Elevate Springfield featuring Pastor Glen Morrison: Elevating Through the Power of Faith, Community, and Generational Connection

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All right, and we are back.
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Another gorgeous day in downtown Springfield.
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Joining me in the studio today, we've got Glenn Morrison from Faith Nation Church.
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Glenn, man, how you doing?
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I'm doing pretty well.
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Doing good?
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I'm glad to be here.
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Hey, I'm excited you came down.
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Yes, sir.
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Yes, sir.
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So glad we got connected.
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I'm excited to learn about you, learn about the church, other stuff you got going on, the whole nine, man.
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So, but before we get into the church and all the other stuff, let's just learn a little bit about, I should say Pastor Glenn, right?
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Let's learn about let's learn about you, man.
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So my name is obviously Pastor Glenn Morrison, born and raised here in Springfield, Illinois.
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And since we're talking about pastoralship, I'm actually a fourth generation pastor.
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Okay.
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Here in Springfield, Illinois.
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Married to Jada Morrison, who happens to be uh an up-and-coming gospel recording artist.
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Nice.
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And uh together we have been married going on 13 years and have three amazing children.
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Shout out to my children, they're amazing.
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JL is the oldest at nine.
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Ariel is six, and we call him Diggy, but he's Darrell Glenn the third.
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All right.
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And he's uh four.
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So nice.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That's a little bit about me for what it for what it's worth.
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Graduated from probably the best high school here.
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I was I was gonna ask you if you didn't say it, which one is it?
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Southeast high side.
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There you go.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, the East Side made me into that.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Awesome, awesome.
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So back in the Southeast days, what were you involved with back then?
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Do you always know you're gonna become a pastor and be that fourth generation, or are you thinking some other stuff while you were a Spartan there?
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Well, it's actually uh funny that you asked.
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That's a major part of my testimony, is that I spent the first year playing basketball.
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I was a pretty good, good basketball player in my day.
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Um, I thought I was gonna play all four years.
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Circumstances, or or I would say uh political reasons, didn't allow that to see itself through.
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Sure.
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And so I was already pretty well enhanced in music.
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I grew up playing the drums in church.
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And uh in high school, I started to pick up piano, to learn a little piano.
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Shout out to Mr.
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Michael Bayer, an amazing, the most amazing music teacher ever.
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Uh-huh.
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There were so many things he was teaching me in that time that, you know, they were going over my head, but now kind of maturing in music, got a better understanding for that.
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But anyway, started to pick up piano playing, and what happened was is that as kind of basketball kind of took an end in my life, basically I started to pick up music a lot more heavily and started to take on a leadership role in my church as far as music and playing, and then started to play around town in some different other churches and help.
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Um but the the reason why I said it's a major part of my testimony is because through my season of, I didn't have a major season of defiance, but uh through my season of kind of finding Christ for myself, the music is what had to keep me coming into the church and being committed at a much higher level than just the average goer.
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And so I think when I started to really mature as into a young adult, the music, I realized how much of a huge role that it played in the church and how much of a connection I had to have with at the time would be my grandfather, who was the pastor.
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And so as things kind of to start to unfold and me having to kind of be right at his side to understand ministry from multiple different angles there, I started to realize the the burden of carrying ministry and how important pastoralship is and winning souls.
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And I started to see the sacrifices my grandfather and my father would make just to win souls.
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Right.
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And so it was kind of really in that time frame that God kind of let me take my little venture out into the world and then come back very, very short after, I mean, to even say I was married by 20.
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Okay.
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So I had made up a made a decision by 20 that hey, crisis is the way and I need to buckle down and be serious about this thing.
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Sure.
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So hopefully that gives you a little run down memory lane of what high school looked like for me.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And the reason why I uh reference music and playing in the church even at that time is just it started to consume a lot of my time.
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Not in a bad way, but definitely a good way.
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So I found myself having to play for a live event throughout high school.
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I felt like I was living like an adult life throughout high school.
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And so that's kind of how I'm sitting here with you here today.
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Absolutely.
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So you said fourth generation.
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Is that fourth generation of pastors in Springfield?
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Yes, actually, one of the oldest churches.
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You'll find it on Martin Luther King Drive.
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Uh-huh.
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There's a church by the name of Prayer Will Church.
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And my great grandfather, he birthed that church.
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Okay.
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He built it from the ground up.
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I mean, it was an amazing ministry.
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And his son, which would be my grandfather, was his assistant pastor for a time.
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And then God called him out to start his own ministry.
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And that's where Emmanuel Temple Church on the corner of Ash and Taylor was built from the ground up from my grandfather.
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So cool.
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And then my father was his assistant pastor.
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Okay.
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Well, now my father pastors that church.
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And I still am his assistant pastor or executive pastor.
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And uh just recently, about three or four years ago, God told me that I was going to start my own ministry.
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And with where the church is now, with the nonprofit going and we have a couple programs going and things like that.
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God even allowed me to move into full-time ministry.
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I just was like, this can't be God.
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I start my own ministry.
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And so I finally accepted the call.
