Point of View September 30, 2024 – Hour 1 : Baseball Family

[00:00:03] [SPEAKER_03]: On the edition of Point of View, we're going off the air on Friday talking about the devastation

[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_03]: of the hurricane Haleen and it has been significant all over the southeast just looking at the

[00:00:34] [SPEAKER_03]: moment here at the devastation in Asheville, North Carolina and all the kinds of things that

[00:00:40] [SPEAKER_03]: people have been dealing with and floored in Georgians, South Carolina and other places

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_03]: as well.

[00:00:47] [SPEAKER_03]: So we will spend some time certainly talking about that.

[00:00:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Little later next hour, we'll get into a couple of issues.

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_03]: We have the leader of Hezbollah who's been killed by Israel and some of the background

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_03]: story there that we will give to you.

[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Also, of course, some Kamala Harris visited the border but that has led a lot of people

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_03]: to point out some facts that certainly might even surface tomorrow night in the Vice Presidential

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_03]: debate.

[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Have some great material as well about what is oftentimes referred to as the abortion,

[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_03]: disinformation, complex and some comments by Victor Davis Hanson on the October

[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_03]: surprises that still await us because indeed it is election season.

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_03]: So there are a lot of things that we will be covering and we will be going to our regularly

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_03]: scheduled interview for just a minute but let me mention that we last week, of course,

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[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_03]: And I hope that some of you, if you weren't able to do so last week you weren't

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_03]: listening to the program or you didn't necessarily felt that you were ready to give

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[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_03]: through the week.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_03]: But it is baseball season.

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Matter of fact right now you've got one of the playoff games taking place and of course

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_03]: we all around here love baseball so I thought you might enjoy this particular book because

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_03]: it's called baseball family but it's not really about baseball although baseball is used

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_03]: as a metaphor to illustrate a number of very key relationships as well as developing various

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_03]: kinds of qualities and is written by Billy Joss who is an individual that has actually

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_03]: been able to write about a number of issues this one called baseball family also making

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_03]: room and distraction detox.

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_03]: She is married to Dave Joss who is the major league baseball coach and of course tells

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_03]: lots of stories about baseball so Billy thank you for joining us today here on point

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_03]: of view.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for having me.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Listen we can maybe talk about how this came about because you have I've seen some videos

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_03]: you've done on distraction detox and midlife and the rest and certainly are familiar with

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_03]: you but early on you talk about four different kinds of relationships and I would encourage

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_03]: my listeners if they have something to write with to write those four down because then

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_03]: you take those four relationships through those nine core qualities but talk about

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_03]: those four relationships if you might.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah the four relationships are four relationships that I saw that how I could develop

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_00]: my family within the baseball world.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: David's been in pro ball 37 years and I can meet thousands of people almost every day

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: when we're with a big league team and a big league stadium but those relationships don't

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_00]: develop the way they do with people that you're around more so those four relationships

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_00]: that I found that I was encountering every day was accidental acquaintance that person

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_00]: that you run into once and may never see again and then you have your kindred I mean

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: sorry your social circle those are the people that are sitting around you a little more

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_00]: they may be the people you go to church with to Bible study with the parents on your

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: kids teens and then we move in their kindred spirit those are those ones that you're

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: like hey I like you there's something about you that that I just connect with and

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_00]: want to get to know you better and then we have our forever family and I say our forever

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_00]: family are the ones that will go to war for us even when we don't know we're in a war.

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm going to take a break and we come back I want to maybe have you give some of

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_03]: the illustrations for those of you that understand baseball you can certainly see that

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_03]: an accidental acquaintance could be like a first basement and a third basement and the

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_03]: individuals that are part of maybe the social circle would be the outfielders the

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_03]: entrance spirit would be the middle-infielders and of course you're forever family would

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_03]: be a course your battery a picture and catcher and then we're going to use that grid

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_03]: to take you through nine core qualities and I think you will find the book very interesting

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_03]: whether you like baseball or not of course everybody around here loves a baseball but nevertheless

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_03]: I think you'll learn some great principles here thought as we're into the playoff

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_03]: the eventual world series it would be a great time to talk about baseball but also

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_03]: apply some of these principles about relationships that would be important for you to know about.

