WEBVTT 00:00:00.561 --> 00:00:03.825 Well, my friends, you probably ought to know. 00:00:03.825 --> 00:00:11.676 As pertains to today, I have always been a pretty big Superman fan. 00:00:11.676 --> 00:00:23.501 I am of the age that that whole Christopher Reeve version of Superman people must remember that one right, yeah, the Christopher Reeve For some. 00:00:23.501 --> 00:00:24.931 For who many here says, well, yeah, the Christopher Reeve For some. 00:00:24.931 --> 00:00:28.443 For who many here says, well, that's the real Superman. 00:00:28.443 --> 00:00:31.810 Yeah, right, yeah, all right. 00:00:31.810 --> 00:00:37.066 How many for Henry Cavill, who Did you say? 00:00:37.066 --> 00:00:37.307 Who? 00:00:37.307 --> 00:00:40.502 Aye, aye, aye. 00:00:40.963 --> 00:00:44.070 And I'm trying to remember the name of the new guy Callie, you're young. 00:00:44.070 --> 00:00:45.993 Yeah, look at us, we're both. 00:00:45.993 --> 00:00:47.805 She's looking it up for me. 00:00:47.805 --> 00:00:48.965 We will have it in a mo. 00:00:48.965 --> 00:00:52.264 So say it again. 00:00:52.264 --> 00:01:00.762 George Reeves oh, my goodness, I need a time machine. 00:01:00.762 --> 00:01:06.763 Oh man, so who would list George Reeves? 00:01:06.763 --> 00:01:10.593 Good Glory, okay, all right. 00:01:10.593 --> 00:01:13.066 Yeah, we're going back, we're going back. 00:01:13.066 --> 00:01:18.703 I think there was one that snuck in there Brandon Rausch, anybody, who, who? 00:01:21.507 --> 00:01:28.475 Anyway, superman's been part of our culture, the zeitgeist, really for how many decades? 00:01:28.475 --> 00:01:31.689 And I was a big fan as a young person. 00:01:31.689 --> 00:01:33.867 I remember my big Superman shirt. 00:01:33.867 --> 00:01:36.429 He was busting through a building. 00:01:36.429 --> 00:01:40.430 I had Superman pants with Superman on the back pocket. 00:01:40.430 --> 00:01:46.129 I had a Superman belt buckle, because that's what cool people had. 00:01:46.129 --> 00:01:47.894 You know this was. 00:01:47.894 --> 00:01:51.647 I was looking perfect for the 70s back there, looking great. 00:01:51.647 --> 00:01:55.454 So I am a fan of Superman. 00:01:56.180 --> 00:01:59.423 You should also know I really like superhero movies. 00:01:59.423 --> 00:02:04.307 Now some of you might be wondering why. 00:02:04.307 --> 00:02:09.472 Now some of you might be wondering why, and sometimes I wonder why, they hold on to me. 00:02:09.472 --> 00:02:15.076 There's the thought maybe you're just a 12-year-old boy that somehow got older and not taller. 00:02:15.076 --> 00:02:20.860 You know that. 00:02:20.860 --> 00:02:21.824 Maybe that is what happened there. 00:02:21.824 --> 00:02:35.281 But I was reading up getting ready for today and I saw something in a philosophy publication that said you know, superhero movies are really just about philosophy and values and right and wrong. 00:02:35.281 --> 00:02:43.230 So I prefer to think of myself as a deep, deep thinker and not just somebody who didn't grow up. 00:02:43.230 --> 00:02:45.092 Are we good with that? 00:02:45.092 --> 00:02:48.800 That's kind of where I am All right. 00:02:48.941 --> 00:02:52.128 So this summer there was a new Superman movie. 00:02:52.128 --> 00:02:55.424 I don't know how many of you went out and saw it. 00:02:55.424 --> 00:02:57.407 I was out there, me and Dr B. 00:02:57.407 --> 00:02:58.850 We got out there. 00:02:58.850 --> 00:03:00.341 I don't know about the rest of you. 00:03:00.341 --> 00:03:03.806 It's good, it's enjoyable time out. 00:03:03.806 --> 00:03:05.510 I recommend it. 00:03:06.391 --> 00:03:15.800 Now here's something that's interesting about Superman, the storytelling of Superman, especially as it reflects with our culture. 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.388 Oh, I should mention we're doing a movie series. 00:03:18.388 --> 00:03:20.051 Everybody's up with me on that, right? 00:03:20.051 --> 00:03:31.187 If you didn't know when you walked in, you certainly know it now, because I haven't even mentioned Scripture yet and we've mentioned Superman some 20 times, so hopefully you're caught up. 00:03:31.820 --> 00:03:41.574 So some of the difficulty with Superman has always been it was difficult to create conflict, which you need conflict in a story. 00:03:41.574 --> 00:03:50.751 Otherwise it's kind of like what's happening here, if there's no thing to resolve or figure out, if there's no conflict. 