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Melissa Huray: Keeping The Faith & A Healthy Balanced Life · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  Welcome to Worldview Matters.
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  And now, here's your host, David Fiorazzo.
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  Thanks for tuning in to this episode, friends, family, and Christ.
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  Good to see you.
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  Actually, I can't see you, but you know what I mean.
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  God bless you.
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  We appreciate your support, your prayers.
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  Along with the conference, we now have press releases.
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  I'm going to try to find a way to get the press release for the Worldview Matters conference on the website.
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  So maybe people can just click on and download or print that off so you can share with your pastor.
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  Maybe it was really difficult the last conference we did to reach churches and to reach pastors, believe it or not.
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  Because I think a lot of—well, let me rephrase that.
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  Some pastors would be very interested in telling their congregations about it.
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  I know it's a smaller number, but yes, there are some that we don't know we're trying to reach.
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  So if you have any suggestions, let me know.
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  We want to get the press release out there, and we want to get people to know the dates and just get tickets because we sold out last time.
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  Well, I'm blessed to have our friend Melissa Hurray back with us.
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  She's a Bible teacher, author, busy apologist, and busy host of The Hope Report.
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  She's been doing that since 2021.
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  And she spent 12 years counseling struggling addicts as a licensed alcohol and drug counselor.
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  and in 2018 became executive director of the Lindell Recovery Network.
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  She's written two books, one of them, Blackout to Blessing, and the other, just a couple years ago, Radical Freedom, a full-year devotional.
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  You want to check that one out.
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  And she's just written a lot of articles for a lot of Christian publications and others.
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  And, Melissa, we're just so glad to connect with you again.
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  Good to see you, sister.
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  Hi, David.
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  It's so good to be back with you.
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  It's always a blessing.
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  Thanks for having me.
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  Yeah, so thank you.
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  Now, we're going to step away from—I know you talk a lot about prophecy and Israel and end times.
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  Maybe we'll touch on that, but we're going to kind of step away from what we do and talk about the body of Christ and how the remnant might be feeling a little battle-weary and how some people—
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  If they watch our show or your show or some of the pastors that are coming to the conference next year, they might feel like they got to keep up with everything.
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  And it is impossible.
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  So before we dive into the topic a little more, could you speak to that, whatever is on your heart and share with people that are watching and listening, going, I just can't keep up anymore.
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  What would you say to them?
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  Well, I'm glad to hear that you're feeling that way too.
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  And I know that we are not alone, especially those of us who are in ministry and who are wanting to be used by the Lord.
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  And what you said about getting, going all in, I think as a former struggling person or anyone who's struggled with addiction or any life controlling problem, I mean, that consumes your life as an idol.
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  It's an idol.
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  You put it first.
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  And once you have been freed of that, there can be this tendency, I'm going to go full on into this other thing.
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  And I'm, you know, not that that's necessarily bad, but I think that is some of what has happened for me with my new, my apology and my efforts to teach the Bible and my desire to understand the Bible from a dispensational lens.
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  And I've become all about that really for the past four or five years.
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  I really believe the Lord opened my mind to the truth about Israel and the need to take the Bible literally in every way.
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  every case that you can.
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  But at the same time, I started to notice that my ability to connect with my family was suffering a little bit and struggling a little bit.
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  And I was staying up late, studying, putting together teachings and streams and all these things I wanted to do.
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  And sometimes my
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  mom you're constantly uh spiritualizing everything you're making a sermon out of everything oh don't tell me you're going to talk about israel again and so i you know i had to dial it back a little bit and i think many of us feel that burden especially christians who are waiting for the soon return of christ that we want to be working and be busy in ministry doing everything we can but then the person right in front of us can suffer or that that opportunity to make a memory can start to uh
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  that opportunity might not be there anymore if we don't put the work aside and spend time with the people in our lives.
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  So I want to share, first of all, I didn't give you a website.
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  It's melissahurray.com, and H-U-R-A-Y is her last name.
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  Plus, you can go to YouTube and look up the Hope Report, Hope for Life in the Last Days.
