A True Witness #2 — Ernest C. Reisinger

I wanted to say a few words this morning, if I may, about a couple of books, because I believe that literature is one of the best ways of evangelizing. And I think it's particularly true for busy laymen, busy doctors, lawyers, people in business.

If they learn to use literature, first of all, it opens up a lot of discussion. I wouldn't know how to witness, hardly, without literature. And I have a three or four or five-fifth all the time. I have to keep remembering which book which fellow has.

And I found it a great help myself in personal evangelism and personal ways to use good literature. And we have some things. For instance, there probably wouldn't be a man here that doesn't have a friend that we speak of in his absence, something like this.

Well, you know, Joe is a wonderful fellow. He's moral. He's a good family man. He's honest, nice fellow. But he's not a Christian. He has nothing to do with Christ and the Church. Now, probably every man has a friend, something like that.

I know I have a lot of friends like that. They just have nothing to do with Christ and the Church. But as far as the world is concerned, they're honest, reputable, some of the people I do business with.

Using Christian Literature to Reach Moral but Unconverted People

Here's a little tract called Almost a Christian, ideal for that kind of a person. And easy to give out. I've given it out like this in a conversation to say that, you know, you're so much like a Christian, I wonder if you've ever considered what a Christian is.

You're almost a Christian. And incidentally, it's by what I consider the greatest evangelist who ever put his feet in American soil, George Whitefield. The almost Christian. I commend it to you for you ought to have a half a dozen of them to use for your friends, like that.

Your neighbors. A lot of times a woman or a man will come to me and say, My husband is a wonderful, wonderful husband. A wonderful father to our children. He's a wonderful provider. I couldn't ask anything else.

But he's not a Christian. I say, have you ever talked to him about it? No. Well, it's a good place he is, something like that. Say, John, you know, I love you. And you're a wonderful husband. You're almost a Christian.

Have you ever considered it? It's easy to witness like that. So I commend that to you. Another one for the same kind of a purpose. People who are seemingly moral, but they're dead spiritually. J .C. Ryle wrote this little track, Alive or Dead.

Excellent for that kind of witness. And then a little book, one of our later books. In fact, it's one of our best. It's on the top five, isn't it, Jim? By the way, Mr. Eckerman is back at the book table.

Jim is not a book salesman by trade. He's an electrical engineer, a graduate of Penn State. But he loves literature work and loves to use this way of witnessing and serving Christ. He's working for about one-third of what he could be making as an electrical engineer to do this work.

So he's making quite a contribution every week, just what he doesn't get in pay to do this work. I hope you'll visit his bookstall. This is an excellent little book, and I'll tell you what for particularly.

Home Bible Studies as a Means of Evangelism

Another way of evangelizing. Home Bible studies to call in one or two families, even one or two families. People that you meet with and spend a lot of time just on baloney conversations. You could direct that and say to Mary and Joe, what do you say we have a little Bible study for four weeks, five weeks, six weeks?

And take some book like this and go through it. The Bible Tells Me So by R .B. Kuyper. And they'll not only be Christians in a general sense of the word, but if they really embrace all this, they'll be the right kind of Christians doctrinally.

And that might give you some positive, give you some good things to talk about as you go through. Another book that I want to especially say a word about back there. Probably many of you have this book, at least I hope you do.

Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God

Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God. Now I come from an Arminian background. So do you probably, because we're born Arminian. In case you didn't know it. Somebody asked me if I believed in the second blessing once.

I said, yes, I've had it. I was an Arminian and I became a Calvinist. But you know, when I used to do evangelistic, personal evangelism and witnessing to people, I used to use a little verse or half a verse, John 6, 37.

I used a half a verse. All that the Father cometh to me, I mean, he that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. I used to show that to sinners regularly and hope that they didn't read the part that was before it.

Because it starts right in the middle of the verse. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. And I skipped the other half of the verse and didn't want to match too many questions about it, in fact.

Well, one day when I had the second blessing, I used both parts of the verse because it's all there. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. That's true. He that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.

That's also true because it's in the Bible. But I used to have a little problem. And some people, you see, there's two kinds of evangelism that I see. It's kind of the people who are heavy on sovereignty and correct on it.

