WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:06.879 Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. 2 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:10.199 It is the time now for our community connection right here on K one, 3 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:14.160 the one you trust. And today we're going to be talking about the 4 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:18.679 Friday Men's Bible Study. We have gwinn Schipper in studio. We have another 5 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:23.640 guest coming as soon as he can disengage from a telephone. How you doing 6 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:29.239 good? Is a beautiful morning out there, Tom, little on the sticky 7 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:32.840 side. But you know what, for all the folks who are grousing about 8 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.079 thirty two and I don't want to hear it, because I'll take this any 9 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:41.840 day over freezing. Thank God for that. We've got quite a neat little 10 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:47.560 weekly event that's been going on for a little bit. But this one is 11 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.880 something that I wasn't aware of. And no, this is really kind of 12 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:53.560 cool. Can you kind of fill us in a little bit about the Men's 13 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:56.280 Bible Study. Yeah, I'd love to do that, Tom, thank you 14 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:00.200 so much. So. The Bible Study is in his twenty third year. 15 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:03.399 That's a good start. It's a good start. We've been going twenty three 16 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:06.799 years. It's time that you and others know about it. Yeah, And 17 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.680 it's been meeting like clockwork on Fridays noon to one pm. Now Christmas lands 18 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:15.400 on a Friday, maybe we won't meet then, but otherwise nearly one and 19 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:21.280 we meet every Friday at Sterling's Grill. So our host is Jim Kurr, 20 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:25.000 who owns Sterling's Grill. He's been very active in the Bible study as well 21 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:29.159 for years. And even though Sterling's isn't open during the lunch hour, he 22 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:34.040 brings in staff and he serves us a beautiful plated meal, iced tea water, 23 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.599 coffee, cookie salad to go with it, and it's a real crisp 24 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.640 one hour. We have a great time together. That is great, and 25 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:47.519 it's fellas just getting together study in the Bible, studying the Word and trying 26 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:51.959 to make ourselves better, better husband's, better, brothers, better community members, 27 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:55.120 just better all around well. One of the features of the Bible study 28 00:01:55.159 --> 00:02:00.200 Tom's interdnominational. We have guys from all different churches in the community. We 29 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:05.719 have guys of all different ages and seasons of life. And when you arrive 30 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:08.240 there, you get your food, your salad and your drink, sit down 31 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:13.560 and then Julie comes and serves you know, the plated meal. So people 32 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:17.879 have a chance to converse make connections. So one of the little secrets, 33 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:21.759 if you will, is because it's closed, you got to go out to 34 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:25.919 the backside and step in the back door there and it leads you into the 35 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.319 large dining room where we meet every week. Wow, that's great. Yeah, 36 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:35.400 it's it's kind of a neat little client club, you know. But 37 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.159 all you really need is you bring yourself in ted bucks, in a Bible 38 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.919 and a friend and a friend and a friend if you want to bring a 39 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:46.919 friend along. So we welcome newcomers open and we have a lot of people 40 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:51.240 connected to the group time or some that like never miss Like I lead the 41 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:53.960 Bible study. I've been doing it for a couple of years, actually study 42 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:57.639 portion. And if there's certain people not there, they might get a little 43 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:00.719 bit worried, but then some come as they're able to sonight. Everybody can 44 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:05.039 be there every single week and that's okay. So we have prayer up on 45 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:08.400 the front end of the hour and we call it our weekly Concert of Prayer. 46 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:14.599 And what we do is we take group prayer requests or praises answers to 47 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.560 prayer. We have a prayer list that goes out at the end of each 48 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:23.360 in that afternoon so people can continue praying. We have answers to prayer, 49 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.599 we address those, and then we break into what we call our trios and 50 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:30.039 quartets, just little groups of three or four, no more than four, 51 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:35.000 and we pray together for the needs brought to the group or those things are 52 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:38.039 important to the small group of those around you. So it's a great way 53 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:42.759 to meet new people, great way to fellowship, study, apply God's word. 54 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.159 Now, do we need to call ahead so that the polks on what's 55 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:51.560 going on? No, if you show up at if you show up at 56 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:54.560 noon, you can just sneak in the back door there. It's ten dollars 57 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:59.639 buys you a beautiful play to lunch. And yeah, we're just talking about 58 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:04.240 the study. Yeah, so if you want to get some history, and 59 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:06.360 if we have time, I'll share a little bit of what we're wrapping up 60 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:11.639 and what we're going to do next. Well, I can't even remember the 61 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:19.040 year, but there was a there was a gentleman here in town. He 62 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:29.800 actually the same with David Castleberry and h Well, we'll go back to Donnie's 63 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.439 story. Came to Bartlesville. Back to Bartlesville, he was president of Harvest 64 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:40.639 by West at the time they changed and Donnie and I became good friends, 65 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:45.319 and so it was maybe in the spring of that year. He said, 66 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.959 hey, how would you like to have a Bible study for men on Fridays. 