Op World 3 Tuesday 1982 — George Verwer

Prayer for Evangelistic Perseverance

No, let's pray and ask the Lord to help us as we continue on from last night on Survivalship on how not to grow weary in the great task of evangelizing the world. Let's pray Lord, I just thank you for these books.

Christian Literature and Spiritual Revolution

I think of nations where they have so few books. Not even a fraction not even one-tenth of what we have. Not even one one percent of what we have. Help us to get involved in spreading your word. In investing in Christian liturgy.

We thank you for cassette tapes. Thank you that in our day. We can be involved in spreading a message of spiritual revolution. We think of that political revolution that took place in Iran through the cassette tape.

Pray that we may spread a spiritual revolution through using cassette tapes. Help us now as we deal with this subject and we may be edified built up and made ready for the Great spiritual conflicts that will lie ahead of us.

We ask in Jesus name. Amen. Now we're speaking about survivalship. We talked about discipleship and I was trying to explain to you how God through the years took me. Through discipleship, I'm still in that to what I call a pattern of survivalship.

Persevering in the Christian Race

Persevering. 1st Corinthians 15 58. Be steadfast. Have you memorized it yet? Unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord. Knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. And we looked at that verse in Galatians.

Be not weary and well-doing for you shall reap if ye faint not. You remember the story of the the in pertinent person knocking on the door. Late at night kept knocking and knocking and the Lord using this as an example of persevering prayer.

Persevering prayer. And as we have this week Together what a privilege it is our burden isn't firstly to to get you to join OM for a year or to somehow come on a summer or even to join a foreign mission society for 20 years our Burden our first burden is to see you're running in God's race for a lifetime.

Whether it's in Chester or Calcutta, it's to see spiritual health. See you living In revival revival. That's God's privilege, you know in a sense. There's two kinds of revival. There's what I call personal revival.

Men like Roy Hessian emphasized personal revival. And then there's there's church and group and city revivals nationwide revivals. Edwin or in some of his books He emphasizes that kind of revival. It's always been my first burden to emphasize this kind of revival.

Because I'm convinced that as a nucleus of people. Experience personal revival and learn to pray that can lead us to churchwide and citywide and even nationwide revival. We have a southern preacher in the United States named Vance Havner.

He's sort of a. How can you explain Vance Havner amazing old sort of combination of Lloyd-Jones Alan Redpath and Perhaps Billy Graham, I don't know. He's just a combination of a number of people. He's very very old now I don't.

I must be a hundred at least ninety and He says, you know, we wouldn't need to talk about revival if we knew by evil. He said that with his southern accent Bible. You all folk know about Bible something like that.

This man preaches often to ministers. I've never known a man to bring more ministers to repentance and an old Vance Havner. He's preaching at the Moody pastors conference and he was preaching on repentance and he was sharing the agony.

He went through when his wife died. He was sharing about personal revival and before the meeting was over a hundred more ministers were up on the on the old mourners bench. He does it the old-fashioned way repenting crying.

And asking God to bring revival to their hearts. Bible. That's really simply linked to those verses in Ephesians that we are alive in Jesus Christ we are alive in Jesus Christ. We have in Christ all that we need to live in the day-by-day power of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit and the Lordship of Christ

Someone might say well, what about the Holy Spirit? You know when you speak about the Holy Spirit. You also are speaking about Jesus when you speak about Jesus. You're also speaking about the Holy Spirit.

To be filled with the Holy Spirit means also to be filled with the love of Christ the power of Christ and I really think it's an estate to get caught up too much in arguing over terminology and to bringing competition Between the members of the Trinity.

I heard a great message recently by David Wilkerson one of the leading charismatic Christians of our day sharing with other charismatic Christians and his message was the absent person in our midst. Jesus Christ is one of the strongest messages I've ever heard.

And we find some people emphasize one member of the Trinity some emphasize another member of the Trinity. Don't allow Competition between the members of the Trinity. They are totally locked together as one they are one.

And If you are totally yielded to Jesus Christ if you are totally committed to Jesus Christ and it made him Lord of your life. Then you are filled with the Holy Spirit. Don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise and if you are filled with the Holy Spirit Then you are learning something about the Lordship of Christ.

You may not have arrived to all that it means. I haven't. I don't know anyone else that has. When you think you arrived you better get that little power packet and pull out the little book you humility and reread it.

