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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and today we're wrapping up a series
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that I know the Holy Spirit
instructed me to teach to you.
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I'll remind you I was sleeping
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and during the night I dreamed
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that I was teaching this series called The Right Way to Join
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or to Leave a Church.
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And that dream was so
vivid, it was so lucid.
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It was like I really
experienced it and I woke up
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and I remembered every single
point in the whole series.
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So I got up and went to the
room where I read my Bible
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and where I pray, got out my computer
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and began to write down all the notes
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and everything I've been
teaching to you this week.
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Really, I derived from that dream.
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I knew the Holy Spirit really
gave me this message for you.
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Then I went back to my
room, went back to bed,
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and had a 2nd dream
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where I was teaching another complete series about
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spiritual care.
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I got up again, went back to my TV room,
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wrote down all the notes,
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and next week I'm gonna
be teaching that series,
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which I really received in a dream.
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My friends, I know the Holy Spirit told me
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to teach this to you.
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But today we're concluding the series,
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which is called, the Right Way to Join
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or to Leave a Church.
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It's a 5-part series, comes in all kinds of formats,
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and it comes with a
study guide that's loaded
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with everything in the series
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so you can read the
material while you were seen
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or hearing the series.
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And I'm thrilled to tell
you today, the last day
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of this week about my
book called A Life Ablaze.
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It's about the 10 vital fuels you need
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to inject into your spirit,
into your spiritual furnace
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to make sure you keep burning
on the inside like an inferno
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to the end of your life.
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Jesus wants you to be on fire
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and for you to stay on fire,
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you've gotta keep putting the
right fuels into your heart
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and that's what this
amazing book is about.
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But if you're interested to know more about these resources,
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just go online.
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Just go to our website
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or you can call the number
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And when you call that number, let us know
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how to pray for you.
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but you need prayer, call
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Save that number.
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Maybe one day you're not
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you won't see the number, but you need
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somebody to pray with you.
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Save that number, call that number.
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We're always ready for
you to receive your call.
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And we believe what we read in 1 John 5:14
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& 15, that if we pray anything according to God's will,
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that means if we pray scripturally, we pray the Bible.
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what is an agreement with the Bible,
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the verse says, God will hear us,
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which means God doesn't hear
us because of our much asking.
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God doesn't hear us
because of our pleading or
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because of our crying.
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God's ears open when
he hears the scripture.
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If we pray anything according
to his will, he hears us.
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And if he hears us, then
we're gonna have the petitions
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that we requested of him.
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So we will pray scripturally,
God will hear us
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and God will do what
needs to be done for you.
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But send us an email
with your prayer request
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or please call the number on the screen.
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But I hope you have your Bible
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because today we're gonna
be seeing some important
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things in the scripture.
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But this series is called, The Right Way to Join
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or Leave a Church.
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But today we're gonna
come to the very end.
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But so far we have covered - What is the right way
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to join a church.
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Oh, that episode was so important
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and today I'm gonna review
just a little bit of it.
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Secondly, we saw why is church
membership so important?
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That's an important question
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because today many people
say, Ugh, it's not important.
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I'm just gonna go where the
Lord leads me this week.
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Why is church membership so
important? It is important.
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And if you miss that, you need to see that
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episode. No.3: we saw
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what do you do if you have relational conflicts in a church?
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Well, it's likely that you will. The people
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of the church are your blood brought brothers and sisters.
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And just like in your own natural family,
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every once in a while
you have a disagreement
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with your siblings in church,
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which is your spiritual family.
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From time to time you
might have a conflict.
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What do you do when you have a conflict?
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Do you pack up your bags
and leave the church?
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That's a bad thing to do
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because probably when you
get to the next church,
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you're gonna have another conflict.
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Then you're gonna pack up
your bags and move again.
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How many times are you
gonna change churches
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because of a conflict?
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That is not a right response.
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And then we saw what
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to do if you have a doctrinal
disagreement in the church.
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Well, there are small disagreements
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that they're really not
worth making a fuss over.
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And then there are very
serious doctrinal errors
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that you should not tolerate.
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And we saw in the last episode
what to do in that event.
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And today we're finally gonna see - What is the Right Way
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to Leave a Church?
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There's a right way to leave a church.
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And I'm gonna tell you
friends, there is a wrong way
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to leave a church.
