The Coffee Shop Story: Why Do We Struggle To Teach The Lost?

Introduction

Heidi and I are happy to be here today for so many reasons. Texas is home. It’s where our family is, so any opportunity to come back and to be with family is a blessing, and so you’ve helped with that. I appreciate it. And we’re happy to be here at Decker Prairie, especially in part because we know so many of you for so many years, but in many ways, Decker Prayer was kind of the starting place for me as a preacher. I first did my work as a local preacher during the summer of 1984 with this congregation. I’m hoping that none of the recordings of those sermons have been preserved but are lost somewhere forever. And then later I held my very first gospel meeting with this group.

I don’t remember what year that was, and have had the chance to be back with you a few times since then. And so it’s really wonderful to be with you all again. And I’m especially grateful that we’re going to be able to be with Tony this week. I know this is going to be a very difficult week for him. Wisconsin bounced his cats out of the tournament last night. I know he’s grieving and it’s hurting, so we’re going to do our best to offer him consolation and comfort during the next few days. Most of all, I’m excited about what we’re here to do. That we’re going to be spending time in God’s book and looking at some things that he wants us to know.

And what I really hope is that along the way, as we do that, we’ll look at a passage or there’ll be a point made or an application that will strike a chord with you, and maybe something you haven’t thought about before, appreciated before, and it’ll wind up helping you as you try to walk with your with Jesus and make your way through this life. I hope we can do that over the next few days. And if we have, our time will have been well spent. I’m going to be beginning each session with a story, and with the exception of Bible class today, I will tell you in advance, it will be kind of a sad story. And I don’t do that, kind of put a cloud over everything we’re going to be studying, but the stories we were looking at are stories that stir up some of those thorny and unpleasant questions that we need to wrestle with sometimes.

And I want us to stir those things up so that it will drive us back to God’s book to look for the answers that I think he supplies for us there. And so and so while we’ll begin each session with a story from our time and our life, ultimately we’re headed back to God’s book to see what he would say to us about those things. I want to begin this morning in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was there in a gospel meeting last fall with the Northwest Church. Y’all have a connection with them. That’s where the Porter family that formerly worship with you guys. They’re now with the Northwest Church up in Minneapolis. He serves as one of the elders there. It’s a great church, folks. That’s a tough part of the country.

They began decades ago with a little group of folks. I think they’re meeting in somebody’s living room way back then. But they worked hard and studied with people and baptized a lot of people. If you go to Minneapolis today, northwest side of town, there is a thriving congregation of hundreds serving the Lord up in that part of the city. And I knew a little about them, so I was excited to go up and get acquainted with that congregation, and I was excited to spend some time with one of the evangelists there. His name is Andy Cantrell. I had met Andy very briefly once before, in fact, just a few weeks before we went up for the meeting. So I didn’t really know him personally, but I knew his reputation.

I have heard about what a diligent soul winner he was and how effective he was going out in the community and getting Bible studies set up with people and helping people find their way to Jesus. And so, very early on after we arrived, I told him, look, I want to spend some time with you this week. I want to know what you’re doing up here to win lost people. And so we agreed that on Tuesday morning at 10, we would meet up at the caribou coffee shop not far from the building. By the way, if you haven’t drunk caribou coffee, you need to do that. It’s really good. And over coffee for a couple hours, we’d talk about winning lost souls. I hope that would be a conversation that every one of us sitting here today would be interested in having.

Because all of us share that same mission and are called to do the same work that Andy does so effectively. I don’t think it’s possible to be honest with the text and not reach a couple of very clear conclusions. First of all, that our master is deeply concerned about lost people. Would you agree with me about that? Do I need to ask you to turn and look at Luke 19, 10, where he says, of his whole purpose and his whole coming, I’ve come to seek and save that which is lost? Can we agree that Jesus cares deeply about lost people? I mean, we could just run that tangent and talk about how his whole mission and his own purpose, he came to rescue lost people.

