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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000626A
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00:16 WELCOME TO ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS. 00:18 IT'S GOSPEL OUTREACH'S OPPORTUNITY TO COME INTO YOUR LIVING ROOM AND TALK 00:22 ABOUT WHAT KEEPS US HAPPY EVERY SINGLE DAY. 00:27 IT'S THE WHOLE PROCESS OF INTRODUCING JESUS AS A NEW CONCEPT TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE 00:34 NEVER HEARD HIS NAME. 00:36 MY GUEST TODAY IS DR. JON DYBDAHL WHO IS THE PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL 00:40 OUTREACH. 00:42 SIX YEARS? 00:43 I'VE BEEN WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH FOR SIX YEARS AS A BOARD MEMBER, PRESIDENT 00:48 ONLY FOR A LITTLE OVER A YEAR. 00:49 HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE PRESIDENT? 00:51 GOOD IN SOME WAYS AND SCARY IN OTHER WAYS BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY 00:55 GREAT THINGS THAT COULD BE DONE AND SHOULD BE DONE BUT YOU CAN'T DO THEM ALL. 01:00 BUT IT'S EXCITING TO BE PART OF SOMETHING THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE I THINK 01:03 IN THE WORLD. 01:04 THAT REALLY IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE. 01:06 YES. 01:08 SO I WANT TO START AT THE END WITH THE QUESTION I SHOULD ASK YOU LAST BUT I 01:11 WANT TO ASK YOU FIRST. 01:12 WHAT IS YOUR DREAM FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH 15 YEARS FROM NOW? 01:17 WOW. 01:19 ASSUMING THAT CHRIST HAS NOT RETURNED, OKAY, WE COME BACK TO THIS LOCATION 01:24 15 YEARS FROM NOW WHAT WILL WE FIND? 01:26 WE WOULD FIND THAT THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE WORKING IN AREAS THAT ARE UNREACHED. 01:33 OKAY. 01:34 WE WOULD FIND MANY MORE PEOPLE REACHING OUT TO PEOPLE GROUPS WHERE THERE 01:38 ARE NO PEOPLE WHO ARE CHRISTIANS OR HAVE A KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST. 01:43 AND WE WILL HAVE AFFECTED THE CHURCH AT LARGE TO THINK MORE OUTSIDE THE BOX 01:48 IN RELATIONSHIP TO MISSION. 01:51 AND THIS WILL BE A HUMMING HIVE OF VOLUNTEERS. 01:54 THIS WILL BE, I DON'T KNOW, WHO KNOWS, MAYBE WE'LL HAVE A SECOND STORY 01:57 ON THIS BUILDING. 01:58 I DON'T REALLY KNOW. 02:00 GOSPEL OUTREACH DOES SOMETHING THAT I STILL AM A BIT CONFUSED BY. 02:05 OKAY. 02:07 WE INTRODUCE JESUS AS SAVIOR, AS A NAME TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER 02:15 HEARD THAT BEFORE AND NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. 02:18 ARE THERE REALLY PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT HAVE NEVER HEARD THE NAME OF JESUS? 02:23 WELL, IF YOUR SPEAKING LITERALLY I THINK REALLY THERE ARE. 02:26 I MEAN I CAN REMEMBER GOING TO A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND AS A 02:31 MISSIONARY AND HAVING AN OLD LADY ASK ME WHERE I LIVED AND I TOLD HER THAT 02:38 I LIVED IN AMERICA. 02:40 AND SHE SAID, HOW MANY DAYS DOES IT TAKE TO WALK THERE. 02:43 HER ONLY CONCEPTION WAS THAT YOU WALKED TO WHEREVER YOU GO AND HOW 02:47 LONG DOES IT TAKE TO WALK. 02:49 AND IN THE SAME WAY I ASKED HER HAVE YOU HEARD OF JESUS AND SHE SAID 02:54 WHOSE THAT, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THAT. 02:56 THAT'S LITERALLY TRUE. 02:57 NOW THERE ARE EVEN MORE PLACES, OF COURSE, WHO HAVE HEARD THE NAME OF 03:00 JESUS BUT HEARD IT IN A WRONG WAY, TRUE TRUE, OR A MISCONCEPTION OF WHAT THAT 03:05 NAME MEANS BUT THERE ARE ACTUALLY SOME PEOPLE WHO LITERALLY NEVER HAVE HEARD 03:10 THE WORD OR DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS. 03:13 I MET A YOUNG MAN ONE TIME IN MOZAMBIQUE WHO WOULD GO TO TOWN ONCE A WEEK TO 03:21 SELL HIS TOMATOES. 03:24 AND ONE DAY A MAN CAME TO HIM AND SAID DO YOU KNOW JESUS. 03:29 AND MY FRIEND NOW, SAID NO I DON'T. 03:32 DOES HE LIVE NEARBY AND STARTED CONVERSATION WHERE THERE HAS NO CONTEXT FOR 03:42 CHRIST. 