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Krispy Kreme And Texaco......What A God Stop They Turned Out To Be!!!! · Unashamed Table Talk

0:02
SPEAKER_01: We have had the best day ever.
0:06
SPEAKER_02: This is BJ Garrett, Denise Bowens, and we are in Alabama right now.
0:13
SPEAKER_01: It's been a good day.
0:14
SPEAKER_01: It has been the best day.
0:16
SPEAKER_01: But y'all, we gotta start on which right now.
0:19
SPEAKER_01: First off, Denise Bowens has this thing about shaving her legs every day.
0:26
SPEAKER_01: She shaves her legs every day.
0:27
SPEAKER_01: I don't know any other woman in the world that shaves her legs every day, but Denise Bowens loves to shave her legs.
0:33
SPEAKER_01: And we're at this hotel in Birmingham, and she says something about, oh, I forgot my razor or something.
0:40
SPEAKER_01: I said, Oh, I got one.
0:42
SPEAKER_01: And so I dug in my bag and give her one.
0:44
SPEAKER_01: She goes in and showers.
0:46
SPEAKER_01: And then we're just hanging out in the hotel room and laughing about all the things.
0:52
SPEAKER_01: And then she touches her leg and she's like, oh, I missed a spot.
0:55
SPEAKER_01: And then she starts touching all over her leg and she realizes they're all Harry.
1:03
SPEAKER_01: And then she said, Was there like a plastic thing on it?
1:07
SPEAKER_01: I said, Did you not take the lid?
1:10
SPEAKER_01: The razor.
1:11
SPEAKER_01: And she said, Oh man.
1:13
SPEAKER_01: And she gets up and she goes in and checks the razor and it still got the lid on it.
1:18
SPEAKER_01: She didn't shake the knees.
1:21
SPEAKER_01: It was so proud that she didn't cut her knee.
1:25
SPEAKER_02: I'm thinking when I went over my little bumpy knee right there when I didn't cut it, but I was glad that I didn't.
1:32
SPEAKER_02: And I thought, for such a cheap razor, man, it's really going smooth.
1:40
SPEAKER_02: Your skin or your hairs.
1:42
SPEAKER_02: No, let me tell you.
1:43
SPEAKER_02: I just don't think I'm the only woman on here that's ever done that.
1:46
SPEAKER_01: I'm sure there's someone else in the world.
1:50
SPEAKER_01: That's probably done it, but they were probably hot or drunk when they did it.
1:55
SPEAKER_01: Well, I was hung crispy cream.
1:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's true.
1:59
SPEAKER_01: You were probably.
2:01
SPEAKER_01: Oh, y'all we had such a good day.
2:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
2:04
SPEAKER_01: We spoke in Birmingham, Alabama.
2:06
SPEAKER_01: Actually, we spoke in Asheville, Alabama.
2:09
SPEAKER_01: And we weren't booked together, but it just worked out that we both got booked at the same church.
2:15
SPEAKER_01: And I had flown in from DC, and Denise drove up from Texas, and we met, and then we got to speak at this church, rugged cross cowboy church, and it was an awesome group of ladies, a small group, an awesome group.
2:29
SPEAKER_01: Met a new awesome worship leader, Nikki.
2:32
SPEAKER_02: I loved her.
2:33
SPEAKER_02: She was just so authentic.
2:36
SPEAKER_02: First of all, she was definitely gifted and she could sing so good.
2:40
SPEAKER_02: Very country, which I love country.
2:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
2:42
SPEAKER_02: She sang contemporary Christian, but had this country tone to her.
2:48
SPEAKER_02: But every time before she'd start a song, you could see she'd get a little teary-eyed, and then she'd make this little face like she's having a conversation with the Lord.
2:56
SPEAKER_02: And like what I saw was someone going, Right, I don't want to do that.
3:00
SPEAKER_02: Okay, I'll do it.
3:00
SPEAKER_02: I'll say it.
3:02
SPEAKER_02: She was just sharing little tidbits of things that God has shown her throughout this year or this past year.
3:11
SPEAKER_02: So very authentic.
3:13
SPEAKER_02: And yes, I absolutely loved her.
3:15
SPEAKER_01: And it was a great balance of like she was leading in worship and sharing enough that it was like it told us who she was.
3:26
SPEAKER_01: It showed who she was in Christ.
3:29
SPEAKER_01: It showed some of her conversation with the Lord.
3:31
SPEAKER_01: Like it was very evident.
3:33
SPEAKER_01: But it wasn't so much where you're just like, oh my gosh, would you just stop talking and sing?
3:38
SPEAKER_01: Because I've seen worship leaders that have done that, you know, sometimes.
3:41
SPEAKER_01: And I'm just like, yeah, it's not your turn.
3:44
SPEAKER_01: Right.
3:45
SPEAKER_01: You know, just sing.
3:46
SPEAKER_01: And it was a beautiful balance of sharing and talking and worshiping.
3:52
SPEAKER_01: And I loved it.
3:53
SPEAKER_01: It was awesome.
3:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
3:54
SPEAKER_01: Very fun.
3:55
SPEAKER_02: So we had such a great day there.
3:57
SPEAKER_02: And we both got to share the gospel and share what we knew God put on our heart.
4:01
SPEAKER_02: And it was received very well.
4:03
SPEAKER_02: Such a sweet group of people, Miss Evelyn.
4:06
SPEAKER_02: I believe she's the pastor's wife there.
4:09
SPEAKER_02: And so she's so so genuine and sweet as well.
4:13
SPEAKER_02: And it was just an all-around great day.
4:16
SPEAKER_02: And so we leave Asheville and at drive to Birmingham, which is about 45 minutes or so away.
4:25
SPEAKER_02: And we've got a plan.
4:26
SPEAKER_02: Our plan is we're going to come in and change clothes.
4:30
SPEAKER_02: We're going to go get us something to eat.
4:32
SPEAKER_02: We're going to go check out a toy store that is a friend of ours that we know has a toy store here.
4:39
SPEAKER_02: Go check out that toy store.
4:41
SPEAKER_02: And then we're going to hit up Krispy Kreme.
4:43
SPEAKER_02: Because you know.
4:44
SPEAKER_01: If you have followed us for any amount of time on social media at least, not on the podcast.
4:49
SPEAKER_01: I don't know that we've ever talked about Krispy Kreme on the podcast.
4:52
SPEAKER_01: But if you would just, you know, surge Krispy Kreme in our social media posts, it'll pop up a few things.
4:58
unknown: Yeah.
4:59
SPEAKER_01: We love a Krispy Kreme.
5:00
SPEAKER_02: Anytime.
