Students will come up to me afterward or someone will approach me and say,

I'm so thankful you talked about this because that's my story too.

And that's when the real work happens because people feel like,

I'm not alone here. I'm not the only person who's messed up in this way.

If the speaker or the guy behind the microphone or the author can go through these things

and still be in process, what does that say about me? That's comforting.

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So one of the things that was interesting raising our three sons was their perspective on

if you're going to reach our generation with the gospel of Christ,

you're going to have to do it differently than you did with your generation.

Yeah, what do you think that means?

Well, I'm asking you because when they first said that,

I mean, I can remember sitting at a lunch with one of my sons and he just basically said,

you know, Dad, I don't think I'd bring my friends to your church.

And we're like, what do you mean by that? He goes, well, it's just,

it's not going to reach a 20-year-old, 25-year-old.

It was not speaking the language of their generation.

I really give you credit because you did not get defensive.

You did not say, you don't know what you're talking about.

You said, tell me more, what do you mean by that?

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