Comfort Zones (4 of 8)
Series: Unleashed
Craig Smith
Acts 8:26-40
Introduction If we want to live unleashed, we have to stop living in our comfort zones. I love what John Assaraf said about comfort zones. He said, ‘‘A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.’’ - John Assaraf. As I look back on my life, one thing that’s really clear is that the greatest seasons of growth in my life have also been the seasons where I was most uncomfortable. One of those seasons was the year I turned 21. I was a junior at Kent State University in northeastern Ohio and I realized through a series of things, that I had gotten way too comfortable with some really unhealthy ways of doing life and relationships, especially with girls. One girl in particular. We’d been dating off and on since high school and we were terrible for each other. But we kept getting back together. We’d break up and see other people for a little bit but then we’d get back together. And looking back on it now, I understand that its surprisingly easy to get comfortable with what’s actually dysfunctional. In fact, and I bet there’s someone here today who needs to hear this: We’re often more comfortable with familiar poison than unfamiliar medicine. Because the unfamiliar is uncomfortable. And I realized that was what was happening to me, so I made a decision to break out of those patterns and do something way outside my comfort zone. I signed up to spend the summer with YWAM - Youth With a Mission - on a musician’s summer of service. So basically, I joined a Christian rock band that was going to be touring Eastern Europe for a summer. And for all kinds of reasons, that was so far outside my comfort zone that I spent the first two weeks of the summer going, ‘‘what were you thinking?’’ But that summer turned out to be one of the greatest growth experiences of my life. It was that summer that I learned that I have a God-given gift for leading people: that people tend to trust me and be wi ...
Series: Unleashed
Craig Smith
Acts 8:26-40
Introduction If we want to live unleashed, we have to stop living in our comfort zones. I love what John Assaraf said about comfort zones. He said, ‘‘A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.’’ - John Assaraf. As I look back on my life, one thing that’s really clear is that the greatest seasons of growth in my life have also been the seasons where I was most uncomfortable. One of those seasons was the year I turned 21. I was a junior at Kent State University in northeastern Ohio and I realized through a series of things, that I had gotten way too comfortable with some really unhealthy ways of doing life and relationships, especially with girls. One girl in particular. We’d been dating off and on since high school and we were terrible for each other. But we kept getting back together. We’d break up and see other people for a little bit but then we’d get back together. And looking back on it now, I understand that its surprisingly easy to get comfortable with what’s actually dysfunctional. In fact, and I bet there’s someone here today who needs to hear this: We’re often more comfortable with familiar poison than unfamiliar medicine. Because the unfamiliar is uncomfortable. And I realized that was what was happening to me, so I made a decision to break out of those patterns and do something way outside my comfort zone. I signed up to spend the summer with YWAM - Youth With a Mission - on a musician’s summer of service. So basically, I joined a Christian rock band that was going to be touring Eastern Europe for a summer. And for all kinds of reasons, that was so far outside my comfort zone that I spent the first two weeks of the summer going, ‘‘what were you thinking?’’ But that summer turned out to be one of the greatest growth experiences of my life. It was that summer that I learned that I have a God-given gift for leading people: that people tend to trust me and be wi ...
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