What is the gospel

I'm glad to have your company this evening. If this is the first time you're at the tab, we hope that the service will be enjoyable, in some way disturbing, and that you'll go away different. I was going to start with a preamble, just starting with service in context, but one of our young men who's going to be baptized has asked that we sing.

He hasn't volunteered to sing it himself. Oh, happy day that fixed my choice. So let's do that.

It's 499 in this white hymnal in front of you. We'll stand and sing, and if you're a regular at the tab and you want to help us with the financing of the work of God here and abroad, then we'll take an offering during the singing of this hymn. 499.

Well, good evening. It's great to be here this evening. Now, just remember that for those of you that have been baptized in this church or have indeed actually come up to this pulpit up here, it's quite a scary sight.

It's not because you're sort of ugly people. In fact, you're quite attractive in this service. But for these young people, it's very difficult to, well, they're not used to speaking in front of such a big crowd, so it's quite brave of them to actually stand up here and to be here.

I was, some of my work, I'm a youth worker in this church, and some of my work is to go into the school assemblies. And I went to do one on faith on a Friday at Worthing High School, speaking to 15-year-olds. Now, it's not very often I take a Bible into an assembly because I always try to break the preconceptions they tend to have of Christians, you know, people walking around with big black Bibles under their arm.

So I took in a tiny little red Bible on this occasion, and we talked about faith. And I said, what's the best definition of faith? Well, I said, I could turn to a dictionary, but the Bible actually has one. Let me just read to you what I read to them.

It's Hebrews chapter 11. Now, faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Now, I tried to demonstrate that, and I asked for a volunteer.

They're not so forthcoming when they get to 15 in the school, but I managed to drag one person up. And I asked that young person, I said, do you trust me? And he said, foolishly, yes. And so I said, well, that's great.

I said, let me blindfold you. So I blindfolded him, and I asked him just to keep straight legs and to fall backwards and that I would catch him. And, well, he started to do it, and I was actually going to catch him low, and towards the end he actually stepped back because, obviously, he didn't trust me.

My point being, it's like doing another school assembly list, the point being was this, that I could ask this guy, Allen was his name, I could say, do you trust me? Do you have faith in me? And his answer could be yes, and then I could ask him to sit down. But no one would really know if that was true or not because when it comes to faith, it's more than just words. And so true faith is this, is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

And the true test of that is when it becomes more than words and it becomes actions. And if he really trusted me, he would have just gone back and trusted the fact that I was there. Well, these young people are here tonight, and they've obviously, I'm going to spoil it just for them because they'll probably come out in their testimonies, but I know they've all been brought up in Christian families, so they've heard and done pretty much everything that Tony was talking about earlier on about being all those things, perhaps remaining on the fringe.

Well, these young people are going to come and tell you what it is, really, that's changed them, more than just words, but something that's meant something to their life, and that's what faith is all about. So I'm going to introduce to you Amy Heaton, and she's going to come and talk, and then we're going to find out more about from the others. All yours, Amy.

Okay, I have been a Christian since I was really young. In fact, I can't remember not being a Christian. And although when I was about six years old, I asked Jesus into my life and to forgive me of everything I'd done wrong, in my heart, I knew he was already there.

I went to Sunday school until I was 11, but then my family left that church, and I didn't go again for four years. In that period, I learned to spend time with Jesus every day, and building a relationship with him, I can honestly say, has been the best thing I have ever done. Through difficult periods of my life, when it was so much easier to go the world's way instead of God's way, he would bring to my attention, as I read the Bible, verses of encouragement to build up my confidence and faith.

God has blessed me with a lovely family, and my mum and dad have helped me to understand God and the values of sound Christian teaching. When I look back over everything that has happened so far in my life, I can see the hand of God over it, and how he has guided me through. A scripture which has always been helpful to me is Jeremiah 29, verse 11.

For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.

And I just trust in Jesus that he will continue to guide and bless me through my life. I'm getting baptised today because Jesus is the most important thing in my life, and because I want to be obedient to him. Thank you, Amy.

