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My name is Jonathan Vinkie. I'm here with Caitlin Armstrong.

The Gaga. And of course, your favorite pastor in mine, Pastor Jebby Martin. We are talking about perhaps our favorite topic.

I'm not my favorite pastor just in case you're wondering. Well, you know, one of our favorite topics, obviously, is the gospel. That's the big heading. That's going to be the heading. A lot of headings in this week. I will say this. I did have this kind of like panic moment this week as I'm preparing sermons, you know. So I sit down in the woods. I read the, it's four verses. I feel like the Lord gives me an idea of where to go, which is always just his grace, man. He does not owe me a sermon. I'm like, oh, I'm going to do this like, you know, Jesus plus, Jesus plus. We'll talk about it. So I get done with it. I'm like, sweet. And then I thought, oh, no, I could do that.

There's like six more passages that we're going to teach on.

Now what am I going to do?

So I was like, well, I'm not going to, like, hedge my bets in preaching this weekend to try to save something for next time.

Repetition is never... Yeah, yeah.

I have no idea where we're going in the future when he gets something like, you know, the law cannot justify you and stuff like that. Let me ask you this question. Somebody asked me this in the lobby. And so there's a, if you know, you've been around church and, you know, I grew up in such a way where Matt Chandler was coming on the scene and Piper was sending me his like CDs.

Like did you guys do the CDs? we've been around church and, you know, I grew up in such a way where Matt Chandler was coming

on the scene and Piper was sending me his like CDs. Like, did you guys do the CD subscription?

No, no, like, you know a note. From the Desiring God. Here's a CD I just cut. Love John Piper.

It was like the Netflix. Yeah, before you, before Desiring God was like as developed on the, as the website, you'd signed up and they were, you'd get the sermon sent on CDs. I just didn't know if he was like asking you to prove one before you share it. Yeah, I mean, he and I are super close, but anyway, for you, Pastor Joe, but where, how did, how did you develop the gospel

as the center, the thing you go over and over and over again? Where did that come from for you?

My relationship with Acts 29 and those two men that you talked about. So when we were planting

a church, I didn't know anything about church planning organizations.

There are multiple.

I wanted to submit myself to some group for assessment because, you know, Gretchen and my

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