00:03:50.751 --> 00:03:59.847 It's hard to do that with a Superman who really has only one weakness and it's kind of a weenie weakness of Kryptonite. 00:03:59.847 --> 00:04:17.459 The rest of it, right, he's this perfect being right and not just physically powerful, can do all the things fly, this, that and the other thing but also the model of character as well. 00:04:17.459 --> 00:04:33.064 Right, he was just the best that a being could be right, and so it was difficult to create conflict in that way because of that reality. 00:04:33.064 --> 00:04:36.353 So just to go through a little bit of the history we kind of already did. 00:04:36.740 --> 00:04:44.624 Sorry, I miss George Reeves, but I did remember Christopher Reeve, right, we got a little pic of him that we can show. 00:04:44.624 --> 00:04:45.475 Oh, remember there, he is handsome fellow. 00:04:45.475 --> 00:04:45.783 Right, we got a little pic of him that we can show. 00:04:45.783 --> 00:04:54.348 Oh, remember, there he is handsome fellow, right, I understand he wore the costume all the time, just kidding, just kidding. 00:04:54.348 --> 00:05:03.036 Then I skipped over a couple, but then I jumped over to Henry Cavill, because that was one everybody remembers as well. 00:05:03.036 --> 00:05:06.970 All right, and you can see just a little bit of the feel for him. 00:05:07.339 --> 00:05:10.730 The Christopher Reeve version really went over well. 00:05:10.730 --> 00:05:20.548 Tons of people went to see this movie and there was a lightness to that portrayal and Christopher Reeve a good actor, henry Cavill good actor as well. 00:05:20.548 --> 00:05:30.470 But you can see he brought a little darkness to it, a little complexity to the character of Superman, for the good or for the bad, we shall see. 00:05:30.470 --> 00:05:31.812 Now here's the new guy. 00:05:31.812 --> 00:05:36.824 There, he is another handsome guy. 00:05:36.824 --> 00:05:44.089 So hopefully you can get used to all of them, I guess, but you can get a sense of who they all are. 00:05:44.089 --> 00:05:49.146 New Guy is a little bit of a throwback to the Christopher Reeve version. 00:05:49.146 --> 00:05:59.300 Just so you know, the more lighthearted, the more wholesome In fact that's one of the storylines in the film is how wholesome he really is. 00:05:59.300 --> 00:06:02.285 So it's interesting. 00:06:02.326 --> 00:06:16.814 When we hear the new creators of this latest version of Superman, they were talking about how he is supposed to embody the very best of humanity. 00:06:16.814 --> 00:06:23.848 Now here's the irony of that, and I think most of you probably already know this he was an alien, right? 00:06:23.848 --> 00:06:34.490 His planet blew up and dad figured out how to send him to this other planet, a planet where we would have special powers from our son, but he was an alien. 00:06:34.490 --> 00:06:41.327 So when we're talking about the best of humanity, we say that sort of ironically, because he wasn't human. 00:06:41.327 --> 00:06:46.357 An example, though, of that humanity is shown in the movie. 00:06:46.357 --> 00:07:03.346 In the midst of battle he's trying to save the world, and a little girl was going to get hurt by some shrapnel of the collateral damage of the battle itself, and he runs and he saves the little girl before he gets back to the villain. 00:07:03.346 --> 00:07:18.372 He's this guy that not only can do every single thing physically that we would want done, but he's also so moral, right and his character is so deep that even in the midst of battle he's going to rush over and save the girl. 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:22.906 Here's my thought about Superman, or one of my thoughts. 00:07:22.906 --> 00:07:35.934 I think Superman for we Americans, for whom he is an important character, I think he's who we hope we would be if we were super. 00:07:35.934 --> 00:07:38.040 Sound like. 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:39.444 Is that a fair description? 00:07:39.444 --> 00:07:45.086 You know, if I was super and had all those superpowers, I would be the nicest guy too. 00:07:45.086 --> 00:07:48.329 I would be saving even the smallest people. 00:07:48.329 --> 00:07:54.593 I would be making sure everybody had a fair chance, that there was justice going on. 00:07:54.593 --> 00:08:13.362 I think I kind of feel like that's part of why we like to watch this character, why we go and see the movies that Superman does so a little history Diggy and see the movies that Superman does so a little history digging in. 00:08:13.362 --> 00:08:13.944 I told you I like Superman. 