The Will of God — George Verwer

Communication. It's important, isn't it? You want to hear these things. I don't think you want us to just give messages to you. You want to know what's happened. What are you getting into? We trust you.

We believe in you. You are now in the family. We will share and must share the burdens. One thing I want to mention. If you don't feel happy about OM, you're not convinced about it, and I hope you will investigate and ask questions and not be manipulated into coming into this work.

But if you don't feel happy about certain things, you know, you have certain questions, there is no pressure for you to give in your money. That announcement given is for those that are sure are coming on the year program.

After all, most of you by now, you've told your church, you've told your parents, you know, this isn't something you decided last week. But we get new people here who don't understand, and just one mistake can be costly.

So there is no pressure. At this stage, if you're not sure whether you're coming this year, there would only be a small percentage in that camp, there is no pressure for you to give in any money. In fact, if you need some money, you know, maybe we can help you.

We have to do everything possible to communicate that in no way is OM anything like a false cult. The only thing maybe similar is false cults have a lot of zeal, a lot of zeal, and I hope we have a lot of zeal.

But from there, there may be some other things, of course, but from there we do part ways. So we welcome you in the name of the Lord. We hope most of you will be with us for the year or two. We hope you'll not be afraid to ask questions.

We hope that you'll sleep well and that you'll stay healthy and that you'll try to understand what we're trying to communicate. And one of the reasons we have these sessions is so that you can communicate to others.

You've got to communicate to prayer partners. You've got to communicate to parents, to church. And you have to communicate to the people you teach. Some of you will be in leadership or some responsibility.

Recommended Books for Christian Service

Now, it wouldn't be, you'd think I'd lost my marbles if I didn't mention any books. So I thought I'd mention two books. We don't do a lot of book purchasing this time of the year because you're limited in the number of books you can cart all over the world.

And you'll find every OM team has a huge library or a good-sized library with a lot of books. So I'd like to introduce two books. One is not new, Life Sentence. If you're really looking for something to read during this conference, which is unlikely from the number of books most of you have, and you would like to sink your teeth into this book, just write a short note to my secretary Vera and say you really are looking for something to read during these two weeks and you'd like a copy of Life Sentence.

It's a fantastic book by Charles Colson, the author of Born Again, about his whole ministry and how he wrestled with criticism and mistakes and problems and, oh my, the birth of that ministry and what he learned.

It's not a normal biography, though it's shared in that style. Then a new evangelistic book, though this book is being used as an evangelistic book, especially among prisoners. It's called World on the Run, the rewrite of Michael Green's outstanding book, Runaway World.

It's rewritten and InterVarsity is actually lowering some of their prices. So this is a book that we also are just beginning to use, and if you would really like to read an evangelistic book, you can drop Vera a note with a definite commitment that you want to read this in the next couple of weeks, and I don't think many of you are going to be able to do that, and we might be able to supply you with a copy.

We may put a few on the book table. We prefer you to look at the books, write what ones you want, unless you're already in a field. If you're already in a field, you can go through your field leader to get a book.

Not so easy these days, so be patient when the finance is the way it is. And if you don't know what field you're going to yet, which is most of you, you can look at a book, write the title down, generally, and then get it later on when you know where you're a field leader through signing.

The idea of that system is an honor system, that when you sign for a book, certainly if you're seeing your full support come in, there's scope for a couple of books. You go to Bromley, you get a little piece of paper, and they give you so many free books.

But it's actually you, out of your support, that are seeing it come in. Now, if you're only seeing your minimum come in, I doubt if there's too much scope there. But your leader, of course, he's not going to ask you generally questions about it.

It all gets rather interesting when we're so short of finance and we're wrestling with so many factors, so many factors. You know, some people think the due loss is some great extravaganza which proves that OM has lots of money, and that's why some people no longer give any money to OM.

We even have people on OM. They told me they'd rather give their money to somebody else because, you know, they say, you know, it's OM is so big. And what, you know, what good does my little gift do, this movement that's got ships?

And if only they understood that that ship, built in 1914, is one of the most economic ways to move manpower and literature and vehicles into world evangelism. Many people have no idea. Right now they're raising millions of dollars in England for just an evangelistic crusade within Britain.

And, you know, I don't believe that OM is wasting a lot of money. Any movement this size wastes some. When I think of some of the experts, some of the very talented people that God gives us, and without those people, the likes of us, you know, we wouldn't be able to go too far.

