 Alright, good morning everyone. Welcome to the session. Let's begin this time with a word of prayer. Sorry for that delay. I think the internet is a little bit low so took time for the recording to start. Alright, let's begin with a word of prayer. Father, we thank You for this time. We thank You Lord for giving us this opportunity to come together and to study Your Word and read and learn together God. I pray that we will open our hearts, we will open our minds to receive from You this morning, Your God and Lord, we just thank You for this wonderful opportunity. We give You all the praise and glory. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Alright, so last week or the previous class we talked about the evangelist in the early church. We looked at all the examples, of course not all the examples, but most of the examples. We looked at how the Lord Jesus said an example. He chose twelve people, twelve apostles, sent them out. Then He chose seventy-two others, sent them out to do the work of evangelizing. Then when the early church started we see that God raised up many evangelists and even though the function or the name evangelist was not used until the time of Philip, we do know that the functions of the evangelist was already working in the church. So we see Philip, the Apostle Paul was a wonderful evangelist and all through the New Testament we see that God used many people to reach out to minister and we also looked at aspects of how an evangelist can be a person who can pioneer a ministry as well. So sometimes we think, okay an evangelist is somebody who will only go out reaching out ministering the people, but he can also pioneer ministries and he can also be a person who can plant churches. That's what the Apostle Paul did and we saw that in the early church. So let's go into chapter 4. Now chapter 4, before we get into this chapter, I just want to give us a little bit of understanding what happened after the early church was formed, the Roman Catholic church came in. I know you're studying Christian history and missions. You'll learn a little more about that, but just to give us a backdrop on what is the restoration of the ministry, what happened to the ministry in the church and why did it need to be restored. So after the early church, in the book of Acts people came in and then the Roman Catholic came into being, the Romans overpowered Christians as a whole. So if you look at church history, many leaders, many emperors came in, some of them persecuted Christians really badly, some of them were favorable to Christians and so over time the whole Roman Catholic system came into being. And when the Roman Catholic system came into being, it was one person in church. That was the pope. And the Bible was only one Bible and it was placed in the church and if only the pope or the priest could read it and not everyone else. So it was not like what happened in the early church. Jesus didn't say, you have to finish your degree and then go. He just sent everyone, go. You believe, go. But now things have completely changed. You've got one person, he will read the scriptures, he will preach whatever they say, you listen, you go back home. So it came to a point where evangelism or church growth almost became zero. So it was called the dark ages. So about hundreds of years, what happened was, so for example, we were there during that time, we get married, we'll have children, go to Sunday church, finish church, come back home. That's all the responsibility was. There was no pastor, prophet, apostle, all that had died down because the Roman Catholic Church came into being. But over time, we know that there was a reformation, the reformation movement means to reform the church. God sent people and God sent wonderful leaders who could stand against the Roman Catholic system. Many of them lost their lives. Many of them paid the price. But we do know that the ministry of the five-fold ministry was restored after some time, especially when King James came in. If you read history, it's very interesting. King James, he says, okay, why is it that the Christians are causing all these riots and problems? What do they want? And then the Christians said, we want our own Bibles. Then to please the people, King James said, okay, everyone can get a Bible, we'll print thousands of Bible, everyone print a Bible, but one condition. You have to name the Bible after me. So he said, okay, everyone said, okay, we'll name the Bible after you. They printed all the Bibles and it was named the King James Version. And that was the first time when believers, after I think it was 400 years of dark ages, when believers had their own copy of the Bible, the King James Version, and then started the reformation. People started to read the scriptures, understand the scriptures, saying, okay, this is what the Bible is saying. So I'll follow this. So the priest and the pope, they all began to lose their power, but it's not like the Catholic system stopped. It continued, the system continued, but there was a reformation in the ministry of the church. Now, let's look at our notes if we don't have it with us, right? But maybe you can pull it up on the soft copy. Yeah. So you see this, the earliest church historian states that occupying the first steps, those occupying the first steps in succession from the Apostles sets out on a journey from home performed the work of evangelists and preached to such as had not yet heard the word of faith. So you see this was one of the church historians who went about preaching what people did not hear, the