Speaker 1: For you to know, just know that you have that
Speaker 1: power and that other people that you think are just
Speaker 1: living a good life, they're actually the ones that are stuck.
Speaker 1: If you could somehow say in your mind and just
Speaker 1: say it out loud, I am blessed because of my illness,
Speaker 1: everything's going to change for you. All right. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the podcast, episode one hundred and sixty eight. We
Speaker 1: got Bernie here. This is the last show of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, all right, and then you're going to be
Speaker 1: back next week for the first show of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Can you believe that? Let's do it. Man, I'm glad
Speaker 1: to be back. You're the most long lasting guest. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So congratulations on the movie premiere, on the new record premiere, Moonrise, Dude,
Speaker 1: it's so good. Some of your best work for sure.
Speaker 1: But at the movie premiere, we were so lucky to
Speaker 1: get to come and hang out with you guys. And like,
Speaker 1: there was a couple of your fans that spotted me
Speaker 1: it said, hey, can we take a picture with you? Bertie?
Speaker 1: We know you from the podcast, and I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: you want to take a picture with me? So thank
Speaker 1: you guys. If y'all were there, and y'all wanted to
Speaker 1: take a picture with me. That really meant a lot,
Speaker 1: and they said, when are you coming back on? And
Speaker 1: so we made it happen. We made it happen. And
Speaker 1: that reminds me that we need to do a live
Speaker 1: podcast one of these days. Just pick a location and
Speaker 1: invite people and they can come and they can ask
Speaker 1: questions live, we'll record it. Love it, Hey, comment below
Speaker 1: if that's something you want to see, or if you
Speaker 1: if you're in a format where you can comment, like YouTube,
Speaker 1: let me know, send me a message if that's something
Speaker 1: you would like to attend. It's a live podcast. We'll
Speaker 1: bring in Chad, We'll bring in Parker. Yeah, te and
Speaker 1: coming if you think it would be awesome or a
Speaker 1: train wreck, yeah, and Tyler. We've got to bring Tyler
Speaker 1: to He'll help that. He'll help that, He'll not be
Speaker 1: a train wreck. Yeah. It would be a blast, especially
Speaker 1: you get all those guys together. It'd be fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So on the on the format of this podcast, if
Speaker 1: you're new to it, we answer your questions. You email
Speaker 1: me Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com, and we get
Speaker 1: to it. We put it in the queue, we walk
Speaker 1: through it just like we're just friends talking about something,
Speaker 1: something you're struggling with, something you're excited about, something you're questioning,
Speaker 1: something you're skeptical about, anything that we might have like
Speaker 1: on a fireside chat. We'll walk through it. And I
Speaker 1: love it in a podcast form because, like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: I've been doing this movie release, and when I'm doing that,
Speaker 1: I'm doing all these media hits and it's like I'm
Speaker 1: going on live on at you know, Fox Atlanta Morning News,
Speaker 1: and it's like thirty seconds, you know, And I got
Speaker 1: thirty seconds to answer a question. So I loved the
Speaker 1: podcast that I could slow down and we could take
Speaker 1: an hour. Yeah, but let's get right into it. The
Speaker 1: inbox here. First question that pops up, Subjecline says, my
Speaker 1: health is ruining everything. Hi Granger, my name is Bianca.
Speaker 1: I'm twenty seven from New Zealand. Big fan of your
Speaker 1: music and the Smith's and the podcast. Anyway, one day
Speaker 1: when I was eighteen, I woke up with extreme pelvic pain.
Speaker 1: My primary doctor ran every test he could to rule
Speaker 1: out the nasty things and then referred me to a gynecologist.
Speaker 1: So within a year from pain onset, I was diagnosed
Speaker 1: with endometriosis. Then I've been diagnosed with many other illnesses
Speaker 1: they but the pain has managed to control my life
Speaker 1: in every aspect. But it's not just a pain. Between
Speaker 1: the medication and the opoi opiate and pain management that
Speaker 1: has taken my ability and my drive and my work
Speaker 1: and my study away from me. The thing is, as
Speaker 1: much as I resent my health, it has also given
Speaker 1: me a purpose to raise awareness and my favorite part
Speaker 1: is being able to mentor other young girls through the
Speaker 1: diagnosis process. Being able to do this makes my heart
Speaker 1: so happy. It gives me something to fight for when
Speaker 1: things get bad. I'd love to hear your thoughts on
Speaker 1: this as I feel my own body is failing me
Speaker 1: as i watch everyone around me moving along in life
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting here, sitting here, stuck in limbo. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much, Bianca. That's like a that's like almost like
Speaker 1: a gratefulness sandwich she has. She was like grateful to be,
Speaker 1: you know, listening to the podcast, and and then and
Speaker 1: then she's diagnosed, and then there's pain, and then there's
Speaker 1: another gratefulness at the bottom of what it means to
Speaker 1: give back to others. So what's the question here? What
Speaker 1: is she asking yeah, I'm not really sure. I think
Speaker 1: maybe she is wanting to. Honestly, Griz, what you've done
Speaker 1: is just created a space where fans feel like they
Speaker 1: can come and share and be vulnerable. And so I
Speaker 1: think Bianca really just wants to be her. She wants
Speaker 1: her story to be heard and to be known, and
Speaker 1: to understand that there's people out there that are maybe
Speaker 1: going through the same things something similar. And yeah, life
Speaker 1: can be really really difficult sometimes. But I think, like
Speaker 1: Granger said, maybe the most encouragement that we can give
Speaker 1: to you is that gratitude is the front door to
Speaker 1: the house of grace, and it sounds like you are there,
Speaker 1: and I think if you can continue in that, in
Speaker 1: that house of grace, you're going to be able to
Speaker 1: look to other people with that maybe give yourself some
Speaker 1: and maybe change your expectation and just see kind of
Speaker 1: how that changes your mindset, how it changes your outlook,
Speaker 1: and how it changes that purpose, or maybe just encourages
Speaker 1: the purpose because it sounds like you felt a pretty
Speaker 1: strong calling and so yeah, maybe just some encouragement. Yeah,
Speaker 1: gratitude is the front door to the house of grace. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good stuff, man. So the last thing she says here,
Speaker 1: I'll read it again. I'd love to hear your thoughts
Speaker 1: on this, as I feel like my own body is
Speaker 1: failing me, as I watch everyone I know moving along
Speaker 1: in life and I'm stuck in limbo. So Bianca, I
Speaker 1: would challenge you, are you stuck? Are you really stuck
Speaker 1: in limbo? Or is that what it looks like on paper,
Speaker 1: because I think you've kind of revealed something to me
Speaker 1: and Bernie here that's much deeper than someone that appears
Speaker 1: to be stuck, because I could show you a lot
Speaker 1: of people that are actually stuck, and I promise you
Speaker 1: they don't have some kind of illness like you do.
