Follow to Lead Session 1: Go Make Disciples
by Raymond Sloan
July 4, 2019 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church
Kind: teaching
Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20, Luke 5:1-11, Matthew 6:33

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let this be a life change for you if you'll recall during the month of June we talked specifically about purpose everybody say purpose the reason that we went that direction was little building up to where we are right now I need you kids to listen to me sitting in church for just 45 minutes or 30 minutes is not long you'd sit in front of a show for 30 minutes without even blinking all right so pay attention you don't have to to disrupt you can actually listen a pastor for me this is going to help you and your mommies and daddies okay let me say ma'am thank you guys all right we talked about purpose because in this generation and this time which we're alive if we don't have purpose then what are we trying what are we trying to attempt to do what are we trying to make happen and I think that you'll require you'll remember that we talked about the church's purpose our individual purpose what makes us happy what we feel good when we do something that that helps us to feel like we've accomplished something how that vessels of different sizes shapes made for different purposes it's all in the hand of the master and that all said I was building up to where we are now and that is I think every single one of us have to understand the concepts and the precepts of the Word of God we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost we were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins to be effective in the kingdom turn to your neighbors say you're effective or are you okay so the next few weeks brother Gleason has done a fabulous job with this series we're going to talk about it we're going to begin tonight Matthew chapter 28 this is going to be our guarding point Matthew chapter 28 verse number 18 Jesus should be on your hand out there and Jesus came spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo I am with You alway even unto the end of the world period a man period this is the Commission this is the going okay and what we're going to discover over the next few weeks is and and and you all may have all this down to a science I don't know but one of the interesting things tonight we're going to find out is that nowhere in the scriptures if you will does it say I want you to come and be with me I want you to come and become a part of this but it says to go and then the going people then want to in turn come and be a part but sometimes as apostolic so we miss the go part okay we're gonna look at this brother josh is a video working ru restarting it alright tell me when you're ready this particular lesson tonight of videos about 15 minutes so it's quick and easy and for all you kids it'll fill in the gap of your of your seven minutes of and all the adults now right but honestly there are things that we need to be aware of listen carefully please what I feel like where we are at this point in our church is we're at a juncture we're going to continue to do what we've always done we're going to get the same results or we're going to make some changes if we make changes I am anticipating in the last days that God is pouring out his spirit I want to be a part of that now we may have to shake off some cobwebs we may have to rattle some stones it may be some of us are gonna have to come way out of our comfort zone but I believe it's going to be vital in this hour alright so over the next few weeks that's exactly what we're to talk about at the end of this gospel Jesus told them I have given you what you need I've equipped you I've poured it into you I've been teaching you I've been leading you I've been instructing you I've been showing you the path now I want you to go and do it I want you to go and make disciples I want you to go and teach people about me let them fall in love with me through your witness amen that's what the scripture refers to when it says to make disciples so that's what we're going to do knowing your purpose we discovered over the last four weeks helps you to realize Lord if I'm in your hands if I'm accomplishing what you've called me to accomplish let me be fulfilled in that I promise that if you'll do it for God God will honor you God will bless you God will give you strength some of you right now sitting here you're saying you know what I'm not good at all that TG stuff if you gave me a microphone I'd pass out if you asked me to get behind that podium up there I wouldn't know what to do my knees would shake and I'd be scared to death okay fine then don't stand up here you can sit at your coffee table or at your kitchen table at home and make disciples you you can you can do what you do in your day-to-day life Walmart shopping kids family school whatever it is and you can make disciples you can teach people about the good things of God let them fall in love with him as well amen we ready Josh we still can't crankin all right wait turn on stare at Josh go ahead make him nervous still no all right so happy birthday America filling in the blanks if I if I can't over there all right what happened to Ross today tell us yeah he became an American or sworn in today isn't that cool Thank You Ross that's exciting I was so thrilled for him it's just a short process right but I'm wanting to congratulate you want