Latest / Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation / #142 An Interview with Adam, Our In-the Field Evangelist @ Cobbs Hill Park!
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- 0:04Pastor Robert Young: We're sitting with Adam, one of our lead evangelists, who's been walking around Cobbs Hill Park with our questionnaire survey icebreaker form, asking people various questions about faith, religion, od, jesus, the whole nine.
- 0:19Pastor Robert Young: So Adam say hi, how you doing people and, adam, what has been some of your results that you've seen so far?
- 0:28Adam: Well, I've been asking a few people two questions.
- 0:33Adam: You know like, out of the Ten Commandments, what is your favorite commandment?
- 0:36Adam: And then, if you could create a commandment, what would it be?
- 0:41Pastor Robert Young: What kind of responses have you gotten from that?
- 0:43Adam: You know, actually it's very interesting because if I ask them, you know what was your favorite commandment?
- 0:48Adam: And they all turn to.
- 0:50Adam: They didn't say the standard 1 through 10.
- 0:53Adam: They actually said that when Jesus said love God, the Father, and love others, that you love yourself.
- 1:00Adam: But the thing about the second question is, if they were to create a commandment, it was never based on power, because usually, you know, when we're asked something, it's like man, I want to change something.
- 1:12Adam: What they did is basically, it's an issue of the heart, of the mind.
- 1:16Pastor Robert Young: Like what.
- 1:16Pastor Robert Young: What's some of the responses they want clarity.
- 1:21Adam: They want clarity about you.
- 1:23Adam: now certain things that they lived family that's been passed on.
- 1:27Adam: They want answers to little questions that they never got certain things like that, Right, right, right.
- 1:33Pastor Robert Young: You know, we actually had a call-in person to the podcast about a year or so ago that asked the question about where do you, where do you go when you die, and you know those kinds of things.
- 1:45Pastor Robert Young: So, uh, in the future, when you're out and talking to some people, if you think that cause some of the questions they may ask out there.
- 1:52Pastor Robert Young: We may have already answered on the podcast so you can refer them back to the the actual podcast and, if possible, no-transcript things that's going on in our society right now.
- 2:35Pastor Robert Young: People have those questions.
- 2:36Pastor Robert Young: What other thoughts can you give us, give our listeners, about the questions that you've been asking people?
- 2:43Adam: out there.
- 2:43Adam: You know, it's very simple.
- 2:45Adam: It's like there was a question in a conversation that I had with a wife and a husband and their child and very basic like it's the questions like you know where do I go when I die?
- 2:59Adam: But also it's like what do I depend on in Scripture?
- 3:02Adam: And they said that you know, it's all about love and stuff like that.
- 3:05Adam: But you know, if you really dig down, it's God never apologized for the word he gave.
- 3:10Pastor Robert Young: Right.
- 3:11Adam: And some of the answers are based on, you know, the authoritative word of God.
- 3:15Adam: You know, did God die for everyone?
- 3:21Pastor Robert Young: Some of the questions are on the survey.
- 3:22Adam: Right.
- 3:22Adam: So it's like, if you really stem down to it, it's like you know, if the Bible is the authoritative word of God, then you have to take the Bible for what it is.
- 3:31Adam: It's truly God's word, and if we cannot stand on that foundation when Jesus speaks and in Matthew, then it's an unstable ground and that can lead to a bunch of things that are not actually healthy for us to be as Christians.
- 3:47Pastor Robert Young: You mean kind of like what our society is going through now Confusion, division.
- 3:51Pastor Robert Young: Well, part of that too is because there's no set standard in people's mind.
- 3:56Pastor Robert Young: But we know that the standard has already been given a long, long time ago.
- 4:00Pastor Robert Young: But people have ignored that standard and creating their own and sometimes, as we see, those standards change.
- 4:07Pastor Robert Young: Even the moral standards change, looks like from generation to generation.
- 4:12Pastor Robert Young: And this part is saying, well, no, we got to live this way.
- 4:15Pastor Robert Young: And the other part is saying, no, we got to live this way.
- 4:17Pastor Robert Young: And then there's a third one says, listen, we can both live these kinds of ways, but God already set the standard.
- 4:23Pastor Robert Young: Would you agree to that?
- 4:24Adam: I would, I mean you took the words right out of my mouth.
- 4:26Adam: When it comes to integrity, morality when it comes to the ways of life, I think I mean, honestly speaking, if I may, political correctness has killed morality and integrity in life situations because it's a aftertaste in families' lives.
- 4:46Adam: They base their raising, their children on these ethics and it's like, but when they get older they can choose what they want to do.
- 4:53Pastor Robert Young: Yes, yes.
- 4:54Adam: But since the dawn of time, god has established a way of life.
- 4:57Adam: Since the dawn of time, god has established a way of life and it is the law.
- 5:01Adam: It's do not steal cheat.
- 5:03Adam: Have any gods before?
- 5:04Pastor Robert Young: you Don't kill, don't kill.
- 5:06Pastor Robert Young: Yeah, don't covet your neighbor's wife.
- 5:09Adam: And if you're from Rochester man, it's like seeing in the news.
- 5:13Adam: It's like my grandmother said one day she goes.
- 5:15Adam: You know what she goes?
- 5:16Adam: People act the way they act because they don't have a fear of God within them.
- 5:21Pastor Robert Young: Amen, amen.
- 5:22Pastor Robert Young: Good stuff, good stuff.
- 5:23Pastor Robert Young: Let me go back to a point that you made earlier in what you're saying about children being raised with standards.
