Worship & Foot Washing — George Verwer

Worship and Foot Washing

Let's read a few scriptures together. I want to start in an interesting place for this kind of message, John chapter 13. This is the Last Supper, which we've just had. One of the great burdens I've always had as someone who often breaks bread and worships the Lord in this way is that this message about Jesus Christ taking the towel seems to be neglected.

And yet it's right there in the same chapter, and it's pretty strong, the emphasis that Jesus puts. It's so strong that in America we have a group called the Grace Brethren who actually practice foot washing in their meetings.

And when they get up and present their biblical basis for this, well, it's not so easy to escape it. Of course, I know most people spiritualize this chapter. I'm not convinced about the Grace Brethren practice, especially since I found out they all scrub and wash their feet like mad before they come to the foot washing service.

But certainly there's a message here, and I'll let you make the application, but I want to read it. Verse 4. He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.

Then cometh he to Simon Peter, and Peter said unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter. Peter said unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet.

Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. Jesus said to him, He that is washed needeth not except to wash his feet, but is entirely clean, and ye are clean, but not all of you.

For he knew who should betray him, therefore said he, Ye are not all clean. So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garment, and was seated again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?

Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say, Well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example that you should do as I have done to you.

Servant Leadership and Training Disciples

The Lord led us to name the second ship, Dulas. I would appreciate your prayers for the ship. It's a very new venture. The second ship, it's much bigger. It's got many more problems. I had a phone call last night.

We're having 5 ,000 visitors a day in Mexico. We had 4 ,000 in the evangelistic meetings. In Veracruz, we will be having a united rally. A very, very big event, together with Luis Palau. And we really need your prayers as we go in to Latin America.

But we named the ship Dulas because we feel this is the training that young people need today. They need to learn to be servants. I believe one of the reasons we have many casualties among top Christian leaders is that they never had real basic training.

I'm amazed how quickly people go to the top in evangelical circles. It's just unbelievable. It's far worse in America than here. A few years of Bible school, maybe a little seminary. Out he is, pretty soon he's pastoring a church.

We wonder why a high percentage of these people get wiped out or don't have fruitful ministries or their marriages get busted up. We seem to have drifted away from the basic man-to-man kind of training that Jesus Christ himself gave.

And we cannot talk about world evangelism. We cannot talk about evangelism at all. We're now talking about discipleship and the discipling of men. There's a tremendous book written now called Disciples Are Made, Not Born.

And I hope that every one of you in evangelism is a disciple maker. To me this is very, very important. And as we see the style and the method of Jesus and then the Apostle Paul, who is constantly working on teams, making disciples.

He had his Timothy and many others. I think we see the pattern that God uses to really multiply the church and to spread the message around the world. We need to train young men and women today to be servants, to walk humbly before God.

We have many men who are elders and leaders in our churches today. We wonder why many of them are carnal. And if you talk to them, you find they've never been trained. They've never been discipled. They just sort of drifted along and because of desperation they were made a leader in the local church.

Church Planting and the Multiplication of Leaders

Now I am linked with the local church. Our movement is not a parachurch movement. We are involved in church planting around the world. That is our main work in Operation Mobilization. We planted 15 churches in France alone.

We planted churches in Italy, in Spain, and even in Muslim countries. We don't go around sort of making, you know, photographs of our churches and making some great claim that this is our main work in a sense because we feel just as important as this work is just our general work of training men and women.

And we don't want them to stay with OM. We want them to join other groups, especially groups that have this vision for church planting and for discipling men and for multiplying around the world. And it's exciting to see what God is doing, especially in India and other places where in some cases when they're on OM, it's mainly evangelism, mass evangelism, street preaching, winning people to Christ.

But as they graduate, and for an Indian, generally it takes us about 10 years to really make a strong man of integrity. This idea that we can create disciples in three years of Bible school is one of the greatest loads of eyewash that has ever been dumped on the evangelical church.

It takes 10, 15, 20 years to make a man of God. You take a survey and find out how many Bible school graduates know reality in prayer and the spiritual warfare. I want to tell you, you make that survey, you'll come out with a depression.

We're not teaching young men how to pray. And we are graduating generation after generation of spiritual midgets. And then as someone speaks out, people are worried that he's negative or he's critical of the church or he's not understanding.

