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Faith and Vision: Tyler Feller's Journey
Tyler Feller, a Christian-based YouTuber, shares with us as he recounts his journey from a modest upbringing in Missouri to a life enriched by vision and leadership in Nashville, Tennessee. Tyler's insights draw a compelling parallel between personal experiences and biblical teachings, highlighting the transformative power of collective faith. As we explore the unique spiritual climate of Tennessee, including a statewide initiative for prayer and fasting, Tyler sheds light on the role of Christian influencers in reshaping both personal and societal landscapes.
We also tackle profound spiritual themes alongside Tyler, exploring the importance of forging a personal relationship with Jesus over adhering strictly to traditional religious structures. By unpacking the complexities of differing religious beliefs, we offer a reflective look at the exclusivity of salvation through Jesus, prompting listeners to consider their own worldviews. The episode further dives into the biblical story of Abraham and Sarah, delving into the consequences of seeking counterfeit solutions instead of trusting in God's true promise. Join us for an enlightening conversation about the power of faith, vision, and belief in both personal transformation and community upliftment.
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Speaker 2:But last week we had on becca slider and today we have on with us mr tyler, feller tyler welcome so, man, thanks for thanks for having me, dan, so looking forward to getting to know your audience and share a little bit of my story yeah, absolutely, man.
Speaker 1:Um, let me tell the audience at first. You know he's got a pretty significant youtube following. I know, know it's Christian based, but he also gets into some political stuff. Go ahead, tyler, speak for yourself. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we just try to cover, like true crime, current events, political stuff from a spiritual, biblical perspective and help people kind of get their bearings from a common sense approach to the world that we're in today, which honestly we need. Things are crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, things are definitely need. Things are crazy. Yeah, things, things are definitely off the chain. Man, it seems like the book of revelations kind of coming together a little bit, but I'm definitely you know, I got to study up on a little bit, you know some more to actually make a statement like that, but it seems like you know the world's in disarray, but why don't you kick us off with your childhood?
Speaker 2:instead of we'll getting straight to the depressing and fun stuff, we'll start with your childhood and then where you were born I was born in arizona actually, but I grew up in missouri, a small town of about 244 people literally more cows than people. So it's not right when you're a kid your best friend's a cow growing up. It's just nobody should have to go through that but very, very economically disadvantaged. At the time when I was growing up as the eighth poorest congressional district in the united states, poverty almost like a spiritual principality of poverty kind of reigns over the region and um, there's a lot of drugs and things like that, and so it it's kind of a difficult place to grow up, but a lot of people do well and make it out and successful and education helps a lot with that. So Beautiful.
Speaker 1:How'd you so so explain to me. Like poverty wise, is it countryside. It's countryside right, obviously, if there's always your best friend to count.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was in Southeast Missouri. It's very rural, in the foothills of the ozark mountains. Beautiful country, honestly, like very beautiful lots of rivers, some lakes. I mean it is definitely god's country.
Speaker 1:From that standpoint it's very beautiful but as far as socioeconomics um, what do you think contributes to the poverty?
Speaker 2:yeah, I don't, don't know. I just think lack of opportunity, lack of major infrastructure, there's no major city around to help develop the economy, there's things like that that obviously contribute. And then I think, anytime that there's growth in a society, there has to be people with vision. The Bible actually says without vision, people perish or people die. And when we walk with a vision with our life, we walk with a vision for the people around us. It uplifts, it encourages, it brings life and I think it's one of the most powerful things that you can do.
Speaker 2:In the Old Testament there was a time where the Babylonians came and everything that they knew the Israelites at the time about God was consecrated into just this one central place. The Israelites at the time about God was consecrated into just this one central place. And the Babylonians came and knocked out that whole temple, basically, and ransacked the village and left them empty. And Jeremiah writes a letter to them as a prophet and he said you need to take heart and care about your city, because the welfare of your city will determine the welfare of your people. And so he encourages them to pray and have a vision for their city, and I think that that has a lot to do with it. It has to be visionaries in cities and regions to help bring life.
Speaker 1:That's pretty awesome. So now you made the move to Tennessee. How'd you get away from your hometown?
Speaker 2:Well, I went off to school and, just you know, started having other experiences and follow opportunity and felt a draw to nashville in particular, where I live right now. God's doing a lot of amazing things in nashville and the state of tennessee is an incredible state. The governor actually declared that the month of july is a month of prayer and fasting for the welfare and prosperity of our state. I don't know any other states in the land that are doing things like that and, like a magnet, god's been calling Christian influencers to move to Nashville and be a part of what's going on here and you can see it's obviously trickling its way through the government as well. I mean to have a governor actually make that stance that the whole month of July for the state is dedicated to praying and fasting to jesus, so that we would get revelation on and protection and guidance on on what he. What he has for us in this next season is pretty yeah, man, that is pretty, that is pretty awesome.
