November 23, 2025 • 13 mins
In this episode, Sean discusses the importance of not allowing aggregate measures to determine our impact… But to always focus on the one. This is how Jesus lived. He didn’t measure crowds, he looked for the one right in front of him. The one who needed him, who needed his touch.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Good morning everybody. This is Sean Copeland. Today is Sunday,
November the twenty third, and welcome to another brand new,
life changing edition of the ninety four X Kingdom Driven CEO.
I am so happy to be with you guys today.
(00:32):
It is almost time for Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday of
the year. I love the meanings of Easter and Christmas,
but man, there is just nothing like the simplicity of
getting together with family and eating good food and catching
up and just being thankful. We talk about that a
lot here on the ninety four ex Kingdom Driven CEO.
(00:55):
This was a week for me to definitely be thankful for.
On two evening I got to speak to a group
of young men at my friend Kevin Jordan's house. On
Wednesday had our Journey group, our discipleship group, which was
super super powerful, also attended the DLP Bank meeting. On Thursday,
(01:17):
we had our Regent Bank meeting which was very, very fun,
and got to say the prayer to open up the
Crossover Community Outreach Banquet as chairman of their banquet committee,
so that was awesome. And then yesterday, excuse me. On Friday,
(01:38):
Finley played in his last football game of the season.
He had two fifty plus yard receiving touchdowns, but we
did lose by three points in the state quarterfinals and
so the season is over. But it was just an amazing,
amazing time for him. And then yesterday got to help
(01:58):
judge a shark tank at or Roberts University. So it
was a fun week, a very busy week, but lots
of lots of impact this week. So I just thank
God for that. And to that end, I want to
kind of segue into today's topic, and that is never
(02:21):
forget the one, and this happens with me a lot. Okay,
let's just just take ninety four X for example. So
ninety four X, of course is a our faith at
work ministry, and we tend to measure it by things
like how many people attend our events, how many members
we have, how many chapters we have, how many roundtables
we have. We're always looking at numbers. At the bank,
(02:44):
we're looking at aggregate numbers. How much are we growing,
you know, what's our net income? You know, things like that,
and oftentimes we forget the one. We forget the person
that is standing right in front of us, We forget
that ministry that is not measured in crowds, follower accounts,
or audience size. It's measured one person at a time,
(03:08):
one heart, one story, one soul, one moment. We get
so focused on impact that we forget the individuals God's
placed in our path. Every single day. Some of us
check how many views of post God before we check
how our own kids slept last night. Some of us
kind of tenders but overlooked the lonely person in the
(03:28):
back row. And yet Jesus, the most influential human who
ever lived, modeled something radically different. He always saw the one.
Jesus tells a story. If a shepherd has a hundred
sheep and one wanders off, does he not leave the
ninety nine to go after the one that is lost?
(03:48):
This doesn't make any sense from a business standpoint. Okay,
no board would approve that decision, No CEO would sign
off on this strategy, no banker would underwrite that deal.
Jesus says, this is exactly what the Father is like.
Why leave the ninety nine? Because in God's economy, every
person matters, every person has value, every person is worth
(04:13):
a rescue. Jesus wasn't impressed by attendants. He was moved
by compassion. He didn't chase numbers. He chased hearts. The
good shepherd sees who others overlook. Jesus says that there
is more rejoicing in Heaven over one sinner who repents
than over ninety nine righteous people who don't think they
(04:34):
need God. Think about that Heaven throws a party over one,
and if Heaven celebrates the one, shouldn't we Throughout the
four Gospels, Jesus treats people as if they are the
only person in the room. Zachias was the one up
in the tree. Jesus is walking through a packed crowd,
people everywhere, shoulder to shoulder, and yet he looks up
(04:56):
and says, Aichias, I'm coming to your house today. He
didn't choose the mayor religious leaders. He chose the one
guy nobody liked, the woman at the well, the one
she was avoided by everyone. Jesus had a massive ministry agenda,
but he sat down and spent time with one hurting
woman who was a social outcast. Bartimaeus was the one
(05:19):
shouting from the roadside. Everyone told him to be quiet.
