25th Anniversary Plea Part 2 — George Verwer

As I brought the last part of the message, the last tape to a close, I was giving a plea to keep our confidence in the Lord, to avoid looking to man or to organizations, and to keep away from what I would term organizationalism.

Strategic Unity and the Scope of OM's Ministry

I believe the Lord really wants us now to focus in on some other or more of the weaknesses and problem areas that we have to wrestle with at this present time. I'd like to just pray. Now, Lord, help us.

This won't go too long, but we will be able to deal with issues that are so important in this work, and that we will be able to lay a foundation for further prayer, for further discussion. God, we pray that you would help us to be as like-minded as possible on these issues.

Help me keep the balance in what I say. I ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Moving on to another area, we come to this area of sometimes conflict in terms of what we should actually be doing in strategy. In some places, a greater emphasis now on church planting.

We've always believed in church planting. I think many of us have always felt that a lot of this should be done by people when they leave OM. We feel strongly about this in India, and it's sort of the official policy there that most church planting is to be done by graduates.

This enables it to be more linked with the soil, more indigenous, more realistic. Here again, I think that one of the strong points of OM is that we have allowed a wide range of strategy. And it's just my plea that it'll not get too wide, and that countries will just feel they can basically do what they want without any reference back to the original principles and to the thrust that we feel must continue in other areas of strategy.

Mass evangelism, of course, training, working with existing churches toward renewal, flooding out powerful literature, and all the rest. I know that the word superficiality gets thrown around at times, and if there's not intensive follow-up in certain areas, then the sowing of the seed and that kind of evangelism is often despised and ridiculed in our day, and that we get the image of just still being a movement of people running around giving out tracts.

And in our personal communication and public communication, we really need to know how to carefully destroy that image. I've seen in church after church, it can be easily destroyed. We say the right thing at the right time, God's help, we can destroy these false concepts, and churches that were once very cool about us will just swing around and get behind us and move in a tremendous way.

With different churches and different groups, we emphasize different aspects of the ministry. And I think in our interviewing people in the September conference, we must make a greater emphasis, a greater effort to get them into a particular field, a particular ministry, and when possible, with particular leaders, we think they're going to be happy with, and the kind of ministry they're going to be able to be happy with.

Of course, the other side of the coin is we need to throw people into the deep water and sometimes doing things, especially in their first year, that they're not happy about. Who can ever find the total answer to that one?

Leadership Accountability and Pastoral Knowledge

Then we face quite an amount of discussion and controversy in regard to when people should leave. Do not think that when a person leaves the work that it's only something that involves, say, him and his direct leader over him, the field leader, and maybe the sending country leader.

In a fellowship, it doesn't work that way. People have relationships. People have friends. People, in a sense, build up loyal friendships and then generally within a land, this is unfortunate, they build up people who don't like them.

Just the amount of material that comes to me from one person about another person that's basically negative is sometimes staggering. I know that in many ways I'm still out of it and don't get in on a lot of the nitty-gritty that's happening on a team level.

In fact, one of my great concerns is that as leaders, especially field leaders and people with large responsibilities, we can fail to know what's really going on down among the troops, what they are saying, what they are thinking, what they are feeling, their hurts.

I don't see any way we can unless we spend more time with these new people. We cannot just be locked up into various committees and various leadership sessions. We've got to be spending time with new people.

I don't see how we can be involved in evangelism and not do that. Every year I'm involved with new people that I'm leading to Christ. I can't just delegate them off. If I'm a spiritual father, I need to spend time with them, write to them, love them and encourage them.

And in a sense, our time, some of us, seems to be divided almost 50 -50 that 50 of it has to be toward existing relationships, leaders, if we're in positions of leadership, in my type of position, 50 new people, leading people to Christ, discipling new young ones coming up into the work, encouraging them.

Of course, this is also linked with how much organizational load we carry. But the two are very interrelated. Organization and people are inseparable, absolutely inseparable in Christian work. So it is a big thing, especially after the first or second year when someone leaves the work.

But even during the first or second year, the decision to stay or leave is a big one. This is one of the reasons, one of many of the reasons, that I feel strongly, as I have shared in memos over the last couple of years, that people who do not see definite financial breakthrough in terms of support, first one or two years minimum, which we're trying to de-emphasize, and after that, regular support, that they should take that as a sign that the Lord is leading them out to another ministry or leading them back to build up a revolutionary relationship with the Church.

