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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. If you have

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Speaker 1: a question for me, email podcast at grangersmith dot com.

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Speaker 1: That's what we do here. I answer your questions. Could

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Speaker 1: be about anything. We've done this for a few years

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Speaker 1: now and they have the questions have been all over

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Speaker 1: the map. I'm gonna get right to it. The first

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Speaker 1: question comes from Rachel once again, if you want to

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Speaker 1: email me podcast at grangersmith dot com. And this one

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna lead off with I have not done much.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen these at all, so we're going in

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Speaker 1: blind and I think I like it better this way.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm getting into. Rachel says, Hey Granger,

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Speaker 1: my name is Rachel from Alabama. First, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: encourage you and thank you for sharing the wisdom that

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Speaker 1: God has given you. I grew up in church and

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Speaker 1: in Christian school, yet your podcast still teaches me a lot.

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Speaker 1: I often use what I've learned from you to answer

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Speaker 1: tough questions from children, for from my children.

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Speaker 2: Et cetera.

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Speaker 1: My question is this, My three year old daughter has

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Speaker 1: a severe speech and language delay that affects both her

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Speaker 1: like many people in charismatic Christianity circles. He believes that

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Speaker 1: with enough faith, she.

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Speaker 1: He recently told me she will be healed of her

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Speaker 1: I am praying full healing over her. Whether it's today, tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: told him that I pray for her healing too. But

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Speaker 1: my faith means that I trust in God's sovereignty in

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Speaker 1: her life, regardless of whether her healing is here on

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Speaker 1: earth or in heaven. Whether or not she ever communicates normally,

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Speaker 1: will be part of God's perfect plan. Is there anything

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Speaker 1: else you could add to my response to help me

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Speaker 1: better understand?

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Speaker 2: Next time?

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Speaker 1: Hey, Rachel, great question, and I think your head is

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Speaker 1: is right where mine is on this. And this is

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Speaker 1: the tough issue that you have to really you have

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Speaker 1: to tread lightly, is it Grandpa? Did you say Grandpa

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Speaker 1: my father in law? Okay, you have to tread lightly

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Speaker 2: And you really have to.

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Speaker 1: You have to act with patience and understanding and love,

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Speaker 1: and most importantly you need to go to him with

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Speaker 1: Bible and stand firm in what you believe because it

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Speaker 1: could get messy. Now, this kind of this kind of thinking,

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Speaker 1: this specific kind of charismatic movement is only one hundred

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Speaker 1: and there is See now I'm treading lightly because there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of charismatics that listen to the show.

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Speaker 2: We needed.

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Speaker 1: First of all, we need to say God a sovereign

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Speaker 1: and God heals who he heals. There's no there's no

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Speaker 1: holding back healing. God can and will and does heal

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Speaker 1: completely fully right. We understand that he does as he pleases.

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Speaker 1: The Psalms say he is sovereign over all life. He

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Speaker 1: knows every hair on your head, He knows all of

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Speaker 1: I always my brain always likes to go here. So interesting.

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Speaker 1: Second King's thirteen fourteen, and this is the story of Elishah.

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Speaker 1: He came after Elijah the prophet, and elisha is in

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Speaker 2: That the Lord worked through him.

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Speaker 1: He brought a kid back from death, he healed leprosy,

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Speaker 1: If you think about that for a second, Elisha falls

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Speaker 1: What do you say to that? Would what would Joe ask,

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Speaker 1: Of course we don't know our time, none of us do.

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Speaker 1: That's how great he was in church history. When it

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Speaker 1: Paul says this Second Corinthians twelve seven. So he first

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Speaker 1: Paul literally saw heaven. The Lord reveals to him heaven,

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Speaker 1: and after he reveals, after Paul says, which he rightly explains, Hey,

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Speaker 1: The Lord gave him a thorn. The Lord gave him.

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Speaker 1: Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that

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Speaker 1: it should leave me, But he said to me, God,

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Speaker 1: God said to me, my grace is sufficient for you.

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Speaker 1: My power is made perfect in weakness. Then Paul says,

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Speaker 1: It's crazy, right, the Lord God gave Paul a thorn.

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Speaker 1: back to the father and laways say, hey, what would

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Speaker 1: do is use Bible instead of opinion.

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Speaker 2: Use Bible. Bible.

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Speaker 1: Bible we have to know who God is. We have

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Speaker 1: the opinion. Granger's opinion doesn't matter anymore. Your opinion, Rachel,

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter anymore. Hebrews two three. How shall we escape

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Speaker 1: if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared

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Speaker 1: a first by the Lord, and it was attested to

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Speaker 1: early Church was established, signs and wonders were used.

