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Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women

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I am thrilled to have on the show today, Leo. This is our very first male guest on the show. Welcome, Leo.

Hi, Julie. Good to be here. So happy to have you.

What is your question for me today? Yes. So I am interested in understanding better on how to minister to those who question or doubt the truth claims of the church. That's the simple version. Okay, so the church

meaning the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, right? Correct. Okay, just want to make sure

for our listeners who are members of other faiths, what we're talking about today. So how to

best minister. So what are situations where you found yourself

not knowing what to do or say? Yeah. So we I work with this. I'm a founder of an organization

called Uplift. And we've been trying to minister to people all along different places in the

belief spectrum. So we have people sometimes that are just

first experiencing some questions and some doubt and feel like they don't know where to turn.

And then we have people sometimes to come in that may be more solidified in their conclusions.

And I guess it's trying to understand for any particular person, depending on where they fall on this belief spectrum, how to best approach them.

How to do we share testimony with these people?

Do we just listen?

Do we provide answers?

Any kind of advice there on how to help people, depending on where they are in the belief spectrum?

Yeah. I think the best thing to do is listen more than talk.

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