 God is good. Good to see every single person here this evening. It is a fabulous day to be alive today. Amen. Also so good to see some guests tonight, people who drove all the way from Walla Walla, others who came from sunny side. So let's give the Lord a round of applause for their life. Yes, we are very happy to see everyone. Our church is becoming, it's no longer just a local church, it's a movement and a lot of other people are being blessed by it every single week. And so we are very, very happy for that. So we just have few more weeks left until our anniversary conference. And so we are so excited for that. There's some awesome things that are planned for that. So November 20th or 22nd, it's just going to be, you have to take those days off and really, really be here. This Sunday is our prayer line. So we pray for people who have demonic attacks in their life, people who are in need of physical healing and who need that prayer. So we challenge every person to come for that. Starting today, all of you who have children that can go to nursery, we will have two people assigned every single service, adults, responsible adults, and you're welcome to volunteer who will be helping with a nursery. So before our nursery was more of like just a social, everybody kind of comes in there. We really want to make it very specific and very oriented just for those kids and for people to help out. So you're welcome to help with that. And so that parents can sit and get freedom from their kids for two hours. For the glory of Jesus, amen. Or you can volunteer and get more kids on your plate. So offering is collected. I'm going to just share with you four steps of our vision. It's very simple. Just four words. You can write them down, remember them. It's better to memorize them than just write them down, but it helps to write them down. Let's put the first one up. We call it the ladder of success. The first is when, when we win somebody to the Lord. Next Wednesday is our miracle catch. So what happens in our church once a month, we try to bring one person to church. Invite one person who still doesn't know about Jesus or maybe fallen away from the church. Every single person, God loves. And not only God loves, he wants to bless them. He wants to love on them. He has nobody he wants to punish but the devil. He wants to forgive people. And many people see church as a police station. And you know, when you're in trouble, you don't want to go to the police station. Church is not a police station. It's a hospital. What people who are hurting, they are welcome. Amen. And so for us, we invite people every single week. But next Wednesday is going to be a special Wednesday where we encourage every person to win somebody. Maybe you're here today and you have been one to the Lord. Means you have made a decision to follow Jesus. I want to tell you what's next. The second step is consolidate. Consolidate is when a person gives their life to Jesus and they get connected to the church. Usually we do it very simply. The next day or two days later, we meet with the person individually. We try to invite them to home group. We try to connect with them and we encourage them to take the next step and that is to get baptized and that they could begin to begin their relationship with God. Now, starting this Friday at 8 p.m. for the next five weeks, we are going to have these foundational classes. Fundational, it will give people just the basics of what it means to serve Christ. What does it mean to forgive? What does it mean how to read the Bible and all of these things? If you're one of those people today who you're saying, you know what? This Christianity is still very new for me and I want to get to know more. I'm going to ask you and implore you. Beseech you according to Romans chapter 12 verse 1 in King James version. Beseech you some way you'll need to google what that means. I will ask you kindly and nicely to make time to learn more about your faith. To get the foundational understanding Friday 8 o'clock. You already gave any life to Jesus. That means that that party that you used to go to, you have nothing to do on Friday night. There's no exciting movies coming out this weekend anyway and stuff. So you are coming at 8 o'clock for 45 minutes. You're going to hear about that. You're going to also have some discussion and other things and then have a break and then stay for a night prayer and reach your city for the Lord. So another thing is if you haven't been water baptized. If you're saying, you know Vlad I got and saved but I haven't been water baptized. I would challenge you to also come on Friday. At the same time we will have a class about baptism so that next Wednesday you can be water baptized. When you give your life to Jesus the next step is water baptism. The scripture teaches us it's a symbolic of dying to ourselves and rising up toward new life. Step number three is we disciple. We win somebody to the Lord. We consolidate and we disciple them. Discipleship is when we mentor them. A lot of people cannot be discipled until they're first delivered. A lot of people have demons. People have curses. People have certain problems that are not from God that they are not just normal. They don't need just the therapy and counseling. They need deliverance. What we start discipleship with is we tell people that they need to go through prayer line. If you have certain addictions you need to come through prayer line. If you have certain problems in your life that you cannot deal with you need to come through prayer line. But not only that you need to be taught how to be a disciple and to do discipling. On Friday at the same time this is amazing. We are going to have a mentorship school. It's going to be only five weeks and it's going to be separate from the foundation school. Where you're going to learn it's going to focus only on mentorship. There's going to be no other topics