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 This morning, I'm going to talk to you about putting the missional in community.

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 Putting the missional in community.

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 Charles Spurgeon said, every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.

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 Pretty strong words from Charles Spurgeon there, but I agree with it.

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 Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.

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 I think it's a great time.

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 We got our, add another missional community, move some people around.

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 So we got three missional communities.

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 And it's easy to just think of our missional communities as communities.

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 Forget the M and the MC, right?

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 Just think, oh yeah, it's community.

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 It's good people, people I like to be with, people I enjoy being with.

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 But we must never forget about the missional side of things, right?

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 So as a church, I think this is a great time for us to really focus and lock in on mission.

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 I'm going to look at a few verses.

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 None of these are going to be, these are all very familiar verses to you,

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 but I just want to kind of meditate on them together and just kind of think about them together, okay?

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 First one, Luke 19.10.

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 Luke 19.10 is this small little verse here talking about the Son of Man.

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 It says, the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost, okay?

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 Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

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 Now, oftentimes, most Christians, if they have any bit of health in them, right?

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 If someone comes along their path, you know, and there's an opportunity for the gospel or ask them about Jesus, you would take it, right?

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 You would talk to them.

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 I mean, that's kind of a no-brainer.

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 If you're a Christian and that isn't happening, you might need to check your spiritual pulse, okay?

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 Say, like, if you actually are, right?

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 That's the gimme.

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 That's what we would most often think, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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 But that's not what this, it's not the only thing this verse said.

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 It didn't just say, well, if people came to Jesus, he would save them.

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 There's two things he's doing in this verse, right?

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 He's not just saving the lost.

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 He's seeking them.

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 He's seeking them.

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 And I think a lot of Christians live in such a way that if, you know, if someone came my way, you know, if someone at work just started asking me about the Lord or my neighbor got a little curious about what I'm doing every Sunday morning, you know, yeah, then I'd talk to them.

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 But my question to you in light of this verse is, do you seek the lost?

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 Or do you just wait till they come to you, you know?

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 And it's easy to do that and it's easy to fall into that as Christians.

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 But that's not what Jesus did.

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 Jesus wasn't just a saver.

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 He was a seeker when it came to the lost.

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 He not only saved people, but he sought out people to save.

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 He sought out the lost.

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 He sought, he was on a mission, right?

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 He was on God's mission.

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 God sent him and he sent him to lost people.

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 And we are to do the same.

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 We'll look at that a little bit more, you know, why that is.

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 But just from the start here, he came to seek and to save.

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 And so my question to you for starters here is, what does your seeking look like when it comes to the lost?

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 Is it there?

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 Do you do it?

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 Is there any kind of strategic seeking in your life of lost people?

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 Do you ever reorient your life or your plans around how you could reach lost neighbors, lost family members, lost friends?

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 Go down the list, whatever, whoever.

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 It doesn't matter, right?

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 Are you just ready in case someone comes along?

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 Are you just praying in case someone comes along or that someone would come along?

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 Or are you actively seeking out lost people?

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 Looking, how can I connect with lost people?

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 I can get more in relationship to lost people.

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 How can I be more exposed to lost people?

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 How can I do that together with my church?

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 You see that?

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 Jesus, this is what he was doing constantly.

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 If you look at the Gospels and you're seeing his life,

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 clearly he was doing the work that he was called to do to save.

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 But that saving didn't just happen on happenstance.

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 He was seeking to save people.

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 And we should do the same thing.

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 And so I want to ask us, are we doing that?

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 And if you can't answer with some kind of specific way that you're doing that,

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 don't be self-deceived into thinking that you're doing it.

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 We have to be able to be saying, hey, how am I seeking out lost people?

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 I think it's a really good challenge for all of us.

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 And it's so easy.

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 You know, it's like D.A. Carson says, nobody drifts into holiness.

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 Well, no one drifts into evangelism either, right?

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 You have to be intentional.

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 You have to be thinking, how am I going to seek out lost people?

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 Because you can go your whole life and just not do that really.

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 And just kind of coast.

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 But especially as a young church plant,

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 we must be people who not just ask God to save the lost,

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 but that we seek lost people, right?

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 So that's the first thing, seeking and saving.

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 Are you just thinking about the saving and not the seeking part?

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 Secondly, Matthew 4.19,

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 Jesus says to them, follow me and I will make you fishers of men.

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 Okay?

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 So the first one was seek and save.

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 Second one's following fish, right?

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 When you follow Jesus, something happens.

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 When someone follows Jesus, he automatically makes you into something.

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 What is it?

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 A fisher of men.

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 One of the marks of someone who is a follower of Jesus

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 should be that the thing that accompanies those who are followers of Jesus

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 is in their life.

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 Mainly, he said, if you follow me, I will make you fishers of men.

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 If you're not being made into a fisher of men, you've got to ask the question,

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 am I following Jesus?

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 Am I following Jesus?

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 Because if you follow him, guess where he's going?

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 He's going to seek and save lost people.

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 And if you're going to follow him, that's where you're going to end up.

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 You're going to end up with lost people.

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 You're not just going to end up with your, you know, Christian friends.

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 As great as those people are, right?

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 As you follow Jesus, he's going to make you into something specific.

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 That specific thing that he's making us into is fishers of men.

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 Okay?

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 Fishers of men.

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 Now, if you've ever fished before, most people's,

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 Samir's fished before a few times.

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 Okay, if you've ever fished before, most people aren't fishing thinking,

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 oh, it's just really nice to be on the boat and, you know,

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 maybe a fish will come by.

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 Maybe a fish will just jump into my boat.

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 You know?

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 Nobody does that.

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 Like, I'm just going to go fishing without,

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 I'm going to go fishing without,

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 is someone, is there people parked in the way there or something?

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 I just saw one of the next door people peer into the window.

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 Might just take a look.

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 Okay, so when you're fishing,

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 typically you would never go out into the boat without a pole

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 or without any bait or anything.

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 Like that or a net, right?

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 You're going with something to catch fish.

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 It's intentional.

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 You're becoming a fisher of men means you're trying to catch fish.

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 In the same way, when you follow Jesus,

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 he makes you someone who's intentional while catching souls of men, right?

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 It's something that you're thinking about.

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 It's something that you are strategic about.

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 It's something that you are,

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 as far as your life goes,

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 you're thinking,

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 you know what?

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 This is what I want to do.

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 Because as I follow Jesus,

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 the more I follow him,

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 my heart becomes to do what he wants to do.

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 His will is my will.

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 And the followers of Jesus are made into fishers.

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 The followers of Jesus are made into fishers.

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 Let me ask you the question.

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 Are you being made into that?

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 Do you have a desire to go fishing?

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 Not for fish, Samir,

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 like for men, right?

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 For men.

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 To say,

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 hey,

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 I want to see people saved.

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 I want to get out into the,

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 get out there

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 and get in a place where the fish are.

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 Right?

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 If someone said,

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 man,

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 I'm really into fishing

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 and they never go near water.

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 You'd be like,

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 uh,

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 I don't know about that.

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 I don't think so.

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 No,

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 no,

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 no.

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 I'm really,

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 I love fish.

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 But they never go by the water.

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 Like,

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 I don't think you love fishing.

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 Why don't you ever go by the water?

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 It'd be like someone says,

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 well,

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 I love Jesus,

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 but I never go by lost people.

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 And not specifically trying to go fish for lost people.

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 You got to say,

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 are you following Jesus?

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 Cause that's where he is.

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 And if you follow him,

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 that's where he's going to be.

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 That's where he's going to take you.

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 Okay.

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 So we seek and save

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 and we follow and fish.

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 Right?

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 Right.

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 A third one,

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 Matthew 28,

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 18 to 20.

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 Again,

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 these are not obscure verses.

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 You should be familiar with all these,

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 right?

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 This is go and make.

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 Jesus said to them,

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 all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.

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 Go therefore

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 and make disciples of all nations.

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 Baptizing them in the name of the Father

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 and of the Son

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 and of the Holy Spirit,

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 teaching them to observe

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 all that I've commanded you

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 and behold,

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 I'm with you always

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 to the end of the age.

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 Okay?

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 So here you have

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 him saying,

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 go therefore.

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 What is therefore therefore?

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 You know,

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 what is that?

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 What's that all about?

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 Well,

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 what was before that?

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 He said,

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 all authority in heaven and earth

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 has been given to me.

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 Again,

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 this is a really important reminder.

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 I would say that

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 one of the main reasons

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 a lot of people don't evangelize

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 is because they think

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 nobody's going to get saved.

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 I think that's one of the main reasons

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 people don't.

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 It feels hopeless.

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 You feel impotent.

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 You feel like,

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 is this really going to do anything?

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 I mean,

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 I've seen the gospel

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 so many times with people.

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 I haven't seen many people get saved.

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 That's why

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 you can't just think of the go

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 make disciples

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 without thinking of the therefore.

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 He said,

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 go therefore.

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 Therefore what?

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 Therefore in light of what?

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 The first,

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 right before that,

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 he said,

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 all authority in heaven and earth

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 has been given to me.

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 That's an important part

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 preceding the Great Commission.

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 That the one

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 who's telling you to go

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 and the reason you are to go

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 make disciples,

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 the reason the going is there

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 is because,

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 hey,

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 all authority has been given to you.

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 It's been given to him

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 and he's the one sending,

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 right?

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 And so if he has authority,

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 you know

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 he's the one

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 who's doing the saving.

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 It's just our job

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 to give people a hearing

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 and it gives you confidence.

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 Do you have confidence

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 in the gospel?

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 You know that great verse

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 that Martin Luther got hit with,

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 Romans 1.16,

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 that the gospel itself

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 is the power of God

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 for salvation

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 of those who believe?

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 Do you believe that it's power?

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 Do you,

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 do you think that way

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 when you think,

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 oh,

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 I'm going to save the gospel

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 or I'm going to share the gospel?

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 Are you thinking,

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 I'm about to share

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 some potent stuff right here.

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 I'm about to share

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 something powerful.

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 I'm about to share something

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 that if the Lord

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 is drawing and saving,

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 they can't resist.

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 Like,

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 he's going to save them.

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 Have you thought about it that way?

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 That this is a,

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 that all authority

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 in heaven and earth

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 has been given to the Lord,

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 therefore he says,

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 go.

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 Therefore,

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 go and make disciples.

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 And you make disciples

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 by preaching them the gospel.

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 They got to hear.

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 Okay?

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 Which goes to the last one

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 I want to look at,

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 Romans 10.13-17.

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 Send and preach.

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 For everyone who calls

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 on the name of the Lord

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 will be saved.

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 How then will they call on him

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 in whom they have not believed?

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 And how are they to believe in him

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 of whom they have never heard?

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 And how are they to hear

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 without someone preaching?

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 And how are they to preach

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 unless they are sent

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 as it is written?

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 How beautiful

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 are the feet

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 of those who preach good news.

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 But they have not all

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 obeyed the gospel.

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 For Isaiah says,

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 Lord who has believed

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 what he has heard from us.

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 So faith comes from hearing

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 and hearing

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 through the word of Christ.

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 Faith comes from hearing.

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 This is another reason

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 you should be confident

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 when you're preaching

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 the gospel.

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 Why?

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 Because you're hoping

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 that they have faith, right?

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 There's no salvation

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 apart from faith, right?

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 Grace comes through faith.

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 Grace through faith.

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 Ephesians 2, right?

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 Well,

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 so the only way

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 they're going to get grace

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 is if they get faith.

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 But how do they get faith?

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 Through hearing.

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 It says,

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 faith comes from hearing

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 and hearing through

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 the word of Christ.

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 The only way

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 they're going to believe

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 is if they hear.

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 And so often we think,

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 man, they're going to hear

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 and then they're not

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 going to believe.

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 Well, it's like,

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 wait, hold on.

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 This just says

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 the opposite here.

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 It says,

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 faith comes from hearing.

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 They need a hearing.

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 They've got to hear.

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 That's where the faith comes.

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 How are they going to believe?

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 Unless they hear.

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 And how are they going to hear

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 unless someone preaches?

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 And how are they going to preach

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 unless they're sent?

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 And so here we are.

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 Lord, send us.

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 Send us.

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 Send us to preach.

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 God, send us to the lost.

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 Send us to the ones

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 you're drawing.

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 It's not our job to save them.

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 It's our job to give them a hearing.

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 And then God gives them faith

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 in the hearing.

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 That's the way he does it.

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 Again, that's confidence building.

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 It's not my job to save them.

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 It's not my job to convince them.

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 It's my job to give them a hearing.

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 And then God uses the hearing

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 to give them faith.

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 That's powerful.

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 Okay?

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 And so,

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 I want us to be thinking

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 about this a little bit more.

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 As we start these

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 three iterations

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 of missional communities,

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 it would be good for us

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 to not just think of this individually,

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 but to think of this corporately

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 in each missional community

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 and say,

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 okay,

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 how are we doing

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 on the seeking and the saving?

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 How are we doing

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 on the following and the fishing?

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 How are we doing

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 on the going and the making

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 in light of his authority?

