Encourage Someone Before they Die

Andrew Rappaport's Rapp Report Daily

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Welcome to The Rapid Bull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is the Ministry of Striving for Eternity. Many years ago when I started doing my

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Striving for Eternity Academy of the free courses that we offer on YouTube for people to learn theology, introduction to the world of religions, how to interpret the

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Bible, how to disciple someone, we have all these courses out there. I was struck over many years at the fact that when

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I would go to funerals, I would hear people say some of the most encouraging things about a person who just passed away.

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The thing that always strikes me is how much those people when they were alive would love to have heard about those things.

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I started at the end of my shows to try to find one person that we could seek to as a group and encourage each week.

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Because I realized, and maybe if you think about it too, if you've ever been to a funeral, you hear how encouraging people speak of someone.

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I remember once with a young man who actually took his own life in despair.

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And person after person after person came up saying what an impact he made on their life.

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And I realized this young man probably never even knew it. Because people kept that to themselves.

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I wonder if things would have been different if they encouraged him while he was still alive.

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And that's what I would like to encourage you to consider to do. To encourage others as much as you can while they're still alive.

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You don't know the impact it might make. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org