A ship without a chief engineer. An accounting office without a chief accountant. These people all work and basically live on the same lifestyle, modifications, of course, if they have a family, as the newest recruit.

Can you imagine if, like most organizations, we had to pay the experts the salaries that the experts are demanding today? Huh? The world is a strange place. Great numbers of people unemployed. They're happy to get half-day work at terrible salaries.

Other people are making a million dollars a year. If you think it's any different in the Soviet Union, visit. I was just reading an article in the Soviet Union today that the elite who run the Soviet Union have special food, special cars, special doctors, special films, including films that are completely banned for all Soviet citizens, Western pornography.

If you're in the elite, you can see those films. They've got everything. And I know it's true because I've seen Soviet diplomats in the New Delhi airport with 30, 40 boxes of possessions they bought in Delhi.

If they buy that much in Delhi, imagine what they buy in New York, flying back to take it home with them. There's no system, neither communism nor capitalism, that is going to straighten out all the crazy problems in this greedy, unfair, lost, depraved world.

And I think it's a miracle that we can all, as much as possible, try to live on a simple lifestyle, with freedom, and that we can get some of these experts and highly trained professional people, people with all kinds of degrees and can demand big salaries, to come in on the same level.

And do you know how much money that saves us? I tell you, two of those salaries would save all the money I believe OM has wasted, because we do waste some. You'll see how that is. Just two or three of those salaries would cover it all.

But that's perhaps for another day. I want to speak to you on how to find the will of God. I wonder if that's of any interest to anybody. Tomorrow, boy, you're going to be hit. All these different field leaders, they're warming their engines, they're cruising around the woods, praying and crying out to God for their recruits.

You know, it's interesting, that announcement last night. I've never seen any problems in these woods. I'm always running around. And this morning, when I was jogging, a sister alone was walking through the woods.

And I don't generally jog with my hat on. I had this funny old American baseball hat, and I just felt like putting it on this morning. Put it on over my head. And I came jogging out of the distant part of the woods.

And this sister was walking right toward me. And suddenly, she did an immediate reverse and headed in the opposite direction. And I thought, boy. And then immediately, I remembered Nigel E.'s announcement, and I had myself a good laugh.

Actually, those woods are not actually very big. They're actually quite small. And I hope the Lord catches this fellow out there, because I've been, of course, challenging people to go out to the woods to have a quiet time.

Then Nigel comes in with his announcements. It's unfortunate, but it is quite normal in the world in which we live. I once called this message, Harbor Lights to Finding God's Plan. I think that was a result of living on a ship and a result of hearing somebody else's message.

Finding God's Will Through Guidance and Faith

You know, when you come into a port with a ship, and I've had the joy of living about two years of my life put together on the ships. And I've been on many other ships, the old QE2, or the old Queen Elizabeth, the QE2.

I guess I've been on about 50 different ships. And when you come into a port, often you just begin to see one distant light. If there's a lighthouse with a strong light, you'll see that a long ways away.

And you have to sail to that. It was a great joy to visit the doulos, and I especially like to go up on the bridge and watch the navigators. And I think often finding the will of God is like a ship coming into harbor.

You don't see it all at once. You don't, you know, just one night get a revelation. You often have to fix on one light. And then as you move by faith, another light will come, and another light. As you keep moving, pretty soon there'll be the harbor.

And then you'll see eventually your birth. Some of you perhaps are in the right harbor. We hope OM is your harbor. But you're not in the right birth. And oh my, we've learned in the world of shipping there are many different kinds of births.

I remember in India we got put in a birth, and all we had blown on us all day was iron ore dust. The lights fused out with the dust. We coughed in the dust. What a horrible birth, difficult birth. I think it was down in Goa.

There's many fields. Some of them are hot and they're hard. Some of them are not so hard. Some are big, super tanker fields. Some are small, rowboat fields. Then there's two real ships to make it even more interesting.

How in the world to determine the will of God? Another title I've given to this message is, Foundations for Knowing God's Will. I think that's a better title. Let me just give you a few basic foundations for finding and knowing the will of God.

I think many of you feel you know the will of God, and now you need that confirmed. We are not here to find the will of God for you, but we are, through counseling, going to help confirm that this is God's will.

I think OM's sort of down-to-earth balance of the spiritual with the practical has helped a lot of people in their life to get off will-of-God extremism. I hope that even though you may not agree totally with everything I say, you'll glean some of this.

