Do you have
superficial Bible study?
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Are you longing
to have a deeper,
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more meaningful
study of God's word?
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Well, stay tuned
to meet a young woman
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who is using her gifts for God
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and willing to share
some tips and strategies
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to enhance your walk with Him.
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My name is Yvonne Lewis
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guest today is
evangelist Lola Moore,
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Director of
Young Adult Ministries
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for the South Central Conference
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of Seventh-day Adventist
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and author of the
"Gospels Challenge 30 days:
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Through the Words
and Miracles of Jesus".
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Welcome to Urban Report.
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It's so wonderful
to be here, Thank you.
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Oh, thank you.
May I call you Lola?
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That's fine. Great, great.
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You have a very
interesting story
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and I love for the
Dare to Dream viewers
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to know about our guest.
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Now you are no
stranger to Dare to Dream.
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That's correct.
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Because you were
on the first season
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of Pure Choices.
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Yes, I am.
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And that was such
a blessing with you
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and all the other
pastors, Pastor Seth Yelorda
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and just
everybody that was there
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was just really a blessing,
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you guys did a wonderful job.
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So thank you.
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And it feels good to be
here, thank you very much.
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Yes, yes, and now
you have written a book?
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That's correct.
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So before we get to the book,
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let's talk about your journey
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and how you got to the
place of writing a book.
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Where were you raised?
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Absolutely, I was raised
in the state of New Jersey.
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Yes.
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And my parents, my grandparents
were lovers of the word
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and so from a very young age
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we were introduced
to reading the Bible.
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And my grandmother, especially,
was a lover of the stories.
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So she would act out
all of the stories with,
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I mean, some great
energy and gave us a love
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of wanted to just
see what the word said.
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So we really enjoy
sharing the Bible together.
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How many siblings that you have?
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Well, I have
two younger sisters,
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who also learn to love
the word along with me.
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That's so good.
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So you grew up in
a Christian household
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and the focus was on the word?
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Absolutely.
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Did you ever have,
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during your high
school or college experience,
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did you ever have any time
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when you were
pulled away from the word
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or were you always
just pretty focused on love
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in the Lord solely?
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Well, I mean, I
would love to say
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that I was never pulled away.
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But, I mean, as a teenager
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there are so
many different things
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to get into and to enjoy,
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I have developed
a love for music,
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was very active in
school, but thank God,
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I was always also
involved in my Church,
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and still learnt
to, as a young teenager,
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to navigate the
word in the best way
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that I could at that time.
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Yes, and I'm glad you said that
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because that's
probably one of the things
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that led you to write this book.
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What led you to write this book?
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Well.
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You know, I was
sharing with some friends
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my personal love for the word.
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But I was realizing
that not many people,
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who are young,
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could navigate
the word with ease.
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Number one,
they were intimidated
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because the Bible
sometimes has a language
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that's hard to navigate.
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And then sometimes
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there are a lot of
different points of view.
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There are people who believe
that you have to be scholar
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in order to understand the word.
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But I understand
that the Holy Spirit
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has promised to give
wisdom to anybody who tries.
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Mm-hm.
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And so I wanted to
create a tool for individuals
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who wanted to get
started on the journey.
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That's so good.
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You know, when I
was looking at the book
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I thought this is
such a necessary tool
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to help people to get
into deeper Bible study.
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Because so many people, as
you say, are intimidated by,
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they don't understand
like where do I start?
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Like, this is,
it's 66 books, you know,
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do I start with
the New Testament
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or I start with
the Old Testament,
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where do I start?
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So you decided to
write a book to help.
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Is it more targeted
toward younger people?
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Who is the intended audience?
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Actually, my audience is anyone
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who has a trouble
or has some trouble
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navigating the words.
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So it doesn't have
to be a young person.
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I find that even
some of our older people
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are trying to get
deeper in the word
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and having a hard time.
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So anybody who's
just trying to get a start
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can get started with that tool.
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That's so good.
