Participants: Pr. Dwight K. Nelson
Series Code: NP
Program Code: NP150905A
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00:16 From the highest of heights
00:19 To the depths of the sea 00:25 Creation's revealing Your majesty 00:33 From the colors of fall 00:35 To the fragrance of spring 00:41 Every creature unique in the song that it sings 00:47 All exclaiming Indescribable, uncontainable 00:53 You placed the stars in the sky 00:55 And You know them by name 00:59 You are amazing God 01:05 All powerful, untameable 01:09 Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim 01:15 You are amazing God 01:23 You are amazing God 01:31 You are amazing God 01:37 Indescribable, uncontainable 01:41 You placed the stars in the sky 01:43 And You know them by name 01:47 You are amazing God 01:54 Incomparable, unchangeable 01:57 You see the depths of my heart 01:59 And You love me the same 02:03 You are amazing God 02:10 All powerful, untameable 02:13 Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim 02:20 You are amazing God. 02:26 Amen. 02:53 I just want you to think of how good our God is, 02:55 as we sing this next song, and how great He is. 03:03 Our God is an Awesome God 03:07 He reigns from heaven above 03:11 With wisdom, pow'r and love 03:15 Our God is an Awesome God 03:19 Our God is an Awesome God 03:23 He reigns from heaven above 03:27 With wisdom pow'r and love 03:31 Our God is an Awesome God 03:35 Our God is an Awesome God 03:39 He reigns from heaven above 03:43 With wisdom pow'r and love 03:46 Our God is an Awesome God 03:50 Our God is an Awesome God 03:54 He reigns from heaven above 03:58 With wisdom pow'r and love 04:02 Our God is an Awesome God 04:05 Our God is an Awesome God 04:09 He reigns from heaven above 04:13 With wisdom pow'r and love 04:17 Our God is an Awesome God. 04:24 Amen. 04:30 Hosanna 04:36 In the highest 04:43 Let our King be lifted up 04:50 Hosanna 04:59 Hosanna 05:05 In the highest 05:12 Let our King be lifted up 05:19 Hosanna. 05:24 Everybody sing together, let's lift His name. 05:27 Hosanna 05:33 In the highest 05:39 Let our King be lifted up 05:46 Hosanna 05:53 Be lifted higher 05:58 Higher 06:00 Be lifted higher 06:05 Jesus You be lifted higher 06:11 Higher 06:14 Be lifted higher 06:19 Jesus, You be lifted higher 06:25 Higher 06:27 Be lifted higher 06:32 Jesus, You be lifted higher 06:38 Higher 06:40 Be lifted higher 06:46 Let our King be lifted up 06:53 Let our King be lifted up 06:59 Let our King be lifted up 07:06 Hosanna 07:13 Hosanna 07:17 In the highest 07:24 Let our King be lifted up 07:32 Hosanna. 07:44 Well, good morning, boys and girls, 07:45 on this Labor Day weekend. 07:47 Nice to see you all of you here. 07:51 Blast here all before summer is over, 07:54 for some of you, school starts this next week, 07:57 others have you, oops, you've already been in school. 08:00 All right, have a seat, have a seat because you know, 08:03 because this is the last Sabbath of summer. 08:08 I know we could have show-and-tell today. 08:10 Let's have a show-and-tell today. 08:12 So, okay, one last report on summer time. 08:16 One of the, one of the joys this summer was 08:18 we got to spend a few days 08:20 with our almost two year old granddaughter name Ella. 08:24 Oh, she's such a wonderful little girl. 08:26 And we had a glorious time, 08:28 the bonus was we got to spend some time 08:29 with her parents as well, that's not too bad, 08:31 so you kind of do it all together at the same time 08:34 but we're staying at Ella's other grandparents place. 08:38 And they have a big farm 08:39 and they have a blueberry patch. 08:42 Anybody know what blueberries are? 08:45 Do you like blueberries? I love them. 08:47 So let's go on a little trip. 08:48 I'm just gonna put 08:50 a bunch of pictures on the screen 08:51 and let's go with Ella to the blueberry patch. 08:54 Let's pick some blueberries together. 08:56 Let's see on the big TV here. There is granny. 08:58 That's Granny Karen and her little granddaughter, 09:01 our granddaughter Ella. 09:02 Hey, let's go to the blueberry. 09:03 Oh, Ella, do you have a bucket? 09:05 Oh, Ella's got her bucket, we're ready to go. 09:07 Hey, let's, ooh, look at those blueberries, 09:11 yum, yum, yum. 09:12 I love blueberries on top of cereal. 09:15 Ooh, and let's see, 09:17 it's Ella there with her mother Chelsea, 09:19 that's our little daughter-in-law, 09:21 pick, pick, pick, pick, pick. 09:22 We all have buckets pick, pick, pick, pick, pick... 09:25 I'm picking it along, we're picking it along 09:26 when all of a sudden boom, look at that! 09:31 Oh! 09:33 Oh! 09:36 What is that? 09:38 A snake! 09:39 That is the snake. 09:41 Is it a real snake? Yes. 09:44 Maybe, 09:46 if you're a birdie flying over and you love blueberries 09:49 and you see that snake on top of the blueberry bushes, 09:52 what do you think that birdie says, 09:54 I think, I've got the wrong address, 09:55 I'll got somewhere else. 09:57 So we kept picking and picking, and picking 09:59 and all of a sudden while we're picking 10:01 we came across this, oh, what is that? 10:05 That is a hawk. 10:07 In the distance there is an owl 10:08 but this one is the hawk. 10:10 Oh, if you're a little birdie and you love blueberries, 10:14 I want to get those blueberries, 10:16 I'm coming down. 10:17 Oh, there is a hawk, I'm gone. 10:20 So we're just picking along and all of a sudden, 10:22 oh, here comes a real one when all of a sudden, boom, 10:25 we look next picture, oh, ooh! 10:30 Turns out that's just a rubber, that's just a rubber snake. 10:33 Well, it looks pretty real, doesn't it? 10:35 Yeah, I wouldn't pick that either. 10:38 Isn't that something they put all these, 10:42 they put all these little fake creatures out 10:45 to keep the birdies away. 10:48 Ella, how do you do? 10:49 Let's see a picture of Ella now. 10:50 Oh, that's not bad 10:52 because 50% of them she was eating 10:54 so that's the other 50%, let me see. 10:57 Ella, are you happy? 10:58 Oh, there is papa's little girl, 11:00 look at her. 11:01 Are you thirsty, Ella? 11:03 Okay, let's go with daddy to get to the, to the spring. 11:05 Oh, there is the redheaded Kirk and his little girl. 11:09 Hey, pictures off the screen 11:11 because look at this is way Satan is, 11:13 God makes some beautiful fruit and you know what Satan does? 11:16 He says, I'm gonna, I'm gonna put some counterfeits, 11:18 I'm gonna put some fake distractions, 11:21 I put some fake distractions, they'll see the distraction 11:24 and they won't go for the fruit. 