Even Brother Blake, okay, I'm just kidding. Especially Brother Blake and Brother Mike. God has used them this week and used them, it seems like, just abundantly and powerfully here at the church. And I am so thankful for just them allowing us to partner. with you guys and with the church. And man, praise the Lord. We've been to a number of churches, and man, God is using you guys. So stay faithful. And thanks for just being an encouragement to us. We really appreciate it. We have thoroughly enjoyed being here. And we're excited about tomorrow, aren't you? It's going to be a great time. But man, I sure hope and just believe by faith that God's going to work and save some folks. Yesterday, I don't know any numbers or anything like that, but yesterday we were at Killing Hills and spoke to the first 1st through 3rd grade. And after chapel, there were some kids who went and talked to their teachers and said, hey, I need to get saved. I'm not saved. And a number of kids got saved yesterday. And then today, we spoke to, was it 7th through 12th? I believe it was 7th through 12th. there was just a great response. God gave favor. And I think there was like 15 teenagers that decided to talk to a teacher about salvation. Isn't that fantastic? I mean, teenagers. I was so encouraged. I don't know that I personally had seen that many teenagers only talk about specifically salvation. And so that was encouraging, and there was a number of other decisions. A number of teenagers said, hey, you know what, I'm gonna be all in. Isn't that exciting, when a teenager says, I'm gonna be all in, praise the Lord. So they gotta live that out. But God wants them to, and he's on their side. And the Holy Spirit's fantastic at convicting people and helping people continue in their relationship with God. And there's a number of teachers that and pastors there that said they're gonna follow up with people. So praise the Lord for that. And they may be here Thursday night. And some, there was about 20 or so that responded and about five of them, six of them said, I'm gonna wait. And so pray they come tomorrow night and decide to trust Christ as their savior. That'd be fantastic. You got your Bible? So you go to Matthew 28 is where we'll be right now. You know, is this accurate or not? Who knows? But right now, not counting tickets, if I have got the number correctly here, not counting tickets, and there's been a lot of tickets go out. How many know that's true? How many have passed out tickets? I think there's been thousands of tickets go out. So this is not counting tickets, but just through online registration and maybe a poster or two, there's been over 100 registered. online for the show, so that's exciting. So hopefully they'll come, so at least 100 visitors outside of tickets. So we'll see what happens, you know, only God knows. But pray if you think about it, I'm gonna try to leave a good amount of time to pray, but pray specifically that these folks do come, but pray that they come like just ready to respond. You know, the whole purpose is not to have a bunch of visitors, okay, that'd be great, but the purpose is for folks to come and get saved. and then become disciples, right, of Jesus Christ. And this is what we're gonna do real quick. We're gonna be in Matthew 28, and we'll start in verse 16, go down to verse 20 here in just a moment. But before we get there, there was a group called Barna. Anybody ever heard of Barna? They used to do statistics and things like that. And in 2016, so it's been a little while, but in 2016, they were trying to find out what people in America believe in order to go to heaven, specifically. So this is what they did. You know, a lot of groups, they'll send out a thing saying, are you Christian? Are you maybe Muslim? Are you whatever? And then they pick a group, identify with the group. But what they did is they sent out a list of beliefs. And then based on those beliefs, they put people in certain categories. So probably a much more accurate way to know if the people that are answering these questions are actually trusting in biblical salvation, right? This is what I wanna do real quick before I tell you the statistic. If it's okay, would you two ladies mind just standing up right where you're at? And then would you three ladies mind standing up? Would you two, would it be okay if you guys stand up right there? And then the person who helped carry some tricks, would you mind standing up? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. And then if it's OK, would all four of you right there mind standing up? And then I think that will be pretty close to accurate. In 2016, they sent out that list of beliefs, and this was one of the questions. Do you believe the Bible way to heaven is by grace through faith, not of works? Okay? Which, I mean, that's the Bible way to heaven. You don't do good deeds to get to heaven. You trust Christ alone, repent of your sins, trust Christ alone. And sure enough, the statistic came back, and only 6% of people in America believed that the Bible way to go to heaven is by grace, through faith, not of works. If this room represented America, really the only people that would be saved, at least they would know the Bible reason, maybe people got saved and got confused, that can happen, but the only people that really gave the Bible reason for being saved, if this room represents America, would be the people standing up. Think about that for a moment. If it's okay, would you three sit down right here, and then everybody on this side sit