Let's just pray again and ask the Lord to help us. Father, we thank you that we're here. We believe that right here we are in your will. We ask for continued confirmation through provision, through the witness of your Word and your Holy Spirit, through the counsel of other leaders and men who know the situations that we feel we want to go into.

Guide us now as we look into the Scriptures. In Jesus' name, Amen. By the way, when you go to England, one of the things you need to learn about is cricket. That is such an interesting game. It's a long game.

It takes a long time. One of my long, unfulfilled desires has been to learn to really play cricket. But because I've been somewhat committed to other things, I haven't got heavily into that. But it's certainly very interesting to watch.

Even more interesting, those of you, and quite a few of those Americans and people from other countries, you are going to have the phenomenal privilege of living on the great island of Great Britain. Actually, many islands.

But most of the people seem to live on one. And you're going to be able to get involved in things like rugby. Rugby is really exciting. It's a little bit like Operation Mobilization. And you find one man is running with a ball, and he passes it on, and then someone else is running with the ball.

And when you get to your field, there's a man. He seems to be the leader. Suddenly, he goes off to preach somewhere and gives the leadership to someone else. And he's running with it, and you just get to know him.

Suddenly, he hands you the ball, and he runs. And you'll know you're on Operation Mobilization. But you know, over in America, we play baseball. And I still am just American enough. Some actually think I'm British until I open my mouth.

But I'm just American enough to think that that's a great, unique, interesting game. I started playing when I was about five. I was a baseball addict, though I wasn't very good. I was good when I was 13.

I made the team and was a pitcher. But I didn't grow very much after that. So when I got to secondary school, I made the team, and they let me warm the bench. In other words, I didn't play. But all this is just to try to get you calmed down about this long message I'm about to give you.

In baseball, we have a term called a doubleheader. How many know what that is, a doubleheader? Here's a few Americans. This shows the tremendous differences in language. A doubleheader is when they play two major league games on the same night.

It's long. I saw some of you come across with an expression that was less than joyful at that moment. So this is a doubleheader. The first game, the will of God. Okay, number one, how to find the will of God, the foundations for finding the will of God, spiritual life.

Spiritual Life as the First Foundation for Knowing God's Will

Matthew 6 .33, Seek ye first the kingdom of God. This is our first priority in these days. This conference may be of value to you even if you never go anywhere because we're here to seek God. We're here to have our spiritual life built up.

We're here to be edified. We have different people coming to minister the Word of God. We're grateful for men like Tony Sargent willing to leave his rather aggressive, rapidly growing, unique British church to come here and teach us.

Spiritual life is the number one foundation for finding the will of God. OM must not be geography-centered. It must be reality-centered or Christ-centered. The big thing even this week is, where am I going to go?

People get so uptight that when a bird flies over them, you hear a noise come out of their nose. And we need to just relax. Just relax a little bit. And just get into the Word and have our spiritual life built up.

You know, I believe even if you miss God's geographical will, He can make this the greatest year of your life. If I didn't believe that God could put together some of our blunders and some of your blunders, you know, I'm not sure I'd even want to speak.

Knowing the will of God does not destroy the human factor. That's original. Very seldom I come up with anything original. Say that again. Let's see if I can remember it. Knowing the will of God does not destroy the human factor.

You're a human being. You've been programmed by your parents, by your culture, some good, some bad, by previous experiences, by language, by emotional difficulties, by failure, by sin. And so it's not just going to all come together in the little couple of weeks at OM.

We're building for a life of commitment, a life of service. And praise God that we can take a month out of our life and be in the Word and be with other people and hear the things that we hear. We're learners.

I have been learning wonderful things in the last 12 days here from listening to my brothers and sisters and from the things I've read and also the things that are happening around the world as we pick some of that up in the newspapers and in the news and some of that will even come out in the prayer meetings.

Submission to God and Healthy Spiritual Leadership

Number two, submission to God. OM is into the submission movement. We believe you need to learn to submit to God. And we, as OM leaders, we are not God and we are not going to play God or play the Holy Spirit in your life.

Did you know one of the books we've been pushing is Rich Christians? How is it? God Wants You Rich and other enticing doctrines. There's not hardly a copy left. 200 copies have gone just like that. You read that book.

