0:00

There are some people in the neighborhood that wish,

0:02

you know, why do we need to spend money

0:04

on this and why do we need to do

0:06

all these things? But I think as we've sought

0:08

the common good, it's built a lot

0:11

of trust and it's built a lot of relationships.

0:13

It's not, we didn't do that to try to

0:15

get those, but it's just happened and

0:17

it's been really special and really neat. So

0:27

we're sort of talking about one of my favorite topics today. This

0:51

is your favorite topic? It is definitely

0:53

something you know this, I get

0:56

passionate about. Make a dent where

0:58

you're sent. It's true. And you know, a

1:00

preacher, it has to rhyme. So, you know, and we're calling it

1:03

neighboring. Yeah. And that's the

1:05

thing when you might think about making a dent where you're sent. I

1:07

think a lot of people think I need to go

1:09

on a mission trip and that's often

1:12

right away what goes in their head. And

1:14

that could happen. And God could call you to do that.

1:17

And he does often, but we often don't

1:19

think make a dent where you're sent. Where am I sent?

1:21

People ask me all the time, well, we know where you're sent. You're

1:24

a pastor, you're a missionary. Where

1:26

am I sent? You're sent right where you are

1:28

in your neighborhood. So that's why we're talking about

1:30

neighborhoods. Our mission field is many

1:32

times our neighborhood. And

1:35

so I was convicted as we

1:37

talked about this the last time. And I

1:39

know our guests don't want us to feel

1:41

convicted. They want to inspire us. So we

1:43

have Chris and Elizabeth McKinney back with us

1:45

today. You guys are great

1:48

and you're inspiring because you are

1:50

doing just what Dave said. You

1:52

are impacting and loving your neighbors,

1:54

the people around you. It's not just

1:57

they are a project to lead to Christ

1:59

because. that's as a believers, we

2:02

want to fulfill the great commission, but you're

2:04

there just to love each other. You need

2:06

them and they need you. So listen

2:09

to the last episode. If you didn't, where are

2:11

we going today? Well, you know, one of the

2:13

things you do when you start the book and

2:15

it's called neighborhoods reimagined. Yeah.

2:17

And I, and I wrote down in the

2:19

notes somewhere along the way, as a society,

2:21

we culturally broke up with our neighbors and

2:24

grabbed me because it's true.

2:27

Yeah. How'd we do

2:29

that? What's that mean? I mean, I don't

2:31

think it was intentional. And I don't think

2:33

we purposely as a culture set out to

2:35

stop interacting with our neighbors. But if you

2:37

look now, I think if you were, you

2:39

were to ask anyone, Hey, what does it

2:41

mean to be a good neighbor in most

2:44

neighborhoods across the country? I think most people

2:46

would say, well, like leave your

2:48

neighbors alone. Don't get involved in their business.

2:50

Take your trash out when it's supposed to

2:52

go out, keep your lawn up, keep the

2:54

noise down your barking dog inside. But

2:56

generally that's what it means to be a

2:58

good neighbor. We live in this culture as believers.

3:01

And if we don't realize it, we'll just

3:03

swim in those waters and be like, well, I

3:05

guess I'm being a good neighbor. I'm leaving

3:07

my neighbors alone. But what we

3:09

see in the beatitudes is Jesus inviting

3:11

us to move out of our insulated

3:14

and comfortable lives out

3:17

into people's lives, out into the

3:19

neighborhood. You can't follow

3:21

in the way of Jesus as

3:23

outlined in the beatitudes and stay

3:25

inside. Right. And Jesus didn't, I mean,

3:27

you see him, he is out there. And that's what

3:30

the beatitudes are calling us to do is get out

3:32

there. Yeah. And we sort of started yesterday, you know,

3:34

walking through the beatitudes a little bit. And by the

3:36

way, you know, when I picked up your book, I

3:39

thought I've never seen somebody

3:41

take the beatitudes and apply them to

3:43

neighboring. Yeah. Which makes

3:45

perfect sense when I was like, of course

3:47

it, but you don't read it that way.

