Turning Evangelism into Action

Twanna: Welcome to T Time: Spiritual Conversations for, with, and about women. I'm your host, Twanna Henderson and as always, I want to remind you to like this broadcast and to share it with everyone that you know. Well, if you've been listening to T Time this year, you know that our focus has been on evangelism.

And today we have another dynamic guest with us as we continue in this conversation. Our guest today is Pastor Zac Bush. Pastor Zac is the lead pastor of Woodridge Church, located in the Western suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He and his wife, Cassie, have been married for almost 12 years and they have four children with their newest addition being four month old Callie.

when Zac isn't spending time with his amazing family, he enjoys connecting with people over good food or anything sports related. Zac, Pastor Zac, welcome to T Time.

Zac Bush: Thank you

so much. It's so good to be here with you, Twanna. I'm really honored and humbled to be with you.

Twanna: Well, I'm so glad to have you here and I'm so excited about delving into this conversation today because I know that you are kind of in this evangelism space, you know, and it fits right into what we're talking about this year.

And so I want to just kind of start by just letting you share with us a little bit about your story and your journey.

Zac Bush: Absolutely. I'd love to. And first of all, if I, if I could, from what I'm understanding, this is five years for you with T time. So congratulations for that. I know that you've had just an amazing impact on so many people.

So honored to be here in this fifth year, but a little bit about my journey. I'd love to share that. So I joke quite a bit. I'm originally from Texas. And, I'm up here in Minnesota now, and a lot of people ask, how did a kid from Texas get up to Minnesota? And my typical response is, I got recruited to play hockey in college.

It's God's a sense of humor. It was the only sport I was good at, growing up. not, not football or anything like that.

Twanna: So they play hockey in Texas?

Zac Bush: Believe it or not, they do. Yes, it's, it's growing. It's, it's, it's getting bigger and bigger every year, it seems like, but really, my story helps to intersect with this, this desire for evangelism

and so I moved around a lot as a kid, I was in Dallas and then Kansas city, and then eventually Vermont and really went through a really dark season when I lived in Vermont, where I injured my knee, all of the schools quit calling. And I was just kind of at this, this hopeless place in my life and in my journey.

And I had kind of grown up. in faith, but I would say that Jesus was a supporting character. He wasn't the main character of my life but he really came and got me when I was in that dark, depressed, hopeless spot. And, one of the simplest ways of provision was that even though I had been not, kind of avoided from other schools, they quit calling because I was an injured hockey player.

I got a call from a school here in Minnesota called Bethel University, which come to find out it's the only school in the country that is confessionally Christian, meaning there's a campus ministry. They have chapel, they have Bible studies on campus. It's confessionally Christian with an NCAA hockey program.

So I got on campus. And just felt the presence and the love of God, and I just got to a point where I'm like, man, he came and he got me. I don't want to do anything but follow him. And I don't want to do anything but tell others about his love and his hope and his grace. And it didn't hurt that I also had a really cute tour guide when I toured Bethel.

She's now my wife. So I was like, I could go to school here.

Twanna: Hey, ladies, that's what you have to do. Make sure you're a tour guide for a school.

Zac Bush: Exactly. Exactly.

Twanna: Oh, wow. That's, that's such an amazing story. And, you know, just the, it sounds almost too good to be true, you know, and I'm sure that your family imprinting has something to do with that because we don't just get to that point of just wanting to

follow Jesus and be an example and to lead others. I guess one of the questions I would want to ask you is, why would anybody even want to raise their temperature on their evangelism?

Zac Bush: Absolutely. That is such a such a great question, you know, because I think when we look throughout scripture, I mean, we see that scripture is littered with these challenges and these commands to go and to share our faith or to be a light set up on a hill.

But I think a lot of times we're either afraid of it or we don't know how to do it. But for me, the way that I've tried to raise the temperature, and that's really what we're attempting to do under President Jenkins vision of, of raising the temperature on our churches for the evangelism. It really comes back to me to, to knowing my personal story.

And I know that at the tail end of 24, you had a, a podcast where you, you marked the idea of remembering, it's kinda like the Israelites coming out of Egypt and having the memorial stones there. And I just know for me that when I am reminded of my own story, I'm reminded of how God met me with blessedness and my brokenness, that in my hopelessness, He met me with His hopefulness.

And so it all comes back to the heart of God, if you will. And, you know, I mean, Luke 19 10, it says the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. as the Father had sent me, so am I sending you. In Revelation 3, he talks about the Laodicean church, how they're neither hot nor cold, but they're lukewarm.

