American Nomad Blog

  00:00:00:07 - 00:00:19:16 What do we do when people have got involved? So then it's how do we. We've been praying people have gotten involved. How are we reporting back? What's the what's the feedback loop of that activity? Because if that person becomes an evangelist for the organization, you've done your job. 00:00:22:17 - 00:00:34:13 Focus on facilitating the relationships. Yes. Right, so you're not even you don't have to sell anymore, you don't have to push it anymore. They're doing it, you just get to facilitate that relationship with them like. All right, what went well? What didn't go well? 00:00:35:01 - 00:00:56:20 They are the ones who carry the message forward. Yeah. Brownie & June, right? At the cafe yesterday, right they are an evangelist for the ministry at their church. I go to church once a once a year. Yeah. Build continue to nurture that relationship, but I have relationship with them and they are the ones who carry...

  Herb on Getting Dirt Under Your Nails 00:00:00:07 - 00:00:10:10 Nobody Naturally Wants To Get Their Hands Dirty Most people don't like getting their hands dirty. Most people don't want to get dirt on the nails. They like to stand back and see it. I mean, it's just natural. Nobody wants to know and naturally wants to get dirty. 00:00:10:16 - 00:00:30:21 Make An Easy Entry Point Like what my wife did with the ministry was, she came in and she worked in the office upstairs. And so we were serving folks, loving on them, partnering with them. But my wife was working upstairs, and so as she became comfortable with what we were doing, she continually felt challenged by God to be present downstairs and eventually 00:00:30:21 - 00:00:55:20 Let People Get Uncomfortable With Their Un-involvement Everyone that I know who's worked upstairs in the office, in our ministry trickles down to working downstairs and eventually they're like, Oh 00:00:55:20 - 00:01:07:22 Let ...

  We Don't Need a New Gospel 03:03:07:11 - 03:03:23:03 We Don't Need a New Gospel We don't need a new gospel, right? We don't need a new gospel. We just need to actually know how to apply it. Like, what are the skills that it takes to actually live out the gospel? Do I have the skills to live that out? 03:03:23:08 - 03:03:48:08 The Gospel Has Been Relevant for 2000 Years That's the question. It's not. It's not is it's not. Is the gospel relevant? I mean, the gospel has been relevant for 2000 years. The question is, do I know how to use the gospel? And so then all of a sudden, what happens is people become rich and then rich because I now understand how to actively benefit from 03:03:50:03 - 03:04:11:02 Benefitting Others When You Know How It Benefits Yourself what benefits me. And if I benefit from what benefits me or is designed to benefit me, then there's an opportunity for it to benefit other people as it was designed to benefit other people. Th...

 Prayer as the First Step in Ministry - Herb Bailey (Church Army USA) 00:00:00:05 - 00:00:16:21 Moment of Intentional Prayer I think in our liturgy, we have a moment of prayer. There's a point where we can pray include your prayers, whatever they are. If it's a system or organization that you're like, Hey, this is important that that's the one that gets mentioned every week, every Sunday were mentioned in that every Sunday. 00:00:16:21 - 00:00:31:19 Mention the Specific Ministry We're mentioning the foster care community every Sunday when I mentioned the foster care community. If it's a one off, then perhaps you have rotating families that do a one off instead of. So if you do it every week, but it's not the same family that does it every week. 00:00:32:15 - 00:00:51:22 Prayer to Build Teams and Remember Workers And so you build into building teams that then carry this on. And so the prayer hits them in the feels because they feel remembered for what they ...