The Power of Evangelism

Harvest messages are brought to you by harvest partners to receive free email daily devotions or to become a harvest partners, please visit us online@harvest.org so glad to be with you, and I was praying this morning is pray for as we Texas say pray for all y'all and and what came into my mind were the words of the apostle Paul and in first Thessalonians, he writes a letter to the church in Thessalonica talking about them and this is what he said to think this is what I think about all y'all is what he said. He said we give thanks to God always for you all is what assessing the King James but we give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, your labor of love and your patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and father and II think those words reflect how I feel about this congregation in this church you know when I think of this church. I think of the power of the word of God and and and admire you so much for how you elevate the word of God here I think of worship time like the one we just had, and how we lift our hearts to him in this place and most of all I think about your love for lost people. Your love for your friends and neighbors and colleagues, and family members who your reaching out to and sharing the message of Jesus Christ. I travel a lot.

I speak a lot of churches that is not normal in the American church.

I hate to say that, but that's true. And yet you guys you all are a beacon of hope for a lot of other churches around the country that look to you and see what God is doing and it gives them encouragement that God is still active. God is still changing lives, God is still on the move and so I thank you for that and the other passage that I think of when I think of all y'all is a home. Matthew chapter 5 that's what I want to focus on for the next few minutes. Matthew chapter 5 verses 13 through 16 famous passage where Jesus is giving the greatest sermon ever delivered the sermon on the Mount, and he looks out at a crowd of people. 2000 years ago and he says these words but I really believe he was looking down through history, specifically you and saying these words he said you are the salt of the earth.

But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand gives light to everyone in the house in the same way, let your light shine among others, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

I think it's it's I want to focus on this.

This these words of Jesus. We talk about doing good deeds. One of things I noticed is he didn't say to great deeds because if he said that it's like antifreeze us and in action would I do anything great, but he say no to. If you do good deeds and by the word. The word good there in the Greek doesn't mean just too good deeds as opposed to bad deeds. It means duties that are winsome and attractive. The point people toward God and sought God saying here if you just do simple good deeds I can take them and do something great with so my point is, God can magnify your simple gestures of grace are good deeds to make an eternal impact on others, as I like to talk about what I call these gestures of grace.

The simple deeds of goodwill that Jesus is referring to what's about three different kinds of gestures of grace. The first one is the gesture of meeting a need.

The gesture meeting in the Jesus of course metaphysical needs of many people that he encountered during his ministry. Luke seven verse 22 says it is a result of Jesus ministry quote the blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf ear, the dead are raised in the good news is proclaimed to the poor, and so when we serve other people we meet their practical needs. The way that Jesus did when we meet their practical needs. Even in very simple ways. It can cause their eyes to drift heavenward toward our heavenly father who motivates you against the grain of this, me first world to put somebody else's needs ahead of our own. I think about this at a funeral. I was at of a friend of mine named Bill McMillan.

Bill was a great guy you love people. He loved God. He loves sharing his faith and it is funeral. They had an open microphone in person after person came up to talk about how good how God used Bill McMillan to lead them to faith.

One of them was a young was a woman by the name of Mary and Mary got up and said you know my husband of 18 years, walked out on me and I was scared and I was confused and I was in financial trouble know what to do.

So I called a financial counselor to get some advice Bill McMillan that was his job but building just give her advice he and his wife Millie invited her to come to church with them and so she comes the church they sit with her afterwards. There sitting in the atrium of the church talking about the sermon and at the end as Bill got up to leave. She said he pressed something into my hand and he walked away and she said when I opened my hand. I saw it was to neatly folded $100 bills. And it turns out the bill who is not a wealthy guy bill would have these $200 bills in his wallet and every day he would pray God lead me to the person who needs us more than I do and I most days, God did you know answering specifically in but you always pray that Yosef and on that day he brought Mary into his life and in tears at the funeral.

She said God use this simple gesture of meeting a need in my life to point me toward God and I came to faith in Christ. Thanks to Bill McMillan and so, so let me ask you when your who in your life in your neighborhood in your office at your worksite, your school, who needs a simple need to be met in the name of Jesus Christ, you might have a widow who lives down the block from you and if somebody would just take her to the grocery store once a week be such a blessing to her. You might've a single mom living on the block and she's got two kids and she's working three jobs and barely keeping her head above water.

