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Mission SONlight Chatt Season 4 Ep. 21 Adam Ramdin - Historical Storyteller · Mission SONlight CHATT

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Welcome to Network 7's Mission Sunlight Chat
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from the General Conference Session 2025 in St.
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Louis, Missouri, in the United States. Thank
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you for being a part of our listening and viewing
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audience. We're glad to have you along. As I
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said, we're here in the General Conference session,
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but we're in the exhibit hall. You can hear kind
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of the buzz of noise behind. It's fairly early
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in the day, so not as noisy as some of our other
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episodes we've recorded. But as you look around,
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you see folks coming in, and we are delighted
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to get to know some of them from around the globe,
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many international ministries. This morning,
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we're going to interview Adam Ramden, and you
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are, I would say, international, but... Also
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domestic. I see you here in the U .S. as much
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as I see you overseas. Adam, thanks so much for
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joining us. Technically, I live overseas. Sometimes
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my neighbors do wonder if I do live there. But
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I live in England, United Kingdom. Are you near
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Newbold? Not really. Not for England. I'm about
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two and a half hours away. Okay. All right. And
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yes, great accent. Everybody loves it. Adam,
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why don't you, before we get started, have a
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word of prayer for us? Father in heaven, we thank
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you for this opportunity we have to meet together
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to share and discuss and talk about our ministries
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and our vision and our future. We pray you'll
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bless us and we ask this in your name. Amen.
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So Adam, as you said, you are from England. Give
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us a little more background. Where did you grow
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up and what was your experience growing up particularly
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connected to Christ? I grew up in England, lived
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near a town called Warwick, just south of Coventry.
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I grew up in a home that was five siblings, and
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our parents were both Seventh -day Adventists.
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Okay, what number in the five siblings were you?
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Number four. Okay. So I've got three girls, then
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me. So I was the oldest son. And then we, yeah,
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we grew up going to, you know, our parents were
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both Adventists. Both my parents were converts
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to the faith. My mother comes from a Lutheran
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background, and my father comes from a Hindu
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background. So they're both the only Seventh
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-day Adventists in their family. Okay. And then,
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so then we were raised Adventist, go to church,
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summer camps and all that kind of stuff. You
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said Lutheran and Hindu? Yeah. That's quite a
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combination. It is, yeah. My mother's from Iceland.
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My dad's from Mauritius. Was it difficult growing
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up to, for them or for you to decide, you know,
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Hindu or Christianity or? My mother was, yeah,
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Lutheran. My grandfather was actually a Lutheran
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minister. And then she went to Adventist high
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school. And that's how she became a Sunday Adventist.
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Okay. And then my father met my mother in England,
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working same place. And then she kind of introduced
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him to Adventism. And then he had his own Bible
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studies and got baptized. Okay. Wow. And so you've
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got, you said, five siblings? Yeah, there's five
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of us. Okay, there's five of you. Four siblings,
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gotcha. So, younger brother or sister? Younger
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brother and three older sisters. Right, okay.
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So, take us through your journey through high
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school. Were you committed to Christ then or
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did you find those? Not really. Kind of started,
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yeah, grew up in church, whatever, whatever,
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you know. But then, like, I guess when I was
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eight, I wanted to get baptized. My parents said
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I was too young. And then around 12, 13, started
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to kind of mentally drift. Even though we always
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went to church, that wasn't really a... It wasn't
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really an option whether we did or didn't. Parents
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were just, that's what we're doing. And so we'd
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attend church every week, but not really spiritually
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connected or no spiritual life outside of church
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attendance and any other forced attendance at
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any other events. Growing up in church and seeing
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kids that have grown up Adventist, those struggles
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of... inheriting the faith of your parents is
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it yours is it inherited and how do you make
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it personal I went kind of through that that
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transition around the age of 19 okay yeah so
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just past high school yeah past high school and
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then that's when I decided like to make it myself
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my own you know I'd heard all the sermons that
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I'd heard in my life and then it was around that
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age that Kind of seeing certain events happening
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in politics and society and some of the things
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you hear preached about prophetically starting
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to transpire or become a little bit more real
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makes me realize, you know, maybe the Bible is
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true or maybe the Bible does predict or maybe
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the Bible does talk about, you know, what's coming
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up. And so for me, I guess the thing that kind
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of lit the spark was maybe predictive prophecy.
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Okay. And then, you know, I went on to read the
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book Steps to Christ, and that really starts
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to kind of, you know, introduce you to the gospel
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and who Christ is. So it was kind of a combination.
