Kingdom Conscious Living — David Robertson

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Good morning, everyone. God bless you richly. Thank you, Brother Tanner, Manuel, your comments. I come from a United Church of Canada background. That's a very liberal background. Readers digest religion.

It's what we were served every Sunday. Come through the evangelical church. Spent ten years as a pastor. Seven years in the wilderness in the Rocky Mountains seeking God for what is it that He really intends for His church.

And for me, as a believer-to-be, after that seven years was called to come here to Manitoba. Not here. Up there. To Manitoba, Canada where we've been serving the Lord. Thank you, Tanner, for that message.

Kingdom Conscious Living and the Vision for a Kingdom People

A pattern for kingdom involvement. I want to share with you today a message I think we'll call Kingdom Conscious Living. Kingdom Conscious Living. Let us pray. Our dear Father in Heaven, we have been reminded in this conference of the Lord Jesus Christ who has said, all power is given, therefore go.

Therefore go. Tonight and tomorrow we will be going home. Home to where you've placed us. And right now we want to remember for many of those here, the little fellowships that I know in Manitoba are starting to meet.

Starting to sing the first songs. Maybe still just in the prayer meeting, even now. Those in Oregon, Idaho, Iowa. Up in Ontario, New York, Belgium, Mexico and Bolivia. Africa. We remember your people, Lord, and we ask would you do a work in this day at which we would be awestruck.

The Lord especially, we're asking that you would do a work in our lives in this day. A work of showing us a pattern, building into our lives a pattern of involvement for your kingdom. And then underneath that, a pattern of the kind of kingdom living.

Kingdom conscious living that will direct all the choices of our daily life. We pray that from this great assembly, that rivers of living water will flow out into the desert. Refresh your people here this morning and put a vision in our hearts, we pray.

Help your servant, I pray, in this pulpit. In Jesus' name. And open unto us your word. Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, greetings to you from Canada. From the four churches, particularly in Manitoba. I'm from the church at Kane, which is down near the border.

On the way down to Grand Forks, North Dakota. And for those of you that are from Ephrata and from Charity, we have been, I guess, one of the mission fields that was on your doorstep. Maybe a couple of thousand miles, 24 hours drive away from you.

But we thank you for your investment in us. We've not been totally unreached. Rather, we've been ministering amongst people that have had the Gospel vitally alive in them 500 years ago. But it has turned so many places to death.

But God has come in these last years. He's come and He's brought the Gospel of life. And He's shaken up dry bones. And He's breathed in life. And He's making for Himself a people. A bride to fill with His glory.

He's brought the Gospel of a King. And the Gospel of a Kingdom. He's gathered in these last years a lot of spilt wine. And He's fashioned for Himself new wineskins. And then He's gone and He's picked individual grapes from the vine and clusters from the vine.

And He's picked them and stomped them and pressed them. And they've been poured together into those new bottles. And brothers and sisters, it is good. We are having the time of our lives. I've climbed some of the greatest mountains in the Rockies.

I've canoed some of the most terrific rivers that you'll ever see. But there's nothing like seeing lives change from darkness to light. To light. Because of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is good. Well, much of this spilt wine has been spilt out of old bottles that have become crusted and full of the scales of human ideas and human traditions.

Bottles full of fears and bondages that have had to be dealt with in the name of Jesus. This wine has been spilt on the table and on the ground of Manitoba because it has come out of wineskins that were cracked and hard.

Oh, they had some truth, but they weren't soft and usable. And the wine ran out and the wine was tainted. So I give you greetings from a church, not just a church that has been planted, but a church that has been birthed by our God.

It's not our idea. It's been God's idea. A church today that is not just made up of Hutterite people, but is mixed with dear brothers and sisters who have been squeezed together, praise God, from several, I believe, five different cultural groups.

We have the Hutterite people. We have Mennonite people of Old Colony descent, of Kleine Gemeinde descent, of Gortitzer descent. We have Russian Mennonites. We have people from Germany and just Russians.

Then we have the Robertsons. We have some that have taken some very interesting journeys that have joined with us. And it is sweet as our lives have been blended together. And God has sent revival. We haven't been concerned.

I'm going to talk about a lot of issues with you today, okay? And I'm going to step on some toes. And Brother Tanner, we're going to follow right in those footsteps too, young people. I'm asking you to open your hearts and spirits, because I think those are some real concerns that have been shared here today.