A lot of times there's no evangelism. There's no outreach to the world. They try to evangelize their children and all that sort of thing. But there's little outreach. Sometimes, not in every case, thank God.

And there's a real moving in another direction, I think, now for some of these things. Very encouraging to me. But the idea is that these people over here are the active people that say, Oh, if you believe in sovereignty, it kills evangelism.

Well, they don't know much about sovereignty. And, you know, this is the thing that brings that, I don't know, any book that brings those two halves of verses together and solves at least as much as it can be solved on the human side.

That great truth of the Bible, which the Bible is pregnant with, that God has a people and he has a predetermined plan and there is the doctrine of election. The Bible's pregnant with that truth. But it's also just as pregnant with the responsibility of man that we are to take the gospel, we're to pray, and all that.

I don't know any book that helps you with those two seemingly dilemmas to the human mind because you are not God. But they're both in the Bible. I think so much of this book that I'll tell you, I have given personally about 3 ,000 copies or more away to Bible school students, preachers, and Sunday school workers.

That's what I think of it. And I highly commend it to you, particularly on that particular area that we touched. So much for the books. I want to encourage you strongly to use literature. I've written a little track on used books to fight ignorance with a few suggestions in.

There's nothing profound, but it might be a helpful suggestion how you can use some literature to evangelize. Now, I think we'd better get down to the book of books instead of talking about it. Incidentally, my motive in giving out these books is to get people to this book.

And I hope that would be your motive, too. Not to divert people from the Bible, but to direct people to the Bible. Now, I had a wonderful plan when I came here last night. My plan was to talk about evangelism, the men of evangelism, the man himself.

That was supposed to be last night. And then this morning I was going to talk about the message of evangelism and consider some of the doctrinal aspects of our message. And then this afternoon I was going to talk about the methods and motives of evangelism.

Well, my little plan is kind of shot because I only got halfway finished last night and Bob Dendock's going to fire me if I don't finish this message, finish the other two points that I wanted to share last night.

So I'm in quite a dilemma. But I think I don't want to get fired because he hadn't paid me yet. And I wouldn't like to get fired at this point. So I think I'm going to try to listen to Bob Dendock and after spending some time in prayer this morning, I really feel that the Lord would have us just to continue on those two things.

Because most of the evangelism conferences and symposiums and the councils and the articles, usually it's on methods. About nine out of ten times if you go to these congresses and conventions on evangelism, you'll find that the main focus is on we've got some new method, we've got some new gimmick, we've got some new way of approach, we've got some new way to approach people or something like that.

And very little is said about the message, evangelism, methods. Well, there's lots on methods, but I'm talking about motives. Little about the message and little about the motives. This morning I do want to try to finish what we started last night.

And before we do, let's just bow and a word of prayer. And I want to say a word of review before we begin. Let us pray. O Holy Father, Righteous Father, Father of our Lord Jesus, we're here this morning as men because Thou hast first loved us and called us by Thy grace.

And we say with the songwriter, O to grace, how great a debtor. And Lord, we long to obey You. But we find we're so impotent that we need Thy power, Thy wisdom, and Thy strength. And as we're gathered this week, Lord, to consider that which You've made so plain in Your Word to go to all the world, assist us, speak to hearts about this grave, clear command of Your Word.

Hear us now and help us. For Jesus' sake, amen. Could you turn in your Bibles this morning, please? I want to read another passage. This is not the message, but I want to read another passage. Because, you know, I'm trying to kill a snake as I go along.

Sometimes I go places and I'm only there a week and a preacher says, boy, you sure caused a lot of problems. I say, well, I just chase out the snakes and you can spend a year killing them. But I do want to try to kill a snake as I go along.

Last night I read that passage. It ought to be enough. If it was nothing else in the Bible to show that witnessing is not for the spiritual admirals and generals but for us. Today I want to bring you another passage.

It's very clear on that same point before we get to the message. But it's very apropos to what we want to consider this week of Vanguardism. 2 Corinthians chapter 5, if you'll turn to it. And I want you to, I want to particularly call your attention to the us's and the we's in the passage.

When we come to the word us and we, I want you to notice this. And the thing I want you to notice particularly about that is this. That the same us's who have been reconciled, that's the ones who have been committed to the word of reconciliation.

