If you believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to God, you're not what our country is all about.

The next generation, the rest of our life, we are going to experience a different world

than maybe our grandparents experienced.

It's easy for people to gather and wholly huddle, shake their fingers, shake their heads,

talk about how dark the world is without going, all right, this is my mission field.

These are the people God has called me to reach.

And unless you're doing that, I think inevitably, you're just going to start to view people

with a chip on your shoulder that don't know Jesus, and you'll confuse the mission field

with your enemy.

Yeah, it's that we did nothing to separate, you know, ourselves from

the ungodly, apart from the work that Christ began in us. You have to remember that apart from the

grace of God, you'd be exactly like them. You have to remember what Christ has done, that his love and

his grace and his mercy transformed you. And then you have to do something else in verse 8.

Paul saying,

hey,

this is one of the antidotes to growing callous towards the unbelieving world.

Hank, how we doing?

Doing well, Johnny.

Actually, I want to clarify something from last episode. So for those who might be picking up in a asynchronous order, last week, Johnny asked me what my last meal would be before I died. And I answered honestly, and I answered off the cuff, and I rattled off a fairly lengthy Portillo's order. Don't interrupt. When I got home, I thought, honey, I made a mistake today on the podcast.

She asked me what she was worried.

It was some theological thing I totally flummoxed.

But in reality, I told her that Johnny asked what my last order was.

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