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  So you said something in an email exchange, and you just kind of touched on, you know,
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  talking to people closest to us and not being so distracted and work-focused or ministry-focused.
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  You talked about going to the Mall of America with your daughter.
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  I want you to share that experience.
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  I think a lot of our viewers and listeners can relate to that.
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  I think that's funny that you mentioned that I said that sometimes I'll just say things on the show casually and I will think nobody really heard that.
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  You know, it's funny, David, isn't it?
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  You don't think about people watching.
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  Sometimes you're, you're just kind of saying your thing.
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  And recently, Brett Brennan house gave me the opportunity to go to the Minnesota state fair because Brandon has a lot of ties in Minnesota.
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  And he said, Hey, Melissa, have you been to the fair?
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  And I said, yeah, I kind of did my time there.
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  And he asked if I wanted to go back and do some little standups at the different highlights of the fair.
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  And I thought, wow, I haven't done this since my reporting days.
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  You know, when I was a news reporter many years ago, where you do those assignment things, I had so much fun doing that.
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  And we have a behemoth here in Minnesota you may have heard of called the Mall of America.
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  And it used to be the largest mall, I think, in the world.
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  It's not anymore, but it is pretty massive.
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  four floors of commercialism and feasts for the eyes.
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  I don't go there that much, but my daughter needed a homecoming dress.
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  And I have to be honest, I was thinking, oh my goodness, this is such a headache going there.
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  Not to mention there's a lot of things that break out in the mall, gang, rivalry, fights.
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  There was sadly a young boy was thrown over the balcony some years back.
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  So it's got some, you know,
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  issues.
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  But anyway, I wanted to go there with my daughter.
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  And we ended up having so much fun getting a homecoming dress.
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  And we got boba tea.
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  And I walked around.
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  I said, Emmy, this is just we're drunk on commercialism here.
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  Look at this place.
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  Everybody's running to and fro with their bags, spending their money.
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  And she kind of rolled her eyes and chuckled.
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  But I tried to stay out at
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  religiosity and hey, let's make this religious.
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  You know, we just had fun at the mall and it was nice.
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  It'll be a memory I'll have for a while.
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  So, I mean, that's something that a lot of people can relate to.
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  I mean, you're doing something with your daughter.
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  Sometimes we do get so ministry-focused.
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  But I want to ask you something else, and this is about consumerism maybe.
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  I think a lot of believers—I noticed this when I was—I used to do more speaking than I have done in recent years, but I used to speak at conferences, and I would notice a lot of well-meaning, solid Christians would come to these conferences.
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  Some of them had an issue with getting all the information, getting all the information and learning and absorbing, and just for the knowledge, and maybe that wasn't translating over into their lives as far as application and ministering to people, sharing the gospel or doing something in their own lives.
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  They're just consumers.
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  I don't want to label anybody, but I think the body of Christ,
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  we've got some great remnant pastors and teachers and we love to hear their videos and go watch them at a conference and listen to them but the question I guess is are we doing something with everything that we are taking in could you speak to that for a moment
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  It's so good that you brought that up because what you said about the abundance of information and news and every day there are things competing for our attention.
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  I'm on YouTube or I'm on Facebook.
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  Oh, I want to watch this.
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  Oh, there's another new prophecy update.
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  There's Andy Woods.
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  There's Brandon House.
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  You know, there's you.
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  I can't get my hands all around it.
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  But I started to break it down to some of the things I've learned just in taking some seminary classes and, you know,
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  and learning under sound teachers, is that I need to keep it simple.
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  And one of the things is sharing the gospel.
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  And I think that can get swallowed up in all of this excess, is that some people never received the right gospel.
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  They were given a workspace gospel.
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  So we can come back to basics and just share Christ with them, that it doesn't necessarily mean repenting of all sin.
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  Yes, we do
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  want to repent of sin as the Holy Spirit leads, but that the first order of business is helping someone get saved so the Holy Spirit can indwell them and they can have the power to resist sin and to be convicted and all those things.
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  So asking people, have you trusted in Christ?