word of faith. Now, we must understand the preaching that happened in the Catholic system. During that time, it wasn't probably they would have preached, but it wasn't the word of faith. It wasn't like pulled deep into God's word. It was just portions. It was very structured. Now, they were not going against God, right? Nothing against the Catholic system, but they had certain restrictions. They had certain things that they didn't believe and they didn't want the work of the Holy Spirit. They were not too keen on those things. They were not for the 5-fold ministry. But when UCBS came, he began to preach the word of faith. Then we see that Pantanias of Alexandria who further journeyed to India was one of the evangelists of the world after the manner of the apostles. Now, again, he was God used him to restore or to reform the ministry, the ministry of evangelists in succession. So we got a list of evangelists here. We may not even have heard of these evangelists, right? Bogomiles, Hussites, the low lords, the Puritans, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Baptists, all of these denominations began to raise up evangelists. Now, picture this. You got the Catholic system, then you got all of these, the Bogomiles, the Hussites, the low lords, the Puritans, the Methodists, the Baptists, the Presbyterians, all these groups are beginning to read their own version of the Bible. They have their own Bible, their reading, and God is ministering to them. And some of them are saying, hey, I'm going to go out and preach the gospel. I'm going to go do what the Bible is saying, right? Probably they read all about the Lord Jesus and they may have come to Matthew chapter 28. Matthew 28, God is Jesus, is saying go and make disciples. Nothing more, nothing less, right? They would have read all of that. The ministry was reformed, right? And in this way, many of them lost their lives for the sake of the gospel. Now, during the time of the intense persecution, I've mentioned this before, where the Christians were burnt, Christians were crucified, Christians were placed on, you know, there were times they were sown in two, they were cut into two. And many of them lost their lives, but they paid the price. They were willing to go reach out and share the gospel. Many commentators give validity of historical credibility of many of the evangelists. Evangelists were founded churches and stimulated existing ones. So, during the Reformation, new churches were planted and existing churches were built up, right? We also see that evangelists were used as itinerant preachers. They went forth from various churches in order to preach the gospel and to perfect the work which had been begun by the apostles. So, from, if you look at church history and you learn more in church history about, you know, Christian history and missions, but if you look at the fourth and the fifth century, the rise of the Reformation, the church began at that time, where miracles, signs and wonders was a common thing during that time, right? It was very common. But if you go on after some time, we see that the New England revival happened, the Welsh revival happened. After all these revivals, the five-fold ministry discontinued to become stronger and stronger. Look at this example of John Wycliffe. How many of you have heard of John Wycliffe? Have you read about John Wycliffe? You must read about him, John Wycliffe, right? So, he was used as a wonderful, wonderful man of a very brave person. John Wycliffe said, you know, I defy the pope and his, you know, rules and his teachings and he was burnt to the stake. But what he did was, he did a great evangelistic work all across New England, in England. He did a great work. New churches were birthed. John Wycliffe was used as a powerful word of faith teacher. There were times when he would pray for healing. People would just be healed and people would experience the power of God. John Wycliffe was used in that way. George Whitfield. Have you heard of George Whitfield? I'm sure these names are common names. Sorry. Okay, we learned it in God's generals, but George Whitfield was, during the time of John Wesley, they were contemporaries, George Whitfield was a very powerful orator, a powerful speaker. He said that when he spoke, it would echo in those churches. It would echo and he would, he would preach a sermon by reading it. But just by reading the sermon, people would be touched. People, the anointing of God would come upon people and they would fall on the ground, weep and pray and cry. He would just read out the sermon. He had a very monotonous note. So he would, like if you read about him, it says that he would, he would have a sermon in front of him. He would have a scandal there and it looked scary because he was a very weird looking person, big built and he would read the whole sermon, basically read no intonation, no emotions, nothing. He would just read, this is what the Lord Jesus did and this is what he did. Just reading monotonous, people in the crowd would feel that as of God himself was speaking and people were so convicted of their sins that God used him so powerfully. George Whitfield, since the low lords 400 years before, it is said that on a clear day and on the wind blowing right, he could understand it a mile away. He would preach between 5,000 to 50,000 people and thousands were saved under his ministry and these thousands probably went about doing the work of the ministry again. And John and Charles Wesley, we all know the brothers, John and Charles Wesley back in England and it's