So watch that as we read it. I'll call your attention to it as we come down the line. 2 Corinthians 5, 14. For the love of Christ constraineth us, holds us in. Because we thus judge that if one died for all then we're all dead.

And that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them and rose again. Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh. Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth we know him no more.

You and I don't know him after the flesh. We have not, we know him after the spirit but not after the flesh. And all things are of God who hath reconciled us. Now if you claim to be here, you say I'm reconciled.

All right, now watch it. All things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and hath committed unto, class? Us. Us. The ministry of reconciliation. That does away with spiritual admirals and spiritual generals.

That's us if you're reconciled. And I'm amazed to find as I go from church to church, the people who claim to have heard Jesus say come, but how few seem to hear him say go. How few. And I say this morning that the same crowd that he says come to, that's the crowd that he says go to.

Same one, you see it right here. He hath committed unto us, the ministry of reconciliation, to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto, class?

Us. Us. The word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. And so God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ's stead be ye reconciled to God, for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

A Personal Witness and the Power of Ordinary Christians

I said last night that I'm here on the human side because somebody obeyed Christ. Somebody obeyed Christ. Somebody believed that Christ, when he said all the world, going into all the world, wasn't speaking of, that's not a foreign mission text necessarily.

I know you think of it as foreign and home missions, but you show me that in the Bible and I'll learn something at this conference. I don't find that great distinction in the Bible, home missions and foreign missions.

I don't find that, I haven't found it yet. The only kind of home missions I know is when you get somebody between the front door and the back door and you start telling them about Jesus, that's home missions.

Everything else is foreign. Some of it's just farther than others, that's all. It's just a matter of distance, it's not home missions and foreign missions. I know we use that, but I don't see that. When Jesus said go into all the world, as I mentioned last night, you have a world and I have a world and that's the world that he sends me to.

Thank God the man that he sent to me had a world. It wasn't very big, it was a construction job. Then I hear somebody say, oh, but it takes a special kind of people. May I remind you tonight that my dear friend Elmer that pointed me to the Lamb of God, as far as this world was concerned, he was a little nobody.

Couldn't speak in public, could hardly pray in public. Hadn't taken Dale Carnegie's course on how to make friends and influence people. Oh, there's nothing wrong with that course, but he hadn't taken it.

Didn't have any of those things that draw up to men naturally. No natural attraction whatsoever. Didn't have all his hair, didn't even have all his teeth. But God used him, God can use you. I remember I went to his funeral, I'll tell you about this.

After the Lord, in his mercy, saved me, I corresponded with my friend all the rest of my life while he lived. I remember one day I got that telegram from his little town in the coal region, not so far from here, that he had gone on to be with his reward.

And I said to my wife, even though I was very busy, I said, we must go and pay our last respects. So that day we left. We had about a hundred miles to drive or something like that. And that day when we left, it was very quiet.

My wife and I didn't talk much the way to that funeral. And I'm sure that she was thinking about some of the things that I was thinking about. Namely this, all the blessings that had accrued to us because somebody told us about Jesus.

Well, we were early at the funeral director's home. The fact is, we were the first ones there. And in that, I remember going up to the casket, lifting my heart to God in prayer. There was no one there.

It wasn't a case of advertising piety. But just thank God that he sent somebody my way with the gospel. It was about 20 or 24 chairs at the most. They didn't expect many people to come to that funeral.

I suppose it was obvious to me. But as we sat there, soon those chairs were filled. And the assistant funeral director brought in more chairs and more chairs. And finally that room was filled. It wasn't a great big auditorium, but it was a decent sized room.

They took back a sliding door and there was another room and they filled that. And there were chairs in the hall. And before the service started, I reached over and whispered to my wife, I said, honey.

I said, something's happened here that they have not anticipated. It's obvious to me. And so after the service, Elmer didn't have any children, but he raised two boys. And I'd only ever met one of them.

But the one that I met, the one that I knew, I went to him directly and I said to him, Jack, are these Elmer's relatives, friends? He said, Ernie, I don't know most of these people. And I started to mill through that crowd.

And as I milled through that crowd, just getting skips of little conversations, I found others there, like myself, that he had told about Jesus. Today, I'm sure that I could take you to Smithfield, where there's men on the mission field.

