00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:03 Fall Fest Preparations
00:19 Purpose of Fall Fest
01:22 Engaging with the Community
02:10 Effective Evangelism Strategies
03:53 Challenges in Evangelism
07:03 The Sending of the 72
10:17 The Parable of the Good Samaritan
14:29 Concentric Circles of Responsibility
19:18 Closing Remarks and Prayer
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Hey everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:What's up?
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:It is Fall Fest Eve today.
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:That's right.
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:It is, yeah.
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:Which means tomorrow's Fall Fest
and four to 7:00 PM at the church.
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:I know a lot of you are serving and
some of you're gonna be on setup.
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:I think setup has taken
place at two o'clock.
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:I think we've got other people
working on balloon arches and
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:stuff like that before that.
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:There's a lot going on, but it's
probably helpful for us to revisit
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:why we're doing this in the, why are
we doing this in the first place?
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:That's a great question
People have been asking.
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:Everybody wants to know.
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:We're doing this because part
of our job as the church is to
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:make an impact in our community.
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:Part of our job as the church is to
have a presence in our community.
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:And while that is not event
driven, it certainly does not
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:exclude us doing events like this.
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:This is a way for us to bless our
community through having a free
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:event, a safe event for parents and
families to bring their kids to that
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:they're not having to walk through
and see a bunch of scary stuff.
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:I dunno about you, but my neighborhood
man has some pretty gnarly goly
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:stuff that are in people's yards.
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:My neighbor.
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:Directly behind me.
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:Put up their Christmas tree there.
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:I don't know what neighbors you got.
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:They're blessed mine.
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:Or celebrating Christmas already.
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:Well, good on them.
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:Neighbor.
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:Similar line.
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:Seriously what though?
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:That was October 22nd when
I first saw their tree.
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:That's insane.
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:They beat everybody.
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:That's crazy.
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:You should give them , an award.
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:You know what?
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:They don't open the door
to us, so we might have.
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:You should just get a trophy.
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:Just put it on their door and just put
it on their door, their door, their
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:door, stop and attach a note door front.
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:But we're doing this to bless
our community, but we're
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:also doing this as a witness.
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:And so as you're there know that this
is for you and it's not for you at the
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:same time, this is for you in the sense
that, hey, we want your kids to be there.
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:We want to you to have a great time.
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:We want you to grab a pumpkin,
grab candy, play some games, send
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:your kids through the inflatables.
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:But it's not for you in the sense that
we also want you there on mission.
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:We want you there ready to
have conversations and to greet
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:people and to talk to them.
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:And so as you're talking with people,
some questions that you can have in
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:your mind and questions to ask are,
Hey, so and so Nice to meet you.
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:I'm such and such.
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:You know, we go to church here.
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:Do you go to church anywhere?
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:And maybe you're gonna run into
somebody who is of a different
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:religion that's gonna say no.
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:And a follow up question that
you could ask that I think is
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:really helpful is, oh, why not?
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:Yeah, exactly.
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:Why not?
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:No, but you can ask the question.
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:Ha have you ever been to church?
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:I found that on college campuses, we
used to go out and do evangelism back
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:in California on college campuses.
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:And a lot of times we'd lead with the
question, have you ever been to church?
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:And sometimes they would say no.
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:And or do you go to church?
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:No, I don't.
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:Well, have you ever been to church?
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:And that's a great question.
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:'cause some of 'em will say,
yeah, I've been a couple times.
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:Oh, well what did you think about it?
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:There's ways for us to get into these
conversations with people to invite
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:their and they're disarmed there
because they're, you're not saying,
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:Hey, why don't you go to church?
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:Why don't you like church?
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:What's wrong with you?
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:Or.
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:You know, if you got somebody from
another religion, maybe they're
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:gonna say, I've never been to church.
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:Would you ever consider coming?
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:Would you be interested to
know what it's like, what we do
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:there and what we're all about?
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:We'd love for you to come and visit
and come see what we're about.
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:That's a non-threatening way for you to
engage somebody who maybe a part of a
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:different religion, to invite them to
come and see what our church is like.
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:Just like if they were to say,
Hey, would you be interested in
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:finding out what we're about?
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:That might not be a bad idea either.
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:Not in the sense that you're gonna be
con converted to a different religion,
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:but to say, Hey what is this about?
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:So that I have some knowledge
and awareness of that.
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:But there's questions that you can ask
and you can get into other questions too.
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:The question, those questions
can lead to questions about God.
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:Hey, do you believe in God?
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:And you might think, wow, these are
really intense questions to talk about.
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:But if you start small
with a question like, Hey.
