What's the Point?
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What if the biggest thing slowing you down spiritually isn’t lack of passion, but the habit of saying “I’ll handle it tomorrow”? In this episode, we break down spiritual awareness in a way that actually fits real life: How small blind spots turn into big problems, how God uses process before promise, and why awareness (not hype) is what keeps you moving forward. We map Cooper’s color code onto everyday faith, talk about staying out of “condition white,” and get practical about sharing your faith without being weird, pushy, or fake. Think simple steps, honest habits, and real conversations that build momentum.
What we cover:
- Cooper’s color code and what “yellow” looks like spiritually
- Why “condition white” is dangerous even when you feel busy
- Daily habits that protect your heart and keep you steady
- Guardrails and boundaries that help you make wiser choices
- How God uses correction and process to prepare you
- Stewardship: building tomorrow by being faithful today
- How to share your faith naturally (with love, not guilt)
- Lifestyle as witness: credibility, consistency, and character
- Listening first, asking better questions
This week's challenge: Try one intentional connection. No pressure, no script. Just build a real relationship. Connection matters, and your faith flows best through trust, not force.
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Welcome And Icebreaker
SPEAKER_07What's up everyone? Welcome back to Five Kids in the Collie Podcast. I'm your host, Audrey L'Jo. With me is Hudson Walton.
SPEAKER_01Hey guys.
SPEAKER_07Andrea Crater. Hey. Ramsey Paploon. Hey. And Lincoln Sessier.
SPEAKER_01Hey guys.
Time-Travel Picks And Y2K Laughs
SPEAKER_07Um, just a reminder that this is our last podcast of the semester, but we will be back in January, so don't fret. Um, if you guys could live through one moment in history for a day, which one would you choose?
SPEAKER_02I think I'd have to say the moon landing. I'm a big space nerd, so it would have been really cool to see us like action land on the moon. I think that'd be cool.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I'd want to be the one on the moon though. Like, like, like Neil.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02Apparently there's levels to this.
SPEAKER_04Um, um, I want to be at the American Revolution. Any part of it, because why not? Maybe especially whenever we win. Or maybe we're just getting started. Because that seems like it'd be really cool.
SPEAKER_01What if you got hurt though? That's pretty dangerous.
SPEAKER_04No, no, no.
SPEAKER_07But I just wouldn't get hurt. No, even if you do, it's a day that easy. So if you if you died, or God forbid something happened, you just wake up the next like after 24 hours and you'd be back. Yeah, I'd be back here. I wouldn't say that forever.
SPEAKER_00Alright. I think I feel I think I'd want to uh be at the Boston Massacre so I could see what in the world like No no no hear me out, hear me out. What in the world caused explain that the whole revolution? Like that's where it branched from. Okay. So I just want to I just want to know, like, do we have like endless lives?
SPEAKER_06Hypothetical. Yeah, low key d okay. Oh, I would want to be like January 1st of 2000 to like see everybody's reactions of not having the world be done for.
SPEAKER_02Can you explain? I don't know what that means.
SPEAKER_06Like, like in 1999, like everybody thought like years, everyone exactly everybody it was like COVID, but what's it called H2O?
SPEAKER_07Why Y2K?
SPEAKER_00Y2K H2O is water.
SPEAKER_07That's gonna haunt you. Digital footprint's gonna be real bad on that one.
SPEAKER_02That's dangerous. We were all afraid of water guys. Learning great things on the podcast.
Sermon Theme: The Stumbling Block Of Tomorrow
SPEAKER_07Um, anyway. Uh, what did you guys think about the sermon on Sunday?
Cooper’s Color Code And Awareness
SPEAKER_04Pastor Jared preached a really, really good sermon on Sunday, and his title was The Stumbling Block of Tomorrow. And it's so sad because this was his last message on stumbling blocks, and I really enjoyed this series personally. Yeah, me too. So we started out talking about Navy SEALs and how military personnel are taught to be highly aware of their situations at all times, and they're taught to be highly aware of their surroundings. And then he likened six situational awareness for military to spiritual awareness for a believer, and I thought that was cool.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I thought it was really cool how he brought up the color code that he used. Was it Cooper's color code? Something like that. I don't know who that guy is, but he came up with a pretty cool color code. That's a tongue twister. But he basically he gave four colors: condition white, condition yellow, condition orange, and condition red. Condition white would be like being completely unaware. Like oblivious. Don't know what's going on. Like you need to You're living under a rock. You need to change that. That's pretty bad. Like you can get hurt at any time.
SPEAKER_04Literally.
SPEAKER_02Yellow is like you're calm, but you're you're like aware of your surround things, like a normal human would be.
SPEAKER_04Like so, like the guy that always has like he sits at the restaurant to where his back's facing the wall, and like he always has eyes at the door.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, like that, or just knowing where the exits are in a building, just like being generally aware of your surroundings. Then you have orange, which is focused alert, like something catches your attention, you hear a noise that's off, uh that's in the physical.
SPEAKER_07Wait, actually, that happens to me all the time. Like sometimes I'm taking my dog out and I look across the street and I see a little white light, and I always think it's a scope. Like a whole night scope, and I'm like, Yo, somebody's gonna get it.
SPEAKER_02I think that would be conditioned red. Condition is red, like you've actively confirmed a threat, and you're like, we're dealing with this now. Yeah, like no more. Like, if you think you're about to get sniped, I just run inside.
SPEAKER_07That's conditioned right at all.
SPEAKER_02But yeah, he explained all the color codes and the different levels of awareness, and he he explained how most Christians today we can find ourselves being conditioned white in the spiritual, which is very dangerous because that means, like we just said, you don't know what's going on. You may love God, you may go to church, but you never really slow down and think like what's going on in my heart.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Uh what habits do I have that are dragging me down? You don't think about that stuff. You don't think about what temptations that I commonly fall into, what causes me to stumble. You don't think about any of it because you're just spiritually unaware. Yeah. And that's pretty dangerous.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. It's like you're numb to the spirit.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that. Or you're just like you just don't think about it. Yeah. You may not know to think about it. Yeah. And you need to become more aware.