00:08:13.944 --> 00:08:15.490 I'm nerding out just a little bit, but it's August. 00:08:15.490 --> 00:08:16.374 What else are you going to be doing? 00:08:16.374 --> 00:08:22.812 So you listen to my Superman stuff Created by two Jewish men Actually, they were young people at that point high school. 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:35.158 They were young people at that point high school Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and it was in 1938 that they started developing the conceptions for who Superman was going to be. 00:08:35.158 --> 00:08:36.441 Phil's raising his hand. 00:08:36.441 --> 00:08:38.082 Are you adding in? 00:08:38.082 --> 00:08:39.926 Say it again? 00:08:39.926 --> 00:08:45.755 Are you asking me if I remember 1938? 00:08:45.755 --> 00:08:49.366 Because that answer's no. 00:08:49.366 --> 00:08:53.148 No, I actually haven't seen them. 00:08:53.148 --> 00:08:56.109 But, phil, it sounds like you and I would have a good coffee together. 00:08:56.109 --> 00:09:03.870 We'd talk about Superman, because I actually had another good conversation with Tom, who brought something up about the creation of Superman. 00:09:03.870 --> 00:09:05.445 So it's interesting. 00:09:05.465 --> 00:09:23.773 1938, I mean, most of us know what was going on in 1938, right, germany was building up, it was moving towards World War II and the aggression that was going to be created and then how the whole world was going to be involved in all of that. 00:09:23.773 --> 00:09:48.188 And you can see with that timing why a phrase, a motto like truth, justice and the American way, why that would be a big part of who this Superman character is, a big part of his character, what he is fighting for Truth, justice, american way. 00:09:48.188 --> 00:09:59.339 The Nazi regime at the time really pushed on those values and on those concepts, right, truth. 00:09:59.339 --> 00:10:13.153 Well, if we control all the communication, then we control all the truth, right, the Nazi propaganda machine and how everybody in the country didn't really get the full story of all that was going on. 00:10:13.153 --> 00:10:27.811 Justice, well, justice was a little bit different too, right, because they had this Aryan ideal of the perfect human being, right, who looked well, think of the opposite of who you're looking at now. 00:10:27.811 --> 00:10:33.505 And that was the Arian ideal, right? 00:10:33.505 --> 00:10:37.474 Blonde, blue-eyed, tall, thin, all of those things. 00:10:37.474 --> 00:10:52.972 And the idea was that God had endowed that in some way, that that was the way the world was supposed to be created, that the world will be better if we just cleared way for all of those folks to become fully who they were supposed to be. 00:10:52.972 --> 00:11:08.080 So when you talk about justice, it wasn't about justice for everybody, it was about this other kind of justice trying to protect that idea of who was supposed to be better than who wasn't supposed to be better. 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:11.070 And anyway, I think you get the idea. 00:11:11.070 --> 00:11:14.485 And then that final value, the American way. 00:11:14.485 --> 00:11:21.716 Well, that was still getting defined, as it's still getting kind of defined today. 00:11:21.716 --> 00:11:44.722 So you can see a little bit of the environment and why Superman gets created and the way Superman gets created, why he evolves, the way he evolves and potentially too, why he becomes such a big part of that story of our world and our mythological way of fighting those battles. 00:11:45.566 --> 00:11:54.003 Another thing that's interesting I'm getting close to where I finished the Superman stuff, so just relax, but I like this stuff. 00:11:54.003 --> 00:12:05.730 Another thing that's interesting the Nazi regime used this concept called the Ubermensch to talk about this Superman. 00:12:05.730 --> 00:12:08.594 That's loosely translated Superman. 00:12:08.594 --> 00:12:11.182 We're talking about that Aryan ideal. 00:12:11.182 --> 00:12:15.852 Well, that's a little bit of how that evolved or what it evolved into. 00:12:15.852 --> 00:12:19.082 Was this Übermensch, this Superman? 00:12:19.082 --> 00:12:26.091 And you might remember or have learned about how that was communicated. 00:12:26.513 --> 00:12:36.908 The irony of that is that Superman, the character that we know, actually subverted that understanding. 