Video Transcript: Do Interesting Things

All right, do interesting things. How to become more interesting, do interesting  things. But then we have an example of King David. I thought King David, I think he's one who did interesting things. He was young, the young brother, he's  tends to the sheep. But he, he becomes an artist. He's into music. He plays the  harp. And he's, he's a sports warrior. Yeah, he's a warrior. He's a leader. He was  just a lot of kind of like a renaissance man. He probably oil painted, who knows  what all that he did poetry, music, and enough to where, you know, we have a  book of the Bible filled with things that he had done. I mean, even on the  downside, he does some things that were interesting, but were wrong. So, you  know, that was should be mentioned too. But he was an interesting person. And  he did interesting things. Yeah, what so Henry is thinking about your life? What?  What are you what are one of those that does interesting things? I love to travel  because you don't when you travel, you meet all kinds of different people, you  see different things. So just recently, I like to read but. If I read I like to have sort  of a culture in the for some sort of fun thing. So my birthday, and I'm right now  researching a story or a kind of a metaphor, metaphor hunch. metaphor, pony  named trustee, to throw a metaphor in Antioch is really interested me, because  that's where they were first called Christians in Antioch. I have a book like this  on Antioch so for my birthday, they said, What do you want? So I decided I  wanted an Antioch coin, so my whole family got together and bought me an  Antioch coin so I have a coin from 216 BC. And I take it out there to look at it.  And then when people come over I show the coin and in down the road, I have a whole way of thinking. So when people come over even who don't know the  Lord, we do hospitality conversations going on, and they can pick it up on the  back is actually like one of the Greek gods which is gonna allow me to talk about spiritual things, and the front is Antiochus. And then I can get to they're first  called Christians in Antioch. So it's like, but it's like a big book. It's an Antioch  coin. It's like, so there. That's to me. Fun little interesting things. I'm talking about the obvious things like like golf, but this is one people would never know. Unless they had to hear this story. Now you've heard the whole story. So I have my  Antioch coin is a piece of coal from the Titanic. Right? Because I got into the  Titanic, Titanic became a metaphor for church. How people, you know, the ship  was going down, people are gonna die unless they're rescued. The lifeboat is  the church. How come the churches aren't doing their job, right. The lifeboat  called the church is rowing away. Right. And so he wrote a book on it. Yeah, I  wrote a book. I wrote a book. I also have a little piece of Titanic called I picked  up, a bottle of the ocean. But but so I went to the Titanic Museum, I, you know, I  got involved. I had to I had to invest myself to make this a thing for me. Right. I  decided to make my own guitar. And the reason I am I play guitar, and then I  was thinking of legacy. I have four boys. They play the guitar too. And I thought,  wouldn't it be cool if I made four guitars? I handed these down and these  became Grampa's thing. Grampa made years ago, I started. I started writing by 

hand, the Bible, I got the book or this thing with old, like old pages and stuff. And I, okay, I'm gonna write the book of Genesis. My next son is going to write the  book of Exodus and keep going. And of course it goes down to their children  and their children. So, you know, when the 66 books they're going to be done, it  could be 100 years from now or it could be 150 years, from now. It is to me It's  interesting, it's interesting, it's doing something. But we've observed that like in  the previous sessions, it's about acquiring knowledge is about meeting  interesting people. And we found interesting people do sort of interesting things  and sometimes it's just things that come up. So a guy in my church in  Vancouver, he went around in a truck selling ice cream bars, right? So one day, I went with him the whole day. So I'm in the thing, we're ringing, the bell got the  music playing the kids come. And they want this. So you know, here, I'm a  minister, and I'm taking a whole day to run around. And it was fascinating. You  know, I can't hear an ice cream truck go by without remembering, without  thinking about connections, and how this all works. And some of the interesting  things are out of your comfort zone. I remember, sometimes God puts you in an  interesting place. I was put in an interesting place on September 11 2001, in  Manhattan, New York. Now, part of me wanted to just go in the hotel, and watch, you know, the news channels constantly. Okay that was part of me, the other  part of me said, you know, I can sit here. But you know, why don't I just jump out of my comfort zone and serve, and in the serving others. So I went over to the  hospital volunteer as a chaplain for the incoming, wounded, and so forth and  found out in the end, very few survived. Now, it's a sad story. But on the other  hand, I could have sat at the hotel, or I could just got out there, and said, What  can I do? You know, I'm gonna challenge myself. I know, I don't know anybody  in New York, New York. But why am I here? God has me here for a reason. You  might have to just go for it, and see what happens and try things. I didn't know  how to do a evangelism, right? So I decided to, and I decided that I needed  some thing to push me into the deep end, I was not going to jump on my own.  So I signed up for a mission trip that I got sent, and then they forced you to go  door to door knocking on doors. Did I want to do that? No, I didn't want to do  that. But I signed up for this thing that forced me to do this thing. And those are  the stories I still tell today with the person, you know, knocking on the first door  and praying that no one would answer and then what happened? It shaped and  molded. You know, how I think of people how I think of evangelism, but I had to  get out there and do something. It wasn't like these interesting things were just  going to happen. I need to step out in faith, go to the edge, try things. I was not  maybe it might not have been my personality. But let's try this thought. You  know, I think you bring up a good point about trying things, even if on the  surface, they don't look interesting to you in marriage. I think that's a constant. I  mean, so my wife never once played golf. But now as we're getting older, she  decided, you know, it's such an interest of my husband, I am just going to jump 

into it. So this year, she's signing up for the league. We play more golf this year,  than we've ever played. We're having a fun time. My buddies are a little bit  jealous. Can you play a little my wife? Oh, okay. But even relationally you know,  for me, you know, to my wife likes more romantic type things, which is, you  know, in for I would resist that at times. You know, it made us and excuses well,  because I'm a guy you know, guys are, you know, in a saw, like the various  videos and whatnot. But then I got better attitude, I'm gonna learn how to be  more of an interesting romantic to her spend more time, give her more back  rubs, and all of those stuff. Anyway, I find it as I am more interesting then all of a  sudden she responds more interestingly, back to me on some of the things that  I'm more interested in, you know, we guys like to be more physical, we want our  wives to be more physical. And they want us to be more romantic. And suddenly, we just sort of have an impasse sometimes unless we have an attitude. Like, I  am actually going to get interested in things that ultimately bless my spouse and bless my own life. In many of us when we're younger, we try out things because  we don't know who we are. In college I went out for the thespians. I'll try a play I  went. I did what a music major would do for a whole semester right. I would you  know, sports, try this. Try this. Try that. A lot of times. As we get past that trial  time in our lives, we sort of close down and we don't do anything, right. So we  had these three, four years where we're out there, but live your whole life that  way. I don't care how old you are, you might be retired. And you're like, Well, I  know who I am. And no,you don't have any idea who you are right? Because  God has maybe a plan for you. And so go out there and try things in ministry.  Try. Just like oh, wow, if I could do door to door. Right? Oh, I don't know if I get  to actually do street evangelism. Who knows? Maybe you can, oh, I don't know  if I could really work in the children's area of our church. I don't know. But you  know, something, you will learn something. Regardless of whether it works or  not, you will learn something. Really doing interesting things cannot be  understated. So well, I'm looking forward to what next interesting thing we find  out