Participants: Jim Brauer
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000528
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00:14 I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF WELCOMING YOU AGAIN TO ANOTHER PROGRAM OF GOSPEL 00:22 OUTREACH WHERE WE DO MISSION ADVENTURING. 00:26 THAT'S THE TITIT YOU SEE RIGHT THERE, "ADVENTURES IN M MSIONS." 00:30 WE A A HERE TO LEARN MORE OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD OF GOSPEL 00:37 TREAEA. 00:38 LOTS OF TIMES WHEN I GET TO SIT HERE IN THIS GOSPEL OUTREACH STUDIO WE HAVE 00:44 PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ONNTHE E OG 00:44 USUSTORIES, PICTURES OF 00:50 WHO THEY MEET AND WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WE GET ALL EXCITED ABOUT THAT. 00:55 DAY,Y,OWEVER, THE PROGRAM IS A LITTLEEBIT DIFFERE. 00:58 WITH YOU WE ARE GOING TO DO SOME EXPLORING OF MISSION OPPORTUNITIES AND 01:07 SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE CONFRONT AS BELIEVERS IN THE 21ST 01:13 CENTURY IN A WORLD THAT LARGELY STILL DOES NOT KNOW WHO JESUS IS. 01:19 WE AREREOING TO THINK ABOUT, PROBABLY PRAYERFULLY DURING THIS 01:22 PROGRAM, WHAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO DO TO, YES TAP RESOURCES, BUT MAINLY 01:31 DREAM ABOUT WHAT CAN WE DO IN AREAS OF THE WORLD WHERE THERE ARE STILL 01:36 PEOPLE W W HAVE NOTTHEHED THE NU 01:38 SO THAT'S ENOUGH FOR AN INTRODUCTION. 01:41 I'M GOING TO WELCOME A FRIEND WHOM I'VE NOT SEEN FOR A SPELL. 01:46 JIM BRAUER, WELCOME MAN. 01:48 NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN. 01:49 GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 01:53 FOR YOUR INFORMATION JIM IS NOT NEW TO ME ALBEIT WE'VE NOT SAT THIS CLOSE 02:03 TO EACH OTHER IN YEARS. 02:05 THE REASON THERE IS A CONNECTION BETWEEN US IS BECAUSE HIS DEAR DAD, 02:12 PASTOR CARROLL BRAUER AND HIS DARLING MOTHER ALICE BRAUER WERE ASSOCIATES OF 02:20 BETSY AND ME WHEN WE WERE ALL TOGETHER IN POTOMAC CONFERENEN NOW QUITE A 02:27 NUMBMB OF YEARS AGO, BUT 02:27 I'VE NOT FORGOGOEN THAT DEAR ALICE PUT UP WITH ME. 02:33 SHE EVEV TOOK DICTCTIONNBACK IN, 02:33 SHORTHAND NO LESS, AND 02:39 SERVED IN A SECRETARIAL CAPACITY WITH ME. 02:41 SO JIM, TO BE HERE WITH YOU AND TO BE REMINDED OF YOUR PARENTS IS A REAL 02:47 BLESESNG. 02:48 FILL ME IN A LITTLE BIT. 02:51 WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN IN A BIT OF THE INTERIM. 02:54 THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 02:56 LET'S SEE, WHERE HAS THE LORD TAKEN ME BECAUSE I AM PRIMARILY A DISCICIE. 03:03 AT LEAST THAT'S THE WAY I'VE FIGURED IT OUT. 03:06 GOOD, I LIKE IT. 03:09 THE LORD HAS TAKEN ME FROM COLORADO WHERE YOU AND I MET. 03:14 YOU WERE AT MY ORDINATION. 03:15 FROM THERE I WENT TO COLLEGE VIEW CHURCH. 03:19 THENENO THE YOUTH DEPARTMENT THERE IN KANSAS, NEBRASKA AND RAN 03:23 SUMMER CAMP FOR SIX SUMMERS, WONDERFUL. 