Welcome back, I really
have enjoyed our time together.
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Martin Weber, you wrote a
book and you talked about all
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this stuff in your book
and I am grateful that you put
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it down, but I know you
have a story that you told about
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a funeral you did at the
Salvation Army so I would like
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you to share that with us.
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You know the Salvation Army is
there for people when they are
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hurting and a fellow chaplain
and I were involved with
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a number of other
pastors in the daily Ministry
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to homeless people.
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One of them died prematurely
and we were having his
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funeral and I was talking
about how precious Scotty was.
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Suddenly in the middle of
hearing all this, somebody
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jumped up in the audience
and said precious, he is nothing
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but a blankety-blank.
- yeah cat litter.
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- so he was angry? - yes, yeah!
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He was disgusted that
I would be talking about
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preciousness in
relation to this guy whom
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he had roomed with.
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Or he slept under a
bridge with actually.
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So it very disruptive to
the service if you can imagine.
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I had an intern there
whose eyes were real big,
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what do you do with this?
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I couldn't just ignore it,
so I walked on down the middle
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row to where he was standing
and I said, praying all the
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while, I said why would
you say something like that
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about Scotty?
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He said well he was nothing
but a drunken son blankety-
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blank, and he was getting worse.
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I thought dear Lord this
thing is getting out of hand.
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What now, please make
it in a teaching moment.
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You know I like when you told
me this earlier, it was like
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everybody around this guy
was almost smiling at the fact
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that he was
getting to the preacher.
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Yes getting to the preacher,
putting me on the spot.
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It was amusing for them,
even though it was a funeral.
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So here he is nothing but
a drunk, so then I asked him.
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I said, did the fact that
Scotty had a drinking problem
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make him any
less valuable to God?
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All of a sudden everybody
was quiet because they all did
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too, so this was
about them suddenly.
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So thank you for that, I
really wanted to end with that.
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It is that our addictions
don't make us any less valuable
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to God, our craziness,
our hormonal imbalances, our
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biochemistry out of whack,
anger issues, we're fearful and
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all those things God
says, you are so valuable to Me.
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I'm just asking you, and
especially this season is if you
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are going to maintain and
avoid relapse, if you are going
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to get out of addiction
and into recovery you have to
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start doing this
maintenance thing.
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Let people around you, let
God, let the Holy Spirit just
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show you who you are.
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How to heal from these
things, fears like what Martin
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Webber was talking about,
he had to heal from those,
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but more than that then how
to step out and offer healing
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to someone else,
and I do that every day.
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Every single time I talk to
another addict and I see the
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hope wake up in them, you
see the fact that they get it,
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I heal a little bit more
so it is the way it works.
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It is huge and it is the
way God has always planned it.
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He says I will teach you
who you are and then please
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stand up and
really get a hold of that.
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Let your life unfold like
that and teach someone else.
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It is amazing, I'm
so glad you joined us.
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I'll see you next time
and until then always remember
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that God is crazy
about you and me too.
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God bless!
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