Welcome to Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word podcast.

I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Tripp Ministries team.

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online at paultrip.com slash Wednesday, or on Facebook, Instagram, and the Paul Trip app. This week,

as we continue our series on discipleship, Paul wants to revisit the word no in the love, no, speak, do, ministry

model we've been discussing lately.

Here's this week's Wednesday's word.

Most relationships within the body of Christ are trapped in the casual. There are many surface-level facts that we may know about each other,

but we often don't know the hearts of those people,

the spiritual souls of our brothers and sisters who live within the borders of those facts.

Of course, it's impossible to deeply know everyone.

But do you know even a handful intimately?

Love, no, speak, do.

God has called us to make disciples and exhort one another every day,

Hebrews 3, 13.

But our effectiveness in ministry relationships

will be limited to the extent that we don't know

where change is needed or where God is actively at work in others' lives.

Why don't we know well and how can we know deeper?

For most Christians, we're just too busy.

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