And it's like, man, I'm going to be red hot to, to share the gospel. Because it all goes back to the graciousness and the generosity that we have in God, that he has a heart for the lost. He has a heart for the distant. Adam and Eve, when they went and played hide and go seek with God, he, he sought them out.

He said, I'm going to find you. I'm going to be with you. And he doesn't shame them. He doesn't guilt them. He challenges them, but he shows his hope and his love to them. And so I, I always say this. It's like, man, if you've experienced the good news, that should just kind of ooze out of you. That should, that should pour out, from, from your life.

Twanna: I like how you said blessedness and brokenness because most of the time, we don't think about blessings in brokenness and, you know, talk about that a little bit, what that means and, and, and how we get to that place of really embracing blessings in brokenness.

Zac Bush: Oh, that's so good. That's so good. You know, one of the, words that we use here at Woodards, and so I, I've been on staff now for about a year and a half.

And the previous pastor, Paul Johnson, he uses the word flourishing. And I love that picture of blessing, of flourishing, or maybe experiencing the peace of God. And I believe that God wants us to flourish. I think he wants us to be blessed. And I don't think that's just financially, but I think that that's knowing his presence.

That in his presence there is fullness of joy. And it all just comes back to, I can't give that which I have not received first. So it's just that constant invitation from God to receive from him to be filled by his spirit and then when I do that it moves to a point of just overflow of flourishing to those around me. You know, sometimes I use the example here at Woodridge with the church that I'm at where it's like Hey, if you've ever gone to a good restaurant and we love good food, right?

If you've ever gone to a good restaurant and you've tasted the food, you've, you've had a, a great service experience or, or the ambiance of the space is really good. You're going to go and tell people about that, aren't you? Like, Oh, sure. I get it. Like nowadays there's, there's so many people asking for a five star review, but if you've genuinely had a great experience, then you will want to tell people about that.

And I think that a lot of times, whenever we truly allow the good news to become good news to us. That moves us from a place when it comes to evangelism from saying things like oh I don't want to do it or I'm afraid to do it or I can't do that to then saying man because I have experienced I've received from God It now moves us to a heart of saying I get to do that or I can do that or I want to do that The good news is just good news to me and it just pours out to those around me.

Twanna: Yeah, I think that's so true, because I think when we hear the word evangelism, particularly for lay people, it's kind of scary.

It's like, Oh, that's this big word. You know, this big thing that I'm not equipped to do, you know, or I don't know how to do. And really, it's just about sharing, as you said, the good news. You know, I tell people all the time. That if you start with your own story, nobody can dispute what the Lord has done in your life.

Zac Bush: So good. Yes,

Twanna: you don't have to be an expert in anything else, but you can share what the Lord has done in your life. I know you mentioned pastor, president Jenkins, who is the president. of Converge, and his vision being, one of building and rebuilding a culture of evangelism. And I know you've taken a part in that.

You're working with other churches and pastors nationally and you're also connected with the Billy Graham, Association for Wheaton. What would you say is the goal, of your involvement in all of that? Because it sounds like a lot of big stuff.

Zac Bush: Yes, yes, it really is. And I'm so grateful for President Jenkins and just that vision that he has for us and just for, so many, I know, your husband, Dr.

Michael Henderson, I got to connect with him this past summer. And I was like, man, he is great. And I'll be honest. Now that I'm on the call with you, I know why he's so good. It's because of you, you know, it's good. It's good. But he was marvelous to connect with as well. But what is the conversion? what is the goal?

The goal for us? With, this, this vision is to see more churches become conversion communities. That might be a buzzword or a statement that we use quite a bit, and, there's a stat that, that President Jenkins will, will share quite a bit. It's 60, 30, and 10. 60, 30, 10. So, basically what it means is that 60 percent of churches in America are plateaued or declining.

So, they are net zero or they're declining, and that's just, oh, that breaks my heart. 30, 30 percent of churches in America are maybe growing through transfer growth. And so people are leaving other churches to come to that 30%. And then the last 10 is 10 percent are growing through what is called conversion growth.

So, seeing new people, non Christians, non followers of Jesus come to know the love of Christ, that 10 percent of churches, they're, they're really winning souls to Jesus. And so some of the things that we're working on just to kind of bolster up, like what does it mean to be a conversion community? What are some of those tactics or strategy?

