[OPENING MUSIC]. 00:00:00.56\00:00:14.53 I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF WELCOMING YOU AGAIN TO ANOTHER 00:00:14.53\00:00:20.60 PROGRAM OF GOSPEL OUTREACH WHERE WE DO MISSION ADVENTURING. 00:00:22.70\00:00:26.96 THAT'S THE TITIT YOU SEE RIGHT THERE, "ADVENTURES IN M MSIONS." 00:00:26.96\00:00:30.53 WE A A HERE TO LEARN MORE OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD OF 00:00:30.53\00:00:37.16 GOSPEL TREAEA. 00:00:37.16\00:00:38.60 LOTS OF TIMES WHEN I GET TO SIT HERE IN THIS GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:00:38.60\00:00:44.20 STUDIO WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ONNTHE E OG 00:00:44.20\00:00:50.50 USUSTORIES, PICTURES OF 00:00:44.20\00:00:50.50 WHO THEY MEET AND WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WE GET ALL EXCITED 00:00:50.50\00:00:55.00 ABOUT THAT. DAY,Y,OWEVER, THE PROGRAM IS A LITTLEEBIT DIFFERE. 00:00:55.00\00:00:58.16 WITH YOU WE ARE GOING TO DO SOME EXPLORING OF MISSION 00:00:58.16\00:01:04.30 OPPORTUNITIES AND SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE CONFRONT AS BELIEVERS IN THE 21ST 00:01:07.23\00:01:13.43 CENTURY IN A WORLD THAT LARGELY STILL DOES NOT KNOW WHO JESUS 00:01:13.43\00:01:19.36 IS. WE AREREOING TO THINK ABOUT, PROBABLY PRAYERFULLY DURING THIS 00:01:19.36\00:01:22.53 PROGRAM, WHAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO DO TO, YES TAP RESOURCES, BUT 00:01:22.53\00:01:28.60 MAINLY DREAM ABOUT WHAT CAN WE DO IN AREAS OF THE WORLD WHERE 00:01:31.50\00:01:36.26 THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE W W HAVE NOTTHEHED THE NU 00:01:36.26\00:01:38.96 SO THAT'S ENOUGH FOR AN INTRODUCTION. 00:01:38.96\00:01:41.63 I'M GOING TO WELCOME A FRIEND WHOM I'VE NOT SEEN FOR A SPELL. 00:01:41.63\00:01:46.20 JIM BRAUER, WELCOME MAN. 00:01:46.20\00:01:48.60 NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN. 00:01:48.60\00:01:49.56 GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:01:49.56\00:01:53.03 FOR YOUR INFORMATION JIM IS NOT NEW TO ME ALBEIT WE'VE NOT SAT 00:01:53.03\00:01:59.10 THIS CLOSE TO EACH OTHER IN YEARS. 00:02:03.10\00:02:05.66 THE REASON THERE IS A CONNECTION BETWEEN US IS BECAUSE HIS DEAR 00:02:05.66\00:02:12.40 DAD, PASTOR CARROLL BRAUER AND HIS DARLING MOTHER ALICE BRAUER 00:02:12.40\00:02:20.10 WERE ASSOCIATES OF BETSY AND ME WHEN WE WERE ALL TOGETHER IN POTOMAC CONFERENEN NOW QUITE A 00:02:20.10\00:02:27.23 NUMBMB OF YEARS AGO, BUT 00:02:27.23\00:02:33.30 I'VE NOT FORGOGOEN THAT DEAR ALICE PUT UP WITH ME. 00:02:27.23\00:02:33.30 SHE EVEV TOOK DICTCTIONNBACK IN, 00:02:33.30\00:02:39.43 SHORTHAND NO LESS, AND 00:02:33.30\00:02:39.43 SERVED IN A SECRETARIAL CAPACITY WITH ME. 00:02:39.43\00:02:41.76 SO JIM, TO BE HERE WITH YOU AND TO BE REMINDED OF YOUR PARENTS 00:02:41.76\00:02:47.80 IS A REAL BLESESNG. 00:02:47.80\00:02:48.80 FILL ME IN A LITTLE BIT. 00:02:48.80\00:02:51.43 WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN IN A BIT OF THE INTERIM. 00:02:51.43\00:02:54.46 THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 00:02:54.46\00:02:56.46 LET'S SEE, WHERE HAS THE LORD TAKEN ME BECAUSE I AM PRIMARILY 00:02:56.46\00:03:03.43 A DISCICIE. AT LEAST THAT'S THE WAY I'VE FIGURED IT OUT. 00:03:03.43\00:03:06.80 GOOD, I LIKE IT. 00:03:06.80\00:03:09.23 THE LORD HAS TAKEN ME FROM COLORADO WHERE YOU AND I MET. 00:03:09.23\00:03:14.60 YOU WERE AT MY ORDINATION. 00:03:14.60\00:03:15.80 FROM THERE I WENT TO COLLEGE VIEW CHURCH. 00:03:15.80\00:03:19.20 THENENO THE YOUTH DEPARTMENT THERE IN KANSAS, NEBRASKA AND 00:03:19.20\00:03:23.23 RAN SUMMER CAMP FOR SIX SUMMERS, WONDERFUL. 00:03:23.23\00:03:25.73 WENT TO ILLINOIS. 