Devoted to the Priorities: Teaching, Fellowship, Worship, and Prayer

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All right, Zach, Yeah.
Does the number 94 mean anything

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to you?
Oh man, I don't know, 94 it

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should, I'm guessing.
Yeah, it probably should, at

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least when I'm on my drive over
here.

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That was the temperature
outside. 90. 4.

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I know sweltering.
It's it's like we we had like a

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good run.
It was like kind of nice for a

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long time.
I think the.

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I think the run's over.
The run is over 'cause it is

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warm out there.
Well I saw a video recently OK

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where they asked people in the
UK, OK when is it just too hot

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outside?
Oh man, oh man, different.

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World and and they gave all
their answers in Celsius this

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but I'm gonna convert them for
Fahrenheit for the you know the

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much better temperature.
Like we could do the conversions

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in our head but for the
listener.

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Right, right.
For the listener, you know it,

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Celsius.
Yeah, it's it's great in the

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laboratory.
But for the common day, common

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person fahrenheit's where's that
zero?

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It's cold 100.
It's hot.

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You know what I'm saying?
You know, 0 for Celsius, it's

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cold. 100, you're dead, you
know, So, yeah.

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Yeah, you don't have, don't have
that luxury.

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Yeah, man.
So am I trying to guess what is

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the temperature?
Well, maybe, Yeah.

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You wanna, you wanna try?
So these were, I have 123-4567

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answers and they're all
different.

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I'll just tell you so.
So one of them was reasonable.

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28° Celsius, 82°F, just too hot
outside.

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Just too hot.
You can't that that's where it

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stops.
OK, they they get another one,

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somewhat more reasonable,
somewhat reasonable. 25 degrees,

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77 degrees, 25 Celsius, 77
Fahrenheit.

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Now those were kind of the most
reasonable.

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It just keeps getting worse from
here 68°.

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Wow.
Like that's colder than where we

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keep our house.
Yeah, boy.

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But that was man when it is 68°
outside.

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Just too hot for this particular
bed.

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That's pretty incredible.
That's wow.

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Gets worse, one person said, 64.
Man. 62 wow. 57 One person said

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55° that's when it's just too
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It's just.
I can't no yard work today.

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Oh, man, so, you know, I think
sometimes they give us hard time

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about, you know, not walking
everywhere we go.

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But you know, this is colder
than what we keep our houses.

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Here and that's why they lost
the war.

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They couldn't, they couldn't,
they couldn't keep up in the

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temperatures.
That's right.

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Oh my goodness, that is crazy.
Well, yeah, for me, like, I

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mean, I, I mean, I don't know.
Yeah, it I'll if it's 80°, I'll

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take it.
This is great. 80 oh when I grew

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up in Arkansas.
Mid South is.

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Rough.
I thought it was the hottest

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ever and then I came over here
and and I think it's even more

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hot, humid here.
Man, yeah, I don't have a good.

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I guess as my kids get older
with sports, we'll see it more.

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I remember like there were some
days it was just like, like when

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you have like the water, like
the mandatory water breaks and

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like soccer games and stuff
'cause it was so hot in here.

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And I don't know if it, I don't
know if it's more humid in

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Memphis, 'cause you're right on
the Mississippi River or if

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it's, I don't know.
But it was like the it'd be like

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it's only 90, but it's 120
because of the humidity.

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Weather and it's and it's a
concrete jungle there in Memphis

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too.
You got a bunch of things

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absorbed in the heat.
Man bass pro shot man.

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Like the 10, the largest pyramid
in the world.

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Look it up.
Yeah, love it.

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That, yeah, but boy, yeah, it's
hot.

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It gets hot here.
Yeah, it does get hot.

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I go back in like in Arkansas.
Oh yeah, they'll be like, oh

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man, it's so hot out here.
I'm like, oh, this is not that

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bad, man.
Yeah, I think Arkansas gets as

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hot as here, but it's not as
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Like you may have like a week or
a couple days when it gets up

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into that, you know, 97100, you
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called?
Heat index, like, you know, 115

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or so.
But we could have a whole month

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of that, you know?
And I don't know if I've said it

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on a podcast.
I, I'm really pushing to try to

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get a sauna.
That's like my dream.

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If saunas weren't so expensive,
I, I would love lands.

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Like, why do you want a sauna?
I'm like, this is we, could we?

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Could it seems like dangerous
city to me.

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Like don't, aren't there like.
Yeah, so all the, I'm, I'm sure

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there has to be because really
to get the efficacy out of

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sauna, you want to have it at
least at like 180 and then the

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crazies go like over 200, which
that's when you're just flirting

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with danger or something, you
know?