03:45 IT'S SCARY TO ME TO THINK THAT THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LIKE THAT RIGHT 03:49 NOW. 03:50 YES, THERE ARE. 03:51 THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND AS I THINK IT WAS HUDSON TAYLOR THE 03:53 GREAT MISSIONARY WHO A CENTURY AGO WHO SAID THAT NOBODY SHOULD HEAR THE 04:00 NAME OF JESUS THE SECOND OR THIRD TIME UNLESS EVERYBODY HASN'T HAD A 04:06 CHANCE TO HEAR IT THE FIRST TIME. 04:08 OH WOW. 04:09 SO WHAT IS GOSPEL OUTREACH'S MISSION? 04:11 GOSPEL OUTREACH'S MISSION IS TO REACH THE UNREACHED WITH THE MESSAGE OF JESUS 04:15 AND HIS SOON COMING. 04:16 SO WE'RE AFTER THOSE PEOPLE. 04:17 WE WANT TO REACH THOSE PEOPLE BECAUSE VERY OFTEN IN THE PAST, AND THIS IS 04:22 NOT A CRITICISM, IT'S NOT WRONG BUT IT'S INCOMPLETE MISSION. 04:26 THE CHURCH HAS HAD AN INCOMPLETE MISSION BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN OUR MISSION AS 04:29 MOSTLY REVIVING OTHER CHRISTIANS. 04:33 REACHING OUT TO OTHER CHRISTIANS WITH A FULLER TRUTH MAYBE THE MESSAGE OF 04:36 PROPHECY, THE SECOND COMING AND SABBATH AND SO ON. 04:39 SO WE LET THE OTHER PEOPLE DO THE PLOWING AND WE COME ALONG AND REAP. 04:41 SO WE ORIGINALLY LET THE OTHER PEOPLE DO THE INITIAL MISSION WORK AND 04:45 WE CAME ALONG BEHIND AND THAT DIDN'T GO OVER WELL IN SOME AREAS. 04:49 WE WERE SEEN AS PEOPLE WHO WERE SHEEP STEALERS, PROSELYTIZERS. 04:53 BUT SINCE AROUND THE BEGINNING OF THE 1990S THE ADVENTIST CHURCH HAS 05:00 OFFICIALLY BEEN REACHING OUT IN GOSPEL MISSION, GLOBAL MISSION TO REACH 05:06 THE UNREACHED AREAS. 05:07 AND WE HAVE TAKEN THAT SERIOUSLY IN GOSPEL OUTREACH AND SAID THAT 05:12 WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS REACH THOSE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF HINDUS, 05:16 BUDDHISTS, MUSLIMS, TRIBAL PEOPLES WHO DON'T KNOW JESUS. 05:21 SO THAT'S A TREMENDOUS TASK AND WE'VE SAID YES TO THAT AND WE WANT TO DO IT 05:27 AND INVITE OTHER PEOPLE TO HELP US DO IT. 05:29 SO THREE QUESTIONS. 05:30 WHERE DO WE FIND THEM? 05:31 HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE WITH THEM? 05:33 HOW DOES THAT IMPACT THEIR LIFESTYLE? 05:36 WOW. 05:37 SO START HOW DO WE FIND THEM. 05:38 WHERE DO WE FIND THEM? 05:39 OKAY. 05:40 WE TALK ABOUT THE 10/40 WINDOW. 05:41 THAT'S THE FAT PART OF THE GLOBE. 05:43 THAT'S THE PART OF THE GLOBE, FROM 10 DEGREES TO 40 DEGREES NORTH, NORTH 05:47 AND SOUTH OKAY NORTH AND SOUTH. 05:50 NORTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, ASIA, INDIA, PAKISTAN. 05:55 THAT BAND YES, INDIA AND PAKISTAN. 05:57 THEN THERE ARE A FEW COUNTRIES OUTSIDE THE 10/40 WINDOW LITERALLY WHO 06:00 ARE REALLY PART OF THE 10/40 WINDOW. 06:02 10/40 WINDOW IS JUST SHORT HAND FOR SAYING THE PARTS OF THE WORLD THAT DON'T 06:06 HAVE A SERIOUS CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE. 06:08 OKAY. 06:09 SO THAT'S THE PLACE. 06:11 AND IF WE ENLARGED IT TO SAY IF WE HAVE 10/40 PEOPLE IN OTHER PLACES 06:17 LIKE REFUGEES AND SO FORTH THEY WOULD BE A PART TOO. 06:19 WE'LL GO FIND THEM. 06:20 YES WE'LL FIND THEM TOO. 06:21 SAY I GO TO ETHIOPIA. 06:22 IT'S A TRADITIONALLY CHRISTIAN COUNTRY AND IT IS PART OF THE 10/40 06:26 WINDOW. 06:27 HOW DO I FIND THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD ABOUT JESUS? 06:31 WELL, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF STUDY DONE AND MANY PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IT. 06:34 IN FACT IF YOU GO ON YOUR COMPUTER TO A WEBSITE CALLED THE JOSHUA PROJECT, 06:38 THE JOSHUA PROJECT, YES, OKAY, THEY LIST, THEY WIL TELL YOU WHICH PEOPLE 06:43 GROUPS, WHICH ETHNIC GROUPS ARE UNREACHED AND THEY HAVE A DEFINITION 06:48 EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS IF A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE, I FORGET THE EXACT 06:50 PERCENTAGE, A CERTAIN SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE CHRISTIANS AND THE 06:55 VAST MAJORITY ARE NOT, THEN THEY WILL CLASSIFY THAT AS AN UNREACHED AREA 06:59 AND AN UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUP. 07:01 AND WE LIKE TO COUNT PEOPLE GROUPS RATHER THAN JUST COUNTRIES BECAUSE 07:05 COUNTRIES CUT ACROSS ETHNIC BOUNDARIES. 