involved. And so those of you who are saying Vlad I've been coming to church. I've gotten baptized. I went through prayer line numerous times. And you keep telling about mentoring other people. I don't know where to start. I don't know what to talk to them about. This Friday is where you have to be. And you maybe say I know a lot about Christianity. But I'm not mentoring anybody. I'm not helping anybody. I'm too busy and everything. Friday 8 o'clock is where you have to be. Because we will deal with how to begin to mentor somebody. What if they don't change. What if this and that and that. We're going to deal with practical aspects only on the issue of mentorship. Our home group leaders will also be on this. Most of our home group leaders will be in this class. And we will challenge every person to be here for that. And number four when you get discipled. You get sent to start your own home group. Now we are church that believes in home groups. One of the reasons is because we don't want people to be just in the crowd. We want people to receive individual attention. We want them to reach their potential. We don't want people to come to church and nobody knows your name. And nobody knows whether you were here or not. And some churches it's like that and you're like I like it like that. That's not good for you. I haven't been coming there for months or you've been coming there for years and they don't even know that you belong there. That's not good for you. And our church is only getting bigger but we want to make it smaller. Means every person has their group that they go to where people know you. People know your issues. Or people know your successes. We rejoice with you. We pray through with you. You start your home group. And so really really really excited for this kind of a vision that God has given to us. Now I understand you may say Vlad I heard you guys have morning prayers. We do. Monday to Friday doors are open at five. Friday evening prayers nine. The classes at eight. Sunday morning church at 10. Home group on Tuesday then you started another home group called close home group for those who already have a home group. On Thursday I don't have time for this. I'm glad you asked. I will address the issue of time. Number one if you don't have time why in the world did you get a dog? I see a lot of people getting dogs. It's popular now to get a dog. And I was talking to some people today and I'm like you're busy and this is not rebuking. This is just me talking to you. Full-time job. School. Responsibilities. No time for church. No time to read the Bible. Yet you went and paid few hundred bucks to get a puppy who you know requires as much of your attention as a newborn child. Because every day the snapchats is about that puppy. You take walks for that puppy. You're like I can't afford to tie it but you got a puppy and you got to buy food for the puppy but you can't tie it. So somehow our priorities are shifted. There is nothing wrong. Please understand with getting a puppy. Get I mean if God calls you like Andre talked about being saving and you're rescuing puppies that is awesome. It's where we start but then we start rescuing people. But please do not use that excuse. I don't have time for God but somehow I have a time for a puppy. Somebody say ouch. You know another thing that many times when I see that I there's a lot of times I have to do certain things with people meet with people and and do all of these things and it conflicts with my personal free time. And part of me asks the same question that you ask in the back of your mind. I always ask myself this question. There are people in other nations and I've been to some of those countries where people sit on the streets and don't do nothing for days because they have nothing to do. I think of them and I remind myself I am a blessed man that I am a busy man. Being busy is a compliment. If that doesn't work I use another thing. I said there are people on the wheelchairs. People bedridden. People who are facing six to eight months of life. They wished to have a life where they can serve other people. Vlad, use your life wisely. If that doesn't work I go further. I begin to remember the times when I wasted my life because I was too stingy to give it to God. And I'm like and I wasted it gladly. I know I was wasting it with joy. Nights upon nights. Whether it's a movie marathon or trying to catch up with the Arrow or 24 or some other things or some way maybe you found there's blacklist that exists and you're like oh my goodness third season 24 episodes. Great three days in a row you don't sleep. You're like a zombie walking around told your teacher you're sick told your parents you got a fever but in reality you lock the room and catching up on blacklist. That is a waste of time. But see when you're doing that you know it's a waste of time but you're still sacrificing that. Somehow think of those times when you think of that is sacrificing to serve God. Think of other people who wasted their life on drugs or maybe you have in the past let that push you and remind you to give your life to the Lord. More. When that doesn't work for me I always go to this part is that God was here in the beginning before there was earth schedules iPhones coffee colleges families children God was here and God will be at the end when they will have my funeral and they will bring me to the church see I couldn't didn't want to go to church they'll bring me to the church but it will be too late some people only go to the church three times when they are hatched matched and dispatched. Hatched they're born matched their merit and third time is dispatched when they're dead and you will be brought to church that you will be leaving this earth and God will still be there so it is worth to give your time to someone. Your pet will not be eternal I know you think he will last forever no you will and God will always remember that if