 My name is Tom Darby. I'm an elder here at Radiant Church. Karen and I, my wife's right up here in front, have been attending Radiant for over 20 years. Back before this was even here, we were just down on the other end. We own four businesses in the Plainwall area and have been passionate about the marketplace as a mission field for the past 30 years or so. We have four children. They all work with us inside of our companies, ages 32 to 25, yep. The oldest, oldest is our daughter and then three sons and then we have a daughter-in-law as well. I was first exposed to the marketplace as a mission field my senior year in college. So I grew up in this area, went to Gullake High School, left to go to college down in Indiana to get an engineering degree. And I grew up in a Christian home. We went to the Catholic Church, had wonderful parents, good godly parents, but I had made a decision early in my life that I was gonna wait to surrender my life to Jesus until I was old, like I was 30. I thought that was old at that time. Yeah, that's right, it's not anymore. But so I went through high school just kind of living my life for myself, knowing who he was, knowing what he had done for me, but believing to lie from the enemy that the world had better things to offer than what he did. And I did the same thing through college. In my senior year in college, my roommate graduated prior to me and went to work at a company up here in Kalamazoo. It was called National Waterlift. And he met a marketplace missionary who led him to Christ. And he sent me a letter, back then it was letters, we didn't have email, we didn't have texting, we didn't have any of that. It was in the mid-80s. And I opened the letter and he had told me about his decision to become a Jesus follower and how excited he was about it. And I'll be honest, I saw it and I was kind of disappointed because I wasn't ready yet and he was my best friend and I wanted to spend time with him and I kind of thought, well, this is gonna mess that up. So he sent me a couple more letters trying to witness to me and I still wasn't open to it. And as I was getting ready to graduate, I had three different job offers. I had a job offer in Findlay, Ohio, one in Indianapolis and then one in Kalamazoo at the company that he worked at. And as God would have it, that was the one that had by far the highest wage. And at that point, I was more concerned with money than I was anything else. And so I took that job, but God put me there for a reason. So I went there and immediately he started working on me. I went back to church and I kept telling him, you know, I'm going to church and he had a friend who I think was a Christian from the time he was born who worked there as well and worked in the same area. And I bought a house and so he hooked him up to becoming my roommate, unbeknownst to me. I didn't know where he stood and then he was a solid believer like that. So they both started working on me at that point. So now I'm really in trouble. My mom's praying for me and these two guys are working on me. I keep telling them we're going to church, but they know better. They know that I really haven't surrendered my life. And there was a concert that was coming, a Christian concert that they were asking me to go to. And I kept putting them off. I don't want to go to that. And finally they were bothering me so much that I just, they broke me down. I said, I'll go. So I went, it was at Miller Auditorium in 1987. It was in the fall. It was a Steve Camp concert. And I went and he gave an altar call and I was just overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit. So it up went down and was immediately changed and transformed. I mean, I went home that night. Bill was the gentleman's name who lived with me and we just all night long talked about Jesus and what he had meant to him in his life and talked about the Bible. So I got to work on Monday and Joe, my friend said, the guy that was the marketplace missionary there that worked in engineering that had witnessed Joe wanted to see me at break time. So I went up to his office and he said, you know, we run Bible studies here. I would like to invite you to some of the Bible studies that we're having. And he also said that he said, I would like to meet with a small group of you guys. There was five of us that were about the, in the same age group and meet in the evenings at your houses and we would rotate through houses and what he did. And I said, yes, I don't know why at that point I was gonna say yes to anything that had to do with God. I was just so excited. And there was four of us, three of us were new believers. Bill who had been a believer since birth and then a gentleman who hadn't accepted Christ yet. And so he after the first meeting gave his life to the Lord and for the next year this man, Mike, who was a marketplace missionary, discipled us. I mean, he taught us about Christian ease, I call it. You know, what does justification mean? What does it mean to be redeemed? What does it mean to be saved? We went through all of that so that we would understand what we were reading better. How to apply it to relationships. You know, different things about dating or anything that applied to life. Basically we spent the next year and he discipled us. So we were five young men, didn't go to the same church but did life together at work and did Bible studies together at work and then began to witness to other people at work. Now, so as we got to the end of that time, the end of the year with him, he started to say instead of teaching us he started to tell us, hey, and these are my words, not his, if