Hey guys, welcome to the Conversations of That Matter Podcast.

I'm John Harris, your host, hopefully a shorter episode today.

We're gonna have a theme this week.

We've already kind of delved into it a little bit, but there's gonna be a number of shows this week in which I'm going to, or podcast, which I'm going to talk about individuals or organizations as the case may be that I think many have trusted at some point or another

or had some confidence in or and the moral of the story just to let you all know is we got to be Bereans. When the Bereans made sure

what Paul was saying was in line with the Old Testament scriptures we got to do

the same kind of thing by making sure that the people and the

organizations we trust and partner with are in line with what the Bible says.

And if we don't do that, then we can get into some very bad places where we're actually helping,

fund, partnering with people who aren't actually doing real Christian

discipleship or they have very inadequate or sometimes a really dangerous message that they're preaching, perhaps a false gospel. And so we've got to be not

heresy hunters where like we're just looking and just around every corner there's heresy and

twisting things to make it heresy but we we have to be discerning where when we

are going to be listening to people from certain organizations from from any

organization anytime we listen really and we are going to be especially putting

financial backing and support behind organizations that we kind of know what

they're about and we're not just naive and we don't just go on trusting this

organization is still good because

man it was good when my dad was involved in it well you know you're it's been a

while since your dad was involved in it right these organizations

change over time and we found that out with a lot of organizations and so anyway I think

people and organizations we make sure that we are as generous as we possibly can be in the sense that we're we're giving a

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