Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), David Parnell
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR000052C
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00:13 Welcome back!
00:14 You know I work with people, even before I got into 00:17 Ministry, I did 15 years of psych, and psych nursing. 00:20 I saw incredibly, horrendous devastation 00:26 in people's lives. 00:27 When David was talking about he had 6 children, 00:30 now 7, and they were born in these situations 00:34 where he is using, and his wife is using, 00:36 just horrendous things. 00:38 God steps in that situation, 00:40 not only with the addict, 00:41 but with the child, with the community, 00:44 with the parents, with sisters and brothers. 00:47 He says, I'm going to step in and 00:50 speak life into everyone, into everyone. 00:54 The children need to know okay now is dad safe, 00:59 is mom safe, am I safe? 01:01 God says, through the changes that will happen in 01:05 the lives of the parents, those children have 01:07 to learn those things. 01:08 Through the changes that happened with David, 01:10 learning to forgive himself, learning to socialize, 01:14 learning how to be a dad, and how to be a husband, 01:16 learning how to be a man. 01:19 Learning all that stuff, God says, I will stay with you 01:22 through all that kind of thing. 01:24 But now I want to stop all that, because God 01:25 is really good at that. 01:27 I don't even know how He does it, 01:29 sometimes He does it in an instant. 01:31 We get it and we feel loved and we can move 01:34 into those relationships. 01:35 And sometimes He doesn't, and that is where 01:37 I think the body of Christ comes in, 01:38 the church comes in. 01:39 That person then walks into the building, 01:42 and they are like little babies. 01:44 They don't know how to do anything. 01:46 They have to be mentored, they have to be loved on, 01:51 taught and all those things. 01:53 I think for churches, I just want to say out loud, 01:56 if you can hear this, it matters who we are. 01:58 It matters what the person sees 02:01 when they walk in the building. 02:02 It matters the first smile they see. 02:03 It matters the first time somebody shakes your hand 02:06 and says welcome, welcome. 02:08 If that person says, you know what, I've never been 02:11 in a church before. 02:12 I think you should just hug them right away, 02:14 hug them and say sit next to me. 02:16 Because more than likely what they are saying to you 02:19 is, I don't know anything, I feel so out of place. 02:22 I'm afraid and all those kinds of things. 02:24 I sat in a church for 10 years scared to death that if 02:27 somebody new about my life they would ask me to leave. 02:29 I'm just saying, educate yourself, be a Christian. 02:33 Find out what is your gift and how you are going to 02:36 bring people into the building, 02:38 and make them feel comfortable. 02:39 What are you going to teach in your churches and 02:41 different programs to teach an addict about anger and 02:45 forgiveness and all that kind of stuff. 02:46 And once you get it, DO IT! 02:48 Thank you for joining us and I just pray that you will 02:52 always remember that God is crazy about you and me too. 02:55 See you next time, bye! |
Revised 2014-12-17