Witnessing for Jesus — Arthur Blessitt

Witnessing Through Joy, Prayer, and Perseverance

Are you ready to go tonight? Oh, you don't know what I'm going to do tonight, do you? Everybody's waiting. We had a Jesus cheer last night, but let's get more conservative tonight, okay? I didn't wear my blue jeans.

I dressed up real nice for you. We'll get a little more conservative. Let's stand up, okay? And we're not going to do anything wild like a Jesus cheer. All I'm going to ask you to do is just raise your hand and say hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Let's try it one more time. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Glory to God. Amen. Just turn around and tell somebody you love them, okay? You love them. I love you, preacher. I love you. And I love you.

God bless you. All right, you can stop. Hold it, hold it, hold it. Don't get too carried away. Some lady back here behind me, I heard her say, this is getting to be fun. You can be seated. It is really wonderful to be here in the middle of this fabulous ice storm.

Isn't that great? I mean, I am so excited. It's great to be outdoors just to see the living Christmas trees, right? Those trees just glistening there in the lights. Ice all over them. I grabbed some ice off of one coming in here tonight and had me an icicle on the way into the church.

It's just great. What a beautiful day. And don't you ever say how terrible or try to pray God out of sending this beautiful ice storm. So many people, well, if we had a better day. Hey, this is the day that the Lord hath made.

We will rejoice and be glad. I never have heard them counseling a football game because it's snowing up in Minnesota. Have you? They are just getting the snow all over them and still rolling those old balls.

I can get excited about all this ice. I remember carrying the cross one time in Italy and it was just doing this. And I was in the mountains and there was no place to spend the night. And it was cold, wind blowing, freezing and raining.

And I had icicles, you know, forming and cold. And another guy, Mike Upton, was walking with me and we tried to wrap up in newspaper and it didn't do any good. And finally, I mean about midnight, it is so cold and I'm just literally shaking and just trembling.

And Mike said, I think we're going to die of shock, you know. And I said, I don't know. I said, Lord, remember you said in the book of James, Elijah prayed and it rained not for seven years. And he prayed and it rained.

And I said, Lord, like Elijah, in the name of Jesus, stop the rain and the wind. And there was a flash of lightning and a big old thunderbolt rolling and it rained twice as hard. I said, I love you anyway.

A little water isn't going to drown me out. Bless that poor farmer that needs his crop watered. I've got to take it so he can get blessed. But that's how I feel about serving God is whatever God sends our way, it is good.

Rejoice in the Lord always. And again, I say rejoice. That rejoicing is to be constant. And our lips are to praise Him and thank Him in all things to the Lord. Now, today, I want to share with you about witnessing for Jesus.

The Call to Share Jesus Christ

And when I say that, many of you are going to kind of get a ding. Oh, here we go again. Always supposed to be a witness. Now, we're going to talk about the most important thing in the world, and that is sharing Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords with somebody else.

But we're going to be excited about doing it tonight. Just like I'm excited about finding the cross. Did they really call that magazine? And what did they want? Well, if they lost it, bless the poor Southwest Airline, I'll fly them out of here.

It's not their fault. You know, just don't know what to do with crosses, I guess. But anyway, I can't wait to get downtown. We've had a good day today. I mean, at the high school and then with the men and then somebody's business down there.

And people have been saying, did you realize that's about the worst sinner in town? Great guy to me, you know. We've been having a good time today with saints and sinners. And just so if you've got any in town you know of, send them downtown tomorrow.

There was one fellow that came today and to the meeting late this afternoon brought a friend along, called him up, said, listen, I got something I want you to see. And the guy thought he was on a business deal looking at land.

Now that's the truth. I think the brother may be here now. He got his buddy to come. The guy didn't even know who I was. And he comes in and he's using some real nice language there. And some of the Christians nearly faint.

You know, that guy thought he was in there, in an oil company, thought he was a business deal of some sort. And the guy finds out I'm the one carrying the cross. He's doing what? And oh, we had a great time.

So tomorrow, I mean, call them up and say right out there in front of the Hilton, I think they've hit something. There may be oil out there. There's something good in that park out there, man. Get all these little oil guys out there looking with their old checkbooks trying to buy that piece of land and we'll get them saved, okay?

Tomorrow. And all these ladies, y 'all come out there with us tomorrow if you can. Doesn't matter if it's raining, storming, sleeting, snowing, sun shining. We're going to give the devil a fit in downtown Midland tomorrow.

