 Good morning everyone. Hello and welcome to the weekly mentoring. Thank you for joining in. I hope you all are doing well. Good morning, a very good morning. Good afternoon, wherever you're joining us from. Good to see you. Good morning to... Good morning, Kennedy. Good morning. Thank you. Good to see you, Daniel, Nikhil. Everyone, thanks for joining in. Very quickly, can I request one of our students to start us off with a word of prayer, please? Daniel, can I request you to start us off with a word of prayer, if that's okay? Heavenly Father, we just wish to thank you for this day and hour of mentoring. May the Holy Spirit minister to us, Father, as we participate in today's session. Please bless all our teachers and our fellow students here. And may we continue to grow in the knowledge of your word to become better stewards of the gospel. In Jesus' name we pray. Thank you, Father. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Sanjay. Thank you. Alright, today we have Pastor Paul, who will be sharing with us briefly on the topic of evangelism. So, over to Pastor Paul. Alright, thank you so much, Pastor Loshan. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this time of mentoring our... Alright, so the topic that I'll be sharing on is evangelism. Let me just take a moment to present. And so, every time we talk about evangelism, you know, some of us may feel this way. Oh, no, not evangelism. It's not my calling or it's not something that I am comfortable doing. And we may have many different inhibitions that stop us from, you know, really ministering and reaching out to people. But really, the ministry, the heart of the gospel is to reach out, to bring people into God's kingdom. And before we go ahead, this one I share a little bit of statistics. It's not the recent one, but just global statistics on what... on the different religions, what religions that we see. And from this map, we see that, you know, there's the maximum, there's 35.5% of Christians. I know this is not the updated one. And we know that it's just growing. And so, you know, world where we have about 8 billion people, about 2.3 billion people adhere to Jesus Christ, they believe in Christians. So if we look at it, it's still like we are a drop in the ocean. And Matthew chapter 28, 19 and 20, the Lord Jesus gives us this beautiful, powerful commission before he left, before he resurrected to heaven. He said, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. And though I am with you always, even to the end of the age. So the Lord Jesus has given us this commission, and he said, go and make disciples of all nations. And so, how can you and I be part of this commission? This commission that God has given us to reach out to minister to people. So let's just look at a few points. I'll just share a few thoughts and then we'll leave it open for questions and discussions. So what is the heart of evangelism? And why is it so important? Just a little disclaimer that I want to place here is that, you know, not all of us, you know, some of us may feel hey, I'm not an evangelist or I'm just a worship leader or I'm working in the marketplace. I've got my own business or, you know, or I'm not called to really be in full-time ministry. And so I want to just encourage us that doesn't really matter where we are. We could be in any sphere of influence, but we can do the work of the evangelist, that is to, you know, to reach out, spread the gospel, minister to people and spread the love of Christ wherever we are. So I know sometimes you may feel, hey, it's not my responsibility. Maybe God has chosen somebody else, pastors, evangelists to do it, but really God is saying the commission is for all of us to go and make disciples. So with that, we know that when we begin to reach out, we begin to evangelize. It is not only a natural effort, but it is a spiritual battle. We know that Paul says, he says, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but we wrestle against principalities, powers, darkness. And so the real battle for souls is the spiritual battle. Of course, there are other practical aspects that we have to learn and develop and build ourselves, even as we learn to evangelize. But the real battle is a spiritual battle. So I just put down, you know, an acronym for the word battle. This is not the only points, right? It's just a few of my thoughts. You can feel free to add to it. There's so much more that we can learn, but just a few, just a few of my thoughts that I've put in here. First one is when you and I decide that we step out to evangelize, first point is we must believe, we must be really convicted of who Jesus is, that he is who he says he is. So that deep conviction, that belief in our heart. And only if we believe, will we be able to go out and stand on that truth, right? Because when we look around us, there's so much people say, Jesus is just a prophet, a good man, a good teacher. But when we believe that Jesus is the Son of God, we know it, we believe it, we will be able to freely and boldly minister to people. John 14 6th says, I am the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except by me, right? So believe in what you're doing, even as we get opportunities to evangelize one on one college, workplaces, believe in what you're doing, believe in what we're doing. Two is to be all in, right? That is to be willing to do whatever God asks us to do. And sometimes, you