Aug 30, 2026 · 37 min · 11 segments
Have you ever said yes to something before realizing you had no idea what you were doing? In the final week of Honest to God, we look at what happens when the thing you're being called toward is…
Luke CrawfordGuest
Sydney JacksonHost
Well, I'm curious, have you ever said yes before realizing you had no idea what you were doing? Like a wholehearted, like, uh-huh, like I'm in.
And then two seconds later, you're just like, oh no. What's going on? I read a story a few years ago about a guy named Scott who found himself in that very place.
Scott really made his mark as a 20-something-year-old by moving to New York City and working as a nightclub promoter, and he was crushing it.
He was dating supermodels, and he was living that wild party lifestyle that you can imagine would come with a job description of nightclub promoter.
And as he approached 30 years old, after about a decade in this business, he found himself saying, man, there's got to be more to life than this.
He found himself pursuing a relationship with Jesus, stepping away from nightclub promoting, but then kind of saying, well, what now? What's the next step for me? He heard about something called mercy ships.
They're these massive ships that have been outfitted with cabin space for medical professionals as well as clinics on board.
And they go to developing nations up and down the coast of Africa and South Asia and South America as well to provide essential medical care for men and women and children often who have little to no access to medical care.
And Scott was like, well, they have a position as a photojournalist that needs to be open, so I'll sign up.
The night before he was about to board his ship, he was just overwhelmed with a sense of fear, inadequacy, and personal weakness, questioning if he had actually made the right choice, if he'd said yes to something that he was not cut out for at all.
And so he smoked a pack of cigarettes, drank himself drunk, went to bed, and woke up in the morning boarding the ship just reeking of cigarette smoke and severely hungover.
And he got to his cabin and sat down and just said to himself, I don't think I'm the person for this.
He says, on paper, I was uniquely unqualified to ever make any sort of impact.
I want to pause there for a second and ask, can you relate to that kind of moment in life? Where you've said yes to something.
Or you know there's something good, an opportunity, an experience, a relationship that you could say yes to.
Because when inadequacy shows up in our lives, it often causes us to think things like this.
Well, I'm curious, have you ever said yes before realizing you had no idea what you were doing? Like a wholehearted, like, uh-huh, like I'm in.
And then two seconds later, you're just like, oh no. What's going on? I read a story a few years ago about a guy named Scott who found himself in that very place.
Scott really made his mark as a 20-something-year-old by moving to New York City and working as a nightclub promoter, and he was crushing it.
He was dating supermodels, and he was living that wild party lifestyle that you can imagine would come with a job description of nightclub promoter.
And as he approached 30 years old, after about a decade in this business, he found himself saying, man, there's got to be more to life than this.
He found himself pursuing a relationship with Jesus, stepping away from nightclub promoting, but then kind of saying, well, what now? What's the next step for me? He heard about something called mercy ships.
They're these massive ships that have been outfitted with cabin space for medical professionals as well as clinics on board.
And they go to developing nations up and down the coast of Africa and South Asia and South America as well to provide essential medical care for men and women and children often who have little to no access to medical care.
And Scott was like, well, they have a position as a photojournalist that needs to be open, so I'll sign up.
The night before he was about to board his ship, he was just overwhelmed with a sense of fear, inadequacy, and personal weakness, questioning if he had actually made the right choice, if he'd said yes to something that he was not cut out for at all.
And so he smoked a pack of cigarettes, drank himself drunk, went to bed, and woke up in the morning boarding the ship just reeking of cigarette smoke and severely hungover.
And he got to his cabin and sat down and just said to himself, I don't think I'm the person for this.
He says, on paper, I was uniquely unqualified to ever make any sort of impact.
I want to pause there for a second and ask, can you relate to that kind of moment in life? Where you've said yes to something.
Or you know there's something good, an opportunity, an experience, a relationship that you could say yes to.
Because when inadequacy shows up in our lives, it often causes us to think things like this.
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