And that he wants us to care about that too. And calls us to partner with him and his work to rescue lost people. And so we get to the end of the gospels in passages like Mark 16 and 15 when he said, when he said to disciples to go preach the gospel to every creature. Go make disciples of all the nations in Matthew 28 and verse 19. I don’t think I need to sell you guys on that, do I? I think we’re gathered this morning as a group of people who know that Jesus cares about lost people and that he wants us to care about lost people too, and he wants us to partner in this mission with him. And I will tell you something else.

I think every one of us noted that. This is the hard part, okay? We’re not doing a whole lot of this. I suspect that if we just kind of step back and are real honest with ourselves, the truth is the vast majority of disciples sitting in church buildings this morning do very little to help lost people find their way to Jesus. And it is an odd thing that we don’t work harder at this because we are people who are about the book.16. All scriptures inspired by God. That is our belief, that this is God’s book. And we’re all about doing what the book says. We emphasize that. We talk about that, and we preach about that. We need to, we need to read God’s book and do what it says.

And Jesus said, go preach the gospel to every creature. We don’t do that. Not very much. And when we dig into the book of Acts and we see how diligent the early disciples, well, it only points up that neglect all the more. I just think that’s strange. For people so focused on doing what God’s book says that we don’t do this. And so, when Andy and I ordered our coffee, and it was properly prepared at the prepping station, we squeezed in to one of those small tables crowded together. You know how coffee shops are. We just kind of squeezed in there at one of those little tables. And so I said to Andy, tell me.

1. The Problem Is With Consciousness

And he said, when I talk to people about this, there are four points that I make. And so I grabbed a sheet of paper, I flipped it over to a blank space, and I had my pencil ready. I was ready to write. And so I sketched down his four points, and now I’m admitting to you, I’m using them today. Okay, so this is borrowed material. This is Andy Cantrell’s outline on why we struggle to teach lost people. The first thing he talked to me about was this. He said, one of the problems we have is with consciousness. And he had me hooked because he was heading in a direction that I could really see. I really bought. One of the reasons this work is neglected is because we simply don’t have lost people on our hearts.

Not like we need to. It’s easy to get your head down. Do you keep a calendar? I do. In fact, I think it is so cool that I only have to keep my calendar in one place, and thanks to the guys over at Apple, it goes everywhere else. It’s on my phone, it’s on my iPad, it’s on all my computers. I keep a calendar. I keep a list of everything that I have to do. And I will tell you, when I start out on Monday, I look at the list, I fine-tune the list, and my head is focused on getting the task done. Are you wired that way? I got stuff to do this week, and my objective is to get every bit of it done.

My concern is that we get so consumed with getting the to-do list done for the week, getting the kids at the right place at the right time, getting the project finished at work, taking care of this thing I need to do on the house. So focused on that kind of stuff, so focused on the temporal that the eternal can hardly break through on the edges. Have you ever seen a perfect open door to begin talking to someone about Jesus, to put it out there? The only problem is you realize that about 10 minutes after the opportunity passed. Have you been there? Sit there, you have a conversation at lunch, long tracks up, you get in the car and you’re driving away, and all of a sudden it dawns on you.

Y’all were having one of those conversations about whatever the current controversy of the week was in this whole homosexual debate that’s going on in our culture. And as you’re driving away from that gathering with some friends of work, it occurred to you, oh, Tony has a great lesson on the website. I could have said, hey, I heard a great sermon about that last Sunday. Here’s our web address. Y’all ought to go listen to that. Boy, that would have been a great thing to say right at that moment. Have you had that experience? I do that all the time. And I wonder if it’s not symptomatic of the problem. We think about it too late because that’s not really where our minds are focused. Maybe one of the reasons we say things like, I’d love to share the gospel with my friends.

I just can’t find anyone who’s interested. Or I’ve got these friends that I’m really concerned about, but it never seems up it seems to come up in our conversations. I never seem to find the door. Maybe the problem is we’re not looking for it. It’s just not there. It’s not in the forefront of our mind. I don’t know that our time is all that different from Jesus’ time. Well, you look at Matthew chapter 9. In Matthew chapter 9. In verse 35. Remember what Jesus said about his day, Matthew 9, verse 35? Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness, seeing the people. He felt compassion for them because they were distressed and dispirited, like sheep without a shepherd.