67 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:51.759 I go, I think it'd be great. He said, he didn't 68 00:04:51.759 --> 00:05:00.560 say on Friday. He's just a man's Bible study. And so I said 69 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:02.959 that'd be great, and he goes, well, if we can kind of 70 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.399 get some people together, and he said I'd lead it and different things like 71 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:10.439 that. I said, okay, he said, but I'm busy right now. 72 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:15.160 He had things going, and so we talked about it. But you 73 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:19.160 know how things are, You talk about things and just never get off dead 74 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:26.399 center, and so that's the way this was going. Well, that was 75 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:30.360 maybe spring or summer, and we'd talk about it when we going to get 76 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:32.000 that. Well, I'm busy right now, but we'll get it going. 77 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:35.480 And we didn't know where to do it or anything. So anyway, you 78 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:42.439 fast forward. There was a gentleman, David Castlebury. He worked for Phillips 79 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:51.079 and of course the headquarters was here and everything, but David he was basically 80 00:05:51.160 --> 00:06:01.600 they credited him for saving the company back when they were having some financial issues 81 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:06.040 and stuff. When the two takeovers went on, and then they had the 82 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:15.600 big explosion or fire down at Sweeney Well. David Castleberry who was in finance 83 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:23.519 or treasure or something way up the food chain though anyway, he made sure 84 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:26.720 certain things were still in place when they were trying to cut things. But 85 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:33.839 they had the explosion and it basically saved the company. So anyway, he 86 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:42.800 got cancered. Well, he passed away that fall, and I'm saying September 87 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:50.639 October of that year is about twenty two years ago now. And so they 88 00:06:50.639 --> 00:07:00.040 had the funeral at Oklahoma Orreslian and so Jim Mulva was there. Caroline his 89 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:09.519 wife. We were acquaintances with them, but not close, but acquaintances. 90 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:18.639 And so the funeral is that Oklahoma, Wesleyan and at the chapel there, 91 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:27.600 and so she had asked if Dorry and I would pass out. She had 92 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:32.759 these I believe it was I think it was a Beth Moore or some precept 93 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:40.959 bottle study just a six week It was only a six week study, just 94 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:47.560 a small book six weeks. And so I had these stacts of them and 95 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:53.360 we said, yeah, we'll help pass those out. So we were passing 96 00:07:53.399 --> 00:08:00.720 these out at David's funeral for Caroline, and since Andy and Carolina become very 97 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:05.000 close friends, and in fact they pray together and walk to different things. 98 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.680 Anyway, so I got these books and I was during the funeral, I 99 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:15.680 said, paying attention. I was going through the book looking at it, 100 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:20.319 and they're just said, man, this is we can start that study now, 101 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.079 and this will get us to the end of the year. So I 102 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:30.199 had that and I marched into Donnie's office downtown there at the bank, and 103 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:33.080 I said, hey, we're going to start that study and this is it. 104 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.519 He goes, why don't I have to say if you can do I 105 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:41.639 said, no, I'll leave. This is something I can do. I 106 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:45.320 mean, you don't have to be I'm not a teacher, by the way, 107 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.639 not like you Quinn or like Donny Wood, I said, but I 108 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:56.639 can facilitate. So we started it and oh gush, we started with I 109 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:01.600 don't know, there was probably thirty or forty came and we said, no, 110 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:07.879 this is for men only and all that. And I still remember going 111 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.159 through this and Jim at the time as storings we did in the back room 112 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:13.320 where we meet now, he would set up a little buffet for us, 113 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:20.000 so we just come in and it was ten dollars. Then it's still ten 114 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:24.240 dollars. We need to think about raising this because Jim Hole. We need 115 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.720 to make Jim hole a little bit. I think he's subsidizing these guys' meals. 116 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.600 Now it's not a buffet ane, but we had this, and so 117 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:37.120 there was this waitress and I still remember this that would help back there. 118 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:43.600 And so the funny thing is that this is God's sense of humor, that 119 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.799 he does have a sense of humor. I think I believe he does anyway, 120 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:50.519 this is his sense here. Yeah, this is a men's Bible say, 121 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:56.240 but the first person that changed her heart and turned it over to Jesus 122 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:01.320 was a lady, a man's Bible state anyway. So that's kind of how 123 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:05.840 it got started. We did that for six weeks and that got us through 124 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:11.919 the Christmas time, and then Donnie took over from there until he moved back 125 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:18.559 to Arkansas with the bank. They moved him to another place there, and 126 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:24.039 then there's other people that Roger Skelly led it for a long long time after 127 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:30.279 that. We didn't think. We just thought, well, it'll go away. 128 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:33.919 It didn't go away. Roger led it and then Roger got tired or 129 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:39.360 I don't know, and then Jason Hopkins has led it for a while, 130 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:46.120 but then Jason wasn't gonna do it anymore. And I've met Quinn. Didn't 131 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:50.000 really know we met well, but I'd met him because he'd moved to town. 132 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.399 And Dorry was doing a Bible study with Becky, Quinn's wife, and 133 