Transformative Power of God's Grace and Salvation

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "You know, he was ignorant of all of this just like I'll get through this, you know, part you know part of our life we're ignorant of our actions before we accept him too and then you know the light bulb comes on holy cow I've got to repent I've gotta I've gotta get this right and you know we'll stumble we'll fall but you know it's not like we're purposely moving through life and you know it's not like we're purposely moving through life you know in his case blaspheming persecuting um you know being insolent an insolent opponent which is just you know a very rough opponent basically." [30:40] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Paul always thought of himself is the worst of the worst verse 16 but I received mercy for this reason that in me as the foremost Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life to the king of the ages immortal invisible the only God be honor and glory forever and ever amen so Paul's sins being forgiven were a huge message to all if Paul can be saved anyone can be saved if he was the foremost sinner the worst of the worst that puts us better than him you know in our eyes God always puts sins on a level playing field but for us humans we stack things in a hierarchy it gives us assurance that we can also be saved we can turn away from that old life be forgiven and have our path to the kingdom of heaven with him forever." [33:42] (56 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "You know, because you were dead in your sins you were on your way to hell but you chose Jesus Christ and you want to make sure you show that to everybody because you never know when there's another one of you that's got you around that really needs to see that that they can break away from that and they can have eternal life too and then they can go and impact people you know so why would you ever want to forget that you know why would you want to forget where you came from what you can do right now you know why would you want to purposely stray away from any of this you know we don't have it just for us we want to we want to share things you know it's like anything um Christmas it's fun to give gifts right it's fun to get them we all like to get gifts, but isn't it fun just to give them and watch people open them and like, yeah, I picked that out. That was cool. They liked it." [41:58] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Or I'm in such a mess. I need, I need to get out of this, but I can't do this on my own. You know, Romans 10, nine and 10, they, it gives us a simple formula of confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. Believe in your heart that God raised you from the dead and you will be saved. In other words, just confess that he is your Lord. And you believe that he was raised from the dead. You know, you repent of your sins. You turn from them and follow him for the rest of your life. Romans 10, 13 simply says all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. You know, there's, there's not one structured prayer in the Bible that you have to give. It's just a conversation with him. Lord, thank you for saving me. I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe he raised from the dead. I want him to save me. I don't want to live this sinful life. I want to break those chains. I just want to follow him for the rest of my life. Please come into my life and save me. And he will, he will." [52:09] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "So what pit did you come from Paul lays his out right here he's a blasphemer a persecutor an insolent opponent um he was a boy he was rough on the Christians if you read through Acts Stephen was one of the first Deacons that were appointed and he was given this great Gospel message and they basically pulled him aside and stoned him he was the really the first martyr and Paul was there rooting you know pushing all this through and um you know Paul always called himself the worst of all but Paul also understood how profound the amount of grace that God gave him was right to go from a killer of his people to pulling them up to heaven and having to talk with them and ultimately um you know one of the greatest church planters in history probably the the greatest um you know very impactful missionary apostle of the church all kinds of things wrote most of the New Testament so but why was he given grace um it was because he didn't know Christ when he was doing all of this stuff Jesus didn't just die on the cross for some people he died for everybody." [30:40] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Number two how impactful was your salvation uh for Paul the ultimate center became the ultimate Saint he became an apostle you know apostles had some pretty stiff requirements number one they had to meet face to face with Jesus so he had to take his time uh there's a point in Galatians where he talks about his time in the wilderness with Jesus and scholars say that's probably about a 13-year period we don't know for sure but you know he was very well educated before in the world standards and then you know very well educated in Christ afterwards and we can see you know how impactful his salvation was you know all those people like Timothy um Titus raised up and there was many many others that Paul raised up under him and put these churches all over the place everywhere he went he'd go places he would stay for a couple of years you know he'd go to the next place stay there he was always writing letters I I you got to believe that there were more letters than what we even have too we know for sure there's another letter to the church in Corinth because we only have two of the Corinthians and one of them talks about another one so you know imagine all the other mentoring letters writings he had he was just always trying to be very impactful." [39:17] (76 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "And then, you know, back to Paul being the worst of the worst you know that's not really a soft statement if you think about it to be the worst of the worst billions of people through all of time in history and he saved him he he you know it's a bold proclamation of God's grace and mercy in action working you know ignoring somebody changing somebody God's salvation and he can and will give you that same Mercy and Grace he absolutely will um I myself have seen it numerous times in my life you know anything really you mess up you know no lightning came down and struck me he just helped me get back on track so don't go back to where you were before Christ can't do it on your own just think about that moment what what was I before Christ what was I and then you know use that to keep yourself moving forward with him in your new life away from all that nonsense." [37:53] (55 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "And then you know maybe it was just you were arrogant and mentally abusive to everyone around you doing no good for anything you know um maybe you stole maybe you stole time even from your employer you're just bad employee cheating time away maybe you're stealing things from stores to pay for addictions and things like that um you know the list can go on and on right but your salvation should clean you up you know that the blood of Christ is washing it all clean and you want to pull away from that and you want to make sure that you have a big impact on your surrounding atmosphere with your salvation walking like Christ right first and first and foremost just showing him through your everyday walk um you know getting rid of all those things you did before and maybe building people up you know not not having things between you and God getting help for addictions um you know getting help for anger rage all kinds of things that could just break up you know your your community that's around you." [40:43] (59 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "And then you can ask yourself these questions as you grow and evolve. You know, what was my life just like that I left? What are those bad things that I've just now got out of my life? What are the things that I'm really getting new now that are really building me up, giving me a good path, helping me navigate this dark world that we've fallen into? I don't know about you, but a few years ago, it felt like somebody took it upside down and just shook it. Because everybody went crazy one day. So maybe it was always like that. Maybe the media just gets more prevalent. I don't know. It just made me start thinking. I think we just need to work a little harder to get the gospel out there. And really that's, that's what this is all about, right? Spreading the gospel, helping people find Christ, and then building them up into their own disciple makers." [53:22] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)