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Sharing the Gospel with Those Who Desperately Need It · That KEVIN Show

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  Speaker 1: Somewhere in the vowels of the City that Never sleeps.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, radio host with Sailor Medium.
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  Speaker 5: and good old regular life. It's Kevin McCullough Monday through
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  Speaker 5: from on That Kevin Show and now from the Connors
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  Speaker 5: he wants to be, but is way grateful that is
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  Speaker 6: Used to be.
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  Speaker 1: Here all right, welcome back. It's That Kevin Show, that
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  Speaker 1: including a chance to help a Christian, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to listen to me friend, they don't. Casually, they don't
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  Speaker 1: kind of like I asked my kids, you want something, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I could go for it. Like that's that's not what
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about here. There are Christians on the planet
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  Speaker 1: who are hungry and desperate and longing and yearning for
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  Speaker 1: a copy of God's Word in their hands, in their language,
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  Speaker 1: so that they can read it in their home, that
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  Speaker 1: they can apply it to their lives, and they do
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  Speaker 1: not have them, and they don't have access to them.
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  Speaker 1: These are the places around the world. In fact, there
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  Speaker 1: was this huge study that was commissioned just a year
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  Speaker 1: or so ago that looked at this. And someone who
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  Speaker 1: knows a little bit about that is Michael Wilworth, who
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  Speaker 1: is back with us from Bible League. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: the phone number is one eight hundred y E S
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  Speaker 1: W O R D. You can also give directly online
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  Speaker 1: by going to that Kevinshow dot com and clicking the
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  Speaker 1: Bible League banner at the top of the page. But Michael,
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  Speaker 1: over this last weekend, a listener wrote, and you know
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  Speaker 1: I've got I've got wonderful, wonderful listening audience. I love
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  Speaker 1: these people. They respond so well to all the things
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  Speaker 1: that we talk about and they really care about the
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  Speaker 1: world around them. But I got a few crimugeny artifacts
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  Speaker 1: out there too that like to weigh in and this
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  Speaker 1: and this fella wrote in He's like, Ah, come on, hell,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't.
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  Speaker 7: I don't believe you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a place where they don't have
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  Speaker 1: Bibles out there. That's how could you possibly say that
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  Speaker 1: that's true? You were telling me before we went on
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  Speaker 1: the air today that the Bible League, Voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Martyrs and a couple of other organizations have all done
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  Speaker 1: some rather interesting study on this and it turned up
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  Speaker 1: some actual facts. Could you share those with us?
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know that was a work put together by
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  Speaker 8: about ten different ministries, you know, Voice of the Martyrs, Biblical,
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  Speaker 8: the publisher of the New International Standard a Bible, I
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  Speaker 8: should say, the NIV, right, and then Bibly. We were
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  Speaker 8: part of the mix there to what look at places
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  Speaker 8: in the world where you know Bibles are in short supply,
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  Speaker 8: and wouldn't you know it, Kevin, not only the most
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  Speaker 8: difficult parts of the world. You think of what North Korea,
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  Speaker 8: China's and places like that, India, Right, Not only were
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  Speaker 8: those in the most difficult, but they were the places
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  Speaker 8: where there's numbers of Christians ready to receive a Bible
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  Speaker 8: right telling you what gods did work in his world. Right,
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  Speaker 8: And as you say, I don't think we can find
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  Speaker 8: that the harshest language, you know, desperate, right is kind
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  Speaker 8: of understating it, if you will, right of Christians that
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  Speaker 8: don't have a Bible. You know, I'm thinking, as coming
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  Speaker 8: on the air today, you know, what are your favorite scriptures?
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  Speaker 9: You know?
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  Speaker 8: Is it one Peter five seven? Cast your cares on him,
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  Speaker 8: for he cares for you. They're perennial John three sixteen. Right.
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  Speaker 8: We're going to see that blowing in the end zones
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  Speaker 8: of football games. You know, next month college football kicks off,
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  Speaker 8: you'll see that perennial John three sixteen.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 8: You know John fourteen meant a lot to my family,
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  Speaker 8: mean moment when my mom passed, right, knowing that you
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  Speaker 8: know she lived as a believer. You know we'll see
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  Speaker 8: her at some point. Right, Jesus said, I go to
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  Speaker 8: prepare a place for you. But again, the Christians that
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  Speaker 8: we're talking about, Kevin, have never read a single verse
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  Speaker 8: in their own Bible. Right there, They're yet to claim,
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  Speaker 8: if you will, their favorite scripture that they can open
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  Speaker 8: and read on a daily basis. So again, let that
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  Speaker 8: sink in. We're doing for these believers today what they
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  Speaker 8: really cannot do for themselves. Their heart hungry, Kevin. Their
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  Speaker 8: hearts are full wide. They've come to saving faith. They
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  Speaker 8: know there's a God who loves them. But again, those
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  Speaker 8: hands they're empty, they're waiting, and and that's why we've
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  Speaker 8: come together to bless these believers in only five dollars
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  Speaker 8: a Bible.
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  Speaker 1: When I got that email over the weekend, I had
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  Speaker 1: two responses to it. First, I was kind of annoyed,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, look, those of you that are listening,
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  Speaker 1: you can think that I'm totally fake and phony and everything.
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  Speaker 1: That's your right to believe that about me. But if
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  Speaker 1: you talk to anybody that's in my life, they will
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  Speaker 1: tell you that this is a passion of mine that
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  Speaker 1: I want the Bible to be used in people's lives
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  Speaker 1: here in America, overseas and places where they are hard
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  Speaker 1: to come by, etc. There's no person, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't need scripture for their life to be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: brought to its fullest fruition. God gives us instructions so
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  Speaker 1: that we can flourish in life. He's got a mission
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  Speaker 1: for all of us. He's got a purpose for all
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  Speaker 1: of us. The Bible is the best a clue and
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  Speaker 1: pathway to finding what that mission is and it and
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  Speaker 1: it unfolds on the pages of what we read. But
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  Speaker 1: so being annoyed at first with the curmudgeon that, ah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it's such nobody can find a Bible. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're welcome to not believe that, but it doesn't change
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it's true. And the other thing that
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  Speaker 1: startled me, and I just said this to you before
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  Speaker 1: we went on the air, is that there's something about
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  Speaker 1: why this ask matters because it made someone with that
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  Speaker 1: mindset react with that level of hostility to say, that's
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  Speaker 1: not really a thing. You shouldn't be doing that. Now
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  Speaker 1: I want to I want to ask those that are listening,
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  Speaker 1: because I want you to think about this. Why would
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  Speaker 1: someone object strongly to getting a copy of the Bible
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  Speaker 1: for people who literally are under political persecution, starvation, government oppression,
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  Speaker 1: maybe militaristic threat of life depending on which country we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about, whether it's North Korea or China or some
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  Speaker 1: of these places, why would why would those people risk
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  Speaker 1: all that's there if it, if it didn't mean something real,
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't something that was important, if it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: something that actually impacted their life. What other book can
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  Speaker 1: you go to and pull that out of and say
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  Speaker 1: that's the book I need to be reading every day
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. It's not the Dictionary,
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  Speaker 1: it's not Einstein's theory of mathematics, it's not you know,
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  Speaker 1: Galileo's view of physics in the world. None of those
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  Speaker 1: things give us the pathway to live life that is
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  Speaker 1: not afraid. And Michael, I couldn't help but think as
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  Speaker 1: he was saying all those words, everything you and I
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  Speaker 1: had talked about last week, and how these Christians, wherever
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  Speaker 1: they are in the world, they are living, in some
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  Speaker 1: cases in pretty immense fear on the physical level, because
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  Speaker 1: they have threats from government and competing religions and faiths
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  Speaker 1: that don't want Christianity anywhere in their presence. If you
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  Speaker 1: let Christianity into harden Muslim enclaves, then you have to
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  Speaker 1: start respecting women, and you have to start giving them rights,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to start doing a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 1: things that change what they have control of. And if
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  Speaker 1: you do that, that's going to change everything. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't stand up one to the other as strongly,
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  Speaker 1: But for the grumpy emailer who sent me the note
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, the reason I do this is because I
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  Speaker 1: read that scripture. I hear my pastor saying that it's
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  Speaker 1: the pathway to courage. I hear Michael saying that his
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  Speaker 1: mom had the evidence of her life best illustrated through
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  Speaker 1: a passage of scripture. And I think of these people
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  Speaker 1: that Bible League is uniquely poised to reach and has
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  Speaker 1: the unique ability to get into these places where they
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  Speaker 1: do not have access to Bibles and to say not
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  Speaker 1: only will we give you one, it'll be in your language,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a physical copy that you can hold in
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  Speaker 1: your hand, and you'll be able to then share it
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  Speaker 1: with up to twelve people coming to no faith in Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Because of that, Prince, I don't know. I really don't
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  Speaker 1: understand how we can say that scripture is anything less
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  Speaker 1: than the Word of God when that amount of impact
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  Speaker 1: is what we gain from it. And all we're all,
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  Speaker 1: Michael and I are asking you to do is to
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  Speaker 1: help other people have access to it as well. The
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  Speaker 4: The top of the homepage.
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  Speaker 6: Here he is from New York. Exact Kevin mccullor.
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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back. It's Friday, And at this point
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  Speaker 1: in the show, every single day we ask the big question.
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  Speaker 1: If you listen to the show for any length of time,
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  Speaker 1: you know that I am concerned that as a culture
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  Speaker 1: and as even the church, people are not asking the
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  Speaker 1: big questions anymore. We don't ask the question who are we?
