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In this week's Connecting clip of the week, Paul and guest Tim Chalys discussed the current state of the church.

To hear more of this conversation with Tim Chalys,

check out the Connecting Podcast episode 36,

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Here's Paul and Tim Chalys on the state of the church.

I wanna put you on the spot and because of what you do, talk about the state of the church and in our generation and what are we getting very right and what are we getting wrong and yeah yeah I mean I think

the the instinct one asked a question like that is to focus on things that we find

discouraging but I'm I'm so encouraged when I see what the Lord is up to in his

church the over the last few years just to see a, a growing movement of people who just love the Lord, love the Bible, love the gospel and are willing to, um, yeah, just put themselves under the authority of godly teachers, learn the word through them, apply that diligently to their lives.

There's so many temptations around us, so many opportunities to focus on lesser things at the expense of the gospel.

But I've been wildly encouraged and even having had the opportunity to travel far and wide to see to see that same

thing all around the world to see just churches from yeah pole to pole and date line to date line

just loving the Lord honoring him I've been absolutely I just loved seeing resources traveling the world and, you know,

the good resources that the Western Church has the ability and the funds to create, love and honor

publishers, Crossway, among others that you mentioned, who are willing to invest in translating

those things and distributing them

freely or cost effectively.

And that's been a tremendous blessing, really starting to see the opposite happen in a sense,

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