Ep 65: The Huddle (w/ Jonathan Hose)

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Well, good morning, I'm Daniel
Dalp and this is for your Sunday

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Morning Drive, the short podcast
with the goal of providing some

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motivation, some drive and
encouragement on your way to

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worship and helping you recenter
your mind on those spiritual

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things on hectic Sunday
mornings.

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We do have a special guest today
and it is my good friend and

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brother in Christ, Jonathan
Hoes.

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Jonathan is a member of the
Washington Ave.

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Church of Christ and is employed
by the way Construction man.

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What to say about this guy?
He's as solid as they come.

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I so look up to Jonathan and the
high bar he sets as a husband, a

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father and a man of God.
Whitney and I have become fast

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friends with his family and his
kids were actually kind enough

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to lend their voices to the
intro today.

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I know you'll be blessed by his
thoughts.

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Jonathan, thank you so much for
sharing your thoughts with us

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today.
Let's go ahead and get the show

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on the road.
This is episode 65, The Huddle.

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

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Why are you going to church?
When I think about that

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question, there are many
answers.

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God created us to relate well
with one another and he even

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tells us how.
Jesus said the 1st and greatest

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commandment is to love the Lord
your God with all your heart,

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soul, mind and strength and the
second is like it, love your

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neighbor as yourself.
What a calling.

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He also said that if we love God
but hate our brother, we are a

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liar.
So as Hattaway asks.

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What is?
Love In First Corinthians

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chapter 12 it talks about
spiritual gifts in the body of

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Christ.
We all have different gifts and

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they work together to make up
the body.

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The chapter after that is
famously nicknamed the love

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chapter.
Chapter 14 is about spiritual

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gifts and how to use them in
church gatherings and at the end

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of verse 26 it gives the
motivation for it all.

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Let all things be done for
edification.

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It is very fitting that God
inspired Paul to write the love

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chapter where he did.
It is easy to pull that chapter

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out by itself, like it is
separate, but it is important to

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see in the full context.
There is no way for the parts of

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the body to function together
without love.

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In chapter 13 we have a deep
teaching about what love is.

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I believe we should read that
chapter multiple times a year.

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It is a good reminder for us
about how we should treat one

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another.
As it says in verses 4 through

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the beginning of eight, love is
patient.

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Love is kind.
It does not envy.

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It does not boast.
It is not proud.

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It does not dishonor others.
It is not self seeking.

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It is not easily angered.
It keeps no record of wrong.

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Love does not delight in evil,
but rejoices with the truth.

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It always protects, always
trusts, always hopes, always

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perseveres.
Love never fails.

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If all things are to be done for
edification, we first need to

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know what that word means.
So I looked up edification from

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Merriam Webster's dictionary,
which says an act or process of

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edifying.
Well, that wasn't too helpful.

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So I looked up the definition of
edifying and it says instructive

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or informative in a way that
improves the mind or character.

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Then I looked up edify and it
says to instruct or improve,

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especially in moral and
religious knowledge.

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If you ask someone when you get
to your church gathering, they

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might say it means building up.
On our way to our church

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meetings, it is a good habit to
ask ourselves how we can edify

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others.
Today we all need edification

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and those who so generously will
also reap generously.

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Let's make that the goal of why
we go to church.

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Another reason to go to church
is mentioned in Hebrews 10/23

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through 25.
Let's hold firmly to the

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confession of our hope, without
wavering for he who promised

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this faithful.
And let's consider how to

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encourage one another in love
and good deeds, not abandoning

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our own meeting together, as
some are in the habit of doing,

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but encouraging one another.
And all the more as you see the

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day drawing near.
In First Corinthians 1533, Paul

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gives us a warning.
Bad company corrupts good

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character.
Does that mean that we don't

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spend time with people who have
bad character?

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No, but we need to understand
that the influences we have in

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our lives greatly affect us.
It is very important to have

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godly influences in our lives.
That comes through

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relationships.
What more of a godly

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relationship can we have than
with God Himself?

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In any relationship,
communication is key.

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God communicates to us through
His Holy Word and we communicate

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to Him through prayer.
We need to take note of how many

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times Jesus withdrew by Himself
to talk to the Father.

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It is critical for us to follow
His example to keep ourselves

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focused on Jesus, the Author and
Perfector of our faith.

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God has blessed my beautiful
wife and me with four precious

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daughters.
When I think about them growing

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up, one of my prayers for them
is that they would grow up as

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built in best friends.
One of the ways that can happen

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is spending time together.
Since we homeschool them, that

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gives them extra time to learn
how to relate with one another.

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Our biological family is good
training on how to relate with

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our spiritual family.
When we make that choice to

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follow the way of salvation, we
become a part of the family of

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God.
One of our goals as a family is

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to get to heaven together and to
bring as many people with us as

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we can.
Since we are a part of the

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family of God, we need to spend
time with our family.

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It is easy to lose sight of why
we assemble as a church, but

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hopefully these thoughts
encourage you to keep that

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commitment strong in your lives,
to not forsake the assembly, to

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keep that as a priority in your
lives so that we can love each

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other, edify each other, and
encourage each other.

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It is for our own good.
It is for the good of others.

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And I can't help but think as we
assemble together that God is

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smiling as we have that joy in
Him together as a family, as His

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family.
What a joy it is to fellowship

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with brothers and sisters in
Christ.

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Everyone has the same 24 hours
every day.

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In our culture, it feels like we
need to fill that time with

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activities and stuff.
It is important to prioritize

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our time.
We cannot add time to our lives.

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How are you spending your time?
G Michael Hope said hard times

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produce strong men.
Strong men produce good times.

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Good times produce weak men.
Weak men produce hard times.

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I see that cycle in history and
in my own life.

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We go through ups and downs, but
let us be the kind of family

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that remains strong in Christ no
no matter what kinds of times we

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are going through.
Jonathan shared some great

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thoughts with us and now it's
time to hear yours.

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And don't forget, you can always
share your comments and thoughts

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on each episode at For Your
Sunday morning dr.com.

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Our discussion questions for
this week are why do you go to

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church when we are assembled as
the family of God?

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How do you edify your brothers
and sisters, and what does it

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mean to truly love our brethren?