3:49

And what you said, you know, it's sort

3:52

of like we want to be comfortable. I'll

3:54

read you the second beatitude because you have

3:56

the false beatitude, which I love. Blessed are those

3:58

who mourn for they. will be comforted, the false

4:00

beatitude, which I love how you do this. Like

4:02

here's what Jesus said, here's what we think it

4:05

means. Blessed are those who numb out,

4:07

for they will be comfortable. That's

4:10

sort of what we do in our neighborhoods. It's like I want to numb

4:12

out. I don't want to be uncomfortable. Uncomfortable

4:15

is walking over and talking to somebody I don't really know very well.

4:18

And yet Jesus calls us to that. So walk

4:20

us through what that would look like in your neighborhood. What

4:23

we learned from the beatitude that

4:25

invites us into lives of mourning

4:27

is that grief is really what

4:29

happens on the inside, on the

4:32

inside of us, when we're sad and we're

4:34

sorrowful about something that's happening. And

4:37

mourning is what happens on the outside, is

4:40

how we express it. And

4:42

we see in the Old

4:44

Testament, there's really built into

4:47

the people of God, a beautifully

4:49

structured culture of mourning.

4:52

The Israelites know how to

4:55

express on the outside what's happening on

4:57

the inside, whether it's tearing

5:00

their garments or shaving their heads

5:02

at time or wearing sackcloth and

5:04

ashes. I mean,

5:07

they kind of hold up their picket

5:09

signs and say, no, this is not

5:11

right, that this is the way things

5:14

are. I'm not okay with this. And

5:17

for us as Westerners, a

5:19

lot of times our grief is more

5:22

quiet and we don't always know

5:24

how to bring to the outside what's

5:26

happening on the inside. And

5:28

I think as we see the

5:30

brokenness of our neighborhoods and

5:32

that we're insulated and isolated

5:34

and we're lonely and we're

5:36

over scheduled and we're depressed

5:38

and we know that our

5:40

neighbors are experiencing those things

5:42

because we're experiencing those

5:44

things. And so when

5:47

Jesus invites us into lives

5:49

which mourn, we lament, we

5:51

say, I'm not okay with this.

5:56

I'm not okay with the fact that

5:58

there's this brokenness. in my

6:00

neighborhood. Yeah, and a really great way

6:02

to do that is to pray a

6:04

prayer of lament, to take a walk

6:06

in your neighborhood, and you

6:08

identify something that is not right. It

6:11

could be as simple as, we are

6:13

also independent and isolated. Nobody

6:15

knows each other in this neighborhood. And

6:17

then you identify something that's true about God,

6:19

but God, I know that you've created us

6:21

for relationships and you have the power to

6:24

connect us. You could do that. And then

6:26

you ask him to do that. You say, God, would

6:28

you please work in this neighborhood? Show me what

6:31

you want me to do. Help me find some

6:33

neighbors and we could start gathering people so that

6:35

people don't feel so alone. And

6:37

that's kind of a structured prayer of lament

6:39

that will help you mourn. And the promise

6:41

there is that you will

6:43

receive comfort. Jesus will comfort you

6:45

in that. And we don't

6:47

have to look for comfort in other things. We

6:49

don't have to numb out and not feel the

6:52

weight of some of the sad things about our

6:54

neighborhood, but that Jesus can stir that within us.

6:56

And you see Jesus doing this in his life

6:58

as well. He mourned. He didn't numb out.

7:01

He didn't isolate from the hard things of this

7:03

world. He was right there and

7:05

he let that out. And so he's inviting

7:07

us to follow in his footsteps. Yeah,

7:09

I haven't really thought through that, especially in

7:12

the Old Testament, as they're wearing

7:14

sackcloth, they're putting ashes on their

7:16

head, they're tearing their garments. I

7:19

can imagine if we saw someone do that in

7:21

our neighborhood, what are their kids thinking? But

7:24

they're saying, oh, he's mourning.