Because if any book has the ability to bring a person down a few notches. It's Andrew Mary's humility and he was a man who knew the fullness and the power and the unction and the gifts of the Holy Spirit so we want to talk about going on as missionaries.

Every Christian as a Witness

You say well, I haven't. I haven't signed up yet as a missionary. Oh, yes you have. Yes, you have. The day you gave your life to Jesus you signed the dotted line. There's no middle ground. Not a matter of signing up with Jesus giving your life to Jesus and then sitting over on the park bench reading the newspaper.

Every Christian is a missionary. He may be a disobedient missionary. He may be a confused missionary. He may be a lot of things that he shouldn't be but as far as I see it, he's a witness. Perhaps the word witnesses is better than the word missionary for some people acts 1e ye shall be my witness.

The message to all believers not a mission for a message for a missionary conference. Probably some people are gonna boycott this conference. Let's break the Chester boycott against the missionary conference.

Let's have a march through the streets. That would be good. Wouldn't we have a march around the wall like Jericho? Gonna do something really really crazy. They won't know OMS been here if you just sort of totter back and forth between here in the city mission.

Look like a bunch of wallflowers. People do they may they go on picket when a mission conference comes because they don't think it's their thing. I Haven't right me missions is not my thing. I want to tell you you're looking at someone missions isn't my thing either.

But it's Jesus thing and he came into my life and now he's made it my thing. I Was talking to a pastor of a very large church and they just had a missions conference and a lot of the people didn't come.

They're there Sunday morning. They have a marriage seminar. They're there. They want to get their marriage. That's a big thing in America. All the marriages are coming apart. So I have a marriage seminar people come they pay $50 go to a marriage seminar.

Or any other self-help seminar, you know how to get on with your mother-in-law how to make your bed in a Christian way. People pile in you know, they want they want to improve their Christian life all the various self-help seminars.

America's a nation of seminars. People fly from Los Angeles to New York to go to a seminar and this Pastor put his finger on the on the nerve of why they didn't come to the missions conference. He said they don't see what's in it for themselves.

They don't see what's in it for themselves. And we're the gimme-gimme generation we want to know what's in it for me. And one of the fastest growing doctrines in America is the prosperity doctrine. You know what that doctrine teaches that teaches that if you're spiritual and you love Jesus, you're gonna get rich.

The Prosperity Doctrine and Christian Giving

One man got into this theology and of course in his case doesn't always happen, but there's a lot of money floating around America some churches have up to a dozen millionaires in one church and There's a lot of money floating around especially in Texas where this doctrine is very strong and He builds himself a mansion as big almost as this tent.

All in the name of Jesus and he did it because he believes this prosperity doctrine that God will prosper financially all spiritual people and That is now one of the most popular you can imagine doctrines in the United States.

People come and share how they were once a Volkswagen Christian and they heard this message and they yielded their life to this very difficult message and learned to really trust God and now they're driving a Rolls-Royce and You know, if you're just a Volkswagen Christian or a you know a Ford Christian, you know.

We really we're praying that you just becomes more spiritual. And those of you on bicycles, well You're just backslidden. You know, it's a very subtle thing. It's a very subtle thing because God does prosper some people financially, of course He works in different people in different ways.

He may prosper your business, but you can't turn that into a blanket theological rule and this is where we make a lot of mistakes in the church is we see what God is doing in one person's life and we Turn that into a theological sort of blanket rule and we try to copy that.

We long all how we long for the Lord's people to understand That they are his witness we're all missionaries and That missions because of Jesus should be our thing and though we may not see what's in it for us.

Personally if we studied a New Testament, we will discover it is more blessed to give and receive. It's more blessed sometimes to do something when you don't think I can personally get anything out of it.

I'm just gonna do it to help others. I'm just gonna do it because I love God. I love Jesus. And I want to obey him and you give and you give and you go without necessarily Expecting anything in return often you do get much in return not necessarily Prosperity financially, but you probably will get a great blessing spiritually and I am convinced that If you will commit your heart and your life in a specific way to the task of world missions and get into God's race in a Definite committed active way to be his witness and to be involved in the operation world that we read about in the New Testament that God Will bless you and he will bless your church.

Long-Term Missionary Perseverance

But it won't be without battle as it says in that little book. We've been mentioning born for battle now. Let me get into some of these specific Ways that that I have learned over these past 27 years since my conversion to somehow survive in the in the midst of this.

