Real Christianity #32： How Ordinary Christians Can Share the Extraordinary Gospel
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In this episode, we talk about how the ordinary Christian can share the extraordinary gospel with others. We talk about the church's failure to share the gospel, and how the extraordinary Christian can do the same!
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Welcome to episode number one of Real Christianity. Today, we are talking about
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how ordinary Christians can share the extraordinary gospel.
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Love it. So, welcome to the first episode. This is the first episode of Real Christianity,
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which was Ultimate Marriage, for 30 episodes. And we just wanted to expand our genre of
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conversation around the faith and family space to include more conversations around theology
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and general Christian life. We are absolutely going to be talking about faith and family
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and parenting and all those things as well. We are going to hit topics like Sabbath. We're going
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to hit topics like head coverings. We get that. I mean, how often do you get that? A couple times
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a month yeah a couple times a month we'll talk more about the church manhood womanhood pornography
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these are the things that we get to talk about now because there's just more uh availability
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than just talking specifically about marriage um we also have new microphones if you're watching
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this on youtube you'll notice hopefully you guys can hear me a little bit better this time
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or now in general yeah veronica has always struggled with just uh she wants to talk on
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the mic and she gets backing up like this and then comes back in um so anyways yeah we got some new
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mics we got some telefunken m82s for those nerds that want to know that but um really great
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dive into today's conversation is will you continue um actually not continue will you for
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week's thing because we said hey we were just beat down tired um we're doing better this week
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yes we had a little bit of a break um we went away to our little staycation spot about 30
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minutes away from our house um at this place called brisada ranch and we were there for two
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nights um and it was it was really good it was good time for us to reconnect um for us to just
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be friends instead of just husband and wife um and it was fun we exercised together we went swimming
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in the pool we had an indoor pool because it was like 20 degrees and snowing it was totally
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like a total blizzard outside but we're swimming and it was really cool because i have this
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glass garage doors so you can see the snow falling outside while you're swimming in the pool and it
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was really warm we were twinning on peloton bikes yeah experiencing that and so we had we cooked
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meals together we read books it was just a good time for us and we are feeling better um we are
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still not at the end of our trials but we are absolutely feeling better so um okay let's get
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started we're going to be talking about how the ordinary christian you and i can share the
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extraordinary gospel so less than five percent of christians will share the gospel with one person
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per year so it's a pretty i guess depressing stat that less than five we're not the average
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christian isn't sharing the gospel that often the average christian is not sharing the gospel at all
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And if they are, they're still not doing it that often.
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Barna, the Barna Group, did a study in partnership with the Seed Company, which is another research company,
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and found that 51% of church-going Christians, okay, this is not just people that call themselves Christians,
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but church-going Christians in the United States have never heard of the Great Commission.
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and we thought i thought okay well all right well at least we have hope with the other 49
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if that's what you're thinking sadly you don't have hope there either because
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half of that another 25 of that 49 they've heard of the great commission but they have no idea what
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it is not like like they like i've heard that word before but i don't know what the great commission
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is. That means that only 25% of the Christians in the Western church know the Great Commission,
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which I would say is the mission of the church. And I hate relating the church to a business,
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but I'm going to do it just for a second to get my point across. Imagine any organization
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in which 75 percent three quarters of the employees or team doesn't know the mission
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like what kind of result do you get from that failure failure and that's that's exactly where
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we're at right now yeah before i be um not became a christian but before i entered into biblical
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community um i had no idea what the great commission was i had heard of it now now that i
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know what it is i had heard of it i just didn't know it was called the great commission sure um
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in matthew and you'd been a christian for several years oh yeah i had been a christian i don't know
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seven eight years probably um but if you don't know what the great commission is let's uh look
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into scripture in matthew 28 verse 18 through 20 it says and jesus came and spoke to them saying
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all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth go therefore and make disciples of all
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nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit teaching
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them to observe all things that i have commanded you and lo i am always i am with you always
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even to the end of the age amen so this is a really important passage of scripture
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we need to memorize this passage is the great commission this is the great commission go
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therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the father the
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son of the holy spirit teaching them to obey that i think this is the esv that i pulled from
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it says observe all that i commanded you well that's a lot that's a lot of work to do and so