really interesting to study about them. John and Charles Wesley, their mother would always pray and say, use my children for the ministry and she would spend nights, they had come from a very poor family but John and Charles were very inclined towards God at a very young age. So Charles would play an instrument, it was good at singing, it was good at music and John was good at preaching. So it was a nice brother combination, they both in their college, what happened with Charles would sing a song, John Wesley will go up and preach and during the in his early 20s when John Wesley used to preach, there were times when people would come with spears and swords and you know try to kill him but he wouldn't flinch, he would just stand there and he would keep preaching there. If you read his in church history, Charles would run away because he can't, let's go, he would stand there and preach. So that in kind of integrity, that kind of authority John and Charles Wesley had and we know that John Wesley preached more than 20,000 sermons, it a great, great work of ministry and when you go down after that, there were many people, D.L. Moody, Charles Finney and we see all these people God used to revive the evangelist. Then we have the healing evangelist. We look at the healing evangelist is an evangelist who represents the gospel with a demonstration of spiritual power, healing with proclamation and proclaiming the death burial and resurrection of Jesus. So basically we need to be thankful for all of them because they went about preaching, teaching and doing the work of an evangelist that today there are so many evangelists around us. Look at our nation, so many evangelists but the question to be asked is are they doing the work of the evangelist? Because there's so much that's happening in the body of Christ and it is sad that when we question it, we may not be, we'll be questioned back. Who are you to question that? But our responsibility is if God is calling us through the ministry to be faithful where we are and we look at, even now when we look at the United States, we look at the West, we look at Asia and the ministry, God is raising up evangelists, healing evangelists, regular evangelists, evangelists who just go out, share the gospel and he's going to continue doing that. In the early 1950s, A.A. Allen was a wonderful evangelist. Oral Roberts again, God used him so powerfully. Billy Graham, God used him so powerfully. And these are people who functioned in the gift of the evangelist. How many of you have read the documentary of Billy Graham? You read it? Wow. When you read about the documentary of Billy Graham, God told him, you go and you preach. He came from mediocre family. God told him, you go and preach. He said, God, who listened to me? I'm not a very good orator or I'm not very well versed in the scripture. He said, you go and preach the gospel, which is this, the cross. So he, at his early 20s, he hired a hall and he had his first meeting. Ten people came. Ten people came for his meeting. In those ten people, three people said, I'll join you. Three people said, I'll join you. I will make sure that people will come. You preach. All you have to do is preach. You ready to do that? We will support you. We will get people. We will have meetings everywhere. Now Billy Graham himself is surprised. This is the first time I'm meeting you all. They were saying, we are willing to support you. We're willing to hire the halls. Having a meeting, we need a lot of things. So these three people joined the team and Billy Graham started. So he started going to these corn fields and open fields. All of a sudden there were 100, 200. And then he writes in his Bible, there was a time when there were 10,000 people coming. And when he would see that crowd, he would think these 10,000 people are coming to hear me speak. It would humble him so much that he would go back. He would spend time in God's presence. Is that the attitude that we must have? Yes. Because if we look at it now, oh, 10,000 people are coming to listen to me. So we very easily may get puffed up. We may think, oh, wow, they're coming to listen to me. But for Billy Graham, it was not so. It's sometimes in the early 1990s, 50,000 people used to come to listen to him speak. What did he preach? What did he gospel? Was there healings in his crusade? May have been. But we don't know. He never called people. There were no great miracles. There was no great healings. Nothing. Simple message of the cross. In the end, the same song, just as I am without one plea, one altar call, everyone will come, pray, give their lives to Christ and go. That's all he would preach, the gospel. We see that God blessed him and his ministry. Oral Roberts, again, wonderful. When he started his ministry, he was a healing evangelist. God began to use him powerfully. And so we see that from that dark ages, there was a reformation of the ministry of the evangelist. So let's go to chapter 5. Look at the practical keys of doing the ministry of the evangelist. Number one point. If you and I, God is calling us to be an evangelist, to evangelize, whether it's a gift or the function. Number one rule, follow the biblical pattern. Not only for this, but I can, I would say, I'll leave it open to everything. In every aspect of our lives, follow the biblical pattern. Follow what God says. Follow what the scriptures say. When you pray, what does the Bible say about prayer? No, Jesus says, when you pray, don't stand on the corners, but go to your room, close the door, pray. What does the Bible say about