Your Next Steps In Gospel Fluency
When you become fluent in the Gospel, it’s like speaking the language of freedom and joy. You won’t have to fear rejection when sharing your faith with others because your words will be so genuine and full of hope that they will resonate deeply with them.
In this episode, Caesar is joined by his wife Tina as they talk about next steps in learning how the Gospel speaks into any and every area of life… And in a way that is both delivered in normal conversation and received as really good news by others.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
- How to lose your fear of rejection when it comes to “speaking truth in love”.
- How to ask, answer, and apply 4 very powerful questions.
- The importance of practicing Gospel Fluency with yourself–first.
- Why understanding God’s true character is KEY to Gospel Fluency.
From this episode:
“The gospel is good news for every area of your life—not just your afterlife. It transforms every corner of your existence. So often people think that Christianity is about avoiding hell and going to heaven. And as we wait, it’s a lot of sin management and behavior modification. No. It’s about embracing a new way of life that starts right now, a life filled with hope, love, and purpose.“
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Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
Coaching with Caesar and Tina in discipleship and missional living.
Bigger Gospel book by Caesar Kalinowski
Bigger Gospel Master Class in Gospel Fluency video course with worksheets
Transcript
The gospel is always about what's true of God and then how that speaks into who we are and how we get to live.
Caesar Kalinowski:And remember, discipleship is the process of moving from unbelief to belief in absolutely every area in light of the gospel.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so the deeper we go into the character of God, who, by the way, we're created in his image, remember when we talked about our identity, the deeper we realize that in connection to a specific issue, the more freedom we're going to get.
Caesar Kalinowski:and that's what we're needing to move to belief in.
Caesar Kalinowski:See why this is cornerstone to making disciples who make disciples.
Tina Kalinowski:Sometimes we are just learning about who God is in a new way.
Tina Kalinowski:And I think sometimes when we look at these issues that we're going through that we like are trying to apply the gospel to, we think, Oh, this is something that's happening to me.
Tina Kalinowski:This is, this is a bad thing.
Tina Kalinowski:It's happening to me.
Tina Kalinowski:And yet sometimes, and more often, these things are actually happening for us, not to us.
Caesar Kalinowski:God's trying to reveal his glory, and wants us to believe that, trust that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Announcer-Heath Hollensbe: Welcome to the Everyday Disciple Podcast, where you'll learn how to live with greater intentionality, and an integrated faith that naturally fits into every area of life.
Caesar Kalinowski:In other words, discipleship as a lifestyle.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is the stuff your parents, pastors, and seminary professors probably forgot to tell you.
Caesar Kalinowski:And now, here's your host, Caesar Kalinowski.
Caesar Kalinowski:Thanks, Heath.
Caesar Kalinowski:Looking forward to getting together a little later tonight for a little cigar and catch up time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Would be great.
Caesar Kalinowski:Alright, hey, I gotta tell the rest of y'all.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm pretty stoked right now.
Caesar Kalinowski:Tina and I get to hear so many of the stories of life on mission from the folks that we're coaching.
Caesar Kalinowski:, it's amazing.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's a little disproportionate for us because we've got our own oikos and life going on, but being connected to and getting to be a part of so many different families and churches and their lives on mission and seeing all that God's up to.
Caesar Kalinowski:It is so exciting.
Caesar Kalinowski:One of the guys in our coaching, him and his wife, they've been with us for about six months now, I would say, and he was coming out of a church situation.
Caesar Kalinowski:He'd been in church for very, very many years, and he was just about getting ready to leave vocational church work so that he would have more time to actually be in his neighborhood.
Caesar Kalinowski:be with people.
Caesar Kalinowski:They were looking at having an empty nest pretty soon within a few months of getting started with us in the coaching, and so he's trying to make that, you know, shift and, um, take on some other work and free themselves up in faith.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, um, they got started.
Caesar Kalinowski:They got started in their neighborhood, started having open tables, started inviting people into the rhythms of their life with them, and they even invited their senior pastor.
Caesar Kalinowski:He wasn't the senior there, uh, but their senior pastor, who Up till then didn't seem super into this whole missional lifestyle and disciple making really.
Caesar Kalinowski:Invited them to one of their open tables and like the light bulbs went on and he got really excited and said, you can't leave.
Caesar Kalinowski:We can't let you leave now.
Caesar Kalinowski:We got to work this out.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so he freed up his schedule and kept paying them the same and all this.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's been a miracle.
Caesar Kalinowski:And just this last week, he.
Caesar Kalinowski:told us that, uh, because their open table has been growing so much, like the neighborhood people are coming over in droves and they're deepening their relationships, they're getting ready to do the story guide, that another couple couples said, Hey, we're gonna, we're going to start doing an open table, like a few blocks over here, a little further away.
Caesar Kalinowski:So I think it was a handful of couples said, we're kind of over here, this part of the neighborhood, and we're going to start doing one too.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they're still doing theirs.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so boom, instant multiplication.
Caesar Kalinowski:I said, well, you've got some equipping to do, don't you?
Caesar Kalinowski:You go, they, they need to be growing in the same things you've been growing in.
Caesar Kalinowski:So praise God.
Caesar Kalinowski:It is so encouraging for us to hear all that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And hopefully for you as well.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hey, and in light of that too, I want to drop a little teaser on you.
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't do this very often, but I want to tease you a little bit pretty soon here, maybe even the next episode, I'll be able to officially give you the link to join us for this, but we're going to be doing a free training where I break out our full framework for discipleship.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's coming up.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm going to be doing it online for free.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's called Discipleship and Mission Made Simple, because I really think it is.
Caesar Kalinowski:How to live and multiply this lifestyle of discipleship that others will follow.
Caesar Kalinowski:Without filling up your schedule or endless engagement tactics to keep everybody going and all that and I have been working on this thing for Countless hours.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm not joking for this one training.
