Lesson 28 - Communion and IN, UP and OUT - Pioneer School Extra.

Welcome to this new lesson on
"The Pioneer School", lesson 28.

Today, in this lesson, I want to talk
about communion,

something I haven't talked about before.

It's going to challenge and provoke you
and you'll see that communion is

much more than what people have
made it today.

It's almost like baptism in water where
some people think that baptism, in itself

saves, like we see in the Catholic Church
and the Lutheran Church,

but then reformers went against that
and went on the other side

and say that the baptism
is just the symbol.

The same is with communion.

The Catholic Church believes that
the communion, actually, becomes the body

and blood of Jesus, but then the reformers
went on the other side

and said that the communion is just
the symbol.

But the Bible is very clear.
Communion is not just a symbol.

I am going to read some verses about
communion and talk a little about it here.

And then I want to put everything together,
what have been looking at until now.

We are going to look at Jesus who is
center in everything

and when we come together in small groups,

I want to introduce you what we call
IN, UP and OUT.

When we come together we have
IN to each other.

We have UP to God
and then we have OUT to other people.

And this is the simple model, simple ideas
that can help you

to come together with other people
and know what to do

and make disciples.

So, I think you will love it.
God bless you. I look forward to this.

Pioneer School

Hello and welcome to this lesson 28
on the Pioneer School.

Today we want to talk a little about
church and want to put the things together

we have been learning
through the whole Pioneer School

and especially through the last lessons.

And I am really excited about this
teaching

and some of the things you are going
to hear are new,

especially when I'll talk about
communion.

This is something I am going to talk more
more about today

and I haven't been talking a lot about
that before, in any other video,

and I am really excited to share that
with you

and some of the things you are going
to hear is something you've heard before.

But I want to, somehow, put it together
and give you some simple tools

so you, in your everyday life,
can start to meet.

Meet in homes, two, three, four, five,
ten people.

Meet out on the street, meet in cafes,
meet all over,

and understand how you do church,
what church is, what do you do.

This is the question many people ask.

"Yeah, now we have heard the teaching,
what about this...?"

What do we do when we come together?

And I hope that this teaching will help you
and give you some simple tools you can use.

I will start with praying.

God, I thank You for what You are doing
and thank You for everyone

who is seeing this video that You will
help me first to share this word

and help them to receive it.

Help us to be free from our church tradition,
our fear, our program, our control

and help us to be Your Body, Jesus.
Help us to be members of Your Body

and live the life You want us to live.
In the name of Jesus. Amen.

I want to start with just looking at the
foundation we are building on.

When we come together it's because
we love God and we love each other.

Everything in the Bible is built on love.

If you don't have love you have nothing.

And here we have the Great Commandment.

That is the commandment Jesus have
given us and everything is built on that.

That we love God with everything in us
and we love our neighbor as ourselves.

We need that. We need the love for God
and love for each other.

The closer we live with God, the more
love we have. Why?

Because the love is poured out in our
heart by the Holy Spirit.

It's about loving God
and loving our neighbor.

How do we then love our neighbor?

How do we love God?
How do we obey God?

The Great Commission:

Go out, make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them and teaching them

to obey everything He have commanded.
So, this is the foundation.

When we come together, we should love
God and we should love each other

and then the focus is also to go out
and make disciples of all nations

baptizing them and teaching them
to obey what Jesus have commanded.

Let's say like that.
How do we do that?

How do we go out and make disciples
of all nations?

And that is Luke chapter 10,
we have been looking at before,

where Jesus said: "The harvest is
plentiful, the workers are few.

Pray the lord of the harvest
to send out workers."

And then He continues: "Go and find
the person of peace, stay in their house,

eat and drink what they serve, heal
the sick and preach the gospel."

This is how we do it.

So, how do you make disciples in
your everyday life?

You understand what Jesus is saying
and you go out,

and you look and you'll find
that person of peace

and then you stay with them,
you eat and drink what they serve,

and then you heal the sick and
preach the gospel.

Yeah, but how? What do we then do
when we have found that person of peace?

What do we do when we sit with them
and have eaten and preached the gospel?