And if you went there and said what if my spouse and I babysat your two children for the next Friday night so that you can have some time to yourself. What a blessing that would be the kid who's got basketball hoop in his garage. But even if they shoot baskets with a let's shoot some baskets together either some simple needs that we can meet in people in a way that like Mary reported toward God.

Hold that thought Valerie talk about a second gesture of grace and that is gesture of affirmation that we can give the gesture of affirmation we see this in Jesus encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well in John chapter 4 core source conflict between Jews and Samaritans Americans were seen as half breeds. There's a lot of conflict between the two, and certainly an unmarried Jewish rabbi like Jesus. Generally speaking, would never engage with the Samaritan woman, especially one whose lifestyle was so questionable that she was forced to go to the community well in the heat of the day rather than stay home in the shade. The way the respectable women did in fact she was a five time divorce who was currently living with a guy who was her husband and yet Jesus does an extraordinary thing. He stops and he speaks to her, but it's interesting what he said. John four verse seven says when the Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, will you give me a drink now in that culture in that day offering a drink was a sign of friendship and so we can loosely paraphrase what Jesus said there.

Jesus was really saying to her, would you be my friend. Would you be my friend. What was he doing he was looking beneath her sin and he was seeing a soul that is made in the image of God Almighty and he was affirming her dignity as a human being who is love by the father.

Jesus was even a friend of sinners. We see this in other instances in the Gospels received for instance in Matthew chapter 8 says in verses two and three.

A man with leprosy came and knelt before Jesus and said, Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean and Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man I am willing. He said be clean and immediately it was cleansed of his leprosy. Now we know that people with leprosy in Jesus day in culture ostracize. They were outcast, why people were afraid they would contract the disease if they were in contact with them so nobody went around touching lepers.

But Jesus the son of God to heal that man from the moon. He could heal them from the next town, but he doesn't. He reaches out and touches why did he do that. I think that was a simple gesture of affirmation that this person matters to God that he's valuable that he's love and with that touch, not only physically healed a leper but he gave him his dignity.

So here's my question to you in your world. Is there someone who needs affirmation the simple gesture of affirmation, encouragement from you a hand on the shoulder. A handshake, a hug says you know what I really care about you and God does to you may not know what you may not believe it but I just want should know God loves. How might that change someone's life.

How might that change the way they look at themselves.

How might that change the way they look at God and that leads us to the third gesture of grace, which is the gesture of an invitation. The gesture and invitation go back to the Samaritan woman having her conversation with Jesus and during that conversation. Jesus supernaturally looks into her life and reveal store things about herself that only he could divinely known and she realizes wingman.

This is the Messiah that we been waiting for and what is she do look for versus 28 through 30 says then leaving her water jar.

The woman went back to the town and said to the people come, see a man who's told me everything I ever did.

Could this be the Messiah in verse 39 says many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony here's the point.

She was so overwhelmed by her encounter with Jesus that she couldn't keep them to herself, so she runs and how she leaves her water bottle line. She runs in the town and she invites others to the place they could hear directly from Jesus himself and actually want to do incident when God changes our lives want to share. They want to tell other people about what other people experience the same thing and all y'all have an incredible opportunity coming up this next week with the SoCal harvest this incredible opportunity for those of us who are Christians who live in other places in the country I live in Houston you know is is so beautiful my grandkids are there. That's why you live in Houston but we look at you guys and we say were jealous of you. We don't have the same opportunity we don't have a great glory. This man anointed by God to communicate the gospel in such a powerful and winsome way. We don't have this incredible music with others and then we can invite our friends to jealous of all y'all's free event. Great music in easy thing to invite people to and I'm thinking oh man I wish we had that and I hope that you see the opportunity. The spiritual opportunity to leverage this into an incredible way. You know I think of Bill McMillan, the guy mentioned his funeral I was at and Bill had several kids. They all grew up. They all went off to college. They all got jobs and got married they were gone. He was an empty nest or and then one day see Bill driving around town in a brand-new nine passenger Chevy Van and I said Bill am I not right that your kids are all moved out and you're an empty Nestor. He said no that's true and you just want a nine passenger van you. Why did you do that said something to fill it up every week with people and bring the church that I thought wow we ought to be inviting extravagantly like that I think of Rick Warren's daughter in California. She was daughter.