Caesar Kalinowski:I maybe a hundred hours.
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't know.
Caesar Kalinowski:It is the most elaborate Preparation I've ever done for a single training just feel led to right now want to explain more of what we're doing and why And it's gonna be free.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm not sure if we're doing a replay of it yet per se, probably we will make it available in some form and fashion or I don't, but I don't think we'll be doing it again live this year.
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't think.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:So just a little teaser that's coming up.
Caesar Kalinowski:Maybe even next episode.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'll know the date exactly.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I can give you a link for that.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, uh, yeah, hopefully that sort of piques your curiosity.
Caesar Kalinowski:All right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, last week's episode using gospel fluency to transform your marriage.
Caesar Kalinowski:And today's episode, both are talking about how gospel fluency speaks the good news of the gospel into all of life.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they're a little bit of an insight into what our coaching calls are like.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're not audio replays of the coaching themselves, but last week you heard from Austin and Sarah Johnson, folks in coaching with us, on how They are learning to use the four G's, those four truths about God, that all start with G.
Caesar Kalinowski:Go back and listen to it if you missed it.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're learning how to use those four G's to speak life and gospel into their marriage, and how it naturally trickles down into other conversations with people in their life and community.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now today, my wife Tina, you know Tina, she's joining me as we talk about next steps in learning how the gospel speaks into any and every area of life.
Caesar Kalinowski:And in a way that is both delivered in normal conversation and received as really good news by others.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we do this by learning to ask, answer, and apply.
Caesar Kalinowski:Very powerful questions to illuminate what's going on in our life or heart and how the gospel speaks into it.
Caesar Kalinowski:When we're feeling or acting a certain way, in any situation, we can begin to understand how the gospel speaks into it by asking and applying these four questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:Who is God and what's he like?
Caesar Kalinowski:What has he done to prove that's true of him?
Caesar Kalinowski:What has he done?
Caesar Kalinowski:Where can we see that in, in scripture, in, in our own lives or in the life and, you know, death and resurrection of Christ?
Caesar Kalinowski:Who's God?
Caesar Kalinowski:What's he done?
Caesar Kalinowski:Third question.
Caesar Kalinowski:What is now true of us because of that?
Caesar Kalinowski:How does that speak to our identity?
Caesar Kalinowski:And then the fourth question is, in light of those three, how do we get to respond?
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, we've talked about these four questions before on the podcast.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's been a while.
Caesar Kalinowski:Today, Tina and I had a conversation that we shared with folks in our training and coaching program, and I want to share it with you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Tina's great.
Caesar Kalinowski:She's really great at it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so I wanted to ask her a bunch of questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:And what I want to try to do is fill in some blanks and give sort of pro user tips for you as you learn to ask and answer and apply those four questions as we grow in our gospel fluency.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, I know you might still have a few questions after hearing this, and that's okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's to be expected.
Caesar Kalinowski:You're learning a new language.
Caesar Kalinowski:This takes a while.
Caesar Kalinowski:But we're here for you, all right?
Caesar Kalinowski:So, take a listen.
Caesar Kalinowski:Tina, first thing I want to ask you is, speak a little bit, if you will, to the importance of first practicing this, these four questions in your own life, applied to your own sin, or fear, or stress, or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:And maybe with someone like your spouse, right, close, before trying to debut your new language out there for the whole church, or hammering people with your new gospel fluency or whatever, speak to the need to practice that
Tina Kalinowski:stuff.
Tina Kalinowski:Well, it truly is a different language.
Tina Kalinowski:There's no two...
Tina Kalinowski:Two ways about it.
Tina Kalinowski:The four questions are the basis.
Tina Kalinowski:They're, they're the building blocks of gospel fluency.
Tina Kalinowski:And as we begin to start to practice these four, use these four questions in order to learn this language, it, it takes time to, to get to the point where you really can use this in a way that's very quick and, uh, you don't have to think about it a whole lot.
Tina Kalinowski:When you first start using this, it is truly like.
Tina Kalinowski:You know, learning Spanish, if you've never, you know, spoken another language, you really have to spend a lot of time translating in your head.
Tina Kalinowski:You have to think through, what words am I using?
Tina Kalinowski:And, you know, how does this apply and how does this go together?
Tina Kalinowski:And, uh, and so, there's no two
Caesar Kalinowski:ways.
Caesar Kalinowski:Think about that, that's key.
Caesar Kalinowski:When you're first learning any new language, including the gospel, you're translating, if you will, in real time.
Caesar Kalinowski:So someone asks you a question, and then you go, okay, how would I answer that in my native language?
Caesar Kalinowski:So in mine it'd be English, and then to use Tina's example, Spanish.
Caesar Kalinowski:I have to go, how do I say that in Spanish?
Caesar Kalinowski:And there's a hundred ways, maybe, and then I would say it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then my next thought is, am I pronouncing that right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Am I saying this in a way that they understand?
Caesar Kalinowski:And you're sort of doing that translation real time in your head, but over time, as you become more fluent, right, in that language, pretty soon, you're able to think that way, you're able to think in the other language.
Caesar Kalinowski:And oftentimes, with like, folks we coach, or others in our community where we're applying, helping apply the gospel, people say, you're so quick to get to the thing behind the thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:And apply the gospel to it.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's like, well, we're quicker now than we were years ago, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:When we were just first learning
Tina Kalinowski:this.
Tina Kalinowski:And every once in a while, though, even still, sometimes somebody will ask a question that I've just never really thought through, like my, you know, how I view God in this particular, you know, um, situation.
Tina Kalinowski:And it takes me a little time.
Tina Kalinowski:I really do have to think through it.
Tina Kalinowski:So it's not like it's once and done, like you're, you know, you're going to arrive and you'll never have that.