03:25 WENT TO ILLINOIS. 03:27 WAS THERE FOR SIX YEARS AND BECAME PRESIDENT THEN MOVED OVER TO ROCKY 03:31 MOUNTAIN AS PRESIDENT. 03:32 THEN WENT OVERSEAS. 03:34 WHAT YEAR WAS THE OVERSEAS? 03:36 2009. 03:37 SO YOU HAVE BEEN A MISSIONARY IN NORTH AMERICA MOST OF YOUR 03:42 MINISTRY. 03:43 YES, AND WE COULD TALK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THAT A GREAT DEAL BECAUSE THAT'S 03:47 EXACTLY WHAT WE DID HALF WAY THROUGH THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN YEARS WAS TO 03:51 BEGIN TO LOOK AT HOW DO WE CONTEXTUALIZE AND HOW DO WE REACH NORTH AMERICA AND 03:56 THAT'S A HUGE CHALLENGE. 03:58 IT IS A HUGE CHALLENGE. 04:00 I DON'T THINK I WILL STEP OUTSIDE OF MY RESPONSIBILITIES HERE AT 04:10 GOSPEL OUTREACH BY SAYING THIS. 04:13 I HAVE NOT BEEN A MISSIONARY TO OTHER LANDS OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA 04:21 ALBEIT I'VE VISITED A NUMBER OF PLACES AND HAVE SOME CONVERSE WITH WHAT'S 04:28 HAPPENING THERE. 04:30 I HAVE BEEN OF THE CONVICTION THAT NORTH AMERICA, WHERE WE LIVE, 04:36 HOME, IS ALSO A VERY, VERY NEEDY MISSION FIELD. 04:41 OH HAVE MERCY, YES. 04:43 AND YOUR CONVICTION HAS ALIGNED WITH THAT MOST OF YOUR MINISTRY TOO. 04:48 SO JUST THININOF ONE BOOK CALLED " "CHRISTIAN.N. 04:51 OH, I KNOW THE BOOK, I'VE READ THE BOOK. 04:54 IF PEOPLE HAVEN'T READ IT THEY REALLY NEED TO READ IT BECAUSE THE CURRENT 04:58 GENERATION WHETHER YOU'REETALKIS 04:58 OR X-ERS ARE SIMPLY 05:01 UNINFORMED. 05:03 THEY DON'T KNOW THE STORY. 05:05 AND YOU KNOW, WE COULD EVEN SUGGEST TO OUR VIEWERS THAT WE DON'T T VE 05:12 TO PAUSE LONGER THAN TO THINK ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS RIGHT THERE, AND RIGHT 05:26 THERER AND RIGHT OVER 05:26 LIVE IN ISOLATION FROM OUR FOLKS WHO ARE A PARTAT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. OF 05:34 AND WE KNOW THEM AND WE CAN CALL THEM BY NAME. 05:36 I THINK ABOUT THIS OFTEN. 05:37 IN FACT, MY PRAY IN JOURNALING INCLUDES MY NEIGHBORS BY NAME AND HOW 05:45 CAN I SNUGGLE UPUPTO THOSE P PP. 05:48 I RELATE WITH YOUR NORTH AMERICAN MISSIOIOEXPEPEENCECE 05:51 WHY ARE YOU HERE WITH US AT GOSPEL OUTREACH? 05:54 THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 05:55 BECAUSE MY FRIEND BRUCE MOYER ASKED ME TO COME. 05:59 BRUCE, MY FRIEND, IS VERY FECTIVE ATATETTING US TO PAUSE AND DO A LITTLE 06:08 DIFFERENT DIRECTION IN OUR LIVES. 06:10 YES. 06:11 SO DOES THAT MEAN JIM THAT YOU ARE COLLEAGUING WITH BRUCE IN SOME FASHION HERE 06:18 AT GOSPEL OUTREACH? 06:19 I MIGHT BE, I HAVE BEEN, I COULD BE. 06:23 I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LORD IS GOING TO DO WITH ME NEXT, BECAUSE 06:27 CURRENENY I'M PASTORININAND THAT'S A FUFU-TIMIMJOB. 06:29 BUT BRUCE AND I ARE FRIENDS AND HAVE BEEN FRIENDS FOR YEARS AND 06:34 COLLABORATED IN A NUMBER OF AREAS. 