SPEAKER_00Like oblivious to attacks and stuff like that. Is that what is that what you mean?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, like like ignorance is bliss kind of thing.
SPEAKER_04Like uh like oblivious of your spiritual walk like altogether.
SPEAKER_02You may think that you're you're spiritually fine because you go to church on Sundays and Wednesdays, you pray, you feel God, but you don't ever really think deeper than that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That's being spiritually unaware.
SPEAKER_04I really liked whenever Pastor Jared said we can get so busy worrying about tomorrow that we forget what God wants to do for me today or like through us today. And I was like, that's so true. Because we we tend to get so busy in our day-to-day lives. Like it's really hard, not really hard, but you just have to be intentional with your time because you're just given a limited amount of time each day. Yeah. And so a lot of the times we fill that time with just not busy work, but we we find things to do, you know. And then sometimes we just forget that like, oh, I haven't read my Bible, or oh, I haven't prayed until like you're about to get in bed, and then you're like, oh snap, I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow, or let me read like two sentences so I think I did it, but I actually didn't do it, um, or stuff like that. And so it is just very true that we forget, like we get so busy about worrying about tomorrow or or what's next or what we're supposed to do the next day, that we forget what God wants to do for us in that day.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
Today’s Discipline Beats Tomorrow’s Dream
SPEAKER_07It was just like talking about how um like we all want the great tomorrow. We want the end result, we want to fast forward to like the finish line, but we uh very few people actually put in the work to make sure, like to prepare for it and to take what he's given you today and use it and to start building up that future to get to the end result that you really want.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that goes back to being unaware because if you're unaware, you're just gonna sit there and kind of wait for the tomorrow to happen.
SPEAKER_05Like you have to make it happen.
SPEAKER_02You could be like, God's giving me a promise, it's gonna happen. I don't really have to work for it, it's just gonna happen. Yeah, that ties into being spiritually unaware. And I kind of want to talk about the dangers of being an unaware Christian because we can say that it's dangerous, but I think we should explain why. We've kind of touched on it already, but being spiritually aware is dangerous because you may not see any attack coming.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_02If you're like if you liken it to the physical, you walk into a room, you have uh earbuds in, you're looking at your phone, or you're walking outside, whatever, and you're not looking at your surroundings, someone can walk up to you and punch you in the face, and you may not even know.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you would have no idea because you're not paying attention. Well, until happen, until it happens.
SPEAKER_02But that can happen the same way in the spiritual. You could just be going through your day, not paying attention to what's going on spiritually, not looking at the temptations around you, not noticing your bad habits. And then before you know it, uh you're way off track and you're far from God and you don't even know.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And that will happen and it will continue happening if you're spiritually unaware and you don't realize what's going on around you.
Boundaries, Guardrails, And Honesty
SPEAKER_07I like what you said about bad habits. Like that's a big that's a big one because I feel like we all have those little things that we do, and a lot of times we don't realize how bad like like last podcast, I was talking about how I speed all the time and I didn't know that was actually a sin. Yeah. So now I'm super hyper aware of it, and like I'm driving like today, like three times I'll be driving. I'm like, wait, I have to slow down. This is exactly it's just like whenever you don't realize the bad habits that you're doing, eventually when you realize you're like, wow, like I've been doing this for a while.
SPEAKER_04And that's one of the things that Pastor Jared said was sometimes we we don't eat we're not even aware of our unawareness. Yeah, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. It's it's super easy to have blind spots when you're unaware. And then even deeper, it's easier for those blind spots, even though they start out small, to become strongholds. If you don't pay any attention to it and like you're not aware of what's going on, they can take a hold of you. And a small habit like Audrey speeding, it can become a dependency, it can become a way she lives. Um, a small amount of attitude that you have, it can become a bitterness within you.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Um, just things like that, it can progress so easily and become a stronghold because you're not aware, you don't actively look and see it and point it out and try to stop it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think that's why it's so important to make sure that you are grounded in the today. So that way the things that do happen yesterday don't shake you as bad as they would if you were not grounded at all. Like if you if you go to read your Bible and then something comes up and you're like, Well, I'll do it later, and then you end up not doing it that day. Who knows? Tomorrow something might happen that tests your faith in that Bible reading that you could have done the night before might have helped you, even though you wouldn't have known it would have helped you.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah. I think that I was gonna say that's a good way to think about it. Yeah, that is a really good way to think about it.
SPEAKER_02I think it boils down to you can't fight a battle that you don't know that you're in. Um you could be on the verge of something huge spiritually, you could be on a spiritual cliff where you're about to fall off or stay there and you know not fall, but you may not I could have said that better, but it was great.
SPEAKER_07I thought we're gonna do it.
SPEAKER_02You get the point though, but you may not even know that you're there. You should be like, you should be praying hard right now, but you may not even know anything's wrong. Oh, yeah. And that's a very dangerous spot to be as a Christian. You may not be guarding your heart like you should. You may not be resisting the things that are trying to destroy you because you're just not even aware that they're trying to destroy you. Yeah, yeah. And so it's not smart and it's very dangerous to be uh unaware Christian. Like you can't you can't really do it, it doesn't work, it doesn't work like that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think I think that's why it's so important to set boundaries for your own boundaries. Yeah. Like um some one of the preachers here talked about that in a series they did a while back um about guardrails. I think it was Pastor James. Yeah, it was. Um yeah. Moses, whenever God told Moses to not let his people go up to the edge of the mountain, Moses pushed them back way even further. So even if they did cross the boundary that he set, they would still be fine. Yeah, yeah. So it's important to set boundaries for yourself, even for the boundaries that have already been placed for you to make sure you do stay in the right way.
