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Guaranteed Human.

Welcome into the Wednesday Bible study.

We're excited that you're here.

My name is Rick Burgess, host of the Rick Burgess Show.

You can catch the show Monday through Friday, either live or archived, if you so desire.

Go to Rick Burgess Show.com, and we do this from those studios. We've been at it

over a decade here doing a Wednesday Bible study. Started out as just part of men's

discipleship strategy at the local church. That evolved into what is now called the manchurch.com.

You can go there for all the information about our

discipleship strategy. It features two major components, and that is high challenge. Nothing new there.

That's men's gatherings, men's conferences, things like that. We can help you with your own speakers.

We always invite you to come to our conferences. We have two of those a year. One year we tried to have three. We're back to having two. I won't try that again.

But anyways, you can find all the details by going to the manchurch.com, but you also get the

second part, and that is high quipping, discipleship, something that, unfortunately, has been sorely missing

in men's ministry, and we finally decided to stop complaining about that and actually

pray about could we be a solution? And we have provided for you and your men a 40-week curriculum.

We have six of those. So if you started our strategy today,

you would know, beyond the shadow of it out, that you had all the equipping you need for your

small groups for the next six years. And by the time you get to year six, we probably have

at least a couple more years for you. So it is a multi-year strategy. The sanctification process is not

overnight. Discipleship does not happen overnight. It is something that never ends. So we will

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