Hey everybody, this is Pastor John Ewart from Englewood
Baptist Church in Rocky Mountain, North Carolina.
Thank you so much for tuning into our podcast.
You're going to hear from God today as we share.
From his word. About important issues facing
your life that can guide you according to the Bible.
OK, let's let's get at it. Get your Bibles.
Ephesians chapter 6. We're going to look at 2 texts
today. Ephesians 6.
Colossians 4, we've been talking about prayer with your students
for the weekend. I'm going to talk to you today
about praying for cross cultural workers, praying for
missionaries, praying for those that we send and those that we
need to send. I want you to find your place in
Ephesians 6. We'll start there.
I trust you have your your notes as well on your bulletin, but I
want to take you to some people. Before we look at the text.
I want to introduce you to some of my friends around the world.
I'll use just their initial because of where they serve and
what they do. I want you to think about them
and think about our need to pray for them.
I think about A who is serving in North Africa and the Middle
East. She is serving in a place where
the work is so hard that it feels like she's just picking up
rock. She can't even plant seeds yet.
And I asked the question, who's who's praying for her in that
hard work? Or I think about L he and his
family living in a war-torn part of Africa where people are
trying to protect themselves. They worry about their their
safety everyday and who's praying for those serving among
them. Or or M, who's serving in a more
reached area? He's actually doing theological
education in a in a more reached area, but what he's doing is
he's trying to call people to stand on the word of God in a
place where theological liberalism is rising.
And who's praying for him and his work?
Or J. Who is serving in one of the
largest countries in the world where every major religion
except the dominant 1 is under persecution?
Or C and his family living in a in a place, a tough soil, where
he and his family have been nothing but sick the entire time
that they've been on the field. And consequently they questioned
their call. Is this where they're supposed
to be? And who's praying?
Who's praying for all of these folks that that I think about
and others who are serving around the world?
I ask. I ask who's praying this morning
for two reasons. One, I ask because I have a
hunch that many of us talk more about praying for missionaries
than we actually do pray for them.
I I think sometimes we we only pray when we know that we need
to. We don't do it just because we
want to. I think we need to think about
that together. But there's another reason why
why I want us to think about praying for missionaries.
And that's because the Apostle Paul, who was first and foremost
a missionary, regularly called believers to pray for him.
Let me just take you to to some of his writings.
And in Romans 15, he said, I appeal to you, brothers, to
strive together with me in your prayers to God my behalf, to
wrestle with me in prayer. Second Corinthians chapter 1, he
says, you must also help us by your prayers.
In Philippians 1, he said, I know that through your prayers
and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, this will be for
my deliverance. In First Thessalonians 5, he
said simply, brothers, pray for us.
Second Thessalonians chapter 3 said pray for us that the word
of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored has has happened
among you and so recurrently. He said, you pray for me, you
pray for my team. And we're going to go to two
texts this morning where this call to pray just reverberates.
And so look at me. First of all, Ephesians chapter
6, we'll look at the two texts, we'll put them in context, and
then we're going to talk about the word together.
Ephesians chapter 6, verse 18. As I pick up in this verse, I
want you to watch for urgency. We're going to come back to that
in just a minute. Verse 18 Pray at all times in
the Spirit with every prayer and request, and stay alert with all
perseverance and intercession. 4 Notice this, all the Saints pray
also for me that the message may be given to me when I open my
mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the
gospel. For this I am an ambassador in
chains. Pray that I might be bold enough
to speak about it as I should. And so there's Paul's request to
the Ephesians. Go to Colossians, chapter 4.
Just a couple of books back in the New Testament, we're going
to read words that are strikingly similar as Paul
writes to the Colossians. He says in chapter 4, verse 2,
Devote yourselves to prayer, stay alert in it with
Thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for
us that God may open a door to us for the word to speak the
mystery of Christ for which I am in chains, so I may make it
known as I should. Twice we hear Paul say, you pray
for me. These two books, the book of
Ephesians, the book of Colossians, both written to
believers, to churches and contexts that we're dealing with
the reality of demonic powers. One, the Church of Colossae,
also dealing with the reality of false teachers working their way
into the church, infiltrating the church.
And Paul wants the believers to know this in a context where
demons are just residing and they're influencing the cities.
Paul wants the believers to know this.
