The Buick analogy: would you hand over your stuff?
- If someone from your church said 'the Lord has need of this,' would you hand it over?
The hosts modernize the colt story: Jesus a town over from Barry's house needs a Buick, and the disciples are sent to take it with 'the Lord has need of this.' They wrestle with whether they would actually hand over a car to a fellow church member making that claim, how little they trust anyone, the faith of the colt's owners, and what it would have been like to be the awkward disciples sent on the errand (plus a theory that Judas, as treasurer, may have prearranged it). It turns convicting: tithing statistics, and the question of which possession is each listener's 'proverbial donkey' they would not give God.
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Do accountability partners actually work?
- Do accountability partners actually do anything?
Mike raises his accountability-partners question: the standard dude-circle advice to get a buddy to hold you accountable for Bible reading, porn, church attendance, and drinking.
From No. 598 · Emphasis | Accountability, Worship and Praying with Strangers
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Dear LFTP 2: the neighbors' piling newspapers
- Dear LFTP: at what point can we pick up our out-of-town neighbors' piling newspapers and recycle them?
Mike reads the second letter: new neighbors have been out of town for weeks and their newspapers are piling up — at what point may the writer recycle them?
From No. 595 · Trust But Verify
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Local pastors, mutual refinement, and the 'pods' joke
- What word comes after "community"?
The best pastor for you is the person in your life who can look you in the eyeballs; walk into every room expecting the other person might refine you — that only works locally.
From No. 590 · Theodore Franco
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Dear LFTP: Martha, John, and Jerry
- How should a woman in love with her ex's brother tell friends, family, and his parents?
A host reads the first Dear LFTP letter: Martha dated John for two years, then he kept living with her six months after the breakup; John is an emotionally and verbally abusive alcoholic who burned every bridge.
From No. 584 · When Vanek Was Here | Cambodia Testimony, Church Mission, Josiah Queen