One of the great things about working with young people, I've been here five years, is seeing them sort of grow up from, you know, small to being tall. And especially with these two coming up, when I first knew them, they were talking like this. And then you go, you see them one Friday, or see them one Monday, in Dominic's case, and the following week they've kind of voices broken, they're speaking like this, you know, become real men.

And so they're both, their voices are both broken, hasten to add. Dominic, come and tell us your story. Hi, I'm Dominic.

So of course you don't know me, I don't know you either. But I'm with my testimony. What is a testimony? If you look up testify in the thesaurus, it will give affirm, assert, attest, bear witness, etc.

But for me, a testimony is proclaiming publicly my faith and my obedience to God. Then there's baptism. What really is a baptism? Some people think it's half drowning, some in the name of God.

But to Christians, it's something very different. Being dunked under the water shows a person being cleansed in the Holy Spirit. And the little chat beforehand is to affirm your faith publicly.

Well, I'm here today because I'm a sinner, who isn't. We've all done something wrong, whether it's a small thing or a big thing. But in God's eyes, they're all bad, and you need forgiveness.

I swore and went the same way as my friends. Then, when I first joined Zion, I made friends fast. I made sure I did.

It's a cool world out there when you're on your own. I made myself out to be something I wasn't, even though I came from a Christian home and background. I got a girlfriend and went the crowd's way.

I went to parties and began to drink. I was a Sunday Christian. I went to a Christian holiday called Spring Harvest.

I heard a preacher called Tony Campolo, who totally changed my attitude towards Christians, how they can act and how they should lead their life. I made a promise to God. I wouldn't swear, but if I did swear, I'd start reading the Bible.

The first part I kept for about a month, then it went. I started reading the Bible and studied it in detail in religious education, studies, whatever you want to call it, at school. I began to understand it.

I'm here tonight to be baptized. I want to be baptized to make a connection to God and for that to be strong. I've been a Christian for quite a while.

I want to affirm my faith. Okay, thank you, Dominic. Now, Robert's going to come and give his story.

He's asked that I interview him. I've known Robert for five years. And, Rob, you're 19 years old, is that right? Yep, that's right.

And I believe that you share your birthday with some incredibly notable people. That is right. I share my birthday with Julius Caesar.

Going back in history. Margaret Thatcher, as well. So when you find out where people red or blue, yeah, go on.

And most notable of all, yourself. Oh, I thank you, Rob. And your mother-in-law, as well.

My mother-in-law, yes, well, not so notable, no. Don't send her the tape. Now, Robert, just tell us something about your life at sort of a younger age.

Well, what I can say is that I was adopted by my mom and dad when I was 11 months old. And I was brought up in a Christian family. And I was taken to church, just I think the local church around the corner, Christ Church Road Baptist Church, where my parents actually dedicated me to the Lord.

I worked my way up through the creche and Sunday school. And my first proper Bible was given to me by my gran for my eighth birthday. But now it's a bit worn out.

I came with the family to the tab when I was 12. And I first joined Boys Club at that age. Okay.

So you've been brought up in a Christian home. You've been taught perhaps many of the things Tony was talking about and people were shouting out earlier. And you came to this church.

So you've heard a lot of different things. What is it that has actually affected you? Would you say you're a Christian because your mom and dad are a Christian? Well, I'd say I'd never really questioned that there was a God. But it hadn't affected me in a real personal way until I was about 15.

And I was influenced much by the leaders of MANA and other members of the group who were committed Christians themselves. And it was then that I really felt I should do something about it because the Lord was really reaching out to me. Okay.

That's great. So what was it that actually happened then? You say the Lord was actually reaching out to you. Well, I think he was saying basically that, Robert, I really want you to be a Christian, which was quite a step for me.

And I think it was really necessary that I did something about it. So I made the decision to accept Jesus as my Savior, and I committed my life to him. Right.

So you say you committed your life to him. Now, what does that mean? How has it affected you? Because it's all very well saying you're a Christian, and you say you've committed yourself to it. So has it had an effect not just on a Sunday, but throughout the week? Yeah, it's made quite a difference, I think.

At school, it was a great help because I was seriously beaten up. I mean, seriously. But I think the Lord was always there for me when I needed him most.

And I thank him that he was there for me. But it also made a difference in my own behavior as well. I'd been quite rebellious when I was Jack the Lad, so I was making a lot of trouble with my sister.