Jesus Christ reigns over all powers and he wants the
believers to recognize, he wants to encourage them to, to press
on in their faithfulness, to, to pursue holiness, to put off the
old man and put on the, the new man to, to wear the full armor
of God. And to and in both letters, he
calls them to live out their faith in their households and in
their daily lives as a, as a witness to the one who reigns
supreme. And in both books, Paul starts
with a recognition that he's praying for the believers and he
ends the book with a call to pray for him and for his team.
So both of these books, both of these letters are bookended with
prayer. And that's what I want us to see
this, this call for us to pray for those that we send and to
pray for those that we need to send, not only those who have
gone, but those that we need to call out to go in the in the
days to come. So let's do this.
Let me let me pray for us quickly and then let's look at
the text together. Father, I do pray that you would
teach us that you would challenge us.
I pray against an enemy who would want to keep us from
hearing your word. And I ask you, God, to raise up
some prayer warriors out of this church to pray for those that we
send and those we will send in Jesus name, Amen.
I realize in, in some ways, as I speak about praying for
missionaries, I'm speaking to a choir in this church in the
sense that I know you well ought to know that this has been a
passion of your church to send people to the nations and to
pray for them weekly. And I thank God for that.
And so I recognize in some ways you're ahead of the game in that
sense. But I also have a sense that
even those churches that are committed to the sending, we're
not always as committed to the praying.
And so I, I want us to think about that for ourselves.
So get your notes. Let's talk about these these
texts together. Here's point number one.
We must hear the urgency, the urgency of praying for those
that we send. We must hear the urgency of
praying for those that we send. Well, let me let me put all of
this in context again. Both letters begin with Paul
saying, I am praying for you. He wants the believers to know
that he is the missionary is interceding for the churches in
Ephesians 1. He says to the Ephesians, I do
not cease to give thanks to God for you.
And I pray God would give you a spirit of, of wisdom and a
knowledge of him. And I pray that you will have
your hearts enlightened with the gospel.
And then in Colossians 1, he says, I always thank my God for
you. And I pray that you'll be filled
with wisdom and, and understanding and you will, you
will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and you will be
strengthened with his power. And so Paul starts these letters
by saying, we're doing this together.
We're in a partnership to do this.
I'm praying for you and I need you praying for me.
He presses forward to say, pray for me and pray for my team.
But before he ever gets there, before he ever gets to the place
of narrowing the focus to say I want you to pray for me, he
says, I want you to pray for all the Saints.
Go back with me to Ephesians 6 and look at this focus.
Look at the urgency of this praying as we read the text
again in verse 18. Watch for the word, all every
hear the urgency that Paul says this word to us.
Pray at all times in the Spirit with every prayer request and
stay alert with all perseverance and intercession for all the
Saints. Look at that, he says.
Pray for everybody. Why is that?
Because he knows that we're all in this battle.
We're all wrestling against principalities and powers.
We all face an enemy who wants to devour us.
We're all up against an enemy who wants to drag us back into
our old lifestyle, who wants to divide what God has put
together. And Paul knows this enemy does
not give up. And so he says, you pray and you
pray for all the Saints, and you pray as if you believe it really
works. You pray, You just keep praying
with great urgency. And then in Colossians 4, look
at me at that text again. Go back to Colossians 4.
Let's see where it starts. He says devote yourselves to
prayer. More literally, the word there
is to to continue steadfastly in prayer, to persist in prayer, to
keep pressing on in prayer, to pray and to pray and to pray
some more. And don't stop praying.
False teachers are coming into the church and so you've got to
pray. The enemy seeks to drag the
church in the in the wrong direction.
And so you've got to pray. Believers need encouragement.
And so we have to pray. And he says, just keep praying.
There's a lifeline sense of urgency to this praying.
It's an expression of dependence and and a longing for God's
guidance without which there can be no victory.
And so in both letters, Paul says, pray, pray, pray some
more. Keep on praying.
Devote yourselves to praying. And before he ever says pray for
me, he says you pray for each other.
You let prayer be a part of your DNA.
Let's let's just be honest, folks, maybe, maybe we don't
pray well for missionaries because we don't pray well in
general in the first place. Maybe our problem is bigger.
And Paul starts there to say, I want you devoted to prayer, and
I want prayer to be in your DNA. And I want you to do this with
persistence and urgency. And we don't often pray with
that kind of passion that these texts require.
