Spiritual Survival in the 80s No 4 — George Verwer

Expository Teaching and the Ministry of Exhortation

You know, there are different ways to approach the scriptures, and sometimes I do expository speaking, and especially when I'm with a group for a long time, like when I lived on the ship, was ministering every week, I remember once going through the whole book of Thessalonians, verse by verse, and I praise God for that kind of teaching and preaching, and we need more of it.

But you know, back in the days of George Whitefield, this man who shook Great Britain and America in such a great way, many of his preachers were called exhorters, and they had the ministry of exhortation.

And in some ways, this is what we have been into this weekend. The ministry of exhortation must be based on the Word of God. And it can be just as biblical as exposition, because it's not just a reflection of one verse, but it is speaking under the anointing of the Holy Spirit on the foundation of the whole of scripture.

Many verses, many chapters, and I would certainly appreciate any feedback from you on anything that you feel is not biblical. Of course, sometimes when I've spoken to you, I've immediately explained that something I was saying was not a major issue.

But I think we have been very much trying to build on the whole basic foundation of scripture. And I hope that as you continue in your Bible study, especially getting into some of those Emmaus courses we mentioned and scripture memory, that these various principles, we've been looking at biblical principles for perseverance, biblical principles for building our life upon, that you will again and again be reminded of some of the things we have spoken about during these days together.

Discipleship and the Meaning of Following Christ

Now, my final message is a message I have given before in different forms, and it's called Secrets of Survival. In fact, the theme of the weekend came from this particular message. Most of you picked up a free copy of the book, True Discipleship, which had a very important part in the early development of O .M., though the book actually was written as a result of O .M., not the reverse.

But as it was written as a result of students that went from Emmaus Bible School and came back and made an impact on the president, the author of that book, William MacDonald. So, new people coming into O .M. Of course, they read this book and it became required reading with other books like Calvary Road.

And I hope you'll read that. And I, of course, was known for someone who went around continually preaching on discipleship. Now, this word has fallen into misuse in the past years. And a lot of people in this country, not so much among the assembled, but other groups, when you say discipleship, they immediately think of the Civil Movement.

That came out of a group from Fort Lauderdale in Florida, came through the Dales Bible Conference into a place called Bradford, and then spread. And one of the teachings of the Bradford House Church Movement is that there must be strong submission.

I think at times, by the way, they had been falsely accused. And if you understand the historical roots of Bradford, you'll know it's an amalgamation of the Charismatic Movement and Brethrenism. Arthur Wallace, Bryn Jones, men like this, I know both of them personally, they sort of, after years of praying, came together.

And the Bradford Church Movement, in which quite a few people who were once in assemblies are now a part of, is a very unique, new denomination. They don't like that, but they just had 15 churches, I heard, pull out from them because they feel it's becoming a denomination.

It's interesting, you know, if a church has leadership and structure and teaching and books, is it a denomination or not a denomination? We're still figuring this one out in the Brethren. And some have finally said, look, let's stop, let's just call it the Christian Brethren.

Others are holding out against that, don't want to be accused of being a denomination. Well, I won't get into that this morning. But it's interesting to see that history repeats itself. So for a lot of people, discipleship means heavy submission to your leaders.

This was never the message I was preaching. Discipleship for me and for William MacDonald means following Christ in all of the aspects of biblical truth, the life of prayer, witness, dealing with the problem of materialism, dealing with the problem of laziness, taking up the cross and following Jesus.

That's the best verse about discipleship I know. It's not man-centered. It's not submitting to men. It's submitting to God. And it's submitting to the Lord Jesus Christ. I think wherever I went, and sometimes people never invited me because they were afraid my message on discipleship was too strong and perhaps would bring division.

A certain part of this message, which William MacDonald actually emphasized more than we did, is the message of discipleship in relationship to material possessions. And he said some pretty strong things about that.

Material Possessions and the Need for Spiritual Balance

Today, the message of simple lifestyle is quite popular. We have Rich Christians in the Hungry World. We have Beauty of Simplicity or books about simplicity by Foster, Celebration of Discipline, a number of other books.

But back when we started to preach and teach this message, believe me, it was not popular. And articles came out in Brethren magazines, like this little Brethren magazine from America, against the book True Discipleship.

And I felt actually in some of the articles that what was being written was quite good. And it brought the book True Discipleship into balance because it's only one book. It's written by a bachelor. And, of course, I think it needs balance.

