Latest / Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo / Chad Davidson: Wrestling With Discipleship
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- 0:00Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
- 0:10defending biblical Christianity.
- 0:13No topic, off limits.
- 0:16And now, here's your host, David Fierazzo.
- 0:19Hey friends, thank you so much for tuning in.
- 0:22God bless you.
- 0:23We appreciate you always sharing the podcast, have another brother back with us again.
- 0:28I love this ministry, GoodFight.org, GoodFight Ministries, and based on a Seamy Valley, California
- 0:35Pastor Joe Shimmel and Chad Davison, we're bringing on Chad again.
- 0:39He's an elder and a youth pastor at Blessed Hope Chapel in Seamy Valley.
- 0:43He's also the host of The Good Fight Radio Show and 5-Eleven News.
- 0:49Both shows discuss contemporary issues and pop culture in light of the Bible.
- 0:54And he's an author of the brand new book, Wrestling with Discipleship.
- 1:00And that's why we brought him on today on World View Matters, Chad Davison.
- 1:05Welcome.
- 1:06Good to see you again, brother.
- 1:07Hey.
- 1:08Thank you so much, bro.
- 1:09And I saw you just had your 100th episode.
- 1:10So congratulations to that.
- 1:12Yeah.
- 1:13It's amazing.
- 1:14It's what a blessing.
- 1:15It's, you know, little landmarks, right?
- 1:16Little accomplishments.
- 1:17But so you came out with this book.
- 1:19The last time you were on, we teased it because it was about to come out maybe, you know,
- 1:24a few weeks from when we did that show.
- 1:27But now we get to really dig into the topic.
- 1:29And I got a few questions about a few of the chapters.
- 1:33But before we go there, and there's the book, by the way, Chad, I know you can go to
- 1:37goodfight.org and there's a link right on the homepage.
- 1:40But there's a website.
- 1:42Is it wrestling with discipleship.org?
- 1:44Is there its own dedicated website too?
- 1:47You got it.
- 1:48Like you just said, wrestling with discipleship.org, yes, we have our own website and you can go
- 1:53to there and check it out.
- 1:54I'll be updating that as well, putting different devotionals on there as well.
- 1:59But yes, we have our own website.
- 2:00Good.
- 2:01So thank you for writing it.
- 2:03I plugged it because it is an important topic that's, as I said, isn't neglected.
- 2:08And yeah, we've, we've got to work a little bit harder at that, especially youth to disciple
- 2:12the youth in the church.
- 2:13So Chad, before we do anything else, we, this where are we now, we're in March.
- 2:20We had a Super Bowl again, early February or whenever.
- 2:24And Christians are often concerned about not only the commercials and the Woke NFL, but
- 2:29the half time entertainment.
- 2:32The shows are often sexualized.
- 2:35They're often demonic sometimes openly, worshiping Satan and all these symbolic images.
- 2:41This one, I don't remember if it was, I don't know a lot about usher.
- 2:44You guys did a video expose.
- 2:47Can you break that down in the bullet points on that and what were your concerns and what
- 2:51did you share on this?
- 2:52Yeah, I think one of the biggest things and we actually did multiple episodes on it.
- 2:58And one of it had to do with the devil's disciples because a lot of what was going on
- 3:03there, you know, obviously there was, you know, some symbolism, some sexual nature in
- 3:08the lyrics and all of that stuff going on.
- 3:10Plus he was, you know, grinding up and down with a married woman, but nonetheless, if
- 3:16that wasn't enough for you, one of the things that was really sad is to just look back
- 3:21in Usher's history and to see somewhat of the grooming that had happened when his mom
- 3:27handed, even in custody over to P Diddy and in handing him over to P Diddy to kind of
- 3:35disciple him and to give him, you know, all the stardom and so forth.
- 3:40It was sad not only for Usher, but we showed this is exactly what happened with Justin
- 3:45Bieber as well.
- 3:48And what's interesting is when Usher was no longer kind of under his hand and, you know,
- 3:54Usher had talked about like the wild and crazy parties, especially considering how young
- 4:00Usher was even at age 14 at these wild and crazy parties and they were like, oh, yeah,
- 4:05it was crazy.
- 4:06And he was on Howard Stern talking about it.
- 4:09And then when they asked, well, would you allow your child to go there?
- 4:13He's like, no, no, I can't even say what he said, but he said, no, I would never let
- 4:18my child go near, you know, P Diddy and one of his parties.