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But having a right
understanding of what it means
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to be a member of a flock
and to have a pastor
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or a shepherd is very, very essential.
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And when you really understand
what it means to be a member
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of a church that you're
a part of that flock,
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you are less likely to leave that church
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unless there's a really serious reason for you to leave.
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And there are such reasons.
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For example: if doctrinal error is being taught in the
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church or if there's immorality in the leadership
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that is not being corrected,
these are reasons for you
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to leave a church.
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But many people switch
churches back and forth, back
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and forth all the time,
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and they have attended a
whole myriad of churches.
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And it's because they don't
understand what it means
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to be a member of a church.
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And unfortunately, we're living in a day when many churches
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don't even have membership.
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They don't even have membership.
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Pastor, if you're listening to me today,
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that's a critical mistake.
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You need to know those that
God calls to be under you
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and who you have spiritual
accountability for.
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This is not about legalism,
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this is not about names
on a piece of paper.
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This is clarifying the
relationship between those
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between you and those
who attend your church.
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Church - you need to make a commitment that you answer
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to this man spiritually,
locally, and the church
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and pastor, you need to know
who you are accountable for.
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This is very important
and that's really one
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of the main elements of church membership.
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But many people just
casually join a church.
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They don't understand how serious it is.
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And so they casually leave that church. My friends,
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this should not be done casually.
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I am against that.
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And that is why in our
own church in Moscow,
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we take church membership so seriously,
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the Bible says we're gonna
give account for the souls
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of those who attend our church.
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I wanna know the people I'm
going to give account for.
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And I don't want to give account
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for people that we never see.
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I don't want their name
just on a piece of paper.
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I want to know that they're
really attending our church.
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And for that reason in our church,
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we actually take attendance.
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You say, well Brother Rick,
how do you take attendance?
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Well, we pass a sheet
of paper down the aisles
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and everybody checks.
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They have a membership number.
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They write down their membership number.
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It's not about legalism.
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It's not big brother trying
to control everybody.
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If people don't attend church, I want to know why.
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Maybe something's going on in their life
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and we need to check on them. If they're regularly there
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and suddenly they're not there,
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you need to know where are they?
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What's going on in their life?
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And if they never attend church,
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then why in the world would I want
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to be spiritually accountable for them?
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This is a very serious issue,
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but when you join a church,
it should be done seriously.
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It should be done thoughtfully.
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And it should only occur
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after you really really
know that God's calling you
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to be a member of that flock
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and that that pastor
is to be your shepherd.
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You need to know, according to Hebrews 13:7,
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that you can respect him,
that you view him as somebody
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that is resplendent, you know his teaching
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and you can follow the fruit of his life.
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Hebrews 13:7 says, that is essential.
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And I wanna ask you a
question. Are you ready?
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How many churches have you attended?
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How many churches have
you changed? How many?
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It's a very important question.
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And if you're one of those
that's constantly changing
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churches, you are missing
a part of God's plan
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for your life, which is to be
a part of a local congregation
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or a local flock.
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But we're living in a day when people
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are not loyal
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and they don't take commitments very seriously.
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And we read about this in 2 Timothy 3:
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3, where the Bible prophesies at the very
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end of the age,
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That's us, We're living at the end of the age,
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there will be truce breakers.
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In Greek, it is the word, aspondos.
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Listen to what it means.
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Those that are implacable, covenant breakers,
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truce breakers,
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or those with irreconcilable differences. these are people
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that just don't take commitment seriously.
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And we're living in the
age today when loyalty is
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almost disappeared.
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People are not loyalty to
the company they work for.
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People are not loyal to their church.
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People are not even loyal to the nation.
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There is just a great deterioration
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of loyalty in the world
that we live in today.
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People even switch marriages, they switch friends.
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They're just switching, switching, switching all the time.
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And people are likewise switching churches
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and my friends, this is
indicative of the spirit
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that is going to be pervasive
at the end of the age.
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Don't let it be you.
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If God has called you to
a church, stick with it
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unless there's something
that really causes you
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to leave that church.
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You know when I was growing up, I grew up a Southern Baptist
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and I'm so glad that I grew up a Southern Baptist.
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If you're listening to me today
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and you're a Southern Baptist, wow,
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Southern Baptist really teach the Bible.
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Later in life I was filled with the Holy Spirit.