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It wasn't any one event. It was gradual over
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several months, really, where, yeah. It took
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you, your ministry is called Lineage and Lineage
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Journey. Is that correct? It was a journey. It
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took you a bit of a journey. Yeah, I mean, some
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people have this boom, this was it. And for me,
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I can't really pinpoint any time. I know a time
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period, but I don't know a set time. Tell me
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about your relationship with your wife. You have
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a family now. And when did that, how did that
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intersect? 19 or later? I moved to the States
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when I was 19, went to study. After I studied,
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I worked for a bit. And then I worked for four
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years over here. Met my wife, just mutual friends
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and various different events. You know, nothing
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at first. It was just kind of knew who she was.
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And then later on, her sister married my best
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friend. And I walked her down the aisle as the
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best man and the maid of honor. And I thought,
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maybe I should do this again. And then. Wasn't
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a bad idea, huh? Wasn't a bad idea. It took her
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a while to come around, though. All right. And
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today you have how many kids? So we have two
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kids, a boy and a girl, boy first and a girl.
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And, yeah, we live as a family in England and
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travel with ministry as well. Okay. So she followed
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you back home. Yeah. Yeah, I've always, when
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I was in school, felt called, for want of a better
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word or term, to live and work in England. And
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when we got married, I was working as a youth
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director at the time in our church structure.
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And yeah, so that was where I felt called to
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be, and she came along. What were you doing for
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a living after college or university? I did a
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lot of things. I mean, not a lot. I worked as
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a Bible worker. I worked as a literature evangelist.
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I worked as an amazing fact evangelist. And then
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that was what I was working as when I moved back
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to England. And in England I worked as a Bible
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worker, as a pastor, as an evangelist school
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director, as a youth director, personal ministry
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director. Yeah. So you've done some work both
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outside of the institutional church and for the
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institutional church. Yeah, I've done self -supporting
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work and also institutional conference work as
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well. Okay. Yeah. So you've got some experience
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on both sides. Yeah, yeah. It's interesting to
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observe the differences in comparison. Yeah,
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the dynamics are often different. Yeah. Well,
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it's interesting to hear you talk about your
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experiences being varied because I think that
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those things are what, for me anyway, what helped
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prepare me to develop and be able to function
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in a supporting ministry role that I have because
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of all the experiences and the people connections.
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Learning, I guess, is what I'm saying. Life experiences
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help prepare. I didn't have just a one single
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track of this is how it should be. I saw it could
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be a lot of different ways. And I also learned
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to cope or wrestle with different people. I mean,
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I imagine as you were in multiple cultures and
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in multiple settings, that also helps you in
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your work as a director, I assume president of
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Ledge. It does, yeah. So what is, in just a sentence,
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what is lineage? It's a multimedia ministry that
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seeks to educate people on their spiritual heritage,
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where they come from, answering the question,
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where do I come from? And knowing that question,
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we can know where we're going. Good. We're going
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to take a break. I want to come back and learn
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more about lineage. journey and more of what
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you're doing and what your team are up to next
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as we visit some more, Adam. We'll be back with
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more Mission Sunlight chat. I want to remind
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you, you can connect with us at missionsunlight
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.org. Text us at 1 -423 -855 -4877. You can email
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us at hello at missionsunlight .org. Back in
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a moment. Being a media missionary can mean many
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different things. It means the love of a home
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at the heart of the planet. The intrepid spirit
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of a village and the vibe of a great metropolis.
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It means camera one and camera two. It means
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transforming a school, orphanage, or hospital.
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It means fire, rain, ice, and snow. It means
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gifts by the dollar and by the check. It means
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donations that roll and donations that fly. It's
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a movement on a trail or down a motorway. It
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means family. All of us together. And individually.
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It's who you are or who you are becoming. And
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to her, it's a simple gesture that means hope.
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Whatever it means to you, being a media missionary.
