Maybe Labubus R Original?

In this  episode of the BC Pod, hosts Jensen, Giselle, and Noah recap an impactful conference featuring leadership sessions and guest speakers like Jared Nieman and Jabin Chavez. They discuss the importance of unity and community both within their youth group and in broader ministry contexts. This episode delves into the themes of unity, exploring its power, biblical foundations, and contrasting it with the world's view.

00:00 Welcome to the BBC Pod!

00:26 Conference Highlights and Guest Speakers

01:28 Impactful Leadership Sessions

02:06 Worship and Altar Call Experiences

03:40 Fun and Games: Youth Group Activities

09:00 Unity and Community Building

13:10 The Impact of Loneliness

13:53 Finding Joy in Community

14:56 The Power of Unity

19:26 Worldly Unity vs. Biblical Unity

26:22 Final Thoughts and Farewell

Transcript

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Yo, what's up everybody? We'll go back to the BC paw B, C Paw, B hot dog. All my hotdog people. Where you at? I think that was a lot of stuff I've ever been, yes. That was a lot. Yeah, for real. That was a lot. Hey, we're back. Better than ever. Hey, if it's your first time listening, this is the BBC Pod. I'm your host Jensen with co-host Giselle and Noah. That's, we're glad you're here. Um, we gotta get right into it. Conference happened last week. My life has changed for, ugh, for real? Oh, it's so, it's it like I breathe New air, bro. Oh my gosh. I had an incredible time. We had a couple leadership sessions with our guest speakers and we also just had our regular sessions. Oh, my banger banger. Banger banger. Tell who our guest, we. We had Jared, well, first of all, our night one speaker was our lead pastor David er, from our church center of Albuquerque, um, night two. I love him. We had, uh, Jared Neiman from Abundant at in El Paso, Texas. Shout out Jared. Um, night three, we had Jayn Chavez from City Light Church. Oh, shout out in Las Vegas, Nevada. Um, so Banger, banger, banger, banger banger, bang. And what I love too is that like. People got to see new pastors and I think it really changed their perspective on pastors and really broadened their horizon on who to listen to. Mm-hmm. Oh, for sure. I was like, dang, I did not know. I did not know. Like I, for some people I was talking to'em, they're like, dang, I didn't know Jared had a game like that. Oh. Like, oh my gosh, I did not. He was good like that. Oh my gosh, bro. And now, uh, it's just great.'cause now they get to hear from that, but Oh, for sure. Oh my. Oh my goodness. When you talk about Jared, like the leadership session for Jared, me and Jenson absolutely changed my life. We're floored. We were like, this is so good. It was so good. I took notes on paper. Yeah. Literally. Wow. It was so good. I actually busted out a notebook for once. Yeah, for real. That's never done that before. That's we were both taking notes on paper. Yeah. That, I hope we see it. One day. For real. Me and Noah were like, we're starting new culture tonight. On my phone tonight. I did it on my phone. Yeah, he did on the phone. Yeah. But it was, it was so far and stuff he had to say. And then I was in, uh, I was serving in kids ministry the night he spoke. I, uh. I did not, I didn't, I didn't miss out'cause kids was sick. But there was an incredible altar call too that I did rewatch and it was I felt like I was analar call. Yeah, you were kids. I felt like I was in the altar call when I was watching it online. It was insane. Oh bro. It was incredible. Um, and then, uh, worship too. Worship hits so hard. Like all the, all the youth would come up to the front of like the, I guess the platform or whatever. Yeah. And it was just like. It was, the energy was crazy. Like, especially night two, like Monday. Dude, that song, I thank God every, every, it was everything Jason hates on that song. I was like, bro, it's everything that Jena hates about that song is what we were doing. And it was awesome. It was, and, and you know what, the best part, if I was in there, I, you would've done it too. I would've done it too. I turned me around. Listen, hey, to eat their own, but not for me. Nice. Eat for. And then, uh, with Jabin. Uh, he called all, he prayed specifically over our youth and I was like, oh my gosh. Oh his gosh. Fire was such a special moment. He put his hand on my head and I was like, ah, this is it. I'm going up. I'm like, this is over. Going down. We're going up. Yeah. Literally I'm going, I'm dropping, I'm dropping. I'm going, take me, take me, take me, take me. Yeah. Jeremiah behind me, he's gonna catch me. Jeremiah's five foot one, he's gonna catch me. But it was so, I, it was so far we had a merch drop. Mm-hmm. Dude, I