And these are some of the things
I will focus on here.

But these are some of the things
we have been looking at before

and then we have been looking that
the church is like the family

and how we are suppose to grow people,
not in numbers but from babies,

to young ones, to fathers. We need to
grow people in maturity.

So, these are some of the things
I've been speaking about in last lessons.

Have you not seen them, I recommend
you to go in and see them.

Today, in this lesson, I will try to focus
on the four things we read here

in Acts 2:42, and then I will try to
give you a simple model of how to do it.

The four things we read about the early
church. They devoted themselves to,

a) - first thing: apostles' teaching,
to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread

and to the prayer. We read about that
in Acts 2:42.

So, these were the four things:
the apostles' teaching,

the fellowship, the breaking of bread
and prayer.

And I think that is, somehow, a good
picture of what the early church did

when they came together.

They came together for the apostles'
teaching.

Remember, at that time they didn't
have the Bible.

The only testimony, Jesus have
died, He have went to Heaven,

the Holy Spirit was down here,
so the only people, or some of the people

who have been walking with Christ
and have heard His teaching

were the apostles. Now, this is written
down here in the gospels,

it's written down in the letters.
So here we have the apostles' teaching.

So, when we come together as
believers, we come together

with the focus on the Word of God,
the Bible, what do the Bible says.

And it's okay to read books.
It's okay to read other things,

but that should never be the focus.
The focus should be the Word,

what the Word is saying.

They also came together about
fellowship.

Fellowship is really important and we are
going to look more on that.

And breaking the bread. That is
the communion. And prayer.

The focus, when we come together,
the focus is JESUS.

Jesus is the center of everything.
He is the head, we are the body.

We are members of His body
and He is the head.

And Jesus is the center in everything
we are doing.

And I am going to come with a simple
model here called: "In, Up and Out",

where we are going to look at
the IN - the fellowship with each other,

the UP - the fellowship with God,

and the OUT - reaching out people
out in the world.

But Jesus is the center of everything
because - IN, that is to each other.

Jesus have put us together as a body
so we cannot be one body

without Jesus. Jesus is the center
in our fellowship.

UP to God. Jesus is the center again,
because how we can have the fellowship

with God without Jesus Christ?

And OUT to the world - Jesus is the one
who called us to go out.

So, Jesus is the center of everything.

The model here "In, Up and Out"
is just a simple tool you can do

when you start to meet people.

So, when you gather people
during the week,

when you meet in homes,
to have that "In, Up and Out",

when you are together,
it's not just for IN.

It's not just for having fellowship
with each other.

It's good to have fellowship, but you
also need to have fellowship with God.

But it's not enough to just come and be
together with each other

and have fellowship with God.
You also have to have a focus

on discipleship or reaching the world
and therefore "In, Up and Out"

is a simple tool you can use when you
start to meet people,

gather people during the week
and come together.

And I want to look at it and then
go deeper in some of it.

IN - That is the first thing.
IN - to each other.

Fellowship with each other is very,
very important. We need each other.

We cannot live this life alone.
We cannot live this life alone.

When I am saying, or we are saying:
You are the body of Christ,

the challenge with English is that
"you" can mean you - one person I talk to,

but if I am talking to many people,
it means you.

In Denmark we have two
different words for it.

But in English - "you".
But what is "you"?

"You" is not you as one person
because one person alone

is not the whole body of Christ.
One person alone is the member

of the whole Body of Christ.

And we cannot live this life alone.
We need each other.

And it's so important to have
fellowship with each other.

It's so important to come together.
Especially to build each other up

in the beginning, when satan is
coming, lies and fears and doubt

and all of this, that we are
connected to each other.

I want to say something about this
because how often do you meet?

In the early church we read that
people met daily. They met daily.

They met daily at the temple area,
at home, they broke the bread.

But it was only something they did
in Jerusalem in the beginning.

Other times we read that sometimes
they met one day a week.

And it was different from place to place.
And it's the same today.

Maybe you live in fellowship with
people around you

when you can come together daily.
Beautiful. Do that.