down. And then, would you mind sitting down right there? They also did a statistic to see how many of that 6%, like on purpose, tried to share their faith. And according to their records, only 19%. of that 6% on purpose shared their faith. So, you know, this is just a rough estimate, but out of that group that stood up, only two. would have on purpose looked for opportunity to share their faith. What does that mean? A couple things, you can have a seat, thank you guys so much. That means this, there's a great need for people to believe and understand the gospel. Don't you agree with that? Understand and believe, that's a great need. And there's a great need for Christians who are saved to share their faith. And what we're gonna talk about tonight, I believe, and I think you'll agree, is really key. in reaching not just this area, but the world with the gospel. You know, sometimes we hear things like that, and we're like, man, is there any hope? I mean, can really, I mean, be honest, let's be real, okay? Some people are like, I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. Anybody, that's you? Okay, let's be real, okay? Are people like, actually, like 6%, man? Like, is there even a chance? Like, that could really change. I mean, if a million people get saved, that's not even 1%. That's not, I think it might be in America, not even the world, in America, it might be .2-ish. I'm terrible at math. I think that's right. There's 333 million in America. One million, anybody good at math? Point two-ish, I think, okay? If not, ask ChatGBT, right? And that'll be good, okay? But really, like, there's a great need! So how do we reach them? We're gonna talk about what I believe is God's pattern right here, found in Matthew 28, and we're gonna do a little bit of math, and I wrote it down, so it's accurate, okay? And I think it can help us in just seeing, you know what, with God's help, it's possible to really make a difference. And let's look at this passion. Let's pray real quick, and we'll dive into it. Father, thank you so much for your church here at Berean Baptist, and God, I pray right now you'd focus our mind on your word, and God, would you give us a desire to see folks saved, but Father, not to just stop at that point, but Father, would you give us a desire to disciple them as well? Lord, we love you and we need you. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Quick question, then we're gonna dive into the text. You know, we say this by faith, but hopefully tomorrow there will be a number of folks get saved. Wouldn't that be fantastic? Okay, if that happens, here's the question. You don't have to answer out loud. You can just think on it. Did we completely fulfill the Great Commission? If folks get saved, did we completely fulfill the Great Commission? Well, I don't think we did. And I think when we look at this passage of scripture, you'll find out that we didn't completely fulfill the Great Commission. We completed maybe step one of the process. Maybe you could talk about that, but really entirety, in the entirety of the Great Commission, as folks get saved tomorrow night, we didn't yet completely fulfill the Great Commission. What we're gonna do is we're gonna talk about what the Great Commission is, And then, it's really simple to understand. Then we're just gonna ask the question, are you, you know, with God's help, are you fulfilling? Not necessarily your church, not necessarily the pastors or the teachers or the deacons, but you personally. Fulfilling, just like, you know, God wants you personally to share your faith, God wants you personally to be involved at some level with discipling folks. It's the truth. And you can. And we're gonna talk about God's power, the Great Commission, and then we're gonna ask the question, are you fulfilling it, okay? Pretty simple tonight, then we're gonna pray. Verse 16 is where we'll start in your Bibles. The Bible says this, Matthew 28, verse 16. Then the 11 disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted. Verse 18, and Jesus came and spake unto them saying, all, what's the word? Power, very important, we're gonna look at that in a second. All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, because I have all power, 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've commanded you. And lo, or, and listen, understand this, this is important, and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Number one, Jesus mentions it in the text. I think it's important we look at it in the text when it comes to fulfilling the Great Commission. Not just sharing your faith, but the whole thing. Discipling people, bringing people to the point of a mature believer where they can repeat the process, okay? The whole Great Commission. When it comes to that, you and I, doesn't matter who you are, doesn't matter how long you've been saved, you and I. We've got access to God's power, okay? Not because we're special, but because Jesus is with us. and he has all power in heaven and earth. You know, I did a little study on this word power, and it's not that difficult to do. You can look it up. But I just looked kind of throughout the Bible when this specific word power was used, okay? I looked at like the Greek word and was wondering, okay, when is this power used? And let's do some more studying on it. And so in John 10, 18, And then Luke 10, 17 through 19, we see where God's power is used in some examples of this. First one is John 10, 18. The Bible says this, no man taketh it from me. Jesus is talking. He's talking