Feb. 24, 2025

Rick Gage and The GO TELL Livingston Parish Crusade coming to Yellow Jacket Stadium

In this episode of Local Leaders The Podcast, Jim Chapman engages in a deep conversation with Rick Gage, a former football coach turned evangelist, who has dedicated his life to spreading the Gospel since 1986. Joined by Richard Blue, the Director of...

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In this episode of Local Leaders The Podcast, Jim Chapman engages in a deep conversation with Rick Gage, a former football coach turned evangelist, who has dedicated his life to spreading the Gospel since 1986. Joined by Richard Blue, the Director of Missions for the East Louisiana Baptist Association, we explore Rick’s transformative journey and the significant moment that ignited his faith. Rick shares inspiring stories of individuals who have transformed their lives through his evangelistic efforts, illustrating the powerful ripple effect of commitment to Christ.

We discuss the urgent need for unity among local churches in the face of challenges in unchurched communities, highlighted by the upcoming Go Tell America Crusade. Set for March 16th through 19th, this event aims to mobilize over 35 local churches, emphasizing youth engagement and outreach. Listeners are invited to actively participate in this mission, as we reflect on the potential impact of collective faith on our communities.

Go Tell Livingston Parish Dates March 16th-19th 2025

Timestamps
00:32 Meeting Rick Gage
11:06 Rick Gage’s Personal Transformation Through Faith
16:44 Richard Blue’s Journey to Ministry
19:01 The Importance of Crusades
28:53 GO TELL CRUSADE in Livingston Parish: Event Details
36:14 Special Guests for the Event 42:06 Scripture Reflections

You can learn more about Rick Gage and the GO TELL LIVINGSTON PARISH CRUSADE at Yellow Jacket Stadium by visiting:
https://www.gotell-lp.com

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Hey one, Welcome back to another edition of Local Leaders

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of the Podcast and I have a couple of guests

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for you today. I'm going to give you a little

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history on him just quickly. In nineteen eighty six, Rick

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Gage walked away from a promising career in football and

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surrendered his life to full time evangelistic ministry. Since then,

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he has been conducting evangelistic events around the world has

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seen tens of thousands make commitments to the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Nineteen ninety The Gotel Crusades was founded by Rick Gage

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and is an evangelistic ministry that leads people to Christ.

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He is the guy sitting across from me today and

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we're going to introduce him as well as Richard Blue,

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who is the director of Missions of the East Louisiana

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Baptist Association. That is a mouthful, as well as the

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co chair of the Go Tell America Crusade. Welcome to

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both of you, to Local Leaders of Podcasts.

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Good to be here, Jim, thank you, buddy.

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I'm excited. And look, I've done a little research on

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you in particular, and your story is one that is

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really appealing to me, especially being a football fan. Being

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a football guy, because that's kind of how you started

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out professionally at some point that led you into your

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evangelistic ministry that you have now. But I want the

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listeners to kind of learn a little bit about you

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and tell me how you started out. I know your

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dad was an evangelist as well.

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I grew up in a Christian home. I grew up

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under my dad was a nationally known evangelist back in

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the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties into the nineties, so he

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had about a fifty plus year career as an itinerant evangelist.

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And I've often said, if anybody should have been a

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champion for God, you would think it would be me

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because I was brought up in a Christian home, godly mother,

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nationally a known father who's a preacher of the Gospel,

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raised up in Bible teaching churches, and been around to

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my great men. I've got all my life, etc. And

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my story in brief is, when I was eight years

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of age, we attended a local church in Friendswood, Texas,

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right outside Houston, and one son morning, I remember going

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down that center aisle. The passion was down there at

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the front. He leaned over and shared a few words

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with me, and after the service that Sunday morning, people

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came by and they shook my little hand and said,

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we're so happy for you, Ricky, and we're going to

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be praying for you. And I showed up that night

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with an extra change of clothes and went through what's

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called water baptism. And for nearly eighteen years of my

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life after that, I professed to be a Christian. And

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I've often said did okay for a while to learn

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how to do bad. I became an athlete in elementary

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I mean I started playing football in fourth grade, and

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so about eighteen plus years of my life was surrounded

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by the game of football. But in nineteen actually in

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nineteen eighty four, I was coaching at Texas Tech University.

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my dad had told me that one of his dear

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friends really been a longtime friend to our family, and

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evangelist by name of James Robinson, was coming to preaching

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a local church there in Lubbock, Texas, and my dad

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encouraged me to go hear James preach, and to make

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a long story short, I went that Sunday night to

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that local church evangelistic rally Thats Robinson was preaching at.

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This is January fifteen, nineteen eighty four. I'm twenty five

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years of age. I'm coaching at Texas Tech University, so

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I'm climbing that coaching professional ladder, thinking that someday I

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may be the next Next Sabing or the next Tom

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Landry for the older generation. Sure, but my heart, in

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my life Jim was a million miles away from God

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and my dad knew it. And so I went to

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that service that Sunday night, and it was a packed

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out auditorium, standing room only, and I was able to

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squeeze in in that back far corner. But I heard

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a man of God that night preach a powerful, penetrating

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sermon on the subject of repentance. And God used that

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message that night to reveal to my heart that I

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was lost.