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So I am today what people call a Bapti-costal.
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I'm a Baptist in my doctrine,
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but I'm Pentecostal in my
experience, wow, it's the best
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of both worlds.
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But in our church, no
one changed churches.
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If we heard that somebody
from our congregation joined
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another church that was so shocking,
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it would've been as shocking
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as if we believed they
had lost their salvation.
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What adjoin another church.
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What do you mean they
joined another church?
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And we were so committed to our church
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that even if the pastor died
or if the pastor moved on
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and God called another pastor,
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it did not affect our
commitment to that church.
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We were not just committed to the pastor,
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we were committed to the flock.
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It was our flock, it was our family.
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And I'm gonna tell you that
growing up, being a part
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of our flock is one of
my greatest memories.
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I knew all the grandmothers,
I knew all the kids.
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I knew all the mothers,
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all the dads I knew all
the nursery workers.
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'cause I grew up in the nursery.
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I grew up going to sunbeams
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and then I moved into the
junior high department,
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the high school department.
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Then at college and career,
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I was involved in all of the choirs.
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And not just me, but all my friends.
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We all grew up there together.
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And even later when my family
moved to another nearby town,
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we still drove back to that church
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because we were committed to our church.
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We just didn't change
churches back in those days.
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But today, people are changing
churches all the time.
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And my friends, it's not right.
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But what do you do if you come
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to a moment when something happens? There's a doctrine
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that's taught that you just can't live with,
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or there's immorality in the church
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that's not being corrected,
it's not being fixed,
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and you just know that you can't stay
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there and approve of it.
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What do you do?
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Well, first of all, you have to remember
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that in Ephesians 5:32, Paul likened the church
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to marriage. When he was speaking about marriage,
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Paul says - This is a great mystery,
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but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
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And remember that usually in
marriage you hit a few bumps
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along the way and you don't
just bail out, you work on it.
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You have to understand the church
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and your relationship to
it is just like a marriage.
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And usually you hit a
few bumps along the way,
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but you work on it.
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It takes work to stay
faithful to your church.
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But you have to understand
that your relationship
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with your church is not an easy in, easy out relationship.
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It is a long term
relationship in the Lord.
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And to maintain that long-term
relationship will likely
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require work, forgiveness,
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and gracing each other from time to time.
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Wow! But there's some really bad
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reasons to leave a church.
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For example: if a person leaves a church
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because they are offended
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and he doesn't get it right,
he doesn't get over it,
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it is likely
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that he is also gonna be
offended in the next church.
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Well, what's he gonna do when he gets
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offended in that church?
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Is he gonna leave that church
and then go to another church?
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How many times can a
person run from one church
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to another church, to another church?
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Eventually you have to stay put
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and you have to learn to
deal with your offense
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and you have to learn how
to forgive and get over it.
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Otherwise, you're going
to end up in a cycle
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of moving from place to place to place.
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And that will produce spiritual destruction in your life
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and it will really negatively affect your kids
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and your grandkids.
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My friends. Think about your
kids and your grandkids.
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But one
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of the worst experiences
is when you're a pastor.
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Now, here I am, I've been
a pastor for decades,
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and you hear from other people
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that somebody has left your church
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and now they're attending another church.
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It's someone that you've helped, someone that you've prayed
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with, you baptized their kids,
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you remember when their kids were born,
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they've attended your church
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and rather than hear from
them that they've gone
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to another church, you
hear it from somebody else.
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And it's such a shock for me personally.
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I always wonder, why didn't they tell me?
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Why didn't they tell me? You know what?
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When you leave a church without informing the leadership,
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it's cowardice.
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It's cowardice.
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And if you feel called to go to another church,
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then be a man, be a woman, step up to the plate
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and express to the pastor or to the leadership -
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You know what? We feel God is calling us to another church.
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It might be for a good reason.
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Maybe your schedule has changed
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and you can no longer
participate in the life
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of this present church.
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Or maybe you move to another town
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and you can't come back to this church.
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Or maybe your city is so
big, you move to another part
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of the city and you found
another church that is closer,
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that's better for your family,
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that's healthier for your family.
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There really are valid reasons to leave a church.
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But rather than just poof - disappear, go to the leadership
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of the church who believe
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that they're spiritually accountable for you. For you just
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to disappear is not the right way to do it.