Really, it's the idea of telling the story of changed lives and making that a common practice in the church. And so I love here at Woodridge, we have testimonies or faith stories whenever people get baptized. And for people to basically say, I once was lost, but now I'm found. And that just like supercharges my faith, but it also supercharges the faith of those around us.

the second kind of pillar of a conversion community is, witnessing or evangelism or outreach is core to the very fiber of the church. So every ministry, I know president Jenkins mentioned that it doesn't matter if they serve on the welcome team or with the early childhood with the little kids, every ministry is thinking, how can we reach those?

How can we serve those in our community who may not come to church? And then the last part is 10 percent of churches, are connecting with new believers, every year. So 10 percent of the church is, is professing faith in Jesus Christ. So if you've got a hundred people in your church attending, about 10, folks are, are professing new life in Christ every year.

So that's one of the things I'm excited. I get to be a participant myself, and I get to learn all of these great things, but I also have the, the joy of working and guiding and coaching other pastors around the nation on what it looks like for them to become a conversion community. So some really exciting stuff that, that I'm, excited to be both the recipient and the giver for, in this, President Jenkins vision.

Twanna: Yeah, I like that term, conversion community. So it sounds like the 60 30 10, we really need to be looking at how do we flip it to 10 30 60.

Zac Bush: Come on, yeah, you got it. You got it. That'll preach.

Twanna: Yeah. I mean, I think that's the whole thing that we need to be looking at. because are there barriers to seeing an evangelist evangelism culture in churches?

Zac Bush: Yeah. Yeah. That's so good. I, I think,

there is a natural gravitational pull to look inward, you know, and I think that, one of the churches that I served at previously, the lead pastor there said, take for example, a new church, a church plant. If the church plant has not really established itself with an evangelistic or an outreach thrust within three to five years, that church, its focus will go from outward to inward, and it will start to say like, hey, what about us?

We are the most important thing. And I'm not disregarding the importance of helping our people grow in faith and be nourished in faith to just continually have the things that they need for that. But I think it's really having that mindset of just saying, who in our community can we reach? Who in our community can we serve?

And a lot of it comes down to really just also radical hospitality. you know, I think about people who, I love it when they show up to a Woodridge service and their eyes are just kind of open. They're like Wow, I, I didn't expect to be welcomed this way. One of the things we do is we give out free coffee and free donuts.

And, we don't do donut holes, we do the actual big donuts. And yeah, we do real donuts, you know, and, and I mean, I see people's eyes that are really big and, and for us, it's, it's just a chance to say, hang around connecting community, feel welcomed here. And, in, in my first few, few weeks, people were saying like, Zac, we're excited that you're here, but please don't change the donuts.

Like, that was the first thing that they said, don't change the donuts, but it's become part of our hospitality thrust that we have here at Woodridge.

Twanna: Yeah, I think, you know, when we think about people who, that we're trying to reach. people have so many different questions when

it comes to

language, and there are so many competing voices out there now, that it's hard to kind of decipher all those different things.

one of the things I like when I went to your website is under, what to expect, you said what, what won't happen when I visit. And I love that because it, it spoke to. what people are really thinking, you know, and so I thought, man, this is really great that they are thinking about what someone who hasn't come yet would be thinking about.

And so they're saying what you can expect, but also this is what you don't, you won't, you don't have to worry about this either.

Zac Bush: Exactly. Exactly. We say one of these things, every guest is a gift from God. And so I just really think about that. You know, every person who's walking in here, they are entrusting us.

Maybe they're entrusting their kids. And I've got, as you alluded to, four little kids. Like if I'm going to a new place or a strange place, I want to do everything I can so that people can, can feel like they can trust our volunteers, our staff team, and trusting us with their time on a Sunday morning or we have a Saturday night service as well.

So it really is just making it easy for people to, to walk through the doors, feel welcomed and feel at home there.

Twanna: Yeah. So what would you say, are some of the first steps for a church to become a conversion community?

Zac Bush: Yeah,

you know a couple things. I think the first the first few will probably be pretty obvious But I I don't want to like skim over.

I think the very first thing is it comes back to prayer. You know, I just think let's not pay lip service to prayer but whenever we start to truly pray I believe that that will lead us into having what's what's called like a missional imagination or a missional vision. And so one of the things that I say at Woodridge is, you need to talk with God about people before you talk with people about God.

And what I mean by that is it's not like

Twanna: Say that again. Say that again. That's a tweetable one right there.

Zac Bush: You bet. You bet. So what I'm trying to coach our congregation on is this. You need to talk with God about people before you talk with people about God.

Twanna: That's good.

Zac Bush: Okay. Well, thank you. So, I mean, a lot of it, it's not so much going to God and be like, God, can you believe what this person did?

