Uniqueness of Om Lifestyle — George Verwer

The OM Lifestyle and Its Revolutionary Identity

The uniqueness of this manner of life. Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 1, verse 5, you know, this manner of life. OM has a lifestyle. People say, why do you call it OM? What do you want it to be called? If you don't take a name, they'll give you one.

Dear saints years ago wanted to worship the New Testament way. They wanted to gather around the Lord's table. They wanted to evangelize the world. They kicked up so much dust, more people hated them than almost any movement ever born in history in the British Isles.

They soon were given the name Plymouth Brethren. They didn't want that name. They still don't like it. They got it. Different movements in history, they get different names. We've chosen this name. Somehow we believe the Lord gave it to us just for the sake of organization.

And it's called Operation Mobilization. There's no membership in a sense. People in OM, they slide in one week and slide out the next, depending on what country they're going to. We have systems where people have to renounce OM in order to go out into a field.

We've been renounced and rejected by more of our most faithful men than any movement perhaps in time in history. And it's not, they're not telling a lie because there is no membership. Some of you know when you came from North America, you had to even sign a relief form to prove that you are not a member of the Send the Light Incorporated.

We are acting as an organizing body that things may be done decently in order so that you can get on with the job. When we felt it more expedient to pull OM International out of Spain, we did it. OM, technically speaking, doesn't belong, doesn't exist in Spain anymore.

But the OM lifestyle, the manner of life that we believe in, that continues in Spain in the lives of the people who caught fire in the process of what the Holy Spirit was doing. We believe in the practical leadership of the Holy Spirit.

The Practical Leadership of the Holy Spirit

We believe the Holy Spirit must continue as the leader of this work. He is a person. The Holy Spirit in our day has been relegated to mainly emotional meetings, sermons, or experiences. But we are living in a day when more than ever before we need the practical leadership of the Holy Spirit in the nitty-gritty, in the ordinary, in deciding what to do.

Now this is not easy. Some of you have read. I don't know if that's one he brought back. I think it is. Can you believe it? There it is. I was rereading this just the other day again. The waning authority of Christ in the churches.

That is the most devastating prophecy against the Church in our day that has been written in a hundred years. The waning authority of the Church of Jesus Christ by A .W. Tozer. He points out how the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit have been relegated to the side room of main line functions and operations as far as the Church is concerned.

What an article that is. There's another one that we're distributing. A little black leaflet about the absence of the Holy Spirit in present-day missionary work. Another powerful pamphlet published by the Oriental Mission Society.

You know, I am impressed with that group, the Oriental Mission Society. I don't think in OM we've had enough representation from them. They're there from the Wesley side of things. Maybe that's why, because in Europe, perhaps we don't have so many live churches of that tradition.

But I have been impressed with this Oriental Mission Society. I met their leader, Wesley Duhl. He always writes to me. He returns letters to me quicker than most of my leaders. They have seen tens of thousands come to Christ last year.

Tens of thousands. And they have written this pamphlet, The Displaced Person in Missions. The Holy Spirit. Today, the Holy Spirit is no longer leading. OM, we're finished. And what frightens me more is that I'm afraid that if the Holy Spirit disappears in some teams, no changes will be made.

So we have this little name. In Bangladesh, OM got kicked out, so we started Young Christian Workers. It's more, I guess, more like our original name. The first name I ever had when I was working on the high school, trying to bring revival in the high school, was, I only realized this a couple years ago again, when I saw it on the side of the first OM truck.

I thought, I saw this old photo. I thought, what is this on the side of this truck? CYC. Can you believe it? The first name we ever took on in the high school and the first trip to Mexico was Christian Youth Committee.

The Christian Youth Committee. Then it became Send the Light, and then it became Operation Mobilization. So we don't want to worry about a name, but God has given us a manner of life. He's given us certain principles.

Some of these principles are very basic. Some of them are a little more unique, a little more unusual. Now, to keep myself from going totally astray in this message, I even wrote some notes down. In fact, I've written down seven points.

Some of you like points for your notebook. How many have a notebook? You all have a notebook. Look at this boy, Nigel. I think you've done a great job here. They all have notebooks. That's no substitute for a brain.

And so we don't want you to just write things into the notebook, but we want you to think these things through. We want you to think these things through. Now, some of you are a little skeptical about O .M.

That's great. That's great. Some of you are skeptical about me. If anybody can listen to me once and not become skeptical, something's wrong. Either that or the Holy Spirit must be working so hard in his life, he's missed me.