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And sometimes people leave a church
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because they want to avoid correction
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or they're embarrassed about something.
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So they leave the church
thinking they can go
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to another church where nobody
knows about what they did
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or about their issues
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and they're running from a
place where God is wanting
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to deal with them and to change them.
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The fire of God's not always enjoyable,
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but it's essential for all the impurities
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to be removed from our life.
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Don't run from the purifying fire of God.
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Don't go hide in another church thinking
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they won't find out.
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My friends, you're just
trying to avoid the dealings
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of God in your life.
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But sometimes people leave a church for a right reason.
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But I'm gonna give you 7-steps
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to correctly leave a church.
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Listen carefully and write these down -
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7-Steps to correctly leave a church.
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No.1: Don't make this decision emotionally
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or in haste.
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Just as you took time to join a church,
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you should take a lot of time
before you leave a church.
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So No.1: don't make this decision emotionally
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or in haste.
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No.2: Make sure you're not leaving
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because of offense.
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Offense is never the right reason to leave a church.
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And it's guaranteed if you're leaving for that reason,
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you're probably just gonna get
offended in the next church.
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So No.2: Never leave
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because of offense. No.3: If you feel
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that you must leave,
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be sure you personally inform the leadership
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of your decision and do it respectfully
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and not with an accusing attitude.
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In other words, don't go to the leadership of the church
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and say, I just cannot stand this place any longer.
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You know, there was a time
when I really love this place,
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but I just cannot bear this and this.
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That's not helpful. Be respectful.
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And if you're leaving, you can't do
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anything about it anyhow.
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So No.3: If you feel that you must leave,
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be sure you personally inform the leadership
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of your decision and do it respectfully
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and not with an accusing attitude.
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No.4: Don't burn bridges.
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As it is often the case that people return
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to their original church after a period of time.
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When you get out there
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and you experience other churches,
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you may realize the
church you left was better
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than you thought.
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Don't burn any bridges
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because many, many times people
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who leave a church hightail it back home
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because they realize they
left something really good.
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So don't burn any bridges.
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No.5: Once you leave, resolve
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to never speak ill of your former church
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where people invested in you, helped you
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and where God did many
precious works in your life.
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You're talking about the
church where people loved you,
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worked with you, helped
you, stood with you.
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God did many wonderful things there.
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So when you leave, don't
badmouth the church.
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No.6: Join the next church thoughtfully
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and don't rush into it
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and be sure the Holy Spirit
is telling you it is the flock
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you're supposed to be a
part of and the shepherd
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or the pastor is one that
you can readily follow.
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Go into this very seriously,
very thoughtfully.
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And finally, No.7: his is very important.
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Remember that what you sow is
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what you will reap.
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So make sure you sow right
seeds in whatever you do
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because it is guaranteed you
will reap a future harvest
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from your actions.
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So the way you leave a
church is very important.
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You're sowing seeds
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and if you're sowing seeds of discord,
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they're gonna come back to haunt you.
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If you're sowing seeds of strife,
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it's gonna come back to you.
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If you're sowing seeds of offense,
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it's gonna come back to you - my friends -
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this law of sowing and reaping is never, never, never,
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never denied.
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It is the one law that
affects every single sphere
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of your life.
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What you do to others is exactly is
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what's going to be done to you.
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And don't ever forget that.
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So these are 7-steps to correctly leave a church.
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But it would be my hope that you're in your church
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and with your flock to the end of your life;
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stick with your church.
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And if you come to disagreements, remember
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that even marriage has bumps and rocky roads.
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You just get over it. You work it out
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because you're committed.
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My friends, we are not to
be a part of the spirit
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of the age, which is disloyal
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and just switches
relationships all the time.
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We're to stick with what God has called us -
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unless - there's a doctrinal error so serious,
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you can no longer sit under it.
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Or No.2: there's immorality
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or some kind of wrong going
on in the church in the
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leadership that nobody is correcting.
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That is a reason
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and a legitimate reason for
you to go to another church.
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But please never forget these 7-steps
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to correctly leave a church.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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Becoming a member of a
church is very, very serious.
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It's a long-term covenant,
not a casual relationship.
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In Rick Renner's new 5-part series, the Right Way to Join
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or to Leave a Church, you will learn
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that church membership is a
serious sacred relationship
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that should always be entered
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or exited prayerfully intentionally
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and biblically: not casually or emotionally.
