Renaissance Church NYC Luke: Distracted
Feb 10, 2026
A sermon exploring how distraction steals spiritual intimacy and priorities. Stories and scripture highlight busyness, misplaced good works, and the quiet ways attention is pulled away. Practical steps—prioritize, plan, pray—are offered to reorder life toward presence with God. A call to choose proximity to Jesus over productivity.
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Chopped Episode Sparks Spiritual Wake-Up
- Carvens Lissaint recounts becoming a pandemic-era home chef and obsessing over shows like Chopped to illustrate distraction.
- He compares a flustered Chopped chef who missed key ingredients to times he’s overperformed and forgotten to be with Jesus.
Proximity Beats Productivity
- Jesus tells Martha that 'few things are needed or indeed only one,' highlighting proximity to God as life's true prize.
- Carvens emphasizes that productivity is never the ultimate goal; closeness with Jesus is.
Distraction Is Misplaced Attention
- Distraction is a misdirection of attention that pulls the heart away from Jesus rather than mere busyness.
- Carvens reframes distraction as what occupies the 'real estate' of your mind away from God.