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I like that fine as frog's hair.

That's what my that's what Martha said.

The first time she ever met him.

At Walt then and he said, Martha, how are you?

She said, fine, as frog's hair.

And he didn't quite get what she says that finding some frogs there.

And the first time I met at Martha's parents.

Her daddy asked me if I like groundhog sausage.

That's what I like and come to find out that's what he liked to sew.

That's right.

Jimmy Dean.

Yeah.

That's all right to all right.

Well I hope everyone's had a good first part of the week.

Nice weather out right now.

If you're not in the sun, feels good out there.

We got a little shower at our house this morning, not much, but a little bit so that helps also system number to completed the assimilation system.

I hope you're still praying about that and tonight I want us to start our Outreach system.

I'm going to Just kind of gas that this will probably take.

Maybe four weeks something like that.

Maybe, maybe 3, I'm not sure.

But this is a very important system here.

It's one that a lot of churches, lack.

A lot of churches really don't have.

An Outreach system, you know, I'm back in the 70s and 80s used to have visitation.

I think on one night a week or something like that, you go to church and and and the deacons would be there in the pasture and you get all.

Get your cars and you go and you go visit people but you really don't want to do that now these days because people don't want you coming in their homes on announced that, you know, especially if you care to Bible in your hand.

I remember when Martha and I we moved over here and I was going to Seminary, we visited Pleasant Grove Church and they, and a bunch of them come to our house one night to visit about four of them.

And I didn't know I was a preacher or anything like that, you know, they just come in and, and three of them sitting there.

There were two ladies and they both of them had their Bibles with them.

And they were just putting, you know, chit chat in an all-in-one, iMac released at Walmart.

What do you do?

And I said, why go to Seminary?

I'm a preacher.

And those two ladies had to buy, will they put the bottle down like that?

Like, they were trying to hide them?

I thought you don't have to hide the Bible.

You don't have to do that.

You don't.

So I guess that's all.

He's probably saves, I guess.

I don't look so.

But anyway, a lot of people don't have a lot of churches.

Don't have an Outreach system.

So I've got this is are reaching our community for Christ, attracting more newcomer.

So that's kind of what we're going to talk about the next 3 or 4 weeks.

And when I say newcomers, I mean people that are unsaved is try a best of people that we're trying to reach if you reach people that are saved but they just don't go to church anymore.

If you come across a person like that.

Well, that's fine if they're not in church and they want to come to our church.

That's fine, too.

But predominantly what we're talkin about here?

Are people who are unsaved So, this Outreach system before we really get into it.

It's kind of going to show us in a public way and in a private way how to share Jesus.

So, I'm just wondering how many of you in here.

Has ever LED anyone to Christ that you shared the gospel with them and they accepted Christ.

Anybody in here, ever LED anyone to Christ, okay, Martha has and John house.

Okay.

But you did it.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah, okay, that's right.

It is, you know, but he he uses people though, you know, he uses he uses people like all of us and so this is this is what we want to to get into.

We want to be able We all want to be invited us and we all know someone that's not saved.

I mean, you know, someone in your family, probably has not saved.

You probably have neighbors that, I don't know how well, you know your neighbors, but you may have neighbors and, you know, they don't go to church and you may not be safe.

And you know that how many of you out here?

Know your neighbors really well, this route and okay, I'll leave y'all about it by halfway, okay?

I don't know our neighbors very well.

I know the people that live beside me on both sides a little bit one specially cuz we kind of all been living there together about 18 years now, probably or something, but I really don't know the people across the street and down the road.

I mean, I know someone's acting Sheriff, Granville County.

I know him.

We've talked a lot over the years.

But a lot of the other people in my neighborhood.

I I just, I wouldn't, I don't know him, I speak to him sometime when I'm out working in the yard there, walking down the road and we, you know, sometimes they'll stop and talk and well, might as well.

I don't call me my say what you got the pretty sure I so appreciate.

I work all the time.

In it, blah blah and he has a pretty yard.

Now, I complement on his yard, but that's about as far as that goes.

I really don't know.

We live in a subdivision, I really don't know the people in that subdivision, like I should, you know, and some people can tell you everybody in their subdivision.

Now we live about 20 minutes from here.

And no, I'm going to try to get out and talk to people in my subdivision about what we're doing here and things like that.

I don't know how many would be receptive or how many wouldn't drive that far, you know, to come to church?

I don't know.

But that's the people that I live around.

That's, that's my little circle over there, so I should be talkin to them.

But every person that wants to the church doors again, and I've said this before.

Is a gift from God, everyone that comes through our door.

So somebody somewhere has probably been praying for him and if not surely, if they're going to come to church, the Lord kind of tugging at your heart or the holy spirit is or something, you know, convicting them about something.

So when when lost people come to our church, we want to make sure that they feel welcome.

and, If you have lost people in your church, I mean, would y'all mind if we had 10 or 15 people show up every Sunday who didn't know Jesus, but they came to listen, would y'all mind if that happened?

So you wouldn't Right.

But but also

It can get a little messy, if you got a lot of lost people in your church, whether there, you know, surely, they won't be members, but if they come, he can get a little messy but they can and we can stir stuff.

Because we can say the wrong thing.

that can come across as even though it's the truth, it can come across as Well, we're banging them over the head with the Bible.

I know what type of life you live and it's not right.

So when you have lost people in your church and I'm certainly not saying that you compromised the message and my preaching wouldn't change at all but you just have to be careful of how you interact with them when you first meet them, And that's, that's why Jesus.