Because you see we want you to start in the race and to keep on running keep on running. We want to see you some of you 30 years from now 40 years from now. The big smile on your face to tell us what the Holy Spirit has done over the past 40 years.

I get so many wonderful letters and Often they're from people. I haven't seen for 10 15 years had one. I just answered the letter while you were singing. I was actually just doing a letter to this young man wrote me from Togo.

I haven't heard from him in years now. He's married and he's a missionary in Togo. How many of you know where Togo is? Let's be honest raise your hand. I'm glad you've come to operation world. And if you haven't yet got your map of the world, that should be the priority.

And if you don't have the money to buy a map of the world, we explained the system last night. You get it on credit and then you later on pay me. But really we need to know where these countries are. And it was exciting to read that young man's prayer letter and let me take another survey.

You know, I'm a bit of a nut on this survey thing. I love to take surveys. How many of you receive at least one? Missionary prayer letter raise your hand that is really encouraging. Almost 90 you get one missionary prayer.

How many get two missionary prayers. At least two who we lost 50 of the heads? Probably all have one relative on the mission field. How many get more than three missionary prayers raise your hand? All right, as I go on the numbers you drop your hand down.

More than four. Keep it up. More than five. More than six. More than seven. More than ten. Not too many left. Now I know I'm an extremist. I just love to get these missionary letters. I've been collecting for 27 years.

I still read most of them. I This isn't my main my main jobs has to be connected with OM. I get my leaders letters and I get the leaders prayer letters and I get a lot of OEM errs prayer letters few hundred.

But it's so thrilling to get missionary prayer letters from other agencies. I Get only about 200 250 from different missionaries and agencies all over the world. Some of them are Mac. And I just find that so inspiration.

You know, I was always told when I was a young Christian get a hobby. Everybody got a hobby people were always saying I was gonna have a nervous breakdown. I had people always prophesying false prophets all of them gonna have a nervous breakdown.

Some people have been waiting for years, you know, 25 years a long time to wait for some bloke to have a nervous breakdown. Some have already broken down waiting. So I took up this hobby missionary prayer letters.

Filing them reading them praying through them writing back sending out books to all these people and it's really exciting. Why don't you develop that hobby? Some of you instead of getting one prayer letter you can take a huge step of faith, you know.

Just I know it's gonna be hard but somehow just take hold of yourself and just launch out one more missionary prayer letter. You know what? Some people tell me. You know if there's ever a nation in the world where they learn how to squeeze the penny.

It's right here. Now really it's that you know, don't take that as criticism because my ancestors came from here. But I've had people literally write and say what we couldn't think of taking your prayer.

It's gonna cost 15 pence or 12 pence to send it. What a poor use of the Lord's money. Listen, my friends I doubt if there's many of you that live on less than my family lives on. So I agree with you. I'm also a tightwad.

I was extreme. I wouldn't give my wife any money for anything. I thought all money was committed to world evangelism. I'm bought any clothing hardly in 25 years. We get it out of Charlie. You heard of Charlie, you know him.

I tried to you know, update it a bit call it Charles of London. Charlie is the used clothing department of OM people, you know the missionary barrel, you know, that's where we get stuff like this. That's why I've got shoes on that don't fit.

Because we were a little extreme we wanted our money to go for Bibles and for Gospels and for world evangelism. Why. Because we really believe what this book said. And I became extreme. And I hurt my wife through this probably hurt my children, too.

I had to come in the balance. I'm some years ago and I gave my wife a pound. I said look feel free or everyone. You keep praying. I'm working toward even greater freedom. If we are going to evangelize the world.

The money we put into the prayer letters getting that communication out to interceding people is the greatest investment we can ever make for God. And I'd be happy to pay it out of the money I've been able to save through not buying clothing or not buying this or that thing that I'm supposed to have bought.

Let give us the privilege give us the privilege of paying the postage but you have the great responsibility of Interceding and praying and standing against the forces of darkness as they try to wipe these missionaries right off the front lines of spiritual Combat we need to double triple the number of intercessors in Britain if this job is ever going to be done.

Intercession and Spiritual Warfare

And it seems to me that we should sign up for every single prayer letter that any missionary offers here. Let's get around to these booths. Let's get involved. Let's hug these people spiritually if not physically and sign up for prayer letters take missionary prayer cards and start be really becoming serious about missions and intercession.

