March 31, 2025 • 29 mins
On today's episode, we dive into the powerful impact of hosting Q&A nights for faith communities, exploring how they create spaces for honest questions about Christianity, relationships, and theology. Pastor Ben joins Pastor Trent on this week's episode, tune in to hear more!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
we really gotta find a way to make that louder,
because I always have to turnthat all the way up, but
everything else, but I alreadylike made it as loud as possible
in the thing.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Oh, we started oh sorry everybody, I'll get to
work on it all right, thank you,you didn't say that until after
I say we started.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, hey everybody, I've got Kara in the podcast
studio, the usual meaning themedia assistant.
Media director research podcastassistant person.
Kara Singleton.
Assistant to the podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Who's Kara Singleton I?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
don't know.
I made a big mistake.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't know her.
All right guys, I whoa whoa,who's Kara Singleton?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I made a big mistake, I don't know her.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
All right, guys, I'll see myself out Bye, have a
great time Just kidding.
But Kara Smith, mrs Smith.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There's a Mr and Mrs Smith.
Yeah, there's a lot of Mr andMrs Smith's in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And then we got Ben on the podcast.
Do you hear his voice?
What?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
up Benjamin Blanc.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You know, I usually have to turn Bob up just a tiny
bit, because what are you doinghere?
Oh, just kidding.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Because I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
There we go, but I usually turn Bob up just a
little bit because he stayspretty far away from the mic.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But you stay close to the mic, we're right here.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Hey, how's the week been y'all?
Has it been good for you?
It's been chilling.
How do you think it's been forour listeners?
Great, I think so.
Potentially bad though Springbreak was last week, so the days
back to work after spring break, they're not as fun typically.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Did you guys do anything fun over spring break?
How many people that workactually have a spring break?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I don't know.
They may take time off becausetheir kids are out of school.
Did you do anything fun overspring break, Ben?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Would college spring break or high school spring
break?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
No, I mean like this past week, last week.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
That would be this past week.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That was spring break , Uh-huh yeah according to Trent
, you did do something.
I know you did, so what'd youdo last week?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You had to have done something.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Oh, I mean, technically, this is how this
feels it was not because it wasspring break, okay, great.
What'd you do for spring break?
Well, break.
What did you do this pastweekend?
This past weekend, madison hada bachelorette trip that she had
to go on, which was awesome,but Annie is not bottle feeding
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at all, so your boy got to go toVirginia.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
For like three days, two days, just to hang out and
feed.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Annie.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, I wasn't feeding Annie, but hanging out
with Annie, yes, Okay, gotcha.
Well fun.
We had some good times.
We sat in some grass, walkedaround.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
How was the weather Great?
It was supposed to be cold.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
But it was like mid-40s but felt like the 60s.
Oh rate Cool.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It was a wonderful good time.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
What did you do, Kara ?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It was Lane's birthday.
We went to the beach, oh fun.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh, and apparently none of our members of the
collective know anything aboutsunscreen.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yes, we did all return very burnt and very red.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I was in Tennessee.
It was cold the beginning ofthe week and the end of the week
.
We tried to buy a house, got ina bidding war, apparently lost
the bidding war.
It's okay.
Our realtor right now should becurrently walking through their
house videoing it for us.
It's exciting, Bob moved.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
They did move.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
yes, you can just live in the Square Dancing
Center.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yes, no, there's toilets there there'll be a lot
of dancers throughout the week,so we only have it on sundays,
um, but it was a good week.
We went up and cleaned out thesquare dancing center.
We replaced, um, all thecleaning supplies with new
cleaning supplies which was goodand necessary and, uh, we
cleaned it out, set it up likeit's gonna be, so it's great
does for the church point.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
This is a legit question.
Okay.
Does bleach get better theolder it is Like.
Does it like?
Does it ferment?
Yeah?
I don't think so Does bleachbecome alcohol at some point is
my question.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, I think it's already some sort of you know.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, but it's like a low level.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I don't know that it gets worse.
I don't know, does bleachferment or does it change?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
with age?
Does it get better with time?
Is it?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
like cheese.
Well, Ashley's looking that up.
I do have a fact of the day foryou.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Fact of the day.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
if you.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, did you know that if you live to be 84 years
old, you've spent roughly 28years sleeping?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That's nuts.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's wild.
How do you?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
even count, I guess you just average eight hours a
night.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, seven hours probably a night over time.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
That is older than me 28 years of sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Which brings me to my next question Do you need to
buy a new mattress?
We are sponsored by MattressFarm.
Just kidding, we're notsponsored at all, but that's
wild.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Pause for an ad break Pause for an ad break.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That's wild.
That is wild.
Yeah, you know what?
Let's talk theologically forjust a moment.
I'm going to talk theologicallyabout the fact of the day.
Why do we sleep?
Well, it's to remind ourselvesthat we're not in control of
everything.
We have to rest.
The Lord does not have to.
That's good.
Boom, I tell Judah every night,every night, the last thing I
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say to him.
Well, sometimes I say go backto bed, go to sleep, judah.
The last thing I say to him iswe can sleep.
And he responds because theLord doesn't.
That's good.
And then he comes up to getsome extra water or something
like that.
I'm like, dude, you alreadyhave a bottle of water in your
room.
Go back to bed.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, but then he pulls the fast one.
He's like well, dad, you tellme to be like Christ every day,
and if he doesn't sleep, I'mjust not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
He probably is listening to this, because my
wife does listen to this in thecar when my kids say hey, Judah.
Shout out, Judah hey.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Drew, hey Katie.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Did you know?
If you're seven feet tall, youhave a one in six chance of
landing in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I could have been in the NBA.
No you can't.
I'm one seven feet tall, ifyou're seven foot tall, one in
six chance.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So if you're seven foot, I mean, might as well
still play basketball.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, you got a good chance of making a lot of money.
If you can't walk through doorsnormally, try to dunk a ball.
See what?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
happens.
Maybe you can be a millionaire.
Well, you have to be good to dothat.
Jess went to a.
Well, yeah, but you have a onein six chance, right?
So you just got to be betterthan the other six.
No, no, you got to be betterthan the other six to get in the
NBA, and then you have to bebetter than everyone else to get
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the lowest salary in the NBA isprobably still so high now.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
oh yeah, there's like there's like what's the lowest
salary for a, an active player,not on like a practice squad?
