Your Faith Is Not a Performance Review | Tim Timmons

What if the thing you've been calling faithfulness is just exhausting performance? Tim Timmons has been living with stage four incurable cancer for 25 years, and somewhere in those years he quit working for God and has never been the same.

Tim is the co-writer of MercyMe's Grammy-nominated "Even If" and the subject of the film I Can Only Imagine 2. In this conversation, Tim confronts the distinction that changed his theology and his life: working for God versus walking with God. We take on the Christian platitudes that gaslight grieving people, the real difference between surrender and contentment, and what it looks like to wrestle with the Lord without walking away.

– Why Tim gave God his pink slip and stopped working for Him
– The Christian platitudes that gaslight suffering people
– Why surrender is not the same as contentment
– What wrestling with God actually requires
– The practice that keeps Tim present when cancer demands his attention
– Why "Jesus, you have my attention" is a theology, not just a prayer

00:00 Introduction and Personal Journey
03:09 Living with Chronic Illness
06:00 The Gift of Cancer
09:02 Grief and Gratitude
12:03 Attention and Worship
15:01 Practicing Gratitude in Daily Life
18:01 Transforming Pain into Purpose
27:19 The Challenge of Judgment and Contempt
28:49 Practicing Trust Over Worry
30:12 Identifying Triggers of Worry
32:29 The Impact of Scarcity Mindset
36:38 Practicing the Presence of God
40:30 The Journey of Surrender and Contentment
52:29 Hope as the Foundation of Joy and Contentment
59:44 Wrestling with God: The Importance of Honest Doubt
01:01:36 Wrestling with God and Community
01:03:50 The Collective Journey of Faith
01:06:06 The Nature of God and Prayer
01:07:29 The Impact of Suffering on Faith
01:11:20 The Stages of Spiritual Transformation
01:16:44 Working with God vs. Working for God
01:20:30 Waking Up to Jesus' Presence

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