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How Worshipping with Your Family Breaks Chains with Shai Linne
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In this episode of Everyday Radical, David Platt and Austin Huang talk with Shai Linne about family worship and passing down the faith.
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SPEAKER_03Shylen, what's up? Bro, it is so good. I'm so glad to be sitting at the table with you for numerous reasons right now. Yeah. And and especially when we think about family worship. But before we dive in, I that even just that topic makes me go all the way back to well, when was the first like kids' stuff you started writing? Because all right, Shy, I mean you uh yeah, you've done so much. You've done hip-hop, you've bastard, you've done all kinds of things. But we're talking about like uh yeah, when were the first kids' songs?
SPEAKER_00The first kid song I did was Penelope Judge, yes, which which was 2008.
SPEAKER_032008, 2008, yes, because our youngest was like two years, or our oldest now is like, yeah, two years old at that point. Yeah. And I remember listening to it with my kids, yeah, and they loved it. So, man, that's that's awesome. Praise God for the fruit of his grace in your life.
SPEAKER_00You know, I was I was single at the time when when I when I did that song, and the response to it, it was it ended up being one of my most popular songs. Interesting. It's funny because I I would have these dudes like these big husky dudes coming up like, yo, man, yo, yo, that Penelope Judd, dog. That joint had me in tears, dog.
SPEAKER_03You know, that's so great. Yeah, because up until that point, you've been doing uh hip-hop for how long?
SPEAKER_00At that point, I mean, my first album came out in 05. Okay, yeah, but I'd been doing Christian hip-hop since I mean 01.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And your quick background, like you came to Christ when? As an adult, so I'm born and raised in Philly, um, you know, a product of hip-hop culture. And um, you know, I went to to college, uh, the University of the Arts to study theater. And third year college, basically, uh I partied my way out of school, so in a big party crowd, um, very hostile to the to the gospel, wanted nothing to do with the Lord Jesus. I would I would be at parties and I would look for Christians to get into arguments with. Um, and I I saw like like intellectually, just like I don't want to I want to attack Christianity. Yeah, a hundred percent. And you know, based on the the kind of hip-hop that I grew up listening to was very anti-authoritarian um and and anti-Christian. You know, and so you know, I remember one guy that I listened to, he said, he said, if your slave master wasn't a Christian, you wouldn't be a Christian. And and and that just I I was like, absolutely not, want nothing to do with it. Um and so um, you know, I party my way out of school, uh, ended up in in this kind of party crowd. I went I went to uh to South Carolina actually to uh basically prepare to move to Spain. So I was saving up money to move to Spain to pursue acting in Spanish women, not necessarily in that order. Okay, um and and that was my that was my desire. And why and while I was down there, there was a young lady who was in our circle of friends who was a believer. And it was the first time that I there was a peer who was actually a Christian. Um, and uh we like she would come around us, she she would be at our parties, but she wouldn't participate in our sin. She would just have her glass of water and be just as joyful. And we didn't treat her well, we would like make fun of her, behind her back into her face, and she just returned it with nothing but kindness. And that just that just really, yeah, it's really hit me. And so, long story short, while I was down there, um I was at a party, completely intoxicated, and um I remember looking around the room, and before that night, if you would ask me if I believed in good and evil, my worldview that was heavily influenced by kind of new age and eastern philosophy, I would have said, I don't think there's a such thing as objective evil, like evil for its own sake, but just different levels of good. But as I looked around that room, I got the keen sense that I was in the presence of the demonic in a way that just terrified me. And so I went out on the balcony to try to clear my mind, and as I was out there, I started to think about some things that my mom had told me years before. So my mom, believe her, loves the Lord, um, and she would she would always just share with me, ask me ask me to come to church. And um, and as I was out there, I realized two things. One was that trying to run my own life just wasn't working. And then two was that I had rejected the Bible, but I never actually read it for myself. So I had all these arguments against Christianity, but it was things that were spoon-fed to me that I never actually investigated myself. Exactly. And so not long after that night, went uh to a bookstore, grabbed the Bible for the first time, and the first thing I remember reading is Psalm 25:7, where David says, Remember not the rebellious ways of my youth. Wow. That cut me to the heart.