We're not here talking about leaving, though in some cases the Lord may lead that person to leave because of a number of circumstances. But in the area of finance, we're talking about challenging that person to build a foundation.

That foundation is not only going to be valuable in terms of prayer partners, in terms of a nucleus of people that will stand with them if they stay with OM, that is going to help them the rest of their life.

Missionaries laboring all over the world who were once on OM are thankful to God that we taught them something about faith, something about prayer partners, prayer letters, building up a supporting body of people through prayer because that has helped them the rest of their life.

And because this is such a big thing, we should not expect it to happen without a little effort. It's not a matter of just praying a few prayers and suddenly we've got our financial support and our prayer partner support for the rest of our life.

The enemy is going to resist. And if we are not more specific with people, giving them specific goals to work towards specific breakthroughs, we are only hindering them. If their money is just coming because of the general OM body, when they leave OM, they're back to zero.

They are back to zero. They have perhaps very few prayer partners. Their prayer partners have in their mind that they're in any way just supported by the general giving. And so they're in some ways going to be back to zero.

A majority of mission movements in the world, especially movements that OM young people are going to be interested in, are going to require them to have support. And in most cases they're going to require them to go out and raise support.

And praise God that we never took a totally negative stance against that to the degree that when people leave OM they would be unable to enter into other missions. We tried to bring this out in the message on balance, on the difference between principles and policies and things along that line.

And I just feel that the whole concept of personal support, seeing people walk with God, seeing actual finance coming into them, is an enormous part of what we're teaching young people. And it's going to enable them to either stay with us in a healthy, sound, and to a large degree conscience-free way because conscience is involved with this.

Or it's going to enable them to join some other great faith mission and have prayer partners and have the kind of support that most of these missions require. I hope that we can have enough balance and that people even can join missions where they're given a salary.

Though that is not the general thrust of OM's thinking. This is all very much linked with when people leave the work. It seems to me that in some cases very few people are asked to leave OM any longer unless they have got into some difficulty, they're not working out, there's this problem, there's that problem, and there may be personality clash, let's not think that we're free from that.

Then those people are eased out. Now this is wrong. If this also gets through to the troops that basically you don't get asked to leave unless something is wrong, we are on weak and dangerous ground. Now praise God, the other side has been there.

Very good people who have done very, very well, who we're happy with sometimes, leaders sometimes, outstanding people, have been challenged at times to leave, especially at times by myself. But I don't think too many are involved in doing that.

Of course maybe people feel afraid to do that. But because there are so many needs for personnel everywhere, that tendency is for people, unless they want to leave, and there's a variety of reasons why people want to leave, generally if they don't want to leave they're encouraged to stay on or they go from one field to another field, or sometimes it seems that jobs are even created for them.

And so this is of concern to me. And I believe one of God's breaks, one of God's ways of challenging people out of a win, who we love, we want them, we think they're great, we've got a relationship with them, is by, for a period of time, slowing down their finance, and moving them out through finance.

The Lord has other ways of moving people out. He puts it on their hearts just to get involved in another mission, what they may feel is a better organization. I believe God has overruled situations where people have really been upset with us, they've not been happy about their leader, they've not been happy about O .M., and so they've decided to leave.

We don't want that in one sense, but I believe God has used that at times to get people out, because he's seen, our great God has seen how hard it is to get some people out of O .M. Because for some people, it becomes very much their spiritual home, their life, they're relatively happy, they've got a fairly good thing in different ways, and they want to stay.

Now, I fear even saying those words, because some person misunderstands that, and thinks that the only way to really find it more difficult, and to get greater testing and greater difficulty, is to leave O .M.

This is, of course, false. God has given Jonathan McCrosty the greatest testing of his spiritual life, and he's within O .M. Let us understand that the great tests and the great difficulties in life do not come necessarily related to whether we're in O .M. or not in O .M.

There's plenty of scope to endure hardship within O .M., to grow, to face the tough issues of the secular society, to face problems in family life, there's plenty of pressures, there's plenty of things going wrong in O .M., there's plenty of financial struggles, so that within O .M. there is great scope for testing and growth and everything else, even if at times it may appear to be easier in one situation than another.

God is not going to be hindered even by some of the things we attempt to do to help one another, and to make it easier for one another, when he wants to bring in his program of testing and difficulty.