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Rick.

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You may be religious, you may be a preacher's kid,

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but you're lost. And when that invitation, that altar call

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was given that Sunday night, I made a bee line

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to that altar and got on my hands in my knees,

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weeping as a twenty five year old football coach and

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just broken because of the sin that was in my

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life and the lifestyle that I'd been living, and God

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just broke me that night. And I was like a

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thief who just got caught robin a bank. I just surrendered,

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And the attitude of my heart was, God, here's my life.

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I want you to take it, and I want you

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to use me however you want to use me. And really,

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the attitude that was in my heart that night was God,

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if you want me to go to Africa to be

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a missionary, I'll pack my bags to night and I'll go.

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To make a long story short, God invaded my heart

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that night, and I surrendered my life to Christ. I

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experienced what the Bible teaches on the new birth. I

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was born again that night John Chapter three. Went home

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to my apartment there in Lubbock and picked up my

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phone and called my mom and dad, and man did

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they ever rejoice. Called my three brothers, who happened to

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be today all three are ordained ministers of the Gospel.

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So I've often said, my dad and my mom must

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have done something right. So there's four boys in our family,

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and all four of us today are ordained ministers of

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the Gospel. When I called Mom and Dad, I called

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my three brothers and Jim. That night, I had a

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Bible sitting on a shelf collecting dust. I never touched it,

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never read it, didn't have a desire to. But I

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picked up my Bible that night, and for the first

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time in my life, the Word of God became life

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to my soul. I fell in love with the author

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of the Bible, and of course we know his name

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is Jesus. And the next morning I walked into the

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football building there at Texas Tech and I started sharing

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with all those coaches on that staff what God had

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just done in my life. So I had a Damascus

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Road type experience on January fifteenth, nineteen eighty four, and

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two years later, I was coaching the running backs at

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Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. And it was during that

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two year period coaching at Liberty is when God began

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to do a work in my heart about going into

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full time ministry. Well, how can you know God's calling you?

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And I remember my dad often would say, if you

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can do anything else, do it. He wanted to make

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sure that it was God calling you, and so I

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sat down with some great men of God up there

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at that time to get their Godly wisdom. You know,

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how can you really know for sure you being called

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to ministry? I sit down with doctor Folwell and Sumner

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Wimp and Elmer Towns and Old Womanton, just great men

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of God that were part of that great team up

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there back in the seventies and eighties, and I'll never forget.

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In January of eighty six, I was in Dallas Fort Worth, Texas,

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where Mom and Dad lived at that time, and there

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was an evangelist around the corner from Mamma Dad's house

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by the name of Many Beasley, and I went to

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Manley's house to ask him the same question, how can

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you know for sure, Manley, that you're being called to preach?

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And here's what Manley Beasley said. He said, Rick, if

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God's calling you to the ministry, you will be miserable

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doing anything else. And man was he ever right? Because

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I was getting ready on the airplane out of DFW

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to fly to New Orleans for the annual National Coaches

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Convention that year was in New Orleans. And so, make

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a long story short, I turned in my resignation there

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at Liberty to the head coach the following Monday after

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that coach's convention. Doctor Fallwood had already given me a

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scholarship to go through their seminary, which I did. So

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I've been on the sawdust trail since nineteen eighty six,

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trying to do all that we can to help advance

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the Kingdom of God. So I went around. I went

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around the world to answer your question. But that's really

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love it. That's really my story. I spent nearly eighteen

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years of my life around the game of football. So

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from fourth grade I played four years of college ball,

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and then I coached five years of college ball. But

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it was in nineteen eighty six when God when I

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surrendered the call to preach the gospel.

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That's a beautiful thing. I love that, and you really

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I think you know this, but you speak the truth

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from the aspect of I believe that God puts you

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places in life where you cannot be denied. You can

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try to deny it, but you cannot be denied. And

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a lot of people know my story how I ended

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up with this podcast. But I was in a completely

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different field in life and felt a push that I

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cannot describe to do what I'm doing now, and I

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would almost intentionally try to sabotage myself because on paper,

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what I did with this podcast studio made absolutely no sense.

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And every time I tried to push back, I got

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pushed more forward because this is where I believe God

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wanted me to be. And I remember the first day

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opened the studio was praying the phone would ring. I

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had left a six figure job that I was happy,

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comfortable with and had been with twenty two years to

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open up a podcast studio in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. That

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phone's never quit ringing. It is a blessing that I

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thank God for every day. So I know what you mean.

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He will not allow you to deny where He wants

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you in life. All you got to do is listen.

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Well, I agree, and I believe, and you know this

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to be true, that there's no greater peace in all

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the world than knowing that you're in the center of

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God's will.

