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🗓️ 6 June 2022
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Are you ready "in season and out of season?" What does Paul mean when he gives Timothy the charge to be ready? In this episode, Emma Dotter walks us through what it looks like to be ready in 2022.
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0:00.0 | Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast |
0:05.7 | with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. Today, we're wrapping up the book of Second |
0:12.5 | Timothy. And it's in this chapter, chapter four, that we read Paul's famous charge to Timothy. |
0:18.2 | He says to be ready in season and out of season. And as I read today's |
0:22.5 | chapter in Devo, I couldn't help but think about one of my own be ready to preach the word in season and |
0:27.9 | out of season moments. Last year, as people were starting to return to church after COVID and |
0:33.2 | ministries, they were beginning to gather in person again, I got an unexpected call. |
0:38.2 | And at this point in time, I wasn't on the Women's Bible Study teaching rotation, as I'd really, |
0:43.3 | I think I'd just finished the Watermark Institute the year prior. |
0:46.5 | But I unexpectedly got a call from G.G. Hornberger, who we actually had on the podcast, |
0:52.0 | back in Philippians, I believe. And as the phone rang, I want to say I was |
0:55.8 | driving maybe back to Dallas after visiting my family in Waco, something like that. So I was |
1:01.5 | pretty surprised to see Gigi calling me. And it felt incredibly random. And after answering, |
1:08.1 | she shared with me that several of the Bible study large group teachers |
1:11.6 | had gotten sick or had to quarantine because they'd all been together pretty recently. |
1:16.5 | So she asked if I'd be able to teach the kickoff week as we continued our spring semester |
1:21.4 | curriculum working through the book of judges. And here's the thing. |
1:26.2 | Gigi called me because she knew I'd be ready and prepared to teach |
1:29.7 | even though it was such short notice, like two days or something crazy like that. The lesson, |
1:35.4 | while we were starting judges, was supposed to be an Old Testament overview. Walk the women through |
1:39.9 | the story of the Old Testament, catch them up, set the scene for the book of judges to begin. |
1:45.0 | And Gigi knew I'd be ready because I'd just spent a year in the institute and had also |
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