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 And how are we doing

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 on the sending and the preaching?

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 Like,

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 are we giving people a hearing?

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 Are we doing that?

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 Are we sending people

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 into specific places

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 aimed at specific people?

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 Are we praying

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 for specific people

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 in places?

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 So,

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 you know,

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 one of the things

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 I think that builds my faith

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 is hearing stories.

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 Hearing stories

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 of different people,

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 how people were reached.

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 And so I just wanted

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 to share a few of those

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 that I think have been

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 encouraging to me

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 over the last years.

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 You know,

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 I was just listening

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 to a young man

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 the other day

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 who was talking about

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 how one of his coworkers

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 at work

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 was preaching

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 the gospel to him

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 and then invited him

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 to his house

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 to kind of double down

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 on the gospel.

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 And the guy

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 still wasn't totally

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 coming along

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 to this message

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 of the gospel.

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 and you know

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 what he said to him?

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 He said,

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 hey,

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 today is the day

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 of salvation.

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 And I just love

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 how he said that to him.

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 And guess what?

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 The guy got saved.

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 He got saved.

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 He got baptized.

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 There's great fruit

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 coming from his life.

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 This guy's life

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 is transformed.

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 But it took someone

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 at work

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 to preach the gospel

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 to him

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 and then to preach it

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 again in his home

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 and then to press it

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 to him and say,

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 hey,

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 today is the day

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 of salvation.

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 What are you waiting for?

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 And the guy

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 had no objection.

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 He didn't have anything.

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 He's just like,

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 you're right.

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 It is the day

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 of salvation.

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 And he got saved.

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 I think,

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 man,

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 that's so awesome.

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 Are we taking

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 those opportunities?

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 My daughter

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 was talking about

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 how my daughter

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 India was with

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 her missional community

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 the other day

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 and they were in a park

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 and they were playing

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 spike ball together

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 and some young guy

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 walks by

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 and one of the guys

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 looks at him

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 and he's like,

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 spike ball?

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 He's like,

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 oh yeah.

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 And the dude

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 just jumps in

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 and starts playing

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 spike ball with him.

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 Well,

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 and then right after that,

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 you know,

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 the guy's going back

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 to his car.

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 He's like,

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 I may never see

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 this guy again.

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 And he goes and

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 preaches the gospel

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 to him,

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 you know,

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 before he leaves.

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 And the guy's like,

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 hey,

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 can I go now?

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 Wasn't hearing it.

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 But you know what?

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 Kudos to him.

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 Kudos to him

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 for preaching

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 the gospel to him.

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 I love that.

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 Again,

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 it's not our job

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 to save people.

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 And that guy

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 didn't get saved.

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 Right?

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 But what did he do?

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 He said,

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 I may never see him again.

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 So he preached

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 the gospel to him.

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 You know,

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 one of the,

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 one of the,

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 one of the greatest

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 principles for evangelism

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 in the last 14 years

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 of my life

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 has been this one phrase.

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 Introduce me

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 to your friends.

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 Introduce me

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 to your friends.

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 Some of you think,

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 I don't even know

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 how I'm going to get

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 into evangelistic

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 circumstances

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 because I'm a housewife

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 who's at home

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 all the time

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 with a bunch of,

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 you know,

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 kids who can't

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 even barely speak English

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 and have speech impediments

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 and I'm supposed to go out

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 and win a bunch

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 of lost people.

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 Like,

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 how is that going to happen?

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 I'm not picking

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 anybody's kids.

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 I'm saying that's all.

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 But you've got to

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 get disillusioned.

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 Like,

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 I just talk to people

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 who can barely talk all day

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 and I'm supposed

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 to do evangelism.

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 I mean,

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 even with lost people.

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 I'm with lost kids,

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 I guess.

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 My kids,

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 I'm trying to win

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 but they can barely talk.

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 Right?

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 And you think,

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 or maybe I have

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 a circumstance in life

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 where I just don't,

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 I just don't have

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 any relationships

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 with lost people.

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 Maybe you're new

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 to a particular area.

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 Maybe you're,

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 it's your job

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 or whatever it may be.

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 But one way

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 that I've found

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 to meet all kinds

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 of lost people

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 is that simple phrase.

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 Introduce me

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 to your friends.

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 Introduce me

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 for your friend.

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 I mean,

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 there's a bunch of you

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 who are in my life

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 right now

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 because I said

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 to somebody else

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 introduce me

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 to your friends.

00:18:07.620 --> 00:18:07.860
 Right?

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 That's how

00:18:09.180 --> 00:18:09.900
 those things happen.

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 I would never know

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 Marianna

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 if I wouldn't have

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 asked someone else

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 to introduce me

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 to your friends.

00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:15.839
 Right?

00:18:15.940 --> 00:18:16.220
 These are,

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 these are,

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 that's a,

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 so I think

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 about that sometimes.

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 Sometimes when you

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 meet people

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 you just have to say,

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 hey,

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 you start getting

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 a relationship

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 to them and say,

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 hey,

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 introduce me

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 to some of your friends.

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 Who do you hang out with?

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 Have them over.

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 Do something with them.

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 It's just a really,

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 you know,

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 low bar to do that

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 but then all of a sudden

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 what ends up happening is

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 you end up,

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 it's like introduce me

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 to your friends

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 and then,

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 you know,

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 oh,

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 Marianna lives in a house

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 with some friends

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 and,

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 you know,

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 and then one of their friends

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 was dating a guy

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 who's not a believer.

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 That guy ends up

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 getting saved.

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 Why?

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 Because I said,

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 introduce me

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 to your friends.

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 That's how it started.

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 I would have never met that guy

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 if,

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 when it said,

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 introduce me to your friends.

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 Right?

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 And then as you keep doing that,

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 all of a sudden

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 it just keeps going out

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 and out further and further

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 and it's like,

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 how do you know this person?

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 Well,

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 I know that person

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 because I met this person

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 and that person

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 ended up,

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 I met this person

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 and then because of that person

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 I ended up going up

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 to their wedding

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 and then at their wedding

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 I met their friends

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 at their wedding

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 because I was at their wedding

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 and I said,

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 oh,

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 it was your wedding.

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 Introduce me to your friends.

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 They're all here,

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 right?

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 Introduce me to your family.

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 They're here,

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 right?

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 And then you start meeting them

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 and then they want to get together

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 with you

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 and then you end up

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 getting together with them

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 and it's some couple

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 who's living together

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 who's engaged

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 but they're living together

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 and they're professing

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 to be Christians.

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 So I'm just like,

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 and they're asking me

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 to do their premarital counseling.

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 I'm like,

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 why don't you guys repent

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 and stop living together first

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 and we'll see

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 and then we'll talk.

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 And then what ends up happening?

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 I didn't think anything

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 was going to happen.

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 I got a call a month later

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 that said they had moved out,

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 got two separate apartments

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 and they're like,

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 we're ready.

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 I'm like,

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 okay.

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 You know?

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 But it all just started

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 with

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 introduce me to your friends

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 and then it keeps going,

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 right?

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 And then sometimes

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 it's just through,

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 I think so many times

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 we underestimate

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 the power of prayer too

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 in this.

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 Do we really believe

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 that God wants

00:20:05.959 --> 00:20:06.879
 to save lost people?

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 Do we really believe that?

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 I doubt it sometimes,

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 right?

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 I mean,

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 I was thinking about this

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 the other day.

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 I was remembering

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 sitting in a gathering,

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 at a missional community gathering

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 and it was one of those

00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:19.460
 prayer requests

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 where,

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 hey,

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 my co-worker's sister

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 who lives in Colorado

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 could use some prayer.

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 And I'm like,

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 okay,

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 it's kind of a,

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 yeah,

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 we could pray for that,

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 you know?

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 And I'm thinking,

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 who is this person?

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 And even,

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 you know,

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 that's kind of a,

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 you know,

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 my best friend's sister's brother's

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 boyfriend's girlfriend

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 is going with this guy

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 who knows this girl

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 who passed out at 31

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 flavor bus.

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 You know,

00:20:43.220 --> 00:20:43.759
 that whole thing,

00:20:43.840 --> 00:20:45.900
 like this long thing,

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 that I just catch her there

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 with some of them.

00:20:47.779 --> 00:20:47.920
 Yeah,

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 you might have to.

00:20:50.380 --> 00:20:50.740
 Um,

00:20:51.060 --> 00:20:53.180
 ends up happening.

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 We pray for this,

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 this person

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 and then,

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 like,

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 I don't know how many years

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 or how many months later it was,

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 Gina's on a Sunday morning

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 at church

00:21:03.140 --> 00:21:04.360
 and meets the girl

00:21:04.360 --> 00:21:05.180
 we were praying for

00:21:05.180 --> 00:21:06.340
 and it was Amber.

00:21:06.980 --> 00:21:07.320
 You know,

00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:07.740
 it's like,

00:21:07.800 --> 00:21:09.100
 what are the chances of that?

00:21:09.900 --> 00:21:10.480
 And he thought it was just

00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:11.100
 a one-time thing,

00:21:11.100 --> 00:21:12.300
 but there was something about,

00:21:12.980 --> 00:21:13.519
 maybe it was because

00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:14.259
 it was Ben Clinton

00:21:14.259 --> 00:21:14.940
 who brought it up

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 and it's just the way Ben is,

00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:16.900
 but it's just like,

00:21:16.900 --> 00:21:17.900
 yeah,

00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:18.940
 we should pray for this

00:21:18.940 --> 00:21:20.180
 and we're praying for some stranger

00:21:20.180 --> 00:21:21.120
 we don't even know

00:21:21.120 --> 00:21:22.480
 and then all of a sudden

00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:24.040
 she's a beloved person

00:21:24.040 --> 00:21:24.580
 in our life.

00:21:24.660 --> 00:21:25.980
 Those kind of things happen,

00:21:26.060 --> 00:21:26.320
 right?

00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:27.480
 You never know

00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:28.420
 when you're praying about things.

00:21:28.420 --> 00:21:30.120
 I remember years ago,

00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:32.060
 I heard about this family

00:21:32.060 --> 00:21:33.660
 of brothers

00:21:33.660 --> 00:21:35.580
 who were super wild

00:21:35.580 --> 00:21:38.360
 and just kind of known

00:21:38.360 --> 00:21:39.600
 for being wild and crazy

00:21:39.600 --> 00:21:40.880
 and so I was like,

00:21:41.060 --> 00:21:41.840
 I'm going to start praying

00:21:41.840 --> 00:21:43.340
 for all these brothers

00:21:43.340 --> 00:21:44.080
 so that I get to know them.

00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:45.300
 I've never met any of them.

00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:46.140
 I didn't know them.

00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:47.400
 I had no way of meeting them,

00:21:47.820 --> 00:21:48.160
 but I was like,

00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:49.340
 I want to get to know these people

00:21:49.340 --> 00:21:51.300
 and I want to be in their life.

00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:52.700
 So I just started praying.

00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:53.140
 I said,

00:21:53.140 --> 00:21:53.380
 Lord,

00:21:53.620 --> 00:21:54.880
 bring me into contact

00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:55.720
 with these brothers

00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:58.380
 and there was like,

00:21:58.460 --> 00:21:58.540
 what,

00:21:58.620 --> 00:21:59.280
 three or four of them,

00:21:59.360 --> 00:21:59.580
 I think,

00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:00.180
 who lived here.

00:22:00.540 --> 00:22:01.620
 Every single one of them

00:22:01.620 --> 00:22:02.880
 I got in contact with

00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:04.380
 in the next couple months.

00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:07.600
 One of their wives

00:22:07.600 --> 00:22:09.080
 ended up living with us

00:22:09.080 --> 00:22:09.900
 for a couple weeks

00:22:09.900 --> 00:22:10.620
 because their marriage

00:22:10.620 --> 00:22:11.420
 was on the rocks.

00:22:11.940 --> 00:22:12.640
 Another one of them,

00:22:13.020 --> 00:22:13.940
 another one of the guys

00:22:13.940 --> 00:22:14.620
 lived with us

00:22:14.620 --> 00:22:15.540
 for over a year.

00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:17.460
 I got to talk

00:22:17.460 --> 00:22:18.420
 to the other guys.

00:22:18.639 --> 00:22:19.619
 There was all kinds

00:22:19.619 --> 00:22:20.379
 of opportunities

00:22:20.379 --> 00:22:22.079
 for preaching the gospel,

00:22:22.259 --> 00:22:23.059
 for bringing them in

00:22:23.059 --> 00:22:25.460
 and I didn't even know

00:22:25.460 --> 00:22:25.960
 these guys.

00:22:26.399 --> 00:22:27.099
 I had no way

00:22:27.099 --> 00:22:27.879
 to get to know them,

00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:30.119
 but I had this burden,

00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:31.279
 I think it was from the Lord,

00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:32.399
 to reach out to them

00:22:32.399 --> 00:22:32.920
 and I just said,

00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:33.200
 Lord,

00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:34.680
 bring them to me.

00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:36.539
 I want to get after these guys

00:22:36.539 --> 00:22:38.680
 and it ended up happening.