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's take a break we'll come back with more right after this.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Early this month the federal open market committee of the Federal Reserve

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_03]: cut the short-term interest rate target by 50 basis points the financial world was waiting to

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_03]: see what the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would announce even after it happened

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_03]: commentators were contrasting the words of Powell with his actions and suggesting he was more

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_03]: worried than he sounds. Guess that I've had on my radio program like to make interesting

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_03]: comments about the Federal Reserve the Federal Reserve they might say is an a federal agency

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_03]: and is doubtful reserves. Another might say that the chairman of the Federal Reserve is the most

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_03]: powerful person in America. What should we think about all of this? Well the Federal Reserve has a

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_03]: dual mandate to keep inflation low at 2% and also to keep unemployment low it engage

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_03]: in what is called monetary policy and an attempt to achieve those two goals. This central bank

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_03]: was established in late December 1913 if you want to read how it was created you might

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_03]: want to read the book The Creature from Jack O'Eilin which is now in its fifth edition.

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_03]: As I have talked about in previous commentaries the Federal Reserve has had to print money

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_03]: to finance the massive government spending during these last few decades. In one interview Jerome

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_03]: explained that we have the ability to create money digitally and we do that by buying

[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_03]: treasury bills or bonds or other government guaranteed securities. He also added in another

[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_03]: interview that the Federal Reserve has become the most important factor in the global economy.

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_03]: You know last year the Wall Street Journal wrote that Jerome Powell has become the most powerful

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_03]: economic voice in America. Perhaps now you can see why so many people pay attention to what Jerome

[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Powell says and what the Federal Reserve does. I'm Kirby Anderson and that's my point of view.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_01]: For a free copy of Kirby's booklet, a biblical view on critical race theory

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_01]: go to viewpoints.info slash CRT. You're listening to point up you. You're listening to

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_03]: supported source or true. Back once again we're talking with Billy Jouse and the book is entitled

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Baseball Family Nine core qualities for developing healthy relationships. I have got a

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_03]: little who's who of individuals that have endorsed the book including I might just say for

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_03]: you women Carol Cantus, good friend and been on the program endorses it as well so you don't

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_03]: necessarily have to be a baseball fan to learn from that but nevertheless let's use Baseball

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_03]: as an illustration just a minute. Billy because you're talking about accidental acquaintances

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_03]: than the idea of a social circle, kindred spirit and forever family and really some of those

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_03]: players out there on the field give you a good illustration of what you're talking about

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_03]: and we seem to not have Billy Jouse. Are you there now? And we don't seem to have that working as well.

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay well that's the best I can do at the moment let me just mention again that we've

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_03]: as we were talking just a few minutes ago encourage and you to consider what you might do to support

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_03]: this ministry and of course I would also suggest that if you would want to find out a little bit

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_03]: more about the financial need that we have or even some of the thank you gifts that we oftentimes

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_03]: send out to you those are available by simply going to point of view.net slash truth team and of

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_03]: course you can also simply go to point of view go to the button that says join now and join us

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_03]: of course I also just recently sent out a email and that email again said that if you miss truth

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_03]: team last week you can still get involved. Our goal was $150,000 in order to continue the daily

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_03]: broadcast and of course we have fallen short. Let me see when go to Billy again and again I was suggesting

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_03]: that whether you like baseball or not it seems to me that just talking about some of the players

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_03]: in both the infield and the outfield illustrates your illustrations about this idea of accidental

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_03]: acquaintances of social circle a kindred spirit and if you're ever family. Yes Kirby sorry about that

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_00]: my phone is in and out we've lived in Florida so sometimes the weather didn't interfere with our