But some people will not find the right challenge for their situation until they're out with another movement, another fellowship, and going out of O .M. often is a great step of faith, and it means moving into another one of God's graduate programs.

I don't have an easy answer to this. Personal guidance from God is the most important. Careful counseling. Avoiding being too subjective. We can be honest about our needs. We need certain kinds of people.

We challenge certain kinds of people to stay because there's a desperate need. There's nothing wrong with that, provided there's the other side of the issue, that we often keep people and challenge people to stay with us, not because we see where they particularly fit into our program, but because we love them, we want to help them one more year, we want to prepare them for what is ahead of them when they leave.

God is working in different ways in different people. Different people are in O .M. for different purposes, to some degree, within God's program, and I think it's important to understand that. Just lastly, under this area of the problems we face because of the wide range of viewpoints and backgrounds and philosophy, I've just written here that whatever decision is made now with a wide range of people and thoughts within O .M., there's always someone who disagrees.

Organizational Scale, Family Life, and Compassion

If we don't learn to be positive, and I speak to myself, cast every care upon the Lord, this can become a nightmare. The number of letters and memos that come to me every day that the post comes, which is most days.

Disagreeing with this, saying we should do that, giving the answers for this, things that we should discuss at the coordinator's conference, warning me about this thing that has crept into O .M. I am not talking, in all of this talk I've given, about issues that I've pulled out of the sky.

Almost every one of these things I've shared with people have touched on more than one person in their letters, in their memos. I can't even read all of this material anymore. And of course I don't. But somehow we have a problem here because we want to maintain all the blessings of O .M. when it was small, and yet we want all the benefits through being large.

We can't have all in both of these worlds. We are going to have to lose some things. I feel bad that I've not had more personal fellowship with many of you. If it were 15 years ago, when I had hours and days of fellowship with most all the leaders in the work, it would be a different story.

I think most O .M. leaders have come into maturity in this area and they realize that my love for them, my commitment to them, can no longer be directly measured in terms of time with them. There's factors in regard to the providence of God, geographical location.

If I had the opportunity with certain people, many of you who are listening to this cassette, I would just be thrilled to spend days, hours, work together, hike down Grand Canyon together, whatever. But in the providence and the purpose of God in a 24-hour day, that is just not possible with a huge number of people.

We're not going to be able to have the best out of both worlds. All the advantages of the present structure of O .M., the outreach to the ends of the earth, the two ships, the 2 ,500 to 3 ,000 people that unite with us in the summer, the 1 ,600 committed to world evangelism throughout the year, all the benefits that brings, the souls that are coming to Christ, the tens of millions that are being reached, and then the exact same carbon copy of the kind of fellowship we had in the early days, all spending time together with one another, praying together, all being in certain prayer meetings together, etc.

Surviving Ministry Pressures and Bridging Generational Gaps

Well, let me move on to the next major area under this section about the weaknesses that we're facing at present. I've written with a number of people we are relating to, there never seems to be enough time, especially now that many of us have families that demand a good amount of time and attention.

Do the main leaders really know what is going on? That's interesting, not realizing it, I already in my thinking ran into that concept, so I don't think I'll go on much longer. Single people, and praise God for the faithful committed army of single men and women in this work, and O .M. is the kind of work that demands a large segment of single people, team leader level people.

Generally, single men and women fit better into that situation, though there are beautiful exceptions. But these people will need deep patience and understanding about marriage, and that's difficult because they haven't been in marriage, and what they know about family probably was in a totally different context back in their own country, though there are exceptions, young people reared on the mission field and all the rest.

But I think we have to face it just takes a lot more time, effort, money, and everything to maintain a family in the 20th century. And this does at times outwardly seemingly distract from evangelism, from discipling men, from a lot of things that single people have more time to do.

And we do have people pointing their fingers at some of the married men because they're not doing enough of this or enough of that, or maybe Saturday morning they didn't show up on evangelism, even though Saturday morning if a man has a family is priority time for his family.

And I took my family with me on evangelism until they weren't too keen on doing that. Then I had to find other times to do evangelism, though sometimes I do Saturday morning. My case and situation is often very different from other people.

There needs to be a breaking down of any barrier that the enemy is trying to build between single people and married people. This takes communication, but it also takes believing the best. I'm convinced sometimes we believe the worst about people.