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And a little over a year ago, that's where God called me to leave my father's church and birth out Faith Nation Church.
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That's awesome.
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And just for the sake of it, I haven't built the church from the ground up.
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I built the ministry from the ground up, but we are located on the kind of like the going towards the west end of town off on Douglas Avenue.
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So Okay.
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And was the church there as a building and you just went to plant your ministry in there?
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Or how'd that work?
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So, yes, we were able to acquire and purchase a building that used to be Heritage Free Will Baptist Church.
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Okay.
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Gotcha.
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So now we're in there and we're just seeing what the Lord wants to do.
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I got some vision for that property.
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We're going to see.
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We're going to see how what the Lord is able to do through through us while we're there.
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Love it.
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Love it.
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Now that going back to Southeast, you know, talking about the work with CACC and 186 and everything.
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I always love Southeast.
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Miss Metz.
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I don't know if she was there when you were there, but she I worked with her a lot over the years.
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She's just great.
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Yeah, amazing.
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She always has been close to our families.
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It's just a great school, great faculty there that I've worked with.
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The administration there is just they have so much passion for impacting kids there.
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It's just great.
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I love it.
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Yeah, even now, just to see the transformation of administration over the last, I would say, five years or so.
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The principal now, Mr.
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Trig, he and I, we have our own personal relationship.
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And then Mrs.
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Tiffany Williams, which is the athletic.
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She and I and her family go back years.
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She played a huge part in my music coming up when I was in high school.
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She was over the uh the gospel choir and then they had a show choir.
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And she started to pull and tug on me to play piano.
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Meanwhile, I'm just learning, but she always encouraged me, always kind of pushed more responsibility on me so that I would buckle down and be serious about it.
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And then just to kind of uh let you know a little bit about our relationship, just as I was getting ready to graduate high school and kind of become an adult, because I did have a love for basketball.
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Um I actually was the assistant coach under her husband at uh Jefferson Mill School.
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There you go.
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And we had a couple trips upstate.
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And and so, yeah, you know, Springfield, it's like a big, happy family.
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You just gotta you just gotta find where you fit.
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That's right.
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And then grow from there.
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It is.
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People say it's like the biggest small town out there.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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For sure.
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For sure.
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Right, absolutely.
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So you planted your church, you planted your ministry there.
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Talk to us a little more about the the vision when you initially said, hey, this is what we're gonna do, feeling called to do that.
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What does that look like moving forward, those first few months getting in?
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Well, this kind of goes back.
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Um, right around the age 20, I started something called the spiritual weight room.
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And it started with a Bible study, a men's Bible study.
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That in that season I had gotten married, and I needed a reason to spend some time outside of the home, away from my wife with some of the guys in a positive place.
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And uh, we started just having Bible study every week at Emmanuel Temple at the time and and still are, and we would play ball afterwards.
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I mean, we were at one point we had someone as young as 13 or 14, all the way up to people as old as 60, 65 years old, showing up to Bible study, people with multiple testimonies, some had been incarcerated, some had been recently, you know, drug addicts or whatever that might look like, alcoholics, all of the above.
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And God, in this time, I was completely kind of blind to it, but I was realizing that God was starting to use me, you know, in his own ministry.
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And so the birthing of our ministry, right?
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Even now, so long later, right?
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I realized how much my generation.
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Now I'm at the tail end of millennials, okay?
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And so I kind of do generations now, are kind of like every I think they change them kind of they're kind of long.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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I realize there's some older, I don't know how old you are, but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna play around.
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Yeah, I'm on the I'm on the probably the way front end of millennial or the far back end of Gen X.
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So I'm 43.
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So I'm I'm like right at the cusp of Gen X, I think, and millennial.
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I can't remember, something like that.
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I think as much as stuff is changing now, these generations, they're gonna have to start changing them a little bit.
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But I realize that my generation is missing from the church.
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They're not coming into the church anymore, and and and so what that is, is they're giving birth to children that have never been introduced to Christ through by their parents or through the church.
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And people have multiple reasons.
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You have this thing out there, um, I don't know if you've ever heard of it or not, but it's called church hurt.
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Basically, where this is what it truly is.
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Someone was held accountable in the church, and they they called it judgment.
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The Bible calls us as disciples to hold one another accountable.
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And and so they weren't tough enough to take it.
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So they took it personal, and so they shied away from the church, and so they kind of harbored that unforgiveness in their heart, and now we have generations that are not being introduced or knowing about Christ.
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And so that's where this kind of came was was that as God was telling me that I was gonna start my ministry, I had two options.
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I could obey, answer the call, and God could use me now to to meet this generation and the generations to come, or I could have waited.
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The truth is, is that all I had to do was wait in line.
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I was gonna inherit the ministry of Emma Tunb.
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Sure.
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But my father, he hasn't been pastoring very long, and and he's doing a great and amazing job.
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And as I would sit behind him and play, you know, the music and the piano and the organ for him every week, the more and more God showed me that.
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He's like, hey, I want you to understand time, you're never gonna get back.
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You're never gonna get back.