But other times, you can only,
because of work, and distance,

and other things, where you are right now,
can only come together one time a week.

So, there are no rules of how often
you should meet.

I just want to say that because
everyone will, when we talk about church,

people like: "Yeah, but how we do it?
Do we meet one time a week,

two times, three times...?"

Come together as much as you can.

And see how God is leading you.

But I want to talk about -
we are...

we are members of the Body.

And I want to read something here
from 1 Corinthians 12:

"Just as a body is one, but has many parts,
but form one body,

the same it is with Christ. We who were
baptized, we were baptized by one Spirit

to form one body." So, we are talking about
we have one Spirit to form one Body.

But we have different members.
The hand need the body.

The ears belong to the body.
And the eye cannot say:

I don't want to be eye anymore.
And the ear cannot say:

I don't want to be ear anymore.
So we have different functions.

And all in all, that makes us one body.

And I will say - when you come together,
care for each other.

Take time to understand that you are
different, but find out

what part of the body you belong
and then come together and talk.

Come together and say: How are you?
How have your week been like?

What is happening in your life?
What are you struggling with?

Are you doing good? And I think...
I know many bigger churches

it's so easy when things become bigger,
when you come to a church,

and you go and say: "Hi!" to some people,
and you go home without really

talking with people because it's
easier to disappear in a big crowd.

And therefore, I believe that the best
form for discipleship are small groups.

Jesus said: When two and three come
together I am in the midst of you.

And I encourage you to try to meet
two and three people during the week.

Sometimes meet more. And then
try to meet in smaller groups

of two and three people and then
start with the IN - to each other.

How are you? How are you?
Are you good? Are you not good?

Are you fighting with something?
And talk about what God have done

during the week. And that is the easy
model to do - you come together,

and what do you also do?
You eat.

If you can, try to do what Jesus is
saying: when you come into the house

- eat and drink. Try to eat together.
Share food together if you can,

because when you come together
and you eat something together,

this is the good way to relax.
You relax and then you talk.

You have fellowship with each other.
You talk over the food.

Maybe you can prepare the food.
And then, in the end of the food,

when you had like a "love feast",
how they did in the early church,

in the end of the food -
you break the bread.

You share communion.

And there, I will say, communion is a
good transition from

now you have been together,
you've been eating,

you've been caring about each other,
you've been talking about each other

how you are and then you share
communion and now you start

to focus on God, UP to God.

Communion is much more
than what we make it today.

I am going to say something that is
maybe going to challenge you

when we talk about communion
and it's something I haven't been

sharing before because it's something
new. It's working in me. I'm learning.

We are all on a journey. And there we
talk especially about the religious glasses.

Communion is for me a little like
baptism in water.

When I was a baby I got baptized
in the Lutheran Church as a baby.

And there were really wrong glasses
I got on.

And later I came to faith and I started
to take the glasses off

and I started to understand that the
baby baptism... that is wrong, that is wrong.

But what I did - I took everything I have
learned and threw it out,

and I went from one side of the road
to the other side of the road

and I thought that baptism was
just the symbol.

Baptism was not important.
It's just a symbol.

Because we don't want to look
like the Lutheran Church,

or the Catholic Church, who believes that
babies are saved through the water alone.

And what many do today is that because
of where they come from -

they throw everything out and they go
from side to another.

And that is what many reformers did
through the history.

That some people went from there
and say that baptism is just the symbol.

Baptism is Noah's symbol
and nothing more.

And it was what I have done.

But then I started to come into the road
again and start to take the glasses of

and I started to see what baptism was.

And it started with the Word of God
and I red that in the Word of God

that baptism is the freedom from sin.
And I started to preach freedom from sin.

And because I preached it and people
had faith, those who got baptized -

they started to: Wow!
I experience freedom from sin.

I feel so free. And the Word together
with that simple faith and action -

really was powerful.

And we started to preach more and
more clear what baptism was.

And the clearer we preached -
the stronger it became.

And we started to see demons
manifest before they come in the water.

We started to see people set free.
And now I have no doubt.

It's so clear and the glasses are off.
Baptism is not a symbol.

Baptism sets us free.
Baptism saves us from our sins.

