When Christians Blow It: What Comes Next? | Galen Hughes, Real Faith & Narnia Controversy
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on their own schedule, on their own time. So thankful that you're a part of what we're doing as well. So whatever your story, let's get started here. And I wanted to start with what happened over the weekend in college football. And not so much college football, but it serves as the backdrop for what I want to talk about. What happens when you blow it? When you, as a believer in Christ, just blow it and miss the mark.
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And what do you do when it happens to you? Because look, inevitably it's going to happen. We want to live holy, different, set apart lives for Christ, no doubt. That's what motivates us, or it should motivate us. And when we do set ourselves up trying to live those lives, when we fall, it can be devastating.
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to those around us and to those who are influenced by us. But what happens when we do? Because look, it's not a matter of if, it's when, because we're not perfect people. And here's a case in point of someone who had a really kind of big fall in front of the whole world. His name is Trinidad Chambliss. He is the quarterback of the Ole Miss Rebels.
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and they had a big football game on Saturday night against LSU, which is a big rival of theirs, and it's my team, so yeah, I wasn't necessarily happy with the outcome, but added to all the emotion of a normal kind of rivalry game like that is, LSU's coach this year used to be the coach at Ole Miss last year. So there was all of that dynamic.
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It was talked about and hyped up for the entire week leading into it. It was going to be on national television and it's going to be, you know, uh, the prime time game of the week. So all of that emotion was running. And of course the game turned out to be incredibly exciting. Went all the way to the end before it was over. mean, it was in doubt right up to the very final play of the game.
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So with all of that emotion going on, especially on the Ole Miss side, you can imagine the relief and the celebration that happened once they came out ahead and won the ball game. So Trinidad Chambliss, who is a phenomenal young man by all accounts, a guy who has always quoted the Bible and talked about how serious his faith was to him. So immediately following the game,
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He is interviewed by the sideline reporter, her name is Holly Rowe. And again, this is literally seconds after the game ends. And so the emotions are at a zenith. And Trinidad Chambliss, who again, professes Christ, born again Christian, talks about his faith a lot, he ended the interview
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by blowing it. I'll let you hear it here in just a second, but let me kind of first explain it to you. Ole Miss, like a lot of colleges, have little chants and little things that are unique to them. And one of their little things is the term hottie-tottie. Now, hottie-tottie is almost like saying aloha in Hawaiian. I mean, it could mean a multitude of different things, apparently.
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Again, I'm not a big Ole Miss fan, but that's what hottie-tottie means. So he finishes the interview with Holly Rowe by dropping an F-bomb while saying hottie-tottie. Here's what he said. Hottie-fucking-tottie! Okay, that's not a great look for anyone, but especially someone who claims to be a follower of Christ, live on national television, after the biggest win maybe of your career.
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That's not the way you want to be remembered. That's just absolutely the wrong thing to say. And I can't get inside this young man's head, but I would imagine that it kind of bothered him after he did it. Because again, here he is, someone who just a few moments prior in that same interview was talking about how much God meant to him and how God has worked in his life and how they were praying God's will.
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to happen regardless whether they won or they lost at the very end of the game and all of that. And then he ends the interview that way. I know when I was listening to it, I just lost a lot of respect and I just thought, why? Why would he have to do that? I was talking to my nephew who watches sports a great deal like I do. He felt the same way. It's just like you had just spent so much time.
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not only in that interview, but in weeks and months leading up to it when people would talk to you about your faith, you were open and out front with it. And then at that moment, of all moments, you choose to let your emotions get away from you and let that out. Now, we can be hard on him, but you know what happens to us as well. It's not live on national television.
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But it does happen. So what do do? How do you handle it? How do you undo something that you did? Well, the bottom line is you can't undo it. As much as Trinidad would want to, he can't go back in time and undo what he did. And the same is true for us. We can't unsay the words that we said in anger or in spite or in
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just without thinking.