00:03:25.73\00:03:27.06 WAS THERE FOR SIX YEARS AND BECAME PRESIDENT THEN MOVED OVER 00:03:27.06\00:03:31.16 TO ROCKY MOUNTAIN AS PRESIDENT. 00:03:31.16\00:03:32.90 THEN WENT OVERSEAS. 00:03:32.90\00:03:34.93 WHAT YEAR WAS THE OVERSEAS? 00:03:34.93\00:03:36.13 2009. 00:03:36.13\00:03:37.93 SO YOU HAVE BEEN A MISSIONARY IN NORTH AMERICA MOST OF YOUR 00:03:37.93\00:03:42.40 MINISTRY. 00:03:42.40\00:03:43.83 YES, AND WE COULD TALK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THAT A GREAT DEAL BECAUSE THAT'S 00:03:43.83\00:03:47.86 EXACTLY WHAT WE DID HALF WAY THROUGH THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN YEARS 00:03:47.86\00:03:51.13 WAS TO BEGIN TO LOOK AT HOW DO WE CONTEXTUALIZE AND HOW DO WE REACH NORTH AMERICA AND 00:03:51.13\00:03:56.40 THAT'S A HUGE CHALLENGE. 00:03:56.40\00:03:58.73 IT IS A HUGE CHALLENGE. 00:03:58.73\00:04:00.06 I DON'T THINK I WILL STEP OUTSIDE OF MY RESPONSIBILITIES 00:04:00.06\00:04:06.03 HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH BY SAYING THIS. 00:04:10.20\00:04:13.53 I HAVE NOT BEEN A MISSIONARY TO OTHER LANDS OUTSIDE OF NORTH 00:04:13.53\00:04:19.60 AMERICA ALBEIT I'VE VISITED A NUMBER OF PLACES AND HAVE SOME CONVERSE WITH WHAT'S 00:04:21.63\00:04:28.83 HAPPENING THERE. 00:04:28.83\00:04:30.66 I HAVE BEEN OF THE CONVICTION THAT NORTH AMERICA, WHERE WE 00:04:30.66\00:04:36.16 LIVE, HOME, IS ALSO A VERY, VERY NEEDY MISSION FIELD. 00:04:36.16\00:04:41.66 OH HAVE MERCY, YES. 00:04:41.66\00:04:43.20 AND YOUR CONVICTION HAS ALIGNED WITH THAT MOST OF YOUR MINISTRY 00:04:43.20\00:04:48.90 TOO. SO JUST THININOF ONE BOOK CALLED " "CHRISTIAN.N. 00:04:48.90\00:04:51.96 OH, I KNOW THE BOOK, I'VE READ THE BOOK. 00:04:51.96\00:04:54.16 IF PEOPLE HAVEN'T READ IT THEY REALLY NEED TO READ IT BECAUSE 00:04:54.16\00:04:58.13 THE CURRENT GENERATION WHETHER YOU'REETALKIS 00:04:58.13\00:05:01.96 OR X-ERS ARE SIMPLY 00:04:58.13\00:05:01.96 UNINFORMED. 00:05:01.96\00:05:03.73 THEY DON'T KNOW THE STORY. 00:05:03.73\00:05:05.06 AND YOU KNOW, WE COULD EVEN SUGGEST TO OUR VIEWERS THAT WE 00:05:05.06\00:05:12.00 DON'T T VE TO PAUSE LONGER THAN TO THINK ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS RIGHT THERE, AND RIGHT 00:05:12.00\00:05:17.43 THERER AND RIGHT OVER 00:05:26.96\00:05:34.00 LIVE IN ISOLATION FROM OUR FOLKS WHO ARE A PARTAT OF OUR 00:05:26.96\00:05:34.00 NEIGHBORHOOD. OF AND WE KNOW THEM AND WE CAN CALL THEM BY 00:05:34.00\00:05:36.00 NAME. I THINK ABOUT THIS OFTEN. 00:05:36.00\00:05:37.83 IN FACT, MY PRAY IN JOURNALING INCLUDES MY NEIGHBORS BY NAME 00:05:37.83\00:05:45.20 AND HOW CAN I SNUGGLE UPUPTO THOSE P PP. 00:05:45.20\00:05:48.10 I RELATE WITH YOUR NORTH AMERICAN MISSIOIOEXPEPEENCECE 00:05:48.10\00:05:51.70 WHY ARE YOU HERE WITH US AT GOSPEL OUTREACH? 00:05:51.70\00:05:54.53 THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 00:05:54.53\00:05:55.50 BECAUSE MY FRIEND BRUCE MOYER ASKED ME TO COME. 00:05:55.50\00:05:59.00 BRUCE, MY FRIEND, IS VERY FECTIVE ATATETTING US TO PAUSE 00:05:59.00\00:06:05.13 AND DO A LITTLE DIFFERENT DIRECTION IN OUR LIVES. 00:06:08.16\00:06:10.16 YES. 00:06:10.16\00:06:11.63 SO DOES THAT MEAN JIM THAT YOU ARE COLLEAGUING WITH BRUCE IN 00:06:11.63\00:06:18.93 SOME FASHION HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH? 00:06:18.93\00:06:19.93 I MIGHT BE, I HAVE BEEN, I COULD BE. 00:06:19.93\00:06:23.76 I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LORD IS GOING TO DO WITH ME 00:06:23.76\00:06:27.36 NEXT, BECAUSE CURRENENY I'M PASTORININAND THAT'S A 00:06:27.36\00:06:29.33 FUFU-TIMIMJOB. BUT BRUCE AND I ARE FRIENDS AND HAVE BEEN FRIENDS FOR YEARS AND 00:06:29.33\00:06:34.56 COLLABORATED IN A NUMBER OF AREAS. 00:06:34.56\00:06:39.53 GIVE OUR FOLKS A LITTLE ORIENTATION. 