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And 180's.
Fine, 180's so easy just and

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some people are like they try to
be, I don't know if it's just

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like social media or whatever.
They're like, this is not most

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people.
They're like in their 210°

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sauna.
They're like on an aerodyne like

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air bike and they've got like
oven mitts on and like they're

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like working out and they're
like trying to like show you how

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tough they are.
And I'm like, man, that just

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seems like a bad idea.
Yeah, I'm if there's a spectrum

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and that's one in the spectrum,
I'm closer to the Brits on that

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spectrum.
I think that probably my my

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bloodline.
I remember when we were just

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playing football 0.
Yeah.

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Let's just talk about football.
Yeah, let's talk about it.

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Most people think of football as
a cold sport.

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Yeah, Yeah, yeah, right.
But most of football is in the

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heat.
And then you think of like maybe

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soccer, I guess soccer for us,
what most people think of that

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as a hot sport.
But at least for us enjoying it,

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it's most of that's in the cold.
You know, it's at the very end.

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But I remember, you know,
playing football and we would do

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our two days because that's what
we did back then.

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We were men.
That's right.

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And then man, it was just
miserable.

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And then you would get to, you
know, you would finally start

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your body would start adapting,
adapting, adapting

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mid-september.
Oh yeah, towards the end of

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September.
It was just like I could, I

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would never get tired again.
I could go, I could go 3 hours

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of this because you know, just
that cool.

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Would be just a huge game
changer for me personally.

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No, I and so the Christian
School I went to, we played

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soccer in the fall until my
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We did get football, which I'll
tell ya, there's nothing more

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dumb than to get a football team
for like a high school that has

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like 120 like total students,
like boys and girls.

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It was 7 on 7, but it was, you
know, full contact and boy, the

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injuries.
And it's like you have coaches

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that don't know what they're
doing and you're investing all

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this money and like equipment
and then it, you know, after

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like 3 or 4 years.
Didn't say we didn't have a, we

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had, well, I don't need AD reel
too much, but we, we switched

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soccer.
We did soccer in the fall and

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also in the spring.
So we got 2 soccer seasons like

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while we were transitioning.
So it was a cool year for soccer

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players.
But yeah, I agree with you man.

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It's like once it gets cold you
can do 50° man for sports.

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Wow, it's perfect.
You're living.

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Life you can run forever, man.
Speaking about a temperature

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check, check the temperature of
the church.

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That's right.
You know, you can tell, you

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know, are, are we hitting the
mark or not?

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But, you know, a cold church or
is it, you know, thriving that's

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good at that right temperature.
Yeah.

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Either be cold and you know, you
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fire.
None of this lukewarm.

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Stuff lukewarm.
Yeah, exactly right.

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Well, this is our second episode
about the church.

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Yeah.
So let's go ahead and take it to

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the next level.
From the hearts of the Low

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Country in South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
level.

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Well, last episode we kind of
got into this series and I'll

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tell you what I appreciate about
it is that on one level it's

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simple.
We've talked about this a lot

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too with like God's will.
God gives a lot of freedom to do

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things.
We just got to be running on,

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you know, specific commands.
But there is a lot of freedom,

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but it is also very simple.
And the last, the last time we

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really just talked about, you
know, glorifying God.

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We talked about like, what is
the mission, the Great

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Commission making disciples.
That's fundamental.

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And that I think that laid a
really good foundation to how do

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we, you know, broaden it out a
little bit from there?

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No, I yeah, IA 100% agree with
you.

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So probably you need a little
bit more practical things other

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than just evangelize and, you
know, edify or, you know, catch

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your fish, clean your fish type
of thing.

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You need more, you know,
practical ways to do that.

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And so as we're doing this, we
talk about, you know, this is

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our purpose.
This is, you know, then we can

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talk about our priorities and
how we carry about that purpose.

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And our church uses this really,
really cool model that I think

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is faithful to scripture.
And it also, it just, it's just

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like so natural like to pave the
way for giving some rails to run

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on where you can look at what
your church is doing.

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And if you relate it to one of
these things, you can really

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relate it back to the Great
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So you can relate all these
things together where it helps

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keep you on the rails where
you're not drifting too far off

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at any time.
Yeah, I think that's really

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good.
So we adopt all of our

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priorities out of Acts 242.
Do you have that handy?

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I do it, it goes.
They were, Luke writes.