And as you do that and as the battle gets hard. These are some of the other things you need to remember number one in the midst of the battle. Out on the field or home in your intercessory prayer closet.

You need to constantly remember that you are forgiven and that you are accepted by God. Now young person the devil is going to counter-attack your week here. This is an emotional high for some of you fellowship prayer praise songs and when you go some of you go back to lonely difficult situations and the enemy is going to come in and.

And at that time, especially in a moment of failure or disappointment. You're going to need to just get right down to the basics right down to the basics. You're forgiven and really if you're forgiven on your way to heaven.

The other things it really doesn't matter that much and stop listening. To the enemy the Bible says Satan is the accuser of the brethren and a lot of people are not involved in missions. Because the devil has been accusing them for years that they're no good.

So many young people that write to me or that I'm able to talk with. They they they get in this put themselves down syndrome. Then have you ever been in that? Where you put yourself down and you feel you're no good and you fail the Lord so many times and you've done so many dumb things and you can't really communicate and you keep offending your mother and and you keep getting in difficulty with Your dog or whoever else is hassling you and so you're putting yourself down.

A lot of people put themselves down and They don't they're not able to evaluate themselves properly and understand God's forgiveness in God's love. You know that first Ephesians 1 6 we are accepted in the beloved.

Really in my Christian life, it's the basics that keep me going, you know, I'm forgiven. Jesus loves me. I love that little chorus. We sing it in Sunday school, you know, Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so and we go out and live as if we'd we never even heard the basics number two if you want to press on.

Long term in the spiritual army of God learn how to cast every care upon him first Peter 5 7. Memorize that how many know that verse first Peter 5 7, that's good. Say it together with me casting every care upon him because he careth for you.

You know the verse said what does it come just before it the devil is a roaring lion seeketh whom he may devour. Ever have difficulty getting out of bed in the morning. Betty Elliot that great missionary writer.

She was preaching with ten thousand students at Urbana and she was emphasizing the need in the morning to get out of bed as quickly As possible when you wake up and get your feet on the ground. Alan Redpath said probably he was preaching here last year one of the closest friends at OM.

I don't know if those of you were here last year know how close Alan Redpath is with operation mobilization. He's gonna give us a whole month this year. We met in Chicago 23 years ago. But he says one of the greatest problems is you remember it blanket victory.

You know what? That is get the blanket off in the morning and get up and get that time with God. And I believe. That's just so important. Satan is a roaring lion. If you woke up tomorrow morning. He looked over the side of the bed and there was a gigantic lion.

It was a film on television some time ago. About a young lad who got a bit upset by the local zoo and so he went around the zoo and let all the animals out. I Don't know if the true story. There's a good good program.

We recorded it to send it to the doulas for the children. We usually announced the film, you know children's film. Children can't even get in the door. All the adults are in there got all the seats. So it could happen, you know the local zoo something goes wrong.

You wake up. What are you gonna do if you wake up tomorrow morning? There's a huge line on the side of your bed. One thing for sure. You're not gonna just roll over say excuse me. I'm gonna make sleep.

You can laugh but according to the Word of God, there is a spiritual line. There is an evil one who seeketh whom he made of our and we need to get up in the morning. We need to put on the whole armor of the Lord.

We need to make sure we're filled with his spirit. We need to make sure somehow the screws are tightened on the armor so we don't drop it when we walk out the door and realize we are in a battle and Therefore we will daily deny self.

We will daily fall into the ground and die so that we won't abide alone. Life comes through death. We go up by going down. Victory is through Identification with the death of the Lord Jesus Christ and it means daily casting every care upon Jesus.

I'm a specialist in carrying around cares. That should be on Jesus shoulders. And I think it's one of the greatest messages in the New Testament. Some of you may be sitting here today. You're not hassled by by the problem of stealing or the problem of adultery.

You're not bothered by the problem of lying or the problem of hatred, but worry. Has been eating away at your spiritual life for years and you still somehow haven't brought it under the crucifying power of the Lord Jesus.

Making God the Goal

Would you do that tonight? Thirdly if you want to continue to press on. Make God your goal. Make God your goal. It's one of the reasons I like these books by a W toes. He so emphasizes God and Dr. Martin Lloyd-jones attributes of God and knowledge of God.

