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My injury ended my career pretty much, but then I started youth ministry and I started speaking in schools and started a Bible study in my house with kids in my neighborhood. I go into prisons. Fast forward sixteen years. And then I wrote this book called The Third Option because of all the division in our country.
You know, every race conversation is about us vs. And the third option is that we honor what we have in common. We are all But in fact, we have so many countless things that are identical. And so the book is about how we can learn how to honor one another through and amidst all this racial division in the world. I wanted to give people tools on how to do that, how to understand their own blind spots and how to understand how people perceive them, so we can break through the walls that racism has built up between us.
Every time you see someone, rename them, neighbor. You know, the greatest commandment is to love God with your heart, mind, and soul. And the second is just like it, to love your neighbor as yourself. So I am biblically obligated to love you as my neighbor. The Good Samaritan story tells us that everybody is my neighbor. So I have to love you as my neighbor. I love you as myself. And we watch the news and news gives us those labels and social media gives us those labels.
We are commanded. God is love, and we have God. So we have to represent love in the most unselfish way possible. Narrator: Miles has a mission to help people come together, despite their perceived differences from one another.
Miles: [This is the] July 20th [passage] from Jesus Calling. Do not be afraid to be different from other people. The path I have called you to travel is exquisitely right for you. The more closely you follow My leading, the more fully I can develop your gifts.
To follow Me wholeheartedly, you must relinquish your desire to please other people. However, your closeness to Me will bless others by enabling you to shine brightly in this dark world. Yet you are unique. God made us unique for His glory. He made us all the same so we can all be a family. The Third Option is focusing on what we all have in common. And if we can be part of that, we can live out the third option and bring unity to our world.
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To learn more about this beautiful new edition of Jesus Calling, please visit jesuscalling. From the time he was a little boy, Derek Evans knew his purpose was to make a difference for the least of these. As he grew older, Derek searched for a way to put his mission into action. Derek Evans: My name is Derek Evans. Right after college, I moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and started a company called Project It was the eighties, and my mom and dad had three children, and I was the middle child.
And, you know, having three kids in your twenties is not always the easiest. One of my first memories, I was about four or five years old, and I went with my mother to the grocery store to pick up a few groceries for the family.
My mom did not have enough money to pay for the groceries, the food and things that we needed. And the lady is getting aggravated with my mom. And Mom starts crying. I just remember being like, Wow. And I think really, for the first time in my life, even being a four or five-year-old, that compassion kind of kicked in. And I was just like, Man, whatever I can do to help my mom or to help others, to help people, I want to make sure that people have an opportunity to be helped.
How I got to Nashville is somewhat of an interesting yet quick story. I had nearly every job under the sun in college, after college. And I was at a construction management company, and it was the middle of I thought I was living the high life, right?
About six days later, I was in Nashville. I was excited. It was really about a year and a half to two years of the Lord really molding me. I was single. My car broke down. And [it was] truly rock bottom for the first time in my life. And the beautiful thing about being at rock bottom is that God truly uses that time to mold you, to really speak to you, to really transform your life. And so for me, it was a lot of days spent on my knees in prayer.
Why me? What is going on? What are you doing? I found a really awesome church in Nashville that is still home for me today. And I ended up meeting some friends around the same age as me, and they invited me to go serve the homeless in downtown Nashville with this ministry called The Bridge Ministry that feeds and loves on and serves the homeless population in downtown Nashville. And so we fed them, had a worship service, and then the volunteers actually prayed with some of the homeless people that wanted prayer.
It was my turn to stand up as a volunteer to pray with this man who requested some prayer. And so, I and the friends that I met down there prayed with this man. So I began entering into the entrepreneurial arena. I had a good friend from college, Matt, we went to the same Christian college in Anderson, Indiana. We were in the same Christian fraternity. He was a graphic designer, and he ended up moving to Kentucky.
I want to start a business. What do you think? We can do this! We thought about everything. We wanted to write a book about Indiana high school basketball. We wanted to write comedy. We wanted to make logos for people. And then we eventually settled on making T-shirts. And so a few months in, we saw some traction, and we were really excited.
And so I had an opportunity to go with my church to Los Angeles to go on a mission trip to feed the homeless, and Matt did not attend my church, but he said he would like to go with me. The trip ended up being one of those really, truly life-changing weeks for us.
We saw people that had lived there before, and now were business people, that were now pastors, that were now leading nonprofits.
And so being able to see that transformation of people, we are really blown away by what God can do. What if we make this more of a mission company, a company that really helps people?
What we told each other early on is that we wanted to make products that people actually wear. We want to make great products that have a two-part mission. We want to give people our society says no to—we want to give them an opportunity to be a part of something greater than themselves.
It is always the right time to loveyourneighbor. Thank you for loving your neighbors in Middle Tennessee. In , we were at our annual retreat with all of our employees, and we were coming up with different goals for the year.
We should do an orphanage in a [developing] country. And so we all kind of agreed that in , we wanted to build an orphanage in a [developing] country. We created a T-shirt. And at the end of it, as soon as we raise the money, if we raised the money, this home is going to be built just in a matter of days in this city in Uganda.
We had two months to raise the funds. We had a few weeks go by.
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