00:12:36.908 --> 00:12:38.952 He came first of all. 00:12:38.952 --> 00:12:43.844 He wasn't blonde and blue-eyed, you know he's dark hair and all that other stuff. 00:12:43.844 --> 00:12:45.764 He was tall and strong. 00:12:45.764 --> 00:12:46.985 You know his dark hair and all that other stuff. 00:12:46.985 --> 00:12:47.447 He was tall and strong. 00:12:47.447 --> 00:12:57.535 But also, superman was about justice for all, not just for this elect few that we were supposed to lift up amidst us. 00:12:57.535 --> 00:13:10.565 So there's an irony, there's a subversion there, and not only that, he turned out not to be non-Aryan, but he was an undocumented immigrant from a whole other planet. 00:13:10.565 --> 00:13:15.794 So if we're going to talk irony, there is the irony. 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:24.994 So, getting back to the difficulty, having a perfect person in a story, right, you can't beat him physically. 00:13:24.994 --> 00:13:31.346 So what do you do to create conflict in a story with a perfect person? 00:13:31.346 --> 00:13:40.144 But you start having conflict around the values that that person or that being stands for. 00:13:40.144 --> 00:13:43.988 Truth, justice, the American way. 00:13:43.988 --> 00:13:52.317 That becomes, in some ways, what really starts to be at threat. 00:13:52.317 --> 00:13:58.812 That's really what we're kind of protecting and where the conflict comes from the story. 00:13:58.812 --> 00:14:07.990 Now, these are interesting concepts for us today Truth, justice, right, american way. 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:17.315 I remember I was in film class and I was going through school when they were talking about the post-modernity Right. 00:14:17.315 --> 00:14:23.388 Did you all learn post-modernity in art class and other kinds of mediums? 00:14:23.388 --> 00:14:35.352 Post-modernity it was supposed to become the modern movement, but with all kinds of additions and I probably ought not get too deep into it. 00:14:35.352 --> 00:14:41.647 But I would remember specifically that part of that movement was that truth. 00:14:41.647 --> 00:14:46.852 Truth is almost always subjective. 00:14:46.852 --> 00:14:53.403 It's hard to do something that is not in some way from somebody's opinion. 00:14:53.403 --> 00:15:01.905 In film classes we would go and you'd watch a documentary and you thought, well, this is news, we're just telling it like it is. 00:15:01.905 --> 00:15:07.115 But then you realize, wait a minute, somebody had to decide who got interviewed. 00:15:07.115 --> 00:15:23.905 Somebody had to decide how that interview rolled out, how the cameras were placed, how the lighting was placed, all of which have influence on how a story is told, have influence on what the story is about. 00:15:23.905 --> 00:15:28.794 So truth starts getting a little more complicated. 00:15:29.980 --> 00:15:32.905 Most of you have heard the phrase my truth. 00:15:32.905 --> 00:15:45.265 I told my truth and I remember, you know, as that started coming up I understood where it was coming from, that there were a lot of people we weren't able to hear from. 00:15:45.265 --> 00:15:53.583 That culture had kind of tamped that community down and we were trying to say wait a minute, that truth deserves to rise up. 00:15:53.583 --> 00:15:54.846 Everybody is worthy. 00:15:54.846 --> 00:16:11.607 Then, as life starts moving on, we start realizing well, that's a bit of a Pandora's box now, because everybody has their truth, so we've opened permission for everybody to claim the value of their truth. 00:16:11.668 --> 00:16:21.327 And then we realize all our truths don't always agree and all of a sudden truth becomes this weird complicated concept. 00:16:21.327 --> 00:16:23.770 Do you feel that complexity, like I do. 00:16:23.770 --> 00:16:27.274 I mean, I wrestle with that today. 00:16:27.274 --> 00:16:34.148 Right, and I imagine everybody in the room is like oh right, these are the truths I'll accept. 00:16:34.148 --> 00:16:38.330 These are the truths that need to be squashed and thrown in the ocean. 00:16:38.330 --> 00:16:39.211 Right, are we all? 00:16:39.211 --> 00:16:42.389 We all agree that needs to happen. 00:16:42.389 --> 00:16:44.364 We just wouldn't agree. 00:16:44.364 --> 00:16:46.951 What goes in the ocean would be my guess. 00:16:46.951 --> 00:16:54.354 So truth is this complicated term and then justice can become just as complicated. 00:16:54.354 --> 00:16:58.408 We start talking about what is right and what is wrong. 