Jesus told him, what do you want me to do
for you? He saw the person others tried to silence
the bleeding woman, the one hidden in the crowd. Jesus
stops everything after one touch. He turns around and says,
who touched me? The disciples basically say Jesus, everybody, you're
(05:40):
in a crowd. But Jesus felt the need of one,
and even in his final minutes, suffering and exhausted, Jesus
focuses on the one thief on the cross. Today. You
will be with me in paradise. If anyone ever deserved
to clock out early, it was Jesus. But he did didn't.
He never stopped seeing the one. Why do we miss
(06:05):
the one today? There's a lot of reasons, you know.
One we're distracted by the crowd. We live in a
world of analytics. How many people attended, came, how many
people liked? How many followers do we have. We measure
ministry the wrong way. Jesus looks at individuals, and we
look at dashboards. We're always in a hurry. Dallas Willard said,
hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life. Some of
(06:28):
us are so busy doing ministry that we miss people
who need ministry. We assume someone else will do it,
someone else will text him, someone else will check on her,
someone else will pray for them. Church, what if we
are that someone We understand the impact of one conversation,
we underestimate it. One sentence can change a heart, One
(06:51):
hug can stop a person from giving up. One prayer
can change eternity. Every moment is important. So let's kind
of make this practical. Let's think about the one in
our home before we look for our ministry outside our home.
Remember our spouse, our kids, our parents, our family. Our
(07:12):
children are not interruptions, they are our calling. Right before
our board meeting Thursday morning, I was under a great
deal of stress and Angela was asking me about the
event Thursday night and whether or not she could she
should go, And I snapped back at her, and it
brought me back to this very point right here. It
(07:34):
has to be about our home first. I felt so
bad apologized the crab flowers on the way home. I'd
never do that, and I couldn't believed that I did.
But we have to remember our home first. The one
at our workplace, or someone on our team who hides
their pain well, someone who always says I'm fine but
(07:57):
never is someone who needs a word of encouragement Today
the one. In church, we greet the people we know.
We sit next to the people we always set with.
We talk to the people in our circle. But the
lonely person, the first time visitor, the quiet person in
the back, They are the one. The one we walk past,
the grocery store worker, the server at your restaurant, the
(08:19):
tired single mom in the school drop offline. Every one
of them is made in the image of God. Every
one of them carries a story. Every one of them matters.
God calls us to be shepherds of the One. We
don't save people. We point them to the shepherd, but
we are called to be aware, present, interruptible, compassion, and available. Awareness.
(08:44):
Do I notice the person in front of me? Presence?
Do I give them my full attention? Interruptibility? Am I
willing to stop what I'm doing? Jesus was constantly interrupted
and never annoyed? Compassion? Do I see people through Jesus' eyes? Availability?
Am I open to God using me right now? Right here?
(09:05):
God rarely uses people who are never available. He often
uses those who simply say, Lord, I'm here. Who's my
one today? There's a great story about the one. A
pastor told the story of a man named Bill. Bill
walked into church wearing ripped jeans, messy hair, and no shoes.
(09:25):
Everyone stared, everyone whispered, everyone moved out of the way.
He sat down in the front row on the floor.
Just then an elderly deacon with the cane began walking
slowly toward Bill. People thought, oh boy, here we go.
The deacon got to the young man, dropped his cane
and east himself down onto the floor next to him.
He whispered, son, I'm here with you. Nobody sits alone
(09:48):
in this church. That old man had bad knees in
a slow walk, but he saw the one, and we
need more of that. Never forget you were the one.
I was the one. We all were. We weren't rescued
because we were part of a crowd. We were rescued
because Jesus came specifically for us. He left glory for us,
(10:10):
he left comfort for us, He took the cross for us.
He found us broken laws, scared, hiding, and he carried
you and me home. If Jesus loved me is the one,
then I must love others the same way. So as
we close, here's a little bit of practical application how
to live a life watching for the one. Number One,
(10:33):
pray each morning, Lord, show me my one today. Two.