He has a tremendous chapter in this book on dealing with feelings. Let's talk about that in a minute. Make God your goal not God plus God himself. We become success neurotics because of all the various Influence from the media and the pressure to be successful.

We can become extreme in the desire to be successful and our joy comes each day depending on how successful We feel we've been on that day doing what we're supposed to be doing instead of knowing. The joy of just being in the presence of God.

And that's why sometimes the Lord allows us to be laid aside for a while. Lord put me aside in a hospital a few years ago. The doctor said you may never speak again. Said you may have cancer of the throat.

Lovely little noose. He had me within 36 hours on his little little table operating table. Went down my throat with some microscopic type of operation and cut something off one of my vocal cords. And later on he gave me this advice so you need to learn how to just keep your mouth shut a little more.

You need much wisdom to tell me that my mother always told me that when I was a kid and I've had to learn How to speak less and to listen more. Andrew Murray has a book waiting on God. Do you know where it is to wait upon God?

When's the last time you had a half day alone with God? You know when we fall in love. I remember when I fell in love. I won't tell you the stories just. We get into the ridiculous, but I fell in love and man I wanted to spend time with her half days whole days.

Because it was a lot of you know, it was a big thing. We ended up getting married. We've been together now 22 years. I Believe that as we have a deeper love relationship with God, we're gonna want to spend time with him.

We're gonna want to get out into some beautiful woods. Think of all the beautiful woods around Chester. What a lovely city. This is surrounded by woods. Go out there for a half a day be alone with God.

Just take your Bible. Be alone with God. Make God your goal. Matthew 633 seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Oh these things shall be added unto you and then number four. We're gonna get into some very practical things.

Learning How to Be Hurt and Forgive

I think it's all practical. Learn how to be hurt now. This may be the most important thing. I say tonight for some of you. Learn how to be hurt. You say what? What are you talking about? The last thing we want is to be hurt.

Do you want your preacher your pastor in your church your vicar? Next Sunday to meet you at the door and to say something to you. That's gonna hurt you. I don't think so. In fact, I know situations where when the pastor has hurt someone they just quit the church.

You know, there are more carnal Christians in our churches and we'll ever know. And when they get offended or something doesn't go their way or somebody steps on one of their spiritual corns. You never hear the end of it.

Some people only have for for Sunday dinner is roast preacher and Gossip is doing more to destroy the work of God than we'll ever know. We'll ever know far more than fornication or some of the other so-called heavyweight sins.

And I don't think we can live on planet earth Without getting hurt and I enrolled some years ago. I'm still a failure. I enrolled in God's University of learning how to be hurt. People hurt hurt us with their words hurt us sometimes with their actions and Sometimes we hurt others that hurts me even more.

I mean I became extreme in this and I was almost neurotic about never wanting to ever hurt anybody again. And I shed more tears because I hurt people than I can tell you about and I had to learn that in this life.

As we walk together with Jesus at times. We will hurt other people if we know about it. We committed to Jesus we apologize to them, but we don't allow ourselves to be depressed and to somehow then throw in the towel.

Maybe you've heard your own mother your own father. Maybe you've heard your little sister. It's easy to hurt your little sister. How many of you are big sisters? You got a little sister. You're a big sister.

Raise your hand. Come on. All right. Have you ever heard your little sister ever heard anything you ever said keep your hand up. You've ever heard you look good. You're great honest crowd. Sometimes we hurt people and they never they never recover total and yet even that we can put in the hands of God.

Shortly after I was a Christian. I heard a young girl who wanted to marry me. I was just sort of dating and fooling around a little bit late adolescent. You know, I don't know and it's just girl, you know, she was she was only 16 when he married finally one day.

So, you know, you know, I'm gonna go to college now. Jesus in my heart, you know. And I think we're gonna break this off. I thought she was gonna commit suicide. She immediately turned around and married and within the year her half-brother and often I think of that that girl.

I heard her. I can't forget that memory, but I have been able to commit that to God. You cannot carry The failures of your life the hurts you have received or given you cannot carry those around with you the rest of your life.

You must cast them upon the Lord you must understand that as part of living on this planet and Somehow learn to be heard and to forgive those that hurt you. I wonder if there's someone here tonight if you're honest.

There's a root of bitterness in your heart against someone. Maybe against some group. I Meet people who are bitter against police, you know I had such a respect for the police and the British are the top of all my the list of all my national police.

