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