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Rick teachesn - What it really means to be a part
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of a congregation: How
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to prevent offence from driving you away:
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What the appropriate process of departure is -
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and more - available in digital
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or physical formats starting at just $11.
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This series is filled with practical biblical teaching
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that will strengthen your fellowship with your local church.
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In addition to this teaching series,
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you can order Rick's book, A Life Ablaze, for just $22.
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A Life Ablaze will ignite your spirit
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and encourage you to burn
red hot as you do your part
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to fulfill God's great plan
For such a time as this,
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don't miss this special offer, The Right Way to Join
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or to Leave a Church and, A Life Ablaze.
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Call the number on your screen now
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or go to renner.org to order.
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Call or go online now.
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Hey, this is Rick Renner,
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and right now I'm standing
in the reception area
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of the Tulsa Ministry Headquarters
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and this building is just so wonderful.
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You know the Bible tells us in Proverbs 10:21, The lips
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of the righteous feed many.
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And I know that is our assignment.
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God has called us to feed many
people the trusted teaching
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of the Bible.
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And together with you and all of our partners,
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we really are taking the trusted teaching of the word of God
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to the very ends of the earth.
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Right now, we've paid off
about 82% of this facility
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and is just wonderful; but my friends,
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we can only do it with your help.
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So thank you if you're
already part of the team,
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and if not yet part of the
team, please join us as a part
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of the Giving Team to pay off this facility
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so we can be finished with it
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and use these funds to
take the gospel further
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to other places across the world.
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Wow, this has really been good today.
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And I pray that these 7-Steps
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to correctly leave a
church has been helpful
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to you if you ever come to that moment.
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But this entire series is
called The Right Way to Join
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or to Leave a Church.
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It comes with a study guide,
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and I'm so excited about my
book called, A Life Ablaze.
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Are You A Life Ablaze?
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God wants you to be an inferno
to the end of your life
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and you can be, if you know
the right spiritual fuel
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to be putting into your spiritual oven. Inside you, you're
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to be burning with the fire of the Holy Ghost.
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And that's what this amazing book called, A Life Ablaze, is
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all about.
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But if you're interested to know more about these resources,
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you can go online to our website
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or you can call the number on the screen.
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We'll be happy to tell you
anything you wanna know
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and we want to pray with you.
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So when you call that number,
let us know how to pray
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for you, or if you're an e-mailer
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and you'd rather email us than
email the email address on
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the screen when we hear from
you, we're gonna really pray
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for you and I'm gonna
pray for you right now.
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So put your hands on your heart.
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Father, in Jesus' name, thank
you that you've called us
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to be a part of the
universal body of Christ
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and local church.
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Help us to find the flock
that we are to be a member of
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and to know who is to be
our shepherd and our pastor,
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and help us to work out all
the rough places along the way
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and to fulfill your call
on our life locally in the
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church, in Jesus
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wonderful name - Amen.
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Wow, I've enjoyed this
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and I pray it's been a blessing to you,
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but remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there is power."
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Hey friends, my wife
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and I are coming to the United States
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to hold some wonderful meetings
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and I want to tell you about them,
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but please be sure to go to our website
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to affirm all these times and dates
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because sometimes things change.
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On January 25th, we're coming
to Green Mountain Falls,
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Colorado to Legacy Church,
to be with Pastors Jeremy
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and Sarah Pearsons.
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On Friday, Saturday,
Sunday, January 30th, 31st
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and February 1st, we're coming to Mesa, Arizona,
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to Vida Church to be with Pastors Ben
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and Kara Diaz. On Sunday, February 8th, were coming
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to Southfield, Michigan to be at Word of Faith
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with Bishop Keith and Pastor Deborah Butler.
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On Sunday, February 15th, we're coming to Tulsa, Oklahoma
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to be at Millennial Church with Pastors
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Paul and Karen Brady.
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And on Saturday and Sunday, February 21st
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and 22nd, we're coming to Midland, North Carolina
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to Encounter Church to be with Bishop Alan
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and Tera DiDio -
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and friend, I want to invite you to come to one
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of these meetings.
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We're waiting to see you there.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repented my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life. Amen.
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Renner Ministries is
proclaiming the gospel
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of Jesus Christ through
every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.