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What are you really trying to do with your life?
Attender: "The Gospel is the answer." Phil: "But what do you mean by that?"
How do we communicate that to people?
You must communicate in a language and a style that the culture understands.
Too many people use "Jesus is the answer" as the plug.
The reason I exist is, no matter how anointed your message is, if you don't speak in a language people understand you fail.
JR: "I got baptized like five times my senior year."
*Switching over to discussing the question: What is the right questions we SHOULD be asking.
*Does growth = good?
*What do we need to STOP doing as a church?
*Who does this glorify?
(NOTE: All posts with an * are from the group discussion here at my table)
*How can we look around and see what God is already doing?
If your souls are not constantly doing business with Jesus, you're in serious trouble.
We need to be willing to shut the computer off and get with God.