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🗓️ 27 October 2023
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0:00.0 | That's so, that's so helpful. So the question is about wilderness wandering and what do we do? |
0:10.0 | I just want to acknowledge that you brought your four children here. Like I just want to acknowledge that. |
0:14.0 | I think, you know, one of the things that I've been, as some fun witness history, because of that, we almost started a church. |
0:29.0 | That's some fun witness history. That's not true. I didn't want to live in the city that was suggesting. |
0:39.0 | But, no, I think, you know, we really genuinely are continually feeling the pull to provide people with more opportunities to connect. |
0:49.0 | And, you know, candidly, we've been trying to figure out as the witness. |
0:53.0 | It's almost been a level of, I don't know, alley conviction that we felt that we want to give people space. |
1:00.0 | So much so that we're trying to do everything that we possibly can on our end to provide that whether it's witness chapters, |
1:06.0 | so as going to specific places and establishing chapters in different cities and regions. |
1:10.0 | We talked about specific communities. We talked about a church database recommendation database. |
1:16.0 | A green book, a green book, yeah. And I think for us, like there's a level of great identification with this. |
1:25.0 | Even if we were in churches, we felt like our churches didn't fit in other church associations. |
1:30.0 | So I just want to first say, we hear you. We see that and we feel that deeply. |
1:37.0 | And that's a continual thing that people have said. |
1:40.0 | And one of the things that I didn't realize until I went to college and left my parents' church was, |
1:45.0 | is finding a church is not just some easy. You just get up and just find a church. |
1:49.0 | Right. It's like, what, like that's a, that's a six month commitment to trying out churches. |
1:56.0 | You try it one, one church one Sunday, you're like, oh, this was good. |
1:59.0 | But that wasn't even the past that I was preaching. So you're like, what? |
2:02.0 | And then the pastor don't come back the next Sunday. And then if somebody else didn't even find out something. |
2:05.0 | And it's like, whoa, you got to actually monitor and watch the places that you want to be connected to. |
2:11.0 | So before we say anything else, I just want to affirm the desire of your desire. |
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