Over the past 60 years,
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there's been a massive
decline in foreign missions.
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I'm sharing the gospel
through church planting.
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In 1930s, if
somebody gave $10 in tithe,
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it gave an additional
$6 in foreign missions.
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Today, just $0.28.
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We're doing the best
we can with what we have,
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but I'm still not satisfied.
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Over 2 billion
people in the world today
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still have no
access to the gospel.
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God's crazy in love
with the Thai people,
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and I sense His Spirit
hovering over the city.
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I've come to Bangkok,
Thailand to discover the truth
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about foreign missions.
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Come with me as I follow my
good friend Pastor Doug Venn
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in his everyday life
as a frontline missionary.
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I prayed for
God's biggest dream,
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and He gave me
this city of 12 million.
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Welcome to my world.
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I'm excited but I'm exhausted.
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It's now the day of the start
of the evangelistic meetings.
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These were the times
that I am reminded of
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how shorthanded we are.
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We are mobilizing
everyone in the city.
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There are schools,
our church members,
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the churches, and
the other institutions,
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and that's exciting.
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But right now, as we're right
in the midst of about to start,
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like tonight
evangelistic meeting start,
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we still have a
week's worth of work.
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There is a picture over there.
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Which picture?
That panorama, Bangkok.
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A friend of mine gave it to me,
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and it's a reminder
of how big this city is,
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as well as it's a reminder
that Christ died for this city,
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and that Christ called me here
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to share the gospel to the city.
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What do you think
of when you see it?
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Actually, you know,
it's cool to kind of see
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all the tourist
areas that are marked.
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But I actually
envisioned over there
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in that part of
the city on this side
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is the church
plant and, you know,
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I'm seeing one of the
ladies and her daughter,
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they were just about
Thais just a few weeks ago.
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And so when I see this picture,
I don't see the buildings,
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I don't see the pollution,
you know, the tourist sites.
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I'm looking at specific people,
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and there's millions
of them in this city.
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There's church plants,
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there's little
groups all across the city,
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and I just wish
that we could have more,
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so that way, more
people could know Jesus Christ.
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How many church
plants are there?
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Right now, there's 22.
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Twenty two. Yeah.
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Oh, that should do it.
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This is part of our project,
or we are part of this project.
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The Hope for Big Cities
was a project they took up
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several world offerings,
and we're a part of this.
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Yeah, here, you
can see from this quote
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November 11, 1909.
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"The Lord has been
calling our attention
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to the neglected
multitudes in the large cities,
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yet little regard has
been given to the matter."
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And so this has
been something where,
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it was cool when
I showed this video
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at my church in America.
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I didn't realize that it
was actually God calling us.
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So you showed this before you...
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I showed this
video before we even...
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Before we were the
one's to be called,
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but we got to go.
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Yeah, time to eat. When
is the last time you ate?
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I think I ate...
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You had breakfast?
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I don't know, I don't remember.
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What is a missionary?
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Is it only someone
who lives in a bamboo hut
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and has to put up with
mosquitoes, and malaria,
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and bugs in their food,
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with no
electricity or running water?
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Who ministers only to
uneducated simple people,
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living in tribes in the jungles?
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Today, the majority
of the world's population
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lives in cities.
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For example, here in Bangkok,
there are 12 million people
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in 50 districts with
1000s of communities,
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and the vast majority of them
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have no access to
the gospel of any kind.
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In fact, in many
big cities in Asia,
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it is quite rare to stumble
across the name of Jesus,
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let alone any of His teachings.
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So I'm very
interested in learning how those
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who have come to
Christ learned about Him.
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Today, we're going to
an evangelistic series
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where we'll have a chance
to meet some of these people.
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We're here at another night
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of the Chinese
Church Evangelism,
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and I just wanted to
find out from the team here,
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some of the church
planters that are gathered,
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they were here ahead of me,
and so they were just kind of
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giving me a bad time on
how the boss is here late.
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Pastor Khongrit,
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how many of the five
baptismal candidates,
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how many are coming tonight?
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I don't know for sure,
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but I think around four or five.
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Okay, and Erwin,
with the timbre group,
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how many people will be coming?
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As of now, have four of us,
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but still the
candidates are three.
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Praise the Lord, that's great.
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Edson, how many friends
did you guys bring tonight?
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Two. Two, all right.
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Our host church is
the Chinese Church,
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and so we have Pastor
Songrit, and he has a team,
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and then there's
a team of laymen,
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Dr. Supa Chai,
and there's Dr. Ayan,
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and some of the others.
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Okay, so here's one of
the baptismal candidates,
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and I've asked
him how he met Jesus?
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He go to the park to exercise.
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He saw the group
of Christians to sing
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and to have
activity in the park.
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When he passed
through that group,
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he received a handbill,
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and that is the first
time he know about Christian.