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And so the older that I get, I'm sitting here and I'm watching people have their reasoning for not wanting to come to church or join a church.
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And so that was when God said, Hey, I need you to answer this call.
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Because we as Faith Nation, we're on a mandate to win back the millennials into the church.
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And then also, what's the generation after us?
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I don't know.
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Uh is it Gen Alpha?
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Is it Gen Alpha after that?
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I can't remember.
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It seems like the names change too sometimes.
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I'm glad to know that you didn't know the answer.
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That makes me look so much better.
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But yeah, we're trying to win back these generations of people and reintroduce Christ to them so that they understand that Christ, your relationship with Christ is not dictated by a building or a church or a pastor, that it actually starts with you personally, right?
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And you have to be willing to build that relationship so that God can give you the direction on where to serve and where what home to call your ministry or what pastor to call your pastor.
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So that way, if there ever is a situation, right, that rubs you the wrong way, you're so rooted and grounded in Christ that you're not shying away from the church.
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Sure.
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And and then now, you know, you're telling everybody why you didn't go to church and why you don't I mean barbershop talk, right?
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Oh yeah, yeah, I get it.
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So that's kind of what our mission is, obviously, our mission is to birth disciples.
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Sure, of course, yeah in faith.
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That's why we say faith nation church.
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I'm a person that I live by faith.
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Okay.
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Many people around me have said I've had I have the gift of faith.
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Now you would think as a pastor, anybody has that, but I've realized there are many gifts that God allows.
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And the gift of faith, and so that means living in the unknown, right?
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Living, putting yourself in positions where you are completely trusting in God that if it falls through, it's gonna make you look stupid, right?
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So that's kind of the gift that God has given me, and I'm trying to birth that into as many people as possible in a generation that loves entrepreneurship, right?
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They do too, yeah.
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You know what I mean?
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And it's in and even the generations to come, they're they're not looking at college the same, they're not looking at certain trade school things the same, they're trying to get things started and jumped off for themselves.
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And the reality is that's gonna take some faith.
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You know what I mean?
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Faith in something in someone that has much more power than you do in this world where everybody's a YouTuber.
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Right.
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Everybody's a content maker or whatever the case might be.
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You gotta have you gotta be rooted in something that's a lot deeper than just the surface.
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And that's what Faith Nation, that's what we're trying to get everyone to.
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And then on overall, the most important thing is living in and through Christ's love.
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I think we have an idea of what that looks like, but if circumstances give us the excuse, right, to I'm gonna snap on somebody or go off or or whatever.
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Now all of a sudden we've thrown everything that God has called us to and who he's called us to be.
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We've thrown that in the trash, and it's like, okay, I'm gonna give you a key peace in my mind.
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Christ talks about turning the other cheek.
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You know, he talks about loving your enemies and praying for them.
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I mean, this is an agenda that is unorthodox, and you're not gonna be able to fulfill this agenda alone.
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It's gonna take you to have a true relationship with God today.
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So absolutely.
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So you talked about it a little bit.
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So the name, Faith Nation.
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How long did it take you to get to the name, or did that come to you like that's gonna be the name of my church?
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That's that's it.
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That's done.
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There was a day I was listening to some worship music, and I was just listening.
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At the time, my wife and I, we were trying to decide if we were gonna do love redemption church.
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Well, my wife being co-pastor is actually a third generation pastor.
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Oh, is she?
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That's cool.
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Her grandfather is uh the pastor he birthed out, which is Victory Temple, which is on the corner of 15th and Jackson.
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Yeah.
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And then right there next to that, they had an older building that her father bought from them, and its name is Love Deliverance Church.
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And so we thought, love redemption, we were thinking, we were like, that's a little close, right?
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So I was like, Lord, it's just not clicking.
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And then I don't know.
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One day, just listening to worship music and it just popped up.
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And I walked in the room as my wife was helping the kids get dressed, and I said, Welcome to Faith Nation Church.
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That's literally what I said.
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Welcome to Faith Nation Church.
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And my wife looked at me and her eyes and face just lit up.
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And I was like, Yeah, this is it.
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That's it.
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This is it.
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This is it.
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I love it.
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No, I mean, between the two of you guys' families, fourth generation and third generation, you guys have had so much impact and such a staple in the community right there.
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That's that's huge, man.
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Yes, it's it's it's its own responsibility.
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Sure, sure.
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You know, somebody, you always know someone, uh-huh.
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Someone's always watching you, right?
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That's a good good thing.
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Right.
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Bad things for her, you know, if we weren't doing what we're supposed to do.
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Right.
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If we weren't doing what you're supposed to, yeah, uh-huh.
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Uh-huh.
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But also it carries this a level of weight of responsibility.
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We have so much to to live up to.
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I think um, I would say the largest African-American church in in Springfield, Illinois is Abundant Faith Christian Center, which happens to be her uncle's church.
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And uh so, like you said, ministry, it's embedded in our DNA, and now we're just trying to take the opportunity to carry on the legacy of just winning souls for Christ.
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That's the main thing.
