Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Well, hey, friends, welcome to a brand new week on the weekday podcast. My name is Bobby. I'm super grateful you're here today. If you're new to these, we spend about three to five minutes every single weekday to offer a little bit of encouragement. Pastor Chuck and I alternate usually week by week, and we're so honored to be with you. If you find this episode helpful, if you don't mind, consider sharing it with a friend. You can post it on social media, send them a text, send them to weekday podcast.com and we've got hundreds and hundreds of episodes, so. So if there's something specific you want to hear about, I guarantee you you can find it. Well, this week we're going to be hanging out in a familiar theme all week long, so if you're able to join us, I would love for you to be with us every single day this week. Yesterday, if you're part of Sugar Hill Church, you heard me talk about the morning I woke up and my arm was dead. And when I say dead, it's not the tingly, shake it out kind of asleep. It felt dead. I mean, I looked down, it was still attached. It's the same arm, same hand, same watch still strapped to the same wrist. But I promise you, you could have held a lighter under it and I wouldn't have known. So I lay there for a full minute, just staring at my own hand like it belonged to somebody else. I don't know if you've done that. I don't know if you've ever had that own crisis. But here's the part that actually got me thinking. My arm did not unattach. It didn't fall off in the night. It was still officially, technically 100% my arm. It just stopped functioning, still counted, still there on paper, just asleep.
[00:01:26] And if we're not careful, that's not just a circulation problem. That's a church problem. It's a you problem, too. Ephesians 4, verse 1 says, I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called.
[00:01:42] Paul's writing these words from a Roman prison cell, chained to a guard, to a. To a church. He's writing this to a church he planted and loved in a city called Ephesus, a place that was soaked in competing religions, split the middle between Jews and Gentiles who spent their whole lives on opposite sides of the wall. And now Paul's asking them to sit at the same table and call each other family.
[00:02:07] You can be attached to a body and still be asleep in it. That's the scary part. The numb parts are usually the last ones that know they're numb. You don't feel your arm going to sleep in real time. You just wake up one day and realize it doesn't have what you know, any feeling to it. Nobody decides one morning, hey, I'm gonna stop being the church. I'm just going to attend it instead.
[00:02:31] Instead, it just goes numb an inch at a time until you're technically attached, but you're functionally asleep. So this week, we're going to walk through four things a body that is actually awake does. And it's not to earn a calling, but because it's already been given one. But before we do any of that, here's the question worth sitting with today. Is there a part of your life, your faith, your relationships, your calling, that's still attached, is still technically yours, but hasn't actually moved in a while? It didn't take a miracle to wake my arm back up. It just needed blood moving through it again. And maybe that's all some part of you needs, too. Not a fix, just a movement. You can be attached to a body and still be asleep in it. Tomorrow we start with the first move a body that's awake makes. And it's got nothing to do with doing more. It's got to do with what you're actually standing on. There's a doc on Lake Lanier that's about to teach us something none of us saw coming. See you soon.
