Erin is such a good role model as a Christian, wife, mom, daughter, sister-in-law, aunt and granddaughter and more. Chad is so much of a good model as a Christian, husband, dad, son, brother, brother-in-law and more.
You're my favorite couple in the Bates family!!
I love hearing...pray your way through the Scriptures!! We are told in our Bible to PRAY without ceasing. We need to pray the Scriptures for our life.
When you have a mate who cares most about your walk with Jesus, who wants your marriage to be built on the scriptures and who always wants to seek God with you for His will, and for your children, it's the most wonderful thing in the world. My husband always prayed for and with me. I miss his prayers so much.
You were blessed! Thank you for sharing that to honor your husband. I’m sure you were a wonderful wife to him and blessing him also!
Chad & Erin, this is an amazing platform for you guys! I pray you continue to bless people with more content like this! You both are called for this! 🙏
Praying you will all be safe as hurricane Milton hits Florida
As a Pastor’s wife, this podcast really blessed my heart and challenged me in my Bible Study, Prayer life, Service for the Lord in ministry, and sharing the Gospel whatever way I can while there is still time before the Rapture or my home going. Pray for Western NC. Hurricane Helene hit us very hard. Hurting people EVERYWHERE. A great and effectual door is opened to us right now. We just need the Lord to show us where He is working and then allow Him to use us as His conduit to be Salt, to Shine, and to Speak as He puts His Word in our mouths.
I listen to Scott Pauley’s “Enjoying the Journey” podcast while driving to work! He has also visited our church in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and he is a phenomenal speaker! Thank you for sharing this video. I also agree with everything he has said especially when he answered the questions about “Why does God allow bad things to happen?” He answered this so well by saying “We live in a fallen world!” To the people that ask these questions, remember that “man” is full of sin and it is because of the sin of man that we have troubles, sickness and grief. God wants us to look to Him for all these issues and we need to show him how faithful we are as Christians.
Erin And Chad Thank Y'all So Much For Sharing This Video With All Of Us I Really Enjoyed Watching This Video .
I absolutely love your channel! I’m 50yrs old and wasn’t raised in a Christian home. I was raised in the opposite environment. The Lord drew me in 20 years ago and I’m still learning and I wish I would have had mentors like you and your husband in my earlier days! God bless you and your precious family and know that you’re even helping us older folks who never had guidance or mentoring and are trying hard not to stumble in our walk with The Lord❤️
When things happen and we're tempted to ask why, we need to realize we're asking the wrong question. The right questions to ask are what and how...what would God have me do with this situation, and how would He have me glorify Him through it. Simply changing the questions we ask will change our whole attitude towards the situation. Doesn't mean we won't still hurt, but we will walk through it differently if we view it correctly through the right questions.
Erin and Chad- Thank you for being so intentional with your content. It’s clear that your goal of each post is to lead others to Christ and to encourage their spiritual journey. Your content is peaceful and purposeful. You are inspirational to me as a Christian, and I’m grateful.
So excited to go to this etj site this is great for how busy I am. I feel I don't have time to read the Bible so this is a great start with incorporating faith daily.
The author IS always with you!!❤❤
I am beyond grateful to have listened to this. I very much appreciated the desire to present Jesus and not exalt self in anyway! This conversation was one of the most humbling encouraging messages I've ever heard. May his ministry continue to stay alive, reaching others for the sake of Jesus Christ!!!
So thankful for Bro. Pauley And the encouragement he has been all my life!