No, there's like two-waycontracts that they they play in
the NBA and in the G League andthey make like 50 bucks.
That's not the right number,but it's.
It's a lot, jess.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Jess is from a very town and she had a
seven-foot-tall basketballplayer 1.1 million.
Yeah, come on, man Millionaire,Look at there.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Also bleach, gets worse over time.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Worse Like less effective.
Yeah, what Losing its?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
effectiveness as the sodium hypochlorite compound
degrades, becoming lesseffective for cleaning and
disinfecting.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, so here's what we're going to do.
I was actually thinking aboutthe ribonucleic acid or whatever
you said.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yep, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Here we go.
I want you, ben, to blind rankcharacters based on how good
they'd be at soccer.
So there are six that I havethat you have not seen.
You just can't tell them whatI'm going to tell them in that
order.
So there are six characters andyou have to put them in a spot
on how good they'd be at soccer,one being the best, six being
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the worst.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Blind ranking Blind ranking.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Here we go, your first character, drum roll
Spongebob.
One out of six, four, okay, Ithink that's, like you know,
kind of middle but a little bitworse than middle.
That's a good first.
Spongebob Charlie Brown six sixthe worst because he, because
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he misses the football.
But he only misses the footballbecause Snoopy moves the
football not Snoopy who hissister?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
oh, lucy, yeah, but because Snoopy moves the
football, not Snoopy who Hissister.
Oh, lucy, oh yeah, yeah, butthe ball's not standing still in
soccer.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
He's going to miss that thing.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
All right, I think you're not going to put him as
number six.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I just did.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Lord Farquaad.
Lord Farquaad is the king intrack.
He's like two foot tall,scrappy.
Oh, scrappy, scrappy.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I wouldn't say Scrappy, no, he's Scrappy, I
would say he's aggressive,pompous, aggressive, arrogant,
scrappy he's going two, two,he's going two.
He'll be up top in a 4-4-2.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Okay, we need to write this down.
Can you write this down?
Okay, we've got.
Spongebob is four, charlieBrown is six, lord Farquaad is
two.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, because pair him with like a six footer and
you're living life, you'reliving dreams.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
All right, spider-man .
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Spider-Man.
I've got three five three, fiveand one left.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Three, one, three and five.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
One, three and five.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Spider-Man.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Spider-Man's at the one.
Spider-man, spider-man's top.
He put it there, yep, he'sprobably the best place.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Then we got Yoda.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yoda number three.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yoda Okay Number three.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Mind controlling goalie.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay, and then number what will be number five?
Captain Jack Sparrow, that'shonestly, I think that's a good
spot for him.
That's a good number five.
That's a good spot for him.
He kind of topples, moves.
His hands are out wide.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
He might have had a blast, a handball all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, yeah, captain Jack Sparrow, that's good,
that's fun.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I think there's a picture of Lord Farquaad that
one needs to be changed, I thinkyou should have had, yoda
should be two and then you putLord Farquaad as five.
I don't think Yoda would begood at.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
He's definitely number two.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I don't think Yoda would be good at soccer, but he
would be good in goal Becausehe's got the mind tricks.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The right answer should be, he's got the force.
I think Spider-Man and thenYoda Mm-mm, or maybe Yoda and
then Spider-Man, no, Spider-ManYoda.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
No, spidey's out wide left winger, right footed Jack.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Sparrow Charlie Brown .
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Cutting in from the flanks, spongebob and Lord
Farkland Waiting at Top.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Corner, I think Lord, actually SpongeBob's probably
last Lord Farkland.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
No, Charlie Brown is 100% last.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
All right.
Well, hey, here's what I wantto talk about A very light topic
.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I want us to talk about Q&A nights, the dichotomy
of revelation.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
What is a Q&A?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
night?
That's a good question.
Yeah, A Q&A night is a nightthat we host Primarily.
We have hosted them for youngadults, where they can come in
and ask any question that theywant about Christianity,
relationships, the Bible.
I mean relationships through abiblical worldview, the Bible,
theology, what they've heardabout Christianity, the church,
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theology, what they've heardabout Christianity, the church.
They can ask those questionsanonymously and on the spot.
Pastors or ministry leaderswill answer their questions,
like in a panel format.
So we dedicate about an hourjust to letting them ask
whatever question they wouldlike.
That's good and nice.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Anything you want to add to that.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, I mean it's— Not why.
Why don't answer?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
yeah, yeah uh, recently, as of this past
semester, we have transformedthem to barbecue and a nights
barbecue.
What was that?
Barbecue and a night?
No, no, one more time.
What was that barbecue and anights?
Wow, good stuff because, like,who doesn't want to get together
and eat and get some questionsasked and barbecue just fits
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great with barbecue and a likecome on.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Whose idea was this, anne's?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That was Anne's.
Yes, shout out, anne.
Good idea who is going withTrenton to Tennessee?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
If you would like to go to Tennessee, please email
Trent at fbcorg fbctampaorg ishow our emails work.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Or you could email Trent at redeemercitychurch Ooh,
he's got an email everybody.
There it is.
Hey, that was fun.
So barbecue and ice.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So you get barbecue catered?
Yes, just order some barbecue.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Let them eat ice.
So you get barbecue catered.
Yes, just order some barbecue,let them eat it.
I'm a big barbecue fan.
I couldn't care less aboutbarbecue, if I'm being honest.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Where I grew up was right in between Memphis and
Kansas City.
Kansas City beats Memphis.
Memphis is also good, butKansas City is the best.
What's the difference?
Just they taste different.
I think Kansas City's moretomato sauce.
Burnt ends are really big atKansas City, but I'm not a burnt
end fan Brisket is moreTexas-ish.
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North Carolina barbecue's likevinegary yeah no, no, don't like
that, so Memphis sometimes hasa mustard-ish taste, whereas
Kansas City has more of a like atomato-ish taste, whereas
Kansas City has more of atomato-ish, ketchup-ish kind of
base.
I like Kansas City better themustard, no, the more ketchup,
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the tomato, tomato-ish taste.
But I like dry rub ribs.
Yeah, so Kansas City dry ribsmy favorite.
But I will say this there's nota ton of really good barbecue
in Tampa, sorry Tampa, butMighty Quinn's on Dale Mabry
really good, really goodbarbecue.
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Cool, their brisket is justchef's kiss Very good, okay.
So how do we do Q&A nights?