That's good, isn't it? But I don't mind when people are skeptical. Let me read you my favorite quote from Tozer about being a little skeptical. Here's what he said. I wish someone would turn the lights on up here.

In our constant struggle to believe, we are likely to overlook the simple fact that a bit of healthy disbelief is sometimes as needful as faith to the welfare of our soul. Isn't that good? I go further and say that we would do well to cultivate a reverent skepticism.

It will keep us out of a thousand fogs and quagmires where others who lack it sometimes find themselves. Now, those who don't know English, this fogs and quagmires, this may bother you, but if you go out in a swamp, you know what a swamp is?

It's an area of the woods where there's all water. If you try to walk, you go down. And you step on, it looks like solid ground, you go down. That's, you know, that's what Tozer's talking about. So you'll know that from now on.

You know, when I first went to Spain, you know, I got paid for teaching English. That's right. What are you laughing about? You see? You see, this is a beautiful proof of the humiliation I go through in the work.

I tell you, if you want to develop an inferiority complex, you get a crowd of Cambridge guys on your team. They'll go out of your mind. Anyway, Tozer didn't worry about him, and I'm not going to either.

He says, it is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fateful to believe everything. That helps me a lot. So I'm not worried if some of you are a little skeptical, but just keep listening. What are some of these areas where this manner of life is unique?

A Revolutionary Attitude Toward the World

It's unique to certain people, whatever they call themselves, disciples, followers of the Lord. Number one is a revolutionary attitude toward the world. Now, when you're in OM for a while, you don't think this is unique.

You get spoiled. Some of you have been on the ship all year, nights of prayer every week, prayer cards flowing around like cornflakes in Chicago, and you know, pretty soon you get the idea, well, boy, everybody's got a world vision, and you almost can overreact from it.

Why don't you talk about something else? You don't talk about the Muslim world every day. Let's talk about the browning effect of the potato chip or something else. I remember McDonald telling us about that in one of these conferences years ago.

Someone got a PhD writing on the browning effect of the crisp. I said potato chip, and the English were confused. But I believe that we can be deceived. This is a unique thing to OM and to a few other groups and a few other missionaries, perhaps a few thousand.

That's not many, is it? Revolutionary attitude toward the world and practices based on that attitude. You'll never understand OM and some of the things we do if you don't understand that when we believe that people are lost.

People are lost. That is the most radical, difficult teaching in the whole Bible. There is hell. Men are lost. We may not like it. I told God the other day again, God, I don't want to believe this doctrine.

I don't like this doctrine. I had a big argument with God out in the field, and I lost, and he won. Because I believe his word is true, and I don't want to base my life on somebody's philosophical ideas, whether it's the Jehovah Witnesses who have quickly liquidated hell, or the Roman Catholics who take us to purgatory first, or anybody else.

You are part of a movement, if you come with us, that believes in hell. We're not interested in giving you the temperatures, but we believe it is outer darkness. We believe that men are lost. We don't pretend to understand it, but it's in God's Word.

If we're going to take John 3 16, then we've got to take Romans chapter 1 and chapter 2. If we're going to take what Jesus says about love, we've got to take what Jesus said about hell, and he talked about it more than anybody else in the Bible.

This will give us a revolutionary attitude toward all people. We will want to reach them for Christ. This will become a passion. Now I know some people can come along in a very sophisticated way, with lots of verses and deeper messages, and explain how it's not really a proper motivation to get all excited about the lost.

Our motivation should be the love of God. What kind of irrational, schizophrenic gymnastics do you have to play to believe that? That I can't allow myself to be motivated by the fact that all these people are going out into hell.

This is why many, many non-Christians have been extremely stumbled by false concepts of Calvinism, and false ideas about predestination, and false ideas about a lot of this kind of thing. You know, if God is going to save the heathen in his good time, he will save them!

And why should you worry about it? William Carey was told something like this when he went out to pioneer modern missions. And we do. We turn God into a monster. I believe the love of God should be a major motivation.

The love of Christ constrains me. No one is arguing against that. Never, never, never. But I believe in the Christian life there are many motivating factors, and I don't believe that's unspiritual. My wife motivates me.

When I see her love for Christ, and her love for me, that turns me on. That motivates me. Is that wrong? Am I being superficial? I shouldn't allow that to motivate me. I should only be motivated by the love of God.

And I think we try to put God into a corner where he doesn't want to be. He wants to work through your wife if you have one. He may want to work through a brother on your team. He may want to work through a book.

