11-30-25 CCOG Sunday Morning Service with Bishop J,Carter Chosen To Multiply: From Branch To Harvest

A bold call rings out from John 15: stay connected to the vine and your life will bear fruit that lasts. We walk through the vivid picture of a fallen branch—so close to the tree, yet drying out—to show why proximity to church isn’t the same as union with Christ. From there, we get honest about the gap between Sunday excitement and Monday silence, naming the habits that choke our witness and the simple, daily practices that root us in Jesus: prayer, Scripture, obedience, and a public faith that doesn’t hide when pressures rise.

We unpack two core identities that reshape everything: evangelical and disciple. Evangelicals spread the gospel; disciples are visible and verbal followers of Jesus. When those identities slip, churches drift into event-driven moments that look impressive but fade fast. We share eye-opening stats about how few believers share their faith, then push toward God’s better math: the move from addition to multiplication. Fruit that remains isn’t about packed altars for a season; it’s about people who keep growing and keep going, passing on what they’ve received.

You’ll also hear a clear framework for where most of us stand—sinners, attenders, members, and multipliers—and a practical path to move forward. The heartbeat is simple and urgent: answer the Spirit’s drawing now, stop living incognito, and become a multiplier who invests in one person, then teaches them to do the same. One story from Thailand shows how a single faithful disciple can spark ripples that reach hundreds of thousands. What if you’re the one who starts that chain today?

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Purpose Of The Service
• 1:07 Setting The Tone: Hard Truths Ahead
• 2:09 John 15: The Vine And The Branches
• 4:10 Near The Tree Yet Dying: A Warning
• 6:20 Chosen And Drawn By The Spirit
• 8:50 Fruit That Lasts And Prayer
• 10:40 Prayer Against Offense And For Salvation
• 12:05 Evangelical And Disciple Defined
• 16:30 Sunday Personas Vs Monday Silence
• 20:30 Visible And Verbal Faith, Not Hashtags
• 23:40 Stats: Why So Few Share The Gospel
• 27:15 Whose Job Is Evangelism?
• 30:00 Culture’s View: Event Vs Everyday Witness
• 33:10 Responses Without Roots: Where’s The Fruit?
• 36:00 God’s Math: Addition To Multiplication
• 38:10 Three Kinds Of Participants In Church
• 41:20 Attenders, Members, And Their Limits
• 44:20 Multipliers: Commitment As A Lifestyle
• 46:20 Multiplication Story: Thailand To Thousands
• 49:20 Be The Someone Who Reaches Someone
• 52:00 Invitation: From Sinner To Multiplier
• 56:00 Closing Info And Ways To Support

