Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren.
Speaker 2: We are so glad you're here with us. Today.
Speaker 1: We're going to continue our series called The Keys to
Speaker 1: a Blessed Life. And when these messages, Rick walks through
Speaker 1: Jesus's Sermon on the Mount and shows us how to
Speaker 1: live a truly hopeful and purpose filled life. And here's
Speaker 1: the final part of how God blesses broken hearts.
Speaker 2: Now, there's a third thing that God does in blessing
Speaker 2: our broken hearts, and that is this, God gives us
Speaker 2: a church family for support. God never meant for you
Speaker 2: to go through life on your own, and God says,
Speaker 2: I didn't intend for you to go through grief. You
Speaker 2: know the old statement that when you share a joy,
Speaker 2: it's doubled, and when you share a sorrow, it's halved.
Speaker 2: When you carry it all yourself, you're carrying a load
Speaker 2: that God never intended for you to have. When something
Speaker 2: bad happens to you and you say, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: tell anybody about this, I'm gonna keep it a secret.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep it to myself, you have just broken
Speaker 2: one of the principles of God's word. God says We're
Speaker 2: meant to grieve in community. We healing comes in groups.
Speaker 2: Healing comes in the church. Healing comes in community. We're
Speaker 2: better together. You weren't meant to carry it on your own.
Speaker 2: Look at this verse Romans twelve, five, ten, and fifteen.
Speaker 2: Three verses in Romans chapter twelve. In Christ, we who
Speaker 2: are many, form one body, and each member belongs to
Speaker 2: all the others. Be devoted to each other like a
Speaker 2: loving family. Rejoice with those who rejoice, and mourn with
Speaker 2: those who mourn. Now these are commands, and if you
Speaker 2: call yourself a follower of Christ, they're commanded for you.
Speaker 2: In Christ, we form one body. That's the Church. The
Speaker 2: church is the family of God, and it's the body
Speaker 2: of Christ. And the Bible says each member belongs to
Speaker 2: all the other. Now I'm not gonna ask you to
Speaker 2: do this, but you could turn to the people on
Speaker 2: either side or say you belong to me. We might
Speaker 2: have a few marriage proposals, but we belong to each other.
Speaker 2: We are brothers and sisters in God's family, and we're
Speaker 2: part of the body of Christ. And then it says
Speaker 2: we are to be devoted to each other like a
Speaker 2: loving family. And how do we how are we devoted?
Speaker 2: We sympathize each other. When you have a victory, I
Speaker 2: shouldn't be jealous. I should celebrate your success. And when
Speaker 2: you have a defeat, I shouldn't gloat over that. I
Speaker 2: should mourn with those who mourn. Now, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to go into this because you've heard me talk about
Speaker 2: it a thousand knots. But you need a small group.
Speaker 2: If you don't have a small group, you have no
Speaker 2: safety net when the road winds come. I would not
Speaker 2: be standing before you today if it weren't for my
Speaker 2: small group. My small group was there in the darkest
Speaker 2: days of my life. They were there just being the
Speaker 2: ministry of presents. They didn't have to say anything, They
Speaker 2: didn't have to give me an advice. They just showed up.
Speaker 2: Who are you doing that for? Who knows that you
Speaker 2: would show up in their crisis and who has that
Speaker 2: same kind of commitment to you. You need to get
Speaker 2: in a small group. There is no reason at all
Speaker 2: for you to go through the pain on your own.
Speaker 2: It's just your own pride that will keep you from
Speaker 2: getting involved in the support. The Bible says God gives
Speaker 2: us a church family for support, where to rejoice with
Speaker 2: those rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. One Thessalonians
Speaker 2: five eleven says, comfort each other and give each other strength. Now,
Speaker 2: let me give you a couple suggestions, because right now
Speaker 2: you're in one of two positions. You're either going through
Speaker 2: pain yourself and you need comfort, or you're not going
Speaker 2: through pain and you need to comfort others. You either
Speaker 2: need comfort or you need to be comforted. You need
Speaker 2: to be comforted, or you need to be a comforter.
Speaker 2: Either need help or you need to help. Either way,
Speaker 2: this is a message that you need to be using.
