Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion. It's a podcast. It's about reformed theology,

Baptist theology, particular Baptist theology, faith, practice. You know, you get it. You guys

have to listen to that. There's no big deal. My name is Joe. 500 episodes. They should know. Yeah,

after 500, I feel like we should be canonized. You really think so, maybe. I'm Joe Thornton,

the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles, Illinois. And I'm June Fowler,

who's looking to pastor at Redeemer Fellowship. Hey, you know what? Yep. I'm discouraged. Oh,

well, we're talking about this because I know it's true. I'm just going to say, you're,

I almost put up a tweet, but I didn't know how to word it. But I wanted to tell people,

why Felicia? Yeah, no, I'm leaving. No, by Felicia means you're leaving. Somebody else is leaving.

Right. Are you, are you by Felicia, eating me? I, you know, there have been times I've

thought about it. Um, yeah, I almost put up a tweet explaining just to say, like, uh,

I wanted to let everyone know I'm discouraged. And I didn't want to share that for sympathy.

I wanted to share that as a way of encouragement. Like, discouragement is normal.

Like, we get discouraged. And sometimes misery loves company. You know, no, let me

what I'm saying is is that you will be discouraged. And we've actually did a whole

episode of this a while back. But yeah, you will get discouraged. And sometimes

it's warranted. You shouldn't be discouraged. You failed. You screwed up. You know,

you big dummy. But sometimes it's not warranted. Sometimes it's something that

you need to really push back against. And either case need to be open. Yeah.

Yeah. You need to look to the Lord in it. And you need to throw a, like, a lonely

hearts party like they did on the office when Michael was sad and, you know, trying to

find love. I don't know. I don't. I don't. I watch the series. It was good.

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