The Myth of the Main Character | Spiritual Formation with Brian Delamont (Ep. 214)

As Brian Delamont returns for the monthly Spiritual Formation episode, Heather introduces the colloquial term “main character energy” as a cultural myth to unpack. Brian, Heather, and Keane walk through Scripture from Jonah to Jesus to Peter, exploring the importance of keeping a Kingdom perspective.

• Jonah 4:9-11
• “He gives us agency, and yet He also offers us a much better story.”
• Matthew 11:28-30
• “Being the protagonist, being the main character, is exhausting because you have to fight the fight [...] and yet, God is saying, ‘I have a path for you that is lighter and easier than you could possibly imagine.’”
• Matthew 6:25-34
• “It’s so much work trying to be king of the universe when there already is one who’s inviting me to actually just follow and come and rest and be.”
• “The story that is so all-consuming for me is all consuming for me in that moment, but that’s also not the whole story. God continues to write all of history. He has a plan; He has a purpose.”
• “We are temporal beings; we are here for a moment [...] This healthy awareness of my humanity, my fragility, is very much an antidote to our tendency to be the main character.”
• John 3:16
• 2 Peter 3:9
• Luke 12:32
• “When we pray ‘Your Kingdom come, Your will be done,’ that is a laying down of our main character-ness and an identification with the greater Kingdom that Jesus is bringing and will bring.”
• Acts 10
• “When we collaborate with Him, that’s when we have this opportunity to see the body of Christ thrive and to see the fruits of the Spirit really become abundant.”
• “We will always pursue what we consider most important.”
• Matthew 6:21
• “If we really see people, if we really value people, then we will cross whatever boundaries and borders and resource deficiencies that there may be in order to do what God is calling us to do, to see the treasure that He sees.”

March Reflection: What do I really value? What really matters here? What am I treasuring, and is that what God treasures in the way that He treasures it?

What’s changing our lives:

• Keane: Watching through a TV series
• Heather: Getting a thumb brace
• Brian: Rooibos tea

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