I think that's normal with brothers and sisters. But also, when I went to my first Bible study, I almost literally came away in tears because it showed how sinful my life really was. And it really had changed me as well.

Okay, so God had really changed you. Now, you've been working for some time. Where do you work? Well, currently I work at Lloyd's Bank Registrars in Lansing.

I've been working there for the past six months. And I really am grateful to the Lord that he's put me there because I'm working with a smashing people. They're all lovely, and they respect me for my belief there.

And I think they've really been interested to hear about my beliefs as well, especially my boss as well. But I think they were particularly interested in the Romania to which I was privileged to go on. Okay.

Do you want to say anything about that or not? Well, yeah, I think that I've never been close to the Lord since then because it was exciting to see how he looked after us in particular. I think the weather was quite bad sometimes. But also getting me back because on the journey home, somehow, I don't know how, but I left my passport in Germany, I think.

So I think it was amazing how I managed to get through several borders getting back. And we had to shove you in with all the luggage in the back, didn't we, so they wouldn't see you? No. Yes.

Right. Okay. Moving on quickly.

So why is it that you have come here then to be baptised tonight? Well, I think it's the only way forward for me. I think I know now that I must be obedient to the Lord and to his command to be baptised, basically. Right.

Anything else you'd like to say? Summing up, I'm glad and proud to be a Christian. I thank the Lord for saving me, personally. I thank him also for being there when I've turned my back on him and for loving me.

Praise the Lord. Okay. Great.

Okay. And the words of Bruce Forsyth, didn't they do well? Thank you. That's such a lovely song, isn't it? It emphasises the simplicity and yet the profundity of the Gospel.

We now come to what is a very sacred moment in the service. We don't mind if you stand to see, if you're not positioned in such a way that you can take in all that's happening. But we do ask you to be reverend as we immerse these three lovely young people in water.

I have witnessed many baptisms and had the privilege of taking part in the act of baptism over the years I've been here. But I don't think I've heard many testimonies that have matched the clarity and the sincerity of what you've just been experiencing in listening to these youngsters tonight. And we do want to thank God for his grace in their lives.

I repeat that what's happening now doesn't make them Christians. They have become Christians. What they're doing, so to speak, is looking on baptism as a badge, a public confession, an acknowledgement that they have chosen Jesus Christ as their Saviour.

And as they're raised from the waters, so they're reaffirming what happened some while ago for them, that they are living different lives, drawing strength from the Lord Jesus. And what's happened to them can also happen to you. Please, God, tonight.

And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way, bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God. Amy, on confession of your faith in our Lord Jesus, we baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. And the verse for Dominic White.

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.

Dominic White, on your confession of the Lord Jesus Christ, we now baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit. For Robert Wilkins, I can do everything through him who gives me strength. And you nearly did.

Robert, on confession of your faith in our Lord Jesus, we baptize you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. So, the challenge for all of us is to be precise in our understanding of life as a whole. Even in the way that we address people, what we have to say, so they don't get the wrong end of the stick.

Like the little girl who was always sucking her thumb. You used to suck your thumb? It's quite comforting, isn't it? I don't generally do this in the pulpit. And she couldn't be persuaded to drop the habit.

Then one day her mum said, if you keep in taking air like that, if you do it for much longer, you'll just swell out like a balloon. Well, you know what little girls are. A few weeks later, she comes in from school.

Mum's talking to a close friend of hers, who's eight months. And the little girl says, I know what you've been doing. You need to be precise.

I spent about three years studying the life and the ministry of one of the greatest men I've ever been privileged to know. He preached in London to a congregation of around 1,500 to 2,000 people for the major part of his life in the fifties, forties and fifties, when churchgoing was not exactly popular. I refer to a man called Martin Lloyd-Jones.

I remember when checking up on his life, on one occasion he was interviewed by an American who wrote a sort of biographical article. And he put the question to Lloyd-Jones, who'd been converted really in the Welsh Revival or in the aftermath of the Welsh Revival, the great movement of the Spirit of God in the early 1900s. He asked Dr. Lloyd-Jones about his dad.