And I discovered the more that I preached, the more I needed to bring into balance some of the things I was saying. Like we have Luke 14 .33. It's a pretty strong verse, right? Except for take all that you have, you cannot be minus.

I heard someone, as a result of the simple style seminar you had here, I heard somebody maybe better go sell his old car. Daimler is supposed to be, you know, a big name car. I mean, I don't know which car he's referring to, if it's that old thing that's sitting next to my bus over there.

I hope he's not too optimistic about how much he's going to give to World Missions after he sells it. But it is easy after we hear one message to get a little bit uptight and think, you know, have I got to forsake my Walkman for Jesus in order to buy Bibles for New Guinea?

And it's not an easy area. Except you forsake all that you have. I remember one of my meetings in Holland, there was a woman who was already a little emotionally disturbed in the meeting. And when she heard that message, she just, you know, things just went wrong.

And she went back to her flat and took her possessions and threw them in the nearby canal. Except you forsake all that you have. And, you know, I wish I'd been under the bridge when she was throwing them.

It was a very sad thing, and God really spoke to my heart. The need for spiritual balance, the need for one scripture to bring another scripture into balance. Some people get upset by this. Even some of my old hardlining OMers got upset at some of my emphasis on balance.

They said it's compromise. But, you know, as long as it's taking one scripture to bring another scripture into balance, that's not compromise. That's biblical. And we need that. You need that. And other Bible teachers, you're going to hear, the days to come, they're going to bring some of the things I've said into balance.

You know, let's face it, you've been very kind to me, giving me so many hours to speak. And I think some of you got an overdose of George Verwer. That's why you need some of these other cassettes that I have here.

I especially wanted to mention this series on morality since we just barely touched on that subject this weekend. Ralph Shallis. Ever heard of him? On morality. Peter Brandon. Talk about a burning bush for God in the assemblies.

You listen to his message, Sin and Your Body. And then also one of my messages on sex. But I hope, guys, that when you hear some other scripture, it may not be that what he's saying is a direct contradiction to what maybe I'm sharing.

It may be just another way on the same subject. And it's an ongoing battle to continue to find the most biblical position on these many, many areas. I thank God that young people today are asking so many questions about the human rights issue, about the homosexual problem, about the nuclear problem, about the poverty question.

Social Issues, Church Relevance, and the Brethren Assemblies

For too long we have not been willing to deal with these issues. And that's why sometimes we've been left way behind. And then what happens when we don't deal with these issues and people finally are exposed to them, they swing the pendulum.

And I've seen people when they get really into some of these social issues, the pendulum swings so far they just leave the assemblies. They feel the assembly movement is not relevant, is not really contemporary in its teaching and thinking.

And that's also very, very sad. I personally believe that the assembly movement in Britain, and I hope and like to believe it's still a movement, controlled by the Holy Spirit to some degree, has an enormous foundation for spiritual growth, for discipling people, and for world evangelism.

And I could give you many, many positive points about your own home churches and the structure and the foundation they have. There is a foundation we can build on. You know, one of the fastest growing churches in Spain, where I first lived when I came to Europe, are the assemblies.

Some of them are huge. 500 in fellowship. And you know one of the reasons they grew so much and they survived the days of Franco? Because they were not hinged on just one paid pastor. They were not tightly controlled by their building program.

There was flexibility. There was plurality of leadership. They were able to meet in homes. And they were the main group to survive the Franco regime. The story of the assemblies in Spain is an exciting bit of church history.

And they are on the move today. And I praise God for the involvement we have had with them. Many of the men trained at OM in the early days are leaders in the assemblies today. Some of them have planned new assemblies.

Perseverance and Steadfastness in the Work of the Lord

And we've had the joy of working with them. Secrets of survival. Secrets of perseverance. 1 Corinthians 15, 58. Don't turn to it, just memorize. Quickly as I repeat it to you. Be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Did you get that? Good. But I want to again emphasize what I said yesterday, that memorizing the Word of God will be such a great help to you in your spiritual life. God wants steadfastness. God wants us not to allow this time here to just be a mountain peak experience.

You know, I only discovered as I went jogging this morning and looked for a new route, that to get down to that, in that direction on the beach, you don't go that way on this road. Why didn't somebody tell me that?

