Speaker 1: It says, I was wondering if you believe in what
Speaker 1: psychic mediums do? They supposedly, this is parentheses. They supposedly
Speaker 1: connect with people who have passed on and create can
Speaker 1: relate messages from deceased loved ones. Do I believe? Yes,
Speaker 1: I do. I do believe. And when you say you believe,
Speaker 1: you're not saying you endorse. No, you're saying and you
Speaker 1: think that there is something happening yeah, yes, and it
Speaker 1: is not good. Yes, okay, Yes, I believe that there
Speaker 1: is something supernatural about some of them. I know that
Speaker 1: there's a million fakes. Well, there's a million frauds. They're
Speaker 1: just an artists, they're just tricking. I do believe that
Speaker 1: there's a handful that are actually harnessing a supernatural power. So, yes,
Speaker 1: there is a there's a belief, a non endorsed belief,
Speaker 1: that they are harnessing a supernatural power, and I highly
Speaker 1: discourage it. It is highly discouraged in my faith in
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Chad Warren guests on the podcast Today Reoccurring guests.
Speaker 1: One of my faves, one of the crowds faves. People
Speaker 1: request you now, man, I'm super excited to be here.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'll say. It is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: It is just a lot of fun to come in
Speaker 1: here and I get excited. Well, you have been here.
Speaker 1: We've been chatting for about an hour before we turn
Speaker 1: on the mics, and I always do this, man, you
Speaker 1: come in here, we talk for like a solid hour
Speaker 1: and we say some really deep stuff. And I think
Speaker 1: this could have been a podcast. This could have been
Speaker 1: a good podcast episode. So we're answering questions today. This
Speaker 1: is what we do a lot of times on this podcast.
Speaker 1: If you have anything for me, email Granger Smith Podcast
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Could be any kind of question,
Speaker 1: could be a shout out, could be a hey, you
Speaker 1: could just say it's my birthday and I want you
Speaker 1: guys to say birthday. We could do that. These questions
Speaker 1: have been rolling in for about a year now, and
Speaker 1: they are all over the place. We're talking relationship questions,
Speaker 1: life questions, deep questions about God, or questions about football
Speaker 1: or music or I mean, it's all over the place,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to dive in, you know me. I
Speaker 1: like to start off with a couple of soft pitches here.
Speaker 1: So this first one says, hey you and your my
Speaker 1: name is James, I met you the other night in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Speaker 1: It was great to meet you before the show was
Speaker 1: it was an awesome night. I got to stand in
Speaker 1: front on the front row and fish bump you and
Speaker 1: get a guitar pick it said. It was great. But
Speaker 1: I'm fourteen years old. I want to learn how to
Speaker 1: play guitar. I've wanted to ask you if you have
Speaker 1: any tips for learning how to play I already have
Speaker 1: a guitar. I just want to learn to play it.
Speaker 1: I love your podcast and music. Thanks well, James shout
Speaker 1: out to Louisiana. Thanks for writing in Buddy fourteen. Do
Speaker 1: you play any instruments? I played guitar mandolin, and I
Speaker 1: was forced to take piano lessons back in the day.
Speaker 1: But I'm grateful for it because I learned the scales
Speaker 1: and kind of note placement and things like that. Do
Speaker 1: you remember how you first started playing for James's sake,
Speaker 1: I yes, So we had a classical guitar, Old Gibson,
Speaker 1: and so you learn a lot about kind of yeah
Speaker 1: dexterity and fingerpicking and things like that. But I couldn't
Speaker 1: wait to get to a steel string and then eventually
Speaker 1: an electric guitar. Do you remember how the first how
Speaker 1: it first started for you, it was it a book.
Speaker 1: For me, it was a book for me, it was lessons.
Speaker 1: It was a guy named Larry. It's out there Larry
Speaker 1: and Montana, Larry and Montana, and he talked about himself
Speaker 1: and the third person, Like I remember, we were sitting
Speaker 1: in this room, just me and Larry, and we're sitting
Speaker 1: there and I've got my guitar and he's facing me
Speaker 1: and he says, Okay, now Larry's gonna play a g ooh.
Speaker 1: And I was like, it's creepy. Oh you're Larry, got it? Okay.
Speaker 1: It's then he's like, okay, now Larry's gonna do It.
Speaker 1: Was the strangest, but I learned a g chord and
Speaker 1: it was a lot of scales, okay, a lot of
Speaker 1: finger scales. But for me it was I learned. Actually,
Speaker 1: you said you're fourteen. I learned at fourteen, and I
Speaker 1: pulled the It was because some friends of mine were
Speaker 1: playing guitar in middle school and I just thought it
Speaker 1: was the coolest thing. So I thought I want to
Speaker 1: do that, and the girls liked it when the guys
Speaker 1: could play guitar, so I thought, that's cool. No girl
Speaker 1: looked at me, so I thought, maybe one will look
Speaker 1: at me if I play guitar. So there was one
Speaker 1: in my closet for my grandmother. Was actually classical, which
Speaker 1: is great and I and it's kind of the point
Speaker 1: I want to make here in a second. They have
Speaker 1: nylon strings and they don't hurt your fingers as bad
Speaker 1: as the steel strings do. They're a lot softer, right
Speaker 1: getting those calluses. Yeah, And it feels like the strings
Speaker 1: are further from the neck. Yeah, like they're higher up.
Speaker 1: So you've got to be very intentional about fret placement.
Speaker 1: So I learned there was a book inside the guitar case.
Speaker 1: And this was a guitar inside because my grandmother tried
Speaker 1: to play it and didn't put it in our house.
Speaker 1: So there was a book in there and it said
Speaker 1: where to put it had to fretboard and little dots,
Speaker 1: and so I just looked at the page and lined
Speaker 1: up my fingers to where the where the dots were
Speaker 1: lined up. And if you do that, all you have
Speaker 1: to do is learn three chords and you could play
Speaker 1: a song essentially just two chords you could play if
Speaker 1: you learn e and a very simple positions E and
Speaker 1: A are the first things I learned, and you could
Speaker 1: play a full song just E and A back and forth.