11:26 Jesus says, "No, no, come on, this is good fruit. 11:28 Come here, for the fruits of the spirit, 11:30 come here." 11:31 Satan says, "Oh, 11:32 another fake here, another fake. 11:34 He doesn't want us to get near the fruit 11:35 that Jesus has made for us, 11:37 but I'm so thankful that with Jesus nearby, 11:41 Satan is no more powerful than a blow up snake. 11:44 Nope, Jesus says, 11:45 "I want you to have this fruit." 11:47 And we get to have the fruit. 11:51 Aren't you glad Jesus made fruits? 11:53 At the end of the summer just wonderful fruit. 11:56 And aren't you glad, two hands up, two hands up, 11:58 aren't you glad that Jesus is our, 12:01 our friend who gives us the very best gifts, 12:04 the gifts of His fruit. 12:07 Oh, Jesus, fill our hearts with Your fruit. 12:10 Who wants to pray today and thank Jesus? 12:13 All right, Tony, you are the man today, 12:15 way to be there with that hand up first. 12:18 All right, let's bow our heads with Tony. 12:21 Let's close the... 12:23 let's close our eyes, fold our hands and, Tony, 12:25 thank Jesus for the gifts of His fruit. 12:29 Thank, dear Jesus, thank You for this day. 12:33 Thank You that we can come to church today. 12:36 And thank You for the fruit that You gave us 12:40 and all that we can do, amen. 12:44 Amen, thank you, Tony. Hey, don't go anywhere. 12:46 Shh, I promised you last week that you would get something 12:49 if you were really nice and quiet, 12:50 you were more than nice. 12:52 And Sherry stay right there. 12:54 And Sherry has prepared blueberries in plastic bags. 13:00 So and there will be people on this side, 13:03 people on this side, when you get them back, 13:05 you ask your mommy 13:07 when it's time to stain your shirt, all right? 13:08 So say, is this the time to stain my shirt? 13:12 Happy Sabbath to you, a happy Labor Day. 13:15 You can go over here. You can go over here. 13:17 You can go over there. 13:19 Help yourself take turns, there you go, one a piece. 13:24 God bless you, guys, happy Sabbath. 13:39 I love to tell the story 13:45 Of unseen things above 13:51 Of Jesus and His glory 13:56 Of Jesus and His love 14:02 I love to tell the story 14:08 Because I know 'tis true 14:14 It satisfies my longing 14:19 As nothing else can do 14:29 I love to tell the story 14:35 'Tis pleasant to repeat 14:40 What seems, each time I tell it 14:46 More wonderfully sweet 14:52 I love to tell the story 14:58 For some have never heard 15:04 The message of salvation 15:10 From God's own holy Word 15:17 I love to tell the story 15:22 'Twill be my theme in glory 15:29 To tell the old, old story 15:35 Of Jesus and his love 15:57 I love to tell the story 16:03 For those who know it best 16:08 Seem hungering and thirsting 16:14 To hear it, like the rest 16:21 And when, in scenes of glory 16:26 I sing the new, new song, 16:33 'Twill be the old, old story 16:38 That I have loved so long 16:44 I love to tell the story 16:50 'Twill be my theme in glory 16:56 To tell the old, old story 17:03 Of Jesus and his love. 17:37 August 6, 1945, 17:39 faced in the deadly glow of a single atomic bomb 17:41 over Hiroshima, Japan, 17:43 the world find itself assured into the atomic age. 17:46 Four years later deep behind the Iron Curtain, 17:48 the Soviet Union conducts their first test 17:50 of an atomic weapon, 17:52 sparking in arms raise 17:53 the like of which the world has never seen. 17:56 Apprehensive scientists and intellectuals 17:58 debate the ominous fate of the planet. 18:00 Three days before his death on April 18, 1955, 18:03 American scientist Albert Einstein 18:05 joins British philosopher Bertrand Russell 18:07 in signing the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. 18:10 The prospect for the human race is somber beyond all precedent. 18:13 Mankind are faced with a clear-cut alternative: 18:16 either we shall all perish, or we shall have to acquire 18:18 some slight degree of common sense. 18:21 Soon after in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 18:24 22 scientists including 10 Nobel laureates 18:27 gathered to ponder 18:28 how to avert the Cold War's threat of nuclear obliteration 18:32 and forge a plan of global peace. 18:35 And half a century later the quest still goes on. 18:37 Call it The Pugwash Factor 18:39 because if those who know do not act, 18:41 the planet is doomed. 18:47 And the reason we're calling it 18:48 The Pugwash Factor 18:50 is because of the underlying premise, 18:52 when those intellectuals, those scientists, 18:55 philosophers gathered in that obscure little 18:59 Nova Scotian village name Pugwash. 19:03 The premise for their gathering, 19:04 and by the way, 19:05 the Pugwash conferences are still taking place, 19:07 annual conferences, 19:08 bright thinkers from around the globe. 19:10 The premise was and is 19:11 the world is on the edge 19:14 and we must do something. 19:18 If you turn your bulletin over, 19:20 I need to say a word about 19:21 the last two pieces of this short, 19:23 mini series of Pugwash Factor. 19:26 You see on the back there is line up for this fall. 19:28 I want to draw your attention to the... 19:31 two weeks, three weeks from today, 19:35 "The Pugwash Factor: 19:36 How to Discern the Pope's Agenda for America". 19:38 This would be 48 hours 19:40 after the pontiff 19:43 would be standing in the well of the United States Congress 19:45 addressing the political leadership of the nation, 19:48 the president and the entire country, 19:50 never happen before in history. 19:52 So how can we discern, what's his agenda, what's up? 19:57 And then the one after it. 19:59 Wants you to keep that one in mind as well, 20:02 how to respond to the Supreme Court's 20:03 same-sex marriage decision. 20:06 It's a big deal this summer. 20:08 How does a Christian respond? 20:09 I mean, what do we say, I mean, what's up? 20:12 I'll be, be there for these two, the last two. 20:16 Living in a world on the edge, how do we live? 20:20 How then shall we live? 20:24 Today, it's a part of the Pugwash Factor, 20:27 I want to pray with you and then plunge into the story. 20:30 I love what Doug Chuck just say, 20:32 I love to tell the story, it's so, that's why we're here. 20:36 I want to go to the part of the story. 20:38 But first let's pray, 20:39 "Dear God, 20:41 the Pugwash Factor living bright minds, 20:44 this is not, this is not rocket science, 20:48 bright minds know, 20:50 we know, 20:52 so how then shall we live given the times. 