real long hair, his hair was cut.
He banged on the door and said,
`I found Jesus. I've been saved.'"
This boy said, "It scared us. We
were frightened. We thought he'd
lost his mind. About two or three
months later, we saw the change
in our father was so dramatic,
that not only did it lead us chil-
dren to Christ, but our mother as
well. Then they got remarried. He
didn't just stop with us children,
but it was his parents, her par-
ents, cousins and uncles. It was
his duty to evangelize our family.
We are followers of Jesus Christ
because of our father." When I
heard that I thought, "Boy, now
that's the model that we all need
take." We shouldn't sleep, we
shouldn't rest, until we know that
our family are safe and secure
in the hands of Almighty God.
father came on with his ministry just as television was
starting and, he was able to use it to take the gospel be-
fore a larger audience of people. Today we can take the
gospel to many millions of people everyday over the In-
ternet. We can jump across political boundaries; we can
go across iron and bamboo curtains, and we can go into
countries that are closed to us otherwise. It's a huge
tool. The gospel message does not change: Jesus Christ
is the Son of God; He took our sins to the cross; He shed
His blood, suffered and died on the cross for our sins;
He was buried for our sins and on the third day God
raised His Son to life. There's Holy Spirit-filled power
in that message. I don't understand it, but I can tell you
it works. When we present that simple message, that
gospel message, God uses it like an arrow, a spear that
soul of a person. Like Paul said,
"I am not ashamed of the gos-
pel, for it is the power of God for
salvation to everyone who be-
lieves, to the Jew first and also
to the Greek" (Romans 1:16).
person to Christ?
persistent problem through the
centuries, or if this is just a
modern day phenomena. It's
troublesome to me, and I don't
get it. The burden for evangelism
today is not like it was twenty
years ago. Many communities
are less interested in evangelism
today than they were. When you
go into a city to preach, you find
a lot of lip service. All these
churches will tell you, "Oh ab-
solutely, we are behind you.
We'll be a part of it," but their
people don't come. Every night
ing on. It's almost like we've become so busy that we
don't have time for time. We have all of these modern
tools to help us, iPhones and iPads and Smartphones,
but it seems that they rob more and more of our time.
to their knees. God's going to have to do something to
wake America up. We saw this a bit after 9/11. All of
a sudden the churches were full. People were talking
about God again. People were praying, but it tapered
off. When it comes to waking this nation up spiritually,
God's going to have to shake this nation.