I know we don't mean to do that, but we get the wrong signals, we hear this thing or that thing, and I've had to repent about this in the past. And I'm asking God to continue that crucifying work in my life that I may know how to believe the best until I really have the facts, and then to confront, but to avoid generalizations and gossip, and to try to sympathize with the difficult situations that certain families are having just to survive.

I'm preaching all the time now on survival. I just gave a series on this at the Chester Operation World. Maybe you'd like to listen to it. But I know in my case, many times it's not a matter of advancing down another beach of spiritual combat.

It's survival. And I know some of you listening to my voice at this time, even some of the concepts I'm talking about here, perhaps they're not registering very deeply because you're battling for survival.

You're battling for survival. And I want to stand with you. Maybe we need to share a little more as to where we really are. What are some of our real struggles? I know a lot of this is happening in OM, and it's building reality and fellowship, and it's enabling us to get things into the right priority.

We would be less judgmental, praise God for the section on love covers, the last few pages, against judgmentalism. But I believe we would be less judgmental about one another, and even about different fields and different groups and different things within OM if we could really understand some of the problems, different ones are facing just to survive.

Just to survive. That's why I've been willing at times to compromise certain convictions. That's why I've been willing at times to the distress of some people who feel I should take a harder line on certain issues, to compromise, to be more patient, to give the person another year, maybe before I ask them to leave.

Because we want to minister. We want to be a movement of compassion. We want the fruit of the Spirit. We want to be sensitive toward people's needs. And that's going to be constantly one of our greatest struggles.

And then the next main point under this section of our weaknesses is the age gap. The lack of time now among some of the older ones to train junior leaders, to spend time with new recruits that they can just be plugged in right to the heart and the pulse of what the Holy Spirit has been doing over the years.

Many don't even seem to understand some of the historical roots of OM. Many seem to be confused about this whole thing of spiritual balance and the importance of it because it is just as important as commitment.

It is part of our commitment. It's that which keeps the sword sharp. There's a danger that there are so many voices, so many messages, so many tapes, so many outstanding magazines and books that a majority of our time in terms of input is from other directions and that we don't get enough time in some of the OM material, the leadership manual, some of the leadership tapes, there are piles of leadership tapes from past conferences.

I know some of my own material that I only maybe give once a year and I discover people making major mistakes, not understanding things because they didn't get that message. They missed that emphasis and this concerns me and I know that age is a factor.

Perhaps some of us older and they see us in the pulpit and they're afraid to come to us. Some of us don't seem to have another spare minute, another spare hour yet we have to make time for those that want to see us.

We must, no matter how many other responsibilities we have, we must avoid like the plague any kind of OM elite, people with special privileges. Our policy has been people receive according to their need.

A brand new family coming into the work with three children is going to have greater needs than a single man who's been in the work for ten years and that single man should have the maturity to understand that.

I don't believe we should move in the direction of giving greater privileges according to the years within OM. That may be alright in some specific area. I understand on the ship in terms of pocket money, people who've been several years have a greater amount of money than maybe people who are new.

Maybe that can be allowed for certain specific areas but it must not become a general policy and it seems to me that a family coming to the ship with three children, even though they're new recruits, they're going to have to have a greater privilege, what may seem to be a privilege, than say some single person who's been for three years.

It is complex. We must not try to do through rules and regulation that which can only be worked out in individual situations through fellowship and communication. I'd like to say that again but I don't think I can quote it again.

Different people have different needs and in OM, the priority is not the seniority but it's the person's particular need and we will have to wrestle with that but I feel that's the direction we must continue to move by the grace of God and by the help that the Lord can give us.

Sometimes when we've suffered we don't want others to go through the same suffering. We see OM's weak points and we can become almost cynical about those weak points. This spreads to the new recruits and they don't know how to handle some of this cynicism that comes by older people and let's face it, sometimes that person that we really want in the work and he's filling a vital job and we don't know how we continue without him, he's become cynical and he's hindering people underneath him and he needs to be spoken to in a very clear way and even told that if he doesn't shape up in that area, if he continues to be a stumbling block to the younger ones and not be an example, I know that has to be kept in balance and he's going to have to pray about moving on.

You know, a lot of people really do change when we speak to them very clearly that maybe it's time to leave. This shouldn't be done just sort of off the cuff in an emotional fervor. It must be done in an objective way.