Speaker 1: And I'm not taking that away away from you, but
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I think that's your power. I think
Speaker 1: your illness and your diagnosis and your pain is becoming
Speaker 1: a power for you that you've learned how to use
Speaker 1: that has not gotten you stuck. I think you're just
Speaker 1: saying that because that's kind of what a society says today,
Speaker 1: and that's not you. I don't think it's you to
Speaker 1: be someone that feels sorry for yourself. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's you. Because of this whole section you put in
Speaker 1: the middle of your sandwich here where you said as
Speaker 1: much as I resent my health, it has given me
Speaker 1: purpose to raise awareness and my favorite part is being
Speaker 1: able to mentor other young girls through the diagnosis process.
Speaker 1: This makes my heart so happy. It gives me something
Speaker 1: to fight for when things get bad. Look what you
Speaker 1: have discovered under this rock of pain? Oh for sure,
Speaker 1: you picked up the rock and you go look what's
Speaker 1: under here? Yeah? Uh yeah. These these kind of afflictions
Speaker 1: and these burdens are really setting you up to push
Speaker 1: into this purpose and really inspire other people. Granger, who
Speaker 1: would what would inspire you more? Watching me someone that's
Speaker 1: in fairly good health, have all my limbs climb a mountain,
Speaker 1: or a wounded warrior that's lost both of his legs,
Speaker 1: he's on prosthetics and can barely carry you know, a
Speaker 1: backpack or anything. Walk up that mountain and crawl his
Speaker 1: way and climb his and fight his way. What's more inspiring? Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt, beyond no doubt. Go climb the mountain. People
Speaker 1: are watching and they're ready to be inspired by your story.
Speaker 1: That's so good, Stuart. Yeah, And just for you to
Speaker 1: for you to know, just know that you have that
Speaker 1: power and that other people that you think are just
Speaker 1: living a good life, they're actually the ones that are stuck.
Speaker 1: You have if you could somehow say in your mind
Speaker 1: and just say it out loud, I am blessed because
Speaker 1: of my illness, everything's going to change for you. Switching
Speaker 1: gears here. Next question, subject line says X coming back
Speaker 1: already in a relationship. Hey Granger, thank you for taking
Speaker 1: the time to read my email. I have something I
Speaker 1: would like to talk to you about. I've been with
Speaker 1: my current girlfriend for about a year. I'm madly in love,
Speaker 1: and we are taking things really slow to make sure
Speaker 1: she's comfortable and going at her pace. Recently, though, my
Speaker 1: ex girlfriend, who I was with for five years prior,
Speaker 1: is reaching back out to me. She's trying to re
Speaker 1: establish some kind of connection, and honestly, I have some
Speaker 1: kind of residual feeling from the previous relationship where I
Speaker 1: still care and part of me wants to but I
Speaker 1: know my girlfriend is my future and I love her
Speaker 1: more than anyone could imagine. Obviously, being with someone for
Speaker 1: five years you have memories and things, but honestly, I
Speaker 1: just need to have a conversation and some kind of
Speaker 1: outside perspective thank you for everything you do. Please come
Speaker 1: back to New Hampshire. Thanks Brendan. Interesting Brendan, from just
Speaker 1: reading it one time through, it sounds like you're trying
Speaker 1: to convince yourself that you really love your current girlfriend.
Speaker 1: You're trying to convince me and you both that you
Speaker 1: really love her. Like, let me repeat a line that
Speaker 1: you said here. You said I love her more than
Speaker 1: anyone could imagine. I'm trying to imagine that, buddy, And
Speaker 1: then earlier you said I am madly in love with
Speaker 1: my current girlfriend. Okay, those are things that I feel
Speaker 1: like you're trying to convince yourself of because right here
Speaker 1: in the middle of your email, you're staying I still
Speaker 1: have feelings for my ex. Did he mention how long
Speaker 1: he's been with a new girl? About a year? About
Speaker 1: a year? Okay, so this is a red flag. I
Speaker 1: feel like I could be wrong. I could be wrong
Speaker 1: in a lot of these answers, but I feel like
Speaker 1: in a real relationship, if you are quote madly in
Speaker 1: love and quote love her more than anyone could imagine,
Speaker 1: as soon as the ex girlfriend reaches out, you're like, nah, nah, yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, I ain't reaching out to that girl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the fact that you're even questioning is kind of interesting,
Speaker 1: an interesting point if you really do love your new
Speaker 1: girlfriend more than we can imagine. I don't know, Brendan.
Speaker 1: I would say, you got a good thing in front
Speaker 1: of you, man, And if that's real and you really
Speaker 1: feel like this is your future, don't look to the past.
Speaker 1: There's a reason that you guys split and it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna come back up. So boom, what are they What
Speaker 1: do they say about one in the hand better than
Speaker 1: two in the bush or something like that. Yeah, so dude,
Speaker 1: you got one in your hand man that you love, Like,
Speaker 1: just be present, be with her, just man, This is
Speaker 1: this is what happens Griz like in our society, we
Speaker 1: are just like flooded with options and options paralyze us.
Speaker 1: They give us anxise like we should I come back
Speaker 1: or with the new one in this and Amazon has
Speaker 1: everything I can can just say, it's like, ah, stop,
Speaker 1: just be with her. Yeah, make a decision with your brain,
Speaker 1: not your gut, not your heart, not your your feelings.