Well, I'd heard about doing aQ&A type of thing from another
ministry leader named Kosti Hinn, who was doing it after their
youth ministries, and what theydid was they set up a Google
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form and put on that Google formthat anyone could type in an
anonymous question.
That Google Form is linked to aGoogle Sheet, it's all free and
that Google Sheet will receivethat query, that question, in
real time.
Query, nice.
You type it in, you press enter, it's on a website you can
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share, press enter and it goesdirectly to a Google Sheet which
is private.
So, public Google Form, googleForm to a private Google Sheet,
correct?
So on that Google Sheet, wehave an iPad that has Google
Sheets on it and so when someonegoes to that website, the
Google Form, and types in theirquestion, it'll go directly to
that Google Sheet.
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As long as you have Wi-Fi, itpops up in real time, or if you
have obviously like a phone thatdoesn't need Wi-Fi, so someone
in the crowd can type it in andit comes up on the iPad.
Additionally, we create a QRcode that will take you directly
to that Google.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Form, so all they have to do is scan a QR code on
the screening type in theirquestion on their phone and it
goes directly to an ipad on thestage.
Yes, anonymously.
We have no idea who asks and we, we normally make it available
the week or so before, so theythey have any questions
throughout the week to throw onthere.
Uh, most of the time I feellike we get like maybe three of
those and then like 85 on thenight.
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Um, which makes sense, becausethey're sitting there thinking
like, oh, maybe I should ask aquestion since I'm here.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
We're able to get through like 12 to 15 questions,
probably on average.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It depends on the questions.
Yeah, because I would say thatwe hit on more than that, but
that's because there'soverlapping questions, so like
we probably hit like 30 of them,but 10 of them were the same
question.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
What are some of the questions we've been asked?
Oh, geez A lot.
What are some questions?
Kara Participate here.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I am, I'm thinking, I am participating.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
What are some of the questions that we get asked?
So some fun questions.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
We always get asked some questions about
predestination, I've noticed,and questions just about like
living the Christian life, solike relationships oh sorry
Prayer and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So usually there's questions pertaining to
relationships, usually aboutsome kind of predestination,
god's work in sovereignty,questions about assurance of
salvation.
How can I know that I know?
Questions like age-oldapologetics, questions like what
about the man on the islandwho's never heard?
Or why does good things happento bad people?
Or why is there suffering?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
or evil in the world?
Or should I date thisnon-believer if they're really
cute, yeah relationshipquestions.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sometimes there's like uniqueRelationship questions yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, how did you?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Sometimes there's like unique random revelation
questions.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Like hey.
Revelation 11 says that there'sfour angels at the four corners
of the earth.
Does that mean the earth isflat and you're just like no?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That was a legitimate question.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That was a question I asked like two or three years
ago.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah.
Questions like how did you guysget into ministry?
What made you want to get intoministry Favorite?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Bible verse and why?
Yeah, what's the first bookthat you'd recommend to a new
believer to read alongside ofthem?
How do you study your Bible?
Yeah, Any other commonquestions that come through?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Assurance of faith relationship questions
sovereignty of God questionsEvangelism, and like how to
share my faith with this familymember or LGBTQ plus issues.
Yeah, just like questions aboutour culture.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, how to engage the culture?
How does the Bible speak to thethings going on in our culture?
Yeah, yeah.
So why do we do this?
Well, I gave three reasons andjust add to these if you want to
.
Why do we do this?
Well, I gave three reasons andjust add to these, if you want
to.
Why do we do Q&A nights?
Well, because we want people toknow that their questions are
welcome, that people have realquestions and there are real
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answers in the Scriptures.
God created the world and healso wrote a book about the
world.
He created the reason why hecreated it and what he, of
course, thinks is best for thosehe created within that world,
what he's done for those hecreated in the world, and so we
want to bring those questionsthey have to light.
We want to be extremelyapplicable, and so let them ask
questions, letting them knowskeptics are welcome.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, questions are good.
I think people at least.
What I've ran into recently isthat people get confused between
having questions andquestioning God, because some
people feel a certain way abouthaving questions about things
and like, oh, if I havequestions, am I questioning God?
Am I not truly saved, like itsays, if I'm questioning these
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things?
And so you can have questions,like you just have to be happy
with whatever answer is given,Not from us, but from Scripture.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, the apostles had questions.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Right, yeah, questions are not bad Questions.
Are you finding out moreinformation?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
The second thing.
Second reason we want to modelanswering questions with the
Scripture.
So we want to model how to dobiblical apologetics.
So maybe they have a questionabout assurance of faith.
Well, first John would be agood book to read, right?
What does it look like to havepractical faith, like the book
of first John?
What if they have questionsabout how the old Testament
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relates to the new, especiallythe sacrificial system?
The book of Hebrews.
What about Israel and thechurch and sin and salvation and
all of what God's doing?
The book of Romans, right?
So we want to help themcategorically think okay, how
does the Bible answer thesequestions?
Model that.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah, a third thing.
Well, I mean it's just to showthat it's possible, but also to
almost give them answers forthings, because I bet some, if
not most, of the questions thatare being asked are not
questions that maybe theyspecifically have.
It could be questions thatthey've been faced with in
attempting to talk to people.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, when we're giving answers, we're not saying
I think this.
We're trying to tie what we sayto the standard of the truth,
the text of Scripture.
So we're practicing biblicalapologetics.
Well, this is what 2 Timothysays, this is what 1 Peter says.
This is what Jude says.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, it's not our thoughts, it's our words from
scripture.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Our words aren't in scripture but you know.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So real questions.
That's the first reason,because skeptics are welcome.
Second reason we want to modelbiblical apologetics.
The third we want to modelcharity on non-essentials, or we
want to show that goodChristians can disagree in good
ways.
You can disagree with aChristian and still be a
Christian on a number of thingsnot everything.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
A lot of things, most things.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Most things.
So maybe kind of showing sometheological triage, here's some
things that you should die forthe exclusivity of Christ, the
Trinity, the inspiration ofscripture that God has spoken in
his word.
Those are things thatChristians have died for.
And there's things that havedivided Christians over the
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years paedo-baptism,credo-baptism, certain you know
church governance because youmight go to a different church
based upon governance, carpetcolor.
Well, it shouldn't divide us.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It has, but it has unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
And then the third category.
