Welcome to Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin. The Church of 1122 is a movement for all people to discover

and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ. And we're praying this message helps you deepen your

relationship with him. Now let's dive in. Hey, welcome back to the Deepen podcast. Pastor Britt,

bringing the word today. And this series in

First Timothy, incredible. And just to back up for a second, big picture, Paul is a, he's an

apostle. He, his life was marked by a lot of things, defense of the gospel, but he planted a lot of churches.

He traveled around and you could say that a big part of his mission in life was to establish

healthy, autonomous local churches all over the known world at that time.

Is that fair to say?

Almost.

So the context of this letter that we're studying first

Timothy is him writing to his child in the faith who is the pastor of a church and so a lot of

what we're going to talk about and what we are talking about this this weekend is healthy

healthy churches.

So let's start with what role has the local church played in your life personally?

As you think about the local church and its role, what has that been like?

Pastor Joby?

Yeah, I think mine on your journey in the local church is a bit different.

Very, very, very different. So I didn't, I've told you before, I did not grow up in the church at all. Christer. Yeah, a little bit. Occasionally, not even Christmas that much because we had a family reunion at Christmas Eve at my Uncle Philip's house. and so, but you could always tell the people that went to the church service first

before they came over because they were all dressed up. reunion at Christmas Eve at Uncle Phillips house. But you could always tell the people that went to

the church service first before they came over because they were all dressed up and the rest of us

were in camo. And so it was kind of benign and then a few experiences were less than awesome, you know.

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