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  Speaker 10: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Literally, who am I? Why am I? Here? Is another
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  Speaker 1: classic question that people have asked down through the centuries.
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  Speaker 1: They don't ask it anymore. We think, I guess being
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  Speaker 1: tied to the hip at our phone and punching that
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  Speaker 1: screen all day long gives us some sort of excuse
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  Speaker 1: to not think about those bigger things. But those I
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  Speaker 1: still feel like they're so important. And for those of
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  Speaker 1: us that followed you Jesus, I feel like one of
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  Speaker 1: the most important questions we can ask is how do
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  Speaker 1: we live? How do we live in a culture that
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  Speaker 1: may be like that. They don't take eternal things deeply
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  Speaker 1: very often. Maybe they maybe they mock the fact that
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  Speaker 1: someone says they believe in God. Maybe they have disdain
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  Speaker 1: for the Bible. Does that change our mission if we
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  Speaker 1: are followers of Jesus? I would argue that it does not.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope that those of you who don't follow
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  Speaker 1: Jesus have some Christians in your life that understand that
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't change their mission, and I hope they continue
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  Speaker 1: to love you until you're a follower of Jesus too.
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  Speaker 1: That's I'm not going to I'm not going to deny it.
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  Speaker 1: That's my goal. So anyway, having said that, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. Ryan batesl is back with us final
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  Speaker 1: day of the week. Ryan leads the church Emergence Church
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  Speaker 1: in New Jersey. It is a thriving discipleship focused exegetical
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  Speaker 1: teaching church in northern in North Jersey. And Ryan, we
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  Speaker 1: we've touched on a lot this week. Looking at Psalm
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, you you kind of confessed up front it's
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  Speaker 1: one of your favorite psalms. Somebody that you were speaking
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  Speaker 1: to said, the idea behind it is just just don't
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  Speaker 1: do fear, like don't don't give into fear. And the
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  Speaker 1: Psalm has revealed to us why that's important. It's because
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  Speaker 1: God is with us. And then we've looked at some
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  Speaker 1: of the support structures of that belief. But we come
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  Speaker 1: to Friday. We've had these nice thoughts, we've we've kind
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  Speaker 1: of gone deep in the word. And sometimes that's where
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  Speaker 1: pastors are perfectly fine to let things sit, you know. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we've had these nice thoughts, we've thought these nice things.
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  Speaker 1: We feel good about having looked at a piece of scripture,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not given that just to sit on it.
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  Speaker 1: There's a purpose for why we need to learn the
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  Speaker 1: truths of this of this passage, isn't there?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, And Kevin, it's been It's been a great week.
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  Speaker 9: And I loved that you asked the big questions. I
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  Speaker 9: think your listeners loved that and you do too. I mean,
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  Speaker 9: all the things people are listening to right now. Thank
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  Speaker 9: God someone's asking the important stuff, you know. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 9: think it comes down to, like, there really is a
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  Speaker 9: courageous life to be lived. You know, when Jesus says
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  Speaker 9: I've come that you may have life and have it
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  Speaker 9: abundantly Obviously the most full expression of that is heaven
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  Speaker 9: an eternal life. But man, there's a life in following Jesus.
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  Speaker 9: Now that is a courageous life. Just read the book Acts.
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  Speaker 9: So we walk forward in those three things. Power, love,
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  Speaker 9: sound mind. Here's the practical question. If we're going to
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  Speaker 9: walk courageously, all of us today are going to take
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  Speaker 9: a step in either power, the power of God, encourage someone,
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  Speaker 9: put life into someone, share the Gospel with someone, or
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  Speaker 9: a sound mind. Meaning when I give in to fear,
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  Speaker 9: I'm not walking in a on mind. I'm walking in
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  Speaker 9: on truth. So what first do I need to apply
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  Speaker 9: today to walk in the truth of the south mind?
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  Speaker 9: And and it should like good question to ask ourselves,
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  Speaker 9: how am I going to take one more step of
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  Speaker 9: courage today for the glory of God, not my flesh.
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  Speaker 1: But through a spirit well, And that can take on
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different forms, but it is it is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely vital that we continued to do that because Ryan
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  Speaker 1: kind of bringing this full circle. If we are asking
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  Speaker 1: who we are, if we are asking why we're here,
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  Speaker 1: and we are believers, there's a much bigger moral component
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  Speaker 1: to that than people that are just breathing in and
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  Speaker 1: out every day and walking around with you know, no
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  Speaker 1: real purpose. Like for the believer, we shouldn't give into fear,
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  Speaker 1: not just because it reduces our anxiety, but because we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be that agent that is bringing that peace
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  Speaker 1: that shalom to the world around us.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're the salt and light, right. And
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  Speaker 9: one of the things salt does is it gives food
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  Speaker 9: some interest, you know, And if the Christians aren't being
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  Speaker 9: salt money, Let's be honest, most people are going to
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  Speaker 9: spend the rest of their lives talking about the weather,
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  Speaker 9: their favorite sports team or something. It's just so boring.
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  Speaker 9: And here we get to talk about how we truly live, right,
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  Speaker 9: We get to talk about love, we get to talk
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  Speaker 9: about justice, we get to talk about the gospel and
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  Speaker 9: eternal life. Like, we have the most interesting stuff. Everything
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  Speaker 9: else people are talking about is pretty boring in comparison,
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  Speaker 9: And so one of the ways we be courageous as
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  Speaker 9: we go. Hey, I have the most interesting news here today, right,
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  Speaker 9: I have treasure in the jar of clay, and I'm
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  Speaker 9: going to share it because people should know it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, well, and that doesn't mean that we've perfected
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  Speaker 1: all of it ourselves. And I want you to address
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  Speaker 1: this with some detail, because I can already hear the objections. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to become like a holier than thou.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be seen as a hypocrite. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be seen as someone who doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: my act together but is expecting other people to have
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  Speaker 1: their act together. Some form of that same argument seems
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  Speaker 1: to always be what the conversation gets distilled down to.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, so let's take it in two lanes, right, And
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  Speaker 9: I'd say this, if there's something glaringly hypocritical in your life, like,
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  Speaker 9: try to get that right.
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  Speaker 6: You know, like, if.
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  Speaker 9: You're like, man, I don't want to witness the people
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  Speaker 9: while I'm drunk at the bar, well, okay, it's.
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  Speaker 6: Time to stop doing that.
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  Speaker 9: But if it's not a gross, egregious, continual habitual sin, right,
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  Speaker 9: all of us sin. And you know, one of the
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  Speaker 9: things I have been shared with people is like, hey,
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  Speaker 9: a lot of people say Christians are hypocrites.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what it's true, ringing.
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  Speaker 9: The thing about Christians is actually what makes us Christians
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  Speaker 9: is we're trying to tell the truth that we're hypocrites.
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  Speaker 9: We're trying to admit that we're sinners and need a savior.
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  Speaker 9: So free yourself from the perfect witness pressure because it's
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  Speaker 9: not real. And when someone comes at you with, hey,
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  Speaker 9: you're inconsistent, acknowledge it. Just be like, I know, isn't
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  Speaker 9: God's grace amazing?
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  Speaker 1: Before we leave this lane, though, let me ask you,
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  Speaker 1: is that oftentimes just something that we put in our
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  Speaker 1: own path to kind of give us the excuse to
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  Speaker 1: not have to go the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 7: I think you're dead on there, Kevin.
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  Speaker 9: I haven't had someone throw that at me in decades,
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  Speaker 9: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 7: I haven't been hit by that in a long time.
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  Speaker 6: And you know who knows why?
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  Speaker 10: Right?
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  Speaker 7: But I think you're right.
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  Speaker 9: I think a lesson less and less people are looking
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  Speaker 9: for a perfect witness.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 9: We're not sharing ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We're sharing a truth, yeah, a truth that changed us.
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  Speaker 7: Yes and is still changing yes.
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  Speaker 9: Right, And so we're not you know the old classic,
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  Speaker 9: I'm not who I want to be, but I'm not
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  Speaker 9: who I was, you know that? And that's the prayer.
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  Speaker 9: And then the second piece about it is not only
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  Speaker 9: does the Holy Spirit give courage and boldness, but it
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  Speaker 9: also gives love and gentleness and compassion.
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  Speaker 11: And man, Sometimes just saying to people I'm not trying
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  Speaker 11: to be holier than now in this, I'm doing this
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  Speaker 11: because I love you.
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  Speaker 9: Sometimes just saying the concern out loud it takes it
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  Speaker 9: off the table, you know, Like I I One of
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  Speaker 9: the things that I talked to people pastoral counseling all
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  Speaker 9: the time about is people go, Hey, I'm so nervous
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  Speaker 9: to share this with this person because I feel like
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  Speaker 9: they're going to hear this, and I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 9: say that. What I want them to hear is this,
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  Speaker 9: And I just don't want them to think that. You know,
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  Speaker 9: what I say to them, I say, say that.
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  Speaker 1: Just starts say that thing.
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  Speaker 7: You just.
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  Speaker 9: Start the conversation like that, and you'll be amazed that
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  Speaker 9: people go, oh, and yet like the same thing with hey,
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  Speaker 9: I'm not trying to come across this earlier than now.
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  Speaker 9: I need disgrace too.
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  Speaker 1: I love you.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not trying to be a browbeater or anything like that.
