{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"1.19 / Should Christians set goals? Process vs. outcome","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2710,"description":"\"I'm getting worried about you. You're getting to the point where you hate losing more than you love winning.\" An athletic director said that to my co-host Nick Surface when Nick was coaching youth soccer. He has never forgotten it.\nSo are you focused on the process or the outcome? Nick makes the case for plans and goals. I'm not really a goal setter. Between us sits Proverbs 16:9: \"We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps\" (NLT).\nShould Christians set goals?\nNick says yes: no plan survives first contact, and the SEAL teams plan every time anyway. Where I land: set the outcome goal, then get focused on the process. Jim Rohn said it's who you become on the way.\nWhat is God's will for your life?\nRomans 12:2 says to let God transform you by changing the way you think. God's will for you isn't an outcome. It's transformation.\nWhat's the right question to ask?\nNot what do I have to do to reach the goal. What kind of person do I have to become to maximize who I am?\nWhy doesn't God show you the whole plan?\nIf He showed you step 10, you wouldn't be mature enough for it yet. What I do is not up to me. Who I am is up to me.\nScriptures\nProverbs 16:9 · Proverbs 19:21 · Romans 12:2 · 1 Chronicles 22:8 · James 4:13-15 · Acts 17:26-27 · Exodus 12:40\nThinkers and stories\nJim Rohn · C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien · Marcus Aurelius · The Epic of Gilgamesh · Kobe Bryant · Quincy Jones and Thriller\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show intro\n0:52 When the plan blows up anyway\n1:57 Five kids was never the plan\n2:55 Many are the plans in a man's heart\n5:07 God's will is transformation\n5:29 Is planning still worth it?\n7:08 Obsessed with outcomes, or with control?\n7:56 Deo volente: God willing\n8:28 Jim Rohn: who you become\n9:30 Kobe Bryant and loving the process\n10:56 Does God care what I'm doing?\n12:24 Placed in a time and place\n15:19 The Epic of Gilgamesh\n17:05 C.S. Lewis and the one true myth\n18:03 How much does my plan matter?\n19:36 Sovereignty and responsibility\n20:37 The...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7YsfA4gq5VzjhvmKvDET1pQqT0OM6yxv1laklKclR7g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWZh/MTRmZDEzOWRjZGQz/Y2M2NThkNzYwOTJj/ODA4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}