I think they had one of the toughest jobs any person can have. They're human they make mistakes. Just like anyone else, but I believe the police in our nation's need our respect and encouragement. Have you ever thanked a policeman?

Just try it guys. I will pass out. Someone comes up and says I really want to just thank you for the job the work you're doing here in our town. You know, we often are ungrateful people. Britain is only my adopted country.

But I have come to love this country in a way that I cannot explain to appreciate the freedom we have. I Almost wanted to enroll in the army and go down to the Falklands, but you know I couldn't quite put that one together.

I got a lot of friends down in Argentina, but I really really so so come to love this country and what God has done here and what God is still doing here and Sometimes I get angry. I'm often on British Rail.

You get a lot of mumblers on British Rail. They're always mumble the trains late, you know. And I often say I say, you know, you're complaining about the train, huh? You know, I like to take people straight on and I say you're always complaining, you know people often complain.

How many other train systems in different parts of the world if you travel on have you ever been on the trains in India? I said have you ever tried the Egyptian train between Cairo and Alexandria? What about Pakistan and you often find people complaining about the trains that have never been on any other train outside of Britain.

I Say well look, what are you thinking about some perfect system in heaven? By the way, are you going to heaven? You can open up for a word of witness but I Really believe that you know, I have to watch it.

I'll get out. I'll get on my British message, you know, we'll get into politics, but I Really believe Britain is one of the most organized sane down-to-earth peaceful countries in the world. You can't even answer that until you go around and visit some of the countries that I've been in now.

I love the a lot of other countries as well. But we have so much to be thankful for. Imagine pitching a tent in the middle of the racecourse. Go try this in in the Sudan. Go try this in some other country.

You can't even get permission to speak in the open air to ten people in many countries in the world. Let's thank God for the freedom. We have here. Let's thank God that the churches are open. Let's thank God.

We sell Bibles in every bookshop in the nation almost. And that we can even protest and take our cause right to the right to the Prime Minister. It's amazing what you can do in this country. I have a letter.

I don't know if it's here my Bible anymore. I was waving it around America. There's a letter from Princess Diana. I Was in my office the other week and I knew she was gonna have a baby. And I had this book on a natural childbirth.

It was a Christian book and My wife and I have closed down production. So I was wondering what to do with this book. So I said I'm telling you the truth. I said to my secretary. I said look send this book to Princess Diana and give her my compliments.

And it's pretty good secretary she's from Malaysia, he's a bit of a bit of a sinner so She gave it to another one. It was American. He's a bit naive. She gave it to the American and he wrote a nice letter dear princess sent the book.

I got this tremendous letter back from Princess Diana from her secretary and the princess received my book. Thank you appreciate the work of Operation Mobilization. Thank you. Of course, you never heard of it.

I'm sure. And she thanked me and I got this letter. I've been carrying around in my Bible. But it seems to have disappeared and I often mention that because it shows what we can do with a printed page.

Literature, Testimony, and World Evangelism

You can take a book from that table and send it to send it to the Queen. She might get it. She might read it. Who knows what can happen as Christians start to put books in libraries as Christians start to lose literature.

I think the losing ministry is great. You know places like Turkey. It's very very hard to distribute literature openly. So we find little crews of absent-minded people, you know, there's hope for some of you you send them down to Turkey.

Some of them cut holes in their trouser pockets. Some of you some of you are already ready and they put Gospels of John in their pockets and they sort of. We've lost five million pieces of literature.

Now, I know I shouldn't I shouldn't tell that because people think oh, well, that's the strategy of Operation Mobilization. You know, it's amazing you do one little thing which is a little sideline, it's not your main work.

It's some tiny little thing you do in passing people think that's your main work. There was one Christian leader actually thought the main ministry of the ships was to come into a port and sort of shoot.

You know tracks, you know most ships British ones that you know cannons. And that was the main ministry of the ships and he was really down on this on this method. I'd love to talk to you about that ship ministry because I'm convinced after seeing That ministry in operation these 11 or 12 years that it is one of the most down-to-earth.

Practical ways of helping the church. That's the main ministry of those ships helping the church do her job training evangelism a catalyst motivating Operation world conferences 15 ministries all going on at once but all so easily misunderstood.

Well through misunderstanding we learn to be heard. And I pray that in these days if there's a root of bitterness in your life, you'll just by faith just yank it out. Some people say well, you don't know what that person did to me.