Or can you believe what this person said to me, but it really is laying before. I mean, the creator of the universe, the one who hung the stars in the skies, the one who, you know, did all who created you and me were fearfully and wonderfully made. And just saying, God, will you work in this person's life?

And I think what that does is it, you know, the Spirit is working within people's lives before we even open our mouths. And so before we can go and talk to my neighbor or a co worker or a friend, have I spent my due diligence, laying them at the feet of God?

Twanna: Yeah.

Zac Bush: And when we begin to do that, I think prayer, it stokes that imagination.

It begins to open our eyes to see where God is moving. And, and working and so prayer can take place both on a corporate level. So corporately, are we praying? Are we carving out time to, to pray, but then also on an individual level. And so, am I personally praying for people? So I think prayer, it's like, if you're not praying for, for lost people, then start there.

A lot of times, I've, I've quoted the, the, the old Hillsong United song, "Break my heart for what breaks yours".

Twanna: Yeah.

Zac Bush: So, so God looks with a broken heart, for those who are hopeless, those who don't know his love, those who don't know his grace. but then from there, I think, you know, it moves to the lead pastor.

The lead pastor is not excited about people who are far and distant from God. If he's not excited about lost people, then unfortunately the church won't move in that direction. And that's why

Twanna: Because

Zac Bush: he

Twanna: sets the tone

Zac Bush: Bingo! Yes. Yes. You know, leaders set the pace and the culture for any church or any organization.

So some of the things that I do with the, the coaching cohort that I'm a part of is I just ask the question, you know, hey, are you blocking out time to maybe go and work in the community? Go take a Tuesday morning and work at a coffee shop. Are you putting in the practices? You know, a lot of times I say, don't just pray for the lost, but do you actually have a name of a lost person that you're praying for?

You know, God knows the names, but do we know the names, you know, rather than just saying like, Oh, pray for lost people. It's like, yeah, but, but who is that lost person that you're praying for that the specificity is so important, I believe. so when pastors do that, when leaders do that, I believe that that can begin to change the culture.

It can change the pacing a little bit. The pastor, whenever they're living into this practice that pours into their key leaders and it pours it in and from the key leaders to the rest of the volunteers and the congregation. And, you know, one of the things that we do a lot as well here within the coaching cohort and within our Woodridge staff is a lot of times once a month

we just do our best to hold our team accountable and we just say, hey, on a scale of 1 to 10, what's your evangelistic temperature right now? You know, are you a 1 like your ice cold or are you 10 like your red hot? And what do we need to do to keep ticking that up a little bit more? What do we need to do to get one degree hotter, each month or to live in a place where we're constantly thinking, how can we have our radars up for God's movement in the world all around us?

And we've just seen some amazing stories from other pastors, but also from our staff team which has been really fun to see because we're creating that as a priority, amongst our staff team and amongst our church.

Twanna: Yeah. Talk about some of those stories because I think Woodridge is really blessed to have you, you know, as a pastor and, you know, as, as you set out on this journey.

What are some ways that you've seen the evangelism, priority raised in your own church and even some of the churches that you, you help coach?

Zac Bush: Yeah, absolutely. Well, I'll start with the, the coaches that I'm, I'm working with. I'm just, I'm so blessed by these guys. They're, they're such a, an absolute blast and they make me better even though I, I, I serve as kind of like the guide or the coach of it.

They, they really make me better as well. One of the key themes that I hear from these pastors is they say things like this. I'm doing some of these things already, which is encouraging, but to give them a greater framework or a greater pathway of sorts, and then to bring that accountability. And I actually just had one of my coaching calls yesterday and, you know, we prayed about, you know, how they personally, how their churches.

So just getting in and praying over that. and one of the pastors yesterday, he shared a really neat story. He said, you know, for us, we're, we're trying to do this on a church wide culture shift. And he just said, one of the ways that we get to tell the stories, if you remember, that's one of the three ways of becoming a conversion community is to tell the story of people coming to faith

. And, I believe last year in: 2024

So, when you walk in to see the stage just populated with 70 plus lanterns, like, wow. Like, praise God for that. The stories are being told. The, the, you know, if you're into metrics, the metrics are there. And it just continues to keep the church as a whole on point and on pace for what the Lord is doing. So, that's on the church and the pastor side.

But I've got one that I love to share, from Woodridge and, and in the summertime, we invite a lot of our high school students to join. We call it High School Summer Associates. It's kind of a quasi leadership program, for these aspiring young leaders. You know, how do you take, how do you live out your faith or how do you take your faith back to your school or to your sports team, something like that?