00:06:39.53\00:06:41.86 BRUCE MOYEYE IF MY MEMORY IS SERVING ME CORRECTLY NOW, BRUCE 00:06:41.86\00:06:48.36 MOYER IS OUR REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF REGION 9, , CALLED REGION 9 OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:06:48.36\00:06:55.16 WOWOD FIELD. 00:06:55.16\00:06:56.50 REGION 9 CROSSES COUNTRY BORDERS THROUGHOUT THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:06:56.50\00:07:03.40 WORLD BECAUSE HIS MINISTRY IS CONTEXTUAL MINISTRY AMONG THE 00:07:03.40\00:07:09.46 ISLAMIC WORLD. AND BECAUSE OF YOUR INTEREST IN CONTEXTUAL MINISTRY I'M SURE THAT'S 00:07:11.70\00:07:17.76 HOW YOU HAVE CONNECTED WITH HIM SOME WAY. 00:07:19.83\00:07:22.33 CORRECT. 00:07:22.33\00:07:23.33 THAT'S HOW WE SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE IMMEDIATELY. 00:07:23.33\00:07:26.03 US JIM BECAUSE I'M CERTAIN THAT I DO NOT HAVE THE YOU RIGHT TERMS TO CLALAFY THE 00:07:29.16\00:07:35.23 MEANING OF CONTEXTUAL MINISTRY. 00:07:38.16\00:07:40.20 FROM YOUR PERSPEPEIVE TELLLLS WHAT IS CONTEXTUAL MINISTRY. 00:07:40.20\00:07:46.26 ALRIGHT. 00:07:46.26\00:07:49.60 YOU'LL DISCOVER THAT I LOVE BOOKS. 00:07:49.60\00:07:51.60 SO PEOPLE WHO REALLY WANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT OUGHT TO READ 00:07:51.60\00:07:54.40 HEIBERT, "TRANSFORMING WORLDVIEWS." 00:07:54.40\00:07:55.83 IT'S A GREAT BOOK IF THEY WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS WORD 00:07:55.83\00:08:01.20 REALLY MEANS. THE SIMPLE DEFINITION WOULULBE T TSAY Y 'S ARNING THE LANGUGUE OF 00:08:01.20\00:08:08.03 THE NATIVES AND THE WORLDVIEW OF THE NATATES. 00:08:08.03\00:08:12.46 SO WHEREVER WE GO AS MISSIONARIES DO WE REALLY GO AND 00:08:12.46\00:08:18.53 SIMPLY LEARN THEIR LANGUAGE, LIVE THE WAY THEY DO, ENGAGE WITH THEM, BECOME THEIR FRIENDS. 00:08:21.00\00:08:26.10 IT'S'SHE INCARNATIONANAMODEL. 00:08:26.10\00:08:27.46 JESUS CAME DOWN AND BECAME ONE OF US AND OFTEN WE MISSIONARIES 00:08:27.46\00:08:33.60 DON'T DO THAT. 00:08:35.83\00:08:37.16 YOU GIVE ME PAUSE BECAUSE HISTORICALLY MISSION SERVICE HAS 00:08:37.16\00:08:38.83 AT LEAST, LET'S S AS GENEROUS AS POSSIBLE, AT LEAST HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD CONTEXTUAL 00:08:38.83\00:08:40.83 RELATIONSHIPS OR MISSION. 00:08:40.83\00:08:42.23 NO, AND I TELL PEOPLE I WAS THE WORSE MISSIONARY KID IN THE 00:08:42.23\00:08:43.83 WORLD GROWING UP BECAUSESE WAS BORNNIN E EPT,P 00:08:43.83\00:08:49.90 IN EGYPT AND LEBANON. 00:08:43.83\00:08:49.90 I USED TO THROW ROCKS AT THE ARAB KIDS. 00:09:06.63\00:09:09.30 THAT'S NOT WHAT MISSIONARIES ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. 00:09:09.30\00:09:12.10 NO HARDLY. 00:09:12.10\00:09:12.96 OKAY, SO I'M THE WORST MISSIONARY POSSIBLE. 00:09:12.96\00:09:16.83 AND ALL RESPECT TO YOUR PARENTS WHO WERE MISSIONARIES-THEY 00:09:16.83\00:09:21.60 DIDN'T KNOW THAT-THEY DIDN'N' KNOW ABOUT THE ROCKS YES. 00:09:21.60\00:09:23.93 BUT I'M NOT JUST GOING TO SINGLE OUT YOUR DEAR, DEAR PARENTS. 00:09:23.93\00:09:28.83 BUT TOO MUCH OF WESTERN MISSSSN IN EARLIER GENERATIONS WAS THE 00:09:28.83\00:09:34.90 EXPORTING OF WESTERN CULTURE ALONG WITH A BIT OF A STORY OR A 00:09:37.43\00:09:43.46 MESSAGE INSTEAD OF BEING ABLE TO IDENTIFY. 00:09:48.53\00:09:52.03 ALRIGHT, THANK YOU FOR GOING THERE BECAUSE PHILOSOPHICAL 00:09:52.03\00:09:57.50 ORIENTATION IS CALLED POSITIVISM. 