And he said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful. But the workers are few. Therefore, beseech the Lord of harvest to send out workers into his harvest. Brothers and sisters, I do not think we’re living in the days of Noah. I think we’re living in days like Jesus’ day, where there are lots and lots of people looking. Lots and lots of opportunities. I just don’t think we’re conscious of it. I don’t think that’s where our minds are oriented. And I would add that it really doesn’t take very much to raise our consciousness dramatically. You know what works for me? A post-it note. Okay, yellow post-it note, nice fluorescent color. If I will just write down the names, two or three people that my brain is really fixated on, people I know that I want to bring to Jesus.

If I’ll write those names on the post-it note, and then, well, where do you put it? I don’t know, where you look every day. You know where I look every day? My computer monitor. So that’s where my little yellow sticky is. It’s on the front of my computer monitor, because I promise you I’m going to look at that every single day. Bathroom mirror, a better place for you? Maybe inside the refrigerator on the carton of milk. Where will that work for you? So you’ll see it every single day. You know, if you do that, every time I sit at my desk, there’s this yellow flashing card on my right saying, look at me. Look at these three people you want to talk to about Jesus. It isn’t difficult to raise our consciousness.

2. The Problem Is With Confidence in Our Craft

But if we don’t even do that, maybe it’s not really about consciousness. Maybe if I can’t even take little practical, simple steps to make myself more aware, to bring it more to the forefront of my mind, maybe. Maybe consciousness really isn’t the problem. And so as we made our way about halfway through the first cup of coffee at the caribou coffee shop, Andy pressed on to his second point and said, if not consciousness, maybe the problem is with confidence. And what he would say is confidence in our craft. Do you see where that is going? And he said he was convinced that sometimes disciples don’t do very much to reach lost people because they’re just not confident that they will be good at it. And there’s a dimension of that I think is good.

When someone is thinking that way, it means that they’re taking the word very work very seriously. This is work that impacts somebody’s eternity. And so I really, I want to give some thought that I do this well, and I don’t take a good opportunity and wind up squandering it. And so some people he said, he thinks they’re fearful to jump in there because they’ll do the wrong thing or say the wrong thing or handle a situation badly, and maybe I’ll actually wind up driving someone away. I don’t know that all of that is bad. I think it’s maybe good that someone seems to be so serious about the work. I make some observation about this problem. I think every disciple should be concerned about doing this work well.

I think it ought to be approached with a serious mind. I’m thinking about Paul’s words in Colossians 4. Can you make your way to that place in your Bible this morning? Colossians 4, and in verse 5, Paul would admonish us to conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity, and then adds in verse 6 Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person. That seems to me that Paul is arguing that we do want to take the work very seriously and be very careful and thoughtful about the way we interact with people who aren’t Christian. So I think it’s good to be serious about it. I would also add this thought that I think we need to remember that when we go share the gospel, we’re sharing the basics.

We’re not plumbing the depths of Ezekiel and explaining all the imagery and visions there. We’re telling people how to be saved. There isn’t a person in this crowd that can’t do that. However ineffective, however stumbling my presentation may be, you and I know how to become Christians. We became one. It’s the simple stuff. And I would add to that. That remember, as you talk to folks, we are we are living in a culture increasingly biblically illiterate. It is rare that you’re going to encounter someone that you try to share the gospel with who’s going to shoot back with a deep analysis of Calvinism. And if we would do it, we’d get better at it. The first time you tell someone the gospel may not be your best presentation, but the hundredth time will be better.

And maybe that’s not even going to be your gig in this whole effort. Maybe you’re not going to be real good at sitting down and teaching the lesson. Maybe you’re a connecting person. Do you know anybody like that? You know these people that never meet a stranger. Y’all know anybody like that? The people that embarrass us, walk up to random people, start talking. Maybe you’re that kind of person that can just start connecting with folks, and maybe you’re not a great teacher, but what you can do is you can connect with someone and bring them to someone who is a great teacher. We need thousands of disciples doing that kind of stuff. There’s a part that we can play. Which brings me to a tough question that I think we really need to consider.

If it is really about confidence in my craft.