Speaker 2: If you're not in major pain right now, you need
Speaker 2: to be thinking, how can I follow what Jesus tells
Speaker 2: me to do and comfort the people in pain around me? Well, first,
Speaker 2: you got to be aware, and if you care, you'll
Speaker 2: be aware. There are people in pain sitting on your
Speaker 2: row and you don't even know what their pain is.
Speaker 2: If you care, you'll be aware. Let me give you
Speaker 2: two suggestions for comforting people when they go through any
Speaker 2: kind of loss, financial loss, physical loss, health loss, loss
Speaker 2: of a loved one, ornything. Let me just give you
Speaker 2: to you write these down. Number one, never minimize another's pain.
Speaker 2: The pain of others. Never minimize other's pain. Kay was
Speaker 2: talking the other day. We were in London and she
Speaker 2: was speaking and she said, one of the words you
Speaker 2: can delete from your vocabulary when you're talk talking to
Speaker 2: somebody in pain is the word at least. And she
Speaker 2: told me about a lady, a mother who had lost
Speaker 2: a child through drowning, and a neighbor came over and
Speaker 2: in a meaningful attempt to comfort, said, well, at least
Speaker 2: you're young enough to have another child. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: I'm sure with that. Mama said, I'm not wanting another child.
Speaker 2: I want my child back. I want my child back.
Speaker 2: Don't tell me, well, at least you've got three other kids,
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Well, at least you've got your
Speaker 2: Eliminate the phrase at least from your vocabulary when talking
Speaker 2: to somebody in pain. It doesn't help. It's not you're
Speaker 2: trying to minimize the pain by pointing out something good.
Speaker 2: Just never minimize the pain of others. And I would
Speaker 2: say again, parents, stopped trying to teach your kids the
Speaker 2: stuff and don't cry. Now you know the typical reaction
Speaker 2: when somebody's in pain, We try to fix it immediately.
Speaker 2: Don't be in a hurry to fix anything. You don't
Speaker 2: need to fix it. God will fix it and do time.
Speaker 2: What you need to do is just be there and
Speaker 2: be aware and care, so never minimize. The other thing
Speaker 2: is never rush people. Never rush people. Pain and grief
Speaker 2: takes time, and nobody can figure out how long the
Speaker 2: grief's going to take for any particular thing in your life.
Speaker 2: But you I can't tell you what's the appropriate time
Speaker 2: to grieve for anything in your life. You're just going
Speaker 2: to have to figure that one out yourself. And it's
Speaker 2: different for everybody else. You know. In marriages, the death
Speaker 2: of a child is often the predictor of a divorce.
Speaker 2: In fact, marriages that have the death of a child
Speaker 2: don't have a pretty good rate of staying together. Kay
Speaker 2: and I knew that statistic, and when Matthew died, we
Speaker 2: determined that we were going to let this draws closer
Speaker 2: to each other rather than divide us. And it was
Speaker 2: all because one thing, showing grace to each other and
Speaker 2: realizing whatever you're feeling right now is okay. And I
Speaker 2: don't try to talk Kay out of her feelings, she
Speaker 2: doesn't try to talk me out of mind, and we
Speaker 2: just enter into each other's pain. A feeling is neither
Speaker 2: right or wrong. It's just a feeling. Let me see
Speaker 2: that one again. A feeling is never right or wrong.
Speaker 2: It's just feeling. So, husband's quit trying to talk your
Speaker 2: wife out of feelings, and whise quit trying to talk
Speaker 2: your husband's out of feelings. Feeling is neither right nor wrong,
Speaker 2: just feeling. And so you showed grace to each other,
Speaker 2: and you never rush people. Ka wrote a column, our
Speaker 2: little Post and Facebook about how she was starting to
Speaker 2: feel people kind of rushing her and saying, you know
Speaker 2: when you're gonna go back to teaching, and you know
Speaker 2: when you're gonna be back on the stage, and and
Speaker 2: you know, and and and kind of like, aren't you
Speaker 2: over it yet? And she stopped trying to push people
Speaker 2: get over it? She wrote this little post. Did it
Speaker 2: hit a nerve? Over three million people reposted it. Why?
Speaker 2: Because that's the way anybody who deep pain feels they understand.
Speaker 2: Don't tell me to get over it. You don't get
Speaker 2: over it. You get through it. You get through it.