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Love it.
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Love it.
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So, what are you most proud of in these early days of your church?
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I'm most proud of God giving me patience.
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He showed me the ministry 10, 5, 10, maybe 15 minutes years from now.
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And a lot of times when God shows you, I won't say the finish line, but the the journey down the line, and then he starts you way back at the beginning.
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When things don't move as fast as you want them to move, it's a test of your faith.
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It makes you ask, am I in this, did I, Lord, did I hear you correctly?
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And so what I'm most proud of is the patience and the appreciation for the congregation that we have that God has blessed us with.
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We're just pouring foundation right now.
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This is what God has told me.
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We're just pouring foundation for something that I believe is gonna take off.
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I'm the youngest pastor in Springfield.
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Are you really?
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And if you're younger than me in Springfield right now, comment.
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If you're a pastor and you're younger than I am, I'm 32.
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I was gonna say, you gotta tell them how old you are now.
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32 years old.
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I'll be 33 October 13th of 26.
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I'll be 33.
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And yeah.
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And so I believe that God is doing something amazing, but he's just trying to test my heart, my intentions, and he's trying to ready me for what the flock that he's sent gonna send in years to come.
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And I just have to be patient enough to just appreciate the slow walk.
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Appreciate the slow walk.
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And so most proud of the fact that I sermon prep like I'm preaching to 10,000 people.
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You know what I mean?
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I love it.
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A hundred thousand.
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I don't know.
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I sermon prep, like, and people come in and they're like, oh my God, this is an amazing sermon.
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And even the people that God has blessed us with already, they're growing.
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There's been a huge margin of where they were and where they are now.
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They came to Christ like loving Christ at the you know at the beginning, but now just the fruits of the spirit, which are love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, uh, self-control, and I think I'm missing one.
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Long suffering?
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I always kind of miss one.
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You roll through them pretty good, though.
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No, no, no.
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I did the extra one.
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That was all nine.
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But anyway, that was nine.
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I always add that long suffering one up.
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But anyway, but they're operating in this in their everyday life.
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This is what it's about.
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I get testimonies about how marriages are going through, and they're like, they're getting ready to get into it.
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If you've been are you married?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You know how it is.
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Tough conversations every now and again get a little elevated, and they're like, we stopped and we prayed first.
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And God was able to come into our space and we were able to effectively have a conversation that was about to go left, but because we allow God to come in, or people that had friends that backstabbed them or whatever, right?
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They're calling them and reconciling these relationships and offering them forgiveness and inviting them out to church.
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Parents that didn't raise them, right?
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Or they were nowhere to be found.
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They're calling these parents and letting them know, hey, as an adult, I'm realizing that, you know, it's tough to be an adult.
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I forgive you.
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So they're going back, and God is allowing these people to go back in time and just demonstrate the love of Christ.
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So that's that's the most.
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I love it.
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No, I love it, man.
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Yeah, no, I married actually got married around the same age you did.
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You said you got married at 20, right?
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So I got married at 21.
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So yeah, I've been married for 22.
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Oh no, what is it now?
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20, whatever.
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It's okay.
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It's 04 to yeah, 22 years.
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Yeah, that's right.
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I was right the first time.
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I was like, I gotta do the math, but I yeah, I was right the first time.
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I got it.
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So that's awesome.
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So, what is the church's role in the community?
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You talked about bringing people to Christ and everything, but how can the church reach out into the community?
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Not just yours, but the whole every all churches here.
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I think we're trying to find our place.
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There's so many things that you can do, so many roles that you can fulfill.
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Obviously, there's a lot of times we've gone out into the community, we've prayed for people, we've fed the hungry, we've done different things like that.
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But we're trying to find what our place in the community is.
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One thing that I do know, this plays a huge part, is that we are the church for the next generation.
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So, as far as for the community, we are the strong tower.
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We're the safe place for this next generation to run into and feel safe without being judged.
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Okay.
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Now, obviously, there's work in the community that we want to do.
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There's some things that we want to birth out, you know, so that we can be a light and a help to our community.
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But as far as for our community, I believe that.
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We're the church for the millennials and the generations to follow, right?
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Because yeah, the we have taken, I don't want to say all of the tradition out of the church, but we've had to stop and figure out and we've gone to the drawing board about why did these people ever stop coming to church or why did they stop believing in Christ?
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And we have tried to make our church everything that they ran from.
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Right.
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Accept them the way they are.
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Now I want I I say this real clear in the mic, right?
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We definitely preach the Bible cover to cover.
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Sure.
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You know, when you you have to be careful using the word acceptance.
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God loves everyone.
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And I'm not gonna get into that on your podcast, but the reality is God has love and he loves every last one of us as his children.
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But he doesn't always like what we do, how we operate, how we carry ourselves, certain things, whatever.
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And so I say that because people will hear the word acceptance and think that I'm preaching a false gospel.
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Absolutely not.
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We're gonna love you.
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Watch this one.
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Don't cut me off for this one, but I always say this here at Faith Nation Church.
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We're gonna love the hell out of you.
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Literally.