about his life. He says, no man taketh it, my life, from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." Okay, that word power in that verse is the same word that is used here in this passage. So the power that Jesus has is pretty powerful. I mean, resurrection power. That's pretty powerful, isn't it? And then in Luke 10, verse 17 is where we'll start. The Bible says this, Even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. What was happening is Jesus had sent out the 70 disciples, and they went to spread the gospel of the kingdom, and they were pretty excited about how God had worked. And in verse 18, Jesus responds and says this, and he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Verse nine, here it is, you ready? Behold, verse 19, behold, I give unto you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you." This power that Jesus has is more powerful than all the power of the enemy. Understand that. That's true. And He's on your side, and He's with you always, not just when it comes to sharing your faith, but when it comes to discipling people. He's with you. He's your partner in this, which means this. By God's grace and through God's power, you can fulfill the Great Commission. It's true. It takes excuses out. It takes, you know, like, personality excuses or introverted, extrovertedness. It takes out because, guess what? You, because of Jesus Christ, have access to God's power. Does that make sense? Does that make sense? You can, like, God can give you your power, and you can be confident in that. I mean, isn't that exciting? Teenagers, teenagers, you can have God's power. Isn't that cool? You really can. Kids, you can have God's power. What was it, a year ago, sweetheart? I think it was a year ago, we were at camp in Indiana, and there was a girl, she got saved at camp, and both of her parents were not saved. Her best friend, which was her neighbor, was not saved. A man at camp kind of worked in her heart, and we talked about sharing your faith, and that even a kid can share your faith and have God's power. And she went home, And she had a little track, one of the What Now handouts that we have. If you were in the counselor meeting, you know what those are. But she had one of those, and she went to her neighbor. Her mom went with her, and she shared her faith with her neighbor. And her neighbor didn't get saved, but her mom was convicted. And they went home, and the mom was like, man, I got to get this salvation thing settled. And so the mom called pastor, and pastor came and led the mom to the Lord. And the mom was like, hey, we need to tell dad. And the dad ended up getting saved. And I think she was fourth, fifth, or sixth grade. She decided, you know what? I'm going to share my faith. And her parents ended up getting saved. It wasn't because she was something special, but it's because God's power. And if God can use a 4th, 5th, or 6th grader, God can use you. I knew a seven-year-old. That's a little guy, a seven-year-old named Deacon. And he took a track and shared his faith with somebody. And if he can have God's power sharing his faith, you can too. I knew a guy, his name was Alex. He was very extroverted, okay? Pastor Mike and I talked about Alex earlier today. And Alex is super extroverted. Anybody know someone who's super extroverted? They talk to everyone. They're like walking into Walmart and you're like, you don't know them, bro. Why are you talking to them? Okay, let's keep going. We gotta get some groceries. Okay, but that's Alex. He talks to everybody. He got saved. I'm telling you, life changed. Life changed. And after he learned how to share his faith, he went back home to his friends who were not saved, and he led 30-some of his friends to the Lord. A number of them started coming to church. Why? Because Alex, because of Jesus Christ in this passage, Jesus Christ is with him, Alex could have God's power. I mean, isn't that awesome? You can too. Not just for sharing your faith, but discipling people. It's true, Jesus is with you in that, okay? So we gotta understand that. We go in verse number 19, we go, therefore, because Jesus has all power. So we gotta go in confidence that because Jesus is with us, he is gonna use his word, he's gonna use his power to convict and to work in lives. Does that make sense? Does that make sense? Okay, all right, let's look at verse number 19. Are you ready? This is simple to understand. Let's dive into it. Verse number 19, the Bible says, go ye therefore and teach all nations." We're gonna stop right there. That word, teach, is a very interesting word. It's actually, I'm not trying to be technical or weird, but the Greek word for teach there is a different Greek word for teaching in the next verse, okay? This first word, teach, has a very specific goal in mind. The goal is not just to teach facts or to cover a lesson. The goal is to make whoever you're teaching a disciple. Like that's the specific goal in mind. So tomorrow night, our goal is not just to see a bunch of people save and say, man, have a good day. The goal is for every single person who gets saved to become a disciple of Jesus Christ. So if one of us in here gets to share our faith and lead somebody to the Lord, man, praise the Lord. But it doesn't stop there. God wants us to have this goal in mind. And what is that? We're going to share our faith, and we're going to do our best to help this person who got saved learn how to walk with God. Learn how important it is to be faithful at church, and learn how to share their faith, and