So cool when 3 of my favorite people meet up. Also when Chad said Bro. Pauley was your Sunday School teacher I had to go back twice to make sure I heard what he said. How cool! What a blessing to sit under his leadership and glean from him in person. Thanks for sharing. ♥️
I'M PRAYING FOR THE LORD TO TOUCH YOUR MINISTRY 🙏
Erin&Chad what a Blessing thank you for sharing this with your subscribers it really Blessed my heart!! You guys are one of Gods Beautiful Blessings and you share so much…. My prayer is that He continues to Bless you guys and all the people who pour into you guys, I pray that they will be Blessed as well!!! 🙏🏻
What a joy to open my phone this morning and find this interview! Bro Pauley’s preaching and teaching has been so pivotal in my life. What a blessing! Thank you! 🍃🌸🍃
Thank you Chad and Erin, for sharing this on your channel! We ( my wife and I) enjoy your watching and following your family! Love and prayers continue for you! Appreciate this video a lot ...it was an eye opener for me on some things that I need more of! You have blessed so many! God bless you now. Love you folks too!❤
I like this evangelist. He speaks extremely well, and seems very inclusive of the different Christian religions. Being a very ecumenical Catholic and having taught all the major religions of the world in my 33 year high school history teaching career, I look for similarities and not differences. So many fundamentalist preachers dwell on differences of groups under the Christian umbrella. This man did not do that at all. Thank you for having him speak. ❤️
His voice and mannerisms remind me so much of Mike Johnson, the speaker of the house.
Sometimes the problems of today are the blessings of tomorrow. My whole life has been one bad thing after another that I had no say
Will now listen to Enjoying the Journey. I loved this interview! What a blessing,
Are you somewhere safe. Praying for your family.🙏🙏🙏
This was awesome! I love y'all's channel and Ilisten to Scott Pauley everyday. His messages are so encouraging and challenging!
I don’t often text on TH-cam but I just want you to know I am grateful to say THANK YOU JESUS FOR THIS LOVE AND ENCOURAGEMENT and Understanding. Thank you Chad and Erin and you have very special hearts and beautiful family. I love you all and I’m very grateful for this today and always. Love sincerely Velda Miller. 😇😇😇
Loved this conversation so much. What a blessing; thank you so much!
Oh my gracious, what a wonderful video. May God continue to Bless your Channel 🙏
Wonderful! I love to listen to podcasts when I wake up at 3 am!
What an excellent, wholesome and helpful video. Thanks for posting it.
WOW..i LOVE how this minister spoke and how he answered!!..
Thank you for this great program.
So helpful… I love your hearts for truth and more of the Love of our LORD.
May God bless you, your family daily. ❤
Chad and Erin thank you for introducing me to Scott Pauley. I needed a new direction in my life and I feel ETJ is where i need to start. God put you in the right place at my right time when I have been searching for getting closer to God. God bless you both.
Thank you muchly for bringing Pastor Scott to us & thanks to him for sharing. I am blessed to have a pastor whose mindset & service is Bible centered in the Gospel. As he was sharing...clean & precise answers, I heard my pastor as well. Our church motto is "Becoming a peoples to reach people for Christ". Thank you, Pastor Scott for your servant's heart to reach people for Christ. I look forward to explore your we site & resources.✝️
Thank you for always keeping us focused and encouraged the Lord!
You're faithfulness shines ! ❤thank you!
Such a wonderful interview! Thank you so much! ❤❤
Great answers. Thank you Chad & Erin for sharing this. The answers are right on point.
I really enjoyed this. I am going to apply what he taught about reading God's word. I typically try to get my chapters in each day, but what he said about Bible study resonated with me.
Thank you so much for sharing. I enjoyed Evangelist Pauley’s wisdom regarding different questions. I want to start listening to his podcast. Thank you again for this video
I needed this today ❤
I will be watching this again to get all the info again. Especially the praying as u read the Bible. Trying to understand that. Thank ubto all 3 of you!!!❤
Enjoyed this so much.
I was able to be in brother Pauley’s Bible doctrine class at Crown several years ago. ❤
love this guy great podcast
So good. Thank you and God bless
I was praying this week asking God some of these same questions with a very searching heart. God has used your channel to help me so much, especially through this particular video. I’ve never heard of the minister you have in this video as a guest, but I’ll never forget his words. Have you ever been seeking an answer, and God blatantly and clearly answers it!!?? That’s what happened for me today. Thank you. P.S. Erin, your skin is glowing and you look so very beautiful.
Such a great video!! Thanks for the wonderful content!! God bless you!!♥️
Thank you Erin for recommending Pastor Scott Pauley as a resource some months ago. His 10 minute topical sermons play in my home via Bluetooth speaker because we never know what neighbor or passerby might hear to arouse their curiosity about our Lord and Savior. What a treat to see this interview. Thank you both, Chad and Erin for your love of our Lord Jesus Christ .