Transcript

SPEAKER_07: 0:18

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SPEAKER_03: 0:53

You ain't keeping me from preaching today. I've not preached to you in a month. And I'll go ahead and tell you you need it. And I need it. We need it. Amen. How many of you love Jesus? I wish I could tell you that I come to you with a feel-good message today. But I don't. It's a little difficult today. A little hard today. It'll be all right. We're not cutting corners, right? We're not changing it up because somebody who does certain things may get mad and leave. Praise God. If I preached to appease the faithful, I'd be preaching to a few anyway. I didn't figure I'd get many amens on that. The book of John, chapter 15. Verse number 16. Now you can't act a fool like you did today and leave offended. What do we do, Pastor? Well, we move up. We don't get mad and move out. We get mad at the devil and we move up. In the book of John 15, Jesus is talking to his eleven remaining disciples who are part of his final instructions in the upper room discourse. He uses the analogy in the early parts of John 15 of a vine and some branches to explain that his followers, that's us who have been born again, should abide in him as the branches are dependent on the vine for life and to bear fruit. We are dependent upon the vine. We are the branches. We are dependent upon the vine for life and to bear fruit. I told you a couple different occasions down through the years. Brother Danny, I drove by Walmart one time, and then I drove by a house between here and Harlan one time, and I saw the same thing. After a storm came through, you can stand there a minute, it's not gonna hurt you. I saw a tree, and sitting right next to the tree, very, I mean, so close you couldn't slide a piece of paper between it. There was a big branch that had fallen off the tree. And there it laid right next to the tree. And Brother Brock, over time I observed because I knew God was trying to show me something. And over time I observed that tree that stood firm, and that branch that laid, that lied on the ground right next to the tree. And over time the branch and the leaves on that particular branch began to turn brown and ugly and hard and dry. That if you stepped on them, they would crumble. Maybe even a good gush of wind would blow them and crumble them. I'm convinced there are people sitting in churches all over America today that are a part of a branch that has fallen off from the vine, and they're dying on the church pew. You can be that close to the vine and still dry up and die. That's what Jesus was teaching his disciples, and he said, You've not chosen me, I've chosen you. You see, you think you get to choose this thing. It doesn't work that way. I come from the old school that says you can't get saved less the spirit draws you. I come from the old school, from those old saints of God, right across this parking lot, that told me you can't just wake up one day and decide, hey, I'm gonna turn over a new leaf, no pun intended. I'm gonna turn over a new leaf, I'm gonna start living. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it doesn't work that way. There has to be something draw you. The Spirit of God has to draw you. But, Pastor, I felt that drawing one time, but I've not felt it again. Then if I were you, I would be very concerned. Because after he initially draws you with his spirit, he's not obligated to do that ever again. Because the Bible says his spirit will not always strive with man. So when I feel that stirring or I feel that tugging or I feel that drawing, it's then that I don't wait till Sunday. I find me an altar right there, and I call on the name of Jesus because He can save me wherever I am. You know why? Because He chose me. You've not chosen me, He said, I've chosen you, and not only have I chosen you, I've ordained you hallelujah, Kaywood Church of God, for a hundred years. He chose us, He ordained us, He sanctified us, He set us apart to be a last day's church. I've ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, that your fruit should remain. You know what that means? That means that your fruit will last cut up an apple. What happens to it within five minutes? It turns brown. No, no, no. I don't want, I don't want that kind of fruit. I want to bear the fruit that lasts. I want the kind of fruit that when I pray and I leave, it's with me there, just like it's with me here. That whosoever ye shall ask, that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. Here's what the NLT says you did not choose me, but I've chosen and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, and so that whatever you ask in my name, the Father will give you. Father, we thank you for your word. Lord, I rebuke a spirit of offense in this place, in Jesus' name. I pray, Lord, that this congregation of people that I stand before today, they know that I love them and that I want to see them make it to heaven more than I want to see them accomplish anything else on this planet, Father. If there's anybody here lost, Lord, would you save them?

SPEAKER_01: 9:42

Would you save them? Would you save them from hell?

SPEAKER_03: 9:48

They're on their way to hell. Would you save them from hell? Would you write their name in the lambs? I don't care if they're 12, 13, 14, 85, 86, or 67. Would you save them? And do a work in them. As Lord, we at the Cwood Church of God will always and forever give you praise. Because, Lord, I feel in my heart that we're housing something special. That heaven loves and heaven and hell hates. And we're ready to fight the battle that comes with having genuine revival. In Jesus' name, and everybody said, Amen. Two words I want to give you today. Two words. Number one, evangelism or evangelistic or evangelical. It simply means the spreading of the gospel of Jesus Christ. If you ever hear on the news, evangelical Christians, evangelical Christians, evangelicals, or the evangelicals, or anything you hear like that pertaining to that, just know that when they say that, when CNN or Fox News or whoever is referring to the evangelicals, they're referring to people who spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm an evangelical. So there's the first word I want you to understand, or I want you to know. Number two, word number two, disciple or discipleship. If you've been around me long enough, you know the definition of a disciple. It is a visible and a verbal follower and believer of Jesus Christ. So I am an evangelical disciple. I am one who spreads the gospel. I'm verbal about it and I'm visible about it. I am not ashamed of the. I said, I am not ashamed of the God. I am not ashamed of some people walking around with their sunglasses on and their hoods on. Anybody got any shades in the house? Anybody got any sunglasses on borrowed? Oh my homie, realize a minute. No.

SPEAKER_00: 12:32

No, you don't. There you go. Come on.