Tina Kalinowski:Struggle again.
Tina Kalinowski:It just means that you are always on the path of learning more, and there's so much to learn about
Caesar Kalinowski:God.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, so please put the time in to apply the four questions, writing out your answers.
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't try to shortcut this, and I was thinking through this.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's, you're learning a new language.
Caesar Kalinowski:You need to start writing your answers and all that.
Tina Kalinowski:Yeah, and I just like to talk about that because I think that is really so key.
Tina Kalinowski:writing it down, there's actually a, like a psychological, term for when you write things down.
Tina Kalinowski:It's, it's called bonding.
Tina Kalinowski:You actually, it, when you write it, it goes into your brain kind of an entirely different way.
Tina Kalinowski:Yeah.
Tina Kalinowski:And it, it writes into your memory.
Tina Kalinowski:So.
Tina Kalinowski:Yeah.
Tina Kalinowski:Um, so write, the practice of writing those things down, even if you're just learning a new language.
Tina Kalinowski:And that's why, like, if you do this in, if you remember back to Spanish class in high school.
Tina Kalinowski:or French.
Tina Kalinowski:A lot of the stuff that you do, you're writing it down because it is part of that bonding process.
Tina Kalinowski:Putting it
Caesar Kalinowski:deeper in your head, in your heart, becoming more fluid.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yes.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, that sort of leads us, sort of, to our next, maybe obvious.
Caesar Kalinowski:When we want to speak the good news, like so once we've been practicing it and we're wanting to like start because we're finding this to be good news for our own hearts and we're wanting to begin to speak good news to others, their issues, maybe they're freaking out about something that's going on at work, their boss is upset with them or always on their case or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:Before you want to speak to somebody, we want to first go through those four questions on our own, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, like pick a topic.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or something like your sister in life and you're going, I need to, I need to help her with the four G's.
Caesar Kalinowski:I need to speak the gospel.
Caesar Kalinowski:She needs good news, not just good advice.
Caesar Kalinowski:Before you try to have that conversation.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:You want to go through it completely on your own, writing out your answers so that you know.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know the thing behind the thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know the heart issue that's really going on.
Caesar Kalinowski:What they're not believing to be true about God and all that.
Tina Kalinowski:Yeah, and I think that starts with asking good questions to the person that you're talking to and trying to help.
Tina Kalinowski:Instead of assuming.
Tina Kalinowski:Instead of assuming.
Tina Kalinowski:We oftentimes assume.
Tina Kalinowski:that just because they're going through something, maybe even similar to something that we've gone through in the past, that, that we know what their issue, what the thing behind the thing is, and yet it may, it may be a similar, you know, situation that they're going through, but the thing behind the thing may be entirely different, so start by asking some good questions to try to get to an understanding of what that thing behind the thing is.
Tina Kalinowski:Often
Caesar Kalinowski:in coaching, we've had people as they're learning this language, and they're trying to practice using the four quequestions they will write out their answers and send them to us from the worksheet and we will look at it and go well
Caesar Kalinowski:if you did a pretty good job using the four questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:However, let me ask you a couple of questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, then we realize, there is actually an issue behind the issue, and sometimes an issue behind that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that's really where the unbelief lies.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Tina Kalinowski:Right.
Tina Kalinowski:It's not, it's not necessarily, there's a lot of, like, like we were saying, there's a lot of things that could be the actual issue.
Tina Kalinowski:Like, you know, if you're freaking out about losing your job, are you freaking out because you actually have to make your house payment tomorrow?
Tina Kalinowski:Is it a
Caesar Kalinowski:provision thing behind the thing?
Tina Kalinowski:Right.
Tina Kalinowski:Or is it a security thing?
Tina Kalinowski:Like, you don't believe God loves you enough to actually provide for you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or is it, I don't want to be thought badly of, I've never been fired before.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so it's really, you know, going back to the four G's, it's really not believing that God is glorious.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so I fear what others think of me.
Caesar Kalinowski:And really, I don't even need this job.
Caesar Kalinowski:But if I was to get fired or I got a bad review, so you, you want to make sure you're asking the four questions and answering who is God, how's he proven those things in light of the real
Tina Kalinowski:thing.
Tina Kalinowski:Yes, because oftentimes, like Caesar was saying, we'll help, you know, be helping somebody work through these four questions in regards to an issue, and they get to the end and they're like, well, that, yeah, I guess it helps a little, but it's, I don't really feel like I'm set free, like it's, it's not really giving me that, that peace and freedom that I'm thinking of.
Tina Kalinowski:And then, so then we'll ask a few more questions.
Tina Kalinowski:And start then talking about, well, who's God in light of those answers?
Tina Kalinowski:Which
Caesar Kalinowski:then, remember, those all toggle together.
Caesar Kalinowski:When we answer question one, well, who is God and what's he like in light of that issue?
Caesar Kalinowski:Once you get to the right one, now the attributes of God and his character qualities probably could be very different.
Caesar Kalinowski:There might be overlap.
Caesar Kalinowski:But now then when you answer, okay, how has he proven that in scripture?
Caesar Kalinowski:Where have we seen that in our own lives in the past?
Caesar Kalinowski:What's different now?
Caesar Kalinowski:Those things might be very different.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then speaking into our identity, okay, then in light of all that, what's true of us?
Caesar Kalinowski:See, here's why it's so important not to skip over or take the time to pray, ask the Spirit, go through that list of attributes of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's so important to get to the thing behind the thing with good questions and then really take the time to go, okay, what is everything that we know to be true about God connected to that in his character?
Caesar Kalinowski:Not what he does.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's question two.
Caesar Kalinowski:What does he do to prove that?
Caesar Kalinowski:And oftentimes, we want to do to be God.
Caesar Kalinowski:Be careful with that.