Confrontation, Repentance, and Accountability

I say this because I am totally knit with the church. I am the arch enemy of people in Britain who are criticizing the established church. I read some critical article about this church recently in a particular magazine and I had that man on the phone.

I believe in what was taught here today. If you have something against a brother, confront him. And I phone people all over this country. That's right. I was listening to a tape by a very famous leader in London in which he cut into established missionary work.

Not OM, we had nothing to do with it. He cut into the established missionary societies. When I was finished listening to that tape, my heart was burdened. I knew I had a wrong attitude to that brother.

I repented and I got him on the phone. And I've developed an interesting relationship with him. Why are we afraid in the church of Jesus Christ to confront? We need to exhort one another. And I hope you'll get my phone number.

And if you hear something screwy on one of my tapes, and I can assure you there are some screwy things on some of my tapes, you'll get me on the phone. And maybe you can join with me in helping to get some of these tapes erased.

You can put some of Graham Kendrick's music over the top of them. I believe that there is a great danger that slowly we are lowering the standard within the church of Jesus Christ. Now many of us are very burdened for the dead churches, the liberal churches.

And you get people that they're in an alive church and they're telling about how wonderful their church is, and how the Lord's blessing. And they're concerned about the dead churches and the liberal churches.

I want to tell you. My concern is the live churches. The so-called live churches who feel that they're doing alright and they are experiencing the blessing of God, and God is using them. And yet I feel convinced that often in our live churches the standard is not what it is in the Word of God.

Prayer, witness, love, discipline, repentance. And many other areas. And I feel the great hope is among us as leaders to increase the standard in our own lives. To see the degree of reality increase in our own lives.

Biblical Christianity and the Purity of the Church

This is what breaks my heart about my own nation. We have many great organizations in America. Many great men of God. But I feel even among the most live, and I have to put myself there, that we are falling short, so short, of what the New Testament outlines as biblical Christianity.

More and more people are seeing this. A .W. Tozer saw this. And that's why in speaking about evangelism he said something that I've never forgotten. And I want to read it to you. He said, The task of the church is twofold.

To spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind. Christianity will always produce itself after its kind. A worldly-minded, unspiritual church is sure to bring forth on other shores a Christianity much like her own.

Not the naked Word only, but the character of the witness determines the quality of the convert. The popular notion that the first obligation of the church is to spread the gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth is false.

Her first obligation is to be spiritually worthy to spread it. To spread an effete degenerate brand of Christianity to pagan lands is not to fulfill the Great Commission or the commandment of Jesus Christ.

C .S. Lewis said, We have the tendency to think but not to act. We have the tendency to feel but not to act. And if we go on thinking and feeling without acting, someday we will be unable to act. This is what frightens me even about a conference like this.

Though I believe in these conferences. And it's one of the major ministries of our ship, conferences just like this. But there's a danger that we've had more truth, more exposure, more blessing. What are we going to do with it when we get in our vehicles and when we get home, in our families, in our churches, and in our work?

I believe a subtle form of spiritual schizophrenia has crept into the church, which on a spiritual level is more difficult to handle than schizophrenia among the mentally ill. Where people have double compartments.

They have their spiritual compartment. That is obviously visible in a conference like this and on Sunday. But then they have their practical life. What they do with their time, their money, their education.

Surely we have seen this in the United States. It's just unbelievable in our country. Beyond words what has happened where people can be so totally schizophrenic and be living in two totally different worlds in which there is no mixing whatsoever.

Materialism, Hypocrisy, and the Sermon on the Mount

Men have made literally hundreds of thousands. Some of the wealthiest men in America are evangelical Christians. And what are we going to do with the Sermon on the Mount? What are we going to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ?

America certainly doesn't know what to do with this book, Rich Christians in a Hungry World. Not that I judge people who have a little bit of this world's goods. But I tell you, when they make it through selling Christian books, when they make it through taking love offerings, when they make it by skiving it off the old age pensioners, then I will speak out and I don't care who is in the audience, be it the president himself.

We have rapidly become a nation of hypocrites and there's a danger that Britain will follow right behind us. So don't point any fingers. I can speak bluntly about my nation. You speak bluntly about your nation.