Speaker 1: But when you learn three chords and you learn a D,
Speaker 1: then you could play a full any song you hear
Speaker 1: on the radio pretty much. But that being said, today
Speaker 1: YouTube is around. YouTube is such a great source for
Speaker 1: learning instruments, so you could do it free. You don't
Speaker 1: have to go see Larry and listen to him talking
Speaker 1: with Larry. You could watch YouTube. And I remember a
Speaker 1: big step was I was good at playing as long
Speaker 1: as there was no other things happening, like keeping rhythm
Speaker 1: and stand on track, and then learning to play and
Speaker 1: sing at the same time. That was a major hurdle
Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, and you don't have to do that
Speaker 1: right away. Learn your guitar first, decently, and then you'll
Speaker 1: just want to sing along with the guitar. So you're
Speaker 1: on the right path, James. The first thing that you
Speaker 1: need is you need to want to do it, and
Speaker 1: then you need a guitar, and then and you have
Speaker 1: both of that, you're ready. But this is what I
Speaker 1: was gonna say earlier though. What you can do though
Speaker 1: with your guitar is you could take it to a
Speaker 1: local shop and have them put nylon strings on your
Speaker 1: acoustic guitar. And they're gonna think you're crazy. And you say,
Speaker 1: Granger Smith told me to do it on a podcast,
Speaker 1: but I've done it many times. You could take the
Speaker 1: steel strings off your guitar, replace it with eye on strings,
Speaker 1: and it allows you to play longer periods of time
Speaker 1: without it hurting. Because your your fingers tips right now
Speaker 1: are just soft. They don't have any callouses. So you
Speaker 1: don't want that to be to inhibit your learning because
Speaker 1: it hurts that. You don't want that. But right back
Speaker 1: in James to try this out, and and right back in,
Speaker 1: let's get an update from you. Let's go to another question.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get another. Okay, here we go. Here's
Speaker 1: another softball. Hey Grande, this isn't necessarily a podcast question.
Speaker 1: I'm reading it on the podcast. But said, I'm in
Speaker 1: the market for a new smart watch. I saw yours
Speaker 1: on an episode of The Smith of just wondering what
Speaker 1: model it is. I get this question all the time,
Speaker 1: and that people don't realize it's just an Apple watch.
Speaker 1: But this is just a wat. You're a commando, right.
Speaker 1: It has a case that I got for fourteen dollars
Speaker 1: on Amazon, this little strap, this band, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's strong. It doesn't it protects it more even though
Speaker 1: it's cheap. But I love the Apple Watch. It took
Speaker 1: me a while to get in the rhythm of it,
Speaker 1: but once I got in the rhythm of it. The
Speaker 1: alarm is probably my favorite thing. It vibrates so I
Speaker 1: can get up before my wife and she doesn't hear
Speaker 1: me get up. She doesn't hear the alarm go off.
Speaker 1: So then I have I have the temperature outside always
Speaker 1: on my face, my watch face, which is great because
Speaker 1: I wake up in a new city and before I
Speaker 1: get dressed, I can be like, oh, it's forty two
Speaker 1: degrees south side. Yeah yeah. And then I also this
Speaker 1: face has this and all the Apple Watch faces are free,
Speaker 1: but this one has the ability to see where the
Speaker 1: sun is in the sky, and I could I could
Speaker 1: track it like this and go, well, the sun broke.
Speaker 1: It broke the horizon at six twenty six this morning,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be it's going to hit the
Speaker 1: horizon again at a twelve PM, which that's probably helpful
Speaker 1: for hunting when you know thirty minutes prior to first
Speaker 1: light and after. And so the night before you go
Speaker 1: on a hunt, you go, what times should I set
Speaker 1: my alarm? We want to be in the blind or
Speaker 1: out in the field wherever you're going, thirty minutes before
Speaker 1: the sun boom the sun comes up. That's nice. Whatever. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you have smart watch, I don't have it on today.
Speaker 1: You usually have the garment, right, I do have the garment.
Speaker 1: And for me it was a I don't need a
Speaker 1: smart watch as much as I needed a fitness tracker,
Speaker 1: which it's different. I would say absolutely the Apple is
Speaker 1: probably the best smart watch out there, but in terms
Speaker 1: of tracking fitness, it has some Like my wife has
Speaker 1: an Apple Watch, and so we'll both do a workout
Speaker 1: and I'm tracking heart rate, intermittent heart rate, respiratory. I
Speaker 1: can track all kinds of things and see stats for
Speaker 1: days on Like I remember going for a run and
Speaker 1: it told me that I spent more time on my
Speaker 1: left foot than on my right foot, So all kinds
Speaker 1: of cool things. My wife and I do the same workout.
Speaker 1: We finish and maybe it's a fifteen minute workout, it
Speaker 1: says that she's only been active for like a minute
Speaker 1: and a half. Interesting, and she does the whole Apple
Speaker 1: fit the little circles. So I think Apple's an incredible
Speaker 1: smart watch, but I think there are better fitness trackers.
Speaker 1: So it depends on what your goal is. And I've
Speaker 1: had a garment before. Parker actually wears it now, but
Speaker 1: it's also it just it's the best in the field
Speaker 1: for GPS. So if you're hiking, altitude, perimetric pressure, snow skiing,
Speaker 1: anything in the mountains, garmin corners of the market, they
Speaker 1: are the best. Apple is going to depend on your
Speaker 1: cell service, and the garment depends on the satellite. It
Speaker 1: picks up the satellites, so doesn't need to sell tower
Speaker 1: at all. Are you ready to get into this? Those
Speaker 1: are nice just one of soft on ramps into are
Speaker 1: we Getting Crazy? Series? I'm not going, well, you're gonna
Speaker 1: pick oh, this is what we do. This is kind
Speaker 1: of a newer development when I first started, not that
Speaker 1: I'm like a seasoned vet. So let me say a
Speaker 1: couple of things. One, when you email Grangersmith Podcast at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Try you don't have to, but please
Speaker 1: try to make it readable and shorter. If it's a novel,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to put on the podcast. And the
Speaker 1: second thing is. Please don't send them twice. I know
Speaker 1: that a lot of you guys I could recognize some
Speaker 1: mover names, are sending it multiple times in hopes that
Speaker 1: you know you're going to just put another ball in
Speaker 1: the in the bingo and the hopper hopper. So please
Speaker 1: don't do that because it messes me up a little bit.
Speaker 1: I put everybody's email in the queue, so don't worry
Speaker 1: if you haven't heard it yet, it's just in the queue.
Speaker 1: So here's a couple for you. Chad, Hey, Granger needs
Speaker 1: some advice. Two light questions of faith and music. No
Speaker 1: real friends, psychic mediums, going against the grain, any of
Speaker 1: those pop out? Didn't Garth Brooks have a song going
Speaker 1: against the Grain? Yeah, folks call me the Maverick. It was.
Speaker 1: It was the name of the album against the Grain. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see here. Well we've talked a lot about that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry it was not that wasp win and out.
Speaker 1: The song was called against Have you ever had Garth
Speaker 1: on this I no, I have not know we should
Speaker 1: have him on here, Yeah I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: Garth would do good on this podcast. He'd be too
Speaker 1: nice to everybody. Yeah, he's he's agree You've never met everybody.
Speaker 1: He seems like he's very agreeable. Really, yeah, that's fun anything.
Speaker 1: So in order to be good on this podcast, you
Speaker 1: kind of have to You gotta be a little You
Speaker 1: gotta ruffle some feathers. Not necessarily, but you know me
Speaker 1: and you you're you're straight up. You have to be honest.
Speaker 1: You want to be honest here, Yeah around a campfire.
Speaker 1: You can't always you can't always be butterflies and bunnies.
Speaker 1: We have to read against the grain now, Okay, because
Speaker 1: we brought it up, says Hey Granger, just recently started
Speaker 1: to find out about you and your company and your music,
Speaker 1: and I cannot be happier to have found you. Thank you.