7:27

They're showing us and

7:29

it's okay. And even

7:31

a necessary and good thing to do. And

7:34

I'm thinking the other thing that you said, I thought,

7:36

oh man, what an easy way

7:38

to start this whole idea of

7:40

neighboring is walking and

7:43

praying. Yeah. You know, like I'm

7:45

thinking, oh, I could walk my call to sack, Dave, 10

7:48

times, you know, but I do walk

7:50

the neighborhood a lot and just start

7:52

praying. We did that when

7:55

we started our church in our neighborhood at

7:57

a high school. We started walking

7:59

around. the high school, we started

8:01

walking around the football field, we put

8:03

stakes in the ground begging God that

8:05

people would come to know Jesus, that

8:07

the students at the school would come

8:09

to know Jesus. And I

8:11

think there was a revival. That

8:13

prayer piece is essential as we

8:16

start looking to our neighbors and loving

8:18

them. And walking grounds you

8:20

to the place you live. So

8:22

when you're walking, you're cul-de-sac ten

8:25

times. You're saying, this is

8:27

my place. I live here. God, I

8:29

want you to be at work. It's

8:31

taking back territory. I like that.

8:33

Yeah. And we've recently started

8:36

doing some guided prayer walks with our podcast.

8:38

Because sometimes if you don't know your neighbors, it's like,

8:41

well, what do I pray? Even? And

8:43

so we've started releasing these 15 minute

8:45

guided prayer walks where you put us in

8:47

your headphones and we just kind of walk

8:49

you through prayers to pray, some different literatures.

8:52

Some of them are themed like we just

8:54

did one on new beginnings and just praying

8:56

for your neighbors and for new beginnings. But

8:59

I think prayer walking and praying is

9:01

a great place to start. I'm guessing they

9:03

have no idea, but you are praying for

9:05

them probably by name. Well,

9:07

you know their names. Yes. Yeah.

9:10

When we switched over to make neighboring our

9:12

full time focus and we wrote our first

9:14

book, Place for a Purpose, our

9:17

neighbors, they were

9:19

a part of that whole transition. I mean, they

9:21

had seen our neighborhood go from being

9:23

completely isolated to having

9:25

an actual social fabric where

9:28

we were interconnected and needed each

9:30

other and where people know

9:33

each other's names. Yeah,

9:35

it was kind of a transition. But

9:37

our neighbors also know they're not our

9:39

projects. They know who we are. They

9:43

know we need them as much or more than

9:45

they need us. Do they know that

9:47

we have ultimate motives that

9:50

they would know Christ? Yes, they know that.

9:52

But the ulterior motives

9:55

of trying to bait

9:57

and switch and try to get them to

9:59

come up to our church when

10:01

they're not spiritually interested? No, because

10:03

they've seen us bear with and

10:05

hang in there over the long

10:08

haul, even when they're not spiritually

10:10

interested. Yeah, and I'm sure have

10:12

you found situations in your neighborhood

10:14

where somebody's going through something hard,

10:16

right? And you show up. Oh,

10:18

yeah. I mean, as you build relationships with

10:21

people, hard things are going to

10:23

come up. And if there is a

10:25

level of relationship and trust, you sometimes

10:27

are invited into that. And what a

10:29

sacred and incredible opportunity

10:31

to walk alongside someone. You know,

10:33

we had a neighbor who was

10:35

going in for surgery. Elizabeth

10:38

was talking to her and offered to

10:40

drive her there and bring her

10:42

back. And Elizabeth said, Hey, could we bring you

10:44

a meal? And she said, that

10:47

would be incredible. And that no one

10:49

had ever done that for her. She doesn't

10:51

really go to church a whole lot. I

10:53

mean, the meal train, we're used to that,

10:56

right? It's life. It's part of it. But

10:58

that was not something that she had experienced.

11:00

And it just, again, reminded us again of

11:02

like, man, these things

11:04

that we take for granted in the church

11:07

are things that we need to bring into

11:09

our neighborhoods and see God use them to

11:11

bless people and to reach out

11:13

and serve. That's really sweet.