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_00]: connections funny we're talking about connections my point of view is from watching so many

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_00]: baseball games being in professional baseball as long as we have in raising three boys and when I was

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: going through these four relationships and like how does that happen on the field and you don't

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_00]: have to understand baseball I do it in a very simplistic terms just to sort of give a visual

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_00]: of what's going on on the field and it is accidental acquaintances when you watch a baseball game

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_00]: as I'm watching now in a wild card game the first and third baseman had very look little contact

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_00]: with each other or other players in most plays and that would be your accidental acquaintances they

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: are early run into each other and then you get into that social circle and not your outfielders those

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: three outfielders have to communicate from afar they have to cover the entire outfield so

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_00]: they have to work together to do that but they're not in constant contact and then you have your

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_00]: tinder spirit so as ones that you're like hey I'd like you want to get to know you better that middle

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_00]: end field the second baseman and the short stop they are having to pretty much dance together during

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_00]: a game to make sure that no balls are getting through the infield that no players advancing

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_00]: the second and they're trying to get them out if they're trying and then you have that forever

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_00]: family those people that just have each other's back from the start to finish and that's that

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_00]: deterrent etcher relationship and that's the one that that tesser is going to know what that

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_00]: pitcher needs to do before the pitcher even thinks about it he's going to have his back with everything

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_00]: the pitcher is going to make sure that the catcher is understanding what it is he wants to be able

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_00]: to get that better out or to do whatever it is that they need to do and they're in constant communication

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_03]: so again those are the very significant relationships and now I'd like to maybe turn for the

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_03]: rest of the time into these various core qualities like a selflessness inclusion supportive

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_03]: peacemaker encouraging compassionate respectful trustworthy in generous but Billy might just

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_03]: share how you came up with those nine because I think they're very inclusive and certainly

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_03]: represent the kind of issues that we would deal with in a relationship but I'd just be curious to

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_03]: know how you came up with that particular list yeah you know the reason I wrote this book is

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_00]: just because I've been in a relationship a friendship with someone that didn't go well and I was like

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Lord why is it I can't seem to have shown friendships outside of baseball when I can and baseball

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_00]: and I just wanted to retaliate against that person I wanted to be angry I wanted to prove my

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_00]: point and the Lord dropped on me as he often does when we get in those places you know that we're

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_00]: called to love one another we're called to love one another because he has commanded us to love

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: one another John 1334 and 35 a new command I give you love one another as I have loved you so you

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_00]: love one another by this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another and

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_00]: that led me into oh my gosh that's calling me not just to love the people that are in my inner circle

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_00]: but those people that may not look like me speak like me you know and so again probably if

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_03]: this looks like we've lost you again so again if we can see if we can reconnect we'll just simply

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_03]: do the best we can with what we've got she talks about in this in terms of selflessness and

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_03]: in terms of the baseball hierarchy that she had another wife that she was very close to that was an

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_03]: individual that a matter of fact they watched each other's kids and those kinds of things she said

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_03]: she really shared a lot of deep thoughts with those individuals we cried over her celebrated

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_03]: successes talked on the phone laid into the night and then there was something that caused

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_03]: breach and all of a sudden you're dealing with anger and a sense of needing revenge in a variety

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_03]: of other issues and so that of course is her first of the nine core qualities this one on selflessness

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_03]: and we'll see if we can connect her back up there but again it is part of this book which is

[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_03]: entitled baseball family nine core qualities for developing healthy relationships and just an illustration

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_03]: again of some of the issues which are minor compared to what some people are dealing with right now

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_03]: in the aftermath of the hurricane halene but let's talk about this idea of selflessness because I told

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_03]: the story Billy of an individual that used to be very close to and then you had this sense of anger

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_03]: and revenge so what do we need to know about this idea of selflessness? Yeah you know that's for

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_00]: God calls us to love others even when we don't feel like it right John 1334 and 35 to love he commands us