Speaker 1: So my name is Sam. I'm nineteen years old. I'm
Speaker 1: from a small city in Massachusetts. My question to you
Speaker 1: is going against the grain or finding your own path?
Speaker 1: Is it worth it? Because everyone I know from my
Speaker 1: school went to college and wants to be a plumber,
Speaker 1: and I want to be a plumber. Do you have
Speaker 1: any advice? So everyone in your school is going to college,
Speaker 1: but you want to go against the grain and not
Speaker 1: go to college and be a plumber. I mean that
Speaker 1: I don't see anything wrong with being a plumber. That
Speaker 1: the plumbers make really good money and are in high demand. Yes,
Speaker 1: especially today. You're always glad when you need a plumber
Speaker 1: and there's a plumber available, and you're always liked, especially
Speaker 1: doing that ice storm. Yeah yeah, dude, Yeah, Sam. What's
Speaker 1: awesome about this email is that you already know what
Speaker 1: you want to do, and probably most of your friends
Speaker 1: that are going to college don't know yet, and so
Speaker 1: that that's the default is going to college, which is
Speaker 1: a good thing. If you don't know what to do,
Speaker 1: get some more education and you'll figure it out in
Speaker 1: the way. You want to be a plumber, dude, I
Speaker 1: think I think that's awesome. You could also go to
Speaker 1: some kind of tech school for plumbing, right, Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's probably like a journeyman or some sort of kind
Speaker 1: of process where you study and train, and I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it seems like if you think
Speaker 1: about why most of the people are wanting to go
Speaker 1: to college, it's so that they can figure out what
Speaker 1: they want to be when they grow up. Right, If
Speaker 1: you already know that, you save a ton of time
Speaker 1: and money. My nephew has decided he's in his senior year.
Speaker 1: I think he's going into a year of high school.
Speaker 1: He's already decided he wants to be an electrician. His
Speaker 1: sisters both went to college, but he's just like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I just I want to be an electrician
Speaker 1: and he loves it. So he's already started right now
Speaker 1: in high school working with a local electrician and getting experience,
Speaker 1: and he just loves it. And he's going to save
Speaker 1: a ton of time and money and just get going
Speaker 1: making a difference in the world through being an electrician.
Speaker 1: I think you can do the same thing, absolutely said.
Speaker 1: My question is my question to you, is going against
Speaker 1: the grain or finding your own path worth it? Yes?
Speaker 1: For you? Yes, not always. If you're talking about painting
Speaker 1: your fingernails black, i'd probably said hump the brakes a
Speaker 1: little bit. But yeah, it's like, what's your what's your
Speaker 1: end game? Yeah? You do? You want to go a gett?
Speaker 1: Your end game is right? Yeah? How about I just
Speaker 1: pulled this one up lost at seventeen. Yeah, Hey, Grangeer,
Speaker 1: I'm a seventeen year old from New Hampshire's currently taking
Speaker 1: my ged I have very big goals for my life,
Speaker 1: but I don't know how to get to where I
Speaker 1: want to be. Do you have any advice on how
Speaker 1: to chase your dream? Is there any advice on how
Speaker 1: to just feel like I'm doing right by myself and
Speaker 1: by my family. I want to feel like I'm making
Speaker 1: myself and my family proud. I love the podcast and
Speaker 1: the music. Sincerely a Lost Teenager. There's definitely like three
Speaker 1: questions in there. There's you know, how do you achieve
Speaker 1: a goal? And then doing right by your family or
Speaker 1: honoring your family and their reputation. It's great that he
Speaker 1: cares about that. Yeah, you're not so lost, buddy. You
Speaker 1: might feel lost, but you're writing emails like you're on
Speaker 1: a really good track here. You're asking the right questions,
Speaker 1: which is a great starting place. I want to start
Speaker 1: this by just saying it's seventeen. There's just a lost
Speaker 1: feeling that just goes with that being seventeen, because you're
Speaker 1: coming out of adolescence and into manhood. So anytime you're
Speaker 1: making that transition out of adolescence and in the manhood,
Speaker 1: you're going to feel like you're in uncharted waters. You're
Speaker 1: in a new territory here. And when you're in uncharted waters,
Speaker 1: what do you feel a little bit lost. So there
Speaker 1: is a natural feeling like if you were saying this
Speaker 1: and you were forty or thirty five, we've got a
Speaker 1: deeper issue of being lost at thirty five, but lost
Speaker 1: at seventeen is kind of normal. So if anyone's let
Speaker 1: me say this too. A lot of people write similar questions,
Speaker 1: and so if you don't hear your specific question answered,
Speaker 1: you're gonna find yourself in some of these. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of lost teenagers that email this podcast, and
Speaker 1: I could kind of speak to all that by saying,
Speaker 1: if you're fifteen through nineteen and you're feeling lost, don't
Speaker 1: worry right now, don't worry. That's pretty natural. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I would say that, you know, for for guys especially,
Speaker 1: we put a lot of phasis on what we do
Speaker 1: and how that relates to our value. Right if my occupation,
Speaker 1: my career, if I've made a name for myself, how
Speaker 1: I know what I'm able to contribute to society, And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of value placed
Speaker 1: on that, and we got to be careful that we
Speaker 1: don't find our identity in that or our actual value
Speaker 1: as a human being in what we do. Then where
Speaker 1: do you see that social media, you see that that
Speaker 1: value placement happened through social media where you see that
Speaker 1: guy is doing this and he is successful. I'm doing
Speaker 1: this and I'm not. I'm lesser value right, And even
Speaker 1: like when you meet somebody new, you're like, hey, my
Speaker 1: name is so and so what do you do? The
Speaker 1: question is what is your occupation? There's an association when
Speaker 1: you first meet somebody that I can fill in the
Speaker 1: blanks about who they are based on what they do,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a danger. So at the age
Speaker 1: of seventeen, the questions I think you're asking good questions
Speaker 1: to kind of dial in on your goals, whether they're
Speaker 1: appropriate goals, honoring family, those kind of things come out
Speaker 1: of figuring out kind of what you're wired to do.
Speaker 1: So you're going to assess passion, skills, opportunities, maybe what
Speaker 1: you've been equipped with or trained with, or what you
Speaker 1: find yourself doing anyway, what people around you affirm that
Speaker 1: you're good at, and what resources you have. Those all
Speaker 1: are going to play a role in setting trajectory, identifying goal,
Speaker 1: and you'll also identify are their other things you know,
Speaker 1: as you look towards that end goal that you need
Speaker 1: to make sure are in the picture, and you're asking
Speaker 1: any advice on how to do right by myself and
Speaker 1: by my family. I just want to feel like I'm
Speaker 1: making myself and my family proud. So that's going to
Speaker 1: relate always back to work, ethic, integrity, honesty. These are
Speaker 1: core moral values that Christians find in the Bible. And
Speaker 1: where are you? Where's your moral compass? Where are you
Speaker 1: basing your being right? Doing right? What does that word
Speaker 1: mean to you? Is something you're going to think about
Speaker 1: at seventeen. That's it's a great thing to think about.