learn how to pray, and so on and so forth. And look at the text. You got your Bibles there and stuff on the screen. If you don't, it says, go ye therefore and teach, what's the next two words? All nations. You know what that means? That means anybody, anybody can get saved. I mean, God said teach everybody. You know, sometimes we think, man, they're just too far gone. I don't know if they'll ever get saved. Can I tell you about Alex? I mentioned him earlier. Alex, I'm going to be careful in what words I use since we've got all ages here, but you will understand what I mean. Alex did not grow up in a Christian home at all. His biological dad did something so bad, I don't know what it was, he never told me, but something so bad that his biological dad was sent to prison and then sent to a different state in prison to Texas and was really separated from the whole family. His mom got remarried to a stepdad who was abusive in a whole bunch of different ways. He told me stories where his dad got so mad he took the mattress and chucked it down the stairs. A bunch of different things. I'm going to be careful what stories I tell. But he was very abusive. And Alex, when he was about like 15 years old, his older sister took her own life because of the abusive situations going on. When that happened, Alex hit depression, and he turned to all kinds of different things, poor relationships that were poor physical relationships. He turned to drugs. He started selling drugs. And he was considering taking his own life. He was so depressed. And one day he was on TikTok, he said. And somehow some random preacher video showed up in his TikTok feed. And at that time, you could only do like 60 seconds on TikTok. And so some preacher giving like a snippet of the gospel. And Alex was convicted. And so I went to this church. It was like a non-denom church. He didn't know what church to go to. And thankfully, they were clear on the gospel. And Alex made a profession of faith, trusted Christ as a Savior. He watched that video on a Monday, went to church on a Sunday. And then the next week, COVID hit the ground, and all the churches shut down, except for one. And it was Grace Baptist Church over in Columbus, Georgia. And over at Grace Baptist Church, there's this guy named Delvin. And Delvin came from a similar situation. Parents were not Christian. His dad was out of the picture. He had a number of parents, but someone had invested in him, led him to the Lord, and started discipling him. And so he reconnected with Alex. They had gone to the same school and got separated, and he saw them just kind of walking down the street. And he said, hey, you need to come to church with me. And Alex had just got saved. So he says, yeah, and starts going to church, and Alex knew nothing. Like, nothing. We were praying, and I don't think he'd care if I tell you this story. We were praying and driving on the interstate, and he was driving. Alex was. And I noticed we started changing lanes. And I looked over at Alex, and his eyes were closed. And I was like, Alex, you can open your eyes when we pray. He didn't know that, okay? That's how ignorant Alex was of just Christian things. And Alex was really from the background. His dad told him, Alex was trying to be pure, do right, look at pure things on his phone. And his dad said, it's not wrong to look at internet impurity, you know what I mean. But his dad literally told him that. His mom ate dinner with somebody and made fun of him for trying to do right. And man, that hurt deep. but because of God's power, and because people decide, you know what, I'm not just gonna share the gospel with Alex and check him off the box, but I'm gonna intend on making Alex a disciple. Alex grew so much to where he is at Crown College right now, and he just finished, you may be familiar with it, Neighborhood Bible Time. Went on missions trips to Canada, he's about to get married to a pastor's daughter. Total life change. He's one of the greatest soul winners I know. He goes through discipleship with people. Why did that happen? Because somebody led him to the Lord, and a number of things happened, but they said, you know what, he needs to become a disciple. And folks at Grace Baptist Church decided, you know what, we're gonna disciple Alex. And they invested him. Can I ask you a question? In your life, has there been anybody that maybe you discipled, like you, You disciple, individually you, I disciple them maybe to the point where they could do it with somebody else. Has there been someone in your life who maybe you even led to the Lord and then you just taught them God's word so much to the point where now they can do that too? Is that not God's will? That's what God's, the focus of tomorrow night, yes, we wanna share the gospel, but those people who get saved, the word of God says, here's the intent. We want them to get saved and become a mature believer of Jesus Christ, a disciple. So what does that take? Well, it doesn't take just a pastor, that is a very important part, but it takes Christians to say, you know what, I'm gonna obey God. I want to be all in. Okay, so it is teaching there with a specific goal, sharing our faith with a specific goal. I want this person to become a disciple of Jesus Christ. And who is that for? All nations. There's no one that's gonna be here tomorrow night that's too far gone, and they cannot not just get saved. but they cannot become a disciple of Jesus Christ. God can do it with all of them, pretty amazing. He can, and because of God's power, he