SPEAKER_03: 12:49

Come on, John. Has it got a hood on it, brother? That's okay, it's okay. I'll take it. That's all right. I can't fit yours either. They go to church. Give me the Bible. Looking like this. Looking like that. Sunday morning, right? I told you. I'm trying to make you laugh a little so you don't get too mad about it. Because it's about to get real. Right there's everybody on Sunday. Come on, Kay. Look it up here. That's all the brothers right there. All the come on, girl. That's all this, all the sisters. We come to church like this. Come on. Everybody do the you two, you two, you two. Do the wave. Do the do the do the do the yeah, do the wave. Do the good to see you, brother. You know, we got our Sunday morning voices. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Good to see you, sister. Hallelujah. Hope the Lord blesses you today. But then something happens on Monday. We walk around like this. Everybody gets mad at Peter. But we live the life of Peter. We come to church on Sunday and wave our hands in the air. Like we just don't care. Four of you got it. Amen. We stomp our feet, we raise our hands, we throw a George in the plate. We're feeling all kinds of good. But when Monday rolls around, people say, Didn't I see you up here at that crazy? Haywood Church of God. And you're like, who, me? You didn't see me there. Because some of you are purposely getting away from the live stream. Amen.

SPEAKER_04: 15:10

We've got incognito Christians that put on the garb of telling dirty jokes and saying cuss words and out here drinking and smoking and dipping and drunking and everything. But we come up in here on Sunday acting like a saint of all saints. But come Monday morning, we're out here incognito. We don't want to be known as an evangelical disciple. Amen. We got bigger fish frying. I got news for you. You don't have bigger fish frying than your soul in your pocket that will spend eternity somewhere.

SPEAKER_03: 15:55

You tell me you got more important things going on than your soul. And I'll tell you you've lost your mind. We are evangelical disciples. We don't need shirts to say it.

SPEAKER_04: 16:17

We don't need to wear a suit to say it. We don't need to wear a dress to say it. We need to open our mouth and be vocal and vocal and vocal about.

SPEAKER_03: 19:07

And you could eat a dozen. Well, you probably couldn't. You don't even probably know what one is. James, brother, me and you, my friend, we'll we'll eat a dozen. Brother Randy, Brother James, Austin. How many you eat yesterday? Come on. Amen. Austin's that guy that gets that steak and baked potato. That baked potato makes him feel better until I look at it and it's running over with sour cream and cheese and all that good stuff. Amen. Amen. So fruit that lasts, we must be producing. I don't want Kwood Church of God to be a hot now church.

SPEAKER_04: 19:46

I want it to be a lasting fruit, a fruit that lasts, a fruit that remains. That anytime you come in this door, there is fruit for you to take up and fruit for you to produce.

SPEAKER_03: 19:59

Ready? Isn't it? I think I mentioned this a couple weeks ago. How people will put Jesus, especially our young people, they'll put a they'll put a Bible verse on their bio. They had to tell me what a bio was. Man, apparently that's the front page of your social media account. They'll put a Bible verse on it. Here's your test, moms and dads. Go look at your children's bios. And if they've got a Bible verse, don't give them a Bible and just ask them what's it say. And then after they might they might know what it says, and what's it mean? Amen. The most popular one I read is I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Amen. We put Jesus in our bow. We put Jesus on our shirt. We put Jesus on our backpack. We put Jesus, uh, we put Jesus everywhere else. Amen.

SPEAKER_04: 21:10

But we got a lot of people that's using and abusing Jesus, but they're still out drinking, cups, and partying, having sex, talking filth, and saying Philippians 1413. I can do all the things through Christ. Hashtag John 3, hashtag, Matthew 2, hashtag what you need to do. Hashtag hypocrite. I need Jesus.

SPEAKER_03: 21:36

There's your hashtag. Don't be using and abusing my Bible while outliving like the devil. I don't care what you have what your hashtag says. Amen. We got verbal evangel evangelism. I'm gonna give you some some stuff some statistics. I'm about done. One study, verbal evangelism.

SPEAKER_00: 22:01

If evangelism is spreading the gospel, what does verbal mean? Speaking. Verbal.