Tina Kalinowski:Oh my gosh, that is probably one of our biggest issues in all of this, is that we're, we do to be ourselves, and then we do to
Caesar Kalinowski:be God.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know what we're talking about, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Do to be what you do equals who you are and your value.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:We live under that tyranny, so then we do it to everyone else.
Caesar Kalinowski:Guess what?
Caesar Kalinowski:We do it to God.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:I had this conversation with a guy the other day.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I was like, Oh, so your relationship with God, it sounds very, very transactional.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's like, what do you mean?
Caesar Kalinowski:I said, well, you're upset with God right now.
Caesar Kalinowski:A little bit.
Caesar Kalinowski:He said, which understandable that happens.
Caesar Kalinowski:God can handle it.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're in a relationship with him, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:We see David, King David, the same thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:He says, yeah, I just need to know what to expect from God.
Caesar Kalinowski:In other words, he's not doing what you want him to do to have the God like value in your life.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's not being a good genie.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you could see the lightbulb went on.
Caesar Kalinowski:So now we were getting to the thing behind the thing, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:And so be careful that you don't do to be God like when when you are answering the questions, question one What's God like?
Caesar Kalinowski:Am I this?
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, God always does this Nope, that's second question.
Caesar Kalinowski:Mm
Tina Kalinowski:hmm.
Tina Kalinowski:And that happens so, you know, probably 80 percent of the time when we first start going through these four questions with people, they just skip right over one and go right to two.
Tina Kalinowski:Because we've been taught to think in this do to be way, , where doing is the more important thing than being, and.
Caesar Kalinowski:And by the way, if you don't get the attributes of God and who he is and what he's like before you get to the proof.
Caesar Kalinowski:In scripture, at the cross, in your own life, those are still true of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:If you don't do that, if you don't take that time, and you accidentally do to be God, then when you get to the third question, what's true of me?
Caesar Kalinowski:Or this person that you're trying to help?
Caesar Kalinowski:Then you're gonna have a bunch of do to be built into there.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's what's so important, if nothing else, don't miss this.
Caesar Kalinowski:The gospel is always about what's true of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then how that speaks into who we are and how we get to live.
Caesar Kalinowski:And remember, discipleship is the process of moving from unbelief to belief.
Caesar Kalinowski:in absolutely every area in light of the gospel.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so the deeper we go into the character of God, who, by the way, we're created in His image, remember when we talked about our identity?
Caesar Kalinowski:The deeper we realize that in connection to a specific issue, the more freedom we're going to get, and that's what we're needing to move to belief in.
Caesar Kalinowski:See why this is cornerstone to making disciples who make disciples.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're
Tina Kalinowski:actually reinforcing or just sometimes, sometimes reminding, sometimes reinforcing.
Tina Kalinowski:Sometimes we are just learning about who God is in a new way.
Tina Kalinowski:And, you know, I think sometimes when we look at these issues that we're going through that, that we like are trying to apply the gospel to, we think, Oh, this is something that's.
Tina Kalinowski:It's happening to me.
Tina Kalinowski:This is, this is a bad thing.
Tina Kalinowski:It's happening to me.
Tina Kalinowski:And yet sometimes, and more often, I'm, we're just having this conversation.
Tina Kalinowski:I was just having this conversation with a friend of mine the other day that really, I think more of these things are actually happening for us, not to us.
Tina Kalinowski:They're
Caesar Kalinowski:happening for us.
Caesar Kalinowski:God's trying to reveal his glory and wants us to believe that, trust that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then
Tina Kalinowski:trust who we are in light of who he is.
Tina Kalinowski:I mean, that, that changes your life.
Tina Kalinowski:You
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, so let's connect the dots one more time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Practicing it first in your own life a bunch, writing it out, maybe with your spouse, very, very close friend.
Caesar Kalinowski:Then before trying to reel this out and good news someone else, making sure you've asked enough questions that you feel pretty clear on what's the thing behind the thing, maybe connected to one of those four G's that we learned previous module.
Caesar Kalinowski:Mm hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and then taking, going back and taking the time to think through all this and answer the four questions for that person or that issue before having the conversation with them.
Caesar Kalinowski:Because here's the thing, you may not get straight through all four questions in a conversation.
Caesar Kalinowski:You're learning them in a very rigid format.
Caesar Kalinowski:Question one, question two, question three, question four, because you're learning the language.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:But think about any other language or instrument you learn to play or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:You learn fundamentals, you learn through practice in a very specific way, specific order and all that.
Caesar Kalinowski:But then when it comes to the conversation, it's much more free flowing.
Caesar Kalinowski:So if you've deeply thought through and answered the four questions, let's say in connection to something that's going on and your friend's flipping out about something going on at work or whatever, their boss, whatever, you might, you might enter into the conversation and you're talking to them, asking them, Whoa, what do you believe in to be true about yourself right now?
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's unbelief there.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's question three, what do you believe in?
Caesar Kalinowski:That's kind of going the other way through the questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, we talked, you can go either way.
Caesar Kalinowski:What do you believe in to be true yourself right now?
Caesar Kalinowski:They're like, well, I just, I feel like I suck at work.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm not doing good.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or I feel like my boss hates me.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they have the, you know, my boss has the, you're the vice president.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you're like, whoa, there's a lot of unbelief there.
Caesar Kalinowski:But who does God say you are?
Caesar Kalinowski:Wait a second.
Caesar Kalinowski:How do we get to that?
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, we look at his attributes because it's out of who he is and what he's done to prove those attributes is what's true of us.
Caesar Kalinowski:Dearly Loved, Don't Have to Prove or Earn, Fill in the Blanks.
Caesar Kalinowski:See how that works?
Caesar Kalinowski:So, we're wanting to first practice it well, then before speaking to someone else, make sure we are getting as clear as we can through prayer, good questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:What is the thing behind the thing?