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  Speaker 9: I just want to know this incredible truth that there's
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  Speaker 9: a God in heaven and he forgives sinners, of which
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  Speaker 9: we are all sinners. And not only does he forgive him,
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  Speaker 9: he doesn't do it like a disapproving Father, he puts
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  Speaker 9: his arms around us in a robe on us, and
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  Speaker 9: all of Heaven rejoices every time a sinner comes home
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  Speaker 9: to him. That's how he forgives us. And the gospel
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  Speaker 9: is more beautiful than most people.
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  Speaker 7: It's the most beautiful thing people will ever hear. And
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  Speaker 7: so tell the beauty of it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, it's been a fantastic week Ryan, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for pouring your heart into it. And if people once
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  Speaker 1: again are coming to an emergence this weekend, they want
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  Speaker 1: to try out, maybe experience what you guys do. What
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  Speaker 1: are you going to be teaching.
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  Speaker 6: On Psalm fifty one?
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  Speaker 9: Actually the doozy the repentance psalm Kevin, I like to say,
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  Speaker 9: for the day most of us have a time machine
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  Speaker 9: day if there was a if we had a time machine,
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  Speaker 9: we would go back and undo that day. We still
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  Speaker 9: feel ashamed when we think about it. Psalm fifty one
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  Speaker 9: is the repentance psalm for that day. And here's a
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  Speaker 9: really good The Gospel's big enough even for that day,
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  Speaker 9: the biggest failures of our life.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like it will be an amazing discussion. So
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  Speaker 1: I hope that people will check that out. Ryan, batesl
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  Speaker 1: Emergence dot Church online if you want to check it out. Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for a great week.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks Kevin, you got it.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. It is that Kevin Show, that kevinshow dot com.
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  Speaker 1: the last few days about how many people from New
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  Speaker 1: York have helped us and said thank you and so
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  Speaker 1: bit remiss in not thinking the many many people listening
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  Speaker 1: and joining us on this effort from all across the country,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and from some places very far away.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I can tell you we're grateful for the expansion
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  Speaker 6: Kevin.
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  Speaker 8: They knew it was not going to be a small
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  Speaker 8: group of people that would pull off the work of
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  Speaker 8: the Great Commission right. It would take people all over
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  Speaker 8: the country, all over the world saying you know what,
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  Speaker 8: I've got to be a part of what God is doing.
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  Speaker 8: People like Dorian of Glendale, Arizona said, I'm in a
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  Speaker 8: one hundred and fifty dollars gift for thirty Bibles. And
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  Speaker 8: let me correct myself, Dorian made a gift actually of
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  Speaker 8: five one hundred dollars, filling the empty waiting hands of
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  Speaker 8: one hundred believers that we know by name. At Bible
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  Speaker 8: League and Kevin, we've said, together as two ministries, can
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  Speaker 8: we bless just north of ten thousand believers with the
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  Speaker 8: precious Word of God. These are men and women to
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  Speaker 8: been what denied access to God's Word. But listeners to
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  Speaker 1: A little bit closer. One eight hundred yes. Word is
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  Speaker 1: I think she's probably on the African continent if I'm
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  Speaker 1: just guessing, But she is smiling ear to ear. And
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  Speaker 1: a joy of holding in her hands. I believe you
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  Speaker 1: can see it in the picture itself, a copy of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible in her language. Now, Michael, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times you know these people in these pictures. Is this
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  Speaker 1: someone you know that you were on a trip with,
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  Speaker 1: or well.
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  Speaker 8: She's on the continent of Africa, as you say, And
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  Speaker 8: I can tell you she was among a group that
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  Speaker 8: we provided Bibles to. In fact, there were one hundred
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  Speaker 8: people that we gave Bibles to that day.
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  Speaker 7: Kevin.
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  Speaker 8: I mean when you do it, I've seen the reaction.
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  Speaker 8: I wish I could bust every lister up and go
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  Speaker 8: to those places where you see the reaction of a
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  Speaker 8: Christian when he or she finally receives a Bible. But
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: I can remember giving a Bible to the former village
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  Speaker 8: witch doctor who took that Bible again, a lot of
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  Speaker 8: those before her, they sang, they danced. Remember one Gal
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  Speaker 8: just stood there clutching the Bible that would tell her
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  Speaker 8: about the God who loves her Ryan. I mean, she
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: didn't say much. But Mabel, this former village witch doctor, Kevin,
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  Speaker 8: when I gave her that Bible, she it was in Swahili.
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  Speaker 8: She went to the scripture that was her first scripture
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  Speaker 8: that she read from Second Corinthians five, and it was
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  Speaker 8: what I'm a new creation in Christ. And again, you're
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: in a place where you're singled out, you're targeted, you're monitored,
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: you face incredible hardship.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: What do you need to be able to do?
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  Speaker 8: Open God's precious word, be reminded that he knows you
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  Speaker 8: intimately right, and He's got precious promises that belong to
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: us as believers. Wanted to take you to the country
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  Speaker 8: of India. Kevin tell you the story of a woman
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  Speaker 8: by the name of Lolitha. What Christians are up against
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  Speaker 8: in this nation is absolutely horrific. There are anti conversion
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  Speaker 8: laws on the books in twent twenty six states there
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  Speaker 8: it means what if you tell somebody what Jesus means
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  Speaker 8: to you, they can throw you in jail. You've got
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  Speaker 8: this audio clip from my colleague demand by the name
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  Speaker 8: of Subiesh. He's in the nation of India.
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  Speaker 13: One of our church plannder. He told me like this.
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  Speaker 13: In his village, you will see the sign boats Christian
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  Speaker 13: missionaries are prohibited in the village. If anyone tries to
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  Speaker 13: do it, they will attack them mercilessly. And I believe
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  Speaker 13: the reason behind all this is the growth of the church.
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  Speaker 13: People are responding to the Gospel and are joining the church.
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  Speaker 13: Church is growing in India amidst of the severe persecutions.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's exactly what we pray for, isn't it, that
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  Speaker 8: the Gospel would take grip all over the world. So again, listeners,
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  Speaker 8: your prayers are being answered. I mean, I know that
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  Speaker 8: in the midst of our business, you know, we do
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  Speaker 8: pray that people would bend the need to the Lord
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  Speaker 8: Jesus begin living their lives to His glory. And on
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  Speaker 8: what we're telling you today is what that is clearly happening,
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  Speaker 8: and the incredible growth that we're seeing all this spiritual
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  Speaker 8: awakening Christians who live of nominal lives, you know, waking
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  Speaker 8: up to the Gospel saying you know what, I want
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  Speaker 8: to take the Lord seriously. That's what's contributing to this
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  Speaker 8: incredible Bible of famine that we're seeing around the world.
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  Speaker 8: But I want to tell you the story of Lolitha
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  Speaker 8: born in Coastal India, raised a strict Tindu. At fourteen,
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  Speaker 8: she was forced to marry an older man. She didn't know,
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  Speaker 8: she didn't love. That happens a lot in that culture.
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  Speaker 8: This was a man, he was a radicalized Hindu. Didn't
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  Speaker 8: look at Lalitha as somebody to love and nourish was
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  Speaker 8: really a possession to be had. He was killed in
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  Speaker 8: an audibile accident, leaving Loalitha a widow. In that culture there, Kevin,
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  Speaker 8: she was forced into human trafficking. The drug car tells
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  Speaker 8: that are there in India will force young girls into
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  Speaker 8: the human trafficking rings. They funnel a lot of drugs
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  Speaker 8: through those. She lived in absolute utter hopelessness to for
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: lack of a better word, I mean, this is a
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  Speaker 8: woman that was pimped, you know, ten times a day
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  Speaker 8: for about five years of her life. When she reached
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  Speaker 8: her late teens, there was somebody that rescued her, brought
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  Speaker 8: to her place to introduced her to the hope of
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  Speaker 8: the Gospel, train her to share Christ with others. I
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  Speaker 8: can tell you, by the grace of God and through
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  Speaker 8: the gumption of people like Lialitha, the Gospel is going
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  Speaker 8: forth in India. Now listen, Lilitha's story kind of ends
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  Speaker 8: in sadness, at least this side of eternity. She died
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  Speaker 8: of hiv ate, something that was afflicted upon her in
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: those years of human trafficking, but not before she was
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  Speaker 8: able to introduce ninety six former Hindus to the hope
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  Speaker 8: of the Gospel. So round that up. About one hundred
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  Speaker 8: fellow members of our spiritual family, praying again, not for
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  Speaker 8: our pity today, not for our protections in a nation
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  Speaker 8: that fiercely opposes the Gospel. What they're praying for is want.
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  Speaker 8: It is the precious Word of God in the Hindi language.
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  Speaker 1: One eight hundred yes word, one eight hundred yes word.
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  Speaker 14: Here he is from New York exact Kevin. Kevin McCullough,
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  Speaker 14: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: One eight hundred. Yes, word is the number one eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred yees w r D Kevin McCullough, Glad to have
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  Speaker 1: you with us. It's that Kevin Show, that kevinshow dot com.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to give online, click the Bible League
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  Speaker 1: banner at the top of the page. But we're supplying
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  Speaker 1: Bibles for people who are desperate to get them but
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  Speaker 1: can't don't have access to them. It's like, uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Michael Woolworth from Bible League. I kind
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  Speaker 1: of think of it.
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  Speaker 7: It's like.