But we haven't been all concerned about these issues because we've had our focus on Jesus. It didn't come with a bunch of people who had their ideas of how to start a church. Oh, they had all those. But Jesus came.

We probably all had our issues, but Jesus came. Revival came. Life came. And then as we begin to look at all the issues through those eyeglasses of Jesus Christ and of life, they get taken care of one at a time.

We've seen the Spirit move. We've seen the building of churches as now we're not just one church, but four. We've seen the sparks flying across the country. We've seen and believed for fire to spread across our flat prairie provinces.

God didn't just do something six years ago. He is doing something today as people are continually being reached by the Gospel of Christ. There's just web reactions that are going out. Whole family groups being reached out to.

Networks of the Spirit of God as faithful men give witness at home. And I am talking to you today who are going to be going home about what is at home. It's not just something that happened six years ago.

It's not just something that's happening today, but it is something that God is doing and I believe will continue to do and desires to do where your home is. We've received just a little taste, a little snapshot of what God is longing to do in every town, in every village, in every country beginning at home.

Communities of Light in a Dark World

So today I want to share a vision of the Gospel of the Kingdom in a day of great darkness. The Gospel of the Kingdom at work here and now. I want to share a vision of communities of light raised up in these dark ages in which we live.

And you, beloved, can be a part of those communities of light if you will empty yourself and lay yourself down and be blended with your brothers and sisters at home where you live. What kind of life are we living at home, brothers and sisters?

What kind of churches do we have at home? What kind of missions do we have at home? What kind of things do we need to get out of our lives and leave behind so that we can see the working of God, the fire of God?

What kind of things do we need to not bind to the altar, but bind to the scapegoat and drive into the wilderness and never let come back? Maybe it's fears. Maybe it's doubts. Maybe it's pity parties. Maybe it's indecision or bad choices about your life and direction.

Maybe it's unequal yokes that you need to drive away if God is to come in your life. Perhaps it's bitterness. Perhaps it's selfishness. Perhaps it's a divisive spirit, an independent spirit. Perhaps it's just that plain good old American independence.

That's a spirit! It's a spirit! They need to go. Then there's other things. There's my business, my pocketbook, my security, my time, my ideas. They need to be laid on that scapegoat and driven to the wilderness.

If God is going to work at home, some changes are going to need to be made. There's going to have to be some repenting. Some biblical warfare thinking. Brothers, men, dads, you need to put on your thinking caps.

There's not a lot of rules and regulations to say, go this way, go that way. There's a lot of freedom you have. You have your thinking caps on. Where are they? Biblical warfare thinking and biblical warfare living.

Those are what we're going to be called to. So there are things we need to get out of our lives. There's thinking that needs to go. And there's a new thinking which needs to be put on if we're to see life and missions work at home.

The Necessity of Vision

We need to get a vision into our lives. Now, if you'll talk to the people from Manitoba, and I'm glad to see some of them sitting up in the front here and over there. I told them I thought I'd get them all to stand during the whole service so I could see some familiar faces.

But if you'll talk to them, they'll tell you that my middle name is Vision. And I just want to share a little about vision in five areas here today. I want to take you to the Word of God, the simple Word, and lay a foundation to open up to you what we're to be all about living at home.

Now, I can't cover everything. It's going to be unbalanced. You're going to have to forgive me. But what are God's intentions? What is His vision that underlines life even before we start getting involved at home?

You see, there's some underlying things that need to be here in our thinking caps. I want to look at five of them. I want to look at a big picture. These could be five messages, ten messages, fifty messages.

I only have one message. Five messages and aspects of a vision that begins at home and reaches out and overflows to the ends of the earth. Now, vision is critical if you're to get to where you want to go.

If you're to get to where God wants you. If I just get in my car and drive tomorrow and do the little children's game we used to play where one child would say left and the other would say right and then the next got a chance to say left, I wouldn't get back to Manitoba.

Do you think I would? Ever played that game? That's how a lot of people live. Just the spontaneity of the moment instead of a vision. Whatever feels good. Whatever you're free to do. Whatever you think of right now.

Truth for me and truth for you. You leave me alone, I'll leave you alone. The spirit of the world. What about your spirit? So we need a vision. Now, I'm sure you're here today because you have a bit of a vision for missions.

And a vision for the Lord Jesus. But you know one of the problems with a vision is a vision has many parts and I'm just going to cover about five of them today. But it's kind of like I remember one time going up a mountain and something happened to my timing chain.