5:01
SPEAKER_02: This started early on when we first kind of started becoming friends at Christian Communicators.
5:09
SPEAKER_02: The very first time?
5:11
SPEAKER_01: No, it was in it was at Proclaim in Michigan or wherever we were.
5:16
SPEAKER_01: Where was that?
5:16
SPEAKER_02: Was it Michigan?
5:18
SPEAKER_02: Uh maybe.
5:19
SPEAKER_02: I don't remember.
5:20
SPEAKER_02: But yes, I went to the conference and met BJ and and Tammy Winehurst and Pam Mitchell, Pam Mitchell, some others.
5:27
SPEAKER_02: Christina Castillo.
5:28
SPEAKER_02: Several people were there.
5:29
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
5:30
SPEAKER_02: So I go and BJ and I are in are sharing a room together, and I said something about, oh my gosh, I saw a crispy cream down here.
5:39
SPEAKER_02: And she had never had a warm crispy cream.
5:43
SPEAKER_01: I had never had any crispy cream.
5:45
SPEAKER_02: Ever.
5:45
SPEAKER_02: So here we went.
5:47
SPEAKER_01: It was, I don't remember what tunnel.
5:49
SPEAKER_01: It was 10 o'clock or something.
5:51
SPEAKER_02: Well, let's go.
5:51
SPEAKER_02: So we took it.
5:52
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no.
5:53
SPEAKER_01: You said we were sitting there and you said, Well, it's only good if the lights on.
5:58
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, what light?
6:00
SPEAKER_01: What are you talking about?
6:00
SPEAKER_01: And you're like, if the lights on, then they're hot donuts.
6:04
SPEAKER_01: Coming right off the conveyor belt.
6:05
SPEAKER_01: She said, Well, you said, Well, I'm gonna call and see if the light's on.
6:09
SPEAKER_01: And the light was on, and you said, You wanna go?
6:12
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, Well, yeah, I want to go.
6:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
6:15
SPEAKER_02: And we did.
6:15
SPEAKER_02: And we took off and we ordered a dozen of them donuts.
6:20
SPEAKER_02: Tammy was Tammy with this no.
6:23
SPEAKER_02: She did go.
6:23
SPEAKER_02: Oh, she was at the second time.
6:25
SPEAKER_02: That was a different time.
6:26
SPEAKER_02: That was a different time.
6:27
SPEAKER_02: Well, it was down there, but we went a second time.
6:30
SPEAKER_02: So me, here's me and BJ sitting there.
6:32
SPEAKER_02: We put the little hats on.
6:34
SPEAKER_02: And she is sitting there eating that donut, going, Oh my gosh, how did I not ever eat a warm Krispy Kreme?
6:40
SPEAKER_02: And so, anyway, regardless, it has been a thing ever since.
6:44
SPEAKER_02: Anytime we're speaking together somewhere that has a Krispy Kreme, we go, we take a picture, and it's just kind of become a thing.
6:51
SPEAKER_02: So we went to Krispy Kreme today.
6:54
SPEAKER_02: We ate, couldn't eat very many because we were full.
6:57
SPEAKER_02: And we leave there, and y'all, this is where God comes into it.
7:02
SPEAKER_02: That was awesome.
7:04
SPEAKER_02: It is so awesome.
7:04
SPEAKER_02: We pull out a Krispy Kreme, and BJ says, Uh uh, hey, if we pass a gas station, I sure would love a Diet Dr.
7:13
SPEAKER_02: Pepper.
7:14
SPEAKER_02: And as soon as she says it, I look up and there's a little Texaco hole-in-the-wall gas station, like not this real nice, fancy one, sitting on the car.
7:22
SPEAKER_02: I said, Oh, this is your lucky day.
7:24
SPEAKER_02: So we pull right in and she goes in to get her Diet Dr.
7:28
SPEAKER_02: Pepper.
7:28
SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
7:29
SPEAKER_01: I walk in, and the sweetest man ever, he is just jolly.
7:36
SPEAKER_01: He is Indian and he's like, Welcome, ma'am.
7:41
SPEAKER_01: I hope you're having a good day.
7:43
SPEAKER_01: And he's talking, and I'm getting my Diet Dr.
7:45
SPEAKER_01: Pepper and check out, and he asked about my tattoos.
7:48
SPEAKER_01: And I have a I really have a soft spot about anyone that asks about my tattoos because no one ever does.
7:53
SPEAKER_01: And rarely.
7:54
SPEAKER_01: And so when they do, I'm just like, oh, let me just tell you, you know, because I love my tattoos.
7:59
SPEAKER_01: And so I explained my tattoos to him, and he was like, I love it.
8:02
SPEAKER_01: I love your tattoo.
8:03
SPEAKER_01: And I said, You have got to be one of the nicest men I've ever met.
8:07
SPEAKER_01: Thank you for being so kind.
8:09
SPEAKER_01: And so then I walked outside.
8:11
SPEAKER_01: I get in the truck, put the ice in the cooler.
8:13
SPEAKER_01: You helped me because I can't figure out the cooler.
8:15
SPEAKER_01: And then I get in, I said, that has got to be the nicest man I ever met.
8:19
SPEAKER_01: And you said, Well, I ought to go in and meet him or something.
8:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was like, should I go in and meet this nice?
8:25
SPEAKER_02: She kept going on and on.
8:26
SPEAKER_02: She's like, that about being the nicest man I ever met.
8:29
SPEAKER_02: I mean, he was just so nice.
8:30
SPEAKER_02: He was so kind.
8:32
SPEAKER_02: And she just kept on.
8:33
SPEAKER_02: I was like, well, oh my gosh, should I go in and meet this nice man?
8:37
SPEAKER_02: And she goes, Yeah, you should.
8:39
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Well, okay, I'm gonna go in and get a coke.
8:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I said, I'm gonna go in and buy a coke or something so I can meet this guy.
8:46
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna tell him I came all the way from Texas to meet the nicest guy in Alabama.
8:51
SPEAKER_02: In Alabama.
8:52
SPEAKER_02: And so I walk in and same thing.
8:54
SPEAKER_02: I walk through the door by myself.
8:56
SPEAKER_02: BJ's in the truck.
8:57
SPEAKER_02: And this man he says, Hello, how are you?
9:00
SPEAKER_02: And I said, I'm good.
9:01
SPEAKER_02: How are you?
9:02
SPEAKER_02: And he goes, Oh, I am fine, ma'am.
9:04
SPEAKER_02: I am fine.
9:05
SPEAKER_02: Did you have a good day?
9:06
SPEAKER_02: And and so I said, Yes, I'm having a great day.