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  Speaker 1: Being somewhere where you desperately, like have you ever really
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  Speaker 1: been thirsty? Like you've been out all day and you
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  Speaker 1: just don't have any water handy, and it's like you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to go somewhere to get some water. It
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: may not even be cold water, maybe room temperature water,
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  Speaker 1: but that water, once you are able to drink it,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna mean so much to you. That's kind of
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  Speaker 1: spiritually how these Christians are. They're in places where they
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  Speaker 1: can't get the Word of God in their language, in
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  Speaker 1: their hands, for their homes, for their lives, for their
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  Speaker 1: hearts and Bible he can, and we're just asking them,
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  Speaker 1: will you help us? Will you help us get the
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  Speaker 1: Bibles to them? That may be an oversimplification, but it's
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  Speaker 1: really how I kind of view it.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know, if you were tackling, if you and
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  Speaker 8: I were tackling human hunger today, Kevin, what happens if
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  Speaker 8: you don't eventually eat, you know, eventually you want, you'll
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  Speaker 8: starve to death. I don't think it's a stretch to
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  Speaker 8: say that a a Christian who goes without God's precious
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  Speaker 8: Word is in some way spiritually malnourished. You know, I
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  Speaker 8: know I'm a friend that spirit is suffering with anemia. Right,
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: he takes medication. When his body is fortified with that
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  Speaker 8: mineral that he needs, right, his life is that much better. Right.
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: And again, the spiritual nourishment of the Word is what
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  Speaker 8: these Christians are after, Kevin, I travel the world. We
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  Speaker 8: have friends that fund those trips. I talked to these
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  Speaker 8: end users of Bible League study materials and Bibles. Never
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: have they said, get on that Kevin show. Pray for
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: an end to our suffering. They know what God's working
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  Speaker 8: through it. What they're asking is what help us to
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  Speaker 8: love God with every fiber of our being to obey
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  Speaker 8: Him in every circumstance. If we face persecution, pray that
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  Speaker 8: we'll see those around us not as the enemy, but
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  Speaker 8: as the mission field. And then the course, they're quick
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  Speaker 8: to say what we need God's precious word, that we
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  Speaker 8: need that to be able to grow. And so, Kevin,
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  Speaker 8: that's why we've joined together. We have identified just north
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  Speaker 8: of ten thousand waiting believers that we know by name
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  Speaker 8: of Bible. These are men, these are women, teenagers in
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  Speaker 8: some cases, who have come to saving faith where God
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  Speaker 8: has them planning. It's nearly impossible to find a Bible.
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: But again that's where our listeners to that Kevin Show
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  Speaker 8: and WMCA tuned in all over the country today right
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: are able to step into the stories of these believers
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  Speaker 8: and send them exactly what they're praying for. Again, that's
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: not pity, it's not protections, it's what it's the precious
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  Speaker 8: word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Five dollars per copy helps put Bibles into the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the people that need them. And I was just thinking.
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  Speaker 1: My pastor this last week was teaching on Psalm twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven and he was talking about how that's where the
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  Speaker 1: writer in Psalms lays out what's what he calls a
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  Speaker 1: path to a courageous life, and it says, I won't
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  Speaker 1: be afraid. I won't I won't be I will choose
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  Speaker 1: not to be afraid of armies or people who wish
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  Speaker 1: to kill me, or you know, those that wish to
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  Speaker 1: eat the flesh off my bones, which is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a gross thing, but that's that's what the writer says. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he will put his faith in Jesus. And my pastor
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  Speaker 1: made a really clear emphasis that being afraid and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: being scared are not the same thing living with constant
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  Speaker 1: fear and anxiety. It's not the same thing as being scared,
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  Speaker 1: and being scared can actually save your life. If there's
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  Speaker 1: a brown bear coming up on you, you need to
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  Speaker 1: be scared and you need to leave the area so
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  Speaker 1: that he does.
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  Speaker 7: Not eat you.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's that's wisdom in being scared. Scared sometimes produces
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  Speaker 1: good things. And he said, but there's another good thing
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  Speaker 1: that being scared sometimes does, and he said, it opens
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  Speaker 1: up the opportunity for the courageous Christian to live courageously.
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  Speaker 1: And when I think of courageous Christians, I think of
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  Speaker 1: Christians in North Korea. I think of Christians behind the
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  Speaker 1: bamboo curtain in China. I think of Christians that are
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  Speaker 1: in majority Muslim countries, that are within, you know, risking
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  Speaker 1: their lives by not just believing in the God of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, but sometimes telling other people about him as well.
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  Speaker 1: And what these Christians, the courageous Christians that I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 1: what they are, what they are asking for is not
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  Speaker 1: a fear free life or a scared free life. They're
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  Speaker 1: asking for God's word to do what to help make
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  Speaker 1: them courageous in the face of what they are scared of.
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  Speaker 1: One eight hundred yes word, one eight hundred yes word.
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  Speaker 1: Give them the courageous key today, God's Word to help
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  Speaker 1: them live courageously in the face of what they are facing.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Now we're talking about places all over the world, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: all over the world.
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  Speaker 8: Well in Venezuela. Let me take you to Caracas, just
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  Speaker 8: outside of Caracas. This is the place, of course, where
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  Speaker 8: the terrible earthquakes hit only weeks ago. I think they're
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  Speaker 8: still trying to get an accounting of how many people
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  Speaker 8: have been killed and how many are still missing. Right,
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  Speaker 8: But that's the setting for this next story. I want
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  Speaker 8: to tell you about a group of Christians putting everything
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  Speaker 8: on the line to rescue women from the groups of
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  Speaker 8: human trafficking. Kevin, the drug cartels really rule the day
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  Speaker 8: down there. They funnel a lot of drugs through prostitution rings.
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  Speaker 8: Where do they come up with the women for that, Well,
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  Speaker 8: they forced them into it, right. These are girls eleven, twelve,
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  Speaker 8: thirteen years of age forced into prostitution by the drug cartels.
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  Speaker 8: They live in absolute, utter hopelessness. There was a church
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  Speaker 8: that said, you know, we've got to do something about this, right,
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: So they worked with another ministry to learn how to
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: forcibly rescue these women from human trafficking. They worked with
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: Bible League to be able to introduce these women to
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  Speaker 8: the hope of the Gospel once they were brought to
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  Speaker 8: a place of safety. They have paid a price for this, Kevin.
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: In a recent rescue attempt, one of the members of
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: that church was killed by the cartel. They dragged his
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  Speaker 8: corpse behind a truck down one of the main streets
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  Speaker 8: just outside of Caracas of Venezuela. Send the message to
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  Speaker 8: what don't mess with the cartel. But again, this church
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  Speaker 8: stays focused on what they believe God has called them
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: to do. They have rescued. To date, almost one hundred
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  Speaker 8: and twenty women again who lived in utter hopelessness right
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: and are now in a place of safety. They've come
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: to saving faith. All one hundred and twenty of those
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  Speaker 8: women have come to saving faith.
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  Speaker 6: Kevin.
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  Speaker 8: They're members of our spiritual family. Now, look here in America,
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: if you had a loved one, a child, an adult child,
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: maybe an old college roommate who came to saving faith,
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: you would do anything to get them a Bible so
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: that you could see them begin to grow in grace
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: right to read about the God who loves them and listen.
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: Even though these are you know, these are women, you
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: know a few miles from us. That doesn't take away
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: the opportunity that we have in the moment and the
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: joy that will come as you send the Bible to
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  Speaker 8: these new creations in Christ. Just outside of Caracas, Venezuela.
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  Speaker 15: In Latin America, there are violence. Only rich people have safety,
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  Speaker 15: has security. Poor neighborhoods are full of corruption, at full
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  Speaker 15: of misery, at full of poverty, and criminals are almost
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  Speaker 15: at home when they are in the streets. Pastors and
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  Speaker 15: Christian workers face with that problems. Attackers, drops, thieves, gangs.
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  Speaker 15: So that's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Great to have you here, friends. One eight hundred yes
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  Speaker 1: know we've got a lot of other things on your mind.
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  Speaker 1: of minutes out and send a Bible to someone who
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  Speaker 1: talking about places all over the globe, several different continents.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I want to take you to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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  Speaker 8: in Eastern Africa. You've got this clip from a pastor
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  Speaker 8: Dusy here a little background. Otherwise this really wouldn't make
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  Speaker 8: a lot of sense, but he is one of those
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  Speaker 8: At forty years ago, Kevin lost about thirty family members
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  Speaker 8: to the Ethiopian family. You remember this about a million
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  Speaker 8: people lost their lives. That led to what Michael Jackson's
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  Speaker 8: we are in the world, But that's the context from
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  Speaker 8: where this pastor Dusy is there in Ethiopia, Africa. But
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  Speaker 8: he has this I call it really a profound statement
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  Speaker 8: to make. We often think in Africa, what's their greatest need?
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  Speaker 4: Food?
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  Speaker 6: Right, clean water?
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  Speaker 8: No, he says what it is the spiritual nourishment that
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  Speaker 8: comes only from the Word of God.
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  Speaker 6: We have a great need. We don't need food in
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  Speaker 6: the church.
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  Speaker 15: The eight talent thousand Christians in Islam.
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  Speaker 4: Do not leave food from you.
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  Speaker 10: But they are only crying out that you give them
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  Speaker 10: the One of Good and whoever comes our way and
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  Speaker 10: he's able to.
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  Speaker 4: Give us a Bible, it will be a great blessing.
