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#144 Redefining Spirituality: An Interview with Mike from Cobbs Hill Fitness Park! · Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation

• 0:06
  Pastor Robert Young: Hi friends, this is Pastor Young sitting again here in Cobbs Hill Park, workout Park.
• 0:12
  Pastor Robert Young: People are working out, the sun is shining, we're having a great time and we're sitting here with Mike and Mike has agreed to take our survey, our Christian survey, and we're just going to jump right in, Say hi Mike, hello, hello.
• 0:25
  Pastor Robert Young: Now, mike, do you attend church?
• 0:28
  Pastor Robert Young: In-person church?
• 0:31
  Pastor Robert Young: Often?
• 0:31
  Pastor Robert Young: I do not.
• 0:33
  Pastor Robert Young: .
• 1:37
  Pastor Robert Young: .
• 0:33
  Pastor Robert Young: Now, mike, on a scale f 1 to 10, 10 being the highest, how important is church to you?
• 0:39
  Pastor Robert Young: Five, five, mike.
• 0:43
  Pastor Robert Young: Do you believe in giving tithes and or offerings to the church?
• 0:47
  Pastor Robert Young: Yes, yes, May I ask why?
• 0:50
  Pastor Robert Young: Just to help support, okay.
• 0:55
  Pastor Robert Young: Do you believe in mercy?
• 0:57
  Pastor Robert Young: Yes, how about karma?
• 0:59
  Pastor Robert Young: Yes, okay, Mike.
• 1:03
  Pastor Robert Young: Number five Faith and religion is helpful to people.
• 1:06
  Pastor Robert Young: On a scale from one to 10, 10 being the highest.
• 1:08
  Pastor Robert Young: I would say seven, seven, number five or number six, I'm sorry, mike.
• 1:19
  Pastor Robert Young: Is Jesus Christ the only way to heaven?
• 1:21
  Pastor Robert Young: No, no, mike.
• 1:26
  Pastor Robert Young: Jesus Christ is about peace and love.
• 1:28
  Pastor Robert Young: True or false?
• 1:29
  Pastor Robert Young: True?
• 1:31
  Pastor Robert Young: True?
• 1:31
  Pastor Robert Young: Did Jesus die for everyone?
• 1:35
  Pastor Robert Young: Yes, number nine Do you believe that the Bible is the only true, authoritative word from God?
• 1:48
  Pastor Robert Young: No, no, may I ask why?
• 1:52
  Pastor Robert Young: I just think that there's a bunch of different peoples and different religions out there and everybody has their own view of what the word is.
• 2:03
  Pastor Robert Young: Yes, yes, okay, any questions, are you sure?
• 2:09
  Pastor Robert Young: Well, mike, that is about all.
• 2:10
  Pastor Robert Young: Would you like to ask us any questions?
• 2:12
  Pastor Robert Young: No, I'm good, I'm good, I'm just finished working out and I'm on my way to breakfast, so I well.
• 2:18
  Pastor Robert Young: My next question is now take this question the right way.
• 2:21
  Pastor Robert Young: Can I go to breakfast with you?
• 2:23
  Pastor Robert Young: Of course.
• 2:23
  Pastor Robert Young: Are you buying?
• 2:26
  Pastor Robert Young: Yeah, I see y'all.
• 2:28
  Pastor Robert Young: I see y'all.
• 2:29
  Pastor Robert Young: Come on back, okay.
• 2:31
  Pastor Robert Young: Well, mike, thank you for taking God, for us.
• 2:34
  Pastor Robert Young: This will be very helpful when I make my presentation to other pastors about the future of the church and all that that means to them.
• 2:44
  Pastor Robert Young: Thank you, no worries, happy to help.
• 2:45
  Pastor Robert Young: Nice meeting you, god bless.
• 2:47
  Pastor Robert Young: God bless you.
• 2:48
  Pastor Robert Young: Hi, friends, this is Pastor Young from Not your Parents Religion Podcast.
• 2:51
  Pastor Robert Young: I hope that you enjoyed that interview with Mike over at Cobbs Hill Fitness Park.
• 2:57
  Pastor Robert Young: Mike took about less than two minutes to answer our survey questions.
• 3:02
  Pastor Robert Young: We stopped recording at that point, but the conversation kept going for another 10 minutes.
• 3:09
  Pastor Robert Young: There was no decision for Christ, but I believe, as the Bible lets us know, that whatever we're doing for Christ is either planting, what' watering or the increase.
• 3:20
  Pastor Robert Young: We believe that God was doing the planting and the watering on our new good friend Mike.
• 3:28
  Pastor Robert Young: Again, the survey questions are just there as an icebreaker or as a warm up and many people stop and take our survey form and it gets them to thinking.
• 3:38
  Pastor Robert Young: And I tried to.
• 3:41
  Pastor Robert Young: I asked him a couple of times would he be more specific about a few questions that we asked?
• 3:48
  Pastor Robert Young: But notice the answers that was at that he gave to some of the questions.
• 3:52
  Pastor Robert Young: We're getting those for one thing is Jesus the only way to heaven?
• 3:56
  Pastor Robert Young: Or if the Bible is the only authoritative word from God we get, we are.
• 4:02
  Pastor Robert Young: And he said no, of course from God.
• 4:08
  Pastor Robert Young: And he said no, of course.
• 4:09
  Pastor Robert Young: We're getting those answers from all walks of life, whether it's rich or poor, whether it's black or white or any whatever race or nationality, even age.
• 4:14
  Pastor Robert Young: We're getting it from the old.
• 4:16
  Pastor Robert Young: We're getting it from the young, not that we talk to too many old people, we're not against that.
• 4:19
  Pastor Robert Young: We want to talk to old people, we want to talk to everybody.
• 4:21
  Pastor Robert Young: But we're getting these answers to these kinds of questions from a whole what's the word swath of people all across New York State.
• 4:31
  Pastor Robert Young: That we're going for the second time and soon we'll be headed out to our Capitals Tour, starting in September, but I want to give you an opportunity.
• 4:40
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• 5:11
  Pastor Robert Young: So until next time, we'll be interviewing more people and we will be here for you on Sundays with our meditation, guided Christian meditation.
• 5:23
  Pastor Robert Young: So until next time.
• 5:24
  Pastor Robert Young: I am your host, pastor Robert Young, and may God bless you.