06:39 GIVE OUR FOLKS A LITTLE ORIENTATION. 06:41 BRUCE MOYEYE IF MY MEMORY IS SERVING ME CORRECTLY NOW, BRUCE MOYER IS OUR 06:48 REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF REGION 9, , CALLED REGION 9 OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 06:55 WOWOD FIELD. 06:56 REGION 9 CROSSES COUNTRY BORDERS THROUGHOUT THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORLD 07:03 BECAUSE HIS MINISTRY IS CONTEXTUAL MINISTRY AMONG THE ISLAMIC WORLD. 07:11 AND BECAUSE OF YOUR INTEREST IN CONTEXTUAL MINISTRY I'M SURE THAT'S 07:19 HOW YOU HAVE CONNECTED WITH HIM SOME WAY. 07:22 CORRECT. 07:23 THAT'S HOW WE SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE IMMEDIATELY. 07:29 US JIM BECAUSE I'M CERTAIN THAT I DO NOT HAVE THE YOU RIGHT TERMS TO CLALAFY THE 07:38 MEANING OF CONTEXTUAL MINISTRY. 07:40 FROM YOUR PERSPEPEIVE TELLLLS WHAT IS CONTEXTUAL MINISTRY. 07:46 ALRIGHT. 07:49 YOU'LL DISCOVER THAT I LOVE BOOKS. 07:51 SO PEOPLE WHO REALLY WANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT OUGHT TO READ HEIBERT, 07:54 "TRANSFORMING WORLDVIEWS." 07:55 IT'S A GREAT BOOK IF THEY WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS WORD REALLY MEANS. 08:01 THE SIMPLE DEFINITION WOULULBE T TSAY Y 'S ARNING THE LANGUGUE OF 08:08 THE NATIVES AND THE WORLDVIEW OF THE NATATES. 08:12 SO WHEREVER WE GO AS MISSIONARIES DO WE REALLY GO AND SIMPLY LEARN THEIR 08:21 LANGUAGE, LIVE THE WAY THEY DO, ENGAGE WITH THEM, BECOME THEIR FRIENDS. 08:26 IT'S'SHE INCARNATIONANAMODEL. 08:27 JESUS CAME DOWN AND BECAME ONE OF US AND OFTEN WE MISSIONARIES DON'T DO 08:35 THAT. 08:37 YOU GIVE ME PAUSE BECAUSE HISTORICALLY MISSION SERVICE HAS AT LEAST, 08:38 LET'S S AS GENEROUS AS POSSIBLE, AT LEAST HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD CONTEXTUAL 08:40 RELATIONSHIPS OR MISSION. 08:42 NO, AND I TELL PEOPLE I WAS THE WORSE MISSIONARY KID IN THE WORLD GROWING 08:43 UP BECAUSESE WAS BORNNIN E EPT,P 08:43 IN EGYPT AND LEBANON. 09:06 I USED TO THROW ROCKS AT THE ARAB KIDS. 09:09 THAT'S NOT WHAT MISSIONARIES ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. 09:12 NO HARDLY. 09:12 OKAY, SO I'M THE WORST MISSIONARY POSSIBLE. 09:16 AND ALL RESPECT TO YOUR PARENTS WHO WERE MISSIONARIES-THEY DIDN'T 09:21 KNOW THAT-THEY DIDN'N' KNOW ABOUT THE ROCKS YES. 09:23 BUT I'M NOT JUST GOING TO SINGLE OUT YOUR DEAR, DEAR PARENTS. 09:28 BUT TOO MUCH OF WESTERN MISSSSN IN EARLIER GENERATIONS WAS THE 09:37 EXPORTING OF WESTERN CULTURE ALONG WITH A BIT OF A STORY OR A MESSAGE 09:48 INSTEAD OF BEING ABLE TO IDENTIFY. 09:52 ALRIGHT, THANK YOU FOR GOING THERE BECAUSE PHILOSOPHICAL ORIENTATION 09:57 IS CALLED POSITIVISM. 