Well, we have been
so enjoying our time
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with Nelson Ernst
today, the director of GLOW.
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And before we let
him go, I told him,
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Nelson, you need to give
somebody at home who's saying,
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"Oh, I'd love to do this.
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It looks simple but
what would I say to someone
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to hand out one of
these little pamphlets."
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You know, you actually don't
have to say much of anything.
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Lot of times you don't
have to say anything at all.
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And I'll even go
further than that and say that
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if you have the
tracks in your pocket,
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you are probably in
danger of being moved by God
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to get those things out
even when you don't want to.
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I mean, I myself have
carried tracts with me,
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and I have been
reluctant to give them away.
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At one time in an
airport, this is the case,
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and I want it... God told me,
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"Give it to the person next
to you in the security line."
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I didn't do it.
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Well, anyway I went
through the security checkpoint
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and I had to take my jacket
off and all these kind of things
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to go through the conveyor
belt where they scan it.
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When I pulled
my jacket back out,
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all my tracts
fell out on the ground,
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and the person who I
was convicted to give it to
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right behind me in line
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saw all these tracts
laying out on the ground,
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and they're like,
"Oh, what are those?"
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So it was a perfect opportunity
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God kind of
forced the situation.
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So I guess, you know, the
simple answer is if you...
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Just first of all get
the tracts in your pocket,
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get them in your purse,
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and then God is gonna
open up opportunities for you
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which you wouldn't
have even thought of.
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Secondly, pray about it.
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Ask God to lead you
to those opportunities,
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and He'll make you, you
know, cognizant of different,
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you know, opportunities
that you have to give them out.
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Now I know some people get
very creative in their ways
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that they give them out.
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Share some of
those? Well, that's true.
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We've had a lot of
different ideas come out.
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I think of this one
guy, he's in San Francisco,
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and he's trained his parrot
to give GLOW tracts to people.
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Yeah.
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So actually it's not
a parrot, it's cockatoo,
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but he takes this thing out
and when little kids come up
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and they wanna see his cockatoo
that's sitting on his shoulder,
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he gives the tract
to the cockatoo's beak,
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and the cockatoo then takes it
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and hands it with
his beak out to the kid
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and nobody's gonna say
no to a cockatoo, right?
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Yeah.
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So another person was
in charge of a youth group
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came up with a great idea.
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They all got white
shirts and they got markers
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and they wrote
on the white shirts
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and then they went
into Walmart as a group
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and what they
wrote on the white shirts
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was the following, it said,
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"Take the tract to unfreeze me."
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So they walked all
as a group in Walmart
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and then they would
stop periodically frozen
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in whatever
position that they're in
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and as people were
walking by customers they'd say,
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"What's going on here?"
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And then they
would read the tract...
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Read the shirt, "Take
the tract to unfreeze me."
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And all of them had
tracts in their hands
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and people catch
on, take the tracts,
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and then they'd just
keep on walking like normal.
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That's amazing.
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Well people are so creative.
And we just wanna thank you.
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Our time is all gone.
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But thank you, Nelson, so
much for being here today.
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You're welcome.
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We want to
encourage you at home.
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Get involved, you can do this.
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And our prayer for you is
that the grace of our Lord
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and Savior Jesus
Christ, the love of the Father
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and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
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will be with you always.
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