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  Have you repented of unbelief?
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  And many of them have been brought under condemnation, whether by their church or their former pastor or people in their life.
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  and been given a workspace gospel.
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  So I like to start with that and also encouraging people around the end times because so many people are panicked.
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  They're looking at the world.
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  They're looking to their pastor.
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  Please give me guidance.
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  There's so many weak pastors that are not, they don't have the courage to stand, you know, stand with Israel, stand with the truth, push back against culture.
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  And they're looking for someone to,
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  guide them.
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  And so when we educate them about the end times that the churches spared the wrath and we can take them to the scriptures.
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  Yes, the rapture is in the Bible numerous times and to give them assurance that Jesus promised us he would come and gather us before the wrath to come.
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  And when you understand Israel, you see how much that makes sense that the tribulation
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  is for Israel.
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  It's not for the church.
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  So I try to keep it simple with helping people understand the times we are living in.
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  And that prophecy is not something to fear.
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  It's to know this is how God shows he keeps his word and we can trust in it and believe in him and know the Bible is true.
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  So I stick with the gospel and really sharing people with people the truth of the Bible and what's coming for the end times and that they don't have to fear it.
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  Good words, Melissa.
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  And I just want to remind people, whatever you learn and take in, there's nothing wrong with gaining knowledge.
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  But remember how Peter ended his letter.
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  Let's grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then let's make sure we're doing God's business, God's work.
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  The gospel is so important and we don't know how much time we have left.
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  So it's hard, Melissa.
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  We've been here how many years and the Apostle Paul wrote soon.
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  You know, Jesus is coming soon.
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  And here we are in 2026.
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  So it's hard to keep that, I guess, expectation, the sense of urgency.
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  It could be today.
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  It could be tomorrow.
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  That means we need to share the gospel with someone who, if they don't hear and receive and believe in Jesus and place their faith in Jesus for salvation, their destination is not in a good place.
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  So I want to go back to something else you said.
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  And I thank you.
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  You're probably going to never send me a lengthy email again.
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  No, I appreciate your guidance.
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  This is really good because you do more.
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  I mean, I come in once a week and record four.
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  We used to do five podcasts a day.
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  Now we're just, we're only doing four typically.
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  So once a week, every Thursday, I'm in the studio and I don't have as much time the rest of the week.
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  You do five shows.
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  You do the show five days a week and then you stream a Sunday night or you do a Sunday night study and then additional live streams
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  Melissa, that's a lot.
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  And I just want to ask you, I'm sure you, you struggle with finding it hard to pull yourself away from ministry, thinking that if you do something for yourself, you know, to relax, to go appreciate God's nature or whatever, God's beauty, you feel like you should be back in the chair with the microphone, right?
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  Tell us a little bit about that.
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  Cause that's a lot.
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  I can't imagine.
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  Well, I am grateful that I get to do what I do.
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  And you mentioned I was a counselor for 12 years and intensive outpatient treatment.
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  And then after that, I continued to do some one-on-one counseling for people.
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  And I was getting really burnt out.
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  I honestly, I felt like I have kind of done my service and it was very rewarding in a lot of ways, but also you're bearing the weight of people's pain and people's struggle and it can get very overwhelming.
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  So in 2018, I met Mike Lindell after praying for
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  two years, Lord, please open a door for me.
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  And I started out with counseling, helping him build the Lindell Recovery Network.
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  And then it came time for him to launch his media empire.
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  And he said, hey, Melissa, I wanna give you a show.
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  And I didn't expect that at all.
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  He said, I've always wanted to do a show called the Hope Report.
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  And he said, I didn't know you used to be a news reporter.
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  And it was really the Lord orchestrating all of these things and allowing me when I was in news, I was so exhausted.
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  You know how it is in a newsroom and you're in Green Bay.
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  And what we wanted to do was get to Green Bay because it was a middle market jump.
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  And then maybe we can get to the Twin Cities or we can get to some top 15 market.
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  And that really wasn't God's plan for me.
