When Others Fall Away

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The Gospel Coalition

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🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Jackie, Jasmine, and Melissa talk about the pain of watching someone lose their faith.

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0:00.0	you almost see it start to happen before it happens the slow isolation of a person like they just
0:06.3	stop coming to small group then they stop coming to church and there's always a reason you know
0:12.0	but there's this slow isolation and so then you're like the last lifeboat left in their life
0:16.9	and I do think one of the ways is just to keep saying hey you need to be come to church you know
0:22.3	because maybe it will be the preacher's word that Sunday that gets to them because the word's
0:27.6	going to speak again the spirit is going to move through hopefully through the word being taught
0:34.0	or even I mean I have a lot of people I just say hey just come to Bible study just keep coming
0:39.2	don't stop coming you know I think the more we can invite them and make them feel welcome
0:43.7	maybe the word will speak at some point
0:46.2	welcome to episode three of let's talk a podcast for women from the gospel coalition podcast
0:57.3	network where we seek to apply biblical wisdom to everyday life I'm Jackie Hill Perry and I am
1:02.0	here with the Jasmine Holmes and the Melissa Krueger so far we've talked about work and boundaries
1:09.4	and Melissa tell us what we'll be talking about today so today's kind of a hard topic personal topic
1:16.0	we tend to do those a lot yeah I know we do and these were some this was one of the ones that are
1:20.9	listeners to them what do we do when others fall away what does it even mean maybe what are we
1:28.2	even talking about when we talk about our friends who have we thought we're walking with the Lord
1:34.0	so that's different from people who just don't know the Lord but people in our labs that we
1:38.0	thought we're walking with the Lord and then they either walk away altogether or maybe their
1:46.8	actions they walk away from God it seems through how they're living or whatever have y'all experienced
1:53.3	that in your labs it feels like it's a very common thing right now yeah it does feel really
2:00.0	common right now and not in the sense I wouldn't be careful how I say that because I don't want to
2:05.4	downplay the fact that people really are struggling with the faith and really are moving away
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