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You know, one of the things
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that I'm seeing in
the Church is this,
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there are different
things from Eastern Mysticism
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and things trying to
creep into the Church
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and we really, really have
to get deeper into the word
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so that we recognize
the truth from counterfeit.
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And one of the things
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that I love about this
book is you give everyday
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there is some new
story or a miracle
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or something for
people to get into.
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Let's talk about the book
and the way it's laid out.
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How did you lay it out? Sure.
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Well, we had a fun
way of starting the book.
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I did a live
challenge online. Okay.
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So I walked a
group of 500 people
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from the beginning of
the Gospels to the end
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over a 30-day period.
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And we decided that we
could use some sizable chunks,
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about three chapters a
day that we could read through
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and pick out the stories
that jumped out the most.
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So each day you have
some miracle of Jesus,
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some sermon of Jesus that we,
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you know, pick
apart and talk through.
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And actually I would
like to go back and say that
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that's how I started reading
the Bible in high school.
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I had a reading assignment
in my advanced English class
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to read anything
30 minutes a day.
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And I decided it
will be a good opportunity
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to read the Bible and
that's how I started myself,
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right in the tenth grade.
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Were you in public
school? I was in public school.
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And there was no
push back on that?
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Not at all, we
could read anything.
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They really just
wanted us to read something.
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Right, right.
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And so I choose to read that.
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And by Gods grace I got
through the whole Old Testament
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in my high
school, tenth grade class.
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But I thought that the
gospels would be a non-invasive,
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non-scary way for
people to jump in.
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I mean, what better way to
get into the Bible and Jesus,
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right?
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That's what I was going to say.
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I mean, really, the first step
is introducing them to Jesus
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and I love that about the book.
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Absolutely.
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You introduce people to Jesus
and what He did and how He was.
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And to me,
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it's like once you establish
that connection with Him
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everything else
just falls in the place.
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Absolutely.
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So when you did this
in a high school did this,
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kind of, create in you a desire
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to get into the
Bible more deeply
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or what, how did it impact you?
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Absolutely, God
was merciful to me.
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And one thing that I tell people
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who want to get into
the Bible is the first step,
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is finding an easy
reading translation.
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Good.
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Read something
that you can understand.
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No slide on the
King James Version,
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we love the King James Version
for what it has done for us,
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but sometimes the thee's
and thou's and, you know,
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the language can be
a little intimidating.
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So I'll choose an
easy reading translation
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as a tenth grader.
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And seeing how plainly
some other stories came out,
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I mean it's a page-turner,
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it's better than
anything you wanted in me.
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And so it was the same
way when I've read the Gospel,
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you know, you're just
fallen in love everyday
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when you see Jesus
talking to individuals
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just like you, you know,
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people who have
challenges just like you
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and just like a shepherd He
is gently leading His people
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to love Him more.
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I just, you just
can get enough of Him.
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It was so beautiful.
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I remember, in
my own experience,
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I had drifted away from the Lord
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and a friend came to visit me
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and she had her
Living Bible with her
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and I had grown up
with the King James
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and you know the thee
and thou's I was used to it,
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that's what I knew.
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But when she sent me a card
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and in it was Philippians
4:3 I think or 4:13 and it was,
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don't worry about anything
instead pray about everything.
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It was in from the
Living Bible and I thought, wow,
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I had never seen another version
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so what you're
saying is so true.
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You need to have a version
that is readable for you,
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that's comfortable
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so that you
understand what you're reading
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'cause lot of are will be,
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I mean, that thee and thou thing
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just put some off.
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They can't, they
just can't get with it.
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So the first step,
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'cause you're
giving your steps now,
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so the first step
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in getting into a
deeper study of the Bible
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is to find a translation
that is more readable.
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Which ones do you recommend?
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Well, there's
quite a few out there,
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my personal favorite is
the New Living Translation.
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Now, it's important,
we're on the Urban Report
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so I'm thinking that these
statistics would be important,
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that in the United States
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that most adult read at about
a seventh-grade reading level.