You cannot live as a disciple of Jesus
Christ without being baptized in water.

The same is when it comes to communion.

Communion is the same thing.

Out here we have the Catholic Church
who took communion in

and made it the superstition.
Made it the mysticism.

Where they took the bread and put it
in a small box

and go around with the box,
and if that box is coming and touching

people over the head... They believed
that years ago and that was

the healing power in that. And there
are many stories that came in,

from the Catholic Church, when it comes to
the Eucharist, communion,

as is called. The story was that one time
they shared the communion

and a man had some bread in his teeth.
And he took it out and they put it

under a microscope and that bread,
what they believed,

they saw a heart beating. Why?
Because they believe in the Catholic Church

that the wine becomes physical,
becomes the blood of Jesus.

The bread physical becomes
the body of Jesus.

They believe that. And they actually
believe that the priest,

when he does his superstition
or his hocus-pocus,

because this is where the word
"hocus-pocus" comes from,

because they speak Latin and this
is where the word comes from.

When the priest did his hocus-pocus,
the wine becomes the blood,

the bread becomes the body,
physical, and in their mass

they crucify Christ every time.
The priest is crucifying Christ every time

because of that. And that is what the
Catholic Church have been preaching.

Then, through the Reformation,
through others, they saw that this is off.

This is superstition. This is mysticism.
That is off.

That is not what we should do,
but what have we done?

We have gone from one side to another -
choo...

and just say that communion is
just a symbol.

Now I am on a journey together with you,
hopefully,

and now I have come from here to
believe that communion is just a symbol

and I am moving more here in here,
to the middle of the road

and start to get my glasses off.
And I start to discover and see

that communion is as powerful
as baptism in water.

It's part of living as a disciple
of Jesus Christ.

And we need to understand it.
And there is healing in it,

there is freedom in it,
and there is so much in it

we need to rediscover.

And I am going to read some verse
from the Bible,

but I can also go in and quote,
if I want, the early church,

because everyone in the early church,
Justin Martyr and all other people

who were living at that time,
they all saw communion

as much more than we do it today.

They didn't believe, none of them believed

that communion, actually, became the body
of Christ and became physical

the blood of Jesus. And I also don't
believe that.

But there is a spiritual thing behind it.

Like Jesus in John 6 said:
"My words are spirit and life."

Jesus says His words are spirit and life.

The same way, communion has
a spiritual sense.

Communion is, also, spirit and life.
Communion is powerful.

But let's read and look at it.
And I am excited for this.

Okay, if we go to John 6 where Jesus
is talking about that He is

the bread of life.
John, 6:32-33:

“Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses
who has given you the bread from heaven,

but it is my Father who gives you the true
bread from heaven. For the bread of God

is the bread that comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world.”

And here He is talking about His life.
Jesus is talking about His body.

He talked about that Israelites
in Egypt they got manna from heaven

and they ate the manna. But
Jesus is now talking about the new bread

that have come down from heaven
and that is Him.

John, 6:48-56: "I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manna

in the wilderness, yet they died.
But here is the bread that comes down

from heaven, which anyone may eat
and not die.

I am the living bread that came down
from heaven. Whoever eats this bread

will live forever. This bread is my flesh,
which I will give for the life of the world.”

"Very truly I tell you, unless you eat
the flesh of the Son of Man

and drink his blood,
you have no life in you.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
has eternal life, and I will raise them up

at the last day. For my flesh is real
food and my blood is real drink.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my
blood remains in me, and I in them."

Wow! These are strong words
Jesus is saying.

And out of those words you can
almost get the idea

why the Catholics started to believe
that He actually became physical,

the blood of Jesus
and the body of Jesus.

And I am just reading what the Word
is saying.

This is communion He is talking
about here and it's so clear

and also, when He is talking about
communion in Matthew 26:26, He said:

"While they were eating, Jesus took bread,
and when he had given thanks,

he broke it and gave it to his disciples,
saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”

So, the body Jesus was talking about,
that will give life to you and me,

that was what He did in the communion.