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:Have you ever been to church?
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:Then you can quickly get to those
questions and people are willing to talk.
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:I think that's the thing that we need to
remember is people are willing to talk if
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:we approach them with a winsome attitude.
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:Yeah.
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:When I learned the way the master method
years ago, I really appreciated the
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:starting question, which is, would you
consider yourself to be a good person?
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:And because, yeah, most people do.
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:Say yes to that.
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:It's a really great starting place to
say, okay, well let's talk about that.
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:Let's define that.
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:And I know a couple of our evangelism
team people will be on the premises
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:and they'll be talking to different
people, probably using that method
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:or some combination thereof.
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:But don't look down on
opportunities like this.
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:Now, one of the most challenging,
I think, opportunities that we have
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:is because we have so many Hindus
and Muslims in our neck of the woods
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:you're starting from less than zero.
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:Zero would be they don't know
about the Christian Church.
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:They don't know about the gospel.
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:Great.
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:Let me tell you about that.
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:Less than zero is someone who
has a framework of thinking
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:about the world around us that
is so contrary to what we think.
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:We have to start by building common
vernacular ways to talk about God.
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:And sin and righteousness and judgment.
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:That's gonna take time.
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:And perhaps you don't have a good
six hours to develop a framework
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:with your Hindu or Muslim friend
where you can develop those ideas.
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:That's okay.
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:Put a rock in the shoe as as
some apologists have said before.
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:I know Great Coco in
his book, what was that?
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:Tactics?
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:Tactic.
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:He says something to that effect.
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:You're not gonna be able to do.
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:All the salvation that
you want to accomplish.
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:Sometimes you're the beginning person,
sometimes you're the last person,
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:you're the one who harvest the soul.
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:Other times you're just a contributor to
what God is doing in that person's life.
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:And I'd say just be okay with
whatever part God has for you.
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:Be friendly, be welcoming, be kind.
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:Talk to people.
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:Show them kindness and love.
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:Don't see them as projects.
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:They're people care about their
lives and not just the fact that you
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:want to share the gospel with them.
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:That's an important part of that.
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:But don't see that as
an end in and of itself.
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:You're trying to build
relationships with our community.
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:These are people that maybe some
of them are Christians and they do
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:know exactly what the gospel is,
and they're just here enjoying the
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:premises and enjoying the candy.
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:Fantastic.
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:That's okay.
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:But our job at this point with a situation
like this is to give you opportunities
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:to talk to people in a way that's
productive, in a way that's intentional.
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:And I know that you're not gonna
do this at the grocery store.
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:You're not gonna go to Kroger
and say, Hey, would you consider
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:yourself to be a good person?
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:Probably, but you could do it here.
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:And it makes perfect sense because we're a
church hosting an event, and this is part
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:of the territory, part of the process.
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:So take advantage of it's dress in
something that you know isn't super
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:scary and have some fun with their
kids and talk to your neighbors.
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:It'll be a great experience for you.
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:We'll be there too.
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:Our goal just as, just so you
know, as the pastors, we wanna
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:talk to lots of strangers.
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:So if you don't see us talking to you,
it's not 'cause we don't like you, we're
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:trying to talk to everybody really.
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:But we do want to have some conversations
with unbelievers, if at all possible.
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:So if you see that, you see us
talking to someone you don't
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:recognize, pray for them.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:It's very likely that we're
having a spiritual conversation.
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:That is our intention.
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:And if you can.
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:Come ready with that in mind, that'll do
you a lot of good, and I dare say, it'll
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:be one of the best nights of your life.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Also, just be praying
for the practical things.
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:Pray for the weather, number one.
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:We're recording this on Thursday.
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:We're supposed to get
some pretty bad weather.
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:We're Friday night into Saturday.
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:Not to have this true, but
we're planning to have this on
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:a field, on the athletic field.
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:So if that field turns into a cesspool.
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:That's not a good thing.
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:So bring your waterproof boots.
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:There you go.
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:Yeah.
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:So pray for that.
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:Pray for safety.
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:That's another big thing.
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:And we don't wanna take that for granted.
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:Yeah.
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:That is something that,
that is on our minds.
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:I know we've got gatekeepers
and I know it's on their minds
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:and I'm thankful for them.
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:There have been a lot of bad
things happening in different
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:areas and we don't wanna be.
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:Sinfully anxious about things
like that taking place.
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:But we also do wanna be prepared.
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:We wanna be shrewd, we wanna be
wise as serpents, and so pray
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:for safety at this event as well.
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:And yeah, pray for people to get saved.