20:56 Charles just saying it, I love, I love to tell the story as we, 21:00 as we go to that story, 21:05 ignited within us, 21:06 so help us to know how to respond, 21:09 to live out that story, we pray in Christ name, amen. 21:14 You remember the Greek classic Homer, 21:17 you remember Homer's Iliad, 21:19 and maybe took literature in high school, 21:20 you had to read that big tome. 21:23 Describing one of the, 21:24 one of the heroes in his dramatic narrative, 21:27 he, these are the words were used to describe him, 21:30 he was a friend to man and he lived in a house 21:36 by the side of the road. 21:38 I like that. 21:39 He was a friend of mine and he lived in a house 21:41 by the side of the road. 21:42 And the reason I like it because for me all right, 21:44 maybe not for you but for me, 21:46 it epitomizes who Jesus was and is. 21:51 He was a friend to man, He was a friend to people. 21:54 Look He didn't live in a house, He didn't have a house, says, 21:56 foxes have dens, birds have nest, 21:58 son of man have nowhere to lay my head. 22:00 He didn't have a house I understand that but He, 22:02 He lived out, He was a friend to the human race. 22:08 Elaine Roulette, 22:10 she is the founder of my mother's house 22:11 in New York. 22:12 Somebody to came to her once and ask, 22:14 how do you work with the poor? 22:16 To which she replied, you know, 22:18 you share your life with the poor. 22:23 Let me live in a house by the side of the road 22:25 and be a friend to man. 22:29 The American poet Sam Walter Foss, 22:33 19th century, 22:35 sees this line from Homer, turned into his personal credo, 22:38 and I have his poem, it's a five stanza poem, 22:40 I'm not gonna read the whole poem to you. 22:42 But let me read, let me read stanza two 22:43 and I must slip in stanza three, 22:45 listen to this, 22:47 "Let me live in a house by the side of the road, 22:50 where the race of men go by. 22:53 The men who are good and the men who are bad, 22:55 as good and as bad as I. 22:58 I would not sit in the scorner's seat, 23:00 or hurl the cynic's ban. 23:03 Let me live in a house by the side of the road 23:05 and be a friend to man. 23:09 I see from my house by the side of the road, 23:11 by the side of the highway of life, 23:14 the men who press with the ardor of hope, 23:15 the men who are faint with the strife. 23:18 But I turn not away 23:19 from their smiles nor their tears, 23:22 both parts of an infinite plan. 23:25 Let me live in a house by the side of the road 23:27 and be a friend to man." 23:30 I like that 23:32 because it's just like Jesus, isn't it? 23:36 By the way when you talk about Jesus 23:38 and this idea 23:40 that we're kind of wrestling 23:41 through, we just started last Sabbath, 23:42 we're gonna, 23:44 this thing will just take us right through the season. 23:45 But when you talk about Jesus and the gospel 23:48 and the gospel is a good news. 23:50 There is a critical distinction that you need to get, 23:53 I need to get this right here at the outset and that is, 23:56 listen, the gospel is not salvation. 24:00 It's not the gospel. 24:01 The gospel is not forgiveness of sin. 24:05 The gospel is not peace of mind, 24:06 it's not grace, it's not even divine love. 24:08 The good news of the gospel is a person and His name Jesus, 24:12 that's the gospel. 24:14 Now that's really critical 24:16 because when Jesus comes to us as He did last Sabbath, 24:18 was it's Mark 16:15, it says, "I want you to go, 24:21 go into all the world and share the gospel, 24:23 share the good news with every creature." 24:26 We need to understand 24:27 that, that command to go is Jesus is essentially saying, 24:30 "Hey, go and share me, share me with the world. 24:36 Tell them how you relate to me, 24:38 tell them I'm your... tell them I'm your savior, 24:40 tell them I'm your forever friend. 24:42 That's the, that's what I want you to share, 24:45 the gospel, the good news of the gospel 24:47 is Christ Himself. 24:49 In fact, on the eve of His crucifixion, 24:51 what does Jesus say? 24:52 "I'm, I'm the way, 24:56 the truth and the life." 24:59 Jesus said, "Look, I'm the laden hunger, 25:03 I'm the undefined thirst, 25:06 I'm the secret longing 25:08 within every man, woman and child. 25:11 I'm the God shaped vacuum in every human heart. 25:15 I'm the gospel. 25:17 He is the good news. 25:19 We got to get that, otherwise it's not good news, 25:22 it's not good news, I'm not gonna share it. 25:25 I'm not gonna share unless it's good news. 25:27 And the good news is, it's Jesus. 25:30 And what's better news than that, 25:31 He's always been the good news by the way. 25:33 I want to go to a story now. 25:34 Thank you, Charles, I love to tell the story. 25:35 Let's go to that story, the story of Jesus. 25:38 In a particular story 25:40 and I think you even like the story Matthew 9, 25:42 Matthew 9, 25:45 I'm gonna be in NIV and you, 25:48 whatever your tablet or phone or Bible, 25:50 I hope it's a Bible, come on, you're not being embarrassed 25:52 to bring a Bible to this church, 25:53 bring your Bible. 25:55 Don't have a Bible, pull the pew Bible out 25:56 in front of you. 25:57 It's page number here somewhere, page 654. 26:01 I love the story, it's one of my favorites 26:04 because, you know, they're having a party, 26:05 it's party time, let the party begin. 26:08 And all my, oh, this is an opulent house. 26:12 Somebody who owns this house is obviously pretty wealthy. 26:15 And, boy, they are driving up. 26:18 They are driving up, they are driving up 26:20 in their stretch limos. 26:22 You ever seen, when you go to Delaware, 26:24 you know, all those stretch limos 26:25 when you get to Delaware. 26:26 You know, I tell you the secret about stretch limos. 26:28 Stretch limos are rented for people who are important 26:32 and by people who want to look important, 26:36 stretch limos. 26:38 So these guys have all rented their own stretch limos, 26:40 because they want be important, 26:41 they're crawling out of that vehicle, 26:44 rumple tuxedoes on 26:46 and a pasty gaudy girl 26:48 hanging on their arms, it's party time 26:51 and I'm telling you the owner of this house 26:52 has invited all his buddies. 26:55 The guest of honor, you're gonna love this party. 27:00 So they're all here, they're here, 27:01 the limos up and down the block. 27:04 Where's the guest? 27:05 Oh, here he comes now 27:07 in old beat up dodge van. 27:12 Doors open and they come crawling out, 27:14 Jesus sent His disciples. 