We really need your patience as we share
in this way through interpretation.
Some of you, I know, have never had
this before.
We know some of you are tired.
We are here in a spiritual warfare.
We are giving essential orientation that is absolutely
critical for the strategy you will be thrust
into within a few days.
We really believe the Holy Spirit directs us
in what we should say.
That doesn't mean it will be perfect, but
it means there will be a message from
God for us.
Turn to Luke 14, verse 30, just Luke
14.
I would like you to read just in
your own language as I read in English.
Starting at verse 25.
I'll just read in English.
How are we doing back in the interpretive
booth?
Raise your hand if you're happy and rejoicing
in Jesus.
Good.
Starting at verse 25, read in your own
language through the end of the chapter.
This is the word of God.
And there went great multitudes with him.
And he turned and said unto them, If
any man come to me, hate not his
father and his mother and his wife and
children and brethren and sisters, yea, in his
own life also he cannot be my disciple.
And whosoever doth not bear his cross and
come after me cannot be my disciple.
For which of you intending to build a
tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the
cost, whether he hath sufficient to finish it.
Lest perhaps after he hath laid the foundation
and is not able to finish it, all
but behold it begin to mock him, saying,
This man began to build and was not
able to finish.
Or what king going to make war against
another king, sitteth not down first and consulteth
whether he is able with ten thousand to
meet him that cometh against him with twenty
thousand.
Or else while the other is yet a
great way off, he sendeth an embassy and
desireth conditions of peace.
So likewise, whosoever he is of you, that
forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be
my disciple.
Salt is good, but if the salt hath
lost its savour, with what shall it be
seasoned?
It is neither fit for the land nor
for the dunghill, but men cast it out.
He that hath ears to hear, let him
hear.
We have been counting the cost throughout the
year as we make some pretty big decisions
about the future of Operation Mobilization.
We went through some very difficult days financially
a couple of years ago.
We've come out of those days, but not
completely.
Some of our countries, including a number of
European countries, are still facing significant financial difficulty
on a day-by-day battle.
Four years ago we wondered if Dulos could
continue such a huge ministry of three hundred
people, over half of them at that time
without proper support financially.
Phenomenal answer to prayer that that ship never
stopped her ministry.
Even when it was slowed down in Europe
and we battled through that financial mountain.
I would love to talk to you for
an hour on what God has done, despite
our failures, despite our sin, what God has
done through Dulos in Africa and India.
Now we're in the process of launching a
European summer mega-special in 1989, bigger than
anything we have ever done in OM's history
in Europe.
How many of you were at Mission 87?
Raise your hand.
Praise the Lord.
You remember Utrecht, 10,000 young people praising
God in that conference.
It was a humbling privilege to share at
that conference.
We are praying about renting that same place
in the summer of 1989.
We are praying about renting that same place
in the summer of 1989.
Instead of having different small conferences each month
to all come together, many as the Lord,
some are talking about 5,000, we need
the Lord's mind, but a large number coming
together for worship and praise, fellowship and the
word of God.
Networking with churches and with other organizations all
over Europe.
Continuing some of our similar type of summer
small teamwork, but also launching into a greater
variety of efforts.
Just getting a strong-minded band of people
like the OM leaders to unite on such
an effort is probably the greatest miracle of
the whole thing.
The European leaders seem to be united on
this, and it's slowly moving forward as it
will be presented to the General Council of
OM at the end of August.
There are other big forward thrusts planned for
India, and other countries in the world.
I hope many of you will go to
the India seminar.
This is still the decade of Muslim emphasis,
and this will continue on into the next
decade.
Though we are praying in the 90s about
having a major decade emphasis on the mega
super cities of the world.
God is just releasing so many ideas, so
many visions, I cannot even keep up reading
about all the different things being sent to
me that our leaders want to do around
the world.
The other day in reading through memos and
papers and strategy reports and committee reports, I
said, Lord, I'm tired.
Here, you read it.
I'm going to bed.
But you know, even that which we are
facing right now, this month, this summer, is
a big challenge.
And we need to do what we've often
emphasized from Luke 14.
We need to count the costs.
The Christian world has proven that talk is
cheap.
And it's so sad that now, when a
man exaggerates something, we say, well, evangelically speaking,
or evangelistically speaking, blah, blah, blah, blah.
What a horrible thing that has become.
That is why we do not want to
exaggerate.
We don't want you to write a prayer
letter home, six people were saved this morning
through my sharing of four spiritual laws on
the street corner.
