The Most Important Question: Who Do You Follow? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 6.39-40

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🗓️ 11 March 2020

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"So the most important question you can ask is this, and you have to know this answer. And if you don't know it, you're in trouble." Some people seem to be natural-born leaders, don't they? Maybe you're one of them. You're team captain, you're class president, you're CEO. But no one starts out at the top. Listen to this episode to hear about https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Patrick's) existential crisis about being a follower and the crucial question he derived from it as he continues our series on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/how-to-follow-jesus/ (Learning to Follow Jesus). To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO (Facebook), https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.6	I'm Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon. Right now we're
0:14.8	learning what it looks like to follow Jesus by working our way through the
0:18.5	Gospel of Luke. When I was a kid I remember playing this computer game called Lemings. I have no idea if it's still around but the concept of the game was simple. A bunch of lemmings are all following each other in a straight line and your goal is to create a path for them to get to the
0:34.8	finish line without too many lemmings dying because they follow the leader off a cliff and perish.
0:41.6	So one day I'm playing this game and as I'm playing it it leads me into an
0:46.1	existential crisis or at least as close to an existential crisis as a 13 year old can
0:51.3	experience because it made me ask this deep and profound question.
0:55.6	Was I a lemming? Was I a lemming? I realize suddenly watching these lemmings falling off the cliff that I was just like them.
1:05.2	I wore the same clothes as my friends. I talked the same way as my friends.
1:09.5	I laughed at the same things as my friends. I liked the same things as my friends. I wanted to do the same things my friends wanted to do. I defined right and wrong, good and bad the same way my friends did. Was I a lemming? I had decided at the time that the answer was yes and so I
1:26.4	committed myself to becoming a non-conformist. I would cut my own path, make my
1:31.2	own way, define my own self. It probably took me another 10 years to realize
1:36.9	a second, it may be more important truth. There's no such thing as a non-conformist.
1:42.0	Even the most non-conforming non-conformist. Even the most non-conforming, non-conformist are
1:44.4	conforming to some group out there. You see, the simple reality is that we as humans are
1:49.1	tribal animals. We're hardwired to be a part of a group, to think with a group.
1:55.0	However much we might or might not like it, we are all lemmings, which means that the
2:00.4	wisest question we can ask is not,
2:02.9	how can I be a non-conformist,
2:04.4	how can I be true to myself?
2:06.4	Don't kid yourself.
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