Nancy Damas Wargamuth wants you to be prepared when you hear false teaching.

There's such a lack of biblical discernment on the part of God's people today,

and it makes us susceptible to false teaching.

That's why you need to know God's word.

This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damas Waldenuth,

author of choosing forgivenessosing For October 19th, 2023, I'm Danagresh. Yesterday Nancy began talking about what your church might need and

she's getting to the heart of what you and I need to. We're in a smaller series called

what this church needs. It's part of a longer study on the letters to the

churches we read about in revelation. Here's Nancy to continue with the series.

From time to time the senior leadership team of our ministry will get together and do some strategic

planning, some evaluating where we are as a ministry.

And one of the exercises we go through periodically

is what they call a SWAT analysis.

Are you familiar with that?

SWOT.

And we get one of those big flip charts up, we'll post papers around the walls, and we look first at S, what are the strengths of the ministry?

W, what are the weaknesses of the ministry right now?

Oh, what are some of the opportunities that we're facing?

And T, what are some of the threats that we're facing as a ministry?

And that helps us evaluate where we are, where we've been, where we're heading,

and adjustments that we need to make in different areas of the ministry.

Well, in the letters to the seven churches in revelation,

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