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Speaker 1: from signs and wonders into faith in Christ. Hebrews one

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Speaker 1: you believed because you've seen me? Blessed are those.

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Speaker 1: always pray for healing. Of course you do. Of course

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Speaker 1: you pray for healing for your daughter, you say, Father

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Speaker 1: I know that she will be. But you said it right,

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Speaker 1: But maybe not here on this earth, but she'll be

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Speaker 1: ultimately redeemed in heaven. This life is fleeting, this life

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Speaker 1: small town just outside of Buffalo, New York. Hey, Greg,

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Speaker 1: great question, Thanks for listening, and thanks for the Thanks

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Speaker 1: for the email. My first reaction. What I want to

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Speaker 1: do first is I want to address the fact that, surprise, surprise,

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Speaker 1: Granger is going to say this, The Lord is sovereign

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Speaker 1: God is sovereign. He's sovereign even over salvation, and so

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Speaker 1: you can't. You don't have the power. I love to

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Speaker 1: think about this. You don't have the power to scare someone,

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Speaker 1: scare someone away, whether they're a future, they're a believer today,

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Speaker 1: or they will be a believer in the future. The

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Speaker 1: Lord will draw them to himself. Jesus says, all that

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Speaker 1: the Father gives to me will come to me, and

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Speaker 1: whoever comes to me, I will never cast out. So

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Speaker 1: there's a drawing there, and there's also a coming there.

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Speaker 1: We come to him, he says, come to me. And

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Speaker 1: he also says, whoever comes to me, I'll never cast out.

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Speaker 1: So he misses none. This is the will of my

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Speaker 1: Father that I shall lose none of which he gave me. Right,

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Speaker 1: he loses none of us. No one will ever perish.

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Speaker 1: Jesus says this. He says, my sheep, hear my voice,

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Speaker 1: and I know them, and they follow me. I give

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Speaker 1: them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no

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Speaker 1: one will snatch them out of my hand. So you

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Speaker 1: hear this confidence. Jesus speaks of this ceiling of his people.

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Speaker 1: He does not lose any of them. He came to

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Speaker 1: reconcile sinners, and he doesn't miss any of them. You

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Speaker 1: will not scare them away. Greg, There's nothing you could

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Speaker 1: do in your life or my life that would scare

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Speaker 1: one of his way, because he says, no one will

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Speaker 1: snatch them out of my hand. Okay, So there's confidence.

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Speaker 1: That's just a breath of fresh air. It's like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank goodness, I can't mess this up. My other thing

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Speaker 1: I want to do is say what's wrong with a

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Speaker 1: Bible thumper? I know what you mean. Look, I know

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Speaker 1: what you're saying. But at the same time, I go,

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Speaker 1: is it a problem to be a Bible thumper? And

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Speaker 1: what does that mean? Is that something you don't want

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Speaker 1: to be? You don't want to be a Bible thumper

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Speaker 1: because there's something about that that's kind of appealing. I

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Speaker 1: post every single day on my social media. I have

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Speaker 1: millions of followers. That is not a brag. I have

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Speaker 1: millions and millions of followers. I post every single day.

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Speaker 1: I never skip something from the Bible. Does that make

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Speaker 1: me a Bible thumper?

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Speaker 2: Maybe?

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Speaker 1: Depending on the definition, I'm okay with that. Call me

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Speaker 1: a Bible thumper, I'm okay with that. So take those

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Speaker 1: two things together. You can't scare someone away. You don't

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Speaker 1: have the ability to scare someone away.

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Speaker 2: And is it a wrong thing? Is it a bad thing.

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Speaker 1: To be called, to be labeled to look like a

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Speaker 1: Bible thumper? Okay, all that being said, now, let's kind

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Speaker 1: of dig into the question. It's a question of apologetics.

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Speaker 2: Really.

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Speaker 1: What you're asking is you say, I just want to

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Speaker 1: be able to have a simple small talk and bring

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Speaker 1: Jesus into the conversation and let it grow from there.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a great point. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: great approach. And you need entry ways. You need an

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Speaker 1: entry point into the conversation. It's like basic conversations starting

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Speaker 1: with any topic. It doesn't have to have to be

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Speaker 1: about the Gospel. The number one advice with that is

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Speaker 1: listen more than you talk. It's hard for me to

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Speaker 1: live that out when I'm literally doing a podcast by

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Speaker 1: myself in a room right now, I'm the only one talking.