Slow down enough to notice hurting people, use someone's name, names,
bring dignity, give your full attention, put down the phone,
give encouragement. Freely ask one sincere question, how are you
doing today? Really? And follow the Holy Spirit's nudges. When
(10:54):
you put someone on your heart, text them, call them,
speak to them, don't talk yourself out of it, don't
overthink it, just obey. Let's end with Jesus' words. Your
Father in heaven is not willing that any of these
little ones should perish. God loves the one he pursues,
(11:15):
the one he celebrates, the one he calls us to
do the same. Church, imagine this week if every single
one of us found the one God placed in front
of us, love them, encouraged them, prayed for them, value them,
notice them. That is how revival begins, one person at
a time. Let's go after the one. And I want
(11:37):
to end with reading a text to you that really
made my entire week. I keep thinking about it and
it's from my friend Jason, who we don't talk to.
We don't talk very often, and he sent me this
text out of the blue. On Friday at eight oh four,
Good morning, Sewan. I wanted to share the impact you
were making in people's lives. Steve Eve, owner of Blank
(12:01):
Mechanical I'm just going to leave this name out, is
a customer of my company. Over the last couple of years,
he experienced some growing pains in his business, which created
a lot of stress and anxiety. Steve and I had
a phone conversation yesterday and he was upbeaten positive he
and his business are doing well. When I asked him
what has made the difference, he told me of his
(12:22):
renewed faith in Christ. His next words were, do you know,
Sean Copeland, keep sharing the good news my friends. That
that's what it's about. I get to speak in front
of big crowds all the time and do cool things
all the time. Nothing made my week better than reaching
(12:43):
that one, gentleman. I don't even know that gentleman. He
obviously has watched what we do, watch listen to our stuff,
probably involved in ninety four eggs, but it is all
about the one. Please bout with me today, dear heavily father.
I pray that in this super busy world of measuring
(13:03):
things in the aggregate, we stop doing that, we start
focusing on the one. We treat every day as a
spiritual scavenger hunt, and we look for the one that
you are bringing into our lives. Father, during this Thanksgiving week, Father,
we thank you for the gift of your son, the
sacrifice of your son. We thank you that we were
(13:25):
the one and that you came for us. We love
you so much in Jesus' name A man and I
want to thank you guys so much for joining this
edition of the ninety four x Kingdom Driven CEO and
have a happy Thanksgiving
Good morning everybody. This is Sean Copeland. Today is Sunday,
November the twenty third, and welcome to another brand new,
life changing edition of the ninety four X Kingdom Driven CEO.
I am so happy to be with you guys today.
(00:32):
It is almost time for Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday of
the year. I love the meanings of Easter and Christmas,
but man, there is just nothing like the simplicity of
getting together with family and eating good food and catching
up and just being thankful. We talk about that a
lot here on the ninety four ex Kingdom Driven CEO.
(00:55):
This was a week for me to definitely be thankful for.
On two evening I got to speak to a group
of young men at my friend Kevin Jordan's house. On
Wednesday had our Journey group, our discipleship group, which was
super super powerful, also attended the DLP Bank meeting. On Thursday,
(01:17):
we had our Regent Bank meeting which was very, very fun,
and got to say the prayer to open up the
Crossover Community Outreach Banquet as chairman of their banquet committee,
so that was awesome. And then yesterday, excuse me. On Friday,
(01:38):
Finley played in his last football game of the season.
He had two fifty plus yard receiving touchdowns, but we
did lose by three points in the state quarterfinals and
so the season is over. But it was just an amazing,
amazing time for him. And then yesterday got to help
(01:58):
judge a shark tank at or Roberts University. So it
was a fun week, a very busy week, but lots
of lots of impact this week. So I just thank
God for that. And to that end, I want to
kind of segue into today's topic, and that is never
(02:21):
forget the one, and this happens with me a lot. Okay,
let's just just take ninety four X for example. So
ninety four X, of course is a our faith at
work ministry, and we tend to measure it by things
like how many people attend our events, how many members
we have, how many chapters we have, how many roundtables
we have. We're always looking at numbers. At the bank,
(02:44):
we're looking at aggregate numbers. How much are we growing,
you know, what's our net income? You know, things like that,
and oftentimes we forget the one. We forget the person
that is standing right in front of us, We forget
that ministry that is not measured in crowds, follower accounts,
or audience size. It's measured one person at a time,
(03:08):
one heart, one story, one soul, one moment. We get
so focused on impact that we forget the individuals God's
placed in our path. Every single day. Some of us
check how many views of post God before we check
how our own kids slept last night. Some of us
kind of tenders but overlooked the lonely person in the
(03:28):
back row. And yet Jesus, the most influential human who
ever lived, modeled something radically different. He always saw the one.