She was a roommate with my daughter for a while. When we lived in California and she used to go out with some friends on the beaches of there is no orange county on Sunday mornings were the homeless people were sleeping in and they would offer them coffee and they would say hey my dad's can be talking about Jesus this morning.

You want to come along to want to hear about this God who loves you and they would fill the vans and they would bring in the saddleback church work. Rick would be preaching the gospel and that's a kind heart I think is inside all of us whose lives have been changed by Christ. We want to reach out. We want to invite people and when we have that kind of opportunity we don't want to miss it. So let me give you just half a dozen thoughts about how to invite someone to SoCal harvest, which of course is Friday night Saturday night and Sunday night of this coming week. First thing of course is to pray God who would you lead me to who would you prompt me to invite which you just prepare their hearts would you just open their minds would you give me the courage to sometimes that's what it takes to issue an invitation essay you think about it.

Jesus love loss people so much that his prayers for loss people continued right up until his final gasps on the cross when you read the New Testament the original Greek. One thing you notice is the imperfect tense of the Greek suggest that Jesus didn't just say it once he kept repeating. He kept saying it all for the torture, the crucifixion, while the nails are being driven through his hands where the nails are being driven through his feet. He kept saying it. Father forgive them father forgive them father forgive them for they know not what they do in his British pastor John Stott said in light of that, how can we justify not praying consistently and fervently and expectedly for loss people in our lives. So pray God I love this person. I know you do too. Let's partner together lead me, give me the courage so first, pray second, never say no in advance for the other person. Sometimes I think we we prejudge people and we think this guy or this gal never ever come to an event like this and we just rule about without even asking. I think that's what people thought about me when I was a hardheaded hardhearted atheist that the Chicago Tribune, I suspect there were some Christians along the way in my life who said I'm not finished and I can invite that guy to church. There's no chance except for my wife and I'll never forget the moment on a Sunday morning when she came to me and sadly wanted to come to church with me today and I remember the look on her face when I said yes it's sequences float away course, I had bad motives. My idea was I to go to church and rescue her from the skull that you got involved in, but at least I will at least I want and I'll tell you it was January 20 of 1980 and the message that day. The sermon was called basic Christianity. And I heard the gospel.

I was about 30 years so I never heard it or understood it before and I said to myself as I walked out. I don't believe it's true but if it is it has huge implications for my life and that's what sparked my two-year investigation that led me to faith, but you know she shouldn't give up on me and she she didn't. She didn't decide for me that I wouldn't come third thing I think. Remember that enthusiasm is contagious and fullness is respected and confidence is attractive, but pushing this is repulsive so Ascot pray for the right balance of encouragement and challenge without going over the line and end you noted to keep in mind what's the worst thing that could happen. The worst outcome would be that they would say no thank you I don't want to go that's not the end of the world right in the first century in Nero's time Christians were dipped in guitar and hung from polls and lit on fire to provide lighting for Nero's dinner parties will face a kind of persecution always faces the possibility.

Some will say no thanks, okay, we can deal with that right. Keep that in mind. Fourth, invite someone in person if you can twitters find emails are fine but I think a personal touch of looking someone in the eye and say you know what I think you'd really enjoy this a musician be fantastic. I know you like music but you can hear something about God that I think really gonna be radical and revolutionary to you. Fifth, offer to pick them up. You know it if you just invite someone entrusted them to get there on their own. The chances diminished intellectually show up, but if you pick them up. Then he got about 100% chance of the either an offer to take him out to dinner afterwards. That way you can talk about what you see and then finally the six thing is if you invite some person to come in.

They turn you down.

You have not failed. That is not a failure don't think that you failed justify raising the issue, you've planted a seed in that person.