And it's going to be dangerous to be lost. You just, I mean, if your husband's lost, say, honey, I want to go shopping downtown about 3 o 'clock. Why go out here to the mall? I want to go downtown and get them walking around those streets tomorrow and we'll pick them off.

It'll be great. And those of you getting out of school, you come on down as soon as you can about 3 .30. We'll be meeting again down in that center area wherever it is and start out here at the church, carry the cross in here tomorrow night and then no telling what we'll do Saturday morning.

We'll take it one day at a time. I want to carry it right in the middle of that mall. I don't know. Whatever. We'll just hit it wide open. Some of the businessmen said, man, I'll bail you out of jail.

I said, well, will you go with me to jail? Yep. So no telling what we'll do Saturday. We'll announce it tomorrow night. But I want to talk and share with you about communicating Jesus Christ in the world.

How many of you are saved? Raise your hand. Hundreds of you. The others of you will soon be saved, we pray tonight. But there are hundreds of us saved here tonight. Now, I believe everybody that's saved has the want to to tell others about Jesus because I believe it's impossible to be saved without caring for the lost because when you're saved, who is in you?

The Holy Spirit of God. Christ is in you through His presence. And what is the desire of the Holy Spirit to bring others to Jesus Christ that they might be saved? What is the desire of Jesus? Jesus said, I have come to seek and to save those who are lost.

So the desire of the Spirit is for the lost to be saved. The desire of Jesus is for the lost to be saved. The desire of God the Father is for the lost to be saved. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.

So God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit desires for the lost to be saved. So if God desires it and His presence is in us, our inherent desire is to tell others about Jesus. But the devil has done a big brainwashing job on us.

He's given us the impression that outside the four walls of the church there's old grizzly bears out there that'll devour us every time you mention the name of Jesus. Hadn't he intimidated us this way?

You go to class just with somebody. You work on the job with somebody and they're fine and you enjoy being around them. You start to witness and suddenly you think they're a lion and you're a little pussycat and you say, I can't do it.

I'm scared to death. I tonight want to share with you to help you get free to do what the Holy Spirit wants you to do. Now many of you have used your mind trying to figure out where there's oil all around here.

You've used your mind to figure out how to do one thing or another. I believe God put our mind in us that we might use creative ideas and use our mind, our heart, and the work of the Holy Spirit to share Christ with everybody.

I believe everybody will listen to Jesus if we are concerned and sincere enough to share Christ with them. Now I'd like to just start out by trying to help those who are timid. Now I'm sure that there aren't any in this church, right, that are timid.

Creative Ways for Timid Christians to Witness

Have you ever visited another city? I've lost my Jesus stickers. Where are they, Joel? Can you get me some Jesus stickers? Just bring me the whole row. Oh, here they are. I knew I'd never go without a sticker.

But now this witnessing is designed for those who are timid. Some in Odessa, I hear, are timid Christians. None in Midland. So tomorrow, if you are a timid Christian and you say, I want to tell others about the Lord but I just don't have the...

I just can't do it. All you've got to do tomorrow... Now we brought 3 ,000 Jesus stickers tonight so everybody could get one. And what we'd like for you to do tomorrow is don't be a fanatic, okay? Don't be fanatical.

Peel the sticker off slowly. And just take the sticker. When you go to work at the bank or at your oil office or there in your high school or at the university, wherever it is, calmly place it on the end of your nose and just go about your daily business and just stand there serving customers or anybody else that comes in.

And it won't be long till somebody says, Did you know there's a red thing on the end of your nose? And you just say, I'm sorry, but I'm a timid Christian and I have a hard time witnessing for the Lord.

And I thought, this way I'd somehow let you know. Now, some of you are sitting out there saying, That is stupid. That's dumb. I can witness better than that. Then do it, all right? You got caught, didn't you?

If you've got a better plan for winning your office to the Lord, do it. I'm not saying you've got to put a sticker on your nose, but if you can't think of anything else, I mean, if you're so embarrassed you won't go around your neighborhood and tell them how to be saved, then just put a big balloon over your house and say, We're embarrassed, but we're saved.

And the neighborhood will find out somehow we've got to get loose enough to let the Word start spreading that Jesus Christ is alive. I love these little red Jesus stickers. I devised them years ago to give out in Hollywood, back in the back alleys and all where the drug addicts and drug dealers are all dealing drugs and everything.

And I'd go down in the alley and I'd say, Hey, man, y 'all want some reds? And they'll say, Yeah. How much are they? I say, Free, got paid for 2 ,000 years ago. They don't drop very well, but they sure stick.