Just because someone prays a little prayer with
one of you little blue-eyed, lovely little
nice-looking, doesn't mean that they were saved.
We would prefer you to say, six people
this morning professed, they professed with their mouth,
faith in Christ.
We hope some of them have really been
saved.
There's nothing wrong with saying that.
OM traditionally has not been very good at
keeping score.
Numbers of decisions for Christ.
Most of the high percentage of these so
-called decisions, we know five years later, have
not been true conversions to Jesus Christ.
That doesn't mean we don't challenge people to
make a decision.
We'll never all agree on how that's to
be done.
I like to get the sense in my
heart that the Holy Spirit is doing something
in somebody before I press them to make
a decision.
Maybe you don't totally agree with that.
God wants us to count the cost of
what we are going into even in the
next two weeks.
Some of you went through the driver's training
just a short time ago.
Did that take place this evening?
How many went to that meeting?
How many drivers did not go to that
meeting?
Stand up.
How many drivers did not go to the
driver's training meeting?
Stand up.
Okay, you can repent and sit down.
But you know, driving these vehicles is one
of the most serious and important tasks we
have this summer.
And we have counted the cost many times
about what this is involved, especially as we
have seen some of our close loved ones
killed out on the highways.
You can be sure we count the cost.
We don't have time tonight to go into
many different areas where we've been counting the
cost of what we are doing.
We've been praying, we've been wrestling with God
on these important issues.
And I know that you are.
You have counted the cost before you've come
here to some degree.
And we hope you'll count the cost in
these days.
There's a sense in which we admire people
who at the end of this week come
to us and say, look, I have counted
the cost of what's involved in this kind
of confrontation evangelism, and I feel really that
I love Jesus, I want to stay, I
don't feel I'm ready for it.
I know that that, of course, is difficult
because there's a sense that none of us
feel ready.
And I'm sure some would like us to
throw out little black and white formulas so
you could just resolve these things, that's easy.
Am I ready to talk to Muslims about
Jesus?
I think many of you are.
Because we are not pretending that you are
the apostle to the Muslim world.
You are a young person who is learning
to share your faith with people of all
cultures.
Doesn't it sound nice to you to write
that down?
We don't walk up to a Muslim in
the street and say, we are targeting in
on your people's group.
We hope that you will exercise great wisdom
and discernment in your witness.
Each session we have during these four days,
five days, each session is important.
Don't shrug it off and say, oh, I've
already heard this, oh, I've already read this
when I was home in my book about
Islam.
Most of us have to hear things several
times before it sinks in.
But there are four words that God has
put on my heart, especially for tonight, four
very important words.
And I want to share these words and
a few biblical thoughts about them.
Words are powerful.
They communicate thoughts.
One word can communicate a whole river of
thoughts in our minds.
The first word that's burning on my heart,
and I spend a lot of time thinking
and praying of what I should share in
the short times I have with you.
The first word is vision.
Vision.
Write it down in your own language.
God wants to increase our vision.
God wants to increase our vision of the
whole body of Christ.
That's why this book, I feel, is so
important.
Coming from the USA conference in Atlanta, I
met Ralph Winter in the airport and on
the airplane.
This kind of thing happens to me all
the time.
People that I want to see, that are
not easy to see, suddenly I find I'm
stuck at 30,000 feet and they're on
the same plane.
It can happen on, it happens on boats.
It happens in phone boxes.
I was flying to California.
William McDonald, the author of True Discipleship, one
of our closest friends, he's on the same
plane.
These are things, if you try to plan
them, meet in the airport, get on the
same flight, it doesn't work.
I had such a burden to be able
to get some time with Mike Evans.
I get on a ferry on the way
to Italy.
I'm sitting at the table next to where
the people line up to go in and
get their breakfast.
There's Mike Evans.
Not just Mike, but the second person, his
wife.
So we had breakfast together.
You know, our lives are ordered by God.
Isn't it a joy, isn't it exhilarating to
know tonight we're here in the will of
God?
We want you to have an Acts 1A
vision.
You shall receive power after the Holy Spirit
has come upon you and ye shall be
my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the
uttermost part of the earth.
That's one of the reasons we're here in
this tent right now.
Those of us who have been around a
long time, we need our vision renewed.
Those who are new need your vision to
grow, maybe to be renewed as well.
So let's come into the prayer time with
enthusiasm.