11:15

Yeah, it's interesting to think, and I know

11:17

we know this, but I don't think we

11:20

often do it when somebody's going through either

11:22

a mountaintop and they had a great

11:24

thing going on or in a valley and

11:27

a Christian neighbor shows up and

11:30

doesn't do anything but celebrate or

11:33

walk beside them. That is

11:35

preaching the gospel because they expect you to show

11:37

up and say, well, if you'd done this right,

11:39

you know, you wouldn't be under judgment. Right. You

11:42

know, which is what we're known for rather than just being

11:44

a good friend, a good neighbor. Sometimes

11:46

you have neighbors who start

11:49

expressing more of a spiritual interest when they're

11:51

going through those valleys. And

11:55

what I maybe wasn't prepared for is

11:57

that then at times when they

11:59

come out of the valley. Valley, the spiritual interest

12:01

can wane. And I've had

12:03

to just learn just how

12:06

important it is to still show

12:08

up and not pull back. If

12:10

they pull back spiritually, they're not

12:13

rejecting you. Right. And

12:15

to not give up hope. But I can

12:17

keep praying because we have the snapshot, but

12:19

God has the whole picture. And if

12:21

you pull back when they pull back, it

12:24

says to them, you were really a project. Exactly.

12:26

You weren't a friend. I wasn't interested in your

12:28

entire life. And so that's

12:30

why, yeah, we talk about those ultimate motives.

12:33

You value every single step in the process

12:36

and you match their spiritual pace. If

12:38

they're kind of getting more spiritually interested,

12:40

like a running partner, you speed up

12:42

with them. But if they're slowing down,

12:44

you don't run out ahead of them.

12:46

You slow down with them. And sometimes

12:48

you crawl. And if they're crawling or

12:50

barely taking a step, you barely take

12:52

a step with them. Chris,

12:54

as you were talking about the beatitudes

12:56

and what Jesus said and how this

12:59

applies to neighboring. One of the things

13:01

that you were saying, you like when

13:03

Jesus said, blessed are you who hunger

13:05

and thirst after righteousness. Why does that

13:07

connect with you? That was one

13:09

that, again, I just never really understood

13:12

until, you know, I

13:14

took a deeper look because what I thought on the

13:16

surface was that Jesus was saying,

13:18

blessed are you who hunger and thirst for

13:20

the righteousness of God. Like when you're justified,

13:22

you receive the righteousness of Christ. And I

13:25

was like, okay, I just don't understand what

13:27

that means. But really what I think Jesus

13:29

is saying here is it's a more of

13:31

an old Testament righteousness, which is

13:33

more of putting things right. So, so

13:35

pushing back against the effects of the

13:38

fall in this broken world, you think about,

13:40

you know, there weren't a lot of Kings

13:42

that did this in Israel's day, but Hezekiah

13:44

was described as a righteous King because he

13:46

did all of these things. He followed God's

13:49

law. He set up storehouses of food and

13:51

took care of the poor and the widowed.

13:53

And so then I was like, Oh, okay.

13:55

So Jesus is calling me to hunger and

13:57

thirst like I would after a good meal.

14:00

or when I'm really thirsty to do

14:02

good things in my neighborhood,

14:04

to do good deeds. And be

14:06

satisfied by them. Because if you think about

14:08

it, there are so many things that

14:10

we turn to in our culture, in

14:12

our lives to satisfy it, right? There's

14:15

success, there's money, vacations, and we all

14:17

know they always leave us wanting. But

14:19

I think even that God has designed

14:21

us, even our bodies, to experience kind

14:23

of the dopamine when we even do

14:26

good things. God has hardwired us to

14:28

do good things. He wants

14:30

to call us to do those good things.

14:32

Even if they're, you know, we talk about

14:34

removing the word just from your neighboring vocabulary.

14:36

It's not just a wave, just a smile,

14:38

just a little fish fry. Those are

14:40

significant ways that you can hunger and

14:42

thirst for righteousness. And Jesus promises that,

14:45

you know, now in part we'll be

14:47

satisfied and one day we'll be fully

14:49

satisfied by doing those things for the

14:51

rest of eternity. There are mommy bombs.

