When facing new frontiers, whether external or internal, the invitation from Jesus is always, will you come with me?

Friends, welcome to the Wild at Heart Podcast. I'm Alan Arnold, and it's the week of August 3rd. We are in part

two of a series titled New Frontiers. If you haven't heard the first part

you'll want to go back to last weeks and listen to that before going into this one.

But this is one that we have pulled from the vaults.

Every summer we re-air one of our all-time favorite podcast series, and this absolutely is one of mine.

In this conversation, John and Craig McConnell talk about the new frontiers before us, the challenges, the opportunities, and mainly the

invitation from Jesus. What are we being invited into and how do we navigate the new frontiers with him?

Here's part two of the series with John and Craig.

Oh my gosh, as I look back over my life, John, one of the major shifts, huge moments,

kind of tipping points in my life came as I sat under the study of Dr Larry

Crab, just everything he wrote, everything he spoke, all his conferences and things.

Oh, you were gobbling it up.

I was a monster.

And he introduced me to a world that I never knew existed.

It was as if I'd got on a flight out of LAX at 2 in the morning and found myself 12 hours later in Madagascar because all I had

ever known was an external world that if that world went according to my hopes and desires I was happy.

I found it easy to live the Christian life and I did everything I could to manage that external world so I would be happy.

And he introduced to me for the very first time and it's embarrassing to met, thank God it's

decades ago, that there's an internal world and that the problems I identified,

you know, I'm a wife who could do so much better at being obedient to scripture and its falls to be

Proverbs 31 woman and so on and so forth that the problem really wasn't her it was me my absolute inability to love her and not to

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