Aug 13, 2026 · 51 min · 10 segments
In this episode of the Collage Podcast, Jeff welcomes Father Greg and seminarians to Feed My Sheep, a non-profit orginazation dedicated to serving marginalized communities. Their conversation explores…
Greg GerhartGuest
Javi PerezGuest
Nancy GloverGuestNow, I didn't even know we were going to talk about this, but you have to answer this, okay? And I mean this nicely.
Okay, that has got to be one difficult sell to get somebody to not even, we're not even going to go down this, we won't even go down some of the tracks that you go, this is difficult.
Let's just focus on you are selling an option for vocation.
that you are saying...
Okay, so then you'll take my miswords and correct them.
So I'm going to leave them miswords.
But you're trying to sell a young man, or age doesn't matter, you're trying to sell a man to put... himself second, put God first and serving others above that, and to give his life to that? Why in the world, in the world that we are in, would somebody want to do that?
going to go there?
You know, and if it were up to me, if the Lord weren't the one who was calling, then I would have a 0% success rate.
These men have had an encounter with the Lord that has, and honestly, I've been a priest.
The thing that encourages me the most in my own priesthood, in my own faith, is when I see others who are willing to put, like you said, the Lord first and them second.
They wrestle with, can I give up these natural goods? We're not giving up evil in any way whatsoever when we renounce marriage for the sake of the kingdom.
And when they wrestle with whether the Lord is calling me to do that or and they wrestle with the decision, and it shows me that God is real.
I mean, I know that personally in my own life, but in terms of walking with them, they encourage me because of their own path with the Lord, their own wrestling match like Jacob in the Old Testament, and I love to see it.
Now, I didn't even know we were going to talk about this, but you have to answer this, okay? And I mean this nicely.
Okay, that has got to be one difficult sell to get somebody to not even, we're not even going to go down this, we won't even go down some of the tracks that you go, this is difficult.
Let's just focus on you are selling an option for vocation.
that you are saying...
Okay, so then you'll take my miswords and correct them.
So I'm going to leave them miswords.
But you're trying to sell a young man, or age doesn't matter, you're trying to sell a man to put... himself second, put God first and serving others above that, and to give his life to that? Why in the world, in the world that we are in, would somebody want to do that?
going to go there?
You know, and if it were up to me, if the Lord weren't the one who was calling, then I would have a 0% success rate.
These men have had an encounter with the Lord that has, and honestly, I've been a priest.
The thing that encourages me the most in my own priesthood, in my own faith, is when I see others who are willing to put, like you said, the Lord first and them second.
They wrestle with, can I give up these natural goods? We're not giving up evil in any way whatsoever when we renounce marriage for the sake of the kingdom.
And when they wrestle with whether the Lord is calling me to do that or and they wrestle with the decision, and it shows me that God is real.
I mean, I know that personally in my own life, but in terms of walking with them, they encourage me because of their own path with the Lord, their own wrestling match like Jacob in the Old Testament, and I love to see it.
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