When Your Faith Feels Stagnant | New Testament | 1 Timothy 4

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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When you first became a Christian, you were excited, eager to learn, and always growing. Has that changed the longer you've been a Christian? Does your faith feel stale? In today's episode, Jensen looks to 1 Timothy 4 for encouragement and what to do when your faith feels flat. 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. Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in one year. Get your FREE reading plan here. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 1 Timothy 4

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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.
0:10.8	I'm Jensen Holt McNair. I'm a member of the 90% finished club, which is just a nice way for me to say that I tend to give up on things when I get bored of them. When I take on projects I work hard and fast, but towards
0:25.3	the end I get tired of what I'm doing and I get sloppy and I end up leaving the last couple of tasks
0:31.1	undone. My kitchen trim around my cabinets is just leaning
0:35.1	against the wall waiting to be nailed in. There's one small wall in my house
0:39.3	that still has the paint color of the previous owner. If you look closely, you'll find many, many holes in my house that have been spackled, but not sanded or painted.
0:48.6	And I have a blanket that I have been knitting for around nine years now, and it may be time to admit that I will probably never finish it.
0:55.3	You see, I get excited about projects and ideas and I dive headfirst into them, but slowly, along the way, I lose interest and I decide it's good enough
1:06.4	as is. I lack the desire or the dedication to follow through on that last 10%.
1:13.0	It's not a particularly appealing trait of mine,
1:16.0	and I'm afraid that sometimes it translates into the deeper parts of my life as well.
1:21.0	I was talking with a friend a while back about how I feel
1:25.0	like as I've been a Christian longer and longer, I slowly, over time, become apathetic to the
1:31.2	gospel. There was a time in my life where I was overjoyed,
1:35.0	dedicated, working, growing, studying, learning, and over time,
1:39.2	somehow I look back and it looks as though I've lost interest. I've let my faith fade into the background.
1:46.1	It's become stagnant in my life. Now I don't want that to be true and I don't want to be okay with that fact
1:52.1	but if I'm honest with myself I had seen
1:55.8	that my faith had fallen prey to my 90% tendencies and I wasn't sure if I wanted to fix it
2:01.6	and so as I read First Timothy four I wasn't sure if I wanted to fix it. And so as I read First Timothy 4,
2:04.4	I couldn't help but think about this realization.
2:07.1	You see, Paul uses chapter 4
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