To learn about these countries, to pray for
these people's groups.
A lot of things we challenge people to
do in OM, they can really be drudgery.
If you don't have a vision.
In the last few days, one of my
jobs, one of my blessings is to answer
letters.
So when I went on my trip in
my old bus to Norway, I took four
or five hundred letters with me.
And most of the time I just sat
there in the same seat, back of the
bus, dictating, talking in his little machine, dictating
letters.
I can't remember being bored once on the
entire trip.
There may have been a time that I
forgot.
Just very ordinary letters.
Sometimes just a thank you letter to somebody
who sent in, one person sent in a
one pound gift.
I wrote them a thank you letter.
The whole process of thanking cost more than
the gift.
So if you have any one pound gifts,
if you could hand them in and not
ask for a receipt or a thank you
letter, that would be helpful.
What am I trying to say, when we
have a vision, ordinary things, routine things become
very exciting.
Driving a vehicle for Jesus.
Giving out a few tracts.
Cooking some food.
Picking up some paper across the campsite.
I could name a hundred things, two hundred
things I've had the privilege of doing that
seemingly are boring, but with Jesus they're exciting.
We need a vision to understand how what
we are doing is part, a vital part
of God's great program to bring in this
harvest of people around the world.
Vision.
This is why God has brought some of
you here.
He wants to blow your circuits with vision.
You're going to spiritually freak out as you
pray your way through this book.
I'm going to wait to see some of
you gasping for spiritual breath, crawling across the
grass with this book in your hand.
Well, not quite.
Well, let me get to the second word.
That word is unity.
Unity.
Some of you, a few of you have
heard the orientation tape on the subject of
unity, but many of you have not, especially
in other languages.
We know the Bible teaches there is strength
in unity.
We know the prayer of Jesus in John
17 about unity.
We know the message of love in 1
Corinthians 13 is completely tied together to the
message of unity found in chapter 12.
Even the Old Testament says how good when
the brothers dwell together in unity.
When I was a young Christian, I made
a study on the subject of unity.
I've got that little piece of paper I
used when I made that study 30 years
ago.
Before I went to Bible college, I was
at university.
It was before I went.
I was studying all secular subjects.
I didn't have a lot of time to
study the Bible.
But on my own, this is one of
the studies that I made as a baby
Christian.
And I listed all the verses that are
tied into unity, which is basically the fruit
of the Holy Spirit.
These are just the verses that I found
in the New Testament relating to this.
This is just on unity itself, a whole
string of verses.
When I was making this study, little did
I know what God was doing.
He was laying a spiritual foundation for a
movement of His Holy Spirit that was destined
to touch many millions of people.
I never ceased to be amazed at verses
like, for example, 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse
10.
Sorry if I said that wrong.
Chapter 1, verse 10.
Listening to it on cassette tape this morning.
Verse 10.
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all
speak the same thing, that there be no
divisions among you, but that you be perfectly
joined together, the same mind and the same
judgment.
One of Satan's primary methods to hinder the
work of our Lord is to bring disunity.
Satan will try that strategy on your team
this summer.
You can be almost sure of that.
We are especially vulnerable because we come from
many different countries, many different languages.
Very easy language misunderstandings come in.
You know, I've been married to the same
wonderful woman for 27, 28 years.
And we still, when we're together, average two
to three misunderstandings per day, if we're doing
anything.
Most of them are small.
Some of them are so small.
We're from the same country.
We're born in the same year.
We speak the same language.
A lot of things in common.
But we have language problems.
Problem number one, he speaks.
I don't listen.
I'm thinking about other things.
I mean, after all, 28 years, the same
voice, same things going on about.
I'm planning my next book sale attack on
the local church for Sunday morning.
I'm thinking about this next memo I'm going
to write, or this next sermon I'm going
to launch.
She's asking me if I lock the back
door.
We go out to walk the dog, of
course.
And I didn't hear what she said.
So she asked a second time.
I didn't hear, really, what she said.
But I say, yeah, yeah.
Just sort of a psychological reaction.
So we get back to the house.
And she says, we go into the house,
the back door's open.
She says, were you listening to me when
I asked you about the back door?
Well, sure I was listening.
What do you think I'm a jerk?
Don't you trust me?
28 years I've been working for you and
you don't think I love you?
Pretty soon, the thing is out of control.
Simple little misunderstanding.
Now, if you don't think you're going to
have any of those things on your team
this summer, you are more ignorant than a
frozen grasshopper.
