Churches in West Henrietta

“and I was coming up short everywhere. He just said, He just said, they I don't know what they have. He said, I don't know, but they leave happy. And so the following week, he went to this meeting where he was and we went there. And, it's a long story. Won't take you through the whole thing, but the long and short of it is we we gave our lives to the lord. And and it was like, day and night. Yes. It it was the most amazing thing. Like, on, let's say on Tuesday, I don't know what day of the week it was, but let's say on Tuesday, I couldn't pass a bar without stopping in it. On Wednesday, I didn't want to. It was the most amazing change in my life that took place. It doesn't happen like that for everybody. For me, it just my whole life was turned, like, oh, like, in one experience with the lord.”

“So I I often think there's an old saying that said, something to the effect of a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. Like, we might be able to argue somebody better might be able to argue with someone better than they can argue with us, but that doesn't mean we convince them. But in experience, when you say, wait a minute. This happened to me. This is this is my life. I'm telling you what happened to me. Now we're at a different level. Because if they have a need in their heart, if they have a need in their lives and they say, okay. Well, this happened to you.”

“Good example of that is somebody who just talking about Jesus, but they'll say, you know, yeah, I I've seen there's just too many hypocrites in the church. Your answer to that is don't say that. There's room for one more, you know, so they that they would feel welcome. There's people will try to confuse and distract, and and you just might not be feel adequate. I'm just trying to explore why don't we take those verses that were given to us as as our commission. Why don't we think more about it? Why don't we see it as as our commission?”

“And and so we might think, well, what if I face someone who can take the bible you know, some of the cults take parts of the bible, and they turn them around in different what if they do that to me? What am I going to do? Now we should all be able to biblically defend our faith. We should do that. And but we don't have to be deep theologians. But sometimes we just feel intimidated. We feel inadequate. And I, myself, I have studied numerous times in my life, various cults and and all of that.”