{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Truth in Love Podcast","title":"Episode 110: Still Bearing Fruit: Walk Worthy of Your Calling at Every Age","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2384,"description":"Somewhere along the way, a lot of us picked up the idea that serving God comes with a retirement date. You teach the class, lead the youth group, raise the kids, and then you step back and let the younger crowd take it from there. Lynn McLarty never got that memo. At 81, and after more than fifty years of following Jesus, she's still making spaghetti for a Friday night Bible study of twenty or more people, handing out gospel tracts, checking on friends who can't get out, and filling a little blue book with the names of people she prays for. In this special episode, Kimberly Faith sits down with her mom to talk about what Paul meant when he urged us to \"walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,\" and how that one calling has taken many shapes over a lifetime: wife and mother, Christian school Bible teacher, youth leader alongside her husband John, owner of a little Italian restaurant in the roughest part of town, and foster parent to about 100 children.\nIt all starts with Ephesians 4:1, and Lynn puts it simply: our real vocation is being ambassadors for Christ. That's the title at the top, and everything else falls under it, whether you're teaching a Bible class or grabbing coffee at a drive-through. And here's the part so many of us need to hear: you don't have to be like the person next to you. God sees who you can become long before you do. As the seasons of our lives change, the assignment will change too, but one thing is promised in Psalm 92 that the righteous will still bear fruit in old age. God isn't finished with us at any age. When we surrender every part of our lives to Him, He opens our eyes to the needs all around us, and there's no retiring from that kind of calling.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/oGUOUfa5eiIOjw0vh75Ek41MF3PFG5XVO0xt2_e0THg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iZjkw/ZGZjNTcxZmViYTMw/ZTI5MmVjYWYzMmZi/ODZiOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}