Why Spiritual Formation Is Like Chess
The Real Life Podcast
Jefferson Bethke
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, Jeff and Alyssa Bethke talk about the importance of viewing the big picture of Scripture and how saturating your mind with Scripture changes you and helps you point others to Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | It's not just doing thing, and this is where he actually disagrees with the 10,000 hour rule, |
| 0:04.8 | is he says you can do 10,000 hours of like crappy work and then like you won't be better. |
| 0:09.1 | That's true. |
| 0:10.1 | So it has to be deliberate and I think, I forget his other words words like deliberate and dynamic or something |
| 0:13.2 | but not like heart like just one foot in front of the other very intentionally |
| 0:17.7 | and then you really do reach a level of expertise. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey guys, welcome expertise. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the real life podcast where we talk about exactly that every single week. Real life, which means some episodes might be about a fight we just had some episodes might be about |
| 0:34.8 | potty training since we have two toddlers and some might be about eschatological realism because I love thinking |
| 0:40.4 | and talking about deep theological things and maybe we'll talk about all three of those in one episode |
| 0:45.0 | But we hope the show feels like hanging out in our living room with us drinking a cup of coffee as we discuss faith and family and culture and Jesus. |
| 0:54.0 | Me and my lovely wife, Alyssa, are your host and don't hesitate to hit us up or reach out on |
| 0:58.7 | social media to say hi or comment on this week's episode. |
| 1:02.2 | Enjoy. |
| 1:07.0 | What's up guys? I'm Jeff. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Jeff. I'm Jeff. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm Melissa. |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome back to the real life podcast. |
| 1:17.0 | She's in the middle of eating a rice crispy tree. |
| 1:19.0 | That's why she laughed right there. |
| 1:20.0 | Guys. |
| 1:21.0 | Sorry, I couldn't. |
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