You Can’t Change the People You Want to Change!
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We’ve all had family members and friends that we wish we could change, especially when we see them making decisions that clash with Catholic teaching, but you can’t force someone to follow rules (even if you know it would make them happier in the long run).
Jeff offers some Scripture verses to help us better understand this concept and learn how to bring people to Christ first, so that they will choose to follow his commandments out of love, not just duty.
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“We can argue on topics all day long, but if we don’t know the basic proclamation of the gospel and bring Christ to people, we’re not going to see much change at all. The one who can change their heart is the one who doesn’t change.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Kaven Show episode 141. You can't change the people you want to change. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, I'm Jeff Cavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:18.6 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the |
| 0:25.2 | Jeff Kaven show. And welcome to the show. So you are frustrated, right? You have so many people in your life that you wish they just got |
| 0:37.8 | it, either spiritually or politically or socially, you just wish they would get it but they don't and it's |
| 0:45.7 | causing frustration maybe even resentment and some of the people that you're |
| 0:51.0 | talking about may know the Lord and others may not know the Lord. |
| 0:55.0 | Well today we want to focus on those who might not have a relationship with the |
| 1:00.0 | Lord right now. Maybe you've been talking to him, maybe you sent him something on the internet, maybe |
| 1:06.1 | you bought a book for them, maybe you've even gotten into an argument during the holidays and you just didn't get anywhere. I understand that and sometimes I sit |
| 1:16.5 | back and I think to myself how come people don't get it? How come they don't get it? How come they won't change? How come they won't see what I see? |
| 1:26.0 | So let's talk about that today, about seeing change in people's lives where we are frustrated and we just sense they don't get it. |
| 1:35.2 | Right? So hey I got a email from Cheryl in Sydney Australia and this is a lot of people write this type of thing. |
| 1:44.2 | It's really beautiful and I appreciate it. |
| 1:46.8 | Basically saying, you know, how the show has meant something to them |
| 1:50.7 | and maybe the Great Adventure. |
| 1:53.2 | Love to go on a pilgrimage and show notes. |
| 1:56.4 | And Cheryl, you kind of encapsulate it all |
| 1:58.8 | when you say, thanks for the great podcast. |
| 2:01.4 | I really enjoy listening to it. I did the Great |
| 2:03.4 | Adventure Bible Study in 2013 at my parish and it was really the start of a |
| 2:09.5 | deeper love and appreciation for the scriptures. So thank you so much for that. |
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