Promises, Process, And Preparation
SPEAKER_07Yeah. And I think like in order to keep yourself from getting those blind spots and being super unaware to the point that you create bad habits and you let them get so deep that you don't like when because you don't realize they're there. Yeah. I think you just your goal every day should just be like Andre said a while back, just get closer to God every day. Your goal, just strive to be better than you were yesterday. Yeah. And those bad habits can't they won't have any room because you didn't give them any room. You didn't give yourself any leeway to mess up. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And if you're consistently trying to better yourself and be better and point out your blind spots or your stumbling blocks, then those those sin cycles that you've been in, they they won't have any room to cycle because you're trying intentionally not to do those things. Yeah. And Pastor Jared, one of the things he said yesterday was spiritual awareness equals spiritual honesty with myself before the Lord has to expose it for me. And I was like, that is so true. Well, all the things he says is so true. But that one was especially was so true because think about it. If I'm aware of my spiritual well-being and how I'm actually doing with God, then I'm being honest with myself and I can see, oh, I'm not praying enough, or I'm not praying like how I should be praying, or when can I pray more, or I'm not reading my Bible like I should, or something like that, or as often as I might be, I might should. That's not right. I might need to there because um before God has to expose it for me. Because if if God has to expose all of our blind spots, we are not aware, you guys. And then that's gonna hurt a lot. Well, it's gonna hurt whenever you become aware of it, but it's gonna hurt a lot worse whenever God makes you aware of it. Because then something's gonna have to happen for you to be aware of it, and we just don't want to go there.
Wilderness Lessons And Love That Corrects
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, like we're not perfect, like yeah, you may not be able to see all of your blind spots. Maybe you have one really ingrained, but you should at least like have some common sense and see some. You should be like, you know, past five times I've started to do this, it led me off track. Maybe I shouldn't go that direction anymore. Stuff like that. Like, that's part of being aware. If you were the the white condition of awareness, whatever the color code was, you just you just keep on going.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But what was that? I think Pastor Jared said you should strive to be in the yellow, yeah, the second level.
SPEAKER_04To where like you're aware of your surroundings and you're ready to take action.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, because that's how we should strive to be. Yeah, that's what I was looking for. Um being calm but aware.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Um, I know I gave some physical examples earlier, but like spiritually, that would be like if something happens, and like you just said, thinking about it, analyzing your heart, being like, why did I react like that? Or what caused me to slip there? Or what habits do I have that could be distracting me from time with God or leading me away from God? So I think being in the yellow is a bunch it's centered around self-examination and being aware. Like being aware of what's going on in your heart and what's going on in your surroundings that influence you in your walk with God.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, that's good. I liked when you said tomorrow will never come if all we do is dream about it. Oh, yeah. Because I just think it it goes for life in general, but obviously like the spiritual aspect too. But like in life, nothing is ever just handed to you. Like nothing in history just happened. Somebody worked hard to make make a change. And if they wanted it, they didn't stop until they got it. And so if you want that spiritual breakthrough in your life, then you have to work for it. It's not gonna be handed to you. You're not gonna just stumble upon it. Yeah, you have to, you have to go up there, you have to pray, you have to put in the work and read your Bible and strive to be better.
SPEAKER_02You gotta put in the work and put in the hours.
SPEAKER_07Take us hours.
SPEAKER_02Exactly. I haven't heard that one in a long time. Disciplined Christian right there.
Hitting Rock Bottom And Putting God First
SPEAKER_04Or everyone wants to be blessed, but only if you will do what it takes to make it happen. Or we want tomorrow's harvest without showing up to today's field. And basically, you just have to recognize what your blind spots are. You have to ask God first, like, hey, what are I need some help, help me recognize my blind spots. Then we have to commit. I've when I was listening yesterday, I was like, a lot of this is centered around commitment. We just yeah, we just don't want to commit, right? Like, yes, we're we're halfway in and halfway out, but you can't you can't be that way with God. You have to be all the way in or all the way out. Yeah. Because in Revelation, he says, if you're I'd rather you be hot or cold. And if you're lukewarm, I'll spit you out my mouth. Yeah. Like, I don't know. That was not doesn't sound great. Um, and so I think it's just a big like not commitment problem, but we just have to recognize like, okay, we actually have to commit to something.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I like the point you made about the uh or he made about the harvest we want the harvest but are not willing to go into the field. Yeah. Um I know for me, like I used to I used to pray like God, it's in this earth-shaking revival. And then I look back and I'm like, dude, you weren't even doing anything that you that I could have controlled and able to help that happen. Like God calls us to reach people. I wasn't reaching anybody. He calls us to read the Bible and get closer to him and pray. I wasn't doing that. So it's just like now that I'm looking back, I'm like, I'm asking God to do something for him, but I'm not doing my part of what I'm asking.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, I've done the same. Uh I really relate because especially when I was younger, I'd be like, God, please change me. I want to change. I want to be more like you. But then I just, like you just said, I wouldn't read my Bible. I wouldn't feel like dude, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_00Asking for something, but and then you wonder why God doesn't answer because he's like, I'm I'm willing to help you change, but you gotta help yourself a little bit.
SPEAKER_04We just have to go through the process. We want tomorrow's promises, but we don't want to go through the process. That's one of the things he said.
SPEAKER_02I feel like he's up there in heaven sometimes, and he's just looking at us like, just do something. Like, I'll I'll help you out. Like I'm gonna move.
Why We Share Our Faith
SPEAKER_04Just do it.
SPEAKER_00Uh he's I guarantee you there's been many times where we've prayed for open doors, and the doors are wide open, and we're just standing there, just not walking through it, and we're like, God, please open this door. And he's looking down like it's wide open. Just walk.
SPEAKER_07Double doors.
SPEAKER_00Like, just walk.
SPEAKER_02You don't understand. Open this door for me, please.
SPEAKER_00It's like, dude, I did that 10 years ago. I don't even know.
SPEAKER_02There was never even a door there, bro. What are you talking about?
SPEAKER_00We made our own door.
SPEAKER_06I also think it's important is that maybe you'll be asking for something bigger, but because you're working on something small. But if you're not stewarding what's that small thing, you're not ever gonna get to that big thing that you've been dreaming of. And so, because God's not just gonna hand it to you, He's gonna make sure that He can trust you with what He wants to give you, but you're not helping yourself get it.