And you can just get out and share Jesus Christ everywhere. Now, sometime you say, Well, if I was carrying a cross, like Arthur Blessed, I'd have a way to witness, but I'm not. Sometime you can carry a cross and they don't even know what you're talking about.

I was carrying the cross through England and a news reporter was writing a story and the photographer took pictures and was ready to take the pictures and there were two guys walking with me. And as the photographer got ready to take the picture, he said, Would you mind standing there holding your cross with your two disciples on either side of you?

I said, No, no. They're not my disciples. They're the Lord's. He said, Pardon me, would you have your two Lords stand on either side? I was in Northern Ireland and you know they've been fighting in Northern Ireland for more than a decade.

I mean, they're just fighting and killing and there's barbed wire everywhere and roadblock barricades they put up and all kind of the children growing up in the middle of these wars. And I was giving out the Jesus stickers and I'd stuck them around and one day one of the students went to school and he was wearing a Jesus sticker and his teacher saw it and she said, What is that you're wearing?

She thought she'd get a witness out of him. She loved the Lord. He said, Oh, it's a wee badge, he said. And she said, Well, where did you get it? He said, Oh, some guy stuck it on me. And she said, Well, what was he doing?

He said, I don't know, dragging half of a barricade down the road. But we've got to in this world communicate, right? If we're not communicating and getting the message through, no matter what we're doing, it's in vain.

I think the preacher read there when I put the Jesus sticker on Billy Graham last Sunday night. Some of you all were telling me about it. I was in Northern Ireland and Billy Graham had called and wanted me to take him out to meet with some of the people, the IRA and the Protestant leaders.

And I had been over there a long time and knew them all, so I agreed to arrange these meetings and take him out. But with nobody, no bodyguards, no news media, just quietly. And then the next day he could have a press conference, but we were just going along.

And I remember getting out and he said, Man, this is your territory, not mine. I'd never been out in anything like this. What do I do? And I'd stuck a Jesus sticker, and he'd put a Jesus sticker on, and he stuck it somewhere down like that.

And I was giving him a strip of stickers to witness with and tracks, and we were putting them in the pillboxes where the British troops were, and zigzagging down through the middle of the battlefield.

And I saw his sticker down here like this. I said, Hey, you don't put your sticker down there. You've got to put it right here. And he said, Why? I said, You see, if one of those snipers decides to shoot you, he'll zero in on the red dot.

And if he hits you here, it'll take you all day to die. If it's right there, you'll go like that. He put that sticker up there like that. He never took it off, you know. He kept looking around. We were going down the road, and he said, Do I see guns up there on top of that building?

I said, Yep, they're looking at you, but they won't hurt you. I told them you were coming. But I remember going into Australia, and as I went into Australia with a cross, they had a quarantine on wood products.

You can't just bring wood into Australia. And the customs officials had me stopped. And they said, What is it? I said, It's a cross. They said, It's made out of wood. And I said, Yes. They said, It'll be 21 days quarantine.

Where'd you come from with it? I said, Fiji and Western Samoa, American Samoa. He said, We've got to quarantine it. And I said, Well, let me talk to the head man. So they got the main man out, and I'm trying to talk to him.

And as I said last night, my motto is, if ever in doubt, preach. So they're fixing to take my cross. And I said, They're waiting right outside the news because I'm going to walk across Australia. And they started to take the cross.

I said, Let me share with you, Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins. And He rose again, and He ascended into heaven, and He sent the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is convict of sin, righteousness, and judgment.

I've been carrying this cross around the world. I've seen thousands saved around this cross. I said, You take the cross in that customs room. And I said, God's Spirit's going to get you. In 21 days, I said, every one of you will be saved.

He said, Just take it on in. Sharing Christ. I was on the airline, and I was ready. I got so tired of hearing those stewardess say, In case of an emergency, this gizmo will drop from the top. Grab it and breathe normally.

Have you ever thought how normally you'd breathe if that thing's heading down? And so I was set. And the stewardess said, In case of an emergency, I hollered, Pray! She said, Would you mind restraining yourself?

I said, If this thing starts down, we're going to need more than oxygen. She said, Do you think it might? One night I was asleep on the plane, and it was kind of a milk run, stopping at all these different little airports.

And I was asleep on the plane, and the stewardess shook me, and she said, What is your final destination, sir? Well, you know me. I told her, and she liked to drop her chart. I think we've got to start having a Jesus vocabulary.