So die for divide over debatewith other Christians.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
So that would be, maybe, the Holy Spirit's role in
giving certain supernaturalgifts.
Cessationist versuscontinuationist, different ways
of understanding the sovereigntyof God, arminianism or
Calvinism.
Baptists have historicallydisagreed on both those things.
Baptists have also historicallydisagreed on how to interpret
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the book of Revelation in theend times.
These are things that we candebate about and still be
believers If you debate in theright way.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Of course, my view is always the right view on those
things.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Trent.
Well, here's the thing.
Here's how opinions work, right?
You believe yourself to beright on that issue, right?
So if you have an opinion,that's.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Would you say that's your truth, Trent?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I would not say that truth changes.
I would just say I'm the best,I'm just kidding, I'm kidding,
I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'mkidding, of course.
So we want to model charityright, these are things that you
can disagree upon and stillremain Christians, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
There was one, do you remember that?
So that was very interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
We had a number of people attending that night who
were Catholic, practicingCatholics, that's cool.
Questions on Mary and thechurch, the 1-2 church, that
kind of thing, yeah, what is thetwo-fold promise?
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So, um, this is something Itook from another pastor.
Uh, so on these q a nights Itry to kind of and in the past I
try to advertise them to say,hey, we want you to bring
unbelieving friends here.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yes, bring your friends.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It's an outreach.
We can promise two things, orwe'll try to hold to this
two-fold promise.
Right, you do not need toqualify on the way in.
That means, hey, just so youknow they might say this and
that's a little off color orsurprising or whatever, and then
there's no apologies needed onthe way home.
So hey, I can't believe theystarted talking about this
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random political thing and gotso angry about it or whatever it
might be.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
We're not going to condemn you to hell, but we'll
say scripture.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, and we always just say, hey, no qualification,
no apologies, and you shouldn'tapologize for what's true.
So, where we speak the and youshouldn't apologize for what's
true.
So where we speak thescriptures, don't apologize,
right?
So we try to keep that two-foldpromise no qualification the
way in, no apology, the way home.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I love the Q&A nights .
I think the collective reallyloves them too.
It's just a good night for themto sit down and not hear a, Not
that.
Hearing a sermon all the timeis bad but it gets a little
different of a break and alittle bit more playful
sometimes with questions andanswers and here's more hear
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more opinions and stuff likethat.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
So I think it's been great.
Kara's been the moderator anumber of times, yeah, and the
one thing that I've told you,kara, and maybe you can speak to
being a moderator, is noquestions are off limits, but if
they're overly specific or it'snot really going to help
everybody and it might tell toomuch about the person asking the
question, don't ask that one.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
You do a good job, Kara.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I try to lump some questions together so if two
people have questions aboutdating a nonbeliever or
something, then I might mentiona little bit of each of the
questions and then just send itto you guys, because usually you
guys can give a more broadanswer that speaks kind of like
as an overarching answer to bothquestions.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
In case you're wondering, the answer to that is
no.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Don't do it we have in the past because it's on
Google Sheets.
You can like shade in the text.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah, you can put different colors.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Sometimes shade it in green or red, green, meaning
you should ask this question,kara Red, if we did this
beforehand, Right.
Red meaning.
This is probably an unhelpfulquestion to ask in this space,
and sometimes it's one that wemay feel unprepared for, or one
that, just using some pastoralsensibilities, it may not be a
good idea to open this can ofworms because of some people in
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the room.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Yeah, or it's like I felt this specific thing
happened to me this Tuesday lastyear and explain it to me.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, usually you guys will hang around a little
bit afterwards if anyone wantsto come directly to you and ask
you a question.
Yeah, that's more personal, so.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, or if it just didn't get asked that night, or
something.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And people can ask as many questions as they want and
keep typing in differentquestions.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah, and we even say want to ask someone
specifically who's on stage aquestion.
You could write that in thereand make that a thing.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I think we're going to have a little bit more of
that, uh, uh, next next week,next week, uh, with Olivia on
stage, just to get some specificquestions for her going.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Olivia, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Live, anything else.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
No, well, so one one.
I guess one thing in closing issomething that I love about the
Q&A is that it's it gives theopportunity for people to ask
the questions.
I'm realizing now that most ofthe Q&A will have very similar,
if not the same exact questions,which isn't a bad thing,
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because college ministry is sofluid from semester to semester.
One semester you have a biggroup who never has Tuesday
night class, and then the nextsemester half of those people
might have a Tuesday night classand other people might not have
a Tuesday night class.
So it's, it's a continuing todo.
It is allowing me to one getbetter answers for those same
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questions.
Uh, to realize that it it a lotof people are like wondering the
same thing.
Um, but as a way to even breakthat up a little bit is I think
what I'm going to start doing,uh, is having a themed Q and a
each semester.
Like this semester, we did arelationship night where we
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asked them to specifically askquestions about relationships
and we brought up Jesse Maddiewas supposed to be there, but
Annie ended up not doing wellthat night, so she wasn't able
to but just kind of gettingdifferent people in front of
them with specific questions toask, so I think that'll be good
yeah that's good.
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Might lean on the relationshipnight for a couple semesters,
because that's fun.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Different couples up there.
College is the age where peopleare typically looking for their
spouse, whether or not that'swhy the Lord has for them, or
when the Lord has a spouse forthem, but that's the age a lot
of people are looking for theirspouse.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
It's also the age that a lot of people are just
kind of like trying to figureout their faith and whatnot, so
a lot of college kids are hungry.
I was realizing during likethis last discussion time during
YA, like so many of the collegekids have so many weird random
questions, which I understand,why a bunch of weird random
questions pop up because they'rethinking about these things in
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scripture, which is really cool.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, I ever heard some of those questions.
They were fun.
It's like what, at one point,they're like oh, kara has the
answers for everything.
No, that was not true.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
But it was fun to just hear some of them.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, yeah, questions are fun.
What do you think about theNephilim?
Those questions are not myfavorite, excuse me.
No, no, all right.
Well, hey, I think that's it.
Yeah, that about, does it?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
That's all she wrote.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That's all she wrote.
Well, thank you for joining usfor the podcast.
If you've never been a part ofa Q&A, you should try to become
a part of one.
Maybe we'll do them every oncein a while in Wednesday night
adult classes.
We did one, so I think it was agood time.
I think it's great.