SPEAKER_02No, that makes sense. And I think it uh it really ties into the whole theme of the message or the stumbling blocks of tomorrow. Well, the stumbling block of tomorrow is focusing so much on tomorrow that you lose sight of the commitment that you need to be given today. You can get lost in today by focusing too much on what you expect to come tomorrow. Yeah, and that's the major theme of the stumbling block of tomorrow. You gotta be committed in the present and stay faithful. Yeah, and stay aware.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I know there's been a lot of times where I've not even just thought about what tomorrow could bring, but I've worried about like what tomorrow can bring. But then I look at Jeremiah 29, 11, and it talks about how the Lord has plans to prosper us and give us hope and a future. Yeah, yeah. So that really is just a good reminder, like don't worry about it because God's already He's already ordered your steps. You just have to, like I said earlier, you just gotta walk in them.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's good.
SPEAKER_02And I really like the the section that he went in near the end of his message where he was talking about how people can kind of misunderstand God's love. Yeah, like you ask a question, like if God really loved me, couldn't he just make it easier for me? Like, why do I have to go through all go through all these things? Yeah, um, why do I have to go through a trial to change? Can't God just change me? Like thoughts like that, you're like, Well, if God loved me, he'd just make it easier because that's what happens when you love someone. But no, if you uh actually read the Bible, you'll see that throughout the Bible, when God loves his people, he corrects them continually. And that's how he shows his love by making us better.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
Heaven, Hell, And Eternal Stakes
SPEAKER_00And he also he oftentimes lets his people go through stuff. Yeah. Like uh Shadrach, Meshach, and Abendogo had to go through the fire. Daniel had to go into the lions, yeah. Moses had to stare at a Red Sea, he had to face a rebellious Pharaoh. Like they've all had they all. Job lost everything besides his life. So uh literally. And he he still never cursed God. So uh the hardships that he went through definitely shaped every one of those characters, and it was part of the testimony.
SPEAKER_04And hardships definitely refine who you are, it takes out all of like your impurities and um spiritual inconsistencies, and it really lets God shine through your life. And one of the things that Pastor Jared said yesterday was you pray for a bold testimony, but you don't you don't want to go through anything. And that's a really big that's a really big point because you have to go through something to have a testimony. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's kind of like what Ramsay was saying earlier about how God's not just gonna give you the big promise if you don't do anything. Like you have to go through things so you can be prepared, whether it be your character, your walk with God, your faith, all of the above, you have to be ready for the next big thing or the promise, the promised land, whatever you're filling the blank is, you have to be ready for it. If God just took like a level one noob and gave him like the keys to the kingdom, dude, it wouldn't work, bro.
SPEAKER_05That's awesome.
SPEAKER_02Like, if you're still drinking the spiritual milk and you're not eating the spiritual meat and you're just a baby Christian, what is happening?
SPEAKER_04No, I get it, I get it.
SPEAKER_00Hey, that's one way to put it, bro.
SPEAKER_02Read it in the Bible, bro. It's there.
SPEAKER_04They they just said that.
SPEAKER_02Basically, if you're not on the level to get the promise that you want, God's not just gonna hand it to you.
Share From Love, Not Guilt
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. And we can see that in Exodus because in Exodus, God promised the Israelites a land flowing with milk and honey. Like He promised them their promised land, but before they could ever step into their promised land, they had to go through 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. And some people can look at that and be like, why do they have to wander? Well, think about it. They lived in Egypt for over 400 years. Their people were were um immersed in the Egyptian culture and their lifestyle, the worship of their gods, they worshiped so many different gods. Um and they didn't need to trust God because they, you know, they they were in a land, a different land, and they hadn't learned how to trust God yet. And so going through those 40 years taught them to strip away their worldly lifestyles and to learn how to trust God. And once they learned those things, then God was able to re reward them with their promised land because he they became disciplined. If he would have just thrown the Israelites into the promised land, it was like an 11-day walk from Egypt to their promised land. If they would have just showed up, it wouldn't have worked at all. They would have destroyed themselves in it because they weren't disciplined and they weren't prepared at all for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I saw Instagram real, it was um, it was an example kind of like what Hudson just so greatly gave us.
SPEAKER_07Um the baby milk?
SPEAKER_00No, no, it was well, this one was about uh spiritual baby milk.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, my bad.
SPEAKER_00The facts, right? Yeah, the spiritual baby milk. This guy was uh talking about um how God oftentimes prepares us before he gives it to us. And um he used the example of it's like giving a baby keys to a car. Like, yeah, you could you could give the baby the keys to the car, but they're not gonna know what in the world to do with it. Yeah, yeah. So it was like you gotta grow up, learn how to drive, and then you get the keys to the car. So oftentimes love is in its best form through protection. Yeah, that's what I got from it.
How To Share Faith Naturally
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it's very good. Wait, was it in here that we were talking on the podcast that we were talking about? Um No, I saw a video. Okay, it kind of ties into what you were just saying about protection, but then I saw this video and it was talking about um whenever people, like whenever you're praying for someone and they aren't seeing like nothing is happening like they aren't, you know, getting closer, they started praying on their downfall in a way. Like they prayed that something would happen that they had no other choice but to turn to God. And I was like, I don't know how I feel about it. Like not praying on their downfall, like death, obviously.
SPEAKER_00Like they have like a big canon event where they only thing they have left to choose is God.
SPEAKER_04Some people have so much pride built up in their life that God has to knock them completely down for them to be able to turn to him because they they don't they think they can do it by themselves. They don't need God. Yeah, yeah. And so some people they do need the knock yourself down bottom of rocks. What's it called? Rock bottom.
SPEAKER_03Bottom of rocks, bottom of rocks, rock bottom.
SPEAKER_04They have to be able to hit rock bottom for them to be able to come to God because otherwise they wouldn't be, they wouldn't do it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I think that oddly enough ties into what he was mentioning at the end of the sermon with people. Okay, I don't know how to like say this because I was the one that asked the question, but at at the grill when I had asked the question of why so many people struggle, and yet, like, I mean, I feel like we lived a pretty blessed life, and I'm like, why do I feel like we have way less struggles than some other people? He was mentioning it's because well, they don't put God first in everything, and so yeah, they will hit rock bottom because they need to learn to put God first in everything they do, and a lot of your troubles and problems can go away whenever you put God first in all your decisions.