Speaker 2: So God gives us a family, and we're not to
Speaker 2: minimize and we're not to rush the people in our
Speaker 2: lives There's a fourth way that God blesses broken hearts
Speaker 2: all right. He gives us a church family, He gives
Speaker 2: us his own presence. He grieves with us. Number four,
Speaker 2: God uses grief to help us grow. God uses grief.
Speaker 2: God uses pain even to help us grow, and he
Speaker 2: does it in three ways. Here are three verses that
Speaker 2: illustrate three different ways. First, God uses pain to get
Speaker 2: our attention. C. S. Lewis wrote, God whispers to us
Speaker 2: in our pleasure, but he shouts to us in our pain.
Speaker 2: Pain is God's megaphone. Pain is saying hello. We rarely
Speaker 2: change when we see the light. We change when we
Speaker 2: feel the heat. Here's what the Bible says Proverbs twenty,
Speaker 2: verse thirty. Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make
Speaker 2: us change our ways. That's in the today's English version.
Speaker 2: Anybody agree with that verse. Yeah, Sometimes it takes a
Speaker 2: painful experience to make us change our ways. So God
Speaker 2: uses grief to help us grow by getting our attention.
Speaker 2: Second way, he brings good out of bad. One of
Speaker 2: the most famous verses in the Bibles, Romans eight twenty eight.
Speaker 2: We know we know not guests, not hope. We know
Speaker 2: that in all things not some, not just the good
Speaker 2: in all things. God works in all things. God works
Speaker 2: for the good of those who love him. It's an
Speaker 2: opportunity to grow in character. Every time you go through pain.
Speaker 2: You can't control the pain you go through. You may
Speaker 2: have chronic pain, and that pain may be with you
Speaker 2: for years and years and years. You can't always control that,
Speaker 2: but you can decide whether it's going to make you
Speaker 2: bitter or better, whether it's going to be a stepping
Speaker 2: stone or it's going to be a stumbling block. God
Speaker 2: brings good out of bad. And the third thing he
Speaker 2: does is he prepares us for eternity. Look at this
Speaker 2: next verse two Corinthians four seventeen and eighteen. These troubles
Speaker 2: are getting us ready for an eternal glory. What troubles,
Speaker 2: the pain you're going through right now, these troubles, that sickness,
Speaker 2: that sadness, that suffering, that lack, that loss, that pain,
Speaker 2: that pressure, that problem, these troubles are getting this ready
Speaker 2: for an eternal glory that will make all our troubles
Speaker 2: seem like like nothing, like nothing. Things that are seen
Speaker 2: don't last forever, but things that are not seen are eternal.
Speaker 2: And that's why we keep focused on the things that
Speaker 2: can't be seen. You've heard me say before. You're not
Speaker 2: taking your car to heaven. You're not taking your china heaven.
Speaker 2: You're not taking your clothes to heaven. You're not taking
Speaker 2: your career to heaven. But you are taking your character.
Speaker 2: You're taking you. And so God's more interested in your
Speaker 2: character development than in your comfort. Why because comfort is
Speaker 2: going to be on for trillions and trillions and trillions
Speaker 2: and trillions a year. This is the get ready stage.
Speaker 2: This is the learning stage, This is the warm up back.
Speaker 2: This is the school. It's a preschool. And God says,
Speaker 2: these troubles are getting us ready for an eternal glory.
Speaker 2: That's a comfort, you see. You can handle an enormous
Speaker 2: amount of pain when you can realize there's a good
Speaker 2: purpose in it, labor and having a baby. But when
Speaker 2: you don't see any purpose in the pain, then it's
Speaker 2: easy to give up. When the pain is unceasing, when
Speaker 2: the pain never stops, when the pain keeps going. You
Speaker 2: need to see God's purpose And what is God doing? First?
Speaker 2: Is he trying to get my attention? Second? Is he
Speaker 2: trying to bring good out of bad? Third? Is he
Speaker 2: preparing my character for heaven is he giving me an
Speaker 2: opportunity to grow in Christ's likeness. Things that are seeing
Speaker 2: don't last forever, but things that are not seen are eternal.
Speaker 2: Number five. The fifth way that God comforts us when
Speaker 2: we mourn is that God gives us the hope of heaven.