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And so at the
beginning of each Bible,
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it will actually tell you
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what grade reading
level is appropriate
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for this actual book.
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So you have the New
International Version
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some challenges with that
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but the Holman
Christian Standard Bible
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is a more advanced Bible.
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It's also a plain reading Bible
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but it's more
scholarly in its presentation.
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So those two Bibles,
the New Living Translation
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for just devotional reading,
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and then if you wanted
to do some deeper study,
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Holman Christian Standard Bible,
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the New American Standard
Bible is also a very good Bible
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for scholarly reading.
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That's good.
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So what happens when you read,
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though, like let's
say, in one translation
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it won't
emphasize certain things
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the way another will.
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Like is the New Living,
is that more of a paraphrase
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or is that an
actual translation?
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Well, so when you look
at the title of a Bible
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it will tell you
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what the answer
to your question is.
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Okay. Good. Good.
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So there are translations
and there are versions.
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Okay.
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So translations
contain to be more paraphrased
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and versions are
gonna be your deeper,
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exact from the text
derivative of the Bible.
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So even from looking
at the title of a Bible
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you can tell which one is
gonna give you a more of a,
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like I said,
devotional, a surface reading,
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and a deeper reading.
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See, that's so good. Yeah.
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I never even knew that.
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So it's important actually
I would think to have both.
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Absolutely. Right?
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Absolutely, and I think that
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this is where maturity
comes in for all of us.
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You know, everyone
is in different places
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but there is a
little bit here and there
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that can be
beneficial for everyone.
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If you can think about any story
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where there are eye witnesses,
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everyone has
their own vantage point
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and from each vantage point
there are things that you get
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and things that you miss.
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And so it's a collaboration
of the perspectives
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that gives you
more of a full picture.
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And so if you
think about it that way
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you can actually
use a series of Bibles
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to help you to
see a fuller picture
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of what God's
word is really saying.
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This is so good.
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Okay, so the first thing
is find a readable Bible.
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Yes. What's the second
strategy for digging deeper?
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Well, you know
when you're digging
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you have to use some good tools.
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Right.
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And so it's not like, you know,
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some times in the 70s
and the 60s, you know,
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you had to buy these
larger volume of tools
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in order to be able to,
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you know,
understand concordances,
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and
encyclopedias, and dictionaries.
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Now you can find
everything online.
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Right.
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And so for free
you can actually find
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some very good Bible tools
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that will help you to understand
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where Jesus was
when he was talking.
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You can see some
words and some descriptions
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of His parables
posts to help us to know
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what He was really saying
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and how the regional
people would have read it.
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Get some good tools to dig with.
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And I wouldn't say
dig in whole chapters,
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if you read a
chapter for the day
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there might be one
verse that stuck out to you.
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You take sometime
and study that one verse.
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And find a word in there
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that's
interesting and look up the,
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you know, meaning of the word
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look up the
meaning of the parable.
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That's how we really
grow muscles in the word.
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It's not enough
to devotionally read
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over the scripture,
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you have to also dig
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so that you'll
get a deeper picture
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what God is saying.
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See, that's such a good point
because you can read something,
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it's kind of like, okay,
this is my devotional time,
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I'm gonna give 30
minutes or whatever it is.
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So I'm reading that scripture
and I'm reading this scripture,
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like depending on which
your devotional plan is.
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But you're not really
digging, you just kind of,
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it's just that surface
reading which, you know, I mean,
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there's something
to be said for reading
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but when you want
to get into it deeper,
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you're saying read
over that scripture
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and then see
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how the Holy
Spirit is impressing you.
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Because there might be
something in that passage
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that applies to
you, so read it, read it,
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and read it over again.
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Yeah, and the
thing about scripture
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that it's so
lovely is that you can go
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to the same
scripture multiple times
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and get
different things from it.
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Yes.
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The Holy Spirit can inspire you
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a new way in the same old place,
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so I love that.
