Welcome back!
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You know I work with
people, even before I got into
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Ministry, I did 15 years
of psych, and psych nursing.
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I saw incredibly,
horrendous devastation
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in people's lives.
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When David was talking
about he had 6 children,
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now 7, and they were
born in these situations
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where he is using,
and his wife is using,
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just horrendous things.
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God steps in that situation,
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not only with the addict,
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but with the
child, with the community,
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with the parents,
with sisters and brothers.
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He says, I'm
going to step in and
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speak life into
everyone, into everyone.
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The children need to
know okay now is dad safe,
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is mom safe, am I safe?
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God says, through the
changes that will happen in
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the lives of the
parents, those children have
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to learn those things.
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Through the changes
that happened with David,
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learning to forgive
himself, learning to socialize,
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learning how to be a
dad, and how to be a husband,
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learning how to be a man.
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Learning all that stuff,
God says, I will stay with you
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through all that kind of thing.
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But now I want to
stop all that, because God
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is really good at that.
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I don't even
know how He does it,
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sometimes He
does it in an instant.
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We get it and we
feel loved and we can move
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into those relationships.
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And sometimes He
doesn't, and that is where
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I think the body
of Christ comes in,
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the church comes in.
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That person then
walks into the building,
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and they are like little babies.
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They don't know
how to do anything.
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They have to be mentored,
they have to be loved on,
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taught and all those things.
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I think for churches, I
just want to say out loud,
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if you can hear this,
it matters who we are.
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It matters what the person sees
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when they walk in the building.
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It matters the
first smile they see.
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It matters the first
time somebody shakes your hand
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and says welcome, welcome.
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If that person says, you
know what, I've never been
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in a church before.
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I think you should
just hug them right away,
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hug them and say sit next to me.
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Because more than likely
what they are saying to you
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is, I don't know anything,
I feel so out of place.
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I'm afraid and all
those kinds of things.
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I sat in a church for 10
years scared to death that if
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somebody new about my life
they would ask me to leave.
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I'm just saying, educate
yourself, be a Christian.
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Find out what is your
gift and how you are going to
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bring people into the building,
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and make them feel comfortable.
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What are you going to
teach in your churches and
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different programs to
teach an addict about anger and
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forgiveness and
all that kind of stuff.
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And once you get it, DO IT!
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Thank you for joining us
and I just pray that you will
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always remember that God
is crazy about you and me too.
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See you next time, bye!
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