And the biographer of the article, the writer of the article, Carl Henry, he said that he saw Lloyd-Jones' eyes filled with tears. Because the doctor had to say that although his father was a churchgoing man, he'd often been in one of the Welsh chapels. The majority of his life he'd gone to church twice on a Sunday.

In those days they didn't preach the clarity of the gospel. They preached the social gospel. Lloyd-Jones himself was thirty years of age, a medical consultant, before he fully understood the precision of the gospel.

Jesus, God's Son, died on the cross to save men and women from their sins. To be a Christian is not just to be a good man. To be a Christian is not just to try to keep the Ten Commandments.

To be a Christian is not just to engage in charitable work. To be a Christian is not to come to church regularly and to give of your finances. All these things, good in and of themselves, but they do not, not, not, N-O-T, not make you a Christian.

And the most important question that anyone can put to you in your life is this, Are you a Christian? And the most important study that you will ever do is to seek out and answer to the question, What a Christian really is? So, when you come to the New Testament and to the Acts of the Apostles, the exciting story of the early years of Christianity, what you find there is men and women who are clearly communicating what a Christian is. So, there's a man by the name of Peter and a great crowd come to listen to what he has to say. And Peter's not a trained preacher.

And as a result of what he has to share about Jesus and his death on the cross, people cry out to him. What must we do? Now, Peter doesn't say, well, be good. He doesn't say, go and help the lepers.

He doesn't say, give your money away. What Peter says is this, repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and the promises for you and your children, and for all who are far off, all whom the Lord our God will call. Now, the preacher, exactly the same sermon.

If you really want varieties of sermons, varieties of speeches, don't come to the New Testament, and don't really come to this church, because we're always homing in, eventually, sooner or later, in the service, and particularly on a Sunday night, when we try to present the essentials of the faith in a simple fashion, we come to the same point. We always do. We've only got one message, and it's the message of Jesus, his death on the cross, as a means whereby your sins can be forgiven.

So, here's another early preacher, and he's got exactly the same question, not put to him by a crowd, but by an individual who happens to be a soldier, a military man. And this guy says to Paul, What must I do to be saved? And you get more or less the same terminology by way of response. Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.

Not only you, but all your household. Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him. And at that hour of night, the jailer took them, washed their wounds, then immediately he and his family were baptized.

Now, isn't that interesting? They first hear the message of the gospel at night. There's not a church. In those days, there weren't churches.

There's not a convenient baptistry heated up a few degrees. Presumably, there's a river nearby. And so, in the middle of the night, this family, having been instructed by Paul, go to the river, and there they're plunged in water.

Because they mean business, you see. They recognize that what's been told them in terms of becoming Christians is more important than anything Caesar could have asked of this soldier or indeed of his family as citizens of Rome. You've got to mean business to understand Christianity and to respond.

Not business in the sense of you've got to become a great intellectual and pour over many books and listen to thousands and thousands of sermons. But mean business in terms of, I want to know the truth. I really do want to know the truth.

How did you learn the alphabet? You start at the very beginning. It's a very good place to start. I'm quoting not a philosopher, but Julie Andrews.

When you start, you begin. And she's talking about the scales of the piano. But it also applies to the alphabet.

You start with A, B, C. How do you become a Christian? A. Let's look at it on this one overhead. Accept. A for accept.

Accept that you are a sinner and say you are sorry. I was going to use the word repent, but perhaps that's not so understandable as sorry. But maybe sorry is not quite as deep as repent, so let me spell out what repent means.

Because if you went to the thesaurus, glad that somebody knows what a thesaurus means. I remember a student who was trying to get lodgings in London and the housekeeper agreed. And the student says, well I've got my typewriter and I've got my radio and I've got my library and of course I've got my thesaurus.

The landlady said, I told you no animals are allowed here. The word sorry and repent are linked. They're synonyms.

But repent is a bit more painful. It's a bit deeper. And to repent means to turn around, to say I really am in distress because of the things that I have done that are wrong.

You heard that so clearly from one of these two fellows who made reference to him feeling uncomfortable in the sight of God. So what does he do? He says, I'm sorry. If you love your dad, your mom, if you have an affection for or respect for an older person or even your younger brother or sister and you've done wrong, what do you do? I'm so, I'm so sorry.