Wonderful interview! What a great ministry.🤍
I love Bro. Scott Pauley. He was at my church last month and then he was at Crown when I was there. I actually saw you there one time but was a little shy to say Hi. Hahah.
Thank you for sharing this Pastor!
This was so good to hear. Thank you for taking the time to interview this evangelist.
Right out of the gate he laughed at the first person's questions and invalidated the pain & concern :(. There is a way to share your thoughts without being condescending. Why would that person feel anything other than shame or condemnation for asking that question? Why put all the responsibility on a victim of church hurt, instead of simply showing validation & compassion, and putting responsibility, accountability & consequences on the one who did the harm? I love so much of your channel, it makes me remember the sweetest days I had in my younger years when I stayed home & homeschooled my young children. But I wish we would all not be so quick to tell victims to show mercy, and be quicker to tell & hold church leaders responsible. This, too, is love & truth. It's not loving, however, to misplace responsibility from the one doing to the harm onto the victim, and then invalidating the victim's pain.
Tremendous…….thank you for sharing…..
Love dr Pauley! Heard of him via Erin
Thank you all!
He was one of my fav teachers in college.and preachers.
Terrific!
Love Bro Scott Pauley!
Je regarde votre chaine depuis la France et je vois en ce moment Milton qui arrive en Floride. Je vous espère en sécurité, je prie pour vous et toutes les personnes impactées.
Wow what a blessing. Thank you for all the resources. I'm excited to check them out. God bless you for letting the light of Jesus shine through you.
What a beautiful interview! I’m not familiar with this gentleman, but am so interested in learning more about his teachings! I’ve already downloaded the book on Kindle and it’s free! Thank you for sharing this! Much love and peace to you and your family.❤️🙏
Wonderful!!!! Thank you!
Hey!!! He’s married to my cousins sister!!! Don’t know if you’ve ever heard of my family, but they’re the Caldwells )evangelist) they do VBS.
What a blessing this was to me today - thank you
Love your channel ❤
Hey! I know Bro. Pauley! He is a great man of God, and he has been to our church.
Thank you so much for this video. I learned alot and am going to follow on the podcasts.❤
So good thank you
Great pastor
I've not been into a church building since 2020. I had a leg amputation in 2019 and before that happened I've had a couple if bad experiences at church as things iny life happened beyond my control but I was treated differently and I didn't like that feeling whatsoever so i just started watching church services online because Covid was in full swing. Now I feel uneasy going to a new church because of past experiences.
He should check into getting on real life network by Jack Hibbs. You all are such a blessing! Thank you so much. I will be looking into the resources you spoke of. Thank you again!
As I watch this video I'm thinking of my husband he's a believer and he has been born again but ......he has ADHD which means he suffers with many issues with having this, I have told him many times that God made him this way and that God wants him to call upon God for direction to overcome the many frustrated situations that come with ADHD in my daily quite times God keeps showing me how to deeply seek Him how to completely trust Him and not figure out what to do. The holy Spirit lead me to post this as I was watching Chad a Erin asking the evangelist this last question I want so bad for my husband and I to pray together we did this for awhile but we stopped because my husband didn't like that I use a devotional he has his focus on the wrong areas about God he would rather argue about things that will take the joy away and not keep his heart open to God's many promises I'm asking for prayer for my husband and for him and I to study God's word together again thank you Teresa Zufelt I would love to hear from anyone about this on my messenger God bless
Interesting video!😊
Twice in 2 different churches, I had Christians who were popular criticize me without knowing everything
Amen and I agree with him the Holy Spirit helped me 2 ways 1 I go to learn about God and Worship him 2 I ask the Holy Spirit to help me see Gods love for them not mine and it helped plus prayed God brings a pastor full of his love and in the last year I can see the Love in the church and Love in all the brothers and sisters
⁉️ Please let us know that everyone is alive in the Bate's family after hurricane..really worried!