09:59 WE ARE POSITIVE WE ARE BETTER THAN. 10:02 WE ARE POSITIVE THAT WE KNOW YOU DON'T. 10:06 WE ARE POSITIVE THAT I'M RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG. 10:10 AND THAT SICKNESS JUST GOES WAYAYNDERNEATATTHE SKIN SO THTH PEOPLE ARE 10:16 UNAWARE OF THEIR POSITIVISM AND HOW DEADLY IT IS. 10:21 WOW. 10:22 THAT'S PROFOUND JIM. 10:24 THAT COMES FROM HEIBERT NOT FROM JIM. 10:31 SO WE SUDDENLY SEE HOW ALMOST DRAMATICALLY GOSPEL OUTREACH FITS IN THE 21ST 10:44 CENTURY WORLD WHERE THERE IS SUCH AN URGENT DEMAND FOR CONTEXTUALISM WHICH 10:51 LETS US, AND I USE MY CRUDE TERM, SNUGGLE UP TO PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE. 10:57 AND NO BETTER WAY OF ACCOMPLISHING THIS THAN POWERING PEOPLE WHO ARE 11:04 A PART OF THAT CULTUTU AND GOSPEL OUTREACH SAYS GOOD, YOU'RE A FOLLOWER OF 11:08 JESUS. 11:10 WE WILL SUPPORT YOU IN IDENTIFYING WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE'S LIKE WITH YOUR 11:12 OWN N OPLELE 11:13 SO LET ME TALK TO YOU ABOUT MYANMAR. 11:25 I THINK I CAN TALK SAFELY ABOUT MYANMAR. 11:29 MYMYMAR IS BURMA FOLKS FOFOTHOSE OF Y Y WHO DON'T REMEMBER. 11:32 IT'S MUCH MORE OPEN TODAY THAN IT WAS JUST A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN I FIRST 11:37 WENT THERE. 11:38 WHEN I FIRST WENT THERE A FEW YEARS AGO I WAS RESTRICTED TO THE CAPITAL 11:42 CITY. 11:42 NOW YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE AND TRAVEL A BIT MORE. 11:45 BUT MY FRIEND JOHN GAVINS IS DOING A GREAT JOB OF TRAINING. 11:49 I ASSUMED WHWH I FIRST WENT THERE FOR TRAINING THAT WE WERE TALKING WITH 11:52 HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE EDUCATED STUDENTS. 11:55 THEN HE DISCOVERED THAT THE PEOPLE HE IS TAKING THROUGH, HE BRBRGS THEM IN 11:59 FOR A A NTH H CH YEAR, , E FIFIERMAN IN THEIR LOCAL VILLAGE. 12:05 HE HAS BEEN BRINGING THEM IN YEAR BY YEAR, YEAR BY YEAR, TRAINING THEM, 12:08 TAKING THEM THROUGH A CURRICULUM. 12:10 SO ONE YEAR HE IS TEACHING THEM HOW TO SING. 12:12 THE NEXT YEAR HE'S TEACHING THEM HOW TO DO HOT AND COLD FOMENTATIONS. 12:20 HE IS TEACHING THEM JUST AT REAEAING AND TALKING TO THEIR NEIGHBORS.ECTIVE 12:22 HE IS DOING AN OUTSTANDING JOB AND HE'S A PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 12:25 IS HE ASSIGNED IN MYANMAR BY GOSPEL OUTREACH? 12:27 NO, HE IS ASSIGNED BY THE UNION, THE UNION REPRESENTATIVE TO MAKE 12:29 SURE THE TRAINING GOES O O 12:30 SO HE BECOMES THEN AN AGENT OF GOSPEL OUTREACH TO DISCOVER THESE 12:33 FISHERMEN AND OTHERS WHO HAVE POTENTIAL TO BE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 12:35 CORRECT. 12:37 HE SELECTS THEM AND THEN HE TRAINS THEM AND HOLDS THEM ACCOUNTABLE TO MAKE 12:38 SURE T TY ARE DODOG WHAT THEHEARE SUPPPPED TO BE DOING. 12:40 SO YOU GOT T T BE THERE WITH HIM RING A TRAINING? 12:42 YES. 12:44 HE'S BEEN INVITING ME EVERY YEAR AND I ALWAYS MADE SURE THAT I COULD GET 12:45 THERE AT LEAST FOR A FEW DAYS. 12:46 YOU GOT TO DO SOME TRAINING TOO I'M SURE. 12:48 OH YES. 12:49 I ALWAYS TAUGHT THEM HOW TO TELL STORIES. 