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this is a really important passage this is jesus's last statement before he ascends into heaven it's
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the very end of the book of matthew and it's the last instruction that he gives the apostles
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it's written down it's the church's mission i'm not going to necessarily say that it's every
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individual person's mission we are a part of the church and it's the church's mission
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so we have to partake in that journey together um now on sunday it's pretty easy to think that
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well man all the great numbers of baptisms and the decisions for christ i know the church that
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we used to go to had like totals remember that yeah and then on your what is it called
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a planner not planner program every week they would have the number of baptisms that year
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people who have given their lives to christ um you know starting from the beginning of the year
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or the month yeah and you know we actually have two things working against us though
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while those numbers are exciting to see and you're seeing people come to the lord
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right now in the west and even in europe too this is actually a problem that's also happening
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in Europe. I think it's actually worse in Europe. But in the West, we have two things working
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against us. First is that more people are leaving than coming. So for the first time
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in American history, more people are leaving the church than coming. We are paying attention. Our
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eyes are looked at the door, the entry door. Look at all these people coming. The problem is,
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is we have not shifted our eyes to the back door where people are leaving. And for a variety of
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reasons but people are leaving the church more than they're coming to the church at this point
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and it's important to know that because the big mega churches in america will never let you think
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that you know they're they're in the business of making sure that it's all about the good stuff
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and that's i'm not going to say that's all bad but we do have to face reality that we have a problem
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in the church we are actually diminishing in 2015 this is four years ago almost now
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uh we saw that there was there wasn't one county in the census there wasn't one county across
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america i don't know how many counties there are but there's a lot there wasn't one county in which
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christian population increased that's so sad we're literally decreasing across the country
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it is absolutely happening and it's at a 1.5 percent decrease in total american christian
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population per year over the past 10 years. So I'm going to explain that, break that down. I know
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this is boring for some people that are like, don't like stats, but just bear with me here.
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That's a loss of 4.8 million identified Christians per year. I kind of like how to calculate these
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numbers here. So you're not going to, I don't have a reference to these, but I've put a bunch
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of numbers together. We're losing 4.8 million, probably more now because the culture has become
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more hostile 4.8 million identified Christians per year every year for 10 years in a row so far
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and so we got a problem and I don't know what do you think's happening well I think at least for me
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in my history I think um I was kind of trained in the institutional church to just be inviting
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people to church and let the pastor do the ministering let the pastor do preaching the
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gospel instead of me myself uh and are preaching the gospel to them and discipling them and inviting
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them to church yes and then inviting them to it's like this we've been trained to outsource our
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spiritual responsibility of the great commission to do it let the professionals do it yeah let the
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pastor do it they they're the ones with the seminary our friends um who live on our property
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they they um were at a church um a couple churches down in san diego and one of the churches down
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there, I don't know which church it was, is several weeks before Easter, offered $10 gift
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cards, Starbucks gift cards, to anybody who wanted to invite someone to coffee to invite
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them to the Easter service. Now, again, we look at that and we go, oh, well, that's a
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good thing. Well, the reality is it's not that they should have said, hey, here's $10
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gift cards to go invite people to coffee to share the gospel with them. Instead, they
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said, no, invite them just to invite them to church. And we'll do it for you. And we'll do
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it for you. It's this training of that you're not equipped and qualified. We are. You just get
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people here and we'll do the rest. And that is not the biblical narrative that Jesus calls us to
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here. Yeah. Another thing for me is I didn't know how to show the gospel. I didn't understand the
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whole gospel narrative uh well enough to explain it to others it's and it's hard it's it i mean
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you have the three sentence gospel and you have the 300 page gospel and so it is something that
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the longer you're in the church and the more you've read the scriptures you get to understand
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that but it is it is hard yeah and another thing for me i was i was biblically illiterate and didn't
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know what the scriptures i didn't even know the scriptures well enough to teach them to somebody
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else um and then i was intimidated by the amount of questions and responses that i would get if i
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shared my faith yeah i want to stop you here for a second because i just i didn't write this in our
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notes but i just realized that we got to remember that when jesus gave this great commission
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he just said this to his disciples who had been with him for three years
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and so there was some extensive training you know we also see in luke he sends out the 72
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he sends out the 12 he gives them practice and training and so the idea is if you're a new