Caesar Kalinowski:Then do that work yourself before Trying to good news the person and then let the spirit guide that you might not get through all four questions in one conversation
Tina Kalinowski:You might not I think that's really key what you just said to about the spirit I we need to start asking to start this whole process whether it's for us or for someone else By asking the spirit to really reveal Like, what's really going on in her heart?
Tina Kalinowski:Like, where, where really is this unbelief?
Tina Kalinowski:What is it I need to be thinking about and like getting to know about God?
Tina Kalinowski:And then, and then asking the Spirit when you're talking with other people to lead you in that and not to be, have this tyranny of, I have to get through all these, all four.
Tina Kalinowski:I have to be
Caesar Kalinowski:right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or I have
Tina Kalinowski:to get through all four questions or else I am somehow missing it and they're not going to.
Tina Kalinowski:You know, they're not going to be okay.
Tina Kalinowski:Well, that is not up to you.
Tina Kalinowski:Just, just so you know, sometimes we get through, we just start like opening the door on a conversation, especially if somebody might be like a not yet believer, somebody who doesn't know dad very well, you know,
Caesar Kalinowski:or at all.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're going to talk about that in a minute, how we use this and the differences between with a believer and not yet believer.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, so.
Caesar Kalinowski:Once you're word Tina was just saying, and you've practiced, you've thought through it, you've done the hard work before having the conversation, you're letting the spirit guide you.
Caesar Kalinowski:If you do get to the point, let's say this is with a believer mm-hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:, and you wanna say, Hey, um, you're starting to have a conversation.
Caesar Kalinowski:Would you mind if I showed you something that I've been learning how to ask Four very simple but powerful questions to help get to the gospel issue behind whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know right now, this is what's going on in your heart.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they're like, okay, don't make this a quiz.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, I've seen people do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're like, here's the four questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:So in light of your husband's that he wants to, you know, He wants to leave or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's leaving the household or something.
Caesar Kalinowski:Whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's something heavy or could be really small, whatever you're like Well, what do we know to be true about God and what he's like and and they don't they don't know attributes are coming to Their mind they don't have that list.
Caesar Kalinowski:Maybe they don't really know the word that well or whatever So then they give a couple of do to be answers.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, I know that God takes care of his kids Well, that's a true statement, but why does he do that?
Caesar Kalinowski:What's true?
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't make it a quiz.
Caesar Kalinowski:Have a conversation.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, something that comes to my mind is that, you know, God's this way.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is true of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:And remember in scripture when this happened, have you ever seen that in your own life before?
Caesar Kalinowski:See, you see the difference.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's conversational.
Tina Kalinowski:Yeah.
Tina Kalinowski:And it's a lot more asking questions.
Tina Kalinowski:It's a journey of discovery, I think.
Tina Kalinowski:Um, and that's, that's how we're trying to, that's
Caesar Kalinowski:feels yes.
Caesar Kalinowski:Versus I'm gonna give you the answer.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's your pill and make you feel better.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Try to avoid that's icky.
Tina Kalinowski:And honestly, you're giving somebody a gift of helping them think through this way.
Tina Kalinowski:Like this is something because they can take this and apply these same, you know, the same process to so many other issues in their life.
Tina Kalinowski:It's
Caesar Kalinowski:not.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I love getting to where you actually do write it out with someone else and say, Hey, let me pull out a little tool.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm learning this.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I, you know, and you help them out.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, now what you're doing is you're actually modeling.
Caesar Kalinowski:You're helping them engage it and then say, Hey, why don't you want to take this and think through it and pray through a little bit deeper?
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's circle back and talk through maybe how we fourth question how you get to live and I get to respond Yeah, you're like don't rush the process especially early on and you put on your fluency You might be able to surgically ask a few key questions that helps a person re center on the person and work of God and Christ and what's true of them and they get kind of reminded of the truth and set free pretty quickly.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is going to take a while.
Caesar Kalinowski:Think about how long it takes to learn a language.
Tina Kalinowski:Yeah, I mean honestly when I first started Using these four questions.
Tina Kalinowski:I had to have them written down in a little card in my wallet because on your phone in an app I couldn't remember, you know, it was the same thing with the four G's when I first started to try to learn those I could never remember all of them.
Tina Kalinowski:And yeah, so like anything else it's like if it's important to you like I had my little cheat sheet and I would sometimes share this is you know, when people would say, well, how do you like, you know, how do you come up with this?
Tina Kalinowski:Or you know, how did you, how were you able to get to this?
Tina Kalinowski:I would say, well, here's, here's what I use.
Tina Kalinowski:I just,
Caesar Kalinowski:these four questions helped me get to the thing behind the thing and refocus on God.
Caesar Kalinowski:Cause you notice how different it feels as soon as you take a person's eyes off of themselves.
Caesar Kalinowski:And the first question is, well, what is God like in light of this?
Caesar Kalinowski:Right away, I always feel like a hundred pounds come off.
Caesar Kalinowski:I feel like 50 percent of the work, at least half, maybe two thirds, is, oh, we're getting there because now instead of focus on me, my problem, someone else is thinking about who I am, their response, they're not doing what we hope they are, they're not, whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:All of a sudden now the whole focus shifts off of me or someone else and my problem to who God is and
Tina Kalinowski:what he's like.
Tina Kalinowski:God's goodness.
Tina Kalinowski:Yeah.
Tina Kalinowski:Oh, sorry.
Tina Kalinowski:Yeah.
Tina Kalinowski:I kept feeling something.
Caesar Kalinowski:All right.
Caesar Kalinowski:All right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So.
Caesar Kalinowski:So that's important.
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't quiz the person.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, here's ultimately the goal, believe it or not, is to be able to do this in community, where as a missional community, as an oikos, as a family on mission, a group of people who are growing in their fluency, applying the four questions together for a person, for one
Tina Kalinowski:another.
