on a survival word. I've been to, my wife and I, 55 different foreign countries, and we've found one that's nearly a universal language. The one we use whenever we're in an emergency situation is banyo. And you can try that. That works a lot of places. And that's helped us in a million ways. And so I just wanted to, Oh, wow. Matthew 5. Matthew 5. Listen, I'm here and then gone, but you have a good church, a good pastor, a good vision, a great future, and I don't know how to help any more than I'm helping this week. Tomorrow night will be the last service, but I want you to be here on purpose. Tonight is a little departure. We've walked through missions, missions, missions, missions. I believe with all my heart that your church gets that, already has caught that vision, and now it's a matter of refining what you do and how you do it. And while this business of faith promise, So often, people will say to me, Pastor King, I don't know, I don't really wanna put what I give on a card because I just wanna stay, listen. The idea is to get people to do even more than they've done in the past. We're making no bones about it. If the church is going to do more, then they're going to have to have more resources. And Faith Promise Missions is a very effective and God-used way And we don't quibble with those who do other things, but you talk to missionary after missionary after missionary, and the churches that use faith promise giving are far and away the biggest givers and contributors to missions. It's just the way it works. And so it's like, hey, we wanna get you in on a good thing. And so please follow your pastor's lead on that. I was in a church in Tennessee, And the pastor said to me, Brother King, I want you to come back next year, but you're gonna see a different church around here. And I said, really? Yep, I'm sick of this treading water. I'm sick of this just languishing. I'm sick of the church kind of being the same old, same old, and we're gonna do something different around here. to get us off dead center. And I'm going with one of the four C's. And you know, I'm searching in my mind, the four C's. So finally, I just say, well, what's the four C's? Well, he says, I'll tell ya. He says, I'm thinking of going Catholic. And he says, I don't mean Catholic as in Catholic doctrine. But there's a lot of our churches that are kind of like carnivals. They're just everything but a tent and it's people coming and going and a lot of foolishness and horsing around and people are leaving our churches and going where there's a sense of sacredness and worship. and a sense of liturgy and organization and formalism and a consciousness of God and I'm thinking of changing our church to that. Or I'm going contemporary. I don't care, I'm gonna get the drum set, the women up there in spandex on the worship team and we're gonna have a good time. Or I'm gonna go charismatic. He says, I'm sick of the duty, obedience, tithing, faithfulness, sacrifice, consecration. I'm going with the gold teeth and the miracles and the answered prayer and the praise songs. I'm just going that way. Or I'm going Calvinist. I'm gonna say, sure, people aren't being saved, our church is declining, people are going to hell all around us, but that's God's fault. He's not calling them anymore, and so then we'll feel better about ourselves? Four Cs. Now you've never seen Randy King with blood dripping out of his eyes, but this pastor's looking me straight in the face in pure pragmatism, desperate to see something happen. I said to him, look brother, before you do that, let me ask you three questions. All right, I said, give me the name, you've got a hundred and some people in your congregation, give me the name. I want the name of anybody in your church who when they get up in the morning, before their knees hit the floor, before they sit at the breakfast table, before they leave the house to go out into the world, I want the name of who in your church prays for God to open a door of utterance so they can speak the gospel. Just tell me, who in your church is soul conscious? Who believes that they're supposed to be ambassadors and God, if you'll open the door, that they leave the house with an intent to speak for the Lord that day? And the pastor says, well, he says, I don't know anybody in our church that does that. I don't do that. I said, Pastor, tell me this. Who do you know in your church that walks out of their house, faces the day, and has within arm's reach a gospel tract? Their pocket, their glove compartment, their lunchbox, their purse. Who's got a gospel tract that if somebody tackled them, threw them on the ground, choked them and stomped on their chest and said, what must I do to be saved? that they could at least give him the gospel, the New Testament, a tract, the John Romans. And he says, well, he says, Judy, I saw Judy was digging in her purse once, and I'm almost sure I saw a tract in her purse, but I've been here four years, and we haven't bought tracts for the tract rack. I said, all right, tell me the names of the 10 best families you have. Faithful, intact, tithing