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believer you shouldn't be expected i don't think you're expected to be able to immediately replicate
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and share the gospel maybe you can share what you do understand for sure but we we got to remember
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that, that there was training that occurred before you were sent out. Yeah. And if you're, um, if
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you're, you know, can relate to my history and my story with, um, my insecurities of sharing the
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gospel and you're a young mom or a babysitter or you're around children, you get to practice that
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every day with your children. Yes. You, you share the gospel with them. You live it out, you walk
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it out and you're discipling your children. And if you're, when you're doing that and you're living
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that out your children are actually also learning how to do that yeah and this is a really good
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thing because mothers and so yeah you get a lot of practice fathers mothers you guys get to share
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the gospel with your children with your nieces and nephews and we we try to practice this all
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the time like we'll even share like you know adam and eve they broke god's laws and now they're
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separated from god like we we share pieces of that and what you know we're under god's wrath
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what does that mean you know like I've asked the kids these questions yeah it's usually a little
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bit of a bedtime kind of conversation that we'll have with them yeah and do it you know three thousand
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times you know it's so casual in our house now it's just what we do share the gospel with your
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kids and it actually it's very much practice well and it's so amazing how much your children retain
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you don't even realize our daughter just turned five last month and I go to put her to bed last
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night and she has an audio bible that she listens to i mean it's just the book of genesis but
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she's like mom this is abram and and god changed his name to abraham and this was in that sarai
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that was his wife and god changed her name to sarai and they had a uh um a servant a servant
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named hagar and it's just so cute how much she's just remembering all of this stuff and she does
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the same thing with things that we teach her um yeah yeah so don't don't make this an outward
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message only outside of the home this is absolutely an inward message um to that and and so um
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yeah you said something a second ago that i want to make sure that we don't um pass over
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just that i was intimidated yeah you're intimidated about just the responses
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that you know some of these harder questions yeah we live in such an intellectual world
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now and more people want answers on like evolution versus creation or sexuality or love pain when
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life begins all the things yeah yeah these are these are harder you know we're intimidated if
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we go share the gospel and then this conversation comes up i don't have an answer for that so i
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don't want to go share the gospel um you know satan has done a really good job at aligning
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political and social unpopularity with the beliefs of the christian faith so meaning that
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right now christianity is in the political world biblical sexuality biblical perspective on life
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creationism like these are unpopular ideas in the culture today we were just watching a netflix
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documentary called the paleo way and we're just watching about just trying to eat healthier right
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and it's just this constant undertone of evolution undertone of evolution and i mean i guess like
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they show it in the in their intro yeah exactly and so turning into man but yeah and so you need
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to be able to defend these basic things and you need to be able to field them with logic and
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intellect in order to bring people along into this journey and that's an important part that again i
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think we've lost in the church which we'll talk about here in a little bit later in the show
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um sadly my experience with the gospel and why we're not sharing it um we've actually adopted
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because it's it's a kind of a permission as an out for the church it's saint francis of assisi's
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famous quote you've heard it all the time before preach the gospel at all times when necessary use
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words um while i hear the heart of the message it's like don't just preach the gospel with words
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make sure you're living it out people should recognize the gospel in you and then you can
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use words i get the heart of it but it's it's kind of given a license for us to not verbally
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share the gospel and romans 10 17 is an important scripture it says so then faith comes by hearing
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and hearing by the word of god in other words the great commission is not the great suggestion
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It's not like, I just need to behave Christian,
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and then all of a sudden I'm sharing the gospel.
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Yeah, teaching them to obey all that I commanded you.
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You got a life-filled mission and purpose in the Great Commission.
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I think the big question that Christians want to know is how do I best share the gospel yeah
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and this is there's so many people that are gifted evangelists and I don't want to make sure that
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there's not a one-size-fits-all yeah and also there are people that are evangelists like they
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are gifted at evangelism and then there are some people who are teachers and some people who are
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pastoral or prophetic or whatever that might be we're all called to the to share the gospel
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in some capacity even if we don't have the gift of evangelism we've met people that are like
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total evangelists and they're just epic at it no fear total walking up like we'll share the gospel
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you know 10 20 times a day really gifted yeah i mean we were at dinner one time with a friend
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who was in town and he just asked our, uh, our server right then and there. Yep. Boom. Yeah.
