Don't go to the church you feel comfortable in. Go to the church you feel called to.

Why is the local church important today?

This is not about you improving yourself. This is about you dying to yourself.

What would you say to a new believer? I think I want that. I'm just scared.

You are actively declaring war on loneliness when you go to church.

When you go to church, you are actively declaring war on isolation. When you go to church, you are actively declaring war on isolation.

When you go to church, you are actively declaring war on selfishness. How do we break free from this

like consumeristic culture and mindset? A plant, a tree is never going to be able to grow fruit

if you constantly repot it. Nobody can crucify themselves.

Community is required for you to stay crucified. Every night I watch this conference called

Awaken Debra with 2,000 women in the room. I swear to you I did this. I'm like, Lord,

Awaken this Devlin.

What's up, guys?

Welcome back to another episode of Stay True Podcast.

I'm your host, Madison Pruitt Trout, here with my lovely, amazing husband.

Good to be here.

Yeah, it's really good to have you, you know. It's great to be in the building, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I think we should introduce our guest. Special, special man. It's a special day. Which actually, this is our first time meeting him? I met him briefly. Briefly. You wouldn't remember this. I was with Daniel McLeod at the Green Hills YMCA.

Wow.

And you had a sweatshirt on about to hit a rack.

Oh my goodness. I do remember this. Of course I did. Daniel introduced me. Because we went to your, so when we toured Nashville last year, we went to Legacy.

Yeah. And we were there with her mom and you preached the lights out. It was when you had given

yourself a haircut and you wore a hat for the first time. Wow, I do remember that. The one and only

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