WEBVTT - How should Christians feel about IVF?? 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:16.040 What's up everybody? Welcome to the podcast, thanks for being here. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.120 Special edition as we've done the last two or three 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.880 four months. I've got a man with me by the way. Yeah, 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.680 what's up? A good This is a special edition because 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.760 it is live. We're recording this live, and as I'm 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:35.800 sitting here, it is June the twenty first, twenty twenty four. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:40.720 This episode will release like normal on Monday. But the 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:42.800 reason we're doing it partly the reason we're doing it 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.479 is because it is a big Yege apparel summer launch. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.320 And so thank you guys for joining me live, and 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.840 then thank you guys for joining me in the future. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.280 As you listen to this like a as a normal podcast, 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.360 I'm going to answer your questions. I have a bunch 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.600 of them cuted up here that you've already sent me. 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.959 And to ask me a question, email me at podcast 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:11.000 at grangersmith dot com. Podcast at grangersmith dot com is 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.400 to email. You could do that now if you're listening, 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:15.720 even if you're listening live, you could do that now, 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.880 or you could just comment. If you're listening not live, 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.120 then just email me and I go through these like 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:22.560 we're just sitting in the cab of a truck and 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:24.800 you and I are just having a conversation or around 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.120 the campfire. I don't always have the right answers, but 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.200 I'm gonna try to talk about this like we're friends. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.880 And so, Hey, Lourie, what's up from Ontario, Canada? Thanks 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.960 for listening. Donita says, good morning, Granger and aunt man 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.000 watching from western Arkansas. God bless you guys and your families, 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.039 and you'll have an amazing day. You two don't need it. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:48.800 Wisconsin farmer says morning Granger. Ye yee, and I'm happy 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.120 to see all of y'all on here. Hey, I've got 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.640 my brothers, Tyler and Parker coming live from the EEE 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:01.080 farm right now. This is the Yee Apparel Summer launch day. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.960 You guys just launched what twenty three minutes ago. How's 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.400 it going, guys, It's gone great. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.079 We're busy here in the warehouse getting order shipped out. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:10.480 We're excited. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.440 I've been working on the stuff for a long time, 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.400 so it's fun to see people's reactions and it's fun 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.239 to put it in boxes and send it out. 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.520 Yeah, it really is, man. I mean, I'll be honest, Tyler, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.760 I think you think the same thing, but I it's 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.399 want sounded a little cheesy, But I got in bed 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.720 last night and I was like, oh, got a little nervous. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.000 I was like, I'm excited for tomorrow, and I don't 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:38.400 think I felt that little a little scared because I'm 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.000 just excited that people are going to see what I 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.160 think is one of the best apparel launches that we've 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:48.360 done in the last decade. Is that too much? Am 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:49.520 I overstating that? Tyler? 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.119 You're not overstating yet. We're more in the trenches over 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.200 here than you are. But you did text me and 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:01.960 Parker and said this is my favorite or the products 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.320 are amazing, like and you've never texted that's that before 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.919 the other day. So curious to hear your thoughts on why. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.880 Well, First of all, I just I always want to 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.560 show my gratitude, you know, either online or offline. I 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.400 just want to show my gratitude to you guys, because 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:22.200 all three of us as brothers, work for and with 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.760 and we are eeee and at the same time, we 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.160 all are in very different lanes, and so my lane 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:33.560 is really the face, the outward facing image of the 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.760 company doing you know, after midnight and the podcast and 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.360 getting out and speaking, and of course the music and 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.680 the smiths, and you guys are you know, more so 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.800 in the designs, in the inner workings of how this 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.960 stuff gets out, and Tyler, you're you're the guy that's 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.400 looking to see what the world wants to wear. And 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.400 both of you guys and me combined are all always 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.720 aware of what this image is, which is faith freedom 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.120 in the outdoors, which is what Yegee stands for. And 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:11.000 so it's a it's a battle really to maintain faith 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.720 freedom in the outdoors in twenty twenty four, especially in 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.240 the month of June, when we're coming up against you know, 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.839 a lot of battles that the world wants to fight. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.960 And Parker, you said something as we did a live 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.800 at ye Apparel a couple of days ago. You said 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:30.320 something that really affected me and I hope that you 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.919 could repeat it now. But you said at the remember 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.359 what you said when we ended the podcast was that yesterday? 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:41.719 Remember what you said, Say it again for my listeners. 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:47.440 Yeah, I said, the summer launch is releasing. We're super 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.880 excited about it. But if money's tight right now, and 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:54.160 then we totally understand. Tyler and I keep in contact 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.120 with a lot of our customers and ye nation, we 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:57.680 have a pulse on things. I know people are out 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.880 there struggling right now. It's not easy. It's an election year, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.800 there's a lot going on. So money is tight, then 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:04.000 don't even think twice about it. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.679 You just don't buy anything. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.599 Take care of you and your family and just enjoy 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:12.239 EE through our other outlets that we have, enjoy the podcast, 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:13.800 Enjoys Socials. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.839 And man, that's I looked at you when we cut 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.039 the camera at that at EE Apparels Podcast. I looked 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.440 at you and I was like, man, who says that 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.599 isn't as an apparel company CEO who leaves everybody with 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.719 the thought, Hey, we're so excited about this launch, but 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.920 if you don't have the money right now and money's tight, 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.320 take care of your family. We understand. It's like wow, 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.520 it's amazing, And there's so much freedom in us to 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.320 be able to say that out loud, because there's a 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.080 pressure where we need to like, oh, we need to 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.039 we have to do this. We got to pay the bills, 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.520 we got to make sure that this launch performs well. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.279 Instead we just we let it go and we go, Hey, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.279 we understand, if money's tight, don't buy a single thing. 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.440 Take care of your family. That's that's horrible advertising from 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.320 a marketing standpoint, but I think it's just really good honesty. 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.400 Yeah, and we do launches every month, and so like, 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.440 if you're buying from us every single month, like that's 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.240 a lot of money. And so I totally get And 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.160 you only need to shirt every so often, but hopefully 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:11.640 whenever you need a new shirt or a new hat, 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.440 you'll get one from us. And we try to make 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.839 it the best possible quality we can, with the coolest designs, 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.120 with the top designers, and hopefully it'll last year a 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.560 long time and then when it wears out, we'll be 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:22.919 around whenever you need another one. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:27.719 Yeah, that's right. And yeah, the quality on a lot 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:32.640 of these T shirts and that Jersey Tyler's wearing these hats, 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.680 the qualities just step up from what we did were 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.040 doing last year and the year before. So yeah, super excited. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:40.440 I know you guys are busy, So I'm gonna let 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.720 you go twenty eight minutes now into the EEE Apparel 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.560 summer launch. Go to yeye dot com for everything. If 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.840 you're listening live, I would go there quickly because a 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.560 lot of stuff, the popular things tend to sell out quickly, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:59.680 and if you're listening later then there's probably there's probably 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.320 enough to get you by so yeye dot com is 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.800 where you need to go. Oh, Tyler's holding up. Eight. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:07.480 This is a last minute edition, didn't it. 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.000 We didn't think it was gonna come in time. But 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.000 we got our bandanas in literally the day before the launch. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.200 So yeah, that's a fun little edition. We've never done 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:16.040 bandanas before. 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.320 Yeah, those are in. They're super soft. I felt them yesterday. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.560 That's cool. All right, guys, I'll let you go. We're 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.200 gonna get to some questions here. Appreciate you, love you, 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:32.240 see you guys, Ye, say get some risk. All right, 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.400 We're gonna answer some questions. Aun't you with me? Still? 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:34.880 Yes, sir? 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.920 Yes, sir? What's your time? We're sitting at sitting at 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.960 eleven fifty since we start? Okay, cool, all right, this 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.400 question is gonna come from Tyler and not my brother, 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.760 says hey Granger. My wife twenty six and I twenty 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.320 seven right now are considering IVF. We have been trying 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.800 for almost a year to conceive and have recently found 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.800 out that I, U, I or IVF. Maybe you're only 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.200 not option due to some medical issues. We attend an 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.800 SBC church and regularly serve in the worship ministry. I 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.360 am worried that we might be pushed out of our 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:14.440 church were we to where we have grown deep relationships 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.960 with the pastor and other partitioners. Given the Southern Baptist 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.680 Convention's recent vote to oppose IVF, I'm interested to hear 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.880 your thoughts on this, giving your experience with IVF and 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:28.040 your connection to the SBC. God bless Tyler, Arkansas. Hey Tyler, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.720 thanks for the question, man. It's a great one, and 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.360 it's this is a fresh wound that the band aid 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.000 has just come off of with the SBC as they 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.120 have voted. It was just as I'm reading this, it's 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:45.240 only two weeks ago that the Southern Baptist Convention voted 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:51.320 against the approval or the endorsement of IVF and IVF 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.320 in mutual fertilization comes really with two camps, and this 0:08:55.400 --> 0:09:00.200 is the argument at the SBC. There's two camps of 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:04.840 opposition of IVF. One is the people that say IVF 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:11.760 is okay, as long as you don't make as long 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.200 as you I'll put it this way, as long as 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:19.840 you don't leave embryos extra. That's the most non medical 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.960 way I could say it. And then the other way 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.400 is don't do it at all. It shouldn't be done. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:34.120 It's immoral. So I am a Southern Baptist seminarian. So yes, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.439 I am closely tied with the SBC. I go to 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:42.400 SBC's church. I'm an SBC seminarian. I'm friends. I'm actually 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:48.040 friends with the two leading advocates against IVF. I'm friends 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.360 with those guys. They're both professors at at Southern. So 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.000 on top of that, we have a beautiful baby boy 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.480 downstairs right now, he's almost three, who is an IVF baby. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.559 Let me, I need to I need to walk through 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.000 some a couple of things. This will probably take a 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:09.600 whole podcast if I did. But I understand where you're 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:14.120 coming from, Tyler, very much. I walked in your shoes. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.079 And to be honest, I also understand the sentiment of 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:23.160 the SPC. I think IVF can be it can't be 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.280 a dangerous thing. There are a lot of embryos that 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:30.400 are that are left over. I think there's hundreds of thousands, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.800 maybe millions. Don't quote me on that, but there's hundreds 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.679 of thousands of believe embryos that have been left over 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:42.080 that were conceived but not implanted or transferred, I think 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.560 is the right word. And what do you what do 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.240 we do with this? This is a moral dilemma and 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:52.600 we can't be irresponsible with this. When we were going 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:56.160 through this ourselves. If I wrote the book Like a River, 0:10:56.280 --> 0:11:00.319 I had a had a really emotional moment with if 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.240 in a discussion with Lincoln, my son. That's in the 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:09.280 book Like a River. It's the tree conversation. If you remember, Daddy, 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:10.960 does God make all the trees and man make some 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.599 of the trees. It was that conversation. So if you 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.600 haven't read Like a River, Tyler, check that out. And 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:22.160 then Amber and I decided we were convicted that we 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.760 felt like this may be wrong, and so we decided 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:31.280 that we would implant every single embryo we had, and 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.400 as it turned out, all of them died, including a miscarriage, 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:37.959 leaving us all the way just down to just one 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:42.400 last one and it ended up being Maverick. Now that's 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.800 my story, and that doesn't make IVF right just because 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.720 I did it. And it also, even if it is wrong, 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:53.240 it doesn't make Maverick wrong because God uses he always 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:59.000 has used sin and for his own glory, for his 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:03.200 own good, he's done. There's countless stories about that. So 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.160 it's never the baby's fault. Certainly not Maverick's fault, and 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.440 Mavericks certainly not an accident or but but just because 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.760 Mavericks exists, and he's beautiful, and he's loved, and he's purposed, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.080 and he's he is in the image of God. Just 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.040 because of all all that. There also co exists another 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.600 idea that maybe Amber and I were wrong in considering IVF. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.959 You could tell that I have have struggled over the 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.000 years with it, and if we were going to do 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:38.040 it all over again, I don't think we would do IVF. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.880 And that's not because all can now because now the 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.640 SBC is voting against it, et cetera, et cetera. It's 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.400 not because of that. I just believe as we've been 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.360 sanctified as Christians more and more, I think it becomes 0:12:52.360 --> 0:13:00.800 more problematic. Why because look at the fruit of IVF clinics. Hey, 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.480 we we've getten we get emails from the clinic that 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:08.600 Maverick was conceived in those aren't they aren't good emails 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:15.480 that we get? And what they're promoting. What are they 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.600 The emails we get from the clinic where MAV came 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:23.800 from aren't God honoring emails. They aren't God glorifying emails. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.800 You give them my drift what they're promoting and what 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:34.280 they're using IVA for and what they're endorsing because they 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.760 they have IVA of what they're what they're saying that 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:41.360 they can do. It's not It's not a couple like 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:46.319 Tyler Sure from Arkansas saying we've struggled and we're we've 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.440 been we go to church and we've been praying and 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.960 we trying to conceive a baby. That's not what these 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:51.880 clinics are promoting. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:59.439 So is the should the reform be on no pun intended? 0:13:59.480 --> 0:13:59.880 I promise. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.400 Is it throwing the baby out with the bathwater to 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:04.760 say no IVF at all? 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.240 Or is it saying the way IVF is done right 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:14.680 now is wrong. You said you used all three embryos. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.360 Well we did, and there was also there were seven 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.320 more that died before we even got a chance to 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:25.400 use them. I just think in hindsight we look back 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.040 on it and we go, hey, I don't think we 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.800 are quite as sanctified as we are now in this situation. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:31.720 I don't think. I don't think we would have done 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.760 it the same. That doesn't make me regret doing it 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:38.320 or regret Maverick, of course not. But will I now 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.480 stand forward and endorse it and actually go against my 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.360 colleagues in the SBC. I don't think so. I think 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.120 the men and women that have prayed over this and 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.960 studied this for a long time, I don't think they're 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.160 wrong in thinking, Hey, we need to hit the brakes 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.720 on this, We need to think about this because the 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.000 implications of the future. Where's this going? What are the 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.800 fruits of this? And I'll tell you what the fruits are. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.360 I see, I see the emails, I see their their 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.680 Instagram page and what they're promoting, and it's awful. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.680 Stuff, unbelievable. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.480 That's why you know this this could be well, probably 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.600 should be a bunch of longer conversations. It's a longer 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.880 conversation with other people, people who have been effected on 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:23.560 both sides of it. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.080 I hate to give you the answer, Tyler that you 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:31.080 don't want to hear, but adoption is a beautiful thing. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:33.440 Yeah, for sure. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.960 Adoption is a for sure, beautiful, beautiful thing. And there's 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.480 so many babies that need a home, and you're saying 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.160 how great or how could you say that when you 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.720 you did the opposite. Well, maybe Amber and I need 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:51.200 to adopt to We'll leave it there. Next question, do 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:55.120 we have another time for another one right now? Twenty? Yeah, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:56.120 let's hit another one. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:57.880 Try about this and hit some comments. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:15:59.720 Cool, let's hit the comments and then we can get 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:00.560 another to break. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.520 Yeah, we got break. I've got a couple here. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:08.040 Like that, yege pearl mug right there? Look at that, friends, 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.560 new the coffee mug just came out today at the launch. 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.320 This is the epitome of product placement today, both of 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:15.040 us wearing the city. 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:17.200 Okay, here you go. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.040 A question from you guys doing a podcast tour. Yes, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:23.840 we were just talking about. I just told ant Man 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:25.960 right before we started this, I said, Hey, once we 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.680 get enough reps doing this live podcast thing, then we 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.760 should we should have all the kinks worked out by 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.400 the time we actually take a tour and do this. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:35.040 Hope. 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.240 So that's that's the hope. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:39.560 That's a good one too. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.480 Chris says, Hey Granger, this is straight from the live 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.160 right here, I'm reading, Hey, hey Granger, getting ready to 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:50.480 close on a house soon I'll be it'll be my 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.200 wife and I was first home together. Any advice on 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.560 two newly married twenty four year olds in life and 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:02.320 being first time home buyers, congratulates, man, that's big, that's big, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:07.080 that's huge. Twenty four is young and you've got a 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.159 lot of life ahead of you. I would say, I 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:15.399 would say, hold it with open hands, don't hold that 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:19.120 house too tightly, don't worry about that house, don't make 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.440 that house you're idole. Don't don't obsess over that house, 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.720 because bad things are gonna happen to it, like things 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.359 are gonna break, pipes are gonna burst, You're gonna get 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.159 you know, fence is gonna get knocked down on a 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.560 high wind. You're gonna you're gonna get stains on the carpet. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.840 I would just say, live it, live in it, live 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.320 with it. And it's not a permanent house. It's not 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.800 a forever home, and so enjoy it, make the most 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:46.480 out of it, and one day, for willing, five, six, 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.680 ten years, you'll be moving in another house because you 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.440 can need some more bedrooms'd be cool. 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:53.600 Let's take a break. 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It 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.199 says the Cowboy church I attend and support has for 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:19.120 a long time had five minute teachings every Sunday morning 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:23.480 on biblical giving. The teaching about giving is more than 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.560 just about money and includes Biblical teaching of giving one's 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.320 self first, and that the giving of tides and offerings 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.800 is a reflection of giving oneself first. The teaching is 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:39.400 then followed by those to come forward and place their 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.200 offering in a bucket and then prayed over. When I 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.560 started going to this church, it was already an established 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.399 part of the service. I am the person asked by 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.520 the pastor to do this teaching. Nearly everyone does it 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:55.520 without question or complaint. But there is one individual who 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.920 has personally disagreed with the public display of giving tithes 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.879 and offerings because it might offend or compel someone to 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.520 come forward in order to remain in conspicuous, and they 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:07.679 have made it known to the pastor, but not personally 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.840 to me. My question is, do you see anything wrong 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.679 with giving tides and offerings and a public display of 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.560 coming forward as opposed to passing the offering plate. I'd 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:23.119 love to hear your answer. Sincerely in Christ, Glenn Tate. Glenn, 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.520 thank you for the question. It's an interesting one. Do 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:35.520 I see anything wrong? Let me see? How about how 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:41.439 about Matthew six's three four? But when you give, do 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:43.440 not let your left hand know what your right hand 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:48.000 is doing, so that your giving may be in secret 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.720 and your father, who sees you in secret, will reward you. 0:21:53.920 --> 0:22:04.280 There's that. Yeah, I'd be cautious about this. I'd be 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:09.160 cautious really in the tone of this, because because we're 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:12.639 kind of we're kind of thinking that this person, this 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:16.440 one person is crazy and they're actually this one person 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:17.520 is actually biblical? 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:19.360 Is the one biblical? 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:21.880 Yeah, it sounds like and we're kind of looking at 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:22.560 this one. 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:23.080 Look. 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:27.800