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Now, that's I don't really get to talk like that.
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I say that when I'm preaching, that's my one opportunity.
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There you go.
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Absolutely.
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Take it.
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We'll emphasize that on here.
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Let's go.
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I love it.
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For sure.
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No, I think that there are so many ways for churches to be able to reach out into the community, but it is when you get the community to come into your four walls, you can really make a make a huge impact on folks.
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We have a lot of amazing churches and a lot of amazing pastors.
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I'm pretty familiar with at least 80 to 90 percent of the pastors here in Springfield, Illinois.
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And so just knowing everyone, you know, on a personal level and things like that.
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There's some amazing churches.
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Obviously, I would love for you all to come join or or even be a part of Faith Nation Church or visit.
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But the main thing is find you a place that you can call home.
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Find what's comfortable to you, find where you're gonna grow.
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I tell the people uh of Faith Nation, I say, there's some Sundays I'm gonna send you home feeling like you can fly home instead of driving.
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But there's some Sundays that you're gonna go home and you're gonna feel like that child that got corrected, you know, that child that had been doing something or or operating a certain way, and that father or that mother stopped him and said, Hey, we don't operate or we don't live or we don't act this particular way.
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The reason why that's important is because that's a full rounded gospel is to is for us to hold each other accountable to growth, not just accept and and everybody can live and and operate how they like to and want to, but it's being intentional to realize that God has set us apart and that the Bible says that we're aliens of this world.
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Heaven is our home.
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Right.
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You know, right.
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Now it's interesting.
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You talked a minute ago about you know the reasons why people leave the church when they're younger and all that.
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I grew up in a very traditional Methodist church.
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When when I was younger, yeah, I went away from that quite a while.
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Quite a while.
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And then right now we go to the West Side Christian over on the over on the west side.
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So it's completely different than that one.
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You know, that's an amazing ministry.
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Yeah.
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I'll just throw a nugget out there.
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I'm waiting on that pastor to give me a call.
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I'd love to come speak there sometime.
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Nice.
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Well, he was he was actually on the show just about uh four months ago.
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We just we had Eddie over here.
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Come on, shout out Eddie Lohan.
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Come on.
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Let's get him out there.
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Get him out.
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Guest guest preach for us one day.
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There you go.
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I absolutely love that.
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Yeah, it's it's a big crowd out there.
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So I mean it's a beautiful facility.
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Actually uh visit there often.
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Oh, yeah?
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Yeah, their services are early enough for sometimes if I'm like done sermon prepping early enough, I'll go and and just sit in the congregation and just kind of fill up in worship before, you know.
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We start at 12 noon.
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So by then, I think you West Side's already had two services.
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Already had two services by then because the last one's at eleven.
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Yeah, the last service is at eleven, they have the eight thirty or eight and nine thirty as well.
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So I've been to that nine thirty one a couple times.
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Eight, I'm not gonna say it's too early, but you know.
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Yeah.
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No, I tell you my call meeting.
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Oh, sure, sure.
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No, I t I typically go to the eleven because my wife and I've got two teenage daughters.
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I've got a 16-year-old and a 13-year-old, and they serve in the kids' ministry every Sunday at the 9 30 service.
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So they do that, and then we all hit the service at the at eleven.
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That's awesome.
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Yeah, they love working with the kids in there.
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My younger daughter is that's as especially her passion.
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She just she loves working with little kids, babies and toddlers and the whole thing.
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So she'll probably definitely have a gift.
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Yeah, she'll probably do something with that down the road as a as a career, I would imagine.
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She just loves it so much.
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That's awesome.
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So and it it's really great to see them pushing for those opportunities.
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It's not something that me as the dad or my wife as the mom saying, Hey, this is what they came forward and said, Hey, we want to serve, we want to do this, which I which I think is great.
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I think that's important, even when we're talking about ministry.
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People are ask me all the time, did your parents or your whoever tell you you were gonna pastor?
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No, but they always left the door open.
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At 32, I have a lot more pastoral experience than the average 32-year-old because they always offered me a seat at the table.
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And so I would sit and I would listen to how they figured things out, how they disciple, how they, you know, came to conclusions about certain things.
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And and I would always ask, you know, in those settings, they, you know, those are one of those, hey, you know, just sit and listen, right?
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But I would always ask, you know, why why do I have to be in here listening?
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And they would always leave the door open.
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They'd say, you never know.
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God may call you to pastor or or be over a church one day.
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They never said you're gonna pastor.
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Right.
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They never said you're gonna inherit this ministry.
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They never said that.
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And so it was planting a seed and it just kind of allowed that door to stay open.
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I this is definitely important for anybody that's watching for business owners or whatever it is out there, you may want your child to take on your business and just give them a seat at the table and leave the door open.
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One thing about the millennials and the generations is we don't like to be told.
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Right.
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Right?
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Unfortunately, right?
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We don't like to be told how things are gonna leave the door open.
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It plants a seed, and then before you know it, you realize ministry is all I know.
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This is who I am.
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It's in my DNA.
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Why wouldn't I want to go?
