Conversion

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“It seems like he goes from one subject to another and one topic to another. But the reality is it's a whole lot like just a conversation. James is like he's having a conversation. And just as you and I have conversations and we'll talk about something for a little while and then we'll drift over here and then we'll come back here. It's not that it's disconnected, it's just connected in different ways as we are looking at it.”

“I pray today would be a day of release. But then I pray today would be a day with a heart of concern and care, that that thing you've been talking to everybody else about, you would actually go to your brother, sister in need and you begin to have a conversation of reconciliation, a conversation of care and concern, a conversation of with gentleness and respect, all in order that they could be made right with God and made right with one another.”

“They respond and engage way better when we ask and create a conversation rather than just give them the information. And this is something that we preach to our leaders all the time is conversational, non-instructional, conversational, non-instructional. We want to be masters of the art of asking really good questions. Why? So that we can lead students to the truth rather than just tell them what it is.”

“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?”