In fact, here's what we do. Here's what we do.
I'm convinced that we we pray only in a reactive mode.
Let's think with think with me about that.
Both churches I pastored in, in Ohio, we had a, we had a prayer
list. If you think about a prayer
list, what has to happen to get your name on a prayer list?
Usually it's something bad. Somebody has to get sick,
somebody dies, you lose a job, something bad happens.
Then we crank up the praying for you.
Or how about families in our churches?
When do we really start praying for families?
We start praying for them when we hear they're in trouble.
Young people, We start praying for young people when we hear
they're wandering. The enemy's dragging them into
sin. Sister churches, when do we
start praying for sister churches?
We do it when we hear they're fighting, when they're
struggling. And what happens in much of our
praying is that we don't start praying until we hear that the
enemy's already winning in some situation.
And Paul would say, no, this has to be DNA for you.
You have to pray, pray, pray, and you just keep praying.
So we have to hear the urgency of this call to pray.
It's out of this urgent DNA of prayer that we pray for.
For missionaries, Let's go to point #2 We must hear the call
to be alert as we pray. We must hear the call to be
alert as we pray. Go back again to Ephesians 6.
Let's watch for the watch for the wording, verse 18.
Pray all times in the Spirit with every prayer request and
stay alert with all perseverance and intercession for all the
Saints. Stay alert.
Go to Colossians 4. Let's see it again.
Devote yourselves to prayer. That's verse 2.
Stay alert in it with Thanksgiving.
Here's what Paul says in Ephesians 6.
Keep alert, keep watching. Stay awake in the battle.
Remember the disciples. Twice Jesus took them to pray.
Once to the Mount of Transfiguration.
He told them to pray, They fell asleep.
He took them to the Garden of Gethsemane.
He told them to pray. They fell asleep.
Paul says keep alert in this battle, Be aware of what's
taking place. We're all in the conflict, so
pray, keep alert. This is not listless, unfocused,
perfunctory, check the box praying.
This is praying in the power of the Spirit.
It's diligent prayer. Ever aware of the arrows of the
enemy but not being stifled by them.
It's being alert and praying in Colossians 4.
He says be watchful in this battle, be on guard for it.
Be aware of what's taking place in your own life.
Be aware of what's taking place in the world.
Be aware of what's taking place as the as the gospel spreads,
keep alert even as you even as you pray.
Well, let's talk about that for just a minute.
If you pay attention to the news at all, I'm guessing you know
that we live in a chaotic, messed up world.
Yes. And you don't have to listen to
the news long today to know that there is strife all over the
world. Here's my question, and here's
my challenge to you and to me. When we hear what's happening
around the world, we need to let the events of the world drive us
to our knees. The news needs to be a call to
pray. You think about nations in the
world right now in war. Who's praying?
Who's praying for forces being sent into the war?
Who's praying for chaplains on the ground?
Who's who's praying for nations under attack?
Who's praying for people whose lives are on the line, often
people who've never heard of Jesus?
Who's praying for the believers in those contexts?
Who's praying for pastures in those contexts?
Who's praying for cross cultural workers?
If there are some in those contexts, As you read the news,
you listen to the news from around here.
Families in turmoil, who's praying for them?
Who's letting the news drive us to our face?
That's what I want to encourage you to do.
Paul says be alert. Be alert.
Know what's happening around you and let that alertness compel
you to pray. Are you with me?
I want you, first of all, to pay attention to the news.
I challenge my students at Southeastern Seminary far too
often. They go through the day.
They pay no attention to what's happening around the world.
And listen to me, friends. We will never be burdened for
the world if we don't know what's happening in the world.
So you have to pay attention to what's going on.
You have to listen to the news. You have to read the news.
But pray, pray, pray. Be alert.
Paul says no, what's happening? Be alert in light of Christ's
return. Be alert in light of the needs
of the world. Be alert in your own life.
And then then Paul brings this down and he says, I want to
guide you as you're alert. I want you to think about how
you pray. He wants to focus them in their
praying, says be alert to what's happening.
And then he says pray for all the Saints.
And then he brings it down to in your alertness.
I want you praying for me. But I don't want you to miss
what Paul does. Because when Paul calls them to
be alert in this battle, to be alert in their praying, he also
wants them to be alert to their own walk with the Lord.