Jesus tells a story. If a shepherd has a hundred
sheep and one wanders off, does he not leave the
ninety nine to go after the one that is lost?
(03:48):
This doesn't make any sense from a business standpoint. Okay,
no board would approve that decision, No CEO would sign
off on this strategy, no banker would underwrite that deal.
Jesus says, this is exactly what the Father is like.
Why leave the ninety nine? Because in God's economy, every
person matters, every person has value, every person is worth
(04:13):
a rescue. Jesus wasn't impressed by attendants. He was moved
by compassion. He didn't chase numbers. He chased hearts. The
good shepherd sees who others overlook. Jesus says that there
is more rejoicing in Heaven over one sinner who repents
than over ninety nine righteous people who don't think they
(04:34):
need God. Think about that Heaven throws a party over one,
and if Heaven celebrates the one, shouldn't we Throughout the
four Gospels, Jesus treats people as if they are the
only person in the room. Zachias was the one up
in the tree. Jesus is walking through a packed crowd,
people everywhere, shoulder to shoulder, and yet he looks up
(04:56):
and says, Aichias, I'm coming to your house today. He
didn't choose the mayor religious leaders. He chose the one
guy nobody liked, the woman at the well, the one
she was avoided by everyone. Jesus had a massive ministry agenda,
but he sat down and spent time with one hurting
woman who was a social outcast. Bartimaeus was the one
(05:19):
shouting from the roadside. Everyone told him to be quiet.
Jesus told him, what do you want me to do
for you? He saw the person others tried to silence
the bleeding woman, the one hidden in the crowd. Jesus
stops everything after one touch. He turns around and says,
who touched me? The disciples basically say Jesus, everybody, you're
(05:40):
in a crowd. But Jesus felt the need of one,
and even in his final minutes, suffering and exhausted, Jesus
focuses on the one thief on the cross. Today. You
will be with me in paradise. If anyone ever deserved
to clock out early, it was Jesus. But he did didn't.
He never stopped seeing the one. Why do we miss
(06:05):
the one today? There's a lot of reasons, you know.
One we're distracted by the crowd. We live in a
world of analytics. How many people attended, came, how many
people liked? How many followers do we have. We measure
ministry the wrong way. Jesus looks at individuals, and we
look at dashboards. We're always in a hurry. Dallas Willard said,
hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life. Some of
(06:28):
us are so busy doing ministry that we miss people
who need ministry. We assume someone else will do it,
someone else will text him, someone else will check on her,
someone else will pray for them. Church, what if we
are that someone We understand the impact of one conversation,
we underestimate it. One sentence can change a heart, One
(06:51):
hug can stop a person from giving up. One prayer
can change eternity. Every moment is important. So let's kind
of make this practical. Let's think about the one in
our home before we look for our ministry outside our home.
Remember our spouse, our kids, our parents, our family. Our
(07:12):
children are not interruptions, they are our calling. Right before
our board meeting Thursday morning, I was under a great
deal of stress and Angela was asking me about the
event Thursday night and whether or not she could she
should go, And I snapped back at her, and it
brought me back to this very point right here. It
(07:34):
has to be about our home first. I felt so
bad apologized the crab flowers on the way home. I'd
never do that, and I couldn't believed that I did.
But we have to remember our home first. The one
at our workplace, or someone on our team who hides
their pain well, someone who always says I'm fine but
(07:57):
never is someone who needs a word of encouragement Today
the one. In church, we greet the people we know.
We sit next to the people we always set with.
We talk to the people in our circle. But the
lonely person, the first time visitor, the quiet person in
the back, They are the one. The one we walk past,
the grocery store worker, the server at your restaurant, the
(08:19):
tired single mom in the school drop offline. Every one
of them is made in the image of God. Every
one of them carries a story. Every one of them matters.