families. And give me their address, and I'm gonna take you with me like an orangutan on a skateboard, and I'll do the talking. But I wanna go to your 10 best families. Don't tell the wife we're coming. I don't want her to clean the house for the first time in a month. I'm not going there. I just want to know where they live. And then you're going with me, and we'll go to the door immediately to the right, and I'll knock on it. And I'm going to ask them, do you know that right there lives a Christian? They believe they're going to heaven, and they believe you're going to hell. and they live right next door to you. Have they ever invited you over for dinner, brought you to a Christmas program, had you come to friend day, ever invited you over for apple pie, ever come over with an open Bible? Have they ever talked to you about your never-dying soul, in any way demonstrated a care for your eternity? And then I'm gonna go to the house on the other side. And I'm just going to ask them, do you know right there lives a Christian? They're going to heaven. They're going to spend all eternity with the Lord. And you're going to burn forever in hell. Have they ever tried any way to love their neighbors themselves and talk to their next door neighbor? He said, well, Brother King, you know, times have changed, and we don't neighbor like we used to, and wow, a lot of people have locked doors, and you know, I don't even know who lives next to me. And I said to him, listen, do you understand this? You're the pastor of this outfit. and you're about to give God a black eye because souls aren't being saved and the baptism waters aren't stirred and people all around you are going to hell and you're blaming God. Hey, we have to get back to doing what we know is right to do. People all around you are dying and going to hell. I love Y2K, it was a wonderful time. Everybody dug a well, bought extra propane, laid by some sauerkraut in a can, and they all bought generators. Which is wonderful because I need a generator now and they're on Craigslist real cheap now. But during that time, A lot of people were in survival mode, and wow, there was a guy who has a YouTube video, and he was showing the people how to prepare, long-haired hippie freak, just a tie-dyed t-shirt, bell-bottom pants, right straight out of the 60s guy. But he's showing people how to prepare for Y2K. And he says, I want to show you how to preserve meat in a barrel. It's been going on for centuries. Why a millennium ago, the people in the Pacific Rim were salting fish and everybody knows about salt as a preservative. I want to talk about that for just a few minutes tonight. Look with me in Matthew 5. Verse number 13. The Sermon on the Mount, the Lord Jesus' first earthly words, after he enters the public ministry, after his temptation, gives the beatitudes, and says to the believers, ye, verse number 13, are the salt of the earth. But if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. It does not say, I want you to be the salt of the earth. He says, you are the salt of the earth. People say to me all the time, Brother King, what do you think of Donald Trump? What do you think of Hillary Clinton? What do you think, and look at this. Hey, listen, whenever someone comes to me with that, hey, they legalized homosexual marriage, they put rainbow lights on the White House, what's our country coming to? I say, when you see Christian values being trampled upon, When you see Bible truth being disregarded, when you see Christianity be the brunt and the offscoring, I read my Bible and it says that's a sign that the salt has lost its savor. We have churches, but it's Christianity light. It's the form of it, but it doesn't have the same zeal, the same commitment, the same passion, the same... I'm not saying there's none of it. I'm saying it's a shadow of what it used to be and what it ought to be. You're the salt of the earth. But if the salt is lost its savor, it's thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden underfoot of men. When I see our values being trodden underfoot of men, I grieve because judgment begins at the house of God. this hippie freak guy, I liked him, I watched him. And he's got this barrel, and he puts in about four inches of real coarse rock salt in the bottom, and there on the table he's got what looks like pork steak, pork chops, and he's explaining, hey folks, if you're gonna preserve the meat, why you have to put in a thick layer of salt in the bottom. And then he takes the pieces of meat and he lays them down in there and he's very careful. He doesn't overlap any of them. He doesn't have any of them quite touching the side of the barrel and he lays them all in there. And then he gets some more salt and he dumps a bunch in and he stops and he says, you can't have too much salt. but you can have too much flesh. I wanted to stop right there. If there's ever a description of the church today, we have too much flesh and not enough salt. It's no wonder it spoils. He puts a couple inches of salt. Oh, then he puts some more meat and on more salt. And he's explaining