Tina Kalinowski:Yeah, for one another.
Tina Kalinowski:This is one of the This is powerful.
Tina Kalinowski:It'll blow your mind when you get to this.
Tina Kalinowski:One of the most beautiful experiences.
Tina Kalinowski:Of my life is doing this with a group of people, uh, sometimes in the same room.
Tina Kalinowski:Sometimes we've done it on Zoom together.
Tina Kalinowski:Yeah.
Tina Kalinowski:We, you know, with people all across the country and, and all across the world.
Tina Kalinowski:But the opportunity that we have to like, uh, do this with, to, with a lot of people, uh, to, to focus maybe on one person's concerns or issues and then, but to have the whole group share their perspective of who they,
Caesar Kalinowski:they think about how much wiser we are in a group.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's say there's six or seven of us sitting, talking around.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, you know, Mary's having a problem and she says, Boy, I'd love to know how the gospel speaks and it's great.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's go through the four questions together.
Caesar Kalinowski:Say, Mary, I'm going to ask you, but I'm going to ask us, Like, what do we know to be true of God with this issue?
Caesar Kalinowski:And maybe Mary's got one or two things like, Oh God, he's gentle.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's generous, whatever the issue would be.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then other people, you know, what else comes to mind would be this.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm like, I didn't even think of that.
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't know that I would have come up with that in maybe two hours of thinking, but other people's perspectives.
Tina Kalinowski:And sometimes those perspectives actually help us nail the true issue.
Tina Kalinowski:And in behind the thing pops
Caesar Kalinowski:all of a sudden.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yes.
Caesar Kalinowski:As soon as they hear that, they go, wait a second.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's tapping my heart in a different way.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:which then leads to, okay, different aspects of proof in scripture in our own lives.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's the other thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:When you go, Hey, so we've just come up with 5, 6, 7 things about what God is like in connection to this issue.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then we start looking at all the proof in scripture.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then in our own lives, when you do this in a group, Oh, let me tell you about one time this was going on and, and then this happened and then that went down and then God did this.
Caesar Kalinowski:So Tina to do that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh my goodness.
Caesar Kalinowski:And all of a sudden it's rich and you've got all this biblical proof and you've got proof in your own lives and you can see it magnified in Jesus life, death and resurrection.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh my goodness.
Caesar Kalinowski:It will be so rich.
Caesar Kalinowski:You and you'll always get to the, I feel like we always get to the thing behind the thing a lot deeper, right?
Tina Kalinowski:And it always, honestly, for every person who participates in that, everybody goes, Oh man, that just pricked my heart.
Tina Kalinowski:That just, that just helped me.
Tina Kalinowski:I was in a whole other issue, but hearing what you were saying has really helped me tonight.
Tina Kalinowski:Like it, nobody comes away from that unscathed, you know, like nobody walks away.
Tina Kalinowski:That's
Caesar Kalinowski:the beauty of the gospel.
Caesar Kalinowski:It expands to, it's the answer to every question.
Caesar Kalinowski:It expands to meet all of us right where we're at.
Caesar Kalinowski:So even though.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, I wasn't having the same issue tonight that Mary is, by going through this in community and all the richness of answering those four questions, looking at the gospel in light of that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, I've had that problem before, or guess what?
Caesar Kalinowski:Next time it comes up, I'm gonna have a whole base of understanding of the gospel speaking into that for me.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's powerful.
Caesar Kalinowski:Are you feeling
Tina Kalinowski:that difference?
Tina Kalinowski:It is so powerful.
Tina Kalinowski:It, that.
Tina Kalinowski:And, and, you know, some people are like, Oh, I could never do that because like, I'd have to like, let people know that I don't have it all together.
Tina Kalinowski:And, and I would say, this is the most beautiful, powerful thing, because when we are honest with one another about our struggles and, and our unbelief.
Tina Kalinowski:Um, not only can we address those areas of unbelief, but then we have everybody behind us helping us remind us when we start having those same struggles, because oftentimes these are things that they're well worn grooves for us, and we're going to fall into that same pattern a few times of having to gospel our hearts out of it.
Tina Kalinowski:Maybe a million.
Tina Kalinowski:Maybe a million.
Tina Kalinowski:Honestly.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I'll tell you what, you want to talk about binding a community together.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:When you do this together, when you actually dig out the gospel on behalf of one another, and there's all these varying various perspectives, by the way, think Ephesians 4, Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd, Teacher.
Caesar Kalinowski:I guess with those different people in the room, even if it's not all five, do you know how different a perspective of a prophet is from a shepherd?
Caesar Kalinowski:But speaking to the same issue and who God is and what he's like, oh my goodness, when you do this, the way it binds your hearts one to another, like, oh, I know, I know how to help Mary.
Caesar Kalinowski:I know how to pray for her.
Caesar Kalinowski:I know that she's a little sensitive in this area because she let her redemption show enough to help let us do this.
Caesar Kalinowski:There again, you're not trying to fix each other.
Caesar Kalinowski:No.
Tina Kalinowski:Be careful.
Tina Kalinowski:And in fact, this is a journey.
Tina Kalinowski:I was.
Tina Kalinowski:I was gonna say earlier when Caesar was giving an example of an issue with the boss, I, that was definitely something right out of our life.
Tina Kalinowski:That was like a real life thing where I came home and I was really upset about an issue I, I had, was having at work.
Tina Kalinowski:And, um, it's not something that once you even get fluent at this, that, that you're just, you know, never going to have a problem again, that, you know, you're always going to have the answer.
Tina Kalinowski:No.
Tina Kalinowski:Because.
Tina Kalinowski:Things will hit you in different ways, or just like we were saying, different situations that you've never been in before, that you've never had to apply the gospel to before.