SPEAKER_02Sometimes it really is that simple.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, because a lot of times we make decisions based on um how we feel, how we feel or our emotions, and we're not thinking like God, what do you actually want me to do in this situation? Or sometimes we can overcomplicate the situation, and you really just gotta make a decision sometimes because God won't make the decision for you, like he'll give you options, but then you still gotta do it. And I heard uh brother Derek Stewart say one time, he said, You don't have to make the perfect perfect decision, you have to just make a decision once you talk to God about it and trust the perfect God.
SPEAKER_02And I think that's just so facts, man.
Invite, Connect, And Plant Seeds
SPEAKER_07I wanted to ask you guys, why do you guys think it's important to like share our faith with others?
SPEAKER_02Well, I think that first and foremost, the re the most important reason is that we're commanded to in the Bible. Several times. Matthew 28, 19, for one. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations. Yeah, it doesn't get as clear. Any clearer than that. Yeah, like we're commanded to. Like, I don't even need to continue on this point, really. It's just like that's the number one reason the Bible commands it.
SPEAKER_04Um you believe something, and if you strongly believe it, why wouldn't you want to tell other people about it?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and like if you love something, like why like you want to go tell everybody else about it. Yeah, would you like to keep that to yourself?
SPEAKER_04Like Audrey bought a new pair of shoes one time, and then she told all of us about her new pair of like the past like the next week because she loved her new pair of shoes.
SPEAKER_02You're like, dude, you have to get these shoes, they're so good, they feel so comfy. They look so cool.
SPEAKER_07I could just see like Hudson and Lincoln walking around in these cute sandals, like y'all have to have them.
SPEAKER_02I actually went and bought a pair, and that's exactly how you should spread your faith. Yeah, framed them in almost. You just share it with everyone, it doesn't matter who.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. I think um another reason is because a lot of people, like this world is really dark. We we've seen it, we can see it now. There's a lot of people who are just lost and hurting, and they need some ray of light, like just something to hold on to. And I think that that's Jesus. We have to spread that so that they can have something, you know, to hold on to and cling to.
SPEAKER_04And about 70% of our world isn't Christian, and that's and I just searched Christian. Yeah, over 70% of the world is non-religious and like they're not Christian. That's crazy, but then that's not even talking about like the cr among the Christian denominations and all that, because there's a bunch of them. So most of our world doesn't know about God or doesn't believe in God. And a lot of people, some people don't don't even know. Like, some people weren't even raised thinking of like believing or thinking like that a God exists. They just think like, oh, it's the universe, or oh, like XYZ, baby.
SPEAKER_00Well, and some people they don't even know. Some people believe God is real, but don't know what they believe in. Exactly. That's another thing. Like, I've talked to a bunch of people, I'm like, why do you believe this uh it was an area in the Bible's like, why do you believe in that? Uh, because I was growing up in it. Like, that's what I hear a lot. That's what they were born into.
Listen First, Then Witness
SPEAKER_04And a lot of people um believe based on their traditions, like how their family raised them. Like you get into a lot of talks with people, why do you believe that? Oh, because I was raised in it, just like Lincoln said, or you ask them, would you consider X, Y, Z? And they're like, no, I was raised in it. And so it's just a bunch of these different things, but also you have to realize that you might be the only Bible or a godly person that this person, whoever you're trying to reach, will ever meet or see. Like you represent Jesus every single day. Yeah, and you have to realize that you might be the only ray of light to them, and if you do not reach out to them, they will most likely go to hell and burn forever and lake of fire or whatever it is. Um the word the word blank out in my head.
SPEAKER_05Brimstone, whatever it is, brimstone is solar fire, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Burn forever in a complete in an atmosphere that is not of not of God. What's the word? Absent of God. Yeah, 100%. And we can't even imagine how bad it is. Like we can't even we can't imagine how good heaven is, or we can't even imagine how bad hell is. And think about it if you don't reach out to them right then and there, or just talk to that person, whoever it is, yeah. Say they die tomorrow and you haven't reached out to them. Yeah, you know, and you you could have made a difference in their life. Um and so Matt, and there and there's a not a parable, but like Jesus was well, I guess it is a parable. In Matthew 25, and Jesus was talking about whenever the whenever he will come back and judge the world.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And so he says, But when the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate the people as sheep, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left. And then the king will say to those on his right, Come, you who are blessed by my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. For whenever I was hungry, you fed me, I was thirsty, you gave me drink. And he goes down that that line. And he says, and the the people were like, When did we do that? And he goes, Whenever you fed someone who was hungry, you did it unto me. Whenever you clothed someone who was clothless, naked, you did it unto me. Speaking in King's James over here.
SPEAKER_00We're full of it.
SPEAKER_04You were doing it to me. And then he switches gears, and the then the king will turn to those on the left, so the goats, and say, Away with you, you cursed ones, and into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons. Because hell was never prepared for children of God. It was never prepared for humans. It was prepared for the devil and his demons. But if you don't obey, you end up there.
Fruits, Credibility, And Challenge
SPEAKER_07That being said, though, it doesn't mean that good, like good works get you to heaven. It doesn't mean that feeding, feeding the homeless or clothing the naked is going to get you to heaven. It's saying, like, you know.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, there's definitely two different places.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um, because some people don't even believe that. They just think, like, oh, when I die, we're all gotta go into some afterlife, or if some people question it if there even is an afterlife. And there's definitely two, not two afterlifes, but there's a heaven and a hell. There's two destinations. There's two destinations. There we go. And so then Jesus was saying at the end, and then he said, Then they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Because this the sheep symbolize the righteous, the ones, the ones who are children of God, the people who know God. Um, they have done the plan of salvation according to the Bible, and then they continued it. Yeah because you can't just be, you can't just get saved. You have to continue in your walk. Exactly. You you can't do that. And then the other verses, the goats are repres are representing the wicked people or the people who are continually living in their sin, or the people who just don't they don't know. They don't know God. Yeah. Not that they don't know, but well, that could be the case.