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So how do we handle it as Christians? Well, I think the first and foremost thing we have to do is we have to humble ourselves and apologize. I think we have to go to the person that we hurt, go to the person that we said something incredibly wrong to, and let them know, hey, I was wrong on that. And that's not easy. That's the hardest thing for us as humans to do a lot of times is to admit failure and admit when we're wrong.
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Now to Trinidad Trambliss' credit, he did just that. Later on, he was asked the question in a post-game press conference about what happened and he brought it up and this is what he said. But yeah, my emotions were high after the game. I got kind of caught up in the moment with the interview. That's not who I am. So I'm deeply, deeply apologetic to, you know, Holly Rowan and everyone out there that was listening. But yeah, that's not who I am. So I'm sorry about that.
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So we take him at his word at that. I'm not here to hammer him on that. However, for him and for us as well, all the time saying sorry and being apologetic and truly being repentant, doesn't save us from some of the consequences that come from our behavior when we fall and when we mess up. That's just part of it. We're forgiven, but sometimes the consequences will linger. Maybe some people will not take Chenadat as serious anymore about his faith.
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You can say that's too judgmental and maybe it is, but he kind of opened the door to it, right? And again, I'm not trying to be hard on the young man. I'm just saying we have to be careful. We have to not let these emotions get the best of us. We have to be able to be in control or more to the point, we have to give over control to him in those situations. We're never going to get it perfect. Trinidad certainly didn't.
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But thanks be to God that if we confess our sins, He's faithful and just to forgive us of those sins.
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The Steve Marston Show continues. Thank you for being here. It's where faith and fun are both taken seriously. And on Mondays, we like to do what we call Sunday morning takeaways. This is where we go back to yesterday and the sermon that you heard and what it was about, number one, but number two, maybe what really kind of stood out to you, something that you can really take hold of to bring with you
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through the week that is ahead of you. So we'll get to your Sunday morning takeaways here in just a minute. I'll start like I always do. I happened to be this weekend in Missouri visiting my son Tyler. Now you've probably heard if you've listened to the show for any length of time, he's been on a lot. He has a YouTube channel called 1189 that is an online Bible commentary channel, meaning it's all videos of him breaking down
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every single chapter, sometimes verse by verse, of the Bible. And it truly is a phenomenal piece of work. So if you haven't checked it out, you ought to do that. But we were up there visiting him and my daughter-in-law and our grandson, who was dedicated. It was baby dedication ceremony. And if you don't do that in your church, really it's not so much dedicating the baby, even though it's called that. It's basically the parents
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being on stage and the parents committing to raising the child, knowing and love and to understand the teachings of Jesus, and then for the congregation as a whole to commit to come alongside and help in any way possible that we can with the couple and with the child to better know Jesus. So it was really fun and it was a neat thing, but the pastor there at the church
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great guy, name is Mitch. Mitch started a series on Sunday in the book of James. And I love the fact that the book of James is the way it is because so often you read Paul's writings and you see Paul talking about grace through faith alone lest anybody should boast about their works and be able to say, look at what I'm doing, this is why God really loves me. But James comes along and James says,
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Listen, I'll prove my faith to you through my works. In fact, one of the things that the pastor Mitch there pointed out was, what James challenges us as believers to do is to say, is what you're saying you believe changing your life. The things that you talk about, the things that you say I believe in when it comes to the Scriptures, has that had
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effect on your life. Can people see an absolute change not just from when you came to know Christ originally, but can they see a change in the last six months? Can they see a change in the last year or two years? Can they see you progressing and getting closer to Jesus? That's what the book of James is all about.
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He started out in chapter one talking about all of the trials and all of the temptations. And it's so much what we talk about on this program, how our faith is a mindset. We shouldn't be surprised, Pastor Mitch said, quoting James, when trials come, when hard times come. Because so often that's what happens, right? They come right out of the blue and we just, we're not ready for it and we don't expect it.