know, he may ask us to step out of our comfort zone. So as I was sharing, you know, many of us may feel, hey, this is not what I want to do. And this is not my comfort zone. Just give me a stage and a mic and I'm good at preaching or good at leading worship. That's wonderful. But we must be willing to step out of our comfort zone. There will be times God will bring people into our life, God will bring opportunities and open doors for us to really minister and speak into people's lives. And so we must be all in. We must be willing to do it. Matthew 11 24, even as we are all in, as we're believing and trusting God, Matthew 11 24 says, therefore I tell you whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you receive it and it'll be yours, right? So I'm also reminded of Acts 1-8, where Jesus says to those, he said in Acts 1-8, he says, you will receive power to be a witness. And basically the Greek word there is martyr. So he's saying you'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you to be even a martyr. It means to go all in to the point of giving your life for Christ. The next word is T, which is to trust. Trust is to be willing to trust in God in everything that we do, right? Without trust it leaves place for confusion, leaves place with doubt, right? Proverbs 3, 5 and 6, it's not on this, but it says, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, submit to him and he will make your path straight. So does it mean like when we are trusting God that we know everything from the scriptures or we know everything from the Bible, do we have all the answers? The answers, you know, but we know that a long way the Lord Jesus will continue to teach us, continue to reveal things to us. And if you look at when the Lord Jesus was doing his ministry, earthly ministry, when the disciples, when he chose the disciples, the disciples had no idea what was going to happen in the future. They didn't realize what is going to happen, but they had to trust God, they had to trust in who Jesus was and who he was and what he said he will do. So even as you and I get opportunities to evangelize, to minister to people, we trust in God, we know that God will speak, God will minister, right? And the next word is truth. And Ephesians 4.15 says, speak the truth in love. Sorry, I missed that slide. Sorry about that. But the next word is truth. Speaking the truth in love. John 8.32 says, then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. And when you and I are ministering to people, when we get opportunities to evangelize, to spread the gospel, and it will be one-on-one setting, it could be in front of many people, one of the aspects that, you know, a powerful tool that we can use is the Word of God to speak the Word of God, to let the Word of God minister to people, to bring correction, to bring exhortation, to review, to build up, to encourage. And we know that the Word is powerful. The Word is like a hammer that can bring hard hearts. So, you know, one of the things that I've learned over time is, you know, sometimes we try to really force people to become believers. We try to just enforce all our thoughts, everything that we know, and we try to make them understand. You know, sometimes it just doesn't work out. You know, when we trust in God's Word, maybe just a Word, a scripture, sharing the scripture to them is so much more powerful. And, you know, then things that we may have said, the Word of God, trust in the truth of the Word of God, let the Word of God minister to people, right? And the next word is love. You know, when the Lord Jesus did his earthly ministry, everything that he did was undergirded with love, everything that he did. He didn't, all the miracles, all the healings, all that he did was because he loved. And there are plenty of scriptures in the Bible when we see that God ministered in love, the Lord Jesus ministered in love and compassion. Matthew 14, 14 says, and when Jesus went out, he saw great multitude and he was moved with compassion for them and healed their sickness, right? Sometimes, you know, while we're, you know, ministering to people, we can come across as rash, we can come across as harsh, demanding, or even sometimes judgmental. Hey, you know, this is what it is. This is, this is the true God and the one that you are worshiping. It's not true. We can sound rash and sound demanding and judgmental, but what will happen is this can only, this really goes through, can cause resentment to the person that we are speaking to. So we must be willing to love them, firstly love them and then minister to them. And God pulls out his love, our hearts, where, you know, we begin to love them, care for them, right? People may not believe immediately, even as we share the gospel, people may not believe immediately. Now, we need to continue with the spirit of love, be patient of them. There are, there situations and we have to give people time for them to understand. Sometimes people just get it, they receive the gospel, they believe it, they're in it. And, you know, that's wonderful. And it's beautiful to see that there are times that God takes people through seasons and we need to be patient. We need to help them understand. And that can, that for that, we need to be guided by love. And just the last one here, E is eternal reward. Even as we minister to people, there's a reward. God rewards us. First Corinthians 15 and 50 Jesus, let nothing with you always give yourself fully to the work of the Lord. Because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. First Thessalonians 2, 19 and 20, for what is our hope, our joy, our crown rejoicing is not even you. Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? And so there is an eternal reward. Even as we minister to people, it could be one on one, nobody even knows it. There is a reward for us. Just quickly, just take another two minutes, just want to share six ways. And of course, there are plenty of methods. Last week, we looked at media and technology, Master shared with us and how media technology is impacting the church globally. So I'll just put down six ways. These are not the only six methods. There are plenty of other methods. Just six ways. First one is being direct, one-on-one ministering, one-on-one, friends, family. Two is an apologetic approach where Peter says and first Peter 315, he says, be ready to give an apology, which is be ready to give a defense for the gospel. Now this can be one-on-one setting or even bigger setting. And then is the testimonial approach. How God has blessed, how God has provided, He has healed, how your life was before you met Christ and how your life has changed after Christ and after you have believed in Jesus. And then is the relational way where we build relationships with people, build in trust, build relationships. And then this is a slower process but over time you can lead them to Christ. And then is the invitation and I think many of us have, you know, we like to do this and it's good where we can invite people to church, church events, white groups, youth meetings and so this way they can come and experience and it gives them an opportunity or, you know, to experience and to see what God can do with their lives. And finally is life based, meaning just letting our life speak. You know, we know that we can preach a Lord, we can teach a Lord and not everyone may remember everything that we preach and teach but people usually remember the life that we have lived. So Matthew chapter 5 verse 14 says, Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify the Father in heaven. And so these are just six ways to put down direct apologetic, testimonial, relational, invitation and life based and many more. So let us go ahead and, you know, really begin to evangelize, reach out. So I'll just leave this time open for questions. Questions could be based on the topic that we have just discussed or the questions could also be anything pertaining to life and ministry and faculty as well as here. We'll do our best to answer those questions. Yes, leave this time open. Feel free to post your questions. We can also unmute, ask your questions. Thank you. Let's go ahead. Any questions, it need not be about evangelism only. So you can ask any question about life, about ministry, about anything that you're learning. If you want to share your thoughts on the courses that you're studying as well, feel free to do praise a lot, pastor. Can I say something? I want to give a testimony. After I joined this APC college and learning about the Holy Spirit, evangelism, praise and worship, and I started praying in the spirit and God has blessed me. You know, my neighbor, she was living to Dubai. She's Catholic and she was living to Dubai on last week and she had suddenly felt a pain in her leg and she couldn't walk. So I told her, can I help you? So she said, no, I'm okay. I brought some ointment and I have I'll be okay. Then the Holy Spirit led me to pray for her, you know, so it was I was restless and I just took one ointment and I said, I have this ointment and you will feel better. And I hope if I pray, you won't mind. She said, no, it's okay. And I prayed for her and in the name of Jesus, blood of Jesus for healing. I put that ointment and when she was living at 12 o'clock, I asked how you feel? She says, I'm that pain is gone. Everything has left me. So I give all the praise and glory to Jesus. You know, I told I pray for you in Jesus name. And then this has also led me to pray for people who the Holy Spirit is showing me whom I have not kept in touch, you know, so I take time to call them and pray for them. And I'm really so grateful and it this classes have helped me so much. And I thank pastor and all the faculty of APC College and I give all the glory to Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much Gertrude for sharing. Thank you. Can we talk about political and legislative challenges towards evangelism in our day to day activities? Yes. So I'll just share my thought and I'll be open for the other faculty also to give their inputs. So Kennedy, yes, if you look at our nation and living globally, there are a lot of restrictions in terms of sharing the gospel. And yes, God has given us the spirit and he has given us the commission to go. But God has also given us wisdom, right? He expects us to walk in wisdom to be wise in the way we live our lives. So if with, you know, in there are certain places, so let me just take a context of our nation. This is some of the places that I know of. There are places in North India where, you know, this intense persecution did not allow us to evangelize. So in places like this, you know, God knows that, you know, we cannot go out and have these big evangelistic meetings. But bigger to be wise in the sense we say, okay, we need to obey the law. It may not be