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means more than you might think. Welcome back
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to Mission Sunlight Chat. We're talking to Adam
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Ramden, who is the, yeah, I didn't ask you your
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title, director, president, executive producer
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of Lineage Journey. Tell us how Lineage... came
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to be first tell us its history before we talk
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about the history i was a youth director and
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i realized one of the challenges of young people
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now i later realize it's people in general people
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don't read and so if they want to find out what
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their history and heritage is they're not they're
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not reading so where do they find it and so it
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was a desire to translate the written word into
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a visual word and create a resource that people
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could educate people on our spiritual heritage
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And so we started off with just a few videos
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and here we are, seven years later, still making
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them. Do you feel like it was a difficult start
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or did things come together easily? In some ways
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it was difficult because we had no money. And
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everyone that started was a volunteer. I mean,
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I was working for the organization, so I guess
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I was paid, but everyone else... was volunteering
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their time taking holiday taking pay without
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leave i mean work whatever you call it leave
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without pay and and so in that sense there was
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a lot of struggles early on you know we yeah
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we were yeah traveling sleeping on floor sleeping
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in tents sleeping wherever to get it done so
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the budget we use to produce season one is is
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ridiculously hilariously minuscule small but
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yet you know the sacrifices were worth it you
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know Go back to the struggle in the beginning
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because I'm curious. Was this something that
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you felt the Holy Spirit laid on your heart solely
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or did others really catch a quick vision? It
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was actually not my idea. Okay. Clive, the videographer,
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media director, it was his idea. He approached
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me and said, I want to make a resource because
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I've been looking online for videos on history,
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on great controversy, and I can't find anything
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that's either good quality or short. So he said,
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would you like to make them with me? So I was
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like, sure. So it was his vision in a sense,
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that kind of idea. So there's a gap online, and
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I'd like to create something to fill it. And
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so he approached me. We had been working together
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on other projects. But it was his idea, and then
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I kind of ran with the idea, the thinking behind
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it, putting the scripts together and all that
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kind of stuff. So the reason why I ask you that
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question is because when a listener or viewer,
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somebody is checking this out, and they hear,
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oh. Might be easy to start a ministry. I want
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them to understand, and I would think you would
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want them to understand that it takes some thought
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and some planning. It's not just like you show
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up and just do something. You need to have conversations.
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You need affirmation from others. You need to
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really balance your idea. The idea he approached
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me with is in July. And then I kind of like,
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yeah, that's a good idea. Initially, we were
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just going to make five videos. And then we're
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like, oh, well, actually, you know, why don't
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we just make them one week every day next year?
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Not realizing how much work that would be. And
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then, so I put the list together. I bounced that
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list of various people, historians, what you
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think of this, this, this, and this. And then
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we did it. And then once we did it, we were like,
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wow, this is a lot of work. How are we going
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to keep this up every week of the year? But we'd
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made that commitment, and so we did it. And,
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yeah, it was a lot of sacrifice, particularly
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for him more than me. Just an aside, we have
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a Mission Sunlight Chat podcast that drops every
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Thursday afternoon here in the U .S., and that's
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a lot of work when you make that commitment to
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have one every single week. Once you make that
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commitment, yeah. One of the blessings of conventions
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like this is we're able to capture a lot at once,
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but that was something we needed to consider
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and goes back to planning and prep. So, okay,
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lineage. Tell me more about what you do on the
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everyday basis. Begin with your first season.
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Talk us through what's there and also how we
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can connect with lineage. Sure. The first season
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was early church and Reformation history. That
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was 48 episodes. Our second season was Adventist
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history. That was 52 episodes. Then after that,
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we kind of went back in time and did the Bible.
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I guess if we'd planned this strategically, we'd
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have done the Bible first, but it just happened
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as it happened. And so the next season was kind
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of following the conflict of the age series,
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and we did a little mini -series on the Old Testament,
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New Testament, and so on. It is an exciting series.
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I've seen much of it. I haven't seen every bit
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of it, but I've seen much of it. Jordan, I'm
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going to ask you to click your mic on over there.
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Jordan is our director of production, and Jordan,
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I'm going to make a crazy commitment to Adam
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right now. We're going to, with your permission,
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whatever length you choose to give us, we're
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going to preview just a section. here in just
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a moment. And I don't know what that'll be. You'll
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give that to us after the program, but we're
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going to take a break in the program here. And
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Jordan, can we just drop that in and let folks
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have a little preview of lineage? Sounds like
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a great idea. I think people will enjoy it. All
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right. I don't know what we're rolling, but we'll
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roll that footage. Maybe the episode on the Waldensians
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is a good one. Let's roll it. Foremost in Europe,
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the Waldensians stand as a body of believers
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who resisted the compromises that came into Christianity
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following the superficial conversion of Constantine
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in the 4th century. They were based primarily
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here amongst the stunning and beautiful mountains
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of northern Italy. Some say the first Waldensian
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was Peter Waldo, a 12th century merchant man
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from Lyon, France, and they're named after him.