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But James is telling us, you better expect it. It's going to happen. Either you're in the middle of one now or one's coming very soon. You just need to be ready for it. It's all about being in between your ears of how you solve it and how you react to it, knowing and growing in his likeness and knowing that God is sovereign over
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all the trials and we trust while we're in those trials in his wisdom and to rely on the things that he's provided for us. And James even says knowing that when we're doing all that, we're going to receive a crown of life because of it. Keeping in mind those rewards is incredibly important as well for us to continue on through what is
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difficult and hard. So my Sunday morning takeaway, so good from that sermon again, is what you say you believe changing your life. Let's check in. I threw it out on social media. Let's see what some of you said your Sunday morning takeaways were. Allie checked in and she said, our sermon was on Romans chapter 5. What stood out to me was that God didn't say we wouldn't suffer, but
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through that suffering, he will be right there beside us and we don't have to do anything to earn God's grace. Boy, that's so good and it really dovetails with what my sermon was that I just went over. Let's see, Lisa says, he spoke about, talking about her pastor, gifts of the Holy Spirit and how the church has turned away from them. Yeah, unfortunately, I think that's happened a lot in churches where sometimes we...
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don't understand everything, so we just kind of ignore it. That's maybe not the best thing. Kim checked in. She said, Psalm 51, David's prayer of repentance. She said, what stood out to me is that when we repent, God restores us. He restores the joy of our salvation. He delivers us from the guilt and the shame our sin causes. And then Kim says, in this crazy world, no matter where we are in our walk with the Lord, He is always ready to receive our repentance.
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Praise Him. Yes indeed. It's good stuff. Roger said, there's no time like the present to be saved. So good, because that may be the one thing that the enemy is better at than all other things, is when we hear the gospel or someone hears the gospel, to say, oh yeah, that's good, man, that's right. You ought to take advantage of what Jesus is offering, but let's not do it right now. Let's just look. We've got so much other stuff.
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you want to accomplish in life and you got all these other things going on. it's just, just, just, you know, just cool the jets on that for a second there. That, that thing is so prevalent. Let's see who else? Oh, Dave Woodman, who is a legend in central Arkansas, was on television for literally 50 years with local news and sports in Little Rock. He said, the servant he heard was what to do when you don't know.
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what to do. Good stuff there. Susan said, our sermon this morning was preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the concerning and the teaching concerning the Lord Jesus with openness and unhinderedness. Acts 38, 31. She said the pastor reminded us that being heavenly minded makes us earthly good. Oh, that's so good. Because you hear the opposite of that a lot of times, right? But yeah.
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Being heavenly minded does make us earthly good. Thanks everybody for checking in with your Sunday morning takeaways. We'll do it again next week. Stay with us more on the Steve Marston show before you know it.
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Welcome back! The Steve Marston Show continues. It's where faith and fun are both taken seriously, and it's special guest time. It's time to welcome in Galen Hughes. Galen is the Missions and Growth Team pastor at a church in Benton, Arkansas. Man, welcome to the Steve Marston Show. It's great to have you here. Well, good morning. Glad to be with you, and I look forward to visiting with you. I am too. I think this will be fun because I do
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want to get around to what exactly a missions team pastor does, because I know not every church has one of those, and we'll get to that coming up. But let's first talk a little bit about you. One of the foundations of our program is being able to kind of shine a spotlight on people that are just doing their everyday life, doing the things that God has called them to do, and therefore, God is using you
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in a lot of different areas, and I love being able to introduce our audience to people like you. So let's get to know you a little bit, Galen. So how did you first come to Christ? Yes, yes. Well, I always kid around with my older sister, and we say that we were born into the Baptist Church as members of First Baptist in the Central Texas area.
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before we were born because our parents met there in the youth choir. Our grandparents were active members there and so the church life was always a part of the rhythms and routines of our family growing up. But it was in third grade through conversations with Sunday school teachers and key family members discipling me.
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that I really distinguish that difference between family religion and personal faith. seeing that a relationship with Jesus was something that I had to take ownership of myself. It wasn't anything that I could...