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_00]: to love one another so that they they they know where his disciples and when we go into how do we

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_00]: do that Lord what is it that you're asking me to do and that's where these nine core qualities came from

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_00]: and the first one that was most important that I felt like we really need is selflessness

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00]: because my favorite line of any book other than the Bible is Rick Warren's book purpose

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_00]: driven life it's not all about you and that's a tough one so when we're called to love others

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_00]: we have to get out of our own way we need to be selfless in how we're acting towards them

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_03]: and loving them. Well again I just an illustration of that and of course one of the key

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_03]: verses is Philippians 2 3 do nothing out of selfish ambition and vain conceit rather in humility

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_03]: value others above yourselves and so really what we're talking about here is this idea of spiritual unity

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_03]: that is very deep and of course you then say that that really comes back to this idea of humility

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_03]: because if you don't have a selfless humble attitude then you're going to always be asking about

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_03]: well what's in it for me rather than the fact that it's not all about you so again let's

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_03]: one of the particular books sections there I might just mention since we're coming to a break

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_03]: I would also mention that the book is about 200 pages and at the very end you have all sorts of

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_03]: in notes and resources suggested books even a little glossary for people saying okay I don't really

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_03]: know that much about baseball help me out here and even some very good questions that can be put

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_03]: together so in some respects what you really design this for and we've got just about a minute

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_03]: is a way in which you can go through this individually but it also would be a very small group book

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_00]: wouldn't it yeah it is it's a great book study and we found that there really works well there were

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_00]: about five major league baseball teams at about ten minor league baseball teams that the

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_00]: lives in girlfriends did it together and the funny thing we saw is that as the girls were doing it

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_00]: together all of a sudden their husbands and their fiancees and their boyfriend started working through

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_00]: the book with them so not only does it work in our friendships it can work in our closer relationship

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_03]: well let's take a break and we'll get into a couple more of those again baseball family nine

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_03]: core qualities for developing healthy relationships if you find yourself saying I'd like to

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_03]: get a copy of the book you might be able to find it in your local bookstore ready if you click on this

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_03]: we have first of all a link to the book baseball family also have a link to the family room podcast

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll talk more about that in just a minute and again we'll work our way through some of the

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_03]: technical issues related to the aftermath of the hurricane halene but we are privileged to have with us

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_03]: I'd like this for another half an hour fully josting and we're going to get into all sorts of

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_03]: other topics because this is gonna be a busy week and another vice president in this case vice

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_03]: president shall debate all that coming up right after this it almost seems like we live in a different

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_01]: world from many people in positions of authority they say men can be women and women men

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_01]: people are prosecuted differently or not at all depending on their politics criminals are more

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_01]: valued and rewarded than law-abiding citizens it's overwhelming so demoralizing you feel like

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_01]: giving up but we can't we shouldn't we must not as Winston Churchill said to Britain in the darkest

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_01]: days of World War II never given never given never never never never never never healed to force

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_01]: never healed to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy and that's what we say to you today

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[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Billy Jouse again the book has entitled baseball family nine core qualities for developing healthy

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_03]: relationships and of course we have a link so that you can find out more about the book but

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Billy for just a minute we also have a link to a Billy Jouse dot com don't even have to notice

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_03]: value last name because we have the link right there and of course that also features the book

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_03]: and some of the other free resources and then we also have a link to the family room podcast

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_03]: which you can find at your website but again we have that link there as well and for just a

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_03]: minute talk about what is available because of course the book is there but you have many other

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_03]: resources people can even use a relationship assessment from your previous book a distraction detox quiz

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_03]: you have just a lot of resources and since this may be the first time some of our listeners have

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_00]: heard from you talk about what's available on your website yeah I'd love to try to help people grow

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_00]: spiritually grow deeper in their relationship with Christ and how to figure out what are the

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_00]: mood forward and growing our relationship with Jesus and with distraction detox quiz it'll tell you