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Do you, yeah. About, about Jesus. And it's, and those people are, if you're not that person,
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that's okay. You still have a role to play though in the body. Um, and so again, I think, I think,
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um, how do I best share the gospel? I want to start with again, Christians don't share the
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gospel either because they don't know it so that's one thing um they don't believe it
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which is a serious dilemma meaning that they actually like don't don't really believe it
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like they're still not their faith actually isn't solid so yeah then i wouldn't say that they're
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christian yeah they call themselves christians but but they actually don't necessarily believe
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that maybe they've heard a wrong gospel and they're actually haven't been set free from their
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sin they're not seeing the fruits of it in their own life whatever it is um or they're afraid of
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the response that they'll receive which i think is probably the biggest oh yeah especially in
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today's culture yeah they're afraid of the response um romans 116 again i love that he
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opens up the book remember rome is harsh territory uh to share the gospel at this time
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and paul writes for i am not ashamed of the gospel of christ for it is the power of god
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to salvation for everyone who believes and so we just blanket that whole thing with that
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scripture right there in your heart is that i'm not ashamed of the gospel if you deny me before
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men i'll deny you before the father like we we are not to be ashamed of the gospel as christians
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we got to figure out what is it that's stopping us or preventing us from the gospel so what is it
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what is the gospel yeah this is and i think this is just what people need to know what is the
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gospel like how do you break it down as i said earlier you could have the three line version
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you can have the 300 page version yeah that's why i had said earlier you know there's if there's not
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a one-size-fits-fits-all approach yeah and the more you know about it the better you get at
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sharing it and i think we're seeing this in our lives um we're more equipped to answer those
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questions to share the deeper narrative when people come um and so what is the gospel well
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it's good news um and it can't be good news if there isn't bad news and so i'm gonna ask veronica
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what's the bad news that before receiving christ we're sinners and we have broken god's laws
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this is key i mean so this is we can't have good news which the gospel is the good news
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if there's no bad if there's no bad news and there's bad news meaning that you can't heal
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people of cancer if they're not willing to admit that they have cancer that they're sick and
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this is actually an easy way to do this in people's lives is the guilt and shame that
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everybody feels and how do i know that that's true well bernie brown's book daring greatly
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is about shame and it's like sold millions of copies because people are looking for ways to
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deal with their guilt and shame in other words we have something to be guilty and shameful for
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we're lacking someone to be guilty and shameful to and we we want to be forgiven and so
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the word secular uh it actually means um to desacralize it means to actually remove the shame
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and so that's why oh go kill your baby don't feel bad about it oh go look at pornography don't feel
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bad about it oh go explore this sexuality and don't feel bad about it oh go get drunk and don't
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feel bad about it secularization is the removal of shame so it's very obvious in a culture that
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we are guilty we are shameful and and that's a good starting point to make aware to people that
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you know that shame you feel it's because you've broken God's laws he put it in our conscience
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that we go that doesn't feel good yeah another point for what is the bad news is we've been
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separated from God and in order from for God to remain just we deserve to be punished yeah so
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this is another part of this God is all loving God is all truthful and God is all just yeah so
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in other words outside of christ we are under god's wrath but instead of inflicting his wrath
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upon us he sends his son jesus and inflicts the punishment onto him okay this is again this is
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the basic narrative right here god can't not punish us because then he wouldn't be just
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and so he comes up with this like rescue plan and he sends his son jesus god incarnate in the flesh
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and inflicts the wrath you know the word of propitiation that we see in first john that
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word propitiation says that jesus christ is the propitiation for our sins in the whole world
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it means to appease the wrath of god through blood sacrifice and so instead of inflicting
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the wrath on us who deserve it he inflicts the wrath on his son who doesn't deserve it
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Jesus and that's grace yeah that's grace that that is at the core what we say about grace
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that that's what that's what grace is we don't get what we deserve and he he gets what he doesn't
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deserve it's pretty crazy and it's actually summed up nicely in John 3 16 for God so loved the world
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that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have
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everlasting life or have eternal life that's what it's talking about and so you have this issue you
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got the problem we're under the wrath of god we've broken the laws in order for god to be just he has
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to bring consequences he doesn't give them to us he gives them to jesus and how do we escape this
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wrath because the sacrifice has been appeased well it's simple it's really simple it's in romans 10
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nine if you confess with your mouth that jesus is lord and you believe in your heart that god
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has raised him from the dead you will be saved simple two parts make jesus lord in your life
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and believe that god raised that i believe and have faith in him and and this is you know if you
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want to be out from under god's wrath that that's all you have to do it's super simple yeah you were
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saved by grace alone through faith alone in christ alone yes that's the gospel that's the
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gospel and you're gonna have to practice your narrative how you do that there's so many articles
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and videos on how to do the gospel so the next big question is how do you share the gospel yeah
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so this is the how um so i'm going to take this section and then veronica is going to kind of
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close up with some points here in a minute um and we can tell some stories too even in this section
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about what we've walked through yeah so we're going to read first peter chapter 3 verse 15 it's
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an important verse it says but sanctify the lord god in your hearts and always be ready
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to give a defense that word defense means apologia in the greek it's the word that we get our our
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term apologetics from. And it says, always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you
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a reason for the hope that is in you with meekness and in fear. So it's a command Peter's writing
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to these new Christians. First off, always be ready. So people, you got to be ready.