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You branch out a little bit and you start, you

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start preaching the gospel. You're out there and you're talking

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to people and you're witnessing to them. What is a story?

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Give me a story maybe of just an experience that

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you had with that. If you have one that really

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sticks out, I'd love to hear it a success story.

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If you will, I'll give you a couple. We were

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having one of our outreaches a few years back, and

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there was a teenage boy that gave his life to

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Christ in this outreach event, and immediately God gave him

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a burden to go back and reach his family. His

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mom was lost, his dad was lost, He had a

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sister who had not given her life to Christ. And

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he just immediately after he gave his heart to Christ,

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God put a burden on his heart to go back

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and be a missionary to his own family. And God

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used that teenage boy to go back to lead his

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mother to Christ and his sister Christ. And that fall season,

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I had the honor to preaching this young man's local

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church in Charlotte, North Carolina. And in that Sunday morning service,

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his dad was in the service. His dad still lost,

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kind of a hard case, but the young man had

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really been praying and had a deep burden for his

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dad to get right with God. And the whole family

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was in that Sunday morning service in that local church.

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And when I preached the gospel that Sunday morning and

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I gave the altar call, that dad left his seat

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came down to the altar and got on his knees

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to give his life to Christ. And the wife, the son,

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and the daughter, all three were huddled over their dad

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at the altar. And that whole family today is complete

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in Christ because of a seventeen year old teenage boy

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who got right with God at one of our outreach events.

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And the local church of this young man's father and

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family even to this day, that that young man's father

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is one of the most dedicated, one of the most

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active men in that local church, all because of that

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teenage boy that got right with God in one of

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our outreaches. The second story, we were in Guntersville, Alabama,

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in a football stadium and one of the co chairs

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of the campaign, like brother Richard is here was burden

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for his sister in law. He wanted his sister in

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law to get right with God and man he had

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been praying and asking God to save his sister in law, etc.

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our big youth emphasis night. We probably had five thousand

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and six thousand in attendance, most of them were young

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people that night, and he's sitting on the fifty yard line.

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I'm up on the stage preaching, and he's on the

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fifty yard line. And he pulled out his iPhone and

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called his sister in law. She's at home in bed,

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just TV. She answers the phone and he said, I

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want you to hear this guy. So he holds the

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phone out. Well, I'm up there on the stage preaching

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for about maybe sixty seconds. And he came back and

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he said, what do you think? And she said, I

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want to hear some more. So he holds the phone

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out for about another sixty seconds, brought the phone back

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to his ear and said what do you think? Hello,

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are you there? She got up out of bed, Jim,

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put her clothes on, got in her car, drove to

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the stadium. Wow, got out of her car and came

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to the altar right in front of the stage high

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school track, high school football stadium. She came before even

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extended the invitation. She came and got on her knees

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on that track to give her life to Christ the

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power of prayer. Yes, and so those are just two

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that you know that come to my mind. We were

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in San Saba, Texas, and they have a youth prison

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in San Sabbath, Texas, and our team had gone into

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that youth prison early that week of the campaign and

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witnessed a lot of those juvenile prisoners and led many

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of those young men and you know, to Christ. And

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a dad was coming into town and he saw the

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football stadium lights on, so he pulled into the stadium

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park a lot to find out. Wonder what's going on?

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This is a March campaign, San Saba, Texas. He's thinking,

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what's going on here at the stadium in March. So

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he pulls in, Well, we're having a crusade service in

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that football stadium. He comes inside the stadium, sits down,

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heard me preach that night when I gave the invitation,

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he came forward and gave his life to Christ. Well,

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the next day he goes to visit his son at

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the prison and he said, last night I came into

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town and went to this crusade at the stadium and

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I gave my life to Christ. And the son said, well,

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that same group came over here earlier this week and

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I gave my life to Christ. And that man left

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that town, went back to his hometown in South Texas,

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and two weeks later, on a Sunday morning, on his

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way to church, he was killed in a car wreck. Oh,

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and the chairman of the crusade did some research, and

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he said that man was two weeks away from hell

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because of a football stadium that had the lights on.

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They God used that to draw that man to the

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stadium and he came inside to see what was going on,

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and he heard the Gospel that night, and he gave

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his life to Christ. That man's in heaven today. We

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got dozens, maybe hundreds of stories like that, But anyway,

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those are just, you know, a couple that really come

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to my mind when you asked me that question.

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Phenomenal. I love it. And I want to turn to

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you real quick, brother Richard, and I want to ask you,

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so you are local to hear Walker is a Walker

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Baptist Church that you.

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I pastored Walker Baptist Church for twenty and a half

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years and I've been the director of missions for almost

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seven years now in this area working with local Baptist churches.

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Great guy, you a great guy. I just met him,

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y'all and I've been his unique personality that makes me

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laugh for sure. And so tell us about your path

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a little bit.

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Okay, My path is I was so raised in the

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same way I tell everybody. I had a drug problem.

