You and I are living in a world going down. It is headed south in so many ways.

Dr. Tony Evans says complacency will cause us to be carried along with him.

So all you have to do is stay still and you're going to go down with it. You don't

have to decide to go down, just don't go up. This is the alternative with

Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, and founding pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

in Dallas, Texas.

Neglecting your faith is like leaving a garden untended.

Weeds will eventually take over and what was once vibrant and

thriving will become barren and lifeless. Today we'll look at how believers can

nurture and tend to their faith and why that's so crucial for overcoming life's challenges.

Let's join Dr Evans as he begins.

Priscilla, my daughter was telling me the other day about the fact that my grandson, her son Jude, was on an escalator that was going down.

He was standing on the escalator

and standing on the escalator

because it was going down, he was going down, even though the goal was to go up.

So the goal was to go up, but he's on an escalator going down.

So the escalator was going to naturally pull him down unless he continued to climb up. The goal was up, the escalator is going down, and unless he persisted in going up, he would go where the escalator is taking him.

In other words, when you're on something going down, you better be climbing up or it'll take you down with you.

You and I are living in a world going down.

It is headed south in so many ways.

Every direction we look in and look at,

things are deteriorating.

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