Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David

Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this week's connecting clip of the week, Paul Tripp, Shelby Abbott, and special guest Recap

Gray, discuss the connection between vegetable gardens and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

This short excerpt is from a larger conversation between Recap, Paul, and Shelby on the Connecting podcast.

To hear Recap's full story, check out the Paul Tripp podcast, episode 309.

Now here's this week's connecting clip of the week.

I think that we often underestimate the power of just simple gospel communication because we communicate the gospel somebody, we walk away.

We have no idea when the fruit of that will take place because we don't control the winds of the spirit.

And I just think it's so important to grab those opportunities, speak truth.

And don't be, I think often it's like we had a piece of property in Scranton where I planted a church and we had a big vegetable garden. And I decided I wanted to teach my children how to

do this. So we made the furrows and we put beans down for green beans and covered them up and

kids watered them. And my daughter, daughter Nicole came out the next morning looked at that

long mound of dirt and said it didn't work day after and that's us that's i was going to say that's

exactly who we are that's you know and and i, you know, the seed's got to take root.

And then out of that will become this little nub of a plant and it'll grow a plant.

And then these little buds, and I explained the process to it.

I said, we'll come out day after day, but the seeds been planted.

And I just think we do that in conversation with people.

This, I mean, how, I think in, in eternity, we're going to, we're going to meet people that

we just thought walked away, rejected it, had no time for it, but at a point

in time, God brings that truth to mind because God's been active all along, writing this

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