The job of the church is not to tell folks what they want to hear.

Dr. Tony Evans says even though the truth can be hard to accept,

believers have a responsibility to tell it.

The job of the church is to be the ground and pillow of the truth.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker,

senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas,

and president of the urban alternative.

At the beach, live guards are stationed to pull those who drift too far away from shore back to safety.

Well, Dr. Evans says the same should be true at church.

Let's join him as he shows how to help those who need a spiritual life saver.

Some of you know, a number of years I was a water safety instructor.

A water safety instructor oversees life guards.

A water safety instructor oversees those men and women

who function as life savers.

They are posted in order to keep a lookout for people who are in trouble.

People where the water has overcome them,

or their inability to cope in the water has created a dangerous situation.

The life guard, you do life guarding, then you become a water safety instructor

after passing some exams in the water.

It's designed to have a life-saving mechanism for people in trouble.

There are a lot of people today in trouble, but it's not because of water.

It's because of life.

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