Advice to 10,000: Mike on not ignoring the truth
- If you had an audience of 10,000 who would not move on until they heard your advice, what would you say?
Mike — introduced on-air as the Advice to 10,000 giver — addresses a hypothetical crowd of 10,000: stop acting like you don't know the truth. He describes finally looking at his budget and his week honestly, finding the truth ugly — he had been ignoring it on purpose because it was best not to know. He applies it to responsibilities (life insurance, how his family would manage after he dies) and to the spiritual life: 'you know what the truth is about Jesus Christ... and you know all those times when you backed away from him because you didn't want to make somebody feel awkward.' He cites the Penn & Teller line: 'how much do you have to hate somebody to not tell them about Jesus Christ?'
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