SPEAKER_03Whoa, that's where it started. Yeah, that's where it started.
SPEAKER_00I called my mom, let her know what was going on. She sent me a care package, and she told me to read the Gospel of John. And so there'd be parties going on in the living room, and I'm in the bedroom just reading through John. And that and that's where I met the Savior through through through the Gospel of John.
SPEAKER_03Praise God. So you were how old at that point, right?
SPEAKER_00At that point, I was adult, full adult, 24?
SPEAKER_03Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And so, all right, then there's a ton in the story. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So fast forward. When did you meet Blair? So met Blair in 2008. Okay. So Blair um uh do it she does spoken word poetry. And so we were invited to the same event, me to do the music, her to do spoken word. And we met in Long Beach, and it it was just in passing. I I I saw her at that point. I was so focused. I'm like, I don't want, I don't want any distractions, you know what I'm saying? It's it's me and you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_03It was it was you, yeah, because you're doing Christian hip hop at that point. You're and you're just like, yeah. I'm just like you're passionate about Jesus.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and so um we kept getting invited to the same events around the country. So we just kept running into each other on panels and stuff like that. And so we eventually struck up a friendship and and then the Lord brought us. We we got married in 2010. So it's been 15 years.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, all right, all right, praise God. And then uh, yeah, your family has grown at that time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so so when when, and this just kind of leads into the family worship thing. Uh, when I proposed to Blair, I proposed at the Lincoln Memorial, so a few feet away from where Martin Luther King gave us I have a James Speech. And and when I proposed, we talked about legacy, the idea of the impact that just one godly couple can have on generations to come. Yeah, and you know, we're both coming from single-parent homes, very few Christians in our family. When I was growing up, I I didn't know married people, like let alone Christian married people. So just like just good old secular marriage. I didn't have uh any categories for that. Um, and and so yeah, do you know the the the idea that man, like God has brought us together from very very similar broken backgrounds that he might create a new picture for generations to come. That's so that that really like touches me in a new way.
SPEAKER_02I just got married about a year and a half ago. Oh, congrats, bro. Thank you. And and you say that uh both my wife and I had come from divorced parents. And so neither one of us had a really good model of what a healthy marriage, Christian marriage should look like. So just the fact that you and your wife made that decision, and the fact that you're that decision has led to so much faithfulness, which has led to so much fruit, is such a blessing.
SPEAKER_01That's awesome.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And so, and so we were at that point, you know, we're engaged, we're we're about to get married, and and that's when the panic set in for me because it's like, okay, I don't know what I'm doing. About to be a husband. Um, but thankfully we were at a church that had a lot of godly couples. And so we basically we went we went up to people, I remember, and just said, you know what, can we come over? We'll bring the food. You don't have to worry about that. We just want to come over and just sit with y'all and just and just learn, you know. Um and so many couples, they would they were so gracious to allow us to do that. And so, and so that's where we first started to get a model of man, oh, okay, a husband leading his family in family worship. And so having that model, then we just we began to incorporate it when it was just Blair and I after dinner, yeah, getting the word, sing and pray. And then as each child came, the Lord blessed us with three kids. As each child came, they came into an environment where that was what we did. And so, and that's all they know.
SPEAKER_03That's so good, bro. So, man, uh, there's uh again so many different ways we could go. Yeah, just when because you're you you guys are leading workshops on family worship. Like you are like trying to help equip the church followers of Jesus to do this well. That's right. So that's right, man. Yeah. Yeah. I wish we could like do the workshop right now. But people need to go to the workshop. But yeah, what are some of the yeah big things you're you're wanting to communicate?