all you do is use this to better yourself and you don't go out and apply this and try to help other people as well, this year's been a waste. So I started to pray and say, okay, Lord, what is it that you wanna do with this and how do you wanna use me? And he brought a verse to mind at that time and it's out of Ephesians. And it said, we are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works. And this is the part that got me that he created in advance for us to do. And I started to pray at that time early on, okay, God, I know you have things for me to do. I know you created me for a purpose. I know I'm created in your image. What is it that you want me to do? And I started to think things, you know, I'm in my mid-20s, I started to think things like, am I supposed to go to China to be a missionary or where are you gonna send me or what are you gonna do with me? How do you wanna use me? And I felt him say, in no uncertain terms, I have you right where I want you. And what I want you to do is go tell people about me right where you're at. So a lot of times, you know, we'll think, you know, as the mission field as being somewhere else. And if you look at it as it's defined in Webster's, it's gonna say, you know, a missionary is somebody who goes to a foreign land to share their faith and to try and have an impact on people. But really, if you think about it from a spiritual standpoint, once we make a decision, God tells us that our citizenship has changed. Now we're citizens of his kingdom. And he tells us we're foreigners in this land. So we're all missionaries. Really, if you look at it from that standpoint, and if he was just gonna take people and have them, you know, he's gonna put them in a certain area and then move everybody around. Hey, you go to China and you go to Africa and you go here and you go to Kenya. That wouldn't even make much sense. He has most of us, not everybody. That's a calling and it's an amazing calling. I don't wanna belittle that. We sat this morning next to somebody who is a missionary here from Guatemala and had a chance to talk to him. What a calling that is. But we're all called to go and share our faith. And I believe we're all called to go and be missionaries right where we're at. Now different people are going to approach it differently. I'm gonna talk about some different things over the past 30 years, some things that have worked for me and some different foundational things that I think there are as far as taking your faith into the marketplace. But as soon as we start to take God out of the equation and say we're gonna do X, Y, and Z and it's gonna work every time, it's not. And then our need for him isn't the same. So I don't want to, as we go through this, say, hey, this is how you do things and this is how it works and because that takes him out of the picture. If we really wanna be successful with it, then we have to be praying and listening and understanding how it is that he wants us to go about doing that. So is the marketplace a mission field? You kinda have to start there. Do you really think it's a mission field? Pastor Lee talked this morning about the two tracks and he talked about the church and then he talked about society in general and for a long time they kinda ran parallel and church was good. When I grew up in the 70s, almost all of my friends went to church. I'm not saying, and that was right here in Richmond, I'm not saying everybody was sold out. I don't know that there was any more people who were passionate, really sold out for Jesus back then than there were now, but it's just what you did. You went to church and most people went to church. So at that point, at least they're getting an opportunity to hear while they're there and learn about the Bible and hear about Jesus and what he did for them. Today, decades later, and he alluded to this, it's not that way. Inside of the marketplace, when we're talking with people and when we're trying to have an influence on them, I'm amazed, especially with some of the young people who have absolutely zero idea of what the Bible has to say, what Bible stories are and what the church is all about. All they know is what society is telling them. So if people are coming to church less and less, then we have to figure out, and I believe God's moving this way and I'll talk about that a little bit, but we have to figure out how do we go to them, the Great Commission? Jesus talks about the end of Matthew. He says, go, so, I mean, he's telling us to go, not have, wait until they come to us, but go into the world and make disciples. So that's what we're called to do. So the Barna Group did a study of employed Christians. So this was back in 2018. And what they did was they went out and they did a survey. I had a chance to talk to one of the people who did the survey and they went out and they talked to people who they said they considered to be solid Christians, which would be that they went to church at least two times a month and that they believed that the Bible was God's written word. So that is who was surveyed and they asked them some questions. And one of the questions they asked them was, do they feel that they should act ethically in the workplace? And 82% said they did. Not sure what the other 18% were thinking or how that happened. That's kind of, that was a little odd when I read that, but, and then they asked them if they felt they should make friends. This is just make friends with non-Christians and it went down to 66%. And then they asked them, should they be sharing the gospel in the workplace? And is that part of a Christian's responsibility? And 24% felt