9:09
SPEAKER_01: I said, I came in to meet you.
9:11
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hold on.
9:12
SPEAKER_01: And y'all, I am recording her because I'm like, I'm watching her go in and I'm gonna get this all documented.
9:18
SPEAKER_01: Like I'm gonna have some, I don't know what I'm expecting to get, but I'm gonna document this whole transaction of Denise Bowens meeting the nicest guy in Alabama.
9:28
SPEAKER_02: Instead, she gets a storefront full of stickers, Marlboro Light, Campbell, Budweiser.
9:36
SPEAKER_01: So I had zoomed, I was like, where is she at?
9:38
SPEAKER_01: And I find her.
9:39
SPEAKER_01: And so I zoomed in, but when I zoomed in on my video camera, it's like I can't find her again.
9:45
SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, y'all can't see, but I'm like moving my camera.
9:48
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh, oh, there she is, there she is.
9:51
SPEAKER_02: Oh, but he was a super nice guy.
9:53
SPEAKER_02: But here's kind of what happened.
9:55
SPEAKER_02: And he, as I tell him, I've come all the way to Texas to meet you because I heard you were the nicest man.
10:02
SPEAKER_02: He goes, Oh, oh my God, who told you that?
10:05
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Oh, this lady was in there and still, he's like, Oh, so kind, you're so kind.
10:10
SPEAKER_02: And he's like putting his hands together, kind of like putting your hands together to pray, but he's like kneeling halfway down, like bowing halfway down.
10:17
SPEAKER_02: And he was like, Oh, that's so kind, and all of this.
10:20
SPEAKER_02: And then it's like he blew a kiss, but he blew it like to heaven.
10:25
SPEAKER_02: He put his hand to his lips and and looked upward and blew it and said, Oh, that's so good.
10:30
SPEAKER_02: And so again, he says something like, How has your day been or something?
10:35
SPEAKER_02: And and I said, It's been a great day.
10:38
SPEAKER_02: We have been at a church and we got to share the gospel and talk about Jesus, and we're leaving to go back to Texas in the morning.
10:46
SPEAKER_02: He's like, Oh, that's so good.
10:47
SPEAKER_02: And I said, asked him what his name was, and then I said, Do you know Jesus?
10:55
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Oh, no.
10:56
SPEAKER_02: And he just kind of shrugged his shoulders and made this funny look on his face.
11:00
SPEAKER_02: And so then I proceed to ask him, Hey, well, what do you believe in?
11:05
SPEAKER_02: What religion do you follow, or something like that?
11:08
SPEAKER_02: And he said he was Hindu and that they believe in many gods.
11:12
SPEAKER_02: And then he does say, he's told he told me this before, like early on in the conversation.
11:18
SPEAKER_02: He does say, Well, we believe there's many gods, but I believe there's one God.
11:22
SPEAKER_02: It's just, it was so long ago that over time people just call him by different names.
11:28
SPEAKER_02: Right.
11:28
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Okay.
11:30
SPEAKER_01: And and I'm still recording this whole time in the truck waiting.
11:35
SPEAKER_01: And I want to get her expression as she's walking out, and I can see her, and I can I know Denise's mannerisms, and I see her arm moving, and I said, whatever's in there sharing the gospel.
11:49
SPEAKER_01: You know, it was a good thing.
11:51
SPEAKER_01: But I was just like, don't go in.
11:53
SPEAKER_01: She's I'm missing out.
11:55
SPEAKER_01: And about that time, as soon as I realized that, and it like I put it together that she's in there sharing the gospel with this man, a text pops up from Denise and it says, come in.
12:07
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh my goodness.
12:09
SPEAKER_01: And so I'm like, hurry in to roll up my window and turn the track off, and I'm running inside.
12:14
SPEAKER_01: And it was awesome.
12:16
SPEAKER_02: It was such a good evening.
12:18
SPEAKER_02: And and not to like just share every little detail, but look, this man is Hindu.
12:24
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so hold on just one second.
12:25
SPEAKER_01: Like, first off, I we need you to recognize if you walk away from this and you think, way to go, BJ and Denise, you've missed the whole point.
12:33
SPEAKER_01: Because it's this is so not about us.
12:35
SPEAKER_01: It is literally, we are so buffoonish that it is, it's it's not about us.
12:43
SPEAKER_01: But God put us at the exact moment with this man, y'all.
12:48
SPEAKER_01: I don't know that I've ever met someone so hungry for the word of God.
12:53
SPEAKER_01: Like he just kept saying, like, I don't wanna, I don't want to offend you.
12:56
SPEAKER_01: I don't wanna, I don't want to offend you, I don't want to offend you, but can I ask you this question?
13:00
SPEAKER_01: And the more he asked, the more we just got to, and we just got to tag team, sharing the gospel and sharing personal stories.
13:09
SPEAKER_01: And he just soaked it in.
13:12
SPEAKER_01: It was awesome.
13:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so before BJ got in and and uh I grabbed uh the Coke and I grabbed some hot tamales and I'm paying for them.
13:24
SPEAKER_02: And I asked him, Do you have a Bible?
13:27
SPEAKER_02: And he says, No, I don't I don't have a Bible.
13:30
SPEAKER_02: I said, Have you ever read read the Bible?
13:32
SPEAKER_02: He said, I've never read the Bible, I've never looked at a Bible.
13:37
SPEAKER_02: I know, I don't, I've I've never had a Bible.
13:40
SPEAKER_02: And so he kind of went on about it for a minute.
13:42
SPEAKER_02: And in my mind, I'm thinking, he lives in Alabama in the United States, and he has never touched a Bible, he's never opened a page to a Bible, he's never had a Bible, he knows nothing about it.
13:54
SPEAKER_02: We've got 10 on our shelf at home.
13:56
SPEAKER_02: Right.
13:57
SPEAKER_02: And I said, okay, I said, well, would you read the Bible?
14:01
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would read it.
14:04
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Well, let me just put it this way if you read the Bible and you come to know Christ like He moves in you and something amazing happens and God changes your life, that's just awesome.
14:15
SPEAKER_02: And he was smiling, I mean, he's smiling the whole time, right?
14:19
SPEAKER_02: And I said, And if you read the Bible and nothing happens, then what do you got to lose?
14:24
SPEAKER_02: And he looked at me and he literally put his hands up and he goes, Huh, nothing.
14:30
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Exactly.
14:32
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I so I'm paying for my stuff, and he says, I don't like to talk about religion.
14:40
SPEAKER_02: I don't like to talk about religious things because I don't want to cause problems.
14:44
SPEAKER_02: When you talk to people about religion, sometimes people can get upset and it causes problems.