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However, there are records that date back much
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further, to at least the 4th century with Vigilantus.
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Adam, thank you for sharing that with us. If
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folks want to connect and see more of the series,
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how do they do that? Website is the best way.
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I mean, it's not just the videos. We've got articles
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and written resources and a whole bunch of things
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there, which is lineagejourney .com. But our
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social media handle on YouTube, Facebook and
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all the rest is at Lineage Journey. Okay, thank
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you. The Great Controversy is a book written
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by Ellen G. White. We have listeners all over
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the world, not all of them Seventh -day Adventists
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who would be familiar with her writings. And
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as you use that kind of as your outline, is that
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fair to say? in what ways would you say it compares
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with what's written there and what ways would
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you say it isn't? Do you use a lot of quotations
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or do you use just what she described and then
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put it into modern language? Yeah, I think the
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second point there, we don't really use many
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or any of our quotations in our videos at all.
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We kind of have read through them. You cover
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the subject material that she's talking about
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in the historical times. Okay, good. And are
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you writing this? I do, yeah. I write the scripts,
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yeah. Okay. Yeah. Good. Has that been meaningful
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to you to go through kind of writing your own
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journey of The Great Controversy? It's its own
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challenge. You've got to read a chapter and summarize
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15 pages into six paragraphs. Have you thought
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about taking that and doing an illustrated version
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of kind of a modern telling of The Great Controversy?
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I just gave you an idea. Possibly. I mean, we
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have an illustrated version of the original Great
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Controversy. I can just see you taking those
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scripts and then with some of the shots from
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your scenes there and it being an interesting
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read. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe. It's a good idea.
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Thank you. You're welcome. So we're talking about
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the Great Controversy, but you've done more than
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that. Yeah, we've done Great Controversy. The
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Great Controversy was actually our last series.
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We did a video on every chapter of the Great
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Controversy, which we hadn't done. And how many
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is that? Is that 30 or 40? 42. So we hadn't done
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that before. We had covered some chapters, but
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obviously not the more doctrinal or prophetic
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chapters. So we did those, and then we produced
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the Great Controversy, which has illustrations,
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QR codes, and everything in it. So a person can
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read and then go and... Watch the video? Yeah,
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could I show you? Absolutely. Let's take a pause.
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Oh, you've got it here. I've got it right here.
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I thought we were going to have to take a break.
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You're ready to go. Jordan, can we get a shot
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of that? Get it the right way. Yeah, there we
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go. There it is there. And that's a hardback
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book. It's not cheap. It's a hardback book. It's
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heavily illustrated. Wow, that's beautiful. And
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then every chapter's got a QR code at the beginning
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and the end and so on. And for clarity, because
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I know we're going to get questions about this
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specific question. Is it the original complete
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Great Controversy? It's the original complete
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Great Controversy with the original text, yeah.
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There are some abridged versions and some shortened
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versions for friendship giving away. This is
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every chapter. It's got the appendix and all
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that as well. All right. So that's... Get a website,
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yeah. And again, give us that website. Lineagejourney
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.com Lineage Journey. All right, we're going
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to take another break and come back and we'll
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talk a little bit more about lineage and some
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other things in just a moment. Adam, thank you
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so much for sharing with us. Thank you for being
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a part of our listening and viewing audience
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today. Remember, you can connect with us at missionsunlight
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must learn to abide in Jesus' name. We move ahead
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with our mission objectives, recognizing that
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we are serving together the Most High God. Welcome
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back to Mission Sunlight Chat. I am thoroughly
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enjoying our conversation with Adam Ramdon. Adam,
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first of all, I enjoy, Jordan and I both enjoy
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talking with people who are in media ministry,
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sharing the gospel through the thing that is
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impacting everybody. If you look at people walking
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around us, more than half the people are on their
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phone or holding their phone or an iPad or some
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other tablet device, something. It's everywhere.
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We have to be, as a Christian church, we have
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to be where people are and where people are.
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is right here. Yep, connected digitally. Yep,
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so you're creating content, we're creating content
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to hopefully connect people with encouragement
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and very specifically with Jesus. Yep, yep. You
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have some other projects that you are working
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on that have just begun, at least at the airing
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of this broadcast in fall of 2025. Tell us what
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that is. Our series that we're working on, that
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we have been working on, that we'll be releasing
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for the second part of 2025 is called Women of
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Christian History. We did cover the Reformation
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in season one, which was seven years ago, and
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we only covered one woman there. And then we
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kind of, one of our team members wrote a book
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called Sisters in Arms, which covered eight stories
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of women of the Reformation. It was a real bestseller.
