Timothy you've traveled with me you've seen what I've suffered you know what I've endured

now you endure hardship if we are going to see the name of Jesus exalted in our

schools on our college campuses, if we're going to do business with integrity

again, if we're going to come back to our right mind and not be confused about male and female,

it will be because the Church of Jesus Christ has the courage to endure the hardship of presenting

the truth into our culture. I pray we're willing to do that.

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

I want to continue the theme we've been working on.

This idea of stepping out of the crowd.

It really grew in my heart when I was traveling a few weeks ago and I was talking to people. We were in California for several days and in multiple cities and I kept meeting people and they said you know we're we watched here and we

watch in this way or we listen in that way and so I started asking for some

numbers and I realized there's a lot of people that watch Christian television

and listen to the Christian radio and they imagine themselves when you go interview them and talk

to them. We're a part of that group. It's kind of the way they self-identify and what I heard start to come out of me is you have to step out of the crowd

You can't just hide in the group and the more I've thought about it the more I've prayed about it

I think we've done that as Christ followers in general. I belong to this congregation or I

belong to that denomination or you know I'm Armenian or I'm a reformed or I'm a king jameser or i'm not instrumental or i'm a do

this or i'm a do thater

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