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They were continually devoting
themselves to the apostles

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teaching and to fellowship, to
the breaking of bread, and to

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prayer.
That's great.

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So for us, you know, we talked
about on the last episode, like

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you have a plate, you can only
fit so much on that plate.

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And I didn't want to get too
detailed, but we were like, all

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those things should be somehow
related to, you know, either,

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you know, bringing sinners to
Christ or sayings to Christ

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likeness.
But then you can kind of define

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that, you know, bring it down to
to another level of every, all

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of those things should be
something that's either doing

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with the study of God's Word,
you know, Christian fellowship,

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prayer, or some type of breaking
the bread.

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And we probably want to talk
about that.

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Breaking the bread just
literally means breaking the

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bread.
Communion.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you can understand it in a

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way of and it might, you know,
give you some couple ways that

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you might implement that other
than just communion.

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And yeah, yeah, that's right.
That's right.

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I think I think that that's
really good.

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I think another key point of
this verse is it starts out they

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were continually devoting
themselves those words together.

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I mean that that paints a
picture where it's not like once

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a week on Sunday because we did
this and then we kind of forgot

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about it or at the float it was
these were priorities.

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We kind of talked about Acts 242
priorities because they were a

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priority for the early church.
Well, that's good.

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So the first one was the
apostles teaching and you might

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translate that to what, what,
what, what was the apostles

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teaching then is now what you're
holding in your hand, You know,

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the New Testament.
And if you take what Paul said

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about the the scriptures, you
would include that with the the

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Old Testament prophet.
So really, I think you can say

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the apostles teaching is a stand
in for God's word.

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It it's one and the same.
I think that's great.

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A little shout out to another
episode we did while back.

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You know, God's word is
sufficient.

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It's clear, it's authoritative,
it's necessary, and we should be

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spending a lot of time in it.
It is a red flag.

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If your church is not spending a
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you're probably drifting from
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That's where you find the
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You know what I mean?
That's right.

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And you, you might have folks
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verse and then just build a
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verse without reading that in
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So it's more than just, you
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one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And not looking at the context,
this has been a conversation

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we've been having with Julia
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minute, we are supposed to
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Like, you know, well, yes, in
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supposed to judge.
That that's great and it's you

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know, this is not saying that
your church has to do like

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expositional verse by verse
preaching, but that is a good

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marker that you are taking in
the whole council of God.

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It kind of keeps you on the
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I think it's a very good thing
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I'd be hard to say that your
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church if you're not, but that's
like one of the things you.

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Probably are.
We won't say that you are, but

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you probably.
It protects you from hobby

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horses.
You've got that pastor that

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always goes here, has this
passion project because it

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forces you to engage with the
passage in the in the in the

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chapter, the verse that comes in
front of you, you kind of have

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to deal with.
Yeah, And you kind of got to see

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how this author is developing
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What does it mean?
It gives you the context.

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So it helps guard against bad
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And at least you know, even if
even if the pastor does give you

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a bad interpretation, if he's
moving through all of it,

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someone in the pulp should in
the congregation going well, it

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doesn't seem to make sense you.
Know to me if I was preaching,

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we can week out.
This is easier too, because if

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you're trying to be faithful to
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to me that's a lot.
That's a lot of work to do it

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well and understand all these
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and paint the context where most
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time.
Maybe you shortcut it a little

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bit and not saying these topical
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We often at our church do
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school, maybe in, you know,
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Maybe we will do something like
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But that expositional verse by
verse preaching needs to.

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It should be there, I think.
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And I want to, you know,
highlight something you said.

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It's easier if you are trying to
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just trying to put in what
you're what else you want, do

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anything you want.
Yeah, you can.

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You can just put, make it, make
it say whatever really whatever

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you want to getting back to our
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So it was verbal teaching then.
Then we got to see some of it

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being written down in letters.
And now we see, you know, put

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together in what we would call
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So if you're stepping back, you
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church does, you know, where do
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inserted?
Sunday morning preaching,

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obviously, are there Bible
studies, Sunday school, home

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groups, whether you're using
that whole time to exegete a

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passage or not, you know, is it
is it grounded in the Bible that

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that's important because like
the contrast of what you were

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saying, you know, feel good
stuff or using a verse and being

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like, oh, I really hate people
judge me on the like, OK,

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judging in the Bible here.
Oh yeah, I can use this verse.

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Let's do this whole thing about
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Yeah, and if it's in the Bible,
I'll say it's at least worth

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considering.
That doesn't mean that you

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should spend all of your time
looking at one obscure verse

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about, you know, what does Paul
mean by they were and they were.