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So we thought, let's expand that and maybe let's
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make a series out of that as well. Let me pause
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you there. Sisters in Arms. Is that something
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available on Adventist Book Center or Amazon?
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Pacific sells it and you can also get it on Amazon.
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You can also get it at the lineage website as
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well. I just want to encourage people if that's
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a resource they might be interested in. So tell
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us how it's connected with lineage. So then we
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thought, let's build a series out of that. And
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so we found some other stories, less known women.
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And so we're telling their stories of, you know,
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heroes of history and what their struggles were,
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what they went through. And that's a 23. 23 -part
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series, yeah. Okay. And this is in the works.
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When do you anticipate release? That's going
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to take a bit for 23. No, we're going to release.
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It's already edited. We're going to release that
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maybe the week after GC session, and then the
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second half of 2023 it should. It will be going
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out. Second half of 2025. I'm back there in 2023
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too. So as this broadcast is first being released,
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that should be available. Again, how can they
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connect with seeing that? On the website, lineagejourney
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.com or YouTube channel, Lineage Journey. Okay.
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Adam, I'm going to give you a few minutes here
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just to look at this camera, share with our listeners
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and viewers. Just a word of encouragement. Sure.
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One of my favorite passages in the Bible currently,
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and I don't really have a favorite one of all
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time, but one of my favorite passages currently
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that really inspires the work that we do is the
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passage in Joshua chapter 4, verses 1 through
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to 7. It's a story of the children of Israel
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as they're crossing the Red Sea, no, the River
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Jordan rather, and Joshua instructs 12 men, one
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of every tribe, to go into the river. and pick
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up a stone that they then put on his shoulder,
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the indication being this is a big, big stone,
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and to carry these large rocks out of the River
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Jordan and then put them on the side. And then
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they're basically looking around at Joshua saying,
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well, what are we doing that for? Why would we
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carry these huge stones and put them on the side
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of the river? And then he tells him in verse
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7 the reason why. He says, I want you to carry
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these stones. I want you to put them on the side
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of the river. And then he says, and the reason
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for this, is because it's going to be a memorial
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to you for future generations that you will remember
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that this is what God has done for you. You know,
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God has done great things in our past lives.
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All of us have got something in our life that
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we can look back on and remind us and encourage
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us that God worked in my life back then. And
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if God worked in my life back then, he can work
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in my life now. As lineage, we try and encourage
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people of the stories collectively we have in
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our past history and remind us how God worked
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in the Reformation. He worked in the time of
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the pioneers. And God can still work and will
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work in our lives collectively today. But we
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also have individual stories. I want to encourage
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you never to forget how God has led you in the
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past because we've got nothing to fear for the
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future unless we forget how God has led us in
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the past. Adam, thank you. That is encouraging.
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I can think of more than one of those rock -finding
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moments where I know that I want to remember
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that God helped me through. So we're going to
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do something special for our... listeners and
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viewers who have stayed with us with Adam's permission.
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We're going to show you a episode from lineage
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journey. Do you have an idea of which one we're
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going to look at? I'm thinking William Tyndale,
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William Tyndale. So we're going to conclude our
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program with that. So let me have Jordan do our
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closing prayer in just a moment, and then we're
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just going to roll that, and we'll roll the credits
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for the program after you see the lineage journey.
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But once again, Adam, how can folks connect with
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lineage? Thank you. And all the handles and everything,
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just give it all to us. And we'll put this in
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the bio as well. All social media platform is
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at lineagejourney, and then our website is lineagejourney
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.com. Very good. Lots of exciting things happening
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there that they can see and that they can see
25:05
coming. So, so. Yeah, very good. Thank you for
25:08
being a part of our Mission Sunlight chat journey
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as well. Thanks for listening. Remember, you
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can connect with us at missionsunlight .org.
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One last request before we watch this special
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We're going to take a break now and watch this
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special episode of lineage. And we pray that
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you will be blessed as you watch it. Jordan,
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would you pray for our audience as we go to that?
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Sure, let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you
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for how you've led each one of us in the past.
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And I thank you for projects like Lineage that
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help us to remember how you've led the church,
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but it's also a reminder how you lead us personally.