something that we agree to, but since it's the law, as children of God, we must obey the law. But we don't stop evangelizing in the sense that we, you know, we can reach out in one on one in a smaller way, in smaller groups and, you know, really minister to people in smaller settings, right? So there are going to be challenges. There are going to be, you know, the restrictions in sharing the gospel. But the Lord Jesus says commission, as he said, we have to do it. But then we can be wise in the way we minister. I hope I've brought some light to your question. I'd leave it open for the other faculty to share with us. Please go ahead. I'd like to share with us. Pastor Ashish, would you like to share a thought on this? Yeah, even as just, you know, I agree with what you've said, we just need to be wise. We shouldn't. So there is the whole thing of, you know, we want to follow the rules, which we must respectfully. And yet at the same time, you know, we need to obey the Lord's command, which is to continue to share the gospel. So going about it in a wise way. And I think there are always, you know, God can give us ideas and means and methods to continue to propagate the gospel in spite of the political or legislative challenges that are there. So we have to be wise and we have to be courageous. And let me see examples of it right in the book of Acts, starting from chapter three. They faced opposition in those days, primarily from the Jewish people. But they continued for claiming the gospel. They didn't hold back. They just went out of the world. So we need to follow the rules. And not every rule is a persecution. Sometimes the rule is for the sake of, you know, maintaining civil order. And it applies to people of all religions. It's not just targeted towards Christians. And sometimes it is targeted towards Christian faith. So we need to discern what is rich. And then, like Jesus said, when he sent his disciple, he said, I'm sending you a sheep among bulls, be wise as serpents and harmless as dogs. So we need to continue to do that. Thanks. Thank you. We have another question from Rose. Was there a time where you stepped out only to evangelize when there was opposition? Yes, I'll just share one couple of instances, but I just have one, and then I'll leave it open again to the faculty. I remember this one time we were in Mangalore. And at that time, the church was just about 10 of us. And Mangalore was known to be a place where there was not much of outreach. So we were there. And we were just looking up what are the options that we have. And remember this, in Bangalore, what we used to do was we used to go during Christmas, we used to go to malls, apartment complexes and have Christmas carols, share a small word about the Christmas message. And remember, we went to Mangalore. We went to a couple of malls, got permissions, and they said, Okay, then come do your carols and place your book. We had also got permission to place your book tables and share a gospel message. Now, nobody in Mangalore had really opened up to it. So it was probably the first time that the church was doing it. So what happened was we went to the police station. We got letters saying that got permission saying that this is a church and this is what we're doing. And we have got permission from the mall. So we had all of those letters. But on the day of the carols, a group of people came and they said, You have to stop this. They took some of the books and they started throwing it all over the place in the mall. But then we had the papers. And so I said, We won't stop it. We will continue. Because they were like, You know, you have to stop it. You cannot do this. But then I have since we have permission from everyone from the police to the mall authorities, the malls themselves gave us their speakers and all the equipment to do this. So, so now we didn't stop. We did the malls and all we did the candles and all the malls. So we didn't stop. So yes, there were times there were oppositions. But when we go about doing, doing it in the right way, I was just wondering if I didn't if we didn't have the police better. I think we would have been in trouble. But we thank God for the wisdom, right? So we had the letter. So we showed it to them. They tried to, you know, cause trouble, but they couldn't do much after that. So we were able to do chaos in all the malls. Yes, I'll give it open to any other, any of our faculty would like to share it. Let's go ahead, Anusha. Okay, I'm not sure your voice was breaking. But if I heard you right, you said, do we have to take permission to share the word? Is this, I got that much, but I don't in public. So you're talking about street? Okay, in public. Okay. So, so it really depends on where we are. So, so in a place like, like urban settings, you know, it would be, I don't know about street evangelism, because now with the bills that have come up, the anti conversion has come into most of the states and our nation. So regarding permission for that, again, I'm not really sure if we can go to, yes, please go ahead. Yeah, sorry. Anusha, I didn't hear your question correctly. Are you saying do we need to take permission? Or what was your question? Yes, please. Do we need to take permission for God, the Miss Brails are publicly, are there any reasons? Yeah, so, so here's how we need to look at it. Right. So we are, you know, for example, different countries have different