I don't understand.
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Why did this
have to happen to me?
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I feel like I just
can't make sense of things.
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I need answers.
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Where is God?
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Hello and welcome to Raw
Questions Relevant Answers.
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A program where we look
at your questions about God,
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about life,
spirituality, religion,
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these are the
questions that you have sent in
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via the internet, Facebook page,
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and we're excited
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to be part of
looking at those today.
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Today, we're going to be
talking about witnessing,
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and I have with
me our two co-hosts,
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Dee Casper and Mark Paden.
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And so we're going to jump
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right into some
of the questions here
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'cause we have some
good ones here today.
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First question comes
from a female, age 23,
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and Tennessee.
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"If I am a busy student
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who ends up
exhausted by the weekend,
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how much outreach
does God expect me to do?"
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I want to kind of
start with the premise
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that the purpose of
outreach is not to appease God,
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the purpose...
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And I don't mean
to imply sour motives
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on behalf of the
question or answer,
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but just sometimes, we
feel like I have to do this
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so God will be happy with me.
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I want to give the example
of the woman at the well.
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When Jesus
changes this woman's life,
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knowing her broken
past, this is in John 4,
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she's had five husbands,
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the man she's living
with now is not her husband,
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instead of shaming her
for what she's wrestling with
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or what she does,
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Jesus heals her
completely of her brokenness,
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and the logical response
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to her being
healed of her brokenness
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was to go and tell
all the people in her city
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that she could find...
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That "I found a man Jesus
who knew everything about me
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and He still loves me."
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I think the main motive
and impetus for witnessing
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is not that we
have to or we ought to,
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but it's a privilege to
because we've found someone
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who's radically
changed our life.
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So I think just
from the ground level,
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when it comes to witnessing,
the whole purpose of witnessing
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is sharing the beauty
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of what Jesus
has done in your life
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and that can be
done in any setting,
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in any environment,
at any point in time
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as opposed to like
mustering up the guts
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to knock on a
door, do something else,
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and people will do that.
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The purpose of
witnessing is sharing with those
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in your sphere of
influence, wherever that is,
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the goodness of
God in your life.
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So just a practical
way of doing that, I mean,
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you may not be able to go
and knock on doors all day
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and give Bible
studies all the time,
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but can you talk
to your classmates?
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I mean,
guaranteed, almost no matter
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what school you go to,
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there's people that
you can reach out to,
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people that don't
know the love of God
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that you can witness to.
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I don't think that we
should ever be in this place
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where we are negating
what God has asked us to do
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because something
else is more pressing,
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and I think this
is another aspect
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on this question too.
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You know, I think, many times
in our college experiences,
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there's a lot of
stuff that goes on that
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it's almost too much sometimes.
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If we lose our Christianity
because we're getting a degree,
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how worth it is that?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like you may gain
all this knowledge
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on whatever your
area of study is,
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but is that knowledge worth
you losing your eternal life?
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I think this is
something that...
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especially you as
students at college
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need to think about seriously.
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Yeah.
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And let's be real too.
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In a lot of cases,
when people are at college,
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there is time, you know?
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If you really love God
and you're really passionate
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about sharing Him,
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you're going to make
time to do it, you know?
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You'll find opportunities...
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Yeah.
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You just are
influenced, you know?
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Right. Right.
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It kind of asked the question
with this, what is witnessing?
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We haven't even defined that.
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In society, by
definition, a witness is someone
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who's actually
been there for an event.
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They've seen something.
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I can't be a witness for a crime
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just because you
told me about it.
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I have to actually have
seen it to be a witness.
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And it kind of goes with
what you were saying, Mark,
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if we're not spending
time with God ourselves,
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how much value is
all of our education
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and everything else?
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But on the other hand,
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if we are
spending time with God,
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if we are
experiencing something with God,
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will we not be sharing Him?
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And maybe our
definition of witnessing
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can sometimes
be a little narrow,
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like it has to
happen when we go out
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at a certain
time with our church
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or to do a certain activity,
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but what about the witnessing
in just day to day life
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with those people?
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I was just going to
say that there are people
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in your sphere of influence
who are fellow students,
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who are struggling,
who have difficulties,
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who need someone
to listen to them,
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to point them to
Jesus, to show them that,
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"Hey, I was
wrestling with this, too."