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I was drugg to church every Sunday morning, Sunday night

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till Wednesday night.

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Very good.

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And here it is. When I was nine years old,

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on a slow night in the Revival on a double

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dog dare, I was pushed into the aisle to go

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talk to the preacher. They did everything they were supposed

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to do with me, dunk me, baptize me. But I

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walked out of there just as lost as I walked

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into the building that night, and got under conviction to

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my sin by a vacation Bible school worker when I

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was twelve years old, when she unjusted with the gospel,

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and I hid behind church membership and said I am saved,

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I'm a member of the church, and all of that.

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For the next two years, I was under heavy conviction,

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thinking if I go to bed tonight, I'm gonna wake

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up and I dine in my sleep, I'm gonna wake

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up in hell. When I was fourteen years old, listening

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to a gospel radio broadcast, I prayed to receive Jesus

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Christ as my Lord and savior. And I've slept like

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an angel every night since my life has been changed.

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I have peace of mind, peace of direction. And two

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years later God called me into the ministry and I've

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been a pastor and I couldn't do what he's doing.

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That's a gift. My gift is to get in there

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after before he comes and after he leaves, to get

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in there and help people to grow in Christ, to disciple,

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to equip and help them to be able to turn

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around and continue the task of going forward and reaching

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people for the Lord.

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Yeah, I love that very good. And I want to

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ask both of you, you know, today's a challenging time

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in some ways that you know, sometimes I wake up

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and think there's a war on Christianity a little bit,

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and and it's scary, but it is very important. Actually,

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it's probably the key reason as to why it's so

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important to have these crusades is the ability to reach

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a enormous amount of people all at one time and

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really preach the gospel to Him. I believe that when

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when you know God is always around us, but when

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you're a group and you're you're all focused on that,

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you can feel Him in the room with you. We

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have an event, a big event coming up that there's

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going to be a lot of media surrounding this event.

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Because Brother Rick Gage is going to be here, the

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message is going to be delivered primarily by the local churches.

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Am I writing saying.

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In this regard, we have about thirty five to forty

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churches that are involved in this and they come from

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the evangelical church community, and they cross denominational lines and

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they're coming from non denominationals. Baptists are the primary ones

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that are involved. Some Methodists are involved. It's the evangelical

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community that believes that the Bible is the truth, It's

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the Word of God, truth without any mixture of era.

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And it's also also the ones that believe that Jesus

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Christ is the only way to salvation. And so that's

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what we're doing. All of the churches in this area.

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We see we're living in a community to where according

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to the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention,

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that eighty percent of Livingston Parish needs to know Christ

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as their Lord and Savior. That's a big number, right,

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I'm a huge number. That means four out of five

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people that you meet on the street do not believe

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in God. And a large part of that group are

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a people that have been surveyed. They're called the nuns

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an s in other words, that we have no religious

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idea affiliation of any kind, no thought of any kind

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where in other words, you have your practical atheist in

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the sense. And so so we have a feel that's

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white under the harvest, and we have a biblical we

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have a spiritual and we have a moral mandate to

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do what we can to get in the way and

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point people from the road of destruction and put them

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on the road of life.

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And we came in here about a year ago to

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meet with Richard and many other spiritual leaders across this

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Livingston Parish region and the vision that we presented about

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twelve months ago, and the goal was to recruit and

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cultivate as many Bible believing churches in this part of

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the state to come together in unity for one purpose,

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to reach every unsaved person with the Gospel of the

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Lord Jesus Christ. You just heard his stats. More than

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eighty percent of this area is on church. But it's

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not just in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, it's all over the nation.

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We just did a campaign in Jackson, Mississippi, the metro

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area of Jackson, Mississippi, two years ago, over eighty percent

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of that area of the state of Mississippi was on church.

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We had nearly thirty thousand in our total attendants. For

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those four nights, we registered some two thousand spiritual decisions

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for Christ. We spoke about ten to fifteen thousand students

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and a lot of their public and private schools during

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that campaign. But as he said a while ago, the

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need and the urgency, the urgency to reach the unsaved

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has never been greater across this nation today. And we

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were talking earlier offline about Billy Graham, and I had

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the honor to be with doctor Graham and his Philadelphia,

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Pennsylvania Crusade back in nineteen ninety two in the old

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Veterans Football Stadium and we met with this team that week.

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And here's what his team members told us. They said,

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if you're going to be involved in these large scale

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evangelistic campaigns, there's two things you got to have, leadership

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and preparation. Leadership and preparation that'll fit with football coaching,

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won't it totally, It'll fit with any industry. So twelve

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months ago, when we shared this vision of all the

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churches coming together for the sole purpose of reaching the unsaved.

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We've often said it's a lot easier to get an unsaved,

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unchurched person to come to a football stadium than it

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is to get them to come to our sanctuaries eleven

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o'clock one Sunday morning, and that's who we're going after.