Speaker 1:Now, that is that the governor. Again, I tell her honestly, I haven't paid attention to I recently had lost my not recently, but a few months ago, I lost my job. Since then I haven't turned on the tv, I haven't paid attention to politics. I haven't really done um, and I certainly haven't been connected with god as I should be. But, um, the political, the political stuff, is that the government who's making some noise because he prayed in like the, in congress hall or something, or no, like, like in the middle of like the senate or something, or am I talking about something else?
Speaker 2:I think you're talking about something else. I'm not familiar with what you're talking about, but I think that when the Bill of Rights gives us the freedom of speech, that even elected officials should have the opportunity to share their faith and pray and believe that God can show up and do something great for our nation. Our nation has a providential history from God. It was founded on principles that we find in scripture, and we need to be the kind of people that partner with what God had destined this nation to do, which is to bring hope to the world around us through mission work, and we've seen God bless this nation because early on, there was a deep commitment to faith.
Speaker 1:Okay, when you say God wanted us to be the nation of hope. Where does that come from?
Speaker 2:Well, you just, for example, think about what nation in the world has sent more missionaries around the world than any other nation. I mean the United States is that nation.
Speaker 1:They fund more missionaries. Yeah, I didn't know that that's awesome. That's pretty cool. Do you do missionary work too?
Speaker 2:What is your?
Speaker 1:denomination. Now, what's your denomination? What is it? What's your denomination?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm a part of a denomination called General Baptist, just a small Baptist denomination.
Speaker 1:I don't know the difference between. What's the difference between Baptists? And say I mean what was the first Christian religion, catholicism.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much how it started.
Speaker 1:I guess I was going to ask what's the difference between Baptists and I don't know, non-denominational christians or lutherans or catholics or you know all these different? That's one thing that kind of confuses me. I think it confuses probably a lot of people. There's so many different choices. I mean christ, at the end of the day, said when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and I and I, you know, and he's with and he's with us. Now I get it. It's good to have community of people, but you can do that in multi-facets, like this is a community right wherever two are speaking to my name there, I am right, so he's definitely here with us right now. I don't the the actual structured religions. That's something I don't participate in today. I'm not saying I won't in the future, but it's just. It's just. I don't, um, but I'm certainly a sinner and, like I also don't participate in a lot of things that worse, I also do a lot of things when we're technically not supposed to do.
Speaker 2:But I guess I think you're making a really great point that we can just forget about all that stuff like Like denominations I don't think are super important, the whole infrastructure, I don't think super important. At the end of the day, jesus hates religion, in my opinion, and instead he desires a relationship with us. Religion's often about rules and building barriers that prevent people from having a deep relationship with God. When Jesus came so that we could have a personal relationship with him, and so that's what I kind of major on. I don't try to get too much into the semantics of it, but just try to help people actually encounter God, have an experience with him, and then they can foster and grow that independently.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like what you said go into the prayer closet, spend time with him. Jesus desires your heart. Jesus wants you to hand over all the tough stuff Anybody that's watching right now has ever been through. You can hand it over to Jesus. He'll take it, he'll handle it with care. The Bible actually says that his burdens are light and easy and ours are heavy and burdensome, and we can give him our burdens. We can give him these heavy things that we've been carrying, and he'll actually take them and give us his in exchange, and so we'll take the light burdens of Jesus. That's what I want to be, and that that comes from intimacy with him, spending time in the prayer closet with him, getting to know him Exactly what you're talking about Relationship over religion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, relationship over religion, that's great man. Yeah, my buddy says the same thing. My, my, my best friend growing up. Actually, uh, he's like completely made the change. His story's actually in my pocket, I'll send it to you. But he's made this switch over, or not the switch over, but he's just completely gave his life to Christ and is very known, like you could tell, like he's. You know he's not doing things he used to do and you know it takes a lot of courage and it takes a lot of discipline. And you know, sometimes I don't know if it's an excuse or what, but I lack, I lack. I have a lacking of probably the discipline at this point in my life. Or you know, also the my here. Here's where I get.
Speaker 1:Also, tyler, I get kind of confused um with and it's good to have somebody like yourself on there, it's knowledgeable and everything but other religions. I know you don't get into the semantics of them, but I asked this question to somebody before. And if you're sitting where you're at right now, right, and your next door neighbor is a Muslim and unfortunately a nuclear bomb comes and you're both wiped off the face of the earth, do you think that you go to paradise and that that person is not going to paradise, or, and that's if this is a scenario, though, they've lived, they've had a closer relationship with their God than you have with yours, and it's like like but, but but and like but, other than that, equal, equal lives. You know, you both give to your other neighbors. Everything else is the deeds and everything are equal, everything's equal, except for you guys are.