Your office or you invite her turns you down to that neighbor the turns are down. They may not be ready at this point but you know what you've now planted a seed in their mind all that guy that gal are serious about their faith in six months from now when their spouse gets cancer or when their son gets arrested or something just to get fired from their job. Some crisis occurs and they think. Who do I go to your name is going to come into their mind. All I remember that guy that Gail invited me to that effect. I think they're serious about this faith thing I think I need to talk to so don't think God will supply you. See you how people use invitations in ways that you never could have anticipated. I give an example when I was a newspaper editor in Chicago and I was a new Christian, I was getting ready to go home at the end of a long day of packing up my stuff and the Holy Spirit just implanted in me very specific deleting didn't happen very often but I felt very specifically that I needed to go into the business office of the newspaper and invite my atheist friend to Easter services at our church because I knew just like SoCal harvesters going to be a time of the Gospels can be clear and and be a incredible event to invite them to so I so now I'm totally confident the some patient repent. Right now, I know he is, because I felt God was leading me so specifically so I walked over with great confidence and I walked into the business office and I looked around and all I see is my friend behind his desk. Thank you Lord someone up. Don't say how you doing is I'm doing great. I said hey you know Easter is coming up. He said Strobel you know I'm an atheist, I hope I don't believe in Easter I said yeah I know but Easter is when we remember the resurrection of Jesus. He said all he wasn't resurrected. I selected is good historical evidence. He was beginning to give him some of the evidence from history that Jesus rose from the dead and but after several minutes of that I could see this one working so not panicking now to know what to say so I'm my mind is going so I said well let me just ask you this Jimmy questions about God.

He said no. Oh I so let me ask you this. Do you ever think about God. He said no.

I symbol look you like music right so yeah I love music, I said we got great music at our church. Why don't you and your wife come with Leslie me to our church on Easter. I think you'll love the music and he looked at me he said I want to go to your stupid church hey okay listen you office is if you requested or you know where I am and I walked out of about my wires crossed here what's going on. Why did he feel so specifically led to go in there and share the message of Easter in the evidence for the resurrection invited in the sky just shut me down and I'm telling you this bothered me for years just to this day he still an atheist, but I tell you the rest of the story.

Several years later. By then I was a pastor a church in Chicago and after service. A guy came up to me and he said could I just shake your hand and thank you for the spiritual influence you've had in my life.

So it's really nice, but who are you so let me tell you my story's a few years ago I lost my job and I didn't have any money in the bank I thought was it was my car thought to lose my house.

I do know what to do. I needed a job and needed a paycheck for a while to get by. So I called a friend of mine that runs a newspaper energy of any odd jobs I can do to earn a buck for a while and the guy said well do know how to tile floors and I said yeah I've titled our bathroom. I think I can tile floors and he said well we need some title installed and repaired the newspaper and if you can do that we can pay you for a while so you say I said great. I went to work at the newspaper. He said one day not long before Easter. I was in the business office of the newspaper, but I was on my hands and knees behind the big desk working on some tile on the floor and he walked in and I don't think you knew I was there and you start talking the sky about God and you start talking about Easter fighting in the church and this guy was showing you down. When I met my hands and knees work on this tile listen all this going on in my heart beating fast. I'm thinking I need God.

I need to go to church so I said as soon as you left I called my wife I said were going to church is Easter. She said what I said yeah he said we came here church at Easter. I came to faith my wife came to faith in her teenage son came to faith and I just want to thank you and I thought this is a new form of evangelism ricochet evangelism you share your faith, it bounces off a hard heart you know friends.

I couldn't have foreseen that I couldn't have foreseen that. But God did, and I'm telling you, you have never wasted words. Whenever you have invited someone to come to something like SoCal help harvest to hear the gospel, God is can use that in some way and he'll surprise us. In the end the way that he does so those are three gestures of grace, that we can through simple means point people toward God by meeting a need through affirmation through an invitation to SoCal harvest, and they seem so simple I'm in is nothing great there doesn't really work. Can it really work.

I want to tell you story about a guys become a friend of mine in the way these three simple gestures of grace change his life. His name is Cody Huff.

Cody was a convicted burglar.

He was a convicted counterfeiter. He was a convicted drug dealer spent many years behind bars in prison. It was a crack addict he was a meth addict he was a heroin addict and he was homeless and he lived on the streets of Las Vegas in one day he was inside of a dumpster crawling around outside of a pizzeria, looking for scraps of pizza crust or or or chicken wings half eaten chicken wings to eat his crawling around this dumpster and suddenly the total hopelessness of the situation just came crashing down on him and he said to himself it's come to this.

I'm eating out of garbage cans.

I'm sleeping in the dirt, filthy unites, think, and I'm starving to death and there's no way out. There's no way out. There's no future and there's no hope.

