WEBVTT - You Have an Issues – Part 1 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.640 Today on Bold Steps with Mark job, we're learning how 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.800 our biggest issues could be part of God's greater plan. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:11.040 Some of you have been given gifts by God, but 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:14.680 you have been injured and because of your injury, some 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.120 of you have put your gifts on hold. And so 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.880 you put it aside and it shrivels up, so much 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.040 so that it almost feels like you don't have a gift. Why? 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.400 Because you haven't used it in so long that it 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:26.120 shriveled up. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.960 And welcome to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe, president of 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.879 Moody Bible Institute and senior pastor of New Life Community 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.000 Church in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. You know, all of 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.279 us have issues with dealing with things that make us 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:54.120 feel broken or invisible may be inadequate. But, Mark, you're 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.040 going to show us today how God can use even 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.400 our greatest struggles for his divine purposes. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.880 And Wayne, what I love about Jesus as he stepped 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:07.760 into people's brokenness and issues. He wasn't afraid to call 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.520 them out, and even to ask people to bring to 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.040 the light the things that maybe they were somewhat embarrassed about. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.839 And this story goes right to that place. I think 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:20.520 it's going to minister to a lot of people. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.559 It's no accident you've tuned in today, so let's listen together. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.400 The message you have an issue here on bold Steps 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:27.480 with Mark Jobe. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:34.200 My mother, bless her heart, she's 86 years old. She 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.920 is one incredible woman. She lives in northern Spain, lives 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:42.360 independently at 86 years old. She walks about four miles 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:47.080 a day, and she prays while she walks. And she 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:51.400 reads five chapters of the Bible a day. And, um, 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:56.320 I don't know if I've ever heard her complain about anything. And, um. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:01.130 So she's just a real encouraging woman. I actually speak 0:02:01.130 --> 0:02:03.930 to her every Sunday on my way to church. I 0:02:03.970 --> 0:02:06.850 FaceTime her, uh, on the way to church and we 0:02:06.850 --> 0:02:10.450 have a little dialogue. Spain is seven hours ahead, so 0:02:10.450 --> 0:02:15.330 she's already been to church and she's ready to chat. But, 0:02:15.370 --> 0:02:19.770 you know, a few years ago, this, uh, overall healthy woman, 0:02:19.770 --> 0:02:26.970 86 years old, uh, started to develop macular degeneration, which 0:02:26.970 --> 0:02:30.290 means that you start to lose your sight. And so 0:02:30.290 --> 0:02:39.490 although she's overall healthy, she's actually technically blind, officially blind. And, um, 0:02:39.490 --> 0:02:41.890 I was talking to her not too long ago, and 0:02:41.930 --> 0:02:44.769 I was saying, mom, how are you handling this blindness 0:02:44.770 --> 0:02:47.450 that you have? And she says, oh, Mark, I'm doing well. 0:02:47.450 --> 0:02:51.850 I can still see I'm walking. And, uh, she said, my, 0:02:51.889 --> 0:02:54.970 the only challenge I have is she says as I 0:02:55.010 --> 0:02:58.370 walk through the village, people recognize me. She's taught English 0:02:58.370 --> 0:03:01.770 for years, and so she's She literally taught hundreds of 0:03:01.770 --> 0:03:04.290 people English. And so they call out when they see 0:03:04.290 --> 0:03:08.770 her and they say, Susana. And she says, I say 0:03:08.770 --> 0:03:12.130 hi to them and they start talking. How you doing? 