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How old is he? Thirty one.
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Thirty one, the first time,
he learned about Christianity?
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Yes.
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Before that, he didn't
know anything about it?
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No, yes.
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Did not know?
Yes. He did not know.
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Before he believed in God,
he never know about Christian
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before otherwise TV,
and video, and radio.
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He didn't know before.
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After that, after he
believed that, he knew.
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What about Hollywood?
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He never...
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He don't understand about
the meaning of "Oh My God!"
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whatever..."
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In Hollywood, but
he don't understand
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what that meant, whatever.
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So he'd hear people
taking God's name in vain,
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but he had no idea
what they were saying.
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Yeah.
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That's all he
knew about Christianity
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is people taking
God's name in vain?
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Yes.
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The lady who just
was here, came from
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one of the church
plants in the city,
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and so we need to
see her, you know,
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getting the free eye
check up by Dr. Supa Chai,
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and it just
brings me such great joy
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to see these people who
are experiencing God's love
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in real and practical ways.
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How does community service
and meeting personal needs
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make a difference in
spreading the gospel?
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My experience here
in the city is that,
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unless people know
how much you love them
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and experience God's
love, they won't listen.
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And so that's
where community service
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and that personal work
is of utmost importance,
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that's what
gives me such great joy
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to see the moms and to
see, you know, the young people,
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these college
students, the grandmas even,
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and grandpas who are
here, and the kids who are
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from the communities
that we're working in.
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So that...
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Oh man, that's just...
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But then he
does make the appeal,
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"Come and follow me."
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And we're told
that Christ method alone
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will bring true success,
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and that He
mingled among the people
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as one desiring their good.
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Many people when they
want to share the gospel,
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they forget that
we're human beings.
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I feel, sometimes,
many who present the message
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just think we're like computers,
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and so they just want a
doctrine or the teaching,
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you know, the
intellectual side only.
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And if you get that,
it's connected to life,
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and that life
connection is to friendship
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through health
ministry, through lifestyle,
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and all these other
ways that find the complete
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and relevance here
in a Buddhist context.
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And so this is where I'm
excited that our team here,
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in small ways, is trying
to do an integrated approach.
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Now we still have lots to learn,
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and I do wish there
were more people in here,
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but I praise God for
the team across the city
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who are bringing their friends.
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We're shorthanded.
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We're in the process of
trying to gather the sermons
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onto the
literature of today media.
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Sometimes, I don't
know what's going on,
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and I don't know what I'm doing,
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but we're trying.
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We desperately need the
imagination, creativity,
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and skills of
the technical people.
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Okay, I got to
press the play now.
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Good evening, everybody.
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Good evening. Good evening.
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How are you doing?
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Pastor Doug is here
trying to do something
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that's never been done before,
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recording evangelistic
series in Chinese and Thai,
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so that more
people might have a chance
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to learn of Jesus.
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As far as I know, this
will be the first in the world.
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It's hard to
imagine, but there's almost
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no Adventist television programs
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or evangelism
tools on DVD in Thailand.
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And yet how many
series do we have in English?
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Why are we spending so much time
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evangelizing the
Christian countries
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and neglecting the others?
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We should do both.
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And there are hundreds
of other languages in Asia
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that are also
without these tools,
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and yet Doug is
here doing it himself.
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We're done.
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Okay, how was tonight?
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It's like a marathon right
now, we're kind of running.
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But, you know, I'm
tired, the team is tired,
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but to see God
working in the lives,
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that just energizes my
heart to see God working
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in the lives of the
people who have never heard.
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It warms my
heart, it energizes me.
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Come with me.
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We're here, Pastor
Chanchai and our President
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is able to join
us only for tonight
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because of his other
duties around the country.
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So he's visiting with
Pastor Teddy right now
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and just kind of
getting an update so.
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Pastor, what
did you see tonight?
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Excellent,
yeah, very good. Okay.
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Praise the Lord.
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Did you like the
three screens? Yeah.
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The first time that I
see is, now there are three
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is very, very nice, very active.
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Do you think there
is room and opportunity
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to do more
evangelism in Thailand?
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Sure, we are learning.
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We are learning, and
we hope that, you know,
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by the guidance
of the Holy Spirit,
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we will bring more evangelists
come to Thailand, and help us,
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and we also trained our
Thai Pastor that, one day,
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we can do our own
evangelistic meeting.
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Praise the Lord. Yeah.
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And I have to jump in here,
I can't wait to see him doing.
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We are doing
together. We are doing together.
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Because God has given this
man a heart for evangelism,
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and I can't wait to
get that one on DVD,
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and then we can share
that around the nation.
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Praise the Lord. Yeah, yeah.
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We work together.
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It's now Sabbath School time.
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I just saw some
of the new Christians
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who are part of the
church plants come in,
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and they're over
there in the back row.