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Speaker 1: But I will suggest that you listen. In these conversations

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Speaker 1: you're talking about, listen seventy percent of the time and

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Speaker 1: talk thirty and then in the thirty percent, you want

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Speaker 1: an entry, you want an open door to the gospel.

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Speaker 1: And it could be. There's a lot of open doors.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of bridges. Like some of my evangelism

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Speaker 1: professors at seminary, you call them bridges, a gospel bridge.

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Speaker 1: Here's a very basic gospel bridge. Hey, did you grow

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Speaker 1: up at church? Or did you you spiritual at all?

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Speaker 1: Did you did you ever go to church as a kid.

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Speaker 1: That's just an easy, normal conversation gospel bridge. And you

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Speaker 1: know their answer. Depending on their answer, that's the direction

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Speaker 1: you go. It's like, no, I've never never thought about religion.

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Speaker 1: And you could say, well, do you mind if I

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Speaker 1: share mine? And if they say no, you go, okay,

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Speaker 1: door closed, you know, gospel bridge gone. Or they say yeah,

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Speaker 1: I grew up in church, I'm a Christian, and then

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Speaker 1: you can kind of dig a little bit on that.

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Speaker 1: But maintaining this listening seventy percent and talking thirty. Another

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Speaker 1: gospel bridge is inviting.

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Speaker 2: Them to your church. Hey, would you be interested?

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Speaker 1: This might be a crazy thought. You're telling this person

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Speaker 1: this might be a crazy thought, but would you ever

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Speaker 1: be interested in going to church? With me checking it out?

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Speaker 1: They can only say no. They might say no, and

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Speaker 1: they may say no, and you say, okay, well, if

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Speaker 1: you if you ever think about it, let me know,

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Speaker 1: and maybe sometimes something happens in their life.

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Speaker 2: Mom gets sick.

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Speaker 1: And they say, hey, man, remember a couple of years

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Speaker 1: ago you asked me if I ever wanted to go

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Speaker 1: to church. I mean, mom is sick, and I just

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Speaker 1: feeling like I feeling like I'm empty and I need something,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like there's more out there, and I

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Speaker 1: think I'd like to take you up on that offer

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Speaker 1: to go to church.

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Speaker 2: You go, okay, how about I pick you up at

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Speaker 2: nine thirty Sunday. Boom.

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Speaker 1: The Simple Gospel Bridge is another gospel bridge, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people don't like this one. But you could

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Speaker 1: have tracks, little tracks. Have you ever thought about that?

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Speaker 1: T R a c T tracks, little just simple gospel

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Speaker 1: messages that you could you could have in your pocket

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Speaker 1: ready to go. If someone goes I don't never heard

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Speaker 1: about the gospel, you can go, well, hey, read this.

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Speaker 1: It's like four or five six pages, very short, very simple.

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Speaker 1: Read it, give me a shout, give me a call,

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Speaker 1: here's my number. That way, you don't have to be

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Speaker 1: caught in the moment going through, you know, walking through

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Speaker 1: the gospel and being what you think is a Bible thumper.

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Speaker 2: You don't.

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Speaker 1: You could just maintain listening more, talking less, and at

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Speaker 1: the very end of the conversation you go, hey, I've

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Speaker 1: got something in my pocket here, Hey, just check this

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Speaker 1: out and if not, throw it away.

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Speaker 2: But it's there for you. And then you trust that the.

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Speaker 1: Lord will draw him it's his own to himself. All

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Speaker 1: that the Father gives me will come to me, and

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Speaker 1: whoever comes to me, I'll never cast out. So you

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Speaker 1: trust that God is drawing his people to himself. In

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Speaker 1: our job is to go out and tell the good news,

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Speaker 1: to tell people about the Kingdom of God, to tell

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Speaker 1: him what Jesus has done for us, what God has

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Speaker 1: done for us through Jesus his son, and how he's

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Speaker 1: reconciling his people to himself, and how he did it

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Speaker 1: through the cross by becoming the substitute for our sin,

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Speaker 1: so that we can be forgiven for being lawbreakers of God.

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Speaker 1: We can be forgiven of that through the blood of

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Speaker 1: Christ on the cross. And then he says, come to me,

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Speaker 1: all you were weary and burdened, and I will never

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Speaker 1: cast you out. You could you could say, just like that,

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Speaker 1: if you maintain all of that, and you kind of

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Speaker 1: balance all that as you're as you're walking through these conversations,

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Speaker 1: I think you're gonna.