the church to know that we're proud of you that's a cool thing very good we ready Josh all right we're gonna go back to the paperwork then after my in the book of Matthew 28 then let's jump to Luke chapter five we're gonna read several verses here somebody help me here if you got her here on your paper read verse number one please someone uh-huh first to someone okay verse three okay verse four someone uh-huh verse 5 okay we're sick someone okay that break yeah we're seven someone uh-huh Vercetti eight someone verse nine someone yeah verse 10 yeah and verse 11 said and when they had brought their ships to land they forsook all and followed him knowing what had just happened anybody here a good fish a fish a fisherman person are you sister Jessica thank you for her for being here tonight thank you so much for making us look mad and terrible at our fishing skills this is a story of course and that de Galilee was was a place where a lot of fishermen were that there was their trade it was how they made their money it's how they supported themselves and their families in this particular occasion the guys who were fishing were fishermen it's what they did so they were good at their trade they were good at their jobs in this particular instance they'd been fishing no good finally Jesus steps on the scene changes everything and what does he say to them because of what you have just learned here if you'll hearken to my word follow my voice you'll be able to be a Fisher of men you're gonna understand that from this point forward just how you listen to me - drop your net there if you listen to me you'll catch people the same way now how many you're glad that you didn't get caught in a net to come to church yeah yeah would have been all wet mess or whatever right but instead you were caught with the power and the plan and the purpose of God to come into the house of the Lord a man there's this video we're ready Josh about 15 minutes long this is gonna lead us into the next series of questions and we're gonna discuss this tonight whenever you're ready Josh help me out so in this video series we are talking about making disciples and I was thinking about one of the first families that I was used by God to disciple when we came to Kansas City I met this man through his sister who was an apostolic believer in Texas she gave me his name and his phone number in his address and so I began showing up at their house by their invitation on Thursday nights to teach them the Word of God their marriage was in trouble he was involved in drugs selling and using and they were studying with other religious groups including the Mormons and so we began to come to their house and teach them the Word of God and this is the mission of the church and I always felt so fulfilled in teaching others the Word of God so I remember one night I was teaching him a Bible study and he was a chain smoker so he was blowing smoke in my face and why not it was his house and was drinking beer while I was teaching him the Word of God and so toward the end of the Bible study he said now pastor next week you bring beer and so to his surprise the next Thursday night I'm walking up to his front steps and his wife sees me at the door and I've got a cooler in my hand and she turns around and says oh no you've corrupted the pastor and so I come into the house and his eyes are big as you know tea saucers and and I set the cooler down on the kitchen table and he said what do you got here pastor I said well you said next week I should bring the beer so he opened it up he said man I got that coolest pastor in the world and he reached in there and pulled out a six-pack of anw root beer so we have to keep it real when we're changing the world and today they are some of the best people that we've got and you know what almost every Sunday they've got their disciples sitting with them in the house of God so let's go make the site I want to welcome all of you to our small group video series entitled follow to lead the journey of a disciple maker this series calls us back to the Great Commission when Jesus said go make disciples of all nations and baptize and teach them all things that I have given you to observe in this simple command Jesus gave us his mission and also the method now we have a problem in our where we live in the context of bringing this gospel to the world and the problem is is that we are not maintaining pace with the population growth we are approaching eight billion people in this world and yet on a good Sunday if we scraped up everybody that considers himself to be oneness apostolic Pentecostal around the world according to the research of Thomas French perhaps we will have approximately thirty four million people in our congregations around the world now this sounds exciting but actually this represents only point zero three percent of our population another challenge that we have is the average attender and one of our United Pentecostal churches on an annual basis typically does not impact the lost people that are around them and the question arises why is this perhaps we're intimidated perhaps we're not equipped perhaps some people are not convinced that it's their calling to reach lost people but rather that's for the triple a extroverted personality type people but I'm suggesting it's because to a great extent we have the wrong model of how to reach this world this concept that Jesus gave us this mission and this method is much different for how the first