Speaker 1: What is right? What is right? Now? I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you that that right is being honest, making an
Speaker 1: honest living, working hard, treating others right, good, treating others well,
Speaker 1: you know, treating others as you would want yourself treated.
Speaker 1: You do that, it doesn't matter how much money you make,
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter your career status, doesn't matter how many
Speaker 1: followers you have on Facebook. If you're doing that, then
Speaker 1: that's how you answer your question making yourself and your
Speaker 1: family proud. Your family is proud of you because you're
Speaker 1: a good kid. You're honest, you work hard, you're passionate,
Speaker 1: you are a man of integrity, those are things that
Speaker 1: your family goes Yeah, very proud of my son, right Yeah.
Speaker 1: And what's cool about what you're saying is it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what your occupation or what you're actually doing. It's
Speaker 1: how you're doing it that represents and reflects on your family.
Speaker 1: And it's honesty, integrity, you know, doing what you're saying
Speaker 1: you're going to do, showing up on time, like completing
Speaker 1: the task, maybe going above and beyond, Like these are
Speaker 1: things that regardless of what you put your hand to,
Speaker 1: it's the how you do it that's going to make
Speaker 1: it matter what you do, it's how you do it.
Speaker 1: I love that chat. I think of myself sometimes every
Speaker 1: once in a while drive by like burger King, and
Speaker 1: the stop pops in my head, like kind I kind
Speaker 1: of want to work there. I kind of want to
Speaker 1: work there in the kitchen, just to see how I
Speaker 1: could move up in the chain of burger king. And
Speaker 1: that means just what Chad said, showing up on time
Speaker 1: to burger king, make an impression with the manager, making
Speaker 1: every burger perfect, you know, doing the job that you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do really well, taking pride and making that
Speaker 1: burger and and cleaning up your area and being nice
Speaker 1: to customers, being in a good mood. And it's so
Speaker 1: interesting to think that if you did all of those
Speaker 1: things day by day by day, how long it would
Speaker 1: take you to become manager, and then how long it
Speaker 1: would take you to be a regional manager and maybe
Speaker 1: own a franchise or two. It's an interesting thought. You're
Speaker 1: asking all the right questions. You're not a lost teenager.
Speaker 1: You're right on track, buddy. All right, let's do we
Speaker 1: got We got time on this segment for another. I
Speaker 1: have what should I do? I have dating as an adult?
Speaker 1: I have personal problem, dude, dating as an adult. Let
Speaker 1: it out there. We've dealt with a lot of teenage questions.
Speaker 1: Listen how he starts this? Hey Granger and hopefully Chad
Speaker 1: really right on? Who is this? Greg? Greg shout out says,
Speaker 1: I'm thirty two. I've been single for roughly seven years.
Speaker 1: Because of your podcast, I've been on a journey recently
Speaker 1: to better myself. I found a group of peers in
Speaker 1: my area that go country dancing a few times a week.
Speaker 1: I've grown into friends. They have grown into friends over
Speaker 1: the last few weeks that have been that have been
Speaker 1: a really good group of friends. We went to one
Speaker 1: of the country dance clubs here in Phoenix. Recently, I
Speaker 1: was able to get the attention of one of the
Speaker 1: shot girls. We've been texting, but it's sporadic and short lived.
Speaker 1: I found out she was talking to another guy, but
Speaker 1: she wants to see where this goes with me. I know,
Speaker 1: and I know from you and Amber that Amber was
Speaker 1: sort of seeing someone. When you met, I realized that
Speaker 1: we just met and there's no way for me to
Speaker 1: have any sort of feelings about this because we just met.
Speaker 1: But is there any advice that says Greg Patterson saw
Speaker 1: him twenty three, so he needs you on here for
Speaker 1: a reason. Chad, So this is awesome. You're sitting here
Speaker 1: so yet to answer the Amber thing. When I met Amber,
Speaker 1: she was kind of dating a guy. They weren't She'll
Speaker 1: tell you they weren't serious, but they were kind of dating.
Speaker 1: And I've looked at that often and thought, well, usually
Speaker 1: the girls that are worth it are at least seeing
Speaker 1: somebody or or you know, they're on the market. You know.
Speaker 1: So what I told Amber what happened when I knew
Speaker 1: that she had been talking to a guy, And this
Speaker 1: was a round Palatine's Day when we met, I told her,
Speaker 1: I just because she said, I have feelings for you?
Speaker 1: Is this real? These feelings real? And I said, they
Speaker 1: are for me too. But you have been talking to
Speaker 1: this guy, so in respect for him, you need to
Speaker 1: just call him and say, I need to completely cut
Speaker 1: it off, because regardless of if anything happens with me
Speaker 1: and you, this is a sign that you have a
Speaker 1: wondering eye from this guy. And so Amber's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. So I said, regardless of if we ever
Speaker 1: see each other again, you should break it off with
Speaker 1: this guy and just be single. So she did, and
Speaker 1: about four weeks after she did that, because she texted
Speaker 1: me that she did the next day. About four weeks
Speaker 1: after that was when we had our first coffee at
Speaker 1: Starbucks and and I felt I felt good about it.
Speaker 1: Wasn't like it wasn't like she was dating somebody and
Speaker 1: then wanted to try me and see if that worked.
Speaker 1: You know, it was. I let a month go by.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's that's our story, and that's probably what
Speaker 1: you heard before. And I don't know necessarily this this
Speaker 1: shot the story of the shotgirl in Phoenix Dance Club.
Speaker 1: What would what would you say to him? I mean
Speaker 1: I have my wife and I before we got married
Speaker 1: and met or and were dating, we were both dating
Speaker 1: other people when we first met, So that's another example
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, and we were hanging out in a
Speaker 1: large group of friends and we happened to meet each other.
Speaker 1: We had some great conversation and I thought, man, she
Speaker 1: is really something else, and then I felt bad, like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, Yeah, I'm in a relationship, so it
Speaker 1: wasn't for and so my relationship took its course, hers
Speaker 1: took its course, and then it was a year later
Speaker 1: that we then kind of rekindled and got together. And man,
Speaker 1: once we started hanging out, it was any and every
Speaker 1: excuse to see each other again, Like in my book,
Speaker 1: But I think that the key here if as you
Speaker 1: hang out in groups and you identify, because by the
Speaker 1: time you're thirty, you're kind of done with the game exactly.
Speaker 1: You're not trying to figure out who you are and
Speaker 1: who you like and who you're compatible with. Usually you've
Speaker 1: you've had enough friendships and you've done enough life that
Speaker 1: you kind of have figured out your likes and dislikes.
Speaker 1: And so if there's enough compatibility with you and this girl,
Speaker 1: and if you if you can't figure that out unless
Speaker 1: you have a few more times of hanging out and
Speaker 1: going on dates. Then I would say, yeah, pursue, But
Speaker 1: I think it's on you to pursue, not for you
Speaker 1: to wait for a sign that you might have a shot.