was gonna say the merch bro. Cell fired heaters. Absolutely. Heaters. And the photos GI made it. Yeah. What I did? Yes. Gi, GI made. Yes. Giselle made our merch. Yes, of course. Did not, did not do we, but I'll take credit. Just kidding. No. Kei made a shirt. If y'all don't know Kii, he's our photographer, does all of our graphics pretty much, and he, he, uh, designed a couple of our, the hoodie that was him. He designed part of it. Oh, the youth one? Yeah, the youth one. Yeah, it was a good one. That was a banger. I did, I cropped that one the second. It reached the shells. So yeah, we also gave one away. Jordan, I hope you're loving that hoodie, brother. Oh, brother. Do I wanna talk about that? The game, bro. The game we played, bro. Oh yeah. Talk about that. Oh my gosh. Well first of all, we wanted to play that game night one didn't have to. And then, and then, and then we were like, okay bro, let's play this smarter. Let's be smarter. Can do it. We'll do at the end of night too. It'll be gonna be great. Yes, of course. Me and de get the end of night too. And we're like, should we do it like. Nah, nah, nah, we're okay. And so we're, we get to the, like we get to day three and. I'm like, I'm like worried. I'm like, are we gonna do it? Mm-hmm. Like there was a bunch of people came outside wanting to do it and then there was a bunch of people inside and I was like, well I gotta wait for them to pull up. Yeah. And then like, it was literally like, I was like, oh shoot. And then Giselle was like, bro, no, we're doing it. Yeah. We don't have any choice. Like we, we are using.'cause also too, we bought like$88 worth. Yeah. I'm just nasty. Yeah. So basically what we did, we, a classic youth group game. We bought a bunch of gross food and we blended it. Um, and basically whoever drank the most got the prize. Yeah. Um, Elias is a dog. Shout out bro. Bro. I don't even know if he listens, but he wasn't here today. It might be'cause of that. Yeah. He's hunting right now and those deer are staying far away from him, like, yeah, bro. Yeah, dude, it was really gross. He hounded that drink. It was literally gone in like seconds. Yeah. And then there's that kid in the middle of Roman who literally threw up immediately. He likes. He no break. And then literally he sat it down and he got up and left. Yeah. Literally it was dis I, I caught a, I caught part of it and, uh, disgusting. I could gross smell it from the foyer dog. Dude. I was mixing some of their drinks and I was literally gagging the whole time. Dude, I literal like almost, we were almost done. It. Giselle keeps really, and another thing. Yeah, dude, it was gross disgust. I was doing it, it disgust and I was somebody, it was one of the younger kids, he like spit out the drink and it looked like he threw it up. It didn't even go down. He just like, it reached his tongue and he's like, yeah. And I was. Just, yeah. Yeah, dude, it was bad. And I also thought was so funny, we were playing games where it was like the youth would pick ingredients and there was only certain ingredients that were going in. Giselle just ended up just putting all of them in. Like, it did not matter. I was just like, like I wasn't paying attention. I look over the smoothies blue and I'm like, she just used the one that was not picked. Yeah. We, uh, there it was what club? Soda and mustard. Yeah. And frost. Delicious, dude. The worst one to me was the sardines and the bean dip, bro. Yeah, and you know what's so bad about that too is like we said, we didn't do it the first two days, so those ingredients were sitting in that hallway sitting for like a whole day. And in part it was for first night it was sitting in the sun for two hours. So that's disgusting. Yeah. But we got to the game eventually. Yeah. Which just really, it really did take us a, or I thought it was really funny too. Uh, Christian was like going to not drink the last drink, and we were all like, bubu. He fell for the peer pressure really quick. He drank like really, really quick. Yeah. It, it was so much fun. It, it was three days probably the, it was like, it went by really fast, but. Lemme tell you something, we Wednesday morning. Oof. Uh, no. I felt it. I felt it in my bones. I felt it was, it was not a great feeling, but just physically, mentally I was on fire. But dude, right? Oh my goodness. I was feeling it. And then the rest of the week was fine. Um, y'all know, if you've listened for a while, friend of the pods, Seth Han, just got married. Shout out, shout out. Uh, he did just in fact get married. Uh, Mary, I wish had else cut that Okay. Enough. But no, he just got married same week as conference, so it's been a jam packed week. But, uh, he's married a friend of the pod, been