14:53

That's right. Like I

14:55

said, we're wanna be foodies and there's this

14:57

thing in food called umami. It's the savory

15:00

flavor. What's it called? It's the thick flavor.

15:02

So you have like sweetness, you know, tart,

15:04

or sweet, bitter. Salty. Salty.

15:08

So umami is the savory. And

15:10

so foods like mushrooms, cheeses,

15:12

some of the meats, truffles, black

15:14

garlic, bring this savory flavor to

15:17

your dishes and you can have

15:19

what they call umami bombs. When

15:22

you do, let's say like a

15:24

mushroom risotto with Parmesan cheese and

15:26

black truffles, they all come together

15:28

in this synergy. It's eight

15:30

times the flavor. Eight times the flavor.

15:32

This makes me hungry. Really? And

15:35

so I think when we pair our

15:37

good deeds with the good news, there

15:40

is a umami kind of

15:42

synergy there where if we're showing up and

15:44

we're serving, we're helping, we're seeking the common

15:46

good of the neighborhood, then when we start

15:48

talking about our faith in Jesus, those

15:51

things pair together and it's a

15:53

kingdom explosion potentially, right? I like

15:55

that word picture. Right? Everybody

15:58

usually has a neighbor. They don't. like. Yeah. It's just

16:01

a hard neighbor and hopefully we're

16:03

not that neighbor. If you don't have

16:05

one, it's probably you but I think

16:07

I've heard this before. I mean, there is one

16:10

neighbor. She was

16:12

just dreaming every time she's

16:14

like talking for an hour. You know, I've

16:16

got kids and I like and I think

16:19

I've shared this. This is so embarrassing. She'd

16:21

come over all the time but I saw her come

16:24

over. I just dropped to the floor. Drop to the

16:26

floor. She's down. Get down. Because there's some windows at

16:28

the top and so I'm laying on the floor. I'm

16:30

hiding. You know, it's good of neighbors. I

16:32

love it. So like

16:34

embarrassed to say that. Okay. What about

16:36

if people feel like that? I don't

16:39

like they just bug me or they

16:41

drain me or they're just mean. You

16:43

can have four daughters like we had

16:45

three boys. They're in the neighbor's yard

16:47

and you know, we're probably

16:49

the annoying neighbor. So what do you

16:51

do when that happens? Years ago,

16:53

I remember Jane who was a

16:55

mentor for me. She would say

16:57

if your yes isn't out of

17:00

love, it's out of compulsion and

17:02

so I try to have my

17:04

yes be out of love

17:07

and not out of compulsion. So

17:09

if I have my groceries which

17:12

I often do and I

17:14

have kids I need to get inside, I don't

17:18

feel like I have to out

17:20

of compulsion engage in

17:22

some long conversation. I can say hey,

17:25

I gotta get inside. Let's touch base later.

17:27

So there's there's that

17:29

piece. I think when you're talking about

17:31

neighbors that we don't

17:33

like and this is where

17:36

we name names. No, we changed all.

17:39

We mentioned that but

17:43

in the last chapter counting the

17:46

cost, we really dive into the

17:49

the beatitude that invites us into lives

17:52

of flourishing through persecution

17:55

and in that beatitude, we were

17:57

really reminded Sometimes I forget

17:59

when I. Read passages about having enemy

18:01

is like why not has enemy is

18:03

There's no one in our neighborhood that

18:06

I really hate, but at the same

18:08

time. There are unseen

18:10

enemy is in our neighborhoods and

18:12

their their spiritual activity that happens,

18:15

Band Aids and in the wings.

18:17

There's a couple in particular who

18:19

I think of who they're a

18:21

little adversarial, And. They're

18:23

kind of hostile in a

18:25

sense. I think they know

18:27

where believers and I try

18:30

to remember. That they're

18:32

not my enemy. Yeah, they're

18:34

not. And also I think

18:36

of Paul, who. Was

18:39

initially a persecutor and then he

18:41

became the persecuted when guide changed

18:43

his life and I think okay.