12:51 HOW TO JUST TAKE THE STORIES OF SCRIPTURE AND LIVEVEHEM OUT, ACT THEHE 12:53 OUT, MAKE THEM FUN, MAKE SUSU THE KIDS GET ENGAGED, TELL THE PASSION OF THE 13:21 STORY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT SCRIPTURE DOES. 13:25 IT'S THE STORIES WE REMEMBER. 13:26 YOU KNOW, I'M GLAD YOU HAVE BROUGHT THAT UP AGAIN BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE I 13:30 HAVE RECENTLY VISITED WITH ININHIS SETTININOF GOSPELLOUTRTE 13:36 TRYING TO CONNECT WITH THE PEOPLE OUT THERERES SEEING THE SCRIPTURE AS A 13:43 COLLECTION OF STORIES ABOUT GOD'S INTERACTION WITH OTHER HUMANS IN OTHER 13:49 GENERATIONS AND REALAL THERE IS NO DIFFERENEN IN THE WAY WE HUMANS AND 13:55 THOSE HUMANS REACT TO LIFE EXPERIENCES. 13:58 AND HOW GOD INTERFACED ALWAYS WITH PEOPLE AND WE DISCOVER THROUGH ALL OF 14:04 THOSE STORIES HIS FAITHFULNESS. 14:07 ABSOLUTELY. 14:07 LET'S GET BACK TO YOU AND GOSPEL OUTREACH. 14:15 IS THIS YOUR F FST VISIT GOSPEL OUTREACH? 14:17 YES IT IS. 14:19 HOW DOES IT GRAB YOU? 14:21 HAVING BEEN ON THE RECIPIENT SIDE, HAVING BEEN AT THE DIVISION AND 14:27 THE MONEY SORT OF PASSES THROUGH AND WE HELP DO THE TRAINING IN DIFFERENT 14:31 PLACAC ANDNDOME PLACESESISN'T DG 14:31 SO WE'RE GENTLY NUDGING 14:35 THEMEMO SAY YOU REALLY NEED TO DO THIS AND OTHER PLACES THAT ARE YOU BEGIN 14:40 TO SEE THE CHALLENGE OF MISSIONS THAT GOSPEL OUTREACH, AND WE TALKED 14:47 ABOUT IT HERE TODAY, AND THAT IS WE'VE GOT TO DO MORE TRAINING. 14:50 SO SITTING HERE TODAY REMINDED ME OF SITTING AT SOUTHERN ASIA PACIFIC 14:58 DIVISION WHERE I WAS THE ADVENTIST MISSION DIRECTOR AND THE CHALLENGE WE HAD 15:03 THERE AT THAT DIVISION. 15:05 IT'S JUST MAGNIFIED MUCH MORE SO AS YOU LOOK AT THE WHOLE WORLD FIELD. 15:11 COMING HERE AND AFFIFIATING, RUBUBNG SHOULDERS, WITH THE GOSPEL 15:18 TREACH REGIONAL DIRECTORS AND THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY 15:24 FOR APPEALING TO OUR CONSTITUENCY FOR SUPPORT AND THEN THE APPROPRIATE 15:38 DISTRIBUTION OF THIS ABOUT THE VALUE OFIN NO GOSPEL OUTREACH?CONVICTION 15:41 OH NO. 15:42 BECAUSE GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS AS ITS ORIENTATION ITS MISSION. 15:47 AND THAT'S WHAT I ALWAYS LOOK AT, WHAT IS AN ORGANIZATIONS MISSION 15:50 STATEMENT. 15:51 AND THAT IS TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE 10/40 WINDOW. 15:55 THAT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A CLEAR STATED MISSION AND TO BE ACTIVELY GOING AFTER 16:01 AT M MSION. 16:03 THE 10/40 WINDOW, AS I HOPE EVERYBODY KNOWS BUT MANY PEOPLE DON'T, IS 16:08 WHERE THE E JORITY OF THE WORLDS POPULATION IS. 16:11 SOMEONE QUOTED ME ACCURATELY AS SAYING JESUS CACAT COME TONIGHT. 16:17 NOW I HATE TO O Y THAT BECAUSE HE CAN COME ANY TIME HE WANTS. 16:23 BUT THERE ARE SO MANY MILLIONS, BILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW 16:29 ANYTHING ABOUT JESUS. 16:32 NEVER HEARD HIS NAME, TOTATAY IGNORANT. 