And I don't know anything about timing chains except somehow there's some gears in there and there's some chains in there and the timing chain, I guess it went click and it skipped whatever you call those cogs or whatever.

Well, anyone that knows what that's all about knows that that kind of makes for a rough ride. I mean, the motor just didn't sound too good. In fact, we needed to call for help and we were in the middle of nowhere.

Well, you see, we don't just need to have the cogs and the chains of life. We need to have all the parts in order, functioning as God wants. Many people today have parts of the vision. When I was six years old, I had a desire.

I had a vision. When I was six years old, I had a desire. When I grew up to help adults. Good desire? Yeah, I think so. Some pieces missing? Yeah, I think so. Some experience in life missing? Oh, to be sure.

But I sure saw the problem. And lots of people see the problems today. The hippies saw the problem. But they never brought about a community of life that could give an alternative to our society and lead them to the light, which is Jesus Christ.

When I was eleven years old, I was preaching on the Sermon on the Mount on radical Christian living. When I was twenty, I was preaching on community. But brothers and sisters, it never began to be fulfilled in my life until I was in my forties.

I had some of the parts right. I'd done all the things. I'd tried to change the place where I was. But it had changed me. And I came to see that something was wrong. It didn't fit. It didn't work. The timing was all out.

The gears were out. Something was wrong. You see, I was trying to join the world and the church. I had all the gospel of the kingdom that we're going to talk about in my head, but I also had that great gospel.

People have asked me, what did you renounce when you left the evangelical church? And I've said, the main thing I renounced was the doctrine of being like the world to win the world. But you see, that was the cardinal doctrine.

Oh, it wasn't written in any of the books. It was the unwritten law. And somehow or other, even though I believed in the radical gospel, I still had that spirit of the world that had its claws into me, and I couldn't make the gospel I believed in work.

Because the chain and the timing cogs, whatever you call them, someone can tell me afterwards how to preach this better, okay? They were out of gears. I even got a mechanic in the family. But I didn't ask him.

Things were not working the way God intended. You see, so just having a little piece of the vision isn't enough. Let's look at some parts today. Habakkuk 2, verse 2, the Lord said, Write the vision and make it plain.

Make all the parts simple. Make it so it can be seen. Don't let it be out of focus. Get everything in order of the vision. That he may run. And may I say, run a long distance run? That he that readeth may run.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time. It may be for your appointed time back where you live. But at the end it shall speak and not lie. Wait for it. Align with it. Expect it. Write the vision and make it plain.

That he may run that readeth. For the vision is for an appointed time. But at the end it shall speak and not lie. Though it tarry. Brothers and sisters, wait for it. It will surely come. And verse 14 says, The earth shall be filled.

The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. This is the heart and the promise of God. And that covers where you live today. God says in the book of Proverbs, without a vision the people perish.

Without a vision the people perish. Now, vision is something to which we are headed. Ok, let's get that definition. Vision is something to which we are headed. What about that word perish? Some translations translate it unrestrained.

And that's very close to what it literally is. Those who have no vision are unrestrained. Now, what does a restraint do? It holds you in. It's like a wall or a chain. Except we don't have a lot of walls or chains.

All we've got is a vision. A vision restrains so that we see plainly where we are going. So we can make choices, even hard choices, about where I am not going. Choices about where I am not going. Isn't that right?

I'm heading home. I've got a time limit. I can't visit you in Florida. I'm not going there. It may be warm. I like that. I'm not going there. It's minus 40 where I'm from. But you're not tempting me. I've got a vision.

The word in Proverbs for unrestrained is the same word which is in the passage, train up a child in the way he should go. That word is restrain a child. It literally means to choke, to throttle, to narrow a child into the way he should go.

And when he is old, which means mature, he will walk in it. You can release him in it with confidence. So without a vision, people are unrestrained. They're this way. They're that way. They're the other way.

But a vision chokes them, narrows them, just like you would a child. Narrowing him. But not with something outward. With something inward. Young people with something inward. Old people with something inward.

A vision restrains. It narrows. It directs. So let's look at these five areas. Number one, we need a vision of God. We need a vision, number one, of God. We need to taste the life of God if we're to have missions that work at home.

