We close out our third full year of episodes on the Aspastor John podcast with episode

number 761.

My that is a lot of grace is a lot of episodes and so many of you are financial partners

of the ministry who support our work and I want to say thank you for partnering with us

and for making those 761 episodes possible.

As we near the end of one year we get reflective and as we approach the new year we get prophetic

and one question we tend to see this time of year pastor John looking into 2016 is this.

Pastor John from your vantage point what are the biggest challenges facing the evangelical

church today and into the near future?

What events or issues come to mind?

Well I'm never very good at contemporary events or the latest hot button issues and that

doesn't bother me too much because I don't think the major challenges in any generation

are unique to that generation.

There are unique challenges to every generation.

They just don't happen to be the main challenges in every generation because the main challenges

stay the same from generation to generation and so when my mind presses into main,

deep as strong as greatest challenge I think in a sequence from there there's a cluster

of challenges around truth and knowledge and that means Bible and then there's a cluster

of issues around heart and affection and faith and response.

And then there's a cluster of issues around behavior or action or deeds in the world and

so let me just walk through that.

That's why my mind works.

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