Well, again, thanks you forlistening to the podcast and
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we'll catch you on the flippityflop.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
See you guys bye, have a great time.
we really gotta find a way to make that louder,
because I always have to turnthat all the way up, but
everything else, but I alreadylike made it as loud as possible
in the thing.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Oh, we started oh sorry everybody, I'll get to
work on it all right, thank you,you didn't say that until after
I say we started.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, hey everybody, I've got Kara in the podcast
studio, the usual meaning themedia assistant.
Media director research podcastassistant person.
Kara Singleton.
Assistant to the podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Who's Kara Singleton I?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
don't know.
I made a big mistake.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't know her.
All right guys, I whoa whoa,who's Kara Singleton?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I made a big mistake, I don't know her.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
All right, guys, I'll see myself out Bye, have a
great time Just kidding.
But Kara Smith, mrs Smith.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There's a Mr and Mrs Smith.
Yeah, there's a lot of Mr andMrs Smith's in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And then we got Ben on the podcast.
Do you hear his voice?
What?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
up Benjamin Blanc.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You know, I usually have to turn Bob up just a tiny
bit, because what are you doinghere?
Oh, just kidding.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Because I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
There we go, but I usually turn Bob up just a
little bit because he stayspretty far away from the mic.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But you stay close to the mic, we're right here.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Hey, how's the week been y'all?
Has it been good for you?
It's been chilling.
How do you think it's been forour listeners?
Great, I think so.
Potentially bad though Springbreak was last week, so the days
back to work after spring break, they're not as fun typically.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Did you guys do anything fun over spring break?
How many people that workactually have a spring break?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I don't know.
They may take time off becausetheir kids are out of school.
Did you do anything fun overspring break, Ben?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Would college spring break or high school spring
break?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
No, I mean like this past week, last week.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
That would be this past week.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That was spring break , Uh-huh yeah according to Trent
, you did do something.
I know you did, so what'd youdo last week?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You had to have done something.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Oh, I mean, technically, this is how this
feels it was not because it wasspring break, okay, great.
What'd you do for spring break?
Well, break.
What did you do this pastweekend?
This past weekend, madison hada bachelorette trip that she had
to go on, which was awesome,but Annie is not bottle feeding
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at all, so your boy got to go toVirginia.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
For like three days, two days, just to hang out and
feed.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Annie.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, I wasn't feeding Annie, but hanging out
with Annie, yes, Okay, gotcha.
Well fun.
We had some good times.
We sat in some grass, walkedaround.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
How was the weather Great?
It was supposed to be cold.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
But it was like mid-40s but felt like the 60s.
Oh rate Cool.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It was a wonderful good time.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
What did you do, Kara ?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It was Lane's birthday.
We went to the beach, oh fun.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh, and apparently none of our members of the
collective know anything aboutsunscreen.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yes, we did all return very burnt and very red.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I was in Tennessee.
It was cold the beginning ofthe week and the end of the week
.
We tried to buy a house, got ina bidding war, apparently lost
the bidding war.
It's okay.
Our realtor right now should becurrently walking through their
house videoing it for us.
It's exciting, Bob moved.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
They did move.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
yes, you can just live in the Square Dancing
Center.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yes, no, there's toilets there there'll be a lot
of dancers throughout the week,so we only have it on sundays,
um, but it was a good week.
We went up and cleaned out thesquare dancing center.
We replaced, um, all thecleaning supplies with new
cleaning supplies which was goodand necessary and, uh, we
cleaned it out, set it up likeit's gonna be, so it's great
does for the church point.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
This is a legit question.
Okay.
Does bleach get better theolder it is Like.
Does it like?
Does it ferment?
Yeah?
I don't think so Does bleachbecome alcohol at some point is
my question.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, I think it's already some sort of you know.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, but it's like a low level.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I don't know that it gets worse.
I don't know, does bleachferment or does it change?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
with age?
Does it get better with time?
Is it?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
like cheese.
Well, Ashley's looking that up.
I do have a fact of the day foryou.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Fact of the day.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
if you.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, did you know that if you live to be 84 years
old, you've spent roughly 28years sleeping?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That's nuts.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's wild.
How do you?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
even count, I guess you just average eight hours a
night.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, seven hours probably a night over time.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
That is older than me 28 years of sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Which brings me to my next question Do you need to
buy a new mattress?
We are sponsored by MattressFarm.
Just kidding, we're notsponsored at all, but that's
wild.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Pause for an ad break Pause for an ad break.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That's wild.
That is wild.
Yeah, you know what?
Let's talk theologically forjust a moment.
I'm going to talk theologicallyabout the fact of the day.
Why do we sleep?
Well, it's to remind ourselvesthat we're not in control of
everything.
We have to rest.
The Lord does not have to.
That's good.
Boom, I tell Judah every night,every night, the last thing I
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say to him.
Well, sometimes I say go backto bed, go to sleep, judah.
The last thing I say to him iswe can sleep.
And he responds because theLord doesn't.
That's good.
And then he comes up to getsome extra water or something
like that.
I'm like, dude, you alreadyhave a bottle of water in your
room.
Go back to bed.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, but then he pulls the fast one.
He's like well, dad, you tellme to be like Christ every day,
and if he doesn't sleep, I'mjust not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
He probably is listening to this, because my
wife does listen to this in thecar when my kids say hey, Judah.
Shout out, Judah hey.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Drew, hey Katie.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Did you know?
If you're seven feet tall, youhave a one in six chance of
landing in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I could have been in the NBA.
No you can't.
I'm one seven feet tall, ifyou're seven foot tall, one in
six chance.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So if you're seven foot, I mean, might as well
still play basketball.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, you got a good chance of making a lot of money.
If you can't walk through doorsnormally, try to dunk a ball.
See what?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
happens.
Maybe you can be a millionaire.
Well, you have to be good to dothat.
Jess went to a.
Well, yeah, but you have a onein six chance, right?
So you just got to be betterthan the other six.
No, no, you got to be betterthan the other six to get in the
NBA, and then you have to bebetter than everyone else to get
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the lowest salary in the NBA isprobably still so high now.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
oh yeah, there's like there's like what's the lowest
salary for a, an active player,not on like a practice squad?
No, there's like two-waycontracts that they they play in
the NBA and in the G League andthey make like 50 bucks.
That's not the right number,but it's.
It's a lot, jess.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Jess is from a very town and she had a
seven-foot-tall basketballplayer 1.1 million.