Speaker 1: Don't but I feel like I want to get back
Speaker 1: with or I feel like we had some great feelings. Hey,
Speaker 1: make a decision. This new girl's great. No, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a conscious decision that I'm gonna stay
Speaker 1: with this new girl. And I'm not even going to
Speaker 1: entertain because what could possibly be good with entertaining the
Speaker 1: old girlfriend? What could be good? Nothing? Yeah, like you
Speaker 1: might be thinking closure, that's good. You don't have that yet.
Speaker 1: If you don't have closure, then you're not in love
Speaker 1: with the new one, right, Good luck, Brendan. Yeah, thanks
Speaker 1: for writing in. Let's hit another one here, subject line
Speaker 1: hearing God's Voice. It's always a good one and this
Speaker 1: is a very short one. Hey Granger, I'm Teddy. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you'll see this before tomorrow. Hopefully you'll see this before tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, but that the email
Speaker 1: goes on to say, I've been trying to submit my
Speaker 1: life to Christ. My question is how do I know
Speaker 1: what God is telling me? Like, how do I hear
Speaker 1: his voice? Hmm? We could either go super deep or
Speaker 1: super shallow on this one, but Teddy, thanks for emailing.
Speaker 1: Let me just be it. Let's just be simple. You
Speaker 1: want to hear God's voice, read God's living word, read
Speaker 1: it that's called the Bible, and you open it up
Speaker 1: and you say, God, Granger told me that this is
Speaker 1: your living, breathing word, open it up to me. Open
Speaker 1: up to open my mind and my heart up to
Speaker 1: your word so that you could speak to me through
Speaker 1: your word. And then if you want to do any
Speaker 1: research at all, teddy on the on the Bible and
Speaker 1: what it is and what it stands for, and where
Speaker 1: it came from and how it got translated and how
Speaker 1: it got into your hands. It's all over the internet
Speaker 1: and you can go down a deep rabbit hole with that.
Speaker 1: But you will find also the answer to how to
Speaker 1: submit your life to Christ in that book. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: really good. He's right on. But I would also say
Speaker 1: don't because a lot of people, especially in our society,
Speaker 1: like we go to it and we just expect to
Speaker 1: hear God like that, and it's like sometimes to hear
Speaker 1: God's voice and it's a whisper, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of distractions, and there's a lot of other noise that
Speaker 1: you have to kind of quiet in your life. Not
Speaker 1: just one morning with the Bible, but once you start
Speaker 1: to read that and it starts to be the loudest
Speaker 1: noise in your life, the most influential where it has
Speaker 1: your attention and everything. Then I feel like you go
Speaker 1: throughout your day and you start to kind of you
Speaker 1: start to see it, and you start to hear that whisper.
Speaker 1: And I think we talk one time, Granger. I love
Speaker 1: getting into the wilderness, into nature, just disconnect from everything,
Speaker 1: just go get lost. And I remember one specific time
Speaker 1: of doing this, and I just remember hearing this faint
Speaker 1: whisper that said, if you want to hear my voice,
Speaker 1: you need to put yourself in the places that I speak.
Speaker 1: And I just savage second was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? What does that mean? So I
Speaker 1: started thinking about it. I think his word is a
Speaker 1: place that he speaks. I think that the stillness, the
Speaker 1: quiet is a place that he speaks. I think that
Speaker 1: nature can be a place that he speaks. So maybe
Speaker 1: those things together, you know, can help you. I hope
Speaker 1: that that's some good advice. But really find his word,
Speaker 1: find some stillness, and maybe we can start to hear
Speaker 1: those whispers. Bernie's answers so much better than mine. That's
Speaker 1: why I have because maybe I've gotten jaded. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: read your Bible. But the truth is, Teddy, it took
Speaker 1: me forty years of dabbling in the Bible forty years
Speaker 1: before I really understood it and heard it. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Bernie was the first thing he said was it doesn't
Speaker 1: always happen quickly. Well, I'm an answer. It took me
Speaker 1: four decades. Here's the deal. This is what Bernie and
Speaker 1: I both believe. The cause irresistible. So if you have
Speaker 1: this feeling like I need to submit myself to Christ,
Speaker 1: I don't know how I need to hear God's voice.
Speaker 1: I don't know how. If those are sincere questions you're asking,
Speaker 1: you will find it. Knock and the door will be opened.
Speaker 1: I promise you seek and you will find is real.
Speaker 1: And if that is a sincere feeling in you, it's
Speaker 1: going to manifest itself. It might take forty years, but
Speaker 1: it's not going to go away. That nagging will not
Speaker 1: go away Like a tiny pebble in your shoe. Eventually,
Speaker 1: you got to take off the shoe and dig in
Speaker 1: the sock and find that rascal pebble, and you will.
Speaker 1: But that if that's if that question is sincere, you
Speaker 1: will find both of your answers somewhere in Bernie's answer.
Speaker 1: Let's set another one here, all right, So we rocking
Speaker 1: through these. Next one understanding differences amongst churches. Ooh, I
Speaker 1: like that question too. Hey you. My name is Danny.
Speaker 1: I'm twenty three. I grew up in church, going every
Speaker 1: single week with my parents, and I've been living on
Speaker 1: my own for about five years since I left for college.
Speaker 1: My church attendance has been inconsistent because I've always wondered
Speaker 1: why are there so many different denominations of Christianity and
Speaker 1: disagreeances among churches. If I type in Google, what does
Speaker 1: the Bible say about blank, teenagers, alcohol and marijuana, use,
Speaker 1: specific secular music, music artists, et cetera. I find one
Speaker 1: pastor's blog that says it's totally fine and another that
Speaker 1: says the opposite. And similarly, one local church might teach
Speaker 1: that it's fine, then the church a mile away says otherwise.
Speaker 1: So how do I know what to believe when people
Speaker 1: say different things about topics the Bible never explicitly addresses.
