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Working it through with friends

THE SCENE: Stunningly Beautiful Saturday morning. Cannot think of any way to make it better.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • Windmills
  • Squats
  • Merkins
  • Mountain climbers
  • Burpees

THA-THANG:

  • Short form Dora
    • 20 merkins at the parallel bars
    • 30 squats at the pool wall
    • 40 LBCs at the picnic tables
  • Playground
    • Climb and slide
    • Creep and crawl
    • Repeat
  • Amphitheater hill
    • Bear crawl up the hill
    • Bunny hop up the hill
    • Frog hop up the hill
  • Joke Circle
  • Follow the leader at the fountain
  • Playground repeat
  • Mosey to Friendship Bell
    • Everybody ring it.

 

MARY:
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
In addition to our PAX, we had Buttercup, Juggernaut, Peregrine Falcon, Golden Eagle, Backpack Leafblower, T-Rex, and Kitty-cat
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Have you ever known someone, or maybe had a friend, that got you into trouble? Not because they told on you, but because they have ideas to do things that get you in trouble. Or maybe a friend who is mean to other people for fun? Someone you would think of as a bully?

It’s important to choose the people you spend time with carefully. We tend to become like the people we are around. Even though you may not do the mean things your friend does at first, that can’t last. Some day, unless they stop doing mean things, either you will have to stop being their friend, or you will find yourself doing the same mean things. Jesus gives a really good way to try to work through this. I’m using Matthew Chapter 18 v 15-17 as the model.

If someone is being mean or hurtful, first tell them just between the two of you. Then, if they realize what they did was wrong, then you have helped your friend and made your friendship stronger.

But if they won’t listen to you, ask other friends who saw it, and together talk to your friend about it, so your friend will know that other people agree that what they did was wrong.

If your friend still won’t listen, talk to your parents or another adult you can trust about what your friend is doing so they can help you.

But if they still won’t listen, then you should probably stop being their friend until they change. However, remember that you need to be kind to them still, even though they aren’t your friend any more. If you become mean to them, then the whole point is lost.

MOLESKIN:
Always a pleasure to have Men from Juco come out!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Accountability

THE SCENE: 76
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • The Thang
    • 4 Corners (20 reps): 1. Merkins (reg, diamond, wide, stagger)
    • 2. Legs: squat, lunge, Bobby Hurley, toe merkins
    • 3. Abs: (BBS, LBC, Heels to Heaven, side crunches)
    • 4. Burpees – 5 each corner
  • Mosey to Playground: 4 Rounds: 6 pull-ups, 10 merkins, 5 wall-ups
  • Mosey to Bell 4 “Corners” (Bear crawl to each)
    • 20 dips
    • 20 Bulgarians -10 each leg
    • 20 decline merkins
    • 20 box jumps
  • Mosey back to Shovel Flag

MARY:
PAX choice – The Skewer, Rosalita, Basilisk, Protractor, Hairy Rocket in Plank

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6STRONG: Kick, Mathlete, Borg, Tuba, Skewer, and me, Snaggletooth

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Accountability. This is a tough one. Here’s what Q Source has to say about it:

“Submission To Standard Through Enforcement and Consequence

The HIM seeks Accountability because his life is not his own.

No matter how dedicated or deliberate a HIM is in the building of his Guardrails, there will be some stretches of his road that he will not be able to shore up through his own Bricklaying. These are a man’s Blind Spots , the hard-wired gaps in his nature that he cannot protect without help.”

“The Survivor is ruled by his Blind Spots. Like an insatiable parasite they slowly suck the life out of him. The Sad Clown softly submits to his Blind Spots, seeking to uncomfortably coexist with them long enough to die without ever having to asking for help eradicating them. His is a life of solitary denial and Hopelessness.

The HIM is different. Because he is a Servant who lives for his Mission, he treats his Blind Spots like any other Obstacle in his life–as a Problem that impedes Movement. Because a Problem can and must be remedied, the HIM does so by seeking Accountability. For a Blind Spot, that is the only thing that works. Although this requires him to admit his Problem to others, the HIM presses forward because his pride and sense of self are less important than the people he Serves.

After all, because he is Living Third, his life is not his own.

Accountability shines the light of Hope into a man’s Blind Spots.”