What did you do to improve your craft? What steps did you take to be better at winning lost souls? I mean, with so much at stake and so many people in terror of the terrible jeopardy and time running out, you would think that if we felt like we weren’t quite up to the task, that we would spend every day working feverishly to get really good at this. And I would tell you, brothers and sisters, what more important thing is there to be really good at? If we want to be experts at doing anything, it is not fishing or game systems or analyzing sports statistics. I need to be really good at telling people about Jesus. And if I’m not even working on that, and maybe this really isn’t about confidence in my craft.

3. The Problem Is With Courage

We were out of coffee by this time. And so we paused and went and ordered a second cup. And sat down at our little table. And he said, let me tell you what I think is a third problem. He said, sometimes I think the problem is with courage. And when Andy brought this up, he had my attention. Because I think fear is a huge factor that holds us back and keeps us from talking to people about Jesus. I mean, we could do a group project sitting in this auditorium this morning and ask everybody to contribute. What kinds of things are we afraid of? And we could probably just start writing on the walls and fill the walls up, couldn’t we? How many things do we have to fear?

How is this person going to react when I bring this up to them? How will they respond? We don’t know. They’re going to go off on me? Will they think I’m some kind of a religious nut? Will they pose a question that I can’t answer? What if it goes badly? What if they get angry with me? And what if it’s a good friend and they decide to not be my friend anymore? How many things can we put? What if they talk to the other coworkers about me and say, Did y’all know Banning’s a religious nut?

Those kinds of concerns can just begin to rise up and form this wall that takes these great intentions we have and prevents us from ever turning them into action. We do struggle with courage to do this work. And listen, I don’t want to minimize that barrier. I’ve struggled with it too, to be honest with you. But I do think there’s some things we need to appreciate about this fear problem. If you look back at Matthew 28, one of the things that I think needs to be part of our processing of the fear barrier is the fact that we are not doing our work. This is the Lord’s work. This isn’t really our mission. We are servants executing the mission of Christ. And so in Matthew 28 and 19, it is Jesus who said, after, by the way, saying, I have all authority, heaven on earth.

I have a right to command, okay? What did he say? Go make disciples of the nations. This is the work of Jesus. And so I would remind you, as I try to talk to my friends, this isn’t really about me. This is about Jesus, and it’s about them. I’m just handing to them what the Lord wants them to have. That’s all I am in this process. And then I would add, secondly, oddly, the part of the Great Commission we don’t talk about almost at all. And yet I think it’s the most important part. Because going on in verse 20, after saying, go make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I’ve commanded you.

What’s the last thing he said? I am with you always. Even to the end of the age. Jesus said, When my people go out to do my work. They do not go alone. He goes with us until the end. Until he comes. So, Frank.

Who should we be intimidated about talking to? I love what the psalmist said. Flip back to the Old Testament, Psalm 118. Psalm 118 and verse 5. If fear is a barrier, maybe this is a little second post-it note for the computer monitor. Psalm 118, verse 5. From my distress I called upon the Lord. The Lord answered me and set me in a large place. The Lord is for me. I will not fear. What can man do to me? The Lord is for me among those who help me, therefore I will look with satisfaction on those who hate me. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.

Just write that out and put that on a little post-it note. Right up next to that list of three or four people you’d like to talk to about Jesus. It’s the Lord’s word, not ours. He goes with us. What do we have to fear? And then I would add thirdly to that the vast majority of fears that we have never materialize. I have been doing this preaching thing for three decades this coming June. And I can tell you that I have never had the experience. I have never known of a disciple who had the experience of losing a friend because they tried to share the gospel with him. Had my teeth cleaned last week. And the dental hygienist who was working on me evidently looked at my forms, or else she’s a prophet because she knew that I was a preacher.

And I don’t understand. There’s something missing, evidently, in the in the electric connections in the brain of dental hygienists. As she’s working in my mouth, she tries asking me questions. Don’t they know that doesn’t work? So she knows I’m a preacher, she’s working on me, and she says, she says, hey, I bet I really want to get into Bible reading. Can you can you recommend something for me to read in the Bible? I’m like, as soon as you get your hands out of your mouth, I’ll recommend something to you. So I suggested a program to her, and then I said, but really, if you want to get the Bible, I’ve got this great presentation. It’s called The Big Kit Picture of the Bible. It takes me 45 minutes.