Speaker 1: Found your podcast and many others on TikTok, and it
Speaker 1: keeps me going. I listen consistently. I've been listening for
Speaker 1: about a year now. Thanks for what you do, Danny. Danny,
Speaker 1: great question. I love I love this question because it's
Speaker 1: just so logical. It's just like, yeah, from the outside
Speaker 1: looking in, Why the world are there so many denominations?
Speaker 1: Why does it seem like Christians are such hypocrites and disagree?
Speaker 1: Why does it why are there so many translations of
Speaker 1: the Bible and people act like one is right and
Speaker 1: the other's wrong. And then they're supposed to stand together
Speaker 1: and say Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the life,
Speaker 1: but they don't even agree on how you get to
Speaker 1: Jesus or how to please Jesus. Like why why is
Speaker 1: there a church on every street corner in Tennessee? It
Speaker 1: seems like, you know, and the Bible belt and they
Speaker 1: all teach something different. Great question that is that is
Speaker 1: like just just very upfront, obvious, you know, pragmatic questions.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate it coming in, and I feel like
Speaker 1: me and Bernie can give you a pretty solid answer.
Speaker 1: I'll start with this. There's there's three ways. There's three
Speaker 1: divisions categories of beliefs in Christianity. Let me try to
Speaker 1: explain this better. The first category is things that Christians
Speaker 1: believe that are essential to Christianity. It can't be you
Speaker 1: cannot get out of that category. You cannot disagree with
Speaker 1: any of it, or you are not a Christian. The
Speaker 1: second category is what makes churches different from each other,
Speaker 1: but they may or may not be essential at all
Speaker 1: to being a Christian. And then the third category is
Speaker 1: I'm going down the list of light of heavy to light.
Speaker 1: Then the lightest category is things that are freely and
Speaker 1: almost encouraged to disagree about as Christians. But it has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with being a Christian itself. So let's
Speaker 1: start with that category. The things that are Christians are
Speaker 1: free to disagree about. Pews are chairs, music, drums are
Speaker 1: no drums, drinking alcohol casually or not or nothing. Then
Speaker 1: let's go to things that separate churches, sprinkling baptism or
Speaker 1: total submersion, and you could say pews and chairs. On
Speaker 1: that too, you could say the attire that the pastor wears,
Speaker 1: like does he wear a suit? Liturgy or yeah, liturgy.
Speaker 1: And then there's things that are essential to Christianity and
Speaker 1: that is the trinity, that is Jesus is the only
Speaker 1: way for salvation. And I'm just naming a few in
Speaker 1: each category. There's many, but you have to understand first
Speaker 1: of all, why there's many churches. Well, ultimately that's because
Speaker 1: there's many personalities of people's There's certain people that like
Speaker 1: to worship in certain ways, and so so there's different
Speaker 1: churches that give give them that kind of opportunity and
Speaker 1: doesn't make that church right or wrong. Kind of like
Speaker 1: you're saying, you're kind of thinking that that means the
Speaker 1: church is either right or wrong. It's not. Let's actually
Speaker 1: dive into what you're saying here, specifically alcohol and marijuana use.
Speaker 1: You find one pastor says it's fine and another one
Speaker 1: says the opposite. Well, that's something that's that's drinking alcohol
Speaker 1: is if you're having a casual drink, you're having a
Speaker 1: glass of wine at a wedding or a birthday. There's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. It's getting drunk. And when you
Speaker 1: get getting drunk and numbing your mind, which is also
Speaker 1: what marijuana does, is unanimously wrong in the Bible. And
Speaker 1: so we're gonna use the Bible. This is kind of
Speaker 1: an over overarching answer. We're gonna use the Bible as
Speaker 1: the main source of what all the churches should do.
Speaker 1: And we believe that the Bible says how to build
Speaker 1: a church and what to do in a church, and
Speaker 1: what to believe and what to say. We believe that
Speaker 1: the Bible itself says and does all of that. So
Speaker 1: as long as a church is living by the Bible,
Speaker 1: for the Bible, through the Bible, with the Bible taught
Speaker 1: by the Bible, then then that church cannot be wrong.
Speaker 1: Now you said also, and the last thing I'll say,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hand it to Bernie. You said, what about
Speaker 1: different topics that the Bible explicit never explicitly explicitly addresses. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's another logical question. So that's when it goes
Speaker 1: into the things where you like marijuana. My Bible never
Speaker 1: says marijuana. Okay. I've heard people say that, but it
Speaker 1: does say to say sober minded. So that's gonna that's
Speaker 1: gonna contradict that that's not gonna be sober minded if
Speaker 1: you're smoking marijuana. Okay. So that's an easy one. Ones
Speaker 1: that are more difficult sprinkling or total submersion baptism. Okay,
Speaker 1: Well that's it. That's a healthy discussion that I think
Speaker 1: leads people back to the Bible, which is good. I
Speaker 1: was just reading the other day, Ezekiel. I believe it's
Speaker 1: thirty six where it talks about sprinkling clean with the
Speaker 1: water and I read that and I'm like, Ah, that's
Speaker 1: where the Princebyteria to get that. And then you could
Speaker 1: the Book of Acts. They're dunking people, you know, so
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, that's where the Baptist get that. So
Speaker 1: it to that kind of stuff is not dependent on salvation,
Speaker 1: and it ultimately leads people back to the Bible itself.
Speaker 1: Taking communions another one? Am I going too far? What
Speaker 1: Danny asked? What? No? I think you're a lot of
Speaker 1: good points. This is Danny. I think Danny, my answer
Speaker 1: to this is probably a little different than Grangers. I
Speaker 1: honestly don't think we're doing it right. If I'm being honest,
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure why I have not studied church
Speaker 1: history the way that many people have. I do understand
Speaker 1: that the first fifteen hundred years of the Church, we
Speaker 1: did not have all the different denominations that we have now.
Speaker 1: Christianity has the most denominations of any religion in the world.
Speaker 1: There's no like division in the same way and other religions.
Speaker 1: But I think the best thing I could say to
Speaker 1: you is I've asked myself the same question. I stumbled
Speaker 1: upon a podcast by Francis chan, which we both heard
Speaker 1: together called when the Church is one? Is that right?