Sharing, talking about Jesus. I don't understand why people think it's so abnormal to witness. I was in a restaurant a while back, and I sat down to eat. And I was as backslidden as I could. I had a pocket New Testament in my pocket, and my tracts and everything in my pockets, and reading the newspaper.

And this man, I'd never seen him in my life. He rushes up and he said, Who won? I said, Jesus. He looked at me. He said, No, no, who won the ball game? I said, They don't excite me, but the Lord does.

He said, You're weird. Now, he didn't think he was weird. He thought I was. See, somehow we've got it all messed up. We thought it's abnormal to share about the Lord Jesus Christ. But I want you to know that I believe God can use anybody.

And God wants to use everybody for His glory. The Lord, several years ago, set me free and really changed some ideas in me through a little lady who called me on the phone. I'd been on a secular television program in Los Angeles.

God Uses Ordinary Believers

And this was about 12 years ago, 13 years, 14 years ago, I guess it was, back in the late 60s. And this lady called on the telephone and she had this high little shrill voice and she said, My name is Miss Bean.

Bean. And she had this shrilly little voice and I could picture a string being. And I was tickled. And she was going away and she said, I saw you on TV and I want to come down there and help you save the hippies.

And I said, Oh, well, thank you. God bless you. Pray for us. She said, No. I want to come down there and help you. And I'll be done. Tell me where I can find you. And I said, Just pray for us. God bless you.

I said, You know, you love the Lord. I tried to put her off. And I just pictured a little old lady that wasn't really hip for the sunset strip and Hollywood, it just didn't seem she fit. And I just put her off and put her off.

Finally, nothing do. God told me to come down there. And I said, Well, Friday night, you can just bring some pies. Cook up some pie and cake and bring it down. We give out free food to the hungry on the sunset strip.

Just bring it down. You know, here I am relegating her to the little pies because I figured that's all she could do. We didn't get her in our building down there. Boy, she'd likely get stoned. So on Friday night, I forgot all about her.

And I hear somebody rap on my door and says, Are you in there? Ah, you're blessed. And I was, I just, I thought, Oh, Lord, forgive me. I think that is a skinny little frill lady. And her, Ms. Bean. And I said, Is that you, Ms. Bean?

She said, Yes. So I opened the door and I told this in her presence so I am not talking behind her back. I mean, she is terrific. You'll hear the story, the rest of it in a moment. I mean, opened the door and there is the skinniest little lady I've ever seen.

Most people in her shape would be in the hospital being fed intravenously. She is just bones, just zap. And she's standing there grinning from ear to ear with a big old Bible in her arm. And I said, You are Ms. Bean?

And she said, Yes. And I mean, I was just tickled. And I said, Are you just like I pictured you? And she just, I love you, author, bless you. And she just grabbed me and gave me a big hug. And she had her dress all the way down to her ankles, you know, little long kind of widow woman looking dress.

And I, oh, nobody on the strip was dressed like her. And I said, Did you bring the pie? She said, Yes, I sure did. She said, I'll go get somebody to help me. And so I walked. She just wheeled around, walked into our main room.

And we had a place called His Place on the Sunset Strip. Drunks, winos, drug addicts, motorcycle riders, real grubby crowd. And she walked in there. A couple of old biker guys were sitting down. She walks up.

She said, Get up, boys, and come follow me. Let's get the pies. I thought they were going to stomp her. They get up, follow her out. And I'm standing there with our staff just, I said, They'll kill her.

They'll kill her. I don't know. I was apologizing. She called me on the phone, wanted to do something. She wanted to get pies. In a minute, she walked in and these big old guys, one guy was named Treetop, six foot seven inches tall, and his hair stood straight up.

He comes in. They got pies down their arm like this. Walk in, set them down. And she says, All you boys and girls, sit down. Boy and girls, everybody sits down. And she goes around and serves them a napkin.

We only bring in, we got day-old bagels and food, day-old food, the Jewish bakeries gave us. And they just come up there. They eat that old stale food. They're drunk and stoned anyway. And so it didn't matter.

And she's got them holding napkins in the floor. She went around serving them, and she'd say, You ought to get a haircut. Did you know that? You look like a girl. Get a haircut. I mean, I'd never seen.

I just knew they were going to kill her. Did you know everybody just sat there and looked at her? And she went running around there, and she served everybody, and she just stood over there. And when they finished eating, she said, Now get up and put your napkins over here in this trash can.