that that's what they should do. And I'm not knocking, I mean, I'm not saying that, that, you know, they don't love the Lord and that they're not passionate about Jesus, but our society and the way we've grown up has kind of told us seeker friendly church, let's do it at church. It doesn't belong in the workplace. It shouldn't be there. I've been told that over the past 30 years that I've been doing this more than once, many times, and not so in certain terms, by people who are passionate followers of Jesus, but they've told me it doesn't belong in the workplace. We shouldn't be doing what we're doing. That, you know, you're there to work and to provide a service. We'll talk about that a little bit. And we are, but that you shouldn't be sharing your faith there. And I think this study, this Barna group study, kind of shows that to a point. It shows us that we need a divine reversal in the way that we look at the marketplace. And we need it soon because not as many people are coming to the church. Now, obviously as an elder of the church and, you know, I'm passionate about radiant, we want to invite people. We want them to be here. We want them to come here. But sometimes you got to show them Jesus in the workplace first and you've got to love on them and you've got to build a relationship with them before they're going to be interested to come and hear what it is that we have to say here. So, you know, there is, you know, 100, what is it, 155 million people in the workplace just in the United States. So there's billions all over the planet. So if there's 155 million, and they say when you read the different surveys that have been done approximately 30% of that maybe would be Christians. That means that there's a mission field just in the United States, not even across the globe of 110 million people with Christians intermixed with them that we can do a mission, that is a mission field. If we send missionaries like the gentleman I talked to this morning from Guatemala to other countries, how do we normally send them? Do we just send them as missionaries or do they go as nurses? Do they go as contractors? Do they go as people that help in agriculture? Do they go as teachers? When we send missionaries to most other countries, a majority of them won't even let them come in unless they're doing some kind of work. It's the same thing for us here. It's just someplace else. We just have to rethink and make a decision to be intentional about integrating our faith into the marketplace. So a couple of the things that I have found over the past 30 years to be foundational, number one would be prayer. Prayer is foundational and it has to start with that. If you wanna go into the marketplace and have an impact and you don't start with prayer, you're on shaky ground. So it has to start with prayer. At our companies, we do prayer daily. So again, it can work differently wherever you're at but we have a group that meets every day at our first break and they read the proverb of the day. So if it's the first day of the month, they read Proverbs one, if it's the 30th, they read Proverbs three and then they pray. So that happens daily. And then on Wednesdays, I meet with our leadership group and we have a Bible study and we pray. And then during the week on other days at noon, we have different Bible studies. I'm running one right now with some new believers on Thursdays. So inside of our group, and we've been praying for decades, we've been praying almost since we started the business. We've been praying since we started the businesses but we've been praying inside of the business almost since day one, collectively as a group. We have on the Wednesday prayer that I do in time, we have four generations from my family up until just recently my grandma passed but we have four generations praying together on that Wednesday. So we had my grandma, my mom comes in, Karen and myself and then my kids and then outside of that, I've got some of the leadership group who has been doing marketplace ministry with me for decades and they're part of that group as well. But we don't just pray for the businesses in general which we do but we pray for the people more so than anything else. So up on our monitors that everybody sees in the shop, we have something that talks about we have prayer on Wednesdays and if they have something that they would like us to pray for to come and let us know and not many Wednesdays go by that somebody doesn't filter up by where we're meeting in a conference room prior to us praying and say, hey, could you pray for this? So it's impactful, it's powerful, it's part of the outreach and it sets the foundation. And we've seen healings, we've seen all different types of things. I'll tell a quick story about my daughter but there's many other stories along the same line. My daughter when she was in high school had headaches, terrible headaches as she got to her senior year and we took her to the doctor and they did some MRIs and they did some stuff and he called me at work. The doctors did and said, you need to bring Adrienne in right away, not the phone call you wanna get. So we took her in, they did a CT scan and they found a spot on her brain, a dark spot. So she went through a bunch of tests here in Kalamazoo, couldn't find it. So we took her to Cleveland Clinic, right? So we took her to the Cleveland Clinic and immediately they diagnosed it as a cavernous angioma is what they called it. So it's all the small blood vessels instead of a large one but they were malformed and the bleeding is what was causing all the problem but there was nothing that they could do. So we prayed and