14:50
SPEAKER_02: It causes division.
14:52
SPEAKER_02: And that's about the time that I'm texting BJ and saying, come in.
14:56
SPEAKER_02: And I told him, I said, Hey, man, it is not gonna cause any division here.
15:02
SPEAKER_02: I am a Christian, I love the Lord, and me and you can talk about religion like we're talking about these hot tamales and this coke right here.
15:11
SPEAKER_02: And he just smiled.
15:12
SPEAKER_02: He said, Okay.
15:14
SPEAKER_02: And I said, I will respect your beliefs if you'll respect mine.
15:19
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Okay.
15:20
SPEAKER_02: And so I said, Well, I would love for you to read the Bible one day.
15:24
SPEAKER_02: And he says, Well, can I ask you a question?
15:27
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Absolutely.
15:28
SPEAKER_02: And about that, it was just a little bit after that.
15:31
SPEAKER_02: That's when BJ came in.
15:32
SPEAKER_02: But he says, There was a homeless man sitting outside, and I kept asking him, is there anything I can do for you?
15:38
SPEAKER_02: Can I get you a drink?
15:39
SPEAKER_02: Can I get you something to eat?
15:40
SPEAKER_02: Is there anything I can do for you?
15:41
SPEAKER_02: You need help.
15:42
SPEAKER_02: And the homeless man looks at him, and look, his name that he goes by is Tom, but his real name was Ton May.
15:52
SPEAKER_02: T-A-N-M-A-Y.
15:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Ton May.
15:56
SPEAKER_02: Ton May says the homeless man tells him, I don't need anything.
16:01
SPEAKER_02: My God will tell me what I where I need to go or what I need.
16:05
SPEAKER_02: He'll he'll supply my needs.
16:06
SPEAKER_02: And so Ton May says, How did this homeless man, how does he hear from God?
16:13
SPEAKER_02: How does he know who God is?
16:16
SPEAKER_02: And how do you know where God's sending you?
16:18
SPEAKER_02: How do you know that?
16:19
SPEAKER_02: And about that time, starting to answer him, and BJ comes in, and it's just like we did, we just tag teamed and we shared a little bit about scripture, and we BJ was able to share testimony about her dad because as we're telling him, like God changes your heart, and I'm telling you, you gotta believe him.
16:40
SPEAKER_02: We're going through all these things, and then he says, Oh, but what if you say you know God, but then you and he does this you say you know God, but then he balls his hand up like he's got a knife in his hand, and then you go, oh, and kill somebody.
16:54
SPEAKER_02: You stab somebody, and then VJ was able to tell you.
16:58
SPEAKER_01: Well, and he said specifically, he said, What if you're very bad man?
17:01
SPEAKER_01: Very bad man.
17:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he kept going and on about that.
17:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, very bad man, very bad man.
17:06
SPEAKER_01: And I said, actually, and I was able to share about my dad, who is, in my opinion, one of the worst men that have ever lived on this earth.
17:15
SPEAKER_01: And he was he was disgusting.
17:18
SPEAKER_01: And I shared a few things about my dad and about him being a child pedophile rapist and just horrible things, and then how God saved my dad, and that I had three years with a dad that had been saved, and it was just the coolest experience ever.
17:37
SPEAKER_01: And then I finished telling that story, and then Denise, like he asked something else, I don't even remember exactly what it was.
17:44
SPEAKER_01: And Denise was able to chime in and start, you know, and was teaching more scripture, and it was it was amazing, it was one of the coolest experiences of my whole life, and he was just so hungry.
17:59
SPEAKER_01: And by this point, now the enemy, I was gonna say it's the enemy, started sending in a few, you know, customers, and we would just shut up, you know, slide out of the way, let him do his thing, and then they would leave, and then we would just go right back at it.
18:16
SPEAKER_01: But it wasn't that weird, like awkward.
18:19
SPEAKER_01: We're not forcing, we were not forcing ourselves on him in any capacity.
18:23
SPEAKER_01: He was asking us, and he was sincerely questioning and wanting to hear the truth.
18:33
SPEAKER_01: You know, you could just tell.
18:35
SPEAKER_01: It was phenomenal, it was the coolest thing ever.
18:38
SPEAKER_03: Right.
18:38
SPEAKER_01: So then, oh, go ahead.
18:39
SPEAKER_02: Well, ours is gonna stop for a second for all of you that are listening right here.
18:44
SPEAKER_02: We got so excited.
18:47
SPEAKER_02: Now, look, we've already had a great day.
18:49
SPEAKER_02: We've gone, we've shared the gospel in church with some ladies.
18:53
SPEAKER_02: It's been a great day.
18:55
SPEAKER_02: Amazing, but we're tired, we're like ready to come kick back, get our lazy clothes on, just watch some stupid TV of some sort.
19:05
SPEAKER_02: And we both said we'll probably fall asleep in it, like we were tired.
19:09
SPEAKER_02: And this happens, and all of a sudden, it is like we have so much energy, we're ready to charge hell with a water pistol.
19:17
SPEAKER_02: You know, like we are wound up.
19:20
SPEAKER_02: And I I just want to challenge you to pause and listen.
19:30
SPEAKER_02: Y'all, we go into places every day, and not every time does God open up these opportunities.
19:38
SPEAKER_02: Not every time, even if the opportunity arises, not everyone is gonna be like Ton May that's going to be asking questions.
19:48
SPEAKER_02: But this man was obviously had an accent, was obviously not from our country, and people would probably assume that he does not believe in God or he has another religion, but his demeanor, he's been so friendly, he's got the word God written on some things.
20:07
SPEAKER_02: He says, May God bless you on the sign.
20:10
SPEAKER_02: But I don't know, I just think y'all, this world's coming to an end soon.
20:16
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
20:16
SPEAKER_02: And it God sent us here to share the gospel, and it looks different.
20:21
SPEAKER_02: It's not always on a stage in front of a group of people.
20:24
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes it's a tonle in a gas station.
20:27
SPEAKER_02: And so we were fired up.
20:29
SPEAKER_02: And he was, I we told him, I said, if we're getting you a Bible, if I get you a Bible, will you read it?
20:36
SPEAKER_02: If we get you one.
20:37
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Oh, yeah, I'll read it.
20:39
SPEAKER_02: But he says, You don't have to get it.
20:40
SPEAKER_02: I'll buy one.
20:41
SPEAKER_02: I'll get one.
20:41
SPEAKER_02: And I said, I can get one.
20:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
20:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
20:43
SPEAKER_02: I said, no, no, no, we'll we'll get you one.
20:45
SPEAKER_02: And he's like, okay.
