Скачать или смотреть S01E13: Made To Thrive: The Core Message of Jesus with Cody Buriff

Ben Bennett is joined by Cody Buriff to discuss the core message of Jesus and how it brings resolution to so many of our questions today. Using a new resource called “Made To Thrive”, they discuss practical ways that you can share the good news of Jesus with others, and engage in conversations about life’s big questions.

Formerly the Director of Innovation with Cru, Cody Buriff is the Director of Resource Initiatives at Restoration Project. He is passionate about working alongside people to help strategize, problem solve, and make the world better.

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Transcript Excerpts:

It says, “Even though we walked away, God still loves us and offers us the only way to reconnect with Him. God came to earth in the Person of Jesus, and like us, experienced the pain of the world. 1 John 4:9, ‘This is how God showed His love among us. He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.’” And then it goes on to say, “That through His death in our place, He provided a way for us to reconnect with God. In rising from the dead, He began making all things whole and offers us the opportunity to thrive again.”

So, despite our pain, despite our hurt, despite the different ways that we seek out the fulfillment of our unmet longings, God wants to bring healing. He wants to reconnect with us and He wants to provide something that will truly satisfy and that starts in a relationship with Him.



“Be kind.” I mean, that sounds simple, but it’s like, yeah, be kind. Be generous. Listen. It’s like, how many people actually listen anymore, you know? And I think the reality is that a lot of people now, when they’re in a conversation, if they’re listening, they’re mostly listening just to try to figure out how they’re gonna respond or how to fix the other person’s problems or whatever, but most of the time, that’s not actually helpful or loving. Listening well requires compassion. Right? And the root word for compassion in Latin, it basically means “to suffer with.”

And so, in essence, we need to be able to sit in another person’s pain with them – bear their burdens. And I would say that is in almost direct opposition to kind of an old school way of thinking about some things,



Ben: And it wasn’t even 50 years ago that the majority of people in this country were growing up believing in God, knowing about Jesus.

But many just didn’t understand how to have this personal relationship with God. But now things are so different. And then you add on that everything that young people today are surrounded by – a culture where truth is thought of as something that each person decides, mental health issues skyrocketing, porn addiction at an all-time high, racial injustice, human trafficking, evil and suffering all around us –everywhere – in addition to that, a global pandemic, which we find ourselves in currently. Cody, so much going on in the world. With all of these shifts, and in your experience working with students and all the research you’ve done, what are the spiritual questions that students are no longer asking? And then, what are they actually asking?