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Pursuing True Reformation Meet Michael · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: My name is Michael, and I'm from India and the
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  Speaker 1: southern tip of India, from the state of Kerala, the
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  Speaker 1: capital city Trivandrum, and I'm a pastor of a church
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  Speaker 1: there called Redemption Hill Church. Before we planted the church,
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  Speaker 1: it actually grew out of a small fellowship of believers
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  Speaker 1: in my college days that surrounded me. The need around
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  Speaker 1: me was not so much to have a friend, but
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  Speaker 1: it was fatherlessness. They lacked spiritual fathers. They lacked even
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  Speaker 1: their own earthly fathers did not teach them the word
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  Speaker 1: of God or the truth of God with clarity. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to generalize, but that was the majority
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  Speaker 1: of the case. And so when I would serve them
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  Speaker 1: as best as I could, it used to scarey because
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  Speaker 1: I'm twenty five years old and the last thing that
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm capable of doing are things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and I myself, I am desperate then for spiritual fathers.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Warshaw was an explosion that happened all around the world,
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  Speaker 1: and in one of his sermons he mentioned a man
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  Speaker 1: named John Piper, and he said, that's a man to
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  Speaker 1: listen to. So I got on the internet and I
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  Speaker 1: typed out John Piper. I had never seen someone handle
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God like that. I had never seen
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  Speaker 1: someone take scripture and unpack it with that. Lad. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know you could do that descripture because I
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  Speaker 1: come from, you know, a tradition, necessarily a culture where
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  Speaker 1: you took the Bible, you read it out, and you
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  Speaker 1: just explained what you thought about it, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: you always dependent on the preacher. But never had I
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  Speaker 1: seen preachers so dependent on scripture. I was shaped in
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  Speaker 1: my theology by the grace of God through these resources.
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  Speaker 1: I read like crazy, and because I wanted to help
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  Speaker 1: my people. Ever since then, I started doing that to
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  Speaker 1: the congregation, and they started being blessed. I think with
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  Speaker 1: with desiring God as a church, as we've grown, it
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  Speaker 1: was a resource that was very precious to me, but
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  Speaker 1: it's soon become a resource that is very precious to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: These resources will help good churches, true churches that are
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  Speaker 1: otherwise unhealthy become healthy. So churches like ours will have
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  Speaker 1: resources that we can take into other churches, give it
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  Speaker 1: to other pastors, encourage them to see the grounding that
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  Speaker 1: they need to have, and that will help create more
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  Speaker 1: communities that will become more stable which will increase the
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  Speaker 1: chances of faithful evangelism, faithful membership, faithful discipleship. True reformation
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  Speaker 1: always happens with the distribution of these resources, and we
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  Speaker 1: pray that God will do that in our nation.