Welcome to Doctor in Devotion, the podcast exploring Christian faith and practice from a

Reformed Baptist perspective.

My name is Joe Thorne and the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles Illinois.

And I'm Jimmy Fowler, Elder Candidate at Redeemer Fellowship.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hi, what's you doing?

You know, I'm doing my thing.

Was at the office all day? I know I tried to get you to blow it off and

nope wasn't gonna happen work by us it wasn't gonna happen had too much to do too much to do

too much to do so did the day turn out okay? Yeah, it turned out great.

Because you did send an email, hey, pray for me today, you know,

lots going on. Yeah, yeah, I did. I still want that. Thank you.

Appreciate it. I'll need more prayer tomorrow.

Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right.

That's right. Yeah, I'm just kind of getting yourself ready for war. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know it's like

It's like I know what he's tried to like think through in your head, like, what are they

going to say? What's their objection going to be and how am I going to counter that objection?

So I'm going to think through, I went through all our pricing, all the increases that we're proposing,

went through line by line and made Hector sit there with me and go through it and you know, say we got to have an answer for everything okay so in the

business world when you are trying to when you have to go to war in a sense now there's

different ways in which people go to war but in this in this sense right do you want the people that you're going to war in the end to be your friend?

Like to be like, to be like, oh, I like this guy I want to be with this.

Or do you want them to be your punk?

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