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We told the saints of God that's been involved in

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this campaign for almost a year, bring your lost friends

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and family members to this event because the chances are

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very high if we can just get them there, the

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chances are very high that they will commit their life

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to Christ. So that's the purpose of this campaign. We

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basically have taken the Biligram model of how to put

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together these large scale outreach events and we have just

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adapted it, adapted it to really the smaller markets rule

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America across the country. And one more stat before I

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turn it over, the North American Mission Board has told

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us out of the seventy two million gen zers as

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that kid from about ten to twenty five years of age,

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fifty seven million of that demogra they do not have

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a personal relationship with Christ today. And we've also been

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told by leaders nationwide spiritual leaders that ninety percent of our

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public schools across America are lost. So what a mission field?

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What a mission field? Our public schools are? What a

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mission field? Our communities are? And so all we're trying

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to do. Let's come together in unity. Let's roll up

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our sleeves, let's pray, let's fast, Let's work in the

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fields that are wide under harvest, and do all that

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we can during these days of harvestingmen to reach a

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multitude of souls for the Kingdom of God.

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You can't beat that. And I'll tell you know you

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love the believers, but you want the non believers. That's

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where you're after. You have a family.

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I do my wife, Lynn. I guess it's okay to

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save this here in Tiger Country. But I married a

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Georgia Bulldog. I will forgive you in nineteen in eighty nine.

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I met her. In eighty eight. I was living in

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the Atlanta area. I was with an evangelistic ministry that

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had moved its headquarters to Atlanta in eighty eight. And

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I met Lynn in eighty eight and we got married

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in eighty nine. We have two daughters, Sarah who serves

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on our staff. She's thirty two, and Anna is twenty seven,

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and she works for the North American Mission Board. And

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I'm getting ready to be a granddaddy for the first

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time in April. But Lord has blessed me with a

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beautiful family, a godly wife, two godly daughters, and we're

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just all about trying to do all that we can

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to help advance the Kingdom of God.

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Yeah, it is a blessing, indeed. And how about you family.

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I have a family. I've been married for one hundred

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and two years. My wife's been married fifty one fifty

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one years, excuse me, been married fifty one years. Four children.

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My oldest ones are renegade. He lives in North Carolina

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and has served as a deacon in his church. I

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have a son that works at one of the plants

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here locally, but he's the only one with a doctor,

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a Doctor of Theology degree that works in his plant.

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And I have two daughters. One is a licensed professional

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counselor here in the Walker Dentim Springs area, and my

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other daughter is a school teacher. And all of their

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families are involved in churches in this area.

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Very very good. And I bring up family because this

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is a strong belief of mine that there's also somewhat

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of a destruction of the family unit these days that

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has caused some, you know, some of the issues that

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you're seeing in your communities. I've been married twenty six years,

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totally blessed, and there's only one woman in the world

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that would put up with me for twenty six years,

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and it's the one I'm married to. I don't deserver,

470
00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:07.359
but I'll take her. And obviously both of you long

471
00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.400
long time marriages, and there's something to that. I think

472
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:15.039
that this is again a personal belief that I have,

473
00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:17.559
but I think that sometimes people give up too quick,

474
00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:23.160
and I think that through God you can overcome a lot.

475
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:27.079
Nobody is perfect in this world. We strive to be,

476
00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:29.880
but nobody is perfect except for God.

477
00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:30.359
Amen.

478
00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:35.960
And I cannot tell you how much what you're doing

479
00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:40.119
is needed here in Livingston, Paris, Louisiana and all over

480
00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:44.680
the country. Let's talk about the event specifically. It is

481
00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:49.519
March sixteenth through the nineteenth at Yellow Jacket Stadium, that's

482
00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:52.240
right right there in Denham Springs. I know I have

483
00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:55.200
a ton of lesseners here locally. Tell us about it.

484
00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:58.519
What we're doing is that, first of all, the gauge

485
00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:02.279
ministry comes in bringing everything we need from a platform

486
00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:07.920
and stage excuse me, to the audio equipment that's used. Uh.

487
00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:11.960
They come in, they organize everything. Uh. We're working with

488
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:16.160
the local government. We appreciate the mayor and the police chief,

489
00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:17.799
Chief Walker.

490
00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:20.240
Shout out Mayor Landry.

491
00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:24.640
Yes, and also the sheriff. Are all of our community

492
00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.559
leaders are coming in to help us and work with us,

493
00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:29.440
and we're very grateful for that.

494
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:32.240
Uh. Jeff Taylor involved in that.

495
00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:35.839
I'm sure he's the chairman of our committee. He's the

496
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:39.240
chairman of our committee. And I appreciate brother Jeff and

497
00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:41.680
what he does and what he brings and the leadership

498
00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:44.880
he brings to the table. With that he does things

499
00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:48.039
that none of us can do. I'm here so I

500
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:50.720
can carry I carry the water for him.

501
00:29:50.799 --> 00:29:53.160
Okay, well, you do a great job of it.