07:07 THE LINES THAT WERE DRAWN, THE GEOPOLITICAL COUNTRY LINES WE HAVE NOW ARE NOT 07:12 REALLY DRAWN COMPLETELY ON THE BASIS OF WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE REALLY LIVE THERE. 07:18 IT SOUND LIKE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASIER WHEN LEO HALLIWELL WHEN UP AND DOWN 07:23 THE AMAZON IN THE LUZEIRO AND EVERYBODY ON THAT AMAZON RIVER WERE 07:29 UNREACHED BASICALLY. 07:31 AND HE'D GET ON SOME OF THE TRIBUTARIES AND THEY'D NEVER SEEN A WHITE MAN, 07:34 THEY'D NEVER HEARD ABOUT JESUS. 07:35 IT WAS BRAND NEW TOTALLY. 07:37 DO WE STILL DO THAT SAME KIND OF EXPLORATION AND MISSIONARY SERVICE? 07:43 YES, YES. 07:45 MANY OF OUR WORKERS, NOT ALL OF OUR WORKERS BUT MANY OF OUR WORKERS ARE IN 07:48 THAT KIND OF AREA. 07:49 GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE, TELL ME A STORY. 07:52 OH MY, MY OH, MY OH, MY. 07:56 ACTUALLY THE EASIEST ONE IS TO TELL FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE. 07:59 WE WERE MISSIONARIES IN THAILAND AND I TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT LADY, YES. 08:05 AND I HAVE LITERALLY WALKED INTO VILLAGES, AND REMEMBER THIS IS IN THE 08:09 GOLDEN TRIANGLE OFTEN TIMES THROUGH POPPY FIELDS, OPIUM POPPY FIELDS 08:13 GOING UP TO THE VILLAGE AND YOU FIND VILLAGES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE MIGRATED 08:17 FROM NORTH CHINA AND FROM LAOS INTO THAILAND. 08:21 AND THERE ARE LITERALLY NO CHRISTIANS THERE, NO CHURCH THERE, NO RELIGIOUS 08:27 EDIFICE OF ANY KIND. 08:28 THE PEOPLE ARE ANIMISTS, THEY ARE SPIRIT WORSHIPPERS. 08:31 THEY WORSHIP WHATEVER THEY CAN SEE, THE RAIN THE SUN THE CROPS. 08:34 WELL IT'S VERY VERY INTERESTING, IT'S VERY VERY INTERESTING. 08:39 THERE'S A WAY IN WHICH THE SPIRIT HAS WORKED IN PLACES THAT WE WOULD NEVER 08:42 EXPECT IT TO BE. 08:45 I FOUND OUT WHEN I WAS THERE THAT THEY HAD STORIES OF ADAM AND EVE. 08:47 THE NAMES WERE NOT ADAM AND EVE BUT THEY HAD STORIES OF A GARDEN THEY 08:50 HAD STORIES OF A FLOOD IN THEIR ANCIENT HISTORY WHICH MEANS THAT SOMEWHERE 08:54 WAY BACK THERE HAD BEEN TALK OF GOD. 08:56 BUT THEY BASICALLY WORSHIP SATAN THE GREAT COW SPIRIT. 09:00 THAT WAS THE WORD FOR SATAN, THE GREAT COW SPIRIT AND THEY LITERALLY 09:04 WERE AFRAID OF HIM. 09:05 THEY LIVED THEIR LIVES IN FEAR. 09:07 THEY HAD A WORD FOR GOD BUT IT WAS DISTANT AND NOBODY KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT 09:11 IT. 09:13 SO TO GO INTO THAT VILLAGE AND UTTER THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE FIRST 09:15 TIME AND START TO TELL THE STORY OF GOD'S LOVE, THE FEELING IS JUST, I DON'T 09:22 KNOW HOW TO SAY IT, IT'S BIGGER, BETTER, MORE FANTASTIC THAN ANYTHING 09:26 YOU COULD THINK OF TO BE IN A VILLAGE LIKE THAT WHERE PEOPLE ARE ONLY 09:30 LIVING IN FEAR OF THE SPIRITS TO TALK ABOUT JESUS WHO HAS THE VICTORY 09:33 OVER THE SPIRITS AND CAN GIVE THEM PEACE AND ETERNAL LIFE AND LOVES 09:36 THEM, AND LOVES THEM AND CARES ABOUT THEM AND IS INTERESTED IN THEIR LIVES. 09:42 THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. 09:44 THERE'S NOTHING LIKE BEING ABLE TO SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH A HUNGRY HEART OF 09:47 SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER HEARD ABOUT IT. 09:49 WHAT RESPONSE DO YOU GET? 09:53 SOMETIMES PEOPLE WONDER. 09:55 IT'S NOT ALWAYS YOU KNOW EASY. 09:57 SOMETIMES THEY LEAN BACK AND QUESTION. 09:59 YES AND QUESTION. 