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Why else would we baptize for
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Like you wouldn't want to build
a whole central doctrine around,

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you know, a very hazy verse.
We don't really understand

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necessarily what Paul is saying
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So you want to major in the
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But you know, if if it's in
there, it's at least worth

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considering.
Exactly right.

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And doing things like expeditial
preaching or if you have a Bible

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studies, going through a book,
it just helps you come across

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some of those things that maybe
otherwise you wouldn't.

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And I think the stub tells nice
where you know you're you're

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biblically grounded, you're
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there's also a practical
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It should impact how you live.
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It's both.
And I think some people

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gravitate towards doctrine.
They just want to do doctrine,

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doctrine, doctrine, doctrine.
I might be in that category.

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And then there's some people
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Just tell me practically.
How you live Private.

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Private.
But it's both.

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It's definitely Paul.
You know, you look at almost all

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of Paul's letters and he's going
to have, you know, orthodoxy and

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then orthopraxy.
Yeah, and it's amazing.

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He goes in that order most, if
not all the time, where he's

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building that foundation for why
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He's not necessarily saying do
all these things and then tying

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it together.
He's sometimes laboring pretty

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intensively, like to set the
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That's good.
All right.

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So that is the word.
And really the word should be

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like you've said a couple times,
the the guardrails, you know, if

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you these other things that are
following should be informed by

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the word.
Yeah, that that that's really

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good 'cause the second priority
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And if you let that govern
everything, boy, you can run

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into some some crazy, crazy
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But fellowship is very important
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That's something that your
church should emphasize.

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We read in places like Hebrews
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Not forsaking assembling
yourselves together like some

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people do that not good.
You, you don't you need to be

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with other brothers and sisters
in Christ for perseverance, for

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encouragement for all these
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I don't know how many one
another commands there are, but

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there's there's a lot.
There's a lot, yeah.

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And you can't forgive one
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You can't stir one another on if
it's just you and two other

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people.
I guess maybe the other thing

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about the the one another's and
and the fellowship not forsaking

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the fellowship.
You know, our last episode we

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made a big deal about, you know,
spiritual gifting and how it

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really takes everyone to do
that.

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You know, if if you're alone,
maybe it's just, you know, a

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very small quote UN quote
church, maybe two families

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together.
It's, you know, are you going to

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have all those spiritual gifts
there?

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You're going to have all the
offices filled.

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It's it's tough to really carry
about that larger and I'm not

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saying you had to have 3000, but
maybe more than 12, maybe more

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you.
Know that that that's a good

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point that just naturally, if
your body's going to have

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everything, I mean, I feel like
when we bring a new people to

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church, it's like, well, this is
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Maybe we've been neglecting this
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It kind of opens your eyes and
and gives you some exposure to

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be a little bit more
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And if you're from a Baptist
background, fellowship is all

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about those pop looks, am I
right?

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Yeah, I thought you were going
to say it another way, like, you

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know, hold on, 'cause it's not
just all about botlucks.

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But yeah, obviously just getting
you to know people, being

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friends with them, you know,
spending time with other people

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is part of that.
But it's more than just that.

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It's it's, you know, intentional
spiritual relationship.

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You know, we had a gaming night
amongst some of the I was.

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Going to bring this up and say
this is not a way to do

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fellowship.
No, I'm just kidding.

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Saturday and we had all the
families there, you know, and I

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prayed, you know, that our
fellowship there would be

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glorifying to God that we would
you know, you know, love each

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other in ways and you know, take
care of each other.

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Think of others even there that
night, that a way that would be.

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Glorified.
Did some of the children slash

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women participate?
Did they play some Dungeons and

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Dragons?
They witnessed it, yeah.

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They they came in, but they were
mostly like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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or something more interested
than others.

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Yeah, that no, that I think, I
think that's great.

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And maybe we can talk about that
more when it comes to practical

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application because that's a
great application.

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Fellowship really is rooted in
our triune God where he's

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relational.
Like you see that built in

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Father, Son and Spirit, where
this is not just, you know,

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something we're pulling out of
thin air, but baked in the very

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nature of of our God.
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And you know, we are social
creatures.

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You think of like a a dog that
if you had to, you know, if you

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leave your dog at home, they go
through social anxiety.

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And you know, a lot of people
say that's why they typed, you

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know, tend to bite or tear
things up.

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But you know, the same way, you
know, the dog is meant to have

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this accountability and this
encouragement from its pack.

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And we are meant to quote UN
quote, run in a pack.