A Vision of God and Revival

We need revival. Missions begins with revival. Missions goes hand in hand with revival, with our personal Pentecost, with fire coming on us, on you and I, right here at home. What's the point of sending someone from Manitoba to Bolivia if we've got no fire in Manitoba?

Patting ourselves on the back, saying we're doing a good job for Jesus? That's not missions. Missions begins with revival. We're not sending people to do missions. We must send men and women full of the Holy Ghost from churches that are alive with the presence and power of the Holy Ghost.

Missions is a spreading flame of the gospel of Jesus, of the life of Jesus. It is the outflow of the inflow of the overflow of the life of God in you, in your fellowship, wherever you are living. Hudson Taylor, I think he had that overflow.

In the darkest times of his life when revolutionaries there, when the locusts of the book of Joel and the darkness spoken of in the book of Joel were there, and the locusts that are all around us devastating and bringing devastation to our culture.

Hudson Taylor faced great hardship and darkness, but what was his theme song? Some of you know, I'm sure. Jesus, I am resting, resting. Missionaries being killed. Jesus, I am resting, resting in the joy of what Thou art.

I am finding out the greatness today in this situation of Thy loving hearts. That's where missions begins. It begins at your home and mine with Jesus filling our hearts. I think Wesley Duell caught some of this heart for revival that goes hand in hand with missions after he had talked with Duncan Campbell of the Hebrides Revival.

He wrote this great hymn, and I just love it. It's not a hymn. If someone knows the music for it, please tell me because I've been trying to invent it all the way down here in the car. Give us a greater hunger, Lord.

Give us a greater hunger, Lord, than we have ever known. Help us to wait in one accord until Your power is shown. Keep us, Your children, on our knees beseeching You with mighty pleas till floods of blessings like the seas sweep over all Your own.

Give us a sense of urgency that will not be denied. Give such desire Your work to see till ease we cast aside. Give us soul hunger and soul thirst till hearts with longing almost burst, till we could wish ourselves accursed if souls that reach Your side.

Lord, now begin Your mighty work. Make bare Your holy arm. O God, forbid that we should shirk or to this age conform. Reveal Your Spirit's mighty power. O come upon Your church this hour by Your own working, Lord, empower till Satan's forts we storm.

Help each of us to do our part, O Lord, may we not fail. Give clearest guidance to each heart till highest mounts we scale. Use us however You may choose. We would no burden, Lord, refuse, but get us, Lord, where You can use and mightily prevail.

O send the promised Holy Ghost upon us as we kneel. We need His holy working most till men conviction feel. Lord, this is still the day of grace. Have mercy on our dying race. Revival send to every place Your miracle reveal.

What is your part? It's to look to God. It's to behold. It's to believe that our God is the God of vision, the God of missions. He wants to do more than you could ask or think or imagine. He loves to do more than you could ask or think.

Your job, beloved, is to believe. When He comes, will He find faith on the earth? Will you be like the Syrophoenician who received only one? Only one Naaman? How many ones are there here? We need a vision of who God is.

A Vision of the World and Compassion for the Lost

Number two, we need a vision of the world. When we have a vision of who God is, brothers and sisters, men and women of the world will see. And they will join us to run. But we need to start running first.

So a vision of God. And then number two, a vision of the world, of the harvest, of the need, above all of the need in me. Lift up your eyes, Jesus said, and look, behold the harvest. Matthew 9, verse 36, when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion on them because they fainted.

They fainted. They were scattered abroad. They had no direction. No strength. No life. They were as sheep having no shepherd. No one to lead. No one to point. No one to call them in the right way. Now, as Brother Denny shared, we live not so much in a lost culture, but in a departing one.

And our tendency as believers may be to get aggravated or disgusted with our world. What's our response to be? Number one, faith in our God for where you live. Faith in our God that He's still the same.

Number two, the compassion of our God. So many in our land are in ignorance. They've never heard the Gospel of the Kingdom. They've never heard the higher call of Christ. They've been shown a door and they've walked through the door.

They heard the Gospel about a Jesus, but it wasn't the Gospel about a Jesus who also has a kingdom. And they're left standing there at the door in the cold, not finding the full joy, not finding the full victory, not finding the deliverance that comes, the book of Joel says, through Zion, through Jerusalem, and it says through the remnant of His people.

Deliverance will come. We need to see the ignorance and not reject against it, not react against it. So many have never heard. We need to see beyond all the cultural window dressings. We need to not talk about all the cultural window dressings and glitter.