century live their lives as compared to how we live our lives in the 21st century Jesus commissioned all believers in the first century to go make disciples but unfortunately some local congregations in the 21st century have decided to go do something else making disciples was the model of membership in the first community of believers so we have to ask ourself the question what is our model of membership what gives us ownership that we are part of a oneness Apostolic Church in the 21st century many churches who have decided to do something other than make disciples have become very creative and given their own interpretation of the Great Commission we have come up with all kinds of interesting ways to sort of bring people to Christ we have big Sunday events we have we have giveaways we have exciting attractions many of us including here at the live charge do big outreach events like block parties where we have you know maybe a concert and have a baptismal tank on location and it's always exciting but at the end of the day really what do we have other than perhaps you know a big number to tweet or to post on Facebook but when Jesus said go make disciples he wasn't really talking about having big events as much as he was talking about living our lives organically not unnaturally not just having calendar events but living our lives organically in a way that everyday were conscientious have lost people around us and have a desire to approach them with building relationships now I'm feel very strongly that before we can have the right behavior we must have the right vocabulary and we would call this having the right theology so that it can produce the right biography in our life it's sort of like when I got it this morning and I put on my sweater if I would have missed and put the wrong button in the wrong buttonhole say I dress myself in the dark and then I stepped out in public then all of the other buttons would have been out of place but I forget the but if I get the right button in the right hole first then everything else falls in place Jesus sort of said it like this in Matthew 6:33 he said seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and then all these other things shall fall into place so the right button in reaching the world is the command of Jesus Christ to go make disciples that's both our theology and our baya our biography so in other words what we believe we all believe that we need to reach the world but how is that playing out in our daily lives the direction of the Great Commission is not come but the direction of the Great Commission is to go this is a part of our biography the Holy Spirit is a ghost spirit and yet so much of what we're trying to do to impact the world is you know come to church come to church come to church Jesus didn't tell us to go get everybody to come to church he told us to be the church and to and so the direction of the Great Commission is not come but it's go I tell our church in Kansas City all the time it's more important what we do Monday through Saturday then what happens on Sunday for too long we've been putting all of our ministry eggs in one basket called Sunday but what would happen if we would take the 90% of ministry that's going on behind the walls of our church and reverse that percentage and have 10% of ministry going on on Sundays and 90% of miss of ministry going on when we leave the building and we begin to build relationships with lost people I think another challenge that we have in reaching this world is what I would call sort of bad church theology in other words how do we talk about church I'll tell you how we talk about church we say things like well you know we have church three times a week you know we're going to church he's in church for ten years she back slid she's not coming to church anymore and and we have this church theology when actually church is not a building that we go to in fact if you would have used the word Church in the first century and perhaps even up to the third century the middle of the third century if you de said the word Church to those people those believers they would have never thought about a building because the first dedicated Christian church building was not even built until over halfway through the third century and so we need to rethink how we talk about Church so I want to ask you a question right now what if your building where you go to worship disappeared what if you didn't have it to go to this coming Sunday would your church fall apart could you impact a lost person without a building without a choir here's what I believe if we are walking with God and we are organically wanting to impact this world we don't have to just always bring people to church for the church to impact them what would happen if we just were the church and we took the church what happens in church a prayer meeting a worship service a sermon and altar call we need to be all of those things everywhere we go I am an altar call I am a sermon I am a choir I am a praise service because I'm carrying these dynamics with me wherever we go so we want to get the ministry out of the building and get it out into the community by living our lives organically now in the first century there was a firmly ensconced disciple-making culture so we don't need to reinvent the wheel and figure out how to reach the world Jesus intended for his model of reaching the world to be making disciples and he did not intend it to be just a first century phenomenon