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I just finished 21 days of prayer and fasting.

And I know that's just one guy who probably gets a lot of attention because he's so outrageous.

That's not the majority of evangelical churches throughout the United States.

But you, I mean, you said something earlier about chasing relevance or wanting to be seen.

And, yeah, when we start to turn the Lord's Day and Christian worship into this fiasco,

and I think that there are proper ways to go about that.

So like when Paul's right into the Corinthians, and he talks about

becoming all things to all people so that he might win some. I mean, he's talking about

relevance there, right? He's talking about being able to engage people where they are.

Well, let's talk about Paul for a second. I think that's a great example, because I think

Paul is very relevant in Athens, at Mars Hill, right?

There's a difference between saying, hey, let me show you how cool and how consistent

my God is to what you're already familiar with versus saying, you have a statute to an

unnamed God.

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