You don't turn left here and go down to the main road and go down to the main road and get killed, or almost killed. You turn right, right here, outside the gate, and that road goes right down almost to that little railway station.

Anyway, I want to come back here again because I'm only just feeling at home here. I'll stop in the middle of the summer next year since I'll be in North America. I do want to say, however, that we are committed to for your camp ministry here.

Until Steve wrote to me, I never heard of this camp. That's my own fault. But praise the Lord for the ministry you have here and for the many lives that have been touched over the years. God wants this not to be a mountain top experience in which we then go down into the valley, but He wants this to be the beginning of more mountain climbing for the Lord Jesus.

When I was sitting on top of the hill about a mile from here yesterday morning and I was praying, I let each one of the mountains, it was very clear yesterday, each one of the mountains in the background, I climbed a couple of those.

I don't know which ones looking at it from here. I let each one of those represent a country. And I said, Lord, there's Pakistan. Be Thou moved. There's Nepal. Be Thou moved. There's India. That big one off there.

Be Thou moved. And each mountain, I let it represent a different country. One of the messages I haven't been able to get to here is the burden I have for world missions. You probably wonder, how in the world did George Verwer get here in three days and not give us some missionary message?

Must be backslidden. But you know, I've always believed this, that when we get right with God and we get into the Scriptures and we lay a foundation of biblical principles, then we get in the best possible position in the world for God to call us into missionary work.

And I still believe the Holy Spirit is a hundred times better at recruiting than I ever was or ever will be. And I believe the Holy Spirit is going to recruit some of you for India. I have confidence in that.

And I believe the Holy Spirit is going to recruit some of you for the Muslim world. And He still is going to have plenty of you left over to evangelize the Merseyside, shake Wales with one hand and England with the next hand and work toward renewal within the assemblies and throughout the whole church in the British Isles.

Knowing That You Are Accepted and Forgiven

What are some of these secrets of survival? Well, they're not secrets. The word secrets, it's not a good word really. They're very clear in the Bible. And let me just give them to you realizing that perhaps, perhaps this isn't the best message for our final time.

I don't know. Sometime in the final session I give a strong message with an appeal to recommit to Jesus Christ. Now maybe that will fit into the end. But this is more of a teaching message because I'm just so convinced about these principles.

Number one, we touched on it at the breaking of bread yesterday morning. Knowing you are accepted and forgiven. Ephesians 1, 6. I can't... I'm hilariously forgiven. Do you ever get it? Hilarious? Do you ever just feel so filled with joy you've got to jump and leap and dance?

Now don't think that I am going to try to invade your assemblies with my teaching about dancing in the spirit because it's too controversial and I've seen too many churches divide over this subject. But let me just tell you that if you're someone like me you just can't help your legs.

It just... And I generally do it on the beach or in the woods and I don't get any complaints. I haven't invited any assemblies over my... But oh how I love to leap with joy. Now I don't teach the theology but I believe there is a place to worship God with all of our being.

Now if you're the phlegmatic non-movable type praise the Lord. Some of you just to move your head is quite a breakthrough. But if you're a character like me and I've had to accept myself and I've got a lot of energy that's why I jog to burn some of it up so I can sleep better at night.

My wife looked at me the other day and she said I get tired just looking at you. But I'm forgiven and when I think of the fact that I am forgiven I have been set free from sin then sometimes I just leap with joy.

You don't feel happy doing that? No problem. You can be a sitter for Jesus. Some of you have tried being sleepers for Jesus. By the way I think that was one of the funniest films I've ever seen. I don't know if some of these teachers thought you cannot go to these Hollywood films they're from the devil.

And after they give that message they go home to their full color television and their video recorder and they watch you know James Bond. But I think one of the funniest films I've ever seen is Sleeper.

I'll never forget it. There was a good brethren brother and his wife. She was a German. She's supposed to be having a baby and it was overdue. And I said look I called him on the phone I said I know a method for you know getting this thing over with.

It's a true story. I said we'll go to a really funny film because I've heard that a pregnant woman at you know eight point some odd months really laughs and does it. So I took him and his wife out good state German wife and we went to see Woody Allen in the Sleeper.

I tell you she almost rolled down the aisle and the baby was born the next day. Praise God not Simba. It's wonderful to know that we are forgiven. We are set free. By the way I think on the air you're singing which is quite interesting where he comes is singing.