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  I tried and I was fighting an uphill battle, but it's very competitive and
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  He led me into addiction counseling, but the Lord brought it all around again with the broadcasting and enabling me to use some of the skills he had given me for the body of Christ.
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  And so it really doesn't feel like work.
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  And I know people say that it's actually harder for me to not do work.
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  I'll have an idea in my head, oh, I want to teach how pastors get Romans 11 wrong.
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  So then I'll spend two hours putting that together and think I can do a stream on Saturday morning before everybody gets up.
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  And I just I really enjoy it.
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  It doesn't seem like work.
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  And with the Sunday night Bible studies, I was doing them anyway.
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  And then Lindell TV said, hey, do you want want to stream this on Sunday nights?
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  I was just doing them from my own, you know, restream.
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  I feel that when you're doing what the Lord's called you to do, you still get tired and you get overworked.
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  But I enjoy it.
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  I feel as though I am in the flow of where he wants me to be.
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  But I also like to shuffle dance.
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  So I have an Instagram account, addict to apologists.
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  It's addict number two apologists.
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  And I'm mashing in their apologetics.
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  addiction recovery tips and then shuffle dancing.
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  That's quite the combo.
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  I like learning these shuffle routines.
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  So that's part of my release and my exercise enjoyment that I do just for fun and for stress relief.
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  That's what that is.
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  I see you doing some sort of the shuffle dance.
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  That's that you're on Instagram.
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  Shuffling.
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  Okay.
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  Let's go.
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  Let's go over to your YouTube channel.
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  And I, I just love some of the guests that you talk to and some of the, some of the topics that you cover.
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  But one, of course, our common friend is Dr. Andy Woods.
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  I've been speaking to him.
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  I've not maybe 10 years.
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  I've known him now.
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  Maybe more, maybe more, but you did a great program with him.
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  I just want to give you an opportunity to share a little bit, some of the bullet points on that one, because I thought, wow, it's a sober warning for the modern church.
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  Is your pastor the problem?
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  Very provocative.
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  Give us a few teaser nuggets from that, Melissa.
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  Well, I really appreciate the time with Andy Woods.
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  I met him about a year and a half ago, and he comes on about once a month.
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  And he said, Melissa, this is your show.
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  You're the host.
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  Tell me what you—I'll do my best, you know, to answer the questions.
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  He never tries to control what is going to happen, but I'll give him ideas I've been thinking about.
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  And I said, you know, just the compromise within the church.
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  And I'm not trying to beat up on pastors, but lately I've been seeing so many, as I'm sure you have, two megachurch pastors, and they're just—
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  they're uh they're so popular charismatic winsome everybody loves them they've got millions of followers but they're teaching a lot of compromised things like tithing and bringing the church under the mosaic law and so i really wanted to get andy's take on some of the the major infractions i guess of people who are supposed to be shepherding the people and when i contrast today's modern day pastor
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  Dr. Andy Woods, it's such a stark contrast because I was at his church in February, as you know, and Andy is, you know, he's preaching, expository preaching from the Bible.
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  There's no real frills.
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  And then after the service, he's sitting, this is like when I was a kid at the Presbyterian church in the basement before they had rainbow flags.
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  He's sitting in the basement on a folding chair, talking to the people.
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  I mean, can you imagine a pastor actually sitting there engaging with his people?
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  But
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  That seems to be totally antiquated now that you would know your pastor, that they might pray for you because they're just...
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  I don't know, it seems more like a influencer than a pastor.
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  I did a show on that today about these pastors, these celebrity pastors.
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  And I just wanted to get some of his ideas about where's the church going?
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  Because we know the Bible tells us one world religion that we're just careening toward that as ecumenicalism is pushed and all this tolerance and all roads lead to heaven and the White House faith office, that's another.
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  Another topic for another day.
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  But, you know, I just wanted some sensibility.
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  And that's what I get from Andy is it's just no frills.
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  It's here's here's what the Bible says, you know, and I think some of us are coming back to that.
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  Maybe we've been drunk on charismania and now we just we want something sensible and rational.
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  I like that.
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  Charismania.