Tina Kalinowski:And, and we need one
Caesar Kalinowski:another.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we were, we were walking through the four questions and the four G's in light of some stuff Tina was going through at work.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it took time, was careful, first letting her get her heart out.
Caesar Kalinowski:She was angry, actually, and a little hurt, and it was understandable.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, you know, I, at least in this time, I didn't just fix
Tina Kalinowski:her.
Tina Kalinowski:No, he did a really good job, actually.
Tina Kalinowski:He asked a lot of great
Caesar Kalinowski:questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sometimes if I'm busy or I'm in binary mode, I just go like, well, what, what, what, and I go right through the four questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:And she's like, you know, I just need you to listen for a second.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah,
Tina Kalinowski:you did a really good job listening.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, quick, quick, little, quick word on the difference between how you use this with a believer and a not yet believer.
Caesar Kalinowski:You don't want to be quizzing anybody, but you can't even really quiz a not yet believer on, well, based on that issue in your life, what do you know to be true about God?
Caesar Kalinowski:They're not going to have answers for that.
Tina Kalinowski:No, they don't know our Father.
Tina Kalinowski:They don't know enough about God to be able to even have an answer that's, that will even
Caesar Kalinowski:help them.
Caesar Kalinowski:And there again, remember, don't feel like the rigidity of how we're learning it, 1, or 4, 3, 2, 1, that's not necessarily how the conversation will roll out.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we might be.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like I was using the example earlier, it might be like, wow, I'm really sorry about that.
Caesar Kalinowski:How are you feeling about that?
Caesar Kalinowski:What do you think?
Caesar Kalinowski:What do you what what's making making you feel that way?
Caesar Kalinowski:What do you believe in about yourself right now?
Caesar Kalinowski:You might need to start there or you might need to say, you know, we've talked a lot about our faith in the past I really believe that God loves you so much and he, he's going to provide for you.
Caesar Kalinowski:I look at our own life and all the times that we've had this or that or lost jobs or had cars break down.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I watched, Oh, let me tell you one story.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you tell me a little story of God's provision and you go, you know, and I see that over and over and over in the Bible.
Caesar Kalinowski:I think he's that way a lot.
Caesar Kalinowski:I know he'll take care of you and he might use our community to do that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you see, this is all part of discipleship.
Caesar Kalinowski:God might be bringing things into their life and then we're having gospel conversations with people and then God's using us because we're his body now, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:We're the body of Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:And here's another big thing is that oftentimes you'll say, so, because you're not a believer yet.
Caesar Kalinowski:I was like, I know you might not believe all that just yet.
Caesar Kalinowski:But what if you did?
Caesar Kalinowski:What if you believed that our Father God who created us and owns it all, loves us and knows all our needs and knows exactly when your last day of work might be or what your next job will be or what he's planning to do in the future.
Caesar Kalinowski:What if that were true?
Caesar Kalinowski:What if you really believed that?
Caesar Kalinowski:How would that change how you feel right now?
Caesar Kalinowski:And so that was what if questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:Those are powerful, super powerful believers and not yet believers.
Caesar Kalinowski:But I use it with, I use it with not yet believers all the time.
Caesar Kalinowski:And when I know God's at work, they'll say something like, I wish that were true, or I wish I had the faith to believe it to the degree that you do.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, I do too.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, would it be okay if I prayed and asked God to maybe show you that was true of him?
Caesar Kalinowski:and maybe give you a little bit of extra faith.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or could I loan you sometimes we'll say?
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh yeah, I
Tina Kalinowski:love that one because people have done that to me.
Tina Kalinowski:Sometimes, you know, even as a believer, like just lonely faith.
Tina Kalinowski:Can I just loan you some
Caesar Kalinowski:faith?
Caesar Kalinowski:I believe with all my heart and I know you trust us.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, just maybe getting to know a little bit more about God and all that and you're, you're, you're where you're at.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's all good.
Caesar Kalinowski:Can I just loan you some faith that God's not gonna leave you or forsake you?
Caesar Kalinowski:He's not.
Caesar Kalinowski:And proof of that is look at all the friends in the neighborhood in the community you're getting to know people and we're all figuring this out and journeying together.
Caesar Kalinowski:So let me loan you a little bit of trust there.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is all part of, now, did we just go question one, two, three, four, or four, three, two, one?
Caesar Kalinowski:No.
Caesar Kalinowski:Not, not yet, but maybe that's all we need in this conversation today, and then maybe we'll pick that up later.
Caesar Kalinowski:We find very often someone will come back to us with, we weren't pushy, we weren't weird, and I was thinking about that so much.
Tina Kalinowski:I have that happen all the time.
Tina Kalinowski:Like I may only have the opportunity to.
Tina Kalinowski:You know, just talk a little bit with somebody or remind them that I believe that they're a dearly loved daughter of the King of Kings, who he wants to take care of just that little bit.
Tina Kalinowski:And later on, they'll come back and be like, why do you believe that?
Tina Kalinowski:And then I'll get the opportunity to go a little bit into like, okay, well, this is, these are the things, the ways that he's shown in the Bible.
Tina Kalinowski:This is like, it says that we were made in his image and that we are his dearly loved kids.
Tina Kalinowski:And
Caesar Kalinowski:I've done this and this and this.
Caesar Kalinowski:And guess how God responded in each case, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:It wasn't like, Oh, he's angry now, or he's just been waiting to, aha, I knew it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so you're sharing your story of faith and parts of your own testimony are leaking out, leaking into it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And.
Tina Kalinowski:And then you may not get very far in that next conversation, and they come back again, and say, But it's all part
Caesar Kalinowski:of your fluency.
Caesar Kalinowski:Think about it like any other language, as you're learning, there again, Spanish.
Caesar Kalinowski:Every time you use it, you don't use all of Spanish?