Usually two or three leaders are brought into it but we must confront people. We cannot let people drift and sometimes the hardest people to confront are those who we are so dependent upon in terms of their skills and their abilities and sometimes the brother who doesn't seem to be so valuable in terms of the work, if we're honest, he gets jumped on a lot quicker.

No one will ever be totally consistent in this area but let's work toward that by the grace of God. Yes, let us cry out that no middle age spiritual rheumatism will set in. Young people are going to understand that families need perhaps more time for a break, though they need some time as well.

Families are going to understand or single people are going to understand that if a man is not in good health, he's not going to keep up with what may be the standard OM pace. He's not going to be able to stay in every prayer meeting to the end and legalism in this area, the failure to be compassionate and understanding is just as deadly as lack of discipline.

Training, Standards, and the Place of Every Worker

Let's move on. The next point under this section about weaknesses is the pressure, the pressure to compromise the standards or even bypass the training to fill needed posts and keep the machinery going.

There is a sense where there is machinery within OM. Machinery can be good. You drive a car, that's a piece of machinery. I'm using this tape recorder, that's a piece of machinery. I'm glad it's still working.

Within OM there is machinery. We trust it will be held together by the oil of the Holy Spirit. Things need to happen. Things need to be taking place. It's one thing for people to be spiritual when they only meet each other on Sunday.

They have a nice praise time, a nice worship time. Put them on the battle front seven days a week and you'd see that a lot of what they think they have they don't really have. And so it's going to be a battle.

But we must avoid just bypassing basic training in order to meet specific gaps. There are backdoor recruits. What was us when we had more or had more backdoor recruits than front door recruits? People that go through the tapes, the books, the training conferences, the nights of prayer, the times on the doors, the boot camp.

We can't throw away the spiritual boot camp. When people are brought in through the backdoor they need extra time. Dare we bring anyone through the backdoor directly to the ship, directly in the STL, directly out anywhere and not spend more time with them.

Get them into tapes. Relate to them personally. Because we're going to lose people. We're going to hurt people. It's not going to work. It's not hard to see in OM the need for typists, administrators, bookkeepers, carpenters, engineers, people who can be accountants.

In fact, let's face it, some of us who I think maybe understand the work a little better than some others, we do see the need for every single, every single person that's in the work. I'd love to write a paper on how God has used the weakest people over the years to keep this thing moving.

People who weren't ready to go somewhere else. Stayed in their own country and ended up playing a vital role. Let all of us be thankful to God for those who may seemingly have the most unimportant routine task in this work.

They are vital. And as we see in Corinthians to that lesser member, sometimes there's greater importance. A ten-talent man will be responsible for ten talents. He's got a very big job and probably is having lots of failure.

That one-talent man only has to be responsible for that one talent. He's an easy man to miss in any movement. He can be neglected and forgotten and lonely. He may not be a great communicator because communication may not be that vital to his particular ministry.

And so he gets left out. Not many seek out his fellowship. He may get classified among the people who are dull. Oh, may we have a wide spectrum of people that we fellowship with. We don't just fellowship with those who it's a blessing to be with them and we gain through that fellowship but we reach out and fellowship with people that may be a total drain upon us.

People that don't necessarily appeal to us. That to me is spiritual revolution. We have to ask ourselves does OM or do the people come first? I think the people should come first. I think this can be kept in balance.

As you know, I'm more than willing to cut down on numbers in order to increase the quality of input into each person within OM. The pastoral care. The man-to-man discipling. That which was once heart and soul parcel of this movement.

Man-to-man discipling. Certainly in some places seems to be slipping. And if we ask ourselves specifically for people that we've led to Christ or we found them when they were babes in Christ and now we've seen them going on in maturity because of the hours and the weeks and the months and the time we've spent with them, sometimes it's a little embarrassing.

On the other hand, I think that has to be kept in balance by the fact that often a person is encouraged and discipled by a number of people having input into their life. And most of you have heard me speak on that.

Prioritizing Projects and Completing the Work

And then two final points under the setting. The question, are we trying to do too much at the same time? I think in some ways we are. And I for one have had to cut back on projects. I've had to perhaps throw a high percentage of my ideas and things that have popped into my mind that we could do, I've had to just lay them on the Lord.

Ideas are easy to come by in a movement this size with so many pioneer types so we always need them. But to see last year's ideas becoming a reality, that which we started five years ago because we had a good idea really coming into maturity, that's something else.