18:46

This. Neighbor is gonna snobby and snippy

18:48

and they get going on the

18:50

facebook page and they're just kind

18:52

as you know. think they're a

18:54

hot shot. That

18:56

person guide to get a hold of

18:58

their life too. Flick got a hold

19:00

of my my ass. I don't know

19:02

the full story there so that helps

19:04

me remember I don't wanna fly under

19:06

the radar, I don't wanna hide my

19:09

face. But. I can love

19:11

am I can pray for them to the says

19:13

love your enemies Pray for those who persecute. You

19:15

view good to those they are first

19:17

to keep you hoof. And it

19:19

might not be this persecutes. I

19:21

mean we talk about our lives

19:23

do need to be informed by.

19:25

The persecution that some of our brothers

19:28

and sisters. Face. Around the

19:30

world. but it could also be

19:32

a marginalization or to i'm even

19:34

our kids trying to live out

19:36

their face in middle school. Yeah,

19:38

there's some marginalization when you kind

19:40

of stand up for your faith.

19:42

Or. speak out about christ

19:44

that's real and i think jesus

19:46

it makes it clear to were

19:48

persecuted are marginalized not because were

19:50

jerks or because of her politics

19:52

or because of our strong opinions

19:54

it's because of him he and

19:56

his because of righteousness so he

19:59

if we're experience seeing kind of

20:01

marginalization and it's not because we're

20:03

talking about our faith and it's

20:05

probably not persecution in the

20:07

sense that Jesus is talking about it. And so

20:09

I think that's also an important thing to remember.

20:11

Have you guys experienced some of that? I mean,

20:13

I'm guessing in your neighborhood, you're sort of known

20:16

as, I don't know, you tell me. Party

20:19

people. Party people. Is that what it is?

20:22

Yeah. Yeah. You've developed

20:24

a reputation, which is awesome. That is awesome. Yeah.

20:27

It looks different for everyone. Yeah. You're

20:29

the party people with a purpose. Yeah. Place

20:32

of purpose. Yes. Does that ever

20:34

become your next book? Party people with a

20:36

purpose. So many P's. So many P's. I

20:39

love that. Party with a purpose. If

20:41

you don't write it, we will. Is

20:46

there any negative to that? Are there people

20:48

like, yeah, they're the, they're that couple.

20:50

There are some people in the neighborhood that

20:52

wish, you know, why do we need to

20:54

spend money on this? And why do we

20:56

need to do all these things? But I

20:58

think generally overall, people appreciate the work we

21:00

do to try to help. You know, we're

21:02

not doing it all on our own. We

21:05

are inviting the whole neighborhood to participate in

21:07

pulling off these events and doing

21:09

things. And I think as we've sought the

21:11

common good, it's built a lot of trust

21:13

and it's built a lot of relationships. It's

21:15

not, we didn't do that to try to

21:17

get those, but it's just happened and

21:20

it's been really special and really neat. One

21:22

of my favorite events that we ever did was

21:24

an Arbor Day party, which Chris initially told me

21:27

I would have as much luck getting people to

21:29

my Arbor Day party. I was going to say,

21:31

what? Yeah. He was

21:33

like, this is like inviting people to an encyclopedia.

21:35

And I was like, no,

21:38

I love trees. We

21:41

had moved into a neighborhood, our

21:43

neighborhood where we still live that was

21:45

new and it was treeless. And

21:48

we had three spindly little sticks

21:50

and he would call me a

21:52

pacing lioness. I would just march

21:54

through our little living room thinking,

21:56

how can I get trees? And

21:59

so. I set out

22:01

to do an Arbor Day party

22:03

and we partnered with the Missouri

22:05

Department of Conservation and

22:08

you can order trees in bundles

22:10

for pennies. And so we

22:12

had neighbors. Little bare root

22:14

sapling, little guys. So we planted as

22:17

a neighborhood 345 trees in our neighborhood. Come

22:22

on. And we had tree bingo and

22:25

tree planting. Tree planting. Yeah.

22:27

Oh yeah. All the kind of

22:30

Earth Day references, but it was super fun.