20:46
SPEAKER_02: So we started talking with him.
20:48
SPEAKER_02: And he's basically said, have good travels, be safe.
20:52
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Oh, we'll be back in a little bit.
20:54
SPEAKER_02: What time do you get off?
20:55
SPEAKER_02: He says, 10 o'clock.
20:56
SPEAKER_02: I said, we're coming back with the Bible.
20:57
SPEAKER_02: And he's like, okay, thank you.
20:59
SPEAKER_02: Good travels.
21:00
SPEAKER_02: Good travels.
21:00
SPEAKER_02: You know, and and so we walk out the door and we get in the truck.
21:04
SPEAKER_02: And I mean, it's like we shut the door of the truck and we're both like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I cannot believe God did this Christmas.
21:11
SPEAKER_02: And we're just so humbled and so excited.
21:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
21:14
SPEAKER_02: And we find uh Barnes Noble.
21:16
SPEAKER_01: Before then, before we go into that.
21:19
SPEAKER_01: Before that, we both.
21:22
SPEAKER_01: My first thought was, if I had my Bible, I wouldn't want to give it to him.
21:26
SPEAKER_01: Oh, oh, my Bible's not in the truck.
21:28
SPEAKER_01: Oh, phew! I can't give him my Bible.
21:31
SPEAKER_01: And Denise was like, We said it at the same time.
21:35
SPEAKER_02: We said, I said, I could give him my Bible.
21:38
SPEAKER_02: And she was like, I said the same thing.
21:40
SPEAKER_02: I could give him mine, but I wouldn't want to transcribe.
21:42
SPEAKER_02: Oh, Mike's not in here.
21:44
SPEAKER_01: Then Denise liar, liar.
21:48
SPEAKER_01: She lifts up the grispy cream box and she says, and there's her Bible.
21:51
SPEAKER_01: She said, Oh, Mike's not in here either.
21:55
SPEAKER_01: So she was like, But you know, your the Bible, and I've got my good Bible.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: Like my one with all the notes in it, all my study notes, all my highlighted pages of passages, you know, all the all the scribble that I've written in it for years, and and from teaching, and like it is precious to us.
22:14
SPEAKER_01: And we both agreed, had we not been able to find a store with a Bible, we would have made the sacrifice.
22:20
SPEAKER_01: But thank you, Lord, we didn't have to.
22:22
SPEAKER_01: So we Google the closest bookstore and we find a Barnes and Noble that's like what 10 minutes away, maybe.
22:29
SPEAKER_01: And we we go in, we find a Bible that we think will be a good one.
22:34
SPEAKER_01: It looks a little bit manly and it has red letter print, which I think is just extremely important, especially for a first-time Bible reader.
22:43
SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't know why that would ever make a Bible without red letter print.
22:47
SPEAKER_01: I just think it should be against the law.
22:49
SPEAKER_01: Just feel that passionate about it.
22:51
SPEAKER_01: And I think you should just be able to open up a Bible and see the words of Jesus.
22:55
SPEAKER_01: And I love that, you know, I I just love that.
22:58
SPEAKER_01: And we found one and it was an easy-to-read translation.
23:03
SPEAKER_01: And we checked out, we decided to write a little note in it, and we take it back to the gas station, and we both go in, and he was shocked to see us, really.
23:14
SPEAKER_01: I think.
23:15
SPEAKER_01: But again, it wasn't it wasn't intrusive, and he was excited.
23:20
SPEAKER_01: He was excited, and he was shocked, and he was like humbled.
23:24
SPEAKER_01: Like you came back and brought me this Bible, and he it was like, he was like, you know, wow, wow.
23:31
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, I just want you to just imagine the first time holding God's holy word in his hands.
23:40
SPEAKER_01: He's never touched a Bible, he's never seen scripture, and he's just been given the most precious gift of eternal life in the verbal form, written form, handed to him, and it's in his hand, and it was like he just instantly cherished it.
23:58
SPEAKER_01: And so we began to show him a few things and at the oh go ahead.
24:03
SPEAKER_02: Well, I was just thinking, he literally says this like as soon as we let there's no customers in the store, and the Lord kept customers away for us for a short amount of time here.
24:14
SPEAKER_02: We put the Bible down there on the counter, and his first like he's looking, he comes straight up to the Bible, he leans over the counter, he touches it, yeah, and he looks down at it and he goes, Okay, where do I start?
24:27
SPEAKER_02: Where do I start?
24:28
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that was just so good, y'all.
24:31
SPEAKER_01: Man, it was just oh, I wish you could have just seen his face and heard the hunger in his voice.
24:37
SPEAKER_01: I can't describe it any other way, but it was just pure spiritual hunger and the way that he was looking at it, you know, you could just feel the Holy Spirit calling him.
24:52
SPEAKER_01: Like it was just it was amazing.
24:54
SPEAKER_01: It was unbelievably amazing.
24:57
SPEAKER_01: And like he somehow knew I needed to know what to do with this.
25:02
SPEAKER_01: Like, what do I do with this?
25:04
SPEAKER_01: It's not just a book, it's a tool.
25:06
SPEAKER_01: Although he didn't know that, you know.
25:08
SPEAKER_01: And we were able to, I found uh in our bag, in our gift bag from the cowboy church this morning.
25:14
SPEAKER_01: I had remembered seeing a bookmark in there, and it was uh, it had like a list of scriptures for like emergency scriptures, is what it said, and it had just different scriptures on it, a list of them for different topics or whatever.
25:30
SPEAKER_01: And so I had used that to mark John, which is where we decided, and lots of people immediately suggested we had him, you know, start in John.
25:40
SPEAKER_01: And so we had marked that in anyways.
25:44
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
25:44
SPEAKER_02: So we opened up the Bible, we show him the book of John and tell him BJ's showing him this is John, start here, start reading, and then we go back to the table of content.
25:54
SPEAKER_02: And we showed him the red letter.
25:55
SPEAKER_02: I mean, like, yeah, we showed him some important things.
25:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and we go back to the table of contents and we're saying, look, this tells you where everything is.
26:02
SPEAKER_02: And he looks down at it and he says, What are these?
26:07
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
26:08
SPEAKER_02: And we said, These are like they're they're different books of the Bible.
26:13
SPEAKER_02: And so we were trying to keep it so simple.
26:16
SPEAKER_02: And I'm so thankful that God gave us the words to keep it so simple.
26:22
SPEAKER_01: We're looking at the gospel.
26:23
SPEAKER_01: Because he was confused and he was like, But but what is it?
26:25
SPEAKER_01: And Denise finally says, Y'all, it was so amazing.
26:28
SPEAKER_01: God gave her the words.
