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[virtuous-leadership-school] Q3.9 Commitment

September 14, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Borg
PAX: Otis, Mermaid, Spellcheck, Scratch-off, Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: coffee, stories and prayer

THE THANG:
Discussed many facets of being committed.
– Never make a decision during HALT.
– Contradiction or paradox: Mission first, Men always.
– Loyalty requires willing submission.
– And much more…

COT: Prayer and close.

[cv-brickyard] 9/11 ups

September 11, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-brickyard
Q: Gmail
PAX: Spellcheck, Otis, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), Recoil (Blake Conley), Floppy Disc
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:
motivators, tempo squats, toy soldiers, wind mills
THE THANG:
mosey to candyland
do 110 step ups each (in remembrance of 9/11)
do 10 pull-ups run a lap
repeato counting down to 1
mosey to track area
do 150 merkins, when break is needed do 25 SSH
MARY:
mixed in waiting on 6
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
not today
COT:
discussed John 16 – Jesus is telling of hard times coming and that he is leaving. I imagine the disciples felt like we do reading the headlines these days – angry, scared, hopeless, without peace, anxious. but he does offer us hope in this chapter as well- he is coming back, we will have joy that no one can take from us. Let us lean on God in these times.
21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. 22 So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. 33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
If you read this far you should go read John chapter 16
RIP Charlie Kirk :smiling_face_with_tear:

[virtuous-leadership-school] Q3.8 Candor

September 7, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Otis
PAX: Mountain Ice, Scratch-off, Spellcheck, Otis, Borg, Baby Boomer, Mermaid
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: greet, laugh, pray

THE THANG: Discuss Q3.8 Candor
Candor: graciously telling the hard truth and demanding to hear it from others.
Socratics:
-Are all truths self-evident?
-Are some things better left unsaid?
-What happens if you kill the messenger?
We spent a long time discussing the first Socratic and “truth” in general. It seems wise to contemplate this when we are challenging ourselves and each other to tell the hard truth.

Spur:
-Only hard Truth requires Candor
“While there are many Truths, only the hard ones require Candor. The easy Truths take care of themselves.”
-From hard Truth comes Love and Trust
“The resolve required for people to move from the status quo into the relative unknown toward advantage is fueled by their trust in the leader initiating that movement,” using candor.
-Candor is a two-way street
“For a leader to be virtuous, he must be able to handle the truth.”
We spent time discussing the affect of hypocrisy and strength of relationships.

MARY: more coffee

ANNOUNCEMENTS: none

COT: prayed, remember Scratch-off and his family

[cv-brickyard] IPC Week 0 and Birthday Manmakers

September 6, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-brickyard
Q: Bail Bonds
PAX: Simmons, flyball, Recoil (Blake Conley), Floppy Disc, Jim Norris, Spellcheck, Otis, Mountain Ice, Gordie, Z-Pack, Appleseed, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), Bail Bonds
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP:
Seal Claps, Tie Fighters, TN Rocking Chairs, Cherry Pickers, Lateral Lunges, Tempo Squats, Mucho Legos, Tempo Merkins, Supermans, LBCs, Manmakers x10

THANG:
Start timer
• 10 burpees
• 5-10-15-20 yard shuttle runs
—–
• 10 burpees
• 25 merkins
• 5-10-15-20 yard shuttle runs
—–
• 10 burpees
• 25 merkins
• 50 lunges (hard way – right leg-left leg=1 rep)
• 5-10-15-20 yard shuttle runs
—–
• 10 burpees
• 25 merkins
• 50 lunges (hard way – right leg-left leg=1 rep)
• 100 big boy sit-ups
• 5-10-15-20 yard shuttle runs
—–
• 10 burpees
• 25 merkins
• 50 lunges (hard way – right leg-left leg=1 rep)
• 100 big boy sit-ups
• 150 squats
• 5-10-15-20 yard shuttle runs
Stop timer

Do some active recovery around the track.
Pick up the 6.
Finish out Birthday Manmakers!

MARY:
No time

COT:
Are you a fan or a follower of Jesus?
A fan is someone who admires or shows interest in someone because they’re popular or well know for something. Maybe someone you know knows them, so you claim to know them, but that’s not a relationship.
A follower is someone who has a relationship with someone they look up to or admire. A relationship is made by interacting and having dialog with someone and sharing experiences.
Do you want to be a follower of Jesus, or do you know someone?
It’s laid out very simply in Romans.

Romans 10:9-11 NIV
[9] If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. [10] For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. [11] As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”

[cv-lostpearls] Billy Madison Ruck

September 5, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-lostpearls
Q: Otis
PAX: Bail Bonds, flyball, Mooch, 30 second warning, Astrophizzy, Bucky, Otis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: Just take off

THE THANG: ruck over to the elementary school, pass the middle school and head to the high school

MARY: n/a

ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 3rd Anti-trafficking campaign coming October 5th

COT: Form vs Game
Game in our culture is a willingness to try, to jump in, to have a go. Game in fighting is a little different. It’s a willingness to be punched in the face, to embrace the pain and fear, to lean into the fight and not cower in fear.
The church today trains people in forms, but it has lost the concept of game.
We have Bible form, prayer form, fasting form, serving form, volunteer form,
community form, but what we don’t have is game. So little of what we talk about
on Sundays shows up in real life.
People have forgotten that the point of practice is not the practice itself but to
prepare us to follow Jesus in the real world.

Our discipleship today is often nothing more than the form.
We train and train and train but never do. We read and read and read but never obey.
Resonance is not the same as obedience.
Agreeing is not the same as acting.
Listening is not the same as doing.
Jesus seemed to be baffled by the emphasis on a form-only based discipleship in His day.

““Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.””
‭‭Luke‬ ‭6‬:‭46‬-‭49‬ ‭ESV‬‬