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:Pray for those gospel conversations
to happen and for God to save people.
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:How cool would it be at our next baptism
to have somebody say, well, I showed up
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:at Fall Fest and I had a conversation
with this person, and God opened my eyes.
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:That would be pretty awesome.
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:Let's jump into our DBR.
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:We are in Luke chapter 10 today.
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:So just one chapter today,
and that chapter begins with
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:the sending out of the 72.
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:So this is similar to when Jesus
sent out the 12 back in Mark six.
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:In Matthew 10.
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:Similar instructions are given
but one of the interesting
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:things was that these 72 are.
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:Sent out to, to prepare these
towns for Jesus himself to follow.
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:So they're going kind of as the
forerunners and Jesus is gonna come
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:after them, and Jesus is gonna preach
and teach in these same towns so
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:that these towns have a foundation
under them before Jesus gets there.
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:But they're also sent out and they're
giving these instructions to pray
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:earnestly to the Lord of Harvest,
to send out labors into his harvest.
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:And so Jesus is already sending them
out and at the same time telling
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:them to pray, that more will be
raised up to be sent out as well.
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:And so just that evangelistic
mindset, something that's good for us,
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:sometimes we'll read that and be like,
oh, good, I don't have to be sent.
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:I can be one of the people that
prays for more people to be sent.
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:And here it's Jesus.
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:Saying, no it's both.
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:And go and be the person that's having
the conversation, be the person that's
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:sharing the gospel and at the same time
pray for more people to be sent out.
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:I feel that as we were just talking
about this we live in an area with
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:a lot of people that need Jesus.
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:And we need to be pursuing them
and we need to pray that God will
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:bring others to pursue them as well.
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:That's right.
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:The 72 are given.
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:Again the authority and the power
to do some pretty miraculous things.
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:And we look at that and we say
should we expect the same thing?
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:And we would say no.
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:As cessationists, we would say,
this is unique to this time period.
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:In part because remember,
they're not going out with the
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:New Testament in their hands.
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:They're not going out with the
church the canon of scripture.
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:At their disposal.
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:They're not even going out
with the Old Testament, which
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:certainly was available to them.
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:They had it memorized, probably a lot
of them did, or large portions of it.
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:But they're not going out with
it tactically in their hands
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:to be able to preach from.
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:And so as they're going out and calling
for repentance some of the question is
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:gonna be asked by those that they're
talking to, Hey, who gives you the
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:authority to be able to do these things?
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:And so the, these miracles that were
done, part of the purpose of them
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:being able to cast out demons and other
things was that they, the miracle would
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:validate the message and the messenger.
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:And so as they then proclaimed it,
people would say, okay, I'm gonna
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:listen to what they have to say
because of what I just saw them do.
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:There's something beyond just mere
human wisdom in what these guys are
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:saying and yet then Jesus tells them
when they come back and they're telling
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:Jesus, how great is this Jesus look,
here's everything that's able to happen.
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:I love what he says in verse 20.
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:He says, do not rejoice in this.
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:In other words that the, he says
that the spirits are subject to you.
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:But instead, rejoice that your
names are written in heaven.
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:Rejoice.
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:That's the biggest thing.
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:That's the most significant thing
that you have is not the power to cast
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:out demons, but the fact that you are
saved, that you are a child of God.
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:And he says that's where you
should really find true joy There.
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:End of chapter 10, he prays a, again,
one of those difficult things where
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:he addresses his father, or I guess
not the end of chapter 10, but about
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:halfway through here, and he just
prays and he says I'm thankful that
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:you've not revealed these to the wise
of the world, but to those that are.
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:More of the children, the childlike
faith there, which we've talked about
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:a couple times, but this is similar I
think to one Corinthians chapter one as
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:well, where Paul talks about the wisdom
of God as foolishness to the world.
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:And so Jesus is saying it's a
good thing that God has exalted
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:that his name is exalted because
he's revealing these things to the
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:people that you would least expect.
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:From here, we get one of the more.
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:Well-known parables that Jesus
tells throughout his ministry.
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:And that is the parable of the
Good Samaritan because a teacher
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:approaches him, an expert in
the law and says, teacher, what?
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:What do I have to do to be saved?
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:And Jesus tells him, well, you
should do what's written in the law.
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:How do you read it?
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:And the main answer is, love the Lord your
God, with all your heart, with all your
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:soul, with all your strength, and with all
your mind and your neighbor as yourself.
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:This is Deuteronomy six, the Shema.
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:And Jesus said to him,
you've answered correctly.
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:Do this and you will live.
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:And then the man it says in the
text, wishing to justify himself.