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_00]: what the biggest distraction that you're having to overcome and then I give you practical steps

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_00]: that is all biblically based that walk you through how to why move from being stuck in fear or stuck

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_00]: in doubt or stuck in shame and move out into the freedom of Christ the freedom that Christ so

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_00]: really gives us and so that's the strategy detox all of the things I want to do is to point people to

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Jesus well again I might just mention this a place for people to get on your newsletter to join your

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_03]: team to even have you come and speak and also to follow you on Instagram I mean we have provided

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_03]: all those links and you simply can go to the website pointavue.net and find out a little bit more

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_03]: will be talked about what really started this journey and that is somebody who you thought was a very

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_03]: close friend cross you but the next couple talk about this as well inclusion and supportive

[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_03]: it seems to me that because we have so many people that are isolated first by the pandemic now even

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_03]: by social media and all sorts of other issues you're really calling us to understand that the

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Christian life should be worked out in community not individually right absolutely and that can

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_00]: happen it doesn't mean that you're just building this this group of people that you're going to be with

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: every day all day it's actually those interactions that we have every day we had these relational

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: exchanges that God has called us to love the people that he puts in front of us and that's what

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_00]: we want to do in every step of our life and we want to be able to include those that may not

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_00]: be included and inclusion doesn't mean you're going to invite them in your house they're going to

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: move in the state forever it means that when you see someone that's in need that you're going to

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_00]: love on them right where they are it's going above and beyond to build connections that we may

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_00]: never choose those people to have a connection with and that connection could be a very quick

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_00]: interaction them like for me a travel a lot so an Uber driver someone that's sitting on me next to

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_00]: a plant next to me on the plane it doesn't mean that I'm just going to ignore them and stay on my

[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_00]: phone and never connect to them but I can have a very kind conversation asking questions

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: and getting answers and moving along in a conversation with them that shows them that they are

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_00]: and loved and many times that can lead where my kids say I'm going to die in a Uber one day because

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I tend to want to pray for people that are struggling and I will open up an ask may I pray for you

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_00]: and I'll tell them that I pray to Jesus I believe that Jesus can heal I believe that

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus can help you through this situation and 99.9% of the time they are very open even if

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_00]: they don't believe in Jesus they're very open to prayer well and again I just mentioned social

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_03]: media but in one section you talk about overcoming distance while I'm writing about this talking

[00:27:41] [SPEAKER_03]: out my Marco Polo alerted me my friend was talking and of course as your friend Jim but the

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_03]: bottom line is is that the technology can isolate us but the technology if you properly can connect us

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_00]: absolutely you know I look at social media media as my my my prayer line that's where I go on

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_00]: and I pray for people I connect with people that I can pray with I find places that I can help out

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I connect with people that I may not have seen in a long time a college friend a college roommate

[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_00]: you know whoever that may be and there's a lot of negativity on social media and yes we can

[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_00]: call it up and not and it can take us down spiraling to a place that God never intended but when we

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_00]: look at social media and Marco Polo is one where I talk back and forth with friends in Texas

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and Tennessee in California in the state of Washington that I have what's that I connect with my

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_00]: my friends in the Dominican Republic and so those are places that we could utilize to be able to

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_00]: connect at a deeper level that we may not be face to face but we can also overcome that feeling of

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_00]: loneliness when we have these deeper conversations with our friends. This is what we can talk about

[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_03]: peacemaker now first of all you had a great opportunity to apply that in your own household because

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_03]: you essentially live in a fraternity three boys and so you've had to be a peacemaker at home but

[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_03]: you want to extend those principles to others can you talk about that for a minute?

