Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

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I'm so thankful you're here, so let's get started.

Hey, welcome back. Thanks for listening in today. Let me apologize at the very outset. My voice probably sounds strange.

It certainly sounds strange to me.

I'm dealing with a head cold, I guess.

Whatever you call that thing that isn't allergies,

and it's also not COVID, whatever that thing is, that's the thing that I have.

And I'll tell you, even though I feel perfectly

fine, I have a newfound sympathy for regular allergy sufferers like my wife. I have gone through

pounds of tissue paper. And I will never make fun of her again when I find wadded up tissue

in random places all over the room. Okay, I've probably already said

too much and we'll be in trouble, so I think I'll go ahead and get started. Hopefully you will

be able to ignore my nasally sound and through the magic of editing. At least you won't have to

hear any sniffles. All right, so last week I told you that we would talk

about evangelism today. And I know that just a few months ago in June, we did an episode called

an evangelistic culture. In that episode, we talked about things that churches can do to make it

easy for members to study the Bible with others.

I talked to you about the four lesson booklet, the gospel message, and how every few years our congregation goes through it together.

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