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lean on the heritage of others, but that I could take on that heritage on my own accord and to make personal steps towards trusting Jesus. And that led me to do so, and eventually it led into conversations about, in terms of calling and
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how the Lord may have been calling me into full-time vocational ministry. And those conversations happened around my junior and senior year in high school. And it was a specific event. I resonate a lot, talk about biblical call stories, I resonate a lot with the story of Gideon from the book of Judges, as well as Jeremiah the prophet.
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And I had a specific Gideon moment, just as he put out the fleece and was testing the Lord. I was in North Africa on mission and was invited to speak to a group of people. I knew very little of them. I didn't speak the same language.
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but I carried a gospel that spoke to them and I prayed a prayer that I say it cost me my life and inviting God to speak through me in this moment and I would never turn down another opportunity to step up and step in and to deliver a message as He would equip me to and
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And it just, it really confirmed what was already stirring in my heart. I remember my pastor at my home church sharing with me as I was just kind of dialoguing with him about what was going on in my heart, in my head. He said, if you could do anything else other than ministry, then by all means, like, let's look into options. But if this is the only thing that truly satisfy you, then you have to do it with your whole heart.
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And so again, it's all this kind of combining together, and I really intentionally love the language of surrendering to ministry because I have lots of options and aspirations, but it truly was for me a surrender moment of just giving up and saying, God, this is for you. I give you my future.
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But yeah, that led me to choosing where I wanted to go to school and starting pursuing different opportunities to be involved in full-time ministry. I want to circle back to something you said in your earlier part of your answer there, and that is because my kids have the same kind of testimony. They'll say, yeah, we've been in church nine months before we were born, you know? And that sounds like you as well. Now, I know that my kids made professions of faith
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kind of early, six, seven, eight, nine years old. And it wasn't until maybe a couple of years later that they said, you know, I didn't get it right the first time. I need to be baptized again because now I am really saved. Did you have any of those kind of things? Because I hear that a lot from kids who are brought up in church from day one.
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I didn't. I think because of the way that the concept of faith was articulated to me, I remember specific conversations with grandparents. And it hit me in different ways. From my papa, he was
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We called him the Energizer Bunny because he was in and out of the hospital all of the time, and he just kept going and kept going and kept going. And he would talk about his faith in terms of a journey, an ongoing journey that, like, every day he was making this decision to trust in God. And that allowed me as a youth
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to see it as like, this isn't a finished product, that I'm making a one-time decision and I have to understand everything completely. And so it just helped me grasp that early on of like, this is a commitment that I'm making to continue to make. And likewise with my grandparents on my dad's side of the family, like they...
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They were so steady in terms of, I mean, every Sunday, every Wednesday, they were in the building, in the church building, but it was so much more than just activity for them. And every time I interacted with them, which was a gift in and of itself that I had that opportunity, but they were so committed to walking in the ways of Christ.
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And again, it just demonstrated to me on a very practical level like this, this was a lifestyle I was choosing of who God had called me and what identity I'm accepting. Again, which is much more than just what's the family religion and what steps and routines do I need to practice. You're so blessed to be able to have that kind of lineage in those kind of footsteps to follow in because
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Not everybody has that, Yeah, yeah. And I love like, so I mean, we've many have heard that famous story about Billy Graham and his faith lineage. And, you know, it goes all the way back. These different persons that, you know, a former cobbler became a Sunday school teacher who led someone to faith, who led someone to faith and all these great evangelists. And it leads to Billy Graham. Well,
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I attach with that because of the people that spoke into my life. And my grandmother on my dad's side, she grew up in North Carolina and came to faith at a Billy Graham Evangelism Crusade. And so like that just, it's folklore story, but it's my real life story. That's awesome. Galen Hughes is our guest here on the Steve Marston show, and we're talking about his life, his testimony, and
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He serves in a church here in Arkansas as a missions pastor. And again, we're going to get to that here in just a second, but just kind of looking through your bio a little bit, I noticed that you went to Baylor University and that you were a resident chaplain. Now, what does that mean? How did that work? What does that mean? Yes, yes. So what it means is that as I was a seminary student, I had a...