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And so this fellowship helps
build in that accountability so

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that you can say, oh, missed you
Sunday or you know, how how

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things going can maybe encourage
you, you know, can, you know, if

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if I'm exercising my spiritual
gift, then maybe I'm teaching or

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I'm helping and, you know,
doing, you know, you know,

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providing mercy for you, all
those types of things.

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I I love that.
So practically, what's this look

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like?
Michael mentioned Dungeons and

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Dragons.
We also gonna say gaming.

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I wasn't.
Gonna go but so sorry we just

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lost some listeners that are
like witchcraft.

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We do period not a lot maybe 2
to 4 * a year like a gym night

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like they're and so you're you
you there's different vehicles

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to reach different folks help
build that kind of connection we

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have you know and and I think
these four areas are not

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mutually exclusive.
It's like we're only fellowship.

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You cannot talk about the Bible
no prayer allowed.

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A lot of time of prayer is a
time of fellowship and these

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kind of things.
And so I think you think through

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small groups when you're, you
know, ministries that care for

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other people, sharing meals,
one-on-one personal

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discipleship.
That's a really great way where

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you're maybe combining some of
these things too.

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Deep sea fishing.
There you go.

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Yeah.
Did you do that?

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I didn't.
If we go again, maybe I'll go.

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It's just this is this week is
just too busy with the

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graduation and I'll just say you
could take this to too far where

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you're, you know, if you're
doing a men's ministry thing

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every night or woman's ministry
everything every night, you

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still have a family to take care
of.

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So you need to keep these in
back.

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I'm.
Just trying to keep the apostles

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are continually building
themselves the fellowship.

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I'm just trying to try to be
like the puzzles.

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Sorry, honey.
Yeah, so there there is.

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There is a balance in in all
these.

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All right #3 breaking a bread.
Almost certainly referring to

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the Lord's Supper.
Man, I thought it was just like,

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you get in a room with people
and you're just like.

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Snapping.
Snap and wait for the left and

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right.
We all do.

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Breaking bread we're.
Breaking bread.

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We're breaking bread.
That that's when, you know, you

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talk to someone who reads the
Bible really literally.

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You're like, well, you know,
maybe that means something

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different.
That's good.

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You know, Paul would say, well,
Jesus would say, you know, as

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often you do this, do this and
remembering me and it really is

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glorifying Christ, you know, his
death, his burial, his

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00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,000
resurrection, his, you know,
conquering, you know, sin and

451
00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,360
death on our behalf.
And so that is the purpose of

452
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,560
the Lord's Supper.
And so, you know, I'm not saying

453
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,360
don't do the Lord's Supper, but
things that also do those those

454
00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:12,160
things where we're lifting
Christ up would also kind of fit

455
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,160
into this category.
So for our church, we talk

456
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:20,000
about, you know, worship and
then maybe witnessing, you know,

457
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:21,960
those two things.
You know, when we are telling

458
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,520
the the world about who Christ
is and we're really lifting him

459
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:27,920
up like he is the way, the truth
and the life.

460
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,360
No one comes to follow up except
for through him.

461
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,680
That is a way that we are quote
UN quote, breaking the bread

462
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,160
because we are, you know,
worshipping and lifting up, you

463
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,560
know, his, his life and and all
those things he did for us.

464
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,280
I, I like this note.
It's not just a component of

465
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,120
Sunday gatherings.
It's you know, we should be

466
00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:46,680
talking about Christ when we
fellowship, when we're praying,

467
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,400
when we're going about our daily
lives that there's this

468
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,480
exaltation and worship of of
Christ.

469
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,120
You know, we read throughout
Scripture huge emphasis here

470
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,920
Colossians one one of those, you
know, paramount passages of the

471
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,480
preeminence of Christ and it's
just like over and over all

472
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,840
things through him for him to
him.

473
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:07,040
You just read all all all of
this just pointing to Christ.

474
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:12,040
Yeah, and we, we have teased an
interview with Tim for a year

475
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,640
now.
But but we should have an

476
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,840
interview with Tim.
But this really effects, you

477
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,800
know, our thinking on song
selection.

478
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,880
You know, we don't.
There's a lot of songs out there

479
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,800
to choose from.
We want songs that are focused

480
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,640
somehow on Christ or God, you
know, generally, but it

481
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,400
shouldn't be man centered like,
Oh, I'm going to do this and I'm

482
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,960
do this and not, you know, I'll
because there there are those

483
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:38,000
songs out there.
But it should be, you know,

484
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:39,880
Christ should have first place
and everything you.

