Podcast Appearances
So, as I was sitting there, suddenly on a modern jetliner, the armrest fell off, hit me on the foot, the tray table fell down, hit me on the knee, and I choked on a piece of ice.
The scripture, despise not the chastening of the Lord, came to mind.
So, I took Pilgrim's Progress, threw it at her foot, and she woke up because she'd gone to sleep.
I said, have you read this book?
And she had in Sunday school and was able to witness to it.
You've got to make the way.
You don't wait.
You make the way like Jesus met the woman at the well, and he didn't sit on the well for two years building a relationship with that woman.
He immediately brought up her sin so he could share with her his forgiveness.
Well, of the words of D.L.
Moody, I'd rather set a thousand to work than do the work of a thousand.
That's the key.
Jesus trained the twelve and we train others.
And we've forgotten the ministry of the equipping evangelist, Ephesians 4, I think it is.
The evangelist is for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry.
And what I liken it to is I come from New Zealand where we have 4 million people and something like 50 million sheep, although they're not sure of the exact amount because the guy that counts them keeps falling to sleep.
There are a lot of sheep in New Zealand.
And we have what's called sheep trials.
You know what a sheep trial is?
It's not like an O.J.