Mama Bates posted that all are safe including the grandparents. The grandparents had a tree fall on a barn and lost a cow.
Think about this just because you look at it as bad doesn’t mean it is. If everyone was blind then no one could see and people wouldn’t judge by appearance.
Contention is of the devil. The natural man is an enemy to God; turn away from the natural man and become more like Jesus.
Church is not a museum for saints. It’s a hospital for sinners.
Hola aunque no soy cristiana, tengo una pregunta para ustedes: Que es peor .... no haber conocido nunca la palabra de Dios, o haberla conocido y quedar en el camino? No se si suscribirme al canal aunque me gusta, porque en mi pais muchas iglesias no permiten a sus miembros, relacionarse con gente mundana. Quizas la iglesia a la que van sea igual y no quiero perjudicarlos. Saludos desde Uruguay.
Please Let All Of Here Know That You'r Family Is Okay Thank Y'all So Much
My question. I am a 63 year old Christian. Why don’t evangelicals vote? I find this infuriating.
I don't see the link for this evangelist. Please share. This was so inspiring and I needed to hear every word. ❤️
He has a podcast and TH-cam channel called Enjoying the Journey.
Wow,a lot of things he said are so true,such a blessing,but I heard him say we are all sinners,I’m a child of the most high King,why?nothing I did but everything what Jesus did and is doing through me,he forgave me,I belong to Jesus,
Yes, our sins are forgiven and we are justified through God. However, when we get saved that does not mean we will never sin again. We will! We must continually return to him to ask for forgiveness as 1 John 1:9 says. Does it mean we will not go to Heaven when we sin? Absolutely not! We will. This is where the forgiveness of our sins comes in. But there are two judgement seats in the Bible. The Judgement Seat of Christ will be for those who are unsaved and who have never come to Christ. That is not us who knows Him as his our personal Savior. But there is also the Bema Seat of Christ given in Revelation. You will want to learn more about that. We, as Christians,will stand before Christ at the Bema Seat. This is not to judge eternity as the unsaved will face at The Great White Throne Judgement. But it is to judge our sin and what we did on earth while here. It does not mean God will decide Heaven or Hell for us but it means he will show our sins to everyone and we will lose rewards in Heaven and all other Christians will see our sins. We were born sinners and although God forgives our sins when we ask him He does not nor can he forget! We remain sinners on this earth as no man can be made perfect until Christ comes or takes us home. At that point, we become Christ-like completely. In the meantime, we must continue to go to the Lord every time we sin and once again ask forgiveness. Sounds like you may need to study and learn a little more from what you are saying. If you can study and ask questions of other believers who are true believers. It is best if you have a Pastor that knows the Bible to first go to them to understand this more. I am happy you know Christ and are going to Heaven! Try to learn to understand more why we are all still sinners even after we accept Christ and ask forgiveness of our sins. I hope what I said helps. I have been a Christian since I was young and also graduated from 2 Bible Colleges so I do understand this yet I also learn more every single day in my devotional time.
More than we deserve... hell. What does he mean when he said that? Why do we deserve hell? Not everyone is bad by intention
It's not about intention, we're ALL born into sin, we live in a fallen world, and if Jesus didn't die for us then YESwe would deserve hell..BUT bc JESUS died, defeated death, hell & the grave it's bc of that we have the opportunity to know God and be in a relationship with him!
@christiabreeden7777 that's hard to wrap head around or make sense of tbh. No disrespect. I want to understand but it doesn't make any sense.
@@GymJill93for what it’s worth, I agree. This is one of many reasons why I’m not Christian anymore. No disrespect to Christians, it’s just not something that makes sense to me.
@GymJill93 well sometimes there are gonna be things we don't understand but that's where FAITH in God comes into play FAITH is the evidence of things hoped for, substance of things not seen..Id rather not be able to understand some things and TRUST that GOD has a plan bc honestly I've been to hell and back in my own life and until almost 4 yrs ago when I finally said ok God I give up, you can have all of it. That I realized how he truly had his hand on me, I'm a recovered drug addict, that's jus the tip of what I've been thru and that's growing up as a PK..anyway just talk to Jesus he knows ur heart..hes there I promise
What do good people go through bad things? We live in a fallen world where the enemy is the one who seeks to kill and destroy John 10:10. All evil comes from satan.