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I pray that as we go through life, we remember
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what you've done for us, and we have the assurance
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that you will continue to do that for us in our
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lives. Please continue to bless Lineage as they
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share your word and your history and what you
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continue to do for people. Bless them as they
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move forward on new projects. Also, Lord, bless
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our listeners. Help them to see where you've
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led them in the past and how you're working in
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their lives now. And if there's somebody who
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doesn't necessarily know or see you working in
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their lives right now, I pray that they'll look
26:41
back on their history and be able to see where
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you've led them, but also ask you into their
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hearts right now and ask you to lead them as
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they move forward so that they can see your work
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in their lives. Thank you for everything that
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you do for us, and we put you ahead of us so
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that you can direct our path. In your name, amen.
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Thank you, Jordan. Adam, as we go to this special
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feature, thank you for joining us here in the
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General Conference Session Exhibit Hall. It's
27:08
been a blessing, and it's always a blessing to
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hear the hubbub and noise of all the ministries
27:13
at work. Let's take a look at Lenny's Journey.
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The 16th century was populated by some of the
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greatest minds in religious history. Luther,
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Calvin, Zwingli, Knox, Latimer, Ridley, Cramner.
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And sitting comfortably amongst this group of
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luminaries was William Tyndale, translator of
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the English Bible. Tyndale was born in Gloucestershire
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in 1494 in a small village called North Nibley,
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marked today by this monument overlooking the
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village. He was educated at Oxford and completed
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his BA in 1512 and his MA in 1515 before coming
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here to Cambridge University where he met Dutch
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scholar Erasmus who was teaching Greek. Tyndale
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wanted to translate the Bible into English but
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no one in England was willing to undertake such
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a daring task. Since 1408 the Oxford Commission
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had forbidden the translation of the Bible into
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the English language, even prohibiting its use
28:46
in the training curriculum for preachers. Kochalius,
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a notorious papal theologian, had this perspective.
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The New Testament translated into the language
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of the people is in truth the food of death,
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the fuel of sin. the veil of malice, the pretext
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of false liberty, the protection of disobedience,
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the corruption of discipline, the depravity of
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morals, the termination of concord, the death
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of honesty, the wellspring of vices, the disease
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of virtue, the instigation of rebellion, the
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milk of pride, the nourishment of contempt, the
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death of peace, the destruction of charity, the
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enemy of unity, the murderer of truth. Immersed
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in such a climate, Tyndale encountered a learned
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friend who said, we were better without God's
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laws than the Pope's. To which Tyndale responded,
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I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare
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my life ere many years, I will cause a boy that
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driveth the plow shall know more of the scriptures
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than thou doest. Forbidden to work in England,
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Tyndale traveled through Europe. from Hamburg
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to Cologne to Worms to Antwerp, using the Greek
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and Hebrew texts to craft a masterpiece of the
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English language. Time and time again, the papacy
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tried to stop his work, but the Lord watched
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over his servant. One account tells us how the
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Bishop of Durham, seeking to hinder his work,
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bought all his Bibles. but this merely provided
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him with the money he needed to produce a larger
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number of better quality Bibles. Tyndale contributed
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as much to the scholarship of English literature
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as Shakespeare and Chaucer, producing many of
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the translations of the Bible that we use today.
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In fact, much of the King James Bible produced
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60 years later was taken almost verbatim from
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Tyndale's Bible. Phrases such as, the spirit
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is willing, but the flesh is weak. O death, where
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is thy sting? And seek ye first. All these came
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from William Tyndale. Today, there are two remaining
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copies of Tyndale's Bible, one of which is here
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in the British Library, purchased for one million
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pounds and accessible to view free of charge.
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Sadly, Tyndale was betrayed by Henry Phillips
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in Antwerp, who feigned friendship in order to
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gain Tyndale's trust and betrayed him to guards
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as he was leaving his house. He was taken to
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a castle in Villevorde, Belgium, condemned as
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a heretic, strangled and burned to death in 1536.
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His last words were, Lord, open the King of England's
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eyes. Within one year of his death, A Bible was
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placed in every parish church throughout the
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whole of England by order of the king. The poignant
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Christian song tells us, martyrs' blood stains
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each page. They have died for this faith. Hear
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them cry through the years. Oh, hear these words
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and hold them dear. The word of God has come
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to us at such great cost. May we not treat it
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flippantly, haphazardly. but may we treasure
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it and commit to study and share God's word each
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day.