in this survival video, hey, listen, you know, this could last for years. They brought salted meat over on the ship and it was still edible when they got here after months on the sea. And this is really, and he goes, As he's putting it in there, he stops two thirds of the way full and he's laying it in, he's pressing it. Then he says, now don't forget people, in order for this to work, the salt has to touch the meat. I wanna talk about that. Having the meat in the barrel there and the salt over there is never gonna work, is it? Moving the salt closer to the barrel does not work. Putting the salt on top of the barrel does not work. The salt has to touch the meat. I really like the guy. He could be a Baptist preacher as far as I'm concerned. I'm in Omaha, Nebraska, small town south of there. The pastor. has Firefighter Sunday. Oh, Firefighter Sunday. We're gonna honor those. I mean, they put their lives at risk. They have, and I mean, we're gonna give them a Bible and gift certificates. We have posters printed. We have flyers up in the restaurants. We have an article in the newspaper. We invite all the firefighters. Hey, it's gonna be a big time at Firefighter Sunday. And one man came, and he was a member of the church already. Glad to get the gift certificate to Culver's Restaurant and happy for the, and the pastor, and the youth pastor made an appointment. We're gonna go see the fire chief. This is ridiculous. 11 o'clock on Monday, they're in the pastor's office, or the fire chief's office. And they sit down across the desk from him and they say, we had Firefighter Sunday yesterday. And none of you came. And we're here to apologize. Why would you come? You don't know us. You have no contact with us. Why would you come? That's our fault. We have no relationship with you. You don't know us. Why would you come? He said, but we noticed that this town has fire hydrants painted every four years. And you do this quadrant of the city this year, and this quadrant the next year, and this quadrant. And so it is that we've decided as a church that we want to paint the fire hydrants. We'll have our junior high and teenage boys go. We'll put a tarp around them. We'll wire brush all the rusty stuff off and they'll paint primer on it. Then they'll clean up around it. And then the next day, the girls will come and they'll paint it. You get the reflective orange or green or red or blue, whatever you want, we'll paint it. And the little junior high girls will put puppy dog noses on the little faucet ends. We wanna serve you. The next year, 31 firefighters came to Firefighter Sunday. Why? Why? Not because they changed the music. Not because they changed the Bible translation. Not because the pastor started wearing no tie. Folks, the salt, shocking! The salt has to touch the meat. They have to know who you are. I go to a church, there's young people swinging from the rafters. It was half zoo. There's young couples, young families. And I said to the pastor, you got a great thing going here. Most churches are like Q-tips, just white hair out there. And I said, I can't imagine. what you're doing to have all these young families. I said, you must have some kind of youth pastor. No, he says, truthfully, he's kind of a sorry dog, and I'm thinking of firing him. I says, well, what? I mean, come on. This don't happen by accident. This is one of the most exciting churches I've ever been in. And he says, well, it's those two ladies, and he points over to the second row, and there's two ladies there. Now, ladies, hear me. You know if this is true, there are some women who are just elegant women. Their bearing, their carriage, their hair, their mannerism, their dress, they're just elegant. These were near the other end. I'm trying to be as kind as I can be. There was as average and pedestrian as a mud fence. I mean, I'm not kidding you. And I said, those two, oh yeah, he says, we've got over 50 people in here because of those two. Well, now my ears are perked up. He says, you know, they're both retired schoolteachers who are widows and... He says, they live in a wealthy neighborhood. Our whole church is in a fairly well-to-do area, and wow, he said, they were noticing that at 7.30 in the morning, here's all these SUVs and minivans going by. They live in these $300,000 houses, and they have to have two incomes to make the bills, and so the wives all have to work. And so she's going by with a Starbucks in one hand and a steering wheel in the other and four little kids in back and she's dropping them off at school and off to work. And after work, the older kids can go home, latchkey kids, they can go home and moms work until five or six. But the kids between kindergarten and fifth grade can't go home. And the parents pay $200 a week for them to get on a bus at the public school and be transported over to the after school daycare. And in our town, that's held at Salvation Army. And these kids are warehoused there, 150 of them are kept there in the Salvation Army building until mom gets off work and then she can come home and pick them up. And then she at five or