485
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,880
Should do song roulette like on
Sunday morning be like, let's

486
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,880
see what song we're going to
sing, like spin the wheel and

487
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,040
we're like spin that.
We're not getting excited.

488
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,680
For it and then somehow I have
to like connect that, you know.

489
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:50,960
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like a challenge.

490
00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:52,360
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's good.

491
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,520
But you're right, a lot of a lot
of worship songs to pick from.

492
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,160
It's good to be choosy about
about those things.

493
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,080
So practically speaking, you
mentioned a lot of these

494
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,480
communion baptism.
We're about to baptize a bunch

495
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,080
of people at our church.
Corporate singing times of

496
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:10,280
testimony use different ways,
different elements of worship to

497
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,200
exalt Christ.
Not it's not just, you know,

498
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:17,640
this smoke, smoke, you know,
it's it's just entertainment

499
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,160
since you're not saying those
things are bad, but you know,

500
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,240
it's like that can't be the
focus of it, right.

501
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:27,840
Yeah, and some people have had
bad experiences where churches

502
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:33,680
have been over emotionalized and
the music does reach to your

503
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,480
emotions.
Like you can't listen to certain

504
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,760
types of music too long without
certain emotions getting

505
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,920
triggered.
And that's not bad as long as

506
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:48,960
that is grounded in truth.
And so, you know, a good worship

507
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:53,200
song should help connect the
intellect with a true emotion

508
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,800
about how I should think about
that.

509
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,840
So that's, you know, you should
have this pairing of the truth

510
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,040
that the song you're singing is
saying with emotion that's going

511
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,200
with it.
And so if you take out that

512
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,960
truth or you put it in with
falsehood, and then you're

513
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,080
still, you know, bringing
people's emotions up and down,

514
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,480
that's where you get into some
some bad things.

515
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,280
Yeah.
And you, you can see that being

516
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:17,560
abused from time, time to time.
So that is breaking of bread.

517
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,120
And then the last priority is
prayer.

518
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,280
Prayer is mentioned a lot in
Scripture.

519
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,960
It's probably hard to measure up
to, you know, what the what the

520
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,000
standard is.
James 5 says the effect of

521
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,400
prayer of a righteous man can
accomplish much.

522
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,480
I mean, think about an entire
church praying.

523
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,960
That seems like a lot can be
accomplished through prayer. 1st

524
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,280
Thessalonians 5 says to pray
without ceasing.

525
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,640
It's a lot of prayer.
Matthew 6 we see Jesus modeling

526
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,800
prayer.
We see Jesus going off and

527
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,400
praying pretty pretty often.
So prayer is not, again, not a

528
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,400
throwaway thing.
They were continually devoting

529
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,920
themselves something that should
be evidence at your church.

530
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,000
Yeah.
And I want to push back and get

531
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,800
something that I hear quite a
bit.

532
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:03,920
It's it's almost become a truth
ISM that prayer doesn't change

533
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,760
things.
Prayer changes you have.

534
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,040
You heard that?
I've heard this a lot, yeah.

535
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,560
Yeah, yeah.
And there the problem is there

536
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,160
is some truth to that prayer
should change us some.

537
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:19,320
But the overriding example of of
in in Scripture is that we're

538
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:25,000
praying to ask to petition God
to ask him to act on our behalf.

539
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,360
Now you can get into some
theological questions about how

540
00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:32,360
does an eternal all knowing, you
know, sovereign God, answer your

541
00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:34,240
prayer.
I have some, I think I have some

542
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,880
answers for how that works.
But even if we don't understand

543
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,600
it, that we're commanded to pray
and we're commanded to ask God

544
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,520
for things and, and, and to
admire him and to confess our

545
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:47,640
sin.
Yeah, that's right.

546
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,640
That's.
Right, so it's not just, you

547
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,240
know, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, but
give me is part of.

548
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,000
It it's not Yeah, ask whatever
in my name, it'll be given to

549
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,480
you.
We just read James 5A.

550
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:01,200
Righteous man's prayer can
accomplish a lot that God wants

551
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,640
to give us good gifts like you
don't have 'cause you don't ask,

552
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,680
you know, these kind of things.
So you're right.

553
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,640
I think people say that because
of the abuse on the other side,

554
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,800
but it's like you don't want to
just take that saying wholesale

555
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,200
and miss the miss that truth as
well, 'cause I think, I think

556
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,960
you're right.
That's good prayer.

557
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,480
It's not a ritual.
It's like, oh, it's time for a

558
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,280
meal.
I'm just gonna pray the same

559
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,320
words or it's time for bed, you
know?