Speaker 1: I think you you pursue, You go and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I like you, this is a I just want to
Speaker 1: see if yeah, if we enjoy time together. Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: and so Greg, I would say the same thing for you.
Speaker 1: I would say that I said to Amber. I would
Speaker 1: go to this girl and say, listen, I like you.
Speaker 1: I think there's something, there's something really special between us.
Speaker 1: The fact that you're talking to a guy and you
Speaker 1: say you want to see where this goes between us,
Speaker 1: the fact if you're even saying that you should cut
Speaker 1: it off with this guy. It's the same thing un
Speaker 1: told Damber, because it's not fair to that guy, and
Speaker 1: it's saying something about how you really feel about him.
Speaker 1: You're obviously obviously she obviously doesn't real Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: level of discontent or not quite enough that she's even
Speaker 1: willing to consider other options. Yeah, and if she doesn't
Speaker 1: agree to that, move on pursuit over. If she says
Speaker 1: I kind of want to just see if you're better
Speaker 1: than this guy, and if you're not, I'll go back
Speaker 1: to him. It's a bad sign. Yeah, you don't want
Speaker 1: to be in a You're not in an audition. It's
Speaker 1: just a bad American idol. Yeah. So yeah, that that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's your call to action. Buddy, right back in and
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Speaker 1: We have this one says, ever thought about making gospel music?
Speaker 1: Question mark, Oh what should I do? Personal problem? No
Speaker 1: real friends, psychic mediums. I definitely want to get that
Speaker 1: to that at some point today. Question for the podcast.
Speaker 1: Any of those pop up? I want to hear your
Speaker 1: take on gospel music and then get another stuff. This
Speaker 1: comes up a lot, says hey Grader. My name is David.
Speaker 1: I'm nineteen years old from North Carolina. Shout out to
Speaker 1: North Carolina. As a kid, I grew up in church
Speaker 1: and listening to Southern gospel. So happens. I'm going to
Speaker 1: school to be a youth pastor and Bible teacher in Florida.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you thought about making a gospel
Speaker 1: album or something along those lines. I've been showing you
Speaker 1: to a lot of my ministry buddies in your podcast,
Speaker 1: and I may have got a couple of city slickers
Speaker 1: addicted along with me. Would love to hear back from you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for what you do. You're changing lives. Ye you well,
Speaker 1: Thank you, David. I appreciate that, buddy very much. Here's
Speaker 1: a nineteen year old that doesn't seem lost at all.
Speaker 1: He's dialed in. He's dialed in speaking like a much
Speaker 1: older man here. Yeah, this question comes up a lot,
Speaker 1: and I'm never really sure how to answer it, but
Speaker 1: I do get this question. Will you sing gospel music
Speaker 1: or worship music or make a worship or gospel album?
Speaker 1: And I don't know because this is and I think
Speaker 1: I've said this maybe before. It starts with a song.
Speaker 1: Any album in my life always starts with a song,
Speaker 1: and a song will usually dictate the mood of the
Speaker 1: forthcoming album. So and so for you, is that a
Speaker 1: there is a story that shapes into a lyric that
Speaker 1: you then put music to. A cow does when you
Speaker 1: say it starts with a song, there's something that you
Speaker 1: need to express, and so there is a song that
Speaker 1: comes out of that, and then it more songs come
Speaker 1: like what do you mean by that? So in a
Speaker 1: season like I'm exactly like I'm in right now, that's
Speaker 1: a season after an album release. We're about six months
Speaker 1: fast forward from the last release. So this is about
Speaker 1: the season when I'll start thinking, somebody will say something,
Speaker 1: I'll read a title or something in a book, and
Speaker 1: I'll think that would be a great song, and then
Speaker 1: eventually I will write. I'll start writing, and then as
Speaker 1: I get one that I really like, I'll think, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is this is this is cool, this is a
Speaker 1: new version of me, this is the newest version of me,
Speaker 1: and then from that can spawn an entire album of
Speaker 1: songs in that same vein that same thread. So when
Speaker 1: I think of a gospel album or gospel song or
Speaker 1: worship song, when I think of that, a lot of
Speaker 1: my songs talk about God through the lens of a life.
Speaker 1: But a worship or gospel song is the opposite. It's
Speaker 1: it is God in the song. The lyrics are are
Speaker 1: textual to the scripture. A lot of times they're they're
Speaker 1: inspired from God or from the actual Bible. So there's
Speaker 1: a difference. What I'm trying to say is there's a
Speaker 1: difference between God being in a song and God being
Speaker 1: the song. And for you, gospel music, it's already been written, Like,
Speaker 1: so are you? Is there a sense in which if
Speaker 1: you did a gospel album, you're covering No, that's a
Speaker 1: good question. Songs that are already written, that's a good question.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's what he means. Maybe he's not talking
Speaker 1: about writing. Maybe he's talking about me covering and actually performing,
Speaker 1: Like amazing, Still don't even know how to answer that
Speaker 1: besides the fact that it's still even if I didn't
Speaker 1: write it would start with a song. If I recorded
Speaker 1: Amazing Grace and just thought this is cool. This is
Speaker 1: banjo and acoustic and piano. Never heard Amazing Grace like this,
Speaker 1: maybe I should make a whole album like this. That
Speaker 1: would be still starting from a song. But I'm not
Speaker 1: opposed to actually writing a worship song either. It just
Speaker 1: hasn't happened yet. And that would happen knowing my brain
Speaker 1: from a title, probably reading a title, seeing something in scripture,
Speaker 1: hearing something from this podcast and a question, and going, oh,
Speaker 1: it would be a really good worship song. And then
Speaker 1: if I wrote it and recorded it and put it
Speaker 1: out and felt something from that, then then I would
Speaker 1: consider maybe I should write four or five more of these.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's a long way of saying I don't know.
Speaker 1: I should get by a campfire, your guitar, your family,
Speaker 1: and you guys, just rock just a favorite hymn, just
Speaker 1: acoustic style. Throw that on YouTube because see what happens.
Speaker 1: I bet you and if you comment below, put in
Speaker 1: your like your picks, like what would be the gospel
Speaker 1: song preference, so you would love for this voice to vocalize,
Speaker 1: that would for this voice to mess that song up.
Speaker 1: I want My pick is nothing but the blood. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. All right, we gotta go them. Just the
Speaker 1: psychic medium thing, man, I love. I love these kind
Speaker 1: of questions. So I'm gonna have trouble with this name.
Speaker 1: Oh actually, he says right here, said hello, mister Smith.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like it's respectable to call someone who
Speaker 1: is old enough to be my father by the first name.