but he intended that model to be reproduced over and over and over again in our culture today we have in my view institutionalized reaching the world it's a calendar event it's a great sermon on a Sunday and we all go knock doors the next Saturday and all of these things are great but if they're just happening once a year or once a quarter we're not going to get the job done Jesus wants to live us to live our lives every day in a relational way of making disciples one of our challenges is that we have to we have a paradox going on among us because we have the language of Christianity that's ensconced in our 21st century but in the first century there was no typical language of Christianity but there was the language of disciples and they are much different they really don't talk to each other let me give you an example in the language of Christianity today we we invite people to come to church we're happy if they're just there sitting soaking singing and yet the language of disciples has not come sit sing and soak but the language of disciples has go teach make and baptize and so this is a much different vocabulary that we're using to reach this world another challenge that we have is there's a movement in Christianity in the 21st century it's called the church growth movement and when I say that I'm not against church growth but it's a genre of how to reach the world the church growth movement is things like you know have all the good programs slick marketing make sure that you've got first impressions team all of these things are fine but here's where church growth gets away from making disciples have good programs and most church growth good program measure the success by how many people showed up and not by how many lives were changed church growth also says things like well you know we have to have 500 visitors this year so that we can keep 50 people or we need to baptize 200 this year so we can keep 20 I don't find that anywhere in the scripture we don't have any room to throw away anybody so let's not embrace and recreate the Great Commission other than what Jesus intended for us to do but let's get back to the original theology of reaching this world and that is to go make disciples so instead of doing all of these unnatural calendar you know programmatic things to reach the world let's get back to living our lives daily intentionally by building relationships with lost people and when we do this less is actually more so we can slow down and reach the world rush there's a few words that brother Gleeson used and here one of them was fulfilled feeling that like you've completed you you've been involved in something that completes you gives you purpose now I realized that what brother Gleeson is talking about to some of us were sitting here saying yeah well we churches just Church and it's it's it's a good thing and we're glad we come and really enjoy the music or enjoy the programs or enjoy the kids stuff or the whatever it happens to be but in looking at this over the last I've already read this book I read it several months ago and been dissecting it and looking through it again and again trying to figure out cornerstone what what can we do to fill the empty chairs in this church if I may but more than that to make a difference in the world in which we live because I think the two could basically go hand-in-hand the two could actually connect to another so we read here earlier in Matthew 28 we read in Luke chapter 5 he wants us to be doing going and being what we're supposed to be because of what he's done in our life so question number one here the first one I want you to be honest with yourself do you find it easy or difficult to make new friends you find it easier difficult to make new friends and be honest with yourself I don't write down what everybody else says you about you oh you're such a friendly person or man you don't even know how to talk or you're a terrible friend it may be true but don't write it down do you find it easy or difficult why is that an important question to ask right to know yourself what else why is that important many times we use this as an escape I've said it multiple times I just said it a few moments ago if I were to hand you the microphone and say get up here behind this podium and and testify or read or teach or preach some of you would just have a heart attack just right there you just melt into a puddle of nothing because that's not you're not at all comfortable with that what about standing in front of somebody who's just just you just want to be their friend who you want to get to know them does that give you the same fear and you may say no I have no issue with that it's the in front stuff that kind of makes me nervous or makes me really sick in my stomach and all but if I'm just talking to somebody and to bring it close to home what if you're on the job and there's a new hire comes in do you find it difficult to connect with them do you run away from them or do you a true doesn't you feel like you're pulled to them just to get to know them to build a relationship a rapport with them see in disciple-making the facts are God has put something in you to give you what you need when you confront when you come to that person when that person comes to you do you have anything at all anything at all that you could share with anybody that you come in contact with do you what could you share what could you tell them your interest well what is that gonna do strike up a