26:30
SPEAKER_01: She said, Well, it's it's kind of like a diary.
26:33
SPEAKER_01: Each one of these is a different diary, someone else's perspective of what happened.
26:38
SPEAKER_01: And then together again, we a little bit tag teamed about sharing what the different gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were, and James.
26:46
SPEAKER_01: And then he says, Oh, this is the Old Testament.
26:50
SPEAKER_02: You talked about the Old Testament, and he said, Before Jesus, and pointed the New Testament and said, after Jesus.
26:58
SPEAKER_02: I said, Yes.
26:59
SPEAKER_02: But you've seen his like the light bulb come on when we said it's like a diary.
27:06
SPEAKER_02: These people were here, and they wrote what they saw.
27:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
27:10
SPEAKER_02: And so BJ is telling him, you know, the here's the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and they're going to share similar stories.
27:18
SPEAKER_02: And he was like, okay.
27:20
SPEAKER_02: And we tell him, look, there's not, it's not contradicting each other.
27:24
SPEAKER_02: We want you to understand that you're going to read that each one's different.
27:27
SPEAKER_02: And BJ says, one of them was a doctor.
27:29
SPEAKER_02: And we're like, yeah, Luke was a doctor.
27:31
SPEAKER_02: So he's speaking from a doctor's perspective.
27:34
SPEAKER_02: And so anyway, when we tell him, you know, it's like if all of us seen the same thing, you tell it one way, I tell it.
27:40
SPEAKER_02: We saw the same thing, but we gotta we have a different perspective.
27:43
SPEAKER_02: And he understands completely completely.
27:45
SPEAKER_02: He said, Okay, okay.
27:46
SPEAKER_02: And at one point he said, Oh, we we see a difference.
27:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, and so it's like none of it was confusing to him.
27:52
SPEAKER_02: He understood, and so BJ took a pen and marked those four and put the gospels by, and then she marked, like, start with John first, then second, read this, and third, read this one, and just marked it for him to look.
28:04
SPEAKER_02: And then we took the bookmark because BJ made such a great point when he said this was Old Testament's before Jesus, New Testament as Jesus is here, and so BJ says yes, but in the old testament, all through it, it talks about Jesus coming.
28:20
SPEAKER_02: And so we took the bookmarker and I wrote Messiah Jesus and put Messiah.
28:24
SPEAKER_02: I said Jesus is told called many names, but they're all waiting for the Messiah, the Messiah, the Messiah.
28:31
SPEAKER_02: And then we get to the New Testament, and everybody's going, is this the Messiah we've been waiting on?
28:35
SPEAKER_02: And he's he just he understood God made a way.
28:40
SPEAKER_01: Oh, this is so fun.
28:41
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so I taught on John 4 today about the woman at the well, and she finds the messiah.
28:49
SPEAKER_01: He come see a man that I ever knew.
28:52
SPEAKER_01: And in four chapters, he's gonna be reading probably right now, he is reading the woman at the well, and it says that I'm waiting for the messiah.
29:05
SPEAKER_01: I know he's coming.
29:06
SPEAKER_01: And Jesus says, I am he, I am the messiah.
29:10
SPEAKER_01: And he, Ton May, probably right now is reading that exact scripture.
29:17
SPEAKER_01: How freaking cool is God! It's just so good.
29:21
SPEAKER_02: Holy, that's awesome! And it's so exciting because even as we think about the woman at the well, here she is, a prostitute at the well.
29:29
SPEAKER_02: And and if you're not familiar with that story, read the story.
29:33
SPEAKER_02: I don't ever want to assume everybody knows it.
29:35
SPEAKER_02: But one of the greatest takeaways of that story is not only does she get saved and know, come to know Jesus as the Messiah and understands that he is the one she's been waiting on, but the Lord took the prostitute, the one that no one wanted to have anything to do with, the one the whole town talked about and shunned.
29:55
SPEAKER_02: And she was she was hiding from the whole thing.
29:58
SPEAKER_02: She's at the well, so she didn't have to be around all the other women in town.
30:03
SPEAKER_02: She doesn't care about any of this at that point.
30:05
SPEAKER_02: She drops her pail and she runs back to town and she just shouts it from the rooftops like she's telling everybody Come meet the messages.
30:13
SPEAKER_02: Come meet the man who told me about my all of my all of my life, you know.
30:17
SPEAKER_02: And everything I've ever done.
30:20
SPEAKER_02: Here's the thing God wants to use us in the same way.
30:23
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we just have to be willing to do it.
30:25
SPEAKER_02: And today, thankfully, we got to walk into a gas station, and and the Lord opened up that avenue to bring in the name Jesus.
30:34
SPEAKER_02: And so today we've planted seeds, and someone's gonna come along and water that.
30:40
SPEAKER_02: I know, I know he's gonna come to know the Lord.
30:43
SPEAKER_02: I just feel it because he wants to know.
30:45
SPEAKER_02: He's asking questions.
30:46
SPEAKER_02: Yo, we went out, we left there, we towed him by, we took a picture.
30:51
SPEAKER_01: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, wait, go back because you said, well, you might say this later, but it fits into this part of the conversation.
30:58
SPEAKER_01: Is you said, imagine all of his family and friends back home or here that are Hindu that may come to know the Lord because of him again.
31:09
SPEAKER_01: And y'all, and then I'm just silly because we just kind of fought about it, but I was like, Well, you ain't paying for it.
31:17
SPEAKER_01: I I want we're gonna go in halves on this, the Bible, talking about the Bible.
31:21
SPEAKER_01: And because I'm like, you ain't getting all the all the rewards in heaven for this.
31:26
SPEAKER_01: When we meet him at the gates of heaven, we're gonna join together and be like, hey, we did this together.
31:33
SPEAKER_01: You ain't getting all the rewards for giving him this Bible.
31:36
SPEAKER_01: The Lord is just shaking his head.
31:38
SPEAKER_01: Oh, YouTube.
31:40
SPEAKER_01: But it was so, it was amazing.
31:43
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so now we've we're leaving, and I had he had asked me for a phone number, and so I wrote my phone number in copy of my book that I'd also given him, which is irrelevant, means nothing at this point, but I'd given him the book and my phone number.
32:00
SPEAKER_01: And then Denise says, Oh, I think I have a card and finds a card, and she said, I'm gonna run it back in real quick.
32:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because it had my email on it and it had my it's got my sale, it's got everything on it.
32:13
SPEAKER_02: Social media, social media.
32:15
SPEAKER_02: So all I did was just run it in.
32:16
SPEAKER_02: And when I went to go in, as I walked by and looked in the window, I looked in the window and he wasn't standing at the register.
