Irresistible Outreach: Stephen Viars
FamilyLife Today®
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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Is your church's outreach irresistible? Pastor and author Stephen Viars thinks it can be! Find ideas to dive wholeheartedly and thoughtfully into the needs and heartbeat of your community.
It's a church movement. It's a church that really wants to love our community. We do a lot of strategic ministry planning at our church. One of the things that we often say is, “Often, the best ministry idea resides in the heart of the shyest person in the room.-- Stephen Viars
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Connect with Stephen's church ministry at www.faithlafayette.org and stay connected at biblicalcounselingcoalition.org
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm guessing you know the answer this question but one of the things that irritates me about you. |
| 0:05.6 | What? This is how we're starting? Yeah, I was still there. |
| 0:09.6 | Hopefully this doesn't create a conflict. Although our listeners might enjoy a good t- |
| 0:14.1 | even conflict. |
| 0:15.2 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 0:30.0 | You can find us at FamilyLife Today.com. |
| 0:32.0 | This is Family life today. It drives me crazy. It's actually a beautiful thing, but it drives me crazy how you see strangers in a store on a sidewalk in a park, it doesn't matter where we are and you have to go help. |
| 0:57.0 | You stop, it may be $10 or $20, it may be buying groceries, it may be getting our car. We'll drive you across this |
| 1:05.2 | drunk woman. I'm not you've done it all and there's times I'm like are you gonna do this again |
| 1:11.8 | Can't we just care about only us? |
| 1:14.6 | Didn't that we're supposed to do? |
| 1:16.6 | Care just about us to be selfish? |
| 1:18.0 | No, I mean, I'm kidding. |
| 1:20.5 | But there are times, right? |
| 1:21.8 | I've been like, no, seriously, we don't have time for some stranger we don't know. |
| 1:26.0 | And yet you're loving her like Jesus would. |
| 1:28.0 | Oh, that's nice. That's a compliment. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, the reason I bring it up is I think we've got your clone in the studio. |
| 1:35.0 | We've got Dr. Steve Myers back with us, |
| 1:39.0 | pastor in Lafayette, Indiana, but Steve, I mean, reading your book, loving your community, and hearing the story of your church, |
| 1:45.7 | I don't think this is just a church mission. |
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