conversation right and then in that conversation what do you get to talk about what would it be like to have that conversation and never bring God into this thing the the UM Tom to the scene for the first five minutes or the first five times you talk to them but yet you're just being a nice person you know what there's a lot of folk in our world today that just needs somebody to be nice to if we have a mindset of saying Lord if I go make disciples that simply means I'm going to share you with them and you can do that in a multitude of ways the question number one here is for our purpose if I find it easy to make friends then I need to begin to incorporate in that ability a communication that begins to allow them to know me and when they get to know me who are they gonna know they're gonna know God they're gonna know him working in your life they're gonna see it they're gonna say wow there's something cool about you or something whatever about you let's go the second one why is it the case that sometimes you're nervous or sometimes you're not or why is it easy why is it difficult what are you afraid of or what are you not afraid of what are the inhibitors of just simply opening your mouth and communicating with someone rejection yeah that's a big one you want to hear afraid to be rejected what else make a fool of yourself say the wrong thing what else you just don't make the time to do so yeah that's that's true for all of us what else the facts are as we control that don't we whatever that happens to be we have the keys to that you know what would it be like to take the second look or to make the extra step or instead of being nervous about confronting someone just to strike up a conversation what if you took a deep breath and said in Jesus name and you actually took the step and begin to talk what would happen in other words let God work in you remove the inhibitions by saying Lord I'm not gonna go to them and say you got to come to my church you got to walk through the doors I want to go to them and say do you know what this is a beautiful day and you see them in their garden working or you see them buying like a watermelon then they're bugging you say you having a picnic this week because that's typically yeah gonna you know whatever just to begin a conversation with them let's go to the many have never found the high calling of God for their lives either they have not sought for it or they simply do not understand when they see it why do you think that's the case why don't people want to be disciple makers fear okay and why is that the case yeah out of your comfort zone what else what's thank you for sharing that someone else lack of confidence in what okay yeah because you're afraid maybe you'll say something you don't have an answer or they'll ask you something and then you'll be sinner going yeah good right don't want to do the effort we don't see the value it what difference is it going to make really does it really matter that much yeah these are all things that we face some of us we all have those particular instances where we we maybe it's like this maybe you feel the urge to to speak up or start a conversation or walk across the room and stick out your hand to greet them but then everything else begins to fight against it everything else begins or somebody says something and you get distracted or pulled away from it let's go to next what does it mean to be stuck in your methods and manners in which the way that you labor for God you've ever been stuck in the routine what does that mean to be stuck same thing say the same thing I think we're all guilty of that aren't we what'd you do yesterday went to church really why because it had a coupon for the restaurant I had to go and was there active till two o'clock no I mean why why is it that we have we get stuck in a rut or in a way to do things instead of just simply taking a breath and saying you know what God I'm gonna trust you for right now and I'm gonna begin communication with somebody begin trying to connect with someone it may be that it's not comfortable but let me ask you a question would you rather just sit in silence would you do how do you feel when somebody comes up to you and talks am I the only one guilty said the Lord if you want me to witness to them let them ask me something oh they didn't ask me so they're normally to witness tongue is that fair or am I the only one that feels that way or Lord you know what if I cross paths with them and they ask me this specific question this way then I'll know you know no well then they asked but in a different way you're like you almost got it God but I'm saved again I don't have to say anything some you're laughing cuz you know exactly what I'm talking about to get stuck so sometimes you got it shift the gear you gotta shake it if you will move it a bit and say I need to move forward in this is there time in life when you're stuck and you just can't move forward what are you afraid of what is the fear what is the distraction you're looking at me now and I know in your mind you're cranking it out because you understand what I'm saying every single one of you that have the Holy Ghost I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have been put into certain situations to where you were required to open your mouth and say something and you either did or didn't you were in a position to where you had to communicate you had to interact or whatever and you either did or did not and what ultimately