0:03:12.130 --> 0:03:15.290 You're looking great. What's going on? I was with her 0:03:15.330 --> 0:03:18.290 a while back and I said, mom, who's that? She says, 0:03:18.290 --> 0:03:24.049 I don't know. I said, mom, you don't know. She says, 0:03:24.050 --> 0:03:26.410 I can't see them, so I don't know who they are. 0:03:26.650 --> 0:03:28.490 And so I said, mom, we got to come up 0:03:28.490 --> 0:03:32.850 with a better strategy here. So her strategy now is 0:03:32.850 --> 0:03:37.770 when someone says, hey, Susana. She says to them immediately, hi. 0:03:38.290 --> 0:03:41.130 She says, I can't see you, so you need to 0:03:41.130 --> 0:03:45.730 tell me your name. And so they tell her. They 0:03:45.730 --> 0:03:48.410 they tell her her name, and then she's able to 0:03:48.450 --> 0:03:54.050 know who they are because she can't see them. Now 0:03:54.290 --> 0:03:59.130 she wants to see them, but they are unseen to 0:03:59.170 --> 0:04:05.500 her because of her lack of vision. Now, I just 0:04:05.500 --> 0:04:08.980 want to say today that there are many of you 0:04:08.980 --> 0:04:11.420 in this auditorium. In fact, we live in a day 0:04:11.420 --> 0:04:14.540 and age where there is a lot of people that 0:04:14.540 --> 0:04:27.380 feel unseen and unheard. Unseen and unheard. In fact, post Covid, 0:04:28.140 --> 0:04:34.659 this is even more exaggerated. The sense that I'm not 0:04:34.660 --> 0:04:39.099 sure if anybody sees me. I'm not sure if anybody 0:04:39.100 --> 0:04:46.500 hears me. I'm not sure if anybody really knows me. Listen. 0:04:46.860 --> 0:04:52.299 And I'm not sure if anybody even cares to know me. 0:04:55.460 --> 0:05:01.140 That is a massive sentiment by Buy a lot of 0:05:01.140 --> 0:05:08.779 people right now in this nation, in the state and 0:05:08.779 --> 0:05:12.100 in the city of Chicago. And so I want to 0:05:12.100 --> 0:05:15.580 talk to you today about that very topic. We're in 0:05:15.580 --> 0:05:20.700 a series called seen. And what happens when you have 0:05:20.700 --> 0:05:22.660 an issue in life and you don't feel like people 0:05:22.660 --> 0:05:28.540 see you, hear you, or even care about you. There's 0:05:28.540 --> 0:05:41.340 something about that that generate feelings of abandonment, helplessness, anger, resentment, hopelessness, loneliness, 0:05:43.140 --> 0:05:47.420 and even a sense of well, is this all worth it? 0:05:48.980 --> 0:05:53.020 Mother Teresa said one time, the most terrible poverty is 0:05:53.020 --> 0:05:57.260 loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. And so today, 0:05:57.260 --> 0:06:00.540 I want to take your attention to a scripture, a 0:06:00.670 --> 0:06:06.589 text and scripture found in Mark chapter three. Mark chapter three. 0:06:07.190 --> 0:06:13.310 I've entitled this message. You have an issue. Hey, let 0:06:13.310 --> 0:06:18.550 me just say you have an issue. You know, every 0:06:18.550 --> 0:06:23.110 person in this auditorium, we have issues. Go ahead. You 0:06:23.110 --> 0:06:25.030 know that person beside you that looks like they have 0:06:25.029 --> 0:06:27.670 it all together? I mean, they're dressed pretty good. They 0:06:27.710 --> 0:06:30.950 seem like they speak very properly. They seem like they 0:06:30.950 --> 0:06:33.430 have it all together. You know, can I just cue 0:06:33.470 --> 0:06:36.750 you in on something? They have an issue. In fact, 0:06:36.750 --> 0:06:40.109 they have multiple issues. I want you to turn to 0:06:40.110 --> 0:06:42.630 the person beside you. And just with a smile on 0:06:42.630 --> 0:06:45.150 your face, not a frown. Just say you have issues. 0:06:52.390 --> 0:06:54.310 Some of you have been wanting to tell that person 0:06:54.310 --> 0:06:58.030 for a long time. A long time. And some of 0:06:58.029 --> 0:06:59.590 you whispered, and I'm going to tell you what those 0:06:59.589 --> 0:07:03.270 issues are right after the service is over, some of 0:07:03.270 --> 0:07:05.630 you are way too excited to tell that person they 0:07:05.630 --> 0:07:12.270 have issues, so settle down now a little bit. This 0:07:12.830 --> 0:07:16.150 story is found in three of the Gospels. It's found 0:07:16.150 --> 0:07:19.670 in Mark chapter three, verses one through six. It's found 0:07:19.670 --> 0:07:22.590 in Luke chapter six, verses six through 11, and it's 0:07:22.590 --> 0:07:28.550 found in Matthew chapter 12, verses eight through 14. Now, 0:07:28.830 --> 0:07:30.630 for those of you that are just getting used to 0:07:30.630 --> 0:07:35.710 your Bibles, there's four four Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. 