I could take you to churches where there's men in the pulpit. I could take you to churches built and being built. As a result, yes, of his witness. It goes on. Of his witness. So don't tell me you don't have the personality.

There's something else wrong with you. Don't tell me you don't have the formal education. You don't know much about the Bible. He wasn't a great theologian. He didn't know the difference between eternal security and social security.

Hardly. But he knew God. He knew what Jesus had done for him. So, when I was on that mountain that day, it's only natural that I would be praying such a prayer. Lord, what did he have? What did he have that caused me to want to know you?

Because I wanted to emulate that aspect of Elmer. Last night, I got the two things that I put on my summary sheet that day, after a day on the mountain. The first thing that I could say, and this was on the top of my list after I reminisced for almost a day, just bringing to mind the thoughts I had, the things I said, the things I did, the things he said, the way he acted.

Believe it or not, on top of that list was what I told you last night, the power of a holy life. The second thing was a passion for my soul. I'm amazed at the Christians who don't care about sinners. I'm amazed at the Christians who have no love for sinners, a little bit.

Because I truly believe that evangelism at its best, witnessing at its best, at its purest, is nothing less and nothing more than an overflow of a man's devotion to Christ. That's the purest witness. Well, I remember talking about the lack of Christian concern.

I remember in our town, I told you about the lawyer I used to pray with. Well, several mornings after I'd leave him, I'd go to my office and there was a fellow, he had a little old cart with two wheels on, and the spokes were wired together, and what he used to do was get the rubbish back to the restaurant.

He'd get about 75 cents or a dollar to haul that to the dump for the restaurant. And I'd pass this fellow. And you know, getting off your knees, praying for God to help you to care for sinners, and then passing this fellow every day, it started to get with me.

And I'd say, yeah, I just now prayed, God help me to care, and here I go by this fellow every morning. So one morning, what he did with it, he bought wine. And some of the winos were too lazy to even, he was something to admire about this fellow, at least he earned his wine.

So the winos would wait up at the place, up at the liquor store, and he'd get back with his 75 cents or a dollar. Now they'd mix something with it, I'm not sure what. And so he'd come back and they'd wait.

So this morning, it was in the fall. The reason I remember it was in the fall, because when I got him in the car, he didn't have a hanky, and I had to give him my hanky, you know. And I got him in the car and I said, come here, Pop.

I said, I want to talk to you. I said, you know, I've been past you every morning. And I said, I'm a debtor to you. Boy thought I was going to give him some money. He said, see him spark up. I said, I'm a debtor to you.

I said, I've got his name and everything. I told him how God in his mercy had mercy on me and talked to him about Jesus. Left him out and went on to work. About two days later in the evening paper, I saw on the paper Jim Cameron in the hospital.

Somebody hit him with a car and broke his leg. So I thought, well, let's give me another shot at him, and I live near the hospital. So I go over to the hospital and I find him in the hospital. And he needed to shave.

And so next time I go back, I shave him. And I'm talking about Jesus to him while I'm shaving him. He listens. But about the second time I went back to visit him, there was another man in the room. And as I entered the door, the fellow says, come in.

He says, come in. So I went down and he says this. He says, you're a Christian, aren't you? I said, yes. He says, so am I. He says, I'm trying to get out of this room. He says, I've asked the nurses. He says, I don't even want to go to the hospital.

He said, I want to get away from that fellow. He said, he swears and he curses and he does. And I said, that's too bad. I said, God's put a mission field at the foot of your bed. You're a Christian and you want to get away.

Oh, there must be some passion. I said that last night. The third thing I put on my summary sheet, and that brings us up to the day, was Elmer prayed for me. Elmer prayed for me. The first time I ever met his wife.

The first time. This is what she said. She said, I didn't know who this Ernie Reisinger was, but she said, I hope he would soon move or get converted. I said, Mrs. Albright. I said, Mrs. Albright. I said, that deserves a little explanation.

I said, tell me about it. And then she told me this. She says, on many occasions, my husband, before he would eat his warm meal, when he'd come home from work, we both rode in the same car. She said, he'd go off to his bedroom.