six goes home and fixes supper, and then she fights with them for homework. And these ladies said, we feel bad for those moms. Why don't we go down to the Salvation Army and just volunteer? You did math and science, I did English and history. We could tutor those little kids and help them with their homework. Unpaid. It didn't come from the pastors planning a big program. It came from a heart of genuine Christians who loved what those families loved, those little kids. They go, the kids are getting picked up at four. They help them first. Then the kids are picked up at 4.30. Then the kids are picked up at five. But after a couple weeks, the mama, when she gets there to pick up the kids, and she comes in and says, hey, I want to meet, who is Helen? And who is Barbara? I gotta meet my kids, I haven't had homework, and they said they got somebody here that helps them. All I have to do is feed them supper, and we can enjoy an evening at home, because the schoolwork's done. He said, when me and the youth pastor go knocking doors, and they answer the door, the kids hide behind them, and the mom slams the door. But on Saturday, when Helen and Barbara go there, the kids run out from behind mom. and they invite them in, and they have coffee. And those ladies have led those women to Christ, and mom brings the kids to church, and the husband follows, and we've had family saved and joined. Nobody talked about changing the Bible. Nobody talked about hip hop music. Somebody got it. The salt has to touch the meat. I can tell you story after story. It's been one of the most incredible years for me. And I know I'm here on missions conference. But here's what I've discovered. I was born and raised on a farm. Hear me carefully. We had all these cows and one bull. And even when I was three and four and five years old, Daddy said, we have to make sure we keep the bull healthy. If we do our part, he'll do what comes natural to him and he'll reproduce. But boy, if he gets sick, we're in trouble with the whole herd. That's what's going on today. When churches are in trouble, when churches are declining, when money gets tight, missions is the first thing they cut. I see it everywhere. So I'm on a crusade. It's a one-string banjo. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Let's keep the church healthy. Let's keep the church healthy. If the church is healthy, it'll do what comes natural. It'll reproduce here. It'll reproduce on the field. You with me here? The light that shines the farthest shines the brightest at home. When people are soul conscious here, they'll buy into missions there. You say, well, I mean, what about, I was in a church, they had 16 men between the ages of 18 and 24 come up on the platform. They make an arc like this. I'm looking, these are all college-age young men, handsome dudes, suit and tie, stand up, and they sing a special a cappella. And I said, whoa, that's fantastic. Most churches would kill. to have those young men. All the girls were smiling, I promise. And I said, wow, what do you do? I mean, the vibrancy, the excitement, the youth, the vitality, it's just energy exuded from them, and a godly song, and singing, and I said, wow, what a, oh, it's Tim. It's Tim. Yeah, you know Tim, he likes ping pong. He went to the YMCA and Thursday nights he just put up a, he got permission and put up a little, who wants to be in a ping pong club Thursdays at five o'clock? Ages 18 to 24. Beginner, intermediate, and professional class. Come at five. But Tim brings refreshments and spends the first 10 minutes telling them the rules and how we're gonna do it and pairing them off and they have fun. And they have fun the next week. But Tim is touching the meat. And Tim has an ulterior motive. And Tim cultivates a relationship and then brings them the gospel. And these young men get saved. It's not magic. It's the same gospel message. It's the same love of Christ. It's the same John 3 16. But those young men have been saved. You know what the secret of all this is? None of it originated in the pea brain of the pastor. If you're waiting for him to hatch some new program that's gonna turn the world upside down, you've missed it. It's up to every one of us to find a way to get the gospel to our circle of influence. I don't care, look, you can just, all the time people fuss to me and I say look, winners make a way, losers make an excuse. If you wanna do it, you'll find a way to do it. There's a lady I know, again down in Indiana, she just put a thing in the paper, who wants to learn quilting Tadding and what's the cross stitch, and what's the other thing they do? Crocheting I don't even know how that works They can take a ball of yarn and turn it into a sweater. I know it's demonic. I'm sure it is But she's just got four ladies They come to her house one evening and she teaches them how to do all the doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot. But now when friend day comes, she's not a bombastic soul winner, she's not an outspoken witness, she's not a big theolog that answers all the questions. But when friend day comes, she