This is a new thing and I'd like to get a copy of it. I think at the end of the tape you ought to just put some of this laughing in there. It's a very gifted group in this laughing. This actually develops in the assemblies because sometimes we're so uptight sitting through somber meetings week after week that when we get away and you know the littlest thing and people just you know burst out laughing.

You know like one of the elders coming to visit us and falling down the stairs. They're all laughing. Well I think you need to bring it under control. The second secret is from 1 Peter 5 .7. 1 Peter 5 .7 Casting every care upon Him because He cares for you.

Casting Every Care Upon God

Probably the moment you get home there's going to be some problem or some care that you are suddenly entering into. That's normal. I know when I get home my wife has some burden. She's already shared some on the phone.

We have a little dubbing machine a tape dubbing machine that a believer in Dubai gave us. Fantastic cassette recorder and it dubs double speed tapes that I want right away. So before I left I gave my wife a whole load of tapes.

She has a very tiny kitchen and I could see she wasn't over enthusiastic about this but I said you dub these while you're cooking. And the tapes apparently were all the wrong size. They're old tapes because I like to reuse tapes.

I don't believe in wasting anything. I even save old chewing gum. But she told me on the phone that this was a heartache and she erased one of my originals. She was really feeling quite bad about that.

But it's normal. When you get home there's going to be some problem. Did you hear on the wireless this morning? See how I learned English? Wireless. You say that in America they look at you? Of course if you say it here now they look at you too.

I'm so out of date I'm still using fence pieces. Ever tried the parking meters? But I heard on the radio this morning it's actually very sad how a bunch of young people after one of these car rallies last night they went all off to get drunk and to drink and they were all coming down the street together and to protect them a police car was sort of escorting them back and somebody came around a bend in another car and that man I believe it was the policeman at least one man was killed.

There it is. You know it's so typical of life isn't it? A big fun time a great weekend and suddenly the tragedy those people will never never forget. One policeman is killed government relations have been broken today with Libya we don't know what that is going to lead to.

There's thousands of people living in Libya. The whole world is stirred over one policeman that was killed and we should be. One policeman was killed out on the highway last night in two days except for the people involved it'll all be forgotten.

I tell you every time you get in one of these cars you better get on your face and act up to help you in your driving. Billy Graham says poor driving is a spiritual problem and the number of great Christian leaders that have been killed in car crashes said many preachers that he's an angel behind a pulpit and he's a devil behind the wheel and driving is a big responsibility.

Whatever problem you may face in the coming days back in your home out on the highway in your office some of you within a few weeks may lose your job. You've got to learn this basic principle of survival.

Casting every care upon Him. So easy to say this. So easy to say this. So easy to sing about it. I want to ask you are you doing this? If you are not you are disobedient to the Word of God. It's one thing to get in great arguments about inerrancy of Scripture the authority of the Word of God and people give us some pretty strong messages on this don't they?

This is the Word of God we cannot disobey one job. And yet often there's subtle disobedience in these areas. And we find I personally find a lot of Christian leaders are weighed down by worry and by tension.

And a lot of illnesses doctors say more than 50 psychosomatic illnesses just as a result of emotional problems and linked with worry. There's a book on that table How to Deal with Depression. Doctors tell us the number one illness in Europe today is depression.

Now often they're speaking about chemical imbalance. That kind of depression. But other times it's a more mixed type of depression linked with spiritual problems and basic emotional problems that are dealt with in some of these books we've been recommending this weekend.

Making God Your Goal

The third secret of survival is making God your goal. How many times have you repeated Matthew 6 .33 Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.

You know one of the greatest needs in my life is to keep things in perspective. I think as Christians sometimes we go mountain climbing over mole hills. Do you have moles here in this country? I don't mean these down in London in the government.

The kind that are in the ground just a little bump in the ground. Wouldn't it be funny to see you know a rock climber with a helmet and ropes and you know all this equipment and you say what are you doing?

I'm going over this hill. That would be the height of the ridiculous. And yet as Christians we're like this. We are. We make a mountain out of a mole hill. That's why it is important to develop a sense of humor.

In the present church scene it's either laugh or cry. It's either laugh or cry. It's either laugh or pop your cork. And a lot of Christians are popping their corks. You know that expression? You know I'm teaching a lot of slang.

Forgive me for that. You know lose your marbles. You know. Displacement of the upper story. Removal of the inner follicles. Crack up. It hurts. It hurts when we see people mountain climbing over mole hills.