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an apartment on campus and lived with 540 neighbors next me. getting to live life together. That's like ministry by a baptism of fire, isn't it? Yes, yes. Sometimes all it would take was putting a sheet of cookies in the oven and opening my door and just seeing who would wander in.
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And sometimes it'd be the, you know, 2 30 a.m. fire alarm gets pulled and you get to have intentional gospel conversations outside in the dark. That's cool. That's cool. Because I didn't realize they had that program. That's pretty neat to be able to because again, what a great place to learn ministry there with young adults that are there. Almost I don't want to say a captive audience, but they're there 24 7, you know.
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Yes, yes, yes. And it was a part of the Baylor and Truett Seminary experience that really drew me to the program and afforded great opportunities to learn about ministry in the field as I was learning about it in the classroom as well. And you mentioned earlier how Mission Trip really kind of set you on this road to
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being in full-time ministry, and it has led you now to being a missions pastor. Now, I know that not every church is large enough to have a missions pastor on staff. Let's go through that a little bit. Talk a little bit about what your role is there with your church. Yes, yes. It really is a niche position.
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that many churches do not have as a paid staff member. And I would say by best comparison, my role has been like that of a associational mission director or director of missions. Mission strategist is another title they go by these days. But for our...
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our local context, what that involves is making connections with our area ministry partners. They could be persons and groups like a Habitat for Humanity. It could be our local pregnancy resource center, know, doing some things with FCA. And a lot of those groups, they
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they're often led by captivating leaders with great vision. But they could feel constricted because they don't feel like they have the human power, the labor available to help them accomplish those goals, which sometimes can squelch their ability to dream when they are feeling overwhelmed by
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task and needs. And so, as a church, being able to come alongside them and say, let us help you dream. And we want our people to be involved with God's mission. And if you're seeing God at work in different ways and possibilities and potential for God's activity to expand and have influence, we want to mobilize our people for that.
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And so again, just lots of conversations with those local partners to see how we can help them accomplish some dreams while getting the boots on the ground and church people involved in the community. So that's a short kind of entry there. I love the fact that you are encouraging the dreams of others because I think sometimes as Christians,
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maybe don't see that as something that is God-given, but I truly believe that God puts things on our hearts, and sometimes they're so big that He can only be the one who gets the credit for it when we step out in faith and do it, but you've got to be able to do that, right? Just take that first step. And I love the fact that you're there encouraging that. Yes, yes, yeah. And, you know, from the local church side,
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The emphasis, the objective of evangelism and outreach and drawing people to the gospel of Jesus is always there. It is paramount. Yet, we can see that take place in different means and different methods than simply just how can we get
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to the neighbor to come to our church facility. To put it this way, a really helpful conversation with a local partner, they mentioned, they said, we interact and encounter lost people every day. And we want to invite your church to come and meet them. We want your church people to come and meet them and interact with them.
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And I'm sure that you would want them to come to your services, to get involved in your life groups. But if you host an event at a local church, they may have no interest in coming, but we are providing some resources for their tangible needs right now. They're flocking to us, and we just want to get them in a church. so, their genuine interest is like, we want to meet the needs of people and...
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we want them to move, take steps of discipleship. But we're not the local church. We're just a local ministry. And so they were so supportive of like, we just want to provide avenues for your congregation to get involved with lost people. Like, great. That's it. That's kind of the way the CEO drew it up, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it is different than like,
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again, you know, me simply planning an outreach, you know, evangelism event of, you know, not to say that they are wrong or can't be done well, but like, instead of me planning a block party and trying to get local neighbors to come to us, like, let's see where people are already going, and let's meet them where they are, and also be the ones to communicate the gospel to them.
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I love that so much, man. This has been such a fun conversation, Galen. We are just out of time, my friend, but thank you so much for joining us and being a part of the Steve Morrison show. It's Galen Hughes, everybody. Appreciate you so much, Thanks again for the opportunity.