16:43 AND OUR WORLD TODAY IS NOT ISOLATED BUT WE LIVE IN ISOLATION FROM THEION. 16:50 UNDERSTANDNDG OF WHEREREHE MAJORIRI OF THE POPULATITI OFOFHE WORLD IS. 16:53 OR A ASOMEMEEOPLPL SOSOTIMEMEFALSLSY THINK, LL THERE'S'SHE INTERNET. 16:57 THEY COULD F FD ITITON THE INTNU 16:59 OR SURELY EVERYBODY 16:59 S TELEVISION. 17:03 BUT NO THEY DON'T. 17:04 AND NOT EVEVYBODY HAS THE INTERNET. 17:06 IT'S A HUGE CHALLENGE. 17:10 YOU KNOW, YOU BRING ME TO THE OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW. 17:15 WE HAVE A LITTLE PIECE OF VIDEO THAT REALLY LETS OUR VIEWERS KNOW A VERY 17:19 WONDERFUL AND PROFOUND APPEAL ON BEHALF OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 17:27 WATCH. 17:29 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 17:34 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 17:38 THOSE PEOPLE LIVE TOO FAR AWAY. 17:40 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 17:43 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV. 17:46 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACAC 17:49 MY HEAD HURTS. 17:50 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO. 17:53 I GIVE UP. 17:54 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 17:57 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 17:59 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 18:02 AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 18:07 WHERE? 18:08 ALL THE WORLD. 18:09 HOW CAN I GO, I HAVE COMMITMENTS. 18:11 YOU CAN PRAY. 18:13 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 18:18 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 18:22 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 18:25 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING. 18:28 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 18:30 BE THE SPARK. 18:31 LIGHT THE FIRE. 18:33 FINISH THE WORK. 18:36 FINISH THE WORK. 18:38 BE THE SPARK. 18:41 AN OLD GRANDPA CAN'T HELP BUT LOVE THAT APPEAL THAT THESE CHILDREN ARE MAKING. 18:47 BY THE WAY, WE WANT YOU TO REALLY CONNECT WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 18:55 MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD ME ON OTHER PROGRAMS WHERE I INVITE YOU TO BECOME 18:59 MEMBERS OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 19:02 YOU'RE MEMEMRS 19:02 OF PUBLIC BROADCAST RADIO OR TELEVISION. 19:06 I WANT TO INVITE YOUOUO BECOME MEMEMRS OF GOSPEL OUTREACH WHICH MEANS 19:11 YOU'RE SUBSCRIBERS TO WHAT HAPPENS HERE AND MAINLY WHAT'S HAPPENING OUT THERE 19:18 IN THAT 10/40 WINDOWOW 19:20 YOU ALREADY SEE THE ADDRESS AND THE PHONE NUMBERS AND THE EMAIL 19:25 ADDRESS, THE WEBSITE, ALL OF THAT BUSINESS. 19:28 I HOPE YOU'RE REQUESTING THE GOSPEL OUTREACH NEWSLETTER ADVENTURES IN 19:34 MISSIONS. 