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  Speaker 6: It will be better than giving us for tweet.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know there's a great need for food, water.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I can tell you as a global ministry
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  Speaker 8: or paths often cross with organizations both in Goos and
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  Speaker 8: Christian that do that very very well. Never diminish the
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  Speaker 8: need for that. But again, as a pastor, Dusy boots
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  Speaker 8: on the ground of saying what is it? It's the
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  Speaker 8: Word of God. As people leave the grips of Sunni
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  Speaker 8: Islam as they leave witchcraft, all the pagan beliefs and
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  Speaker 8: practices that are part of that and that great big continent.
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  Speaker 8: They often have one a caricature of Christianity. It's all wrong.
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  Speaker 8: They know very little of Jesus. They need to be
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  Speaker 8: able to read about the God who loves them, and
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: that is the plea of a pastor Dusey today. But
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: I want to tell you quick story of a woman
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  Speaker 8: by the name of Dorcas who is just outside of
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  Speaker 8: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She's part of that man's congregation. Her
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  Speaker 8: husband was murdered, Kevin, by members of the l Shabab
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  Speaker 8: Terrissell that absolutely ruled the day there in that part
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  Speaker 8: of Ethiopia. Now, that left her a widow with the
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  Speaker 8: three young children. Now listen. Her story is one of
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  Speaker 8: desperation too. When her husband was murdered, she was seeking answer.
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  Speaker 8: Somebody said, look, there's an evangelistic meeting that's happening. Bible
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  Speaker 8: hours each way, two hours each way to be a
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  Speaker 8: part of that evangelistic meeting. She would would give her
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  Speaker 8: life to Christ, would become a believer that evening walk
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  Speaker 8: those those two hours back to her children, right, and
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: is now wanting to raise them in the ways of
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  Speaker 8: the Lord. This is a woman whose future is incredibly
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  Speaker 8: uncertain right and a part of the world whereas a
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  Speaker 8: believer she faces groups like the l Shaw, Bob terrorI
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  Speaker 8: Isel right that murdered her husband. Again, this is not
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  Speaker 8: somebody asking for our pity or for our protection today,
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  Speaker 8: She's praying for what it is, the precious Word of God.
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  Speaker 10: Here everyone wants to read the Bible. But what happens
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  Speaker 10: there are a few copies here in the area. Many
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  Speaker 1: more Bibles into the hands of people so that they
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  Speaker 1: can't read the scriptures for themselves.
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  Speaker 6: Well.
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  Speaker 8: you know, five hundred here, three hundred here, fifty over
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  Speaker 8: ours that that's happening in this day and age, especially
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  Speaker 8: when you can provide that for the princely sum of
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  Speaker 8: only five dollars a Bible. So if you love your Bible,
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  Speaker 8: if God has used a word to grow you, would
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  Speaker 8: doing in this campaign that will not go on forever.
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  Speaker 8: By the way, we have simply earmarked a few weeks
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  Speaker 8: to come together to tackle this goal of blessing just
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  Speaker 8: north of ten thousand waiting believers that we know by
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  Speaker 8: name of Biblely, we're right now, Kevin, closing in one
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  Speaker 8: thousand Bibles. So that would put us at one tenth
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  Speaker 8: of the goal met to this point, but again a
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  Speaker 8: long way to go. And again it happens with every
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  Speaker 1: Today, one eight hundred yes word is the number. One
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred yes word You can also give online at
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  Speaker 1: of the homepage the Bible League manner. It's the only
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  Speaker 1: thing there. It's at the very top of the homepage.
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  Speaker 1: Just click. That should take you about two minutes roughly
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  Speaker 1: to put your information in, to give your gift, and
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  Speaker 1: to be on your way. But Michael, the return on
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: giving that gift is unli like any other benefit I
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  Speaker 1: can think of in terms of what I could do
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  Speaker 1: with that money if I'm talking about truly spiritually important stuff,
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  Speaker 1: because those Bibles turn into more lives that have been changed.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know, from a you know, an investment standpoint
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  Speaker 8: that you can trust. You know, Bible League has been
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  Speaker 8: properly vetted. This is year eighty eight for us. Right,
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  Speaker 8: We've been on you know that Kevin Show days. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: the high marks where we need them. You deserve to
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  Speaker 8: And again, Kevin, we've been able to come back year
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  Speaker 8: after year and give you a return on investment report,
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  Speaker 8: if you will. And it's one. It's the stories. It's
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  Speaker 8: precious souls that have come to the Lord in places
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: again where it's difficult to live out your faith. And
• 44:53
  Speaker 8: a couple of numbers that I share These are statistics
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  Speaker 8: that I think that really ought to stick in our minds.
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  Speaker 8: Number one is what as many as nine of ten
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  Speaker 8: new believers in the regions where we serve, Asia, Africa,
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: the Middle East, and Latin America, as many as nine
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  Speaker 8: of ten new believers go without. Again, what's so basic
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: to the Christian faith? And that simply having a Bible right.
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  Speaker 8: And we can tell you that with confidence. I can
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  Speaker 8: tell you on the other end of that as what
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  Speaker 8: this miracle multiplier? Kevin, I think you coined that phrase
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  Speaker 8: for us, and that is on average, we can tell
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  Speaker 8: you that a dozen people are impacted with every Bible
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  Speaker 8: that hits the waiting hands of a heart hungry believer.
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  Speaker 8: They're on fire for Jesus. The bush of Africa, maybe
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: it's the Andes Mountains, maybe it's near the Himalayan Mountains
• 45:36
  Speaker 8: in Nepal. But again, these are the areas where God
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  Speaker 8: has called Bible League to serve, and we can tell
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  Speaker 8: you with confidence, on average a dozen people impacted. Somebody
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  Speaker 8: may say to a fellow believer, look, I've got a Bible, now,
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  Speaker 8: let's read this together, let's grow as believers, or they
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  Speaker 8: introduce others to the hope of the Gospel.
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  Speaker 6: So again the math on this.
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  Speaker 8: If you're thinking about our ultimate goal to bless just
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  Speaker 8: north of ten thousand waiting believers, multiply that by twelve,
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  Speaker 8: and again with confidence, we can tell you that maybe
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  Speaker 8: one hundred and twenty thousand people will be impacted, and
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  Speaker 8: it starts with a five dollars gift. But again, this
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  Speaker 8: is not a campaign that'll go on forever. We'll wrap
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  Speaker 8: up in the coming weeks. And again it is a
• 46:14
  Speaker 8: joy for us at Biblely to circle back to waiting
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  Speaker 8: believers and let them know the Bibles you're praying for,
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  Speaker 8: they're coming, They're on their way.
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  Speaker 1: One eight hundred yes word, one eight hundred yees word.
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  Speaker 1: There are people that are asking for them. Take us
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  Speaker 1: to Africa.
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  Speaker 8: Now, let me take you to Malawi, Africa, Kevin. As
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  Speaker 8: I do that, let me think say thanks to Paul
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  Speaker 8: of Breezy Point in New York. He said, I'm in
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  Speaker 8: a one hundred dollars tax deductible gift for twenty bibles.
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  Speaker 8: Debbie of Dunnellen, New Jersey said, Michael Kevin count me in.
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  Speaker 8: I want to take care of putting Bibles into the
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  Speaker 8: empty waiting hands of ten believers today and so again
• 46:50
  Speaker 8: an opportunity for me to come and just drill down,
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  Speaker 8: give you a glimpse of what God is doing in
• 46:55
  Speaker 8: his world through his word. And I want to do that.
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  Speaker 8: In the country of Malawi, Africa, Kevin Africa has the
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  Speaker 8: highest number of refugees. These are people that are displaced
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  Speaker 8: from their countries, likely to never return and they end
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  Speaker 8: up in places like the Zalika refugee camp. This is
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  Speaker 8: you in fund that I happen to see a documentary
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  Speaker 8: on this not long ago, and they showed the chaos
• 47:16
  Speaker 8: that defines the Zalika refugee camp. There's about sixty thousand
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  Speaker 8: people packed into a place that was really made to
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  Speaker 8: accommodate about ten thousand. There's poor sanitation, people get sick,
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  Speaker 8: they die, There's a terrible stench over this place. There's
• 47:30
  Speaker 8: people groups that absolutely hate each other, right, so, there
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  Speaker 8: have been assaults, there have been murders. That is what
• 47:35
  Speaker 8: defines the Zlika refugee camp. But there were area churches.
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  Speaker 8: They said, look, we've got to take the hope of
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: the Gospel into this place. They began to work with biblely,
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: we provided without charge Kevin Bible studies, weekly Bible studies,
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  Speaker 8: and three prominent languages spoken in that camp. That would
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  Speaker 8: be French, Karundi, and Swahili. And so these churches went in.
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  Speaker 8: They formed about fifty Bible studies, some of those exclusive
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  Speaker 8: to men, some exclusive to women. But I can tell you,
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  Speaker 8: by the grace of God and the gumption of those
• 48:04
  Speaker 8: churches going into the messiness of the un funded Zalika
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  Speaker 8: refugee camp, a thousand people have said yes to Jesus.
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  Speaker 8: A thousand people have said yes to Jesus. Now, many
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  Speaker 8: of those are like Mary and my colleague Nick, who
• 48:17
  Speaker 8: went in that camp, said Michael, He said, a lot
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: of these women their futures is terribly uncertain. Their husbands
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: have died, they've got kids, they don't have jobs. They
• 48:27
  Speaker 8: know they're not going back to their land. But he said,
• 48:30
  Speaker 8: they're hope filled as they come to Christ. But you've
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: got this audio clip from my colleague Nick and he
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: is in the Zalika refugee camp in Malawi, Africa.