rules, and even within countries, different states have different rules. So if you look at India as a nation, we are a secular nation. So legally, all of us have the freedom to practice and propagates our faith. Everybody, every person of every religion has freedom to do that. However, we are there are also what are not in a public spaces. That means the screens or we go to a mall or the footpath, right? That's a public space, meaning it's not my tribe. I don't own it. It's not my private space. It's a government owned space, right? And it's equally accessible to other people. So everybody has access to that space. But if I'm standing there, and if I'm, let's say, preaching, I need to be mindful of how what I am doing is impacting the freedom and impacting other people. And I can't say I'm exercising my constitutional right to preach the gospel, which is correct. The Constitution gives me the right to preach the gospel. But I am doing it on not my private space that is not in my house, but I'm doing it in a public space. The moment I step into a public space, then you know, my freedom ends where the freedom of the other person begins, right? My freedom ends where if there is a rule that prohibits that, then that's where my freedom ends. So I need to be respectful of that. So or I can't go into somebody else's place, for example, I can't go into a mall and just, you know, take a megaphone and start preaching, because the mall is not my private space. The mall is neither a public space. The mall is, it's owned by somebody, it could be owned by, you know, some company or somebody. So I can't go into the mall, I just take a megaphone and start preaching, right? I am actually violating somebody else's space. So these are simple things that we need to think about. The Constitution gives us the right to practice and propagate our faith. But implicit in that is you need to walk respectfully of the law. You need to walk respectfully of public spaces. And you need to walk respectfully of other people's private spaces, right? That means it belongs to them. I can't just go there and preach, right? So if I'm using a public space, then, you know, we need to go and get permission. That's where because I'm not using my space, I'm using a public space. And that's what you heard the police station, especially if you're doing something like you're putting up a stall or anything that may obstruct the freedom of the movement of people, right? Then I need to go and get, we need to go get permission and say, hey, can we do this? Can we, you know, can we put up a stall or can we, you know, give out handles or so. So the thing is, while the Constitution gives us freedom, we need to be good citizens. So that's when, you know, permission comes in and there are rules. For example, if you want to rent open grounds to have a meeting, you have to go and get permission from the police station, etc. You can't just rent it and do your own thing. You know, so there are rules that people must follow. If you want to go inside a mall, the mall means it's somebody else's space. So we do we have to go and get permission. And yeah, like as Pastor Paul was sharing over the years, we've done, you know, number of things. For example, our youth ministry actually started in in in coffee day. So I'm going back in time to 2000. I think it was 2002. 2002. In those days, there's a coffee day on Brigade Road. And then we moved to empty road. So we just didn't go into the coffee and start preaching or start distributing tracks. That will be a violation of their private space, right? So what we did, we went and we spoke to the coffee person and we said, hey, you know, we can be any permission to use your space for two hours, but we're going to be singing Christian songs, we're going to be, you know, sharing the gospel. Is it okay? But we're guaranteeing you that we will buy, you know, 30 snacks, 30 beverages and 30 snacks. They happily gave it to us. So that means we got permission from the people who own that private space, but then we preach the gospel and the youth ministry just forested and, you know, in those days, the biggest coffee day at that time was on Cunningham Road. And we saw more than 100 youth come on Saturday in the coffee day, and we were preaching the gospel. Then when we couldn't hold any more people, we moved to, you know, an auditorium. So, so the point was, we did it with permission. So the Constitution gives us right to preach the gospel. But if you're using somebody's, you know, either a public space or a private space, you need to get permission from, you know, those particular people, then we do it and then that's perfectly fine. So I think it's just being a good sense. I hope to have some kind of thinking. Thanks. Thank you, Paskar. Thank you. Thank you, Anusha. Thank you. But we have a question here from Ritujal. I've shared the gospel to someone, the acceptor Jesus. So I made that person pray the salvation prayer. And later it turns out that that person is also worshiping their God. So how can we deal with these type of situations? I'll just share a quick thought and I'll leave it open. Ananda, I see your hand raised. I'll just come to you in a moment. So yes, we've been studying in identity. We see that, you know, our spirit is new. When we become believers, we get a new spirit. The Holy Spirit is in us. We are old, the oldest past away, we are new. But Romans chapter 12, Paul