But I'm scared. The standard is coming down. Materialism has so invaded the church. It's just, we hardly know what to do anymore, to even talk about it. And the impurity problem, we know that impurity is wrong, but don't we see how impurity and materialism work together?

When these different people have so much money and so much available to them, of course all kinds of other complicated problems naturally come in. And so before I try to paint a little picture of the needs around the world, it is my plea that we may go from here with a desire to increase the standard of life, even among those who feel they're already alive and who love Christ and who worship the Lord.

And I believe that has to start personally with my own life. I am tremendously aware of inadequacy and I know that I have to keep repenting and my message is a message of grace. That's why I've written a book called Revolution of Balance to keep some of these things that I sometimes say in balance and in context.

Acting on the Gospel and Rejecting Spiritual Compartmentalization

I think we have to say this because it's one of the explanations why the world is not evangelized. 50 of the people in the world today are still waiting to hear the gospel for the first time. About 50%.

This is unbelievable 2 ,000 years since the Great Commission was given. This is unbelievable when we consider 10 ,000 people and finally 9 ,000 who gather at Keswick and now another 9 ,000 who gather at Dales plus an endless host of other conferences and deeper life conventions that go on throughout the summer just on these islands.

I believe the Holy Ghost will bring a holy go. And personally here in Britain, I'm tired of so much talk about the Holy Spirit when I see so little burning apostolic reality in the lives of people that I have seen and I have watched for quite a few years.

The Holy Ghost will bring a holy go. And I will tell you among the young people today there may be a lot of praising and a lot of guitar strumming and a lot of hallelujahing and some people call it worship but I'll tell you worship that does not lead to spiritual revolution is not much different than Krishna worship nor Buddhist worship nor Muniism.

It's a kick. Now I don't have the discernment to tell in some meetings in some situations who is on a religious kick and who is truly worshiping God. If you've got that much discernment, I would love to have your book.

But I'm scared. I'm scared for an overemphasis on subjectivism, subjective thinking, feelings, who's got the next kick. I believe it is going to paralyze world missionary endeavor if we're not careful.

Now we believe in worship. We have whole nights of worship and praise. And we're not against live music and operation mobilization. But it's not enough. It's not enough for us to gather around the Lord's table and remember again that we're all saved.

No wonder the people of the world think we're a bit touched as we go out reveling that we are saved and have never spoken to our own neighbors about this salvation and make little sacrifice of time, sweat, tears, money, toil to reach the world.

Forsaking All and Counting the Cost of Discipleship

Oh, I know I am a crank. That was the best introduction I've had in a long time. I have been attacked and criticized and smeared many, many times. And sometimes it's been my own fault. But other times it's been because I believe that what Jesus said he meant.

And he said in Luke 14, 33, Except you forsake all that you have, you cannot be my disciple. Now the moment I say that I can hear the echoes, Oh yes, but look what happened to the children of God. It's true, they had that message to some degree.

But you see, they didn't have the balance. They didn't have sound theology. They didn't have the other things that I believe many of you already have. Why did they attract so many young people? Why are so many young people being let out of the established church?

Because many today, they just don't see the reality. They read in their Bible, Our God is a consuming fire, and they look in vain for men on fire. It doesn't have to be loud. I don't want to be loud, actually.

When I came to England, I was told, You've got to speak soft, you're going to offend all the saints. But I had already listened to Alan Redpath for two years. And when I read these books by Andrew Murray, I used to feel so guilty, and I thought, Lord, you know my greatest burden is not world evangelism.

It's certainly not this or that. It's to be holy, it's to be gentle, it's to be meek. That's still my greatest need. And for a while I thought that had to do with being quiet. It was almost as if I was praying, Lord, help me to be quiet.

Help me to speak with low, nice, holy tones. Lord, help me to be quiet! Then suddenly I caught myself. I will tell you, it was a great day when I accepted myself. Because I had a lot... I had a lot...

I'll give you four free books. I had a lot... I had a lot of struggle in really accepting myself. If you're the quiet type and you're not explosive and all that, praise the Lord. God is not out to annihilate your personality.

God is out to work through it. But my personality was not like that. Even, you know, in the meetings during these days, my feet are moving, and I want to jump and shout. And I know this often offends people, because in the early days of OM I was much more free.

I still am quite free. I used to stand on the chairs and the tables in the prayer meetings. People were laying on the floor in the OM prayer meetings at Moody Bible Institute, weeping. Others were standing on the chairs, praising God.