27:15 And Matthew is so excited 27:17 to have them in his house that the... 27:19 let the party starts 27:21 and he comes running out with his little iPhone 27:22 and he's just flashing, flashing no selfies, 27:24 he just, this is my guest of honor. 27:28 I love the story. 27:31 Let's read it, come on, come on, come on. 27:33 Matthew 9:9, 27:35 oh, here is the little story about how Matthew, 27:37 why Matthew is throwing this party, Verse 9, 27:40 "As Jesus went from there, 27:42 he saw a man named Matthew 27:44 sitting at the tax collector's booth." 27:47 They hated tax collectors and Jesus said, 27:50 red letters yo, you, 'Follow me,' 27:55 and Matthew got up and followed Him, 27:56 Jesus said, I did want you in my inner circle. 27:59 Come on, boy, let's go. 28:01 Matthew is so, so excited, 28:03 he's planning this party, verse 10. 28:05 "While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, 28:09 many tax collectors..." 28:11 Do you see the words out, come on to my party, big time. 28:14 "Many time tax collectors 28:16 and sinners came and ate with him." 28:17 By the way the, you know, the King James says 28:19 many publicans and sinners came. 28:21 But that is not republicans, 28:24 that's publicans, they came. 28:27 There're lot of republicans in the news these days, 28:29 so you got to just throw that in. 28:31 So while Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, 28:33 many tax collectors and sinners came 28:35 and ate with Him and His disciples and when... 28:39 Look at this, Pharisees, when the Pharisees saw this, 28:42 do you think the Pharisees would be caught dead, 28:44 in this unclean place 28:46 with that dog of a tax collector 28:48 you're kidding, they're not in the house. 28:50 So where are they? 28:51 Oh, party poopers, 28:53 they're right outside the window, can't stay away. 28:55 They're outside the window and they... 28:58 they're trying to get 29:00 the attention of Jesus' disciples, 29:01 they got a question. 29:02 Here it is, 29:04 "When the Pharisees saw, verse 11, 29:06 saw this, they asked his disciples, yo, 29:09 'Why does your teacher eat 29:11 with tax collectors and sinners?" 29:14 By the way, I love that. 29:16 I've just put brackets all around this 29:17 because this, this little line here, 29:21 this is the gospel, right here? 29:23 This is the gospel. 29:25 He eats with tax collectors and sinners, hug you and me. 29:29 Behold I stand at the door at... 29:32 I knock if any woman, if any man hears my voice, 29:34 I'm in, we're having... we're having supper together. 29:37 He eats with tax collectors and sinners, 29:40 that's why it's the good news. 29:45 Why does your teacher eat 29:46 with tax collectors and sinners, and Jesus? 29:49 Isn't that something, Jesus is just like your mother. 29:52 I mean, you can be having a conversation, 29:53 mother's over here talking to somebody 29:54 and you're badmouthing over here 29:56 and what does she do, 29:58 she is talking here but listen there. 30:01 Hush your mouth, boy. 30:03 It's exactly what happened Jesus is talking here 30:06 listening to the window 30:08 and on hearing this Jesus said, verse 12, 30:11 red letters now. 30:12 I love this, 30:14 "It is not the healthy who need a doctor," 30:18 come on, 30:19 the healthy don't need a doctor, 30:21 "it's the sick." 30:22 Verse 13, "But go and learn these Pharisees, 30:25 learn what this means, 'I, God's speaking, 30:27 I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' 30:31 For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners." 30:35 Some of your translation say but sinners to repentance. 30:39 Hey, it doesn't get any better than that. 30:42 I haven't come to call righteous, 30:43 I came, I came to call the sinners. 30:47 That's why Jesus 30:48 is the very personification of the good news 30:51 because He had a heart for sinners, 30:52 He just, He's a friend, 30:54 He was a friend of sinners through and through. 30:58 I mean, you can be a Samaritan woman, 31:00 you can be living with your fifth man 31:02 and when he sits down beside you his heart is just, 31:04 his heart is just longing for your friendship. 31:08 You can be the baddest of the bad 31:09 in the little town of Jericho ripping everybody off 31:11 but Jesus says, 31:12 "Hey, boy, I'm going to your house for dinner." 31:14 He just love sinners. 31:16 Hey, by the way 31:17 he was an equal opportunity lover of sinners 31:20 because you could be the most hypocritical 31:24 and critical Pharisee in the whole village. 31:29 And He's gonna be sitting on your table, 31:31 aching for your heart as well. 31:34 That's Jesus for you. 31:37 "I have come to call," Jesus speaking, 31:40 "I have come to call sinners to repentance." 31:44 By the way I need to ask you what kind of sinners, 31:47 what kind of sinners? 31:50 I don't see any limitations here? 31:52 Do you see any kind of like caveats? 31:54 No, apparently, apparently it's just all sinners, 31:57 if you're a heterosexual sinner. 32:00 No, no, are you a homosexual sinner? 32:03 I gave you. 32:05 Apparently 32:07 you can be an ethical sinner or an unethical sinner. 32:10 You can be an alcoholic sinner or a nonalcoholic sinner. 32:17 You can be a democrat sinner or republican sinner 32:19 or an independent sinner. 32:24 You can be an addicted sinner or a non addicted sinner. 32:27 You can be an incarcerated sinner 32:29 or a respectable sinner. 32:32 You can be a young sinner, you can be an old sinner. 32:34 You can be a white sinner, a black sinner, 32:36 a brown sinner, a yellow sinner. 32:38 You can be a Christian sinner, you can be a Muslim sinner, 32:40 you can be an atheist sinner, 32:42 you can even be an Adventist sinner. 32:46 I came to call sinners. 32:49 That's why He is the good news of the gospel. 32:55 Oh, we must not forget this, if it's not good news, 32:57 why am I gonna share with anybody. 32:58 If it's not good news to me, 33:00 why would I ever want to share it? 33:02 I don't want to share that. 33:03 The good news of the gospel is a person, 33:07 which means you're gonna share the gospel, 33:08 you share Jesus. 33:10 Now the question is, how do I share Jesus? 33:15 Just as Jesus did you do, by mingling. 33:21 You must become an equal opportunity mingler 33:26 with everybody just like Jesus. 33:29 Jim Cymbala, his great book "Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire" 33:32 put the words on the screen for you. 33:33 "Christians often hesitate to reach out 33:36 to those who are different. 