00:16:58.408 --> 00:17:00.732 Well, tell me what the context is. 00:17:00.732 --> 00:17:16.176 And so we end up in this complicated place of trying to defend truth, trying to defend justice in a world where those are complicated concepts anymore. 00:17:28.339 --> 00:17:31.125 The creators of today's film kind of moved away from some of those complexities and just went back to. 00:17:31.125 --> 00:17:34.394 He was a really good guy, this Superman. 00:17:34.394 --> 00:17:47.670 He just had very clean character and there wasn't the complexities like the last Superman came out With all the darkness and the brooding that they had. 00:17:47.670 --> 00:17:51.222 This guy is just straight good, the embodiment. 00:17:51.222 --> 00:18:07.673 He was the super mensch of sorts, and it leaves us in this place as a community of Christians or people who are walking the Christian journey in some unique way. 00:18:07.673 --> 00:18:19.432 How do we connect to that in the ways that make sense, the culture's telling this story and communicating these values and these challenges? 00:18:19.432 --> 00:18:44.751 We want to be relevant, we want to be connected to these stories in some way, and so I hunted out a passage from the Gospel of John that spoke to truth, that spoke to justice and, surprise, surprise, jesus made it even more complicated again. 00:18:44.751 --> 00:18:53.609 There's even two definitions of truth and freedom in the passage we picked. 00:18:53.750 --> 00:19:17.385 I don't know how much you were paying attention or if you could follow along, but Jesus, he was talking to his disciples about this deeper, ultimate truth that existed right, and in doing so, he talked about how people were enslaved to their sin. 00:19:17.385 --> 00:19:31.240 Instead of being made free by the truth they were I'm sorry instead of being freed from their sin. 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:32.523 I wrote it wrong here. 00:19:32.523 --> 00:19:33.575 Who's to blame for that. 00:19:33.575 --> 00:19:35.415 I'm going to talk to somebody. 00:19:35.415 --> 00:19:37.074 You confused me. 00:19:37.074 --> 00:19:47.032 Well, it probably fits, because the people Jesus was talking to were equally confused because they thought they were free already. 00:19:47.032 --> 00:20:10.233 They were free because Abraham and Moses freed them from the enslavement that they had physical enslavement and the family of Abraham, the lineage of Abraham, were all freed because they understood God in this deep, deep way, and so there was freedom that came from that. 00:20:10.233 --> 00:20:17.101 But Jesus was talking about something deeper than that. 00:20:18.462 --> 00:20:29.144 If you've read your gospels, you know that, john, he drank from a little different tea than the other guys, am I right, john people? 00:20:29.144 --> 00:20:32.311 How many of you? 00:20:32.311 --> 00:20:36.397 John's your favorite gospel Cowards? 00:20:36.397 --> 00:20:40.002 Oh, there we go. 00:20:40.002 --> 00:20:44.252 Roz and Nancy, I saw going up, the rest of y'all, oh. 00:20:44.252 --> 00:20:47.199 But John was a little more. 00:20:47.199 --> 00:20:49.041 I'm going to use the word spiritual. 00:20:49.041 --> 00:21:01.917 What he was trying to get across was something that was a spiritual truth, and so he was trying to get these people who were listening to him to understand this spiritual truth. 00:21:02.218 --> 00:21:05.124 Maybe some of you remember the very beginning of that gospel. 00:21:05.124 --> 00:21:15.380 The way it all starts In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and all that trippy stuff that sounds like a beatnik wrote it in about 1963. 00:21:15.380 --> 00:21:17.182 Do you remember how that goes? 00:21:17.182 --> 00:21:24.403 And part of what was there was that Jesus always existed. 00:21:24.403 --> 00:21:38.163 He just took a human form at some time, right, but that spirit, that reality was always true from the beginning of time, from the beginning of our world. 00:21:38.163 --> 00:21:59.570 Here, and that was the truth Jesus was trying to get across is there is a deeper spiritual truth that exists and I am here to tell you about it, I'm here to model it for you to it. 00:21:59.570 --> 00:22:14.720 It will bring a new awareness to this world, an awareness that helps you free yourself from the less positive parts of our world, free yourself from the reality of sinfulness, which we all have, right, that sinfulness that God wants us to go this way. 