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And then it comes to that point in life where you're like, okay, I'm accepting this.
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I'm gonna walk in this.
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And so I'm very strategic when it comes to my children on ministry.
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I allow them to express themselves, I allow them to say what they feel, I allow them to hear certain conversations, even at a young age, right?
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But I never tell them that you're gonna do this.
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Their main goal is that regardless, if you never start a church, pastor church, whatever the case might be, you're still gonna be a child of God.
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And your responsibility that none of us as children of God get to neglect.
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Matthew 28, 19, going to all the world, preaching the gospel, baptizing the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Obviously, that's a spiritual baptism.
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I make the joke, don't just run around slinging water at people.
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Sure, sure.
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But uh, that's our responsibility.
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And so anyway.
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Awesome.
00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:53.039
So what's on tap for Faith Nation?
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What's on the what's on the horizon here?
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We're kind of in a season of patience.
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I say that because God has us sitting still.
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We are uh in a month called Jesus going viral in September.
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Uh-huh.
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And so we've been on a hunt.
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We we've on a on a hunt for souls, lost souls.
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They have a homework that I gave them.
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Is that uh once a week, they're to try to invite someone that's maybe not as strong in their walk to lunch or dinner.
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Uh-huh.
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There's to try to post on social media at least four days a week something about Jesus.
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They're to try to invite someone to church online or in person, each and every week.
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And out of 30 days in September, they're trying, they're supposed to try to invite what's equivalent to one soul per day.
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So try to invite 30 people to church in the month of September.
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And so that's kind of where we are because we're organically growing.
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We're growing the way God kind of calls us to.
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As far as the ministry overall, we're just trusting God in this season.
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I say that because I told you about how God is testing my patient.
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There's so much.
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I'm a visionary by heart, like by by nature.
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Okay.
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I can see things that I want done and I can go and start trying to work on them and make them happen.
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They have this new age, it's almost like a religion now.
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It's called manifesting.
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I'll go in and say it.
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I was a manifester.
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If I wanted it, I was gonna get it and I was gonna make it happen.
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And then I was gonna stamp God on it and say, God is so perfect that He allowed me to do this and that and the third.
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Well, as God has kind of shifted my perspective, right, as a pastor.
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We have to know just because we have the power to make it done doesn't make it happen, doesn't mean that it's the Lord's will for our our lives.
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And so we have to ask ourselves, do we want to live in God's perfect will or his permissive will?
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Where he says, I'll allow you to start the business, I'll allow you to have the multiple real estate, whatever.
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And then we're praying to God to provide for us and clean up after us, is what I say.
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We ask God, can you clean up after us?
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Because we went and did something we didn't pray about first.
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But the Bible says in all that ways, acknowledge him and he'll direct your path.
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So I'm working continuously, coaching myself to acknowledge God in every season that I'm going into so that way I'm not making a bunch of decisions for the ministry and then stamping God on them and then asking them to provide and clean up after us.
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So right now in this uh season, we're just growing, inviting people to church, letting people know that we're known.
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We spend every fourth month's Bible study on Tuesday nights.
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We go somewhere in the community and we have Bible study.
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We let ourselves be seen having Bible study in public.
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That alone is planting a seed.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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Because we get people that come up and they ask us questions like, you know, who are you guys?
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And and all this.
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And the though they may not ever visit or whatever, it's planting a seed in them that, hey, Christ is trying to pull in you to make some things happen for your life, you know?
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Absolutely.
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So as far as Faith Nation Church, we were just able to to I don't even know the name of it.
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We have someone that handles our our 501c3 side.
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We were able to kind of acquire some some uh solar panels on our building.
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So we're trying to pull back some of our bills and things like that because uh church is a business.
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I say that because I guess I'm a business owner.
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Yeah, you got buildings, you got stuff, you got people, you got the whole thing.
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Yeah.
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My goodness, when those uh I'll just be I'm I'm transparent, you know.
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CWLP sends me that disconnection notice.
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Uh it's like, hey, we gotta uh pause this bill here, move this over here, move this around here, all right?
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Because we're a church that's strictly off of tithes and offerings, donations.
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And so we have a younger ministry, people that are still getting established, getting jobs, things like that.
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So my wife and I are constantly trying to figure out ways to where we can be patient enough for God to do what he wants in their lives, but we can be strategic enough in our lives to kind of move things around and everything we need, God, He always provides.
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You know what I mean?
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But it's a matter of sacrifice, you know.
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My wife and I, we are uh we love to travel.
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We love to take a good couple cruises a year.
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Sure, sure.
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We get to disconnect, uh, no cell phone service, nobody calling.
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You know what I mean?
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Completely disconnected from everybody.
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I need prayer, okay?
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You know, none of that.
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Phone is off.
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Right.
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Okay.
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This year, we didn't get to uh do our anniversary cruise like we usually did.
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That was a sacrifice we were willing to make uh just for the ministry because we're on the up and rising.
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And somebody may say, this may touch someone at home that says, hey, I want a place to be able to be to give donations or whatever.