SPEAKER_07Like you were saying, you could be the only the only light that someone ever sees in their dark world.
SPEAKER_04And a lot just sharing your faith is so important. One, just like Hudson said, because it's a commandment in the Bible. Yeah. But two, why wouldn't you want to bring other people to heaven with you? Why wouldn't you want to share that and be a light to them and then see their world completely turn upside down?
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Like what if they're struggling with addiction? What if they're addicted to alcohol or drugs? Or what if they're struggling with their health issues? Or what if they have family problems? And you could be the reason that they become to know God. And in the Bible, um, it says, it says, how can they hear without a preacher? Or how can they they be seen or saved without a preacher, without without someone telling them? And it says, blessed are the hands and the feet of those who tell others about Jesus. And I know it's not like for everyone in the story I'm about to tell, but my parents got into church because someone shared their faith with them. Yeah. Like Sister Corey, your mom, brought my mom to church whenever she was 12 years old. That is how my mom got into church. My dad got into church because my someone, my grandpa was at work, and then a lady there just started asking him questions about his faith because he was of a different denomination. And then they she gave him a Bible study, and because of that, I'm third generation Pentecostal. I'm living in truth. And so it doesn't just affect you or that person in that current situation or moment, it affects generations. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I think it's important to think about it like how you said, like every person you meet, you may be the only Bible they ever read, how you put it. I like how you put it. I think it can be scary to think about it like that. Like if we're being real, it can be a mindset shift to think about it like that. Like if I don't spread the gospel with this person that I feel like I should, that may lead to them going to hell. They may not hear it from somewhere else. That can be scary to think about, but we have to be aware of that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Like if we're real, that's why it's so important. That's why Jesus emphasizes it in the Bible. That's why he commands us to. Because, like you just said, we may be the only gospel that someone ever hears. And it's our duty. Like it's not, it's not optional.
SPEAKER_04No.
SPEAKER_02You you can't just sit there passively and be like, oh, well, that's the pastor's job, that's a preacher's job, that's a missionary's job. That's all of our jobs. They just have a specific ministry. Yeah. We should all be sharing the gospel.
SPEAKER_07Like, imagine if that was you. Imagine if you you don't know the truth, like knowing the truth now, you know. Imagine if you didn't, and someone around you knew it and they never told you. And imagine the people around you, you're like, treat everyone like it's your sibling or like it's your mom or your dad. Because imagine you get to the gates and that person looks at you and says, Why didn't you tell me? You knew the truth and you let me go this way.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, especially like if you just if it's someone you knew for a while and you never even shared it with them, like you didn't even try. Yeah. Like if I was that person, I'd be very mad at you at the end times. I'd be like, dude, I'd probably be a bit more mad. I'd be like, I'd be furious, but I'd be like, you betrayed me. You you never shared this with me. I never thought of it, thought about it like that, Audrey. You had the key. You like you had the knowledge uh you knew God. You had the knowledge of eternal life, basically.
SPEAKER_04You have the knowledge of me being able to turn my entire life around and actually live with a purpose, yeah, but you didn't tell me.
SPEAKER_02You didn't even try.
SPEAKER_04Why? Like, and some people think that they they let fear get in the way and like, oh, I'm too scared to tell them about God. Well, you don't know what they're going through at home, you don't know if their parents are divorced or fighting, or if their dad or if like their their family um is going through X, Y, Z or what they're going through personally. Yeah, you have no idea what they're going through. Yeah, and that should just that should be a reason in itself to just tell people about Jesus.
SPEAKER_07We were fortunate enough to grow up in it. We were blessed enough to just be raised in this. So how dare we just sit here thinking, oh, everyone has that opportunity, they could find it for themselves. Someone else will tell them. Because no, they won't. If everyone thinks that way, it will never get out and the word will never go around.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. And in Luke 19, 10, it says, and Jesus was talking, and he said, The Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost. And we are called to be like Jesus. Like that is that is the whole point of doing what we of believing and acting and doing what we are doing as Christians is we are called to be like Jesus. We have to imitate him. And if we are not sharing our faith with others, we are not being like Jesus. Because his entire purpose of coming to this earth was to was to share himself with other people and die and like live a perfect life, die, and then rise again so that we could have the ability to be redeemed from our sins. That was that was literally his entire purpose. And so if we are not giving other people the opportunity to be redeemed, the it says in the Bible that the wages of sin is death.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Like there, it doesn't get any better than that. Not better. Worse clear clearer than that.
SPEAKER_02Goodness.
SPEAKER_04It doesn't get any worse than that.
SPEAKER_02On fire tonight. Literally. Yeah. But I think it's important when we talk about like how intense we've been getting and how serious we've been getting about spreading the gospel and about the consequences of not doing it and spreading our faith. I think it's important to lay out that you shouldn't ever be spreading the gospel through a feeling of guilt. Yes. Because that can happen, especially when you start to really realize how serious it is. Like, if I don't spread the word to this person, they may go to hell. It can be easy to start trying to spread the word to everyone you meet out of guilt. That's not how you should do it. You should be spreading the gospel and the good news out of love.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Um, God does not want you to spread his word out of guilt. He doesn't want you to do anything for him out of guilt. You should be doing it out of love for him, out of obedience to him. Out of love for his people? Yeah, and love for his people. So I just think I just needed to say that that's a good thing.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, that's a good point. Very good. We should be the pole reverers of this century.
SPEAKER_05Jesus is very good.
SPEAKER_07Um, so I mean, we've talked about, you know, um like why we should share it, but how do you guys think we can share it? Like, what are some things that we could do to do that?
SPEAKER_02Well, I think the first and the most important step is to live it. You have to live it first before you can share it. Absolutely. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Practice what you preach.