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and what this first chapter one and chapter two of first peter is all about personal holiness
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and being different and looking different and you're so different that people notice how holy
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you are and they ask you why are you so hopeful and so different there's something different
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about you yeah and if people aren't asking you questions then you might have a problem
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it's the scriptures later says in season and out of season
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The Lord kept softballing me some opportunities
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And it's not because I just haven't had enough time.
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It's because I haven't prioritized the word of God.
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You got to do this in a gentle spirit and reverence, like to the Lord.
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You're not here to go sell anybody into the gospel.
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you need to determine if this is an honest or dishonest skeptic.
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Is someone really interested in hearing the gospel?
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Or are you just out sharing the gospel with anybody who has a pulse?
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Because, you know, Jesus says, don't cast your pearls before swine.
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And we've definitely seen people out on the street,
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or talking to people arguing with people getting heated with people these people are there if
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identify if they're honest if they're really curious or if they just want to scoff at your
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faith or have an argument yeah just get angry with you because satan is all about that and
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he'll throw someone that knows the word better than you to go destroy your argument and i've
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seen that happen too. As you see the apostles or even Jesus share the gospel, they only do that
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blanket gospel, like kind of a blanketed gospel when they're talking to crowds. That's just what
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you see. When they're one-on-one, they speak directly to the person's incorrect thinking.
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Jesus will, when someone asks a question, he responds to the question, you know, hey, good
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teacher. And he goes, why do you call me good? Um, what do I need to do to, to, to inherit eternal
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life? Like you think that he literally says, good teacher, what do I need to do to inherit eternal
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life? And Jesus, instead of seizing the deal, like, Oh, you asked, I would love to tell you.
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He asked them, he returns the question. Why do you say that I'm good? There's only one good,
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but there's only one good and it's gone. Like it's a different approach than we take. And, um,
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In other words, they lovingly and logically challenge the worldview held by that person first before delivering the gospel.
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What we're going to be talking about right here is apologetics that kind of undergird evangelism.
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And the word apologetics really means pre-evangelistic truth.
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And so it's kind of the work that happens prior to sharing the gospel.
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And we forget as ministers of the gospel and as Christians,
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because again, I don't think that the church has done a great job
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We forget that we often have to help people disbelieve something first
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before they can believe the gospel, something new.
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And I want you to just sit on that for a second.
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And so when you talk to a Muslim about Jesus,
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he talks about it's a conversation there's the guy his friend David needed to help him
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deconstruct what he currently believed and show him what that it's wrong before he could
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reconstruct the gospel of Jesus Christ on them he needed to help him disbelieve something else
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first before he helped him believe the gospel second and that is you know so if people have
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The gospel is going to be really hard because it requires you to let go of that.
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So what you do instead is you chip away at that evolution element.
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If they're struggling with the view of biblical sexuality, you need to go deep and chip away at that.
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Um, you know, I often, um, ask people, you know, once a relationship has been established,
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I ask questions like, uh, what do you think happens after we die?
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You know, this is a good relationship question.
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Um, what do you guys think the meaning of life is?
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If you're trained on how to get the proper answer, uh, why do you think you were born?
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You know, what, how do you define right and wrong?
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Like, these are huge questions that everybody has an answer for.
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And you'll realize how insane some of these answers are when they give them to you.
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They've just kind of manufactured this like their own.
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I just want you guys to know that we should be training for this.
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And sadly, the church at large hasn't done the greatest job at this.
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He shatters the foundations and rebuilds them back upon himself.
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Like let go of everything and make you priority?
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what purpose does the law offer if it cannot save?