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Every person here is someone
that Christ came to save.
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This one guy, Kunhoot is
his name or is his nickname,
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and he came to
Christ because he picked up
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a piece of literature
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that someone
threw on the ground,
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and it was a gospel
track, and because of that,
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he came to know Jesus Christ.
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I can't wait to go.
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We should actually
go and talk to him now.
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This is Pastor
Khongrit, and Pastor Khongrit
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has the privilege of
working with this church plant.
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And so here's Kun camp, Kunhoot,
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and his family here,
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and we wanted to get their story
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about these people
that his small group
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is going to be baptized.
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How did you know about Jesus?
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Actually, since my childhood,
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I'm about seven
to eight years old.
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I heard about the good
news from these Christians.
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And they gave a piece of paper,
and that's talking about Jesus.
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Jesus, the Son of God.
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Jesus is...
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He can forgive your
sins or something like that.
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So I read the
sentence in the piece of paper,
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and I leave it until I'm young
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about 20, almost
22, 23 years old.
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I'm willing to get good life.
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What does it mean good
life, this world or next world?
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So I returned to
the piece of paper
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that I got the Jesus.
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You kept it? Sorry.
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You kept the piece of
paper all those years?
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Yes, yes, I kept it.
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I went to the Sunday Church.
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And I got the good news again.
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They gave me a small
book, that's the Bible,
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a New Testament.
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And I read it.
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And I know that,
"Oh, this is Jesus."
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It's become to my life.
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My life is
changing to the positive.
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It's better and
better because He lives.
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So that good news, I would
like to share to all the people
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who stay around me,
who working with me,
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who is my family.
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Since my childhood, I
don't have parents anymore.
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So I was very, very sad about
that when I saw some people,
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they stay with their family.
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I'm willing to get it.
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Now Jesus create my life
to become a family again.
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And now it's very,
very wonderful time
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to stay with the people,
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and to talking about
good news to other people,
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and I don't
waste the time anymore.
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And now I know
the time is Jesus'
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because I'm in His time.
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Jesus is the real
God, and He is living now.
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Even if you receive,
He will stay with you.
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You can talk with Jesus
forever when you are praying,
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you can pray,
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and you can talk
everything as you like,
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or something like that.
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He shared this
good news with his wife
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who shared it with
her sister who, in turn,
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shared it with her co-worker.
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What do you think of Jesus now?
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Her life has
hope, and more belief,
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and very
happiness, very happiness
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when she knows about Jesus.
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Did she not know
about Jesus before?
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Yes. She did.
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Yes.
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And what did she
think of Jesus before?
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She thought, "It's not true".
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She only heard only
in handbill and booklet,
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only that, that
is the Christian.
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So her friend told her about
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what Jesus did in
her friend's life?
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Yes.
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So you know Jesus is real?
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Yes.
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And what about her friend?
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Yes.
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How did she find
out that Jesus is real?
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Her family invited her to know.
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They've started
the main service now,
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leading up to the baptism.
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You see the
history, many people,
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they came to power,
but they cannot die for us.
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This young lady is doing
a live English translation
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for those who don't
understand Chinese or Thai.
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No more in darkness
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He's received my son
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All heavens rejoicing
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That's the value of one
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The Holy Spirit has been working
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To soften up their hearts
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All He needs is a willing vessel
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To simply do His part
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Can you imagine up in heaven
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All the joy there'll be that day
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As the sinner
bows his head to pray
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Can't you hear the Father say
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Go sound the horn
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Strike up the choir
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A sinner is saved
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Saved from the fire
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No more in darkness
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He's received my son
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All heavens rejoicing
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That's the value of one
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Start
construction on His mansion
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There on hallelujah street
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He doesn't know
yet what is waiting
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When the Savior he'll meet
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Go sound the
horn Go sound the horn
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Strike up the
choir Strike up the choir
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A sinner is
saved A sinner is saved
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Saved from the
fire Saved from the fire
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No more in darkness
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He's received my son
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All heavens rejoicing
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That's the value of one
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All heavens rejoicing
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That's the value of one
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I was just asking
her, you know, 'cause...
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In this small group...
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This small group is been working
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to share Jesus Christ.
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And it's just so cool
to see with one family,
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and then the
work's being multiplied.
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And it's been four long
years that they're, you know,
00:22:59.44\00:23:04.35
working to
disciple, and so that way,
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it's not just a quick, you know,
00:23:07.48\00:23:09.95
dunking in the water,
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and then it
doesn't have any meaning,
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and then they leave
through the back door.
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But, you know, the
people who've been discipled
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in this small groups are...
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They're real Christians.
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And that's the spirit,
it fills me with such joy,
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as I know with the blood,
sweat, and tears that the team,
00:23:34.98\00:23:38.85
our teammates
poured into these people.
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And I feel like
it's the first fruit.