32:25
SPEAKER_02: And so as I went to open the door, I turned my head a little further to the left, and there he was sitting in the chair.
32:31
SPEAKER_02: Y'all, we have not been gone for not we not even three minutes, yeah.
32:36
SPEAKER_02: No, I mean, we just walked out there, got a card, walked right back in, and he is sitting on a stool in the corner, and he has the Bible opened up and he is reading it.
32:46
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, oh my gosh, he's reading that Bible.
32:49
SPEAKER_02: And then I thought, well, maybe it was BJ's book.
32:51
SPEAKER_02: And so I walk in, I hand him the card, and he's like, Oh, thank you, thank you.
32:54
SPEAKER_02: And I walk out, and when I walk out, I look back in the window.
32:58
SPEAKER_02: He is already sitting back in the corner in the stool, and I look to see, and he is reading the Bible.
33:03
SPEAKER_02: I'm thinking, right now he is reading the book of John.
33:06
SPEAKER_02: And we just started immediately texting people and saying, right where you are, please be praying for Ton May.
33:13
SPEAKER_02: I'm praying and believing that by the time you hear this, hopefully he will know the Lord.
33:18
SPEAKER_02: But though God's word never ever returns voice.
33:22
SPEAKER_02: And I can't wait to see what God does with him.
33:26
SPEAKER_02: And here's the thing: we may not ever hear from Ton May again.
33:29
SPEAKER_02: That's right.
33:30
SPEAKER_02: But I do believe that the Holy Spirit was moving, Holy Spirit's getting a hold of him.
33:35
SPEAKER_02: He is open to receive, and that's all it takes is to be willing, to be open to receive.
33:41
SPEAKER_02: And I just believe one day we're gonna be in heaven and look over and go, Ton May.
33:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's the dude from the Texaco station.
33:49
SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be awesome.
33:50
SPEAKER_01: It's I just I am so excited.
33:53
SPEAKER_01: I cannot wait for the angels to be rejoicing in heaven when Tom May accepts Jesus as his savior because I know it's gonna happen.
34:02
SPEAKER_01: I know, I know, I know it's gonna happen, and it's gonna be a beautiful, beautiful thing.
34:08
SPEAKER_01: I can't wait.
34:09
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's so exciting.
34:11
SPEAKER_02: And as as we leave out of there and we're driving back to the hotel, I'm I'm like, yo, we are so pumped and so excited.
34:19
SPEAKER_02: Nobody's tired anymore.
34:21
SPEAKER_02: I mean, we are just so excited, and it was so fun.
34:26
SPEAKER_02: And I mean, like, we were, I can't even explain how fun it was.
34:30
SPEAKER_01: It was amazing.
34:30
SPEAKER_01: It was so much fun.
34:32
SPEAKER_01: And all day, even all day, even before we ever either either one of us spoke or Nikki led in worship, we just kept saying it's about the one, it's about the one.
34:43
SPEAKER_01: We are here for the one that God sent us for.
34:46
SPEAKER_01: And then it's and there might have been one at the church too, I'm not saying that, but it was like just a beautiful platter of the one that we got to come to Alabama for.
34:58
SPEAKER_01: And it was just awesome.
35:00
SPEAKER_01: Unbelievable.
35:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I loved it.
35:04
SPEAKER_02: People are people wherever you go.
35:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
35:07
SPEAKER_02: And some people can be mean, some people don't want to hear nothing.
35:12
SPEAKER_02: But look, when we make things simple and we're friendly and we just are just nice to people, it opens up the door to talk about Jesus.
35:21
SPEAKER_02: Not everyone is going to be open to it.
35:23
SPEAKER_02: No.
35:24
SPEAKER_02: I can walk in and be nice to everybody in the store and then turn around and say, Hey, do you know Jesus?
35:30
SPEAKER_02: And they may cut me off right then and there, their whole attitude may change, and that's fine.
35:35
SPEAKER_02: That's fine if they do, right?
35:37
SPEAKER_02: But the way we act and the way we carry ourselves is important.
35:41
SPEAKER_02: And I just think that if we would talk to people like we've known them our whole life, just like walking in there and going, Hey, I heard you were the nicest guy.
35:50
SPEAKER_02: And he was like, Oh, you know, people will joke around.
35:54
SPEAKER_02: People like to have fun, they really do.
35:57
SPEAKER_01: Some are harder to get to than others, but even the hardest ones, if you go in and you make a point to be nice, you it's rare that you don't get to see a little bit of softness come.
36:09
SPEAKER_01: Now, every once in your mom, like, well, she wasn't receiving that, you know.
36:13
SPEAKER_01: And yeah, like the lady at the Krispy Kreme about the no toilet paper in the bathroom.
36:17
SPEAKER_01: Y'all, we had Krispy Kreme.
36:19
SPEAKER_01: Denise goes in to use the restroom, and then she comes out.
36:23
SPEAKER_01: First off, she comes out of Krispy Kreme with her hands sopping wet, and she's like, Y'all have no toilet paper.
36:30
SPEAKER_01: Now, come on.
36:31
SPEAKER_02: I wasn't seeing I'm giving DJ this look like, and she's like, What is wrong?
36:38
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, it was just a situation, okay?
36:42
SPEAKER_02: There's like two squares on one roll, and I got like maybe a square and a half of the other.
36:48
SPEAKER_02: And anyway, we don't have to go into all the details.
36:52
SPEAKER_02: But let me just wait.
36:54
SPEAKER_02: Every woman that's listening is like, been there, done that, right?
36:58
SPEAKER_02: But then I come out and I was like, hey, just letting y'all know, there's no toilet paper in the bathroom, like at all.
37:04
SPEAKER_02: No response.
37:05
SPEAKER_02: She doesn't even say, Oh, I'm sorry.
37:07
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, she doesn't say, Oh, I'm sorry, oh, we'll get that.
37:10
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
37:11
SPEAKER_02: She didn't, it was she wasn't nice about it.
37:13
SPEAKER_01: She wasn't even rude, like to turn around and go, okay.
37:16
SPEAKER_01: It was like she didn't know what toilet paper was or why there should be some in there in the first place.
37:20
SPEAKER_01: She just gave me this blank stare.
37:22
SPEAKER_02: And it was just can it look at a hate coworker.
37:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I'm thinking, did she not hear what I just said?
37:28
SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm like, yeah, it was kind of a shock going to the bathroom.
37:32
SPEAKER_02: There ain't no no toilet paper, you know, like nothing.
37:34
SPEAKER_02: So like there's nothing in there.
