Act III | Episode 3 |
Jeremy Brown : Lead Pastor
Most of us aren't making fresh decisions everyday
Most of us aren't making fresh decisions everyday
We are just reacting exactly the way we always do
Most of us are living by scripts we never chose
These scripts don't yell at us,
They whisper.
And because they whisper,
We barely question them.
What is the source of scripts?
- Upbringing
Family dynamics, unspoken rules, approval patterns
What is the source of scripts?
- Upbringing
Family dynamics, unspoken rules, approval patterns
" Don't show weakness"
" Earn love through performance"
"Keep the peace at all costs"
What is the source of scripts?
- Upbringing
- Painful Experience
Trauma, rejection, failure creates scripts
What is the source of scripts?
- Upbringing
- Painful Experience
Trauma, rejection, failure creates scripts
"I'm on my own"
"People will eventually leave"
"I have to stay in control or I'll be controlled"
What is the source of scripts?
- Upbringing
- Painful Experience
- Culture
What is the source of scripts?
- Upbringing
- Painful Experience
- Culture
- Our Own Interpretation
Two people can go through the same moment
And walk away with very different scripts
How are scripts formed?
Life Happens!
Somethings painful, confusing, or formative occurs
How are scripts formed?
Life Happens!
What does this say about me?
"I'm not enough"
"I'm hard to love"
"I have the be strong"
How are scripts formed?
Life Happens!
What does this say about me?
What does this say about others?
"People can't be trusted"
"Authority figures disappoint"
"Love always comes with strings"
How are scripts formed?
Life Happens!
What does this say about me?
What does this say about others?
What does this say about God?
"God helps other people more than me"
"God expects me to handle this on my own"
"God is close... but not that close"
How are scripts formed?
Life Happens!
Questions are asked
Assumptions are made
Assumptions become scripts
Scripts quietly run our lives
When are scripts formed?
Most scripts are written young, hurting, and alone
When are scripts formed?
Most scripts are written young, hurting, and alone
- too young to have perspective
- too hurt to slow down
- too alone to process it with someone safe
Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat bottom of the winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites. The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, "Mighty hero, the Lord is with you!"
Judges 6:11-12
"Sir", Gideon replied, "if the Lord is with us why has all this happened to us? And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about? Didn't they say, "The Lord brought us up on out of Egypt? But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites."
Judges 6:13
"But Lord", Gideon replied, "How can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family?
Judges 6:15
The Lord said to him, "I will be with you..."
Gideon's Scripts
Old
- I'm the least
- We're the weakest
- God is distant
- I survive by hiding
New
- God is with me
- God chooses the unlikely
- Victory isn't about me
- I move forward
- unsure- but obedient