Speaker 2: And this one has been particularly beautiful and meaningful to
Speaker 2: me this last year. That this life is not all
Speaker 2: there is, that this is just the warm up act,
Speaker 2: and that we're moving for so much more. The amount
Speaker 2: of time you're going to spend on earth is really
Speaker 2: quite small. You're only going to get eighty ninety at
Speaker 2: the most, maybe one hundred years. That's nothing, nothing, It's
Speaker 2: gonna be over before you realize it. It's nothing compared
Speaker 2: to millions and millions and millions and millions and millions
Speaker 2: and millions of years in heaven. The Bible says we
Speaker 2: have the hope of heaven. If there were no hope
Speaker 2: of heaven, I would be in despair because there's just
Speaker 2: too much bad in the world. There's too many rapes,
Speaker 2: too many people getting molested, too many children being abused,
Speaker 2: too many wars, too many people having being tortured, too
Speaker 2: many people being burned up, by chemicals and all kinds
Speaker 2: of things. The fact is the Bible, says one Thessalonians
Speaker 2: four thirteen. Talking about believers who die, Paul says, we
Speaker 2: don't want you to be ignorant about believers who've died.
Speaker 2: We don't want you to grieve like the people who
Speaker 2: have no hope. Circle the people who have no hope.
Speaker 2: There's two kinds of grief. You can grieve with hope
Speaker 2: or you can grieve without hope. Let me tell you
Speaker 2: you want the first one. As a pastor, I have
Speaker 2: done I don't know hundreds and hundreds under you. I
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe thousands. I don't know how many funerals
Speaker 2: that I've done. I don't know how many times I've
Speaker 2: stood at the bedside of somebody taken their last breath.
Speaker 2: I have been at the funerals and looked in the
Speaker 2: faces of people who had no hope when a loved
Speaker 2: one died, and I've seen the terror on their face
Speaker 2: and the despair on their face. You see the test
Speaker 2: of your faith, the test of your belief system. The
Speaker 2: test of your worldview is not how you handle the
Speaker 2: parties of life. The test of your worldview is how
Speaker 2: you handle the failures and how you handle the f
Speaker 2: funerals and how you handle the deaths of life. That's
Speaker 2: the acid test. The Bible says we have a hope,
Speaker 2: and so we grieve, but we grieve with hope. When
Speaker 2: a Christian dies, why do we grieve? I mean that
Speaker 2: Christian is going to heaven. They're going where they're made for.
Speaker 2: They're going where they're gonna spend eternity. And they're going
Speaker 2: where you're gonna go too, if you know the Lord.
Speaker 2: So why do we grieve? We're not grieving them in
Speaker 2: a funeral. We're grieving us. We miss them, We're now
Speaker 2: grieving them. My son, Matthew, for twenty seven years, was
Speaker 2: tortured by mental illness and it was agony. And honestly,
Speaker 2: when he died, I grieved his extremely painful life more
Speaker 2: than I grieved is extremely painful death, because I know
Speaker 2: today he has no fear, he has no pain, he
Speaker 2: has no depression, he has he is Every one of
Speaker 2: his questions has been answered, he has joy, he has
Speaker 2: the understanding everything he's always won. Why was I made
Speaker 2: like this? Why didn't I get well? All those questions
Speaker 2: are answered. I'm not grieving the fact that he's in heaven.
Speaker 2: I grieve the fact that I miss him. I want
Speaker 2: my son back. I miss him now. And so when
Speaker 2: a Christian grieves, we grieve in a very very different
Speaker 2: way than the rest of the world. We grieve with hope.
Speaker 2: Non believers grieve without any hope. And that's disastrous, it's devastating,
Speaker 2: it's debilitating, it's sparing. What is our hope? Revelation twenty one,
Speaker 2: verse four says this God will wipe every from their eyes,
Speaker 2: and there will be no more death or mourning or
Speaker 2: crying or pain, for the old order of things will
Speaker 2: have passed away. I am looking forward to that day
Speaker 2: so much. It's one of the things that allows me
Speaker 2: to go to places like Africa and see people starving
Speaker 2: from poverty, and allows me to go into the inner
Speaker 2: city and see people being beat up and abused and misused,
Speaker 2: and allows me to see all the pain in the
Speaker 2: world which could be depiltating and its depressing nature. If
Speaker 2: I didn't know that one day God is going to
Speaker 2: settle the score, He's going to even the odds, he's
Speaker 2: going to balance the accounts, and one day in heaven,
Speaker 2: God's going to wipe away every tear and there will
Speaker 2: be no more death, and there will be no more mourning,
Speaker 2: and there will be no more suffering, and no more crying,
Speaker 2: and no more pain, for the old order will have
Speaker 2: passed away. That is one of the six hopes that
Speaker 2: blessed are those who mourn, for they should be comforted.