SPEAKER_00So so so the so the reason why we're doing the workshops is because you know, in in researching it, what what we learned was that uh there are a number of barna polls out there. Uh one one of which says that out of all church-going families, less than five percent do any kind of worship activity outside of Sundays. Less than five percent. Less than five percent. And that's church-going families. Less than five percent, right? Um, but then the the on the flip side, of the students that maintain a vibrant faith after college, over half would point back to some kind of worship activity in your home outside of Shanghai. So very few are doing it, but of the ones who are doing it, it's very fruitful and lasting in the lives of the kids. Right. Um, and so we just had to say, okay, most Christians when they hear family worship, family devotions, they're like, that's a good idea. So then the question is, well, why is it less than 5%? And so just beginning to identify some of the hindrances. So one being just a lack of teaching on it. You know, they're there believers who would do it, but just have not been been taught. Um uh Don Whitney of Southern Seminary, who's done done uh some good teaching on this, uh he he he tells a story of uh being in a class full of seminarians, future pastors, and asking the question how many of you have family worship growing up? And saying that less than 10% raise their hands. So these are future, these are future pastors who haven't had it modeled for them. You know what I mean? And so so so if it's not modeled for them, they're not gonna pass it on to the congregation. So lack of teaching is one, busyness is another, right? So it's just especially as the kids get older, you got all these activities, church activities, work activities, right? Uh sports, all those kinds of things. It's like just adding another thing to the mix is is a thing. But then I think a key one is the paralysis of guilt. So the idea that, man, I sh I know I should be doing this. I know I should be leading my family in this way, but I haven't been doing it. And now my kids are older, and so um I I'm just I'm just too weighed down by the by the guilt at all. So I'm just not just just forgetting about it. You know what I mean? Um, and then finally, I would say just the idea, people don't know where to start. Right? So it's it can it can seem daunting. It's like, do I have to be a pastor to do this? Do I have to be a theologian? You know what I mean? And um, and so what we're trying to do in the conferences is it's or micro conferences as we call them, is just try to kind of reduce those barriers, break those down, and say, no, this is something that that you can do, and just try to try to try to fill that.
SPEAKER_03All right, so where uh again, I don't want to like get you to do the whole conference here. Yeah, you know, not yeah, where do you start? What are some of the uh things like I mean, I know I well, I'm just uh assuming 95 plus percent of people would have no idea where to start because they're not doing it or they're not seeing it. That's right. So yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So so this there's five sessions, uh two Friday night, three three on Saturday. It's over at noon on Saturday. Um and session one, Blair and I just share our story. So a lot of what I just share with y'all is it's us sharing it. Um but we're doing it in a way that we're incorporating our gifts, music, spoken word, congregational singing, all those kinds of things. So good. Yeah, so it's it's it's not just a series of dry lectures, you know what I mean? It's just it's very engaging.
SPEAKER_03I would not yeah, and also not that I mean, I've heard you preach. I I can't picture you doing dry lecture, but even still, like, yeah, you and Blair are together with unique gifts and voice. That's that's I love that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so so we share our story, and then the other thing is that kids are invited, so it's it's the entire family who makes sense, and so we're engaging the kids as we're doing it. Um and then sess section or session two, um, I share the biblical basis. So, so where where can we go to in the scriptures where where this principle uh um is uh is clearly expounded? And one and one of the verses that we look at is Psalm 78. Um verse four. And this is this is this is speaking about the the teaching of of the Lord. In verse four, it says, We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord and his might and the wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments. And and so the the principle is the faith passed down to the next generation. That's a scriptural principle. Parents are to impart the faith into their children, right? Um the but then the next the next question becomes in in Deuteronomy 6 is another passage, but the next question becomes okay, when do we do that? How do we do that? And we believe that family worship, regular times of family worship are a great way to apply that principle. Yes, yes, yes I'm saying, and and and I'm I'm careful in the language there because what I'm what I'm not saying is that this particular practice in this way is prescribed, kind of commanded to not do it is to sin if you're not doing it in this way. Exactly, exactly. Um, but rather what's the principle? It's passing down the faith. Yeah. Okay. What's a great way to do it through regular times of family worship? Yes. Uh-huh. And so that's the second session, just kind of teaching on that. And then, and then Saturday, it's, you know, the breakout sessions. I teach the men, uh, Blair teaches the women, and I just kind of drill in on men leading our families, the importance of men singing, and and the importance of our families hearing dad sing, those kinds of things. Um, and um, and then uh session four is is very practical. So we um the setup, if if a church has us out, we have them build a set where it's a it's a living room, there's a couch, and then there's a dining room table. So it's a literal table, and we're sitting at the table, and then we invite people to come up and we have three different sessions of family worship. Wow, okay. So one adult, one teenager, one child. Uh-huh. Come up, and then and then we just do it in three different ways, you know.