560
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:27,840
Dear God, thank you for this
day.

561
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,120
Amen.
I'm gonna bed.

562
00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:31,960
I ask little Joshie to pray.
Sometimes we're just trying to

563
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,360
eat that chicken, like as fast
as we can.

564
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:34,280
They're gonna think for this
food.

565
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:35,640
Amen.
Like we want to eat, you know

566
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,400
what I mean?
And so you want, you want to

567
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,720
express that dependence on God
and not just go through the

568
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:41,480
motions.
Yeah, yeah.

569
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,080
And we are kind of alluded to
this.

570
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,920
It's about praise, petition,
confession, intercession.

571
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,240
I've used the acrostic axe
before.

572
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,280
Have you heard this?
Admiration, confession, thank,

573
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,040
thank, thankfulness, and then
your supplication.

574
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,400
So.
That's that's great.

575
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,640
It's probably good inventory to
like not that has to be like 25%

576
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,800
each, but if you're like, oh,
it's 80% supplication, I don't

577
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,640
know.
You know, it's good to try to

578
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,240
balance sometimes or or think
about what what you're praying

579
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,320
and have different emphases.
I think and other I can't

580
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,640
remember what the book is by
Whitley, who's like at Southern

581
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,440
Seminary professor, but it's
like praying the word or praying

582
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,480
the Bible or something.
It's I think it that helps.

583
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,160
We went through a couple times
at our church.

584
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:27,600
Probably Jack like, loves this
book.

585
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,120
Yeah, really.
It's a short, easy to read book

586
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,040
and it just basically, you know,
helps Orient you because it's

587
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,440
easy for your mind to wonder.
It's easy for you to fall into

588
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,400
vain repetitions.
It's easy for you to focus just

589
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,560
on, you know, the thing of the
day or you know, whatever.

590
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,640
And it's like scripture kind of
it gives you this variance and

591
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,040
you know, I'm praying Scripture
that that you know, it is a

592
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,760
helpful thing.
And you say you want to be a

593
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,240
church, a prayer.
I think, you know, a lot of

594
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,000
churches have prayer meeting
this kind of thing that you

595
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,040
don't want to neglect this.
You want to encourage this and

596
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,880
try to facilitate this because a
prayer was church not a great

597
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,080
place to be.
No, that's exactly right.

598
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,400
All right, So practical
applications.

599
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,480
How could your church meet this,
you know, group week, weekly

600
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,840
prayer meetings, prayer chains,
you know, you could have

601
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:21,360
leadership praying, you know,
encouraging family prayer.

602
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:26,720
You could start a, a citywide
prayer, prayer thing like we

603
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:31,280
have in Charleston.
And think of ways to keep prayer

604
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,960
from becoming mechanical and,
and helping to make it

605
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,000
meaningful.
You know, you know, asking for

606
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,160
specific things, you know, not
just praying broadly, you know,

607
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,560
bless us, be with us.
Those are easy prayers to pray

608
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:45,960
and they can get through it
quick.

609
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,840
Honestly, half baked idea Sunday
mornings we have someone's

610
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,280
assigned like prayer grader.
Someone prays for offering.

611
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,160
We say like B plus like I liked
what you did here is like you

612
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,920
know, and we get like a little
write up of you know, well, you

613
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,480
got a 90 in this area.
We're really lacking.

614
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,320
I didn't hear a whole lot of
adoration or whatever.

615
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,160
Think about it.
Maybe we.

616
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,720
Just, you know, print it off,
hand it to them as they're

617
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:10,720
walking out and that would be
good.

618
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,280
In that book that you'd
mentioned praying Scripture, you

619
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,640
know, he talks about, you know,
there are prayers that Paul

620
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,720
gives, there's the Psalms.
But he also is like, you know,

621
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,160
if you're praying something in,
you know, maybe you're praying

622
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,560
about, you know, Jacob being on
the run from Esau or something

623
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,040
and something comes to mind
because you've got a nephew

624
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,600
who's on the run.
Stop and pray right there.

625
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,240
You can use Scripture to provoke
prayer, you know.

626
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,800
And better that way than like
your own thoughts.

627
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,760
And it's not that you're trying
to say, you know, God, I this is

628
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,520
a promise.
You know, you save Jacob.

629
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,600
Now you got to save my you know,
but you can pray out of it.

630
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:57,320
And even I'll go as to say you
can pray, you know, Jeremiah

631
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,080
2911 for yourself, as long as
you're not trying to say, God,

632
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:02,480
this is the promise you gave to
me.