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Maybe they're in a
situation where they're so busy
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with their school requirements,
it's difficult for them
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to feel like they can
do what they need to do.
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I've heard so many testimonies
of people who stood for God
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in spite of the seeming
schedule conflict or difficulty
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because of work at school,
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that God always
showed up for them,
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they chose to have time with God
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and not sacrifice that
when they had an exam that day,
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and they couldn't study as
long as maybe they would have
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had they not
spent time with God,
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and God honored it, right?
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So these
testimonies, you can share
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the faithfulness of
God in your experience
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in this
environment, and that people...
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Be paying attention
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to the needs of
the people around you
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and doors will open,
I guess, is my point.
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Here's one other thing
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that I would
throw into this mix.
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In Galatians 1, Paul is
talking to the Galatian church,
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and he basically
makes this point,
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and it's part of a
larger point that he's making,
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but he basically says
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that as soon as he
got converted to Christ,
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he didn't immediately
go and start preaching.
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He went to
Arabia for three years
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for God instructed him.
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I think, sometimes...
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And even look at
the life of Christ.
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Did He
immediately go out when He...
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As soon as He was able to
talk, that He immediately go out
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and start talking
to all the nations?
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No.
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He faithfully did
the work at His shop
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and He blessed
the people around Him,
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you know, He helped
those that were in need,
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He stooped to pick
up the hurt animal.
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This was the picture
that we got of Christ,
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but He wasn't necessarily
going and giving literature
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to everybody on
the street, you know?
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And I think...
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And same with Paul,
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he had to have a
time of learning,
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and I'm sure, in that time,
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he was sharing the
things that he was learning
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with the people he
was in contact with,
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but he wasn't going out on
his major missionary trips.
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And I think this
is another thing too
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that we should
remember is, you know,
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if we're taking
time to study for God
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and learn more about Him,
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sometimes an
important part of that
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is dedicating the
majority of our time to that.
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Right.
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So pulling that together,
we are always witnessing,
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we should be witnessing,
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whatever we're
hearing, we share,
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but that doesn't mean
that we're going to be
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the big public evangelist
or have a certain mission.
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We could still be witnessing
with what God gives us.
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I think sometimes, we
can downplay the benefit
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for the kingdom of
heaven of the day to day work.
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Right.
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You know, we
think that if we're not
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the famous missionary,
if we're not the pastor,
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if we're not the whatever,
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then there's
nothing I can do for God,
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which isn't true,
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like the woman
who is administering
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to the needs of her
children in her home
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as a single mother
is doing just as much
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for the kingdom of
heaven as the man who's going
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and preaching the
gospel to thousands in Africa.
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Wow.
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Each of us have been
given a sphere of influence
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we can make a difference
for the kingdom of heaven.
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And so bloom
where you're planted,
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value the
opportunities God does give you,
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and don't let what someone else
is doing in a different context
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devalue what God has
given you in your context.
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That's right. That's right.
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Yeah.
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Well, here's a kind of
a twist on this though.
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There is someone that is asking,
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"How can I share my
faith and witness for Christ
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when I still feel like I
have so much growing to do
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in my own
relationship with Him?"
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Perfect example.
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Demoniacs, Jesus
crosses the sea and...
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Oh, man.
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So picture this, right?
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Christ, He crosses the
sea with His disciples,
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He gets on to this land and...
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What was it?
Damascus, something like that?
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The Gadarenes is
where He's going, yeah.
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Yeah.
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He gets over
there and immediately,
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He is assaulted by
these two demoniacs,
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they come rushing at Him.
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What happens?
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Well, they try to get Him
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and Christ His power
holds them at bay, right?
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And then He delivers
them from these demons,
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and then immediately,
what does He tell them to do?
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Go back and share. Go
back and share, right.
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They want to go with Him
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to go follow with the
famous missionary work,
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and He says, "Bloom
where you're planted."
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Right. Stay there.
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And how much did they know?
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Right.
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They didn't know anything,
they had just been set free,
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they weren't even
part of the Jewish nation.
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And yet, Christ told them,
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"Go and tell what
has happened to you."
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And that's to this
question, you may not know
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how to parse through
everything in Scripture,
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you may not know
all the fancy terms
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and all the theology,
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but have you had an
experience with God?
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Yeah. Right.
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Has God done
something powerful in your life?
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Have you been renewed?
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That's your
qualification for ministry,
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and God can use
you in that state.
