Are we so convinced we're born again and saved and converted and we got our business

taken care of that we've managed to relegate God to a secondary place?

I'm driving this thing.

Have we done enough Bible studies,

and we know enough Bible stories,

and you've endured enough sermons that you think,

you know, I'm good.

Really, this is our watch.

We're the light bulb in the midst of this thing. How are we doing with that?

We're the salt, we're the restraining influence, we're the expression of the Church of Jesus Christ in this particular season.

Have we forgotten God?

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.

Well the topic I want to pick up at least for a couple of sessions is really around a question and I'm borrowing it a bit.

It was from a Soltson-Nietzen address at the Templeton,

his Templeton address some years ago at Harvard.

But he was reviewing Russian history, which is in the news a lot these days.

And he said an old woman in Russia cited all the horrible tragic things that had happened to the Russian people, and they had been horrific.

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