Speaker 2: Find me. There's one more thing, and this is a
Speaker 2: big one. God uses our pain to help others. There's
Speaker 2: a purpose in your pain. This is called redemptive pain.
Speaker 2: This is the highest and best use of the pain
Speaker 2: you go through. God does not want you to waste
Speaker 2: to hurt. God never wastes to hurt, but we often
Speaker 2: do because we're not willing to use it to help
Speaker 2: other people. God uses our pain to help others. This
Speaker 2: is the highest and best use. Who can better help
Speaker 2: the mother of a special needs child than another mother
Speaker 2: of a special needs child? Who can better help somebody
Speaker 2: who's lost a son or daughter in a war than
Speaker 2: somebody who lost on a daughter in a war? Who
Speaker 2: can better help somebody who lost a limb than somebody
Speaker 2: who's lost a limb? Who could better help somebody who
Speaker 2: has gone through the pain of an addiction or marriage failure,
Speaker 2: or molestation or any of the other evils in the world,
Speaker 2: then somebody who went through that. God does not want
Speaker 2: you to waste your hurt. This is redemptive hurt. He
Speaker 2: wants you to redirect your focus. Second Corinthians one four.
Speaker 2: God comforts us in all our troubles so that we
Speaker 2: can comfort others with the same comfort we receive from God.
Speaker 2: Now listen very closely. Your greatest ministry will come out
Speaker 2: of your deepest hurt. You might write this down, My
Speaker 2: greatest ministry will come out of my deepest hurt because
Speaker 2: you can relate. You could say, been there, done, that
Speaker 2: went through. I had a mother who was abusive, I
Speaker 2: had a dad who was distant and left the family.
Speaker 2: I had a failure in this area or that area.
Speaker 2: Your greatest ministry will come out of your deepest hurt.
Speaker 2: You see, we think the world is impressed by how
Speaker 2: we handle prosperity, but the world is actually impressed by
Speaker 2: how we handle adversity. We think that it is our
Speaker 2: success that gives us credibility to be a witness, but
Speaker 2: God says no, it is our suffering that gives us credibility.
Speaker 2: You would not believe the open doors that have happened
Speaker 2: in my life since Matthew died, and when I began
Speaker 2: to journal about it on social media, people began to
Speaker 2: come out of the woodwork, and some people you wouldn't
Speaker 2: believe and said, I've never told this to anybody else.
Speaker 2: We think that fame earned respect, but actually it's faithfulness
Speaker 2: and tough times. Well, here's the bottom line. I'll say
Speaker 2: it again. We're in a broken world and so every
Speaker 2: day nothing works perfectly, and that means every day you
Speaker 2: need to be either you either need comfort or you
Speaker 2: need to comfort others. Right now, you're in one of
Speaker 2: two categories. Put yourself on it. Right now. You either
Speaker 2: need help because you're in really bad pain, or you
Speaker 2: need to help others, and maybe, just maybe God wants
Speaker 2: to do both at the same time. It's called being
Speaker 2: a wounded healer. If you wait until you're completely healed
Speaker 2: to help other people, guess what, You're gonna wait a
Speaker 2: long time because you're not going to be fully healed
Speaker 2: of everything in your life until you get to heaven.
Speaker 2: If you're going through a tough time right now, the
Speaker 2: Bible says, comfort one another and give each other strength.
Speaker 2: That's what the Body of Christ, that's what the families
Speaker 2: to do. We're supposed to help you, so we want
Speaker 2: to help you. Don't carry this on your own going
Speaker 2: through a tough time. Right now, just stand up, and
Speaker 2: Tommy's going to come and pray.
Speaker 3: Father, thank you for seeing us. Even though oftentimes we
Speaker 3: feel that you perhaps have forgotten us, Lord, we know
Speaker 3: through your word that that's not true. You see what
Speaker 3: breaks our hearts, You see what keeps us up.