happened was if you yielded to it and you begin a conversation then you begin to figure out you know what God's on my side have you ever been shot down before I don't want nothing to do with that like the time when we were knocking on doors handing out invitations to come through an event to come to an event is where the gleason said and the door guy opened the door and he was mad and he slammed the door in our face well you don't even know that just stopped all the outreach we never doing this again or the time the dog chased us one time I was we were hanging out tracks and and there were several of us and I was this side of the road and sister Kathy's coming down this side of the road she got one shoe on wants you off we're draw your shoes back there I threw it at a dog well go get it so I had to go down and rustle up a shoe I'm gonna tell you about Lauren going to the door anyway there's times in life where we have to get unstuck from the rut the routine that we're in stay with me just a minute what can change in your life if you discover your true purpose will that give you the ability to do what God's calling you to do I think it's very intriguing some statements that brother Gleason made and I'm bringing the wheels down here very intriguing if we will simply begin the process of trying to impact someone's life the results are going to be so astronomically bigger than if the whole church simply said we're going to wait for them to walk through our doors the numbers do not life if you're a numbers person if you'll just simply befriend folk begin to plug into folk begin to connect them what anybody in this room have thought to when the guy sitting there smoke smoking blowing smoke in your face drinking beer for you to bring beer next week and he will show up with a root beer what do you think is gonna happen do you know what just transpired in that relationship what and it's yes sir Jesus did that's right good answer but there's a connection there right now all of a sudden if that guy ever does come to the house the Lord get baptized or see the Holy Ghost guess what he's gonna say in the future about that pastor he'll tell that story everywhere he goes same reason the same thing he's doing when he's talking about trying to make a difference in someone's life now again I'm gonna monitor in this book it goes into some great details chapters 1 2 3 4 they're too short they're easy to read but I think that if we will understand God's purpose for us as individuals in the family of God your testimonies are going to explode now I'm going to close brother drone come help me please as you go through this week this is I don't want you to do I want you to ask God to open doors of opportunity to get unstuck to meet new folk pray for wisdom to know how to proceed forward this I mentioned to you earlier this week I've got a phone call here at the church somebody in the hospital can you go visit them so it happens a lot so I've head up there I get up there's nothing I can't find the person I found the where he was but because it was surgery just happened I wasn't allowed in there because the family wasn't there so I'm like now the first thought I had was who got out of that one I was up here though so I said you know what I said self let's go wait in the waiting room and we'll just wait cuz maybe she went to get something to eat or whatever so I went to the waiting room and there's another family in there a couple folks sitting in the waiting room and I already left my house I come by past the church because I'd run out of business cards in my truck so I came in and got a handful of cars to restock the truck so I'm are I've already got all this planned I get up there I've had to go into hospital rooms before and they be sound asleep from surgery I just lay a card on the table I pray don't bother him and I walk out check on him later but I get them in a waiting room and I'm sitting there on my phone and I'm trying to find the phone number of the person that called him I don't know how I don't have any indication I have a name and the family in the room then waiting room I just happened to ask to anybody know this family gave the last name Oh No but she was sitting right there I don't know where she was okay let's go stay there and wait on her she'll probably come back so I'm waiting wait wait three minutes goes by and the lady that's over in that corner gets up walks by she says now I think that she's not from around here that would understand I don't you know and I begin to express to her why I'm there how'd you get up here well a part of organization I'm a pastor and got a phone call found me online well that snake and so she's she's like from here to my wife standing back I'm sitting in a at a table I'll tell you these details because this is how it unfolded and within about two minutes time I've just talked about this person she's edging closer and closer her husband found out is in surgery at that moment have an open heart surgery her son is sitting there uncle whatever it is brother sister so she's inching closer and I'm talking within about two minutes her she's sitting at the table with me we're just talking cars she's selling me pictures on her phone of cars her husband's on her son's got a Harley he drives a 55 Chevy he's got a 57 because that's the year she was born - no no joke I'm sitting there talking I'm waiting conversation politics religion the whole bit so what kind of pastor are you I'm one that comes and visits