Dallas Willard once called Hurrie the great enemy of spiritual life in our day and

Said quote you must ruthlessly

Eliminate hurry from your life

He said that to a mentee of his by the name of John Ortberg if you're not familiar with John

He's one of my all-time favorite pastors and writers from a generation ahead of me

I would not call him a mentor

He's a little bit out of my league

But we do have lunch two or three times here. I was actually just with him a few days ago on Monday and

John is kind of you have those people in your life are like this is who I want to be when I grow up

Do you have anybody like that if not you should?

John is that for me and when John first told me that story of what Willard said to him

I have these two equal and opposite reactions on one hand my mind and I'll honestly said that's ridiculous

Hurrie like hurry is the great enemy of like the great Satan or something of life in the Western world

That's just not what I would have put language to I mean our city as most of you know was recently named the least religious

City in America and if you were to ask me prior to hearing that story

It was the greatest challenge you face and just following Jesus in Portland much less you know attempting to

Pastor other people to do the same

I don't know what I would have said

Partisan politics or income inequality or racial injustice or the sexualization of everything or I don't know

I don't know what I would have said I doubt here. You would hurry would have even made the list

Much less have made the top spot

But then on the other hand at a gut level when I first that that language first came into my mind

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