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How do you guys feel
to come and listen today?
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It's like we're just starting.
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She's there. I know.
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What did it make you feel like?
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Same way as you feel.
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I'm very blessed.
00:24:55.29\00:24:58.16
It's a great day of my life.
00:24:58.19\00:25:01.96
'Cause his girlfriend,
00:25:02.00\00:25:03.33
through the work
of our church planter,
00:25:03.37\00:25:05.30
has accepted Jesus Christ.
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She worked with us,
00:25:07.57\00:25:09.70
without thinking
what she was before.
00:25:09.74\00:25:13.84
And here, for one year plus,
00:25:13.88\00:25:17.25
she worked with us
without knowing that...
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At the church planting.
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Yeah, without knowing
that this is the church.
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She don't bother.
00:25:24.82\00:25:26.15
She was just
helping volunteering there
00:25:26.19\00:25:27.62
at the church plant.
00:25:27.66\00:25:28.99
And then now she decided.
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And I'm so happy.
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We pray hard, this city
will conquer by God's blessing.
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That's right.
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We'll find more workers
like yourself, the others.
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Like you.
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Yeah, hopefully we can
find, work hand in hand.
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We will do more of
this. That's right.
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Most likely every month.
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Every Sabbath.
Every Sabbath it can be.
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God bless. God bless our work.
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Thank you. God bless.
00:26:02.12\00:26:04.23
I know behind the faith curtain,
00:26:11.23\00:26:14.40
heaven is rejoicing.
00:26:14.44\00:26:17.17
Because of all the work
which we have had a chance
00:26:17.21\00:26:23.45
to be a part of, but I
know, behind the curtain,
00:26:23.48\00:26:28.65
there's also a battle, and
that battle is in my heart,
00:26:28.68\00:26:34.76
and I'm not
selfish with my time.
00:26:34.79\00:26:36.66
My career,
00:26:42.36\00:26:45.03
my image, you
know, grasping for power,
00:26:45.07\00:26:48.37
whatever, that we
put it all on the line,
00:26:48.40\00:26:55.14
so that Jesus
Christ can be seen,
00:26:55.18\00:26:58.91
and that men and
women, boys and girls
00:26:58.95\00:27:01.92
can come to know Jesus
Christ and have a heart.
00:27:01.95\00:27:07.19
So this is behind the scenes.
00:27:15.63\00:27:17.47
She's happy.
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Here at the general conference,
we have the opportunity
00:27:47.90\00:27:50.17
to review world
giving statistics.
00:27:50.20\00:27:53.90
And if you look at
those statistics on a graph
00:27:53.94\00:27:55.87
from about 1980 until today,
00:27:55.90\00:28:00.01
the Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:28:00.04\00:28:01.38
in North America gives about
$23 million for world mission.
00:28:01.41\00:28:06.41
And it looks like
we've held steady,
00:28:06.45\00:28:08.78
but $23 million today
based on the inflation rate
00:28:08.82\00:28:12.92
is worth only
about $8 million in 1980.
00:28:12.95\00:28:18.56
So actually our
mission giving is not flat,
00:28:18.59\00:28:21.13
not going up but
dramatically going down.
00:28:21.16\00:28:24.47
Jesus said, "This
gospel of the kingdom
00:28:24.50\00:28:26.00
shall be preached
all over the world
00:28:26.03\00:28:27.37
as a witness to all nations,
and then shall the end come."
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We as Adventists believe
we're living on the knife edge
00:28:30.87\00:28:33.44
of the kingdom.
00:28:33.48\00:28:34.81
If there's ever a
time to make sacrifices
00:28:34.84\00:28:37.21
for world mission, it's today.
00:28:37.25\00:28:40.05
Your gifts will make
a dramatic difference
00:28:40.08\00:28:43.08
for Jesus Christ.
00:28:43.12\00:28:44.45
If you want to
learn more, check it out
00:28:44.49\00:28:46.15
at AdventistMission.org
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I'll never forget
the people where I met
00:28:48.49\00:28:50.93
when I lived here in Bangkok.
00:28:50.96\00:28:52.59
From the street
sweepers, the taxi drivers,
00:28:52.63\00:28:55.00
the mall executives,
00:28:55.03\00:28:56.46
I want all of
them to meet Jesus.
00:28:56.50\00:28:59.80
And that's why I'm so
grateful for your sacrifice
00:28:59.83\00:29:02.70
for the mission
offering, because someday soon,
00:29:02.74\00:29:05.14
you'll meet them too.
00:29:05.17\00:29:06.57
Next week, drive
with us to Bangkok
00:29:20.06\00:29:21.92
as we consider the
challenge of reaching
00:29:21.96\00:29:24.03
the world's most
massive cites watch,
00:29:24.06\00:29:26.83
I Want this City, Wednesday.
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