has a friend. Why? Because the salt has to touch the meat. I can tell you story after story. I'm in a church, they got these young families, all kinds of kids once again, and I mean, I was looking for a juvenile control officer. They had all these kids running around it. I said, what in the world, how do you guys just get these families like this? He said, oh, it's the orange t-shirts. I don't see anybody in orange t-shirts. But they had had an article in the paper that they're having trouble in the school lunch program when Michelle Obama said we're gonna make the kids eat broccoli instead of Snickers. And they're having food fights. Look, I'm not making this up, this happened. and the junior high school was having difficulty with controlling the students in the lunchroom. And the ladies in the church, you know, they get together and have a hen session, and they're talking, and wow, one lady says, you know what? We could just go up to the junior high school, and we could be lunchroom monitors. We'll all get orange t-shirts, and it'll just say in there, lunchroom monitor. We'll go to the principal and ask him if we can just be there for the 11.30 lunch hour. Four of us will go and four more of us will go for the 12.15 lunch hour. And what we'll do, we'll just walk around and we'll pick up their tray and take it to the wash station when they're done. Or if they want another chocolate milk, we'll go get it. Or if Susie wants more macaroni cheese, we'll offer to help her. And just the presence of an adult in the lunchroom We won't discipline them, we won't witness to them, we won't holler at them, we'll serve them. By the end of this semester, The principal calls a school-wide assembly, and in the gymnasium, thanks the ladies, honors them, the cooks standing there clapping, the faculty clapping, the students clapping, while eight ladies in orange t-shirts are honored and given a certificate of appreciation at the school. Oh, I didn't mention, They were kind of taken prisoners. Hey, Eric, is Natalie your sister? Hey, where do you guys live? You can chit-chat with kids in the lunchroom. No log in sight. But when you go to the Swiderski's home, when you go to the Fleming's home, when you go to the Galicia home, when you stop by and the kids say, she's the lady in the orange t-shirt. Nobody changed the music. There are churches that are growing, folks, all around this country. There are good churches, wonderful churches, young families, exciting future, growing, busting out the seams. And the secret is almost never some idea that the pastor came up with. but he does have a climate that facilitates soul winning. He does have a passion for reaching the lost, but he gets it. I'm here. This is my Jerusalem. These are my responsibility. How can we possibly reach? They have prayer meetings. Church in Maine, I'm done. I could do this all night long, I promise you. Church in Maine. I walk in, hey, wow, look at this. There's a picture on the wall, eight by 10, framed, and it's got on the wall, Calvary's Most Wanted, and it's forever like a wanted poster with this couple. I said to the pastor, wow, when I'm in the bathroom at the station, there's one right there. on the platform. There's one there and there. And in the pastor's office, there's one there. And I said, what is this? Oh, he says, I was sick of our prayer meeting and our people. It just got to be where we were doing more praying to keep people out of heaven than to get them into heaven. I said, what do you mean? He says, every prayer request was a health need. My aunt's got a greater attack, and my uncle's got cancer, and my sister's got cataracts. But he said, nobody was saying, pray for this lost soul that I witnessed to. The list of lost people was this long. The list of health needs, we were doing more praying to keep people out of heaven than we were to get them into heaven. So I said, forget it. Men came to me and said, hey, let's just write down all the health needs on a list. In any way that knows of a health need, it can get on the list if they call the secretary and it gets added to the printed sheet, but we will forbid any prayer request except for the name of a lost soul on Wednesday night. He said it was quiet for a few weeks, deafeningly quiet, because our people had gotten out of the habit of witnessing. He said, I'm the pastor. The men said, we've got to get back to being a light in our community. We have to get back to talking about souls. So we started praying for lost souls. And I asked every family to just give me who's your most beloved, your brother, your twin, your sister, a coworker, an aunt, who is it that you're most burdened for? And then we pray for that list every Wednesday night. We pick, every six months, one of those couples, and our church fasts the first Thursday of every month. And we all pray just for that couple. The church is Calvary Baptist Church, it's Calvary's most wanted. I said, wow. What if they actually walked through the door? He says, oh, that's the blessing of it. He says, they come in, they see their picture, everybody recognizes, shakes