Now, how do we know that it's it's the way Paul puts the
letter together? Because if you know Ephesians 6
very well, you know that before Paul says, pray for all the
Saints and pray for me, he sets that up by saying you need to
put on the whole armour of God. And he warns them, we're up
against principalities and powers.
And so here's what you have to do.
You have to walk in truth, and you have to walk in
righteousness, and you have to speak the gospel of peace.
And you have to carry the shield of faith, and you have to wear
the helmet of salvation, and you have to take up the sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God.
And you have to love it and you have to live it and you have to
speak it. You have to understand your
position in Christ and you have to live out your practice of
faith and you have to wear this armor of God if you're going to
pray for me. The Colossians 4 he says the
same thing before. He says to them, I want you to
pray for me and my team. Prior to that.
In that letter he tells them you are to put to death anything
that is earthly in you. You're to put on the new man.
You're to let the word of God just dwell richly in you.
And here's what we have in this letter where Paul calls them to
be alert. In both of these letters you
have a missionary church planter who is under arrest for his
faithfulness. He's in the war and he wants
prayer support, but he wants to make sure that those who are
praying for him are actually walking with God in the first
place. You know why?
Because he wants to know that those who are praying for him
are praying effectively. Because here's what Paul knows.
Here's what Paul knows. We have to pray for each other.
But he also knows this prayer from ungodly disobedient lips
doesn't go very far. So when he says you all pray for
me, he wants them to be alert to their own walk with the Lord
because he wants to know that their prayers touch heaven.
I fear that sometimes we call people to pray and we don't call
them the holiness. And that's a problem.
We've got to hear the urgent sense of prayer here.
We must be alert to the to the praying.
We must recognize what we have to do is we carry out this work
looking at our lives, looking at the world, sending out those and
praying for those that we send. Let's go to point #3 We must
hear the request of the missionary.
Now go back with me again to Ephesians 6.
Let's look at the text one more time.
Ephesians 6, beginning in verse 19.
Here's Paul's request for himself.
Pray also for me that the message may be given to me when
I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the
gospel. For this I I am an ambassador in
chains. Pray that I might be bold enough
to speak about it as I should. Listen to his request.
Pray for me that I will speak the gospel boldly.
This is Paul. He's under divine compulsion.
He's called to be an apostle to proclaim the word among Gentiles
and kings and the children of Israel according to his calling
in Acts 9. He's just speak for the king
with boldness to make known the mystery of the gospel, that God
has now revealed this gospel to Jew and Gentile alike, and it's
for the nations. And and Paul says you pray for
me, that I will be courageous. Why does he request that?
Here's why. He knows he's in a spiritual war
because his calling is to get the gospel that the Bible
describes this way, people to get the gospel to people.
The Bible describes this way in Ephesians 2, the Bible says
those who are not believers are following the Prince of the
power of the air, Colossians. One says they live in the
Kingdom of darkness. 2nd Corinthians 4 says they are
blinded by the God of this age. Second Timothy 2 says they're
caught in the devil's trap. Acts 26 says they are living
under the power of Satan. And I want you to hear that,
friends, even those that we love, our family, our friends,
our Co workers, our classmates. If they don't know Jesus, here's
their condition. I'll say it to you again.
They're following the Prince of the air.
They are in the domain of darkness.
They're blinded by the God of this age.
They're caught in the devil's trap.
They are under the power of Satan.
And we must consequently pray. Paul gets it.
He knows his calling. His calling is to engage the
enemy's territory, to take the gospel of light into the
darkness, and he must speak boldly, and he needs the prayers
of God's people to do that. Now that's striking to me, and
let me tell you why. Where is Paul again when he
writes these letters? Tell me he's in prison for doing
what? For preaching and for preaching
how boldly. He's in prison for preaching
boldly. And he says, you pray for me,
that I will speak the gospel boldly.
Here's what he says. You all pray for me that I'll
just keep on doing what got me here in the first place.
And when he when he and when he knows he has that prayer support
and he knows that he's called just to preach the gospel
wherever he is, even jailers for him.
They are not problems. They are prospects for the
gospel pauses. You pray for me that I'll speak
boldly. Then look again at Colossians 4.
