Is Your Parish Stuck in Traffic?

The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)

Ascension

Self-improvement, Education, Christianity, Jeff Cavins, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Bible Study, Catholic, Catholicism, Christian, Catholic Bible Study, Ascension, Ascension Press

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🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Parish life sometimes feels like being stuck in traffic. Things aren’t moving forward, resources are limited, tempers flare, and it feels like there’s nothing we can do to move things along. But Jeff heard an interesting take on this from Fr. Josh Johnson. He said, “You’re not stuck in traffic. You are traffic.”

Without knowing it, we can contribute to parish gridlock. Jeff points out several areas where we aimlessly honk our horns instead of doing something to ease the tension.

Gawking: We find ourselves looking at the problems of others, instead of being part of the solution.
Taking a seperate car: We live in isolation instead of riding the same bus and cultivating a supportive community.
Always taking the same route: We take the same roads again and again, just because they’re familiar, when sometimes we need to find a new way to get things done.

Jeff also digs into Scripture to help us avoid these tendencies and take up the call to get involved at a parish and get traffic moving again.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Jeff Caven Show, episode 104, stuck in traffic.
0:09.5	Hey, I'm Jeff Cavens.
0:11.3	How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible?
0:14.4	All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith
0:18.6	and life in general. It's the Jeff Kavans show.
0:21.8	And welcome to the show. in general. It's the Jeff Kaven Show.
0:28.0	And welcome to the show this week, and perhaps you are stuck in traffic. A lot of people listen to the show while they're in the car,
0:32.0	not only in America, but we're hearing around the
0:34.8	world people are listening oftentimes in the car and that's why we provide the show
0:39.2	notes for you so you don't you don't get into an accident and I hope you're having a great week. Emily and I
0:46.5	are down south this week. We're not up deep in the woods in Minnesota where this month
0:51.2	they have received over 39 inches of snow.
0:56.0	It's February.
0:57.0	And that's a record, all-time record for February for Minnesota,
1:01.0	and it's the fourth, the fourth month on record for the most snow in a month, the fourth.
1:09.4	And so we have escaped that below zero stuff and we are down south in the the hunting camp in Baton Rouge
1:19.3	right outside of Baton Rouge and we're having a great time down here. In fact we're kind of
1:24.0	stationed down here for a few weeks and we've been speaking in Metairi down by
1:29.0	New Orleans. We'll be back down there and Hattiesburg Mississippi Lafayette Louisiana of course
1:35.4	Baton Rouge with Father Josh Johnson in fact just had three nights with Father
1:40.6	Josh a mission and we were talking about the activated disciple and it was
1:45.0	it's just a great time to be down here but the highlight has been so far the
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