33:37 They want God to clean the fish before they catch them." 33:43 God, I'm not gonna catch this fish, 33:44 look, ooh-huh. 33:46 Clean them up, God, then I'll catch them for you. 33:48 What's crazy about that? 33:52 If someone's gold ring 33:53 is attached to an unusual body part, 33:57 if the person doesn't smell the best, 33:59 or if the skin color is not the same, 34:00 Christians tend to hesitate. 34:03 But, but think for a moment Cymbala writing about God 34:06 reaching out to us. 34:08 If ever there was a 'reach,' that was it: 34:11 the holy, pure Deity extending himself to us 34:13 who are soiled, evil-hearted, unholy." 34:16 God could have said, you know what, 34:17 'You're so different from me, you are so distasteful, 34:19 I would really rather not get too close to you.' 34:23 He could have said that, but He didn't say that. 34:27 "It was our very differentness that drew His hand of love. 34:31 Jesus didn't just speak the healing word to lepers 34:33 from a distance of thirty yards. 34:36 He touched them." 34:40 He was a friend of sinners, 34:43 tax collectors, prostitutes, 34:46 you name it, all sinners. 34:50 He mingled among us. 34:53 Ellen White powerfully captured his modus operandi 34:57 with the sentence or two 34:58 that I need to put on the screen. 35:00 It's just a kind of brood over the sentence with me. 35:04 "Christ's method alone will give true success 35:06 in reaching the people. 35:08 His method alone. 35:11 Don't need any other method, this is it. 35:14 What did He do? 35:15 The Savior mingled, there it is, 35:17 the Savior mingled with men and women 35:19 as one who desired their good. 35:21 He showed His sympathy for them, 35:23 He ministered to their needs, and won their confidence. 35:26 Then, then He bade them, 'Follow Me.'" 35:32 Hey, I want you to know how simple 35:33 it is to walk in Jesus' footsteps. 35:35 Let me share with you now 35:37 and grab your study guide please. 35:38 I want to share with you the five strategic steps 35:41 you must take to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, 35:44 we just read them. 35:45 I want to share these five with you, 35:47 hold your hand up because here come our ushers. 35:50 And while the ushers are coming, 35:51 I want to say to those of you 35:52 who are watching live streaming right now, 35:54 we're glad to have you wherever you are on this planet. 35:58 You're watching the television right now, 35:59 glad to have you there. 36:01 Listening on the radio, it doesn't matter. 36:02 I want you to have the same study guides 36:03 so go to our website, let's put it on the screen. 36:05 Website on the screen, there it is, 36:07 www. you see it at the bottom there, 36:10 .pmchurch.tv. 36:12 You're looking for the little four parter 36:14 called the Pugwash Factor. 36:17 We're now into part two, title of this one 36:19 "How to Turn Mingle into Mission". 36:21 Click that and you'll have the study guide, 36:23 it's right there, it's embedded in your computer, 36:25 pump, pop up it will be on your screen. 36:27 I want you to have these five as well, please. 36:30 All right, hold your hand up. 36:32 In the balcony you need some, we'll get them to you. 36:34 All right, good. 36:37 Number one, five steps, strategic steps. 36:40 Step number one, 36:41 "You mingle among people as one 36:44 who wants the very best for them." 36:47 You mingle, you mingle, you mingle. 36:49 How do you mingle? 36:51 You show up where people already are, 36:52 that's how you mingle. 36:53 You show up where people already are. 36:55 On a campus like this, in a village like ours, 36:57 you show up at sporting events. 36:59 Sporting events 37:00 are the great conveners of Americans 37:02 in the third millennium. 37:04 You want be around people, go to a sporting event. 37:06 In our little village we got the Shamrocks 37:08 and, boy, you see the signs we bleed green Berrien Springs, 37:12 go rocks, Shamrocks, see, 37:16 you show up that's where the people are. 37:18 You say, I'm just not in the sports, Dwight, 37:21 "Okay, that's fine." 37:22 Go to the local concerts in the high school, 37:24 elementary school, 37:25 concert, band concerts, choir concerts, 37:27 go where music takes place. 37:30 You mingle with people. 37:32 Hey, here is another way. 37:34 When you go into the cafeteria to eat, 37:36 you go to a table uninvited and you just sit down. 37:41 No really, that's what you do. 37:42 And by the way look for people who are eating alone. 37:46 They're open, they may not know anybody. 37:48 You'd be surprised how many are sitting there eating alone 37:50 because they don't have anybody to join them. 37:53 Sit at that table, I try to eat on Wednesdays in the cafeteria, 37:56 so if you're in the cafeteria from 12:30 to 1:30 37:58 I'll be happy to meet you sometime. 38:00 This last Wednesday so I go to the cafeteria 38:02 and there is a girl sitting right there and I said, 38:03 "Hey, is this chair taken across the table? 38:06 She said, "Yes." 38:11 And nobody hear but anyway there's somebody was coming 38:14 so I said, "How about the chair beside it? 38:15 She said, you can have it, I said, I will, sat out. 38:18 Look at, it's just mingling, 38:20 it's just going where people are, 38:21 you can do that in the cafeteria here. 38:23 Your kids go to public school, join the PTA, come on, 38:25 be a part of the parent-teacher association, 38:27 hang around people. 38:28 Don't just live in your little 38:30 isolated cloister silo somewhere, get out, mingle. 38:35 By the way you're college student, 38:36 join in after-school tutoring program 38:39 in Benton Harbor or Berrien Springs. 38:42 Sharon Russell will tell you how much you're needed, 38:45 please go, just volunteer. 38:48 You'd be around people 38:50 you would never be around with otherwise. 38:52 Join the rotary club, the optimist, 38:53 some sort of service club, I don't care, go to weddings, 38:56 go to graduation receptions, hang around people. 38:59 Jot it down, 39:00 "To mingle simply means to show up 39:02 where people already are." 39:05 Don't show up where they are not. 39:07 Show up where they are. 39:09 It means that we take the initiative, 39:12 this is really important. 39:13 We take the initiative. 39:14 Now this is little campus is a bit cloistered, 39:16 and these campus things, you want to, 39:18 you want to be with us, you come to our H-Pac, 39:21 you come to us, we don't go to you, 39:23 that's wrong. 