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🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | Pastor Mark Driscoll here, welcoming you to the podcast. I've been teaching the Bible for more than 30 years, |
0:07.6 | and real faith is an extraordinary ministry with a great team. It's not a big team, but they're making a big difference at a big impact. And we'd love you to preferably consider partnering with us, especially with a one-time or ongoing recurring gift. |
0:23.0 | All the proceeds will help us get Bible teaching out, and our hope, prayer, and goal is next |
0:28.6 | year to get to total reach, impressions included, of a billion plus people hearing about Jesus |
0:36.3 | Christ through Bible teaching. |
0:38.3 | Your prayers, your partnership would help us to do more and more and more. |
0:43.3 | And so in advance, thank you for your partnership. |
0:48.3 | I'll tell you a little bit about our story. |
0:50.3 | And the reason is, if God can heal us and fix us and save us, there's hope for you. Like, if you think you're messed up, let me tell you about my story. And the reason is, if God can heal us and fix us and save us, there's hope for you. |
0:55.9 | Like, if you think you're messed up, let me tell you about my story. So, at the age of 17, I met |
1:01.9 | my now-wife Grace. We were in a public high school, and I thought, oh my gosh, that's the cutest girl |
1:06.8 | I've ever seen. And so I wanted to get to know her. And at that time, I was not a virgin. I was not a |
1:13.0 | Christian. I grew up in an environment where there were strip clubs down the street from my house. |
1:17.9 | And it was kind of a not the best place to be. And so nonetheless, I met Grace and I asked Grace. |
1:23.2 | I was like, hey, you seem really nice. Can we be friends? And then after I was like, hey, you seem really nice. Can we be friends? And then after a while, I was like, hey, can we date? |
1:29.0 | She's like, are you a Christian? |
1:30.8 | I was like, well, does that matter? |
1:33.3 | She's like, yeah, I only, she's a pastor's daughter. |
1:36.9 | I said, oh, oh, yeah, no, this is DefCon 5 situation here. |
1:37.7 | We got ourselves in. |
1:47.2 | Yeah, so she said, well, I only date believers. I was like, well, hallelujah, praise the Lord, sister. Amen, you know, so we start dating. And then she realized I probably wasn't a Christian, |
1:51.5 | maybe because we were sleeping together. |
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