10:00 BUT THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHEN NOT A SERIES OF 20 EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS BUT 10:05 ONE MEETING IN WHICH YOU BASICALLY SAY THERE IS THIS JESUS WHO CAME WHO IS 10:08 GOD'S SON AND WE COULD USE THEIR NAME FOR GOD, THEY HAD A NAME FOR GOD, 10:12 EXPLAIN THAT GOD IS A LOVING GOD, A POWERFUL GOD, HE SENT HIS SON AND 10:16 HE HAS THE VICTORY OVER ALL EVIL AND SATAN. 10:20 HE HAS VICTORY OVER THE COW SPIRIT. 10:22 HE HAS VICTORY OVER THE COW SPIRIT. 10:24 YOU NO LONGER NEED TO FEAR THE COW SPIRIT. 10:26 YOU CAN TAKE OFF THOSE STRINGS AROUND YOUR NECK, AROUND YOUR WRISTS, AROUND 10:31 YOUR ANKLES, COOPER, WOVEN WORE OR STRINGS, DEVIL STRINGS, LITERALLY DEVIL 10:38 STRINGS. 10:40 GET RID OF ALL THOSE AND THE FIRST THING THEY WANT TO DO IS LEARN TO PRAY. 10:44 IS THAT RIGHT. 10:45 FIRST THING THEY WANT TO DO IS LEARN TO PRAY. 10:47 WHY? 10:49 BECAUSE THAT IS THE PATHWAY TO CONTACT THE GOD WHO HAS THE POWER OVER 10:53 THESE THINGS AND THEY WANT TO KNOW THAT. 10:55 HOW DO I TALK TO HIM. 10:56 HOW DO I TALK, HOW DO I COMMUNICATE WITH HIM. 10:58 A WONDERFUL LESSON BECAUSE SO OFTEN EVEN WHEN WE TEACH IT HERE WE ASSUME 11:03 PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO PRAY OR WE TEACH THEM LATER TO PRAY BUT THAT'S SOMETHING 11:05 THAT'S NUMBER ONE. 11:08 IF HE'S POWERFUL, WE CAN GET RID OF THIS STUFF, WE'VE GOT TO HAVE HIM IN 11:11 OUR LIVES TO PROTECT US. 11:13 WE'VE GOT TO LEARN HOW TO PRAY RIGHT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 11:15 DO THEY USE A DIFFERENT WORD THAN PRAY IN THAILAND? 11:18 IS IT TALK WITH GOD? 11:21 WELL THIS IS IN THE HMONG PEOPLE. 11:23 THIS IS NOT IN THAILAND. 11:25 SO WE'RE UP IN THE NORTH. 11:26 WE'RE RIGHT ON THE CAMBODIAN BORDER. 11:28 YES, YES. 11:29 THERE WORD FOR PRAY IS LITERALLY TO CALL UPON GOD. 11:37 IT'S LITERALLY TASHO. 11:39 TA MEANS ASK OR CALL. 11:42 ASK OR REQUESTS. 11:44 SHO IS THE --- OF GOD. 11:47 I LOVE IT IN PIGEON TOO. 11:49 TALK TALK BIG FELLA UPSTAIRS. 11:51 YES, YES. 11:52 VERY YOU KNOW KIND OF A DYNAMIC PICTURE. 11:55 YES, YES. 11:56 SO TASHO, HOW DO YOU TASHO? 11:59 SO HOW DO YOU PRAY? 12:03 YOU TALK TO HIM. 12:05 TELL HIM HE'S A GREAT GOD. 12:06 TELL HIM ABOUT YOUR OWN FEARS. 12:08 I DON'T HAVE TO WEAR SPECIAL CLOTHES. 12:10 ASK HIM TO BE PRESENT, I DON'T HAVE TO WEAR SPECIAL CLOTHES. 12:12 I DON'T HAVE TO SAY SPECIAL WORDS. 12:14 I DON'T HAVE TO PAY TO GET HELP. 12:16 IT'S FREE. 12:17 YES. 12:18 THE SPIRITS IF THEY WANT TO HEAL YOU, IF YOU WANT YOUR SPIRITS TO HEAL YOU, 12:20 YOU GOT TO PAY. 12:21 TWO CHICKENS. 12:22 MAYBE TWO CHICKENS. 12:23 I KNOW, I KNOW. 12:24 MAYBE IF YOU'RE REALLY SICK MAYBE A COW. 12:27 BUT GOD'S FREE. 12:28 GOD'S FREE, GRACE IS FREE. 12:30 THAT'S GOOD NEWS. 12:32 AND PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HEARD IT. 12:35 CAN YOU BELIEVE IT. 12:37 WELL ACTUALLY THEY TAUGHT ME THINGS. 12:39 I HAVE A LITTLE BOOK THAT I WROTE. 12:41 SOMEBODY ASKED ME TO WRITE ABOUT SOME OF MY MISSION EXPERIENCES AND THE TITLE 12:45 OF IT IS "MISSION A TWO-WAY STREET." 12:47 AND WHAT I SAID IS THAT NOT ONLY DO WE TEACH BUT WE LEARN FROM THEM. 12:54 IT'S A TWO-WAY STREET. 12:55 MISSION IS A TWO-WAY STREET. 12:56 I WAS TAUGHT A HUGE NUMBER OF IMPORTANT LESSONS BY MY TIME IN ASIA AND THEY HAVE 13:02 STAYED WITH ME. 13:03 SO THEY TAUGHT. 13:04 HOPEFULLY I SHARED SOMETHING THAT WAS MEANINGFUL TO THEM. 13:08 THEY DID SHARE SOMETHING THAT WAS MEANINGFUL AND LIFE CHANGING FOR ME. 13:11 IT'S LIKE OPENING DOORS, THAT'S RIGHT, IN A DARKENED ROOM. 13:14 THAT'S RIGHT. 13:17 I WANT TO TAKE JUST A MINUTE AND TALK TO THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE OUT THERE 13:21 IN TELEVISION LAND. 13:23 WE HAVE A LITTLE COMMERCIAL WE'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU 13:25 SEE WE'RE NOT ALONE.. WE NEED YOU TO BE ABLE TO BE PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 13:33 AMEN. 13:34 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 13:39 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 13:43 THOSE PEOPLE LIVE TOO FAR AWAY. 13:46 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 13:48 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV. 13:51 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH. 13:54 MY HEAD HURTS. 