We are back one last time with author and pastor Ray Orland.

Ray, when you think about your church in Nashville, what is the vision you send them out

with into the world?

What's your vision of a local church sent out into a world that's hostile to Christ?

What do you seek to instill in your church as they go?

I don't try to instill in them an angry determination to go and defeat our city and defeat our nation

and the political purposes of others.

I just don't see that as God's calling upon us, but instead Jeremiah 29.7 says, seek the

peace of the city where I have sent you into exile.

And that city was Babylon.

It was not a nice place.

It was infested with idols.

If God is saying in that verse, I want you to live there.

I want you to settle down there.

Don't travel on a way.

I don't want you to be escapist and bring my peace into that city.

I am going to give you an address in the suburbs of hell, and I want you to create beauty

for my glory and for their benefit in that hard place.

So for us, Tony, for Johnny and me, one thing it means is we have the privilege of having

in our home, someone as a long-term guest in our home, someone who has been very seriously

mistreated and is beginning to put her life back together again.

This person does not know the Lord.

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