on the pod in this room actually. So, uh, his weight holds here and we, and we think about him also. Uh, we are all three proud owners of Laub boos now. Yes we are. Yes we are. We love Labu Boo. This's the of the cent. Yes. Yes. We love boo boo boos. We always What? Love boo. Well, didn't we have a title that was like something Labu Boo. It was labu. Boos are unoriginal. That's what it was. Yes. Yeah. Basically a whole pod where we just dogged on freaking lebo. The whole, was it the whole pod basically the whole, was that just the rage bait segment? No, it was like a good portion of it. It was the beginning, middle, and end. So little bit fri elbow. It was, and so we were gifted. We did not go out against our, yeah, we were gifted these Lebo. Booboos. Thank you Addie. We were gifted these. And, um, I remember there's a little girl from my kids' church, by the way. Yes. Love you, Addie. One day when you listen to this, if ever, but really shout out Addie. She just has like, apparently she has what, like 55, 60 lab boo boos. And she has the surprise Labu Booo. If y'all know, you'll know. And she has the, a surprise, I dunno, dunno, surprise. You don't know. You can't know until you open it. So now they, they're proud ERs of that. So now she's just like giving it away like Mr. Beast dog. Like she's literally just passing'em out. She's blessed. She's literally, she's, she's like, I don't want this. She's blessing our youth leaders, bro. She is with the little boo boos and she gave it a name for me. My name is Peachy. Noah has it in his hand right now. Giselle, do you have, this is mine. Mine's, her name's Rosalia. She named it given by eda. This is mine. Rosalia. This is mine. Yeah. What's, we have the same one? Well, we, oh, we have the same name. What'd she give yours? She didn't tell me a name. Oh, well mine's peachy'cause it looks like that. Oh, okay. Okay. Mine's yellow. Yours is yellow me and, no, I got the same one. It's like yellow, orange. It's just literally a peach color. Yeah, it's peach. Okay, cute. Listen, we're gonna do a an hour long pod in a couple weeks about conspiracy the boo boo. So if y'all want to hear from that, stay tuned frill, stay tuned. I know that our viewers in Australia really want to hear that. So, uh, actually. No, I was say, I was like, did they? Yeah. They commented that, did they have a big presence on the La Boo Booo episode? Yeah, they were. They showed up and showed up out. They like, we love La Boo Booo so much. Oh, I love Boo Boo. Oh crazy la Boo boo. How you Joey? Let me eat. Boo Booo Na na. I love me. I love Boo Boo. I love La Boo. All right. Anyways, so I'll get into the hardest episode. Um, so today we are talking about unity. Okay. We're talking about unity and uh, mostly because we had just got done with conference. And what we saw from conference was a lot of fruit, specifically within churches and like our each other. And we saw. Um, a lot of churches come over, they come over to our church for either a leadership session or just a regular session. And, uh, we had really awesome talks about un what essentially was, was unifying and becoming a bigger youth group and just being, being with each other to grow each other. And so, um, unity was a really big theme of conference throughout all three days. And so we're gonna pass it on to y'all and do a little, uh, three point banger like usual on unity. So question one, take it away. Heck yeah. So your boy got question one, and it's not me this time. Okay. You can't make that joke because why You don't ever have number one ever upset Because it's usually always me. That's first. No, it's usually always me. No, it's usually me. No, it's usually me. Wait, no. I'm usually like, what second? I think I'm usually second. Jayden. Who is it? Usually Jayden. Hmm. And why is it mean? Jayden did not say that. Okay. She said It's me, but she didn't say why she can't hear her, but she did not say that. Okay, go for it. Okay. I got first, I got first question, and the question is, is it possible to do life alone? And I think what I think about this question is just like, yes, but why would you one, why would you want to. And you can try, but like, it's just not gonna work. Um, one, I think you need accountability. You, you need people in your life. I remember I heard this quote, it was like, I never want to be self-made. Right. And I just thought, that's so good. It is just like, yeah. Let people help you. Yeah. Let people get, like, let let people move forward. Like move you forward in life. Yeah. You don't always gotta be like, I'm independent, I'm this, I'm so, I'm self-made. Yeah. It's just like, let people, one, I think you need accountability. I talked about it a little tonight. Like, you