Yeah, come on, man Millionaire,Look at there.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Also bleach, gets worse over time.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Worse Like less effective.
Yeah, what Losing its?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
effectiveness as the sodium hypochlorite compound
degrades, becoming lesseffective for cleaning and
disinfecting.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, so here's what we're going to do.
I was actually thinking aboutthe ribonucleic acid or whatever
you said.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yep, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Here we go.
I want you, ben, to blind rankcharacters based on how good
they'd be at soccer.
So there are six that I havethat you have not seen.
You just can't tell them whatI'm going to tell them in that
order.
So there are six characters andyou have to put them in a spot
on how good they'd be at soccer,one being the best, six being
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the worst.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Blind ranking Blind ranking.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Here we go, your first character, drum roll
Spongebob.
One out of six, four, okay, Ithink that's, like you know,
kind of middle but a little bitworse than middle.
That's a good first.
Spongebob Charlie Brown six sixthe worst because he, because
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he misses the football.
But he only misses the footballbecause Snoopy moves the
football not Snoopy who hissister?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
oh, lucy, yeah, but because Snoopy moves the
football, not Snoopy who Hissister.
Oh, lucy, oh yeah, yeah, butthe ball's not standing still in
soccer.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
He's going to miss that thing.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
All right, I think you're not going to put him as
number six.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I just did.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Lord Farquaad.
Lord Farquaad is the king intrack.
He's like two foot tall,scrappy.
Oh, scrappy, scrappy.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I wouldn't say Scrappy, no, he's Scrappy, I
would say he's aggressive,pompous, aggressive, arrogant,
scrappy he's going two, two,he's going two.
He'll be up top in a 4-4-2.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Okay, we need to write this down.
Can you write this down?
Okay, we've got.
Spongebob is four, charlieBrown is six, lord Farquaad is
two.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, because pair him with like a six footer and
you're living life, you'reliving dreams.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
All right, spider-man .
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Spider-Man.
I've got three five three, fiveand one left.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Three, one, three and five.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
One, three and five.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Spider-Man.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Spider-Man's at the one.
Spider-man, spider-man's top.
He put it there, yep, he'sprobably the best place.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Then we got Yoda.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yoda number three.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yoda Okay Number three.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Mind controlling goalie.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay, and then number what will be number five?
Captain Jack Sparrow, that'shonestly, I think that's a good
spot for him.
That's a good number five.
That's a good spot for him.
He kind of topples, moves.
His hands are out wide.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
He might have had a blast, a handball all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, yeah, captain Jack Sparrow, that's good,
that's fun.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I think there's a picture of Lord Farquaad that
one needs to be changed, I thinkyou should have had, yoda
should be two and then you putLord Farquaad as five.
I don't think Yoda would begood at.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
He's definitely number two.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I don't think Yoda would be good at soccer, but he
would be good in goal Becausehe's got the mind tricks.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The right answer should be, he's got the force.
I think Spider-Man and thenYoda Mm-mm, or maybe Yoda and
then Spider-Man, no, Spider-ManYoda.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
No, spidey's out wide left winger, right footed Jack.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Sparrow Charlie Brown .
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Cutting in from the flanks, spongebob and Lord
Farkland Waiting at Top.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Corner, I think Lord, actually SpongeBob's probably
last Lord Farkland.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
No, Charlie Brown is 100% last.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
All right.
Well, hey, here's what I wantto talk about A very light topic
.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I want us to talk about Q&A nights, the dichotomy
of revelation.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
What is a Q&A?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
night?
That's a good question.
Yeah, A Q&A night is a nightthat we host Primarily.
We have hosted them for youngadults, where they can come in
and ask any question that theywant about Christianity,
relationships, the Bible.
I mean relationships through abiblical worldview, the Bible,
theology, what they've heardabout Christianity, the church,
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theology, what they've heardabout Christianity, the church.
They can ask those questionsanonymously and on the spot.
Pastors or ministry leaderswill answer their questions,
like in a panel format.
So we dedicate about an hourjust to letting them ask
whatever question they wouldlike.
That's good and nice.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Anything you want to add to that.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, I mean it's— Not why.
Why don't answer?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
yeah, yeah uh, recently, as of this past
semester, we have transformedthem to barbecue and a nights
barbecue.
What was that?
Barbecue and a night?
No, no, one more time.
What was that barbecue and anights?
Wow, good stuff because, like,who doesn't want to get together
and eat and get some questionsasked and barbecue just fits
(12:07):
great with barbecue and a likecome on.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Whose idea was this, anne's?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That was Anne's.
Yes, shout out, anne.
Good idea who is going withTrenton to Tennessee?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
If you would like to go to Tennessee, please email
Trent at fbcorg fbctampaorg ishow our emails work.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Or you could email Trent at redeemercitychurch Ooh,
he's got an email everybody.
There it is.
Hey, that was fun.
So barbecue and ice.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So you get barbecue catered?
Yes, just order some barbecue.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Let them eat ice.
So you get barbecue catered.
Yes, just order some barbecue,let them eat it.
I'm a big barbecue fan.
I couldn't care less aboutbarbecue, if I'm being honest.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Where I grew up was right in between Memphis and
Kansas City.
Kansas City beats Memphis.
Memphis is also good, butKansas City is the best.
What's the difference?
Just they taste different.
I think Kansas City's moretomato sauce.
Burnt ends are really big atKansas City, but I'm not a burnt
end fan Brisket is moreTexas-ish.
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North Carolina barbecue's likevinegary yeah no, no, don't like
that, so Memphis sometimes hasa mustard-ish taste, whereas
Kansas City has more of a like atomato-ish taste, whereas
Kansas City has more of atomato-ish, ketchup-ish kind of
base.
I like Kansas City better themustard, no, the more ketchup,
(13:36):
the tomato, tomato-ish taste.
But I like dry rub ribs.
Yeah, so Kansas City dry ribsmy favorite.
But I will say this there's nota ton of really good barbecue
in Tampa, sorry Tampa, butMighty Quinn's on Dale Mabry
really good, really goodbarbecue.
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Cool, their brisket is justchef's kiss Very good, okay.
So how do we do Q&A nights?
Well, I'd heard about doing aQ&A type of thing from another
ministry leader named Kosti Hinn, who was doing it after their
youth ministries, and what theydid was they set up a Google
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form and put on that Google formthat anyone could type in an
anonymous question.