Speaker 2: At night when everyone else is sleeping.
Speaker 3: You see those places in our hearts that are so hurt,
Speaker 3: where we feel hopeless and we feel helpless. And God,
Speaker 3: we know in your word, through the promise of Isaiah
Speaker 3: sixty one, that you said you comfort all who mourn,
Speaker 3: You provide for those who grieve, and you promise to
Speaker 3: bestow and grandaunt each of us a crown of beauty
Speaker 3: instead of ashes. And you said to us that you
Speaker 3: would give us joy instead of our mourning. So today
Speaker 3: we stand for you as a family, together with open
Speaker 3: hearts and hands before you, saying Father and asking, as
Speaker 3: you are our daddy, Lord, we pray for healing. There
Speaker 3: are those who are standing that are in physical pain,
Speaker 3: that are sick. They have diseases, whether it be cancer
Speaker 3: or hepatitis or aids, or lime.
Speaker 2: Or even diseases.
Speaker 3: They may not even have answers, for they're living in
Speaker 3: medical mystery land. They're just in pain. So, Lord, you
Speaker 3: said you are the great physician, and we believe that.
Speaker 3: So we pray for physical healing. Now, Lord, we ask
Speaker 3: for wisdom when we do go to the doctor, that
Speaker 3: you give doctors the wisdom beyond even their own understanding.
Speaker 3: That you would bring healing in any way you want
Speaker 3: in our lives. And we pray for healing for broken
Speaker 3: hearts and broken relationships. Lord, that you would reconcile relationships.
Speaker 3: You would reconcile those relationships in our lives with family,
Speaker 3: and would love ones and with spouses and with our
Speaker 3: kids and coworkers and whatever it may be. And Father,
Speaker 3: we pray for courage, give us the courage of job
Speaker 3: when he said, the Lord gives and the Lord takes away,
Speaker 3: but I will still bless his name. And in those
Speaker 3: hard places in our lives when we feel like giving up, Lord,
Speaker 3: help us remember that our hope lies in you, and
Speaker 3: that no matter what happens in our life, we will
Speaker 3: bless your name. Make us all in our brokenness living
Speaker 3: trophies of your grace. That others would see that we
Speaker 3: have not given up on you, but our hope is
Speaker 3: in you. Give us the courage to do what is right,
Speaker 3: no matter how we feel, and give us the courage
Speaker 3: to ask for help if we need it, and even
Speaker 3: the courage to accept that help. And Father, we pray
Speaker 3: for strength, and for some of us we ask for
Speaker 3: the strength just to get out of bed, just to
Speaker 3: make it another day, the strength that we find in you.
Speaker 3: And Lord, we don't ask for strength for tomorrow, because
Speaker 3: tomorrow's not promised. But we ask, Lord, just give us
Speaker 3: what we need, moment by moment and day by day,
Speaker 3: give us the strength to face our pain, knowing that
Speaker 3: whatever we're going through, You're going to go with it
Speaker 3: through us. We're not alone no matter what season we're in.
Speaker 3: And Lord, we do ask, we asked that whatever season
Speaker 3: we're currently in, that it would be a short season. Father,
Speaker 3: we do pray that you would redeem our pain and
Speaker 3: bring purpose out of it, that you would use what's
Speaker 3: happened in our lives for your glory and for your honor.
Speaker 2: Lord, and because of that, you.
Speaker 3: Would draw people to us, people that we could help,
Speaker 3: people that would be willing to look at us, and
Speaker 3: see Jesus because we have not given up on you
Speaker 3: and we are blessing your name. Thank you that this
Speaker 3: life is brief and that our struggles are only momentary.
Speaker 3: Thank You for the hope of eternity. Help all of us,
Speaker 3: whether we're standing or sitting, order to live in light
Speaker 3: of eternity with passion and drive in the hope of
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. Thank you for the blessing and gift of
Speaker 3: heaven and Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: What a great message from Pastor Rick today. There's something
Speaker 1: I always take away from his message. Here's Rick to
Speaker 1: tell you how you can help support this ministry.
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Speaker 2: love God with all your heart. That's worship, and love
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Speaker 2: And then Jesus said, go make disciples. That's evangelism, Baptize
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