00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:38.940
 Even,

00:22:39.180 --> 00:22:39.399
 you know,

00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:40.539
 some of them lived with us.

00:22:40.899 --> 00:22:41.379
 You know what I'm saying?

00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:43.480
 God answers prayer.

00:22:44.180 --> 00:22:44.920
 I think sometimes

00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:45.539
 we forget

00:22:45.539 --> 00:22:46.500
 and we don't want

00:22:46.500 --> 00:22:47.720
 to pray audacious prayers

00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:48.820
 or things that seem

00:22:48.820 --> 00:22:49.700
 like long shots.

00:22:50.019 --> 00:22:50.600
 Why not?

00:22:51.180 --> 00:22:52.100
 What are you praying for

00:22:52.100 --> 00:22:53.000
 that seems impossible

00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:54.080
 when it comes to the lost?

00:22:54.620 --> 00:22:55.440
 And how often

00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:56.000
 are you doing it?

00:22:56.060 --> 00:22:57.279
 Is it just a flimsy

00:22:57.279 --> 00:22:58.220
 little throw the prayer

00:22:58.220 --> 00:22:59.100
 up there once in a while?

00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:00.320
 Are you committed

00:23:00.320 --> 00:23:02.240
 to pray for people

00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:03.600
 that God is drawing

00:23:03.600 --> 00:23:04.759
 or that God's putting

00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:05.279
 on your heart

00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:05.980
 and you just keep

00:23:05.980 --> 00:23:06.680
 praying for them?

00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:08.300
 I think these things

00:23:08.300 --> 00:23:08.860
 are important.

00:23:10.340 --> 00:23:11.539
 And I think of different times

00:23:11.539 --> 00:23:12.140
 when we've done

00:23:12.140 --> 00:23:13.279
 different events

00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:14.300
 when we did man camps

00:23:14.300 --> 00:23:14.900
 over the years.

00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:16.240
 and we met different guys.

00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:17.539
 And all the times

00:23:17.539 --> 00:23:18.140
 I got to meet

00:23:18.140 --> 00:23:18.640
 different people

00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:19.940
 just by putting ourselves

00:23:19.940 --> 00:23:20.440
 out there and say,

00:23:20.539 --> 00:23:20.560
 hey,

00:23:20.580 --> 00:23:21.140
 we're going to teach

00:23:21.140 --> 00:23:22.140
 on a particular topic

00:23:22.140 --> 00:23:24.080
 for a period of time.

00:23:24.360 --> 00:23:25.140
 Or when we did

00:23:25.140 --> 00:23:26.460
 a marriage conference once

00:23:26.460 --> 00:23:27.279
 and different families

00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:28.180
 we met through that

00:23:28.180 --> 00:23:29.980
 who were in really rough spots.

00:23:30.300 --> 00:23:31.740
 Or just opening up

00:23:31.740 --> 00:23:32.259
 to people

00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:33.259
 who were having

00:23:33.259 --> 00:23:33.940
 rough times

00:23:33.940 --> 00:23:34.620
 in their marriages

00:23:34.620 --> 00:23:35.860
 and being able

00:23:35.860 --> 00:23:36.620
 to talk to them

00:23:36.620 --> 00:23:37.360
 through their marriages,

00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:38.380
 how different

00:23:38.380 --> 00:23:39.220
 that has happened.

00:23:39.340 --> 00:23:41.380
 How many impactful things.

00:23:41.380 --> 00:23:42.560
 I think of

00:23:42.560 --> 00:23:44.200
 my own son,

00:23:44.320 --> 00:23:45.180
 Austin,

00:23:45.280 --> 00:23:45.860
 who we adopted

00:23:45.860 --> 00:23:49.380
 as an older man

00:23:49.380 --> 00:23:50.700
 in his late 20s.

00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:51.880
 Well,

00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:52.500
 what happened

00:23:52.500 --> 00:23:53.360
 is we just adopted

00:23:53.360 --> 00:23:54.260
 him into our family.

00:23:55.080 --> 00:23:55.260
 Okay?

00:23:55.460 --> 00:23:56.240
 This guy was,

00:23:56.380 --> 00:23:57.100
 he was lost

00:23:57.100 --> 00:23:57.960
 in many ways

00:23:57.960 --> 00:23:59.180
 and we just said,

00:23:59.260 --> 00:23:59.860
 we're going to adopt

00:23:59.860 --> 00:24:00.740
 him into our family.

00:24:01.420 --> 00:24:02.240
 And I think of all

00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:02.760
 the ways

00:24:02.760 --> 00:24:03.560
 that we've just

00:24:03.560 --> 00:24:04.800
 adopted people

00:24:04.800 --> 00:24:05.380
 into our family

00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:06.080
 and had people

00:24:06.080 --> 00:24:06.820
 into our life.

00:24:06.819 --> 00:24:07.059
 how,

00:24:07.460 --> 00:24:07.759
 you know,

00:24:08.019 --> 00:24:09.119
 we've had different people

00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:09.759
 just join us

00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:10.679
 in homeschooling

00:24:10.679 --> 00:24:11.619
 and doing homeschooling

00:24:11.619 --> 00:24:12.299
 with our kids.

00:24:12.339 --> 00:24:13.319
 Or we've had people

00:24:13.319 --> 00:24:13.980
 just come over

00:24:13.980 --> 00:24:14.879
 and eat at our house.

00:24:14.980 --> 00:24:15.539
 We had people

00:24:15.539 --> 00:24:17.339
 at one point in time,

00:24:17.919 --> 00:24:19.799
 maybe not the best idea,

00:24:19.879 --> 00:24:20.439
 but we gave out

00:24:20.439 --> 00:24:21.639
 the code to our house

00:24:21.639 --> 00:24:22.259
 and we'd wake up

00:24:22.259 --> 00:24:22.639
 in the morning

00:24:22.639 --> 00:24:23.279
 and someone would be

00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:24.500
 sleeping on our couch

00:24:24.500 --> 00:24:25.639
 and we didn't know

00:24:25.639 --> 00:24:26.319
 they were there.

00:24:26.500 --> 00:24:27.200
 And it's just like,

00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:27.480
 whoa,

00:24:27.539 --> 00:24:28.379
 what's going on here?

00:24:28.679 --> 00:24:30.740
 But those were,

00:24:30.939 --> 00:24:31.119
 man,

00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:31.960
 those are times

00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:32.460
 when we would

00:24:32.460 --> 00:24:33.579
 really reach out

00:24:33.579 --> 00:24:33.980
 to people

00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:34.799
 and love people.

00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:37.039
 I remember one time

00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:38.019
 we did a park night

00:24:38.019 --> 00:24:40.119
 and one of my kids,

00:24:40.279 --> 00:24:40.960
 who was really young

00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:41.500
 at the time,

00:24:41.859 --> 00:24:42.599
 asked some girl

00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:43.659
 that we had never met before

00:24:43.659 --> 00:24:44.519
 if she wanted to sleep

00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:45.440
 over at our house.

00:24:47.099 --> 00:24:48.220
 That was Allie Casey.

00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:49.220
 You know,

00:24:49.379 --> 00:24:49.879
 it's like,

00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:51.319
 never met her before.

00:24:51.899 --> 00:24:52.460
 So like,

00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:53.819
 these different things happen

00:24:53.819 --> 00:24:55.079
 and you just never know.

00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:55.519
 But it's when,

00:24:55.659 --> 00:24:55.899
 again,

00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:57.039
 my family

00:24:57.039 --> 00:24:58.460
 was doing this

00:24:58.460 --> 00:24:59.319
 together with us.

00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:00.259
 It wasn't just us.

00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:01.039
 We would pray together

00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:02.379
 as a family for people.

00:25:02.819 --> 00:25:03.220
 We'd pray,

00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:04.000
 our kids and us

00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:04.920
 would pray for people.

00:25:05.299 --> 00:25:05.980
 Our kids would pray

00:25:05.980 --> 00:25:07.059
 for people their age.

00:25:07.819 --> 00:25:08.019
 You know,

00:25:08.059 --> 00:25:09.119
 when we first started

00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:11.579
 Bellicose 14 years ago,

00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:12.339
 there was no kids

00:25:12.339 --> 00:25:13.160
 my kids' age.

00:25:13.559 --> 00:25:14.460
 Now my kids have tons

00:25:14.460 --> 00:25:14.940
 of friends,

00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:15.859
 have all kinds of,

00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:17.180
 but I say that to you

00:25:17.180 --> 00:25:18.079
 young cats,

00:25:18.259 --> 00:25:18.920
 Max and Charlie,

00:25:18.980 --> 00:25:19.700
 who are you praying for,

00:25:19.779 --> 00:25:19.960
 man?

00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:21.240
 Who are those young people

00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:22.119
 you're praying for

00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:23.519
 that are your age

00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:23.980
 just saying,

00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:24.519
 God,

00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:24.920
 get them,

00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:25.720
 save them,

00:25:25.940 --> 00:25:27.059
 bring more young people,

00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:28.920
 bring more friends for us.

00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:29.559
 Like,

00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:30.099
 those are prayers

00:25:30.099 --> 00:25:30.640
 we should be praying.

00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:31.059
 Those are prayers

00:25:31.059 --> 00:25:31.680
 we should be praying

00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:32.460
 with our kids.

00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:33.319
 We used to pray

00:25:33.319 --> 00:25:34.539
 most nights with my kids.

00:25:34.659 --> 00:25:34.859
 Lord,

00:25:35.220 --> 00:25:36.059
 send more kids.

00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:37.839
 Send kids my kids' age.

00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:38.879
 Send my kids'

00:25:38.980 --> 00:25:40.059
 future best friends.

00:25:41.099 --> 00:25:41.480
 Send them.

00:25:43.679 --> 00:25:44.419
 You've got to be

00:25:44.419 --> 00:25:45.339
 spirit-led too.

00:25:45.659 --> 00:25:46.659
 I remember one time

00:25:46.659 --> 00:25:48.519
 Gina was at some,

00:25:48.579 --> 00:25:49.179
 was checking out

00:25:49.179 --> 00:25:50.659
 some homeschool possibility

00:25:50.659 --> 00:25:51.480
 of some woman

00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:52.919
 teaching our kids

00:25:52.919 --> 00:25:54.119
 science,

00:25:54.439 --> 00:25:55.059
 and there was this

00:25:55.059 --> 00:25:56.740
 young man there

00:25:56.740 --> 00:25:57.779
 sitting cross-legged

00:25:57.779 --> 00:25:58.460
 on the floor

00:25:58.460 --> 00:26:00.559
 arguing with the teacher.

00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:04.000
 and then

00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:05.139
 Gina really

00:26:05.139 --> 00:26:07.440
 felt led by the spirit

00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:08.379
 that I want to

00:26:08.379 --> 00:26:09.059
 pursue this guy.

00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:09.359


00:26:09.679 --> 00:26:10.179
 found out that he

00:26:10.179 --> 00:26:12.460
 supposedly tuned pianos,

00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:12.879
 I guess,

00:26:12.940 --> 00:26:14.059
 and so then had him over

00:26:14.059 --> 00:26:15.720
 to tune a piano.

00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:17.460
 And then from there,

00:26:17.619 --> 00:26:18.259
 she's like,

00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:19.000
 Josh,

00:26:19.019 --> 00:26:19.899
 you've got to meet this guy.

00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:20.460
 You should invite him

00:26:20.460 --> 00:26:21.059
 to man camp.

00:26:21.179 --> 00:26:21.940
 It was Judah Powers,

00:26:22.179 --> 00:26:22.440
 you know?

00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:22.779
 It's like,

00:26:22.779 --> 00:26:23.599
 I didn't know this guy.

00:26:24.659 --> 00:26:25.500
 But I think,

00:26:25.619 --> 00:26:25.919
 Gina,

00:26:26.259 --> 00:26:27.379
 there was this burden

00:26:27.380 --> 00:26:28.860
 for Judah at that time.

00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:29.800
 And she was just like,

00:26:30.120 --> 00:26:30.880
 I don't know what it is

00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:31.500
 about this guy,

00:26:31.600 --> 00:26:32.440
 but I'm just really,

00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:34.940
 really led to,

00:26:35.100 --> 00:26:36.120
 my heart is going out

00:26:36.120 --> 00:26:36.380
 for him.

00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:36.820
 You've got to,

00:26:37.080 --> 00:26:38.140
 can you please talk to him?

00:26:38.180 --> 00:26:38.340
 I'm like,

00:26:38.380 --> 00:26:38.500
 yeah,

00:26:38.520 --> 00:26:38.660
 yeah,

00:26:38.660 --> 00:26:39.320
 I'll talk to him.

00:26:39.520 --> 00:26:40.160
 I'll talk to him.

00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:41.180
 She was like,

00:26:41.260 --> 00:26:41.660
 I'm young,

00:26:41.900 --> 00:26:42.560
 you know?

00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:44.340
 Those are the kind of things,

00:26:44.420 --> 00:26:44.600
 you know?

00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:46.040
 Is the spirit leading you

00:26:46.040 --> 00:26:46.680
 towards people?

