Welcome to Gospel Truth with Andrew Wama, a teaching ministry emphasizing God's unconditional love and grace.

This very special broadcast of Andrew's classic teaching, a better way to pray,

as originally recorded in 2003, is being broadcast exclusively for our radio listeners.

And now, here's Andrew. The goal isn't to overcome sin. The goal is to have intimacy, closeness with God.

That's what eternal life is all about.

That's why Jesus came.

And this is the reason, see, that the first century church had better results than this century church does.

They didn't have radio, television, tapes, CDs.

They didn't have the ability and all of the things that we do. They didn't have radio, television, tapes, CDs. They didn't have the ability and all of the things that we do.

They didn't have the printed page.

They didn't have books.

They didn't have tracks.

And yet in 30 years, a rag-tag group of uneducated people changed the world, turned it right side up.

In 30 years, the gospel had spread throughout the known

world. They made a huge impact, a greater impact than we're making on our generation. You know why?

Because they had a quality of relationship with God that was infectious. I've actually been to Rome. I remember my mother took me over there

when I was 18 years old and we went through the catacombs. We went through the Coliseum, the Circus

Maximus where they killed people. You know it been her that uh...

chariot race that was a circus maximus

and they used to burn people at the stake and throw them to the lines and do all

of that

and i've been over there and saw that and i never will forget as i went through those

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