SPEAKER_03: 22:15

You're verbally spreading the gospel. I don't care about the weather or the wildcats. Verbally spreading the gospel to the point where people dread seeing you come. Because you're verbally evangelizing. You are telling others what Jesus did for you. One study estimates, you ready, that only five percent of evangelical Christians share their faith directly, with generous estimates reaching up to nine percent. Another source states 59% of evangelical Christians seldom or never share their faith. Did you hear that? Five percent of Christians verbally tell others about Jesus. Let's say there's 160 people in this room today. What's five percent of that, somebody? I got a minute. What? Eight? The single digit eight? Eight. That means eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. This whole row stand up. Hold her up so we can see her. That means, according to statistics, the only people in this room that share their faith verbally are eight people.

SPEAKER_00: 23:58

That's not good. That's not good.

SPEAKER_03: 24:03

Brother Brett said in Sunday school, you just stay there a minute. Just stay there a minute. He said in Sunday school class a couple weeks ago, God had dropped it into my heart that morning when I woke up, and so help me God, he said it. It's funny to me how that people cannot sit in the same house of worship together, but they'll go to the same gymnasium and support the same mascot. But they can't come in the same house of worship and glorify the same Savior. Hashtag hypocrite. We're at odds with people.

SPEAKER_00: 24:52

But we're both supporting the wildcat.

SPEAKER_03: 24:59

We're at odds with people, but we'll all be in the same Walmart. You won't see me in this one. That's hashtag hypocrite. I can't go to church there. So and so goes there.

SPEAKER_04: 25:19

Well, that sounds to me like you might need to go to church there at least once. Come and lay your gift at the altar. Go to that person, be reconciled with that person. Fix things up with I'm preaching better than your action today. Fix things up with that person. And when you've got it fixed, then go somewhere else.

SPEAKER_03: 25:45

You need to come there. Sounds to me like at least once.

SPEAKER_00: 25:49

Keep standing. Then you've got personal evangelism.

SPEAKER_03: 26:01

The sense of personal responsibility to share my faith has decreased. In nineteen ninety-three, eighty-nine percent of Christians who shared their faith believed it was their personal responsibility. Serena, it is my responsibility to share my faith with others. What if I neglect that responsibility and somebody dies lost? But we don't have eternity in mind. So 89% of Christians in 1989 or 1993, excuse me, 89% of Christians shared their faith because they believed it was their personal responsibility. By 2018, that number dropped from 89% to 64%. From 89% down to 64%. The church role. I'm about where I'm going to go. The perception of evangelism being the local church's job has increased. In 1993, 10% of Christians who shared their faith agreed it was the church's job to do that. It's not the church's job to do that. What if they never come in our doors?

SPEAKER_00: 27:41

What if them out there never come in here? What if? What if, oh, hallelujah? What if what if what if people passed by here and they never heard the gospel message? Because we think it's the church's job to do it within the confines of our walls. Oh, preacher, you ain't made me mad. I ain't done. I'm just getting started. Make sure that closes, Lee Kate. Last time I did that, it stayed open all night. You can sit down, you're making me nervous. Let's take a look at what it means to be evang evangelistic, the spreading of the gospel.

SPEAKER_03: 28:40

The problem comes from our typical idea of evangelism spreading the gospel. The culture's view of evangelism spreading, the culture's view of the spreading of the gospel. You know what the culture's view is? Bible thumping, Bible toting, Bible boating, people. You can say what you want to about the Jehovah's Witnesses. They witness circles around us. I'm like, my God, they just make 144,000.

SPEAKER_00: 29:14

It's going. You better get your ticket if you're going to go with them. Because not everybody's getting in.

SPEAKER_03: 29:21

Man, but that's our view. That's our view of evangelism is people who carry Bibles and wear their suits and ties and their fancy dress clothes and their church clothes. And we see that that is a typical idea. We see it as an event. Let me tell you, preachers, something. Listen up, preachers. If you're not careful, you'll get caught up in the eventfulness of ministry. Had an overseer tell me one time, Pastor John, it's okay if every sermon is not a World Series. It might not be a grand slam every time you take the pulpit. You just preach the gospel and let Jesus do the rest. If we're not careful, we'll turn ministry, we'll turn church into an entertainment hour.

SPEAKER_00: 30:25

Oh, I hope they sing my favorite song. Oh, listen, I fix that. I've got a stack in my office at school. I got a stack of cassette tapes. It's got my favorite songs. Church songs.