502
00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:56.920
But but the stadium is going to be opened up.

503
00:29:57.400 --> 00:30:00.200
We're going to have people from our local churches that

504
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.720
are going to help with parking. They're going to be ushers.

505
00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:07.799
The first night, we're having a mass choir that's made

506
00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:10.759
up of the people from our community that will be

507
00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:14.519
providing a choir for the crusade. Beautiful and so we're

508
00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:16.680
going to have a unified choir we're gonna have some

509
00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:21.440
of the best voices in Livingston Parish there to sing.

510
00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:24.960
And so every night, every night at seven o'clock, we're

511
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:28.400
going to take off and trust God to see what's

512
00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:33.640
going to happen. Wednesday night is youth Night. That'll start

513
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:37.680
a little bit earlier. There'll be a pizza blast. There's

514
00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:41.240
going to be more as teenage manna. But there's more

515
00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:43.880
pizza going to be eating on that night than any

516
00:30:43.880 --> 00:30:46.319
other place in the rest of the world. Right here

517
00:30:46.359 --> 00:30:47.680
in Yellowjacket Stadium.

518
00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:48.240
I love it.

519
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:52.359
And the Gospel is going to be proclaimed to our teenagers,

520
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:56.200
and we're praying for a harvest of souls because if

521
00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:01.039
we don't reach the next generation, we're four generals away

522
00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:05.119
from where our country left being a Christian nation. If

523
00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:07.400
we have any hope for the future, it's going to

524
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:10.640
be because we've reached our young people, and so we're

525
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:13.599
working hard to reach young people for Christ during this.

526
00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:16.160
I agree with that on the percentages tell us that

527
00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:22.000
it's in the high mid high seventies that those who

528
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:25.880
made a profession of faith in Christ, Yeah, did so

529
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:28.319
before eighteen years of age.

530
00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:28.720
Amen.

531
00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:31.839
So what that tells us is if we're going to

532
00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:34.960
reach the youth of America. We better reach them before

533
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:38.240
they graduate from high school, or chances are very high

534
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:41.400
they may never get reached. Correct, So we place a

535
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.839
strong emphasis in all these campaigns to reach the younger

536
00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:50.599
generation because of that stat And if you have ever

537
00:31:50.759 --> 00:31:55.799
done any research or studies on great moves of God,

538
00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.440
revivals like the Jesus Movement back in the sixties, maybe

539
00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:03.920
into the early seventies, and other great moves of God,

540
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:08.039
you will learn that almost all these great moves of

541
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:13.000
God that we've studied began with young people. I think

542
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:15.839
it was about two years ago over in Wilmore, Kentucky. Yes,

543
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:19.839
at Asbury College. There was a move of God that

544
00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:22.599
took place on that college campus that swept across the

545
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:26.799
nation and even overseas. And I have often said that

546
00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:30.519
revival didn't break out because of a bunch of gray hairs.

547
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:34.000
It broke out because of a bunch of teenagers. So

548
00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:38.839
we're praying that God would use this campaign to invade

549
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:42.160
the hearts of these young people. One of the extensions

550
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:46.000
that we've been doing for since the eighties in all

551
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:50.599
of our campaigns is we developed a non religious school

552
00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:54.559
assembly program where we go into public schools in private

553
00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:57.440
schools and share a message of hope. Really it's a

554
00:32:57.480 --> 00:33:01.680
message about making wise choices in the game of life.

555
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:05.599
And we want to remind the students across America that

556
00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:08.839
the greatest days of your life, they're not behind you.

557
00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:11.400
The greatest days of your life are in front of you.

558
00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:15.279
So we challenge these students, don't do anything that could

559
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:18.960
run or destroy your mind, your body, or your future.

560
00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:22.440
You remember Bobby Bowden, Bobby once said that the youth

561
00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:25.200
of America, they may not be one hundred percent of

562
00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:30.279
our population, but they are one hunderdercent of our future.

563
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:35.640
So we do everything that we can through these campaigns,

564
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:37.759
whether it be in the school assemblies. We'll have a

565
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:41.279
pre Crusade youth rally next Wednesday night, febru the nineteenth.

566
00:33:41.519 --> 00:33:43.759
We had a pre crusade youth rally in that Jackson,

567
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:46.599
Mississippi crusade two years ago. We had over a thousand

568
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:50.039
young people that showed up a month before the crusade

569
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:54.920
kicked off. And so next Wednesday night, February nineteen, we'll

570
00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:57.599
have a pre crusade student rally for all the young

571
00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:01.960
people in this area to to attend and then they'll

572
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:05.240
have about three to four weeks in front of them

573
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:09.159
to be missionaries on their campuses to use this upcoming

574
00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:13.920
campaign March sixteen through nineteen to bring their classmates and

575
00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:18.119
their teammates to this event to hear the gospel every night.