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  I think of worshiptainment.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, I got to share this.
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  It's been a while since I talked about it.
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  And I saw, I really, my heart just sank.
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  I was watching this behind the scenes video of this big seeker sensitive church, mega church pastor, very well-known pastor from a church that I'm sure, not Joel Osteen, by the way, because we, you know, we rightly so, we beat up on him a lot.
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  But this is a different this is a secret sensitive church in middle America.
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  They've got, I guess, a bunch of churches around.
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  So he's given a behind the scenes look while the worship team is rehearsing.
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  He's coming in the door and the camera's following him.
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  And you're going just it almost seems like reality TV.
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  And it's like, yes.
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  And so the camera's following him.
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  He peeks into the worship thing, and there's the light show, and they're doing the worship, and there's some smoke, kind of like fog, and the lights, and I'm going, okay, this is like before the service on a Saturday night, I guess, or something.
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  And he walks down this hallway, showing the big facility.
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  They go into this green room.
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  And I'm thinking, what's this?
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  What's this, a rock concert?
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  What is this, you know, Lambeau Field or the Rush Center?
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  Or, you know, I'm thinking, why are they, this is a church.
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  And he walks in there and they've got...
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  Coffee machines and the Keurig and the espresso and they've got a minibar, they've got the refrigerator, they've got the couches and the cool lights like you would see in a cozy coffee shop.
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  And I'm going, this is a, I just struggled with that.
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  And I think I still struggle with the idea.
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  of a lot of churches or pastors thinking that they've got to show this worldly side that, oh, Christians are people too.
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  Christians are like the world too.
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  But the problem, Melissa, and I'll let you talk, Romans 12 says, Do not conform to the world's way of doing things.
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  Do not conform, but be transformed.
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  by the renewing of your mind.
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  And what I'm seeing, some of these churches do, they're trying to attract the world.
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  In order to do that, sometimes you have to conform to get the world into your church, and that's what's happening with a lot of these seeker-sensitive churches.
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  Go ahead.
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  Oh, I hear you.
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  I agree.
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  I've recently started to feel blessed that I have a small ministry.
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  And I thought I'm not going to appeal to the masses.
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  Most are not going to want to talk about Israel or God's future plans or prophecy.
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  You know, we get mocked for being dispensationalists, taking the Bible.
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  Literally our position gets misrepresented.
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  So we're not going to typically have enormous platforms because of that appeals to the world.
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  That's what the world wants.
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  The world wants
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  a more fluffy form of Christianity.
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  You know, and yes, you're saved technically, trust in Christ, you're saved, but he doesn't want us to stay that way.
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  We're going to have consequences at the beam of judgment seat.
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  And also, you know, say you remain an addict, you may, your life may end early, you will have consequences for sin.
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  We don't want that for anyone.
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  We want to grow in sanctification.
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  But I've been in many churches, like what you're describing.
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  My previous church, I was on the worship team, and I saw exactly what you're talking about, is that we're standing on stage and there's a countdown.
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  You're seeing the countdown, and then you do your songs.
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  And then if the pastor is late because he's going around to different campuses, then we stretch out the worship.
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  And we begin to do extra songs.
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  And then we say, wait, the spirit is going to move.
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  So we're going to go, I feel like God's going to do something.
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  And I started to just get so disillusioned by it.
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  I thought, how much of this is really move of God and how much of it is manufactured?
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  How much of it is, OK, we're just we're holding out here because the pastor has to travel to all these campuses.
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  And all the same things that you hear, you know, God wants your heart, your tithe.
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  I'm not against tithing.
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  I'm against pastors manipulating people to tithe and saying God's not going to bless you if you don't tithe.
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  You're robbing God.
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  You know, you need to put that aside before you do anything.
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  I don't care if your house is in foreclosure, you pay your tithe.
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  So I began to just feel really, I thought I'd rather...
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  study and listen to online pastors and maybe I'll find a church.
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  But I just the Holy Spirit was convicting me and it was also about Israel.
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  I need a church that stands with Israel.
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  That's a litmus test, I believe.