Speaker 1: That's what it's called. It's two parts. Make sure you
Speaker 1: listen to the second part. He really asks some thought
Speaker 1: provoking questions around what you're talking about here and really
Speaker 1: ties it back to two things to scripture and understanding.
Speaker 1: When people will understand the love of God is when
Speaker 1: we the body are one. Okay. That It's not people
Speaker 1: being eloquent with their words and us going out on
Speaker 1: mission trips. That's not how the world will know the
Speaker 1: love of God. It's when we the church are one, okay.
Speaker 1: The second thing is submitting under authority. So the pastor
Speaker 1: that has the blog or the video blog or whatever
Speaker 1: that you're looking that says he says one thing, he
Speaker 1: says the other. The problem that we run into these
Speaker 1: days is that. And for instance, Chant even says, look,
Speaker 1: who are who you want to believe the guy that
Speaker 1: can sit in his office by himself with the latest
Speaker 1: Bible software and he can write some you know, sermon
Speaker 1: or some blog about why this is right, or the
Speaker 1: guy that has submitted under the eldership of the church
Speaker 1: had a series of people probe and discuss and and
Speaker 1: go back to the word of like is this really
Speaker 1: what it says? And then that is what is presented
Speaker 1: and then and then that is what people are kind
Speaker 1: of like falling under the authority of which one the
Speaker 1: problem is is we have too many of these right
Speaker 1: now in the world have we need And I think
Speaker 1: I've talked to you about this, like we have we
Speaker 1: have too many preachers and not enough good preachers, not
Speaker 1: enough good churches, and just too many churches. So I
Speaker 1: think we're doing it wrong. I think your your question
Speaker 1: is just the question so many people have and the
Speaker 1: reason that so many people don't want to attend church
Speaker 1: because they're just kind of confused, like, well, if I
Speaker 1: go here, do I have to believe these things? And
Speaker 1: how's that differ from this sold Anybody out there that's
Speaker 1: thinking these same things, I would encourage you to go
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast and just to understand, like, man,
Speaker 1: next generation coming up, Like what might it look like
Speaker 1: for the body to be one? Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: just blows our minds to think about because we have
Speaker 1: we have been in a church system for so long,
Speaker 1: but to think, like, man, what would it look like?
Speaker 1: I mean, together, for the gospel that we went to
Speaker 1: was I think just like kind of a glimpse of
Speaker 1: that where Baptist Presbyterian could sit together and kind of like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're we're here, we are one, and we know there's
Speaker 1: these differences between us that we can kind of say, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you said, they fall into that second bucket or
Speaker 1: the third bucket, and that's fine. The first buckets what
Speaker 1: we need to be thinking about. Yeah, first bucket cannot
Speaker 1: be changed. And it's a different conversation for a different
Speaker 1: different podcast of what that is. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: right now, Danny, that there are good Christians in bad
Speaker 1: churches right now, and there's bad Christians in good churches
Speaker 1: right now. It's all mixed up, and that's just part
Speaker 1: of it. We're gonna you're gonna have to discern. But
Speaker 1: last thing I'll say, I don't think this is really
Speaker 1: the question you're asking all of this. I think the
Speaker 1: main thing is it's sin. That's that's usually the deep
Speaker 1: problem with all of us, including me. It's like, hey, Granger,
Speaker 1: I don't want that church to take away stuff I love,
Speaker 1: So I guess I'm not gonna go because they're all
Speaker 1: they're all disagreeing with each other anyway, And I don't
Speaker 1: want them to. I don't want them to tell me
Speaker 1: what I can't do because I love to do a
Speaker 1: lot of things. That's usually the root problem. Now that
Speaker 1: you have to understand, I'm going along on this podcast break.
Speaker 1: But the thing about what Christ is offering is he
Speaker 1: is he is not asking for you to give up anything.
Speaker 1: He's asking for you to give up everything and then
Speaker 1: him to come in and be bigger than anything you
Speaker 1: could have ever had before. Right, that's so good man.
Speaker 1: This is what's this, Danny. We're still on, Danny. Danny.
Speaker 1: Here's what you need to ask yourself, and then what
Speaker 1: you whatever church you go to, what you need to
Speaker 1: ask the leadership of that church. Do I adore Jesus
Speaker 1: and believe that He is worthy of all blessing and
Speaker 1: honor and glory. Like, ask yourself that in the in
Speaker 1: the context of all the small questions you're asking too,
Speaker 1: and then talk to the leadership about that. I think though,
Speaker 1: that kind of talk gets you into the conversation of
Speaker 1: that first bucket. And if you do that with the
Speaker 1: mindset that Granger just says, I think he's absolutely right,
Speaker 1: Like your world will get flipped upside down for the better.
Speaker 1: And you'll you'll just be like, Wow, I had no idea.
Speaker 1: This is what Jesus meant by the church in his word.
Speaker 1: I always thought it was like a building and the
Speaker 1: people that danced or didn't dance. But this is what
Speaker 1: this is what it means. So maybe we just have
Speaker 1: a fundamental difference in what the definition of church should be. Totally,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Take a break, gret back. Thank y'all
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Speaker 1: in here to next question. Subject line says becoming the
Speaker 1: next country singer and fighting the fear of trying. Hey,
Speaker 1: gre and your my name is Tanner from Idaho. I
Speaker 1: need advice on wanting to start my country music career.
Speaker 1: I'm twenty five and everyone I know around me says
Speaker 1: I can't do it. But since I've listened to your
Speaker 1: music and other country stars, I want to try to
Speaker 1: make it a career for me. Any advice. Congrats movie,
Speaker 1: my family and I love it. Ye, I'm right, Tanner,
Speaker 1: Thanks for emailing man. I'm glad that I could be
Speaker 1: uh an influence for you to say, see Granger's not
Speaker 1: that good, I could do it. I could do it.
Speaker 1: I think that's what he's saying. Okay, here's the thing
Speaker 1: this is. This is probably not what you expect me
Speaker 1: to say, but I'll say it. You are you The
Speaker 1: world TikTok and Instagram will tell you that when people
Speaker 1: people say you can't do it, you prove them wrong.
