 Welcome everybody to Unfiltered. Pastor David it's good seeing you. Hey John. I want to just welcome you guys for thank you for joining us. Pastor I got a question from a somebody who attends our church. I want to read it. It says, hey my brother just a thought. I wonder how many people in our church don't know or forget or didn't hear the study in John of what the wheat means for our church. Would this be a good question for Pastor and Unfiltered? And we have the wheat logo that we have on our timeline wall. We have stickers of it at our bookstore. And so yeah that's a good question pastor. What does the wheat mean and why did you choose the wheat logo for our church? You know when we first began our church and we'll be celebrating 42 years on a Wednesday night in July. So you know that might be something to talk about even on that night because we're going to have a different kind of service which you know we plan on having some throwback worship and all and and maybe some pictures and things to go along with that as well as just a Q&A kind of an interview thing just to celebrate 42 years. But when we first began we had you know we had to in order to receive incorporation at that time I don't know if it's still the same way now John but you had to provide proof that you were actually a congregation that was meeting you had to have proof and part of the proof when you incorporated at that time was that you had a bulletin of some sort to evidence that and so from the very beginning and we do have a facsimile of our first bulletin that's in our hall of ministry history here at the church in the very first service we ever had we had a little bulletin that was hand drawn and it had a wheat logo because Jesus said look on the fields they're white for harvest and so from the very beginning I wanted our people to have an awareness that that there are people in the world that are awaiting the message of the gospel and that the the fields are ready they're ripe and even in danger of over ripening and so I wanted our people to know that we had a vision to reach the lost healthy sheep beget sheep so because we wanted to spend time teaching the word and building foundations we developed the the wheat logo as the representative of the fields and Jesus in order to inspire his men said look upon the fields so I wanted our church to have eyes to see that there's a whole world that is lost in need of the gospel and so that's how we began using the wheat logo and we've had it in various iterations over the years and it became the the symbol of this church and you can see how it's for the first bulletin you can see it on the timeline as you mentioned it's just the wheat and then it's evolved or it's changing to the sticker that we have that it's pretty cool it's just the wheat sticker matter of fact on the way into the office this morning I saw two of the wheat logos on the on our car that was passing in probably going to a different church for some reason they sped by nothing and you know as the wheat is important because it produces it's a harvest it was that something that you came up with or was it on the drawing well everything you do you came up with right so you'd like to claim that you did but in fact I think that was inspired in my in my particular case by just the scripture and yeah we we we wanted a bulletin cover and that scripture was important and remains important to me so you know at the beginning like I said it was actually and there's a bigger story than the one I'm giving but there was actually an image that had been produced that I thought looked like a like a silhouette of the lord and we put within that a wheat field because I believe that Jesus even in the Old Testament you see something similar but in the New Testament that Jesus used visuals sometimes to illustrate to the his men where his heart was like in the Old Testament Abraham was told to look at the stars account the sand so that would give to him the sense of the immensity of what was before him and with Jesus he pointed to the fields and he said look upon the fields for their white for harvest and in the particular context of that there are commentators who point out that there were people who are walking away and then people who are surrounding him and so there are people wearing white you know and so it was a picture these human beings these human beings that's your field and you need to realize that these human beings are in need of of receiving life and so look upon the fields because they're ripe they're ready and even overripe and so yeah so we've always had a heart for evangelism in the sense that my messages always contain evangelistic aspects because you preach and you teach and so as a symbol of our church that's how it developed I like it and I like the one that we had the well there's different colors you guys got to go check out our timeline it's in the hallway and you see the different even the different shades and the colors of it you know and I want to close with this pastor is is yes there is a harvest for for a people out there that are needing to hear the gospel is there also a harvest within the church because I think sometimes we can be sometimes caught up in being here at church and not realizing that the person next to us it wouldn't be use I wouldn't use that as an exact you know correlation I believe there's always a potential for harvest in the sense that there can be fruit that is produced in all and so I could I could see it in that way but for me it was more John it was more of a picture of the lost it was more of a picture of reaching out to the people who are outside the four walls because one of the things that that churches can be very guilty of doing is is focusing their attention on simply reaching those within we have to realize that we're equipped for work of ministry and that we should be stepping out will be as a matter of fact this this Sunday I'm I'm about to conclude my preparation for Sunday but that's the whole point I'm going to be introducing Sunday service with because the day of Pentecost arrived Peter preached the practice of the church began to become formulated and then one day they're out there these apostles Peter and John are at the gate called beautiful in the temple and you see God moving beyond the four walls in a very graphic illustration because I really want the people in our church to have a heart to to give away their faith and to to see people in need and so you know for those who would like to I invite you to be part of it on Sunday and we'll be looking at that amen and that's at 830 and 1045 come out and join us as we have a time of worship and then we're in God's word and and being in fellowship with one another pastor thank you so much and thank you guys for tuning in you can always check out our timeline that's on the in the hallways of our church here you can see the the week logo and where the initials and how it's come down even up into our time today thank you guys for tuning in pastor David thank you guys so much we love you and God bless you