with.

And what's going on with all of them and Homeland Security

and you just feel like I don't know enough about you know what's happening in every city and

and then on top of that there's theological issues where it's like oh you don't know that we

don't believe in hell anymore or whatever it is it's like, oh, you don't know that we don't believe in hell anymore, or whatever

it is. It's like there's so, there's constant new things you feel like you got to keep up with.

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