Jesus said we strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. Did Jesus have a sense of humor? Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel? And oh my sometimes in our assemblies we're straining some little thing. Some little thing.

We got our little one verse and we take it out of context sometimes like the Jehovah Witnesses. They're in the lead in that by the way. We're way behind. And we make we make a mountain and this little mole hill.

Oh may the Lord help us. I want to tell you these problems you have in your churches they are common everywhere. The new movements the new house groups the Anglican churches the Baptist. I minister in fellowship with all of them.

Thousands of churches fellowships and assemblies over the last 29 years. And sometimes it's so true that when we think it's greener grass on the other side of the street and we actually get over there you know what we find out?

Concrete. Somebody's painted it green. I love that little expression. I think someone wrote a book by that title. Bloom where you are. God has put most of you in a good biblical church. Bloom where you are.

And make your goal God himself. Don't let your major attention be on people on the church on the problems on success even on oh we're going to have the greatest camp this summer. A goal as we come here this summer must be God himself.

I find that very motivating. I find it helps bring things into perspective. Do you know that analogy? Get things into perspective. I do a lot of ministering at family conferences to married couples. Some of you married couples want some of my married couples tapes.

I'd be happy to send them to you. Survival in the home. Unity in the dark. Various messages. No that's actually a book on ecumenicalism. But I really believe that one of the things that blows marriages apart is when we get uptight about little things.

Uptight about little things. The wife is very systematic. Very organized. She believes that you should squeeze the toothpaste tube from the bottle. Systematically. You've all heard this story. It's now gone on all over England.

It's like the story of the Wesleyan Chapel. But she believes that systematically day by day as you brush your teeth you squeeze the toothpaste from the bottom until it's finished. The husband is non-semitic.

He's my type. Just you know. But it's amazing how Satan uses little things to break up relationships. And our goal is not God. Our goal becomes our little doctrine. Our little way of doing things. Our little set of traditions.

Do you have any traditions here in this camp? That's normal. But beware when new people come in of just jumping on them because they don't know what their traditions are. When I was you know I was looking for the wayside chapel of the loo when I came here and I went over there and I saw this little this little military hut and I saw on one end officers!

And I saw on the other end boys! I thought well I guess the officers are the women and the boys are the men. And with fear and trembling I went in to the officers. And uh This is all part of your camp tradition?

No problem. No problem. But when people come and they're just you know they're just young and they haven't been there, been here before beware of jumping on them too quickly. They're gonna make mistakes.

They're young. They're very young often. And they sometimes don't know even the basic things. And I just mention this again beware of belittling the new young camper. Maybe you mention some basic biblical thing.

Some name in the Old Testament and the young person doesn't know who that is. And they're sort of embarrassed. You don't know who that is? Some young people it's no problem. Other people feel very embarrassed by their lack of Bible knowledge.

And sometimes among us there comes Bible knowledge pride. Some of them won't know the books of the Bible. Some of them won't know where to find the book of Hezekiah. And you're gonna have to help them.

Learning How to Be Hurt Without Overreacting

You're gonna have to help them. The secret of survival is learning how to be heard. Jesus taught us to love those who persecuted us. Love those that did evil against us. It's obvious from the teaching of Jesus that people would be hurt.

He was hurt. And I feel it is very important to learn how to be hurt. I've already emphasized this so I'm gonna move on. But if you don't wanna be hurt remember what I said? Try another planet. You're on the wrong planet.

And don't overreact back in your assemblies to things people say to you that may be hurtful. You cannot have church life without being hurt. You think people aren't being hurt in these other churches?

You think people aren't being hurt in these new, supposedly more revived churches? You haven't visited them. People are people. They change slowly. And it's easier to change doctrine than to change basic personality.

Did you get that? It's easier to change doctrine than basic personality. And I've found that some people who were obnoxious before conversion, forgive me, they're still a little obnoxious years later.

And I know that certain things in my life that were not really beautiful before I was converted, they still have a way of getting in. Of getting in. I had to apologize to my friend Dirk the other morning because, I don't know, something happened and the way I expressed something to him it was more, the other brother who lives with him is not here right now.

The way I said it, it wasn't what I said, the way I said it, it was that old verber, that old, irritated, somewhat upset George Verber. The positive point in my kind of getting upset is that I quickly forget.

