[ The Scene ]
- 30s
- Colder than a polar bear’s toe-nail
[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]
- Welcome to F3: Fitness-Fellowship-Faith
- Name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this warm morning
- Couple things before we begin:
- I’m not a professional
- You’re here on your own volition – meaning you’re here on purpose
- If you need to modify anything we do this morning feel free to do so but push yourselves and the men around you. You got this.
[ Warm o Rama ]
- Baby-Arm Circles: 10×4 IC
(Bench Warm-Up)
- 20 box jumps
- 20 incline merkins
[ The Thang ]
(Mosey to the 1st walking bridge)
(1) 10s
- 2 points of contact
- Walking Bridge
- Bridge over Cumberland
- Walking Bridge: BBS (4 count)
- Bridge over Cumberland: Man-Makers (8 count)
- AS A TEAM – you will do this together – work your way up from 1-10
- 1 BBS here — run to Bridge over Cumberland — 1 Man-Maker
- 2 BBS here — run to Bridge over Cumberland — 2 Man-Makers
- After 10 — knock out 25 SSH and then hold the plank
(Mosey to the Amphitheater)
(2) 10s
- Stage: incline merkins
- top of amphitheater: squats
- 9 and 1, 8 and 2, etc etc
(mosey back to AO)
[ Mary ]
Half-Dollar > Half-Ass
- LBCs: 10
- Flutter-Kicks: 10
- American Hammers: 10
- Cockroaches: 10
- Bus drivers: 10
[ COT ]
Invest + Invite
Was challenged to “invest and invite” in 2021 as a main objective, and then thought, why not start now – this month, this week, today.
- Invest
- Think about how you can invest in other with impact
- This goes so far beyond financially.
- Investing in others or organizations (church, school, causes, etc) is great and needed – but is not the end all be all
- We as HIM have an INCREDIBLE opportunity to invest in others with our wisdom, our gifts, and our time. Because chances are, there was someone or a group of people that chose to invest in you (maybe in addition to financially investing) that helped refine you into the man you are today. I hope they still are. Don’t waste their investment. Multiply it.
- Trust me, it’s worth the investment.
- For example – when you got up to go to F3 Thursday morning this wasn’t probably something on your mind. But when you choose to post at F3 you’re choosing to invest not just in yourself but in the men around you too – whether you realize it or not. And as the recipient of your investment for the past 4 years or so – thank you. Your investment is something I will never be able to repay you, but it’s something that’s changed the game for me.
- Invite
- An invitation is not exclusive to a physical location
- An invitation can be into a new way of thinking or a new way of living
- There’s an invitation inside the mission of F3 – “To plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership”
- Inviting men into something more
- What we’re really doing, and I mean what we’re really really doing at F3 is extending an invitation to men from all walks of life, all ages, all backgrounds – into something more – something greater than themselves.
- There’s a high chance that at some point in your life – someone invited you – into a space or new way of thinking.
In John 5:1-9 we see a perfect example of this.
“Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.”
We see investment and we see invitation. I once heard a story of this passage of Scripture being preached in a Southern baptist church and when the pastor got to verse 9 the congregation celebrated joyously until the pastor said 3 words that silenced the entire church – What. A. Shame.
I’m sorry…what? What a shame? The pastor went on to say: “What a shame that we don’t know. What a shame that we don’t know whether the invalid went back to the pool to help others. What a shame that we never find out if the invalid returned to the place he was once labeled invalid to help validate others.”
I am the invalid in the story. So are you. Whatever the place is in your life that you might have been labeled (or self-labeled) invalid – Jesus came in and invested and invited you to come out of that place. By His love and grace he validated what was once deemed invalid.
So if we are to claim the term High Impact Man, how can we not invest and invite as Jesus did, does, and will continue to do. We have an awesome opportunity to help validate the invalid as HIM. Because it was first done for us.