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  Speaker 17: Many of the people coming to the camp, many cases
• 48:41
  Speaker 17: these women whose husbands had been killed, were obviously coming
• 48:45
  Speaker 17: in the most desperate circumstances, wondering how they're going to
• 48:48
  Speaker 17: look after their families, feed their children, and really feeling
• 48:52
  Speaker 17: completely hopeless and homeless. But what we discovered is that
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  Speaker 17: many of them, through the work that we've been able
• 48:59
  Speaker 17: to do there really finding hope. And some of them
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  Speaker 17: were saying that that sort of lifelong aspiration now is
• 49:04
  Speaker 17: actually to stay in the camp as evangelists, to which
• 49:07
  Speaker 17: to me was.
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  Speaker 6: Remarkable crazy Christians.
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  Speaker 8: Right as Nick said, if the traffic was whizzing by there,
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  Speaker 8: he said, you know, people make this mistake that they
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: are desperate. Mariam is one of those people, right, But
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: her husband died in that camp, leaving her a widow
• 49:21
  Speaker 8: with three children, ages three, five, and seven. But she's
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: a new believer, wants to raise those kids in the
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: ways of the Lord, praying for a Kurundi language Bible. Lord,
• 49:30
  Speaker 8: everything I have is yours, my time, my resources, and
• 49:33
  Speaker 8: I know you know, this listening family is characterized by
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: that latter group people that have said, not only do
• 49:40
  Speaker 8: I have a great concern where God has me planning,
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: but I'm able to look half world away to a
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: place like the Zilika refugee camp and provide Bibles for
• 49:49
  Speaker 8: the least of these. Kevin, It's why we're doing this
• 49:51
  Speaker 8: Kingdom business today.
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  Speaker 1: One thousand Bibles needed for those that are doing the
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: studies in the Zulika camp. One thousand bibles. That means
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: one thousand pe people have come to faith. They need
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  Speaker 1: to grow. If friends, if you had the ability to
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: do that in a one time gift, that's a five
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars one time gift, or maybe you need to
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: do it twice at twenty five hundred or one thousand
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: dollars a month for five months, whatever God puts upon
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: your heart. But that's the need in that refugee camp
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  Speaker 1: that has sixty thousand people crammed into the space of
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: ten thousand, the need is a thousand Bibles. Would you
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: help us right now? One eight hundred yes word, one
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• 50:55
  Speaker 6: He is from New York that Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome in, Kevin McCullough. Glad to have you
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  Speaker 1: with us. And you know that now that we're on
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: four hundred outlets across the country, I love to take
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: a peek in and see what's going on in the
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: local churches across different areas. And so we've had lots
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: of shepherds on from lots of places across the US
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: this year, and one of them that we have not
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: had a chance to really speak to in depth is
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: one that it's one of the largest churches in the
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: entire country. It's right here in my backyard, and I
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: am so pleased to have a long, long standing relationship
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: with not only the current pastor, but his father who
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: preceded him. Pastor Jamal Bernard, joins me right now. His dad,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Doctor A. R. Bernard, may may be a name familiar
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: to many of you, not just in the New York area,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: but Jamal, it's good to have you back with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for being here.
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  Speaker 7: Ah Man, Thank you so much for being a found
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  Speaker 7: army to be a part of this.
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  Speaker 18: I'm excited and always appreciating our relationships with Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it too. Jamal, and I think that when
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: we talk about the church in America today, I think
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of images that come to people's minds.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: If you're from certain sections of the Flyover country, you
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: kind of picture a big suburb with large parking lot
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: and lots of ease getting to and from church. But
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: for people that are on the East Coast, sometimes churches
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: is a difficult thing to just make happen in your
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: life once a week, much less have a lot of
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: luxury and freedom with it. And one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that I've always appreciated about the Christian cultural center, which
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  Speaker 1: is the church that you pastor, is that you have
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  Speaker 1: been intentional to reach specifically, not the entire universe of
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  Speaker 1: everybody possible, but really the neighborhood's closest to your property.
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  Speaker 1: And God has blessed that and grown that, and you
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: continue to change lives. And now you're coming back to
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  Speaker 1: the airways with Salem. We'll talk about that in a second,
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  Speaker 1: But it all starts with that local approach to the
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  Speaker 1: people that you're in the middle of, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 18: Yes, Yes, And I think that is you know, my
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  Speaker 18: dad taught me this lesson years ago, and he says
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  Speaker 18: you know, if your church closes down today, rule the
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  Speaker 18: community that you believe God has placed you in issue.
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  Speaker 18: And if the answer is no, then the question is
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  Speaker 18: what are you doing with for the community. You're too
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  Speaker 18: often we ac caught up in the four walls of
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  Speaker 18: the church and it's like no this we're social engagement
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  Speaker 18: organization as well social spiritual and so we didn't engage
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  Speaker 18: the people well.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: And one of the things that I always bring people
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  Speaker 1: back to is how Jesus did it himself. You know
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  Speaker 1: when he was feeding, when he was preaching to the
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  Speaker 1: five thousand and he realized that they were hungry. Uh,
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't say, shame on you for giving
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  Speaker 1: into your physical need when when the most important thing
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: for you to do is be listening to your spiritual leader.
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  Speaker 1: He actually said, no, get food and let's feed these people.
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  Speaker 1: Like Jesus always held the physical need in truth to
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  Speaker 1: what the spiritual need ultimately was.
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  Speaker 18: Yep, yep, yep. And that's the thing I tell you.
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  Speaker 18: Even with my missions group, I said, you know, people
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  Speaker 18: are going to crush you, right, so you go down
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  Speaker 18: a natural disaster and the first that you say, oh
• 54:22
  Speaker 18: Jesus loves you, you gotta you know, you gotta meet
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  Speaker 18: Jesus right now. And the person's you know, child is lost,
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  Speaker 18: buried under some rubble, and the ex question is gonna
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  Speaker 18: be where was Jesus when this is happening? And so
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  Speaker 18: you got to win people to yourself before you try
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  Speaker 18: to win them to Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think being a good ambassador and being
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  Speaker 1: winsome and being the light. You know, we're just talking
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  Speaker 1: this week and Psalm twenty seven on how do we live?
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: And the whole The Lord is my light and my salvation.
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  Speaker 1: We as his agents, have the responsibility to continue to
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  Speaker 1: be that light. And I hope that that's what we're
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  Speaker 1: all thinking about these days. Hey, you've got a special
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  Speaker 1: event coming up and it's for people far beyond the
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  Speaker 1: reaches of the Christian Cultural Center Family Proper. It is
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  Speaker 1: called the twenty twenty sixth Summit and it will be
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  Speaker 1: held September sixteenth through the eighteenth. What's the summit all about?
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  Speaker 1: What are you hoping to inspire people with? Achieve? What
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  Speaker 1: do you want them? How do you want them you
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: know changed when they come? Who's it for? Just give
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  Speaker 1: us the lowdown on what you're doing.
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  Speaker 18: So the Summit came out of passions that I had
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  Speaker 18: for seeing the local churches really and once again, I
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  Speaker 18: think this question is what will the community say if
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  Speaker 18: you had to close out today, right and they miss you?
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  Speaker 18: And so my thing is, Okay, how can we help
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  Speaker 18: these organizations? These churches have the greatest impact even based
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  Speaker 18: on a capacity and in a context. And I said, man,
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  Speaker 18: I take for granted, but I have access to so
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  Speaker 18: much stuff because the size of our church. What can
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  Speaker 18: I do to help give access to the local church
• 56:04
  Speaker 18: or you know, beyond. And so we are looking to
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  Speaker 18: create an environment where if you have a team of singers,
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  Speaker 18: if you've got individuals from a JAMA department, if you
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  Speaker 18: got uh you know, from a leadership perspective, and not
• 56:21
  Speaker 18: necessary might have access to individuals like Henry Cloud, Israel
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  Speaker 18: Hope and a Basic de Bron and a ar Bernard.
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  Speaker 18: Then you know, we want to provide these elements to
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  Speaker 18: you at the summit.
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  Speaker 7: And so that's.
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  Speaker 18: Where it really came out of passionate to get individuals
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  Speaker 18: to have access to a different way of thinking, right,
• 56:42
  Speaker 18: because we only think to the level we're exposed to.
• 56:45
  Speaker 7: So how can I.
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  Speaker 18: Help these churches and these leaders become exposed to more
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  Speaker 18: and just shift they thinking and say, man, just that
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  Speaker 18: shift is allowing me to have a greater impact in
• 56:54
  Speaker 18: the community.
• 56:54
  Speaker 7: God has called me the impact.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know what I love about this because
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  Speaker 1: I think that for far too long and I forget
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  Speaker 1: who said it, but America has, even though we've on
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: a legal basis and on a social justice basis kind
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: of broken down the walls of segregation, it could still
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: be said for many, many years that the most segregated
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  Speaker 1: time in America was ten am on a Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 1: And what I'm encouraged by is that that is not
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  Speaker 1: the case nearly as much as it was ten years ago,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: twenty years ago, thirty years ago. And as churches are moving,
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: as people are moving, as people groups are moving, I
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: think it's incumbent upon every lead pastor Jamal to be
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: asking themselves the question what is my community made up of?
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: And who is there? And how do I best reach them?
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: And I'll just give you a personal story from our experience.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we go to a church that has about
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine hundred people and for services a week and
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: lots of you know, it would it would have been
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: kind of you know, noted that it was kind of
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: suburban and feel even though it was close to some
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: real urban areas. We would not we would not have
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  Speaker 1: that and we would not be seeing that growth if
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: leadership wasn't saying what is the community made up of?