need counsel. Yeah. You need this stuff in your life because it's gonna make you better and. It makes life easier, and why wouldn't you want that? Right? Yeah. I think, uh, that's a good point too of like, you absolutely can, but it's not a matter of like, can, it's literally why the in the world wants you Also, you weren't called to live a life alone. Absolutely not. We had a, oh, I think one of our, it was probably one of our first episodes. Uh, we had talked about community, which is similar, um, but you weren't called to be alone. Mm-hmm. When God saw man alone, he created e for him. Like he, it's like he never intended for you to walk alone. So why would you, I don't understand how it's possible for you to grow. I mean, in many ways, especially like socially, without. Somebody there with you without talking to somebody and having somebody in your life. And the big point on Wise counsel too, is like, the whole reason to have wise counsel is that, so you're not making all your own decisions. Mm-hmm. And like, being independent is one thing, but when you are self-dependent and non God dependent, then you are, you're, you have a problem. And I think when you're, uh, when you are self-judgment becomes before God's. Um, it's a, it's just, it's just pride and so mm-hmm. Yeah. Fight, fighting that life alone and just kind of holding on for your own self, uh, desires while relying on yourself rather than inquiring a counsel. I mean, yeah. It's just silly. I was about to ask like, what do, why do you think people would want to do that? Is it like, is it like the pride of like. I'm independent and I'm so cool. Right. I think a lot of times too, I think one thing that I forget about is that embarrassment, I think plays a lot into self-isolation sometimes. Like Yeah, I agree. When, when somebody, uh, isolates themself out of nowhere, I feel like a lot of times it stems from. Being embarrassed, like, no one one's gonna love me anymore. No one's gonna appreciate me. No one's gonna want to talk to me. No one's going to gonna wanna be with me. No one has anything to say about my life. Like embarrassment. I mean, I felt that where, you know, you've slipped up so bad that like embarrassment gets the best of you and you feel like you can't talk to anybody. Yeah. And you feel like you can't go to somebody and talk to them about what's the deal. Mm-hmm. And so I feel like self-isolation sometimes feels like. Is the best option when in reality it's probably, it's literally the worst option you could choose. Oh yeah. What do you think? Like even it's so bad for you mentally. Yeah. Like there's so many studies about being alone and like, it's just wrecks. Hey, y'all ever heard of a darkness retreat? No. They lock you. Oh yeah. They lock you in a dark room, like Dark Room. And Rogers did this. They give you meals at different times every single day. You, you can't keep track. They, uh, put you in a blindfold. They put you in a dark room isolated with like sound barriers. So you can't hear, dude, that this is gonna go in our hour walk. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. And we will go. We're going. That's really what I'm trying to get at. We're going, we're all gonna do it on street. Just totally wreck the, but like people are like, I saw the devil might know you're hallucinating. You know what I mean? It's like, I don't wanna deal. But like you lived in darkness from Yeah. The videos of them coming out, like of the darkness and like taking off their blindfold in like the middle of the woods. Like, it's like, what are you doing? Why in the middle of the woods? But it's that, yeah. Loneliness. Literally being alone. It wrecks your mental dog. Oh, it's so bad for you. It's so bad. Especially when it's over a long period of time. Yeah. Like we talked about, we need our alone time. But that's different than being like a L, like Yeah. Just. Living alone, isolated. Just no one, no communication, no talking. All these things that like God gave you, like, oh, you have, you have the ability to speak, you have the ability to communicate. Yeah. All those things you just stop using for a stupid long time. That's obviously gonna wreck you, bro. Yeah. Literally. You can't expect to grow at all or be a. I mean, even to like, joy, a lot of my, my joy comes from the Lord, but I think also a lot of my joy comes from being with other people. Mm-hmm. Like it's, I, I'm not in my room giggling. Yeah. Know what, like, I'm not giggling to myself, you know? But like, when I find myself with other people, I find something to laugh about and it, it, there is something awesome about that. And if your friends aren't funny, find some funny ones for real. Like, if you ain't got at least