can use you in that. Okay, look at verse 19, let's continue. It says, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Okay, so baptism is a part of the Great Commission. What does that mean? We haven't yet fulfilled the Great Commission if they haven't gotten baptized. Does that make sense? That's a step in fulfilling the Great Commission. What is baptism? Well, there's a number of different explanations here and kind of sides to it, maybe. One would be identification. You're identifying with Jesus Christ. You're saying, hey, I got saved. I'm not ashamed of it. You know, the water looks like this. A person stands right there, and it kind of looks like a cross. So baptism is often like a little bit of a picture of when Jesus died on the cross. And then when you go under the water, it pictures when he was buried and came back up, pictures when he rose again, and also pictures when you're identifying with him, you being buried in the likeness of his death and raised to walk. and newness of life, and it's you identifying with Jesus Christ, picturing his death, burial, and resurrection, and your life in Christ, and it's also obedience. God wants us to get baptized. Hey, maybe there's some teenagers, some kids, even adults in here, and a step God wants you to take in your relationship with him is to get baptized. Maybe you haven't gotten baptized yet. Hey, can I encourage you to decide to obey God? If you understand baptism, decide to obey God and say, you know what? I'm gonna get baptized. If there's some kids in here, you haven't got baptized, let me encourage you. After church, talk to your parents about that and talk to pastor about that. They'll make sure you understand it all and then take that step of obedience. Thank God, maybe there's adults and teenagers. Let me encourage you, obey God. in this thing called baptism. It's identification with Jesus Christ. Most of the time in scriptures, they identified with a certain group of believers. So most of the time you identify with a specific church in your baptism. And so obedience is the picture, and it's part of the Great Commission. So it's important that when we strive to see folks saved tomorrow night, we go in with the goal, okay, the people who get saved, we're not just gonna check them off the box and move on. We are going to do our best with God's power to disciple them. And one step in that is then obeying God in baptism. Let's continue. Verse 20, this is simple to understand. The Bible says, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. This word teaching is kind of what you think about when you think about teaching. It can be a class type setting, like a Sunday school class. It can be a one-on-one type setting, I know a pastor here, he told me y'all went through The Exchange. The Exchange has a number of different discipleship series. I think it was Pastor Mike talked about a little booklet he's got that is kind of geared towards kids, and it's almost like a discipleship for kids. And let me encourage you, be involved in this teaching thing. It's not just for pastors. It's not just for Sunday school teachers. It's for Christians. It's something God wants you, God wants me to do. Not just share our faith. but disciple people to the point they can repeat the process. So here's the question, are you doing that? teaching them all things which I have commanded you. You can do that going through a series. You can do that through just reading your Bible. I had a friend named Logan Snoddy. That was his real name, okay? His dad's a pastor. Can you imagine Pastor Snoddy? It's a little awkward, okay? But I guess they're used to it. I don't know. But Logan, he had a friend named Juan, and he discipled Juan just through reading their Bible together. They'd pick books of the Bible and just read it and talk about it, and he discipled Juan. There's a number of ways to disciple people, but here's the takeaway. It is something God wants us to do. So here's the question, are you doing it? Who are you discipling? It's God's will for you to do that. You're not just supposed to be someone who attends, but you should participate in just obeying God. And here's the truth. Because of God's power, you can obey God in this. And maybe there's some folks in here, you say, Chase, hang on, to be honest, I don't know that I'm ready to disciple people. Because I think I need to be discipled a little bit more before I'm ready to do that. And listen, if that's you, I'm telling you, pastor would love to connect you with somebody who can disciple you or to disciple you himself. He would love to do that. And then you'll be equipped, you'll be ready to disciple others in what the Bible says, whatsoever I've commanded you. You got your Bible, look at that last part of the verse there. The Bible says, in love, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Because Jesus has all power and he's always with us, we truly can, not just share our faith, but by God's grace and through his power, we can disciple folks. I mean, we really can. I mean, there can be people come tomorrow night who have a testimony like Alex. They're on level zero when it comes to Christianity, which probably there will be people tomorrow night who really are on level zero when it comes to Christianity. And they can become a true disciple of Jesus Christ. But can I tell you, that really doesn't happen on accident. It makes people like you decide, okay, I'm gonna obey God. and I'm gonna do my best to disciple people. We were at a VBS two years ago, three years