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75. Life-Maxing? No, No, No...Try This Instead
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We're surrounded by voices telling us to maximize ourselves: our looks, productivity, wealth, health, status, experiences, and potential.
But Jesus offers a radically different path to maximum life.
In this episode, John Ortberg explores the “self-maximizer” inside us and contrasts it with John the Baptist's famous words: “He must increase; I must decrease.”
The paradox of God's kingdom is that abundant life doesn't come from making ourselves bigger. It comes as we loosen our grip on ego, reputation, and self-promotion and give ourselves to love and service.
Want to live life to the max?
Try a little less of yourself.
In this episode: life-maxing • John the Baptist • Philippians 2 • the self-maximizer • Psalm 146 • abundant life
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00:00 How to Maximize Your Life
00:29 Welcome to the Age of Life-Maxing
00:50 Looks, Status & Productivity Maxing
01:08 What's Wrong With Self-Maxing?
01:34 God Is Actually Into Abundance
02:04 Biblical Maxers
02:26 Absalom: The Looks-Maxer
02:42 Five Pounds of Hair?!
03:04 He Maxed Himself to Death
03:26 The Wealth-Maxer & Bigger Barns
03:47 Solomon Maxes Pleasure
04:19 The Original God-Maxing Temptation
04:30 The Self-Maximizer Inside You
04:54 “My First Job Is to Realize My Potential”
05:22 Is Commitment Keeping a Sucker's Game?
05:48 The Self-Maximizer vs. Commitment
06:02 What's in It for Me?
06:25 When Self Becomes the Center
06:53 The Ego-Driven Pastor
07:14 The New Org Chart: Bigger Me
07:38 There Is Another Way
08:02 John the Baptist Starts Losing Followers
08:24 You Need to Max!
08:45 The Friend of the Bridegroom
09:04 “He Must Increase, I Must Decrease”
09:33 Jesus Minimizes Himself
10:10 Meaning Is the New Maxing
10:38 How to Min to Max Today
11:05 Give, Encourage, Listen & Serve
11:26 Less Ego, More Life
11:54 Life to the Max
12:03 John Forgot the Psalm 😂
12:22 Psalm 146: God's Kind of Greatness
12:43 Bonus Material