I mean, these are all good conservative, you know, straight-line Bible churches. A dean of men peeking through the door at one in the morning, watching these students. You can be sure it caused some interesting repercussions at the Institute.

I had to learn the hard way that sometimes people just copy you instead of experiencing reality. And I think it's wonderful to practice self-control in worship meetings. I don't like to do things in worship meetings that stumble other brothers or that are freaky or cuckoo or whatever other word you use.

That's why I like to go out to the woods and perhaps let off some steam or sing or praise the Lord. But, oh beloved, I pray that we may see the need for spiritual revolution, the need to increase our standard of life.

Simple Living and Sacrificial Giving

What are we going to do about this issue of materialism? I was about to tell you the main reason I was considered a crank is because I sold all my possessions, because I refused to buy any clothing. That's now gone on for 20 years.

I never taught that others should live that way. It's just a personal thing with me, that I should trust the Lord for my clothing. Because I never owned a car, I never owned a home, and never had an insurance policy or a bank account, and I still live on maybe 2 ,000 pounds a year, and that's not easy.

Maybe three by now with inflation, with a family of three. And we are not living in poverty. I don't believe in poverty. I believe God provides. Forsake all, then God supplies all. It's firstly, I admit, a heart transition.

It's firstly an act of the will. And when you get married it gets more complicated because you cannot force your wife. You have to come to peaceful negotiation. And it takes compromise, it takes love.

And all the message of forsaking all, which to me is only one twentieth of the message of discipleship, only one twentieth. Without love, it's nothing. But if you and I believe in world evangelism, I will tell you we are going to change our lifestyle.

And there are going to go up things for sale. When God's Spirit moved in at Wheaton College, Moody Bible Institute, and other places, among the poor students, we sold thousands of dollars of possessions to buy Gospels.

People now criticize us because we're a big organization. We've got a computer and a telex machine, and two ships and three hundred vehicles, and people think O .M. has really changed. Of course they haven't looked at that ship.

Gigantic, rust bucket. Built in 1914, the oldest passenger ship in the world. It's only running because of twenty-five committed engineers who have left big salaries, many of them sold their homes, and have put their own money even to buy the ship.

There's no big money behind O .M. People can't believe this movement is basically British based. They can't believe it. With the great British drift to America, it isn't all spiritual reasons. I mean, you know, we can be honest, can't we?

I mean, it's easy to get the Americans to give. And many people in Britain now are looking to America for the cash. Some have even moved their whole operation there. I'm not saying that that's wrong. I like to just stir people's minds.

I like them just to consider this little fact, that India is one hundred times less evangelized than America. At least one hundred times. We have areas where there's no such thing as an evangelist. There are no churches.

There are churches in other parts of India, but they don't move out of those areas any more than the average Northern Irishman is going to leave Northern Ireland to evangelize South End. And so India just screams, and British people don't even need a visa.

It's getting tougher for British people to get into America. They need a visa. And yet all the English people that go over to America, and very, very few, are going East. Isn't that interesting? I'm not criticizing anybody.

Just think. I believe one of the most important things we need to do in these days is think. I believe too often as Christians, we're led by emotion. We're led by our environment. We're led by various experiences.

A Vision for the Unreached Nations

I would beg of you to consider some of the facts. Let's just think about some of these countries. Let me just take my little prayer cards that I like to carry around to redeem the time, and just mention some of these lands.

These now are cold, harsh facts. Some of you already know them. Some don't. I can say right here, my great burden isn't recruiting you to the foreign mission field. That's not my burden. Because I believe we need men in your positions in evangelism in Britain with a missionary worldwide vision as much as we need missionaries over there.

Many people come on OM. We don't put heavy pressure to become missionaries. Many of them come back into industry. They come back... Some of you are ex-OMers. They come back in to be pastors. My burden isn't whether you're there or here.

That isn't my first burden. But it's, do you have a vision? I now have to live in this country about 8 months a year. That's not easy for me. Though I love Britain very much. Because there's so many other calls over there.

But I have a teenage family, 18, 16 and 14. I feel my first priority next to God Himself is my family. I cancel meetings. I cancel nations. I do a lot of things that my family may be given adequate time.