0:07:36.070 --> 0:07:39.430 They're written by four different individuals, but oftentimes they'll tell 0:07:39.430 --> 0:07:44.070 the same story because they were there, and they're telling 0:07:44.070 --> 0:07:47.430 the story from different perspectives. Sometimes we'll get a few 0:07:47.430 --> 0:07:52.070 different details from one person to another, because it's three 0:07:52.070 --> 0:07:56.950 different people telling you the story from different angles. But 0:07:56.950 --> 0:07:59.390 when you see a story found in more than one 0:07:59.390 --> 0:08:02.720 of the Gospels, you realize, hey, this was a prominent 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.760 story of those days. Uh, a story that was repeated 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.239 to a lot of people. And this happens to be 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.360 found in all of the Gospels except the Gospel of John. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:18.320 And I'm going to read you. Beginning in Mark chapter three, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:24.080 verse one, it says, another time Jesus went into the synagogue. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.320 The synagogue, for those of you not familiar with the 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.920 Jewish culture, was the equivalent of what our church is today. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:36.960 It was a group of individuals that gathered together for 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:41.160 studying of the Scripture, and they typically gathered on the Sabbath. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:49.960 And a man with a shriveled hand was there. Verse two. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:56.520 Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.200 so they watched him closely to see if he would 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:05.079 heal him on the Sabbath. The Sabbath was a day 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:10.520 of rest. And especially some of the Pharisees had put 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.959 all kinds of rules about what you. Could or couldn't 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.840 do on the Sabbath. And so some of them had 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.320 the idea that even. Healing someone on the Sabbath was 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:24.200 considered work, and so therefore it would be. Um, it 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.000 would be a sin to heal on the Sabbath in 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:32.440 their mind. Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:38.400 stand up in front of everyone. Then Jesus asked them, 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.199 which is lawful on the Sabbath to do good or 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.840 to do evil? To save a life or to kill it. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.360 But they remained silent. Then he looked around at them 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:55.000 in anger and deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts. And 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:59.360 he said to the man, stretch out your hand. He 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:04.250 stretched it out and his hand was completely restored. Then 0:10:04.250 --> 0:10:07.490 the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the 0:10:07.490 --> 0:10:14.250 Herodians how they may kill Jesus. If you're taking notes 0:10:14.250 --> 0:10:16.569 this morning, I want you to write this down. I'm 0:10:16.610 --> 0:10:21.050 talking about the fact that Jesus sees us even when 0:10:21.050 --> 0:10:24.810 we have issues. The first thing I want you to 0:10:24.809 --> 0:10:30.130 understand about issues is this. Our issue is often the 0:10:30.130 --> 0:10:37.010 battleground for a greater purpose in God's plan. The Bible 0:10:37.010 --> 0:10:40.210 tells us again that Jesus went into the synagogue, which 0:10:40.210 --> 0:10:45.570 he often did. He was considered a rabbi, which means 0:10:45.610 --> 0:10:51.290 a teacher by many of the Jewish people. He was 0:10:51.290 --> 0:10:57.330 vilified by some. He was adored by others. He was 0:10:57.330 --> 0:11:01.449 unusual because the Pharisees, which were more like lawyers of 0:11:01.450 --> 0:11:11.449 the Bible. They spoke in very demeaning, very stoic ways 0:11:11.450 --> 0:11:14.890 about the laws of God, almost like an attorney would 0:11:14.890 --> 0:11:19.490 speak about the laws of the land. But Jesus was different. 0:11:20.410 --> 0:11:23.370 The Bible says that Jesus spoke as one who had authority. 0:11:24.730 --> 0:11:29.530 He spoke as someone who had power. Yet at the 0:11:29.530 --> 0:11:33.010 same time, he showed a compassion and an empathy that 0:11:33.010 --> 0:11:34.329 they were not used to. 0:11:39.610 --> 0:11:42.250 You're listening to the Bible teaching of Mark job. We'll 0:11:42.250 --> 0:11:45.410 continue this bold steps message titled you have an issue 0:11:45.530 --> 0:11:48.090 right after this quick break. 