That was a good one.
You don't even have those in Germany.
But really, I just want to give a
plea.
We don't have much time.
A plea for unity.
We're never going to all agree on all
these different issues the church is fighting about.
I read a high percentage of Christian magazines.
I minister in churches of almost every denomination.
I listen to a lot of different cassette
tapes from men who absolutely are not even
on speaking terms with each other.
And I believe that Satan is just trying
to get us to unite.
To just pull the body of Christ into
pieces so that we cannot get on with
the work of world evangelism.
Lately we've had some people fighting over what
kind of evangelism is going to shape the
world for Christ.
One brother says it's power evangelism.
We need the power.
That was a little close.
I'm sorry.
Remember mine's longer than yours is.
Another brother has read a lot of books
on management and expertise and excellency.
He says we need a better program.
We need to organize.
We need to bring in the best speakers.
We need to set up satellites and televisions
in every nation, every living room.
We need to give everybody a tract, everybody
a testament.
No, give everybody a Bible.
An operation world on top.
You know it's good that we can laugh.
Because I tell you in some of these
things, it's either cry or laugh.
There's no middle ground for the same.
And it seems to me in many of
these controversies, it's not one or the other.
It's often both.
When Billy Graham preaches, he doesn't have a
great healing service as some other people have.
God's not led him that way.
He believes God heals.
He prays for the sick.
I don't think we can call what Billy
Graham does program evangelism.
Simply because he doesn't do it exactly the
same way that someone else.
I was saved in a Billy Graham meeting.
It wasn't Bill Graham that saved me.
It was the power of God through the
preaching of the word that slayed me and
brought me to the feet of Jesus Christ.
And I was born again.
And I know some of you in the
middle of the summer, especially working among Muslims,
you're probably holding in a sink.
Well, these people are not all coming to
Christ.
Very hard work.
Selling a few books, witnessing.
We need a miracle.
We need to see somebody raised from the
dead.
We got someone raised from the dead.
Boy, these Muslims, they'll just, boy, they'll just
hop out, accept Jesus as their Savior.
So you get the team together.
Come down to the cemetery.
And you're all gathered around, laying hands on
the tombstone.
Here's a poor lady who's been resting there
happily for a hundred years.
Probably she's in heaven.
And you're going to come there and bother
her and bring her back to this crazy
place.
But I will tell you, the word of
God says, many, many people, even if you
bring someone back from the dead, they will
not believe.
That's what Jesus Christ said.
Only the Holy Spirit can bring conversion.
We don't want to do things just to
impress people, just to somehow prove that God
is alive.
We're not proving anything.
We are declaring the gospel, which is the
power of God unto salvation.
And when a man is saved by the
grace of God and the work of the
Holy Spirit, that is a miracle.
That is a greater miracle than a man
having his arm healed.
But we are willing to pray for his
arm to be healed as well.
What we're not willing for is to allow
disunity and contention to come into the team
over some of these complicated and controversial issues
that the church is fighting about at this
present time.
I wrote in my Bible something that's really
helped me to be happy and fulfilled working
in something like OM, which is interdenominational and
people of different backgrounds.
Do they want to run away from me?
Well, I'll write this down.
It's sort of one of OM's statements of
unity because of world
evangelism and the reality of spiritual
warfare and the reality of the spiritual warfare.
Two main factors.
We need to agree on a plan of
action and
a strategy and policy to carry out that
action.
Strategy and policy to carry out that action.
We need to get agreement on that.
Even when there are things we don't like
or necessarily agree with.
Even when there are things we don't like
or even agree with.
Even when there are things we don't like
or even agree with.
Now, of course, we need to agree on
the basics.
The Bible is God's Word.
Men are lost without Christ.
God gave his Son Jesus Christ to die
on the cross for their redemption.
They're not small things.
They're mega truths.
That's big truth.
We can unite on these things and many
other things and that will keep us more
than busy for the next decade or two.
My wife and I, as you probably have
detected, don't agree on every point.
You know, some of these marriage books say
as the years go on you become more
and more lovey-dovey like two little peas
in a pod.
More and more one and just like-minded
on everything.
You're all like baked beans and the same
food.
All wonder.
And my marriage, as the years have gone
on I've discovered more and more things that
we're totally different.
Our approach and our thinking is just so
different.
Sometimes we can't even walk together because I
like to walk fast and let's go.
I prefer to walk a little slower.