He may want to work through—we know he works through his word. And I think God uses, God uses this, this, this attitude toward the world. We are to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

And Jesus looked over the multitudes, and he wept. Jesus looked over Jerusalem, and he wept. When's the last time you looked over any city and wept? Climb up that hill. I had a day of prayer in a mountain next to Belfast, and I went up to that hill.

And I don't remember if I wept, but I cried unto God for many hours. I hope if you can do that near your home city, you'll go up to the nearest hill, climb a tree or something, and just look over that city, all the great cities of the world.

Have you got that leaflet? It's usually free on most OM tables. The Millionaire Cities, a leaflet of all the cities that have more than a million people. If you can't find it around, write me and I'll send it to you.

The Millionaire Cities. A man wrote me a letter thanking me because he got most of the information, a lot of it from OMers around the world. The Millionaire Cities. We believe that men are lost. We want to live in the light of this.

This will affect every area of our life, what we do with our time, what we do with our money, our relationship toward clothing, our relationship toward good things. Many times the good is the enemy of the best.

A Revolutionary Attitude Toward People and God's People

Let's move on. Secondly, a revolutionary attitude toward people and God's people. This has many practical outworkings. One is that we believe that all people should be given the gospel. We don't believe we should just preach to those who understand English, or just preach to the affluent because they can support the work as we go along, or just preach to those in a good climate.

Everybody, the tough countries, the non-responsive countries, such a heavy emphasis now on church growth. Everybody wants to go where people are responding. This limits us to a very small sector of the world, maybe 30%.

We're not against that, praise the Lord, but we've got to go where they're not responding. This is important. This is worth shouting about. Someone once said to me, as we were going to have a pastor's conference, some brother trying to be humble, which is good.

I mean, we want everybody to make efforts in that direction. He said, well what do we have to say to all these pastors? You know, sometimes because we don't want to appear to be, you know, superior, and that's important.

We can make the mistake of going the opposite way. We don't have anything to say. You know, the prophets didn't have this attitude. They roll into town, you know, sort of hiding in their coat. Well, you know, pastors, we're all such a great group.

You're doing such a terrific job here. We prophets don't really have much to say. We just came to fellowship where we're just going to learn from you men. These men put up their soapbox and started screaming and crying, cutting their hair off, every possible thing just to try to wake up God's people.

We need prophets today. If I'm not a prophetic movement, I want to get out of it. I'd rather preach than belong to some degenerate, semi-half-cocked evangelistic machine, turning out spiritual midgets by the thousand.

And we've had 21 ,000 people through this program. We lose our prophetic voice. If we lose our message, if we become introverted and afraid to speak out because we may offend someone, we're finished. We're finished.

We might as well go back and sell the linings to the inside of pockets. That doesn't mean everybody in OM goes around shouting. God has given us several ways to get the message out. One of them is literature.

And I'll tell you, the way that a lot of people on OM go about distributing literature makes me wonder if they think there's poison on the inside cover. Somebody goes out to take a book. They're gonna have a meeting.

Boy, they really believe in God. We can pray, you know, like God had just come down and built a big tower in the midst. But when we actually go out, we prove that we don't believe God's gonna answer prayer.

Move among his people, Lord. Stir them. We have this terrific prayer meeting. Then we go to the meeting. Well, how many books are we gonna take? Well, maybe we can borrow Sally's purse. Let's pack all the books in Sally's purse.

I'm talking about leaders, not recruits. Go out to a meeting, and they got a little tiny book bag, five copies of true discipleship. They don't even have application forms. We're gonna go out to believe God for recruits.

We don't have any application forms. You see, the need and one of the greatest burdens of OM is to couple the spiritual with the practical. Oh, we pray something. Now we're gonna live in the light of it.

We had one meeting on this little Canadian trip. We were out in the middle of nowhere. I tell you, you just can't believe Canada. You just can't believe Canada. I've never seen so much nothing anywhere in the world.

And in between the nothings are some of the greatest people in God's green acres. And I think that nature and being out in the woods produces great people. There's no school, I've been told by an outstanding man of God, no school in the world has a higher record for getting men to the mission field and keeping them there than Prairie Bible Institute.

Somebody told me. I tell you, if there's a man who's a disciple today, it's that Mr. Maxwell. You can be sure he's not living in some mansion. There's a man who has lived. He is such a rebuke to some of our evangelical fish, high-flying, $30 ,000 a year man, that they won't go near Prairie more than you'd go near a dragon with six mouths.