we prayed at church and we prayed at home and prayed consistently for healing. Seven years went by and she continued to have headaches, went through college. So I had a gentleman come in to teach my leadership group at work about hearing from the Holy Spirit at work and he was there doing that meeting and he got part way through and he said, he was using an example, he said, it would be as if somebody had headaches all the time and I heard the Holy Spirit say to me, stop them and tell them about Adrian. So he said a few more words and I said, hold on a second, I said, you know, I said, my daughter, Adrian does deal with headaches all the time. So he had started the healing rooms up in Grand Rapids and he said, can I pray for her? And we said, of course, nervous, I think 12 to 15 of us in there and we all outstretched our arms and he put his hand on Adrian's head. I'm right there in the conference room and began to pray for her and they both, he felt a pounding in her head and she felt the pounding going on and her headaches immediately were relieved after seven years. She told us a couple of days later, she said, I didn't remember what it was like not to have a headache, you know. So that happened and we prayed for her again at church and there's been all kinds of healings here at church but that happened in the marketplace, right into business. It can happen in homes, it can happen in businesses, people's lives can be changed, people can be healed but we have to make ourselves available. We have to be willing to get out of our comfort zone, get out of that box that says, hey, church or the church building is where we do all of this and we need more and more people to get on board with taking it out into the marketplace and into the world. We have to be spiritually attractive and available and this one is not always an easy one. I remember early on when I was working for National Waterlift, I was sitting in a meeting and I was in mid-management at that point and they were talking about people and ranking people and their performances and they came across this one gentleman and they said, well, all he does is walks around and talks about the Bible all day, he doesn't get anything done, he's a poor performer and then they looked at me because they knew where I stood, I've always been vocal about it and they said, you know, Tom, you're a super hard worker but you got to admit this guy's not doing what he's supposed to be doing and I couldn't say anything. I didn't know what to say. I just looked at him as an under performer but they looked at him as a Christian under performer and what it did was it had an impact on his ministry. Part of being attractive in the marketplace is trying to excel at what we do. We've got an advantage, we've got the Holy Spirit. In baseball, they've got steroids and the marketplace, we've got the Holy Spirit. So with the Holy Spirit, you can get just amazing ideas and excel in the marketplace as God, for me, I know over the past 30 years and when I was there, I excelled through that company really quick before I left to start my own companies and a lot of that I attribute not to anything to do with myself but God and because I was trying to take care of his business there, he was taking care of mine and he was in planning ideas in my head and give me solutions to things that happened quickly and so we should expect that. We should expect that when we're in the marketplace that we should be the top performers not the bottom performers and people are gonna be drawn to that as you go to have an impact on people and try to influence them if you're showing up for work late every day if you're grumbling like everybody else and if you don't look any different then why do they wanna come to you? You know, we should look different and part of that is excelling while we're there. There is a couple of scriptures along those lines, one from Proverbs, I still laugh about the first time I read it, I thought, I can't believe that's in the Bible. Said, one who is slacking his work is brother to the one who destroys and that's Proverbs 18, nine. So, I mean, it is a big deal, it talks about throughout the Bible being a sluggard and being in Proverbs, it talks about being slack in your work, that is not a good thing. I mean, being brother to the one who destroys I think just says it all. And then in Colossians 3.23, it says, "'Whatever you do, work hardily as for the Lord, "'not for men.' "'Sometimes we look at it and we think, "'I don't like my boss or I don't like the company "'or they're not a Christian company "'or you don't understand where I'm working "'or what's going on, "'but if we approach it and we say, "'Hey, we're working for God "'and the impact that we can have for him, "'then we take man and we put him to the side "'cause we fail each other. "'None of us are perfect and no workplace is perfect. "'We have a couple hundred employees in our workplace, "'I can guarantee you is not perfect.' "'No matter all the prayer that goes on, "'everything that goes on inside of our workplace "'don't want anybody to think that everything is perfect "'cause it's not even close. "'So don't expect it to be, "'but we need to look different. "'We need to make sure that we're spiritually attractive "'and that we look different than what everybody else does. "'Loving our neighbor, another one that can be tough. "'It's easy to love the people at work "'or in the marketplace that are similar to us, "'that we like, that we get along with, "'but when we're working with people, "'there's gonna be a lot of people "'that we may not like that much, "'but we're called to love