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Back here on the Steve Marston Show. It's the radio show and podcast that really matters. And I'm glad that you're here. Oh, I wanted to do this before we moved on. I wanted to talk to you about an email that I got from a sweet lady named Jamelia. And she was very thankful that we were broadcasting an interview with a manual from Operation Christmas Child. And if you missed that,
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That was back on September 14th. If you want to go back and listen to the conversation that we had, it was, you'll find it there at SteveMarsdenShow.com. Just go back to the conversations tab there, click on it and it'll take you and you'll see the conversation we had. But I was really kind of curious because you don't get a lot of people by the name of Jamelia, at least in my, you know, little circle of people here in the States.
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So I wondered, well, where is she listening from? Get this, y'all. She was listening to us from Bangladesh. And she wrote back to us and saying that not only did she really enjoy the episode with Emmanuel, but she said his story was truly touching, especially how that simple shoe box made him feel known, loved, and remembered. She said, thank you again for sharing such an inspiring story from Jamilia.
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in Bangladesh of all places. That's, it's just amazing to me the day and age we live in how this little radio show can be heard literally halfway across the world. So thank you, thank you, thank you so much for listening and for writing. Okay, let's get to some stories that you may have missed. And this one has been kind of a doozy because it's got a lot of people on edge. I don't know if you've heard about
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the remakes of the Chronicles of Narnia. A lady named Greta Gerwig is coming up with this new adaptation. The first movie is going to be out. It's The Magician's Nephew, which if you know the series, it was the first book, but it was a prequel. So it came later, even though in chronological order, if you look at it, it would come first, but in reality, it kind of came.
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after the original books were released. But be that as it may, Meryl Streep, who is a tremendous actress, I don't think anybody doubts that, is going to be voicing Aslan. Which if you know the series, you know Aslan is the Jesus figure and is the big male lion. Well, in Gerwig's adaptation, it's going to be a lioness.
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And she said she was inspired from artists like David Bowie for this kind of reenactment, reimagining of the Chronicles of Narnia. She said, I wanted someone who was profound but not pretentious, who had gravitas but not morose self-awareness. She was said as her decision to casting Meryl Streep as Aslan. Someone who could communicate depth with pathos.
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as well as joy and delight. Now look, I would agree with that with Meryl Streep. I don't know that there's a better actress on this planet than her, but is she right for Aslan? I mean, that's what a lot of people are questioning right here. The Gerwin adaptation of the Magician's Nephew is also going to have Emma Mackey and Daniel Craig in it, and notably
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It's reporting to the Empire refers to Aslan as he despite the character being voiced by a woman. Gerwig's adaptation moves the timeline of the Magician's Nephew to the 1950s causing some to wonder about the impact of the storyline of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Now for Gerwig herself, she says,
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of a cosmic lion singing to the world of Nardia to life. I didn't know that I would grow up to make films, but a universe built out of music is an idea that always lived in my heart. It is an honor of a lifetime to be asked to imagine it into being because C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Nardia, I believed in magic and hidden worlds of adventure. I believed that anywhere could be enchanted and that anyone could be swept into an epic.
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That wonder and awe was available to everyone, even ordinary people like me. It transformed me. So she has a great deal of respect for C.S. Lewis. But as you might expect, there's a lot of Christians who are losing their minds over this. One commentator named John Root, who spends a lot of time on X, it's an attack on Christianity. Remember, Aslan is a type of Christ. Aslan is Lewis's supposal of Christ. In direct manner, he is...
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Christ appearing to rule over the world of the mythic. And then another pastor on X wrote, when they trans Aslan, they do so because they hate Christ. Now look, I don't know what the heart is and the intention of this is, but I know that we ought to give it a little bit of a chance, don't you think? And just kind of pump the brakes on it just a bit. Now look, on the surface, I agree. I don't know that this is a great idea, that it's going to
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be worth doing. But again, if she has that much respect for C.S. Lewis and this is kind of her way of putting her unique spin on it, then you know, it may not be my cup of tea, but it may not be all that bad. Well, let's just wait and see. Let's just chill a little bit as Christians before we just completely obliterate it and say it's the worst thing ever. It's just, I just think we ought to just...