their hand, welcomes them like they've been longtime members. That's the key to the whole thing. I said, yeah, well. How's that working? Oh, I'll show you. He takes me to his office. There's the picture of Calvary's Most Wanted from 2015. And I've been preaching to him and they're sitting there. Calvary's Most Wanted from 2016. And I'm preaching to him and they're sitting there. And while I'm preaching the week of meetings, in walks Calvary's most wonderful, I recognize them, Travis and Cheryl. And they got saved and baptized. I mean like, we actually got God on the scene. And he heard our prayers, and he worked on a heart, and drew and convicted and enlightened and saved somebody. Shocking. See, Leonard Ravenhill said the conditions are serious, but the church isn't. I'm pleading with you. Do not wait for an idea from the pastor, a paid staff member, or somebody else to do what God wants you to do. You won't start a ping pong club, you're 70, okay, great. Maybe you can start a class on how to make gunstocks. Last week, I was in a guy's house who has a couple guys coming on Tuesday nights to learn how to make gunstocks. Kidneys, man, kidneys. Maybe you'll be a snowshoeing club. Maybe you'll learn leather craft, maybe you'll start a go-kart club, or maybe you're gonna teach people how to make custom-sized skateboards, I don't know. But do you believe this? Do you believe if you ask God for an idea of what you could do to touch the meat, that God could help you with that? See, the thought, well, I don't know, the church didn't tell me to do that. Can I tell you, that ship has sailed. The churches that are growing are not resting on their loyals, not sitting on their blessed assurance, not waiting for something to happen, not psychoanalyzing how good the pastor's preaching is. They've got back out in the bushes. Touched people's lives and tried to win souls themselves and the pastor is just facilitating it Encouraging it I'm challenging you tonight. Listen, it's missions conference But we'll lose it all if we don't have strong churches And the church will die with the elderly if we don't reach this next generation And I just can't tell you how much I believe every syllable of what I'm telling you tonight. Would you ask God to help you find a way to touch the meat? I don't care. Hey, look, start a elk hunting committee. I don't care. Call it whatever you want. Wear green t-shirts. It doesn't have to be orange. Find something. I don't care what age you are, you can do this. I don't care what your station in life, it doesn't take a lot of money. You say, well, I'm just not much of a, hey. I don't care where you've been, I care where you're going. I care what direction you're facing. I care what the future holds. People all over this country are praying and asking God, show me how I could touch a life so I can give him the gospel. We have ulterior motives, folks. We're trying to glorify God by winning souls. Make no apology about it. Never expect the pastor, well, maybe if he'd ease up a little on preaching the truth. That's not the secret, folks. Preach the truth. Stand for the Bible. Worship God. Honor the music. But the salt's gotta touch the meat. I wonder how long it's been since you actually gave a tract to someone or even prayed for a person out loud by name. I'm not being funny. Listen, I just don't know how to help you more than this. When I said I just wished you could be here every night, with the help of God Almighty, by His Holy Spirit, He could help you. Thank God for the pastor. Thank God for programs. Thank God for staff. I am not, but that will never build this church. like everybody being soul conscious and a witness and touching the meat. Heads bowed and eyes closed today. You're here tonight and I wouldn't hurt you for the world, but I honestly, before God Almighty, I don't know how to help you more than this tonight. Could you seek the face of God yourself? Lord, what could I do? I could have a couple ladies over to bake pies. I could teach teenage girls how to sew. I could find something. Start a barbershop quartet with three guys. I don't know. Find a way. How many of you believe with the help of God Almighty If you honestly sought the Lord, he might give you help with this. Would you just slip your hand up? If I sought the Lord, I believe God would give me help with this. God bless you. God bless you. I don't have any idea what you ought to do. But folks, the salt has to touch the meat. Your relationships in this community are what's gonna make the difference. for this church, and ultimately for missions. I'm begging you tonight, in the quietness of this moment, could you seek the face of God? Lord, help me. God, show me. I could do something. Maybe it's a blind driver's club, I don't know. Picking up golf balls. planting asparagus, find something. God help me. Heavenly Father, we love you. But money is just one aspect of missions. Being soul conscious is part of being a Christian. caring about our community, Jesus went to the Jews first, and then also to the Greeks. Beginning at Jerusalem, the Bible says, and then to the uttermost. Lord, if this family to Indonesia is gonna get support, it's gonna take churches that are red hot for God, saving souls, reaching the lost, sacrificially serving. Lord, I pray you'd start here. Give some sweet lady an idea. Number painting, driving a school bus. I don't know, but you do, Lord. You could help with this. And I'm asking you to tonight, while heads are bowed and eyes are closed, I'm going to ask you to quietly stand to your feet again tonight. And if you'd like to take a moment at the altar as the pianist plays and just ask God for a specific idea for you. As the pianist plays, would you just take a moment at the altar, join knees that are Lord, just show me. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the waxed mustache club. I don't know what it is. But with the help of God, the salt could touch the meat. God's people said I said I know it's I know it's late I do For those of you that were here when I first came here. I'll never forget when I was sitting right over here standing right over here and I First time I stood really in front of you as your pastor, gave an invitation about moving forward for the Lord and seeing the Lord work. And I remember, actually, I wasn't actually up here at the time. Gave the altar call and everybody there and everybody up here at the altar all had gray hair and what did you call them, Q-tips? And I remember after the invitation, I had everybody sit down and I said, listen, I said, when I walk into a church and the church has No old people, I get worried. It's the older folks that are the prayer warriors, that are the ones that sacrifice the workers, the one that built that work, the ones with the wisdom, the ones with the wealth. But if I go to church and there's no young people, I get worried as well. Because if the church has no old people, then it has no solid past and foundation. But if a church has no young people, it has no future. And I'm not sure if you remember me making this statement. I said, we need to reach the next generation for Christ, and we don't need drums. We don't need to change Bible versions. We don't need disco balls on the ceiling. We need to build relationships. And I didn't say it nearly as eloquently as Brother King preached it tonight, that the salt has to touch the meat. And I'll be honest, you see kids running around, and Sundays is packed, and the nurseries, people screaming, That's just the workers, and everything's, and you go, well, and I'll be honest with you, there were, when we first came here, my wife and I had anywhere from two to four younger couples at our house for dinner every evening. to try to build a relationship, and really we were just trying to touch the meat, and got to the point where we can't do it all, and I've asked, listen, we gotta get out there, and we can all do those things. So brother, I appreciate that. Last thing I thought of is when Jesus was talking to the woman at the well. Remember that? He was talking to the woman at the well, and he must've just gone through Samaria, and they had food, and he said, I have meat that you know not of. What was he doing? He was salting the meat. That's what he was doing. He was salting that meat. That's what we've been called to do. So brother, I appreciate that. It was a challenge to me in my heart, and I appreciate that. And I think we can go make these things. So anyway, I love you. We've got one more night, Friday night. I'm going to ask you to come out and be faithful and call somebody that should be here. And we're going to collect those cards tomorrow night. And so it's going to be a big deal. So if you could be faithful and ask others to come and I want to finish strong and then just pray for the love offering tomorrow for our missionaries and Brother King. And we just want to be a blessing to them. Amen. Let's close in prayer. Father, thank you so much, Lord, for what we've heard tonight. Thank you, Lord, for the Kelly family. Thank you, Lord, for their burden for Indonesia. Lord, as they start their deputation, I pray that you would give them trial and mercies. I pray that you give them wisdom. I pray, Lord, that you'd keep them encouraged and, Lord, that they would quickly gain their support, that they might get over and that they might salt the meat. Thank you for the Hendricks being here tonight. Lord, thank you for their faithfulness. Thank you for their friendship. Lord, would you bless them and their family as well? Would you help us, Lord, tonight to go home, get a good night's sleep, help us to serve you tomorrow? Thank you for your folks that are sacrificing this week to give every night of the week, or to have some late nights that they might hear the word of God, that they might draw closer to you, that they might be able to tell a lost and dying world that Jesus Christ is the Savior. Would you bless them for being here? Would you give us a great night tomorrow night as we finish up this missions conference, and Lord, that we'd finish strong. We love you, and we pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. God bless you. Amen.