Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Thanks for being here. Another pre-recorded maternity

episode where I will be answering some of the questions that you guys sent me on Instagram.

Okay, this is a question that I love and I get these kinds of questions a lot and they

just, they make me really happy and they remind me that like God's work and we've said this

many times on the podcast doesn't make headlines. It doesn't reach Pew Research and Gallup

surveys, but it's still happening. And this question is, I don't want to be a lukewarm

Christian anymore. How do I begin this journey and stick with it? And guys, I get those

questions all the time or I get questions or messages saying, hey, you know, I used to

hate what you had to say about religion and Christianity or I found you through an influencer

that was negatively talking about you or your podcast and I wanted to hate on you too.

And then I ended up changing my mind or I read your book and I changed my mind about

this or just messages from new believers or from skeptics that are sincerely searching.

Like I get those messages all the time and if I just a random person with a small, relatively

small sphere of, of influence compared to, you know, big name influencers and commentators

and theologians, if I'm getting those questions, I have to think that other Christians are as

well. And that's God is always going to continue working. He's always going to continue

pursuing. He's always going to continue to seek and save the lost as he says that he

came to do. He's always going to keep looking for the lost coin and rescuing the lost sheep

and running towards the prodigal son. And you'll hear from the Washington Post and the

New York Times that Christianity is waning that it's dying out, that it's antiquated,

that Christians are the cause of all of our major societal problems and are our biggest

inhibition to success and progress as a country. You'll keep seeing how it is less safe,

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