Let's see what he says there. He adds to that beginning in
verse 3, says at the same time, pray also for us that God may
open a door to us for the Word to speak the mystery of Christ
for which I am in chains, so that I may make it known as I
should. He says, pray that God will open
up a door for me. If you read the scriptures, we
hear that phrase at other times in Acts chapter 14, we read Paul
and Barnabas reported that God opened up a door for the
Gentiles to hear. 1st Corinthians 16, Paul tells us a
wide door for effective ministry had been open to him.
Second Corinthians 2, he wrote a door was open for me in the
Lord. And so here's what Paul says.
You pray for me that God will open up a door for the Word,
that God will give me opportunity to speak, that God
will raise up people ready to to listen.
So here's what we learn. Here's what Paul gets.
He knows that God is over all of this.
It's God who gives us boldness to speak and he opens our mouths
to speak. It's God who opens the doors for
conversations that we might have opportunity to speak.
And it's God who opens hearts to believe.
God guides us. God opens the doors, and God
opens hearts to hear. This is all about God.
He does it. So we must pray.
And Paul understands that more literally.
He says, you pray for me, that I will make the gospel clear.
The apostle says, you, you pray for me.
Here's the request of the missionary.
Pray for me that I'll speak the gospel boldly.
Pray for me that I'll speak the gospel clearly.
Pray that God will open a door for the Word.
This is the heart of the missionary.
This is the heart of the people that you and I send His heart's
desire. Paul's heart's desire for Israel
is that they would be saved. So much so that in Romans 9 he
wrote that if it were possible even for me to be accursed that
they might be saved, I would welcome that, that they would
know. My Lord, that's the heart of
people that you and I send. That's the passion of the
missionary. And when you're that broken over
lostness, your heart is that wounded over people who need to
know Jesus. Even when you are in prison, you
desperately want God to open up a door.
You desperately want to speak clearly and boldly and you
desperately recognize that you need the prayer support of God's
people and the people we send need our prayers and the people
we need to send need our prayers.
So I want you to hear the urgency of these requests.
I want you to hear the call to be alert, and I want you to hear
the requests of the missionary. I want to, I want to bring this
together with this challenge for you.
I want to give you some things to do.
Here's number one, I challenge you.
I challenge you to start praying consistently for missionaries by
name, not just when you hear there's a problem, but I
challenge you to pray for them because we have sent them.
And if you say to me, well, Chuck, I don't know any
missionaries by name, here's what you got to do.
Go talk to Pastor John. I promise you he can get your
name. So we, we may not be able to
tell you all the details, but I promise you, we can get your
names and missionaries all around the world who deserve
your prayer support. Parents, grandparents, I plead
with you, build that into your family devotions.
Raise up kids who pray for the nations.
And I challenge you to pray the way the Apostle Paul said to
pray. Pray for boldness, pray for
clarity, pray for open doors. You've got the guidance.
We just have to make the commitment to do it.
And then I challenge you. I challenge you, parents,
grandparents, pray that your children and your grandchildren
will follow Christ wherever He calls them to go.
Now listen to me. The nation's need folks to bring
the gospel to them. It is our responsibility to
raise them up and send them. And they might be your children
and your grandchildren. And I'm going to challenge you
to pray that if God calls them to do that, they will go
willingly and you will prayerfully rejoice with them
because I know this. You see, it's one thing to say,
and I know how your church does this and dedicating babies, but
it's one thing to stand in front of this congregation with babies
in arms and say, I give them to God.
It's a whole nother ball game when God says I'm sending them
to the most dangerous place in the world.
And you have to decide whether or not you really meant it when
you gave them to God. I'm challenging you to mean that
and even to be willing to pray. God, if you want my children and
my grandchildren to go to the nation's, I praise you.
So tough prayer, but I challenge you to pray it.
And here's what's going to happen, folks, as we bring this
to a close. I said this to your students
over this weekend. I looked out across your
students. Pastor Dylan said 170 or so.
So much life, so much deal, so much potential there, so much
opportunity for another generation to change the
nations. And we challenge them to, to
pray and to and to learn how to pray and to commit themselves to
praying. And students, I challenge you to
to, to make that a part of your life.
And I warn them that this is what would happen whenever we
talk about praying for God's people, praying for the
nation's, whenever we talk about following God, Jesus warned us
that there is an enemy who comes and wants to snatch the word
from us before we ever get out of this room.
And I guarantee you it's going to happen.
You might say, well, I hear Chuck say I've got to pray for
missionaries. This is my commitment.