39:24 We got to go, go to where the people are. 39:29 Here's a question for you. Here's a question. 39:31 When you eat, okay, so I'm gonna talk about eating 39:33 since we brought the cafeteria. 39:35 When you eat, 39:37 do you sprinkle your food on your salt? 39:45 Do you? 39:47 No, you say, Dwight, it's the other way around. 39:49 I sprinkle the salt on my food. 39:52 That's precise of the point. 39:53 Jesus said, "You are the salt of the world." 39:55 So people are supposed to sprinkle food 39:56 on top of us to get? 39:58 No, it's the other way around, we go out, we mingle. 40:03 Which is our Becky Pippert, oh, Becky Pippert, 40:05 by the way she addressed the 5,000 Adventist pastors 40:08 in North America and gathered in Austin this summer 40:10 just before general conference. 40:12 Oh, it's a great convention called the "Called". 40:15 And she was there, 40:16 I put Becky Pippert's words on the screen. 40:18 "How can we be the salt of the earth 40:20 if we never get out of the salt shaker?" 40:23 Please, get out. 40:27 Practice what the top CEOs of fortune 500 companies do, 40:30 they've done research and found out this to be true. 40:32 They do what's called MBWA, let's put it on the screen. 40:36 What does MBWA mean? 40:38 Jot it down, 40:39 Management by Wandering Around. 40:44 That's what you do when you mingle, 40:46 you just wander around. 40:47 You don't have to be an expert at anything. 40:49 You don't have to be even a great extrovert. 40:52 In fact, Philip Samaan, my buddy, in his book, 40:55 Christ's Method Alone makes this excellent point, 40:58 little caveat that we need to insert right here. 41:01 Put Phil's words on the screen for you. 41:02 "Taking the initiative to mingle with others 41:05 naturally comes easier to some than to others. 41:09 I always find it more comfortable..." 41:11 I like this council. 41:13 "To mingle with individuals 41:14 I encounter a normal daily events." 41:16 And that would be like you know, cafeteria, whatever. 41:18 "The people we rub shoulders with as we work, as we shop, 41:21 as we bank, and I'm adding the word, 41:23 as we study, as we carry out other daily activities. 41:26 Because we have built bridges with such individuals, 41:29 they and we too, he writes, 41:32 are much less likely to be 41:34 apprehensive or fearful of each other." 41:37 That's good. 41:38 Mingle step number one, mingle. Step number two, jot it down. 41:40 There are only five of these and then I'll sit down. 41:41 Number two, "You show your sympathy for them." 41:45 Show your sympathy for them. 41:48 You show that you care. 41:50 And how you're gonna show that you care? 41:51 You've to start talking, not only show up, 41:54 start up a conversation, 41:55 just, just start up a conversation, you'll be fine. 41:58 Be genuinely interested in the other person. 42:01 Lot of times, I don't talk about me. 42:03 I'm always asking questions, 42:04 what do you do, what's up, what's up, what's up? 42:06 If I sit with you at the cafeteria, 42:07 I'll be just quizzing, quizzing, quizzing. 42:09 Why? I just want to know. 42:11 Now Philip Samaan tells of the time 42:13 when he was studying in a public university library. 42:16 The kid across the table from him 42:18 has books stacked around. 42:20 Philip is waiting for an entry point 42:22 and he found, when their eyes meet. 42:24 This is it, he says, wow, wow. 42:28 You're probably studying for a very big test, right? 42:31 And the fellow shoots back, yes, but I'm not ready for it. 42:35 Well, what's the test over? 42:36 Biology and I just hate biology. 42:41 And Philip says, well, I guess, 42:42 we all take courses we don't particularly like at times, 42:45 what's your major? 42:47 Biology, biology. 42:51 Well, why in the world you take that major 42:54 if you can't stand biology? 42:56 Because the boys replies my parents are forcing me 42:59 to become a physician, that's why, 43:01 and boom the door opened right there, 43:03 boom it's opened and now they're in the conversation 43:06 and the door eventually open for Philip 43:09 to share more personally the truths about his friend. 43:13 It just happens in an offhand way like that, you mingle, 43:16 you show, you show your sympathy for them. 43:20 Wow, number three, jot it down. 43:22 Five strategic steps to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, 43:25 reaching out to people. 43:26 Number three, you identify and minister to their needs. 43:30 Now look at it, if that young man said to, 43:31 if that young man said to Philip, 43:33 I need help understanding this biology 43:36 and Philip was a biologist, I'm here, let me help you. 43:40 Oh, Philip could run off and said, I'll find somebody, 43:43 I had a friend who is a biologist, 43:44 he'll help you. 43:46 I have a major, you know, this kid down the hall, 43:47 I know him he's a major in biology I'll get him, 43:50 he'll help you. 43:52 So you, you look for the need, you're looking for the need. 43:55 Another Philip by the way, came across an Ethiopian, 43:58 in a chariot studying Isaiah 53 the scroll, and Philip says, 44:02 you know, what you're reading? 44:04 I don't know, I don't understand, 44:05 he said, let me help, get in, get in my car. 44:08 That's exactly what happened. 44:09 You find a need and then you fill the need. 44:13 And by the way sometimes it works the other way. 44:17 You can reverse this principle. 44:19 You can go with your need to them and say, 44:22 could you please help me? 44:24 Jesus did that by the way 44:25 with the woman with the five men 44:27 and the man you're with now is not your husband. 44:29 He says, "Lady I'm really thirsty." 44:33 Do you mind, could I get a drink from you 44:35 and she says, who are you, Jew? 44:38 I'm Samaritan, I'm not gonna give you drink. 44:40 And He said, "Oh, 44:41 but if you knew who is asking this, 44:43 you'd ask me for water." 44:44 Boom, now I know you're not Jesus, 44:47 but you can do the same thing. 44:49 Ask a favor, I do that with my neighbor, 44:50 unchurched neighbor across the street all the time. 44:52 Something mechanical 44:53 which I'm totally illiterate at, 44:54 something about the lawn 44:56 which I'm pretty close to illiterate at, 44:57 I go over to talk to him because he's, 44:59 I'm guarantee you every time I do, 45:01 we fall into conversation, talk about his golf, 45:03 talk about his work, talk about anything. 45:06 This isn't rocket science. 45:08 This is just, find a need. 45:13 By the way, I gave them a book 45:15 because of all these conversations. 