It often is easier to start something new than to pick up something halfway and carry it through to completion. This is why I'm so heavily indebted to so many faithful men. I won't start to give a list of names because it would be too long who have picked up at times where I felt I had to move on to something else or could no longer carry on.

And they have battled with more difficult situations. And I'm indebted to the Lord for such a faithful army of loyal men and women that I can work together with. I think people really do respect us for the stand we have taken of trying not to become too big.

I find feedback on that all the time. Tremendous feedback. And we want to emphasize quality before quantity. Though when we have quality, the quantity will come because lives, quality lives in touch with Jesus, they will bring forth fruit.

And it's fruit we want, not brick, not wood, hay, stubble, fruit. And that's going to come from Christ-like living and from a body of people in communion with one another, growing in Christ-likeness, in grace, filled with the Spirit.

And whether we can measure all the results or put them all on the O .M. prayer letter or not, they will be there. And then the last point under this heading. Have we become unrealistic about finance? I believe many people in O .M. are realistic about finance.

I believe they're more realistic than many people in the world. And sometimes in O .M. the people seem to almost glory in putting themselves down. And sometimes we find people who see the strong points of people out in the world or in other situations in comparison to our own weak points.

It's a reverse. It's going extreme on something we challenge people to do. We challenge people for the sake of humility to see other people's strong points and their own weak points. But if people don't keep that in balance and we have to think of ourselves honestly as we ought to think, Romans 12, then they're constantly seeing other people's strong points and our weak points.

And they're putting themselves down or they're putting O .M. down. I have had to repent at times of putting O .M. down. It's a hard area. But I think different fellowships have different strong and weak points.

We can learn from one another. But we need to realize God has given us some strong points. And basically the whole area of finance is a relatively strong point within O .M. People are realistic. People are crying out to God for finance.

Probably more than in most situations. There are people who are selling possessions. There are people who are living sacrificially. Maybe not as sacrificially as one brother may think. Somebody reared in a very tight O .M. situation with very little money is not going to understand another brother who may be more free with his money.

But if that brother were living the way he was living ten years ago, he would be ten times more free with that money. This thing does get a bit relative. And we need to be slow to point fingers at people.

Especially in these sensitive difficult areas. At the same time the enemy is clever. And in every area he wants to drag us into unreality. I think people are unrealistic about the amount of money it takes for overheads.

Money going into overheads in Christian work is almost considered non-spiritual. I almost used to be this way. Money for tracks, for literature. That's where I want my money. I don't want to put my money into a brand new typewriter.

Let's get something out of the junkyard and let the typist bang away at thirty words a minute. And God had to show me that money invested perhaps in a good typewriter, I know that has to be kept in balance, is spiritual.

Praise God for the equipment He has given us. Praise God the vehicles may be a little better than they used to be. Yes, I still have my same conviction. Bicycles for Brothers in India should have a greater priority over a better vehicle for Joe Blow in Europe.

But maybe we can have both. OM has to function within its individual culture. There are actually some people using bicycles in Europe. Praise the Lord for that. There's no simple easy answer to this. We must constantly work for greater reality in the area of finance.

This is why our policy of individual support, each individual seeing something come in. You know, even when you're getting your regular support, that's not carrying the whole load. To really carry the load, you've got to get into what Jonathan McCrosty calls ministry support, or what I used to call producing faith, where you're starting to pay for the books, the tracks, the other person, the ministry phone calls, the free literature that costs thousands of pounds and dollars every year.

And that's what every leader should be aiming at, ministry support. Perhaps it should be double of regular support. There are people who have that. And such people aren't going to put themselves up as being better than someone else because they probably have other areas in their life where they're very weak.

But we've got to keep aiming higher. We've got to keep facing the reality of tremendous economic problems in the world today. There may come a day when some of us will have to go take jobs and count it all joy just to pour finance into the work.

A little tent making done here and there with good control doesn't hurt. And it all helps build reality and finance. In the world, many, many, many families have to have both the man and the wife working just to make ends meet.

I'm not saying we have to do that with NOM. Praise God, if our wives in OM are able to give more time to our families, we should have better and more committed families as a result of it. Praise God, when our wives have greater opportunity for the ministry of hospitality to get in on prayer sessions, to minister to others, or to just minister to ourselves.