Dr. John A. King compares two ways to live: the speedboat, where you control everything and burn out, and the raft, where you trust the current. After 49 years steering his own speedboat, he says the raft model works better and aligns with God's design.
How you doing, fellas? Second Saturday's coming up. Love Second Saturday. Love hanging out with you guys and talking through the issues that we as men face. This Saturday, I'm going to be looking at 2 approaches to life, and they're approaches that have been around since the beginning of time, since the garden. A raft approach and a powerboat approach. Now, they're approaches that we're taught in church. They're approaches that we're taught in business. They're approaches that we're taught in human nature. Fundamentally, the difference comes down to we're taught that we should be and must be in control of our life for our life to count. And I've just come to believe after, you know, 49 years of doing it, 25 years of trying to work it out since I've been a Christian, that the speedboat approach to life, that I have to be at the controls every day in every situation, every moment, is just the wrong approach. And ultimately what it does is you end up getting shipwrecked and burnt out. So I want to talk about a different approach. I want to talk about the raft approach. Following this river called life, it's got a preordained destination, and our job is to hop on the raft that we've got, that we've been given, and float it. We're still involved, we're still directional, but the result is we get to where we're supposed to go and we're not shipwrecked along the way. And so many lives that I see, particularly of men, get shipwrecked. 'Cause things just don't go the way they're supposed to go in their mind. Different twists, different turns, the odd rapids, the odd waterfall, all sort of ends up adding up to a bit of a mess. All right, we'll look forward to seeing you at 8:30 for breakfast. We'll be getting on and doing that, and some good coffee and a bit of a chat. All right, boys, see you then. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