SPEAKER_03: 30:44

I've got my mama singing. I've got Sister June singing. I've got Daryl Middleton singing. I've got all these people singing. And sometimes I just go, you know, on those NTI days when it's just me, nobody else, until somebody calls me from over there and tries to aggravate me to death.

SPEAKER_00: 31:02

I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_03: 31:04

Kidding boss. Amen. I'll just shut my door and I'll just listen to there's a name above all others. Wonderful to hear, bringing hope and cheer. It's the lovely name of Jesus. I'll never forget, took Leanne to church with me one time. We got in the car and she said, Why did they quit singing after every verse? You know, when they sing, there was once a time when in my heart I was condemned to die, walking in my sinful ways. Jesus paid the ransom for my soul. I made this world demeanor. When he calls me, I will fly.

SPEAKER_00: 31:52

When he calls me, I will answer here.

SPEAKER_03: 31:57

We had to get everybody ready. We had to get our breath because we knew I was coming in that course.

SPEAKER_02: 32:05

When he calls, I'll fly away. If he needs me in his harvest, that's that's my songs, that's my people. Amen.

SPEAKER_03: 32:17

I love it. But we become when we when we when we think it's somebody else's job or somebody else's responsibility. Amen. It's not an event, it's not a crusade, it's not a program, it's not a series of meetings. In these we may see scores of responses. But five years later, we don't see fruit. Was anybody here this summer? Did anybody see what happened this summer? Did y'all see the droves of people laying in the altar this summer?

SPEAKER_00: 33:02

Wasn't that good? Where are they at? Because we get responses, but they don't get the fruit.

SPEAKER_03: 33:17

As the old Sunday school teacher used to tell me, honey, they just pray their conviction away. That happens a lot of times. They come to the altar, they pray, they cry, they pray, they cry, they pray, they cry. They may even do that multiple days. Pray and cry, pray and cry, pray and cry.

SPEAKER_04: 33:36

But the first battle, and the devil says boo, they tuck their telling around because the fruit is not lasting. You gotta get in the word of God.

SPEAKER_03: 33:46

You gotta stay on your knees in prayer. I'm about to close, and I'm gonna close you good right here. I hope you're ready. When the same thing happened in our churches, the results for the kingdom of God is zero. We can report whatever we want to to state office. Our best weekend efforts, Brother Jason, at captivating and entertaining crowds may be accomplished, may be accomplishing addition to our particular church. But that does not mean it's adding multiplication to the kingdom. Rome, we may be adding multiplication to our local church. But are we multiplying the kingdom? There's a difference, a huge difference. God's math. Addition brings multiplication. You can sit in this place week after week and still do nothing for the kingdom. It's not producing fruit that remains, fruit that lasts. So, in closing, as they're making their way back to the music, there are three levels of participation in every church.

SPEAKER_00: 35:12

I'm gonna let them get to where they need to be because I need your full and divided attention.

SPEAKER_03: 35:24

Everybody in this room, from that wall to that wall, from that wall to that wall, everybody in this room falls into one of these three categories of participants. Rome, you coach ball.

SPEAKER_00: 35:47

I lost my mind once, too. It'll bring ugly out, won't it?

SPEAKER_03: 36:00

Preach, and I'll hand you the mic. You'll get called crazy. He crazy. We had football playoffs in Kentucky this weekend, didn't we? Semifinals? Which means how many teams lost this weekend? Eight. Eight teams lost this weekend. Six. Six teams lost this weekend. Six teams lost this weekend. Go to Facebook at double dog devil dare you. If you don't have one, borrow your wife's. If she don't have one, borrow hers anyway. Because she does. Anyway. Anyway. I dare you to go to KHSAA's Facebook page. I dare you. Because there's gonna be six groups of people. Yeah, but no no no no no no no no no no no no no. These gonna be six groups of people. You're gonna read words like hosed. So-and-so got hosed. They got cheated. KHSAA needs to do something about this. Let me just go ahead and tell everybody here. KHSAA has a file number. It's called 13. And your complaints go in it. Because ain't nobody cares. It's a ballgame. As Christian walks in. Christian. What happened in one word? In one word, what happened in 2017 in the state semifinals? One word. Thank you. I did not plan on him to leave and walk in at this time.