22:32

And so I think our neighbors could see,

22:34

wow, they care about

22:37

some of the same thing. They care about trees. Yeah.

22:41

They care about our neighborhood in a sense of

22:44

even increasing our property values.

22:46

Like one of the reasons

22:48

why we were able to

22:51

plan so many block parties was

22:53

because our homeowners association, the former

22:56

president had lived in a neighborhood

22:59

where they had seen their property

23:01

values go way up when they

23:03

started having some of these social events.

23:05

And so it was important

23:07

for our neighbors to see that we

23:10

care about things that not

23:12

just what we would consider spiritual. Okay.

23:14

So what's your application, Dave?

23:17

I mean, my first thought was be inconvenient.

23:22

And what I mean by that is often to love my

23:24

neighbor and literally in our cul-de-sac

23:26

or down the street, it's

23:28

usually inconvenient. It isn't something

23:31

that's not, I mean, it could be natural. I walk out

23:33

to the mailbox. They're there. What do I

23:35

normally do? Go back to the garage and go in

23:37

the house. So you're embracing the inconvenience. Yeah. And

23:40

walk across for us a couple of steps and

23:42

say, Hey, Dean, what's happening? I mean, the

23:44

other day I've shared this last summer, I

23:46

was mowing the yard and Dean

23:48

was standing out there and we'd had him, him and

23:50

Nancy in a Bible study. And that

23:52

interest sort of waned and it's been like

23:55

a decade and he's sort of standing watching

23:57

me mow and

23:59

everything in me. Like I should turn off the

24:01

mower and talk to d Any sort of look

24:03

at me than I am I going to get

24:05

this done. I want to get done by this

24:07

time as I have a i'm coming back to

24:10

him and he started to walk. When I turn

24:12

off the more. Hey. What's

24:14

up and we are the spirit of

24:16

conversation while real interest. Around

24:18

submit seen on Tv about religion. He

24:21

knows I'm a pastor guy. certain. Handy

24:23

for he wasn't interested. Yeah anyway it

24:25

well enough it took me fifteen more

24:27

minutes while to do. The yards in

24:29

a would have a by and zoc

24:31

the dean but his started something cousin.

24:33

A week later he meets his mailbox.

24:35

He says I have a bible. Did.

24:38

You get me a bible that's so cool

24:40

of I've I have I can understand or

24:42

the royal ways you can read it. they're

24:44

better. M I T is on a real

24:47

journey young but they're still part. I'm his

24:49

legs. Ah this is what does it is

24:51

still my hundred. So for me it's like

24:53

to the intermediate things like the time. And.

24:56

Love your neighbor wherever you. Atlanta,

24:58

Have our new neighbors over. We travel a

25:00

lot, zoo or not. always home. that's very

25:02

young couple. This and sign of the haven't

25:05

lived shared lawns and they have a one

25:07

year old so I'd love to have them

25:09

over. We've taken them food bets. I feel

25:11

like were always so busy and. Yeah,

25:14

I wanted to. the I would just say

25:16

this Mckinney's you Guys inspires me Undies does.

25:18

But our listeners our say this to our

25:21

listeners. their pride think I'm. I.

25:23

Want to be the party with a purpose people? Analyzers

25:26

to see. A

25:29

lot of as we don't know really and

25:31

I'm didn't know Bobby and Bar but you

25:33

guys have created a it's almost like an

25:35

adventure. To live in

25:37

your neighborhood as I don't is live there. How

25:40

could you really love your neighbors and your books?

25:42

Gonna help people? So here's where as do few

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25:55

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25:58

opinion you guys road as so hopeful this

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is what you were hoping. It gives you a vision,

26:02

but also gives you a strategy. It isn't just

26:05

big picture, God wants you to love your neighbors.

26:07

It's like, how? Well, here's some really easy

26:10

yet creative ways to do that. And

26:13

so man, you give monthly, by the way,

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26:25

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26:28

for all you're doing. Thank you guys. Thank you.

26:30

The party with the purpose. I'm

26:47

Shelby Abbott. You've been listening to David

26:50

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