worship? Worship in spirit and truth. What does the Bible say about spiritual discipline? Pray, meditate on the Word of God, spend time in God's presence. So in every aspect of our life, whether evangelist, pastor, apostle, whatever it is, follow the biblical pattern. What did, what does the Bible teach us? So if we are preaching the Word of God, or we're called to be an evangelist, or we're called to be a pastor, what does the Bible say about a pastor? And the apostle Paul writes it to Timothy. What does he say? As a leader, as a deacon, be faithful to one wife, do this, don't drink, don't involve in immorality. There's a whole list of things. We must obey it. The biblical pattern is the best example that we can follow. Now what is the biblical pattern in terms of the evangelist? Jesus said, go preach, teach. Jesus chose 72. He said, go in twos. So maybe we can follow that. Go in teams. It's good to do that. You're going in a team. You support each other. There's no competition. There's no strife. You should be of one mind, one heart, one vision, one purpose. That is to bring souls to the kingdom of God. So number one, follow the biblical pattern. Sometimes we get stirred up doing things that may not be in the Bible. Recently, somebody sent me a series of message sermons. So I was listening to these sermons. This is all from the West. I was listening to these sermons and these are big churches. You've got 20,000 odd people sitting and this pastor is preaching. He's worn all those chains and four or five crosses. Don't go by the looks, but he began to preach. He began to preach. He started talking about car parking, about McDonald's, where he went for breakfast, where his wife took him for lunch. For 30 minutes, he's talking everything other than the gospel. Then he's got some snacks and biscuits and all these things on the stage. Now 20,000 people are listening to this and they're clapping. He's doing some sponsor work for some burgers, french fries, everything he's got on the stage. He's saying, we must eat, we must enjoy. And I'm waiting for the message to start. And he related all that food that God will supply all your needs according to his riches and glory. That was the message, the God of Providence. So I said, are you serious? This is the message. There are people in that audience who have probably lost their jobs, lost their family members, who are in depression, who are suicidal, people who are going through pain in their body, emotionally, physically. They're going through so much of trouble. Nobody wants to know all this. I was thinking, I was not upset, but I was sad. So I got 20,000 people are coming to listen to this. When there's another message, somebody is in another church where the pastor comes and he says, close your Bibles. I'm not going to preach from that. And he starts saying, what is the difference between Christian and another religion? And all about, all natural, when you talk about good speakers, these are good orators, they can speak well. You give them two hours also, they'll speak. And they'll make a topic, they will speak. You give them all the spot topic, they will speak because they're good orators. What does Apostle Paul say? I'm not depending on my own skill, lest the power of the cross, lest the cross lose its power. I'm not depending on my eloquence or my talent or my skill. Was he talented? Yes. Was Apostle Paul, he knew everything from the scriptures? Definitely yes. And he's saying, I didn't depend on all of this. All I preached was the cross crucified, simple. And he says, Apostle Paul says, there's only one time, if you look at the scriptures in his episodes, only once he talks about his testimony, only once. And that too, very briefly, maybe six verses. I was here, I saw the thing, Jesus came, spoke to me, he told you'll be a light to the Gentiles. I went to Arabia three years after three years. I went back to Tarsus and I was working there. That's it. No more. So what is the biblical pattern when we are ministering to people, preach the word, minister with signs, wonders and miracles, depend on the Holy Spirit? Always do that. Always let the word of God be the center. And if I, you know, it's interesting because some of our church folks and people from different places, they send me these, you know, these sermons and snippets. That's very sad when you look at it, right? Very good speakers. They can speak very well. They can make, they can, you know, who was a very good orator, sorry, who can make the audience cry and who can captivate the audience. Why was Hitler so famous? Right? He was a good orator. He, if he had told people go and burn down one country, they'll go and do it. Whether it's right or wrong, that is secondary. His oratory skills, he would captivate them. He would spend that entire one hour when he's speaking, no? He would speak in such authority. He was a very good speaker. That's why he was able to, people believed him. People followed him. Was it wrong what he was doing? 