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:16.542 But we kind of want to go this way. 00:22:16.542 --> 00:22:24.673 Mostly we go God's way, but not all the time do we go God's way. 00:22:24.732 --> 00:22:27.895 Jesus is talking about a spiritual truth that says you know what? 00:22:27.895 --> 00:22:33.301 There's a grace that is real, there's a forgiveness that is real. 00:22:33.301 --> 00:22:47.932 So, even though we know you're human and you're going to stray from God's way, there's still forgiveness, there's still love. 00:22:47.932 --> 00:23:00.834 So when Jesus says, when you start to understand that then you will be free, because you will be free to live out the life that God wants you to live, hopefully getting better and better at following God's will, but knowing that you won't always be perfect. 00:23:00.834 --> 00:23:07.574 You don't have to wear a tattoo on your forehead for every sin that you have done. 00:23:07.574 --> 00:23:14.025 That's the freedom, that's the truth he was trying to get across. 00:23:14.025 --> 00:23:25.615 Trying to get across so we, as regular human beings in this world, trying to figure out which truth, what is truth? 00:23:25.615 --> 00:23:29.804 How are we going to find truth in this world? 00:23:31.191 --> 00:23:43.433 I'm hoping this passage helps us with that wrestling a little bit, helps us to understand a little more of who we want to be. 00:23:43.433 --> 00:23:47.101 We're trying to live our world, a meaningful world. 00:23:47.101 --> 00:24:05.746 We're trying to live out this reality of that spiritual truth about the world, the truth that involves grace, the truth that involves forgiveness, the truth that involves unconditional love, and we want to be that super mensch, but in a Jesus way. 00:24:05.746 --> 00:24:21.365 Isn't the base question then how do I live in a way that communicates my belief in God's love for me and God's love for all? 00:24:21.365 --> 00:24:29.509 Amidst all those complicated truths, doesn't it come down to what Jesus was saying? 00:24:29.509 --> 00:24:38.622 There is this deeper truth of unconditional love that is shared with all of humanity. 00:24:40.263 --> 00:24:51.932 If we were trying to be the superman that we actually might have some capacity for being, or superwoman that we actually have the capacity to be? 00:24:51.932 --> 00:24:58.539 What if being a loving Christian is that way? 00:24:58.539 --> 00:25:18.751 What if the love that we've been given by God and invited to share by Christ is our actual superpower, the thing we have to offer to the world, the thing that nourishes, the thing that helps others find their way in a complicated world? 00:25:18.751 --> 00:25:31.663 Maybe we've been given that and we are super in the way that we can share that we get to the people that says God loves you no matter what. 00:25:31.663 --> 00:25:43.250 What. 00:25:43.250 --> 00:25:52.315 If you could be super, how would you strive to live that out, not to be too redundant for the summer here, but we did talk about micah doing justice, loving, kindness, walking humbly with god. 00:25:52.315 --> 00:25:56.221 I wonder if being super might dovetail with those. 00:25:57.263 --> 00:26:12.243 Somehow we spent some time in the fruits of the Spirit from Paul's letter to the Galatians Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. 00:26:12.243 --> 00:26:23.724 What if those are the superpowers that we have been given to share with a world that needs to understand that they are worthy? 00:26:23.724 --> 00:26:29.182 Each and every person is worthy. 00:26:29.182 --> 00:26:37.357 When we live those things, we make them real in the world. 00:26:37.357 --> 00:26:43.346 When we live joy, it becomes real in the world. 00:26:43.346 --> 00:26:51.953 When we live kindness, it becomes real in the world, something that is shared with others, something that others can experience as well. 00:26:51.953 --> 00:26:56.681 From us, we make God real when we live these things. 00:26:56.681 --> 00:27:04.875 We have that superpower In a world that needs kindness. 00:27:04.875 --> 00:27:10.744 We got that and we can share that. 00:27:10.744 --> 00:27:13.789 How can we be super? 00:27:13.789 --> 00:27:19.089 How can we be super? 00:27:19.089 --> 00:27:24.094 It might look like just being the person that Christ tells us to be. 00:27:24.094 --> 00:27:35.828 It might just be believing the things that Christ invites us to believe, and maybe together we can save the world. 00:27:35.828 --> 00:27:37.017 Amen, amen.