And, our family pastor this past summer wanted to have a, an emphasis on evangelism. So she did something really creative. she first taught all of the students how to share their faith, whether it was through their own story, through maybe a bridge diagram, through the three circle method. And then she would take different scenarios

so things like you're at hockey practice or you're walking from class to class. Or you're standing in line at the grocery store and somebody asks you in that situation, why are you a Christian? Why do you follow Jesus? How would you respond? How would you share your faith? And one of the specific stories, one of the students drew this scenario and the scenario was you're at the dentist's office and you're getting your teeth cleaned

and, you know, the dentist asks, why are you a follower of Jesus? How would you respond? How would you do that? And so you can just imagine, it's like you've got all the tools in your mouth and it's like, and, and this junior in high school said that she would take the napkin that would be, you know, on, across her chest and she would draw the bridge diagram.

So even though she couldn't use words, she could still use drawings, you know, even in an upside down manner to, to showcase how Jesus is the bridge between our sin and our salvation in him.

Twanna: Wow.

Zac Bush: So I just think like, man, if high school students can do it, like anyone can do it. So those are just some of the cool stories that I get, inspired by within our own church.

Twanna: Yeah, that's awesome. And I, you know, as we said, you know, it starts with a pastor, but I know there are people who are listening who are saying that's great, but if you're not a pastor or you're not a lead pastor, what are practical steps, like that? But what, what are some other things that you can encourage, others to do to take a personal, stab at raising their personal evangelism temperature?

Zac Bush: That's so good. That's so good. You know, I always come back and recognize that evangelism isn't just for the pastor. Evangelism isn't just for the paid staff people. I think sometimes we've made it out to be that. Evangelism is for anyone who is a follower of Jesus. So I, I worry sometimes that we've turned Matthew 28, the great commission into the great omission, you know, and, and I, I think that we can all kind of raise the bar a little bit on ourselves and, and what we're stepping into and what, what Jesus is inviting us into.

But a lot of times it's just a, Hey, I, I want to, but, but how do I do that? And so a couple of the hows that I go back to, and I've got to give a big shout out to my wife, Cassie, because she, outside of Jesus, she's the best thing that's, that's happened to me. She's my greatest partner in ministry and in mission.

ped in as lead pastor back in: 2023

And many days, what I would do, or Cassie would do, is that after we would drop our kids off at school, I would drive through the neighborhood while the, the walls were being built and, and the siding was going on, and I would just pray constantly. I didn't know anybody, but it was just kind of getting back to that idea of I need to talk with God about people before I talk with people about God.

So I was just praying non stop. And about six, eight weeks before we, we moved into the neighborhood, we drove over, I think it was one Sunday afternoon, and we saw what would be our soon to be neighbor, and he was out walking the dog, and he walked over to our van, and so we just started chatting a little bit, he was real friendly and real nice, and then we just said, well, you know, who's your family, he asked about our kids in the back, and he said, yeah, you know, here's, here's my family, married, got two boys, and he rattled off all of their names, and then he said, good luck remembering that, you know, just kind of being, you know, fun and enjoyable.

And I didn't say it, but I was thinking it, but I basically said, Oh, I'm going to remember your names because I've been praying for you for months.

Twanna: Oh, wow.

Zac Bush: And it's just because it's getting back to that intentionality. But then as we were pulling off, I looked over at Cassie and I said, Cass. Let's start like a shared notebook of all of our neighbors and she held up her phone and she said already doing it So while he was sharing names She was creating a shared notebook that we would have on our phones so anytime we we met somebody in the neighborhood we would remember their names their spouses names or kids names their dogs names like what they did just so that we would have once again people who we could pray for by names and not only do we do this with our neighbors, but what we're trying to do as well, is really raise the temperature in our family.

So each morning, before our kids go off to school, we do a little brief devotional and then we make sure that we're, we're praying over our kids, but we're also praying for our kids to think about who are your classmates, who are your teachers? Who is the staff at school that you can be a light to or that maybe you can pray for as well while you are in your classes or out on the playground?

And so I think it really just does come back to neighboring well, to knowing your neighbors, to praying for your neighbors. I think that that's really just one of the biggest, easiest first steps that, that I think a lot of people can, can step into.

Twanna: Yeah, I think that's wonderful. I think a lot of times we just forget, that, you know, the Lord puts people right there close to us.