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So, you know, sometimes
we read over things and,
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you know, we get bored
with it, but if you trust God,
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I believe that God has
new and fresh living water
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that he can bring
from the same old text.
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I love that.
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Okay, so get a good
version, get the right tools,
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and then read more deeply,
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go over a passage
there is no time limit on it,
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you can just
sit with the passage
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and go through it.
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And I love the idea of
like getting a dictionary,
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looking up some words.
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I think it's so easy to
just kind of superficially read
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and feel like you've done
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which you've had
a do for the day,
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the obligatory thing.
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But what you're
saying is dig deeper.
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Okay, so give us some more.
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I think a big key
that we didn't start with
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but I think should be infused
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in your entire
Bible study is prayer.
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Yes.
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Often times, you know,
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we can use an
academic approach to scripture,
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you know it's there
and you can read it,
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and, you know, take a blade,
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you know something quickly.
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But it is the Holy Spirit
who gives us the eyes to see
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and so I have learnt
to pray and ask the Lord
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to show me what the
Lord has for me in a text,
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in the scripture.
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There are some revelations
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that will come
without a dictionary,
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without an encyclopedia.
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Of course, we
have to test all things
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and prove all things.
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But there's something
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that God wants to
also communicate with us.
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So we have to take some
time with the Lord in prayer
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and allow Him to
personally communicate to us
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what He has for
us in that scripture.
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And then ultimately I think that
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all of this is meant for
us to share with someone else.
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There have been sometimes
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when the Lord
would give a message
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but that message really wasn't
for me, it was for a co-worker,
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it was for a friend, it
was for a family member.
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And so I believe
in sharing good news,
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I believe the
Bible is good news,
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the gospel is good news
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and I believe that
when we derive good news
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from a scripture that
God is hoping for us to share
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that with someone else.
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Oh, that's
great, that is so good.
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This... we have
a cover up for you,
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we wanna put the cover up
so that you can see the book,
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The Gospels Challenge,
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30 days Through the
Words and Miracles of Jesus.
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And talk about the
social media platforms
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that you used this book were.
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Absolutely, there is no secret
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that most people are connected
with at least one social media,
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social media interface.
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Facebook is I think my favorite.
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But we used several of
them to connect with people
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who like the audience
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that I hope the book would bless
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and we're looking for a
deeper walk with the Lord.
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And we were able,
through social media,
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to do live
broadcasts, speaking to people,
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taking their questions,
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sometimes just
praising God over the text,
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thanking Him for His revelation.
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We talk about,
you know, 30 minutes,
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40 minutes a day
in group Bible study,
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but what I was hoping to
do is to translate that love
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and passion that I have
for scripture for others.
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Sometimes the last
thing people wanna do
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is pickup a Bible there.
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You know, already yawning
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and thinking that
is gonna be boring,
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but I realized that, you know,
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sometimes you have to have
a spark to get a fire going.
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So I was just hoping to be
that spark over social media
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and praise God it actually
worked for some of our people.
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That's so great.
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So it is actually
a 30-day challenge...
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Yes, it is.
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That anybody can,
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you can hand this at your Church
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with your youth group
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and with your
Sabbath school class,
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AY whatever.
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Absolutely.
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And get people to get
more involved in the word.
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I just think this
is a wonderful tool.
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You're available to
come to different Churches,
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we have your website,
we'll put your website up
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so that people can contact you,
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and you can go to their Churches
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and kind of get them
started on the challenge.
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Gladly and inside the book
that information is all there
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so when they get
their copy of the book...
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Right, that's right.
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..they can also have all that
information if they want that.
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Where can they, can
they get it of the website?
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Absolutely, yes, they can. Good.
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And they can
have as many copies,
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you know, all of it
is available for them.
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Yeah, order it for your
Church, for your Church groups,
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I mean, this is so important
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that we can't
even emphasize enough
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how important it is
to get into the word
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and we need tools that
help us to get into the word
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and that's what this is.
