Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 3 (Q & A)

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🗓️ 9 October 2001

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Scriptures carry answers relating to the nature of fasting, honoring parents in a missionary calling, leading the church in a God-Centered direction, and relating to those who walk in urepentant sin, but some things we will have to wait to know until the age to come.

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0:00.0	Father, we dedicate the next 35, 40 minutes, whatever it's going to be to you and your truth.
0:08.0	We want to build each other's faith. We want to strengthen each other's ministry, we want to refine each other's theological
0:15.8	grasp of reality, and we want to stoke each other's fires of passion for your supremacy and we don't want to waste our time on
0:25.9	non-essentials and I don't want to answer too long when I should be answering short or
0:31.1	say anything unhelpful. So guard us from the evil one and guard us from
0:35.8	pride and guard us from fear and give us wisdom. Give us Solomon-like wisdom.
0:43.0	Cut the baby in half kind of wisdom and Stephen kind of wisdom that when questions were asked that couldn't resist the wisdom.
0:54.4	They could only kill him.
0:55.4	They couldn't resist his wisdom.
0:58.4	So Grant, I pray that there would be wisdom in this room now for questioner and answer
1:05.0	and that it would be a great God-exalting faith-building mission advancing
1:10.3	church healing, marriage strengthening time.
1:15.0	In Jesus' name.
1:17.0	Raise your hand.
1:21.0	Raise your hand.
1:22.0	It's more of a personal question.
1:24.0	Do you own a gun?
1:26.0	Say again.
1:27.0	Do you own a gun?
1:28.0	I do not own a gun.
1:30.0	Never have owned a gun. Except BB gun.
1:33.0	Had a BB gun one time.
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