Trust Through Serving & Taking Risks
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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It's been observed that actions speak louder than words. The same is true for how your kids can see that your faith is authentic. John and Danny share how you can live out your faith by serving others and taking risks. Featuring David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock.
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| 0:00.0 | You know that old that old that actions speak louder than words and that really does apply to our faith. |
| 0:09.0 | You might remember the book of James where James talked very clearly about show me your faith by doing something, do the right things. |
| 0:17.8 | I think we can serve others and that speaks volumes of the faith that we have. I'm John Fuller along with my |
| 0:24.2 | focus colleague Dr Danny Werta and Danny I know you have spent a lot of time |
| 0:29.0 | traveling and meeting with a lot of folks and even in recent podcast you've talked about the |
| 0:34.0 | value of serving others why is that so important and and what stories do you have |
| 0:39.8 | in terms of serving others yeah it's there's so many really in watching people serve others you see love and action. |
| 0:49.4 | True genuine love when somebody's genuinely serving someone. |
| 0:52.2 | I feel loved when somebody decides to serve me |
| 0:55.2 | without anything, any expectation of anything in return towards coming towards them. And I really have I remember this one kind of vintage person I'll say. |
| 1:07.0 | They were in a time in their life where they had some extra time. |
| 1:12.0 | Yet they were so intentional with that |
| 1:14.4 | time wanting to serve and show love and it meant a lot not only to me and those |
| 1:21.4 | around this person but I could see it be something super meaningful |
| 1:25.6 | to the person serving. There's a lot of life that you get by serving others and |
| 1:30.7 | God has told us that yet we don't really do it very often. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.0 | Well we're going to finish up a really powerful conversation we've heard parts of over the |
| 1:39.6 | past several episodes. |
| 1:41.1 | Mark Matlock and David Kinnaman spoke with Jim Daly. They're part of the |
| 1:45.5 | Barna Group and they have great insights on the power of serving. |
| 1:50.6 | Let's get the last one here and unfortunately we had it fairly quickly but it's the |
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