We, a lot of times we think, oh, I have to go to some other country or land or whatever, you know, and there are people that he's put right in our sphere of influence that we don't have to look for. You know, if we just start right where we are, you know, and impact, you know, those right there, it will make a huge, huge difference.

Zac Bush: 100%. I heard somebody say once, your mission field is, is the land between your two feet. You know, it's like God has placed you right where you are to minister and to live on mission right there. And, you know, I, a lot of times I, I make the joke, you know, we're, we're three, typically three space types of people.

It's, it's where we live. So it's our neighborhood. It's where we labor. You know, it's, it's, it could be our, our work, or the third space. It's where we leisure. It's, it's where we have our fun time, you know, live, labor and leisure. And, you know, I think a lot of times it's just thinking, like, who are those people that make up those three spaces, and who do you know that you can just pray for, that you can bless, that maybe you can exhibit hospitality, you know, I mean, sometimes it's just that simple thing.

One of the other cool parts in the last few months is, with our neighbors, we just invite people over for meals. We invite people over for a bonfire in the back, you know, I think we at times can overcomplicate sharing our faith, but you look at Jesus, like, what did Jesus do? He prayed for people and he ate meals with people.

Like he went to Zacchaeus and he's like, hey, come down from the tree, I'm going to come over. And then he, he was pretty assertive. I'm going to come and eat dinner at your house. And it's like, yeah, yeah. Man, he went from table to table to table. That was his major, mission strategy, if you will, was just to sit and have a meal with people.

So, we had one cool part over the Christmas holiday, where we invited our neighbors to, kind of like a end of the semester, you know, put the kids down, come over, for just a little Christmas mix and mingle. And we had a hundred percent of our neighbors say yes to it. So we had over 20 adults join us in our kitchen and living room.

And, I was able to just kind of, really briefly kind of say, Hey, thanks for coming. We just want to neighbor well with each other. We want to get to know each other and neighbor well in case there's ever a, a ride that needs to be given to the airport or, you know, here in Minnesota, if there's ever a need for shoveling the driveway, and I think people are just starving for connection.

Twanna: Yeah.

Zac Bush: They're hungry for a connection.

And so if we know our neighbors, and if we can exhibit hospitality and just connect people together. I, I think that that is one of the simplest ways that God can move in us and through us for the world all around us in our, in the different spaces that we live, labor, and leisure.

Twanna: Yeah. That is so good. Pastor Zac And it's so true. I think people are ready. They're hungry. They're open. And it really goes without saying that our churches and our world really needs an evangelistic shift. As you shared, it's really the responsibility of every follower of Jesus. as we prepare to close, and this has been so good.

And I wish I could have you back again. Maybe I will later in the year. But if you could just take a moment to pray for our listeners. that they would be ignited to do their part in raising their personal evangelism temperature.

Zac Bush: Yeah, I would be honored to. I'd be honored to. It all starts with prayer, right?

Absolutely.

Twanna: All right.

Zac Bush: All right. Well, let's, let's unite our hearts together as we, as we pray with one another. Gracious Father, we thank you so much that you are a God who is on the move. That we see your generosity whenever we look to John 3 16 for God so loved the world that he sent his one only son that as Jesus came and as Jesus was sent now He calls us the followers of Jesus the sent one calls us the sent ones. And so, Lord, I just pray and I ask that you will help each and every one of us, warm up our evangelistic temperature.

We pray, Lord, that you will remind us of your grace, of your love, of your generosity in our lives, that we can preach the good news to ourselves and that that might overflow and spill out into those all around us. As we're thinking about it right now, will you just place maybe even just one name. One person on our hearts on our minds who we can simply take that next step to just simply start praying for them. Praying that your kingdom will come in their lives and and Lord Will you just continue to raise the the sea level on this evangelistic and outreach temperature for our churches here in America Lord, we, we want to do this not because we think it's a great strategy or it's a great, tactic but we want to do this so that your name will be proclaimed, that those who are experiencing hopelessness and brokenness will experience your blessedness and your hopefulness that your name, your good news will reach every ear and every heart and that lives will be transformed all for your glory and for the good of those around us. And so, Lord, we love you and we praise you because you first loved us. The honor in our lives, we pray it all now in the beautiful name of Jesus and by the power of the Spirit.

Amen.

Twanna: Amen. Pastor Zac, thank you so much for all that you do and just for the difference that you're making in the kingdom. You're making a huge difference and we appreciate it. Well, to all of our listeners, I'm Twanna Henderson. I hope you have enjoyed this broadcast on today until next time. Be blessed of the Lord.