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, I was just at the restaurant, and I was trying to see if I could order off the menu and be polite, and then get the bill, and find the bathroom afterwards, and thank them.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, why did you go into politics, and why did you go into...
Caesar Kalinowski:How come their shoes don't match their belt?
Caesar Kalinowski:Or, you know, like you're not using every bit of every language as you're learning it, or even as you know it, you're, you're still being a human and you're still being gentle and polite and letting the spirit speak in one ear while you're listening in the other ear too.
Tina Kalinowski:That's so important.
Tina Kalinowski:Just listening to the spirit and letting him guide you and letting.
Tina Kalinowski:Letting it be okay to leave kind of the unended conversation, you know, for now, for
Caesar Kalinowski:now, trust in the spirit in that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, there is so much to learn in the language of the gospel and growing in our fluency.
Caesar Kalinowski:Thank you, Tina, for sharing a little of your journey with that and your own wisdom in that.
Caesar Kalinowski:I hope this was helpful.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, I know I love it again, even in talking through this.
Caesar Kalinowski:I felt like a little bit of good news today.
Caesar Kalinowski:I felt a little gospel and a little reminded of the truth there again Remember discipleship is this process of ourselves helping others and vice versa move from unbelief to belief in Absolutely every area of life in light of that gospel good news of who God is and what he's done in into Christ What's Now True of Us.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we get to live in light of the kingdom, in light of that
Tina Kalinowski:good news.
Tina Kalinowski:Yeah, and we can only do this when we have a relationship of trust with the other person.
Tina Kalinowski:And you can kind of good news them a little bit, a little bit.
Tina Kalinowski:Even with somebody you might just be standing, you know, in the line at the grocery store, you can give them a little bit of good news.
Tina Kalinowski:Careful, right?
Tina Kalinowski:But honestly, most of these more deeper conversations, they're going to be with people that
Caesar Kalinowski:trust you.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you're building relationships.
Caesar Kalinowski:Remember, the kingdom of God expands.
Caesar Kalinowski:at the speed of relationship and the gospel moves along those pathways of trust.
Caesar Kalinowski:So great way to wrap that up.
Caesar Kalinowski:I know this is going to be helpful to you.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is how you're going to grow in your gospel fluency.
Caesar Kalinowski:Any questions you have at all, be sure to hop into Facebook group there on Facebook and ask those questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:I really love that Tina and I get to do this together, making disciples of Jesus together as a lifestyle.
Caesar Kalinowski:And as you can hear, it is so, so important that as a couple, we're both growing in our knowledge and understanding of how the gospel speaks good news into every area of life.
Caesar Kalinowski:And also that we're on the same page.
Caesar Kalinowski:As to being on mission, as a couple, as a family, together.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay, so, I hope that encouraged you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, let's get to our Big 3 takeaways from today's topic.
Caesar Kalinowski:If nothing else, you don't want to miss these.
Caesar Kalinowski:Kind of summarize a few of the big points.
Caesar Kalinowski:And as always, you can get a printable PDF of this week's Big 3 as a free download by going to everydaydisciple.
Caesar Kalinowski:com forward slash Big Three.
Caesar Kalinowski:You might also want to check out my book, Bigger Gospel, Learning to Speak, Live, and Enjoy the Good News in Every Year of Life.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can get that at missiopublishing.
Caesar Kalinowski:com and I will also put a link to that book in the Big Three download for you.
Caesar Kalinowski:So here we go.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's the Big Three for this week.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number one, the gospel is good news for every area of your life, not just your afterlife.
Caesar Kalinowski:It transforms every corner of your existence.
Caesar Kalinowski:So often people think that Christianity is about avoiding hell and going to heaven.
Caesar Kalinowski:And as we wait, it's a lot of sin management and behavioral modification.
Caesar Kalinowski:No, it's about embracing a new way of life that starts right now, a life filled with hope, love, and purpose.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number two, God now sees you as his cherished and dearly loved son or daughter.
Caesar Kalinowski:You don't have to jump through hoops or put on a facade to earn his love.
Caesar Kalinowski:Nope.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's a free gift given because of what Jesus has already accomplished for you.
Caesar Kalinowski:It is finished.
Caesar Kalinowski:Imagine waking up every day knowing that you are unconditionally loved, just as you are.
Caesar Kalinowski:Believe what God says is true about you and Him now, right now, and live in it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And number three, when you become fluent in the gospel, it's like speaking the language of freedom and joy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Really, you'll find yourself unburdened by all the unnecessary baggage that life can throw your way.
Caesar Kalinowski:or other people.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you won't have to fear rejection when sharing your faith with others because your message will be so genuine and full of hope that it will resonate deeply with them.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's like having the key to unlock a world of true liberation, both for yourself and those around you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Remember Jesus said, I'm giving you the keys to the kingdom.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sharing the gospel becomes a natural and beautiful thing because it is truly good news.
Caesar Kalinowski:I want that for you.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I'm hoping that these last, , a bunch of episodes are helpful to that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you know, I guess I'm gonna start wrapping it up for today, but next week.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'll double dip and introduce you to two different disciple making practitioners who will share their hearts and life experiences in using their growing gospel fluency at home as couples with their kids, neighbors, extended family with the church.
Caesar Kalinowski:One is a stay at home mom and the other is a pastor and you'll love them both and you'll really appreciate the normalcy.
Caesar Kalinowski:with which they talk about the gospel in all of life.
Caesar Kalinowski:I think it'll encourage you and it'll kind of keep you moving on this journey of growing in your gospel fluency.
Caesar Kalinowski:I sure hope you'll join me for that.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'll talk to you soon.
Caesar Kalinowski:Announcer-Heath Hollensbe: Thanks for joining us today.
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Caesar Kalinowski:And remember, you really can live with the spiritual freedom and relational peace that Jesus promised every day.
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