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  Speaker 1: Who who's coming? What are their needs? How can we
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: best fit them? And I love the fact that you're
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: doing this. And look, doctor Cloud and doctor Bernard. I
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: mean I'd come just to hear the two of them speak.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: So that's that's encouraging. And you're saying, this is a
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: three day gathering for leaders, creatives, worshipers, pastors and really
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: people of faith of all varieties. But really it is
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: it is a leadership summit, if you will.
• 58:47
  Speaker 7: Yes, it is a leadership summit.
• 58:49
  Speaker 18: And the idea because the other element of it, the
• 58:53
  Speaker 18: STOG tagline, is where legacy meets destiny, right, And so
• 58:57
  Speaker 18: we were seeing a big transition happening from you know,
• 59:01
  Speaker 18: for the and I think you're seeing that, you know,
• 59:03
  Speaker 18: for the next three years of individuals coming too, leadership
• 59:07
  Speaker 18: you have, you know, And so the question is legacies
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  Speaker 18: should not compete with destiny, they should complement each other.
• 59:14
  Speaker 18: And so how do we look at these transitions and
• 59:16
  Speaker 18: how do we you know, you know, come to a
• 59:19
  Speaker 18: place where where we're passing the man, so doing it
• 59:22
  Speaker 18: right and not failing like we've seen in the past. Uh,
• 59:26
  Speaker 18: Tommy had a big shift in leadership in the church arena.
• 59:30
  Speaker 7: So that's a part of the idea as well.
• 59:32
  Speaker 18: So Okay, hey, look let's you know, let's learn we
• 59:34
  Speaker 18: we've learned some stuff. We want to share what we
• 59:36
  Speaker 18: learned in the transition. Not the best model, but it's
• 59:39
  Speaker 18: a model. Yeah, And so that's another element of it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and if people want more information, I just want
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  Speaker 1: to give the website out because anybody can attend. It
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  Speaker 1: is c c C info dot Church backslash Summit. C
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: CEC stands for Christian Cultural Center. If you're outside the
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: New York area, you may not be familiar with that name.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: The Tri State is very familiar with Christian Cultural Center.
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  Speaker 1: But CCC info dot church backslash Summit gets you to
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  Speaker 1: the where legacy meets the future. UH Summit September sixteenth
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: through the eighteenth, twenty twenty six and you can register
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: right there on that page. It's super simple. Now real quickly,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: we're almost out of time. You're coming the Christian Cultural
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Center is coming back to the Salem airwaves. You're going
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: to start out in the New York market, but when
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: do you launch? And you know, are you excited about this?
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm so excited.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 18: We're actually on now, well that's right, five thirty am
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 18: Monday to Friday, and we just we changed up a
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 18: little bit once again because my father's abdministering storry, so
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 18: you know, I'm not pushing.
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  Speaker 7: Them out all the way.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 18: But you're doing some you know, sermons with me, some
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 18: with him, and then we're also doing a podcast Friday,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 18: so we're playing a certain podcasts throughout that.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: Oh that's cool.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 18: Wanting drive, Yeah, something difference. There's not always you know, minister,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 18: minister ministry.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 7: I mean I preacher, preacher, but I still always ministry.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well cool, five thirty am New York time. And
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: you can listen to that nationwide at WMCA dot com.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Uh and also wherever you get your streaming services. We're
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: they're everywhere the Salem, New York stations everywhere. Jamal, congratulations
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: on everything. Thank you for being with us so much.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again soon.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 18: Yeah, thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 18: And I'll be praying for you and your ministry.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: I thank you, Jamal, appreciate that. All right, coming right
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: back from New York. We've got a big Friday still ahead,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: and stay with us.
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  Speaker 14: Let's stick around for more of that. Kevin next here
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  Speaker 8: Philip, Yeah, and I want to address that. Before I
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  Speaker 8: every bustling city needs a want a thriving church to
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  Speaker 8: be able to disciple people after introducing them to the
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• 1:04:02
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  Speaker 8: you've got this audio clip. The young boy's name is Wendell.
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  Speaker 8: His family all former animist. If you're an animist, you
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  Speaker 8: God did something special that family. Windle is now part
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  Speaker 1: My name is Wendelin.
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  Speaker 2: I live in Kenya.
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  Speaker 19: After that, I learned a Bible versus Sunday school and
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  Speaker 19: I want to learn more.
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  Speaker 6: Please send me a Bible today.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a simple plea from a young Wendell, ten
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  Speaker 8: years of age, part of a Sunday school program. He's
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  Speaker 8: growing in grace as a young believer. Kevin. Again, he's
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 8: praying not for our pity or our protections. He's praying
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  Speaker 8: for one. It's the precious word of God. I want
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  Speaker 8: to take you just a few miles from where he's
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  Speaker 8: at in Kenya to the Massai tribe. Tell you about
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 8: a pastor by the name of William, an itinerant pastor.
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  Speaker 8: This man will walk thirty one miles each way. But
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  Speaker 8: who's at the end of those tracks that he makes well?
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  Speaker 8: she didn't know, she didn't love, subjected to again that
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  Speaker 8: in the world. By the way. The other thing is
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 8: a female circumcision. I won't get graphic about that other
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 8: than say it is painful, there's no known health benefits.
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  Speaker 8: It's embarrassing. But again it's one of those traditions that
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 8: forced upon a young girls like Anya. William introduced Anya
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  Speaker 8: to the hope of the Gospel. She became a believer,
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  Speaker 8: But Kevin, the story is not in there. She would
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 8: gather about forty young women, all in that same situation,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 8: forced to marry older men who didn't know them, who
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 8: didn't love them. I can tell you, by the grace
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 8: of God, they became believers. But Kevin, the story does
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  Speaker 8: not in there. It expands those women have all leathered
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 8: husbands to Christ. That Pastor Williams said, Look, ladies, live
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  Speaker 8: your lives to the glory of God before your husbands
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  Speaker 8: and let's leave the up to God. I can tell
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 8: you again, by the grace of the Lord, those husbands
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 8: have all come to Christ. There's forty new couples that
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 8: want to live their lives to the glory of God. Now, Kevin,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 8: the story expands beyond that. There's about two hundred families
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 8: among them a side tribe there in the Great Rift
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  Speaker 8: Valley of Kenya, Africa, that have said yes to Jesus.
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  Speaker 8: So again, this is what we're saying. God's at work
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Mandel welcome back. Always good to talk to you on Fridays.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, it was such a fun way to spend
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that Tanika is always telling me,
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  Speaker 1: you got to make Friday more fun. So it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to try. Hey, I'm puzzled by a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things. And I know that you're kind of a
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  Speaker 1: politics chunkie and you kind of you watch different probably
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  Speaker 1: factors than I do, but I want to get your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on this. I would normally say that with a
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  Speaker 1: war going on, that the president, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: ran against having wars, gas prices hovering in the under
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  Speaker 1: four dollar range nationwide, there's a lot of reasons to
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  Speaker 1: be very pessimistic about Republican chances in the fall, and
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  Speaker 1: I would go to the bank on that almost any
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  Speaker 1: given year where the circumstances are kind of the way
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  Speaker 1: they are. However, I keep seeing these crazy nut job
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  Speaker 1: people winning democratic primaries in place after place after place,
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  Speaker 1: and it's kind of unfair how the media reports it,
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  Speaker 1: because they're all like, oh, look at this landslide by
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  Speaker 1: this Democratic socialist well and at primary where they had
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  Speaker 1: twenty three percent turnout, and you know they they got
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  Speaker 1: more than half of that, so they did well and
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  Speaker 1: whatever the primary turnout was. But I've got a feeling
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  Speaker 1: that there's a lot of middle ground, independent, common sense
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  Speaker 1: type of people that are not super thrilled with the
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  Speaker 1: options that the Democrats are putting forward for this fall.
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  Speaker 1: So how are you feeling about, like, well, like the
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  Speaker 1: Senate race in Michigan or some of the some of
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  Speaker 1: the Congress races where you've got like this l sied
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  Speaker 1: guy literally wants to kill all Jews under three years
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  Speaker 1: of age. We're not that lost yet, are we?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I don't know. So I think that
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  Speaker 2: you're right, and the Trump administration and sort of the
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  Speaker 2: Team Trump are have their finger on that pulse. They
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  Speaker 2: tweeted a meme yesterday with Smokey the Bear, only you
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  Speaker 2: can prevent socialism, Vote Republican in November. I think that
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  Speaker 2: that is probably messaging that has has landed really well
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  Speaker 2: for them, and that's where they decided to go.
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  Speaker 1: And doesn't every political advisor for every candidate have have
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  Speaker 1: stuff lined up to unleash like literal rhetorical hell against
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  Speaker 1: these guys because they've said some really horrible things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And I think honestly, the message that lands
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  Speaker 2: the best with these characters. And I say this as
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  Speaker 2: a Jew is not to talk about Jews, because people,
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  Speaker 2: I think in the middle of America who never meta
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  Speaker 2: Jew will say, I don't I don't care if he
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  Speaker 2: hates Jews.