one funny friend dog, like, come on, we gotta, and we're right here for you. We'll fly you out for real. For real. To be a part of a bit making session.'cause we have those every bit workshop, but Oh, take me back. Oh my gosh. Our new bit. Anyways. Wait. Bit workshop anyways, but yeah, so fine. No, our bit from the way. Oh, I wasn't, I didn't get to be a part of that one. That's off topic. Maybe we'll leave it alone bit. Okay. We'll see y'all next week. For real. Yeah. Okay. Bye. Later. But yeah, question one. Why? Why? What's the benefit? Or can you do be alone? Or can what you be alone? Is it possible to do life alone? Yeah. Yes, it is possible. But why in the world would you want that? Nor don't let it be that because it stunt your growth and also it just makes you sad. Don't wanna be self-made for real. For real. Literally. Question two, go. So the question two, I have question two and it says, what kind of power does Unity have? And I just feel like tying back to like what we talked about in community, like why would you like how Noah said, why would you not? Want to live with that unity. And it reminds me of that verse where it's like, um, I think it's Psalm. 1 31 verse one, and then it says how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity. Yeah. Like why would you not want to do that? Yeah. And um mm-hmm. I think like there's just something special about being in unity with people because they're there when you need it the most.'cause like when we were saying like, when you're by yourself, you have nobody, you have no one to rely on. You have nobody to be there for you. But when you have that unity with people around you, you have community. When you're struggling, you have. People that celebrate you when you're need to be celebrating something. Yeah. When you have like a milestone or an achievement or something, you have people to celebrate you or like when you need prayer, you have people praying for you. And like how it says in Matthew 18, 19, something like that, it says if two or three or more are gathered that that's where your presence is gonna be. Yeah. And that's when that unity kicks in. Like when you have more people in your corner. You're not alone. You have people to be there for you. You have people to celebrate you. You have people to love you, and it's just like, why would you not want that? Why would you not want that power of unity? Yeah. I think too, like in the sense of like when we we're talking about our, uh. Like when we talked about conference, where this whole idea kind of came from, uh, we saw a lot of unity in our, uh, like other ministries around us, like our youth groups around us, and, uh, oh, for sure. It wa it was really cool to see just the connection we all had and we all had the basis of ministry. That's how we had. It's tough to talk about really, but in other ways too. It, it, it can rely on just normal, common, like commonalities. Other word. Yeah, that's a word. But, um, like the power of unity creates so much, such one, a bigger bond with the people around you, but also it creates an open door for you to walk through and create just a better space. And we're talking about ministry here, like we all come together. And we work together to create community and to create our, and to boost up each other's ministries and boost up their kingdoms like the Kingdom of God. Then we're doing an incredible work, but that's because we work together to do it. Yeah, but like in other senses too, like if you're with somebody, like if you're having trouble maybe even finding friends or you're having a hard time finding a, uh. I guess consistent community around you that's not full of things that you don't agree with in the way, like a worldly group, I should say. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Um, finding a group that aligns with what God says and aligns with like the kind of people that God says you should be surrounding yourself with that power, it allows you to grow and one same thing opens up a door for you to walk through into multiple opportunities. And it also just creates one thing too. Being a part of a better group and being a good part, being a part of a good community and having great unity. It develops your, um, like just your ability to have conversations with people. Mm-hmm. Like to be able to talk to other people. I mean, the idea of unity just keeps overflowing and pours out over and over and over and over again. And, um, I, I just think like one and two are similar questions. Yeah. Two is really just the idea that unity is so powerful when we are gathered together. Like literally there is, like, you are more powerful with somebody next to you than you are without them. You know what I