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And when I saw this I thought
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we had to have you on
here to talk about this.
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Oh, thank you.
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..to talk about this.
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So tell us some
of the challenges
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that people come to you with,
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like in things that,
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excuses that they make
about getting into the word,
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and why they can't do it,
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and then what you tell them.
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Well, we live in a society
that is being overwhelmed.
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And we're overwhelmed
with stimuli from our families
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and our responsibility to them,
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our work and our
responsibilities there,
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but then there is
also media everywhere
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that's clamoring
for our attention
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and makes for a time
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where we seldom have any
space to meditate on anything.
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You know.
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And so, most people
are trying to find anytime
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to be able to do it.
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And I realize that with
making time for the Lord
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you have to actually
carve out, designate a time.
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Sometimes having to wake
up 30 minutes ahead of time,
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sometimes having to go
to bed a little earlier,
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but it is the fight of
our life to just make time.
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And I believe
that it's intentional,
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our enemy who will like
to choke out any connection
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that we have to heaven
so that we're powerless.
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This is something
I've been talking to people
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about as of late
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that because that hour is short
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and our Savior
is coming back soon
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that we are more and
more inundated with stimuli
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to cut us off from heaven.
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It is myth so that
we will be powerless
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against the enemy.
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It is not something that
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we're gonna be
able to do haphazardly,
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it's something that
we have to fight for,
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we have to fight for the time
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to spin with
heaven in the same way
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that you will fight for
breath if you were drowning,
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we have to fight for the
time to connect with heaven
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so that we can be
effective in warfare.
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I love that, I love
that because that's so true.
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Distraction...
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Absolutely.
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..is one of His primary tools
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and I'm noticing like, I
like to watch television,
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it's just true confessions
is good for the soul.
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As Danny says,
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"Good for the soul
bad for the reputation".
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So...
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And I noticed there are
more and more programs coming on
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that I really
like and I have to make
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a conscious decision
00:22:20.30\00:22:21.64
that I'm not gonna
watch so much television that,
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except 3ABN of course.
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Of course, they're all...
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The spiritual
television, that's one thing,
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secular is another.
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And...
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But it's a conscious decision,
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it's where we
yield our will to God
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because otherwise as
you said, as you said,
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the enemy is
doing all he can do now
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to turn us away from heaven,
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to disconnect us
from the power source.
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And if we don't
get into that word,
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we won't have
anything to fight with.
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Absolutely.
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Nothing to fight with.
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So that's I totally agree
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that we have to make a
conscious decision to do it.
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Are you finding
that young people
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are getting into
the word more deeply
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as a result of the book?
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Yes.
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I've had so many
testimonials of individuals
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who would enjoy the book enough
00:23:16.42\00:23:18.73
to start their
own devotional life.
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It's been beautiful to hear
00:23:20.60\00:23:22.80
how the small spark
that God started in me
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has started flames
and fires in other people.
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It's been incredible.
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That's great.
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How has writing this book
changed the way you write,
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your whole approach to writing?
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And you're writing
another book right now?
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You know, I'm working
on a couple of things.
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That it taught me that
00:23:42.22\00:23:45.52
if you start little by
little that it comes together.
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I had always assumed
that you had to sit down
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and write in the entire book
in about three or four days,
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I don't know why but I
was made that assumption.
00:23:55.86\00:23:57.47
Did you really?
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I did, but God
allowed me to write that book
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one devotional at a time.
00:24:02.30\00:24:04.27
I sat down to my computer
00:24:04.31\00:24:05.87
and just wrote
one day at a time.
00:24:05.91\00:24:08.08
I didn't overwhelm
myself with two or three days,
00:24:08.11\00:24:10.61
just one day at a
time based upon the reading
00:24:10.65\00:24:13.52
that I had done that day.
00:24:13.55\00:24:15.48
And when I did it that
way, it was manageable.
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I would love and
when I'm working on,
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it's a project about Hope.