them. "'And love is patient, love is kind, "'it does not envy, it does not boast, "'it is not rude, it is not proud, it is not self-seeking. "'You continue to go, those aren't feelings. "'Those are decisions. "'So we have to make a decision when we're there "'if we wanna have an impact for him "'that we're not just gonna love the people that we like, "'but we're gonna love everybody "'that we come into contact with. "'We may not spend a lot of time with some of the people. "'We may not have a lot in common with them, "'but we have to learn to love them." And I think Jesus talks about that in the parable of the Good Samaritan. I'll read that real quick. And this is when the lawyer comes up, so the expert in the law comes up and they talk about what are the greatest commandments and love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, and mind and then also love your neighbor as yourself. And he says, who is my neighbor? So, but he desiring to be just or to justify himself said to Jesus and who is my neighbor? Jesus replied, a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and he fell among robbers who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now, by chance, a priest was going down the road and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. So likewise, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his animal and brought him to the inn and took care of him. And the next day, he took out two Daeneri and gave them to the innkeeper saying, take care of him and whatever you or whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back. So the two passing by, and I ask myself this frequently inside of the workplace and looking at it like the road to Damascus, how many times do I walk by somebody and they're hurting and I don't even know it. I'm not paying attention, maybe not purposely just walking by him. But inside of the marketplace, we have all the issues that the rest of the world has. We have divorce, we have people dealing with money issues, we have addiction issues, we have people who are hurting in so many different ways. Now, if I walk by and knowingly walk by, that's not a good thing, like the Levite and the Price did. But what I want to be is in tuned with God so that as I see somebody like that, I can help. And our first inkling, sometimes because we're so busy at work, I mean, I had four kids in sports, multiple businesses, we had a lot going on and was extremely busy. But what I found was that if I took care of God's business, like I said earlier, he would take care of mine. So when those times arose to take a second and to spend time with people, it was time well spent. And it was not that in the end, I didn't have enough time to get done what I needed to get done. So if we look at the Samaritan, he didn't just walk up to the person when he saw what was going on and say, I'll pray for you, which is good, we should. And I'm not saying that shouldn't go on, but he had the means to help that person. So he used those means and went ahead and did the physical things that he could do. He bandaged his wounds, he took them, set them on his donkey, took them to the inn, paid for them, stayed with them for a day. And then the next day paid for what was going on. So inside of the marketplace, we have all kinds of opportunities to love on people, not just through prayer, but we hear about things that are going on in their lives, and we can physically pour into their lives as well. Recently, I had an individual who, the Lord was laying on my heart, he said, I want, and this has never happened, before he said, I want you to buy this person a computer. I'm like, well, that's odd. Why would I buy this individual a computer? I'm not an IT guy, I don't even know what kind of computer to buy him. But I started to pray about it, went ahead, and did what I was called to do, and bought the computer, brought the individual in on a Friday, and said, I felt as though God was telling me to buy you this computer. So this is from God, not from me, I'm just being obedient to what he told me to do. And he broke down, he couldn't even talk. And he said, I can't talk right now. He grabbed the computer and thanked me and he left. So I didn't know what was going on. He came back the Monday morning, and he knocked on my door and he came in, he said, can I talk to you? And I said, yeah, he said, he said, you didn't know this, he said, but I've been working on for a year, a video game, I think it was, or something that he's developing. And he said, I got to the point where I couldn't do anything else, because my computer didn't have enough power. And he said, the one that you gave me, gave me that opportunity to do that. But he said, above and beyond that, he said, I've been witnessing to my brother for, I don't remember what he said, I'll say 10 years, and his brother's far from the Lord. And he said, when I told my brother, because I've been telling my brother about this video game, and that I can't get it finished. And he said, when I told my brother that you had given me the computer, and that you didn't know that I needed it, and that God told you to give it to me, he said it gave me a chance to witness to him. And he said, I made more inroads over that weekend after that gift than he had in the previous 10 years. So sometimes we just have no idea when we're helping somebody, or we're doing something, or God's calling us to do something, what kind of impact that's gonna have for his kingdom. Another time, and I could tell stories like this for two hours, but another time, I was walking through the shop and God told me to stop and talk to this individual, and that