Speaker 1: Prove them wrong, like Tom Brady did. People told Tom
Speaker 1: Brady no, and did it? You know, like that's really popular.
Speaker 1: Books are made about that, uh. Podcasts are made based
Speaker 1: on that underdog underdog baby. But when everyone around you
Speaker 1: here's you sing and says you can't do it, that's
Speaker 1: not necessarily the path that you want to take to say,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna prove everybody wrong, because usually I understand the
Speaker 1: underdog in the music business. But usually, like in the
Speaker 1: little town where you start, everyone says you can do it.
Speaker 1: Like that's usually the problem is you get too big
Speaker 1: of a head, and then you move to Nashville and
Speaker 1: then you realize you're a small fish in a big ocean.
Speaker 1: But the little town that you come from usually is
Speaker 1: the support that gets you there and gives you the confidence.
Speaker 1: You say, everyone I know around me says I can't
Speaker 1: do it. I don't think the music business is something
Speaker 1: you want to prove all of your family and friends
Speaker 1: wrong with. What do you think. Yeah, it's not like
Speaker 1: record executives that are telling you you can't do it,
Speaker 1: people in the industry telling you you can't do it.
Speaker 1: These are like, this is your support system, this is
Speaker 1: everybody you know. So I think you probably need to, uh,
Speaker 1: just be self aware, man, Like be self aware. It's
Speaker 1: totally fine to write songs, sing, do some small shows,
Speaker 1: open mics as a hobby. I mean, that's that's the
Speaker 1: world I live in, Bud. Come on, it's fun, man.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't have to all tour and you know,
Speaker 1: do the thing. But maybe that's the rep maybe you're
Speaker 1: going to be more like Burns than Grizz is all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And that is pretty good. I got a
Speaker 1: pretty good life, so it's not so bad. Yeah, man.
Speaker 1: That to answer your question, how do you start a
Speaker 1: country career, It's the same way you eat an elephant,
Speaker 1: one bite at a time. You just you find a
Speaker 1: little local place and you start an open mic and
Speaker 1: you just play a few songs, and you start an
Speaker 1: Instagram account and play some music on it. You just
Speaker 1: start small. That's the only way to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Play all the time, write all the time, write some
Speaker 1: really really good songs, play for people. Take the criticism,
Speaker 1: and I don't think Granger or myself are saying it
Speaker 1: can't happen. It's really just a matter of you deciding,
Speaker 1: you know how, Just be self aware. I like that,
Speaker 1: be self aware. I like that. Another question might be
Speaker 1: might be on the same lines. Here says overcoming the Odds.
Speaker 1: Hey Granger, my name is Javier Gonzales. I'm from Mesa, Arizona.
Speaker 1: I'm a first generation in my family. I am of
Speaker 1: excuse me, I am the first generation of my family,
Speaker 1: and I am pursuing to become a fireman in the future,
Speaker 1: But the odds of me becoming one are less than
Speaker 1: five percent. Plus being between five six and five seven
Speaker 1: feet tall and weighing one hundred and twenty five pounds
Speaker 1: decreases my chance of becoming a fireman. I want to
Speaker 1: pursue this career, so I joined a fire cadet program,
Speaker 1: and I'm eating well and working out, trying to get
Speaker 1: in shape for this career. But the odds of me
Speaker 1: becoming one are a lot less, and I have doubt
Speaker 1: and fear about myself. How do I overcome these doubts
Speaker 1: and fears? How did you overcome the odds pursuing your career? Man?
Speaker 1: The perfect question to follow up the one before that,
Speaker 1: because here's the opposite example. When everyone around you is
Speaker 1: telling you no because they hear you sing, it's probably
Speaker 1: a good indication to not do it. But when odds
Speaker 1: and statistics tell you that you're too small to be
Speaker 1: a fireman, that's something you can pursue and fight through
Speaker 1: and overcome. Yeah, I think that they're especially for something
Speaker 1: like a firefighter. There's probably more places in the world
Speaker 1: that need firefighters, and those odds of like breaking through
Speaker 1: that than becoming, like, you know, a successful country singer.
Speaker 1: Would you agree, Yeah, so maybe it's not you're part
Speaker 1: of the New York Fire Department or like a big,
Speaker 1: you know station, But yeah, you you start and then
Speaker 1: you keep on and you keep on. I'm sure if
Speaker 1: really just helping people and firefighting is what you feel
Speaker 1: called to do, I think you can work hard like
Speaker 1: you're saying, and you'll find your spot. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: you're doing the right thing. You're eating, you're working out,
Speaker 1: you're getting some calories in you. I mean, you're doing
Speaker 1: all the right things. You're emailing the podcast. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've run into some dudes that were five to seven
Speaker 1: that I would not mess with, and they were just bad,
Speaker 1: bad dudes, and they would go into a building no
Speaker 1: matter what and what. I think you can do it,
Speaker 1: man don't. Yeah. Yeah, So his question, let's go specific,
Speaker 1: How do I overcome these doubts and fears? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: miss that. So I think small, tiny victories, small victories,
Speaker 1: and that could be. That could be a small victory,
Speaker 1: could be you want a weigh one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: seven pounds, one hundred and twenty five, and you get
Speaker 1: on that scale and you go boom, one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty seven victory. That's a small victory. It builds a small,
Speaker 1: tiny sliver of confidence, but it's something, and so you
Speaker 1: just keep doing it. Hey, I want to run a
Speaker 1: mile in under this time, you run it, you train, boom,
Speaker 1: you got it. So you're building these small victories and
Speaker 1: this is ways to build your confidence. When you build
Speaker 1: your confidence, you find ways to overcome doubts and fears
Speaker 1: with confidence. Confidence comes from small victories and encouragement from
Speaker 1: friends and family. Yep, yeah, I agree percent All right.