- 4:22And it's sad because Mark Curry, who worked alongside P Diddy, talked about the voodoo
- 4:27that he would do over these albums and some of the stuff they'd get involved in.
- 4:31And it's no, it's no question.
- 4:33I mean, you're looking at a bunch of songs that are talking about sleeping with other
- 4:38people that are not, not your wife and everyone's having this nostalgic moment where they're
- 4:42remembering their songs and their dances, which, you know, I mean, I'm in that era.
- 4:47That was my, you know, when I was in junior high and high school, I think every single
- 4:52prom or dance or anything, you danced at least to one or five, ten ushered songs, you
- 4:57know, and, and so a lot of people like my age of stuff watching were really nostalgic about
- 5:02it.
- 5:03But when you get down to the lyrics and you find out it's all about, you know, romping
- 5:07around, it's like, what are we doing here, guys?
- 5:10Gruming youth is what we're doing.
- 5:11And that's the message that's been selling through the music industry.
- 5:15Hello, we sold, they sold their souls for rock and roll.
- 5:18Pastor Joe Schimmel going back to the 60s, but I don't want to give it away, but I'm going
- 5:24to the end of the expose, Brock Purdy, kudos to this young man in the NFL who quarterbacks
- 5:31the San Francisco 49ers who was playing in the Super Bowl.
- 5:34I was, I'm not a 49ers fan, I can't stand much about San Francisco, but I was pulling
- 5:39for them because I wanted him to have the opportunity to hoist the Lombardi trophy and
- 5:45say, I give all glory and praise to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
- 5:49They did not get that opportunity.
- 5:50It hasn't happened.
- 5:51I believe since 2016 from the Philadelphia Eagles, whose coach was a Christian, offensive
- 5:57coordinator was a Christian, starting quarterback, backup quarterback, tight end.
- 6:01They had just had a nucleus plus the team chaplain baptizing guys, you know, it was just
- 6:06an amazing year, very odd spiritually for that kind of revival to happen on an NFL team.
- 6:13You're thoughts about the difference in some, just some of the players Brock Purdy were
- 6:17talking about now and even, you know, what was going on the halftime show versus his testimony
- 6:23of being a sold out believer in Christ.
- 6:25Yeah, it was really, really encouraging and, you know, if it wasn't, you know, praise
- 6:30God that, as you mentioned in 2016, you know, that God was so glorified back then.
- 6:34I mean, I couldn't stand the Eagles, you know, with everything in it, but that was
- 6:39great.
- 6:40I was pulling for him.
- 6:41Yep.
- 6:42It makes you was pulling for him at that time, especially with all the voodoo going on
- 6:45from the witch known as Giselle Bunchen and so forth.
- 6:50It is interesting when we kind of look at it because you talk about Brock Purdy and his
- 6:55testimony and he just got married, by the way, you know, praise God for that as well and
- 7:00it was really encouraging to see him so openly talk about Jesus and really know the scriptures
- 7:06and, you know, bring about and talk about certain verses that you're like, man, this
- 7:10guy seems to actually dig and in, you know, it's, it's great.
- 7:13I love John 316 as much as the next guy, but it is really cool when, you know, he's quoting
- 7:19verses about picking up your cross and carrying it daily, those, you know, self denial verses
- 7:24that so many people want to shy away from and then, you know, sadly enough, you know,
- 7:29on, he has other teammates, you know, like, like George Kittle, who is a phenomenal athlete
- 7:34and amazing blocking tight end catching and so forth.
- 7:38But this guy is somebody who likes to practice manifestation.
- 7:43What people call the law of attraction and talk about that and it was almost a running
- 7:48joke.
- 7:49Even the NFL was putting out different videos that were kind of talking about, oh, look,
- 7:54they manifested this because they, he talked about it.
- 7:57You're going to score this touchdown and now they manifested it and it is just common
- 8:02to talk about it this way, not realizing really ultimately where the law of attraction
- 8:06comes from, Elaine Blavatsky and from Satanism and people are doing this and they really
- 8:11do believe they're manifesting their own reality rather than, you know, being under the
- 8:16sovereign will of God.
- 8:17Yeah.
- 8:18There have been a lot of people that have made that popular.
- 8:20Aaron Rodgers is absolutely and many others, if you've done exposés and stories on him,
- 8:26but let's get to the book now.
- 8:28Speaking of Brock Purdy and a young man who was, it seems like he was discipled in the
- 8:34right way.