00:26:47.120 --> 00:26:48.000
 Spirit might be leading you

00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:48.660
 to ask someone

00:26:48.660 --> 00:26:50.160
 to even move in with you.

00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:52.480
 And that could change,

00:26:52.840 --> 00:26:54.100
 it could help change

00:26:54.100 --> 00:26:54.660
 the trajectory

00:26:54.660 --> 00:26:55.500
 of someone's life

00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:56.380
 or where they're going.

00:26:56.380 --> 00:26:57.000
 You know,

00:26:57.020 --> 00:26:57.640
 we had that many,

00:26:57.800 --> 00:26:58.720
 we did that many times

00:26:58.720 --> 00:26:59.360
 with different people.

00:26:59.460 --> 00:27:00.160
 Michael lived with us

00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:01.480
 for many years.

00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:03.800
 I remember early on,

00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:05.120
 years ago,

00:27:05.600 --> 00:27:06.780
 there was one guy

00:27:06.780 --> 00:27:07.340
 we were going to have

00:27:07.340 --> 00:27:07.920
 live with us

00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:09.100
 and all his friends

00:27:09.100 --> 00:27:09.320
 were like,

00:27:09.340 --> 00:27:09.900
 there's no way

00:27:09.900 --> 00:27:10.780
 he's going to live with you.

00:27:11.740 --> 00:27:13.860
 And it turns out,

00:27:14.900 --> 00:27:15.240
 it's like,

00:27:15.300 --> 00:27:15.380
 well,

00:27:15.380 --> 00:27:16.220
 I'm just going to ask him.

00:27:16.580 --> 00:27:17.140
 You never know.

00:27:17.620 --> 00:27:18.580
 And it was Josh Wears

00:27:18.580 --> 00:27:19.180
 and he ended up

00:27:19.180 --> 00:27:19.980
 living with us.

00:27:20.560 --> 00:27:20.880
 So,

00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:21.140
 I mean,

00:27:21.160 --> 00:27:21.980
 you just never know

00:27:21.980 --> 00:27:22.860
 with these kind of things.

00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:23.360
 You never know

00:27:23.360 --> 00:27:23.840
 what can happen

00:27:23.840 --> 00:27:24.340
 with your neighbors.

00:27:24.460 --> 00:27:25.660
 I remember when we moved

00:27:25.660 --> 00:27:26.340
 into our neighborhood

00:27:26.340 --> 00:27:27.300
 and we lived in Midtown,

00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:27.960
 you know,

00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:28.940
 we had this vision

00:27:28.940 --> 00:27:29.779
 to reach people

00:27:29.779 --> 00:27:30.440
 and so we're just like,

00:27:30.500 --> 00:27:31.100
 we're going to have people

00:27:31.100 --> 00:27:31.640
 over for dinner,

00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:32.100
 we're going to have people

00:27:32.100 --> 00:27:32.620
 over for barbecue.

00:27:33.180 --> 00:27:33.940
 Every single one

00:27:33.940 --> 00:27:34.380
 of my neighbors

00:27:34.380 --> 00:27:35.180
 I asked to come over

00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:35.480
 for dinner,

00:27:35.580 --> 00:27:36.100
 they said no.

00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:37.720
 I was like,

00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:38.680
 what?

00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:40.400
 This is going to be easy.

00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:40.660
 He's like,

00:27:40.700 --> 00:27:41.560
 have people over for dinner,

00:27:41.840 --> 00:27:42.660
 talk to them about the gospel.

00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:43.759
 They wouldn't come over.

00:27:44.660 --> 00:27:44.980
 I was like,

00:27:45.100 --> 00:27:46.019
 what the heck

00:27:46.019 --> 00:27:46.759
 is with these people?

00:27:46.820 --> 00:27:47.380
 This is weird.

00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:48.160
 It's free food.

00:27:48.259 --> 00:27:49.100
 We're going to eat outside.

00:27:49.099 --> 00:27:52.879
 It's not even intimidating,

00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:53.559
 but no.

00:27:54.879 --> 00:27:55.099
 No.

00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:55.939
 And more than ever,

00:27:56.059 --> 00:27:58.179
 people just don't do stuff together.

00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:00.000
 I just read an article

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:00.719
 the other day

00:28:00.719 --> 00:28:02.240
 about how people,

00:28:02.819 --> 00:28:03.379
 young people,

00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:06.339
 spend 70% less time

00:28:06.339 --> 00:28:07.399
 partying with people

00:28:07.399 --> 00:28:08.019
 than they used to.

00:28:09.179 --> 00:28:09.779
 70%.

00:28:09.779 --> 00:28:12.019
 It's the amount of time

00:28:12.019 --> 00:28:13.159
 people spend socially

00:28:13.159 --> 00:28:14.719
 is down so drastically

00:28:14.719 --> 00:28:15.339
 right now.

00:28:15.779 --> 00:28:16.759
 It's like crazy

00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:17.319
 when you look at

00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:18.599
 the stats compared to

00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:20.659
 even back to the 80s.

00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:21.639
 And Chris is like,

00:28:22.139 --> 00:28:22.879
 it's awesome.

00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:27.439
 People just aren't doing things

00:28:27.439 --> 00:28:28.480
 socially with each other.

00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:30.179
 So you got to keep inviting.

00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:31.259
 You got to keep figuring out.

00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:32.379
 So I thought

00:28:32.379 --> 00:28:33.299
 this is going to be easy, right?

00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:34.339
 We'll just move into my neighborhood.

00:28:34.459 --> 00:28:35.759
 I'm just going to invite people over.

00:28:35.879 --> 00:28:37.000
 And so we're just going to

00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:37.759
 ask people over.

00:28:38.059 --> 00:28:38.579
 And guess what?

00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:39.519
 Everybody said no.

00:28:40.019 --> 00:28:40.339
 It's like,

00:28:40.419 --> 00:28:40.599
 oh,

00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:42.059
 this is going to be a lot harder

00:28:42.059 --> 00:28:43.139
 than I thought it was.

00:28:43.639 --> 00:28:44.659
 So we had to figure out

00:28:44.660 --> 00:28:45.380
 something else.

00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:47.360
 But every time I'd come outside

00:28:47.360 --> 00:28:48.400
 and talk to my neighbors,

00:28:48.500 --> 00:28:49.720
 they'd be talking about basketball

00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:51.740
 every single time.

00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:52.779
 So I'm like,

00:28:52.820 --> 00:28:52.920
 hey,

00:28:52.940 --> 00:28:54.120
 if I put up a basketball hoop

00:28:54.120 --> 00:28:55.040
 and put up some lights,

00:28:55.620 --> 00:28:56.779
 would you guys come over

00:28:56.779 --> 00:28:57.940
 after your kids in bed and play?

00:28:58.320 --> 00:28:59.440
 And they had an enthusiastic,

00:28:59.900 --> 00:29:00.120
 yes,

00:29:00.140 --> 00:29:01.040
 of course we'll do that.

00:29:01.120 --> 00:29:01.460
 I'm like,

00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:02.660
 all right,

00:29:02.980 --> 00:29:04.240
 let's start with basketball.

00:29:04.820 --> 00:29:05.820
 So we started doing that.

00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:06.920
 For two years,

00:29:07.080 --> 00:29:08.779
 almost every week,

00:29:08.820 --> 00:29:09.620
 we'd have people over

00:29:09.620 --> 00:29:10.360
 to play basketball.

00:29:10.620 --> 00:29:11.920
 And the neighbors would come over.

00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:13.240
 Next thing you know,

00:29:13.340 --> 00:29:14.360
 we're getting to know the neighbors.

00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:15.139
 Next thing you know,

00:29:15.159 --> 00:29:16.299
 when they go out on vacation,

00:29:16.299 --> 00:29:17.639
 they give us their keys.

00:29:18.779 --> 00:29:20.500
 And we're taking care of their house

00:29:20.500 --> 00:29:21.979
 and we're feeding their dog.

00:29:22.379 --> 00:29:23.039
 But if you know me,

00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:24.179
 I don't like feeding dogs

00:29:24.179 --> 00:29:25.639
 and I'm cleaning up dog crap

00:29:25.639 --> 00:29:26.619
 in their house

00:29:26.619 --> 00:29:27.859
 and my neighbors.

00:29:28.359 --> 00:29:29.659
 Definitely not my first thing

00:29:29.659 --> 00:29:30.539
 that I wanted to do.

00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:31.459
 But,

00:29:32.059 --> 00:29:32.299
 hey,

00:29:32.539 --> 00:29:32.979
 I want to see,

00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:33.799
 they're all lost.

00:29:33.939 --> 00:29:35.779
 I want to see these people saved.

00:29:36.699 --> 00:29:38.359
 But if I just would have gave up

00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:39.199
 because they wouldn't come over

00:29:39.199 --> 00:29:39.619
 for dinner,

00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:40.419
 wouldn't have happened.

00:29:40.420 --> 00:29:42.320
 You know,

00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:43.180
 it's like,

00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:43.420
 no,

00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:44.560
 I'm on mission to these people.

00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:45.039
 We're going to,

00:29:45.140 --> 00:29:46.539
 we want to see these people saved.

00:29:47.300 --> 00:29:48.180
 And so it opened up

00:29:48.180 --> 00:29:48.980
 all kinds of doors

00:29:48.980 --> 00:29:49.840
 for preaching the gospel.

00:29:50.019 --> 00:29:50.640
 Preaching the gospel

00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:51.259
 at basketball.

00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:52.160
 Preaching the gospel

00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:53.980
 we're overhanging on their porch.

00:29:54.539 --> 00:29:55.340
 Preaching the gospel

00:29:55.340 --> 00:29:57.060
 on a private jet to Hawaii,

00:29:57.259 --> 00:29:58.259
 I mean to Haiti,

00:29:58.460 --> 00:29:58.920
 not Hawaii,

00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:00.240
 on a private jet to Haiti

00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:01.779
 to my neighbors

00:30:01.779 --> 00:30:03.440
 who invited us on this trip.

00:30:03.740 --> 00:30:04.500
 How does that happen?

00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:05.880
 I don't know.

00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:06.560
 It just did.

00:30:07.220 --> 00:30:08.379
 Because you open up the doors

00:30:08.379 --> 00:30:09.379
 and you just keep preaching

00:30:09.379 --> 00:30:09.919
 the gospel.

00:30:11.779 --> 00:30:12.279
 You know,

00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:12.879
 going to,

00:30:13.220 --> 00:30:14.339
 I think of all the times

00:30:14.339 --> 00:30:15.539
 I would go to Oddly Correct,

00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:16.299
 you know,

00:30:16.339 --> 00:30:17.119
 during those times.

00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:17.839
 I don't,

00:30:18.019 --> 00:30:19.099
 I don't even drink coffee.

00:30:20.419 --> 00:30:21.039
 And I'm,

00:30:21.339 --> 00:30:23.639
 but that was a watering hole

00:30:23.639 --> 00:30:24.700
 where a bunch of people were.

00:30:24.779 --> 00:30:25.240
 I'd go there.

00:30:25.299 --> 00:30:25.980
 The amount of times

00:30:25.980 --> 00:30:27.379
 I would meet people there

00:30:27.379 --> 00:30:28.220
 that I didn't know.

00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:30.379
 Finding watering holes

00:30:30.379 --> 00:30:30.879
 where you can go

00:30:30.879 --> 00:30:31.779
 and just meet people

00:30:31.779 --> 00:30:33.839
 and look for opportunities

00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:34.700
 to preach the gospel.

00:30:34.700 --> 00:30:36.259
 People are frequenting

00:30:36.259 --> 00:30:37.039
 certain places

00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:37.980
 over and over again.

00:30:38.539 --> 00:30:38.799
 You know,

00:30:39.360 --> 00:30:40.779
 I had seven kids

00:30:40.779 --> 00:30:42.799
 at one point in time

00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:43.900
 in our house.

00:30:44.100 --> 00:30:45.120
 So we went to Costco

00:30:45.120 --> 00:30:45.720
 all the time,

00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:46.880
 lived five minutes from there.

00:30:47.340 --> 00:30:48.840
 There was one particular cashier

00:30:48.840 --> 00:30:50.559
 who was always more open to us

00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:51.620
 and was friendly with us

00:30:51.620 --> 00:30:52.460
 and knew us by name

00:30:52.460 --> 00:30:53.720
 and we knew her by name

00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:54.420
 and we'd talk about

00:30:54.420 --> 00:30:55.200
 each other's families.

00:30:55.740 --> 00:30:56.840
 And so no matter how long

00:30:56.840 --> 00:30:58.380
 everybody else's lines was,

00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:00.019
 we would always go to her line.

00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:01.720
 And we would always talk to her.

00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:02.759
 Eventually we had her over

00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:03.660
 for dinner.

00:31:04.700 --> 00:31:05.180
 You know,

00:31:05.259 --> 00:31:06.299
 have you ever had a cashier

00:31:06.299 --> 00:31:06.940
 over for dinner,

00:31:07.019 --> 00:31:07.819
 your grocery clerk

00:31:07.819 --> 00:31:09.299
 cashier for dinner?