happens periodically, but I was busy, ignored him, like I can sometimes on my knucklehead and do, and continued to walk down, do my work and did my work, and I was walking back by, and he reminded me again, and I thought, oh, I need to do this, I need to stop. So I stopped, I had no idea what to say, and I walked over to him, and I said, I just wanna let you know that, and I had a relationship with this individual, it's important to have some sort of relationship if you're gonna be bold with things that you say most of the time anyways, unless God's really, the Holy Spirit's really thick upon you and telling you to do something, but so I went up and I said, I just want you to know that God wanted me to stop and talk to you and tell you that he loves you, and I walked away. Again, had no idea what was going on in his life at that point, he hadn't shared with me, so he came the next morning, knocked on my door, and said, can I talk to you for a second? I said, sure, he came in, now he had had an addiction problem, and we knew that, he had came out of prison and we had been working with him, he was a follower of Jesus, and he said, you know, when you came up to me, he said, I was having problems at home, it was near the end of his shift, and he said, I was getting ready to call the dealer, whatever you call it, the person that he had gotten drugs from before, and he says, when you told me that God loved me, he said, it just put him back on track and where he needed to be and he didn't make that phone call. So again, if we're willing to be used, we can be used, but the relationships that we build at work are also foundational for that, so relationships start most of the time with casual relationships. We spend more time at work, our awake hours, more time at work than we do with anything else for the most part, if we're in the workforce and working 40 or 50 hours a week. So as we're building these relationships, the relationships start off as casual, at least that's how they have for me most of the time. Sometimes you'll work through something, somebody's planted seeds and it gets dropped in your lap and things move really quickly, but most of the time they're casual relationships, you're just getting to know people, you're talking to them, you're pouring into their lives, you're learning about them, you're listening. And then they go from casual many times to meaningful, becomes more of that friendship and you start to maybe do some things with them or spend some more time with them or have lunch with them and start to have an impact. And then it becomes, in many cases, or can become spiritual, it moves through that process. A lot of times, if we're not careful, we wanna jump right to the spiritual. We think, okay, here we go, I'm gonna get into sharing my faith, which is a good thing, and we jump right to that and it's almost a little bit like a bowl in a china closet and we run over people. We don't meet them where they're at. Jesus met people where they were at. We need to, and he met us where we were at, all of us, in regard to, none of us were perfect. And so we need to meet them where they're at, try to love on them and do the best that we can to work through that progression and get to the point of where we, I don't wanna say earn the right, but we form the relationship to a part to where we can start to share. You know, they're watching us at work. I have a Bible that sits on my desk. That's a conversation starter. We have piles of Bibles in our conference room for the Bible studies that we do. Those are, you know, conversation starters. So if they don't know where you stand, then you may wanna take another look and say, wow, maybe I need to be sharing a little bit more than what I am. But if they know where you stand, they're watching you and they're waiting to see, how do you deal with the difficult situation? How do you deal with the difficult thing that's going on at work? How do you deal with the difficult thing that comes up in your family or when somebody mistreats you? You know, how do you deal with COVID and everything that's going on with that? What kind of hope do you have? If you don't have hope and you don't have joy and you're not showing the fruit of the spirit inside of the workplace, then you know, why do I want what you have? You know, it talks about the fruit of the spirit being love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. So if those are the things that should be permeating from us in the workplace, you know, sometimes I'll on my way home have done this for years and kind of go through a little checklist. How did I do today? How did I do on those? Not so good on that one, pretty good on that one, but just trying to keep in the forefront of my mind how it is I should be interacting with people and how I can have the biggest impact possible for him. So becoming a marketplace missionary to me and I'll leave some time for questions is it's about making yourself available. We don't have to make it more difficult, I think than that sometimes. And sometimes we scare people. We try to make it sound like it's this huge difficult thing to do. God does the heavy lifting. We don't have to do the heavy lifting. He does it for us. We just have to say and make ourselves available. We have to tell him that we're available. We have to say, God, I'm available. If you set up for me some divine appointments, I'm willing to do the best I can with your help to pour into people's lives and to help them see you and be drawn to you so that they can have the same eternal security and the same hope that we have. Charles Spurgeon, who was a famous preacher, they