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Praise the Lord. Come on, path towards and we'll give you some materials.
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That's in I said, the same people go forward every time. You know, whatever, we're not going to go there. But the posture does change if you think that the top priority here is to worship God and not to make sure that unbelievers who might be here get the right impression. And Keller was a master expository preacher. So he obviously thought that the preaching of the Word of God and the sacraments and the worship of the people of God were massive priorities as well. But in his public presence, you can tell he's foregrounding evangelism. He's foregrounding inviting people in. And I think probably when he saw political stances made in an aggressive or a way that I want to put this carefully, but political stances placed so high on our priorities, this issues is what Colin called them. So abortion is the biggest example of this that we end up just driving people out the door immediately. So instead of ever getting to the gospel, we get to, oh, your pro choice will buy, you know, that sort of thing. What do we deal with first? Do we deal with the existence of God and sin and salvation and who is Jesus and did He rise from the dead? Or do we deal with, you know, are you pro choice or pro life? That's a real tension. That is a real tension because yeah, I think that's the most important justice issue of our time. But do I shut people out immediately on that litmus test? I don't know. But it seems like Keller had his answer, which was, no, I'm going to invite you in. I'm going to start preaching the gospel to you. And then we'll have that discussion at a later, at a later juncture. So it, but you can see how that plays out. And I deeply appreciated the Colin identified where it is that
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people, those with different instincts from Keller parted ways.