And he just collapsed in the stumps dumpster weeping. He said I was so hungry, so exhausted, so desperate, so ashamed I had nothing left city to know what that feels like I had nothing and I was nothing to try to get jobs, but nobody would hire them. I mean the guy was a mass be tried dating but people just shoot them away was so demeaning. So there I waited earning money as he bought it some squeegees in a bucket of fill with water and with people in the parking lot she would say. Can I clean your windshield for donation and so he would work around the clock for three days at a stretch, and he would make about $40-$50 and then you get on the bus and he got out of Fremont Street, whether drug dealers are in need by 40 or $50 worth of crack in it 10 minutes. He smoked it to go lay down in the dirt and sleep and then he do it all over again people, he said just treated like a dog. He said I'd be walking across the street and cars would speed up the try to hit a as he was crossing the street, but not everybody not everybody there was this woman in a red Mustang. She pulled into a grocery store parking lot where he had his bucket and squeegee and he limped over to her car.

He faced this Olympic as he thought it make them more sympathetic to succulents over to the car and he said to her, could I wash your windshield and she looked at him she so what you know I just hit my car detailed so you know it.

I don't need my windshield clean but are you hungry any settlement. I'm starving, so she reached into her purse and she pulled out a five dollar gift certificate from McDonald's and she handed it.

What was that what was that that was the simple gesture of meeting a need and Cody took that to McDonald's and he spent all but $0.12 of it. He said it was a lifesaver is a lifesaver. It was a gesture of grace, the meta-need and gave them hope. What got to the point where Cody sleeping in this dirt feel and I with the other homeless yet almost didn't want to be near Cody concedes he smelled terrible and had a shower in months.

As a stony use staying Cody, you smell, you need a shower you need to get some new clothes, and so one day one of the other homeless guy said hey Cody, there's a church on the other side of town and they give free showers to people like us when we go over there tomorrow and Cody thought you was probably a good idea since I can't find a place to sleep anymore, so Cody and this other guy get up at the crack of dawn. They walk all the way across town to this church and they walk in and are given a number to wait to take a shower and there's there's some doughnuts and there's some coffee in there eating dad and drinking the coffee in this middle-aged woman named Michelle comes walking in. She is a volunteer at the church and she walks in and she looks around and she sees Cody and she walks directly over to Cody and she looks of NEI and she said sir, you look like you need a hug.

Cody was aghast. He's thinking of hog kiss kiss these gaunt can barely keep his pants up. He lost so much weight. His hair was matted and his beard was straggly.

His clothes were filthy and all stained his teeth were rotting out and he shook his sinister man. I'm in a shower in three months. I smell horrible Michelle smiled and she said you know you don't smell to me and she reached out and she wrapped her arms around Cody and gave him a hug and then she looked up in the eye and she said do you know that Jesus loves you and Cody's thinking himself with Jesus can't love me I'm homeless. Jesus can't love me I'm a felon. Jesus can't love me. I'm an addict. Jesus can't love me. I have a bad person and with that she looked him in the again and she repeated Jesus loves you what was that what was she doing this was a gentle gesture of affirmation and at that moment something spiritual in Cody Huff. I asked about years later, he said leave.

Plain and simple that elicit that was the pivotal moment of my life at the time in my life when I was the least lovable when everybody shunned me when there was no hope of getting out of the mess I was in when I smell so bad that even the other homeless and want to be around me.

There she was with this simple expression of the grace of God and something happened in my heart I support what was it Cody explained to me anything he couldn't put into words. A person going to stumble around.

Finally similarly it was a hot but it was more than that it was what the hug was saying to me. I accept you. I care about you. You matter to me. You have value, you have worth. You have dignity as a human being. He said that was the first time in so long that anyone cared if I lived or if I die, even I didn't care anymore, and then he said this hug, and he snapped his finger and he said it changed everything. It changed everything friends.

That is the power of a simple gesture of affirmation how much how much impact in those simple words.

Jesus loves you how much impact and that have why look at the life of Cody Huff. It had a big impact. But you know what Michelle didn't stop there. She also offered a gesture of an invitation.