You can find one in your team library. And that book speaks against extremes in the area of submission. Leadership in OM is by negotiation and we have to negotiate. That leaves us ultimately with the right to say we don't believe.

It's God's will for you to go to this particular field. You, in turn, have the right to say I don't believe Operation Mobilization is for me. It's as simple as that. And I will tell you, when you leave OM, we will pray for you.

We will say God bless you. We will stand with you. We will not put you into a guilt trip. We will not say, hey, you're backsliding. God's brought you here. Now you're trying to run away from God. That's the way the cults work.

So, submission to God. 1 Peter 5, 6 speaks about that. We do believe that we need to learn something of working with and cooperating with the leaders in the work we're in. Dr. Martin Goldsmith spoke to us about this at the Leaders Conference, giving us a very unique interpretation of Hebrews 13, 17, 1 Thessalonians 5, 12.

God raises up spiritual leaders. What he shared with us is what we are trying to do in OM. We're trying to be examples. We're trying to encourage. We're trying to lead by persuasion. We're trying to lead from the rear as God's shepherds.

Thanksgiving as a Foundation for Discerning God's Will

We don't like that word so much, but it is found in the Bible. Submission to God. Priority for finding God's will. Number three, Thanksgiving. Look at 1 Thessalonians 5, 18. Get my new international version out.

1 Thessalonians 5, 18. Let me read that. Pray continually, giving thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. You want to know the will of God? There it is. Give thanks.

If you're not learning to obey the revealed will in very basic ways, like giving thanks, no wonder you're having trouble finding the will of God in some very unique, complicated situations. So giving thanks is another foundation for finding the will of God.

Trusting God Amid Human Failure and Delay

And then, number four, trust. Trust that God loves you. Trust that God will care for you, even if OM makes a mistake, an OM leader, even if something goes wrong in relationships. I hope it doesn't happen here, but it may happen someday in your life.

It can happen in a local church. It can happen on an OM team. I warn you in advance. Things, because humans are so gifted in this area, go out of control. And people start to get hurt. We had it in our leaders' meeting tonight.

There's supposed to be a policy in OM that if a field is going to jump a lot of numbers, they're at least supposed to tell me about it so I can tell the other leaders, and we can find out where we're going.

You can't just have every leader just launching his own plan. We've got to work in harmony and unity. So one of the leaders was in the meeting just kidding that we have a need, because the leaders were giving in people they need for their team, new people they need.

And he read off in the meeting, we need, leaders feel we need, 1 ,200 people. Well, there's only 700 people here, including returning people. And my mind just, you know, I just thought, oh, no, this thing has finally got out of control.

And boy, I was warming up. Boy, this is it. Boy, I'm going to give these leaders a piece of my mind. I've always wanted to do that. But you've got to be careful, because you start running out. Maybe that's what's happening to me.

I hope not. So I gave this exhortation, there is an existing policy that if you're going to increase your numbers, I'm supposed to know about it. And I went on, I think, what did I say? Something about, you're all doing your own thing.

Dead serious. Then they told me they were only kidding. Now, my brother and sister, I like to talk once in a while the way some of my friends in the States talk. Now, brother and sister, have you ever done, felt like a first-class fool?

Praise the Lord. Then they managed to tell me that they may have this important statistic by tomorrow. Well, I can assure you, you are one of the most wanted groups of people anywhere in the world. Really.

Overnight, you have become spiritual heroes. People are going to chase you around this compound as if you were some kind of E .T. And when they get you, if it's the ship, they'll challenge you about joining I .T.

Anyway, Proverbs 3, 5 really helps. Trust the Lord with all your heart. Lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths. Isn't that wonderful? And God is teaching me more about trust.

More about trust. It's so easy for my type of personality to want to get my hand on things, you know. I get the feeling things are getting out of control. I'm getting my hands on it. And the Lord is telling me about O .M.

More and more. Get your big, ugly knuckles off this thing, brower. You ever see mine? I got very big hands. I used to play basketball and I learned to stretch my hands so I could just hold that ball and bounce.

Witnessing Faithfully While Waiting for God's Direction

Once a team actually tried to throw me up through the ring. Trust. Deep trust. God is in control. Even when things are out of control through the human factor. And then number five. Witness. You know, if we're faithful where we are and I hope you get some opportunities for outreach on the weekends, but this is a message I've shared firstly with people who are not, you know, necessarily in a conference where it's not so easy to witness just for this short period of time.