19:36 YOU'LL GET SOME OF THE STORIES YOU HAVEN'T HEARD HERE ON THE PROGRAM BUT 19:39 STORIES LIKE YOU'RE HEARING HERE. 19:41 AND STORIES LIKE JIM BRAUER AND I ARE DREAMING ABOUT RIGHT NOW ABOUT WHAT 19:48 NEEDS TO HAPPEN, WHAT CAN HAPPEN. 19:52 IF YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY AS YOU HAVE NOW ASSOCIATING HERE WITH 19:59 THESE PEOPLE, WHAT DO YOU THINK GOSPEL OUTREACH NEEDS NEXT? 20:05 OH THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 20:06 I HAVEN'T BEEN HERE LONG ENOUOU TO REALLY KNOW. 20:09 WELL, YOU'RE A NEW COMER AND PROBABLY YOUR FIRST GLANCE LOOK KIND OF THING 20:16 GIVES YOU A PERSPECTIVE ON THAT THAT SOME OF US HAVEN'T GOTTEN. 20:20 ALL I CAN SAY IS WHAT THE LORD IS DOING WITH ME AND THAT IS I THINK WHAT THE 20:25 CHURCH H H TO O IS FOCUSSFIRSRN 20:25 PEPELE C CE FACE TO FACE 20:30 WITH JESUS CHRIST SO THAT THEY FALL PASSIONATELY IN LOVE. 20:35 SO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I ASK PEOPLE IS HAS JESUS LOOKED YOU IN THE EYE AND 20:39 SAID COME FOLLOW ME. 20:43 AND HAVE YOU SAID TO JESUS YES, I'M FOLLOWING YOU. 20:48 BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO PUT ANYBODY DOWN BECAUSE IT HAPPENS HERE IN THE 20:54 U.S., WE HAVE WAY TOO MANY MEMBERS AND NOT ENOUGH DISCIPLPL. 21:00 WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO KNOW DOCTRINES BUT THEY HAVEN'T DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS. 21:05 M I'I'MAKING BOLD TO INTERRUPT YOU. 21:09 GO RIGHT AHEAD. 21:11 I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THAT CAMERA RIGHT THERE AND AS THE LORD IS MOVING YOU AND 21:19 IMPRESSING YOU NOW, WOULD YOU SPEAK TO OUR AUDIENCE ABOUT HAS THE LORD-HOWEVER 21:25 YOU SAIDIDHAT. 21:28 SPEAK TO THOSE FOLKS RIGHT THERE RIGHT NOW IN THAT SETTING. 21:33 THE ISSUE IS S SPLY THIS, JESUS CAME AND INVITED US TO COME FOLLOW HIM. 21:39 HE DOESN'T S S GO INTO A A THE WORLRLAND MAKE M MBERS OF SOME CLUB THAHATHINKS 21:49 THEY'RE THE ONLY ONE. 21:50 WHAT HE SAYS IS HELP PEOPLE KNOW ME. 21:55 COME UNTO ME ALL YE THAT ARE BURDENED, STRESSED OUT, TORN APART AND I WILL 22:04 GIVE YOU REST. 22:06 THE DIFFERENCE THAT I DISCOVERED OVER IN ASIA AND HERE IN AMERICA IS 22:10 THAT YOU CAN FIND THOSE WHO ARE E LITICIANS, YOU CAN FIND THOSE WHO ARE 22:15 LEGALISTS AND I JUST SAY GOD BLESS YOU, GOD BLESS YOU. 22:18 BUT WHAT YOU FIND IS WHEN YOU FIND A DISCIPLE, A DISCIPLE WHO HAS FALLEN IN 22:24 LOVE WITH JESUS CHRIST THEY ARE DOING AMAZING THINGS WHETHER THEY ARE IN 22:27 THE PHILIPPINES OR IN BANGLADESH OR MYANMAR. 