So you go to God. I accept that you are a sinner and say you are sorry. But you know that's not enough.

The A leads you to the B. Believe. Believe that Jesus Christ is God's Son and your Savior. You see, there's a lot that many of us here would like to do for you.

I've made reference to her before, my cousin who's battling with cancer. I was in the Pennines, going over the Pennines just a few days ago last weekend in very, very bad weather. I tell you this, not wanting to impress you, I would walk barefoot over the Pennine Way if I could be assured as a result of winning her eternal salvation.

But there's nothing I can do apart from explain to her what Jesus has done and get her to affirm that same faith in Jesus as I've embraced myself years ago and as these three young people have embraced. And it's not just believing that Jesus is a historical person. Most people believe that.

The proof is overwhelming. But it's beyond believing that He was on this earth. It's asking the question, who is He? He's more than just an ordinary man.

He walks on the water. He cures the lepers. When the sick people come, He touches them.

You can't do that. You can help. But you can't do it to the degree that Jesus did.

And yet He's more than just the Son of God. He identifies with you. He gets hungry and tired.

He gets distressed. Occasionally He gets angry. Believe that Jesus Christ is God's Son and that in His humanity He sees something of your predicament.

He enters into your difficulties. He knows something of your failures. Not that He ever failed, but He was face-to-face at the cutting edge of human failure with a bunch of disciples, not one of whom we would have appointed as an elder in this church.

Not when Jesus met them. And Jesus identifies with the inadequacies of His disciples. And because He is who He is, a unique, astonishingly good man, no perfection in Him at all, when He's done to death, they are crucifying innocents.

So the day that Jesus died, it was rough justice. It was a prostitution of justice. So why did He die? From God's point of view, He died so that the sins of His disciples, the sins of the world, might be transferred to His account.

There was no other good enough to pay the price of sin. He only could unlock the gate of heaven and let us in, making it possible for your sin to be lifted. So belief in Jesus is more than just tipping your cap to the historicity of Jesus.

It is embracing Him. It is clinging to Him. The Hebrew word for belief in the Old Testament is the same word as the horticulturalist would use for the ivy which clings to the tree trunk around which it spins itself because the ivy cannot stand alone.

It's that sort of despairing grasp that the drowning man takes when he's offered a helping hand. Believe, desperate, believe, putting trust in Jesus. Accept your sin.

Believe that Jesus is God's Son and your Savior. A, B, C. Confess, confess your faith in Him. Your dad can't do it for you.

Your mother can't do it for you. You can do it yourself and only yourself. And what happens when you confess Jesus Christ as your Savior, as you tell other people about Him? He accepts you into His family circle.

I'm always moved when I read of and hear of someone who has been adopted, as you heard of Robert this evening. Adopted into the family circle of people who became real parents to him. It wasn't a farce.

It wasn't a little bit of show business. There's no theater in this. This was a family opening itself up to Aladdin, saying, you are now my boy.

You are now my son. And when you confess Jesus Christ as Savior, that's exactly what the Father does. He receives you as though you are an extension of Jesus, part of the family circle.

And to be outside of that family circle in a world which is a cruel world. You're dead right. It is cruel out there.

It can be cruel in the playground. It can be cruel in the college, especially if you're a shy person who believes in Jesus and you don't like the comments that sometimes are dropped your way. It can be cruel.

But when you're in the family circle of God, you can know something not only of the fellowship of other Christians, but the dynamic of God's Spirit pulsating through your heart and through your life. You see, Christianity is not subscribing to a manifesto. You may have had the honor of being born on the same day as Margaret Thatcher, or at least having joint birthdays, or an even greater honor, the same birth date as Julius Caesar, or an even greater one, that of the same birth date of Nick Turnbull.

Can you believe it? Can you believe it? But I tell you this, the greatest thing is to be born into the family circle of God and for God to acknowledge you as His child and for you to receive the Holy Spirit. You see, to become a conservative you would have to agree to their manifesto. To become a member of the Labour Party you would have to agree to their manifesto.

It's an intellectual thing. But when you become a Christian, you don't just embrace the teachings of Jesus, you embrace Jesus. And it's almost impossible to describe this.