45:17 And the wife sent me a note about three weeks later. 45:19 I keep the book by my bedside and read it every night 45:21 before going to sleep. 45:23 Yes. 45:24 There is no big deal. 45:26 You've to get 45:27 some kind of seminary degree to do that, are you crazy? 45:30 You just do it. 45:32 Number four, number four, "You win their confidence." 45:36 Five strategic steps in the footsteps of Jesus. 45:39 Number four, "You win their confidence," 45:40 because that's what happening, they begin to trust you. 45:42 The more you interact, 45:44 the more you mingle and then the more you contact, 45:45 hey, can I give you a call? 45:47 Yeah, what's your, what's your cell phone? 45:48 Let me text you, okay. 45:49 The more you do this, 45:51 and by the way you do it on campus the kid 45:52 three doors down from you in the dormitory 45:54 is an atheist barn on and you know it. 45:58 And you begin to reach out, 46:00 could be your own roommate by the way, 46:02 could be your roommate. 46:04 You begin to show that you care, 46:05 you just care, you got, 46:07 you're not throwing hooks in here 46:08 and I'm gonna catching here, catching here, no, 46:10 I'm showing that, that I care for you. 46:13 Eventually you win their confidence. 46:15 Gregory Boyle in his book, "Tattoos on the Heart: 46:18 The Power of Boundless Compassion". 46:19 Put the words on the screen for you. 46:21 He writes, 46:22 "There is no force in the world 46:24 better able to alter anything from its course than love. 46:28 Ruskin's comment that you can get someone 46:30 to remove his coat more surely with a warm, 46:31 gentle sun than with a cold, blistering wind 46:33 is particularly apt. 46:34 Meeting the world with a loving heart 46:36 will determine what we find there... 46:37 Sooner or later we all discover 46:39 that kindness is the only strength there is." 46:43 Just love people, 46:45 this is, this is, this is caring one-on-one, 46:48 you can do it. 46:49 Finally, number five. 46:51 "You then," key word, then, 46:54 you've done the four now. 46:58 "You invite them to meet Jesus." 47:00 Francis of Assisi..." 47:01 I like this line, 47:02 "Preach the gospel at all times and when necessary use words." 47:07 Because it's how you live, it's the way you treat people, 47:09 it's the way you care, 47:11 it's the way you show compassion. 47:12 I like that guy, ooh, I like that girl. 47:16 You won a heart but it's not, 47:18 you don't want to win the heart to you, 47:20 you want to win the heart to Him, 47:21 that's why there is a step five. 47:27 So if you're mingling at parties 47:28 and hanging around other sinners. 47:30 Nothing wrong with what, Jesus did, 47:32 but if you're doing it just for the fun of it, 47:34 look out, look out. 47:36 That fake snake is not a fake, it will get you. 47:41 You don't go just hanging around people 47:42 because we're parting together, parting out dude, 47:45 no, you have, you... 47:46 when you mingle you're always on mission, 47:47 you're on mission. 47:49 Desire of Ages, let me just, one more quotation, 47:51 Desire of Ages, "As disciples of Christ 47:53 we shall not mingle with the world 47:54 from a mere love of pleasure, to unite with them in folly..." 47:57 No, no, no, no. 47:58 "Such association can result only in harm. 48:00 We should never give sanction to sin by our words 48:03 or our deeds..." 48:04 Now, watch this, circle this, 48:06 "By our silence or our presence." 48:08 Sometimes you know, what's gonna be going down. 48:10 Saturday night, you know, what's gonna be going down 48:13 and to show up there and not say anything. 48:15 There may be a kid, they say, hey guys, you know, 48:18 I think, I think I know where this is going, 48:19 you want to go with me? 48:20 Okay, so, so you can do that. 48:22 But you just hang around not say a word, well, he must, 48:24 Dwight, must be pretty supportive of this, 48:26 he's just hanging around. 48:28 And I ruined the moment for Jesus, 48:31 you mingle but only on mission. 48:34 That make sense to you, does that make sense? 48:37 So you want to invite people, step number five, 48:40 as you invite them, 48:42 and that's why inviting your friends to meet Jesus, 48:44 I can't think a better way 48:45 coming up one week from right now, 48:47 Ty Gibson is gonna be standing here 48:49 and I'll be sitting right there. 48:51 Listen to Ty one of the great writers 48:53 in our community of faith today. 48:54 I've got his books. 48:57 I've heard him preach as Ty is a gifted communicator. 49:01 And in fact, it's in your bulletin, 49:03 it's in your bulletin this morning. 49:05 And he's gonna spend seven day and seven nights with us. 49:09 Two Sabbaths and the week in between not counting Sunday, 49:11 the week in between Monday morning, Monday night, 49:14 Tuesday and so on and so on, 7:30 right here. 49:17 For the campus Monday morning, 49:19 for the campus Monday night 49:21 but the community, they can't come Monday morning, 49:22 you come and join us. 49:24 We want to fill this place with people 49:25 who want to share Jesus. 49:28 So you get to see this little card, 49:29 invite somebody. 49:31 Hey, Ty, sent this to us late last night. 49:32 I want you to see this little 60 second, 49:36 Ty talking at Andrews University, 49:38 let's go. 49:46 Hey, Andrews, 49:47 I'm coming your way September 12 through 19. 49:50 And I'm really looking forward to it. 49:52 We're gonna be doing something I call Reimagining God, 49:55 which for me has been absolutely vital and necessary, 50:00 because so much of what is done in the name of God 50:03 in our world makes God out to be ugly. 50:06 Recently somebody asked me, do you believe in God? 50:09 And my immediate response was going to be yes. 50:13 But then in a split second I thought to myself, 50:16 wait a minute, if I say yes, 50:17 that may equate to something in their mind 50:20 to which really my answer would be no. 50:23 When people say the word God, 50:25 so many images and ideas pop in to our heads. 50:29 The Reimagining God series 50:30 is going to be a series of snapshots of God's character 50:35 that I think you're going to find 50:36 to be irresistibly beautiful. 50:39 I'm looking forward to spending this time with you, 50:41 I hope you can make it. 50:46 I'm really excited that he's coming. 50:47 He's gonna, he's gonna bless you, 50:49 I promise you you're gonna get blessed. 