00:09:57.50\00:09:59.40 WE ARE POSITIVE WE ARE BETTER THAN. 00:09:59.40\00:10:02.20 WE ARE POSITIVE THAT WE KNOW YOU DON'T. 00:10:02.20\00:10:06.50 WE ARE POSITIVE THAT I'M RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG. 00:10:06.50\00:10:10.16 AND THAT SICKNESS JUST GOES WAYAYNDERNEATATTHE SKIN SO THTH 00:10:10.16\00:10:16.86 PEOPLE ARE UNAWARE OF THEIR POSITIVISM AND HOW DEADLY IT IS. 00:10:16.86\00:10:21.10 WOW. 00:10:21.10\00:10:22.40 THAT'S PROFOUND JIM. 00:10:22.40\00:10:24.76 THAT COMES FROM HEIBERT NOT FROM JIM. 00:10:24.76\00:10:31.30 SO WE SUDDENLY SEE HOW ALMOST DRAMATICALLY GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:10:31.30\00:10:37.36 FITS IN THE 21ST CENTURY WORLD WHERE THERE IS SUCH AN URGENT DEMAND FOR CONTEXTUALISM WHICH 00:10:44.16\00:10:51.93 LETS US, AND I USE MY CRUDE TERM, SNUGGLE UP TO PEOPLE WHERE 00:10:51.93\00:10:57.33 THEY ARE. AND NO BETTER WAY OF ACCOMPLISHING THIS THAN POWERING 00:10:57.33\00:11:04.33 PEOPLE WHO ARE A PART OF THAT CULTUTU AND GOSPEL OUTREACH SAYS GOOD, YOU'RE A FOLLOWER OF 00:11:04.33\00:11:08.60 JESUS. 00:11:08.60\00:11:10.00 WE WILL SUPPORT YOU IN IDENTIFYING WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE'S LIKE WITH YOUR 00:11:10.00\00:11:12.93 OWN N OPLELE 00:11:12.93\00:11:13.93 SO LET ME TALK TO YOU ABOUT MYANMAR. 00:11:13.93\00:11:19.96 I THINK I CAN TALK SAFELY ABOUT MYANMAR. 00:11:25.16\00:11:29.86 MYMYMAR IS BURMA FOLKS FOFOTHOSE OF Y Y WHO DON'T REMEMBER. 00:11:29.86\00:11:32.93 IT'S MUCH MORE OPEN TODAY THAN IT WAS JUST A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN 00:11:32.93\00:11:37.00 I FIRST WENT THERE. 00:11:37.00\00:11:38.40 WHEN I FIRST WENT THERE A FEW YEARS AGO I WAS RESTRICTED TO 00:11:38.40\00:11:42.06 THE CAPITAL CITY. 00:11:42.06\00:11:42.96 NOW YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE AND TRAVEL A BIT MORE. 00:11:42.96\00:11:45.46 BUT MY FRIEND JOHN GAVINS IS DOING A GREAT JOB OF TRAINING. 00:11:45.46\00:11:49.93 I ASSUMED WHWH I FIRST WENT THERE FOR TRAINING THAT WE WERE 00:11:49.93\00:11:52.90 TALKING WITH HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE EDUCATED STUDENTS. 00:11:52.90\00:11:55.80 THEN HE DISCOVERED THAT THE PEOPLE HE IS TAKING THROUGH, HE 00:11:55.80\00:11:59.90 BRBRGS THEM IN FOR A A NTH H CH YEAR, , E FIFIERMAN IN THEIR 00:11:59.90\00:12:05.20 LOCAL VILLAGE. HE HAS BEEN BRINGING THEM IN YEAR BY YEAR, YEAR BY YEAR, TRAINING THEM, 00:12:05.20\00:12:08.83 TAKING THEM THROUGH A CURRICULUM. 00:12:08.83\00:12:10.83 SO ONE YEAR HE IS TEACHING THEM HOW TO SING. 00:12:10.83\00:12:12.83 THE NEXT YEAR HE'S TEACHING THEM HOW TO DO HOT AND COLD 00:12:12.83\00:12:15.63 FOMENTATIONS. HE IS TEACHING THEM JUST AT REAEAING AND 00:12:20.13\00:12:22.26 NEIGHBORS.ECTIVE TALKING TO THEIR HE IS DOING AN OUTSTANDING JOB AND HE'S A PART OF GOSPEL 00:12:22.26\00:12:25.50 OUTREACH. IS HE ASSIGNED IN MYANMAR BY GOSPEL OUTREACH? 00:12:25.50\00:12:27.50 NO, HE IS ASSIGNED BY THE UNION, THE UNION REPRESENTATIVE TO MAKE 00:12:27.50\00:12:29.50 SURE THE TRAINING GOES O O 00:12:29.50\00:12:30.76 SO HE BECOMES THEN AN AGENT OF GOSPEL OUTREACH TO DISCOVER 00:12:30.76\00:12:33.93 THESE FISHERMEN AND OTHERS WHO HAVE POTENTIAL TO BE GOSPEL 00:12:33.93\00:12:35.96 OUTREACH WORKERS. CORRECT. 00:12:35.96\00:12:37.36 HE SELECTS THEM AND THEN HE TRAINS THEM AND HOLDS THEM ACCOUNTABLE TO MAKE 00:12:37.36\00:12:38.96 SURE T TY ARE DODOG WHAT THEHEARE SUPPPPED TO BE DOING. 00:12:38.96\00:12:40.96 SO YOU GOT T T BE THERE WITH HIM RING A TRAINING? 00:12:40.96\00:12:42.96 YES. 00:12:42.96\00:12:44.33 HE'S BEEN INVITING ME EVERY YEAR AND I ALWAYS MADE SURE THAT I 00:12:44.33\00:12:45.96 COULD GET THERE AT LEAST FOR A FEW DAYS. 00:12:45.96\00:12:46.96 YOU GOT TO DO SOME TRAINING TOO I'M SURE. 00:12:46.96\00:12:48.96 OH YES. 00:12:48.96\00:12:49.96 I ALWAYS TAUGHT THEM HOW TO TELL STORIES. 