Thanks for joining us on the line of fire. Michael Brown, your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity.

Friends, we're here to equip you. We're here to empower you. We're here to help you engage on the front lines as we all live in the line of fire.

Can I speak with you candidly from the heart as we come to an end of our series, actually 20, 20-part series,

talking about the Bible in homosexual practice, same-sex attraction, trans identity issues, how we

respond to society, what the Bible says.

And you can see there's so much we can talk about, so much more we can talk about. But I just want to speak to you from the heart. The long you walk with the

Lord, you realize none of us are special, meaning like superstars or celebrities or the only one

that's amazing is the Lord that we serve. We're just servants. But we each have a role. We each have,

we each have something we're called to do and uniquely gifted to do. We have people in our ministry

that run our finances. I don't touch it. I don't make financial decisions. We'll make

faith decisions together to get on new stations to reach more people. But I don't make financial decisions

because it's not my strong point. I don't administrate the ministry. We have an administrator

that administrates and runs everything. The people that do what they do do do do are

producers that put together our radio show. everyone on our team doing what they do,

our graphic artists, and they're gifted, they do what they do. If I was in their shoes,

the ministry would collapse. If they were in my shoes, the ministry would collapse. All right.

So we each have our role, we each have our calling. I'm not here to talk down to others with different callings. I'm not here to say everyone should be doing what I'm doing. No, no, there's diversity in the body. I'm here to equip and empower you. But here's my appeal to pastors and leaders. Do not avoid the controversial issues because they're controversial.

Ministry means controversy.

Ministry means conflict.

We can be loving, gracious.

We can pour out our heart for people, lay down our lives for people, but we can't avoid conflict.

We can't avoid controversy.

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