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Faith Nation Church, I promise you, it's good ground.
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It's going to where it needs to go.
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But we need all the help that we can can get so that we can continue to do the work of the Lord.
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So love it.
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Love it, man.
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That's awesome.
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So, what else you got on your plate, man?
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What else you got going on?
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So, with that spiritual weight room Bible study, over the years, those individuals that would attend that Bible study, they started to have children and ask for a place for their children to be fed.
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Yeah.
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And obviously, yes, we have the church now, but this year has been was our third annual spiritual weight room faith camp.
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Okay.
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And so if you grew up, did you grow up here?
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I grew up in Decatur.
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Okay, close enough.
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Close enough, yeah.
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So I grew up with, you know, FCA had a multi-sports camp when we were younger.
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And and in some cities they still have it.
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I actually, you know, respectfully, I tried to apply to FCA so I could get that going.
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I never got that opportunity.
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Sure.
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And so God was like, I would read the writing on the wall.
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I'm trying to get you to birth something out.
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So uh three years ago, we started Spiritual Weight Room Faith Camp.
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It's a multi-sports camp for children from ages six through 14.
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And we use our high schoolers that come to Bible study as the volunteers.
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Yeah, like mentors and volunteers.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah.
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And so we did a multi-sports camp, and each year we are growing.
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This year we were able to serve a little over 150 kids at our camp this year.
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And and gosh just kind of just That's big, man.
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That's big.
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150 kids there, that's big.
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150.
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And this year was the first year we were able to offer it for free.
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We were able to get some sponsorship and we were able to offer it to everybody that signed up for free.
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So that's a big deal, right?
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Uh if the congregation, I would say give God a hand clap appraisal.
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There you go, there you go.
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And so we're three years into that faith camp.
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I have a lot of vision, like I said, for spiritual weight room and trying to get into the schools.
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And there may be a principal, um, even the superintendent.
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He and I, the new superintendent, uh, Mr.
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Jordan, he and I have talked about us possibly getting into schools because they have so many other clubs that kind of point people in different directions if you kind of pick up what I'm putting down.
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Um, but there's not much Christ, sure.
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Right.
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And so we're trying to get into schools to be able to offer Bible study once a week to to high schoolers where they get to choose to come to lunch with us.
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And we put together a Bible study lesson, and because we technically can't teach children, right, separation of church and state, we designate ambassadors for each high school that lead the Bible studies, and we're just present to answer questions.
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So that's what we're trying to work on right now.
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We're working on a blueprint for that to try to get into District 186.
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Um, hopefully this will ring some bells.
00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:52.079
Um, any high school, right?
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:54.800
Even in the high schools that are on the outskirt, right?
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We want to be able to get into any high high school that's gonna allow us.
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So hopefully we can make that happen.
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Yeah, well, I might be able to help you out with some of that.
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I've got to know all the folks at all the schools, so for sure.
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:06.800
Yeah, we might have to have a discussion on that.
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Yeah.
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We can do that.
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Very cool.
00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:09.360
No, that's big, man.
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150 kids out there.
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How many days camp is it?
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Do you say?
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Is it a one-day camp?
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It was a five-day camp.
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Five day camp.
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:14.800
Okay.
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:15.280
Gotcha.
00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:17.920
And you're planning on doing that again next summer?
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Yes.
00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:21.760
Yes, we are for sure doing it again next summer.
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We'll start kind of planning closer to December, January, and then hopefully we'll have everything squared away.
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Okay.
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:31.360
It's tough in our city to kind of get spaces, right?
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Our vision is to be able to host over 250 kids.
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And if I'm being honest, to plant a seed in our community, the only place that we're going to be able to get that to happen is uh probably the dome.
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Mm-hmm.
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So whoever's listening and watching, we would like to come into the dome and offer kids the opportunity to come in and compete in their sport and then learn about Jesus Christ, where we can have worship right there in the middle of the dome.
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So that's our vision.
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That is our vision.
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Phenomenal place for you.
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Yes, yes.
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That'd be awesome.
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Man.
00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:02.079
Well, so much great stuff today, man.
00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:04.320
I always like to close with these last couple of things.
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Let's give the audience a piece of advice.
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One on the personal side, one on the professional side to help them elevate their life or business.
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:12.480
Okay.
00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:16.800
Uh, one piece of advice on the personal side is what do you think I'm gonna say?
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I'm guessing it's gonna be something faith-related.
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Of course.
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But I'm not sure exactly what you're gonna say, but it's gonna be faith related.
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Okay, yeah.
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:27.440
On the personal side, obviously I'm an advocate for Christ.
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There's only one way to Christ, you know.
00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:30.880
That's what I teach and preach.
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:33.440
There's only one way to God, and that's through Jesus Christ.
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And so I want to encourage whoever is listening to stop and take a moment.
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I always call it, we call it a moment of stillness, a moment of stillness throughout each and every day, and just reflect on Christ, your walk with Christ, what he's done for you, where you are.
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Kind of like from the optimistic point of view.