00:31:09.779 --> 00:31:10.700
 Probably not likely

00:31:10.700 --> 00:31:11.380
 unless you really

00:31:11.380 --> 00:31:12.860
 keep going to that same one

00:31:12.860 --> 00:31:13.759
 over and over again.

00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:15.220
 And she came over for dinner.

00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:16.400
 You never guessed

00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:17.080
 what we talked about

00:31:17.080 --> 00:31:18.140
 when she came over for dinner.

00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:19.240
 The gospel.

00:31:20.100 --> 00:31:20.840
 The gospel.

00:31:21.059 --> 00:31:21.759
 Of course we did.

00:31:22.580 --> 00:31:23.400
 Of course we did.

00:31:24.120 --> 00:31:25.019
 But it was over time

00:31:25.019 --> 00:31:25.980
 and there's all kinds of ways

00:31:25.980 --> 00:31:26.680
 we can do that.

00:31:27.660 --> 00:31:29.240
 The sports our kids would play.

00:31:29.779 --> 00:31:29.960
 You know,

00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:30.779
 I think of the times

00:31:30.779 --> 00:31:32.160
 when we would go to

00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:33.600
 football games

00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:34.679
 or wrestling tournaments

00:31:34.679 --> 00:31:35.859
 and we would talk

00:31:35.859 --> 00:31:36.519
 to the parents

00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:37.039
 and we'd talk

00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:37.699
 to the coaches.

00:31:38.099 --> 00:31:38.980
 The opportunities

00:31:38.980 --> 00:31:40.399
 that I got to preach

00:31:40.399 --> 00:31:41.759
 to the coaches.

00:31:41.879 --> 00:31:42.480
 I was just preaching

00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:45.000
 to Judah's coaches

00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:47.459
 at his wedding

00:31:47.459 --> 00:31:48.740
 not too long ago.

00:31:49.099 --> 00:31:49.459
 Again,

00:31:49.859 --> 00:31:50.639
 another opportunity

00:31:50.639 --> 00:31:51.719
 to preach the gospel.

00:31:52.199 --> 00:31:53.279
 Think of hosting

00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:54.899
 the end of the year party

00:31:54.899 --> 00:31:56.519
 at our Airbnb house

00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:57.139
 at the time

00:31:57.139 --> 00:31:58.879
 and this Buddhist dad

00:31:58.879 --> 00:31:59.579
 talking to me

00:31:59.579 --> 00:32:00.519
 at my kitchen table

00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:01.199
 about Buddha

00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:02.240
 and I'm preaching

00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:03.200
 the gospel to him.

00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:03.920
 You know,

00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:04.920
 what were the chances

00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:05.380
 of me getting

00:32:05.380 --> 00:32:06.259
 a Buddhist dad

00:32:06.259 --> 00:32:07.860
 sitting at my kitchen table

00:32:07.860 --> 00:32:08.620
 in my house?

00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:09.759
 Pretty low.

00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:11.539
 Unless I'd gotten

00:32:11.539 --> 00:32:12.220
 people's lives

00:32:12.220 --> 00:32:12.559
 and said,

00:32:12.660 --> 00:32:12.720
 hey,

00:32:12.779 --> 00:32:13.440
 let's have the party

00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:14.160
 at our house.

00:32:15.360 --> 00:32:16.340
 Do you know what I'm saying?

00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:16.860
 So it's like

00:32:16.860 --> 00:32:18.420
 all these things happen

00:32:18.420 --> 00:32:20.860
 and one thing leads

00:32:20.860 --> 00:32:21.259
 to another

00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:21.920
 and another leads

00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:22.460
 to another.

00:32:22.840 --> 00:32:23.580
 And so you might think,

00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:23.840
 oh,

00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:24.880
 there's not a whole lot

00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:25.840
 of things going on right now.

00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:27.019
 I don't know what to,

00:32:27.180 --> 00:32:28.380
 I don't know what to do

00:32:28.380 --> 00:32:29.460
 as far as that goes.

00:32:30.059 --> 00:32:30.380
 Well,

00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:32.039
 we have to be strategic.

00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:34.220
 We have to seek and save.

00:32:34.819 --> 00:32:35.980
 We gotta be intentional.

00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:37.759
 We gotta be not giving up.

00:32:37.819 --> 00:32:38.960
 We gotta keep after it.

00:32:39.980 --> 00:32:41.200
 We gotta know the difference

00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:43.360
 between individual mission

00:32:43.360 --> 00:32:44.420
 and corporate mission.

00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:45.000
 Okay?

00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:45.880
 Every single one of us

00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:46.340
 is a Christian

00:32:46.340 --> 00:32:47.059
 that's gonna be on mission

00:32:47.059 --> 00:32:48.299
 to specific people

00:32:48.299 --> 00:32:48.720
 in our life.

00:32:48.779 --> 00:32:49.779
 That's just being a Christian.

00:32:50.220 --> 00:32:51.579
 That's like ground zero.

00:32:52.340 --> 00:32:52.519
 Okay?

00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:53.840
 You can't expect everyone

00:32:53.840 --> 00:32:54.340
 in your life

00:32:54.340 --> 00:32:55.860
 to be on mission with you.

00:32:56.019 --> 00:32:57.160
 But there are gonna be times

00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:58.059
 where it's gonna make sense

00:32:58.059 --> 00:32:58.620
 to do that.

00:32:58.619 --> 00:32:59.639
 And you need to look

00:32:59.639 --> 00:33:00.500
 for those opportunities

00:33:00.500 --> 00:33:01.519
 in a missional community.

00:33:01.679 --> 00:33:01.779
 Like,

00:33:01.899 --> 00:33:03.339
 where are the people

00:33:03.339 --> 00:33:04.559
 we can be on mission together?

00:33:05.339 --> 00:33:06.739
 And maybe it's not all of us.

00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:07.859
 Maybe it's just a few of us

00:33:07.859 --> 00:33:08.579
 and the rest of us

00:33:08.579 --> 00:33:09.099
 are praying.

00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:10.119
 Okay?

00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:11.179
 I'm on,

00:33:11.439 --> 00:33:12.339
 over the years

00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:13.439
 I've been on multiple threads

00:33:13.439 --> 00:33:13.899
 of this

00:33:13.899 --> 00:33:14.819
 in missional communities.

00:33:14.939 --> 00:33:16.299
 Right now I'm on a thread

00:33:16.299 --> 00:33:17.319
 together with a bunch of people

00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:17.979
 who are purposely

00:33:17.979 --> 00:33:19.539
 doing evangelism often.

00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:21.519
 And a lot of times

00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:22.439
 I'm not the one

00:33:22.439 --> 00:33:23.500
 doing the evangelism.

00:33:23.739 --> 00:33:24.799
 But they're telling me

00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:26.299
 when they're having opportunities

00:33:26.299 --> 00:33:27.359
 to evangelize people.

00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:28.399
 And so I'm doing

00:33:28.399 --> 00:33:29.459
 a really important part.

00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:30.219
 You know what that is?

00:33:30.579 --> 00:33:31.240
 I'm praying.

00:33:32.159 --> 00:33:33.459
 I might not be with them

00:33:33.459 --> 00:33:34.079
 locked arms

00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:35.299
 and doing evangelism

00:33:35.299 --> 00:33:35.579
 with them

00:33:35.579 --> 00:33:36.639
 but I'm praying for them.

00:33:37.439 --> 00:33:38.259
 It's just like when,

00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:38.699
 you know,

00:33:38.779 --> 00:33:39.639
 David's mighty men

00:33:39.639 --> 00:33:40.139
 came back

00:33:40.139 --> 00:33:40.679
 and they said,

00:33:41.339 --> 00:33:41.899
 and they were sharing

00:33:41.899 --> 00:33:42.419
 the spoil

00:33:42.419 --> 00:33:42.939
 and they said,

00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:43.119
 hey,

00:33:43.299 --> 00:33:44.399
 these people who stayed

00:33:44.399 --> 00:33:45.119
 with the stuff

00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:45.539
 and the women

00:33:45.539 --> 00:33:45.939
 and the children,

00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:47.099
 they don't get the spoil.

00:33:47.479 --> 00:33:47.740
 He's like,

00:33:47.779 --> 00:33:48.139
 no, no, no.

00:33:48.519 --> 00:33:49.459
 Those who stay back

00:33:49.459 --> 00:33:50.179
 and those who go

00:33:50.179 --> 00:33:51.399
 both get in the spoil.

00:33:52.399 --> 00:33:53.559
 Each part is important.

00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:54.500
 And it's the same thing

00:33:54.500 --> 00:33:55.559
 with evangelism.

00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:56.819
 Some people are out there

00:33:56.819 --> 00:33:57.619
 on the front lines

00:33:57.619 --> 00:33:59.039
 and then the rest of us

00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:00.019
 should be praying for them.

00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:01.440
 Like Adam was saying,

00:34:01.539 --> 00:34:02.240
 praying that their eyes

00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:02.799
 would be open.

00:34:03.399 --> 00:34:04.240
 Praying that their eyes

00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:04.759
 would be open.

00:34:05.159 --> 00:34:06.359
 That's an important part

00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:07.220
 because if you preach

00:34:07.220 --> 00:34:08.199
 and their eyes aren't open,

00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:11.259
 they ain't going anywhere.

00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:12.380
 Right?

00:34:12.460 --> 00:34:14.179
 They gotta have their eyes open.

00:34:15.059 --> 00:34:16.500
 But it's important for us

00:34:16.500 --> 00:34:17.400
 in our mission communities

00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:17.779
 to say,

00:34:17.860 --> 00:34:18.119
 okay,

00:34:18.259 --> 00:34:19.599
 who are we on mission to?

00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:20.619
 What are we already doing?

00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:21.739
 Where are we already?

00:34:22.139 --> 00:34:23.699
 Like take existing inventory

00:34:23.699 --> 00:34:24.920
 of what's already going on in life.

00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:25.420
 Who are the people

00:34:25.420 --> 00:34:26.159
 that are in your life?

00:34:26.579 --> 00:34:28.099
 Is there any intersection with this?

00:34:28.139 --> 00:34:29.000
 And if there's not,

00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:31.179
 because there might not be,

00:34:31.839 --> 00:34:32.500
 if there is,

00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:33.539
 take advantage of it.

00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:34.579
 Think of what you could do to that.

00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:35.420
 And if there's not,

00:34:35.859 --> 00:34:36.139
 pray.

00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:37.539
 Pray for something.

00:34:38.619 --> 00:34:39.779
 Pray for things to come together.

00:34:39.940 --> 00:34:40.480
 Pray for people

00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:41.599
 to be on mission to together.

00:34:41.980 --> 00:34:42.859
 And don't get discouraged

00:34:42.859 --> 00:34:43.759
 if it takes time.

00:34:43.859 --> 00:34:44.460
 Don't get discouraged

00:34:44.460 --> 00:34:45.960
 if you have to wait on the Lord.

00:34:46.059 --> 00:34:46.859
 Don't get discouraged

00:34:46.859 --> 00:34:49.099
 if you have to keep praying

00:34:49.099 --> 00:34:50.119
 and keep praying.

00:34:50.619 --> 00:34:51.940
 Pray for new places.

00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:53.619
 Pray to be spirit led

00:34:53.619 --> 00:34:55.139
 to specific people,

00:34:55.299 --> 00:34:56.219
 friends and family,

00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:57.500
 neighbors and neighborhoods,

00:34:57.759 --> 00:34:59.099
 co-workers and workplaces.

00:34:59.859 --> 00:35:00.500
 We're regularly going

00:35:00.500 --> 00:35:01.500
 to the same restaurant,

00:35:01.739 --> 00:35:02.920
 the same grocery store,

00:35:03.099 --> 00:35:04.159
 same coffee shop,

00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:04.980
 the same barber,

00:35:05.420 --> 00:35:06.400
 same hairdresser,

00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:07.440
 the same mechanic,

00:35:07.859 --> 00:35:08.859
 same chiropractor,

00:35:09.019 --> 00:35:09.519
 same park.

00:35:09.579 --> 00:35:10.219
 And you start saying,

00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:11.519
 I remember at one point in time,

00:35:11.599 --> 00:35:12.000
 a bunch of people

00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:14.159
 went to the same barber together

00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:15.739
 for only one reason,

00:35:16.359 --> 00:35:17.719
 to reach that guy with the gus.

00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:19.339
 You know,

00:35:19.759 --> 00:35:22.279
 I've had multiple chiropractors

00:35:22.279 --> 00:35:23.159
 that I've gone to

00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:23.939
 and that other people

00:35:23.939 --> 00:35:24.500
 have gone to

00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:25.719
 and that we've all shared

00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:26.939
 the gospel with the same guy.

00:35:28.779 --> 00:35:30.119
 Let's be on mission together,

00:35:30.379 --> 00:35:30.659
 right?

00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:32.519
 We can do this kind of stuff.