37:36
SPEAKER_02: And they just kind of going on about their business, and I'm looking at BJ, and I was like, Well, apparently they ain't gonna be not because nobody taking on toilet.
37:45
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, how we get off on that?
37:47
SPEAKER_02: I don't know, but it doesn't matter.
37:49
SPEAKER_02: The point the how we got off on that is because not everyone's going to be friendly, not everyone's gonna be receiving, and it doesn't matter what it is.
37:56
SPEAKER_02: Some people you can joke around, you can laugh, and you can talk to, and most people will lighten up.
38:02
SPEAKER_02: Just give it a chance.
38:04
SPEAKER_01: Just give it a chance.
38:05
SPEAKER_01: It was so fun, y'all.
38:07
SPEAKER_01: And just trying to trying to figure out what words to use and describe what repentance was.
38:16
SPEAKER_01: And you know, and there was another word you were trying to describe, and and we, you know, we conviction, yeah, and and feeling bad about things.
38:25
SPEAKER_01: And it was it was just amazing.
38:28
SPEAKER_01: And again, I just go back to this.
38:31
SPEAKER_01: Is this the first thing he read when we walked out the out of the door, and it's John chapter one.
38:38
SPEAKER_01: In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
38:44
SPEAKER_01: Man, that's just so powerful.
38:48
SPEAKER_01: One of the most powerful scriptures in the whole Bible, I believe.
38:53
SPEAKER_01: And and he's gonna go down to John 3.16.
38:56
SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's gonna be so good.
38:58
SPEAKER_01: We get so used to hearing John 3.16 that it's not even doesn't even move us half the time.
39:04
SPEAKER_01: And then this man hungry for God's word, is fixing to read John 3.16 for the first time.
39:15
SPEAKER_01: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
39:23
SPEAKER_01: Man, oh Lord, please speak to him.
39:27
SPEAKER_01: Let him understand that you died for him.
39:31
SPEAKER_01: Y'all, please pray for Ton May.
39:34
SPEAKER_01: We gotta wrap this, but we could not delay.
39:36
SPEAKER_01: We had to hop on and record this podcast right here in Birmingham, Alabama, and it'll probably get moved up in the list a little bit because it's too fun to not share it soon.
39:48
SPEAKER_01: We've got some other things already recorded, but we're gonna, I'm just gonna say, you know, Denise is in charge of that, but we're gonna please scooch this up.
39:56
SPEAKER_01: And because we need you to hear this, and it's gonna be exciting.
40:00
SPEAKER_01: And as soon as we get word from Ton May that he's accepted Christ, we will hop on and share that with you.
40:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
40:07
SPEAKER_02: Today we're recording this is Saturday.
40:10
SPEAKER_02: You're gonna be listening to it this coming Thursday.
40:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this is Saturday, September 19th, that we're recording this.
40:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I want to put it on there because I want people to be praying for him.
40:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, spread the word, tell everybody you know you got a prayer chain, you got a a group of prayer ladies, life group, whatever it is, share the name Ton May.
40:28
SPEAKER_02: T-A-N-M-A-Y.
40:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, or he goes by Tom, but we he he said you can call me Tom, but we were like, Texaco Tom from Alabama, yeah.
40:38
SPEAKER_02: But you know, we were just kind of like names are important, yeah.
40:41
SPEAKER_02: And that was that is his name.
40:44
SPEAKER_01: And it meant a lot to him when you said that.
40:47
SPEAKER_01: You said I said names are important, and you said your mama gave you that name, and it's meaningful.
40:53
SPEAKER_01: And he just kind of shook his head and hung his head down and he said yes, and it was important for us to be able to say it, it was terrible, y'all.
41:02
SPEAKER_01: Oh my lanta, y'all, us trying to say his name.
41:04
SPEAKER_01: I kept saying he thought he was saying Don, D-O-N.
41:07
SPEAKER_02: Even when he told me how to spell it before you came into the store, yeah.
41:11
SPEAKER_02: I thought he said D.
41:12
SPEAKER_02: I'm going Don Moi, Don Moi, Don Moi, the first time that shows he couldn't understand me either.
41:20
SPEAKER_02: Because the very first time I said it, I said Don Don May, and he said, Yes, no, because I was just a D, not a T.
41:31
SPEAKER_02: You know, and I'm already from Texas, so he was already struggling.
41:35
SPEAKER_02: Uh, but anyway, yeah, it was uh be praying, praying for him, tell everybody you know to pray.
41:41
SPEAKER_02: And if we get any word from him, when not if, when when we get contact from him, we will definitely give you guys an update.
41:53
SPEAKER_02: And just to let you know, look, you can uh message us on our social media, jump on our website, unashamedww.com, and send us an email.
42:03
SPEAKER_02: Fan mail.
42:03
SPEAKER_02: There's fan mail right here on the podcast that you can type on.
42:07
SPEAKER_02: If you have a question about Ton May, or if you don't know Jesus, ask a question about it.
42:14
SPEAKER_01: Just ask.
42:15
SPEAKER_01: If you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior and you're listening to this right now, and you're like, what is this they're talking about?
42:22
SPEAKER_01: Please, please message us.
42:25
SPEAKER_01: We would love to have this conversation with you.
42:28
SPEAKER_01: I love missions.
42:30
SPEAKER_01: Me too.
42:32
SPEAKER_02: It was like we read a missions.
42:33
SPEAKER_02: It is that was missions.
42:35
SPEAKER_02: That's what that like it looks so different everywhere.
42:38
SPEAKER_02: And one of my things on our dream list for Unashamed Women's Ministry is to do a retreat, but it'd be a mission-minded retreat where we come together, we share the we talk about the word, we get equipped, and we go out in groups and we share the gospel in whatever town that is.
42:56
SPEAKER_02: I would love to know is there anybody out there that would be interested in doing that?
43:01
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
43:01
SPEAKER_01: Oh, you know what it just hit me?
43:04
SPEAKER_01: When this is airing Thursday morning, we're gonna be on our way to Hot Springs.
43:08
SPEAKER_01: We are.
43:08
SPEAKER_01: Oh my goodness.
43:09
SPEAKER_01: Unashamed.
43:11
SPEAKER_01: I can't believe it's here.
43:13
SPEAKER_01: I know it's been a year plus in the making, and here we are.
43:17
SPEAKER_01: Here we are.
43:18
SPEAKER_02: Thank y'all so much for listening.
43:19
SPEAKER_02: We really, truly appreciate y'all taking the time.
43:24
SPEAKER_00: You've been listening to Unashamed Table Talk with BJ Garrett and Denise Bowens.
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SPEAKER_00: May you be encouraged, rooted in truth, and unashamed.