- 8:35Nice segue.
- 8:36Huh?
- 8:37Let's talk about your book wrestling with discipleship.
- 8:41Chad, one of the chapters, first of all, the description of the book, it combines the physical
- 8:46discipline of wrestling and Chad is still a wrestling coach and the spiritual journey
- 8:53of discipleship.
- 8:54So before we dive into it, one of the chapters you share your testimony and without giving
- 9:01it away, Chad, what's one part of your testimony that maybe people might be surprised by when
- 9:07they read the book?
- 9:09Yeah, I think, you know, one of the big things was people finding out that, you know, I
- 9:13got in a major DUI hit and run, you know, prior to me coming to Christ and ultimately
- 9:20that that turned my heart away from God for quite a long time, actually, and what kind
- 9:27of took me over the edge at that time and what made me an atheist was actually at a church.
- 9:32I had shown up to a church because a friend invited me after a party at my house.
- 9:36And when I got there, a number of the people that were raising their hands at this church,
- 9:40not the current one I go to, but at this church that's locally here where I am, I realized
- 9:46I said, you know what, this whole thing is fake, you know, all the things that I was
- 9:50always the most popular kid and I always had the biggest parties and all this stuff going
- 9:54on.
- 9:55And then all of a sudden, now I got a DUI and I'm having to go to court and I'm doing
- 10:00all this.
- 10:01And then when someone tries to, you know, pull me out of that and be like, hey, maybe church
- 10:05of either right thing, then I see all these people that were partying with me.
- 10:09And I'm like, well, this stuff's fake.
- 10:11I don't believe this and never mind.
- 10:13I don't believe in God and I hate him.
- 10:16And that was ultimately what happened and how I became an atheist until, you know, God
- 10:20called me to himself using they sold their souls for rock and roll and the good person
- 10:27test prior to that.
- 10:28I like to say for those who know Ray Comfort's ministry, living waters that Ray planted
- 10:33the seed that Joe watered it and God caused the growth.
- 10:37But yeah, that was how I ended up coming to Christ.
- 10:40Praise God.
- 10:41So we're talking about the book wrestling with discipleship by Chad Davidson.
- 10:45And one of the sentences in the description talks about the book stands as a testament
- 10:51to the profound truth that anything we dedicate our minds to can become a vessel for spreading
- 10:57the gospel.
- 10:59In your life, Chad, that's wrestling.
- 11:04You've been a wrestling coach.
- 11:05You were a wrestling coach before BC before Christ before your believer.
- 11:10And now you're using that and you tie in a lot of that experience with scripture and
- 11:16discipleship.
- 11:17So share that part of the journey.
- 11:19Yeah, absolutely.
- 11:20And one of the things for me was when I came to Christ, I didn't know this was sharing
- 11:25the gospel, right?
- 11:26I remember somebody's like, Hey, we're going to go out and share the gospel.
- 11:29But for me, it was like, I am a bigger who found bread and I'm showing everyone else
- 11:34where the bread is.
- 11:35That's all I knew.
- 11:36And so what, who would I talk to the most?
- 11:39The one thing is is people don't realize how interactive wrestling is or just coaching
- 11:45any sport really with your athletes.
- 11:47And for wrestling, you're five days a week together and a lot of times, six days a week
- 11:52because of wrestling tournaments on Saturdays and so forth.
- 11:55So if I'm going to have hours and hours each and every day, I spend more time.
- 12:01And I just finished wrestling season this year as a head coach.
- 12:04I spend more time and the parents will tell you this by far more time with their children
- 12:10than any of their parents, just because not much they're at school.
- 12:14I coach at a secular high school, just because how much were at practice for three to four
- 12:18hours every day together working on things.
- 12:22So if I am going to have that sort of access to people, guess what, they're going to hear
- 12:27about my testimony.
- 12:28They're going to hear about the gospel of Jesus Christ.
- 12:32And that's not just for wrestling.
- 12:33I didn't write this book only for wrestlers.
- 12:35It's just, this is just happens to be the way that God has used me in sharing the gospel
- 12:41and a number of my wrestlers over the years have come to Christ or maybe have had their,
- 12:46you know, walks edified.
- 12:48And so I get to come to church every Sunday with a number of wrestlers sitting all around
- 12:52me because they, they recognize the truth of the gospel.
- 12:56They know I care about them and I'm with them all the time.