100% wrong. Killing the Jews. They know that killing is wrong, but why were they behind him? There's another man called Idi Amin. He was a Russian dictator. He was so cruel. He would, you know, sorry to say all of this, but this is to help us understand. He would kill the enemies and he would eat human flesh. Idi Amin. But he had 40-50,000 people following him. Was he doing the right thing? Wrong thing. Right thing. But he had wonderful, powerful oratory skills. Now, the devil can use our skills also if you're not careful with it. Right? So we need to be sure that what we do, we follow the biblical pattern. What is the biblical pattern? God's word. So whether we are, when we are, you know, whether we start our own churches or if you get invited to a church to preach, preach the word, right? Don't waste time doing anything else. Follow the biblical pattern, right? And let the word of God minister to people. Don't be worried if it sounds boring. You don't need to add jokes. It's not a compulsory thing. You can stick to the word. The word will speak to people, right? Number two, develop the supernatural, right? You and I as believers, we must develop our supernatural skills at the ability that God has given us, right? Now, for example, you feel that God has called you to pray for the sick. There's the anointing of, you know, praying for those who are sick and they're getting healed. Now, you develop on that. Say, God, this is something that I feel when I pray that people are getting healed. Help me to grow on that, right? Now, again, our motive should be right. What is our motive? Why do we want to do what we are doing? Right? So what do you develop in your skills? So for example, you feel that you want to be a worship leader, right? You have to practice. You have to develop. You have to learn how to sing and lead in the prophetic. All of this, we develop, right? I think I've shared examples where I never knew how to lead worship. I couldn't lead worship for one hour. I would send eight songs for one hour, right? It is true. It was so. I have some of the song lists, eight songs, one hour. Over time, we develop ourselves, right? So I remember the first time I was asked to teach in Bible college. I was so nervous. I prepared, right? I prepared and because I just graduated. I graduated and my juniors, I'm teaching them. And I was teaching and so I went to the class and I thought, okay, I prepared very well, right? I went, I came out. I don't know what I said in the class. I don't know what was the topic. I was blank. I said, what did I teach? I don't know. So I called my juniors. They were my juniors. I said, come here. I said, what was the subject? What did I teach? What did I make any sense in what I spoke? Yes, yes, you said correctly, whatever you said. But it was, for me, it was it was too much because I didn't know how to do it. Over time, I learned. We developed, right? Okay, teaching is not the same as preaching. Preaching, we can preach and preach, use Daniel and Joel and everyone. In one message, you finish it. But you can't do that in teaching. You need to prepare. You need to have background information. You have to give the right material. So you develop in that skill. What about evangelizing? I sometimes, you know, I remember initially I would go, I stand on the street and try to evangelize. I see the person, oh, this guy looks like one guy who will beat me up. So I'll keep it. This person looks, you know, he's got that mark on his word. He looks like a decent boy. So we would choose that way, right? But over time, God gives us the wisdom. God gives us the ability to know how to talk. Many times people have asked questions, said, you know, they've asked, if I ask for forgiveness, where, how do I know all my sins are forgiven? I don't know what to say. You just believe that's it. But that's not compelling for them. So how to communicate, how to, you know, make sure that they understand, try to help them understand. So whatever our gift is, we develop in that, develop in the supernatural. Now, the best part is each one of us have the same Holy Spirit. And each one of us have the same person and the same access to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not going to say, okay, this person, I'll give more, this person, I'll give less. So if I want to develop in my gifting, in my calling, I have to spend time in God's presence. So for example, worship, I remember over time, you know, I had to lead every, you know, one hour. During those days, we were only three or four worship leaders. So Pastor Jay, May, and two others. So usually for the one hour sessions, it would only be for three or four of us, right? Because the others were all working. And when we had our five days of prayer, it was only us. So most of the time it was Pastor Jay and me, he'll do the morning, I'll do the afternoon. I'll do the morning, he'll do the afternoon. So it was always like that. So I realized that, hey, I have to develop in this gift of leading worship for one hour. I cannot be sending eight songs. So I would watch Pastor Jay, he'll send three songs. What are you going to do with three songs? Right? But then I used to watch him very intently. I used to watch, I used to go back home, I used to listen to songs, listen to prophetic worship. And the most important thing is to spend time in God's presence. When we spend time in God's presence, I used to spend a lot of time in God's presence. Say, God, you've given me the gift. I'm limited. Songs also are getting limited now. Do something. Minister to people. That when we sing, that when we play an instrument, that worship, let it come from my heart, let it be an overflow that others will experience the presence of God. It could be an overflow. So over time, it became five songs and three songs. Now we can do one song for one hour. Same song for one hour. How? Because it's a gift that's developed and it doesn't end there. We can keep growing in that, growing in the spirit, growing in the supernatural, right? Whether it's your praying for the sick, your reading in the Word of God, prophetic or the number of mistakes I've made in the prophetic. I