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PASSION UNLEASHED: THE TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEY OF JAMES (4)

by Tim Badal

Scripture: Mark 1:16-20


Title: Passion Unleashed: The Transformative Journey
Of James (4)
Series: Follow Me: The Story Of Discipleship
Author: Tim Badal
Text: Mark 1:16-20

Let me ask you a question this morning. Do you suffer from MCE? Some of you have no idea what I'm talking about, but for a great many of our young people today, Main Character Energy is something that has become part and parcel of their lives. In fact, it has become the subject of a great many articles and news reports because it is big with people under 30 years of age. It's a perspective on life that says you are the most important character in the grand story of humanity. You are the star of the show. Many have written about this, inspired primarily by a TikTok video from Ashley Ward that went viral in 2020. The term is social media slang for approaching everything as the central protagonist or main character.

Influencers like Britta Grace Thorpe and Yasmin Shahid have championed it as a way of taking charge and living life to its fullest. It could be as simple as dancing in public and not caring what others think, or running down the street in the city knowing everyone is looking at you. Inc Magazine said this:

For those unfamiliar with the concept, Main Character Energy of one's life is a notion that involves individuals, principally young ones, thinking of themselves as the main character or protagonist in their own life story. Instead of being content to see themselves as supporting characters with the action taking place around them, or worse, to them, they play the lead role, actively taking control of their lives, putting their wants, their needs, their desires first. According to one survey, 55% of millennials and Gen Z's think of themselves as the main characters in their lives.

Another one put it this way:

This is how you are to understand it. The world's big. Zoom further out, the universe is even more expansive. Contemplating your place as one of eight billion people on a relatively sm ...

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