Conversion

“disrupt peace, oh, he's coming after my heart. He's going to course correct me when I'm pressed into him. When my eyes are focused on the source of peace. pursuing peace. It can mean having a hard conversation, but it's a conversation laced with grace. It's a conversation where you've had a whole lot of vertical conversation before any horizontal conversation happens”

“look like, has one side conversation with somebody that says, have you ever considered church adoption? And that led Alex to some research, which eventually led to a call to our pastor, Dr. David McKinley, April 1st of 2021. This was not an April Fool's joke, but he called him on April Fool's of all times, but he called him and he began to have a conversation about, hey, what would it look like to begin a conversation about Warren adopting First Baptist Church of Belvedere? And as we had that conversation, pastor asked him, hey, well, where are you guys located? I've heard of Belvedere,”

“I've heard one friend of mine put it as praying without ceasing and praying in all circumstances is kind of like having two conversations at once. That everywhere you go in your life, you might be having a horizontal conversation with a person around you, but you're also having a vertical conversation with God through prayer. That you're inviting God into every conversation, into every aspect of your lives. We pursue God in prayer to know his will. Fourth, we seek wise counsel. We seek wise counsel.”

“her employees thinking. And the whole time I'm having to battle these thoughts of what are the people around me thinking about this conversation. And can I tell you guys two things? Number one, her salvation and her eternity is worth so much more than what everybody else around us thinks. If the Lord used that conversation and uses future conversations that we get to have with her on Friday mornings for her eternity to be changed, then it is very worth people thinking that we're weird sitting in Lawful House. And the second thing is, is that that conversation”

“well. There are certain times where it is important and necessary to have a conversation. And we might be ready to have that conversation, but the person that we want to share with might not be ready to have that conversation. Maybe it's something heavy, maybe it's something important. But that's where we have to be socially aware to know whether the people in our lives are ready to speak. Do we have enough time to talk about this? Is this a good time to talk about this situation? Are there other people around? Would they want me to talk about this right now? We have to”

“Jesus selected a fishing boat for a pulpit and then he enlisted the people on board to be his first disciples. And I want us to go back now and just look at this text and break this down a little bit and look through the episode of what unfolded and just put the pieces together one by one to understand then and now the significance of this in all of our lives. We begin with the conversation. The conversation. And the key word for the conversation is the word,”

“church and and how it's caused them to to fall away from church and we have this conversation about who Jesus is and we have a great conversation. There's other times where people just kind of seem disinterested and checked out and you know they they kind of were were you know honestly just pleasing us by by saying that they'll listen to us. But every single time I walked away from those conversations, I was encouraged because I just talked about the gospel. And if nobody else needed to be reminded of the gospel, I needed to be reminded of the gospel. And so, yes, I shared the gospel, but I also heard the gospel through me talking with somebody else about it. And so, seek to have”

“because this call is not to go and make converts. This call is to go and make disciples. Being a disciple involves a conversion, but it doesn't stop at conversion because it takes a process, a process of learning and being taught and grappling with the truths of Scripture. And so we're not just called to walk with him to conversion.”