And she said, I'd go off to the bedroom and listen outside the door. And she said, I'd hear him crying out to God for somebody called Ernie Reisinger. You see, somebody prayed for me. I don't know the relationship between a sovereign God and the cry of his people, nor do you.

And don't bother trying to get the theologians to tell you that relationship because I don't understand it. But the fact that I don't understand that relationship does not mean that the Bible is not clear that there is some relationship between a sovereign God and the cry of his people.

I look in the Old Testament and I see, without exception, the men of the Old Testament prayed. Daniel prayed three times a day. David, the Psalms, is just all praise. Nehemiah, that great worker, prayed.

You name the servant of God in the Old Testament, you'll see without exception they prayed. I find in the New Testament, I move on to the New Testament, I find that our Lord Jesus prayed no less than seventeen references in the New Testament that Christ prayed.

The great apostle, Paul, there's almost in every epistle recorded some of his prayers, recorded what he prayed. And then we have those cases where he requests prayer. Brethren, pray for me, said the great apostle.

And if he needed it, how about little penis like you and me? And it wasn't this kind of burbies that we say, well, pray for me, I'll pray for you. Amen, brethren, pray for me. Not only do I see it in the Old Testament, I see it in the New Testament.

Though I don't know that relationship, I know it exists. I see it in the New Testament. Let me say something else. I look at the church history and I read those men that you and I long to emulate, those men we esteem as giants of our faith, those great men like Calvin and Knox, why, the queen feared John Knox's prayer more than she did the army.

Luther, without exception, the men who've left any marks on the sands of time for Jesus that we have a record of, our men that pray. I move on one more step. For a couple years, I've been going around from church to church trying to encourage laymen to witness and giving some little exhortations.

Best I know how, I meet a lot of preachers, a lot of laymen. And let me tell you, not only in the Old Testament and the New Testament as I look at church history, but the men who are making any marks on the ice for Jesus today.

The churches where I've been in are places where somebody's praying. Why did he pray for me? Well, he had a Bible. Old Elmer had a Bible. Thank God he hadn't taken any of these personal evangelism courses where you run up to somebody and in three minutes you got them saved.

Twelve, eight. Some of them in my house. Three weeks ago, he said, I want to tell you this. He said, we got an eight-minute approach and a 20-minute approach. I'm not joking. I'm serious about that.

He said, what do you want me to give you? I'm not sure about the minutes. It might have been 12 and 20 or eight and 12. But that was it. I read in another great period article, West says you ought to be able to do this in three minutes.

Well, I thank God he hadn't taken any of those courses. But he had a Bible. And he got his course of evangelism from the Bible. That's why he prayed. And he had a Bible that told him something about me.

In fact, if he learned more about the Bible from me than I knew about myself. That's why he prayed. He had a Bible and what the Bible told him about me was not so good. Because the Bible told him that I was deaf and couldn't hear.

And the Bible told him that I was blind and couldn't see. And he learned from the Bible something worse than that. That I was dead in the trespasses of sin. That's why he prayed. He didn't have any confidence in me.

He didn't have any confidence in his salesmanship evangelism. But he had confidence in a God who was able to take the wax from dead sinners ears. He had confidence in a God who was able to take the scales from their blinded eyes.

He had confidence in a God who was able to raise the dead. That's why he prayed for me. Don't you tell me you're Calvinist if you don't pray. But anybody in this world that believes what they're meant to believe about sinners?

Anybody in this world that's meant to believe what they're meant to believe about God converting sinners? I'll tell you that man ought to be the greatest man on prayer. Don't you tell me Calvinism kills prayer.

You don't have it right. You might have a theological, academic acquaintance with Calvinism but you don't have an acquaintance with Paul's Calvinism. It drove him to pray. Don't you tell me about your Calvinism if it doesn't drive you to pray.

Don't talk to me about it. It's academic. It's a theological, intellectual attempt to certain great biblical truths but you don't have that kind of Calvinism that Paul did. If anything in this world that ought to drive you to intercede for people is when you pick up this Bible and learn about their condition.

He prayed for me. He knew that if ever I'd be saved God, God! Not some hyper salesmanship was going to convict me but God had to convict me of sin. He knew from the Bible that God had to convince me who Jesus is.