SPEAKER_03Um so you kind of show how uh when you say three different ways, yeah, it's like um with more of an attention to this child, with more of an attention to this teenager, with more of the attention to this adult, or just how how to hit or how to basically do family worship that includes all of them.
SPEAKER_00In different ways are what we're doing. So in in in one instance, so it's all surrounding the word, but in one instance, we we use a family worship Bible guide by Joel Beakey. So Joel Beakey has this family worship Bible guide where uh each chapter of the Bible, there's a short synopsis uh that points to Christ in the gospel. And he and so one way to do it is because this is kind of eliminating the I don't have the gift of teaching piece, right? So a chapter in the Bible, read it, reap Joel Beaky's comments, pray and sing. Yeah. That's one way to do it. That's it. Yeah, it was like just reading. Just reading, right? Um, another way is, and and what we've done as a family, uh particularly in the last few years, is we've tied whatever we're wherever we're at in the Bible to what's happening in the preaching at our church on Sunday. So so our family worship text is the text that's going to be preached the upcoming Sunday. Okay, right? Um so that and that's that's borne so much fruit in our family's life, just to the conversations that we're able to have, because we've steeped in the passage that week. So that's the pastor's preaching the text, I'm looking at my kids. We're like, remember that? You know what I mean? Like making those connections. Um and so that's that's another way to do it. You're right. And then and then the third way is we just do one verse. Okay. We we we we look at one verse and we discuss it. Um and and we pray and we sing. Um the goal is always to to get back to Christ and the gospel, no matter where we are in the Bible. Um and yeah, so and singing, what does singing look like?
SPEAKER_03Like to somebody who's like, oh, that makes me nervous. I don't have any singing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. So so for us, you know, we're we're uh we naturally love to sing as a family. So so one of the things I've heard is like, well, we're not shy and Blair Lynn. Of course, of course. Yeah, but for us, it's very simple. So it's a cappella. Uh, we um in recent years we've used the hymnal. Um and our kids really our kids really love the hymnal. Um and um and I'm leading, and you know, again, it we we're connecting it to the local church, so it's you know, the songs that we're singing in our church are songs that we're doing in in family worship, you know. Um and yeah, so for those who would say, well, you know, I'm not a singer, I don't have a good voice, or those kinds of things, um, there's there's a great uh quote from John Newton um who in his letters he has uh one of his letters is on family worship. And and he says, you know, in terms of in terms of what we should do, um, you know, every circumstance the circumstance of every family is different, so you have to determine in terms of like when you do it and you know in what setting, but in terms of what you do, generally speaking, it's gonna be you're gonna read the Bible, so there'll be scripture, it's gonna be prayer. And then he says, uh he says, and there should be singing if it can be conducted in a tolerable manner. Is what he says. That's funny. What does he mean by that? Yeah, in a tolerable manner. Yeah, in that in that in other words, if it's if it's so distracting um and so pitched tone-deaf, if he said it might be better left left omitted.
SPEAKER_03But this is where I think, man, praise God, we've got uh like I can just put on some music on the soundbar. Let's go. We're like now, I I don't want to drown it out too much that we're missing the the beauty of our voices together. But at the same time, I got help. That's right. I can actually bring into the room. That's right.
SPEAKER_00Uh so when Newton was writing, they didn't have Spotify, Brendan didn't have some great music, right? YouTube totally. Yeah, so with lyrics. That's right. And and you know, I I was uh I was talking to to a dear friend of mine who who came up to me and said that after after I taught on this at his church, he said, you know, I'm I'm not I I can't sing. Like and and it's not that that I not only that I can't sing, like it's actually offensive to my family when I talk. It's intolerable. It's intolerable. And um, and so what I asked him, I said, Well, is there anybody in your family who's musical? He said, Well, yeah, my 14-year-old son, he sings, he plays the guitar.
SPEAKER_01Wow.
SPEAKER_00I said, You can ask him. Ask him to lead. Yes.
SPEAKER_01And it's huge for him. Exactly.
