Sermon: The Art of Not Knowing; Bishop TD Jakes

Success for me is when what I see looks like what I saw inside. 

Not knowing is is painful. 

You can do more sometimes when you don’t know. 

Sometimes your enemy is that you know too much. 

Wait to connect to something strong enough that can support what you have. 

Don’t stop being curious. 

If you stay comfortable with unknowing you will keep growing. 

He ran past you because he doesn’t know not because he’s better than you. 

Be a fool again. 

Come to the text with more questions than answers. 

Shatter your truth. 

When God is going to train a leader he makes them unstable. 

Workout illustration: leaning on a ball, you have to get it from your core. 

Now you have to walk by faith. 

You earned this test. 

You graduated to this test. 

You need people with fluidity. 

You cannot be creative when you already know or are not curious. 

Someone is going to kill your Goliath with less. 

Wonderment- Because you don’t approach her without wonder, you won’t discover her. 

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision. 

Blind with your eyes wide open. 

It’s easier to critic than change. 

Be an artist again. 

Have a crisis management plan. 

Who speaks and who doesn’t. 

When did being right become more important than being married? 

Alternative facts will kill your organization. 

The people who have access to you will either make you or break you. 

Just because you have a title doesn’t mean you have influence. 

You cannot make great decisions with bad information. 

It’s ok to say ‘I don’t know’ and ‘let me find out’. 

There’s more in your spouse than you know. 

Mark 8:22-26

Jesus took him out of the city.

Blind people survive knowing their environment.

You’re trapped in what you know. 

You don’t need a vision when you have a tradition. 

I got to get out of here! 

There are no miracles in the familiar. 

If you ain’t scared you ain’t living.

Your problem is not your sight but your environment. 

Why do we cling to what is killing us. 

Out of the city to a place of total dependence. 

The miracles started when the familiarity ended.

This will not be that!

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