And they all put their napkins in the trash can. And then she said, I'm going witnessing. And she started out with this big old Bible and these two old biker guys, including Treetop, that had been with her.

Hey, listen. Better go look after that old lady, you know. And they trail out behind her to be her bodyguards down the Sunset Strip while she goes giving it. Let me tell you. That lady was a tiger for God and is.

I got down on my knees that night. I said, God, forgive me. Forgive me. I heard a thrill, little voice. I see an older lady who comes in with a long dress to her ankles and all these cool chicks on Sunset Strip and all these biker guys and grooving guys.

And I don't think there's anything for her but baking pies. That lady is a legend in Los Angeles. She is now the chaplain to two, three juvenile halls in Los Angeles. She has a badge that says Ma Bean for like Mama, Ma Bean.

She goes to the prison. She has a home that she brings in prostitutes who are converted to live in. The Chamber of Commerce out in her area voted and underwrote her building for a long time. That lady is a living legend.

They've had her on Real People and all these other kind of television programs. Ma Bean, who went out for the first time she'd ever done this when she came to... She had never done anything like that.

She heard me say on television, God needed workers, and she felt in her spirit, God, You've spoken to me. I'm going to answer Your call. And she is a legend. Thousands of people owe thanks to God their salvation to Ms. Bean and the work of Jesus Christ.

God will use you. I mean, He calls those who are able, but I think if you reject Him, He reaches down and gets somebody else like me. Some of you say, Arthur, you can't hardly preach. Well, you can see how hard up God is because He probably called you years ago and He'd be using you.

But I'm just free to volunteer, so He has to use Jesus' junk, I call it. But by His glory, He empowers us. There's a man in Hollywood. His name was Ron Bozart. Ran five nude nightclubs on the Sunset Strip.

Classy Cat, the phone booth, the extension, I mean, on and on. And eight years I witnessed to that man. I preached on the stage in that nightclub, the Classy Cat. Everyone, all five, I'd be in witnessing to him.

He'd say, Arthur, get up there and take five minutes and tell them about the Lord. He'd try to get me off of him to talk to them. And I'd stand up and preach and I'd say, everybody who wants to get saved, meet me over here at the corner of the bar.

And year after year after year, we saw dancers, bartenders, and managers converted and who are now in the ministry. As a matter of fact, the Dean of Theology who just died this year, Dr. Corbin of Oral Roberts University, his daughter was the topless dancer on the Sunset Strip.

Had turned away and at night, I didn't even know who she was, teaching Bible studies behind the stage. That girl committed her life to Jesus Christ and finally called her dad, changed life. She sang when I preached at Hell's Angel's funeral and she is now in full-time gospel music.

Has a brand new album out. I mean, gloriously living for God. But I kept preaching to Ron, witnessing to him. Finally, I came in from an overseas trip of carrying the cross. And when I'm gone from Hollywood, they just think you're off on a tour.

They say, how was your tour, Arthur? Because they go off on tours and they come back or they go off six months, make a film, come back. So when I come back, I'm back and Ron comes to me and he said, He said, It's about time, Ron.

He said, I said, I said, Takes at least three days to get your license in California. And anyway, we started calling around and figured out how we could do it, still legal. And we did the legal wedding.

But he wanted to get married in church. And I called my pastor and I said, I want to use the church building Sunday. I'm leaving Monday and Ron Bozart wants to get married. He said, Isn't that that guy down in...

I said, Yes, runs those clubs. But I said, Listen, he wants to get married and we're going to get him to church. And he said, Author, I don't know. The church might get upset. I said, Don't tell the church.

Just tell me. It's okay, preacher. And don't even announce it. Just have the custodian open the door and we'll get him married. You don't even have to come. I said, You keep everything theological and just let me preach.

I'm after getting people saved, you know. I can't straighten out all the past marriages and everything else. We got to start from here. And so anyway, we had the wedding called up. Man, I mean, we had a church about half full of topless dancers, old drunks and pimps and hookers and nightclub entertainment people and actors and actresses.

We had a great crowd. I mean, I might wave in bloody meat in front of a lion. I was ready for them. And Ron stands up at the front with Jerry and I said, Ron, I said, You wouldn't mind before the wedding really if I just kind of explained marriage from the Bible point of view?

Go ahead. Well, I mean, I started with Genesis and went through Revelation. And you give me an inch, I'd take a mile for God. And I preached the Gospel and Ron and Jerry are standing there. I mean, he can't pawn me off on anybody else.