If you would be willing to sit out with me and my wife, because when it’s a lady, I always take my wife along. I said, Me and my wife, we’ll do this quick presentation for you to help you understand the whole Bible story. And man, it got really quiet in the room. She’s like, Oh, that’s very interesting. Which is code for, no. I do not want to sit out with you. We’re not going to talk about this. Well, I’ll tell you what, she didn’t break any teeth off. We had a great rest of the dental visit. Everything was fine, and I do not expect she’s going to use the card that I gave her to call me and ask to see this presentation. That’s okay.

That’s how it goes when people aren’t interested. Worst experience I ever had was a lady I’d invited to three gospel meetings, and the fourth time she put her hands up, didn’t even take the ad out of my hand. She said, no, thank you, which was code for, please don’t ever give me one of those again. And I didn’t die. And we’re still friends. And everything was okay. That’s the way it goes most of the time. Most of the things we fear never materialize. But what if they do? What if you do have someone who tells your buddies at work that you’re a religious nut? What if you have someone who will not be your friend anymore because of what you believe? I want you to take that and read Acts.

That was our Bible reading last fall back in Birmingham. We read the book of Acts. And one of the things we highlighted as we read through the book were the assaults of the devil on the people of God. Let me tell you what is not going to happen if you share the gospel with your friends. Nobody’s going to come and arrest you. Not yet. And nobody’s going to lock you in prison. And nobody’s going to throw rocks at you until you die. I will tell you, folks, I am ashamed that I have missed opportunities.

4. The Real Reason: We Don't Care

When I think about what I’m up against compared to what they’re up against, we ought to be very confident. We live in a country with men with guns will defend our right to shout from the root top that Jesus saved. We need to be shouting. Which makes me wonder when you put all that together in the package. If we have so little really to fear, maybe the problem isn’t really with our courage. Andy told me that he had one more thing to share with me. And he said, I want you to understand, I saved this one for last because while I think all of these factors impact us, he said, I think the last one is the problem. In fact, he said, if we address the last one, all the others take care of themselves.

And so he’s really, he’s really building my anticipation. What is this last one that is in his mind the key to doing this? He said, the real reason we struggle to teach lost people is because we don’t care. And I didn’t say it. But inside of me there was just this feeling that welled up that said, that’s just not true. And maybe when I put that up there, that’s your reaction, too. No. I do. I care deeply about my friends who are lost. I just, maybe that just doesn’t even sound right for you for me to say that. But I hung there with him for a minute and let him explain. And I want to ask you to do the same thing with me this morning.

I don’t mean that we don’t care at all. My question is how deeply does it run? It’s not, do I care at all? It’s do I care enough. I don’t know that the Bible, brothers and sisters, can be plainer about the spiritual catastrophe facing lost people. Let’s allow the Holy Spirit to speak for himself. Will you go to Romans 2? And I don’t really want to delve into any detail in the passage. I just want you to hear it. And think about what it’s saying about the predicament of lost people. This is Romans 2, verse 5, where the Holy Spirit says, because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God who will render to each person according to his deeds.

To those who by perseverance and doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life, but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath, and indignation, there will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil of the Jew first and also of the Greek. Now listen, you can take this passage and you could pull it apart and you can define what I think are key words, what’s awaiting those who do not obey the truth, wrath and indignation, tribulation and distress. Listen, there’s a lot of analysis that can be done here, but let’s cut to the chase. What’s he saying? He’s saying what you’re not supposed to say in pulpits anymore because it offends people and drives them away.

He’s saying that people who don’t obey God are going to go to hell.

That’s the predicament facing people who don’t obey God. And the Holy Spirit, if you’ll make your way to Romans 6, does everything he can using what I think is the most dramatic of language for human beings to try to make that point. So in Romans 6 and 23, he says, the wages of sin, the price, the penalty that is paid for sin is death. Which is, by the way, the same language the apostle uses in Ephesians 2 and verse 1, if you’ll make your way there, Ephesians 2 1, he says, and you were dead in your trespasses in sin. What word conjures up more fear, more worry? What is more striking to us of the word death? Think about that. And he says, when you are in your sins, that’s where you are.