22:36 THOSE DISCIPLES ARE THE TH J JUS T TT ABSOLUTELYLK TRANSFORMED THTHR LILIS.LLYOU UE 22:42 I WANT TO GUARANTEE YOUUTHAT EVS 22:42 HERE TO O SPELELUTREACH 22:47 HAS S D THTH EXPERIENCE BECAUSE E AT'S'SHAT CHANGES US IS WHEN JESUS 22:53 CALLS ME AND I RESPOND TO 22:53 THAT AND I DO IT OUT OF THIS DIRECT RELATIONSHIP 23:02 WITH HIM. 23:03 THANK YOU JIM. 23:05 I'M GOING TO GO BEYOND THAT NOW JUST A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE YOU ONLY VERY, 23:14 VERY BRIEFLY SHARED WITH ME THAT YOU AND YOUR WIFE AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS 23:25 HAVE HAD A VERY, VERY HEART BREAKING EXPERIENCE AND HAVE HAD TO ENGAGE IN 23:35 A PERSONAL SEEKING THE LORD. 23:39 HOW HAS GOD GOTTEN YOU THROUGH THE LOSS OF YOUR SON? 23:42 OH WOW, I TOLD YOU NOT TO TALK ABOUT THIS. 23:49 WE'RE COMING UP ON ONE YEAR. 23:54 THE TRUTH IS FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE ON THE SAME JOURNEY OF GRIEF THERE ARE 23:59 GOOD DAYS AND BAD DAYS. 24:01 SURE. 24:02 BUT THROUGH IT ALL WHAT YOU DISCOVER IS GOD KNOWS YOUR ADDRESS. 24:09 AND THAT'S WHAT ALLOWS ME TO GEGEUP A A PREREH EN I ION'T FEEL LIKE 24:18 PREACHING OR WHEN I HAVE TO CONDUCT A FUNERAL AS A PASTOR AND IT'S KILLING 24:23 ME. 24:25 IT'S NOT ABOUT ME, IT'S ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE IN THE MIDST OF THEIR GRIEF 24:31 UNDERSTAND THERE IS SOMETHING G TTER COMING. 24:35 D WHEN I QUIT LOLOING AT ME AND MY OWN N RROW AND GRIEF AND THINK INSTEAD 24:42 ABOUT, OH, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN IN BANGLADESH WHERE LIFE IS HARD. 24:50 IN COMPARISON MY LIFE IS NOT HARD. 24:54 IT'S PAINFUL YES BUT HARD, NO. 24:57 SO GOD IS GOOD. 25:02 I APOLOGIZE FOR PUTTING YOU THROUGH ANYTHING BUT BECAUSE WE'RE ININ WORLD 25:10 OF HURT-YES WE ARE-AND THERE ARE AN UNKNOWN NUMBER I'M SURE OF OUR 25:17 GOSPEL OUTREACH FAMILY WHO HAS HIS OR HER OWN STORY ABOUT THE REALITY OF OUR 25:28 BROKEN HURTING WORLD I JUST FELT THAT THOSE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THE 25:36 REALITY OF DEPENDING ON THE LORD. 25:40 IT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU MAKE IT THTHUGH. 25:44 I'M GOING TO ASK A FAVOR OF YOU JIM. 25:49 I'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED YOUR DEAR DAD AND MOTHER CARROLL AND ALICE BRAUER 25:54 WHO I'M SURE AREREFRIEIES OF SOO 25:54 IS VIEWIWI HERE TODAY. 26:00 I UNDERSTAND THEY NOW RESIDE IN NORTH CAROLINA, AND I I NT YOU FOR ME AND 26:07 BETSY TO GIVE THEM OUR PERSONAL GREETINGS OF LOVE WHEN YOU'RE IN TOUCH WITH 26:12 THEMEMND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WILLILINESS TO BE HEREREITH US TODAY 26:19 AND FOR YOUR LEADEDEHIP THAT THE LORD WIWI LEAEA YOU TO P PVIDE HERE AT 26:25 GOSPELELUTREACH. 26:26 SO GOD BLESS YOU JIM. 26:28 THANK YOU DAN. 26:29 AND GOD BLESS YOU. 26:31 WE'RE INDEBTED WE WHO GET TO BE A PART OF THIS OPERATION HERE. 26:38 WE'RE INDEBTED TO YOU BECAUSE WITHOUT THE GOSPEL OUTREACH MEMBERS AS YOU 26:44 ARE E ERE WOULD BE NO GOSPEL OUTREACH MINISTRY ANYWHERE--MYANANR OR ANY 26:49 PLACE ELSE IN THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORLD. 26:52 SO GOD BLESS YOU AND HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY. 27:15 [CLOSING MUSIC] |
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