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah well it even extends at home because all three of my boys work in baseball and no one is

[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_00]: on the same team so dad is with the Washington Nationals our oldest is with the San Francisco

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Giants our middle one is with the Arizona Diamondbacks and then our youngest is the pitching coach at Penn

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_00]: State so sometimes especially now you know at the end of a season when you're trying to get into playoff

[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and tend to do whatever it can get sort of where mom has to be the peacemaker but that's not

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_00]: where we want to be we don't want to be the peacemaker we want to be a peacemaker where we can use

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_00]: that love that God gives us that we can create an atmosphere of peace that we can stop that you know when

[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_00]: when you're in a group that someone doesn't agree with someone else instead of allowing that to escalate

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_00]: we can not just keep the peace but be the peacemaker and bringing that love of Christ into that

[00:30:14] [SPEAKER_00]: situation to sort of take that that a nighting moment and put out that fire before they even start

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_03]: so good one of the other particular core qualities is encouraging and as I was reading through that

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_03]: I was thinking now she ought to mention Barnamus and then she does some of those and then also you

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_03]: talk about this concept of a team of encourages can you explain that? Yes, you know one of the things

[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_00]: is a life and baseball we all sit together we hang out together girlfriends wives beyond saves we all are

[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_00]: together for six months of the season and when you put a group of women together that you haven't chosen to be

[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_00]: together you don't want it like I said earlier about being the peacemaker you want to make peace

[00:31:03] [SPEAKER_00]: but you also want to turn people into encourages you want to create an atmosphere that is

[00:31:10] [SPEAKER_00]: stimulating confidence in each other and hope by putting courage in a person's spirit and that can

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_00]: actually become addictive when you are in encouragement you're encouraging others it seems to

[00:31:25] [SPEAKER_00]: touch on really quickly and you can create a team of people that want to build each other

[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_00]: or rather than tear each other down and I've seen that happen we had a team one time that

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_00]: we had a veteran veteran catcher and incomes is young rookie that gets called up because of

[00:31:46] [SPEAKER_00]: veteran catcher in quite doing what he did before and that rookie comes up and he would then

[00:31:52] [SPEAKER_00]: see take the place of that veteran catcher and to see the veteran catchers wife take the

[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_00]: you rookie catchers wife under her wing and be like hey I'm going to teach you how they

[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_00]: skate works I'm going to show you how it works it was amazing how that changed the whole

[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_00]: temper of the entire team the gossiping of what was going to happen the anger of this happening

[00:32:15] [SPEAKER_00]: to them all of that was paying because that one wife chose to be an encourager rather than

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_00]: on discouraging that new wife that came onto the team and again as you have pointed out early on in

[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_03]: the book the individuals that play only for a few years at best and if they even play well sometimes

[00:32:37] [SPEAKER_03]: they end up on a different team and they particular list of all the places where you've been just

[00:32:44] [SPEAKER_03]: know where's me out but nevertheless that is another illustration there as well let's take a

[00:32:50] [SPEAKER_03]: break and we come back our phone seemed to be working pretty well so we'll talk about a couple of

[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_03]: other key principles here as well compassionate respectful trustworthy generous very good material

[00:33:00] [SPEAKER_03]: also again let me point you to her website because you will find some other great especially some

[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_03]: her blogs recently that are also underscore and even sort of illustrate some of the things that she's

[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_03]: talking about and of course we also have a link if you follow that on our website to the family room

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_03]: podcast so there are all sorts of resources and as we mentioned just a minute ago they were

[00:33:26] [SPEAKER_03]: questions in the back so you might be thinking about it would really be good if I could take some of

[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_03]: an apply it to my small group well it's ready to go plug and play all part of the baseball

[00:33:38] [SPEAKER_03]: family will continue right after this point of view we talked about baseball family nine core

[00:34:04] [SPEAKER_03]: qualities for developing healthy relationships and one of the other's Billy is this idea of being

[00:34:09] [SPEAKER_03]: compassionate and that should be certainly a characteristic of Christians that is certainly what Jesus

[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_03]: called for us to do and again you believe that if we're a compassionate Christian whether we have

[00:34:23] [SPEAKER_03]: accidental acquaintances or a social circle or a kindred spirit or a forever family