You are spiritually dead. And he adds, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. That’s just a long complicated way to say, when that’s where you are, you are with the devil. Not supposed to say that in pulpit anymore either. Still true. And then verse 3, among them too, we all formerly lived according to the lust of our flesh, indulging in the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. There he’s getting back to it again. He says, in the end, you’re going to be on the receiving end of wrath of God.

You’re going to go to hell. And then in 2 Thessalonians 1. If you’ll go there, Paul would spell this out in frightening detail. 2 Thessalonians 1, verse 6, for after all, it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well, when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. What is the fate of people who don’t obey the gospel? He said, These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord from the glory of his power.

What is he saying? Lost people will go to hell. I don’t know. That it is possible to exaggerate the desperately awful condition that people are in without Jesus. And I would say to you, brothers and sisters, this is why we share the gospel. We don’t share the gospel so that our attendance numbers will increase. We don’t share the gospel because we want our friends doing the wrong thing to live better lives here on earth and to have better families. We don’t teach the gospel to people so they’ll be better husbands and wives. We teach the gospel because they’re lost. And they need to be rescued. Two questions.

That’s true. And if we do, what are we going to do about it?

Martin Marty was a professor at the University of Chicago, an author. A long time ago, I stumbled across this quote and just have stuck it aside and used it again and again. He said, if people really believed in hell, they wouldn’t be watching basketball or even TV preachers. They would be rescuing people. I think he’s right. In fact, I believe that if we really believe, somehow these other factors that we talked about this morning, I think they take care of themselves. When you believe that people that you love are lost and are going to go to hell for eternity, I will tell you what. You don’t have to make yourself think about that. You wake up with a consciousness of that every single day. It’s a burden.

And you’re not looking for confidence in your craft. You don’t say, this person I love, man, when I feel better about how I preach the gospel or teach the gospel or share the story, I’ll talk to them. Whatever feeble attempt I can make. I think people’s eternity is in jeopardy. I’ll do what I can. And fear. Someone you love is facing that spiritual catastrophe. Is fear really going to get in your way? I don’t care what they think about me. Such state’s too important.

Conclusion

You see when we really care. Oh, the problem’s just gotta take care of themselves. He didn’t have me sold when he started this. But Andy had me convicted when he finished. So may I say to you that I think soul winning basically just comes down to two very basic things. Do I believe people are lost? Do I really believe that? And then two, do I care? Because if you don’t, no teaching about building courage or creating confidence or perfecting craft is going to change anything. If I do really care, nothing’s going to hold me back. Do I believe people are lost? Do I care? We had burned through the second cup of coffee. And the time we spent together was about up. And Andy and I began to wrap up our conversation.

During the entire time we were talking and drinking coffee, we were squeezed around that little table in the coffee shop. And just behind Andy, there was a young man who for that entire time had his face buried in his laptop. What I didn’t realize, I thought he was studying something that had captivated his mind. What I didn’t realize is that he wasn’t paying any attention to his laptop at all. He was eavesdropping on our conversation the whole time.

And all he really had to do was pivot because we were all squeezed in there together. And he said, I’m sorry, but for the last hour I’ve just been listening to you guys. And I was hoping you would pray with me. He was a teenage boy, Russian immigrant who had found his way to Minneapolis. And we prayed with him. And he and Andy exchanged vital data for a follow-up Bible study. Lots of guys.

We’re trying to find Jesus. We just need to care.

Father, we count it as such a blessing that you have, that you have chosen to allow us to share in your great mission to reach lost people. What a privilege it is to get to be part of such a vital work. Father, with so many things that distract us, we plead with you to stir up our minds again to see the awful condition of people that don’t know you, to care deeply for their welfare, and to do something to reach them. We are determined to do better. And we pray that you would help us as you promised to do. In Jesus’ name. Amen. Thank you for your attention.