prayed for, you know, after church, one boy and a girl came and I said, prayed for them. I said, God is going to bless you with a child. After the whole prayer, he said, this is my sister. And it's my cousin's sister. She's my cousin's sister, you know? I said, oh man, I'm so sorry. So I learned over time. I learned over time. Was it embarrassing? Every embarrassing, right? But I learned over time. I said, okay, God, help me to understand, help me to develop. So don't be afraid to make mistakes. I should sound very funny, but it's true. It's true. And this is in church. I prayed for them honestly. He said, pastor, everything's okay, but this is my cousin's sister. But she's going to get married. Maybe you're talking about her, you know? But it's okay. I went back home. I cried. I prayed, God, why you do this to me? But it helped me not run away from this gift. But I asked God, God, I want to pursue more of it. So to be more accurate, to be more, you know, leaning towards Him. And I learned, okay, always ask questions before you pray and, you know, before you prophesy. Simple thing. I didn't know that time. All I could have asked is, hey, hello, husband and wife, what is your name? I didn't even ask the name. I just started praying, right? So now what I do is when people come say, okay, so your husband and wife, how long are you married for? Get to know them, then pray for them. And you pray with confidence. And you ask the Holy Spirit, okay, Holy Spirit minister. So you learn the practical, you develop in the supernatural, right? There were times when, during the worship time, if you see, go back to the old recordings on YouTube, you'll see, because during those days, two Sundays, I used to be at Central. So what happened was I used to give words of knowledge, like what we do in the supernatural, word of knowledge, prophecy. Then one day I was listening to my own video and I was, why am I giving word of knowledge, prophecy, worship time. So I felt the Holy Spirit saying, don't do all this. Let worship be worship. Let people worship the Lord, right? In a different kind of setting, then you can do like supernatural hour. In a smaller setting, you can do all this word of knowledge prophecy. So if you go back to the early recordings, you will see there's full prophecy and word of knowledge at the main church at Central. And over time I realized, hey, let's not do that, because people are worshiping God. And suddenly, if somebody's giving prophecy, what's happening, they're opening their eyes, they're trying to understand what this person worship leader's saying. So I learned over time. Let me not do that. So there are plenty of mistakes that we make, but the point is we develop ourselves. We learn from those mistakes and grow, right? Three, develop the ability to present the gospel to varied audiences, whether you're in the city, in the village, in the town. Now, we have gone to many villages, especially when we go for missions. Now, when we go for missions, we cannot be teaching all homiletics and hermeneutics. And they'll be wondering, what is this, right? So we need to tune into their, so whenever we go for missions, and if you see the Shotam Bible College that we did, we did simple stuff like identity, faith, praise and worship. So the ability to present the gospel to different audiences, then you have the who are very learned, the ones who are intellectuals should be able to minister to them also. The apostle Paul had this brilliant ability to do that. He was able to minister to the tent makers, to the uneducated, and he was also able to minister to the Greeks, the learned people, to the Jew, he was a Jew, to the Greeks, he was a Greek, right? So we must also develop that ability. Fourth one, maintain your passion for souls. I like that word maintain. What is the meaning of maintain? Keep it on the same level. You know, when we are passionate for something, that passion can go down or it can go up, right? And so here we need to maintain that passion for souls. And we see, of course, you know, when we have ministry, when we start our own ministry, the ministry grows, we may not have time to go and do evangelism everywhere, right? But wherever possible, you and I can reach out, you and I can minister to people, right? So for example, you may have started your ministry, ministry has grown 200, 300 people, you're busy, you can't afford to go out and do street ministry, but you can form teams, you can teach people to do that, you can whenever possible, wherever possible, you can reach out to people, right? It could be people in your own community, in your own neighborhood, reach out to them. So every now and then what I do is if there are people near my house, who I see, okay, you know, I can share the gospel with them, I'll go, even if it's broken Canada, I try my best. I just share with them. And then sometimes there are, you know, there's this IT sector that's, you know, where I stay and there are a lot of PG's that have come now. So there are a lot of people who are in the corporate. So when I see them, I go speak, I say, so my parents keep asking, who all you keep talking to? How many people you know here? But I keep sharing the gospel with them. Some of them didn't like it. Some of them said, they'll report me and go report, do what you want. But this is what I'm going to do, right? So you maintain your passion for souls and never let it die out. Keep it burning. Learn how to equip the saints for the similar ministry. Very important. Apostle Paul did that. Moses did that. He taught Joshua what to