says, don't be conformed to this world, but we transform by the renewal of your mind. So what happens is in our spirit, we are, we believe in Jesus, we are new in our spirit, but our thinking is still conformed to the old ways of all the saying we transform by the renewing of your mind. So it is, yes, it is, we have people who, because they've been doing this for years, or maybe for a long time as a habit. So what we can do is not get upset or angry with them, saying, how can you do this when you already pray the salvation prayer, but to again help them and guide them to understand. I just want to say this one thing and I'll leave it open. Light is greater than darkness. So even if they're going back there, and the more the light of God's word, the light of the gospel, and the light of who Jesus is, is revealed into them and into their heart, darkness will just be dispelled. I'll leave it open. Maybe Pastor Serena, or Pastor Roshan, if you'd like to add on this. Thank you, Pastor Paul. Thank you, Rituja, for your question. You know, just we need to understand that, you know, people's spiritual journey can be complex and can take time for some people. It's also, we can, we just need to know that sometimes when people have accepted Jesus, it doesn't mean that they're just going to immediately abandon all their previous beliefs and practices, because, you know, there is essential to also understand that faith development takes, you know, time. It's a process. So what we need to do is be non judgmental, have a non judgmental conversation with them, try to understand what are their beliefs, their practices, and also understand, you know, their motivations and the struggles that they may be facing, why they're doing what they're doing. Maybe sometimes some people think that, you know, all gods are one, just like we pray to Jesus and praying to someone, to other gods and goddesses as well. So we need to understand their motivations, what struggles they are facing, and also just offer guidance and support and, you know, don't criticize, encourage them to study the word of God, encourage them to attend a church service or, you know, a life group or fellowship of believers, which will help them just deepen their understanding of their faith in God. Also, prayer is always a powerful tool, just helping somebody on their faith journey. So just pray for their spiritual growth, you know, also continue to maintain a friendship with them. And, you know, live out your faith consistently before them so that, you know, it can have a good significant impact in their lives. And also know that, you know, that in different people's personal journey and their spiritual journey of their faith walk with God, you know, it takes time and, you know, what happens in their own way and, you know, just trust that God will work in their lives. Even if you don't see immediate changes, just believe, just have faith, just continue to pray for them, just speak into their lives, just encourage them, motivate them, teach them from God's word. And I think, you know, then they will be able to see the difference, they'll be able to also, you know, share your life testimony, your encounter with God, get them to put their faith and trust in believing only in Jesus and how Jesus is different from the others, other so-called gods and goddesses. And I think that will just help them and motivate them in their faith walk and their journey with the Lord Jesus Christ. I hope that helps. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Master Selina. Sri Radha, I hope those points helped you. Anand, I... Sorry, Master Emmanuel. Yes, go ahead. Sorry, that was Ruthuja's question. Oh, sorry. Yes, Ruthuja's question. Yes, okay. All right. Now, Sri Radha, we'll just come to your question in a moment. Anand, you raised your hands. Would you like to share question? Yes, go ahead, Anand. We can't hear you. Okay, we'll come back to Anand. But Anand, you may need to check your mic, just to make sure the audio is fine. Sri Radha says sometimes we share the gospel with some people who started journey with the Lord with so much passion, but afterwards they walk away from the truth. Do we need to follow up again and again? And if they start to neglect us in a word coming to the church, then what steps do we need to take towards those people? Run for the question. And so, now I'll just share quickly a small thought, Anand. Can we open? Yes, there will be times when people are beginning with, you know, great fervor and passion. But over time, they do turn away or maybe they just become warm. It would be a good thing to follow up to help them, to encourage them in the Lord. If you are in a place where you are in touch with that person, yes, definitely reach out to them, you know, be there for them, disciple them, help them, you know, get back on their feet, get back. Sometimes, you know, we may feel like it's just a monotonous thing routine that we're following. So, yes, if you are in a position to probably meet or have continual communication with that person, yes, follow up with them again and again, get them out. And if they start, if they start to neglect us, right? So one thing in evangelism is, you know, we cannot control other people's emotions and thoughts. So our part is to share the gospel. Our part is to encourage people and we really can't control people's thoughts and their reactions to what we say. So if