mean? Yeah, totally. And um, sometimes that's what it takes to bring somebody to the kingdom of God. It's not gonna take just one of you. It might take both of you. It might take a group of people to get somebody to come out rather than just you inviting somebody. Yeah. You know, and there, uh, it, it, it just, I, I just think working together is. It is a very overlooked topic sometimes, and don't be alone. Yeah, don't be sappy. You know what I mean? I like what you said about like it strengthens conversations. Yeah. Because I think unity in like, I think unity and community, it will give you the ability to talk. And have good conversations, not only just in general, but with everybody. Yeah. It doesn't matter who it is, doesn't matter what it's about. And I, I wrote this down that, uh, I think Unity makes culture. Yeah. Um, the other day we were obviously, we were freaking out about this, this thing happened in our youth chat and then like everybody called it out. Yeah. And just. The fact that everybody's on the same page about that. Mm-hmm. That creates culture. Yeah. And so just when, when, if you're, obviously we're talking in a ministry sense. Yeah. But if you're in, like, um, you're running a business, you, you've got people under you. The more of of you guys, more of your staff or your serve team, whatever it may be, is on the same page, the better your culture is forming. Yeah. So like you're just. When you have all this unity and everyone's thinking on the same page, you're moving in the same direction. And I think that's so good. Yeah. Alright, question three. I think we've pretty much covered two, so we're move to question three. Uh, this is a compare and contrast on what the world has to say about unity versus what the Bible has to say about unity. So one thing I wrote down was that, uh, unity often kind of means that. You have to agree at all costs, otherwise you cannot be a part. And, uh, by that I mean if you don't conform to a worldly sense, then it's unit in the world. The unity that the world promotes will make you think that you have to conform to the worldly sense in order to be a apart. Yeah. And it means that, uh, if it's something you don't agree with too bad, you need to agree with it. Otherwise you can't be a part. Yeah. Otherwise you will be isolated. And it, it causes you to be a part of a culture that you don't believe in, just for the hopes that you will find some kind of community in other people. Um. Like, I think we see that a lot too in just trends in general. Uh. I, I think tr well trend seeps into all areas, but especially in the world where, if it's a trend right now to be for trios a, SA, let's see it. But if it's a trend not for trios, you're gonna find a trio. Or if it's a trend right now to drop all your friends or be shady or, uh, talk about, about people next you to you one, it's just like, that's just how it goes and that's what's gonna happen. So the world's gonna try and tell you that. If you don't conform, then yeah, it's, it's not, it's not gonna happen. Um, like just, I, I mean really the point I'm trying to get at is that unity is built on external things Yeah. In the world. Like it's built on things that will not last you forever. Your unity is based on, uh, the same hatred for somebody else. Yeah. Or it's built on the same gossip you've been saying for years and years and years. Or it's built on just things that will not last you eternity. Yeah. As compared to what the Bible says about unity. I mean, it tells you that. Uh, to have surround yourself with wise counsel. I mean, although that, that is people older than you, that's still your friends. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like your wise counsel does not just mean UNCs. It means literally your people around you that you're surrounding yourself with. That those things are the things that will last forever because the word lasts forever. And if your relationships and your friendships are surrounded by the word mm-hmm. And you're doing like. A small thing like Bible study the other, the other night my girlfriend was doing a Bible study with her friends and I'm like, that is like an everlasting, that is an everlasting friendship activity. Oh. Oh. Like that is something that will not run dry, that will not be forgotten. That is something that will always last forever. And it has substance for eternity. Yeah. A lot of the stuff like friendships bond over is stuff that does not have any substance and will not last very, very long at all. Um, I have a verse. It's, uh. Uh, it's John 1721 says, Jesus prays that his followers may all be one, just as he and his father are one that you, uh, that there is no reason for you to be isolated and you are meant to