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Here again is Mark Jobe. 0:13:02.380 --> 0:13:05.980 The synagogues were places where the Pharisees loved to be 0:13:05.980 --> 0:13:08.420 because they dressed in long robes and they were viewed 0:13:08.420 --> 0:13:11.820 as the experts. It tells us in this passage that 0:13:12.140 --> 0:13:15.579 the Pharisees were there, and more than likely it doesn't 0:13:15.620 --> 0:13:17.540 tell us in this passage, but more than likely the 0:13:17.540 --> 0:13:20.180 Sadducees were there as well, and the Sadducees and the 0:13:20.179 --> 0:13:23.300 Pharisees did not get along, because the Sadducees did not 0:13:23.300 --> 0:13:27.260 believe in the resurrection and the spiritual life. So they 0:13:27.260 --> 0:13:31.300 were at odds with the Pharisees. There was about 6000 0:13:31.300 --> 0:13:36.860 Pharisees that lived in Jerusalem, but he includes another group 0:13:36.860 --> 0:13:39.340 of people that you don't often hear about. It's the 0:13:39.340 --> 0:13:42.580 first time it's mentioned in the New Testament. The Herodians. 0:13:43.540 --> 0:13:48.900 The Herodians were a political group that were backers of 0:13:49.059 --> 0:13:53.819 King Herod and wanted him to rise to power. So 0:13:53.820 --> 0:13:57.420 you have the Pharisees, the Sadducees, you have the Sanhedrin, 0:13:57.580 --> 0:14:01.590 which were the priests of the of the temple at 0:14:01.630 --> 0:14:04.030 that time. And then you have the Herodians, which were 0:14:04.030 --> 0:14:07.830 a political group, and they're all mixed in in the synagogue. 0:14:10.230 --> 0:14:14.670 They all have their angle. They all listen. They all 0:14:14.670 --> 0:14:21.070 have their agenda. But when Jesus steps in, he sees people. 0:14:22.390 --> 0:14:29.310 Not agendas, not angles, but people. He sees people and 0:14:29.310 --> 0:14:34.830 he sees their issues. He sees their pain. He sees 0:14:34.990 --> 0:14:39.070 what causes them to be disabled. He sees what causes 0:14:39.110 --> 0:14:43.190 others to point fingers at them. And I want you 0:14:43.190 --> 0:14:48.750 to understand that what is happening here, because we don't 0:14:48.750 --> 0:14:53.470 always understand that oftentimes our issue that the healing of 0:14:53.470 --> 0:14:57.630 our issue or the dealing with our issue has bigger 0:14:57.630 --> 0:15:02.360 purposes in the plan of God. Let me say that again. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.160 Some of you, as I speak right now, you have 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.000 issues in your life that are issues that bring shame 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.280 to you. There are issues that you don't want other 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:16.600 people to know about. There are issues that cause embarrassment 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.840 to you. You try to cover it up, camouflage it, 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.760 not talk about it, excuse it, minimize it, act like 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.800 it doesn't exist in your life. I don't know what 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.920 those issues are. You could have an issue with addiction, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.120 and you have to pop a pill every day, a 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.360 few pills every day, just to keep going, just to 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.200 keep what you consider to be the sanity of your mind. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.280 Maybe you have an eating disorder. You don't want anybody 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.800 to know it, but you have to throw up every 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:51.000 time that you have a meal because you have body 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:55.600 dysphoria issues and you feel some way about your body 0:15:55.600 --> 0:16:01.560 or how people see you. Maybe you're addicted to some 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.880 area in your life that causes you great shame. Maybe 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:10.240 you have a pornography issue and it becomes your default 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:14.040 place to go to. You're ashamed about it. You don't 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.040 want your wife and kids to know about it. But 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.560 you know what? If someone were to scroll down the 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:23.760 history of your internet search, it would become very obvious 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:29.440 that you have an addiction in that area. Maybe you 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:34.000 have a chapter in your life that it's embarrassing to you. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.520 Maybe it's a disability that you try to hide because 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.920 you feel like it causes people to look at you 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:45.800 as an inferior individual. Maybe there's part of your history 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.280 that causes you to walk in shame because of how 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.960 you were raised. Maybe it has to do with sexual 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.000 or emotional abuse that you were raised with, and it's 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.440 a chapter of your life that you'd rather blot out. 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.240 It surfaces. It affects you. It touches you. It causes 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:08.880 you to have difficulty engaging in a healthy relationship. But 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:15.280 it's there. We all have issues, and some of those 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.160 issues are the issues that we want to hide. We 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.040 don't want other people to see. We don't want other 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:25.760 people to know about. In this synagogue, there was a man. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:32.640 The Bible tells us that had a withered hand. Now, 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:36.480 the term in the Greek is in the passive verb, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.960 which indicates that this man more than likely was not 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:44.880 born with a withered hand, but somehow had experienced an 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:49.280 injury of some sort that had caused him to be 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:56.440 incapacitated in that hand. Now some versions use the word withered. 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:02.530 Some versions use the word shriveled. The idea is that 0:18:02.530 --> 0:18:06.129 at one time he had a functioning hand. But something happened. 0:18:06.130 --> 0:18:11.850 An accident. non-Biblical literature indicates, and we don't know how 0:18:11.850 --> 0:18:16.490 reliable it is, but non-biblical literature indicates that he was 0:18:16.490 --> 0:18:21.169 a stonecutter, that his job was to. Back in those days, 0:18:21.170 --> 0:18:24.770 they cut stone to build houses and so forth, and 0:18:24.810 --> 0:18:28.610 that he had experienced an injury, and so therefore it 0:18:28.609 --> 0:18:32.169 had left him unable to work and use his hand. 0:18:32.650 --> 0:18:34.489 He doesn't tell us in Mark, but in Luke it 0:18:34.490 --> 0:18:37.889 tells us that it was his right hand. The right 0:18:37.890 --> 0:18:40.570 hand in the Jewish culture was the hand that would 0:18:40.609 --> 0:18:43.610 bestow blessing upon the children. If you were to put 0:18:43.609 --> 0:18:45.929 your hands upon the heads of the children, you would 0:18:45.930 --> 0:18:48.730 put your right hand and you would bless them. The 0:18:48.730 --> 0:18:51.369 right hand was considered the clean hand. It was the 0:18:51.410 --> 0:18:53.810 hand that they ate with. It was the hand of blessing. 0:18:53.810 --> 0:18:56.490 It was the hand that most people worked with. And 0:18:56.490 --> 0:19:00.619 to have your right hand disabled and shriveled up was 0:19:00.619 --> 0:19:05.060 a sign of embarrassment, of inability to work. Of probably 0:19:05.060 --> 0:19:13.139 having to beg. Of not being able to bless. The 0:19:13.140 --> 0:19:18.020 Bible tells us that this man had a shriveled hand. 0:19:19.700 --> 0:19:23.940 You know you can hide a shriveled hand at first 0:19:25.700 --> 0:19:28.260 when you meet someone. In those days, they didn't shake 0:19:28.260 --> 0:19:32.699 people's hands. But you can cover it up. You can 0:19:32.700 --> 0:19:36.580 hide it. You don't want to draw attention to it. 0:19:37.500 --> 0:19:42.020 And I'm sure he sought to do so. But eventually, 0:19:42.020 --> 0:19:44.260 within a few moments of getting to know that person, 0:19:44.300 --> 0:19:46.179 if you got to know them well, it would become 0:19:46.220 --> 0:19:51.420 obvious that they had a shriveled hand. Shrivel means that 0:19:52.060 --> 0:19:56.820 it's injured to the point that because of an injury, 0:19:57.380 --> 0:20:01.140 it's been in disuse so long that I've lost the 0:20:01.140 --> 0:20:07.340 ability to continue to use it. I tell you what, 0:20:07.340 --> 0:20:09.580 I run into