50:51 If you got a roommate, if you got a friend, 50:53 the guy down the hall, you got a colleague at the job, 50:56 you have a student 50:57 who's been attending your class, 50:59 just these for a few days, 51:00 somebody you know that a deeper picture of God 51:03 could just shift, radically 51:05 shift the paradigm in their lives. 51:08 Invite them to this. 51:09 By the way you leave today at the exits, 51:11 there will be plenty of this, just grab a handful. 51:15 Let's do something. 51:16 You got to take the first four steps, yeah. 51:18 It's a part of the mingling, followed by the fifth step, 51:21 it's a fifth step coming to campus 51:24 in just seven days. 51:26 I want to end with a story from Gregory Boyle's book, 51:28 "Tattoos on the Heart." 51:30 It happens in the White Memorial, 51:32 it's a hospital in South LA, 51:34 that's name in the memorial of the Ellen White, 51:36 the White Memorial Hospital. 51:38 And the mother in the story, her name is Soledad, 51:41 she has already lost two boys, 51:43 two of her sons to gang violence, 51:44 they were killed on the front porch 51:46 of her South LA home. 51:48 And Boyle who's a chaplain to these intercity kids. 51:53 He's describing the mother 51:54 when she hears her second son now being killed, 51:56 Soledad runs to the source of the sound 51:58 she would say later, 51:59 she wished the shooters hadn't left 52:01 until they'd also killed her, 52:03 it being Sunday, 52:04 I didn't come to the news till late 52:06 about Angel's death on hell 52:08 is her son Angel killed today. 52:10 By the time I reach Soledad's living room later that day, 52:13 she is huddled in a corner. 52:14 Forget Kleenex. Forget handkerchief. 52:17 Soledad is sobbing into a huge bath towel. 52:19 And the few of us there found our arms too short 52:22 to wrap around this kind of pain. 52:25 I see Soledad a lot, 52:26 but this one day, two years after the death of Angel, 52:29 I see her in front of the office and we hug. 52:31 "How you doin', kiddo?" 52:33 Soledad grabs my arm and thinks and considers her words. 52:37 "You know, she says, 52:39 I love the two kids that I have. 52:42 I hurt for the two that are gone." 52:44 She begins to cry and shows the slightest embarrassment 52:47 at the size of her honesty. 52:48 "The hurt wins she says, the hurt wins." 52:52 Two months later, 52:53 Soledad is taken to the hospital 52:55 for an irregular heartbeat and chest pain. 52:57 I visit her in her room, and she tells me what happened 52:59 the night she came to the emergency room. 53:01 They have her on a gurney in the White Memorial's ER. 53:05 The doctors are tending to her with EKGs and the like, 53:08 when there is a rush of activity 53:09 at the entrance with a flurry of bodies 53:11 and medical staff moving into their proscribed roles, 53:13 a teenage gang member is rushed to the vacant space 53:16 right next to Soledad. 53:18 The kid is covered in blood from multiple gunshot wounds, 53:20 and they begin cutting off his clothes. 53:22 The wounds are too serious to waste time 53:23 pulling the curtain that separates Soledad 53:25 from this kid fighting for his life. 53:27 People are pounding on his chest and inserting IVs. 53:30 Soledad turns and sees him. 53:33 She recognizes 53:36 him as a kid from the gang 53:38 that most certainly robbed her of her two sons. 53:42 As I saw this kid, she tells me, 53:44 "I just kept thinking of what my friends might say 53:46 if they were here with me. 53:48 They'd say, pray that he dies, pray that he dies." 53:51 But she just looked at this tiny kid, 53:52 struggling to sidestep the fate of her sons, 53:55 as the doctors work and scream, 53:57 we're losing him, we're losing him. 53:58 And I began to cry as I have never cried before 54:02 and I started to pray the hardest I've ever prayed. 54:05 Please don't let him die. 54:08 I don't want his mom to go through what I have." 54:13 And the kid lived. 54:16 Sometimes, it only seems that the hurt wins. 54:20 Mary Oliver writes, 54:21 "There are things you can't reach. 54:23 But you can reach out to them, 54:25 and all day long." 54:31 Because if we don't reach out, 54:34 no matter what your hurt, 54:36 no matter what your fear is I can't do this. 54:38 If we don't reach out 54:40 and we have the good news and the good news is Jesus. 54:43 If we don't share it, 54:47 what's the point 54:50 of the good news in the end? 54:56 Take your connect card, please. 54:59 Let's end. 55:01 With this connect card stuck in your worship bulletin. 55:04 Pull it out, 55:06 let's respond to this picture of Jesus. 55:09 We got guest here, guest, glad you are, 55:11 fill the front of the card with information 55:15 that you want to share. 55:18 But turn the card over, my next step today is, 55:21 I'm grateful that the good news of the gospel is Jesus Himself. 55:24 Is there anybody here, not grateful, no, check mark, 55:28 I'm grateful that the good news of the gospel is Jesus Himself. 55:32 I want to follow Jesus' example 55:34 and become comfortable mingling with people. 55:37 You can ask Him, dear Jesus, 55:39 give me a little more comfort with people, 55:41 just give me some comfort, I want to do what You did. 55:44 Number three, 55:45 I will pray for God to impress me with people 55:47 to invite to hear Ty Gibson, 55:49 extra brochures when you leave, grab some, let's go. 55:51 And finally number four, 55:52 I would like to join a Grow Group that focuses 55:54 on how to share Christ in a warm and winsome way. 55:58 There are bunch now, we got 70, 70, 79 Grow Groups. 56:02 And the good news is that catalog is now online. 56:05 Go online, go to our website, pmchurch.org. 56:08 And you go to that catalog you pick them out. 56:11 I want to, I want to join a group 56:13 that focuses on how to be more effective. 56:17 Whatever you need, ask Jesus, He's got it for you, 56:22 These are His footsteps you're walking in. 56:24 Let's pray, Oh, God, Lord Jesus, 56:27 Your footsteps, boy, 56:28 You're a friend of sinners, equal opportunity friend, 56:31 equal opportunity mingler. 56:34 And Jesus, I think it's safe to say on behalf of everyone 56:38 who's here this morning, we want to be like You, 56:41 we want to be like You. 56:44 And so dear God, boil our hearts up, 56:48 give us the grace, and the joy, and the courage. 56:51 It's just a spontaneity to mingle. 56:54 Mingling on mission to share our Jesus, 56:58 we pray in His name, 57:01 amen. 57:04 May I take an extra moment with you 57:05 and let you know how grateful I am 57:07 that you joined us in worship today? 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