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Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

When They Take You For Granted | Been There | Part 6

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever feel like people are taking you for granted? You do so much, but you often feel unseen. Jesus knows what that’s like because He’s been there. How do you respond when you feel under-appreciated? We’re talking about it in this message.

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0:00.0

I want to start the message with a story.

0:03.2

I was very excited to meet someone who was a hero to me.

0:08.0

And before meeting him, I was instructed that it's proper in this culture to bring a generous

0:14.2

gift to show gratitude for what this person has accomplished and I was completely down

0:19.9

to do that.

0:20.9

So I asked what does he like?

0:22.6

And the person instructed me that he likes a certain type of pen or writing pen of which

0:28.0

I looked up and it was above my normal gift-giving budget.

0:32.8

I don't know if you've ever priced expensive pens before but mine cost $5 for a dollar.

0:38.6

And some of them are free, like the life-search free pen.

0:41.5

Well, this one wasn't anywhere close to that and I thought, I'm not going to spend that

0:46.2

much money on a pen.

0:47.2

That's like I wouldn't spend that much money on aiming on our 50th wedding anniversary

0:51.5

while I might.

0:52.5

Not for anything else at all and so I wrestled with it.

0:58.0

And I'm telling you, if I told you it was weeks of agonizing, maybe I'd get a Machiefer

1:03.4

off-brain one and he won't notice.

1:05.6

Maybe I get it's different.

1:06.9

And finally I just thought, you know, it's made such a big difference in the world.

1:10.2

Many of you would know who he is and you would agree about our item like getting this

1:13.4

stupid pen.

1:14.4

So I forked over a ton of money.

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