they neglect us, avoid coming to church, we don't have to force them, but we can always pray for them, ask God to, you know, minister to them. And we can also ask them what is the reason as to why you don't come? You know, many times people don't want to come to church because maybe something has happened in their life or they're praying for something they haven't received answers or in the church, somebody must have spoken something which has hurt them. So get to know the reason as to why they don't want to come to church. And then you can help them. But if they keep neglecting or neglecting us avoiding just move on. But again, you can pray keep praying for them. We have a few minutes. Rose says, what about if you want to evangelize to people in North Korea? Just looking at on Google, I just went into this check on Korea or Korea is mostly atheists and agnostic with 2% of Christianity. Now, if God is calling somebody to go to North Korea and start a ministry. And yes, definitely, you know, there's this board here. And forget who's the person who said this is one of the church history. It says that if God's work will never lack God supplies or God is calling a person to North Korea to minister to evangelize to spread the gospel, God will, you know, God will provide for you. God will make you. You know, there's there are books. There are people who have gone God smuggler to China, brother Andrew. It's a wonderful book how he smuggled China's Bible. Sorry, he smuggled Bible into China during the communist time. So yes, if it God's call somebody to do it, and you know for sure that that calling is from God, definitely, yes, he can use people to do that. First of all, just want to add a thought. Let's go ahead, because some place like North Korea, we know that, you know, there are way too many restrictions and challenges to minister in places like that. So as we've been talking about evangelism, I think one very key thing for us to do is to really pray. And that's one area where we can invest we can, you know, truly pray through till breakthrough. So that is something all of us can do. And yes, as the Lord leads, as he gives us some innovative ideas and thoughts, we can begin to move on that. But I just wanted to emphasize prayer, because it's a spiritual battle. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Master Nancy. Thank you so much, Sanjay, for sharing your testimony. It's wonderful to hear your testimony here. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts here. As fast as we should not Korea radio community evangelism. Okay, Lucy, we have two minutes. How do we take steps to speak to people who are from tribal groups who come to cities for their livelihood and can't read? How do we have them? Would anyone like to share your thoughts on this? What do we have? Any of the pastors would like to share their thoughts, please? What can you say? Lucy, very quickly, many of them cannot read, but we can engage them using, you know, other means, audio, video, what is happening, what is for Jesus films, and so on. I'm assuming that, you know, they're engaging in a language that that some others can converse, you know, communicate it. So if they can't read, they're not literate in that sense. There are the other options are obviously communicating with them personally or using the Jesus film in their language. That's a very powerful tool, which is still continuing to impact you know, lots and lots of people. Thank you. Thank you, Master. Just the last question from Anand. So Anand's question is talking about freedom of speech, think about permissions everywhere, even in villages, we can't reach out, right? Oh, so evangelists, like all the evangelists also would have to take permission. So Anand, if I understand your question, your question is, if people are evangelists in villages, do they have to take permissions to evangelize? Yes, go ahead. Yeah, so basically, Anand, you're talking about in the past, right? So see, things were not so restrictive in the past. For example, even in the cities in the past, back in the, you know, the 80s, I remember I would freely go around stock, MG Road, Brigitte Road, distribute tracks, everything. And even when APC started, you know, the early years, every Christmas, we used to flood MG Road with traffic. And we saw our people, church people, we used to walk up and down MG Road, you know, one full week for Christmas, distributing tracks, we were singing carols on Brigitte, MG Road up and down, we should just freely walk into the malls and sing. Now this was, I'm talking about the early 2000s. So even up until that time, both cities and villages were very open, you know, it was nobody, you know, really attacked us. But the atmosphere has changed, people have become more sensitized, people are becoming more, you know, in a way more aggressive. And this is, that's why we also need to adapt. We need to be smarter than the opposition. So things have changed, you know, since the early 2000s. So prior to that, you could just evangelize freely. But now we have to be a little bit more careful. And careful in a sense, follow the law, the laws for be sensitive to both, you know, public and private spaces, that's all. Okay. Thanks a lot. That's Russian. Alright, alright, thank you so much, everyone. Thank you for joining this call. See you in the classes. Have a great day. Have a great week ahead. God bless you all. Thank you.