a lot of people with shriveled areas 0:20:09.580 --> 0:20:17.820 in their life. They've been injured. Sometimes it's emotional. Sometimes 0:20:17.820 --> 0:20:25.020 it's spiritual. Sometimes it's physical. They've been injured. And somehow, 0:20:25.020 --> 0:20:27.780 some way that causes them to feel like I can 0:20:27.780 --> 0:20:31.180 no longer use this. And so they stop using something 0:20:31.180 --> 0:20:35.060 that God intended them to use, and they go so 0:20:35.060 --> 0:20:39.699 long without using it that eventually they they become unable 0:20:39.700 --> 0:20:45.860 to use it. It shrivels. It atrophies. Years ago, when 0:20:45.859 --> 0:20:50.700 I was younger, I broke my arm twice. My right 0:20:50.700 --> 0:20:58.980 arm snapped the bone. I fell off a tree. Snapped 0:20:58.980 --> 0:21:01.139 the bone, they put a cast on it. Back in 0:21:01.140 --> 0:21:03.860 the day, they would put casts with, uh, you know, 0:21:03.900 --> 0:21:07.020 it would harden. And. And then I was riding on 0:21:07.020 --> 0:21:09.700 a bike with my friend, and we fell off a bridge. 0:21:10.020 --> 0:21:12.380 I know I caused my mother to pray a lot, 0:21:13.660 --> 0:21:16.500 and I broke my arm again. The arm that had 0:21:16.540 --> 0:21:20.459 been broken got broken again. And so they had to 0:21:20.460 --> 0:21:22.620 have a cast on my arm for a long time. 0:21:22.619 --> 0:21:25.180 And I'll never forget when they finally decided to take 0:21:25.180 --> 0:21:27.700 the cast off my arm and kind of with pliers 0:21:27.700 --> 0:21:29.980 back in the day, they'd cut it off and my 0:21:29.980 --> 0:21:32.740 arm and I compared my arms, and this one was 0:21:32.740 --> 0:21:36.420 this thin. It had shriveled up because I had not 0:21:36.420 --> 0:21:38.780 used it in so long, and I had to sort 0:21:38.820 --> 0:21:41.780 of regain the strength of that which had not been 0:21:41.780 --> 0:21:44.379 used for a long time. Man, I'm talking to someone 0:21:44.380 --> 0:21:45.100 here today. 0:21:53.660 --> 0:21:56.219 You're listening to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe and his 0:21:56.220 --> 0:21:59.750 message titled You Have an issue. We'll continue our lesson 0:21:59.750 --> 0:22:02.190 at this time tomorrow. So join us again right here. 0:22:02.470 --> 0:22:04.550 But in case you ever want to revisit a previous 0:22:04.550 --> 0:22:06.510 message from Mark, or want to share one of these 0:22:06.510 --> 0:22:09.230 Bible teachings with a friend, just go to our website 0:22:09.230 --> 0:22:13.390 at Bold Steps. Well, Mark, we are honored to have 0:22:13.390 --> 0:22:15.629 Heather Holloman with us today. She's the author of the 0:22:15.630 --> 0:22:17.710 Six Conversations, our bold step gift. 0:22:18.390 --> 0:22:21.310 Yeah. And Heather, one of the really unique elements of 0:22:21.310 --> 0:22:24.790 your book, The Six Conversations, is how you connect the 0:22:24.790 --> 0:22:31.150 latest research on relationships with biblical principles. What does Scripture 0:22:31.150 --> 0:22:34.710 tell us about, say, the art of conversation? 0:22:35.230 --> 0:22:38.630 Well, really, you can learn so much from Philippians two, 0:22:38.790 --> 0:22:42.710 Romans 12, and Galatians six. All of those passages teach 0:22:42.750 --> 0:22:45.949 us how to be curious about other people, how to 0:22:45.990 --> 0:22:49.270 believe the best about them, express concern, and then share 0:22:49.270 --> 0:22:52.750 your own life. I love Galatians six about taking on 0:22:52.750 --> 0:22:54.989 other people's burdens. How do we know what they are 0:22:55.030 --> 0:22:57.470 if we're not interested in their lives and asking really 0:22:57.470 --> 0:23:01.310 good questions about our friends and loved ones and Heather. 0:23:01.550 --> 0:23:05.310 I know that you're this is not just a book about, uh, 0:23:05.310 --> 0:23:08.990 how to be a better communicator with people. You have 0:23:08.990 --> 0:23:13.030 an intention. And that is. Hey, conversation is the bridge 0:23:13.030 --> 0:23:17.310 way to really share spirituality and the gospel with people. 0:23:17.350 --> 0:23:18.670 Talk about that a minute. 0:23:18.950 --> 0:23:21.869 Well, that's right. So many people want to share their faith. 0:23:21.869 --> 0:23:23.790 They want to share these things that are so deeply 0:23:23.790 --> 0:23:25.990 personal to them, but they never know how to start 0:23:25.990 --> 0:23:29.150 the conversation. And what this book teaches is how to 0:23:29.150 --> 0:23:32.710 have a warm connection. So talking about Jesus never feels 0:23:32.710 --> 0:23:36.070 awkward or like you're selling something. You're just sharing your 0:23:36.070 --> 0:23:38.910 life with someone that you're having a great conversation with. 0:23:39.109 --> 0:23:45.149 I love it. The six conversations by doctor Heather Holloman. And, uh, 0:23:45.150 --> 0:23:47.669 you need to pick this up. 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