But if you're faithful witnessing where you are, doing the will of God where you are, the Lord will lead you. I want to tell you something that's really interesting. It's to see people fall apart in October because they can't go to their field as quick as they want to go.

And they may be in London. They may be here. There's opportunities to witness. These people are lost in Brussels. They're lost in London. They're lost in Manchester. Everywhere you go, people are lost.

The need is always there, any of you in the faith. And yet we find people during that waiting period, all uptight, not really getting involved in witnessing, mainly just concerned somehow to get out to their field.

No wonder six months after some get to the field they're mainly thinking about when they get home. There's something in the human heart, something deceptive that we're never satisfied. And we're incredibly impatient.

And I think I can challenge you. Though it's hard for some of you to sit in meetings and listen, it's hard for me to sit. And I have been sitting for 12 days, 11 days, in a lot of meetings. When the prayer time came, I could usually stand up.

And I think in the field leader's meeting, I remember now I was able to stand. I got in a corner and had a pulpit for my desk. But the last set of meetings I was sitting. It isn't easy for some of you to sit.

But I believe as we sit and listen and study and pray, we're going to learn a lot. And if we are held back and we've got a lot to see happen before we can move out, even to get the fuel and the vehicles and all the rest of the things, as we witness, God is going to honor that.

Learning God's Viewpoint Through Delay and Difficulty

And then I have as number six just learning God's viewpoint. Getting the big picture. Getting the big picture. Understanding God's priorities. Getting things in focus only through suffering and difficulty and delay.

Have you ever read about the discipline of delay in Raymond Edmond's outstanding book on discipline? It's often only through delay that we learn the lessons that God wants to teach us. Some of you, your finance may not come in immediately.

You're praying away and praying away. The discipline of delay. The discipline of disappointment. The discipline of learning to be desperate. Some of us won't see breakthroughs until we're desperate. We say, Lord, what are you doing?

We maybe miss one meal in order to fast and pray. Then the breakthrough comes. The training does not start when you get in India or Sudan or London. The training started the moment you were born again.

That's right. And all we are is part, just part of God's ongoing training program. You know why some of you are going to have trouble this year? You're expecting too much. You're a little hyper-idealist and you think it's all going to be taken care of in one year.

God's giving you a vision for the Muslim world and you're going to get out there and you're going to win Muslims to Christ and you're going to plant a church this year. Disappointing. So learning God's viewpoint.

God Guides Different People in Different Ways

Slowing down a little. Getting things in focus. A few other things to remember as you try to find God's will in these days. Number one, God guides different people in different ways. This is things to remember.

Waiting on God and Gathering the Facts

Six foundations, now things to remember. God guides different people in different ways. Number two, waiting on Him. Getting the facts. Why are we having these incredibly important sessions tomorrow? Because finding and obeying the will of God must be based on facts.

There are all kinds of OM fields. Some of you are not going to be happy in certain OM fields. There are certain places in OM where someone who's strongly charismatic might not be happy. There are other places where they more easily wouldn't be happy.

We cannot manipulate and control 35 nations and 100 teams. So you ask the hard questions. While you're here, you've got that opportunity. Of course, one way there's no easy answer. Waiting on Him. Getting the facts.

Understanding Scripture in Context

Number three, of course, God uses His Word. But it's not a matter of just letting your Bible flop open and pointing to a verse. You've all heard the story, but just for those of you who are new in the Christian world, and we have new Christians here, the old story is a man who believed this method of guidance.

He opened the Bible and he pointed to the verse to get the will of God, and it said, Judas went and hung himself. He thought, boy, I better try this again. So he just once more, and it came to the verse, go ye and do likewise.

Tried it again. One more last time. Lord, I need your guidance. That was a misfire. I'm counting on you now this third time in the name of Jesus. Whatsoever you do, do it quickly. Shows how many of you are new Christians.

So we need to get the whole general, a general overall understanding of the Word of God. We need to see how God leads different people in his Word. And then, God, of course, can speak to us from different verses within their context.

And that can be confirmed by other important things like prayer. That's my fifth, fourth point. He brings thoughts to our mind. We have the mind of Christ. As we're in the Word, as we're in prayer, as we're walking in the Spirit, God can bring thoughts to our mind.