Speaker 1:Are you worship two different gods? And like I know it's kind of a irrelevant question and I'm not trying to, like beat you into anything, I just you know these, there's different religions out there, for you know a reason, just like there's all these other denominations, and it's again that, to me, I believe. I believe there's one God for all of humanity and that's it. But it's just tough, it's tough.
Speaker 2:Well, I love the question. I think it's a great question. A lot of people are curious about that. One of the things that's interesting about the question you're asking is the Bible to me is the worldview that I've chosen to have. So, for example, you can have a personal worldview or you can have a biblical worldview. And a personal worldview is where you choose to just take suggestions from the Bible. You kind of take what you like in it and leave what you don't. Or a biblical worldview is where you say, hey, listen, my preferences, my priorities, my opinions are second to the Bible, and anything that I think, anything that I breathe, anything that I live is going to be in line with what that scripture teaches. And so that's what I've chosen to do. I've chosen to say, hey, this Bible that I have totally informs the way that I view the world and the way that I live in it.
Speaker 2:And one of the things that Jesus says is he says I'm the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. That's the words of Jesus. So we believe that Jesus came, lived a perfect life, sinless, spotless, lived on this earth for 33 years, and he never sinned but became our sin so we could be made right with him. And when we receive him as our savior, what we're doing is we're saying, hey, I want Christ in my life and, as a result, our sin is wiped away and we're able to have eternity in heaven with him, with Jesus, with God.
Speaker 2:And so what the Muslims believe is something totally different, and the way that Christians would often perceive it is that they're worshiping a false God. They're not worshiping the true God. The only way to heaven is through Jesus. So it would be incompatible to say that a Muslim, even if they lived a life, a good life, gave whatever, had good deeds, all that stuff, that it doesn't really matter, because Jesus is actually the key and, in the same way, the mercy of God and the grace of God is for everyone. It doesn't matter how bad you've been or how good you've been If you make that decision to follow Jesus, even if it's at your last breath, like, for example, somebody got mad that. I said this one time, but it's true, because it's what scripture teaches If Hitler received Christ as his savior and his last breath, I believe that God would forgive him.
Speaker 2:I mean, even when Jesus was hanging on the cross. He was next to two incredibly bad, terrible sinners, and one of them said hey, I want to be with you, I want to receive you. And he looked at the man that was on the cross next to him and he said today you'll be with me in paradise. He actually forgave this terrible person that was next to him and on his last breath and he was in. He went to heaven with Jesus, and so it doesn't have anything to do with our good deeds. It has everything to do with one good deed that Jesus did for us on the cross. And so it's a great question Again. It has to do with the way that you want to perceive the world. I've chosen to adopt a biblical worldview and because of that, everything that I think, the whole way that I perceive, every single part of my life has to be in line with that scripture.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it seems like that. It's like that for my buddy too. Man, it's phenomenal that you have such strong faith and I would never knock strong faith against anybody that you have such strong faith and I would never knock strong faith against anybody, you know, it's just, it's just extremely. I feel like it's too naive of me to think that you know, just because I believe in in one historical, awesome, amazing figure and pop, you know the son of God, right, that I'm going to heaven and everybody else is damned the Jews, the Muslims, you know your Hindus. I mean why and I get it he, god, sent himself here in a form of himself to take away the sins right of all of us. But it's just something doesn't make sense to me and it's a shame, but I wish you know, maybe he'll open my heart more. Like I said, I'm not living right anyhow, so we'll see.
Speaker 1:But the bottom line is Abraham, what do you have? Two sons, isaac and Ishmael. So they come from the same bloodline, right? The Jews and the Muslims, or, yeah, those two religions. Therefore, ishmael split off and I guess was the head of the Arab nations. I don't even know if that's necessarily the case, but it's like why you can think about it like this too.
Speaker 2:You think about it like this Ishmael was born not in line with the promise that God gave. God gave Abraham a promise and he said you and your wife Sarah, even in your old age, will become father and mother of many nations that includes Sarah, that included Abraham of many nations. That includes sarah. That included abraham. Well, because they were getting old, it's almost like they lost trust in god and they tried to do it in a counterfeit way see, nobody's ever said that, but that's true.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, I'm sorry so that.
Speaker 2:So the ishmael part of all of it is is a counterfeit promise. It's it's not the promise that god had. It's it counterfeit promise. It's not the promise that God had. It's the fake stuff. It's not the real deal.
Speaker 1:It's not what God blessed, as you can see, it being extremely confusing. So the Muslims, thank you.