That Google Form is linked to aGoogle Sheet, it's all free and
that Google Sheet will receivethat query, that question, in
real time.
Query, nice.
You type it in, you press enter, it's on a website you can
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share, press enter and it goesdirectly to a Google Sheet which
is private.
So, public Google Form, googleForm to a private Google Sheet,
correct?
So on that Google Sheet, wehave an iPad that has Google
Sheets on it and so when someonegoes to that website, the
Google Form, and types in theirquestion, it'll go directly to
that Google Sheet.
(15:02):
As long as you have Wi-Fi, itpops up in real time, or if you
have obviously like a phone thatdoesn't need Wi-Fi, so someone
in the crowd can type it in andit comes up on the iPad.
Additionally, we create a QRcode that will take you directly
to that Google.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Form, so all they have to do is scan a QR code on
the screening type in theirquestion on their phone and it
goes directly to an ipad on thestage.
Yes, anonymously.
We have no idea who asks and we, we normally make it available
the week or so before, so theythey have any questions
throughout the week to throw onthere.
Uh, most of the time I feellike we get like maybe three of
those and then like 85 on thenight.
(15:40):
Um, which makes sense, becausethey're sitting there thinking
like, oh, maybe I should ask aquestion since I'm here.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
We're able to get through like 12 to 15 questions,
probably on average.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It depends on the questions.
Yeah, because I would say thatwe hit on more than that, but
that's because there'soverlapping questions, so like
we probably hit like 30 of them,but 10 of them were the same
question.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
What are some of the questions we've been asked?
Oh, geez A lot.
What are some questions?
Kara Participate here.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I am, I'm thinking, I am participating.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
What are some of the questions that we get asked?
So some fun questions.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
We always get asked some questions about
predestination, I've noticed,and questions just about like
living the Christian life, solike relationships oh sorry
Prayer and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So usually there's questions pertaining to
relationships, usually aboutsome kind of predestination,
god's work in sovereignty,questions about assurance of
salvation.
How can I know that I know?
Questions like age-oldapologetics, questions like what
about the man on the islandwho's never heard?
Or why does good things happento bad people?
Or why is there suffering?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
or evil in the world?
Or should I date thisnon-believer if they're really
cute, yeah relationshipquestions.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sometimes there's like uniqueRelationship questions yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, how did you?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Sometimes there's like unique random revelation
questions.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Like hey.
Revelation 11 says that there'sfour angels at the four corners
of the earth.
Does that mean the earth isflat and you're just like no?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That was a legitimate question.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That was a question I asked like two or three years
ago.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah.
Questions like how did you guysget into ministry?
What made you want to get intoministry Favorite?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Bible verse and why?
Yeah, what's the first bookthat you'd recommend to a new
believer to read alongside ofthem?
How do you study your Bible?
Yeah, Any other commonquestions that come through?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Assurance of faith relationship questions
sovereignty of God questionsEvangelism, and like how to
share my faith with this familymember or LGBTQ plus issues.
Yeah, just like questions aboutour culture.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, how to engage the culture?
How does the Bible speak to thethings going on in our culture?
Yeah, yeah.
So why do we do this?
Well, I gave three reasons andjust add to these if you want to
.
Why do we do this?
Well, I gave three reasons andjust add to these, if you want
to.
Why do we do Q&A nights?
Well, because we want people toknow that their questions are
welcome, that people have realquestions and there are real
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answers in the Scriptures.
God created the world and healso wrote a book about the
world.
He created the reason why hecreated it and what he, of
course, thinks is best for thosehe created within that world,
what he's done for those hecreated in the world, and so we
want to bring those questionsthey have to light.
We want to be extremelyapplicable, and so let them ask
questions, letting them knowskeptics are welcome.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, questions are good.
I think people at least.
What I've ran into recently isthat people get confused between
having questions andquestioning God, because some
people feel a certain way abouthaving questions about things
and like, oh, if I havequestions, am I questioning God?
Am I not truly saved, like itsays, if I'm questioning these
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things?
And so you can have questions,like you just have to be happy
with whatever answer is given,Not from us, but from Scripture.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, the apostles had questions.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Right, yeah, questions are not bad Questions.
Are you finding out moreinformation?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
The second thing.
Second reason we want to modelanswering questions with the
Scripture.
So we want to model how to dobiblical apologetics.
So maybe they have a questionabout assurance of faith.
Well, first John would be agood book to read, right?
What does it look like to havepractical faith, like the book
of first John?
What if they have questionsabout how the old Testament
(19:37):
relates to the new, especiallythe sacrificial system?
The book of Hebrews.
What about Israel and thechurch and sin and salvation and
all of what God's doing?
The book of Romans, right?
So we want to help themcategorically think okay, how
does the Bible answer thesequestions?
Model that.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah, a third thing.
Well, I mean it's just to showthat it's possible, but also to
almost give them answers forthings, because I bet some, if
not most, of the questions thatare being asked are not
questions that maybe theyspecifically have.
It could be questions thatthey've been faced with in
attempting to talk to people.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, when we're giving answers, we're not saying
I think this.
We're trying to tie what we sayto the standard of the truth,
the text of Scripture.
So we're practicing biblicalapologetics.
Well, this is what 2 Timothysays, this is what 1 Peter says.
This is what Jude says.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, it's not our thoughts, it's our words from
scripture.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Our words aren't in scripture but you know.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So real questions.
That's the first reason,because skeptics are welcome.
Second reason we want to modelbiblical apologetics.
The third we want to modelcharity on non-essentials, or we
want to show that goodChristians can disagree in good
ways.
You can disagree with aChristian and still be a
Christian on a number of thingsnot everything.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
A lot of things, most things.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Most things.
So maybe kind of showing sometheological triage, here's some
things that you should die forthe exclusivity of Christ, the
Trinity, the inspiration ofscripture that God has spoken in
his word.
Those are things thatChristians have died for.
And there's things that havedivided Christians over the
(21:19):
years paedo-baptism,credo-baptism, certain you know
church governance because youmight go to a different church
based upon governance, carpetcolor.
Well, it shouldn't divide us.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It has, but it has unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
And then the third category.
So die for divide over debatewith other Christians.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
So that would be, maybe, the Holy Spirit's role in
giving certain supernaturalgifts.
Cessationist versuscontinuationist, different ways
of understanding the sovereigntyof God, arminianism or
Calvinism.