- 12:58So whatever somebody has, using all the might that the Lord has given you to bring forth
- 13:03the gospel, I, I hope it's a lesson in that for everybody.
- 13:06Yes, you used a word that's always been very sobering when the context is children and
- 13:13that is access.
- 13:16There are people in this country purposely who do not have a biblical worldview that
- 13:20want to access young children and make social justice disciples or disciples of the left
- 13:26or take them down that path of whatever it might be, drugs, the law of attraction, the
- 13:32LGBTQ social justice, whatever it is.
- 13:35So Chad, what you said, I got this vision of the small number of teachers or coaches
- 13:41that probably do what you do and praise God, but it really is sobering when you think
- 13:48of the odds that are against most kids hearing anything to do with the biblical worldview
- 13:55let alone the gospel in sports or in the public schools.
- 13:59You're quick thoughts before we take a break.
- 14:01Yeah, I couldn't agree more and that actually happened and I realized exactly what you're
- 14:05saying.
- 14:06My first year coaching as a believer when someone came and after, after practice, we're
- 14:11just talking and he said, yeah, plan parenthood came and they told us we don't make any money
- 14:16off of abortions.
- 14:17All of our money comes from other things and I thought, oh, you've been lied to and propagandist
- 14:23have been brought into the school and I realized, wow, how quickly this can happen.
- 14:29And by the way, they make over a billion in revenue plan parenthood does and I think it's
- 14:34over $535, $540 million that they make through taxpayer funding and the Biden administration
- 14:42gave plan parenthood a raise.
- 14:44So don't believe that, life, friends, where with Chad Davidson, the book is called wrestling
- 14:48with discipleship will be right back on World View Matters.
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- 15:37Chad Davidson, you're one of my favorite.
- 15:39I can call you young because I'm a bit older than you.
- 15:43Young truth, proclaimers and defenders.
- 15:45I wanted to ask you about your book, a general question.
- 15:50The new book explains why discipleship is one of the most misunderstood ministries in
- 15:55the church.
- 15:56A question that is natural, at least in my mind, that you might not be able to cover entirely
- 16:04in the book, since it is quite misunderstood discipleship in the American church, what's
- 16:09part of the answer?
- 16:10I know you go through some of the nuts and bolts of discipleship, but what's part of
- 16:14the solution to that misunderstanding of discipleship in the church?
- 16:19Yeah, I think this is such an important topic to discuss.
- 16:23I think it is the topic to discuss.
- 16:25Jesus said, go forth and make disciples teaching them all that I have taught to you.
- 16:32The reason why I think this gets really, I guess I would say like for a lot of churches,
- 16:38one, it's sad that it's not more of a focus that it isn't like, hey, this should be the
- 16:44marquee focus.
- 16:45If these were the last words that Jesus gave as disciples at the end of Matthew, chapter
- 16:4928, we should probably have a big focus on this.
- 16:53And what I've noticed is that I've watched video after video.
- 16:57Obviously, I did a lot of research for the book, you know, reading through different books
- 17:00on discipleship and what people think it means.
- 17:04And one of the biggest things is there was this common saying specifically around the
- 17:10time of Jesus, even in some of the Talmudic literature and so forth, that talked about
- 17:14getting dusty with that person who was discipling you, that you would be so close to them that
- 17:22you would actually be getting dusty from them.
- 17:25And that one stuck out to me because for me personally, when I was discipled by Pastor
- 17:30Joe, who you mentioned, I got dusty from him.
- 17:34Like I was around him and I got to know him.
- 17:37And I think that so many people, even in ministry, are a little nervous to have people around
- 17:43them and to see them and to see their warts and so forth.
- 17:47And for me, I've always discipled people with my children, my wife right around me because
- 17:52they're going to see me, not my Instagram pictures that I post, but they're going to
- 17:57see me.
- 17:58And when Jesus was discipling his disciples, you saw that, you saw the warts of Peter.
- 18:05That's one of the things that's great when you read the scriptures.
- 18:07We get to see the the bruises, the cuts and the warts from our greatest heroes, whether
- 18:13it's King David, whether it's Abraham, you know, whether it is Peter himself over and
- 18:19over again, we actually get to see when miscusive happened.
- 18:23And I think that's really important.
- 18:24It's different because Jesus never sent, but for other people to realize that it's not
- 18:29just teaching, but you know, the kind of working definition that I give in the book for
- 18:35discipleship is living and learning from those who love Jesus.