people with I don't know her son said he said so you just randomly come up here walk around I said well I randomly came down here and sat well yeah there's that so she says what's your church about as it turns out I went by my office and got a card laid it on the table she looks at it what is a PO a PO AB Stalag I said well we're Pentecostal okay a little more conversation finally they call about her husband so I stood up didn't want to bother cuz the family and stuff was there and I said what's his name what's what's your name she told me told me his name I said I'm gonna go check on her see if she's back in the room if she's not then I'm gonna sleep out here she said well I'm gonna go check on my husband I said I want you to know that I'm gonna be praying for you is that okay would you yeah so her son walks up ain't standing there he's hardly got huh he just walks away so I left went back to check come back they were gone evidently they went back there so I went back yesterday I found this couple finally he's sure enough he's in the hospital but I'm just having a hard time I walked in and I introduced myself brother Sloane yes ma'am and I shook her hand I it was the Lord's will yesterday for you not to find me how do you mean she said well that lady you met she come back here where's that preacher and I told her that I'd bring you down to her to his room because they want you to pray for so we started talking her husband's there the nurse comes in she says honey we're gonna slip out he needs to go pray for somebody else so we walked down around around around around here lo and behold I walk in on the Lord's blessed me with sometimes a good mind I called out her name and his name how do you know honey it says that preacher I told you about I liked him how's your 57 I remembered a few details tell me about your you got a foreword don't you I don't know Ford here we go they sit in his chair got this titanium plate now because of the way things have to grow back Orsi's tell me all these details too many details anyway share all of that for this simple thing in trying to put together the lesson for tonight the Lord was showing me very specifically I don't mind telling you what I said is it okay if I pray with you guys before I leave I'm gonna go back down and pray for him he said why sure so in zombies in all of his tables he says but I'm gonna stand up well you're up stick yes I do if we pray I stand so he gets up and he takes hands and we pray and he's standing there she's praying I'm praying the lady's praying and at the end I said little Lord thank you when I finished my prayer I said lord thank you for not letting him flash us when he turned around when he stood up and he starts laughing I like you that's why I'm so glad you didn't yeah I didn't know that no no it's okay we leave that room head back to the other room I'm sharing this just a quick section the reason is is because when I left there I'd pray for them and then headed back to my truck got in the truck and sat there and I said Lord thank you once again for letting me see just how simple it is just how simple it is when I left that first room with that couple that I prayed with we're gonna come see you well come on we're going to we don't go nowhere now but we're going to I didn't invite them I just said come on if you want to you know my point what I wanted to they made sure phone numbers were exchanged all this I'm telling you this because every day you meet somebody that you can just simply be kind to and God is saying show me to them let them see me open your mouth open your heart just show me to them they're not gonna see anything in you but if you'll just simply open up they'll see me that's what I want then you can help get them to me stand with me would you discipleship you don't have a book and you'd like to buy one they're out here sister Sarah take care of it for you I challenge you read it over the next few weeks we're gonna come back next week we're gonna do some pretty different things over the next few weeks but I want you to know finding your purpose doing what God has saved you to do I want us to pray right now one for another get somebody's hand close to you come on we're gonna pray one for another Jesus thank you for salvation thank you Lord for your kingdom great great great Kingdom Lord I pray right now that we here in Chattanooga the cornerstone that we would be found doing our part we honor you Lord we love you we believe you for great things lord I ask you to help us God just to simply believe you to open our mouths Lord and just reach to people just show we don't have to preach we don't have to none of that we just simply love them Lord in and let your grace show through us I pray for each one that's here tonight that your glory Lord would shine in them your God and their day-to-day activities in the roads the pads they walk in the name of Jesus let us be disciple makers that will teach and instruct others Lord to know you to connect with you to fall in love with you and to to have a life Lord that leads to you and ultimately leads us to heaven I asked you to bless the remainder of our we give us the wisdom we need open doors of opportunity lord I pray and let us be found Lord doing your will in this hour in the name of Jesus help us O God let us mature and grow in you finding out more and more about you in the name above every name Jesus we love you and trust you for great things in Jesus name we pray and everybody said amen