Providence, Open Doors, and Moving by Faith

But as God brings thoughts to our minds, they have to be tested. And then number six, or number five, the providence of God. You know, if I didn't believe in the providence of God, I think I'd give up.

God uses circumstances. God uses people. And one of the methods in OM is the door-pushing method. Really. You've got to push different doors. For some of you, the main thing is that you're in OM. You came in OM for basic training and growth and grace.

For others, your bigger interest is a particular country. That's why we're so different. And so you've got to be sensitive about other people and you've got to push some doors. Many of you, the door you push, as you feel burdened about a particular country, either this year or next year, it will open.

A very high percentage of people who come on OM, they do eventually get to the place they really felt God wants them after it gets confirmed. And there's a time of preparation. Many cannot go to difficult situations without a year of preparation.

We're all different and we cannot get to know everybody that easily. And that's why we have to acknowledge as leaders we make some mistakes. So be patient. But I believe through God's Holy Spirit, as He uses providence, there's so many, only so many open doors on the ship, only so many open doors in Sudan, only so many open doors in Lebanon, very few and not too many takers right now.

God will lead. And then number six, we have to learn to move by faith. That's why some of you are here. You never really had the full assurance, did you, that OM or this conference was to be God's will.

You want to know what? I never had the full assurance that I should be at this conference. I had a number of other ideas. I'm always conniving. My little dream plans. You know, I've been 20 years, 22 years of September conference, every September.

I wasn't really sure this was God's place for me this month. But I took a risk. I've always been a bit of a gambler. I learned to gamble when I was about six. I used to keep the aces up my sleeve and I learned how to shoot them out.

Later on, I think it was really, I only got into winning when I was about 12. But, you know, I'm glad the Lord crucified the money gambling. But I think in God's plan, you've got to be a gambler. If you're ever going to get married, you've got to be a gambler.

I remember a fellow sitting in one of my sessions on marriage and he had this, I think I told this this summer. Forgive me if I told this this summer. It's one of my favorite stories. It's a true story.

Not all my stories are true. He was a real conservative Englishman. He had his eyes on this girl for years and praying about her, looking for verses, waiting for revelations. Had a very conservative view on marriage, you know, all that.

And he was in one of my marriage sessions and the last point of eight points was, you know, be willing to take a risk. He went out of that meeting like a bullet. This is the honest truth. He caught her on the stairways and he just about proposed on the spot.

I was just with him, happily married, couple of kids, leader in his church. Boy, I tell you, he appreciates my ministry. It's always good to have a few. Now let me just bring that into balance that this is not the year for that event for most of you.

If this is your first year, this is the year to watch and pray and wander not astray. But some of you are in your second or third year and you've just been wondering, you know, well, if you've prayed about it for quite a while and maybe you've sought some counsel, somewhere you may have to take a leap.

But when you do, get ready to be hurt because there's no entering the romance aspect of life and it's an exciting aspect, isn't it, without getting hurt. It's an enormous blessing and there's tremendous hurts that come out of this whole area.

I'd love to speak about that, but we haven't got time. Moving my faith. We can't remain passive. We've got to do something. A lot of times I find it hard to make a decision. Do you ever find that hard?

And often you just have to. You just have to. And so you decide and you trust God that even though you're feeble and you're not sure, He's going to work it out. Oh, I love that teaching from God's Word.

And then, above all else, you've got to be ready for failure. You've got to be ready for a cul-de-sac. You've got to be ready for things to go wrong. And in life, sometimes they do. And realize that when they do, God is still God.

There's going to be some tears in the coming days. There's going to be some disappointments. There's going to be a lot of discussion. There's going to be counseling. But God is God. Now let's stand up and sing after we finish.

Seven Major Emphases of Operation Mobilization

Now, how many of you have ever seen this little leaflet? Seven major emphasis of Operation Mobilization. Okay. So this message can be short because you've already seen this. But I want to just review this, which represents some of the most basic.

This is a week for some of the basics. And a lot of this has to be relatively quick because we've got to move on. After years and years of wrestling and teaching so many things, we decided to sum up some of our basic teaching.

Now you'll find on the free literature table the OM doctrinal statement because there's another message I'd like to give, and there's not time for that, called the major doctrines that we believe in Operation Mobilization.

And some of that will be touched in other sessions. But I'd like you to study that doctrinal statement because we hope that you're aiming in that direction. And of course without sound doctrine and basic Bible doctrine, which is important, these other emphases can go off balance.