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give it a wait and see attitude. Can we just do that, please? Can we all just agree to calm down just a little bit, take it from here down to here, and let's just wait this out and see what happens? All right, let's do it. Let's do that. All right, one other story you may have missed. Over the weekend, Wonder Project and Amazon MGM Studios announced that production began in Greece on the third and final season of House of David. The third season will conclude the biblical dramas.
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trilogy following David's transformation from an outcast shepherd to a warrior and then ultimately the king of Israel. But before David reaches the throne in season three, it will depict him as an outlaw on the run, hunted and forced into exile. David finds himself hiding among his enemies while navigating betrayal, sacrifice and consequences that accompany his calling to king. And that sounds like an interesting way to finish that season up and finish the series up.
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First two seasons of The House of David are available now on Prime Video. then you can, you know, I think actually there's a part of a little bit of part of a subscription based kind of thing going on there with the Wonder Project. And then for season three, a date has not been set yet for them to come out with exactly when it's going to start airing on Prime Video there. Okay, but.
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Lots to look forward to in the entertainment industry. And so glad that at least Hollywood is still continuing to see a need to make movies and TV shows and series designed for a Christian audience. Good stuff. Back in a minute.
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Here at the Steve Marston Show, we're serious about faith, but we love a good dad joke too. The dad joke of the day comes to us from the home office in San Marcos, Texas, and it's another classic. I ordered a chicken and an egg online. I'll let you know.
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The Steve Marston Show continues. Thank you for being here. Couple of quick housekeeping things I'd like to tell you about. Number one is our YouTube channel. We're excited about having a chance to celebrate. Once we hit the 250 subscriber mark, which I know in the grand scheme of things that sounds very small, and maybe it is, but it's a big time thing for us since we redid our complete YouTube page a while ago and now it's starting to see a little bit of the fruits of all that labor.
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So here's what we want to do. We've got a John MacArthur study Bible in calfskin. I mean, this thing is valued at like hundred and eighty bucks, something like that. It's a tremendous value, and we're going to give it away in celebration when we hit 250 subscribers on our YouTube channel. So if you haven't already, subscribe at youtube.com slash Steve Marston show. And speaking of Bibles and Bible studies, we've got a free PDF at our website that will help you.
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Learn the Bible. Help you be able to make the most out of your time in God's Word where you can open it up and rightly divide it and understand it for yourself. These are five little strategy tips that will help you. So go get it. It's free as a PDF download instantaneously when you fill out the little form stevemarsdonshow.com. So get one of those as well. I think again it will really help you. Alright, Faith Between Your Ears.
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We're going to carry over the verse from last week since we only had two shows produced last week. We're going to continue on with the same verse. Isaiah 53 verse 5, He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities, and upon Him the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His wounds we are healed. Amazing Bible verse, especially when you consider that it was written
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literally hundreds and hundreds of years, like I want to say about 800 years before Christ came to this earth, it prophesied down to almost the exact lettering of how Christ suffered for us and died for us and how he was stricken down by God himself so that we wouldn't have to face an eternity without him.
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amazing, humbling kinds of thoughts when you really dive deep and you really meditate on it. Okay, as we get ready to close up every day, what we always do is give you a little call to action, a little bit of a kind of here's what's next. So what's next for you today is to realize that yes, as Christians like we talked about in the first segment, we're going to blow it. There are going to be times when
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we just don't get it right. And that's gonna mean apologizing to people. That's gonna mean making sure that everything you can do gets done on your end to make sure an amends is made. It's tough a lot of times, but it's what we're called to do as believers. And of course, not just with our fellow travelers do we need to make it right, but we need to make it right with God Himself too. Out of time for today.
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We're back tomorrow on the radio at three o'clock. Hope you will be too. Everything else can be found at Steve Marston show.com. I'll talk to you soon. Adios.