be all in one. That the idea of Christian, like what the Bible says about, uh, unity, means that, uh, you are accepting to. More than just your, your friends groups in a way. Mm-hmm. If y'all can hear that. I promise nothing's going wrong. It's just a fun Tuesday night, you know what I mean? It's a fun Tuesday night and we'll come up. Hey, but uh, we're gonna go get them. So, yeah. But, um, I, I just, what the Bible says about unity is so much different from what the world has to say because of the main point that the Bible and the word will last forever. So if you surround your friendships mm-hmm. In that, and you surround it in the word and what you're reading and you agree on the same word, yeah. It's gonna last much longer than a friendship in. Rooted in the world. Yeah. And I think, um, unity in the world, quote unquote, kinda like you said, it's very ride or die. Yeah. It's very like, you better agree with me, or we're not the same and we'll never be the same. Versus like, when I think about the Bible, um, obviously there's. Uh, in the Christian sense, there's different denominations. Yeah. They're interpreting the same bible differently, but Paul literally says, he's like, don't waste your time on foolish arguments. Like he's like, at the end of the day, like, it's gonna happen one way or the other. He's like, um, he's like, is Christ divided? No. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So at the end of the day, we are all still following Christ no matter what our theology is about. Oh, like what's this spiritual gift and what it is like? No. It's just like, well, at the end of the day, Christ is like. Our main thing. Yeah. How, how are we, how are we, uh, like, kinda like Jerry even said, how are we pushing forward? The cause of Christ. Right. Exactly. And so, um, kind of just like that verse you just said, it goes on to say like, um, that unity, uh, how well you are unified will be. It kind of will point to That's like the testimony Yeah. Of like, that, that's how people know, like people will know this is a God thing. Yeah. By how unified you are. Yeah. Very good. And so like Unif Unity is a testimony. Yeah. Yeah. So like when, when people show up to church and our, our culture is just so unified. There's just something in them is like, man, this is a God thing. They wanna be a part, like, God is a part of this, and now I wanna be a part of this. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's a good point too of like, I, I think people doubt that the presence of God is as powerful as it is that, uh. The, the overwhelming, kind of like when you walk into a space and you can feel the peace of the Lord. I mean, you don't wanna leave, you know what I mean? Mm-hmm. You don't ever wanna leave. And, uh, a a space like that will create a stronger bond than a, a peaceful of hatred, because I think too hateful spaces can be not even hateful. Just, we'll start with worldly spaces can be inviting because it sounds great in the moment, and it sounds really awesome in the moment. Mm-hmm. But the second you leave that space and you get a taste of eternity, then it's like. I, I, I don't even, I don't wanna be like, I have no interest in that anymore. And, um, I did a whole, uh, two week series that we talked about. Giselle, coincidentally missed, but very coincidentally. Yeah, right. But she was in Mexico and, um, I, I had talked about how, um, how sin will not show you the price tag, but sin will sell you lies and not life. And how, uh. Everything like a, the, the idea that, uh, you know, this feels really good in the moment, but it's not gonna last you forever. And that's the same thing that these friendships that you get into, the people you unify yourself with, the people you unify yourself with. I mean, like we said, there's power and unity that does not just mean there's power, power and unity in Christ. That means if you are unifying with the world, there's gonna be power behind that. And it's not gonna be one to glorify God. It doesn't mean it's just substance. Like it just. When you are bound together under the same idea against faith, there will be a consequence to that unity. And I think sometimes we don't catch it and we don't understand it, and we don't know it solely because of the fact it does not feel like sin, and it does not feel like we are sinning in the moment. Mm-hmm. But when you put those things together, sin can be very, very, very powerful until you speak the word of God over it and it holds no more power on you in the first place. So don't let your unif, don't let your unification be. Held by, you know, sin. Don't let it be held back by sin instead, speak life over it and change your posture because there is power between