Baptists have historicallydisagreed on both those things.
Baptists have also historicallydisagreed on how to interpret
(22:03):
the book of Revelation in theend times.
These are things that we candebate about and still be
believers If you debate in theright way.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Of course, my view is always the right view on those
things.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Trent.
Well, here's the thing.
Here's how opinions work, right?
You believe yourself to beright on that issue, right?
So if you have an opinion,that's.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Would you say that's your truth, Trent?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I would not say that truth changes.
I would just say I'm the best,I'm just kidding, I'm kidding,
I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'mkidding, of course.
So we want to model charityright, these are things that you
can disagree upon and stillremain Christians, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
There was one, do you remember that?
So that was very interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
We had a number of people attending that night who
were Catholic, practicingCatholics, that's cool.
Questions on Mary and thechurch, the 1-2 church, that
kind of thing, yeah, what is thetwo-fold promise?
(23:09):
So, um, this is something Itook from another pastor.
Uh, so on these q a nights Itry to kind of and in the past I
try to advertise them to say,hey, we want you to bring
unbelieving friends here.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yes, bring your friends.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It's an outreach.
We can promise two things, orwe'll try to hold to this
two-fold promise.
Right, you do not need toqualify on the way in.
That means, hey, just so youknow they might say this and
that's a little off color orsurprising or whatever, and then
there's no apologies needed onthe way home.
So hey, I can't believe theystarted talking about this
(23:50):
random political thing and gotso angry about it or whatever it
might be.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
We're not going to condemn you to hell, but we'll
say scripture.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, and we always just say, hey, no qualification,
no apologies, and you shouldn'tapologize for what's true.
So, where we speak the and youshouldn't apologize for what's
true.
So where we speak thescriptures, don't apologize,
right?
So we try to keep that two-foldpromise no qualification the
way in, no apology, the way home.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I love the Q&A nights .
I think the collective reallyloves them too.
It's just a good night for themto sit down and not hear a, Not
that.
Hearing a sermon all the timeis bad but it gets a little
different of a break and alittle bit more playful
sometimes with questions andanswers and here's more hear
(24:36):
more opinions and stuff likethat.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
So I think it's been great.
Kara's been the moderator anumber of times, yeah, and the
one thing that I've told you,kara, and maybe you can speak to
being a moderator, is noquestions are off limits, but if
they're overly specific or it'snot really going to help
everybody and it might tell toomuch about the person asking the
question, don't ask that one.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
You do a good job, Kara.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I try to lump some questions together so if two
people have questions aboutdating a nonbeliever or
something, then I might mentiona little bit of each of the
questions and then just send itto you guys, because usually you
guys can give a more broadanswer that speaks kind of like
as an overarching answer to bothquestions.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
In case you're wondering, the answer to that is
no.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Don't do it we have in the past because it's on
Google Sheets.
You can like shade in the text.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah, you can put different colors.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Sometimes shade it in green or red, green, meaning
you should ask this question,kara Red, if we did this
beforehand, Right.
Red meaning.
This is probably an unhelpfulquestion to ask in this space,
and sometimes it's one that wemay feel unprepared for, or one
that, just using some pastoralsensibilities, it may not be a
good idea to open this can ofworms because of some people in
(25:51):
the room.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Yeah, or it's like I felt this specific thing
happened to me this Tuesday lastyear and explain it to me.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, usually you guys will hang around a little
bit afterwards if anyone wantsto come directly to you and ask
you a question.
Yeah, that's more personal, so.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, or if it just didn't get asked that night, or
something.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And people can ask as many questions as they want and
keep typing in differentquestions.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah, and we even say want to ask someone
specifically who's on stage aquestion.
You could write that in thereand make that a thing.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I think we're going to have a little bit more of
that, uh, uh, next next week,next week, uh, with Olivia on
stage, just to get some specificquestions for her going.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Olivia, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Live, anything else.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
No, well, so one one.
I guess one thing in closing issomething that I love about the
Q&A is that it's it gives theopportunity for people to ask
the questions.
I'm realizing now that most ofthe Q&A will have very similar,
if not the same exact questions,which isn't a bad thing,
(27:06):
because college ministry is sofluid from semester to semester.
One semester you have a biggroup who never has Tuesday
night class, and then the nextsemester half of those people
might have a Tuesday night classand other people might not have
a Tuesday night class.
So it's, it's a continuing todo.
It is allowing me to one getbetter answers for those same
(27:28):
questions.
Uh, to realize that it it a lotof people are like wondering the
same thing.
Um, but as a way to even breakthat up a little bit is I think
what I'm going to start doing,uh, is having a themed Q and a
each semester.
Like this semester, we did arelationship night where we
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asked them to specifically askquestions about relationships
and we brought up Jesse Maddiewas supposed to be there, but
Annie ended up not doing wellthat night, so she wasn't able
to but just kind of gettingdifferent people in front of
them with specific questions toask, so I think that'll be good
yeah that's good.
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Might lean on the relationshipnight for a couple semesters,
because that's fun.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Different couples up there.
College is the age where peopleare typically looking for their
spouse, whether or not that'swhy the Lord has for them, or
when the Lord has a spouse forthem, but that's the age a lot
of people are looking for theirspouse.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
It's also the age that a lot of people are just
kind of like trying to figureout their faith and whatnot, so
a lot of college kids are hungry.
I was realizing during likethis last discussion time during
YA, like so many of the collegekids have so many weird random
questions, which I understand,why a bunch of weird random
questions pop up because they'rethinking about these things in
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scripture, which is really cool.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, I ever heard some of those questions.
They were fun.
It's like what, at one point,they're like oh, kara has the
answers for everything.
No, that was not true.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
But it was fun to just hear some of them.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, yeah, questions are fun.
What do you think about theNephilim?
Those questions are not myfavorite, excuse me.
No, no, all right.
Well, hey, I think that's it.
Yeah, that about, does it?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
That's all she wrote.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That's all she wrote.
Well, thank you for joining usfor the podcast.
If you've never been a part ofa Q&A, you should try to become
a part of one.
Maybe we'll do them every oncein a while in Wednesday night
adult classes.
We did one, so I think it was agood time.
I think it's great.
Well, again, thanks you forlistening to the podcast and
(29:28):
we'll catch you on the flippityflop.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
See you guys bye, have a great time.
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