00:12:49.96\00:12:51.96 HOW TO JUST TAKE THE STORIES OF SCRIPTURE AND LIVEVEHEM OUT, ACT 00:12:51.96\00:12:53.96 THEHE OUT, MAKE THEM FUN, MAKE SUSU THE KIDS GET ENGAGED, TELL 00:12:53.96\00:13:00.10 THE PASSION OF THE STORY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT SCRIPTURE DOES. 00:13:21.93\00:13:25.00 IT'S THE STORIES WE REMEMBER. 00:13:25.00\00:13:26.36 YOU KNOW, I'M GLAD YOU HAVE BROUGHT THAT UP AGAIN BECAUSE 00:13:26.36\00:13:30.93 SOMEONE ELSE I HAVE RECENTLY VISITED WITH ININHIS SETTININOF 00:13:30.93\00:13:36.93 GOSPELLOUTRTE TRYING TO CONNECT WITH THE PEOPLE OUT THERERES SEEING THE SCRIPTURE AS A 00:13:36.93\00:13:43.26 COLLECTION OF STORIES ABOUT GOD'S INTERACTION WITH OTHER 00:13:43.26\00:13:49.33 HUMANS IN OTHER GENERATIONS AND REALAL THERE IS NO DIFFERENEN IN THE WAY WE HUMANS AND 00:13:49.33\00:13:55.40 THOSE HUMANS REACT TO LIFE EXPERIENCES. 00:13:55.40\00:13:58.96 AND HOW GOD INTERFACED ALWAYS WITH PEOPLE AND WE DISCOVER 00:13:58.96\00:14:04.56 THROUGH ALL OF THOSE STORIES HIS FAITHFULNESS. 00:14:04.56\00:14:07.10 ABSOLUTELY. 00:14:07.10\00:14:07.96 LET'S GET BACK TO YOU AND GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:14:07.96\00:14:15.43 IS THIS YOUR F FST VISIT GOSPEL OUTREACH? 00:14:15.43\00:14:17.70 YES IT IS. 00:14:17.70\00:14:19.90 HOW DOES IT GRAB YOU? 00:14:19.90\00:14:21.16 HAVING BEEN ON THE RECIPIENT SIDE, HAVING BEEN AT THE 00:14:21.16\00:14:27.60 DIVISION AND THE MONEY SORT OF PASSES THROUGH AND WE HELP DO THE TRAINING IN DIFFERENT 00:14:27.60\00:14:31.20 PLACAC ANDNDOME PLACESESISN'T DG 00:14:31.20\00:14:35.53 SO WE'RE GENTLY NUDGING 00:14:31.20\00:14:35.53 THEMEMO SAY YOU REALLY NEED TO DO THIS AND OTHER PLACES THAT 00:14:35.53\00:14:40.80 ARE YOU BEGIN TO SEE THE CHALLENGE OF MISSIONS THAT GOSPEL OUTREACH, AND WE TALKED 00:14:40.80\00:14:47.00 ABOUT IT HERE TODAY, AND THAT IS WE'VE GOT TO DO MORE TRAINING. 00:14:47.00\00:14:50.60 SO SITTING HERE TODAY REMINDED ME OF SITTING AT SOUTHERN ASIA 00:14:50.60\00:14:58.50 PACIFIC DIVISION WHERE I WAS THE ADVENTIST MISSION DIRECTOR AND THE CHALLENGE WE HAD 00:14:58.50\00:15:03.26 THERE AT THAT DIVISION. 00:15:03.26\00:15:05.40 IT'S JUST MAGNIFIED MUCH MORE SO AS YOU LOOK AT THE WHOLE WORLD 00:15:05.40\00:15:11.56 FIELD. COMING HERE AND AFFIFIATING, RUBUBNG SHOULDERS, 00:15:11.56\00:15:18.83 WITH THE GOSPEL TREACH REGIONAL DIRECTORS AND THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY 00:15:18.83\00:15:24.26 FOR APPEALING TO OUR CONSTITUENCY FOR SUPPORT AND THEN THE APPROPRIATE 00:15:24.26\00:15:29.33 DISTRIBUTION OF THIS ABOUT THE VALUE OFIN NO GOSPEL OUTREACH?CONVICTION 00:15:38.93\00:15:41.40 OH NO. 00:15:41.40\00:15:42.56 BECAUSE GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS AS ITS ORIENTATION ITS MISSION. 00:15:42.56\00:15:47.06 AND THAT'S WHAT I ALWAYS LOOK AT, WHAT IS AN ORGANIZATIONS 00:15:47.06\00:15:50.63 MISSION STATEMENT. 00:15:50.63\00:15:51.66 AND THAT IS TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE 10/40 WINDOW. 00:15:51.66\00:15:55.73 THAT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A CLEAR STATED MISSION AND TO BE ACTIVELY GOING AFTER 00:15:55.73\00:16:01.46 AT M MSION. 00:16:01.46\00:16:03.16 THE 10/40 WINDOW, AS I HOPE EVERYBODY KNOWS BUT MANY PEOPLE 00:16:03.16\00:16:08.36 DON'T, IS WHERE THE E JORITY OF THE WORLDS POPULATION IS. 00:16:08.36\00:16:11.23 SOMEONE QUOTED ME ACCURATELY AS SAYING JESUS CACAT COME TONIGHT. 00:16:11.23\00:16:17.53 NOW I HATE TO O Y THAT BECAUSE HE CAN COME ANY TIME HE WANTS. 00:16:17.53\00:16:23.03 BUT THERE ARE SO MANY MILLIONS, BILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T 00:16:23.03\00:16:29.93 KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT JESUS. 00:16:29.93\00:16:32.26 NEVER HEARD HIS NAME, TOTATAY IGNORANT. 00:16:32.26\00:16:34.96 AND OUR WORLD TODAY IS NOT ISOLATED BUT WE LIVE IN ISOLATION FROM THEION. 