11:20 Scott Pauley said the oldest book of the Bible is Job, but this is a myth. Or you could call it an assumption based on poor research, but one that has been passed around for so long, it’s accepted as fact. (This is just like when folks share a Facebook post without checking if the info is factual. Don’t take everything you hear at face value just because someone you respect said it. Be a critical thinker and do the research.)
It’s actually impossible to determine “which book of the Bible is the oldest because the ancient world did not have books and authors as we think of them today. In ancient times, there were primarily authoritative speakers who delivered their message to hearers. There were professional scribes who may have written down the message, but the resulting documents were not copied and distributed. A copy may have been stored in an archive somewhere, but the average person would not have had access to it, even if he was able to read. Speaking and hearing dominated the culture, just as reading and writing dominate ours. As a result, ancient people were much less concerned about when a book was written than we are. They would have been much more concerned that the message they heard was from an authoritative source-even if the message had been repeated several times.”
“Some will point out that the book of Job appears to record events that took place before the time of Moses, and it is thought by many to be the oldest book of the Bible. However, the theological emphases of the book of Job seem to indicate that the concerns the book is addressing are much later, perhaps from the exilic period, and addressed to Israelites. So, while the book may contain information about events that happened long before, the book seems to have been written much later than Genesis was written.”
- Quotes taken from the GotQuestions dot org article titled “What is the oldest book in the Bible?”
I have a question. What do you do when you are being bullied for three years by a particular woman and she uses her children? What then do you do? It was something this woman had been doing for years and no one held her accountable. You move on.
God doesn’t give all bad things. As a parent, would you put sickness or disease on your children to teach them a lesson? Of course not! Then if God is good and loving, and you are his child, why in the world would you think He would do that to His children? He wouldn’t. There is a devil, who wants nothing more than to kill, steal, destroy, and separate. There is also a spirit of infirmity, generational curses, and familiar spirits. If you’re not born again, you’re not spared from these things. But if you are a born again, child of God, and you are obedient in giving tithes the offerings, and faithful to Him, and in Church attendance, His hand is on your life. God protects those who are His. So stop blaming God for every bad thing that happens and start turning it back on who it belongs to, which is the devil. Start praising God for his goodness, and mercy, and faithfulness in all situations. Even if you don’t understand. Have a heart of gratitude. 😊
I don't have a problem with God or Jesus,it's Christina I have problems with, cause they can be very pushy on what they believe,the way I was raised, that faith and political beliefs are private,if someone is interested in what you believe,then it's ok to show them but you don't force your beliefs on others if they don't want to hear it.
Question 3....Romans 3:10-12 (none are good people). We are of sinful flesh that is dying. Our outward flesh suffers because of sin that entered the world. Romans 5:12. However when trusting in Christ' death, burial, and resurrection, we live eternally by the Spirit (in heaven )or those that don't believe die spiritually for eternity in hell. Romans 5:3-5 God tells us of the tribulation in life and also how we can glory in it through the spirit. This is all King James Version. I Timothy 2:4 It is God's will for all men to be saved. However he gives you the choice to receive His gift of salvation (heaven). Otherwise you are automatically going to hell. God doesn't send you to hell. Your choice does by rejecting his gift of salvation (death, burial, resurrection)
The loving, forgiving, merciful God gave us a way out of hell. God is blameless! Colossians 1.:22. He is the judge, but you are the decision maker of your own eternity.
Jesus should be your example to follow not man.
Erin, you are beautiful and what is inside counts…
Just a little advice , your makeup is too dark….
I’m not trying to criticise but to help out…
If God seems quite right now,
Just remember no one shouts when they are right next to you…
❤️🫶🏻 🙏🏼
Chad needs to give classes in being an effective and active listener. He does it so well. You can actually see him listening, and that's not something you get to visualize often. I especially enjoy the loving way he listens when Erin speaks.
Agree! He is what ALL men should be!🙏🥰
So true