Speaker 1: You can, buddy, you can thank you for that, says
Speaker 1: my name is it says pronounced with a short eye. Yeah, yeah, Hudah,
Speaker 1: Yeah Hudah, yea Huda Manovic. I'm fifteen years old and
Speaker 1: I'm Jewish and I love everything that you do. You
Speaker 1: and your family are great inspiration to me. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yehudah says I was wondering if you believe in what
Speaker 1: psychic mediums do. They supposedly this is parentheses. They supposedly
Speaker 1: connect with people who have passed on and create can
Speaker 1: relate messages from deceased loved ones. A great example is
Speaker 1: Matt Fraser. You could check out his YouTube channel called
Speaker 1: Matt Fraser or Frazer Fraser Fraser. He's the five time
Speaker 1: world fittest man according to CrossFit. Okay, and if you
Speaker 1: do believe in them, would you consider meeting one or
Speaker 1: having messages relayed over to you? Thanks Yshuda. Ps I
Speaker 1: love building things automotive. I'm also a mechanic and I
Speaker 1: love watching Earld's truck come together. So dude, thanks man,
Speaker 1: thanks for the question. I don't know if you did
Speaker 1: you say where he's from? Didn't say where he's from.
Speaker 1: But fifteen Jewish asking about psychic mediums. So let me
Speaker 1: dig in kind of one at a time here with
Speaker 1: Chad on your questions. If one question is do you
Speaker 1: believe in them? One question is would you consider meeting
Speaker 1: with one? And yes, do I believe? Yes, I do,
Speaker 1: I do believe what I consider meeting. No, absolutely not
Speaker 1: is forbidden. It's actually forbidden in your beliefs as well.
Speaker 1: And when you say you believe, you're not saying you endorse. No,
Speaker 1: you're saying you think that there is something happening. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: and it is not good. Yes, okay, Yes, I believe
Speaker 1: that there is something supernatural about some of them. I
Speaker 1: know that there's a million fakes. Yeah, there's a million frauds.
Speaker 1: They're just an artist, they're just tricking. But I do
Speaker 1: believe there's a handful. I don't know Matt Fraser. I
Speaker 1: do believe that there's a handful that are actually harnessing
Speaker 1: a supernatural power. And that Fraser may be a different
Speaker 1: Matt Fraser, but Matt Fraser I know is an athlete.
Speaker 1: So yes, there is a there's a belief, a non
Speaker 1: endorsed belief, that they are harnessing a supernatural power, and
Speaker 1: I I highly discourage it. It is highly discouraged in
Speaker 1: my faith in Jesus Christ. Notice how avoided religion that
Speaker 1: in that phrase. Here's here's something I want to say
Speaker 1: to this and then I'll let Chad. I'll just unleash Chad.
Speaker 1: You say, supposedly they connect people with people, they connect
Speaker 1: you with people who have passed on. So that's that's
Speaker 1: what I do not believe that, that's the part I
Speaker 1: do not believe. I do believe there is a supernatural power.
Speaker 1: But I believe who you're talking to is not who
Speaker 1: you think you're talking to. That's just my personal belief.
Speaker 1: But we do know from the Bible that the dead
Speaker 1: have no business on earth once they pass on. There
Speaker 1: are a few Old Testament examples of them of someone
Speaker 1: that has passed on coming back, and there are parables
Speaker 1: in the New Testament that reference that as examples, right,
Speaker 1: And they're kind of scenarios trying to guess at what
Speaker 1: Jesus might do or what might happen. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: I think you're spot on. There is something going on
Speaker 1: in some cases. So sometimes it is just pure manipulation,
Speaker 1: human manipulation. I think there are ways in which there
Speaker 1: are supernatural forces that are not for your good. They
Speaker 1: are for their good and your destruction, and they will
Speaker 1: and they don't represent truth, but they do have a
Speaker 1: way to make you experience or feel like you're talking
Speaker 1: to dead people. But I would say just we would
Speaker 1: call that demonic activity versus godly activity. So when we
Speaker 1: talk supernatural, we're talking about things beyond the natural realm,
Speaker 1: things beyond what we can experience with our five senses.
Speaker 1: That there is a belief within the Christian world view
Speaker 1: that there is a supernatural element to our reality. And
Speaker 1: in that world, there are those that are for God
Speaker 1: and there are those that are against God, and those
Speaker 1: that are pitted against God by their own choice, are
Speaker 1: any interaction they have with the physical realm is in
Speaker 1: an effort to draw people away from God and so,
Speaker 1: and there's no demonstration in the scriptures of God working
Speaker 1: or operating in that way in order to reveal himself. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: is it is very specifically forbidden to visit for a
Speaker 1: for a believer in Christ, to visit a psychic medium.
Speaker 1: Those words are specific, they are undisputed. There's there is
Speaker 1: no there's no bad translation from the Greek or any
Speaker 1: misconception and what that might mean. So there is And
Speaker 1: I you said, I'm fifteen years old and I'm Jewish.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that Jewish, because sometimes Jewish means
Speaker 1: heritage only and not practicing religion. Sometimes it's a difference
Speaker 1: when when you're talking about Jewish. But but I will
Speaker 1: bring up that it is forbidden for Jews as well.
Speaker 1: And I think there is another component to consider, and
Speaker 1: I I have witnessed this is that by engaging in medium,
Speaker 1: fortune tellers, palm readers, whatever you want to call that,
Speaker 1: you are opening yourself and granting access to very dark
Speaker 1: influences that you've given your You've given access to them,
Speaker 1: and now they they have a opportunity and even the
Speaker 1: right to be there in your life influencing you, and
Speaker 1: so it is absolutely absolutely dangerous. Do not open yourself
Speaker 1: up and grant access to any kind of dark influence
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, I want to add just one more
Speaker 1: little thing, and this is this might offend some people,
Speaker 1: but I also completely disagree with any of our dead
Speaker 1: friends or relatives ever coming back and speaking to us
Speaker 1: in any way. Not that it's not possible, but I
Speaker 1: just I highly discourage thinking that way, or looking looking
Speaker 1: at at a bird that is our dead grandma that's
Speaker 1: coming to tweet at our window and say that everything's okay.
Speaker 1: I just guys, Grandma is fine, she's fine. She's not
Speaker 1: thinking about coming and tweeting in your window as a
Speaker 1: as a blue jay or something. So that's a whole
Speaker 1: other kind of Twitter. Yeah, that's totally different. Sorry, I
Speaker 1: mean to laugh something so serious, but because I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people really crave that crave the signs
Speaker 1: of nature to speak to them as if a dead
Speaker 1: relative is speaking through an animal or a cloud or guys,
Speaker 1: are just that's all human conception, it's all in our
Speaker 1: minds that we build these things out of our semi delusion.
Speaker 1: But but that's just not what. It's not what the
Speaker 1: Bible says. In fact, it's not what any of the
Speaker 1: Abrahamic religions say. If we want to even go there,
Speaker 1: The dead no place on earth, and they're too busy
Speaker 1: being full of joy and to come and deal with
Speaker 1: the sadness and the anxiety and the affliction that we
Speaker 1: have here. So there's probably way more than you you're
Speaker 1: asking for. But but I do like it because my
Speaker 1: my short answer is I want no part of that.