[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_03]: using our compassionate heart will really make a difference in the world it does I know that because

[00:34:37] [SPEAKER_00]: that is what Jesus tells us right Jesus had compassion and when we show compassion we're actually

[00:34:43] [SPEAKER_00]: showing sympathy toward another person's distress while having the desire to alleviate their pain that's

[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_00]: what the true essence of compassion is it's not just oh poor person they're suffering right now

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_00]: we're having such destruction after this hurricane that we've had healing in Florida and in North Carolina

[00:35:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean we have that compassion that's what drives us to want to help alleviate someone else's pain

[00:35:09] [SPEAKER_00]: what is it that we can do to help them and I think it's just very helpful pieces and again

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_03]: each one of these chapters has some suggested questions which I think would be helpful for individuals

[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_03]: to begin to self reflect on where they are as well but I did want to pick out a few others and

[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_03]: one is respectful that is not something you would normally see in a list and I'm glad it is in yours

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_03]: because I think this is another issue where we are having so many people especially sometimes even the

[00:35:42] [SPEAKER_03]: younger generation being taught disrespect from all sorts of sources whether it's people making fun

[00:35:50] [SPEAKER_03]: or all the interaction on social media and so the old days when used to saw he's disdemear

[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_03]: or disrespecting him that is picked up rather dramatically and I think you are calling for us

[00:36:03] [SPEAKER_03]: to be respectful even when other individuals sometimes have behavior that is difficult to

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_00]: respect. It is true because Jesus didn't tell us that we only had to treat the people that believed

[00:36:18] [SPEAKER_00]: like us like us like us the way that he is calling us we have to do that the people that we don't

[00:36:24] [SPEAKER_00]: agree with that opinions are different than ours and one of the places we see the most disrespected

[00:36:30] [SPEAKER_00]: right now if it gets so easy for people even for Christians which breaks on heart is also

[00:36:36] [SPEAKER_00]: social media. They are able to sit on their keyboards or their phone and very quickly type out

[00:36:42] [SPEAKER_00]: something that is judgmental and condemning that Christ would never do and we want to make sure that

[00:36:51] [SPEAKER_00]: when we're showing respect what we're doing is we're actually caring enough about that person,

[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_00]: about another person to consider how our actions are going to impact them and if our actions

[00:37:06] [SPEAKER_00]: are going to impact them in a negative way and sometimes people are like whoa I can't I don't

[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_00]: control over how they're going to react no our response needs to be something that is not going to

[00:37:19] [SPEAKER_00]: ignite a reaction our response we need to go back to being compassionate and encouraging and peace

[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_00]: showing respect to someone we want to make sure that our actions impact them in those types of ways.

[00:37:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me take the last one and that is generous and I liked the fact that in your recent podcast

[00:37:40] [SPEAKER_03]: you said opportunities of being generous is more than giving money now of course we've just come

[00:37:46] [SPEAKER_03]: off from our truth team week in which we're even very people to be generous and to support the

[00:37:52] [SPEAKER_03]: industry and others even the radio stations they're carrying this broadcast right now all over the

[00:37:56] [SPEAKER_03]: country but it does seem to me that that is another thing that is lost the younger you are the

[00:38:03] [SPEAKER_03]: list likely you are to tie or to give generously part of that is due to economic structures but

[00:38:10] [SPEAKER_03]: also maybe a lack of biblical teaching so I thought that was again one of those very important

[00:38:16] [SPEAKER_03]: core qualities that you think needs to be developed more in Christians.