But you know, we're staying together and we've
seen some tremendous things in our marriage in
the midst of diversity.
Unity is often in the midst of diversity.
We're not wanting you to compromise some favorite
little personal conviction you have.
Maybe you believe in vitamins.
This is a big thing in America.
Vitamins, vitamins.
Everybody must be taking vitamins.
Brother, are you into vitamin E?
I can tell by your eyes you're not
into vitamin E.
No, if you take vitamins no one's going
to stop you on a summer campaign.
But if early in the morning we find
you creeping over to somebody else's sleeping bag
and trying to push a vitamin down someone
else's throat no, no, no, no, no, no
and it's not the social policy either.
It's getting late, it's getting late.
No, seriously.
As we go out and face this work
this summer the task is so big.
For a couple hundred years mighty men and
women of God have been working to try
to bring Muslims to Jesus Christ.
Let us not be so arrogant to think
that this is something O.M. has thought
about.
We follow humbly in the steps of men
like Zwemer and Lionel Gurney and a host
of others.
We want to see a turning point in
Islam.
We need to Islam.
We are believing God for a great breakthrough.
But we're not going to fake it.
And it's probably going to take more than
one summer.
It's going to take more than short term
evangelism.
So we need patience as we're tested as
our hearts get broken.
Because sometimes Muslims profess faith in Christ and
within a few weeks they turn back on
that profession and return more committed to Islam
than before they made the profession.
And from past experience we know that Satan
will try to use the struggles, the problems,
the disappointments to bring confusion and disunity into
the team.
I don't know if you've read any of
my books.
I know they're not, in one sense, they're
not that great.
They're just sermons in print.
But I've had thousands of letters from people
who've read these books and I believe these
books which are available have helped people understand
this importance of unity and majoring in major
issues rather than minor issues.
The third word I have is reality.
That's why I called one of my books
Hunger for Reality.
In OM we are hungry for reality on
every level of our Christian life.
This means honesty.
We don't have to pretend we're living way
up here in the clouds of super-spirituality
when we know in fact we're living down
here.
You don't have to pretend everything is wonderful
when you feel miserable.
Of course there is scope for taking a
position of faith.
Taking a position of faith is quite different
from presumption or from faking it.
We are willing for the slower road to
spirituality in OM.
I think that's why perhaps some people don't
choose to come with us.
I don't know.
We want miracles.
We want miracles that last 20, 30, 40
years.
We want your life changed and radicalized in
such a way that 20, 30 years down
the road you will still be running in
God's marathon in the power of the Holy
Ghost.
That's what we are working toward this summer.
And we're willing to sacrifice a little on
the altar of the temporary in order to
get longer term permanent results for world evangelism.
And OM at times has been slowed down
because we wanted to get unity right across
the world.
At the end of August we all meet
for two or three weeks to get unity
on basic issues to deal with problems in
the work to deal with sin that may
be in the camp to wait upon God
for two or three weeks that we may
have and know the reality of God burning
in our hearts guiding us along the way.
I cannot explain how hungry I am for
greater reality in my own life and in
this whole work across the world.
It grips me day and night it has
for 32 years.
That's why we will talk about balance because
without a balance of truth you'll not have
reality you'll be into unreality as quick as
these rabbits are running around this park.
I walk all over the woods everywhere I
go I see these rabbits.
So if you go to bed tonight and
you feel something soft in the bottom of
your sleeping bag don't worry it's probably just
a little rabbit.
Reality includes many many many things.
People say why does O.M. push so
many books?
Because these books largely are written by men
who have proven with their lives that they
know God and that they know something of
reality with God.
Many of us followed this man Lloyd Jones
all of his life until he was with
Jesus.
Remember when he came to speak on the
ship Dulos in London?
Guess what he spoke on?
The need for balance.
Emphasis on doctrine and truth needs the balance
of the work of the Holy Ghost and
revival in the believer and that's the kind
of balance we want this summer.
So often today things are off balance.
Some Christians hold truth truth truth truth.
Everybody is being seduced.
Everybody is going into false doctrine.
Take the Bible boom boom.
That's too small.
Then you get somebody else way over on
the other side.
All they talk about is love and unity
and the Holy Spirit.
Let's all come together.
Doesn't matter what we believe.
Now somebody's even saying let's bring in the
Buddhists bring in the Hindus because we're all
one.
Even the Archbishop of Canterbury to his own
shame has more or less said all these
different roads are all leading to heaven.