- 18:41It is really, I believe that simple and profound at the same time.
- 18:47And you know, in the book, I go over a method that the Jewish people in the time of Jesus
- 18:53in a method of teaching that they did because what happened was right before you, well,
- 18:58not just right before Jesus, but prior to the time of Jesus, Alexander the Great had
- 19:03conquered most of the known world.
- 19:06And guess what happened?
- 19:07The Jews didn't want their children to become Greeks.
- 19:12And so what they did is they formed a three prong education system that they would literally
- 19:19train them as little children to know the Torah, then train them to know the teachings
- 19:23and then train them to be discipled.
- 19:26So they were doing something in order that their children would not become Greek, would
- 19:31not would not all of a sudden start following these Greek gods and so forth.
- 19:35And so I think it's sad because we send off our kids to Caesar.
- 19:40We don't expect them to come back as Romans and it is a danger.
- 19:44And I'm like, man, we need to get them fully understanding the word of God.
- 19:49My children do Christian, Christian classical education.
- 19:53My kids, when I was leaving the house today with my wife and my children, they were in
- 19:58their one hour of Bible reading before they even start their schooling at 8 a.m.
- 20:04And I'm like, you know, more people need to understand we establish these children in
- 20:09the word of God.
- 20:10And that's what the three prong system did for those in the time of Jesus and prior to
- 20:16and really after that establishing the teachings.
- 20:20And also guys being real with people and and really discipling them as them as a part
- 20:25of your day to day life and not just a video that somebody may watch.
- 20:32So discipleship, what you would call it a discipline, right?
- 20:35Absolutely.
- 20:36Yeah, we don't struggle with like you're wrestling with discipleship.
- 20:40I like that.
- 20:41We don't wrestle with God's favor.
- 20:43We don't wrestle with his mercies that are new every morning.
- 20:46We don't wrestle with the hope, the blessed hope that we have.
- 20:49We have to look forward to but things like discipleship sanctification and other things.
- 20:54We can wrestle and we need to one of your chapters is called Embrace the Grind.
- 21:00I love that Pastor Joe Shimmel contributed one chapter to the book and chapter one starts
- 21:07off.
- 21:08The Bible says imitate God.
- 21:10Therefore I wrestle.
- 21:12So Chad, open that up for us a little bit more.
- 21:15Yeah, I'd love to.
- 21:17You know, that was actually something I had thought about a long time ago and I tell
- 21:22this in the in the book, but the night I gave my life to Christ, I remember coming home
- 21:28and googling at the time, like wrestling in the Bible, because I knew it was there.
- 21:33I just didn't know where it was and that's you know, I hadn't read the Bible or anything,
- 21:36but I was like, I just gave my life to Christ.
- 21:38I know I'm going to read the Bible, I want to read about this.
- 21:40And then when I read a Jacob story, and I was like, wow, he even says I saw God face
- 21:47to face and face to face and yet live.
- 21:50But then digging deep into his story, seeing how mischievous he was prior to wrestling with
- 21:58God and how he would call God over and over again, the God of Abraham, the God of his father.
- 22:05It is not until Jacob wrestles with God is given the name Israel that he actually refers
- 22:12to God.
- 22:13In the chapter, in chapter one, in verse 20, it's the first time he actually refers to
- 22:18God as his God and it's when the mischievous nature kind of stops and that's when he goes
- 22:23before Esau and comes to him thinking, my brother's going to kill me, but I got to go to him
- 22:28anyways, but you kind of see that after he had wrestled with God and said, no, I am not letting go.
- 22:34I want to get this blessing from you.
- 22:36It was when he came into that intimacy with the Lord that things started changing.
- 22:40He wasn't just the God of Abraham and Isaac and his forefathers, but he was the God of Israel.
- 22:45Now he was the God of Jacob and for us as well, we, we need that and we do not.
- 22:52It's very clear.
- 22:52It's not just a flesh and blood battle, Ephesians 6, 12.
- 22:56We wrestle not simply against flesh and blood.
- 23:00There are Prince of power.
- 23:01There's powers.
- 23:02There's rulers and the darkness in high places.
- 23:06So if we are going to be believers, we're going to be wrestling and the first thing
- 23:11that I want people to know and it's funny.
- 23:13You mentioned embrace the grind and in light of that, that chapter because embrace the grind
- 23:18is a wrestling saying there's there's sweaters with it on there and and everyone knows like you
- 23:24just got to embrace the grind like it's going to be really hard.