13:55 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO. 13:58 I GIVE UP. 13:59 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 14:02 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 14:04 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 14:07 AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 14:12 WHERE? 14:13 ALL THE WORLD. 14:14 HOW CAN I GO, I HAVE COMMITMENTS. 14:16 YOU CAN PRAY. 14:18 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 14:23 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 14:27 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 14:30 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING. 14:33 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 14:35 BE THE SPARK. 14:37 LIGHT THE FIRE. 14:38 FINISH THE WORK. 14:41 FINISH THE WORK. 14:43 BE THE SPARK. 14:46 WELCOME BACK. 14:47 ADVENTURES IN MISSION GOSPEL OUTREACH. 14:51 AND OUR PRESIDENT TODAY IS DR. JON DYBDAHL. 14:54 HE'S RIGHT HERE WITH ME TODAY TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE DO AND WHY. 15:00 SO WE STARTED IN HOW DO YOU FIND PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD THE NAME OF 15:04 JESUS. 15:06 AND THE SECOND THING IS HOW DO YOU COMMUNICATE WITH THEM IN WAYS THAT 15:09 REALLY MAKE SENSE? 15:10 WOW, THAT'S A BIG QUESTION. 15:12 WELL IT'S DIFFERENT IN MANY PLACES. 15:14 I COULD TALK FOR HOURS AND HOURS. 15:16 WELL LET'S START. 15:18 THE ONE BASIC PRINCIPLE IS YOU KNOW, PAUL SAYS TO THE WEAK I BECAME WEAK, TO THE 15:20 STRONG I BECAME STRONG, TO THE JEW I BECAME A JEW. 15:24 INCARNATIONAL MINISTRY, YES YOU'VE GOT TO WORK ON THAT ONE WITH ME. 15:27 INCARNATION. 15:28 INCARNATIONAL, INFLESHMENT. 15:30 INCARNATION MEANS YOU BECOME FLESH. 15:32 WE TALK ABOUT JESUS. 15:33 NOW THAT'S BECOMING FLESH, THE INCARNATION. 15:36 JESUS BECAME FLESH. 15:37 JESUS WAS THE SON OF GOD. 15:38 HE INCARNATED, HE BECAME FLESH AND LIVED AMONG US. 15:40 THAT'S HOW HE COMMUNICATED WITH US BECAUSE HE HAD TO BECOME LIKE US ENOUGH SO 15:45 THAT HE COULD COMMUNICATE WITH US. 15:48 THAT'S HOW HE DID IT. 15:49 SO WE SHOULD TAKE HIS MODEL. 15:51 IN EARLY ADVENTIST MISSION HISTORY THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID. 15:55 I MEAN WHEN W. 15:57 H. 15:59 ANDERSON WENT TO SOLUSI COLLEGE IN AFRICA HE DIDN'T HAVE THEM COME TO 16:07 HIS PALACE. 16:08 HE WENT AND LIVED IN THEIR VILLAGES. 16:11 THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? 16:13 YES, YES. 16:14 I MEAN WHEREVER, LIVED IN THEIR CITY, LIVED IN THEIR APARTMENT BUILDING. 16:17 YES. 16:19 WE NEED TO BECOME AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE LIKE THEM WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE 16:22 PRINCIPLES GOD HAS GIVEN US AND THAT'S ALWAYS A CHALLENGE TO FIGURE THAT 16:26 OUT. 16:27 YES, I WAS GOING TO SAY, HELP ME WITH THAT BECAUSE IF I'M GOING TO GO TO A 16:30 PLACE WHERE NOBODY KNOWS ME, NOBODY KNOWS GOD AND MY JOB IS TO INTRODUCE 16:35 THEM TO THE GOD I HAVE COME TO LOVE AND I MOVE INTO THEIR APARTMENT 16:40 BUILDING. 16:42 HOW AM I DIFFERENT? 16:43 HOW ARE YOU DIFFERENT? 16:44 YOU'RE DIFFERENT BECAUSE YOU LIVE LIKE JESUS. 16:47 WHICH MEANS YOUR LOVING, YOU CARE. 16:50 I'M LOVING AND I CARE? 16:51 YES. 16:53 AND THOSE ARE NOT THINGS THEY'RE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH. 16:54 SOMETIMES THEY WILL BE SOMETIMES THEY MAY NOT BE BUT ANOTHER THING IS I 16:59 HAVE PEACE, I HAVE HOPE. 17:01 THOSE ARE THINGS THAT I CAN SHARE. 17:03 SO YOU'VE JUST GIVEN ME A REALLY INTERESTING DEFINITION OF ADVENTISM. 