SPEAKER_02I mean, you can you can share it. It can still happen. You can definitely still read the Bible to someone, explain it to them. Um, I believe it was our bishop, Bishop Pavlu. If I'm remembering this right, he said it in a message where back when he was young, like around our age and he was looking for truth, looking for God, he ran into someone that used to be Pentecostal, but they had backslidden, and he just struck up a conversation. The guy was like, Look, I'm not in this anymore, but I know where he can find it. So you can still spread it without living it, but it is a hundred times easier to spread the good news if you're actually believing in living that yourself. Yeah, if they can see the change in you, because it's natural, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. And your lifestyle is truly your biggest witness. How you live, what you say, what you wear, all of these things is truly your your biggest witness to somebody. Yeah. Um, because you can talk all you want. Just like how someone's saying, you can share the entire Bible with them, you could give them Bible study after Bible study. But if you're not living it for yourself, they're not, you're not gonna be credible. They're not they're not gonna look at that hypocrite. Yeah, you could lose your credibility a hundred percent if you don't live it out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, like a couple episodes ago episodes ago, we were talking about gossip. If the next service we started gossiping about someone in the church, yeah, we'd lose our credibility pretty fast.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, because we're not we're not putting action behind our words, and action is a really big thing.
SPEAKER_02You can't just talk the talk, sister. Yeah, you gotta walk. You gotta walk the walk.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, like you hear all these stories of like like Pastor Jared tells us all the time about how he was in the grocery store and he had his god can shirt on, and somebody was like, Are you a Christian? Like, I can tell there's something different about you. Like, I think that I want to be like that.
SPEAKER_06Like, I just want to be like minding our own business and they'll literally just go, Amen, brother, and move on with the key, fellow Christian.
SPEAKER_02God bless you.
SPEAKER_04And our church makes it really easy to outreach and to tell other people about our faith. Because think about it. We have that our church makes t-shirts and sweatshirts and all these different things that say God can on it and all these other things, or we have the God can bands that you can give out, or the God can cards, right? Like we have one member of our church who gives God can bands to everyone that he meets all the time. Hundreds of them, or they'll send them to places like St. Jude's Hospital or children's homes. Just that is a way of sharing your faith and shedding light on what could be a dark situation.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that can be uh just wearing, like not even like we're not doing a shameless plug to our church's merch. Oh, but we're not doing just anything like that, like any type of shirt that just spreads the word of God or maybe just a Bible verse, that can be an easy invitation. Yeah, yeah. Like that's an outward invitation to someone.
SPEAKER_04Every time I put mine on, I'm like, hopefully somebody asked me something today. Yeah, because the amount of times that like I'm somewhere and I see someone's shirt and I read it, and then I'll be like, hey, I like your shirt because I like I like the message that their shirt has. Like there's this one guy at school that I go to, the school that the school that I go to, and he I see him all the time, and he always wears a Christian shirt. Like he always has a shirt that says like God saves or Jesus can or something like that. And then it has um it has like those barcodes on it, or like those oh yeah, the scandal QR codes.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, the barcodes. You're for snow.
SPEAKER_04Receipts, you know those like shirts, like the receipts. Oh yes, and it says like debt paid or something.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it was like oh. I went on Anna's phone. Anna's my sister, for those of you who don't know, and I went on a bunch of random videos and I commented on her account saying, Ask me about Jesus.
SPEAKER_02See that's that's one way to spread the words.
SPEAKER_04Spread the word.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Ask me about Jesus.
SPEAKER_00Take advantage of social media for sure.
SPEAKER_04That can be a way. Yeah. Um, if you are middle school or high schoolers, um, you can start a Bible club at your school called P7 or Project Seven. And that is a place where you can give devotions and lessons to your classmates about God, and that can lead to Bible studies. And we have seen testimonies from that of people getting the Holy Ghost, of people getting baptized, of them turning their lives around because of that. If you're college-age, um, there's a similar one called Campus Ministry International or CMI. It's basically P7, but at college. And you can have Bible studies and people get baptized, and people get the Holy Ghost and they turn their lives around because of something like this. Um, and we have one at my school and we have seen people get the Holy Ghost and get baptized, and like we're not just saying it, like we have seen we are telling you these things because we've done it and it works.
SPEAKER_02Just share your story with someone. You don't have to you don't have to take on the task of starting a new a whole club, a new club at a new school just before you can share the good news with someone. No, just strike up a conversation with them and share your story. You don't have to have a Bible study prepared, you don't have to have a degree in theology.
SPEAKER_04You can just say what God did for you.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, this is my testimony, it's what he did. And that a lot of times can do even more than a Bible study, or that can lead to a good Bible study.
SPEAKER_07Planting a seed. Yeah, like like if a friend's talking to you about something they're going through, you could just be be simple about it and just be like, hey, can I tell you like I had a similar situation? Can I tell you what helped me? Uh-huh. And then tell them what helped you. And they can't argue with your personal story. They're not gonna be like, that didn't happen to you.
SPEAKER_02Like you could sit there and argue like doctrine and theology all day, but they can't argue with what happened to you.
SPEAKER_07Some are personal testimony and they they can't do anything but believe it, or if they don't believe it, they can't fight you on it, you know? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_07And a lot of times it's actually like a like a human thing we learn from like other people's experiences. Yeah, there could be things that you don't know, but you see your friend go through it and now you know. So humans are like that. If they see someone else has gone through something and they've solved a problem doing something this way, they can learn that next time this happens to them, they can use that too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And I think I think another easy way that you can do it, go about it, that feels more natural, just invite them into your world. Like you have a person, um, start becoming friendly with them at at school, at work. Maybe you uh you work with a coworker closely and you guys get closer, you guys become friends. You could be like, hey man, you got anything going on Sunday? Wanna come to church with me? Just something like that. Or maybe you don't even want to start with that. You want to just start off with a connect group.
SPEAKER_04If your church has connect groups, yeah, or small groups, any gathering, anything like that.
SPEAKER_02Um just invite them into your world, get them used to the environment. And sometimes before you know it, you won't really have to do much. You'll just invite them to church and they'll come and they'll be like, Wow, yeah, this is what I needed. Yeah, and they'll start coming on their own. So it can be that easy. You don't have to force it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06I think that's something that people overcomplicate a lot.