00:35:32.980 --> 00:35:36.419
 Reaching out to specific people

00:35:36.419 --> 00:35:38.059
 and then really getting

00:35:38.059 --> 00:35:39.619
 specific strategies for mission.

00:35:39.739 --> 00:35:40.099
 Do you believe

00:35:40.099 --> 00:35:40.839
 that this is possible?

00:35:40.939 --> 00:35:41.259
 Do you believe

00:35:41.259 --> 00:35:42.519
 that God wants to give you this?

00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:44.619
 I think of Acts 13 too.

00:35:44.619 --> 00:35:45.019
 It says,

00:35:45.500 --> 00:35:46.299
 while they were worshiping

00:35:46.299 --> 00:35:47.179
 the Lord and fasting,

00:35:47.319 --> 00:35:48.460
 the Holy Spirit said,

00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:49.880
 that phrase right there

00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:51.079
 is just a phenomenal phrase,

00:35:51.139 --> 00:35:51.400
 is it?

00:35:52.380 --> 00:35:53.500
 While they were worshiping

00:35:53.500 --> 00:35:54.619
 the Lord and fasting,

00:35:54.839 --> 00:35:56.019
 the Holy Spirit said,

00:35:56.359 --> 00:35:57.099
 when was the last time

00:35:57.099 --> 00:35:57.679
 you and your mission

00:35:57.679 --> 00:35:58.219
 of the community

00:35:58.219 --> 00:35:59.359
 were worshiping the Lord

00:35:59.359 --> 00:36:00.819
 and fasting together

00:36:00.819 --> 00:36:03.119
 for the purpose of mission?

00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:04.519
 We're just like,

00:36:04.579 --> 00:36:04.719
 okay,

00:36:04.739 --> 00:36:05.980
 we're just going to worship God,

00:36:06.299 --> 00:36:07.000
 wait on the Lord

00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:08.259
 and we're going to fast together

00:36:08.259 --> 00:36:09.000
 and we're going to believe

00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:09.699
 that the Holy Spirit

00:36:09.699 --> 00:36:10.579
 is going to lead us.

00:36:11.179 --> 00:36:12.019
 Do you believe that?

00:36:12.779 --> 00:36:13.000
 It says,

00:36:13.059 --> 00:36:13.799
 and the Holy Spirit said,

00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:15.280
 set apart for me Barnabas and Saul

00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:16.860
 for the work at which I've called.

00:36:18.380 --> 00:36:19.200
 Some of us are thinking,

00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:19.420
 man,

00:36:19.460 --> 00:36:20.240
 I don't know where to go.

00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:21.460
 I don't know who to reach out to.

00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:22.760
 I don't know how we can be on mission

00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:23.760
 as a missional community.

00:36:24.340 --> 00:36:25.560
 May I suggest

00:36:25.560 --> 00:36:26.600
 that perhaps you add

00:36:26.600 --> 00:36:27.960
 a little worship and fasting in.

00:36:29.860 --> 00:36:30.480
 Like we're going to have

00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:31.080
 a night together.

00:36:31.160 --> 00:36:31.860
 We're just going to worship

00:36:31.860 --> 00:36:32.780
 and fast together.

00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:35.000
 Like we're just going to pray

00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:36.080
 and wait on the Lord

00:36:36.080 --> 00:36:37.320
 and see what he says,

00:36:37.620 --> 00:36:38.840
 see how he leads.

00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:41.519
 The Holy Spirit will lead you

00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:42.640
 to seek and save

00:36:42.640 --> 00:36:43.580
 those who are lost.

00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:46.160
 But you got to put yourself

00:36:46.160 --> 00:36:47.160
 in a position to hear

00:36:47.160 --> 00:36:48.360
 and we got to be listening.

00:36:49.100 --> 00:36:50.420
 We can't just be sitting there

00:36:50.420 --> 00:36:51.180
 going through the motions

00:36:51.180 --> 00:36:52.000
 and mumbling a bunch

00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:52.920
 of worship songs

00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:54.220
 and not be thinking,

00:36:54.560 --> 00:36:55.420
 the Holy Spirit wants

00:36:55.420 --> 00:36:56.380
 to speak to us.

00:36:56.960 --> 00:36:58.220
 He wants to set apart people

00:36:58.220 --> 00:36:59.000
 for his work

00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:01.780
 and believe for that

00:37:01.780 --> 00:37:02.980
 and encourage one another.

00:37:02.980 --> 00:37:03.800
 Because some of you

00:37:03.800 --> 00:37:04.660
 get discouraged

00:37:04.660 --> 00:37:05.080
 on anything.

00:37:05.200 --> 00:37:05.720
 I don't know if anybody

00:37:05.720 --> 00:37:06.820
 is going to get saved.

00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:08.160
 I don't know who to talk to.

00:37:08.240 --> 00:37:09.220
 I don't know how we're going

00:37:09.220 --> 00:37:09.960
 to do this together

00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:11.019
 as a missional community.

00:37:11.019 --> 00:37:11.920
 And so there needs

00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:12.900
 to be mutual encouragement

00:37:12.900 --> 00:37:14.039
 like, no, believe.

00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:15.500
 Trust God.

00:37:16.460 --> 00:37:17.159
 When they were worshiping

00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:17.900
 the Lord and fasting,

00:37:18.019 --> 00:37:19.199
 the Holy Spirit said.

00:37:20.340 --> 00:37:22.019
 The Holy Spirit says things.

00:37:24.019 --> 00:37:25.340
 Luke 10 verse 2.

00:37:26.159 --> 00:37:26.420
 He said,

00:37:26.420 --> 00:37:27.720
 The harvest is plentiful

00:37:27.720 --> 00:37:29.019
 but the laborers are few.

00:37:29.460 --> 00:37:30.519
 Therefore pray earnestly

00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:32.760
 to the Lord of the harvest

00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:33.820
 to send out laborers

00:37:33.820 --> 00:37:34.780
 into his harvest field.

00:37:35.860 --> 00:37:36.860
 I want to focus on

00:37:36.860 --> 00:37:37.519
 part of that verse

00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:38.900
 that we don't usually focus on.

00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:40.340
 The name of the Lord

00:37:40.340 --> 00:37:41.360
 in that verse.

00:37:41.680 --> 00:37:42.420
 What is he called?

00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:45.740
 Lord of the harvest.

00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:47.960
 Isn't that an important

00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:49.039
 thing to think of?

00:37:49.579 --> 00:37:50.579
 You're not just praying

00:37:50.579 --> 00:37:51.280
 to the Lord.

00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:52.760
 Right?

00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:53.519
 Oh Lord,

00:37:53.619 --> 00:37:54.360
 please save people.

00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:54.820
 Oh Lord,

00:37:54.940 --> 00:37:55.960
 give us people to reach out to.

00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:56.460
 Oh Lord,

00:37:57.039 --> 00:37:57.240
 you know,

00:37:57.460 --> 00:37:58.420
 help us get on mission.

00:37:58.980 --> 00:37:59.720
 Help this church,

00:37:59.820 --> 00:38:00.280
 Christ church,

00:38:00.340 --> 00:38:01.699
 to be an evangelistic church

00:38:01.699 --> 00:38:03.179
 that gets in front

00:38:03.179 --> 00:38:03.880
 of lost people

00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:04.940
 and gives them a hearing

00:38:04.940 --> 00:38:05.559
 of the gospel.

00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:06.220
 Right?

00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:07.900
 You're not just praying

00:38:07.900 --> 00:38:08.539
 to the Lord.

00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:09.619
 You're praying to the Lord

00:38:09.619 --> 00:38:11.360
 of the harvest.

00:38:12.340 --> 00:38:13.360
 That's who he is.

00:38:13.659 --> 00:38:14.679
 He's the Lord of the harvest.

00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:15.699
 He owns the harvest.

00:38:16.240 --> 00:38:17.280
 He's in charge

00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:17.900
 of the harvest.

00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:20.760
 So you got direct access

00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:22.460
 to the Lord of the harvest.

00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:23.900
 We're saying,

00:38:23.980 --> 00:38:24.720
 I want to harvest.

00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:26.299
 You want to experience

00:38:26.299 --> 00:38:26.739
 a harvest.

00:38:27.339 --> 00:38:28.239
 You're praying for a harvest,

00:38:28.339 --> 00:38:28.980
 but you're praying

00:38:28.980 --> 00:38:30.139
 to the Lord

00:38:30.139 --> 00:38:31.259
 of the harvest.

00:38:31.980 --> 00:38:33.199
 The one who's in charge

00:38:33.199 --> 00:38:33.500
 of it.

00:38:33.559 --> 00:38:34.399
 The one who's doing

00:38:34.399 --> 00:38:34.899
 the work.

00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:35.659
 The one who's doing

00:38:35.659 --> 00:38:36.299
 the saving.

00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:38.039
 The Lord of the harvest.

00:38:38.139 --> 00:38:38.739
 Do you think of that

00:38:38.739 --> 00:38:39.279
 when you pray?

00:38:40.659 --> 00:38:41.019
 God,

00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:41.980
 you're the Lord

00:38:41.980 --> 00:38:42.559
 of the harvest.

00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:44.199
 That's why I'm going

00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:44.539
 to you.

00:38:44.619 --> 00:38:45.539
 We want to see a harvest.

00:38:46.339 --> 00:38:47.139
 You are the Lord

00:38:47.139 --> 00:38:47.959
 of the harvest.

00:38:48.679 --> 00:38:49.359
 You think of that

00:38:49.359 --> 00:38:50.000
 when you pray.

00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:51.500
 When you pray together

00:38:51.500 --> 00:38:53.320
 as a people.

00:38:54.139 --> 00:38:54.940
 When you're thinking

00:38:54.940 --> 00:38:56.619
 about ways to reach out

00:38:56.619 --> 00:38:57.119
 to people.

00:38:57.579 --> 00:38:58.820
 I really want to encourage

00:38:58.820 --> 00:38:59.739
 missional communities

00:38:59.739 --> 00:39:01.239
 to get specific ways

00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:02.219
 you're going to reach out

00:39:02.219 --> 00:39:02.920
 to lost people.

00:39:03.239 --> 00:39:03.719
 And please,

00:39:03.900 --> 00:39:04.800
 don't get discouraged

00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:05.559
 if they don't work.

00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:05.900
 I know,

00:39:06.179 --> 00:39:06.440
 yes,

00:39:06.619 --> 00:39:07.500
 the guys are trying

00:39:07.500 --> 00:39:07.940
 to get a bunch

00:39:07.940 --> 00:39:08.719
 of people together

00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:10.019
 even this week

00:39:10.019 --> 00:39:11.599
 for a little something.

00:39:12.780 --> 00:39:13.059
 And

00:39:13.059 --> 00:39:15.239
 it wasn't a good

00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:15.960
 showing of people.

00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:17.940
 Keep at it.

00:39:19.240 --> 00:39:20.059
 Keep at it.

00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:21.420
 How many times

00:39:21.420 --> 00:39:22.000
 did missionaries

00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:22.699
 go into countries

00:39:22.699 --> 00:39:23.300
 and they saw

00:39:23.300 --> 00:39:23.920
 no converts

00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:25.119
 for six to seven years?

00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:26.380
 Keep at it.

00:39:27.179 --> 00:39:28.199
 Who are you praying to?

00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:28.780
 He's the Lord

00:39:28.780 --> 00:39:29.380
 of the harvest.

00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:30.559
 He's the Lord

00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:31.199
 of the harvest.

00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:32.599
 Keep at it.

00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:33.559
 Keep inviting.

00:39:33.720 --> 00:39:34.159
 Keep doing.

00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:35.500
 Keep eating with people.

00:39:35.619 --> 00:39:36.559
 Keep doing meals.

00:39:37.720 --> 00:39:38.659
 Set up things.

00:39:38.699 --> 00:39:38.880
 Like,

00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:39.019
 hey,

00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:39.659
 we're going to do

00:39:39.659 --> 00:39:40.740
 a regular night

00:39:40.740 --> 00:39:41.199
 of the week

00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:42.179
 where we just have open

00:39:42.179 --> 00:39:42.559
 and we're just

00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:43.400
 going to invite people.

00:39:44.019 --> 00:39:44.940
 Try to make it room

00:39:44.940 --> 00:39:45.639
 for lost people.

00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:46.559
 Maybe for my neighbors.

00:39:46.980 --> 00:39:48.059
 No falls coming up.

00:39:48.659 --> 00:39:48.779
 Oh,

00:39:48.839 --> 00:39:49.379
 can't wait.

00:39:49.779 --> 00:39:50.920
 Love that time of year,

00:39:51.019 --> 00:39:51.279
 right?

00:39:51.839 --> 00:39:52.759
 People are outside.

00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:53.759
 People want to hang out.

00:39:53.859 --> 00:39:54.359
 Nobody wants anything

00:39:54.359 --> 00:39:55.239
 outside of right now.

00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:56.539
 It's horrible out there.

00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:58.339
 It's hot and muggy,

00:39:58.599 --> 00:39:59.519
 but we're,

00:39:59.759 --> 00:40:00.960
 it's right around the corner,

00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:02.000
 right?

