Listen and Live With Integrity | Jeremiah 35 - Clint Leavitt

What do we do when things fall apart? The way we answer this question shows us the truth of who we are. We all look great when things are comfortable. It’s in the times of challenge, when the building is burning down around us, when all that we’ve held onto dissolves in our arms, that our true allegiance, our true character, our true identity get revealed. We are crowd-conditioned people: the more crowds flock to something, the more inclined we are to think that thing is worth flocking to. Yet so often this crowd-conditioned instinct leads us to unhealth. Listen as Pastor Clint explores the story of the Rechabites in Jeremiah 35, and how we can learn from them in our crowd-conditioned world by implementing two practices: listening to the right voice and living with holistic integrity. Sermon Resources: 1. Partnerships between big tobacco and Hollywood: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602591/ 2. Prevalence of smoking in America: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470496/#r3 3. Lung-cancer deaths: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-through-the-20th-century 4. Bandwagon effect, or bandwagon bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect 5. The phrase "chronological snobbery" was coined by C.S. Lewis in his autobiography, "Surprised By Joy" 6. List of authors who have tried to cheat the system to get their book onto the NYT Bestseller List: https://lithub.com/8-notable-attempts-to-hack-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list/ 7. Stop and Hear The Music Metro Experiment with Joshua Bell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw&t=6s Join us below: Facebook: www.facebook.com/midtownpreschurch Instagram: www.instagram.com/midtown.pres Website: www.midtownpres.org Community Groups: www.midtownpres.org/community-groups Sunday Services: www.midtownpres.org