576
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:22.400
I told you while ago that we've got Agent de

577
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:25.480
Pray will be with us on Monday night. He played

578
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:28.760
college football at Firman University and he was the team

579
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:32.519
football chaplain for coach Lou Holts. You remember Lou Holts

580
00:34:33.079 --> 00:34:36.159
coach Steve Spurrier when they were both at University of

581
00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:40.559
South Carolina Gagcocks. And he'll be with us on Monday night.

582
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:43.719
And then Ken Freeman, we were talking about him while ago,

583
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:47.639
one of the most gifted communicators of the Gospel I've

584
00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:52.599
ever been exposed to, one of the greatest school assembly

585
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:58.159
speakers I've ever been exposed to, and has incredible, incredible story.

586
00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:03.039
Was a victim of nine broken homes. But God used

587
00:35:03.079 --> 00:35:06.519
a football player by the name of Jeff many many

588
00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:11.480
years ago to invite Ken to a Youth Knight evangelistic event,

589
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:14.920
and for the first time, Ken walked into a local church,

590
00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:17.559
heard the gospel for the first time, and gave his

591
00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:20.800
life to Christ that night in a Freddie Gage revival

592
00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:24.360
in Corpus Christi, Texas. That's been some fifty plus years ago.

593
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:27.480
Ken Freeman has been preaching the gospel for more than

594
00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:32.039
fifty years and has seen hundreds of thousands come to

595
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:36.719
Christ through his ministry, all because a football player by

596
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:39.360
the name of Jeff invited him to the event.

597
00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:45.119
Wow, I'll give you goose bumps. And look, he's relatable.

598
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:50.519
He's relatable. You don't have to have God in your

599
00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:54.000
heart and accept Christ as your savior. You don't have

600
00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:58.119
to come from necessarily a family full of preachers.

601
00:35:58.159 --> 00:35:58.679
That's right.

602
00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:02.599
You can come from nine burking homes and still end

603
00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:03.360
up in that spot.

604
00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:05.519
And one more special guest that will be with us

605
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:10.519
that week of the campaign is Al Robertson. You've heard

606
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:15.760
of Duck dynasty up there in northern Louisiana. Yeh, Al

607
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:18.119
will be with us on that Monday night to share

608
00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:22.559
his story and his wife Lisa, So we're excited about

609
00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:25.639
them coming. Of course, he mentioned. Charles Billingsley will be

610
00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:28.880
with us on Sunday night with that Mass choir on

611
00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:31.400
Sunday night, and then the worship team for the whole

612
00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:34.039
four nights will be a group called Russia Fools and

613
00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:38.920
they're extremely, extremely gifted. So it's gonna be a pyorpack week.

614
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:41.400
We just need to fill up that stadium every night.

615
00:36:41.639 --> 00:36:43.119
People who need to hear the gospel.

616
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:46.760
That's right, that's right. So ask you, let me ask

617
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:51.199
you this. Local churches, how can they get involved? How

618
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:54.320
is there a way Godsite to go to.

619
00:36:54.800 --> 00:37:00.000
Go tail l dashp dot com.

620
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:04.199
Okay, and I'll put that in a description dot com. Yes,

621
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:05.400
I'll put in the description.

622
00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:08.679
They can sign on there right now. We need we

623
00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:12.599
need about three hundred and forty decision counselors. So this

624
00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.320
is for Christians that know the Lord, that can share

625
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:17.920
their faith. And you don't even have to be able

626
00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:20.880
to share your faith, just be a Christian. We believe

627
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:22.840
the Holy Spirit of God will give you the words

628
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:25.559
you need to say. So we need about three hundred

629
00:37:25.559 --> 00:37:28.599
and forty people. There's a couple of trainings coming up.

630
00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:33.000
They'll see that on the website also, and so we

631
00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:37.119
need some help. We're not hey, I'm not embarrassed. Help,

632
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:40.519
that's okay. We need some help to make this thing work.

633
00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:43.639
After there's going to be outreach events being done by

634
00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:46.880
local churches. Look for a door hanger on your doorknob

635
00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:52.320
and the Dentim Springs Walker Living Stun French settlement areas,

636
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:54.679
so look for that. Yeah.

637
00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:59.000
We partner with a organization now to Charlotte, North Carolina

638
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:04.239
called Saturate USA dot org, and they will ship into

639
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:07.719
any community where we're doing one of our campaigns free

640
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:12.679
of charge, even pay for the shipping all the door

641
00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:15.760
bags that you put on a door when you out

642
00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:21.920
canvassing neighborhoods. They'll also ship in the Jesus film on

643
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:26.119
DVD and some gospel tracks. They'll ship all that material

644
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:32.480
into our campaigns free of charge for us to invite

645
00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:37.199
people to come to the nightly crusade services and then

646
00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:41.760
we can put our marketing pieces inside those bags. In fact,

647
00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:45.480
they shipped in forty thousand bags just a couple of

648
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:49.400
weeks ago. In this coming Saturday, think it First Baptist Church,

649
00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:53.679
Denim Springs. Leo Miller, the pastor First Baptist Denham Springs

650
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:56.960
is the outreach chairman and they're having a bag party

651
00:38:57.559 --> 00:39:00.559
to assemble all that material on those bags because over

652
00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:03.239
the next three to four weeks we're going to be

653
00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:05.719
canvassing neighborhoods all over this region.