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:He wants to know how little he has to
do here, says, well, who's my neighbor?
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:And Jesus then tells the parable and the
Samaritan is the hero or the parable.
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:And that would've caused.
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:This man, in fact, this man at
the end when Jesus says, which
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:of these three was the neighbor?
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:The man can't even say
the words Samaritan.
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:He can only say the man
who showed him mercy.
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:And Jesus said, you go and do
likewise and you will live.
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:This is, this would've been shocking and
it loses his impact for us because we.
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:Have heard the story from the
time that we were little, but the
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:Samaritan would've been the vile one
in the eyes of the Jewish people.
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:And that's Jesus' point there.
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:The one that you least think is
the person worthy of being a good
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:neighbor is the good neighbor here.
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:And as we read this
we're not the Samaritan.
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:We're the guy beaten and
bloodied on the side of the road.
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:Jesus is the good Samaritan.
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:Jesus is the one that loved
us to this full extent and at
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:such a great cost to himself.
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:And he's calling us essentially to
go and love as we've been loved.
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:Does someone qualify as a neighbor?
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:Any, anywhere at any time.
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:Jesus is not speaking to us in the
:
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:I, I do think that there's a serious
question in many people's minds about,
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:am I responsible, for instance, for
the Nigerian Christians, and if so,
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:to what degree they're my neighbor and
they're more than my neighbor, they're
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:my brother or my sister, presumably,
what is my responsibility then?
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:To people across the globe.
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:What's my responsibility to Ukraine?
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:Mm-hmm.
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:What's my responsibility to
Russians, especially those
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:who are Christian Russians?
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:What is my responsibility to the Uyghurs?
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:Is there a responsibility?
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:Does the fact that I know about a need
mm-hmm mean that I should meet the need?
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:And if so, where do I draw
the line, if anywhere?
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:I mean, I don't wanna violate
what Jesus is saying here.
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:'cause he's trying to overcome this
teacher's justification of himself by
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:saying, look, let me give you a story.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:And the story's supposed to illustrate,
there's the guy that came across the
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:road and this guy was a good dude.
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:What is our expectation as
Christians in:
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:access to every part of the world?
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:Basically, almost instantaneously.
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:What is the expectation of a Christian
who's trying to love their neighbor?
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:Well, I think we have to
admit our finitude and the
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:finitude of our resources.
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:And so when you're thinking about.
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:Financial needs.
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:Right.
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:You have a stewardship that's been
given to you by God, that if you
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:love your neighbors so well, that
you empty your bank account to be
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:able to financially support, people
that need that across the world.
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:And yet doing so has put your family
in need and been detrimental to
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:your family and not wise as far
as you being able to steward the
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:responsibilities that you have here.
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:You're trading one wrong
for another mm-hmm.
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:In that instance.
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:But one of the resources that we have
in abundance is our ability to pray.
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:And I think we do have.
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:The obligation to do that when we're
aware of the needs and even that
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:we've got a limited amount of time
in our day as far as how much time
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:you've got responsibilities that you
need to do, even as pastors, right?
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:Like we have to spend time
doing things like sermon prep.
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:We have to spend time doing things
like having meetings about planning
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:for Fall Fest to make sure it's a
good event and things like that.
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:So we can't say, I'm gonna spend 24
hours a day praying for all the needs
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:that I know that are out there, but.
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:You can be intentional to say, okay,
maybe on Thursday I'm gonna pray
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:for international needs that I have.
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:Maybe on Friday I'm gonna pray
for local needs that I know of.
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:Maybe on Saturday I'm gonna pray for
my neighbors and my neighborhood.
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:And so you can begin to methodically
pray through things that's
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:good, that I think are helpful.
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:And yet at the same time recognize
the finitude of our resources and
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:our ability to love everybody to the
extent that maybe we would want to.
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:And maybe that's even a problem too.
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:I think maybe our prayer begins
with, Lord, give me a greater
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:compassion for people as my neighbor.
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:Help me to see people as my
neighbor that I'm not naturally
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:inclined to see as my neighbor.
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:Yeah.
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:In fact, I was gonna say,
that's a great point.
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:If you even feel that, if you feel the
impulse to say, I wanna love my neighbor,
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:that's a really great place to start.
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:I think God can use that.
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:And would that more of our people feel
that impulse to say, I wanna love people.
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:Well, mm-hmm.
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:Let me encourage you to take
responsibility by using concentric
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:circles of responsibility.
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:The smallest concentric circle that
you have responsibility for is you.
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:You need to take care of yourself.
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:You can't take care of others if
you're not taking care of yourself.