SPEAKER_04And a lot of people um can fear rejection. Like, what if they tell me no about if I invite them to church or a small group or something? And they did a study where a large percent of people, I forgot how much, but a large percent of people would say yes if someone just invited them to church.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and even if they said no, God saw your efforts, yeah, saw your trying to.
SPEAKER_02And I think even beyond that, you shouldn't be as afraid of rejection because your job isn't to save them. It isn't a mark on you if they say no. If you if you try to spread the gospel to someone, or you you invite them to church, or you share your story, and they reject it in the moment and they walk away from that, it may have not done anything in the moment. You may not think it has, but what you did is you planted a seed.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And they could go five, ten years without even giving that moment a second thought. But something may come up, they may lose a family member, they may be going through a financial struggle, or just come to a point in life where they realize they has there has to be something more. Yeah, yeah. They can think back to that seed you planted, and then it will finally start to sprout, it'll finally start to grow. And because you had that one conversation with them that you probably forgot about, you're somewhere else in life completely right now, like you don't even remember it. Yeah, but now they're worried. Yeah, but now they're looking for a church in their area or they've connected with a church because you spread that seed.
SPEAKER_07I think another thing is like it's important it's important to ask questions rather than just preaching. It's important because you never know what someone's going through. You don't know the trauma they've been through or the things they they deal with at home or in their situation. And a lot of times what people need is somebody to show that they care, somebody who is there for them and a shoulder to lean on. And you just have to ask them questions and get to know them because people, I mean, I know me too, people tend to lean towards people that show that they care. Yeah. And you are constantly there for them and show up for them rather than people who are just like, oh, like kind of friendly, but they're not actually there when they need them. Yeah. Be reliable.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I really like that. I think it's important if you're gonna spread the word to someone, you have to do it, it has to be natural. Like, like you said, you don't want to be too preachy. Obviously, we should be preaching, but don't make it. You don't want to be only preach, preach, preach, preach, and you never like connect with them. There has to be a personal element because, like, like kind of what Audrey was just saying, if someone's coming to you with their problems, and it's like a very serious problem, they're like venting to you, like pouring out their heart, and you're not even listening, you're just like, repent right now, or you know, God has a plan for us all.
SPEAKER_06That's not what they want to hear. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02On one hand, if they've gone to someone before and talked, they've probably heard that before. Yeah. And in the moment, they may not be looking for that. You could do so much more if in the moment you just connected with them emotionally, you just comforted them, and then looked for a natural moment to introduce them to the word of God or feel it in in that moment.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So I really like that, Audrey. That's a good one. Yeah, you can't always be like cookie-cutter, preach, preach, preach. Like you gotta connect with people.
SPEAKER_04And relationships. Relationships are so important. Because especially in today's world, everyone, not everyone, but relationships can be selfish and they can be focused on what can you do for me, and they're toxic. And people, a lot of people are looking for genuine and real relationships. And so whenever you come along and you are genuine and um you gen you actually care about the person sitting across the table from you, then that person is going to be able to feel that you are genuine and that you are authentic. And that's automatically gonna trigger something in their brain, and they're gonna be like, this person is actually a real person, they actually care about me, and that's gonna set you not apart, but like you're gonna be different in their mind just based on that. And then if you continue acting that way, that's just that's gonna open a door for you just to be like if they're sharing their hard time with you, yeah, just lead them with godly love.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, like yeah, like even if you don't have a Bible study with this person within six months of meeting them, but like you said, you just be genuine, you build that connection, you form that relationship. When the time comes when they do need something, you're gonna be the person they go to. And that's when the moment's gonna happen. And that's all because you actually love this person and you connected with them and you form that relationship.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Because like some people, they will respond. Like some people they need to hear it the first time you meet them. Yeah. Like they're they're just in that state, they need to hear it. But some people they may not be looking for it. Like everyone somewhere inside is looking for it. But yeah, some people may not know they need it. Yeah, yeah. And so they're just living life. But if you have that build that connection, eventually they'll come to the realization and come to you.
SPEAKER_00That's definitely true. Um, I know for me, I had a friend, I tried a freshman and a little bit of sophomore year to get him coming to church, and he would always say, like, I don't know if it's for me, I don't know if it's for me. And um, I ended up leaving LCA, and two years later, he reaches out, he replies to my Instagram story reaching out about God, and I ended up getting a Bible study with him. So it really people do notice, they really notice. And um Matthew 7 15 uh talks about it. It's that's when Jesus is telling the people, he's saying, Oh, they will recognize you by your fruits. Yeah, yeah. You really have to make sure that you are putting off the right fruits, the fruits of the spirit, and making sure that again, like we talked about earlier, you practice what you preach for sure.
SPEAKER_02Alright, guys, so we've talked about a lot this episode. We talked about Pastor Jared's the final message in this stumbling block series. We talked about just being aware of your surroundings, how how important it is as a Christian to not live in the white awareness condition. The Cooper's color code. Don't be don't be the white color. Just be aware. You don't have to always be walking around looking for spiritual battles, taking everything as a spiritual offense, but just be aware. Try to notice your habits, try to notice what causes you to stumble, yeah, and just examine yourself. And we've talked about spreading your faith, we've talked about why we should spread our faith, why is it so important? We've talked about how God commands us to in the Bible, and then we talked about and listed some practical ways that we can all spread the word of God to the people in our lives, the people that we meet. So I have a challenge for the listeners this week. My challenge is to try to spread the word or just connect with someone with the intention of spreading the word this week. Someone new, just someone in your high school, someone in your middle school, someone in college, or a coworker. Just try to form a connection. Even if you don't talk about God with them this week, just try to form a connection because connection matters.
SPEAKER_07Be a safe, but yeah.
SPEAKER_02So just try to connect with someone this week. Try to spread the word of spread the love of God to someone this week. Yeah. That's my only challenge.
SPEAKER_07That's good.
SPEAKER_02I think that'll go a long way.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Well, you guys, we had some really great points to make. Um, thank you so much to the listeners for listening and for giving us such a great semester of five kids in the calling. Um, make sure to tune in next semester for some more information and more podcasts. Um, we'll see you then. Bye. Bye.
SPEAKER_03Bye guys. Bye guys.