SPEAKER_00And so a few weeks later, I get a I get a text video of them doing family worship with the son, the 14-year-old. Oh, good. Come on, let's go. I love that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I love that. Yeah. I uh I man, there's so many things that are going through my mind that are that are uh I mean, the well, our family, uh man, I have so many thoughts. Well, one, yeah, our family. Uh, we need to do more hymns. Like we've done, we've had a steady stream of little kids where we've done a lot of like motion songs, like, and we still do those for the younger kids. The older kids join in, but it's still so anyway, we need to do more. Uh uh, so that's one takeaway from me. But yeah, and and uh one of the things we do that Heather and I have done for years, and then our kids are now involved in it. We use the same Bible reading plan, and so that forms a basis for our family worship time. Like what did you because we yeah, we just invite the kids to do the same thing. So it's like, what did you see today in uh Matthew 3? And uh let's let's reflect on that. Uh to kind of do that together, those prayer times to kind of vary them some. Uh, sometimes it's just like, let's pray one sentence prayers like this, or let's uh let's and then resources, um Bible project, watching some videos like that, or uh prayer cast videos, praying for the nations together. There's just so many resources that are out there available. Uh are there other resources you point to? You mentioned Joel Beakey's book. Yeah, I think Donald Whitney has a at least he did have a book. He's a member on family worship.
SPEAKER_00He has a great book on family worship. Um, and it's and it's small and and and good. Um we love the Jesus storybook Bible. So particularly when our kids were younger, that that was that was something. That that we used. Um, and yeah, those are kind of some of the main things. Yeah, that's good.
SPEAKER_02I have a question. How did you guys prepare? Like before you had kids, yeah. Was this on your heart? And what did you do practically for someone like me who, Lord willing, like God will bless us with kids one day? But how do we prepare because we're coming from that background of not being raised in that, not having any context for that? Right. So, what can me and my wife do now to prepare for the day that God might bless us with kids?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so so one thing that you can do is not do what I did, which was um I I began after we got married, first time at the dinner table, afterwards. I started with the book of Revelation and I said, let's let's talk eschatology. That's where it was gonna start. That's where we were gonna start. We were like, we like we're gonna dive in. I'm gonna exegete this, and it's gonna be, you know what I'm saying? We're gonna get into the millennium. And I knew I knew something was wrong when I saw my wife nodding off. Like at my like in like in the midst of it. So, so the point is you you don't have to be the greatest theologian in the world to to do this. You don't have to be a seminary professor or have a PhD. So good. It's it's just simply opening the Bible, beginning by reading a passage, discussing the passage, praying, and singing. Um or any combination of those things. You know what I mean? Don't don't lay so much all this pressure, yeah. All the all this pressure on yourself. Can can you read? If and can you pray? You know what I mean? Um I love that. Yeah. So and and then the other thing is that don't feel like it has to go for an hour and a half or two hours every time. Like it it could be as short as 10 minutes. Yeah, and and the Lord will bless 10 minutes in his word, 10 faithful minutes a day in his word. Yeah, God's gonna bless them. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03That's good. I love it because we uh we did not, Heather and I didn't do family worship till we had kids in ways that I I love what you're saying, because to build that rhythm in from the beginning of marriage, and I I would even say, like, to the extent in which um it's possible to back it up with the people you live with in your home. Households. Uh so if you're in an apartment or a dorm or whatever, with it's for that just to become a rhythm in your life, that the people you're sharing life with most closely, yeah. Obviously, if they're believers, um, that you would build in some rhythm. Uh yeah, so that that rhythm then that just makes sense to do in marriage and it makes sense to do with kids. I love that your kids just they who are born into a family.
SPEAKER_00This is what we do. Yeah. Uh yeah, yeah, at night. Yeah, and we and we we define family worship as a time set aside, apart from the Sunday gathering, for households to worship God. Yeah, that's those households can look different ways totally mates, right?
SPEAKER_03Grandparents can look different ways. Yeah, you know, and uh and I I when and then when people um are in your household for dinner or uh in the evening to kind of invite them into that, I'm guessing that they do that. And that's uh yeah, uh yeah, it's just a wonderful opportunity to invite others into that time. We've had sweet times with brothers and sisters in Christ who've been visiting us from out of town or just friends who are over at that particular time. I guess and where we just get to do this together.
SPEAKER_00Yes, and yes, yeah. It you know, in terms of hospitality and and bringing people in, we have the privilege of doing for others what people did for us way back when.