that doesn't work for me I have one more thing that I go to and I'm using this very practically that's what I motivate myself with because I don't want to do service to God out of obligation I want to do it out of passion and I'm just like you I look at my schedule and then sometimes look at other people's problems like you know what I'd rather just sit at home and do nothing instead of meeting with that or doing that or waking up at 4 30 in the morning to come to church to pray I mean why do the other people don't do that I could just be like other people but I don't want to be like other people I want to be like the Lord Jesus Christ so the last thing that usually works for me is I remember what Jesus had to go through to save me and I didn't even have anything to offer to him in return yet he did that he didn't just sacrifice and every morning he woke up and pray to the father for me no he became a man came on this earth lived learned to walk learned to talk at the age of 30 submitted his life completely to God at the age of 33 got crucified and his life ended didn't build a house didn't marry didn't get at children didn't you know have his own favorite pet didn't have his physical dreams come to pass sacrifice all of that for what because I was deep in my sin showing him a middle finger and saying get off of my way God I don't want to do nothing with you so he can give me a chance to rescue me if he did that nothing I ever give to God as a sacrifice God doesn't need your sacrifice it's you who need God's blessing if you think somehow God in heaven there is offended because you didn't accept his friend request or because God is lonely he's not lonely he's been all good when you didn't even exist he's gonna be fine you won't be fine without him all the things I give to God in return it's not God feeling better it's my life being better make a decision to grow I'm challenging each person please if you don't grow you're gonna back slide if you backslidden continue to grow you may say it's hard it's it's so painful it's it's just another thing no no no you take that step slowly and you slowly begin to grow further and further and further in God you will see God blessing your life amen let me call up Katrina Katrina come over here for a second let's give a can we have find another microphone there's another microphone let's give another microphone I'm just gonna have two minutes so Katrina Katrina when did you start your home group when yes well I got released in February of this year this year but it probably took off about three months ago so in February Katrina and how old are you Katrina 19 19 okay so in February Katrina gets released to start our home group so she goes through all of that process before she gets sent she probably went through the process 20 times and then she gets released to start a home group and how many people did you start with zero you started those times when we oh that's right when you only had cups empty cups okay and then uh and so then slowly people start coming and so what happened about three months ago um I started my home group um I I reached out to girls that would come here and I would meet with them and we'd meet at my house and I would just take off and you can post a picture of her home group last Sunday um and stuff so now and Katrina posting uh the best home group ever I had an awesome fabulous time and praise god for snapchats now I can see what what god is doing in people's lives and Katrina I know that this takes time you meet I see you're like a super girl with girls you always meet with them you always hang out with them and when the new girl comes in uh Katrina would like take her and just walk with her everywhere and so it's kind of like make sure nobody attempts to take you know and stuff so how do you see that becoming a home group leader reaching out to other girls do you see that as a burden do you see that as something uh difficult and painful how is it for you it's the biggest privilege um you watch them grow you see them from the very beginning you you just watch them grow from their confidence level from not being able to get a job and then they have a job and the way they even worship and it's just incredible it's so worth it that I encourage you all to go through the mentorship school and come on home group leader very encouraging I am inspired I want to sign off to the mentorship school let's give Katrina a round of applause and uh if I can get my body Marvin where's Marvin Marvin oh apostle apostle of faith and man and Marvin when did you come to our church like the very first time not not the Harry the wise man but after Harry the wise man um it was a week before Easter this year this year oh so this year yeah this year okay so uh Easter is which month April April it is so Marvin so you come you you give your life to the Lord you dedicate put the four steps again so kind of that's going to happen with you four steps four steps not this for a second so four steps so you come and that's going to happen with you you get you give your life to the Lord then I'm assuming Martin or somebody start meeting with you yeah consolidating you was it Martin was it Martin um every here and there he'll just call me up um so that he wants to meet with me and just see how my life is going how things are going with me if I've been mentored about the word and I don't really know much so he took me in and started teaching me more and so you uh you got baptized yeah you got baptized and then you start going to Martin's home group that's correct that's correct and so did you go to the prayer line yes I did that's how you start the home group you went through prayer line and backsliding still go again prayer line that's it no it's funny as it sounds but it's actually true and so you get and then you you went through probably a few school of leaders and then you uh you got disciple with Martin and so you got released