And he's standing there committed. They've got to listen. I'm right in front of their eyes. Preach the Gospel. And finally I said, Ron, in front of God and before all these people, if you, and I know you do because I've witnessed to you so much night after night, year after year, if you will get down on your knees in front of this whole crowd and give your life to Jesus Christ.

You don't have joy. You don't have peace. And you'll have nothing till you have God. And He'll give you everything right now. And Ron with tears running down his cheeks got down on his knees and I said, Jerry, Jesus will change you too.

Shared with her. She got down on her knees and I got them married to the Lord and stood them up and then got them married to each other. I left the next day. I told him, I said, can I have the preacher come visit you?

Can I have any of my friends come follow you up? Let me tell the staff that you're saved. He said, Arthur, no. He said, I mean it with God, but somehow, and I don't recommend this. He said, I don't want.

I can't get involved in the church. I don't know. I mean business with Jesus though. I said, Ron, will you do one thing? Will you read a chapter a day out of the Bible and say, God, tell me what you want me to know in that chapter?

He said, yes. I was gone for a year overseas. Came back. Went right back down to the nightclub which is now called the Comedy Store on the Strip. And I said, where's Ron Bozart? They said, hadn't you heard Arthur?

He's got religion, they said. I said, where is he? I called him up. That man's on fire for God. Do you know what he's doing now? Pastoring a church in Mission Vallejo, California. He got to reading the Word of God.

God dealt with him. God got him out of all that. All those places shut down. He is a new man. God will use any of you. God will raise you up. Don't say, God, you can't do it. God, I am not available. God wants you.

He'll release you. You say, Arthur, you're dealing in all these extreme cases. What about the world that I live in? I believe this message tonight is perhaps the message that God can use to revolutionize this city.

Witnessing at Home and in Everyday Life

And we'll start right now with what I really want to deal with. Your house. Let's just look as though I were teaching it. Every one of you live in a home. How do you evangelize in your home? If I went to Africa, no, no, you're in your home.

Next time the telephone rings, answer it, praise the Lord, this is Mary, or this is Arthur, bless it, God bless you. Well, they'll hang up and then they'll dial again. They think they got the wrong number.

After three or four tries, they'll finally figure out it's you. They'll say, what's happened to you? I love the Lord and I dedicated my telephone to God and I just want to greet you in the name of Jesus.

Let me tell you, a greeting like that will change everything. Most of you answer the phone, hello, hello, John. You know, oh, what a difference it makes. God bless you. This is Arthur, bless it. And you'll have a witness right there through your telephone.

Another thing you can do with your telephone is call people. Call them and tell them about Jesus Christ. You read in the newspaper where someone has died or where somebody's been arrested or different things, call that person and call them on the phone and minister to them in the name of Jesus.

Another thing you can do with that telephone is start with A and dial all the way through to Z and tell everybody in the phone book about Jesus. You say, well, I don't know whether that'd work or not.

I'll tell you where it did work in the wintertime in January 1963. My wife and I were led by God to go to Elko, Nevada. It's cold in Elko. Snow down below zero. Wind blowing. Tried to knock on doors to start a church.

We were starting a church and nobody would keep their door open. Whammo! They'd shut it. My wife and I sat down hour after hour every day eight hours a day. We started with A and went to Z and whenever anybody would answer the phone we'd check it off.

When we shared Jesus Christ with them if they weren't there we'd dial back later and we shared Christ with everybody that had listened to us in that phone book. When we got to Z we had a church. Calvary Baptist Church.

It's still there today and 18 missions reach out all over North. Phone book and called everybody in that phone book led people of Jesus Christ went over to their house taught a Bible study. I'm telling you go to work in the phone book every one of you.

You know what we could do? Get everybody in this church to call everybody with your name your last name's first letter listed. In other words everybody with a B call everybody with a B in the phone book.

Okay? And everybody with an R call everybody with an R. Everybody in this city would get called many times and you just tell them I am a Christian I love the Lord and I feel like God wants me to call everybody in this phone book that's got my last name's letter and I want to tell you that Jesus Christ loves you and that you can know Him as your Savior.

And ask Him if you died right now do you have the assurance you'd go to Heaven? What a way to witness. Don't say the weather's too bad. You've got a telephone use it to witness and if you don't know anything else just dial 0 and talk to the operator.

It'll take them a month before they disconnect you and then you can go down to a pay phone and give them a dime and they'll give it back just for witnessing to them. There's no way to stop you. If you don't know anything else to do talk to the operators.