ago, and there was a lady who came on Sunday, they ended the VBS on Sunday, and she was a grandma, and she brought a couple of her grandkids, and the grandma got saved, and there was another grandma at the church, and she said, you know what, I'm gonna disciple her. And she did. And the year later, we were back at that church, and that grandma who got saved was now at the point where she was serving at the VBS. Isn't that pretty amazing? That can happen. That really can. But you and I have to decide on purpose, I'm gonna disciple. You could do that. There's a number of different ways, but the key is just obeying God. discipling people. Let me tell you this real quick. I said I was going to do something with numbers, and I wrote it down so it would be accurate, okay? If you had two people, and I want to be careful how I say this, because this isn't anti-soul winning or anti-evangelism. I mean, I'm an evangelist, okay? But the Great Commission is both, right? You know, sometimes, let me say this real quick, then I'll talk about the numbers. Sometimes we see people saved, and we kind of check them off the box. And we're like, okay, they just got saved. I won't push them too hard. Let's just see what happens. Okay, give them some space, see what happens. And this may be a silly illustration, but when someone gets saved, truly, they're a baby Christian. I mean, they are. And when we had Cyrus, he could not do anything on his own. He didn't know how to. And if we just left Cyrus to his own, on his own, he would not survive, and we would be committing child abuse, and we should go to jail. That would be wrong. We should go to jail. Could it be that there are Christians today who commit spiritual child abuse? I mean, they lead somebody to the Lord, and maybe they don't really try. It's not very hard to disciple them. I mean, let's be honest, okay? When you have a kiddo, that's hard work. But you know what is hard work too? Training the kiddo. And it takes a lot longer. And it takes a lot of effort. And when it comes to folks getting saved and discipled, man, it takes a lot of effort. And you know what? Sometimes you disciple people and they say, no, I don't wanna obey God. You train the kid and your kid said no? You know, does that mean they're never going to obey God with their life? No, you train them. You help them understand. And truly, if you will disciple folks, they may struggle in seasons. But you know what? By God's grace, they truly can have hope. They can become a mature disciple of Jesus Christ. You have two people. One person leads a thousand people to the Lord every single day. That'd be pretty awesome. And then you have another person, and they lead one person to the Lord and then disciple them the entire year to the point where they can lead somebody to the Lord and disciple them as well, okay? And so in one year, this guy over here, 365,000 people get saved in one year. Wouldn't that be awesome, okay? And then the other person, there's two. One person saved and discipled, another person saved and discipled. Two years, 760,000, or 730,000 people get saved, and then there's four, okay? Fast forward 10 years, 3,650,000 people get saved, and then in 10 years, 1,024 people would be saved and discipled. For sake of time, in 33 years, 33 years, the person who led 1,000 people to the Lord every single day, there would have been 10,220,000 people saved. And the person who led one person to the Lord and then discipled them for a year and taught them to repeat the process, That person would have seen 8 billion with a B. 8,589,934,592. That's more than the population of the world. Think about that for a moment. When God gave us the Great Commission, he didn't give us a plan that wouldn't work. It's true. But you know what happens? Sometimes we're not real passionate about it. So what's the takeaway? Well, God wants us to be involved in evangelism, but with that same urgency and same seriousness, God wants us to be involved in discipleship. So are you. Who knows what's gonna happen tomorrow night, but by faith, hopefully there's gonna be a whole lot of people that need to be disciples and followed up on. Can I encourage you, jump in with that. You'll be glad you did. One of the most rewarding things is seeing someone you invested in live for God. And let's just be honest, some people you may pour into and they say, you know what, I don't know if I wanna do that. They may struggle. I mean, how many of you struggle? I know I have. But you know what, you don't give up on them. You keep investing and pouring into them and because God is with you, you can have God's power. Let's pray, then I'll turn it over to Pastor. Father, I sure love you. Thank you for your goodness. I ask you, Father, that you would help us to be all in when it comes to sharing our faith and all in when it comes to discipleship. Father, because we have access to your power, we can all really be used in this. And Father, if there's some folks in here and they're not quite ready to disciple because they need to be discipled themselves, Father, would you help them to have just the maturity and the humility to connect with pastor or someone that would disciple them? And Lord, I pray we would all be used of you powerfully to disciple folks just in our communities with the relationships we have. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Amen. All right. This is totally prompting. I did not even ask these guys permission before. So we're going to see how this one goes. All right. But let me see. Where is he?