[00:38:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah so when I talk about generosity I want to get to the root of it because we do go to money first

[00:38:27] [SPEAKER_00]: usually when we go to generosity it's being generous and tie they and I don't think it's being generous

[00:38:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's what God's called us to do we call to tie it's 10% to the church that we attend

[00:38:38] [SPEAKER_00]: we are called to do these things but when we're generous we're actually giving more

[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_00]: affection and tenderness that is necessary and in response to that that is when we're giving more

[00:38:50] [SPEAKER_00]: than our tides that's when we're giving more time energy and effort along with if we're able

[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_00]: to give finances into somewhere but when we go to the root of generosity I want to get at the heart

[00:39:04] [SPEAKER_00]: of it and that's giving more affection and tenderness than is necessary and when we do that that

[00:39:10] [SPEAKER_00]: when we open up to be able to give of that time energy effort resources that is above

[00:39:18] [SPEAKER_03]: and beyond what we normally do. Well again you talk about that giving wasn't really in your vocabulary

[00:39:24] [SPEAKER_03]: but a rookie wife on the team was one of the most generous people you've ever met and we're not

[00:39:30] [SPEAKER_03]: as again just talking about your treasure we're talking about your time and your talent and all

[00:39:36] [SPEAKER_03]: sorts of things and as you give illustrations there are ample opportunities for you to use the gifts

[00:39:42] [SPEAKER_03]: that God has given to you and those might be a spiritual gift financial gifts they might be a

[00:39:48] [SPEAKER_03]: emotional gift it might be psychological counseling and in summary specs that's why I

[00:39:54] [SPEAKER_03]: appreciate the podcast that you had coming out on that particular subject because you were really

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_03]: focusing on the fact that it isn't just money it's metrfect it probably involves a lot more

[00:40:04] [SPEAKER_03]: this idea of generosity is really a mindset isn't it? It is a mindset and when we think of being

[00:40:11] [SPEAKER_00]: generous sometimes recently ahead and interact with a mom who her she looked really stressed out

[00:40:17] [SPEAKER_00]: and the mom of three they're older now but I remember those younger days and she was really stressed

[00:40:22] [SPEAKER_00]: out and her baby dropped the sippy cup and I just bent over to get the sippy cup and as I you know

[00:40:28] [SPEAKER_00]: handed it to her I just wingered long enough to give her a smile and look her in the eye

[00:40:34] [SPEAKER_00]: and say hey mom you're doing a great job and that's being generous in love that's taking that

[00:40:41] [SPEAKER_00]: moment for someone to know that they are known and seen and love the in that moment and if

[00:40:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I had had more time with that moment it was an abortion moment for her but if I had had more time

[00:40:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I would have given even more of that generously I would have shown her love and respect I would have

[00:40:59] [SPEAKER_00]: given her more of those qualities that God gives us that he wants us to use every day in the

[00:41:06] [SPEAKER_03]: social interaction. Can talking with Billy Jouse and isvillyjouse.com if you go there there's a

[00:41:12] [SPEAKER_03]: blog you've heard me mention there's a podcast which will also have a separate link on there's a

[00:41:17] [SPEAKER_03]: place where you can contact her and maybe even would want to have her come and speak you can get

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Billy's newsletter and subscribe to that you can find a lot of free material so again you don't

[00:41:29] [SPEAKER_03]: even have to know how to spell her last name but it is J. A. U. S. S. but you simply just go to the

[00:41:36] [SPEAKER_03]: website point of view.net you can link through the various things that we have we have a link

[00:41:41] [SPEAKER_03]: to our website course all that gives you links to Instagram and social media and all the rest

[00:41:46] [SPEAKER_03]: podcast and the book as well if you find in your local bookstore but but if not we've made it very

[00:41:52] [SPEAKER_03]: easy for you to get a copy through us or through her as well so Billy will be watching of course

[00:41:58] [SPEAKER_03]: faceball as we always do but also we are greatly appreciate the work that you've done in this

[00:42:04] [SPEAKER_03]: and many other books and we thank you for giving us some time today here on point of view.

[00:42:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you Kirby and sorry for all the technical issues but I really appreciate the time with you.

[00:42:15] [SPEAKER_03]: We will certainly work those out in the future and again if you would like to know more about her

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