We need to not even hardly notice it, not focus on it, but see the person. See the soul. But even before that, brothers and sisters, I don't want to dwell in that world today. I want to dwell in the world that's still here.

The place to begin as we consider the mission field of our world and our American culture is with ourselves because the Word of God says, if My people who are called by My name shall humble themselves, look at their need and pray and seek My face and turn and turn from their, My people's wicked ways, the church's wicked ways, the church's ways of being directed by the spirit of this world, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

The church communities of light who have caught a vision of the Kingdom of God are the answer to our world. Not people walking arm in arm with our world. Not people with that, what Tanner called, identification that really is just flesh.

That's never going to win people to the kind of Christianity that our dear Savior gave His life for. The church, My people, is the key to reaching and healing the land. Now, I want to ask you today, is there anyone here who's got their wolf skin on?

Are there any wolves? We hear a lot about wolves in sheep's clothing. But have you adapted yourself to the values and ideas and goals of our departing culture? Have you got the wolf clothes or the wolf clothes of our departing culture on you, sheep?

Have you mixed in with the wolf pack? You know, that's one way to survive, isn't it? Oh, you'll survive. Put on a little wolf ears and get that smell rubbed all over you just like Jacob did, you know.

I'll tell you. Any wolf clothes? Oh, I'd rather deal with wolves in sheep's clothing than sheep in wolves' clothing. The church of the masses in America has adopted and baptized our popular culture, and I fear it has affected us more than we know.

While the watchmen slept, while the farmers slept, the enemy sowed tares that looked just like the wheat until the very end. It's time to wake up to our need. Fifteen years ago, I left the institutional Protestant church because I saw that it was on a slippery slope, and I saw the church was ten years behind.

But brothers and sisters, as I look today, I believe that gap has gone like this or maybe even like this. And it's even worse because the church is accountable before God. Many of them are in ignorance, though.

They have never heard any other gospel than that which you'll hear on the television. They may not hear. They may not want to hear. But you've been commanded to go to every town, to every village, to your village.

He didn't say, well, if you don't think they'll hear, don't go. We're called to go, not to sleep. We're called to lift up the name of Jesus through our lives. I want you to turn in your Bibles to Isaiah 22, a passage that God used in my life to mightily work in me probably about 15 -18 years ago.

Isaiah 22. And here we have a picture of God's people as a city with broken down walls. And in verse 9 we see these words,. You have seen also the breaches, the holes of the city of David, that they are many.

You have seen the holes in the walls of the church that they are many, and You gathered together the waters. You tried to make some security for drinking water for Yourself of the lower pool. And You have numbered the houses of Jerusalem and the houses You have broken down and You have attempted to fix the wall Yourself.

You have made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool, but You have not looked unto the Maker thereof. You have not looked unto God. Neither have respect unto Him that fashioned it long ago.

And in that day, here's what God says, in that day when men are trying to patch all kinds of problems on their own, all kinds of ideas about the church on their own, and in that day did the Lord God of hosts call for weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth, and instead, verse 13, instead behold what is there amongst you?

Joy and gladness, slaying oxen, Christian barbecues, fellowship meals, killing sheep, eating flesh, good steaks, drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die, saith the Lord of hosts.

A sin which will not be forgiven till you die. A sin which will have consequences forever until you die. You lived life as normal when the walls were down. You carried on with your little Christian happiness in your nice little fellowship of like-minded believers with all your good times.

But the walls were down. And you never prayed. Tanner said, enough on that. I'll stop there. You young people, you can go to your cities on ministry. You can go to Africa on nice trips. But do you know that the walls are down where you live?

Do you know that there's desperate people in the darkness going to a Christless eternity because they've never seen an alternative that they think is worth living for? Right where you live. Nehemiah in his day, we heard about him, had broken walls.

Verse 9 tells us he sat down stunned and he wept and he mourned. And he said in those verses that Tanner did not read, we have dealt very corruptly. We have not kept Your commands. So what is our response?

Life as normal? Peacetime living for us brothers and sisters? Or will we bind the sacrifice to the horns of the altar and commit to war? Commit to thinking in light of the Kingdom of God? Well, number three.

A Vision of Gospel Multiplication from Jerusalem

Number one, we need a vision of God. Number two, we need a vision of the world that begins with a vision of the world in ourselves that leads us to God and to repentance. Number three, we need a vision of the spontaneous multiplication of the Gospel beginning in your Jerusalem.