SPEAKER_00: 38:02

But we did.

SPEAKER_03: 38:06

Did they do anything about it? Okay. So just out of curiosity, coach Rome. If a player, what are you coaching now? Rome's like that guy that coaches all the sports. He's coaching basketball right now. Let's say a player, I don't know, your best one. Let's say your best player doesn't show up all week. You have special revival. I'm sorry, not revival. Where's my mind going? You have seven nights of revival not revival. Practice. And let's say your star player doesn't darken the door of the reviv. Practice. I ain't trying to shame nobody. But when 20% of what's sitting in this room supports this church with their time, talent, treasure, wholeheartedly. And we still seeing what we're seeing. I don't look at that as a problem. I look at that as hopefully the Other 80% will get a hold of it. There's three categories of people in this room today. Well, four. Four. I'll add a fourth one and I'll start with that new one right now. Sinners. Sinners are sinners. If you're here today and you're a sinner, I love you. I will come to you at any hour, of any day, of any night. I will pray with you for you. I'll do what I can to help you ring the prayer bells of heaven so that heaven can be.

SPEAKER_04: 40:30

I'll come to that you are what I do, what I do, because he chose me. And I he chose and he chose you. He chose you. Thank God. While he was on the cross, I was on his mind.

SPEAKER_03: 40:52

Sinners. Sinners are sinners. Sinners do sinful things. Sinners live a sinner's life. We can expect saintly living from sinner people. So, sinners, I love you. I thank God for you. Please come again. Please come to the altar. Miss hell. Make heaven. You can today. Next, we've got attenders. Everybody say attenders. Those who sporadically make a certain church their headquarters. They make no commitment to finances, they make no commitment to attendance, and they make no commitment to involvement. They consider a particular church their church, but anything extra, not happening. Listen to me. We're beyond the frilly Bibles, cute highlighters, the cool, colorful tabs. This is war. Attenders don't always know what's going on, and they don't always win the war because they won't get involved in the training. And then they don't know what's going on and decide to get hurt because they didn't know what was going on. Because you didn't show up for basic.

unknown: 42:38

Amen.

SPEAKER_03: 42:38

Use in the military with you, brother. Did you miss a day or two of basic training and exp No, no, no? I'm not even, I'm not even playing. Kwood Church of God is your headquarters. It's your safe place. But it's not your place of commitment because other places are and other things are. And until you are willing to put everything else secondary and make basic training, you must fight. See.

unknown: 43:12

See.

SPEAKER_03: 43:15

Page 212, try me out. There's a new 75, there's a new 75th anniversary edition of the Red Church Hymno out. I'm getting one. I hope they'll engrave my name on it.

SPEAKER_02: 43:34

You must fight, be brave against all evil, never run nor even like me. If you want to win for just keep on the fight.

SPEAKER_03: 45:09

Attenders. Next, I use this term very loosely. Members. Members are a higher level of attenders. Involvement is a little more. Commitment and weekly attendance is a little more. Tithing and giving happens when you can. Christmas season, preacher. You don't get to not give. That's not yours. That's not yours. I gotta buy Christmas gifts for my kids. It's not theirs either. It doesn't belong to Amazon. It doesn't belong to Walmart or Target. That belongs to God. Members. Little bit more involvement, little bit more giving, little bit more attending. Members are progressing toward discipleship. But they might not necessarily, y'all having fun yet? Danny, you smiling. You're supposed to say amen, preacher. Thank you. Members are progressing toward discipleship being verbal and visible, but they may not necessarily walk in purity, carry a burden for the lost, or know how to disciple somebody else. In other words, you love Jesus but you cuss a little. Please act right. When wearing it. Trish, where'd she go? Some reason or another, me, Monica, and Trish think we're going to jail for something. We don't know what, why, when, where, who, with who. But anyway, I look and there's a guy that got arrested that night before. So help me, God, he had a church of God shirt up. The big church of God logo right there on the chest. I'm like, well, the church of God is right. Hallelujah. To the Lamb. But if you're going to take that old man down for that Black Friday crock pot, leave your church shirt at home and wear your devil shirt. Lastly, you've got attenders. This is just headquarters. We don't show up for basic training. Members, they show up for basic training, but when things get a little tough or time gets a little crunched, they're not there. Then you've got, lastly, and I'm closing, you've got multipliers. Somebody say, multiplier. Attendance is as natural as breathing. Giving is a pleasure and not a burden, and being involved is not an option. Let me read that again.

