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Weimar University

Don Mackintosh

Rooted in the Word

It's kind of exciting to all be working on the same project together, that being the Sabbath Trail.

And some people might say, you know, this is not TCI.

Here it actually worships where people are kind of confused.

And let me just talk about it a little bit.

I don't know if this can come up on the screen or not.

But We're basically working on a community Bible study that will be going on for, well, let's just say until Jesus comes.

And how many of you have ever prepared for a Bible study?

I mean, now I just go to the study usually because I've given so many.

But when I first started out, giving Bible studies, oh man, how many of you know what I'm talking about?

You have like all these notes, and you're really digging deep because you don't want to say anything wrong, and maybe you have, you know, Mark Finley's study guides or Don Gray's study guides when I was a kid.

Oh man, I had my, this Bible I had was so marked up.

How many of you had just a real marked up Bible?

Or you lost it and then you realize, you know what, God is teaching me that I need to be ready to give a study, right?

And you know, more powerful than almost anything is like going and just taking the person's Bible without ever seeing it and showing them stuff in the Bible.

You can't do that right at the beginning because you don't know what you're doing.

I don't even need to have a Bible, you have an extra Bible around.

You just show them right there, they're like, whoa!

Okay, so, but in other words, you know, how often do you get to all work together on a community Bible study preparing that's going to last for like a decade or until Jesus comes.

I mean, I think he's coming soon, but just in case he doesn't, we've got a Bible study we're working on.

And then I'm thinking about, like, how do I get people interested in this Bible study?

Look, they're already interested in this Bible study.

I mean, there's people talking about, we need to have a Sabbath day because of the environment.

It's like man, all those people, they already want the Bible study.

You're like, You know, you're walking somewhere and you're, you know how many times I've walked this Sabbath trail that isn't even a Sabbath trail yet?

He's not here, he's probably at home sleeping.

Because he's so tired, But we walked that trail so many times, and I'm just sitting and visiting.

OK, that's what's going to happen right here.

Whoa, look at this brush that's all cleared out.

They're going to hear that wonderful babbling brook.

And right here, they're going to make that decision.

They're going to make a decision right here.

That's why I'm, now I hate to admit this, but I used to hunt and trap things.

And then my grandfather came to visit 1 day and I killed this unsuspecting squirrel and chipmunk.

And I'd chop off their tails and I'd take it down to the trading post and I'd sell them.

And I had made like $2.50, they only gave me like 5 cents a tail.

But, and I was doing this and my grandfather came and he saw that I had shot this unsuspecting squirrel.

The squirrel was just squirreling, you know.

And then I shot it and my grandfather, He just looked at me and he looked at the squirrel and he looked at me and he just started crying.

He says, you don't understand how precious life is.

I never went hunting after that because I didn't like to see my grandfather cry.

But anyway, we used to have a trapping line, too.

And You know, when you're trapping something, not that a Bible study is like trapping something, but it kind of is.

That's why I'm using that as an illustration.

You got to think, you know, where are they going to be?

But, I would love to see people that go down this trail actually make decisions and they're like in the kingdom forever.

It's like, I was at Weimar and I was right by these blackberry bushes, or where they used to be.

I see the carcasses of 7 college students who died from poison oak.

And I'm right there and they make a decision.

By the way, you're saying, oh, you were not out on the trails.

I was out on the trails today for 2 hours already, and then I was working on other stuff.

I worked 5 hours today on TCI before TCI even began.

You guys think, oh, man, it's too much time.

Just think about, just say a prayer for me when you can.

But anyway, so I looked today, and here's our plaques, okay?

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