Thank you for being our family.
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Thank you for
sending in your questions.
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Thank you for
giving us the opportunity
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to open up the Word of
God and study together.
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I want to give our
panel one more opportunity
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to share a closing thought.
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Jason, we'll start with
you and go around the table.
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Well, in
sharing the Word of God,
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just remember to share
it from a place of love,
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share it from a place of love.
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It'll go a much longer way.
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Amen.
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I was just thinking
about the little girl,
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talking to children about death.
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Children do grieve differently.
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They process
information differently
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when you're working
with really young children,
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you'd want to let them
know it's okay to be sad.
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It's okay to cry what to do,
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but check on them frequently.
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Don't just have a
conversation and not,
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you need to follow up frequently
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over the next few months.
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Amen.
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Thy word is a lamp unto my
feet and a light unto my path.
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This is a bright light.
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It's a bright lamp.
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And sometimes we can
take this bright lamp
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that we mean to be
for good and shine.
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It really
brightens somebody's face
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that's not quite ready for it.
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Whether it's LGBTQ,
bisexual granddaughter,
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an atheist friend of ours,
a family member, my friends,
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the most important
principle to learn is that
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while we should most definitely
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share the
principles of God's Word,
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we most
definitely need to win them
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over with our
love, our compassion.
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We need to meet their needs,
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simplifies with them,
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mingle with them,
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get, invest our time
and resources in them
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so that they see Jesus in us.
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And when they see Jesus
in us and they see our light,
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which is a lesser light,
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then we lead them
to the greater light
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of God and His Word.
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Amen.
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Thank you so much, Pastor
Ryan, Sister Shelley, and Jason.
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Thank you for your
knowledge of the Word of God
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for your study
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and for sharing
with our family at home.
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I want to close
with this scripture.
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This is a couple of verses later
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than the one I opened with.
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This is 1 Peter 1:24-25,
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"The grass
withers, the flower fades,
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but the Word of God,
it will stand forever."
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Put your faith in the
unchanging Word of God.
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Amen.
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