A vision of the natural progression of missions. It's not just a program. It's something that begins where you are. It's an overflow of life. It's something that's natural. It's something that just flows out into the desert.

Now, I'm not going to draw it on this board, but many of you I'm sure have seen the picture of a bunch of circles within circles and in the first circle is Jerusalem. And what is Jerusalem? It's your home, isn't it?

It's where you live. It's where we are. And there's people there. Then there's Judea. And those are the people of the same culture of us. They may live near. They may live far. Then there's Samaria. And that's people who are very similar to us and probably live quite nearby, but they're of a slightly different culture or language.

And then finally, there's the ends of the earth. And a natural progression is for us to move from home and outwards. We begin with our family and our extended family and beyond to Hutterites and to the city of Winnipeg.

Our young people visit in the city of Winnipeg. And they go from door to door and apartment to apartment and from mosque to synagogue. Visit with all kinds of people. It goes from there. In our fellowships, we began... well, let's just say it goes from there out to places like Alberta.

And then finally down, we've just sent... on December, we sent our first missionary. Four hundred believers in Manitoba gathered together to send our first missionary from four churches to Bolivia. You can see a little bit about that over there.

We praise God. Again, we praise God for Your investment of prayer and labors for those that have come. But you know, it all began because someone came. They came from Pennsylvania. And someone else came from a hideout in McBride, British Columbia.

And someone else came from India. People came. Then from there, it spread in four different directions. And it's spreading out all in those directions and webs and networks of families all through Manitoba.

And people have come to see what's happening. And then they've gone back. They've started churches. Here, if you can imagine this map, here's Pennsylvania. Here's Winnipeg. Here's our four churches. Here's others.

Here's another. Alberta over here. Southern Alberta. Here's another. Way up near the North Pole. Here's another one up near the North Pole. Lacrete where Jeff is from. You've heard from him. But it's because faithful brothers and sisters, that living water that's flowing out begins at home.

It ends up in Ghana. No point sending it to Ghana if it's not at home. So how does it begin at home? Well, I'll tell you something. I've got a calendar here. It's from America. I showed this to our fellowships as we got together on December 15th or 8th to send off our brother Isaac.

And I showed them this. This comes from Brother Emmanuel's office. And I think he's got one of those Palm Pilots so he doesn't use this very often. And I see it's all blank. And you've probably got a few that are blank too.

And I want to ask you, a vision that begins in your Jerusalem and extends out. That's not just something up here. It's going to actually involve some planning. Now this calendar is right empty right now.

But you know what's on it for our young people? Every Tuesday night in Low Farm in the church at Cain, it's marked street ministry. You couldn't keep them away with a herd of wild horses or whatever you call wild horses.

Tuesday night just happens to be my night that I've always gone. Whether it be to a colony, whatever. It's an unwritten rule. Unless there's something else. The norm is Tuesday night is going night. The norm is Friday night is let's go visit someone or have someone over or find out what we can do.

Now, it doesn't always work. But it's the thing that's written on the calendar. Sunday is the fellowship time. What I'm talking to you about is involvement. You don't need to go to the streets of Winnipeg.

Though, I'll tell you, it's exciting. You don't need to go to visit a mosque or a Hindu temple or some of those things that you find on the world at our doorstep back in the intercultural booth. But there may be a nursing home, and I'll tell you, the best job I ever had was in a nursing home cleaning out toilets and helping old people.

I loved it. It's a lot better than the pig barns I live in now. Well, I mean, work in now. But brothers and sisters, what can you put on your Tuesday night? Do you have a Tuesday night to visit someone down the street?

Do you have a Tuesday night to reach out to one of the new people in the church? Do you have a Friday night when you invite some of the struggling people? I don't know. You start thinking of some of those ideas.

You know, I saw Kate Tenniston, pictures of her, greeting all the Africans over there. Shaking hands through windows in some of those slides or something. Do you think that that began in Africa? You know where it began?

At home! Shaking hands. Greeting people. Loving people. Involved in the lives of others. And what does it lead to? It leads to a spontaneous multiplication and overflow. Hallelujah! Who do you know in the store?

Who do you know in the post office? Well, get to know someone! What about a little note? An encouragement? A phone call? A trip? Do you know, the first year we were in Manitoba, we put out 10 ,000 tapes, our family, and we put on 60 ,000 miles on two vehicles.