Ep 108: New Microphone, Good Shepherd

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What can a new microphone teach 
us about sounding like Christ? 

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Well, let's talk about that. 
Welcome to the show. 

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I'm Daniel Dalp and this is for 
your Sunday morning drive. 

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The short podcast with the goal 
of providing some motivation, 

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Dr. and encouragement on your 
way to worship and helping you 

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recenter your mind on those 
spiritual things on a hectic 

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Sunday morning or whenever you 
listen. 

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Before we get started today, I 
did want to do a short plug. 

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I preach for the Hawesville 
Church of Christ in Hawesville, 

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KY, and recently we've we've 
launched a podcast feed, which 

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is going to be kind of a catch 
all for all of our sermon 

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uploads. 
So if you're inclined and desire

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to hear more of me, which I 
can't imagine is going to be the

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case, I'll be putting a link in 
the show notes to the Hallsville

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Church of Christ podcast. 
I'd appreciate it if you check 

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it out. 
Well, I think that takes care of

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announcements this morning. 
Let's go ahead and get the show 

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on the road. 
This is episode one O 8 new 

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microphone. 
Good Shepherd. 

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Let's go to church. 
Are we there yet? 

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Those of you with a discerning 
ear might have noticed something

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different about the podcast. 
Over the last handful of 

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episodes. 
You may have noticed my voice 

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and my audio seems, quite 
frankly, to be all over the 

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place. 
And there's a reason for that. 

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I was recently able to upgrade 
my microphone from the budget 

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mic that I started with to a new
one with all the bells and 

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whistles. 
It's pretty sweet, but the thing

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about bells and whistles is that
they take some fine tuning to 

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get them to sound the way you 
want to sound the way I want, 

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and I just haven't been able to 
dial it in just yet. 

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But I'm not giving up. 
In fact, I have spent a shameful

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amount of time listening to my 
own voice in an attempt to make 

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me sound just right. 
And, well, I still don't think 

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I'm quite there yet. 
I still haven't found my voice, 

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so to speak. 
Well, reflecting on how much 

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time I've put into the fine 
tuning of this microphone and 

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thinking about the phrase 
finding my voice brings several 

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things to mind. 
Primarily, have I been too 

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concerned with how I sound to 
the world? 

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Is that another way? 
When people hear me speak, do 

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they hear more of me or more of 
Jesus? 

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Because that's the goal. 
The goal is both in Word and in 

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deed to sound and authentically 
be Christ like. 

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And then the question comes up, 
how do we, how do I fine tune 

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that? 
Or am I even concerned about it?

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Because if I'm being really 
honest, the temptation to just 

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sound like and be like me on my 
own terms is really strong. 

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The fine tuning in my mind must 
start with learning the 

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baseline, knowing who it is I 
want to sound like. 

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In other words, I must know what
Jesus sounds like in order to 

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bring my voice into harmony with
His. 

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Visa says this after declaring 
himself the Good Shepherd in 

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John 1027. 
My sheep hear my voice, and I 

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know them, and they follow me. 
Do we know the voice of the 

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shepherd? 
Do we know it well enough to 

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follow him? 
Do we know it well enough to 

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speak the things he speaks and 
walk the paths that he walks? 

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Or does the pull of 
individuality tempt us to turn 

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up our own volume, to try and 
over shout and overdo Jesus 

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because our world is so caught 
up in individuality, in 

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customizing every aspect of our 
lives at the click of a button. 

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And if we're not careful, we'll 
begin to lose ourselves to it, 

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to conform to it, to become 
indistinguishable from what we 

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are supposed to be sanctified 
from. 

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Romans chapter 12 verse 2 says, 
And do not be conformed to this 

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world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, so that 

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you may prove what the will of 
God is. 

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That which is good and 
acceptable and perfect. 

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We should be tempering. 
We should be working on 

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ourselves, not to please the 
world, but to please God. 

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And what or who pleases God more
than His Son? 

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So yes, let's not be concerned 
with finding our own voice, but 

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with finding His. 
We should not merely walk like 

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Him, but talk like Him. 
First, Peter chapter 2, verse 21

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through 25 gives us a pretty 
good idea of just what that 

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looks like. 
For to this you have been 

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called, because Christ also 
suffered for you, leaving you an

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example so that you might follow
in His steps. 

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He committed no sin, neither was
deceit found in his mouth. 

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When he was reviled, he did not 
revile in return. 

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When He suffered, He did not 
threaten, but continued 

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entrusting himself to Him who 
judges justly. 

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He Himself bore our sins in his 
body on the tree, that we might 

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die to sin and live to 
righteousness. 

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By his wounds you have been 
healed, for you were strained 

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like sheep, but have now 
returned to the shepherd and the

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overseer of your souls. 
What did Jesus sound like? 

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He sounded truthful, 
compassionate, courageous, 

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gentle, firm when necessary, and
full of grace. 

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Yes, it's a tall order, but a 
worthy 1A necessary 1. 

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And when it is so easy for 
people to hear things in us like

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bitterness, anger, sarcasm, and 
unjust criticism, how refreshing

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must it be for them to simply 
hear Jesus? 

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So while that old microphone 
sounded like me, my hopes for 

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the new one is that it sounds 
more like Jesus. 

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And if that's the goal, then I 
don't think I'll ever be done 

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fine tuning. 
I just pray I get closer every 

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week. 
Well, those are my thoughts for 

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your Sunday morning drive. 
Now it's time to hear yours. 

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Our discussion questions for 
this week are when people hear 

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me speak, do they hear more of 
me or more of Jesus? 

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What is 1 habit in my life that 
needs fine tuning this week? 

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And how can I intentionally turn
up the volume on Christ in both 

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my words and actions today? 
Hey, thank you for listening. 

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Thank you so much for taking 
time and and checking us out and

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making us a part of your Sunday 
morning routine. 

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Keep working on sounding like 
Jesus and I'll see you Sunday. 

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We're here.