17:07 SOMEONE WHO TRUSTS A LOVING GOD WHICH GIVES HIM PEACE AND FILLS YOU WITH 17:12 HOPE BECAUSE YOU'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO LIVING WITH HIM FOREVER. 17:15 THAT'S RIGHT YES. 17:17 AND THAT'S THE MESSAGE THAT YOU REALLY ARE DOING WHEN YOU BECOME INCARNATE 17:21 IN THEIR APARTMENT BUILDING. 17:22 THAT'S WHAT I HOPE WE WOULD BE DOING. 17:25 RIGHT, NOT JUST WHAT WE SAY BUT WHAT WE DO. 17:28 SO IF I GO INTO THAT APARTMENT BUILDING SIX MONTHS AFTER YOU MOVED IN 17:33 AND I ASK THEM WHO IS THIS GUY AND WHAT'S HE LIKE WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT THEM 17:38 TO TELL ME. 17:39 I WOULD HOPE THEY WOULD SAY A FOLLOWER OF JESUS, A DISCIPLE OF JESUS. 17:44 AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, WHAT'S HE LIKE, CAN I TRUST HIM? 17:48 USE ONE OF THE GOSPELS AND READ IT THROUGH, SEE WHAT IT SAYS, SEE IF YOU LIKE 17:53 THIS JESUS. 17:54 AND THIS HAPPENS IN ALL KINDS OF WAYS. 17:56 I HAD A GOOD FRIEND TELL ME ABOUT MEETING A YOUNG LADY WHO WAS A COLLEGE 18:00 STUDENT AND DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CHRISTIANITY AND SAID WHAT 18:04 SHOULD I DO. 18:05 AND IT JUST CAME TO HIM GIVE THEM A SIMPLE GOSPEL OF JOHN AND HAVE THEM READ 18:10 IT. 18:11 AND HE MET HER A WEEK LATER AND SHE SAID I LOVE HIM. 18:14 I LOVE HIM. 18:15 THAT'S ALL SHE SAID, I LOVE HIM. 18:17 HOW BEAUTIFUL. 18:18 YES I THOUGHT THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. 18:21 READ THAT STORY, FALL IN LOVE WITH JESUS, THAT'S HOW IT STARTS. 18:26 AND THAT'S WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ABOUT. 18:28 I HOPE THAT'S WHAT WE WILL BE ABOUT EVERYWHERE WE GO. 18:31 REPLICATING THAT EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO CHRIST EVERYWHERE. 18:34 THAT'S RIGHT. 18:35 IN HOW MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AND COUNTRIES? 18:38 OH I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY LANGUAGES BUT WE'RE IN 51 COUNTRIES I THINK RIGHT 18:41 NOW. 18:42 AND OF COURSE A COUNTRY AS YOU SAY YOU'VE GOT GEOPOLITICAL SIDES BUT, 18:45 HOW MANY PEOPLE GROUPS I'M NOT SURE. 18:47 HUNDREDS INSIDE THAT COUNTRY. 18:49 YES, WELL MANY MANY. 18:50 EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD HAS OTHER PEOPLE GROUPS INSIDE THEIR OWN COUNTRY. 18:55 HOW DO WE GET THERE? 18:56 WHERE? 18:57 HOW DO WE GET TO THAT APARTMENT BUILDING BECAUSE YOU HAVE A FAMILY IN WALLA 18:59 WALLA AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GO THERE AGAIN. 19:01 YES, WELL RIGHT NOW IF I'M GOING TO REACH AN APARTMENT BUILDING IN HONG 19:03 KONG I'VE GOT TO GIVE TO SOMEBODY LIKE GOSPEL OUTREACH WHO IS HAVING 19:05 SOMEBODY GO THERE. 19:06 AND HOW DOES GOSPEL OUTREACH PLANT A PERSON IN THAT APARTMENT BUILDING? 19:08 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS PEOPLE THAT ARE LOOKING TRYING TO FIND PLACES WHERE WE CAN 19:19 FIND A WORKER WHERE WE CAN SUPPORT THEM AND WHERE THEY CAN HAVE THEIR 19:28 INFRASTRUCTURE TO ENCOURAGE THEM ALONG THE WAY AND HELP THEM. 19:31 OKAY SO HELP ME WITH ALL THOSE PARTS. 19:33 WE FIND A YOUNG MAN WHO HAS GRADUATED FROM HONG KONG ADVENTIST COLLEGE, 19:38 UNIVERSITY THERE IN HONG KONG WHO REALLY WANTS TO MEET AND SERVE WITH HIS 19:43 PEOPLE. 19:44 AND HE'S FROM CHEN WONG IN CHINA. 19:47 OKAY, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT IS BUT. 19:49 THAT'S OKAY, IT'S OVER THERE, IT'S RIGHT OVER THERE AND IT'S BIG. 19:53 AND THERE ARE BILLIONS OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS IT SEEMS. 19:56 MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 19:58 HOW DO WE TRAIN HIM? 20:00 HOW DO WE TRAIN, OH BOY THAT'S A PROCESS BUT HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE A 20:04 SEMINAR WITH SOME MATERIALS AND LITERATURE. 20:07 IT VARYS FROM PLACE TO PLACE. 20:08 WE'RE NOT ALWAYS THE SAME BECAUSE DIFFERENT PEOPLE YOU KNOW NEED DIFFERENT 20:13 THINGS. 