Praise God for this old man. He's got a message of the cross and he's got practical life to go with it. Doesn't mean he's perfect or his school is perfect. You don't fill a school with a thousand students and have it perfect.

But here we were in this little meeting out nowhere. A man said to me, no one's gonna come. They're all out combining. Of course I didn't know what they're talking about, combining. I didn't know they were putting tracts in gospel packets or what.

But actually I did. They were, you know, they're gathering in the whatever they grow in those fields. But anyway a few people came. Fifty people came. One man stood at the door as we set up the book display.

You know, he thought we'd gone crazy. We brought in 25 boxes of books. We set up seven tables. Fifty people! The church wasn't big enough to keep five large American cars in it. You know how many books we sold that night as God came down among those people and hunger came in the heart?

Many of those people weren't thinking of even buying a book. We sold five hundred dollars of books to fifty people. That's because God answered prayer. Book selling is a spiritual work. God, those people buy books on discipleship and worship.

Books they never dreamed of reading because the Spirit of God, in answer to prayer, works. Now of course there are meetings where the Spirit of God works and people don't buy books. Be foolish to think every time the Spirit works people buy books.

I remember Chanda Philly put a balance of that on the inter-varsity convention. So that that becomes almost an American thing. You know, we get a blessing, we run around the book table, buy a book. That can become a neurosis.

That can become a neurosis in O .M. You get a blessing in some meeting, you don't go to the book table, you go to the prayer closet. That's more important. But I believe that if we had this revolutionary view toward people and the world that we would really start moving literature.

Of course, you know what everybody's afraid of in O .M.? This is a big neurosis in O .M. because we're so mature, we've read so much of Tozer, and we want to be balanced. The big fear is to be accused of being a George Burwell.

This is the last thing. Think of poor John Spears. You know, they accused you up in Scotland. That's just, that's like sticking a dragon into your stomach, accused him of being George Burwell, probably just because you're loud.

Or, I don't know, we certainly don't speak the same language. You know, let's stop worrying about being accused of being like someone. I don't believe that's the problem of most of you. One or two of you may have the problem.

Just because you believe in Christian literature. Wesley believed in literature more than I do. Did someone walk up to you and say, are you trying to be like John Wesley? That's not our problem, that we're all going to be like John Wesley.

You think that's the great problem in the 20th century? And as you get involved in books, you won't do it the same way I'll do it. You won't do it as you learn. You'll learn better methods. But all that we cannot lose are prophetic voice in this work.

What do I mean by that? I don't mean, as some people think, that God has given us a prophecy for this age, and we got it in Revelation. No. God has given us a message from his word, an emphasis from his word, and our burden is just, thus saith the Lord.

This is his word. He didn't get any new message. This is his word. We must obey or we're going to get in trouble. And to be able to distribute books by men like Tozer, by men like Ravenhill. Boy, people don't like his books.

I was reading just this week Tozer's introduction to Ravenhill's book, Why Revival Tarries. How many have read Why Revival Tarries? You can't believe it. Why Revival Tarries? How many have read Why Revival Tarries?

A few more hands went up. Have you read the introduction by A .W. Tozer? He's explaining how people either hate Leonard Ravenhill or they love it, because he's a prophet. Now one of the reasons is also because he's a prophet.

Sometimes he makes mistakes. He's a human being. I think everybody, including Ravenhill, would admit sometimes he says some pretty wild things that have nothing to do particularly with his message. But in every prophet there's the human element.

Some of you wouldn't have gone on very well with Amos. How would you like to have Amos as your team leader? Or maybe Jeremiah. He would keep that turkey crowd going. Some of you don't know enough about these people to even laugh.

I hope you will read these books in the Old Testament. A revolutionary attitude toward people, toward the world, toward the people of God. We believe that there needs to be a divine equalization, especially in God's work.

This comes about by sharing. What a thrill it is to have foreigners working in India, living on the same support level as the Indians. I tell some people this, they just believe it. Again, they think we're telling stories.

It doesn't mean exactly the same because there must be liberty, there must be freedom. But that means that in some cases the Indians are living, and we have a number of cases of this, on a higher level than the OM so-called missionary.

Isn't that great? They've got freedom. Others can, I cannot. These things may sound small to some of you, but do you know what a stumbling block it has been on the mission field for missionaries to be living up on this level, and the national evangelist and teacher living in some little hut down the road?

