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GYC Southeast

GLOW: Giving Light to Our World

Nelson Ernst

GLOW Part 1: Human Purpose and Prophecy

GLOW Part 2: How to Fit a Preacher in a Pocket

GLOW Part 3: To Sell or Not to Sell, That is Not a Question

Father in heaven, thank you that we can come together and that we can learn how to be more effective witnesses for you.

And Lord, I just wanna pray that your spirit would be here to speak not only through me, Lord, but to be in the hearts of everyone who's in this room.

Father, so that we can learn to be, as I said, more effective witnesses for you.

Lord, may a few more souls at least be in the Kingdom of Heaven as a ripple effect of what we're talking about today.

Father, we ask for these things in your name.

Alright, well, the title of our seminar today is How to Fit a Preacher into Your Pocket.

How many of you guys have ever been in a situation where you've been maybe in the grocery store in line or something and you're like, you know, a perfect opportunity opens up to witness to the person standing next to you and you just don't quite know what to say?

And you just wish that you could pull Mark Finley out of your pocket and add some water and voila, you know, a beautiful sermon and a baptism, right?

Well, we're going to talk today about how to fit a preacher in your pocket because Mrs.

White says that our little Bible tracts are silent preachers.

So you can put a preacher in your pocket just like this 1.

This one's David Asherick and then the other one's Mark Finley.

So I'm gonna start off with a few quotes here from the Spirit of Prophecy.

She says, the best help that ministers can give the members of our churches is not sermonizing.

The best help that ministers can give the members of our churches is not sermonizing, but planning work for them.

Give each 1 something to do for others and let all be taught how to work." Now she's not talking about how to like go out and you know rake the leaves in the front yard.

She's talking about work as in work for saving souls.

So the best help that I can give you today is not to sermonize but to give you practical ways to do outreach.

The work of God on this earth can never be finished.

The work of God on this earth can never be finished until the men and women comprising our church membership rally to the work and unite their efforts with those of the ministers and church officers.

It is training and education that is needed.

Those who labor in visiting the churches should give brethren and sisters instruction in practical methods of doing missionary work.

So by the time we get done with our seminar today, you ought to be able to know how to practically do a little bit of missionary work.

And I hope that that's what's gonna happen.

All right, moving on to the next quote, you're thinking to yourself, man, how many times is he gonna read quotes to us?

Don't worry, we don't have too many more.

I just want to let you know, when I read this quote for the first time, I was flabbergasted.

I didn't even know that this quote existed.

Now, I'd be interested to see how many of you have ever read this quote before.

She says, There will be times when it is fitting for our ministers to give on the Sabbath in our churches short discourses full of life and love of Christ.

But the church members are not to expect a sermon every Sabbath.

What would happen during the divine service?

In context of this quote, she actually says that during the divine service, if churches are running as they should, we should open up the floor for the church members to give testimonies about how they have been reaching out to souls the previous week.

She says that those kind of services will be as meet in due season to everybody, visitors included.

Now that, somebody here might have actually read this quote, but I am wondering, has anybody ever seen this kind of a church happening?

If you have, I want to talk to you afterwards.

I want to find out where that church is and move my membership.

Just joking, actually I go to a pretty evangelistic church.

It only happened 1 Sabbath, but I was not there very much.

This is from Pacific Union Recorder, January 29, 1903.

The PUR stands for Pacific Union Recorder.

So the question is then, how can we all get involved in doing practical outreach?

By the way, I really like my PowerPoint slides.

Microsoft Office 2010, it's got some good graphics.

None of that bitten apple serpentism on my computer.

Anyway, you'll find that these slides are really cool.

In fact, I'd just show you the slides and they'd be great enough for you except audio verse is on So I need to say something.

Yeah, so the question is, how can we all get involved in practical outreach?

Not only that, not only how can you get involved, but how can you involve your church?

And how can we get our church members involved in practical outreach so that we can actually have services like that?

And we can be winning souls left and right.

White actually asks the same question, then she gives us an answer.

The next quote, she says, let every Seventh-day Adventist ask himself, what can I do to proclaim the third angel's message?

Then she finishes by saying, the Distribution of our literature is 1 means by which the message is to be proclaimed.

Let every believer scatter broadcast tracts and leaflets and books containing the message for this time.

So 1 way that we can all get involved is by passing out tracks.

If you have a thumb, you can be a literature evangelist.

Because if you have an opposable thumb, you can grip a piece of literature and go like this.

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GLOW: Giving Light to Our World

GLOW Part 2: How to Fit a Preacher in a Pocket

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Breakout Sessions A

So You Want Me To Be an Expert Witness?

56m

The Way of Love

The Way of Love- Part 3

43m

UFO’s, Angels and Satanic Delusions

49m

Plenary

The Faith of Jesus: Why He Left

47m

Restoration 2023

Translation or Transformation? The 2nd Coming

48m

Burying the Canoe

56m

Knowing God’s Will- Part 2

29m

The Government of God and Discipline

44m

Jesus: The Recruiter

46m

The Cross

Cosmic Reconciliation

25m

Callie Williams Weekend

How to be Offensive Like Jesus

40m

Just a Drink of Water

43m

Sound Doctrine