How popular that is today.
So we get tremendous imbalance in the church.
Most Christians today are confused by it all.
They don't know which book to read which
way to turn which voice to listen.
We don't live in easy days.
Some believe that Satan may be making his
last big heavy stand to stop the evangelization
of the unreached people of the world.
And they take reality knowing God walking with
God reality in worship reality in prayer reality
in our witnessing and we know that's a
lifetime task.
And the last word forgiveness Oh, I wish
I had another hour forgiveness without forgiveness we
wouldn't be here.
God forgave us because of Jesus Christ.
What he did on the cross now he
tells us to forgive others.
One of my favorite contemporary songs is don't
shoot the wounded.
Don't shoot the wounded.
Seems that so often we do this in
the church.
We've often done this to the people who
have been through divorce.
So divorce people in many places all their
life they're second class citizens in the church.
And there's many many other examples of how
we don't really forgive people the way that
God forgives.
One of the things I remember that Billy
Graham said the night of my conversion was
that when we confess our sin and the
blood covers he will remember God will remember
our sin no more.
And many many many scriptures we could give
about this.
I want to just close with this question.
Is there anybody anywhere that you've not forgiven?
What about your parents?
They're not perfect.
Sure they've hurt you at some time or
other.
That's just so normal.
Maybe they don't know the Lord.
Maybe they do but have been inconsistent at
least in your thinking.
You may even be on OM this summer
running away from your own parents.
Not easy to put it all together.
But you need to exercise forgiveness.
Write your mother and father and tell them
you love them and express some positive things
in the midst of maybe negative struggles.
Maybe there's someone that's hurt you.
What's God's message?
Forgive them.
You may say well if they apologize then
sure they are forgiven.
That's not God's way.
If they apologize well push their nose in
the dirt a little bit and then I'll
forgive them.
Sure I believe in that.
It works.
Sometimes.
That's not God's way.
We don't wait until somebody apologizes.
If it's a slap on the face at
the moment of impact forgive them.
That's the word that comes on our heart.
Jesus, just as Jesus on the cross when
the nails went in said forgive them.
You say oh this is too idealistic.
This is what I thought about this OM
movement.
A bunch of idealists.
I was warned about this.
They'd be telling me that I had to
live the Christian life.
I knew it.
That's exactly what we believe.
That you should live what you've been talking
about and singing about some of you since
you were knee high to a chair.
Forgiveness is the bottom line.
I don't believe that God is going to
use the church for world evangelism the way
he wants to until there is greater reality
in the area of love and forgiveness on
every level right across the whole body of
Jesus Christ.
Doesn't mean we're going to agree on everything.
We have to as mature people learn how
to compassionately in humility disagree with people.
If we would learn that we'd have so,
so less problems.
We're not asking you to all believe the
same thing.
But when we disagree let's have love.
Let's talk about it in a loving and
mature way.
Let's not get all steamed up and have
our eyes turn pink and our ears grow
an inch.
If someone hurts you you don't have to
always be silent.
You can talk about it.
Somebody steps on your head tonight or steals
your sleeping bag.
You don't have to just, you know repent
of this and sort of just forgive him
and not say anything.
You put love into practice.
You go steal their sleeping bag.
No, that's not what you do.
But you can talk it out.
I've had sometimes people hurt me very deeply.
There's no sense just having a big smile.
Oh, I'm hurt.
Oh, I love that brother so much.
He's just hurt me so deep.
No, I claim God's grace.
I ask God to do a work in
my heart and then in some cases if
I don't experience the grace and the victory
in a practical way I go to that
brother, esteeming him in love or a sister
I say, look, let's talk about it.
This happened the other day.
I don't think you meant it.
You believe the best, but that really hurt
me.
You know, when I saw you take my
wife and punch her and drop her on
the other side of that tree I am
afraid about this and I forgive you, but
I thought maybe we should talk about this
a little bit and we can go down
and visit her together in the hospital.
Brothers and sisters, we have got to communicate
and if you're the silent type when you
hurt you neatly repress it down into the
stomach you know how to put a smile
on your face when you feel absolutely unbearable
and when your leader hurts you as he
may this summer or she in yourself you'd
be petrified to talk about it just like
when your father hurt you ten years ago
but you were afraid to say anything to
him I beg of you in the name
of the Lord let's learn to communicate let's
learn to walk in the light let's learn
to be honest and open and loving that
is all there is of this recording