It's like trying to describe sight to a blind man. He becomes part of you. His Spirit is connected to you like this electricity goes through this microphone or across this strip of light here, pulsating, giving indication that it's there.

The sound that you hear, the light that you can see falling on my Bible, result of the power, the connectivity of the Holy Spirit, the connectivity of electricity as it's been plugged into this apparatus. So when you become a Christian, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus comes into your life. It doesn't mean to say you'll be perfect.

Sometimes it will be a flickering current because of your imperfection. Sometimes it will come with tremendous voltage. At times you will feel so powerful.

At times almost ecstatic. At other times you'll be rough and you'll have difficulty hanging in. But one thing you know, when you have been connected to Jesus, that flow of life and light will always be there.

He never disconnects. He never pulls out the plug. So how do you become a Christian? Accept.

Believe. Confess. The A, B, C. Embrace what these candidates have done.

The faith of Christianity. And put your trust in the best friend you can ever know. Jesus.

God's Son. Your Savior. Let's pray.

We sung this earlier. Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saves a wretch like I once was. That's it.

He comes in your blindness and gives you sight. He comes to your deafness and gives you hearing. Our Lord Jesus, offering His salvation, drawing you to Himself.

You say, can I become a Christian now? And the answer is yes. Do what? Say this in your mind. Or speak it out loud.

Or just whisper it. Heavenly Father, I recognize that I am a sinner. I'm sorry for my sin.

I believe that Jesus, your Son, has come to deal with my condition. Forgive me my trespasses. I receive your forgiveness.

I receive your Holy Spirit. And now I am determined to confess you publicly before men and women with whom I live and work and ultimately be baptized in water too. Thank you, Father, for the gift of your salvation.

Amen. If you did that, I want you to come and see me at the end of the service, which is only just a few minutes away. Or if I'm not by the door, then I think Dave Hammond will be by the south door.

If I go by the north. I've got a couple of books written by friends of mine, and I'd like to give you a copy. One is by John Blanchard, and the other by R.T. Kendall.

It speaks a little more fully about what I've been sharing, what we've all been sharing this evening. And our concern is for you to read it and to understand more. And to join us here at the tab on a Sunday night when we particularly try to explain the gospel as simply as we can.

If you want some study at just a little deeper level, then come in on a Sunday morning when we start off with the kids and around 11 o'clock we have a Bible study. And this coming Sunday, Sunday week, I'm going to be looking at a very interesting story that all of you can understand of Hannah, a woman who asked God for something in prayer. Found that when her prayer was answered, she got an even bigger problem than when it wasn't answered.

So we're going to look at the problem of answered prayer. But if you're really eager and keen, you don't want to wait until next Sunday. We've got things that are happening at the tab during the day, during the weekday, and at night throughout this coming week.

And notes and news is something you shouldn't be without. You should have been given a copy when you came in. If you weren't, then get one from the stewards and give them a gentle little hint that he should have given you one when you came in.

But they're all so very, very efficient stewards. I'm sure that you've got a copy. And that will tell you on page two as though you didn't know that Big Vision is here next Friday and on Saturday.

And you can get tickets by web donation at the welcome desk. And we'd be very glad to have your company on either of those occasions. Or you think it's so good on the Friday that you can come in again on the Saturday.

It's for your friends to try and bring them along. A lot of hard work's gone into this and we'd be very, very grateful if you'd use it evangelistically. Last time we put something on like this, I was most impressed by the content and also by the way the gospel was clearly presented.

Though I've only had just little snippets by way of video as to what's going to happen this coming weekend, I'm sure the same standard will be maintained. So, what an exciting week. Hope you'll come to one of these events.

Now our organist and pianist are wondering what he's got up his sleeve for the final song. And I thought At Your Feet We Fall would be nice, which is around number 40, I think, in the book. 45, At Your Feet We Fall, Mighty Risen Lord, as we come before your throne to worship you.

I am he that liveth, that liveth and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. After this has been sung, a brief prayer, and you're welcome to take coffee and tea with us in our rear lounge and spend some time here instead of rushing off home. 45, Mission Praise.

Stand.