Speaker 1: Question next one is said on subject line says moving
Speaker 1: out at Grandear love your podcast in your music. My
Speaker 1: name is Henry. I'm twenty one years old. I'm a
Speaker 1: college drop out from California, living with my parents, working
Speaker 1: my butt off, trying to save up money to move out.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm getting too old to stay home.
Speaker 1: I want to spread my wings and make my own
Speaker 1: path in life, raise a good god, fearing family, make
Speaker 1: my community a better place. I feel disassociated with California
Speaker 1: and the people who live here. I don't have many friends,
Speaker 1: and I spend a lot of time either with my
Speaker 1: dad or playing video games in my room. I want
Speaker 1: to make friends, but the culture, the politics the cost
Speaker 1: of living here make me want to shut in and
Speaker 1: do nothing but just keep my head down. I want
Speaker 1: to plant my roots somewhere and the heartlands like Kentucky.
Speaker 1: I'm moved by the kindness of everyone I've met out
Speaker 1: there when I've traveled to that state. It makes me
Speaker 1: want to invest my time and my money into making
Speaker 1: it a better place for myself and everyone else. But
Speaker 1: maybe it's just a grass as always greener type thing.
Speaker 1: Maybe it won't help. Maybe I'll just be an introvert
Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. I'm scared of being
Speaker 1: so far from my family, But I know myself and
Speaker 1: I know sometimes I need a kick in the butt
Speaker 1: to motivate me to change. Do I have a gypsy heart?
Speaker 1: Am I being selfish for leaving my parents behind? How
Speaker 1: do I glorify God in doing this? How do I
Speaker 1: keep in touch with my loved ones when I'm so
Speaker 1: far away? Thank you, Henry, God blessed. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff going on in Henry's head right now. And
Speaker 1: thanks for the email, brother, thanks for shout out to California,
Speaker 1: and thanks for thinking of me and Bernie. Whenever you're
Speaker 1: going through stuff like this, let's walk through it. You
Speaker 1: have a ton of questions. You just kind of dumped
Speaker 1: a bunch. Honest, let's walk through this and see what
Speaker 1: we could find out here. First, where should I go
Speaker 1: with the first question? First question is your disassociation from
Speaker 1: California and you thinking that Kentucky will be the problem
Speaker 1: solver for all of this disassociation, Like Kentucky is the
Speaker 1: place where your friends are. You just haven't met him yet.
Speaker 1: I think there probably could be some truth in that.
Speaker 1: But the problem I have really believing that is it
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like he's giving the people of California a
Speaker 1: real chance. He's locking himself in his room playing video games.
Speaker 1: And I get it. He's an introvert. You're an introvert.
Speaker 1: Meeting new people and really being vulnerable and engaging is
Speaker 1: kind of uncomfortable. Like, totally understand that. But you will
Speaker 1: ultimately find the same thing in Kentucky if you practice
Speaker 1: the same things that you're practicing. And so, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that disassociation with people of California is It
Speaker 1: could be, because you know, there's definitely differences in the
Speaker 1: people in the culture around the country. But I feel
Speaker 1: like i've heard graindeer on the podcast say before, like,
Speaker 1: you need to find something you're into, like even if
Speaker 1: it's video games, Okay, we'll go to a video game
Speaker 1: conference in your area. Find people that are into the
Speaker 1: same things that you are, and start building community around
Speaker 1: a common something, whether it's a church, could be something
Speaker 1: like a men's Bible study, or a video game team
Speaker 1: or whatever they do now. But the point is is
Speaker 1: like when you do that, you're going to start to
Speaker 1: build your confidence, which will help you be able to
Speaker 1: meet new people, which will be able to give you
Speaker 1: some resources to like maybe step out on your own.
Speaker 1: You meet a roommate at one of these you know
Speaker 1: events that you go to, it's like, oh, hey, he's
Speaker 1: looking for a roommate. I'm looking for roommate. So that
Speaker 1: that's my first thought on that question. I think part
Speaker 1: of that is just so good man. That's such wise counsel.
Speaker 1: And I loved I loved the idea that Bernie said
Speaker 1: were you're not giving California a chance, because if you
Speaker 1: gave Kentucky people the same chance you're giving California people,
Speaker 1: you're going to get the same result. And that's this
Speaker 1: part that I'm I'm just glad that you were vulnerable
Speaker 1: enough to mention that you sit in your room and
Speaker 1: play video games instead of making friends. But you put
Speaker 1: those two sentences back to back. I sit in my
Speaker 1: video my room, playing video games. And the next line
Speaker 1: is I want to make friends. But the culture of
Speaker 1: the politics, the cost of living. And like Bernie said,
Speaker 1: this is you know that there's truth to that. I'm sure,
Speaker 1: but I love the idea that Bernie's suggesting, Like are
Speaker 1: you giving them a chance? Is there a video game
Speaker 1: that you do love? Is there some kind of convention
Speaker 1: with that game that you could find people? Is there
Speaker 1: a group that you can go with to Kentucky? And
Speaker 1: this is I've said this so many times when people
Speaker 1: are considering moving. Could you go for a weekend with
Speaker 1: somebody and visit Louisville and go to a couple of
Speaker 1: towns and you're there for like a Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Speaker 1: and you drive, you fly back on Southwest Airlines. You
Speaker 1: get a good airfare, and you fly back to California.
Speaker 1: There's always Southwest airlines from Louisville Dee, California. I know
Speaker 1: that for a fact, and they're always pretty good priced
Speaker 1: under one hundred dollars. Could you go do that. You
Speaker 1: don't have to commit everything and move and pack up
Speaker 1: a U haul and go all the way to cross
Speaker 1: the country and then worry that you're going to miss
Speaker 1: your family and you've got a gypsy hard and how
Speaker 1: could you possibly do this? You could just go for
Speaker 1: a weekend and you might come back and go. Nah,
Speaker 1: it ain't when I thought right. And just to be clear,
Speaker 1: I don't know your parents, but I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 1: they're not going to be upset if you go out
Speaker 1: on your own. Like as a parent, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be excited when my kids, especially if they're twenty one
Speaker 1: still living at home, it's like, all right, jet, time
Speaker 1: to go, buddy. Like me and your mom got some plans.