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  Speaker 7: Like.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't affect my life. But when you start talking
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  Speaker 2: about the fact that like they want to do things
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  Speaker 2: like abolish the Senate and ambolish the Supreme Court, and
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  Speaker 2: like when when they act, when you actually list out
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  Speaker 2: what their plans are, people are like, whoa, wait a second,
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  Speaker 2: that sounds bonkers because it is in fact bonkers. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think the more that we can get their
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  Speaker 2: message out there, the better, Like let's volunteer to like
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  Speaker 2: turn over the airway. It's on Fox News, which is
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  Speaker 2: something by the way that Fox has done. They've had
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  Speaker 2: DSA members on Shannon Breems show and on the on
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  Speaker 2: the daytime shows with Dana Perino.
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  Speaker 6: They bring on.
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  Speaker 2: DSA people and they're like, tell us what you want,
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  Speaker 2: and that.
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  Speaker 1: Is so damnage and just let them talk. Yes, because
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  Speaker 1: they'll say it all. I mean, they're they're not afraid to.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the other thing. I mean, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: Texas for example, and I'm thinking James Tallerico's he's a
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  Speaker 1: hot mess. He looks almost normal compared to some of
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  Speaker 1: these people. Yeah, and that's how bad it is. Because
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  Speaker 1: I think that Ken Paxton is not the best candidate
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans could have put forward, but I think he's
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  Speaker 1: got a pretty good shot of keeping corn and seat.
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  Speaker 1: But tall Rico's crazy and he looks sane compared to
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  Speaker 1: what are literally like, like, I don't know, I would
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  Speaker 1: have to say that these are people that support the
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  Speaker 1: nine to eleven terrorists in some.
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  Speaker 2: Cases, I mean there's one where it's absolutely not hyperbole
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  Speaker 2: or reaching to say that, because Adam Hamawi in New Jersey,
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  Speaker 2: who likely will become elected, and you know, Representative Mike
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  Speaker 2: Lawler has said like he shouldn't serve on intelligence committees.
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  Speaker 2: He testified on behalf of the Blind Chic. So it's
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  Speaker 2: not at all hyperbole to say these people support jihad
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  Speaker 2: because they're very open about that fact.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, if we can get some degree of election
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  Speaker 1: integrity passed, and I don't know if you saw what
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  Speaker 1: James Carvel said a couple of weeks ago, just before
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  Speaker 1: I went on vacation, But he was like election integrity.
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  Speaker 1: To oppose that just makes the Democrats look scared of
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  Speaker 1: telling the truth. Just pass it, Just just get it passed.
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  Speaker 1: Just let it pass. Seventy five percent of us want it,
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  Speaker 1: eighty percent of the Independence won it, ninety percent of
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  Speaker 1: Republicans want it. All right, pass it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean in Carville also, I mean there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these moderate Democrats who I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: represent a large majority of moderate Democrats nationwide, like Carville,
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  Speaker 2: like John Fetterville, maher Or, Pennsylvania and.
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  Speaker 6: Almar Yeah, who they say.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I interviewed John Fetterman on stage in
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  Speaker 2: front of a thousand Jewish students this week, and every
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: time I asked him, because it was like a fireside shot,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: I asked him, like what is going on?
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  Speaker 6: He's like, I'm going to leave. I'm going to leave.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to leave like you are. You're not sounding
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  Speaker 2: really keen on your party. But this is this is
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  Speaker 2: what all of these moderate Dems are saying, Like this
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  Speaker 2: if the party, if my party becomes this, I'm out yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I you know, I see it, I feel it.
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  Speaker 1: Lizzie Savetsky, who is not someone that I necessarily endorse
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  Speaker 1: or don't endorse. She's controversial, but I do see some
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  Speaker 1: of those things that she puts on social media. This
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  Speaker 1: last week had a clip of Chuck Schumer from a
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  Speaker 1: few years ago saying that he would always fight on
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  Speaker 1: behalf of Israel and he was always going to fight
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of the Jewish people. And after El sayed
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  Speaker 1: one in Michigan this week, he calls him and I
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  Speaker 1: guess they have a phone call a tape of the
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  Speaker 1: phone call, because he said to him, We're going to
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  Speaker 1: do everything we can to help you get elected. This
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  Speaker 1: is this is a guy who directly opposes Chuck Schumer's
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  Speaker 1: very own promises and pledges that he made.
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  Speaker 6: Yep, yep.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a guy who thinks that the
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  Speaker 2: Iron Dome shouldn't exist, a defensive mechanism that protects not
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  Speaker 2: just Israelis, but American citizens living and visiting Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, really really stunning stuff. Well, it's gonna be something
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  Speaker 1: to keep our eye on. But I I am I'm
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  Speaker 1: torn as to like how to think about November, because
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  Speaker 1: I do think that if you know, if the war
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  Speaker 1: goes well, Republicans can recover on some on some talking
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  Speaker 1: points that maybe they're vulnerable on right now. But even
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: with those vulnerabilities, these these these guys at the other
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  Speaker 1: side's putting forward. We just can't turn our country over
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  Speaker 1: to them. We just sweeping, all right, Bethany. I always
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you. Have a great weekend, you too. Kevin McCullough
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  Speaker 1: coming back. It's the Friday Show. Stay here, let's stick around.
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  Speaker 6: For more of that.
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  Speaker 20: Kevin next, serving it up. That's a no drink mittal.
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  Speaker 20: It's that Kevin Show.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Kevin McCullough. Lad to if you with us.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about getting Bibles to those who need them
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  Speaker 1: all over the world, Michael Woolworth, and we mean it
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  Speaker 1: like every corner of the globe.
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's where God has called us to serve at
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 8: biblely nearly ninety years young if you will, and again
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  Speaker 8: you mentioned some of the numbers earlier. I'm a little
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  Speaker 8: hesitant to do that. I think our eyes gloss over.
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  Speaker 8: But the bottom line is this, we all pray that
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  Speaker 8: the Gospel would take grip all over the world, even
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 8: in places like the Middle East right, and we're here
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  Speaker 8: to tell tell you what. We're taking just a little
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 8: bit of a break from the the daily headlines to
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  Speaker 8: remind you that God truly is at work and again
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  Speaker 8: that's happening all over the world. I want to end
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  Speaker 8: our time together in the Middle East, Kevin. I've said
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  Speaker 8: this before. I don't come as I'm not a geopolitical scientist.
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  Speaker 8: I don't study all the dynamics that define places like
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  Speaker 8: the Middle East. That's known what millennia of what conflict, pain,
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  Speaker 8: suffering and loss. But as we see the hope of
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 8: the Gospel applied to lives there again, we see people
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  Speaker 8: totally transformed. And that's true in the life of a
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  Speaker 8: woman by the name of Nora. What's her story. Well,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 8: it was just about a year ago her husband was
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 8: murdered by radicals in that part of the world, leaving
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 8: her a widow with four young daughters. It wasn't too
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 8: long ago another group of radicals showed up, Kevin. They
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 8: destroyed her home, everything that she had lost in that fire.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 8: Her youngest daughter, about four years of age, maimed for
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 8: life with very serious burns all over her body. That's
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  Speaker 8: the tragedies that Nora has gone through they rather than
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 8: grow a bitter through all of that, this woman, a
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 8: former Sunni Moslim, has grown what bold She is trained
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  Speaker 8: by Bible League to share Christ with others. She would
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 8: gather about fifty Arabic speaking women week by week to
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 8: go through this study from Bible League. You've heard us
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 8: talk about this. We call it Project Philip. We're simply
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  Speaker 8: putting a name in a face to really our global strategy,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 8: and that is to what trained people like Nora to
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 8: invite people to come learn about Jesus. Often that's one
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  Speaker 8: on one that it becomes a group study, maybe ten,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 8: twenty thirty people will gather. And for the case of Nora,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 8: she let two or three of those studies against all
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  Speaker 8: Arabic speaking women, A lot of those in the same
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 8: situation widowed, raising large families.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 8: But I can tell you today, by the grace of
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  Speaker 8: God and through the gumption of this woman Nora, fifty
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  Speaker 8: Arabic speaking women with families, a lot of large families,
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  Speaker 8: about six hundred adults and kids represented there have all
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  Speaker 8: said yes to Jesus and a part of the world
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  Speaker 8: that they will now be defined as what infidels. They've
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 8: left the religion that define their lives. They're now followers
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  Speaker 8: of Jesus. But my colleague Nirvana, they're in that part
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  Speaker 8: of the world. Has this to say about women like Nora,
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  Speaker 8: who often looked at as second class citizens. When they
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  Speaker 8: become believers, Kevin, they see they have infinite worth in
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  Speaker 8: the Lord.
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  Speaker 19: Men think women are too marry a young age, and
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  Speaker 19: they are not supposed to get educated or even to
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  Speaker 19: be treated the same level as men. When I see
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  Speaker 19: the ladies that are very happy that they can read
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  Speaker 19: the world of Jesus and write the name of Jesus
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  Speaker 19: for the first time, I saw lives of women changed
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  Speaker 19: after they started to read and write, and how they
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 19: regained their confidence in themselves, and how they could feel
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  Speaker 19: that they now have value and they can function in
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  Speaker 19: the society. As you said, how they can feel that
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  Speaker 19: they are valuable in God's eyes.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to take a measure of human rights
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  Speaker 1: around the globe, and you want to take a measure
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  Speaker 1: of how women are treated around the globe, you will
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  Speaker 1: find that the greater the biblical literacy of the population,
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  Speaker 1: the more respect the more equality, the more confidence the
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  Speaker 1: culture has in terms of the women that it serves
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: and the Bible League is right on the cutting edge
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  Speaker 1: of that. Getting the Bible into the hands of people
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  Speaker 1: that do not believe in eternal things or even in
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: just things, can change when they come into contact with Jesus'
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