And before you ever get to the car, you'll let that fly.
That's what the enemy wants. I plead with you, don't you let
that happen. And I'm going to pray against
that in just a minute that you will write in your notes
somewhere. Here's what I'm going to do.
You'll tell Pastor John, Pastor Dylan, you'll talk to me.
This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to do what the Word
calls us to do. Pray.
Pray for those we send and pray for those we need to send you
with me. Do me this favor.
Let's stand together for prayer right now.
I'm going to lead us in prayer. I'll turn this over to Pastor
John and he will take us from this place.
Father in Heaven, thank you for those who are among the nations.
Thank you for those that this church and other churches around
this country have sent. Thank you for our Southern
Baptist missionaries who are serving in places where we
cannot even name some of them right now, in dangerous places.
I pray that they would supernaturally know right now
that a Church of believers and Rocky Mount, NC are praying for
them. God, I ask you to raise up
people out of this congregation who would not just hear this
word, but they would do it in their individual lives, in their
families, in their small groups. They would pray for those we
send and they would pray for those that we need to send.
God in the next few moments guide Pastor John as he leads
this this response time. Give all of us faith and courage
to do exactly what you have called us to do.
In Jesus name we pray, Amen. Amen.
As you remain standing, you know I'm so thankful that God has LED
someone like Chuck Lawless to work at Southeastern Seminary as
a Dean and vice president. He also works with our
International Mission Board. Aren't you thankful for that,
that you have godly men in those places training up that next
generation? You know, here's what we're
going to do. Some of you were here as
students and or as workers over the weekend, and you heard
several different teaching times.
And some of you, I know, turned in response cards.
And in just a moment, Pastor Dylan's going to be up here in
the front, and I want you to come.
And I just want you to share with Pastor Dylan about what the
Lord laid on your heart during the weekend.
The rest of us who are here for this morning, you feel something
tugging at your heart. That's the Holy Spirit speaking
to you. And I, I just pray that you'll
recognize that drawing, that conviction that that calling in
your life, we all have a calling.
We all have a purpose. I was thankful in the first
service for the lady who came forward and was just sharing
about a burden calling in her life that that was a significant
change and was scary even, but she wanted to surrender that to
the Lord. So some of you in just a moment,
maybe you just want to come and and kneel at the steps in
prayer, surrendering, surrendering some part of your
life or lifting up someone, praying for someone.
On a practical level, if you want to know the names of our
missionaries, just down this hallway outside, if you just
turn left and go all the way around, you'll see podiums with
all of our missionaries and their names and their prayer
cards there for every one of them.
And you can begin to pray for them.
Come back Wednesday night and we're going to be praying for
them. But for right now, this is a
time of reflection and the time of response.
Some of you, you might have seen baptism this morning and, and,
and you recognize, you know, in your heart of hearts, maybe
you've already trusted in Jesus Christ, but you've never been
baptized. You know, you need to publicly
identify that way. We have other people waiting to
be baptized. We're seeing this happen almost
every week. Maybe you're here and you're not
ready for baptism because you've never trusted in Christ yet.
So salvation is your first step. Some of the pastors are going to
be here. You can come and pray.
Our Next steps room is open. You can go in there.
You don't even have to talk to one of us.
And you can have a private, discreet conversation and prayer
time with a counselor in there about what God's laying on your
heart. But it's time to respond.
It's time to take the next step. So let me pray and let's get
started. Father, thank you for working in
our lives. Thank you for the entire time of
worship this morning, for the testimony of baptism, for the
testimony of your Word, for the challenge of your truth.
Now, Father, I pray will respond.
For some it's salvation. For some it's baptism.
For some it's maybe a recommitment.
For some they need to come and intercede.
Maybe they need to intercede for family or friends.
Maybe they need to come and confess something to You so that
they can begin to move forward. Let's surrender right now.
And we and we're so thankful, Father, that we, we don't have
to come with pretense. We don't have to come and and
pretend like we're somebody else.
We can come just the way we are because that's the grace that
you extend. So we're never too far away.
We're never too far gone. We can come.
So I pray that we will right now, in the name of Christ,
Amen. Thank you so much for listening
today, and I also hope that you'll go to
ourwebsite@englewoodbaptist.com as well as our app and find many
other resources that will bless you and your families.
Thank you once again.