Speaker 1: We should lighten the load, Chad heavy. How about how
Speaker 1: about two light questions? Faith and music? Hey Grainger, my
Speaker 1: name is Jeff. I'm from Modesto, California, center of Almond Country.
Speaker 1: Love It. My fiancee and I are re acquainting ourselves
Speaker 1: with faith. This year. We're going to try to read
Speaker 1: the Bible in a year with an app and this
Speaker 1: will help both of us connect with faith and a
Speaker 1: different topic to talk about. So the light part of
Speaker 1: my question is one in IV or American standard. Two
Speaker 1: other than old Country, what newer artists do you like
Speaker 1: to play on your way to the Yugi Farm? Let
Speaker 1: me start with two. I'll just be as boring as
Speaker 1: possible and say that I don't I just don't listen
Speaker 1: to the radio on the way to ee Farm. I'm
Speaker 1: usually catching up on a podcast or studying something and
Speaker 1: or listening to an audiobook super boring, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I just don't listen to I don't listen to newer
Speaker 1: country when I'm driving. Newer country reminds me of work,
Speaker 1: and I hate that. I hate that that's what's happened
Speaker 1: to me. But like, if I'm in an uber and
Speaker 1: they're like, what do you want to listen to? And
Speaker 1: they turn on country, I think that we're who we're
Speaker 1: touring with, or when I'm going to see that guy next,
Speaker 1: or the song the co writer that wrote that song,
Speaker 1: and there's friends of mine, and I just think, I
Speaker 1: think business, or even worse, I think about the chart positioning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you get competitive? You're like, that's a good song.
Speaker 1: I wish I would have thought of that. Absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then we'll kick it over to chatterre N I
Speaker 1: V or the American standard version I actually read. I
Speaker 1: don't read either consistently, but I do. I do really
Speaker 1: like the N I V. I don't think I'm too
Speaker 1: familiar with the American the standard American version, but I
Speaker 1: have read a lot of the n IV, and I like,
Speaker 1: I really like that translation, but I'm I'm an ESV
Speaker 1: guy personally. Yeah, the American Standard Bible not as familiar with.
Speaker 1: I very familiar with the New American Standard and the
Speaker 1: n i V. Those were both translations that were familiar
Speaker 1: to me when I first came to follow Christ. And
Speaker 1: I would say that n I V is a it's
Speaker 1: a it's a translation that I will frequent when I'm
Speaker 1: hanging out in the Old Testament because the translation philosophy
Speaker 1: behind the n I V is more thought for thought
Speaker 1: rather than a word for word translation. And Hebrew, the
Speaker 1: way that the Hebrew authors and poetry and the way
Speaker 1: that they told stories and described things is very different
Speaker 1: than Greek, which is what the New Testament is originally
Speaker 1: written in, and so you've got Hebrew versus Greek, and
Speaker 1: Greek is a much more linear and technical kind of
Speaker 1: way of doing things, and so more word for word
Speaker 1: translations are going to help you there, but understanding thought
Speaker 1: for thought translations and IV is really good at thattment.
Speaker 1: The version that I've frequent the most would be English
Speaker 1: Standard version, the ESV. That's me too. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of exceptions. I'm all ESV. It's like I actually, like
Speaker 1: Chad said, the most frequented version, but I do like
Speaker 1: some things that the NIV says. For instance, I like,
Speaker 1: come to me, all you who are weary and burdened.
Speaker 1: I just like weary and burdened. But sometimes it says
Speaker 1: things that I feel as opposed to heavy ladened. ESV
Speaker 1: says heavy laden, but I hear weary and burdened. It's
Speaker 1: just kind of poetic. And that's the thought by thought
Speaker 1: that you're talking about. This is a good a good
Speaker 1: place for me and you to just quickly talk to
Speaker 1: talk to a translation conversation about where these come from
Speaker 1: and why they exist and are they is it the
Speaker 1: game of telephone? We could never say that enough speak
Speaker 1: to where translations come from and why they exist. And
Speaker 1: there's a common thought that how could you even believe
Speaker 1: the Bible? Isn't it just like it's been translated so
Speaker 1: many times it's just completely forgotten out of its original.
Speaker 1: But it's just not the case. It's all these translations
Speaker 1: come from the original sources, which are Greek and Hebrew
Speaker 1: and Aramaic, and people like the ESV. I know more
Speaker 1: about at because I read it. But we're talking about
Speaker 1: a committee of scholars that come together and build from
Speaker 1: the actual Greek and go back and forth, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of contextual evidence on why they're picking the
Speaker 1: words that closely in our common language, closely match up
Speaker 1: to what the Greek was or what the Hebrew was.
Speaker 1: So it's just so important to remember that when you
Speaker 1: read these versions and n IV and American Standard included,
Speaker 1: when you're reading these, they're really getting a snapshot, a
Speaker 1: modern day snapshot of what those those scriptures actually meant
Speaker 1: and what they meant to say. Yeah, and you have
Speaker 1: these translation committees that don't take lightly the task ahead
Speaker 1: of them, and they labor over word like a word,
Speaker 1: and they'll they'll rattle sabers over the word usage and
Speaker 1: how to and so there is a translation philosophy that
Speaker 1: is going to drive their final decision. There was one
Speaker 1: project that I don't even know how many years it took,
Speaker 1: but it's called the Neet Bible, the New English Translation,
Speaker 1: and it was the I think it's the only open
Speaker 1: source translation that we have. It was I think originally
Speaker 1: created for missionaries in the field that were translating into
Speaker 1: local dialects and languages, and what this was is it
Speaker 1: was hundreds and hundreds of biblical scholars that they basically
Speaker 1: shared all their notes and they had kind of open
Speaker 1: conversation and dialogue about word usage and different things. And
Speaker 1: so you can now go to I think they have
Speaker 1: a website where you can see all of the footnotes
Speaker 1: and all of their discussions over word choice available to
Speaker 1: see kind of how they arrived at a certain word
Speaker 1: or a phrase and how they decided to go about it.
Speaker 1: And you can even get it in a physical copy.
Speaker 1: You can get a copy of it with all of
Speaker 1: the notes included, where it just pages and pages of
Speaker 1: footnotes if you really want to kind of dig into that.
Speaker 1: But for those that are listening, no way have many
Speaker 1: listeners that don't believe in anything the Bible says, and
Speaker 1: we love that you guys are listening. This is a
Speaker 1: non exclusive podcast for sure. But for those that are
Speaker 1: that are listening and this is this, this is very
Speaker 1: interesting even to you. It's just a piece of human history.
Speaker 1: The fact that the Bible exists, and the fact that
Speaker 1: the margin for error and what you read in the
Speaker 1: Bible is so tiny. I mean, it's like, maybe you
Speaker 1: know Chad there's only like two scriptures that have one
Speaker 1: word that's that's disputed. But each of those few times
Speaker 1: those scriptures are not part of major doctrines. They don't
Speaker 1: change any of the major ideas. There's it's the margin
Speaker 1: for error is so tiny. And so here's the deal.