She said to them, according would you like to go to church with me. Cody said well yeah but the building might fall down and no said no it won't come with me so he went to her with her to a church and he sat up in the balcony in the dark so no one could see him and he heard a pastor friend of mine John Wilhite talk about the grace of God in all of this started an insatiable appetite in Cody for Jesus Christ and it culminated three years later, in the dirt in the empty field where he and the other homeless would sleep Cody. Sadly, I didn't really know anything about the Bible except God loves me. The Jesus died for me that I'm a sinner that forgiveness is available and I wanted as I do know how to pray. I just got on my knees with my face in the dirt crying like a baby and I said God, I'm so tired. I'm tired of the drugs. Please take them away from me. This is been like I been driving my own car and all I do is get into these head-on crashes God, would you just drive my life. I'm sorry for the way I've lived. I want to surrender my life to you, God, please make me a new man will don't you know that God loves to answer prayers like that and he did. He did, and over time God took away the desire for drugs from Cody. He changed his heart. Cody got a job for the first time a legitimate job for the first time in many years. He got an apartment.

He was self-supporting. He volunteered at the church.

He was part of a million Bible studies and today Cody Huff is an ordained Baptist minister is used to these ahead of a homeless ministry in the city of Las Vegas, where he used to be homeless and now all the politicians, the governor and the mayor calm up and say this to Huff, Rev. Huff, how can we deal with the homeless problem and is able to help them shape policy to help the homeless. But he said ultimately there's only one word that's and answered it's a name that's the name of Jesus. And so every week, every week.

Cody holds an event in the park where he used to sleep in the dirt and it's for the other homeless people. It's not it's not on the scale of SoCal harvest okay this is just his little effort to reach out and so every Wednesday night I been there with Cody for these events. Every Wednesday night. He invites all the homeless people to come and they sit around him and you what he does. First thing he does. He offers them gestures of grace he meets the simple need you he he has someone there making chicken on low barbecue grill so he could feed them so could meet that physical need of hunger gives them gesture of affirmation gives him a hug you get from a handshake tells him he may not believe this may not understand. God loves you and then he gives him an invitation sent like to invite you to personally meet the Jesus who change my life and he could change your life to a member. The woman in the red Mustang well her name is Heather and she volunteers now for Cody's ministry. She's the one cooking the chicken on the on the grill every day. The offense, and one other thing she and Cody are now husband and wife so talk about the grace of God.

So Cody called me not long ago you said you know leave because my meth addiction. All my teeth rotted out and I let this guy to faith in Christ. He was a dentist and he said to me. I'm so grateful to Cody. I'd like to give you for free a whole new mouth of teeth and so he did and Cody call me up the next day after this was done becoming was so excited he said leave can't believe it is beautiful. I got these beautiful teeth he said gleefully when I smile I like I look like Jell-O steam. I love that I love we can do simple gestures of grace right to meet a need.

We can affirm someone telling the God loves him.

We can invite them to SoCal harvest. Let's invite extravagantly. Let's let all the churches around America and beyond to look at what God is doing in this community in this congregation, to encourage them to say we can do this to we can we can do an event in the park we could do an event in the stadium. Look what they're doing sees this opportunity for the glory of God.

Let me pray father. I'm just thinking as I talked about my friend Cody was such a pure heart for you and I'm just wondering other people here right now who feel hopeless like Cody did. Maybe somebody invited them today gesture of invitation and they've come. But the truth is there struggling with depression or with drugs or with alcohol or with just the hopelessness of life. I pray by your Holy Spirit, you would sees their soul at this very moment, and that they would pray in their heart Lord Jesus as best I can. I do believe that you are the son of God, and I admit the obvious, which is that I am a sinner and I want to turn from that and an attitude of repentance and faith. I want to receive your free gift of forgiveness and eternal life gift of your grace. I want to pray what Cody prayed, make me a new man make me a new woman for your glory. We thank you that you revel in answering prayers like that and that you were just at this very moment answering them in the lives of people here. We thank you for that and we thank you for the opportunity for those of been your children, maybe for a long time to reach out to our friends or neighbors or colleagues.

Their fellow students. The issue that gesture of an invitation to bring them to this incredible event where we know your Holy Spirit is running rampant in that stadium and that lives will be transformed in eternities will be rewritten. Thank you for this opportunity that you've given us don't let us squander let us maximize it for your glory. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, who is I forgive her, and who is our leader who is very very best friend a man.

God bless you off frighteningly for