00:16:43.36\00:16:50.23 UNDERSTANDNDG OF WHEREREHE MAJORIRI OF THE POPULATITI 00:16:50.23\00:16:53.30 OFOFHE WORLD IS. OR A ASOMEMEEOPLPL SOSOTIMEMEFALSLSY THINK, LL THERE'S'SHE INTERNET. 00:16:53.30\00:16:57.26 THEY COULD F FD ITITON THE INTNU 00:16:57.26\00:16:59.66 OR SURELY EVERYBODY 00:16:59.66\00:17:03.60 S TELEVISION. 00:16:59.66\00:17:03.60 BUT NO THEY DON'T. 00:17:03.60\00:17:04.60 AND NOT EVEVYBODY HAS THE INTERNET. 00:17:04.60\00:17:06.80 IT'S A HUGE CHALLENGE. 00:17:06.80\00:17:10.76 YOU KNOW, YOU BRING ME TO THE OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW. 00:17:10.76\00:17:15.86 WE HAVE A LITTLE PIECE OF VIDEO THAT REALLY LETS OUR VIEWERS 00:17:15.86\00:17:19.00 KNOW A VERY WONDERFUL AND PROFOUND APPEAL ON BEHALF OF 00:17:19.00\00:17:25.06 GOSPEL OUTREACH. WATCH. 00:17:27.66\00:17:29.23 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 00:17:29.23\00:17:34.66 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 00:17:34.66\00:17:38.36 THOSE PEOPLE LIVE TOO FAR AWAY. 00:17:38.36\00:17:40.96 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 00:17:40.96\00:17:43.60 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV. 00:17:43.60\00:17:46.46 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACAC 00:17:46.46\00:17:49.33 MY HEAD HURTS. 00:17:49.33\00:17:50.76 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO. 00:17:50.76\00:17:53.16 I GIVE UP. 00:17:53.16\00:17:54.60 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 00:17:54.60\00:17:57.00 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:17:57.00\00:17:59.36 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:17:59.36\00:18:02.30 AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 00:18:02.30\00:18:07.10 WHERE? 00:18:07.10\00:18:08.10 ALL THE WORLD. 00:18:08.10\00:18:09.26 HOW CAN I GO, I HAVE COMMITMENTS. 00:18:09.26\00:18:11.46 YOU CAN PRAY. 00:18:11.46\00:18:13.60 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 00:18:13.60\00:18:18.50 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 00:18:18.50\00:18:22.50 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 00:18:22.50\00:18:25.33 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING. 00:18:25.33\00:18:28.26 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 00:18:28.26\00:18:30.43 BE THE SPARK. 00:18:30.43\00:18:31.93 LIGHT THE FIRE. 00:18:31.93\00:18:33.83 FINISH THE WORK. 00:18:33.83\00:18:36.20 FINISH THE WORK. 00:18:36.20\00:18:38.56 BE THE SPARK. 00:18:38.56\00:18:41.03 AN OLD GRANDPA CAN'T HELP BUT LOVE THAT APPEAL THAT THESE CHILDREN ARE MAKING. 00:18:41.03\00:18:47.50 BY THE WAY, WE WANT YOU TO REALLY CONNECT WITH GOSPEL 00:18:47.50\00:18:53.56 OUTREACH. MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD ME ON OTHER PROGRAMS WHERE I INVITE 00:18:55.90\00:18:59.90 YOU TO BECOME MEMBERS OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:18:59.90\00:19:02.93 YOU'RE MEMEMRS 00:19:02.93\00:19:06.60 OF PUBLIC BROADCAST RADIO OR TELEVISION. 00:19:02.93\00:19:06.60 I WANT TO INVITE YOUOUO BECOME MEMEMRS OF GOSPEL OUTREACH WHICH 00:19:06.60\00:19:11.43 MEANS YOU'RE SUBSCRIBERS TO WHAT HAPPENS HERE AND MAINLY WHAT'S HAPPENING OUT THERE 00:19:11.43\00:19:18.76 IN THAT 10/40 WINDOWOW 00:19:18.76\00:19:20.43 YOU ALREADY SEE THE ADDRESS AND THE PHONE NUMBERS AND THE EMAIL 00:19:20.43\00:19:25.43 ADDRESS, THE WEBSITE, ALL OF THAT BUSINESS. 00:19:25.43\00:19:28.00 I HOPE YOU'RE REQUESTING THE GOSPEL OUTREACH NEWSLETTER 00:19:28.00\00:19:34.66 ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS. 00:19:34.66\00:19:36.06 YOU'LL GET SOME OF THE STORIES YOU HAVEN'T HEARD HERE ON THE 00:19:36.06\00:19:39.13 PROGRAM BUT STORIES LIKE YOU'RE HEARING HERE. 00:19:39.13\00:19:41.13 AND STORIES LIKE JIM BRAUER AND I ARE DREAMING ABOUT RIGHT NOW 00:19:41.13\00:19:48.43 ABOUT WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN, WHAT CAN HAPPEN. 