20:14 DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS. 20:16 DIFFERENT APPROACHES FOR DIFFERENT CULTURES. 20:19 IT'S NOT A ONE SIZE FITS ALL KIND OF THING BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO 20:22 HAS BEEN SENSITIVE TO THE CULTURE AND PREPARED SOMETHING. 20:26 TO HELP THEM THINK THROUGH HOW CAN I FIT IN THAT APARTMENT BUILDING 20:30 COMFORTABLY OR HOW CAN I FIT IN THIS LITTLE VILLAGE IN AFGHANISTAN 20:35 COMFORTABLY. 20:37 LET ME JUST GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. 20:39 PLEASE. 20:40 GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. 20:41 I HAVE SOME GOOD FRIENDS, MISSIONARIES IN CAMBODIA. 20:45 THEY HAD STUDIED MISSION, WE HAD GIVEN THEM SOME ORIENTATION AND THEY 20:49 DECIDED THAT THEY WANTED TO WRITE A SERIES OF BIBLE STUDIES TO FIT THE 20:53 CAMBODIAN PEOPLE. 20:55 OKAY. 20:58 VERY VERY INTERESTING. 21:00 I ASKED MY STUDENTS IN AMERICA WHAT DO YOU THINK WAS THE FIRST BIBLE STUDY 21:03 THAT THEY GAVE. 21:04 WHAT WAS THE SECOND BIBLE STUDY THAT THEY GAVE. 21:06 AND THEY'RE THINKING YOU KNOW, THEIR THINKING THEIR AMERICAN WAY AND THEY SAID 21:13 MAYBE DANIEL 2. 21:15 NO, NO, NO. 21:17 MAYBE EXODUS 20. 21:20 NO, NO, NO. 21:22 MAYBE JOHN 14. 21:23 NO, NO, NO. 21:24 GENESIS 1. 21:25 THE VERY FIRST ONE THERE IS A JUST GOD. 21:30 WOW. 21:31 WHY? 21:32 BECAUSE THE NUMBER ONE QUESTION ON A CAMBODIAN'S MIND IS AFTER THE 21:34 CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE AND AFTER ALL THAT HAPPENED WAS HOW IS THIS FAIR. 21:38 HOW CAN THERE BE A JUST GOD WHEN ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE KILLED AND HURTING, 21:42 FAMILIES BROKEN UP AND ALL THIS STUFF HAPPENING. 21:45 HOW CAN WE, THERE IS A JUST GOD, NUMBER ONE QUESTION. 21:50 SO WE TRAIN. 21:51 AND IN THE-----I DON'T REMEMBER. 21:53 YES SO WE TRAIN THEM THAT THAT'S THE WAY YOU START. 21:55 YOU ANSWER THAT. 21:56 THIS IS THE WAY YOU GO. 21:58 SO WE DESIGNED A SERIES OF STUDIES AND IN THE FIRST FIVE ARE AT LEAST THREE OR 22:02 FOUR THINGS THAT WOULD NEVER BE TALKED ABOUT HERE IN THOSE FIRST BIBLE 22:07 STUDIES. 22:08 FOR INSTANCE YOU KNOW WE HAVE PROPHECIES, SECOND COMING, YOU KNOW THE BIBLE 22:11 IS INSPIRED. 22:12 I FOUND IN SINGAPORE EVERYBODY WOULD ACCEPT THE BIBLE. 22:15 THEY JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHAT DIFFERENCE IT MADE IN YOUR LIFE. 22:18 ANYWAY, THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO OTHER TOPICS IN THE FIRST FIVE THAT WE WOULD 22:23 NEVER HAVE. 22:24 ONE WAS HOW TO USE MONEY, OH REALLY, BECAUSE IN MANY OF THESE COUNTRIES THAT 22:29 WERE FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES PEOPLE HAD NO FREEDOM SO ALL KINDS OF 22:34 PYRAMID SCHEMES CAME INTO THE COUNTRY. 22:37 ALL KINDS OF WEIRD THINGS TO BILK PEOPLE. 22:40 YOU KNOW ONCE FREEDOM CAME ALL THAT STUFF WAS HAPPENING. 22:43 SO HOW DO YOU HANDLE MONEY IN A RESPONSIBLE WAY SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE CARE OF 22:47 YOUR FAMILY. 22:48 AND THE OTHER ONE IS THE SPIRITS, THE EVIL SPIRITS. 22:52 JESUS CHRIST HAS POWER OVER THE SPIRITS. 22:56 THAT'S GOOD NEWS. 22:57 GOD IS JUST. 22:58 GOD CAN HELP YOU MANAGE YOUR MONEY FOR YOUR LIFE. 23:01 GOD CAN GIVE YOU VICTORY OVER THE SPIRITS. 23:04 YOU FIND THE QUESTIONS THEY HAVE AND SHOW HOW JESUS IS THE ANSWER AND 23:09 THAT'S THE BEST WAY. 23:10 AND THAT OPENS THE DOOR TO A THOUSAND MORE CONVERSATIONS. 23:13 THAT OPENS THE DOOR FOR ALL OTHER KINDS OF THINGS. 23:16 IF JESUS CAN HELP ME WITH THOSE THINGS HE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO HELP ME WITH 23:18 ALL OF MY LIFE AND I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO GIVE IT TO HIM. 23:21 WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE ANIMISTS, WHO TYPICALLY ARE 23:24 WORSHIPING THE GROUND AND THE RAIN AND WHATEVER IT IS THAT THEY SEE THAT 23:29 LOOKS LIKE IT'S DOING SOMETHING. 