- 5:30Pastor Robert Young: Tomorrow's broadcast is specifically about and I think it's titled An Urgent Message to Christian Parents, and it's talking about those parents.
- 5:41Pastor Robert Young: You know the things that we're seeing out here parents leaving it up to chance for their children to discover the teachings of Jesus Christ versus them teaching them themselves and the damage that is causing.
- 5:57Pastor Robert Young: So our specific podcast is covering that issue tomorrow.
- 6:01Pastor Robert Young: So anything else you'd like to add to the podcast.
- 6:05Pastor Robert Young: As far as what you're seeing, not only here in Cobbs Hill but in all some of your other travels and those of you that are listening, dam works with various ministries.
- 6:15Pastor Robert Young: He's walking the streets telling people about Jesus on a full-time basis, basically, and has a full-time job.
- 6:23Pastor Robert Young: He's doing the work of the Lord, and so he's got some insight that some of us may not have Any further information that you'd like our listeners to have, especially those who are still on the cusp.
- 6:38Pastor Robert Young: As to the interested in this Christianity thing, but they just haven't made up their final decision.
- 6:44Pastor Robert Young: You know, kind of like in the political sense, there's those undecided voters.
- 6:47Pastor Robert Young: We're not going to get into politics.
- 6:49Pastor Robert Young: I'm just saying, you know there's those undecided.
- 6:51Pastor Robert Young: Now, what's going to sway some?
- 6:54Pastor Robert Young: Besides the Holy Spirit, of course?
- 6:55Pastor Robert Young: Right, what is the information that we have to give that's going to sway those undecided for the lack of a better term, those undecided voters over Christianity?
- 7:06Adam: Well, I say two things.
- 7:07Adam: That sums it up.
- 7:08Adam: First thing is a quote that a pastor of mine said a long time ago, and I stick with it If you do not stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
- 7:17Pastor Robert Young: If you do not stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
- 7:18Pastor Robert Young: If you do not stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
- 7:20Pastor Robert Young: I got it Right.
- 7:21Adam: So and then the second thing I would like to say is you know, if there's not a blueprint in a positive and a holy way, then I would say, check that conviction that you have in your heart.
- 7:46Adam: I mean, the Bible says that this world testifies of the glory of God.
- 7:51Adam: You know the trees growing a hundred feet and you know people that operate on just being.
- 7:59Adam: You know people in this world do not steal, kill all that good stuff.
- 8:02Adam: So.
- 8:02Adam: But I think it all stems down to that if we cannot stand on morality and integrity, especially based in scripture of the holy of the holy bible, then we're gonna fall for anything that comes our way and the funny thing about it is perspective changes all the time, yes, yet the word of God stays the same.
- 8:22Pastor Robert Young: Stays the same.
- 8:23Pastor Robert Young: One of our most popular podcast episode is titled Is the Bible Still Relevant?
- 8:32Pastor Robert Young: And the premise behind that is we know that we live in modern times.
- 8:40Pastor Robert Young: We know that things are changing, some for the good, some not so good but is the Bible, the principles that the Bible laid out?
- 8:46Pastor Robert Young: Are they still applicable to this society?
- 8:49Pastor Robert Young: We go into details and say, of course they are.
- 8:53Pastor Robert Young: In fact they're just as much or more applicable now, when there is a lack of a standard per se, than they were when they were actually written.
- 9:05Adam: I mean there's there's, there's no doubt, no doubt whatsoever.
- 9:08Adam: I mean it's if we, if we live our lives out here and we base it on something you know you're going to, you're going to start living and people are going to start seeing the fruit that you bear.
- 9:18Adam: You're going to start living and people are going to start seeing the fruit that you bear.
- 9:20Adam: They're going to start seeing your lifestyle and it's open to see.
- 9:24Adam: It all comes to light and I know we could say a lot of churchy-type phrases and quotes, but yeah, it's relevancy.
- 9:35Adam: The Bible is proven the most relevant book ever created and still stands that way.
- 9:40Pastor Robert Young: And, by the way, it's still the number one bestseller too.
- 9:43Adam: Most relevant book and there's not an end.
- 9:46Adam: For the 20 years that I've been walking with the Lord full heartedly, there is not one person that that has come to me and said that that the wisdom and knowledge that comes from the Bible is not, is not relative.
- 10:00Adam: Even, and I've talked- to Muslims and different people in different religions, and they all know that there's truth that comes from that book, amen, amen.
- 10:11Pastor Robert Young: And I hate to keep harping on the podcast, but the podcast has reached some countries that are some Buddhist countries, and we have some listeners that are in Buddhistdhist-led countries right, that are listening to the podcast, and that simply tells us that there's people are hungry.
- 10:33Pastor Robert Young: Right to know more accurate, untainted, unfooled around with message about who god is, who Jesus christ is, all of those things.
- 10:45Pastor Robert Young: That's the foundation of this podcast.
- 10:47Pastor Robert Young: I t's called Not your Parents' Religion.
- 10:49Pastor Robert Young: Not to kick the religion of your parents, but we like to say this is the untainted and unfold around with version, Right.
- 10:58Pastor Robert Young: And so, friends, I think we're going to cut off here.
- 11:00Pastor Robert Young: So if you've heard anything that's encouraging to you, or if you have questions or you need more information or clarification about anything that was said here, do not hesitate to get in touch with us with all the ways to get in contact with us in the description box below.
- 11:16Pastor Robert Young: And until next time, I am your host, Pastor Young, sitting here with Adam yeah, Adam, the young preacher, we call him, and we will see you next time on Not your Parents Religion Podcast, and may God bless you.
- 11:31Pastor Robert Young: You.