SPEAKER_03Yes, yes, you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_00Um, and then even unbelievers, we we have unbelievers over and we say, This is what we do after dinner, come on, and and we do it. Uh-huh. You know what I mean? That's good. Yeah, that's good. So even like evangelistically, yeah. Because this there's so many people who've who've who've never seen a family like me, never seen a family together, mom, dad, and kids at the table. Period. Period. Yes, right? Let alone family worship, yeah, let alone the father leading, right? Like all those kinds of things. And so it's it's like mind-blowing.
SPEAKER_01It's mind blowing.
SPEAKER_03Yes, yeah. Bro, I uh there's obviously a lot of things what you have done with your life that you can do with your life, uh, with the unique grace that God's given you. I'm I'm just super thankful for how you are, you and Blair together are leaning into this because I just think uh as we're talking about this, I just think of the generational impact this can have. Like the I mean, you I mean, the data shows it. Um, the likelihood of someone uh following Jesus after college and then having that modeled for them in a way that it's not just them, it's their future spouse, it's their future children, um, that the next generation might know God. Like it is Psalm 78. And so, man, just thank you for uh Yeah, there's a lot of different things who you could be doing. That and and it's I know it's not the only thing you're doing, but thank you for following the Lord's leadership to pour into families, the households in this way. So powerful. What a legacy back to that decision that you with your wife. Man, so good. In a way that transcends just you and Blair, obviously. 100% that's so many others.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, because it is revolutionary. I'm just like, I think the fear that I've always had in my mind, and like I just don't want to end up like my parents, and like I love them, but I just don't want to end up with this divorce. It's it's so destructive, not only to them, but to me and to generations to come if I keep that pattern going. And this is just a practical way to put a blockade right there and say, no, I'm gonna stand with the everlasting rock. I'm gonna keep my mind on him daily. And you said, even 10 minutes doing this worship, I just think back to we sure we talked about this earlier. Better is one day in the courts of the Lord than a thousand elsewhere. Amen. And so I'm excited to start doing that with my wife.
SPEAKER_03And and bro, I'm just thinking about Psalm 78. And then I want to ask you, Shai, to just pray over uh everyone who's listening to this and and all the different households they represent. But I just think uh as you're talking, Austin, I'm thinking about Psalm 78, you read it. Um, when you get to verse six and it says that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn. So just man, there's there's kids, if the Lord entrusts children to you, uh and the yeah, all kinds of children yet unborn who uh might be uh might know the wonders of God in a in a wonderful way, uh, because some not just parents who are listening to this right now decide to do this, but some teenagers who are listening to this right now, some college students who are listening right now decide to do this, and children that'll be born 10 years from now are experiencing the fruit of that.
SPEAKER_01May it be so. Can you pray for that end? Yeah, let's go. Let's go.
SPEAKER_00Uh Heavenly Father, we praise you for your glorious deeds, your wondrous works. We praise you for your glorious deeds in creation, your wondrous works in salvation, and we praise you that you are a God not only of individuals, but of families. And and we and we thank you for your wisdom in um uh ordaining that the faith would be passed down generationally. And so, Lord, we pray uh for those who are listening, um, we pray for children who are yet unborn. Lord, would would you in your grace and in your power uh raise up a generation who practice family worship? Yes, yes, what would our churches be like if they were filled with people who are in the homes regularly practicing family worship? What would this world look like? If there were churches filled with people who regularly practice family worship, Lord, would you would you do that? Nothing is too hard for you. Um and and and for those who are wondering how it could could possibly be done, Lord, would you guide them? Uh would you uh lead people to resources? Just would you produce the conviction that God deserves to be worshipped, not only on Sundays, but throughout the week? Would you would you develop the conviction that what happens on Sundays should be an overflow, what's happening in the home throughout the week? And we ask all of these things to the glory of your name that your wondrous deeds, your your glorious works might be proclaimed to the next generation until Jesus comes. Do this for the glory of your name, we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.
SPEAKER_02Amen. Amen. Thanks so much for listening to this episode of Everyday Radical. We pray that it encouraged you in many ways. We do this every single week, so be sure to subscribe or follow to not miss the next episode. We'll see you then.