And yet I have found that I just love to minister in this country. And I'm involved in evangelism as well and Christian unions, all kinds of meetings. An incredible meeting just last week of very interesting people from society at an evening banquet.

50 of them didn't know the Lord. We just start talking about the ship. Then we start talking about fellowship. Then we start talking about relationship and discipleship. I love to speak about all the ships in God's Word.

And I find that I can be ministering here even preaching the Gospel and yet the ultimate result always goes over there. India, the Middle East. There's always a recruit. A young person sitting in most meetings ready to go.

I was speaking at Tent Hall a year ago. A young man converted through peace with God. Scotsman. Excellent marine engineer sitting in the meeting. Babe in Christ. God touched him. He's on doulos in Mexico today.

Not just working as an engineer but being trained by living with godly men. Our top chief engineer is one of the most godly men I've ever worked with. It's just people just are with him in the engine room and they know Jesus Christ is in this man.

It's the only way they can explain the character. And I tell you light speaks louder than sermons. I believe. And I find that I can be in Britain and still feel that I'm involved in the whole world. And I'm sure some of you already have that experience and I believe you can have it even more.

What you do in Britain affects the whole world. There are people that you can see saved in your meetings and sent even within a few years. Isn't that exciting? Some of our best workers we led them to Christ.

Now they're leaders. And it's just so wonderful and so exciting. We're here and yet we belong to the whole world. We might be laboring in Kent but we belong to the whole world. We've got a world vision.

Prayer for Nations with Few Believers

Let's look at a few of these countries. Maritania. According to this report there are no national believers in the entire nation. Now that one fact should just stir us immediately to put Maritania on our prayer list.

No believers. Can you imagine London with no believers? Not one believer in all of London. Now I think there are a few there foreign community who know the Lord Jesus. Alright. Just take yourself and three or four others and put yourself in London.

Nobody else knows Jesus Christ. You know you think your nation is so pagan. You know why? You haven't traveled enough. I will tell you this nation is in no way as pagan as most of the places I have lived.

It's just you can't even understand what it is in some of these countries. You have nothing to compare it with. And I believe there is still and I find that I love Britain more than most of the British people that I meet.

I find that I am also a little more optimistic though I think I know the facts. But I am convinced there is still a strong Christian influence in this country. And you can write me about that and I'll be glad to discuss it with you.

There is a strong Christian influence in this country. I think some people who talk about how bad it is now compared to past history I would challenge them on what they have studied at university. Because I don't think they know past history.

I believe there is still an element. We are not a Christian nation. I don't think that has ever existed. But there is an element. God has got his hand yet upon this nation. God is not finished with this nation.

This is not an hour for total pessimism. This is an hour for optimism in the midst of problems, darkness and struggle to believe that God has his hand on this nation and God has his hand on some of these government people and one of the purposes is that we may continue to play a vital role in world missions.

Britain’s Christian Heritage and Personal Renewal

I feel so strongly that the British Christian with a tremendous heritage what a heritage we have in this country I have only absorbed just 5 British heritage and I can hardly keep my legs from moving when I think of Bunyan when I think of Hudson Taylor when I think of William Carey and a host of other men the books that we have in the English language that challenge our hearts day after day one of the reasons I love books is I am a natural backslider.

I backslide, you know, almost every day. Fortunately just for a few minutes mainly in the mind. I have just this natural tendency to go down. That's why every day I need to be filled with the Holy Ghost.

I believe in that message. Every day I need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I need to turn away from that which is of the world that which is of George Verwer that which is compromise and surrender afresh to the Lord Jesus and often it's been A .W. Tozer Murray Machene Andrew Murray these men in my quiet time and mainly the Word of God that's just humbled me.

I'm not against crisis experiences. I think you would have a crisis every day. It doesn't have to be always the same emotional proportion but I tell you when I see myself in my quiet time and then look at my Savior I have to have some kind of a crisis.

Forgive me if I'm too emotional about it. But it wouldn't hurt some of us in this country to be a little more released. A little more released. I find many people and this is a tangent I'll just touch it.

Fellowship, Acceptance, and the Ministry of Listening

I find many people crippled in their Christian life because they've never learned to be released and to share. Why are young people going sometimes even into extremist groups that have a heavy emphasis on relational theology and maybe go too far in this.