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Because the reason why I say that is because in this world that is microwave world, everything is just going, going, going.
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We never take a moment out of our schedule to just be still.
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Be still.
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I'm the type where I like worship pads and I turn worship pads on, and I can have to be a, I can have a million things that I need to get done, a million places to be.
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:18.239
But I realize that when I take this time in moment of stillness, that's really prayer, right?
00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:20.000
And meditation on God.
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When I take that particular time, it allows me the strength to uh prioritize how God wants me to maneuver through life to where I'm gonna get the most out of it.
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And so obviously, my personal one is take time in prayer.
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That's it.
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Take time to pray.
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And I'm not talking about God, will you do this for me?
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Not a Santa Claus wish list, but but to go through maybe the book of Psalms and listen to how David speaks of God.
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When you take your time in prayer, take time to just tell God how good he is and how how much you need him and how worthless you would be without him.
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And so that is my personal one.
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Here's a good professional one that has helped us in our last season.
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Take care of the paperwork of behind your business, behind your, you know, whatever it is that you do aspire to do.
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Be ready.
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God can't bless someone that's not ready.
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Okay.
00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:17.360
We had to have our, in order for us to receive the grant that we got for the solar solar panels, we had to be ready.
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:21.039
Even though we didn't have any grants lined up, we had our paperwork lined up.
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We were working on things, working on establishing ourselves as an official, yes, as a church.
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You want to make sure of that.
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But uh, even spiritual weight room, right?
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If I go back before the church was actually there, the paperwork has always been done to where if people want to be a donor, people want to bless us, we're ready.
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:41.360
So get your ducks in order, be professional, okay?
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I'm talking to my Springfield people.
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Yeah.
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We got a lot of businesses out there, but no paperwork behind these businesses, okay?
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When I write a check, I want to write a check to your business, not to you personally, if that makes sense, right?
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So I want to be able to write that off on my taxes.
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Right.
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Right.
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So let's make sure professionally uh here in our city that if we're running a business, whether you're selling cookies, going from door to door to sell candy, let's get the paperwork done, right?
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So that we can be in a position for God to really do something through us that the worst is scripture, eyes haven't seen, ears haven't heard, nor has it entered the heart of man what God has in store for you.
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So get yourself professionally ready for God to bless you.
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There you go.
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And is there anything we can do community-wide to help all of us here elevate Springfield and the surrounding communities?
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One thing that I would love to see here in our city, you said it's a big, small, what did you say?
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It's the it's the biggest small town.
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Yeah, the UFB.
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Exactly.
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It's the biggest small town.
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And people, they have these different names.
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They call it like a crab bucket, whatever they I don't know the name for it.
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But what that basically is about is is that I think in our city we struggle to be unified.
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We struggle to support one another.
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Genuinely.
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Like we'll show the I have people they'll show up to your event or show up to your church, unfortunately, and they'll go and post about you or talk about you behind your back.
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But I think it's a principality that's over our city that we have to feel like we have to take the legs out from under someone else in order to feel great about ourselves.
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So let's genuinely adopt the heart to love on people, be unified, support people with a genuine heart.
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Because I'll say this, and you can emphasize this God doesn't bless any mess.
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Period.
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Come on.
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Strong, brother.
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Strong.
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Love it, love it.
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Well, Pastor Glenn, uh remind everybody hey, if they want to go check you out over at Faith Nation, see what you got going on over there, win of the services, all the good stuff.
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Yeah, Faith Nation Church, you can come visit us every Sunday at 12 noon.
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12 noon at 3436 South Douglas Avenue.
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If you want to stay connected, you can visit our website at www.faithnation.church.
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Or something that's a lot more user-friendly.
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Just get on any app store.
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If you're an Apple user and you love the Lord, or if you're an Android user and you're coming to know the Lord, uh, you can get on your app store and you can download the Faith Nation Church app.
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You'll get all of our notifications, our daily devotions.
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We have a Jesus merch store on there for you to rep some Jesus merch, this amazing sweatshirts on there, whatever you want to do to stay connected to myself and the ministry.
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And yeah, we're gonna see what the Lord does.
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There you go.
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And I'm assuming information will be coming out on the camp at some point.
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Maybe there's some businesses out there that want to help support that.
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Stuff come out on that, right?
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Yes.
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Also on the App Store, you can download the Spiritual Weight Room app as well.
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You can go Spiritual Weight Room or SWR, and it's got an arm that looks like this one here.
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You can download that app or you can go to the Spiritual Weight Room website and you can contact us at www.spiritualweightroom.com.
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Come on.
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I appreciate you spending some time with me, man.
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It was fun.
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I appreciate you having me.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I believe this is the beginning of an amazing relationship, and and I I can't wait to see what you have to bring to the table to help see Faith Nation and Spiritual Weight Room grow beyond the four walls of Springfield, Illinois.
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Let's do it.
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All over it, man.
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Let's go.
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Thank you.
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All right, we're gonna let Pastor Glenn Morrison get back to Elevate in Springfield.
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That's right, y'all.
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We're gonna elevate Springfield.
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Be great.