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:56.960 he says, well, I think Quinn, you don't have him come and 134 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:01.240 fill in or something. Okay, So I called Quinn or email I can't 135 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:05.519 remember, said hey, what I said, yeah, And so he came 136 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:11.240 and the first one he said, we were meeting with fifteen fourteen to fifteen 137 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:16.000 people, and of course we went through COVID, the whole nine yards like 138 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:22.639 this, and he kind of after COVID, he kind of what. But 139 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:26.720 anyway, Quinn said, he came and he said, you know, I 140 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:33.320 was going to do something else. I had something else planned, but God 141 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:37.279 put on my heart to do something different. So I put this other one 142 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:39.679 in my hip pocket. And I've got that. He still has that first 143 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:46.000 one in his hip pocket, so he can't ever he's permanent now, because 144 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.080 that's what it is. It is, And Tom, I gotta tell you 145 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:54.879 it has grown in numbers, but I think not only in numbers. I 146 00:11:54.919 --> 00:12:00.679 think spiritually it's grown too. And people has changed because I see people coming 147 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:11.440 you would never even think would come to a Bible study. Of course that's 148 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:18.519 me prejudging people, and that's wrong, but I'm just I was. You 149 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:22.240 can only say God's great, I know. So anyway, that's kind of 150 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:24.639 the history of it. Sorry about that. But since ant Quinn and Gosh, 151 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.919 we're meeting with three. We're average, right, bummer up thirty pretty 152 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:35.120 average, yeah, pretty average every week and like today, I don't know. 153 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:39.720 And Jim still even though he's not open at noon anymore, he still 154 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:45.440 opens up still ten dollars. We've got to talk about that, Quinn anyway, 155 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:52.039 to make Jim hole anyway, And Julie, who's normally there, takes 156 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:58.240 care of us. And so anyway, it's it's good time, good lesson 157 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:05.320 and both physical and spiritual food. Yeah, thank you. I've heard this 158 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:11.000 story before. I always loved hearing this. So here's the thing. When 159 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:16.799 my dad died, I was upset, and their pastor played football for my 160 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.360 dad, and he came up to me and I still and I remember this. 161 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.240 So when he says Kevin, You just need to know something. The 162 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:30.840 way God works, it's like waves on the beach. Waves come in and 163 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:35.720 waves go out. That's that's the life cycle of the way God works. 164 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:45.879 And so I really believe, you know, that's what's happened with this Bible 165 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.759 study too. You know what. The waves have gone in, the waves 166 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:54.879 have gone out, but he brings people in that need to be there. 167 00:13:54.240 --> 00:14:01.679 And I'm really so it's not goes to tell you it's not it's not us. 168 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:07.200 Yeah, God is definitely doing it. I stepped in one day. 169 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:09.240 I only knew Kevin and Jim the day I stepped in. And now we 170 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.240 have, like I said, averaging thirty We have way more than in days. 171 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:18.519 Not only me. Quinn took that over now to any city counselor. 172 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:24.559 He's all, man, just look what God's done. Thank you, Kevin. 173 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:28.720 Well, we're wrapping up a study in a couple of weeks that we've 174 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:33.600 been doing connecting the Abrahamic Covenant to the Great Commission. So we're wrapping that 175 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:37.679 up and then we're going to move into kind of a deep dive on the 176 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.960 Sermon on the Mount and have an emphasis also on prayer. We do an 177 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.200 annual emphasis on prayer, and personally, I love the group every part of 178 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:50.279 it. My favorite part is the prayer. We talked about the concert of 179 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:52.960 prayer and so that's a real important part. And our theme word for the 180 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.559 year is grow. We have second Peter through eighteen growing the grace and knowledge 181 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:00.240 of our Lord and savor Jesus Christ. So it has been, it's been 182 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:03.840 spiritual, has been relational, and numerical just comes with that. So it's 183 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:07.159 been a lot of fun, a lot of learning. And here's the other 184 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:13.200 thing. It doesn't matter where you are in your spiritual life, spiritual, 185 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.519 whatever you want to call it, spiritual journey, whatever it is, whether 186 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:24.000 you have zero and you're just curious or you're very mature. We need all 187 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:28.279 of them. Yeah, and we need people just walk in by somebody. 188 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:37.720 It's great, and and there is probably half the hour is spent fellowship time, 189 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:41.440 and then there's a few minutes I mean, then we have prayer and 190 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:48.879 then we have the study and we quit as guys where we're praying for specific 191 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:56.200 things and specific people because I think God wants he wants to hear specifics. 192 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:04.000 I do believe that I do so very good, So that's Friday today today 193 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:11.879 noon noon high day. Right behind, take the back door into Stirlings Park 194 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:14.799 on the south side. You'll be there for the men's Bible study. Bring 195 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:18.200 a friend. We will meet on July fifth and then the fourth of July 196 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.159 so I can skip a beat. Like you said, the only time you 197 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:27.559 go to missage of Christmas Lands on Friday. Thank you both, gentlemen for 198 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.200 being with us year on Community Connection.