633
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,480
You can say, hey, God, I know
you are an eternal God.

634
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,280
And you know, the plans you have
for me, and I'm hoping I'm

635
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,720
asking that they are plans for
prospering me.

636
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,040
And you know what that looks
like more than me.

637
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,760
Maybe that's transformation in
the image of your son, not just,

638
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,960
you know, coins in my pocket,
you know, so you can use

639
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,960
Scripture like that as well.
You know, another famous one of

640
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,400
my people who called by my name
humble themselves.

641
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,960
That's, you know, that's a very
specific answer to a very

642
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,840
specific prayer.
But there's nothing stopping you

643
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,680
to say, hey, God, I'm praying
that America would fall to our

644
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,160
knees and we would, you know, we
would humble ourselves.

645
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,920
We would confess our sin before
you.

646
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,920
And would you in response to
that, you know, bring revival to

647
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:43,960
us?
You know, those are great

648
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,440
prayers that can be borne out of
the Scripture as you're just

649
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,760
reading through it.
Yeah, we we could all probably

650
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,080
do that better.
You think about these

651
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,160
priorities, they're not just in
a box by themselves.

652
00:31:55,160 --> 00:32:00,200
You can combine some of these.
All of these probably would do

653
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,600
well to have some component of
evangelism edification.

654
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,560
You're praying, you can pray for
people to come to Christ.

655
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,920
You can pray that people would
you, you, you can grow.

656
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,200
You know, they're they're just
not all just separate by

657
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,920
themselves, but they all
participate in this.

658
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,800
People walk in and see you
exalting Jesus Christ, even if

659
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,080
you're not directly witnessing
to them.

660
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,840
They are being evangelized.
Yeah, or fellowship where it's

661
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,720
not just for the people inside,
but you're come see how

662
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,480
Christians love each other and
how we interact with each other.

663
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,160
And that can be evangelism and
identification as well.

664
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,800
I like this quote.
If an activity can't be tied to

665
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,320
evangelism or identification,
it's not a biblical priority.

666
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,440
Don't know who said it but it's
a quote.

667
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:39,080
Did you say this?
It's.

668
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,680
A quote from my paper.
Oh.

669
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,920
God, you're quoting from my This
is from Michael Mott.

670
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,240
This is great.
Yeah, that's good.

671
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,600
So you know, big picture
glorification, then we've kind

672
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,240
of got these 4 priorities.
This is what the early church

673
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focused on.
They were devoting themselves to

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word, fellowship, worship and
prayer.

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So if your church isn't focusing
on these things, you might want

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to ask some questions, re
evaluate, do a little audit.

677
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Humbly ask some questions, but
yeah, yeah.

678
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How dare you.

679
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I might be the first one you
ask?

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Yeah, maybe.
Maybe a little more humble in

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that.
So what are we looking at next

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week?
All right, so I think we get

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into programs for you know, you
know how what type of programs

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you might set up for this.
And then I think last one is,

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you know, your people, your
personalities, how you're gifted

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and stuff.
I love it.

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So on, on your end, if you're
listening, think about these

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things.
How is your church implementing

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these priorities?
Evaluate, you know, are we

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hitting a, you know, prayer?
Are we hitting apostles,

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teaching or hitting fellowship
or hitting worship?

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And then don't forget,
subscribe, share our podcast.

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We never say that.
That's probably a good thing for

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us to say.
I feel like every podcast says

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that.
Yeah, we got 2.

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Did you see this?
I saw this. 2 new subscribers in

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one day.
Big day.

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That's big day for clear
thinking Christianity.

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Yeah.
So if you if you do listen, even

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if it's.
I know one of them.

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Oh, you do.
Yeah, I just give them a shout

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out Bryant and Marshall Compton.
Oh no, yeah, we we did get.

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That.
But then yesterday we got two in

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one day.
That wasn't the Compton.

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I did screenshot that one.
I was going to ask them about

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that.
You know, that's good.

707
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Yeah, it's great.
They I should shout out.

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They're starting their own
YouTube channel.

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And so on Wednesday night they
said, Zach, can you subscribe to

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my channel?
It's like only subscribe to

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Michael's channel.
So there you go.

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So we're eating.
That's good.

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Yeah.
So we do have merch available

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and.
But, you know, if you do find

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this, you know, speaking to you
share now because I know you

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know some people who who also
enjoy it.

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Yeah.
Absolutely love it.

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Well, thanks for hanging in
there with us.

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That is our take.
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