23:31 WHAT DO YOU DO IN COUNTRIES WHERE THEY HAVE A VERY STRONG ENTRENCHED 23:37 RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND THAT REALLY DOES NOT ACCEPT JESUS. 23:42 WELL THAT'S THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE. 23:44 THE LARGEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE LAST 100 YEARS THAT HAVE COME IN TO 23:48 CHRISTIANITY ARE COMING FROM ANIMIST SPIRIT WORSHIP RELIGION BECAUSE 23:52 THAT IS PROBABLY THE EASIEST. 23:55 THEY DON'T HAVE A STRONG WORLD RELIGION BACKGROUND. 23:58 CORRECT. 23:59 SO IT'S MUCH EASIER, WHAT YOU SAID IS EXACTLY TRUE. 24:01 IT'S MUCH HARDER TO REACH A HINDU, A BUDDHIST, A MUSLIM. 24:04 HOWEVER, IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE AND MANY PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THIS, THAT 24:10 ADVENTISM IS, WHAT SHOULD I SAY, HAS MORE PARALLELS WITH MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS 24:16 THAN OTHER GROUPS OF CHRISTIANS. 24:19 FOR INSTANCE, ADVENTISTS DON'T BELIEVE IN EATING PORK. 24:24 RIGHT AND THAT FITS WITH MUSLIMS, JEWS, JAINS, HIGH CAST HINDUS, STRICT 24:35 BUDDHISTS. 24:36 OF COURSE THEY'RE VEGETARIAN SO THEY GO EVEN FURTHER. 24:38 RIGHT. 24:39 SO WE HAVE HIGH CAST HINDUS WHERE THERE'S A TOUCH POINT. 24:42 YOU NOW I HAD A HINDU BRAHMAN WHO WAS A CHURCH MEMBER OF MINE IN 24:48 SINGAPORE WHEN I WAS PASTORING IN SINGAPORE. 24:51 WHY DID YOU BECOME AN ADVENTIST? 24:53 HE SAID BECAUSE IN MY COUNTRY OTHER CHRISTIANS WHEN THEY CAME IN THE 24:57 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING A HINDU AND A CHRISTIAN WAS TO EAT A PIECE OF MEAT. 25:02 AND HE SAID WHEN I FOUND SOME CHRISTIANS WHO MANY OF THEM DID NOT EAT MEAT 25:06 AT ALL IT PEAKED MY INTEREST TO SUCH AN EXTENT I GOT TO SEE WHAT THESE 25:10 PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT, WHAT ARE THEY DOING. 25:12 SO IT'S VERY VERY INTERESTING SOME OF THE THINGS THAT MAKE 25:14 ADVENTISTS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER CHRISTIANS ARE THINGS THAT MAKE IT EASIER 25:19 TO CROSS OVER INTO SOME OF THESE WORLD RELIGIONS THAT ARE VERY DIFFERENT. 25:22 FASCINATING. 25:23 I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A WHOLE HOUR WITH YOU ON TELEVISION AND SAY THE 25:30 LITTLE THREADS THAT SHOW UP IN ALL OF THESE RELIGIONS REALLY TALK 25:36 ABOUT GOD. 25:38 HOW DID THEY GET THERE? 25:40 AH. 25:42 WELL, THERE ARE SEVERAL THEORIES ABOUT THAT OF COURSE. 25:44 I CAN GIVE YOU ONE THAT I LIKE THE MOST AND THAT IS THAT THERE WAS SOME KIND 25:49 OF ORIGINAL MONOTHEISM. 25:51 THESE ALL GO BACK YOU KNOW IF YOU TALK ABOUT ADAM AND EVE AND THE FLOOD AND SO 25:55 FORTH IT ALL GOES BACK TO SOME KIND OF BEGINNING WHERE THERE WAS A BASIC 26:00 KNOWLEDGE OF GOD THAT SLOWLY HAS BEEN WARPED AND CHANGED THROUGH CENTURIES. 26:06 THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE, SCHOLARS WOULD ARGUE FOR SOME KIND OF ORIGINAL 26:10 MONOTHEISM EXISTING IN THE WORLD WHICH THEN SPREAD OUT. 26:15 I WOULD ARGUE FOR THAT. 26:16 YES I WOULD TOO, I WOULD TOO. 26:19 AND I HEARD PEOPLE SAY THAT EVEN FOR INSTANCE IN HINDUISM THAT HINDUISM 26:23 BEGAN MONOTHEISTICALLY AND THE IDOLATRY PART, THE USE OF IDOLS AND SO FORT, CAME 26:27 IN LATER AS A CORRUPTION. 26:29 AS THEY CONTINUED TO LOOK FOR WHO AND WHERE IS THE REAL GOD. 26:33 THAT'S RIGHT. 26:34 OKAY YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS. 26:36 WHAT IS GOSPEL OUTREACH GOING TO LOOK LIKE IN 15 YEARS? 26:39 WHAT'S GOSPEL OUTREACH GOING TO LOOK LIKE IN 15 YEARS. 26:41 I DON'T KNOW. 26:42 FIRST OF ALL I HOPE THE LORD HAS COME. 26:44 IF HE HASN'T, I HOPE THAT WE'RE IN MANY MORE PLACES AND APPROACHING THE END OF 26:48 REACHING EVERYBODY WITH JESUS. 26:52 ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS. 26:55 THAT'S WHAT GOSPEL REACH DOES EVERY SINGLE DAY. 26:59 JOIN US. 27:01 [CLOSING MUSIC] |
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