How do people learn who Jesus is? How did Saint Peter learn who Jesus was? By some trick. Some evangelistic trick or gadget. That's not how Peter learned who Jesus was. And let me tell you every sinner outside of hell can only learn who Jesus really is the same way Peter learned.

Want me to read it to you? Matthew 13, Matthew 16 rather, the beginning of verse 13. We have a record how Peter learned who Jesus was. This is how Peter learned it. Listen. When Jesus came to the coast of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am?

Good question. Who do they say that I am? What do they say? The disciples answered and this is what they said verse 14. Some say thou art John the Baptist, some Elias, and others Jeremiah for one of the prophets.

He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? That's bringing it a little closer home. Not what other people say. What do you say? And then we have that classic answer of Peter. People usually stop here.

We have that great answer. Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. How did you find out Peter? Are you a little more intellectual than the other people who said I'm Jeremiah for one of the prophets?

Are you more intellectual? Are you a little sharper? Are you a little keener? Are you a little better morally that they could all miss me and say I'm Jeremiah for one of the prophets or something else?

How are you so keen that you can come up with an answer like that? Next verse tells you. Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee.

You can't get that revealed by flesh and blood. Flesh and blood can't reveal that fact. You didn't learn it like that, Peter. But my father, which is in heaven, that's how Peter found out. Oh, you say that's just an isolated text.

No, not an isolated text. That's exactly how Saint Paul found it out. And I'm not going to take time to turn to it this morning, but if you want to find out how Saint Paul found out who Jesus was, read Galatians 1, 14, 15, 16, right in along there, and you'll find something like this.

When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach it. If you know all about Christ, you can know all about theology and still be a stranger to Christ in your heart. I say to you this morning that Elmer prayed because he knew that I had to be convinced who Jesus was and only God could do that.

That's why he prayed for me. And so he knew that only God can convict me. Only God can bring conviction on people. He knew that only God could convince me who Jesus was. And he knew that only God could convert me.

That's why he prayed. That's why he prayed. You know, you can learn a lot from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress on Evangelism. I've learned an awful lot from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress on Evangelism.

I just love to see the way that Bunyan's evangelist dealt with a seeking sinner. You remember, here's a seeking sinner burdened with that burden of conviction. That's the picture on his back. And he meets Bunyan's evangelist and he said to Bunyan's evangelist, I see by the book in my hand that I'm going to die.

He said, I see that after this is a judgment. And I'm not willing to do the first or prepared to do the second. Bunyan's evangelist pointed to what he called the wicked gate. He said, see yonder wicked gate?

That's the way to get in. The pilgrim said, no, I don't see it. He couldn't see. He said, you see yonder shining light? Oh Bunyan, you're saying God has put a little light in this path and if he puts a little light on your path, follow the light you have.

He said it will lead you to that gate. But you see an all beautiful picture of conviction. Now I'm not, Bunyan didn't say everybody went through the slough of the swamp. One of the wonderful things about Pilgrim's Progress, when you get to the second generation, Christians, they were catechized.

They were catechized. They all had to be converted. He's a beautiful picture of his four sons. So what's the third thing I put on my list? What did Elmer have on the human side? He prayed for me and I just shared with you why he prayed.

Patience in Personal Evangelism

One more thing I put on my list that day on that big old legal pad and that is patience. Patience. He had patience with me. Now I wish I could tell you how much patience I had this morning, but I'd be like the fellow who wrote the book on humility and how I changed.

I prayed for him and I needed him. But when I was first converted I had less patience spiritually with people than I do now. You know I had so little patience that I thought, boy when I get home I'm going to get my mother, my brothers, my sister, I'm going to get them all in the living room.

I was a few miles away from home, a couple hundred miles away from home and I thought, I'm going home and I'm going to tell them what happened and they're all going to become Christians. Some of you know what I mean don't you?

I didn't even get them all in the living room let alone all tell them. See I didn't want to waste time by, I had so little patience I didn't want to waste time by one at a time I just thought I'd tell them all and they'd all become Christians.

Well I got a couple of them in there and I, it didn't take me very long to tell them because I, I didn't, you know, I told them everything I knew and it didn't take me very long. But I knew that something happened down here that changed me outside too, changed my habits and changed a lot of things.