called him the Prince of Preachers, if you look him up, said that Matthew 937 and 38 weighed on his heart more than any other Bible verse. And that verse says, the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. And then it says, ask the Lord or pray to the Lord of the harvest to send workers into the harvest field. So are we praying inside of our workplace that he would send more and are we willing to be sent and have an impact for him? I think that's what my prayer has been for the past 30 years. I pray that prayer and I pray that he'll continue to send people that we might have revival in the land, that we might see our companies change, that we'll see our cities change and that we'll see our world change. But it starts with all of us. All right, we've got a few minutes. If anybody has any questions, I think they can type them in online too, is that correct? If they have any or want to? I mean, or no, uh-uh, okay. So it's just you guys, if you guys have any questions, yeah. Yep. How do you realm that? You do it, we've run into that frequently with people that I've talked to. I'll say frequently. It's not, it's more often you can do it at work than not, but you can do it outside of work. There is nothing legally that says you can't do it outside of work. So you can meet, we've got people that meet for breakfasts before work and have Bible studies you can do like we did, the gentleman did with us when I was young and do it after work and meet. You know, it, you know, as far as talking to buddy, talking to anybody inside of the work, I haven't seen a place where if somebody's asking you a question and you're answering and they can't stop you from, I mean, at the end of where it talks about the fruit of the spirit, it says against these things, there is no law. So spiritually, we can be attractive irregardless of maybe not being able to do a Bible study at work. I will say too, if you're gonna do something at work, we don't do it in the dark, we bring it to the light. So don't try to do it sneaking around. You should go to your HR department. So that's what I, when I'm mentoring people and talking to them about taking their faith into the marketplace, that's one of the first things I tell them, go to your HR department and let them know what you're doing and ask them if you can use a conference room. Most of them say yes. Most people think they won't, but most of them say yes. Sometimes they'll say no and then you have to figure something out. There's different ways to do it outside of just that. Real quickly, there was a gentleman who came from another company. I came in, he saw all the Bibles, he was doing training, he pulled me aside where the Bibles were, I told him about the Bible study. He said, I'd like to do something like that at my work. So after we were done, we sat down and we talked and I told him that very thing that you need to go talk to your HR department. So he went back down, he was from a company in Georgia and he called me a couple weeks later and he said, I did what you told me to do, I went and talked to the HR department. We had 10 people that wanted to gather and pray before work. And he said they told me that they would have to ask the general manager who was responsible for the entire company. And he said the general manager called me on the phone and told me he wanted me to come up and talk to him. He said, uh-oh. So he was thinking he was in trouble. He said, I got up there and he said the general manager said, you've got a group of people that wanna pray for our company and pray for the people here. And he said, yeah. He said, well, you can use my conference room. So he got to use the executive conference room to meet every morning. So there are extremes. There's that extreme. And then you have the times where the company says, hey, you just can't do it here. So you have to figure out ways to do it offsite. Most of the time, most people that do it offsite actually do it before work and do it at breakfast or something like that. But that's a good question. Any other questions? Comments? We have books for free as a free gift. If you would like a copy of the book, Marketplace Missionaries that I wrote about two, two and a half years ago, I felt the Lord telling me that he wanted me to write a book. Never had, ever thought about writing a book. A mechanical engineer, not my strength. Karen loves to read. I love to read, but writing not my strength. Math and science, I'm good, but writing not so much. So for six months, I kept getting this feeling. I want you to write this book. And I kept, it can't be me. I've never had a desire to write a book. Don't want to write a book. Finally, it got to the point where I thought, I need to bring this up to Karen. Karen's the protector of my time. So she normally helps me with not over committing myself. So I thought, well, she's gonna tell me no because we've got so much going on. So that's gonna be my out. So I went to Karen and I said, I think God's telling me to write a book. And she said, I think you're supposed to write it. I said, I think you need to pray about it longer. So because she said, yes, I asked Pastor Lee. I said, I was hoping he would tell me no because he's written some books. So I said, can I meet with him? And I went and met with him. And he told me as we sat down, he said, I knew you were gonna ask me about this. The Lord told me that you're supposed to do it. So I did it. So I did it out of obedience and for no other reason than that. And it was a lot of work. But if you would like a copy, we have copies up here and you're more than welcome to one. Thank you all. God bless.