SPEAKER_04: 49:07

Attendance is as natural as breathing, giving is a pleasure and not a burden, and being involved is not an option.

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Come on out, worship team. Everybody stand. Dr. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, tells about someone. I need you to listen to me for five more minutes, and I promise I'm gonna get you out of here. Dr. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, tells about someone he discipled. The young man he discipled and won to Christ, went back home to Thailand. You know what he did when he got to Thailand? He discipled seven hundred believers. One, Brother Brock, one of those seven hundred believers, preached personally to over two hundred thousand people in his lifetime and saw more than twenty thousand people come to Jesus. That's called multiplication. Not an event, not a fruitless effort to entertain you, but a chained reaction of changed lives that exponentially grows. You may tell somebody about Jesus. And that somebody may go tell several somebodies about Jesus. All y'all come with me. All y'all come with me. You're gonna sit up here, you're gonna participate. I'm over here. And let's say one went and told one, two, three, four, and then all five of them together came right here. I'm over here. And they told all these people. And then all these people, maybe y'all stay here now. Okay, that's the assignment for now. Let's say out of all these people one. One. Here's the story of the gospel of what Jesus did. And let's say this one goes to the mission field and stands before millions of people. Reinard Bonkey, who's gone on to be with the Lord, he preached to hundreds of millions of people. And somewhere along the line, one person won Reinhonke to Christ. It may have been that Sunday school teacher. Amen. It may have been that bun wearing moo moo wearing Sunday school teacher that you didn't think at the time knew what she was talking about, but something she said got in here. And it started spreading. Hey, stay, stay. Listen to me. I'm not, I'd love, I'd love for everybody in this room to walk out and just start preaching to everything that moves. But I'm I don't expect that to happen. But if one person today, one person today walks out this door and tells somebody who tells somebody, somebody, brother Christian, won Billy Graham to Jesus. Somebody, somebody won Jimmy Swaggard to Jesus. Somebody, somebody won all these people that you've heard about, great matriarchs and patriarchs of the gospel. Somebody won them to Jesus.

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What if you are that somebody who wins somebody who wins somebody who wins somebody who wins somebody?

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Amen. I don't care how young you are. You'd be standing on the free throw line a ballgame sometimes. And what would you say to some of those boys that cussed you out the whole game?

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Jesus loves you.

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While mom and dad's over here like.

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What was she saying? I saw you jawing back. What was she saying?

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I was saying, Jesus loves you.

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Good job.

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What's your you an attender, a member, or a multiplier? First of all, y'all go back to your seats, thank you. If you're in the category of sinner, if you're in the category of sinner, oh my goodness. Anybody here saved that says, best thing ever did? Best thing I ever did. Best thing I ever did. There was a lady. I'll never forget. On a Sunday morning in 1993, my mother had lived a five-year backslidden life, Sister Serena. She'd been backslidden for five years. And in 1993, she came to this church because my papa was the visiting preacher. He was still living in Paducah at the time. He was in preaching this service and was sitting right about there. There were three rows of pews, and she was sitting right about over there. And while he was preaching, I wasn't there that morning, but I had a friend that was that said, I heard a blood-curdling scream go out throughout the building. And she said, John, it was your mom. And Tosh and Emily, it was your grandmother, Sister Joan Turner, who came up and put her arm around my mom and walked her to the altar and prayed with her. And she came back to the fold. It wasn't long after that that Sister Joan left this world. But before she left this world, she led one more person to Jesus. Because that was the mindset of the saints of God.

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And I sat in the same spot on Wednesday night, March the 13th, 1996.

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When a little lady came and put her arm around me and said, You want to pray, don't you? That's all she wrote. I went to the altar and I prayed. My point is this: God's gonna use you if you'll let him. God's looking for multipliers. God's looking for multipliers. Number one, if you're lost, would you come? Would you come? I've given you the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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I'm gonna let it shine.

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