do. Elijah taught Elisha what to do. Paul taught all his team what to do. So whatever we do, teach others how to do it. If you're gifted in music, teach others. If you're gifted in singing, ministering the word, preparing sermons, teach others how to do it, right? And enable them to do the similar kind of ministry. When ministering to a local church, as an evangelist, if you're ministering to a local church, submit to the leadership of the local pastor. If the pastor says 30 minutes, finish in 25 minutes. If the pastor says no singing song in the end, don't sing song. Don't say, no, that is how I do. If the pastor says, you know, don't talk about other ministries, don't talk about it. If the pastor says whatever he says, remember, it's his church, it's his ministry. You're just there for some time for one and a half hours, and then you're going. But he's there all the time. I submit to his leadership and be sensitive to the local church order. So there will be a certain kind of way the service goes. It may be a church where boys sit in one place, girls sit in one place. Now you may come from a church where all boys and girls sitting together, it's all mixed. You don't have to go there and say, see the Bible says we are all one body. We don't need this separation. You don't have to say all of that. And I remember this one time we had gone as a team and this preacher from another place had come and he started ridiculing the people because the woman covered their head and he's ridiculing them. And I felt it was not when needed. Now that is their culture, in North India. That's their culture. They want to do it, let them do it. Now the significance we may know, but that's okay. Submit to the church. That's how they are. Leave them. They leave their foot to him. It's okay. Do it. The point is to minister the gospel. That's their lives. These other things are secondary to us. So be sensitive to the local church order. And finally, as an evangelist, be connected to a local church. Now it's very easy for us. I don't know how many of you are called to be an evangelist, but if you're called to be an evangelist, you're mostly traveling to places, you're ministering in different places. But remember, you also are a believer and you must be connected to a church. You must have a local church. Okay, this is my local church. And then you can, you know, whatever, be part of the local. When you're not traveling, be there, serve in the church. Now, just because you're an evangelist and you're there in your home church, don't demand for positions. Don't demand, okay, now I'm here in Bangalore. Let me preach. Don't do that. Right? If the pastor, remember, you may be preaching to 10,000 people, but your church may be 500 people. You don't compare your 10,000 to the 500 here. Your 10,000 is, that is evangelism. This 500 is the pastors, is the church. So you submit, just like another member in the church. And so we must understand these, you know, different stages that are there in ministry. So so we'll stop here. And we'll pick up next class, we'll pick up from the teacher. We look at Jesus as the example of the teacher. But any questions regarding the evangelist? Any questions? All right, so I just want to encourage us, you know, whenever you get opportunities, whenever you can be willing to minister on this, develop yourself, develop in the supernatural, develop your gifts, keep growing, never be stayed dormant. You know, sometimes our emotions, our thoughts will make us feel like, okay, stagnant, but you have to push further that stage and you'll be able to, the Lord will minister to us. Right? So, all right. Any questions? Those who are online? Okay, yeah, there's a question here from be relevant or not. But like, as we are, as we are discussing of it, you told like, it's better to ask questions when we go and pray for them. It's like getting to know about them, right? So how we can know like, whether they were coming and praying, it's like, if I know about what you're going through, it can be out of my own. Also, I am coming and praying. How can we discern that is they are speaking from inspired by Holy Spirit or out of their own emotion, knowing about us? Yeah. So, we learn more in this about this in understanding the prophetic. But if you read the book, you'll understand like how the Holy Spirit speaks different ways. But just to quickly answer you, the reason you can ask questions is so that you, you're not asking what is your problem and then praying and saying, okay, this is your problem. That means it's obvious, right? But what you're doing is you're trying to get to know them, and you're praying for them. That's it. Nothing, nothing extra. You're not saying anything. And the Holy Spirit speaks, you deliver the word. That's it. That's our responsibility. So you don't have to be under any pressure, right? Feel free to minister to people. But one thing I learned is just ask them, where are you from? You know, one thing I ask them is, is English okay? Can I speak in English? Is it something is comfortable with that? Or sometimes I ask them, where do you work? What do you do? So I'm just trying to get to know them. But when I'm giving a prophetic, don't I don't repeat the same thing what they've told me. The prophetic is something which God can minister speak to them. There's some word. If there's no word, that's okay. Just move on. I learned more on developing the gifts. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you for joining this class. I'll meet, let's meet next week. Have a great week ahead. God bless.