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Speaker 2: Do just fine.

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Speaker 1: And there's a there is a there's a matter of

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Speaker 1: practice that makes you more comfortable the more you do it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so let's move on hereel read Rachel. Kevin Ken says, hey, grandear,

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Speaker 1: my name's Kevin. I work in corrections. I've noticed that

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Speaker 1: it's taking a toll on me. I see that most

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Speaker 1: people will never I see things that most people will

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Speaker 1: never comprehend, and it's hard. I have to yell at

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Speaker 1: grown men all day. When I come home, my kids

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Speaker 1: will start arguing over a toy, and I catch myself

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Speaker 1: going to that place where I have to get up

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Speaker 1: and let me start this over. When I come home,

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Speaker 1: my kids will start arguing over a toy, and I

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Speaker 1: catch myself going to that place where I have to

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Speaker 1: get up and resolve it so quick that no one

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Speaker 1: gets stabbed, like I'm in prison. I don't want it

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Speaker 1: to be this way. My kids deserve better. Everywhere I

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Speaker 1: go Now my head is on a swivel. I've lost

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Speaker 1: comfortability in my life, and any tips from you are appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. God bless ps. If you say

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Speaker 1: hi to my son, Arn, he los his mind, So

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Speaker 1: what's up Arn? Okay, Kevin, I appreciate the question, buddy.

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Speaker 1: This is this is tough because if you and I

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Speaker 1: are having this friendly conversation around the campfire, I'm saying

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, First of all, Kevin, you say you see

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Speaker 1: things that most people will never comprehend, and that's going

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Speaker 1: to include me, right, because I'm most people. I've never

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Speaker 1: worked in corrections. I don't have to yell at grown

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Speaker 1: men all day to make sure somebody doesn't get stabbed.

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Speaker 2: That's I can't.

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Speaker 1: Relate to that. But I could say this. When you

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Speaker 1: make your priorities in life, when you decide this and

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Speaker 1: it sounds like you have and you say this, my

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Speaker 1: kids deserve better, I'm not comfortable anymore. I don't want

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Speaker 1: it to be this way. My head is on a swivel.

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Speaker 1: This is what these are things you're saying, and you've

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Speaker 1: made a priority, that your kids are that important to you,

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Speaker 1: that raising your kids is this big a priority. Then

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Speaker 1: when you get to point, Kevin, when you go, I

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Speaker 1: think it's time for a new career. It's probably not

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Speaker 1: the answer you're wanting from me, but that's what I'm seeing.

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Speaker 1: Is from from the outside looking in. I'm going, Kevin,

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Speaker 1: what is holding you to this job? I get the

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Speaker 1: security of it. I get that you're good at it.

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Speaker 1: I get you've probably done this for a while. I

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Speaker 1: get that you're super qualified. I get that it's scary

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Speaker 1: to think about a new job, to think about moving on,

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Speaker 1: and you've got people to support, you got bills to pay.

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Speaker 1: But at what cost all that? I just said, at

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Speaker 1: what cost do you hang on to this when you're

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Speaker 1: losing your mind, Your head is on a swivel, your

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Speaker 1: kids start arguing over a toy, and you feel like

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Speaker 1: you're a corrections officer, You feel g you're not comfortable.

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Speaker 1: You know that your kids deserve better, and you don't

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Speaker 1: want it to be this way, And all that at

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Speaker 1: the cost of you saying are at the price of

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Speaker 1: you saying, man, this is job security? They got good

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Speaker 1: health insurance, Granger, Where else am I going to go?

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Speaker 2: Grande?

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Speaker 1: Right, I've built my life around this prison. We live

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Speaker 1: right on the street from it. What am I going

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Speaker 1: to do? It's a heavy cost, brother, I say. If

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Speaker 1: your priority is your kids and your mental health and

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Speaker 1: you're losing your mind over it, brother, I say it's

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Speaker 1: time to start looking for a new job. And there's

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Speaker 1: no regret about this. There's no wasted time over it.

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Speaker 2: Now you know.

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Speaker 1: Now, you know better, and you've got to You probably

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Speaker 1: have a pretty good resume because you aren't gonna put

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Speaker 1: up with anything at any kind of other job, and

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Speaker 1: a new boss will know that. I think, I think

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Speaker 1: you have a good shot at working at a place

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Speaker 1: where you gain your mental health back, you gain your

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Speaker 1: ability to sit with your kids and not struggle over

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Speaker 1: things that you've seen, things that other people can't comprehend.

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Speaker 1: I think I think it's time to start seriously thinking

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