00:24:22.42\00:24:24.46
We have so many
people who have lost hope
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because of mistakes
they've made in life.
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And I believe that
God can use my testimony
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along with the testimony
of so many other people
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in scripture to show that
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as long you have
God you have hope.
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That's so good.
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Indeed.
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So your focus right now
is on giving people hope
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that they can
begin again in Christ?
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Absolutely. That's so good.
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Because so many people feel
as though I've gone too far,
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God can't forgive
me, I'm not good enough,
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I'll never be good
enough that kind of thing.
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So you're giving
them the one thing
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that people need, yeah,
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of course,
besides Jesus, of course,
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people need hope
of a better tomorrow.
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Yes. So how are you
approaching this project?
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Well, my major focus is that
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Jesus Christ represents
the hope that we need.
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In scripture there
are so many pictures
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right in those gospels
of Jesus coming to people
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who were at the
end of a bad decision
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and infusing them with the hope
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that because He was
a part of their life
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so they can start again.
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It's like the woman at
the well who has, you know,
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basically spent all
with her reputation,
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she is out there by
herself and Jesus lets her know,
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you know, if you know
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who I was you'd ask
me for living water.
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I can put a well inside of you
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that will spring
up into eternal life.
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I mean, isn't that
beautiful? Yes, yes.
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I'll not only
give you the resource
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but I will make you a source
of the resource for others.
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Yes.
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And God wants to
do that for all of us
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to take us from our dry places
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and put inside
of us the very thing
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we were searching for.
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Now we become a
tributary to other people.
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Just beautiful. I
love it, I love it.
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And I love your
passion for the word
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and your passion for Jesus,
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and your passion
for your ministry.
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Thank you. Praise God.
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How are things going in
South Central Conference
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with Youth Ministries?
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Absolutely fabulous.
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We've been doing
some wonderful things
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we have some
conferences coming up,
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namely one for young women.
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We're hoping to
inject and infuse hope
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and good decisions in them.
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So we're working on some things.
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It's been really good,
the response has been great.
00:26:42.36\00:26:45.43
We've been fighting for
our young adults as you know,
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they are disappearing
demographic in our Churches
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across the board,
00:26:51.01\00:26:52.34
Protestant
Churches across the board
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are losing our young adults.
00:26:54.04\00:26:56.98
We're trying to
find some solutions
00:26:57.01\00:26:58.45
to get them
integrating into our churches.
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So please pray for us
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as we work on those initiatives.
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Yes. Yes, we will.
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And I also have to say that
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your name is no
longer just Lola Moore.
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Indeed. It's
Lola Moore Johnston.
00:27:12.53\00:27:14.76
Yes, it is.
00:27:14.80\00:27:16.13
And your husband
Keith is with us.
00:27:16.16\00:27:17.50
Yes, he is.
00:27:17.53\00:27:18.87
He's so nice, congratulations...
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Thank you very much.
00:27:20.27\00:27:21.60
I'm so happy for
you and thankful for all
00:27:21.64\00:27:23.97
that you've been
doing with your ministry
00:27:24.01\00:27:26.91
and authoring this
book and the one to come.
00:27:26.94\00:27:30.41
Praise God. So make
sure you get that book.
00:27:30.45\00:27:33.85
Thank you so much
for being with us.
00:27:33.88\00:27:35.65
Thank you for having
me. I appreciate you.
00:27:35.68\00:27:37.49
And keep us in prayer
as well 'cause, you know,
00:27:37.52\00:27:39.72
the enemy is really very
busy trying to distract folks
00:27:39.75\00:27:44.49
from watching Dare to Dream,
00:27:44.53\00:27:45.99
from watching
Christian television,
00:27:46.03\00:27:47.53
and for just from
being a part of the walk.
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So we thank you for
all that you're doing.
00:27:52.43\00:27:54.10
Indeed.
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And thank you, I can't believe
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that we've reached the
end of another program.
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Make sure to join us next
time 'cause you know what?
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It just wouldn't be
the same without you.
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