Why are young people gravitating to some of those groups? Because in the present church scene they're starved. They want to share with someone. They want to open up. They want to be accepted. They want love.

And they don't find it. We found in our work the emphasis on fellowship, counseling, spending time with people, listening, accepting them in that time of failure is as important as evangelism and hard work.

And you know when you give time to young people you listen to them, you struggle with them, you repent with them and weep with them. I'll tell you they'll work. And they'll go and go and accomplish God's work far more.

The Needs of North Africa, Europe, and Turkey

Well, let's quickly move on. I have here Albania. No known Albanian national believers. There probably are a few. Some little work has been done there but it's just unbelievable. Algeria has about 150 believers.

Tunisia right next door has a few dozen believers in the entire nation. Libya, two or three national believers in the nation. And on we could go in terms of North Africa. But there are other places that are more open though you can get into North Africa and there are other ways that you can help the work there.

But think for example of Spain. Well, we have a lot of interest. You know, whole provinces of Spain where there's very, very little work. When I first went into Spain in 1960, the first country I worked in, it was all closed.

We distributed all our literature secretly through the post. About 900 ,000 pieces. About 25 ,000 people wrote for Bible correspondence courses to a secret address in Portugal. Within three years, prayer, nights of prayer, Spaniards praying, not just within OM, the whole body, that country opened.

By 1964, we had gone into 80 of the villages of the country. That's only the beginning. Now you have to go back and consolidate and plant churches. That takes far more men, far more prayer. That's what we should be doing today.

But we're not. We're just scratching the surface in Spain and yet the Jehovah Witnesses have just passed 30 or 40 ,000 strong. Unbelievable rebuke to the Church of Jesus Christ. There are other European countries.

I think there's only a couple dozen missionaries in the whole of Greece. It's a country OM. Hasn't even worked in, just unbelievable situation. And what do we say of places like Turkey? It's one country I want to implant upon your mind.

Turkey has 38, this card says 40 million people. It's been one of the main OM fields where we've been involved in church planting and we represented a majority of the missionaries in Turkey between OMers and ex-OMers.

Though all the different groups now, and there are more now, last 10 years, we all work as one body. This is a beautiful thing in Turkey. Have a workers conference, we all come together. Now that's a lot easier when the work is small.

And of course already extremist groups have been born. They say that in Turkey there are probably, and I think you know where Turkey is, probably less than a hundred believers from among the Turkish background people, not speaking of minority groups, like Koreans living in Saudi Arabia, praise the Lord.

Greeks living in Turkey are despised by Turks. Among the real Turks are maybe a hundred. It's just an unbelievable situation. The first step isn't to get in your car and drive to Turkey, though you can do that.

The first step is prayer. You know there's a word that constantly God brings to my mind when I think about my own work, OM, with all of our failures and all of our needs. And when I think of the church, there's a word that comes to my mind, you may want to write it down, I call it sanctified imagination.

Sanctified Imagination and Practical Missionary Action

And it's my prayer that as we go away from here desiring to be more committed, to be more involved, that we would develop a sanctified imagination. How can I, right where I am, in Lancashire or in Cumbria or in Northern Scotland, how can I be more involved?

And as you pray and ask God to expand your imagination, I believe He'll show you ways. Many, many years ago, I got this idea, I found out many others already had it, which is often true of an idea you get, of saving used stamps.

I was a philatelic agent, owned a philatelic business when I was younger, and I'd sold that to print Gospels and get the word out. And then I thought of the idea, why don't we just save all these stamps off envelopes and sell them for the Gospel's sake?

Some of your groups already do this. That has released thousands of pounds, thousands of pounds for world evangelism. Just one little funny, you know, idea. And there are so many ways. I believe there are ways we can be working together more.

We get ideas, let's get on the phone. Let's find out what we're doing. I wish I knew more of what you're doing. You're all so conservative here, I know you never want to tell anybody what you're doing.

You know, you got a... Brother, do you have a prayer letter, brother? Get this prayer letter out of your pocket. But it would be wonderful to know more about your ministries. And I'm convinced there are ways to be working together.

I'm sure some of you could be going on trips to some of these countries to minister. It's not just the great famous evangelists that can make an impact in India. Most of them never go to India. We've seen ordinary men go out with a gift to teach.