00:19:48.43\00:19:50.50 IF YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY AS YOU HAVE NOW ASSOCIATING HERE 00:19:52.53\00:19:59.33 WITH THESE PEOPLE, WHAT DO YOU THINK GOSPEL OUTREACH NEEDS 00:19:59.33\00:20:05.96 NEXT? OH THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 00:20:05.96\00:20:06.90 I HAVEN'T BEEN HERE LONG ENOUOU TO REALLY KNOW. 00:20:06.90\00:20:09.30 WELL, YOU'RE A NEW COMER AND PROBABLY YOUR FIRST GLANCE LOOK 00:20:09.30\00:20:16.33 KIND OF THING GIVES YOU A PERSPECTIVE ON THAT THAT SOME OF 00:20:16.33\00:20:20.40 US HAVEN'T GOTTEN. ALL I CAN SAY IS WHAT THE LORD IS DOING WITH ME AND THAT IS I THINK WHAT THE 00:20:20.40\00:20:25.53 CHURCH H H TO O IS FOCUSSFIRSRN 00:20:25.53\00:20:30.96 PEPELE C CE FACE TO FACE 00:20:25.53\00:20:30.96 WITH JESUS CHRIST SO THAT THEY FALL PASSIONATELY IN LOVE. 00:20:30.96\00:20:35.93 SO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I ASK PEOPLE IS HAS JESUS LOOKED YOU 00:20:35.93\00:20:39.63 IN THE EYE AND SAID COME FOLLOW ME. 00:20:39.63\00:20:43.53 AND HAVE YOU SAID TO JESUS YES, I'M FOLLOWING YOU. 00:20:43.53\00:20:48.76 BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO PUT ANYBODY DOWN BECAUSE IT HAPPENS 00:20:48.76\00:20:54.36 HERE IN THE U.S., WE HAVE WAY TOO MANY MEMBERS AND NOT ENOUGH 00:20:54.36\00:21:00.56 DISCIPLPL. WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO KNOW DOCTRINES BUT THEY HAVEN'T DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS. 00:21:00.56\00:21:05.33 M I'I'MAKING BOLD TO INTERRUPT YOU. 00:21:05.33\00:21:09.90 GO RIGHT AHEAD. 00:21:09.90\00:21:11.40 I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THAT CAMERA RIGHT THERE AND AS THE LORD IS MOVING YOU AND 00:21:11.40\00:21:17.10 IMPRESSING YOU NOW, WOULD YOU SPEAK TO OUR AUDIENCE ABOUT HAS 00:21:19.03\00:21:25.76 THE LORD-HOWEVER YOU SAIDIDHAT. 00:21:25.76\00:21:28.20 SPEAK TO THOSE FOLKS RIGHT THERE RIGHT NOW IN THAT SETTING. 00:21:28.20\00:21:33.20 THE ISSUE IS S SPLY THIS, JESUS CAME AND INVITED US TO COME 00:21:33.20\00:21:39.66 FOLLOW HIM. HE DOESN'T S S GO INTO A A THE WORLRLAND MAKE M MBERS OF SOME CLUB THAHATHINKS 00:21:39.66\00:21:45.73 THEY'RE THE ONLY ONE. 00:21:49.90\00:21:50.90 WHAT HE SAYS IS HELP PEOPLE KNOW ME. 00:21:50.90\00:21:55.56 COME UNTO ME ALL YE THAT ARE BURDENED, STRESSED OUT, TORN 00:21:55.56\00:22:01.70 APART AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. 00:22:04.73\00:22:06.30 THE DIFFERENCE THAT I DISCOVERED OVER IN ASIA AND HERE IN AMERICA 00:22:06.30\00:22:10.66 IS THAT YOU CAN FIND THOSE WHO ARE E LITICIANS, YOU CAN FIND 00:22:10.66\00:22:15.86 THOSE WHO ARE LEGALISTS AND I JUST SAY GOD BLESS YOU, GOD 00:22:15.86\00:22:18.56 BLESS YOU. BUT WHAT YOU FIND IS WHEN YOU FIND A DISCIPLE, A DISCIPLE WHO HAS FALLEN IN 00:22:18.56\00:22:24.13 LOVE WITH JESUS CHRIST THEY ARE DOING AMAZING THINGS WHETHER 00:22:24.13\00:22:27.50 THEY ARE IN THE PHILIPPINES OR IN BANGLADESH OR MYANMAR. 