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I've heard a phrase this
way, that everyone is born
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into the kingdom of missionary.
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And so whenever you
have an encounter with Jesus
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that changes your life,
that immediately is some form
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of credentialing
that you have something
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that you can tell and something
you can share even then.
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And what you're
able to share will grow
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as your experience
grows, that's logical,
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but what you can do now
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is what the
woman at the well did
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and what the demoniacs did.
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"I was in this condition
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and Jesus came
looking for me..."
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Yes.
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"And He changed my life.
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And that's what
I can start with."
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And, you know,
something I'll add to that is
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even if there's
someone watching this
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who's struggling spiritually.
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I have found that sharing
what I do know about Christ
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is sometimes the
best thing to help in...
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Yes. That time.
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When the devil is
coming and you don't feel like
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you have an experience
to share at that time,
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remembering what God's
done for me in the past,
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sharing that with
people can be the best thing
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to overcome that spiritual slump
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that Satan tries
to bring out on us.
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And the darkness
and discouragement
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you're going through
in your experience too,
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being willing to serve and
give is an amazing testimony.
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I'd also say too, you know,
I think it's easy sometimes
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for people to look at those
who are in spiritual positions
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of leadership and think
that they have it all together.
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You know, I mean, I
can speak for all of us.
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I know we're still
wrestling through questions,
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there's things
that we wrestle too,
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we don't have
it all figured out.
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And if God's requirement
for the bearer of His good news
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was that they be perfect,
well, He'd have to use angels.
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But He doesn't, He uses
us, sinful and weak as we are.
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Yes.
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So here's a question with that.
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It's from a college
student from Tennessee, it says,
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"Is it bad if I never know
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if I have led someone to Christ?
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Is it bad if I
never see a baptism
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as a direct result of
me giving a Bible study?
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Would the absence of
such things indicate my lack
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or that I'm not all in
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or that I am not
being intentional enough?"
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Are you doing it?
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I think this is
the biggest question
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in your heart of hearts,
are you a worker for God?
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Are you doing your
best where you are?
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Are you doing everything
to the best of your ability?
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Or are you slacking?
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You know, just
because you haven't
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led someone to Christ, I
don't think is a criterion.
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There's a story of this minister
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who at the end of his career,
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he was lamenting
because he only had...
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He had only baptized
one person, one child...
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In his whole career?
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In his whole career.
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And that kid was Robert Moffat,
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who was the first
missionary to Africa,
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who was responsible
for David Livingston
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going there as well.
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So that one pastor,
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he might have
impacted that one life,
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of course, I'm sure
he even impacted others,
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but he might have
had that one baptism,
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but what did he do in
the bigger scheme, you know?
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What can give one
peace at the end of the day
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is that you've done what
God has asked for you to do.
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Yeah.
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The results are not
your responsibility.
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There are
variables in the equation,
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but what I have found is that
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even in those
moments of discouragement,
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if I've done what
God has asked me to do,
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God always finds
ways to let me know
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that something is
happening to keep me going.
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You've had this,
you've had this I'm sure.
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You're doing what you
can but you just feel like
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I'm beating my
head against a wall.
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I had a situation, I was working
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in a boarding school,
and I'll make this quick,
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I was working in like a
Christian boarding school,
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and I was just wondering,
"God, am I getting anywhere?"
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I had a really difficult
class that year to work with.
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It was just making me wonder
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am I making any
difference at all.
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And on that day,
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the most
difficult kid in the school
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came up to me and
asked for Bible studies.
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Wow.
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And I remember
thinking to myself
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that your work is not in vain,
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we're told to, "Do not
grow weary in doing good
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for it's not been in vain."
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And I think that that's a lesson
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that we can learn
that the results...
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We're not going to see
all the results of our work,
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but we do know that if we do
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what God has asked us
to do, stuff does happen.
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Yes.
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And He's promised that,
and He will give us tokens
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along the way to keep us going.
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I love how Paul puts it.
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"I planted, Apollos watered,
God gives the increase."
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We don't know whether
that we are the one to plant
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or the one to see the
fruit of what's been planted.
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But I think of it this way.
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If you help someone become
one step closer to Christ,
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then they would
have been otherwise,
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you've made a difference.
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Amen.
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You don't know if you're
coming to that person's life
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at step one or step
fifty and where it is,
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but that's a step
towards the kingdom of God.
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