00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:02.699
 Football season

00:40:02.699 --> 00:40:03.839
 started this last week.

00:40:04.279 --> 00:40:05.500
 People are getting together,

00:40:05.500 --> 00:40:06.460
 right?

00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:07.440
 Listen,

00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:08.839
 don't just think last minute.

00:40:09.279 --> 00:40:10.539
 We need to get strategic.

00:40:11.059 --> 00:40:11.859
 What are you going to do

00:40:11.859 --> 00:40:13.059
 to get people in your life?

00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:13.579
 What are you going to do

00:40:13.579 --> 00:40:14.639
 to get on mission to people?

00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:15.619
 We're not,

00:40:15.739 --> 00:40:16.639
 we're not just coming here

00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:17.839
 to sing songs

00:40:17.839 --> 00:40:18.699
 and have a nice time

00:40:18.699 --> 00:40:19.900
 and enjoy one another

00:40:19.900 --> 00:40:20.799
 and maybe have a good time

00:40:20.799 --> 00:40:21.359
 with each other.

00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:22.920
 This isn't about us.

00:40:23.420 --> 00:40:24.539
 This is about the Lord

00:40:24.539 --> 00:40:25.379
 and the harvest.

00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:26.739
 We're here

00:40:26.739 --> 00:40:29.219
 getting to know one another,

00:40:29.379 --> 00:40:30.460
 growing closer to one another,

00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:31.460
 being a family together

00:40:31.460 --> 00:40:33.099
 so that we can be on mission.

00:40:33.619 --> 00:40:35.039
 So we got to get after it.

00:40:35.279 --> 00:40:36.579
 We can't just get comfortable

00:40:36.579 --> 00:40:37.359
 with each other.

00:40:37.799 --> 00:40:38.799
 We got to get after

00:40:38.799 --> 00:40:40.420
 planning specific ways,

00:40:40.859 --> 00:40:41.920
 spirit-led ways,

00:40:42.259 --> 00:40:43.359
 waiting on the Lord ways

00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:44.160
 where we can get

00:40:44.160 --> 00:40:45.059
 into people's life,

00:40:46.160 --> 00:40:47.380
 where we can get people

00:40:47.380 --> 00:40:47.940
 in front of us

00:40:47.940 --> 00:40:48.760
 who can get a hearing

00:40:48.760 --> 00:40:49.860
 for the gospel.

00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:51.620
 That's going to involve

00:40:51.620 --> 00:40:53.220
 all kinds of things.

00:40:54.500 --> 00:40:54.700
 You know,

00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:55.980
 the holidays are coming up.

00:40:56.160 --> 00:40:56.640
 You're going to wait

00:40:56.640 --> 00:40:58.039
 to plan that holiday party

00:40:58.039 --> 00:40:58.700
 the day before?

00:40:58.820 --> 00:40:59.220
 You're going to start

00:40:59.220 --> 00:41:00.059
 thinking about it now.

00:41:00.460 --> 00:41:00.720
 Like,

00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:01.320
 what are we going to do

00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:02.220
 for Halloween

00:41:02.220 --> 00:41:02.920
 in our neighborhoods?

00:41:03.180 --> 00:41:04.200
 What are we going to do

00:41:04.200 --> 00:41:06.260
 for Thanksgiving,

00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:06.800
 Christmas?

00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:07.420
 Are we going to have

00:41:07.420 --> 00:41:08.260
 a Christmas party?

00:41:08.340 --> 00:41:09.480
 Are we going to watch

00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:10.620
 some football games together?

00:41:10.740 --> 00:41:11.220
 Are we going to do

00:41:11.219 --> 00:41:11.939
 a New Year's party?

00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:12.179
 Like,

00:41:12.379 --> 00:41:13.399
 be thinking of that stuff

00:41:13.399 --> 00:41:13.879
 now in your

00:41:13.879 --> 00:41:14.599
 missional communities.

00:41:14.899 --> 00:41:15.899
 Have those conversations.

00:41:16.799 --> 00:41:18.019
 And then begin praying

00:41:18.019 --> 00:41:18.759
 about those things

00:41:18.759 --> 00:41:19.639
 way ahead of time.

00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:22.159
 So that you're in August

00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:23.039
 and you're praying

00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:24.199
 about a Christmas party.

00:41:25.179 --> 00:41:26.000
 Why not?

00:41:26.759 --> 00:41:27.000
 Right?

00:41:27.139 --> 00:41:27.519
 Lord,

00:41:27.959 --> 00:41:29.739
 we want to see a harvest.

00:41:30.259 --> 00:41:31.879
 We want to see people saved.

00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:33.879
 And I think some of us,

00:41:33.980 --> 00:41:34.899
 we could use a little bit

00:41:34.899 --> 00:41:35.579
 more discipline

00:41:35.579 --> 00:41:36.000
 and like,

00:41:36.279 --> 00:41:36.399
 no,

00:41:36.439 --> 00:41:37.799
 let's be more strategic in this.

00:41:37.859 --> 00:41:39.000
 Let's be more planning in this.

00:41:39.059 --> 00:41:40.599
 Let's be more focused on this.

00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:42.559
 Let's be more intentional in this.

00:41:42.779 --> 00:41:43.679
 Let's put more time

00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:44.739
 and effort into this.

00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:47.319
 I don't doubt anybody's desire

00:41:47.319 --> 00:41:48.579
 and that there is effort,

00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:49.199
 but I'm saying,

00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:50.339
 like doubling down

00:41:50.339 --> 00:41:50.639
 and saying,

00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:50.920
 okay,

00:41:51.420 --> 00:41:52.880
 we got these three little

00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:54.360
 nimble missional communities.

00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:55.679
 Let's get on mission

00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:56.239
 to some people.

00:41:56.319 --> 00:41:56.839
 Let's figure out

00:41:56.839 --> 00:41:57.639
 how we're going to do it.

00:41:57.699 --> 00:41:58.559
 Let's make a plan

00:41:58.559 --> 00:41:59.799
 and let's execute.

00:42:00.339 --> 00:42:00.980
 And let's just trust.

00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:02.679
 And if nothing happens,

00:42:03.239 --> 00:42:05.019
 we just keep trusting God.

00:42:05.219 --> 00:42:05.519
 Just say,

00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:05.779
 Lord,

00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:07.159
 you're the Lord of the harvest.

00:42:07.860 --> 00:42:08.960
 You're the Lord of the harvest.

00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:10.800
 I'm going to keep giving people hearings.

00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:11.900
 I'm going to keep making room

00:42:11.900 --> 00:42:12.559
 for unbelievers

00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:13.360
 to be in my life.

00:42:13.619 --> 00:42:14.820
 I'm going to keep being hospitable

00:42:14.820 --> 00:42:15.860
 and opening up my home

00:42:15.860 --> 00:42:16.480
 and my heart

00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:17.400
 and my schedule

00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:18.679
 to people who are lost.

00:42:18.800 --> 00:42:19.860
 I'm going to keep doing this.

00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:21.800
 I'm going to keep trying

00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:23.119
 to open the doors to this.

00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:24.740
 And I'm going to radically

00:42:24.740 --> 00:42:25.940
 reorient my life

00:42:25.940 --> 00:42:27.480
 around God's mission

00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:28.380
 to lost people.

00:42:28.860 --> 00:42:30.099
 I'm going to make time for it.

00:42:30.420 --> 00:42:30.800
 I'm going to make,

00:42:30.900 --> 00:42:31.659
 I'm going to set aside time

00:42:31.659 --> 00:42:32.440
 to pray for the,

00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:33.260
 for the harvest

00:42:33.260 --> 00:42:34.240
 on a regular basis.

00:42:34.240 --> 00:42:35.260
 Do you do that?

00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:36.019
 I'm going to do it

00:42:36.019 --> 00:42:37.119
 with my brothers and sisters.

00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:38.900
 Maybe you guys hang out

00:42:38.900 --> 00:42:39.839
 with each other

00:42:39.839 --> 00:42:40.659
 for some night

00:42:40.659 --> 00:42:41.500
 and have dinner together

00:42:41.500 --> 00:42:42.579
 before you leave.

00:42:42.859 --> 00:42:43.059
 Hey,

00:42:43.179 --> 00:42:43.900
 before you leave,

00:42:44.139 --> 00:42:44.839
 can we just agree

00:42:44.839 --> 00:42:46.059
 and pray right now

00:42:46.059 --> 00:42:46.619
 for a harvest?

00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:49.259
 Yeah,

00:42:49.299 --> 00:42:50.579
 can we just take five minutes

00:42:50.579 --> 00:42:50.940
 right now

00:42:50.940 --> 00:42:51.880
 and just pray for a harvest?

00:42:52.259 --> 00:42:52.759
 Thanks so much

00:42:52.759 --> 00:42:53.239
 for coming over.

00:42:53.299 --> 00:42:53.759
 I love you.

00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:54.679
 It's a great time.

00:42:55.099 --> 00:42:55.940
 Let's pray for the harvest.

00:42:57.119 --> 00:42:57.619
 You know what I'm saying?

00:42:58.199 --> 00:42:58.559
 Doesn't that,

00:42:58.639 --> 00:42:59.159
 you don't have to pray,

00:42:59.239 --> 00:42:59.859
 you don't have to travail

00:42:59.859 --> 00:43:00.779
 for four hours.

00:43:01.659 --> 00:43:02.219
 You know?

00:43:02.619 --> 00:43:03.380
 But ask.

00:43:03.940 --> 00:43:04.400
 You don't have

00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:06.280
 because you don't ask.

00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:07.139
 Right?

00:43:07.460 --> 00:43:08.119
 And just looking

00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:08.880
 for opportunities

00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:10.320
 to just really jump in there.

00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:11.700
 And then just keep doing

00:43:11.700 --> 00:43:12.740
 over and over again.

00:43:13.340 --> 00:43:14.240
 Praying for the gospel

00:43:14.240 --> 00:43:15.579
 to be proclaimed and believed.

00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:16.599
 Building new

00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:17.740
 and existing relationships

00:43:17.740 --> 00:43:18.519
 with unbelievers.

00:43:19.059 --> 00:43:19.840
 Preaching the gospel

00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:20.619
 to strangers

00:43:20.619 --> 00:43:21.619
 and those

00:43:21.619 --> 00:43:23.019
 who are building relationships with.

00:43:23.500 --> 00:43:24.360
 Exposing the people

00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:25.119
 we're on mission to

00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:26.340
 to the family of believers.

00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:27.480
 Introducing them

00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:28.200
 to other believers.

00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:29.119
 Getting other believers

00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:29.860
 in their life.

00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:31.099
 And then making

00:43:31.099 --> 00:43:33.340
 disciples who make disciples.

00:43:33.340 --> 00:43:34.620
 And then rinse, repeat,

00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:35.260
 rinse, repeat,

00:43:35.380 --> 00:43:36.400
 rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat.

00:43:36.500 --> 00:43:37.280
 Keep doing it over

00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:38.079
 and over

00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:39.180
 and over again.

00:43:39.700 --> 00:43:40.860
 And if it ever

00:43:40.860 --> 00:43:41.860
 starts to get stale

00:43:41.860 --> 00:43:42.680
 or if it ever

00:43:42.680 --> 00:43:43.640
 starts to get boring,

00:43:43.980 --> 00:43:44.500
 that just means

00:43:44.500 --> 00:43:45.140
 you're not being led

00:43:45.140 --> 00:43:45.700
 by the Spirit.

00:43:45.860 --> 00:43:46.300
 Maybe you need

00:43:46.300 --> 00:43:46.960
 a fresh feeling

00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:47.519
 of the Spirit.

00:43:47.860 --> 00:43:48.220
 Maybe you need

00:43:48.220 --> 00:43:48.660
 to get some

00:43:48.660 --> 00:43:50.360
 fresh Spirit creativity

00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:50.840
 of God

00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:51.800
 just to speak to you.

00:43:52.059 --> 00:43:52.600
 Maybe it's time

00:43:52.600 --> 00:43:53.559
 to forgo some meals

00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:54.579
 and just pray and fast

00:43:54.579 --> 00:43:54.900
 and say,

00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:55.200
 Lord,

00:43:55.420 --> 00:43:56.300
 what do you have for me?

00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:57.400
 I want to get after it.

00:43:58.420 --> 00:43:59.740
 Because only when life

00:43:59.740 --> 00:44:00.579
 will soon be passed

00:44:00.579 --> 00:44:01.260
 and only what's done

00:44:01.260 --> 00:44:02.340
 for Christ will last.

00:44:02.340 --> 00:44:05.579
 I don't want to just

00:44:05.579 --> 00:44:06.579
 coast to life.

00:44:06.720 --> 00:44:07.240
 I don't want to

00:44:07.240 --> 00:44:08.500
 waste my virility

00:44:08.500 --> 00:44:11.079
 on just a bunch

00:44:11.079 --> 00:44:11.820
 of things for me.