654
00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:08.880
Churches from across our area. If we'll be doing it,

655
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:12.920
and like I say, forty forty thousand, so look for

656
00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:13.800
something on your.

657
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:18.559
Door, amen, And if you're interested in learning more about it,

658
00:39:18.599 --> 00:39:22.679
which hopefully you are. I'm going to link the website

659
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:25.639
in the description of this video. So if you're driving

660
00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:27.559
or listening to this or whatever, you don't need to

661
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:29.920
write it down, you can just go home, click on

662
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:32.920
that link. It'll bring you, give you all the information

663
00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:36.880
you need. And if you're able to come and help

664
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:40.880
and help, you know, spread the water God, Amen, please

665
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:44.519
do so. I appreciate both of you coming on the show.

666
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:47.440
Let me share one more thing. I feel impressed to

667
00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:51.519
do this. We started a youth camp ministry in nineteen

668
00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:53.840
eighty nine. It was birth out of an all night

669
00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:57.599
prayer meeting in eighty eight. Yes, first Baptist Denim Springs

670
00:39:57.599 --> 00:40:00.199
has been sending their high school or their junior high

671
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.880
students to our Gotel camp in Alabama from about the

672
00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:06.400
last three or four summers. That was the initial connection

673
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:10.360
to this community. And we called Leo ol Miller because

674
00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:13.280
their kids, their students had been coming to our camp

675
00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:16.679
for the last three summers, three or four summers, and

676
00:40:18.400 --> 00:40:21.119
I called Lee about a year ago and asked if

677
00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:24.360
he would begin to pray about us coming in to

678
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:27.960
meet with some leaders to cast this vision. That's how

679
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:29.119
that ball began to roll.

680
00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:29.599
Wow.

681
00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:32.920
And since nineteen eighty nine, we have seen over one

682
00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:38.400
hundred and ten thousand students and their leaders from local

683
00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:41.079
churches across the nation that have been to our summer

684
00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:44.440
youth camps that we started in eighty nine. Over forty

685
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:48.239
thousand kids have committed their lives to Christ, to this

686
00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:52.360
ministry that we started in eighty nine, and over three

687
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:56.079
thousand kids have answered the call to full time Christian service.

688
00:40:56.519 --> 00:40:59.440
My take on that number. If just half that number

689
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:02.320
pans out, think of the impact that would be made

690
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:06.320
for Christ. But we've made a commitment to this community.

691
00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:08.559
The churches that are involved in this campaign. He said,

692
00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:12.360
well to go. There's thirty five forty participating churches. Yes,

693
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:17.679
participating churches. Those churches if their students want to come

694
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:20.280
to our go Tel camp this summer, and we're happening.

695
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:24.239
We're doing one up here in Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi.

696
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:27.239
It's only three hours away from here. But if any

697
00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:30.119
of the students from these churches involved in this campaign,

698
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:34.039
they can come for just a ninety nine dollars camp fee.

699
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:37.480
The normal fees four hundred dollars, but we're letting all

700
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:40.480
these churches and their students come. If they haven't made

701
00:41:40.519 --> 00:41:42.960
plans yet, they can come to go Tel Camp at

702
00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:45.880
Mississippi College for just ninety nine dollars. I wanted your

703
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:48.679
listening audience to be able to be aware of that.

704
00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:51.280
That's a beautiful thing. Yeah, and we'll put that also

705
00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:55.079
in the description with information on that. Thank you so

706
00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:57.960
much again, Brother Reck for coming on. Brother Richard, thank

707
00:41:58.039 --> 00:42:03.039
you keep rocket. I appreciate y'all very much. And uh,

708
00:42:03.119 --> 00:42:05.360
before we get out of here, just one more final fault.

709
00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:07.320
I want.

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00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:11.440
I want to know brother Rick your you know what

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Bible verse.

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Do you do?

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You lean on a lot?

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I quote Proverbs eleven thirty, and when I sign people's Bibles,

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I put Proverbs eleven thirty. And the scripture says he

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who wins souls is wise.

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Oh, I love that. What about you?

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Brother Galatians two twenty, I have been crucified together with Christ. Nevertheless,

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I live not I, but Christ lives in me. And

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the life that I now live. I live by the

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faith of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

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I love that one too. Mine's an easy one for

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most people. It is I can do all things through

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God he me.

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Amen, Amen, And I believe that on honey men.

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Because I sure can't do it by myself.

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That's right.

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Thank you so much again for coming on and it

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has been a pleasure. One more time, go to that link.

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Get involved. So important for this community, and we're going

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to change some lives in March. Thank you so much.

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And until next time, I'm Jim Chapman with local leaders

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