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Paul is persuading the Greeks in the book of Acts
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that Diana is an object made by human hands.
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Like he's just ripping out the fact that you made that thing.
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And we rarely see blind preaching of the gospel.
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after dale shared what he shared is that looking for opportunities to share the gospel isn't bad
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but more importantly to be looking for relationships with people um so go love on people the lord in
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his timing will give you the opportunity to ask and share the gospel yeah questions share the
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gospel yeah this is good and just we did this every time i go get my hair cut i'm always trying
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to share the gospel with the girls that cut my hair and we we one lady was ready to have dinner
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with us with her and her boyfriend yeah but we just they canceled on us but um we also why don't
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we share steven's story you know um yeah we had a couple over for dinner um and we've known them
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through mutual friends they came over for dinner and you had taken him upstairs and preached the
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gospel to him spoke with him and you we had met them several times before but it's our first time
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like having dinner with them um you preached the gospel to him he respectfully declined um and he
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struggled with the sexuality component of like you know homosexuality and how do i deal with that
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and here's my views yeah and he respectfully declined and we continued the evening and it was
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fine and you know went on our way and then i don't know a few months later um he was talking to
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somebody else who was a believer and you know planted another seed and spoke to somebody else
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who's a believer and eventually gave his life to christ and has been baptized and is now believer
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and now yeah tends to yeah he comes to the bible study that you've been teaching and then you're
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actually marrying him and his fiance here pretty soon crazy right and once the person that shared
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the gospel in which he accepted the lord said do you need a bible he says oh no dale already gave
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one and so it's just we got to remember that journey and uh i know veronica will share a
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verse about that here a little bit uh yeah first corinthians 3 5 through 8 says who then is paul
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and who is apollos but ministers through whom i believe through whom you believed as the lord gave
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to each one sorry i need to start that over again yeah that's fine okay sorry jackson
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um yeah first corinthians 3 5 through 8 says who then is paul and who is apollos but ministers
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through whom you believed as the lord gave to each one i planted apollos watered but god gave
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the increase so then neither he who plants is anything nor he who waters but god who gives
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the increase now he who plants and he who waters are one but each one will receive his own reward
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according to his own labor yeah so this is showing like you know i was one guy that planted someone
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else watered it someone else did some other watering and nurturing but god brought the increase
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and that's just how we have to be remembering the gospel like that process yeah so the core message
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of what we want to leave you with is that jesus has work for us to do um so in the meantime we
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should be training and preparing and practicing studying so that we can be ready to give a
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defense for our faith when the opportunity presents itself yeah and this is this is the
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message that we want you guys to walk away with is that do we all need to become evangelists in
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terms of just that evangelistic gifting no i'm just saying is that man if you're not sharing
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the gospel with anybody per year is it because the lord literally hasn't offered you an opportunity
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is it because there isn't anybody to share it with no it's because we haven't prioritized that
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or we don't believe that one that a metaphor i use is that i go we're walking around in a world
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that is starving and we have food and when you start remembering or that is sick and we have
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medicine however you want to put it you gotta just have jesus's heart and go back to the scriptures
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and go lord give me a heart that i might see what you see and give me opportunities give me the
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words help me understand who you are in your gospel so that i can share and so hopefully this
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was helpful and edifying for you guys um our next episode we're gonna tackle head coverings
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dun dun dun lots it's actually becoming a more popular conversation um i think more and more
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women are asking about it um and i think it's an important i even get husbands that write me about
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it um so i think we're going to give just our take on it and the biblical perspective on it um
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and even the church's historical perspective on it and then we will uh hopefully help you guys
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have an understanding of that we're also going to shift from memory verses to really thought
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provoking ideas quotes commentary something at the end of every episode that's just going to go
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oh that was good because sometimes I see like a Charles Spurgeon quote that I'm like oh wow that's
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so good or something from John Gill or something from you know even a modern pastor Paul Washer
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maybe and i want to share it and i think it's important however today it just happens to be a
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scripture again and it's the great commission and we want to challenge you to memorize that
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it's something that we should memorize and i'll let veronica read it matthew 18 or sorry matthew
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28 18 through 20 and jesus came and spoke to them saying all authority has been given to me in heaven
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and on earth go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the
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father and of the son and the holy spirit teaching them to observe all things that i have commanded
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you and lo i am with you always even to the end of the age amen so memorize the great commission
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