- 23:26You know, it's two people meeting in a mat and you got to train and you got to wake up and
- 23:31and get your runs in early and you got to lift your weights and you got to wrestle and you got to do
- 23:35acrobatic stuff and everyone knows you got to embrace the grind but that's also true in our
- 23:41walks with Christ.
- 23:42You know, we have to pick up our cross and carry it daily, not just one.
- 23:47We have to continue in that and for people to understand that if we if we are really wrestling
- 23:53like this, we need to know that it is not going to be easy.
- 23:58We need to recognize beyond a shadow of a doubt that we need to sit down and count the cost
- 24:03to see if we have enough to finish the job because that's what Jesus said.
- 24:07Those are not my words.
- 24:08Those are the words of Jesus.
- 24:10And so we need to actually take this seriously.
- 24:12We got to wake up and embrace the grind and we got to know our enemy as well.
- 24:17And if we are sitting there not recognizing we are in a spiritual battle, not recognizing that
- 24:23we really do need to wrestle, then we're not going to embrace the grind.
- 24:26We're not going to put our best foot forward and guess what, we're going to end up losing.
- 24:31So Chad, you mentioned knowing our enemy as well.
- 24:33And chapter nine is knowing your enemy in the context of discipleship.
- 24:38So I know we just have like three minutes left.
- 24:40Just give us a few bullet point teasers on that one.
- 24:43Yeah, no problem.
- 24:44And one of the things I love, I love telling stories.
- 24:47I guess it's that, you know, if you're you do any youth pastoral ministry,
- 24:51you got to tell stories.
- 24:52You got to get these guys knowing what's up.
- 24:54But one of the things we talk about football in there actually.
- 24:57And knowing your enemy, John Lynch played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
- 25:02He's now a part of the 49ers organization.
- 25:05But one of the things that happened with John Lynch was his coach, John Grootan,
- 25:10was the coach of the Raiders the previous year.
- 25:14And he knew the playbook so well that he acted like he was the quarterback, the whole practice.
- 25:21And the Tampa Bay Buccaneers routed the Raiders because they knew every play that was coming.
- 25:28And John Lynch, this is crazy.
- 25:30We know everything that's coming.
- 25:32And I try to make the point in the book as the fact that if you don't warn somebody
- 25:36you're discipling or if you're not recognizing this just as a personal level of discipleship,
- 25:42that God has given us the playbook of the enemy.
- 25:45He's shown us exactly how he works, how he's going to attack us.
- 25:49Imagine if John Lynch was like, you know what coach, I don't really need any of that information.
- 25:53I'm just going to go figure it out as I go along.
- 25:56And he goes, I didn't do all this work for nothing.
- 25:58I'm giving you this because I know how the enemy is going to attack.
- 26:02Guess what? We'd all be like, John Lynch probably needs to get out of there.
- 26:04Go get someone else in there.
- 26:06And we don't want God to see that about us.
- 26:08And so we want to make sure we're ready.
- 26:10We know what the enemy looks like.
- 26:12And we're ready for his attack because God has given us the playbook.
- 26:15Amen, brother, in our enemy prowls around like a roaring lion,
- 26:21seeking whom he might devour.
- 26:23And he's the father of lies.
- 26:25He comes just kill, steal, and destroy.
- 26:27There's a lot we can know about the enemy.
- 26:29But brother, thank you.
- 26:31The website is wrestling with discipleship.org.
- 26:34You can also go to goodfight.org friends and get it that way.
- 26:38Brother, we wish you good success on the book.
- 26:42I am just so thankful for your voice and who you're reaching.
- 26:46You're reaching people that I could never reach.
- 26:48And Kudos, brother, continued blessings on your wrestling as far as the coach,
- 26:54but also your discipleship.
- 26:55And you're just how you're raising your family too.
- 26:58That's a good example for those that are listening
- 27:00or younger parents that are going, yeah, that's good reminders.
- 27:03So Chad, brother, thank you so much.
- 27:06See you next time.
- 27:07Thank you so much for having me, brother.
- 27:08All right.
- 27:09Guys, thank you again.
- 27:10I go to goodfight.org.
- 27:12A great website.
- 27:12A lot of resources on there as well.
- 27:14But I appreciate you sharing the podcast.
- 27:17God bless you.
- 27:18And as always, keep speaking the truth about things.