I never, I don't know whether I'm not smart enough or what. I never hold anything against people. I've never had that problem. Isn't it good? I wanted to say that to bring things into balance because some of you got the idea I got a lot of problems.

And you know, I wouldn't want you to go away from this camp thinking, you know, boy this guy's got a big lust problem, let's break right up. You know he's probably down on a beach right now with his penaculars.

But, you know, I thank the Lord there's enough areas where I don't seem to have much of a... I don't have much of attention about material things, buying things. My wife thinks I'm just the opposite. I don't have trouble holding things against people.

To me that's, to me, in my mind that's worse than stealing or punching somebody in the nose. I don't like to do that. So when I go to bed and I've been this way for 29 years since my conversion, I've never had anything against anybody that I can remember.

But I do have a problem sometimes just getting a little irritated when something just, you know, goes wrong. You're driving in a car and you're having fellowship and the person gets all caught up. Instead of turning right he turns left and pretty soon, you know, you're driving through a field and the cows are all looking at you.

Praise, Thanksgiving, and Worship

I say, hey, do you think you could be a little more careful driving? See, the way I said it was not really loving enough. I should have said, brother, is this the right road? The fifth secret after learning how to be hurt, probably some of you think, this guy's just, he's just, somebody's going to criticize this message, especially somebody over 90 who listens to the tape and they're going to say, this guy's just telling jokes.

I had no plan this morning to tell a single joke. I don't know how to tell jokes. I've tried and usually people just, especially English. You ever see an American telling a joke to the English audience?

They all sort of look at him. A number of messages where nobody has laughed once in the entire message. That's absolute truth. And, you know, the way I speak, I ask God to control me but not destroy me and different messages, I use a different set of railway lines to get the message home.

This message about survival, somehow, sometimes it comes out a little bit humorous. Other messages that I give is a few thousand of them on cassette tape. There's no humor. And I think this is, a picture of balance.

There are different messages, there are different truths, there are different ways of expressing things. I listen to all kinds of preachers. I was listening to Tony Kompala who was bursting with laughter listening to him.

Then I've listened to some of the messages by David Wilkerson. That message over there given by that leading charismatic figurehead, David Wilkerson, on the Christless Pentecost is one of the most unique messages I think somebody from the other side of the fence could ever listen to.

And it's interesting what this man is saying in the books he's reading right now. Because he's been specializing in reading some of the old Puritan writers. He's only discovered these people in the past few years.

It's quite amazing. And some of the brethren writers, he's only just discovered them after 20 or 30 years living for Christ. You know, one of the reasons I fellowship with a wide range of people, even though I don't always agree with them, is because I've got to know some of these people.

I've prayed with them. I've lived with them. Men like Wilkerson. And though I may not agree, and my theology may be different, I cannot deny that they are men of God. I cannot do it. And it hurts me that sometimes in our assemblies we're getting to know people we write them off as heretics.

We write them off as just, you know, almost enemies. Almost enemies. There's a book on that table called Love Covers. I think it's one of the most significant books of our decade. You probably won't agree with it all.

But it shows how even when we don't agree, we can love one another. And we can learn how to compassionately disagree. And I praise God for the tendency, the strong tendency in Britain right now for assemblies to be in fellowship with other churches in their own town.

And to say, look, we don't fully agree with you, but we respect you. Let's meet together once in a while. Let's unite hands and get involved in Mission England together. When it's all over, we'll come back to our own assemblies.

We'll teach our own basic doctrine. And there's nothing wrong with that. I think it's beautiful what God is doing in this area. And I praise the Lord for it. I believe it's honoring to God. Number five.

Am I up to number five? Yes. Learn the reality of praise and thanksgiving. I think you've been doing that in these days. I think it's beautiful. You say, how much can we get away with in the local morning breaking of bread?

It is in some places a tradition. You need to walk with a prayer that God will give you and give the leaders and elders in your assemblies about how the breaking of bread can incorporate the great emphasis on the death of the Lord Jesus Christ and remembering Him and the equally biblical emphasis of praise, adoration, thanksgiving, worship in all the various forms.

It is just as biblical. And it comes from here and some of the first books on worship. Who were they written by? The brethren. They emphasized this before many other groups were even born. That book by Gibbs, that thick, worship.

I've been pushing that book for 20 years. I think we're sold out right now. It's a big book and it's beautiful. Praise and thanksgiving. Worship. Praise the Lord. You can have other young people's meetings.