Philippians 3:12-14

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.  Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Number one, on the level of just being an entrepreneur, one of the things I like is when Paul in Philippians three says, you know, not that I have already attained or already perfected, but I follow after so that I can sort of apprehend that for which I've also been apprehended. And he said, I don't allow myself to sort of have done this. I was forced to memorize in the King James version because I'm from Birmingham, Alabama Baptist, he says. But this one thing I do, forgetting what's behind and reaching towards what's ahead, I press on towards the price of my calling of God in Christ Jesus.

I think that idea of relentless focus, you know, and just focusing on a few things that are important instead of a lot of things that aren't important, I think as an entrepreneur would be my advice. And I think that that just keep the main thing, the main thing. Know what your purpose is. No. What you want to achieve. No. What's most important and not necessarily just what's most urgent and just chase those things relentlessly. I think the people in my industry that succeed have a level of relentless drive and passion, energy and focus that's uncommon. And I think that's biblical.

I would say on a personal level, you know, we're doing this covid document. I'm not really allowed to talk about it, but I'll mention a little bit of the all encompassing history of Christian music. And every artist in the world is involved in it because they all had nothing to do

And one of things I love about it and then I just thought about the Bible. So many of us feel like we're not equipped, therefore we can't be called like I'm a messed up human being. I have problems. You know, I'm working in the entertainment industry. I don't have a college degree. I'm from Birmingham. And then you read through the Bible. And it was just interesting with the music. How all these artists sort of built on each other's shoulders and then built something really magical and inspired the world with their music, with a lot of flawed people in there, a lot of tragedy, a lot of betrayal, a lot of heartache, and yet great music, wonderful people, but flawed. And then you look through the Bible and God goes out of his way to call flawed people for reasons unknown, I think. So he gets the glory instead of us and you know, the whole jars of clay idea.

And I think that that was a great inspiration to me, because I think if you look at yourself, you can say, you know, I'm just not good enough, I'm not a good enough Christian or I'm not educated enough or whatever. There's always that. And I think to just rest in the idea of God called me, I didn't call me. And because I'm called, he's going to qualify me. Right. So God qualifies those that he calls he doesn't call the qualified. And you don't have to be perfect or be unflawed to be able to relentlessly chase your calling and be a person of influence and great influence to be educated. You don't have to do what the world would say is the person that would.

A buddy of mine  Mike Flaherty founded a company called Walden that I really like. They made the Narnia films and he's a believer. And he's like, if Lionsgate only knew that they've rested the future of their studio into homeschooled kids from Birmingham, Alabama.

You know, and I just think that if God puts a calling in your life, you don't have to feel like you're qualified to use your gift. And that's probably really recently been on my heart and soul in mind just from this documentary that we're working on. And I'm far from perfect. And yet God called me and I'm far from qualified, and yet God called me. And I think you can be, too. So I think that that's what's probably most on my mind these days.