Speaker 1: When I say the original, we don't have the original
Speaker 1: from the hand of John or Mark or Luke. We
Speaker 1: don't have those originals. But we have just a few
Speaker 1: decades after those originals. And when we'll find we I
Speaker 1: say we as if I was part of the archaeological dig.
Speaker 1: But when when historians have found a piece of say,
Speaker 1: the Gospel of John, originally called the Gospel of Jesus
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ according to John, we will find a piece
Speaker 1: in one region, and then a thousand miles we'll find
Speaker 1: another piece written by another scribe who was that's at
Speaker 1: the time. Those are the guys that were recreating these
Speaker 1: and it's the same, no margin of error, and it
Speaker 1: we have like six thousand of those from thousands of manuscripts,
Speaker 1: lazy from different time periods, locations, regions. The Dead Sea
Speaker 1: Scrolls played a big role in that where they uncovered
Speaker 1: this basically a library that corroborated so much of what
Speaker 1: we understood and it confirmed. And when we compare the
Speaker 1: historicity of the Bible to other ancient texts that we
Speaker 1: put a lot of stock in, like anything from Homer
Speaker 1: or Herodotus or others, where we don't have the original
Speaker 1: copies of those either. However, we have hundreds of years
Speaker 1: or thousands of years removed from when those were written,
Speaker 1: and yet we just we give them, we just assume
Speaker 1: that they're valid and true and they were copied correctly.
Speaker 1: And yet when you compare that to the amount of
Speaker 1: copies of manuscripts we have of the New Testament alone,
Speaker 1: and the proximity right within ten years or you know,
Speaker 1: twenty years or thirty years or whatever, and within a
Speaker 1: lifetime of when it was actually written. So there are
Speaker 1: people there that can attest to when they receive one
Speaker 1: of these copies, they can there are people alive that
Speaker 1: we're able to go, no, I remember when that was
Speaker 1: first read exactly, and so that they could affirm and
Speaker 1: attest whether something was accurate and corroborated. It's basically that
Speaker 1: we have so many of these these old copies, more
Speaker 1: thousands more than any other ancient document, and his inhuman history.
Speaker 1: We have more copies, and these are in museums. It's
Speaker 1: not like it they're hidden somewhere where. I mean, these
Speaker 1: are on display in museums. And it is fascinating even
Speaker 1: for the non believers to think how these ideas and
Speaker 1: these scriptures and these words were preserved not by a
Speaker 1: small group and a little castle of little monks, you know,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking thousands of square miles apart from each
Speaker 1: other as it as it expanded outward, and every time
Speaker 1: it was without error or a tiny, tiny margin of
Speaker 1: error all the way to to this podcast question the
Speaker 1: NIV or the American Standard or the ES for those
Speaker 1: of the old school kings. King James's out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just fascinating. I was a history major in college,
Speaker 1: and regardless of my faith, that is just fascinating that
Speaker 1: we even that's even existence. It has to be a
Speaker 1: God thing that it's in here. Let's grab one more.
Speaker 1: What should I do? Personal problem? No real friends please
Speaker 1: read me? Need some advice? Any of those pop out
Speaker 1: to you? No real friends, no real friends graduate. My
Speaker 1: husband and I have moved several times in different states.
Speaker 1: Long story, not military. We're currently living in Indiana. And
Speaker 1: we don't see ever moving again. The problem is we
Speaker 1: don't have that many real friends. We're in our fifties
Speaker 1: and it feels like everyone we meet has an established
Speaker 1: friends circle and there's just not room for us. We
Speaker 1: feel it's important to have a couple friends to be
Speaker 1: able to do things with. We've joined a couple of
Speaker 1: small group classes at church and everyone is interested in
Speaker 1: our story, but then it stops. We have a strong
Speaker 1: marriage and we enjoy each other's company. It's just frustrating
Speaker 1: for us to always be alone. What do you think
Speaker 1: we should do? This is Rhonda from Columbus, Indiana. I
Speaker 1: can relate to that. We've moved around a few times
Speaker 1: and have experienced life in different stages, being the new
Speaker 1: family or the new couple and trying to figure out
Speaker 1: a way into pre existing friendships. And it takes intentionality.
Speaker 1: It really takes pursuing people that you enjoy and recognizing
Speaker 1: that man, they're really dialed in and they have a
Speaker 1: sense of normalcy, and so new people that can kind
Speaker 1: of rock the boat a little bit, But being intentional
Speaker 1: pursuing friendship is a big deal. And rather than kind
Speaker 1: of sitting and waiting for it to happen. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: takes pursuit, and so finding those couples or those families
Speaker 1: that you really really enjoy and want to get to
Speaker 1: know better and taking the initiative to invite them, ask
Speaker 1: them out for lunch after church or on a Friday night,
Speaker 1: invite them over, and continue to just pursue them, and
Speaker 1: it will. I think it'll be reciprocated. All. Yeah, that's great,
Speaker 1: that's great, Ronda. It sounds like a little more time
Speaker 1: needs to go by. There's not you haven't given us
Speaker 1: a timeframe, but it sounds like a little more time
Speaker 1: needs to go by. And once you kind of establish
Speaker 1: not being the new couple in town anymore, a lot
Speaker 1: of these relationships will come from your neighbors on the
Speaker 1: same street. I think small group classes is a great
Speaker 1: opportunity for this. That you don't say anything about kids,
Speaker 1: but a lot of times kids will bring their parents in,
Speaker 1: and that the kids' friends will bring their parents in
Speaker 1: and that that becomes a relationship. But I think Chad's
Speaker 1: right if you guys hosted a barbecue at your house,
Speaker 1: even for just your street, or say you're your small
Speaker 1: group and just say hey, we'd like to host a
Speaker 1: small group at our house. We're new here and we
Speaker 1: want to cook and bring everybody over. And I'd say
Speaker 1: one more thing would be it sounds like you are
Speaker 1: a churchgoer. You guys are involved in a local church, serve,
Speaker 1: volunteer to serve in different capacities at your church, and
Speaker 1: you're going to get to serve alongside of other people
Speaker 1: that also enjoy doing that. And you get to know
Speaker 1: people when you labor next to them. If there are
Speaker 1: any mission trips or outreach opportunities, do that, and you're
Speaker 1: going to meet other people that are doing that. And
Speaker 1: there's just something about getting to labor with somebody where
Speaker 1: you get to know them as you have activity with them. Rohnda,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Good luck to you. I want
Speaker 1: to give a couple of shout outs before we end this.
Speaker 1: Steve o'garnum, Tommy Barr, Kaylea Moore, Kyla Alcorn, Jody Bowser,
Speaker 1: Hailey Robinson. Is there just some of the shout outs
Speaker 1: that you guys have sent in. We we love hearing
Speaker 1: from you, love having you. Chad, It's good. I want
Speaker 1: to be friends with Granger. So I'm gonna take my
Speaker 1: own device. We're gonna invite him over to supper. See
Speaker 1: how that out all right, dude. Good to see you, brother,
Speaker 1: See you guys. Thanks for joining me on the Granger
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