Welcome into the Wednesday Bible study. Here we are still in these bizarre times, but thank

the Lord for technology that we can continue these Bible studies. I know and I do miss all

the guys that can normally be in the room, but at least we're able to go out to all of

you and even the guys that are normally in the room and have access to this. Also, I want

to mention that with themanchurch.com, themanchurch.com is available and we acknowledge with themanchurch.com

that our men's discipleship strategy involves men getting together four times a year and large

gatherings and then every week and small group gatherings. And both of those things are forbidden

now and we want to be good citizens. However, this is not the time to abandon your small

group. This is not the time if you represent a church to abandon the discipleship strategy for

men's ministry. Those needs are still there. Well, at themanchurch.com, we have somebody standing by

and some guys, a team that will help you, but our pursuit curriculum, which is a 40-week curriculum,

broken down into eight different subjects for five weeks on each subject. I teach a 12 to 15-minute

video. Then you're provided a link that has the study guides every week that the individual men can do

even during quarantine. They can watch the video themselves. They can look at the study guide themselves.

And then if you still want to meet one time a week, we can teach you how to do that. You can do it

through Zoom, you can do it through Skype, you can do a conference call if you want to. And then all

the men can still have a get together virtually every week. And then they can talk about the video

and talk about the study guides and all that can be sent to everyone remotely. So please don't let

the, you know, I know in men's ministry we're accustomed to gatherings and face-to-face and we

certainly hope to get back to that. But always at the meet of our discipleship strategy has been

addressing the disease and the disease that men are either lost or their spiritual infants who need

to be discipled to spiritual maturity. And those things can continue through the system and the

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