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:And that's gonna look like you
being a good neighbor to yourself.
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:And I know this is not the point
of the text, just hear me out here.
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:You should be spending time with the Lord
in the morning or afternoon, whenever it
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:is that you spend time with him praying,
seeking his face, studying his word,
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:learning about that because you need to
be able to do that to make the decisions
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:that you're gonna need down the road here.
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:So concentric circle
number one, you concentric.
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:Circle number two, your family.
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:This is the.
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:The closest neighbors that you have,
they are physically next to you.
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:Most of the time they see you
at your best and your worst.
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:You have a responsibility to them.
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:So the second circle is your family.
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:The third circle, I would argue, even
though you have physical neighbors, I
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:would say your church is there and whether
sometimes it's two for or three or three
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:and two, I think the church family is.
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:Meant to be a significant part of your
consideration when you think about what
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:God has for you to do in the world.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:So concentric circle three, just
for the sake of clarity here,
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:let's just call that your church.
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:Four.
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:I'd put your neighbors, five, your city,
six, your state, and on and on it goes.
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:The greater the concentric circle,
the larger and further it goes out,
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:the less responsibility you have.
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:I would argue from this text here.
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:The Good Samaritan shows us that
the person nearest to you is the
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:one that God gives you to care for.
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:Yeah.
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:And he does it by providence.
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:People that are next to you,
people that are near your
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:vicinity, your neighbor is nearby.
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:They're the people that you're
to give priority of care for.
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:And again, again, I would start
with yourself and the Lord.
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:That's the first place that's
gonna control and help you
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:understand the rest of it.
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:But I would use concentric circles
of responsibility to help you
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:make some of these determinations.
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:Well, and even to that point, even as
Lieutenant ends with the story of Martha
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:and Mary, you've got Martha who's.
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:Busy.
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:She's doing things.
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:Yeah.
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:She's caring for her neighbors.
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:Yeah.
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:You could argue.
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:And yet Mary is there sitting
at the feet of Jesus, and Martha
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:is indignant about this, saying,
Lord, help, she needs to help me.
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thing, not because what Martha was doing
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if we're not being filled up, then we've
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of other people, starting with our family
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but we're not filling up our tank with.
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effective in what we're doing.
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from our own power, which we're
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haven't been poured into.
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it's one of my favorites.
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I resonate with Martha so much.
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one is being instructed by the Lord,
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the better position to be in?
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Mary's doing the right thing.
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:We need him to teach us to
help us understand life.
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apart from the Lord helping us to see
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sounds controversial for us to say,
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priority on your agenda For sure.
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good preaching, worshiping with the body
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one another, sacrificing for their good.
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prioritize the church.
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he says, look, my family, my
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those who obey God's word.
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an honor, shame culture for Jesus to say
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than what you and I might feel because
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the corporate one, but Jesus
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tied up into the tribe.
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say, look, who are my mother and my
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who were obeying the word of God,
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neighbor or the good Samaritan teaches
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concentric circle of responsibility.
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have resources as to your point, PPJ,
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:your limited resources as you have
available, resources for the furthest
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feel the call to do that, fantastic.
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but make sure you're taking.
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earlier, smaller concentric circles
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at the beginning of Luke 10, when he sent
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Nigerian Christians we need to pray that
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have the proximity and the resources to
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Muslims won't kill them.
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:And if it's been on your heart
to pray for them or to give
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saying Stop giving, stop caring.
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:I'm not saying that right.
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:I'm just saying make sure you
have those earlier places covered.
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:We should care about the others.
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problems without looking at your
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yard and saying, am I caring for
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:God, we confess our finitude and
the magnitude of the need that
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the need to love our neighbors.
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to, to think through things in that
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sure, first and foremost, we are leaning
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:into our relationship with you, and that
we are being filled up by you so that we
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:And so, God, I pray that we would be
effective in that, that you would give
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neighborhoods that love the Lord, a church
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:that has committed to you, that loves
the Lord that we would be just seeing the
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:fruit of investing in these relationships.
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:Well, we do pray for tomorrow's
event, for Fall Fest.
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:We pray that it would go well.
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:We pray for protection.
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:We pray for a lot of people to
come through and to interact with
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:our people and to be able to have
conversations about Christ in the gospel.
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in Jesus name, amen.
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:Amen.
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:Keep new Bibles y'all tuning
into tomorrow for another edition
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:See you.
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:Bye.
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:Bernard: Well, thank you for
listening to another episode of
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:This is a ministry of Compass
Bible Church in north Texas.
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:PJ: Yeah.
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:I would agree with
everything that you said