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Join The Journey

Episode 124: Mark 9

Join The Journey

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Bible, Devotional

5827 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Why do you need a savior? You might know the church answer, but do you ACTUALLY have a right view of Jesus. Who is Jesus? In this episode, Mark Hapka joins Emma Dotter to share about how God used a life-threatening ATV accident and a verse from today's chapter to forever change his view of Jesus.

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0:00.0

Hey, y'all, you're listening to the Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma Daughter.

0:05.2

To learn more about today's reading or to read along with us, check out jointhejourney.com.

0:11.2

Thanks for joining. I am in the podcast studio with today's Devo writer, Mr. Mark Hoffka.

0:17.2

Hey, Emma. Mark, so glad you're here. I get to work with your wife every week, which is a blast.

0:23.6

I bet. It's good to be here with you, E.D., in the podcast studio. In the podcast studio. So glad you're here.

0:29.4

So tell me a little bit about Mark. Where do you serve? Sure. There's a couple areas that I've served in. They've all had unique impacts in my life. First, equipped disciple ministry, been serving in

0:38.4

2015. My wife and I went through that together in 2014 and, you know, really helped me learn how to

0:44.5

have a quiet time. Yeah. taught me how to memorize scripture, the value of memorizing scripture,

0:50.2

taught me how to share my testimony, how to share the bridge, was really instrumental and strengthening our

0:54.7

marriage, gave us Bible studies we could review together. You know, I used to think those initials on

0:59.9

the side of the Bible, like ESV, NIV, KJV, I thought, man, there's a lot of people who last name begins

1:05.5

with V that goes to this church. You thought it was their personal initial. Yeah. So, but God used that equipped disciple ministry to really teach me how to hustle my own gospel

1:13.0

groceries, so to speak.

1:14.3

And so just love coming to walk besides newer believers, growing believers, and continue to do

1:19.0

that.

1:19.5

And after that, jumped in, served in the believe team for a while.

1:22.7

I got to use, you know, my testimony, what I learned that, and then being able to share

1:27.2

the bridge to meet

1:29.0

guys who are pursuing membership. And, you know, that was, to me, I love selfishly the belief

1:34.2

team such a win because either I get to hear God's story in someone's life or I get to help

1:39.3

provide gospel clarity for someone or share the gospel with them. Because that was my story.

1:43.2

You know, God was clearly moving in my life. I was pursuing membership. And I just didn't have that

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