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  I think in the last days, God is using Israel to reveal who is really following him.
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  Because I honestly don't think you can have a heart for God, maybe you're saved, but have the heart of God and miss just completely
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  You know, you aren't able to see what it says in the Bible about his heart toward his people and his plan for the future for them.
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  I just think you're blinded by pride if you can't see that.
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  So I need a church that stands with Israel.
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  Yeah, I agree.
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  And all the guests that we have on now, again, it goes without saying, I hate to be redundant, but that doesn't mean we support everything the Israeli government does.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  So, you know, but from the biblical worldview, from Scripture, we support Israel because God loves Israel.
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  And there's a future for Israel.
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  Now, a couple of minutes left.
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  What does Melissa have coming up?
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  Guests that you're going to interview, maybe something you're working on.
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  a book or something?
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  Just share a little bit about that.
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  Well, you know, I've gotten ahead of myself many times in the past and I've spoken prematurely, but I had worked.
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  I wrote something that is being published.
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  It's editing.
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  It's being edited.
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  It's in the process right now.
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  I'm very excited about it.
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  It's been almost a year for this process to go forward.
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  And the second I get to go ahead, I can't wait to, you know, put it all out there.
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  But
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  I have wanted to do something relating, not only, you know, my past of addiction and working with addicts, that's definitely a tool that God uses to help people and reach people.
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  I'll continue to do that and giving practical guidance.
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  But I also wanted to move into more Bible teaching.
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  I'd like to do more with women, helping women to become discerning, to read the Bible literally.
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  Unfortunately, there's a lot of
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  fluffy female books, false teachers, pastors.
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  I don't believe women can be pastors.
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  I don't think it's scriptural, but there's a lot of women who aren't being discipled.
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  So I'd like to somehow fill a need there, maybe working on creating a Bible study or something that can be geared to women who want to get serious about reading the Bible and studying it.
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  Excellent.
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  Excellent.
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  So pray for Melissa that God would direct her steps.
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  And we're looking forward to this, the book or the project coming out.
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  So bringing this full circle in the last couple of minutes, we were talking about earlier a sense of urgency.
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  How do we maintain that, that eternal perspective?
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  One of the last things you said in your email to me was, I just don't think we're going to be here much longer.
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  I don't know that a lot of people have that view because they're looking at the world instead of the Word.
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  Melissa, just encourage the body of Christ.
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  Yeah, people want to believe they're building the kingdom when the kingdom is not going to come until Israel repents.
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  But we can see everything is coming to an end for the church age and that we do need to live with that kind of expectancy, not to be discouraging to anyone, but that if you have put your trust in Christ, your rapture ready, and that you're going to be, whether you believe it or not, or you go up like this, you're going to be raptured when he comes to gather his church.
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  And I would say in the meantime, take every opportunity that you can to share the gospel and to point lost people to Jesus, be mindful.
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  This is all buzzword, treatment therapy buzzword, mindfulness, but being in the present moment with whoever is in front of you, that's the most important person right now is how can you touch their life?
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  How can you impact them positively?
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  How can you be salt and light?
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  Mindfulness, focusing on the one and not explosive growth,
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  I've been guilty of it too.
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  You know, Lord, please expand my territory.
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  Well, I'm grateful for every person that wants to subscribe or be part of what I'm doing for the Lord or what he's doing through me, I should say.
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  And we don't need to have a big platform.
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  We just need to be speaking truth and focusing on that one person who's going to be impacted by it.
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  Amen, sister.
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  Just obedience.
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  And we must obey God rather than man and seek to please him.
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  And he'll take care of the rest.
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  Thank you.
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  Went by so fast.
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  Thanks for your time again, friends.
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  Melissa, parade.com, H-U-R-A-Y.
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  We will continue to connect and keep up with you.
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  And we'll do this again soon, Lord willing.
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  That was awesome.
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  Thank you so much for having me.
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  You're most welcome.
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  Friends, thank you for watching, listening, and sharing.
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  Please do share this one.
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  God bless you.
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  And as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter.
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  See you next time.