worldly unity and there is even bigger power to Christ unity. And so there is substance to it. Mm-hmm. Very good. Anybody ask anything to say or do we just, do we clear it? Elle, that was good. No, I think we cleared it. I think, I think we, I think we, what was I gonna say? I was, I had one more point. But you did this last time. No, no, not one more point. I a story. I had a story I did, and I, I actually didn't, I was rage be, um, but, uh, no, this one was really impactful and awesome. Okay. Um, just a mid to rebate. Give me from like two weeks ago or whatever. Uh, I, it was so good. It was a, it was a bad, it was a sub, it was a story. Um, no, it was a story about how No, no, no. Where to go. Okay. Uh oh. No. Oh, no. Oh, no. I don't know. I don't know. But I will say this, that, um, surrounding yourself with people, people that are not, uh, Christ-centered like you is doing you just as much good as being alone and being on your own. Ooh. So, uh, what's up? I literally saw a movie literally about Unity yesterday, and I'm like, I, what movie was it? No clue what it's called. The Long Walk. It's a very, it's, it's kind of a scary movie. Not a scary movie, but it was like a really, like hard watch. Because it was like, I don't know. Right. It was just scary. But basically it's like a huge competition where you can win like all the money. Not all the money, but you would be like financially free. Mm-hmm. Like your whole life, you would have millions and millions of dollars and you get one, which. You get one wish and then just subscribes squid game. And basically you just have to do all these opposite. There's a pig with money in it, and then basically you play regular green light and there's a cookie involved. No, but basically it's like, I can't think of the show. I mean movie, well, I don't know, but it was a movie and then it's basically you have to keep walking until you're the last person walking. Mm-hmm. Oh my is Katie. And they walked. They walked for like six days straight. No breaks. They couldn't stop for water. They couldn't stop to like use the bathroom, nothing. So you had to literally walk until you're the last person walking. Dang. And if you, and if you like fall or if you stop, like they'll kill you, whatever. But then throughout the whole movie, they just kept creating like friendships. And even though they knew that all of us, all of them were gonna die or like, you never know who was gonna die. But throughout the whole movie, they started building like these friendships and they started like. Coming together and they built unity within each other that they like. If one of them would slow down, the other one would like pick them up and like Yeah. Keep warning with them. Yeah. That's good. And I feel like that's like how your community should be. Like when you're failing, you should have community to like back you up and then you do the same thing wise or so otherwise you'll die. Otherwise you'll die and get shot. It's like that one, uh, what's that? What's that one scripture where it's like a three, the stranded cord can't be broken. Yes. And it talks about just before that it's like, it's like someone who falls in. Someone who falls or Yeah. Somebody who alone, who falls has no one to pick them up. Something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. Like, that's literally Okay. I remembered my, uh, thought. Okay. Okay. A little off topic, but Pete, listen, listeners of this podcast have been sending me a lot. Pete, who's Pete of reels about this guy? Yeah. About this guy who has been making jokes and he is pretending he's on a podcast and that says, POV Christian podcasters saying anything to get a mm or an Amen. That's good. Listen, I wanna let you know the next person to send me that. You're getting blocked. That PMOs so bad. I've never got one of those and I, you're getting blocked for real. So don't do that. Not play. I've never seen that guy do not play either way. And is it a little true? Yes, but they're like, God is good.'cause Oh, I have signs that guy all the time. They're like, and God. My shepherd, I shall not win. And God backwards. His dog. Oh, German Shepherd. German Shepherd. All right, I think we covered it. Hey, well, looks like that. Uh, once again, if it's your first time listening to the BC Pod. Uh, thanks for listening. We're glad you're here. We're glad you're listening. Uh, go listen to some past episodes if you feel like it. Um, there been, listen to the Labu. Yes. And then come back and be like, yo, I love lab boo boos. I love labu boos. I love labu boos. Yes. Maybe we like labu boos now, guys. I think they're original now. They're original. And I like'em. 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