God calls us to be shepherds of the One. We
don't save people. We point them to the shepherd, but
we are called to be aware, present, interruptible, compassion, and available. Awareness.
(08:44):
Do I notice the person in front of me? Presence?
Do I give them my full attention? Interruptibility? Am I
willing to stop what I'm doing? Jesus was constantly interrupted
and never annoyed? Compassion? Do I see people through Jesus' eyes? Availability?
Am I open to God using me right now? Right here?
(09:05):
God rarely uses people who are never available. He often
uses those who simply say, Lord, I'm here. Who's my
one today? There's a great story about the one. A
pastor told the story of a man named Bill. Bill
walked into church wearing ripped jeans, messy hair, and no shoes.
(09:25):
Everyone stared, everyone whispered, everyone moved out of the way.
He sat down in the front row on the floor.
Just then an elderly deacon with the cane began walking
slowly toward Bill. People thought, oh boy, here we go.
The deacon got to the young man, dropped his cane
and east himself down onto the floor next to him.
He whispered, son, I'm here with you. Nobody sits alone
(09:48):
in this church. That old man had bad knees in
a slow walk, but he saw the one, and we
need more of that. Never forget you were the one.
I was the one. We all were. We weren't rescued
because we were part of a crowd. We were rescued
because Jesus came specifically for us. He left glory for us,
(10:10):
he left comfort for us, He took the cross for us.
He found us broken laws, scared, hiding, and he carried
you and me home. If Jesus loved me is the one,
then I must love others the same way. So as
we close, here's a little bit of practical application how
to live a life watching for the one. Number One,
(10:33):
pray each morning, Lord, show me my one today. Two.
Slow down enough to notice hurting people, use someone's name, names,
bring dignity, give your full attention, put down the phone,
give encouragement. Freely ask one sincere question, how are you
doing today? Really? And follow the Holy Spirit's nudges. When
(10:54):
you put someone on your heart, text them, call them,
speak to them, don't talk yourself out of it, don't
overthink it, just obey. Let's end with Jesus' words. Your
Father in heaven is not willing that any of these
little ones should perish. God loves the one he pursues,
(11:15):
the one he celebrates, the one he calls us to
do the same. Church, imagine this week if every single
one of us found the one God placed in front
of us, love them, encouraged them, prayed for them, value them,
notice them. That is how revival begins, one person at
a time. Let's go after the one. And I want
(11:37):
to end with reading a text to you that really
made my entire week. I keep thinking about it and
it's from my friend Jason, who we don't talk to.
We don't talk very often, and he sent me this
text out of the blue. On Friday at eight oh four,
Good morning, Sewan. I wanted to share the impact you
were making in people's lives. Steve Eve, owner of Blank
(12:01):
Mechanical I'm just going to leave this name out, is
a customer of my company. Over the last couple of years,
he experienced some growing pains in his business, which created
a lot of stress and anxiety. Steve and I had
a phone conversation yesterday and he was upbeaten positive he
and his business are doing well. When I asked him
what has made the difference, he told me of his
(12:22):
renewed faith in Christ. His next words were, do you know,
Sean Copeland, keep sharing the good news my friends. That
that's what it's about. I get to speak in front
of big crowds all the time and do cool things
all the time. Nothing made my week better than reaching
(12:43):
that one, gentleman. I don't even know that gentleman. He
obviously has watched what we do, watch listen to our stuff,
probably involved in ninety four eggs, but it is all
about the one. Please bout with me today, dear heavily father.
I pray that in this super busy world of measuring
(13:03):
things in the aggregate, we stop doing that, we start
focusing on the one. We treat every day as a
spiritual scavenger hunt, and we look for the one that
you are bringing into our lives. Father, during this Thanksgiving week, Father,
we thank you for the gift of your son, the
sacrifice of your son. We thank you that we were
(13:25):
the one and that you came for us. We love
you so much in Jesus' name A man and I
want to thank you guys so much for joining this
edition of the ninety four x Kingdom Driven CEO and
have a happy Thanksgiving
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