The need for accountability is hardwired and we only seek it out when we know for sure that we can’t accelerate on our own and we’re actually drowning without help. When life goes sideways, when we get sloppy, we remember what the bricklaying and guardrails are for. And when we realize that we can’t do it on our own – “we are powerless to change” – then we reach out for help. This is where I am. I am a mess – with just enough brain cells to know that I need help. This requires honesty that I don’t want because it will expose my vulnerability. I find this in each circle of my life: between God and myself, my wife and myself, my 2.0s and my community. So I am reaching out to our Shield Lock because I need help and need someone to know it. There are other ways that I reach out for help: counseling, friendship, reading books and practices that help me slow down and look inside. We’re not losers because we need help. We’re actually hardwired to need help.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence July 2, Shield Lock on Friday 5:00, Shield Lock Camping Trip

Rocky Legs

THE SCENE: Warm June morning, perfect for sweating
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Tempo squats
  • Windmills
  • Tie Fighters
  • Grady Corns
  • Tempo Merkins
  • Mountain climbers
  • Projectivators (from 7)

THA-THANG:

  • Dynamic running warmup on the way to Recruiting Center
  • Grab a block and head to the pull up bar
    • 50 goblet squats and 3 pullups (rotate through on bar)
  • Farmer carry block, alternating hands, to theater stairs
  • Progressive work – add one, run the stairs, once all are done, start dropping one
    • 5 Rocky Balboas (4-ct)
    • 4 cross-over CMU merkins
    • 4 Iron Mikes (both legs)
    • 10 OHP
    • 5 thrusters
  • Farmer carry back to recruiting center
  • Circuit – 45/15 tabata, 1 round
    • Split squats at the short stack (left)
    • I-merkins
    • Bobby Hurleys
    • Derkins
    • Split squats at the short stack (right)
    • Jump Rope
    • Pull ups

MARY:
Full round of dealer’s choice!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Matthew 18:15-17

15  “If your brother sins against you,  go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have  gained your brother. 16But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

We live in an increasingly non-Christian world. Often, we assume that the people we meet each day share a common understanding of what is right and wrong, but the apparent shift is away from this.

Jesus in this passage, seems to me to be speaking into this situation. I expect my brother share my understanding of sin, but sometimes he won’t listen, no matter who gets involved. In this case, Jesus tells us to “let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.”

It is easy to read this as permission to cut off my brother, to put him outside, and on some level that may be partly true. But I think it is important to remember as we read this passage, exactly how Jesus treated the Gentile and the tax collector. He was so willing to engage with them in speaking truth that his fellow Jews were offended and disgusted.
MOLESKIN:
Great conversation on the Word.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Confirmed family Q on Saturday, Convergence July 2 @ JUCO

Here comes the rain

THE SCENE: dark, cloudy and steady rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 Mercins, 9 side straddled hop, 8 good mornings. 7 willy maze. 6 Chattanooga cherry pickers. 5 Knoxville cherry pickers.  2 thread the needle

THA-THANG: Death run with person in the back of the line does a burpee  trunk jump to the front.. headed to the pool wall

Insert information about the workout. Alternated workout  core then mercins

  • 20 flutterkicks/5 divebomb mercin, 5 diamond Marcin and 10 regular mercin
  • 19 heels to heaven/ repeat Mercins
  • 18 little boy crunches/ repeat Mercins
  • 17 Big boy crunches/ repeat mercins
  • 16 Big boy situps with leg extensions/ repeat Mercins
  • 15 Big boy situps butterfly position / repeat Mercins
  • Mossy to playground.  For 23 pullups
  • 20 bicycle/10 knee to elbow bicycle/10 elbow to knee bicycle
  • Mossy to the stage to finish 2 minute of plank hold 30 seconds rep./ 15 plank punches/15 plank rocks

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Colossians 3:19 Husbands,  love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

We as husbands need to love our wives with the same intensity that God loves you and not be bitter.

  1. Love  her  with unconditional love (Rom. 5:8)
  2. Love her with unquestioned love (John 3:16)
  3. Love her with an unselfish love (Eph 5:25)
  4. Lover her with an uninterrupted love (Rom 8:38-39)
  5. Love her with an unending love (John 13:1)

This comes from the book “Turn away wrath: meditation to control anger & bitterness”-by rand hummel

Passing The Flag

THE SCENE: mid 60’s and HUMID
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

THA-THANG:

burpees at shamrocks (34)
Mosey to the track
perform 20 lunges (10 each leg), 20 squats, 20 calf raises, run the bleachers to the other side, up/down at each set of stairs.
rinse and repeat X3
mosey to St. Patrick (where he was, not where he is)
do 11’s with dips at the circle, and merkins at the merkin mile

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Review 5 principles of F3, follow up the BOM from today, reinforce that we want it to be HARD, but you can choose to modify.

Pass the Flag to Betty
MOLESKIN:
FNG “Oh Brother Where Art Thou”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.