Speaker 1: So here's that's part of one of his shotgun questions
Speaker 1: at the end. Here am I being selfish for leaving
Speaker 1: behind my parents? No? No, that's what you're supposed to do, YEA.
Speaker 1: Their nice question is how do I glorify God in
Speaker 1: doing this? Well, the Bible says leave your mother and father,
Speaker 1: go out. The Bible also says go make disciples of
Speaker 1: all nations. So the Bible is saying, yes, you should
Speaker 1: leave your parents, and you should kind of feel like
Speaker 1: you have a gypsy heart because you're leaving and you're
Speaker 1: going out. How do you glorify God by telling other
Speaker 1: people about him? That's it. It's not about how much
Speaker 1: money you make, or what job you have, or where
Speaker 1: what state you live in. It's telling everyone you know
Speaker 1: about him. That's how you glorify him and doing whatever
Speaker 1: you're doing. How do I keep in touch with my
Speaker 1: loved ones when I'm so far away? That's your last question.
Speaker 1: FaceTime is a good option, Skype is a good option.
Speaker 1: And did we live in a day when you could
Speaker 1: text and voice text and email and video message mama,
Speaker 1: and you can hop on a plane and fly back,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty pretty easily. So let's hit one more
Speaker 1: and then, well I went late on that last section,
Speaker 1: so and hit one more before people get bored with
Speaker 1: the burns. Speeder speed around here. Subject Glad says talking
Speaker 1: to a girl while having many other things going on
Speaker 1: in my life parentheses question for your podcast. He Andrew.
Speaker 1: My name is Owen. I'm a senior in high school.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to this girl. I'm very busy balancing school
Speaker 1: and work, so it's hard to make time for other things.
Speaker 1: And she says I don't make enough time for her,
Speaker 1: which I totally understand due to the many things going
Speaker 1: on in my life. I just can't figure out if
Speaker 1: I should be focusing on school and work instead of
Speaker 1: being in a relationship, being the only being only a
Speaker 1: senior in high school, or if I should focus more
Speaker 1: on this relationship. Also, I love listening to your podcasts
Speaker 1: and your music. Thanks so much, Bernie. I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: owen like your son. Boston's Boston talking to you? Okay,
Speaker 1: how old is Boston? Your son twelve? He's twelve, so
Speaker 1: six years from now. Boston is saying, Dad, here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I'm in this relationship. This girl says I don't enough
Speaker 1: time for her. But you know, Dad, I'm busy with
Speaker 1: sports and school and balancing and all that. So, Dad,
Speaker 1: I'm asking you, should I focus more on her? Or
Speaker 1: should I focus more on my senior year in high
Speaker 1: school and finishing up my responsibilities. Son, I love you,
Speaker 1: and I support you no matter what you do. But
Speaker 1: tell that girl buy and be eighteen and enjoy it.
Speaker 1: It's interesting when I reword it like that, it just
Speaker 1: makes it so obvious to anyone listening. Like I think
Speaker 1: sometimes these questions are just answered before I even start.
Speaker 1: It's just they're answered in the reading of the question.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I just have to put inflection in certain
Speaker 1: lines or words, and sometimes I just have to redirect
Speaker 1: the question back to you. And when I say it
Speaker 1: like that or put your son in perspective. No, you
Speaker 1: should not focus on the relationship. Yeah, you should focus
Speaker 1: on being eighteen and finishing your school because you've got
Speaker 1: college coming up, and you've got sports, and you got
Speaker 1: your buddies and you're only eighteen. Once. Yeah, it goes
Speaker 1: so quick, man. Just enjoy and enjoy being eighteen. That's
Speaker 1: my advice. The other thing is the girl saying that
Speaker 1: you don't make enough time for her is normal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like ingrained in girls from a very early age,
Speaker 1: and especially if her daddy's not given her that much attention,
Speaker 1: then she's going to pull it out of you and
Speaker 1: you're never going to be enough for her. Just know
Speaker 1: that you might not know that yet, will you'll learn
Speaker 1: it with a girl like this, You'll learn it soon
Speaker 1: that even if you did drop everything and we're there
Speaker 1: all the time, you're never going to be enough of
Speaker 1: what she wants out of you. So just understand that
Speaker 1: I love that your heart actually cares about her and
Speaker 1: you kind of feel sorry for her and you realize
Speaker 1: that you're doing other things, but you are in the
Speaker 1: right here. Yeah for sure. Hey, before we jump off,
Speaker 1: I just want to give one shout out to your
Speaker 1: fan the fans that I met at the movie premiere. Man,
Speaker 1: they were just so amazing. And a couple people, in
Speaker 1: particular Kendra and jan Jan gave up her seat for
Speaker 1: Leslie and I. She had a seat, like the best
Speaker 1: seat in the house to watch the movie right by
Speaker 1: you guys. We weren't there, and she was like, she
Speaker 1: saw me. She was like, you need to sit by Grainger.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, it's fine. She gave up her seat,
Speaker 1: went and sat in another theater so that we could
Speaker 1: like be front and center, like right by you guys
Speaker 1: to watch it. And I just want to say that
Speaker 1: is just one of the fans that we met and
Speaker 1: that we have met of ye nation, and dude, you
Speaker 1: guys are just so so awesome. And I was just
Speaker 1: Leslie and I were really moved by, like wow, not
Speaker 1: just oh hey, let's scoot over, but it was Kendra,
Speaker 1: and then there was three other girls that they were like, no,
Speaker 1: we'll give up our seat so you guys can sit here.
Speaker 1: It's like, man, that was so awesome. So I just
Speaker 1: want to get them little shout out and yeah eee nation,
Speaker 1: you guys are awesome. I'm so thrilled to just kind
Speaker 1: of be in the atmosphere love it. Well, that doesn't
Speaker 1: surprise me. Those girls are amazing. So thanks Burns. Yep,
Speaker 1: see you next year, See you next year. Yeah, see
Speaker 1: you guys. Love y'all. See you next Monday. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining me on the Grangersmith Podcast. I appreciate all of
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