00:44:11.960 --> 00:44:13.140
 I want to use

00:44:13.140 --> 00:44:14.180
 the God-given

00:44:14.180 --> 00:44:16.000
 passion that you've

00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:16.420
 given me

00:44:16.420 --> 00:44:17.220
 for the purposes

00:44:17.220 --> 00:44:17.800
 of the kingdom

00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:19.680
 and get after

00:44:19.680 --> 00:44:20.800
 doing exciting

00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:21.800
 exploits for God

00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:22.360
 and believing that

00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:23.260
 he's going to come through.

00:44:24.420 --> 00:44:25.300
 Which means I'm going

00:44:25.300 --> 00:44:26.000
 to pray and fast

00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:26.539
 for the mission.

00:44:26.820 --> 00:44:27.220
 I'm going to pray

00:44:27.220 --> 00:44:28.039
 for boldness.

00:44:28.200 --> 00:44:28.680
 I'm going to pray

00:44:28.680 --> 00:44:29.400
 for love.

00:44:29.640 --> 00:44:30.039
 I'm going to pray

00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:30.780
 for God's heart

00:44:30.780 --> 00:44:31.519
 for the lost.

00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:33.680
 And I want to report

00:44:33.680 --> 00:44:34.760
 regularly on victories.

00:44:35.160 --> 00:44:36.420
 If there's any victories,

00:44:36.620 --> 00:44:37.560
 please make sure

00:44:37.560 --> 00:44:39.100
 you have an obligation

00:44:39.100 --> 00:44:40.019
 to all of us.

00:44:40.160 --> 00:44:40.660
 Tell us.

00:44:41.880 --> 00:44:42.660
 Tell us.

00:44:43.060 --> 00:44:43.900
 If something good

00:44:43.900 --> 00:44:44.240
 happened,

00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:44.920
 tell us.

00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:45.800
 If an answer

00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:46.400
 of prayer happened,

00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:46.920
 tell us.

00:44:47.900 --> 00:44:49.120
 If someone's coming over

00:44:49.120 --> 00:44:50.780
 or you're getting

00:44:50.780 --> 00:44:51.540
 together with someone

00:44:51.540 --> 00:44:52.080
 who's lost,

00:44:52.180 --> 00:44:52.880
 tell us so we can

00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:53.400
 be praying.

00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:55.539
 You should be

00:44:55.539 --> 00:44:56.579
 regularly jumping

00:44:56.579 --> 00:44:57.340
 on your missional

00:44:57.340 --> 00:44:58.039
 community threads

00:44:58.039 --> 00:44:58.420
 and saying,

00:44:58.539 --> 00:44:58.740
 hey,

00:44:59.500 --> 00:45:00.139
 so-and-so,

00:45:00.420 --> 00:45:00.940
 pray for them.

00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:02.059
 They're coming over

00:45:02.059 --> 00:45:02.860
 or I'm getting lunch

00:45:02.860 --> 00:45:03.840
 or whatever.

00:45:04.139 --> 00:45:05.240
 I'm doing this or that.

00:45:05.300 --> 00:45:06.099
 We're going to get a drink

00:45:06.099 --> 00:45:07.980
 or so-and-so's going to,

00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:08.800
 we're going to meet up.

00:45:09.240 --> 00:45:10.019
 Whatever it may be.

00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:11.660
 And then when there's victories,

00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:13.039
 tell people.

00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:14.700
 Tell people.

00:45:16.500 --> 00:45:17.380
 Just the other day

00:45:17.380 --> 00:45:17.820
 when I was hearing

00:45:17.820 --> 00:45:18.420
 that testimony

00:45:18.420 --> 00:45:19.019
 and my brother

00:45:19.019 --> 00:45:20.480
 who just said

00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:21.320
 to that one guy,

00:45:21.700 --> 00:45:22.200
 today's the day

00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:22.839
 of the salvation,

00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:24.199
 and he's like,

00:45:24.219 --> 00:45:25.179
 I got saved that day.

00:45:25.219 --> 00:45:25.639
 I was just,

00:45:25.759 --> 00:45:26.419
 I was crying.

00:45:26.539 --> 00:45:26.879
 I was like,

00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:27.480
 yes!

00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:28.960
 That's awesome!

00:45:30.139 --> 00:45:30.899
 That's awesome!

00:45:32.439 --> 00:45:33.119
 And they led

00:45:33.119 --> 00:45:33.839
 two other people

00:45:33.839 --> 00:45:34.319
 to the Lord

00:45:34.319 --> 00:45:35.439
 at their place of work

00:45:35.439 --> 00:45:36.419
 as well since then.

00:45:37.319 --> 00:45:38.039
 That's awesome!

00:45:39.579 --> 00:45:40.159
 You know why

00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:40.819
 I need to hear that?

00:45:41.439 --> 00:45:41.799
 Because

00:45:41.799 --> 00:45:44.559
 I have preached

00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:44.899
 the gospel

00:45:44.899 --> 00:45:46.119
 to a bunch of people

00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:46.960
 in my workplaces

00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:47.659
 over the years

00:45:47.659 --> 00:45:48.039
 and I don't think

00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:48.599
 I've ever seen

00:45:48.599 --> 00:45:49.299
 one of my coworkers

00:45:49.299 --> 00:45:49.899
 get saved.

00:45:50.259 --> 00:45:50.559
 So you know

00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:51.339
 what ends up happening?

00:45:51.439 --> 00:45:52.119
 You start to think,

00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:52.759
 do coworkers

00:45:52.759 --> 00:45:53.439
 get saved?

00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:54.480
 But then when

00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:55.099
 one of your friends

00:45:55.099 --> 00:45:55.419
 says,

00:45:55.659 --> 00:45:55.819
 yeah,

00:45:55.919 --> 00:45:56.519
 four coworkers

00:45:56.519 --> 00:45:57.079
 got saved,

00:45:57.139 --> 00:45:57.359
 you're like,

00:45:57.679 --> 00:45:58.619
 coworkers get saved.

00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:00.019
 It does happen.

00:46:00.619 --> 00:46:01.339
 This is good.

00:46:01.919 --> 00:46:02.439
 I want to keep

00:46:02.439 --> 00:46:02.919
 praying for this.

00:46:02.980 --> 00:46:03.199
 I don't want

00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:03.879
 to lose faith.

00:46:04.299 --> 00:46:05.179
 I want to lose hope.

00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:06.239
 I want to seek

00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:06.899
 and save those

00:46:06.899 --> 00:46:07.659
 who are lost.

00:46:09.099 --> 00:46:10.000
 And then I think

00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:10.919
 as we're doing that,

00:46:11.019 --> 00:46:11.899
 keep reevaluating,

00:46:12.019 --> 00:46:12.799
 keep thinking about it,

00:46:12.839 --> 00:46:14.639
 but I'm believing

00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:15.299
 in faith

00:46:15.299 --> 00:46:18.059
 that starting this week

00:46:18.059 --> 00:46:18.739
 with these three

00:46:18.739 --> 00:46:19.500
 missional communities

00:46:19.500 --> 00:46:20.859
 that God is launching

00:46:20.860 --> 00:46:21.740
 us into the harvest

00:46:21.740 --> 00:46:23.019
 field in a way

00:46:23.019 --> 00:46:24.280
 that is going to

00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:25.559
 cause us to reap

00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:25.880
 a harvest.

00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:26.340
 That's what I'm

00:46:26.340 --> 00:46:26.880
 believing for.

00:46:27.140 --> 00:46:27.780
 And I'm asking you

00:46:27.780 --> 00:46:28.500
 to believe with me

00:46:28.500 --> 00:46:28.880
 for that.

00:46:28.980 --> 00:46:29.380
 I'm asking you

00:46:29.380 --> 00:46:30.059
 to pray with me

00:46:30.059 --> 00:46:30.539
 for that.

00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:31.680
 And to realize,

00:46:31.820 --> 00:46:31.880
 too,

00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:33.460
 that some of the,

00:46:33.539 --> 00:46:34.620
 even the obstacles

00:46:34.620 --> 00:46:35.880
 to familial bonding

00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:36.640
 with one another

00:46:36.640 --> 00:46:38.180
 will be taken care of

00:46:38.180 --> 00:46:38.680
 when we get on

00:46:38.680 --> 00:46:39.280
 mission together.

00:46:40.140 --> 00:46:41.039
 We'll be taken care of

00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:41.519
 when we get on

00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:42.140
 mission together.

00:46:42.860 --> 00:46:43.680
 Some of the greatest

00:46:43.680 --> 00:46:44.620
 ways to bond with

00:46:44.620 --> 00:46:45.260
 people is to do

00:46:45.260 --> 00:46:46.039
 very difficult,

00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:46.900
 adventurous things

00:46:46.900 --> 00:46:47.360
 together.

00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:48.360
 That's mission.

00:46:49.579 --> 00:46:49.779
 Okay?

00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:50.639
 That's us.

00:46:50.699 --> 00:46:51.420
 When you watch all

00:46:51.420 --> 00:46:52.519
 the old war movies,

00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:53.480
 you have people who

00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:54.159
 are totally different

00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:54.779
 than each other

00:46:54.779 --> 00:46:56.079
 becoming really close

00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:56.400
 friends.

00:46:56.519 --> 00:46:56.719
 Why?

00:46:56.840 --> 00:46:57.579
 Because of the mission.

00:46:58.619 --> 00:46:59.360
 Because of the mission.

00:46:59.739 --> 00:47:00.659
 They accomplish something

00:47:00.659 --> 00:47:01.480
 bigger than themselves

00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:01.960
 together.

00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:03.300
 And when you accomplish

00:47:03.300 --> 00:47:04.759
 seeing the kingdom of God

00:47:04.759 --> 00:47:05.639
 come on earth as it is

00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:06.400
 in heaven together

00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:07.340
 with a group of people,

00:47:07.539 --> 00:47:08.599
 it binds you together

00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:09.259
 like a family,

00:47:09.380 --> 00:47:10.440
 like no other thing can.

00:47:11.320 --> 00:47:12.119
 And that's an important

00:47:12.119 --> 00:47:12.840
 thing to remember.

00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:15.059
 Lastly, in closing,

00:47:15.860 --> 00:47:16.840
 this is not optional.

00:47:17.620 --> 00:47:18.740
 Mission is not optional

00:47:18.740 --> 00:47:19.300
 for us.

00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:20.620
 We've got to be on

00:47:20.620 --> 00:47:20.920
 mission.

00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:21.660
 We've got to be on

00:47:21.660 --> 00:47:23.100
 specific mission to

00:47:23.100 --> 00:47:24.440
 specific people and

00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:24.820
 places.

00:47:25.180 --> 00:47:26.019
 And I'm not asking you

00:47:26.019 --> 00:47:26.620
 to rush that.

00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:27.539
 I'm not asking you to

00:47:27.539 --> 00:47:28.500
 try to conjure anything

00:47:28.500 --> 00:47:28.880
 up.

00:47:29.120 --> 00:47:30.019
 But you don't have to.

00:47:30.240 --> 00:47:30.860
 He's the Lord of the

00:47:30.860 --> 00:47:31.120
 harvest.

00:47:32.120 --> 00:47:32.840
 He's the Lord of the

00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:33.079
 harvest.

00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:33.880
 He's going to give us

00:47:33.880 --> 00:47:34.220
 stuff.

00:47:34.500 --> 00:47:35.519
 He's going to speak to us.

00:47:36.240 --> 00:47:36.760
 He's going to, I mean,

00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:37.720
 even be asked, Lord,

00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:38.840
 speak to us in dreams.

00:47:38.980 --> 00:47:40.280
 Like give us people that

00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:41.240
 we see in our dreams

00:47:41.240 --> 00:47:42.440
 that all of a sudden

00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:43.440
 we like run into.

00:47:43.579 --> 00:47:43.920
 Like, whoa.

00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:46.500
 You know, give us

00:47:46.500 --> 00:47:49.019
 specific strategic ways

00:47:49.019 --> 00:47:49.900
 to get in people's

00:47:49.900 --> 00:47:50.240
 lives.

00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:51.579
 Like that's how any

00:47:51.579 --> 00:47:52.500
 missionary would think,

00:47:52.579 --> 00:47:52.880
 right?

00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:53.980
 Like I said at the

00:47:53.980 --> 00:47:54.820
 beginning, that Spurgeon

00:47:54.820 --> 00:47:55.760
 quote, every Christian is

00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:56.500
 either a missionary or

00:47:56.500 --> 00:47:56.940
 imposter.

00:47:57.240 --> 00:47:58.059
 We got to think like a

00:47:58.059 --> 00:47:58.440
 missionary.

00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:00.500
 Think, all right, I'm

00:48:00.500 --> 00:48:00.780
 here.

00:48:01.220 --> 00:48:02.539
 I'm in this part of town.

00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:03.780
 How am I going to get

00:48:03.780 --> 00:48:05.019
 in front of lost people

00:48:05.019 --> 00:48:05.679
 to give them a hearing

00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:06.300
 for the gospel?

00:48:06.460 --> 00:48:06.639
 Amen?

00:48:07.539 --> 00:48:07.860
 Amen?

00:48:08.220 --> 00:48:08.780
 Let's stand.