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Hi, Fellow Dad,
Have you as a dad ever wondered if God really can use you to help others know Him and walk in His truth? In TBB Podcast Ep. 10, Pastor Bruce Hamilton continues his conversation with me about how God has used him and his wife in some very unexpected ways, along with some powerful, practical instruction for how we can make ourselves available to God. Once again, I welcome your entire family to listen in to our conversation!
– Nathan
“Our part is to be obedient to God’s command, which is for us to preach and teach the gospel to every creature, which to me means everybody God brings across our path and gives us the opportunity. We don’t have to force that.” – Bruce Hamilton
“I don’t have to know all that. It’s not my burden. My burden is that when God gives me a clear-cut opportunity, I want to be obedient and share the gospel.” – Bruce Hamilton
“Our part is to be obedient, and then leave the part that we don’t fully understand.” – Bruce Hamilton
“Pray for those opportunities and God will give them to you, because that’s the direction the Holy Spirit is moving in the world today…He’s forming that Gentile bride before the rapture, and we get to a part of that.” – Bruce Hamilton
“These are not just statistics. These people are real, they have souls, just like we do, and they are part of our heart, part of our family.” – Bruce Hamilton
“No other organization on earth preaches, teaches, and defends the truth, the inspired word of God, which is our milk and our meat for spiritual growth, and no other organization on earth dispenses that better than the local church, because that’s God’s plan for this age. And so as people drift away from the church, it’s a sign that they’re drifting away from the God of the Bible, and serving the God of their own imagination. Because once you abandon the preaching and teaching of Scripture, which is the authoritative declaration of Divine truth from the pulpit,…then they lose sight of who God is, what He’s like, what He expects of them, and they form this politically correct, postmodern, millenial god in their mind that is soft-spoken, doesn’t condemn anything or anybody. And it’s truly the falling away. They’re heaping to themselves teachers having itching ears.” – Bruce Hamilton
“One of the things they comment on the most is when I treat my wife with respect or TLC. It could be as small as helping her with her coat on, or pulling the chair out for her to be seated, or the car door….I don’t do this to impress people….The way we live can validate or damage the gospel.” – Bruce Hamilton
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Our visit was short—only a few hours. I didn’t know much about her background, interests, or family—only that they had escaped from religious persecution in their home country and were seeking asylum in America. Unfortunately we didn’t meet until right before they moved away from our state, and with our busy lives—hers and mine—there was little hope of building a deeper relationship long-distance. But in that short few hours talking with this mom, I felt that I had found a friend: someone whose culture, mother tongue, and life experiences were vastly different from my own, but whose heart, like mine, was to serve the Lord and care for her family as best as she could.
What they are not known for is being easy to prepare. Many days I would spend at least 10-15 minutes first laboriously chopping the ends off garlic cloves and smashing them to loosen the skin for my kids to help me peel before slicing or mincing, then peeling and chopping a section of ginger, and then crying while peeling and chopping an onion. Now I can get just as good results in about 5 minutes, without the tears. My secret?
And when we work with and for God, He records each service for Him just like He did for the heads of the tribes back in Numbers. Not a single spoon or goat kid missed his notice, not even when it was given day after day after day. Whatever offering you are making the Lord today, He is recording it completely, separately, and in detail—and when someday He reviews your service, He won’t skim the repetitive parts.
I never know how to respond to this question, partly because I don’t think I do “it” very well (whatever “it” is), and partly because I assume the person asking isn’t really interested in any of the answers I have to give. But maybe they are . . . maybe I just need to prepare an articulate answer beforehand so that I can say something besides “Uhh, do what?” and, perhaps, make a small dent in some stereotypes.
How could a humble teacher from a tiny Middle Eastern country who never owned his own pillow, much less sat on a throne, have anything to do with me and my problems?
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I think this is my favorite podcast so far. Nathan, your kindly “probing” interview questions allowed Bro Hamilton to share such godly, biblical wisdom, and I might add, done with true meekness and humility. I intend to make a copy of the transcript to keep in my Bible.