actually this week was your first time you had a home group um actually I got released like a month or two ago Martin told me secretly yeah secretly he told me it's like I want you to open your own home group you know and starting the like two months ago he told me next week you're not coming to mind you're gonna do yours at your own house and while I was excited and I told I texted my friends to come and no one showed up okay what'd you do and so Martin took me back in thank you Jesus for the home group leaders who just take back in you fail come back come back home Katrina didn't have that privilege she was left with those tea cups drinking all of that tea by herself so and then he released you again yeah just last week um two weeks ago he told me he's like oh you're gonna release your own home group and I'm not gonna lie I was nervous again because I was gonna invite the same people and I was like man probably like one or two like two or three people out of those ten people that I've invited are coming to church so I mean maybe those two will show up or maybe they won't but before you know I wouldn't pray as much about that for my home group and how Martin always told me that when you pray you have faith and you vision stuff then you see it with yourself you know it happens and so I prayed constantly about this home group and I finally got released just last week and every single person that I invited came by which I was surprised because it was actually all ten first time first time I saw this I'm like if I wouldn't be a Christian we see some kind of drug deal is going on here Marvin is a is a dope is a hope dealer not dope hope dealer so you can see literally I mean this is this is what's up on the street right there cold everybody bow their heads close their eyes sinner's prayer and so no that is so awesome how you feel Marvin I actually feel great because there's a couple people within that home group that have gone the same path that I have and then they're seeing the change in me and some privately they actually tell me you know like I'm seeing happiness within you I'm seeing your life expand I'm seeing you grow more and I honestly want to I want the same to happen to my life and so I'm blessed to be placed in these to these people life yes I'm glad you know I get placed to people to mentor me to great people but I'm more privileged and I'm more happy that God places me to those that are lost because then I get to teach them the way I get to show them and allow God to use me as a light into their life to show them that what I've been through and got broken that the same can happen to them as well that's good that's good let's give a round of applause for Marvin God bless you thank you Marvin you take your seat there was there's I think about four or four more people that were released this week as well and most of them are here right now we for the sake of time we are going to have them share their stories a little bit later and stuff so but we just give God the glory amen I think as of next week we're gonna have about 32 home 34 home groups in our church and stuff so it's all the glory goes to Jesus and I believe that next year before our conference we're gonna have 50 home groups it's not just about the number but it's about leaders being raised up we're not just wanting to raise a bench warmers we want to raise up world changers for the glory of God because somebody say amen let's put our hands together one more time for the Lord Jesus Christ amen amen and AJ actually just left his work just come over here AJ just for a minute because he's working tonight but he's like I'll just make it make it AJ also started his home group last weekend yeah AJ tell us in a nutshell you came here and I remember you were talking about how you know you kind of went to church before but you were always in the background not really utilized and how'd you feel about that oh um I feel a little bit like what's the word what's the word just useless kind of like I was always there I was always ready to serve God in the church but like they would always just give me the cultural they're just like they wouldn't acknowledge me and what I was what I wanted to do for the church so I was like why am I here why am I even coming here and then you came here you know like these people just want to like force me to do everything you forced me to do everything the other extreme so you you started your home if you kind of had the desire you're working with guys all the time and stuff and so how did it go this Saturday and tell us a little bit about it oh it was good I invited um one two three of the guys and they all came three out of three yeah she invited 30 I'm working too okay yeah so um there there are three guys I went to high school with and then um uh what's it called I um I did the message with martin because they were they're um they're new to church so I didn't want to just give them the word like you need to this with the holy spirit you need to do this and this you know so you receive a new level so I was like no no no I don't want to go too deep let me give them like a confidence booster at first so um just talk about like choices and how success is a choice too as well as as well as a failure and then um it went really good and then they got you know what I love about our home groups now is that a lot of people that come to our home groups have never been to our church and a lot of people who come to our home groups don't necessarily come to our church but they eventually begin to come to our church so our home groups is not just to get people from the church to go to a home group it's also invite people who never would come to church to come hang out to hear about the message encouragement fellowship and then they eventually come to church AJ we were proud of you God bless you keep boxing for Jesus amen amen I think we've got to encourage people less than Jesus