Do you know how much agony and confusion this has brought? Now, of course, many of the nationals have been incredibly patient with the missionaries. They haven't minded if missionaries need a few things that perhaps they don't need.

They know they're from another culture. They don't expect them to fake it and just pretend that they're, you know, completely of that culture. But the thing has got to be kept within some realm of reason, and we're battling toward that in OM.

We know we failed. We know we failed, but we're moving in that direction, and we hope you will as well. This has to touch every area of our life, and one of the key words I've used in this outline is attitude.

Attitude is the foundation for practice, and we've got to have a revolutionary attitude toward people, toward God's people, and above all that means loving God's people. You see, the tendency today is to break away from the Church.

A lot of the youth movements are breaking away from the Church. They're doing their own thing. They're starting their own house fellowship. Now, some of these are born of God. We need new churches in some areas.

In OM, we're trying to keep our arm around the historic Church. They're God's people. They believe His Word. They love Him. We're trying to keep one arm around the historic Church. We're trying to keep one arm around some of these new wildcat operations, at least if they're semi-sane.

Some of them aren't even semi-sane, and then we, that's when we say, excuse me, we let them go. Now, this is not an easy road to walk on. Some of you are from some of these newer groups, newer fellowships, where there's more freedom.

All right, we hope that you still have that freedom ten years from now. But you'll discover, if you're not careful, what's a new fellowship now, ten years from now, you'll be more traditional than, than Westminster Abbey.

Tradition can come in anywhere. It can come in OM. That's why we try to make major changes every year. Some of them I don't even agree with. I go along with them because I think it's good to change certain things.

I believe tradition can be one of the greatest enemies. I hope OM keeps changing and keeps growing, not in doctrine, not in basic goals, but in the way we carry on some of the conferences and in other areas.

A Revolutionary Attitude Toward Possessions and Money

It's a difficult area. We need balance. I don't have all the answers. Very quickly, the third point. We need a revolutionary attitude toward our possessions and money. This is the one thing that really disturbs people about OM, and this is where we're accused of being extreme.

Now, other people have the same principle in practice, but in OM you've got a whole body of people who are practicing some revolutionary principles in this area, and it disturbs people, especially when they live this way on the home front.

They like to relegate the missionaries. You know, well, we know missionaries are to be super committed. Missionaries are to forsake all. There's not a verse in the Bible that says that. Missionaries are to forsake all.

Jesus turned to a crowd of people and gave that message. Except you forsake all, you can't be my disciple. Renounce all. Tozer points out in his writings how we cannot, as believers, have any possessions.

That doesn't mean we don't have anything to use in God's work, but we've become stewards. We are no longer possessors. We are stewards. You say that's a game of words. No, it isn't. No, it isn't. It's a revolution in your attitude, in your mind, or attitude toward things.

Someone who has nothing can be more selfish, more materialistic than rich people that I've been with. I've been with rich people that I'm convinced they're ready to let go as soon as they hear the trumpet.

I know there's other rich people that they've heard the trumpet sixteen times and turned it around and threw it in the garbage can, the dustbin. That's why we have to be careful of judging people. We don't know where they are spiritually.

We don't know what other problems they're going through. A man may want to forsake all in a greater sense, but his wife isn't even converted, or his wife may be away from the Lord, and if he tried it, she'd divorce him.

Tell you, life can get very complicated. But I believe that OM must not move away from this revolutionary attitude toward possessions. I believe, as I've said for 20 years, that we should live on the barest of senses.

We should not waste money. We should pray very much about all expenditure. We should not only redeem the time, but we should redeem the pound and the dollar and the deutschmark. We should just want to live as closely to the life of Jesus in the simplicity of that life as possible, while at the same time maintaining sanity and balance.

This will mean different things for different people. So many scriptures, most of these particular points you've all heard messages on, but we need this in the way of reminder. And when we get this revolutionary attitude toward the world and toward people, we're gonna let go.

We're just gonna want to let go of those inheritances. Some of you aren't going to know how materialistic you are until you inherit some big fat sum of money. Boy, you're gonna drop your discipleship message so quick, you'll wonder if you ever knew who OM was.

People have nothing. They've never been tested. Never been tested. It's when you've perhaps gone struggling for years and then suddenly you inherit $20 ,000. What do you do with it? You know what most people do with it?

They put it in the bank. Put it in the bank and they watch it devalue. And they watch the number of tracts it produces cut in half every year. It cost us three times as much to print tracts now as it did 15 years ago.