00:22:27.50\00:22:31.36 THOSE DISCIPLES ARE THE TH J JUS T TT ABSOLUTELYLK TRANSFORMED THTHR LILIS.LLYOU UE 00:22:36.53\00:22:42.46 I WANT TO GUARANTEE YOUUTHAT EVS 00:22:42.46\00:22:47.20 HERE TO O SPELELUTREACH 00:22:42.46\00:22:47.20 HAS S D THTH EXPERIENCE BECAUSE E AT'S'SHAT CHANGES US IS WHEN 00:22:47.20\00:22:53.33 JESUS CALLS ME AND I RESPOND TO 00:22:53.33\00:22:59.40 THAT AND I DO IT OUT OF THIS DIRECT RELATIONSHIP 00:22:53.33\00:22:59.40 WITH HIM. 00:23:02.06\00:23:03.33 THANK YOU JIM. 00:23:03.33\00:23:05.60 I'M GOING TO GO BEYOND THAT NOW JUST A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE YOU 00:23:05.60\00:23:11.66 ONLY VERY, VERY BRIEFLY SHARED WITH ME THAT YOU AND YOUR WIFE AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS 00:23:14.76\00:23:20.83 HAVE HAD A VERY, VERY HEART BREAKING EXPERIENCE AND HAVE HAD 00:23:25.90\00:23:31.96 TO ENGAGE IN A PERSONAL SEEKING THE LORD. 00:23:35.56\00:23:39.60 HOW HAS GOD GOTTEN YOU THROUGH THE LOSS OF YOUR SON? 00:23:39.60\00:23:42.50 OH WOW, I TOLD YOU NOT TO TALK ABOUT THIS. 00:23:42.50\00:23:49.50 WE'RE COMING UP ON ONE YEAR. 00:23:49.50\00:23:50.90 THE TRUTH IS FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE ON THE SAME JOURNEY OF GRIEF 00:23:54.70\00:23:59.86 THERE ARE GOOD DAYS AND BAD DAYS. 00:23:59.86\00:24:01.46 SURE. 00:24:01.46\00:24:02.70 BUT THROUGH IT ALL WHAT YOU DISCOVER IS GOD KNOWS YOUR 00:24:02.70\00:24:09.56 ADDRESS. AND THAT'S WHAT ALLOWS ME TO GEGEUP A A PREREH EN I 00:24:09.56\00:24:15.63 ION'T FEEL LIKE PREACHING OR WHEN I HAVE TO CONDUCT A FUNERAL AS A PASTOR AND IT'S KILLING 00:24:18.00\00:24:23.03 ME. 00:24:23.03\00:24:25.40 IT'S NOT ABOUT ME, IT'S ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE IN THE MIDST OF 00:24:25.40\00:24:31.63 THEIR GRIEF UNDERSTAND THERE IS SOMETHING G TTER COMING. 00:24:31.63\00:24:35.46 D WHEN I QUIT LOLOING AT ME AND MY OWN N RROW AND GRIEF AND 00:24:35.46\00:24:42.60 THINK INSTEAD ABOUT, OH, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN IN BANGLADESH WHERE 00:24:42.60\00:24:48.66 LIFE IS HARD. IN COMPARISON MY LIFE IS NOT HARD. 00:24:50.83\00:24:54.26 IT'S PAINFUL YES BUT HARD, NO. 00:24:54.26\00:24:57.73 SO GOD IS GOOD. 00:24:57.73\00:25:02.60 I APOLOGIZE FOR PUTTING YOU THROUGH ANYTHING BUT BECAUSE 00:25:02.60\00:25:08.66 WE'RE ININ WORLD OF HURT-YES WE ARE-AND THERE ARE AN UNKNOWN NUMBER I'M SURE OF OUR 00:25:10.66\00:25:17.60 GOSPEL OUTREACH FAMILY WHO HAS HIS OR HER OWN STORY ABOUT THE 00:25:17.60\00:25:23.66 REALITY OF OUR BROKEN HURTING WORLD I JUST FELT THAT THOSE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THE 00:25:28.00\00:25:34.06 REALITY OF DEPENDING ON THE LORD. 00:25:36.83\00:25:40.10 IT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU MAKE IT THTHUGH. 00:25:40.10\00:25:44.46 I'M GOING TO ASK A FAVOR OF YOU JIM. 00:25:44.46\00:25:49.36 I'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED YOUR DEAR DAD AND MOTHER CARROLL AND 00:25:49.36\00:25:54.70 ALICE BRAUER WHO I'M SURE AREREFRIEIES OF SOO 00:25:54.70\00:26:00.73 IS VIEWIWI HERE TODAY. 00:25:54.70\00:26:00.73 I UNDERSTAND THEY NOW RESIDE IN NORTH CAROLINA, AND I I NT YOU 00:26:00.73\00:26:07.33 FOR ME AND BETSY TO GIVE THEM OUR PERSONAL GREETINGS OF LOVE WHEN YOU'RE IN TOUCH WITH 00:26:07.33\00:26:12.20 THEMEMND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WILLILINESS TO BE HEREREITH 00:26:12.20\00:26:19.93 US TODAY AND FOR YOUR LEADEDEHIP THAT THE LORD WIWI LEAEA YOU TO 00:26:19.93\00:26:25.50 P PVIDE HERE AT GOSPELELUTREACH. 00:26:25.50\00:26:26.50 SO GOD BLESS YOU JIM. 00:26:26.50\00:26:28.00 THANK YOU DAN. 00:26:28.00\00:26:29.36 AND GOD BLESS YOU. 00:26:29.36\00:26:31.60 WE'RE INDEBTED WE WHO GET TO BE A PART OF THIS OPERATION HERE. 00:26:31.60\00:26:38.00 WE'RE INDEBTED TO YOU BECAUSE WITHOUT THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:26:38.00\00:26:44.23 MEMBERS AS YOU ARE E ERE WOULD BE NO GOSPEL OUTREACH MINISTRY ANYWHERE--MYANANR OR ANY 00:26:44.23\00:26:49.66 PLACE ELSE IN THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORLD. 00:26:49.66\00:26:52.90 SO GOD BLESS YOU AND HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY. 00:26:52.90\00:26:58.96 [CLOSING MUSIC] 00:27:15.43\00:27:21.46