166 | Embrace The Pain & Find Strength Through Brotherhood (Rob Champion)
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Rob Champion
Rob Champion is the campus pastor at People's Church in Oklahoma City, OK. He's been married for 25 years to his wife Nickie and they have a 20-yr old daughter and 18 yr-old son.
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Show Notes:
3:20 - Describing the transition from younger years to high school "coaching mode" and friendship beyond.
5:32 - Coaching out of relationship
7:42 - What he saw from his dad - what areas he admired, and what he chose to do differently in his family.
12:42 - Thoughts on brotherhood - Quote from Ecclesiastes - "One can be defeated, but two can stand back to back and conquer, and the triple braided cord is not easily broken."
18:22 - Weakness as a dad - struggling with anger.
20:53 - How he recognized the need for a change. Recommended book: Leadership Pain
22:48 - "I've learned that in our journey, don't be afraid of the pain, the pain that you experience is God's trying to show you and grow you through your pain. So embrace it and be willing to go on the journey. God will lead you."
23:49 - "Anything you're not liking in how you're behaving is tied to a root in your life that God is trying to uproot."
24:42 - "Guard your heart for out of it flows the wellspring of life, everything comes out of it."
27:28 - Rob's Brotherhood Groups https://www.facebook.com/groups/menszoomgroup/
30:45 - Practical mentoring tips: "Seek first to understand your kid, seek first to understand your wife, seek first to understand anyone..."
34:01 - "And just because you may not have the skills that another brother may have or, the abilities that someone else may have, understand that you, your value is not based off of what you do. It's based off of whose you are, you belong to the Father and your value is rooted in that. Stand confident in that understand you have something to offer your kids. You have something to offer your spouse. You have something to offer your church. You have something to offer this world and walk in your gifts and let other people do the things that you're not so gifted in and celebrate them in it as well."
Episode Links:
Pastor Rob's Brotherhood Zoom Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/menszoomgroup/
People's Church https://peoples.church/
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