Three times as much money to reach a million people for Jesus Christ. And OM is dropping every year on the number of people that we're reaching in terms of the masses with literature. That is a big concern to me.

It's not dropping much. If it wasn't for India, I don't know where we'd be. And one of the problems, we don't have the money. And people don't have a vision for this. It's easier for people to get a vision to buy that shit than to put another million pieces of literature.

And my burden, first burden, is those millions of pieces of literature. But the other problem is that sometimes we get literature out to OM fields that sits there for two years. No one has a burden to give it up.

A lot of people in OM think this is someone else's job. This is the job of the group in charge of tract distribution. Do you know there's not one team in OM, not one team worldwide, that's given over to tract distribution?

Did you know that? You're learning something about OM. And I just believe that this is part of the unique calling of this movement. That we believe in reaching every creature. And to do it, we're willing to sell our possessions.

We're willing to cash in our bonds and get rid of these silly insurance policies. We're willing to just give everything. Not because those things are wrong. And if other people don't believe that, we respect them.

We love them. But we believe that it's greater to give this to produce the next million tracts, to get another million Bibles, another million new testaments. We find a terrific joy. We're infatuated with giving things to get the job done for God.

We're gonna be tested in this area. I can tell you some of our leaders are going through tests in this area. We will have men leave this movement in the next five years in this area. Because they get to feel insecure.

When you get around 40, you begin to shake. You discover you've been in O .M. 15 years. You've got nothing, man. Old George Burwell, he's duped you for 15 years. He's got you to sell your possessions.

And he's tricked you into reaching Muslims. And to pouring your life into law souls and planting churches. And here you are. You're coming to 40 years of age. And you don't own a house. And you don't have an insurance policy.

And man, if one of your children gets sick, who's gonna take care of her? Have you ever heard of a man, a person called God? Yeah, God. You mean God fits into this practical thing? God is gonna take care of me?

We know so little of living by faith. I am so upset with the present trend in missionary work that I just, I just almost exasperated to think about it. And we're increasing the support and it's only in North America.

North America is totally out of line with the rest of the world. The missionary support is moving fifteen, twenty, thirty thousand a year for some missionaries. Everything's set. Retirement fund, old age pensions, homes purchased before they ever get back there.

Missionaries are living better off today, some of them, than, than most of the rest of the people in the world in secular employment. Now that's got to be kept in balance because there are missionaries who are fed up with this and who don't believe in it and who are refusing it.

But I just cannot agree as much as I want to be loving and I want to compromise and I want to, I just cannot agree with this, that everything must be set. I can't believe it. It'll never function in the other countries.

It will work in the rest of the world. So why should it be in the affluent society? And they're gonna give you this line in Germany and they're gonna give you this line in, in, in Switzerland. And people are so worried about insurance.

We have no rule in O .M. that you cannot have insurance. If you believe from God that insurance is the same thing, and I know there's a whole theology of insurance. The insurance company sellers, the salesmen, they've got this memorized, they've got their Bible verses.

You, you, you know, you've all heard it. If you don't care for your own, you're worse than an infidel. That's their favorite text. You know, there are a few hundred other verses that you may want to read in the Bible.

But if you really believe that's your theology, if you really believe that's the way to live, then I will just praise the Lord and you won't have any trouble fellowshipping with me. We are gonna teach that we are to live as much as possible like the Lord Jesus Christ and the disciples and the early church.

And the early church was a caring community. And I personally believe that people in the O .M. family have a greater insurance policy than any of these other people. Do you know some of the biggest insurance companies can go bust just like that?

Do you know anything about economics? Do you know anything about the Rockefellers? Do you know anything about the World Bank? Do you know anything about how insurance companies function, where they get their money from, and all the rest?

Isn't it amazing? People invest in insurance company with five minutes of study. But boy, I tell you, if they come to join a movement like O .M., they got to go through 11 tapes, 15 books, two summer conventions, and then only after getting the next 25 questions answered, they'll sign up for one year to see if it works.

You know, buying $25 ,000 insurance policy quicker than you can cut a pie. I just believe God wants us to be bankrupt on Him. If God can't take care of me, then I'd rather not be on planet Earth. Maybe Mars has got a better program.

I haven't heard of that. Admittedly, if God doesn't give a man faith for this, praise the Lord. I believe there are different degrees of faith. I don't expect some new convert to just automatically move into this line of thinking.