He doesn't say: This becomes my body,
like in a way, like the Catholic Church

they take the thing and the priest does
some hocus-pocus,

where the word "hocus-pocus"
comes from and makes it the body

and blood of Jesus. This is not what
Jesus is saying.

He is saying: It is, already.
In a spiritual sense. This is.

Not in a physical sense.
But in a spiritual sense this is my body.

Matthew 26:27-28: "Then he took a cup,
and when he had given thanks,

he gave it to them, saying,
“Drink from it, all of you.

This is my blood of the covenant,
which is poured out for many

for the forgiveness of sins."

Strong words. I'm just reading
from the Bible.

If you then go to the
1 Corinthians 11:24:

"and when he had given thanks,
he broke it and said, “This is my body,

which is for you; do this
in remembrance of me.”

And if we look at "remembrance",
I think that is also a strong thing

in communion. We need to
remember what Jesus have done.

We need to remember the cross.
We need to keep that focus.

It's interesting how easy it is
to take things for granted.

Let's say you get a birthday gift.
A big, big gift.

And you are so happy for that gift.
You are so thankful

that you have got that amazing gift.

And first days you are thankful.
First weeks you are thankful.

But after some months or year,
you don't appreciate it anymore.

You take it for granted.
The same way, sadly,

we can do the same with Jesus.

Yeah, I'm forgiven. Yeah, He have
forgiven me. Oh, Jesus is living in me.

What does that mean?

And I think when you come together
and you break the bread,

you do it as a remembrance.
You think of it. You remember it.

You understand it again and again
and again.

This is what Jesus did for us.

And there is power in that.
And I think that is an important thing

for us, as believers, to always keep that
focus on Christ and remember the cross

and break the bread.
But he continues. 1 Cor. 11:25:

"In the same way, after supper he took
the cup, saying, “This cup is

the new covenant in my blood;
do this, whenever you drink it,

in remembrance of me.”
But then Paul continues saying:

"So then, whoever eats the bread
or drinks the cup of the Lord

in an unworthy manner will be guilty
of sinning against the body and

blood of the Lord." So, Paul is
actually saying that if you take communion

in a wrong way, you are sinning against
the body and the blood of the Lord Jesus.

And there he said: And therefore, who
ever come together and drink

should examine themselves, so they
will not be judged.

And he actually goes further and
I am not going to read it all.

He said that because people don't
examine themselves

and because the judgment is
coming to the body,

many people are sick
and are dying in the church.

Why would Paul say that when
you do this in a wrong way

you are sinning against the body
and the blood

and therefore many are sick
and dying, if that was just a symbol?

Because Paul did not see communion
as a symbol.

The early church did not see communion
as a symbol.

And it's time for us also to get our
glasses off

and understand what communion is.

It's not just a symbol.

What I have discovered is that I have
met people

where they understood what baptism
in water was,

who came down in water,
came up and like: I'm free. I'm free.

And they feel so free.
They feel so clean.

They are washed clean.
They are free.

And you just see it in their face.
You see the life in them.

You see the freedom in them.

But what I had, when I had
older Christians who were baptizing people

and they come up and say: I am so free.
The old Christians have looked at me

and say: Oh, I really would like to have that
experience again, to feel so free,

if I could just get baptized
one more time.

And then it hit me.

Baptism should only be one time,

but communion is every time we
come together.

There is freedom in it.

And what happens is that we,
in our life, when we walk with Christ,

people will fall, they will get dirty again.
They cannot get washed away again

and again and again. People will
struggle with sickness and other things.

And Jesus paid the price.
He died on the cross for our sins.

He died for our sickness.
He have paid the price.

He wants to forgive us.
He wants to heal us.

And yes, in faith, I believe we can
confess our sins to each other.

And there is forgiveness because God
is righteous to forgive us.

I believe that we can lay hands on
each other and pray in faith

and we can see healing. Why?
Because the Bible promise us so.

But I also believe there is an extra
strong tool, if we can use the word "tool",

and that is communion.
Because you come together

and you are remembering
what Jesus have done.

Now we can, like the woman who
touched Jesus and the power

went out from Him and healed her,
we cannot physical touch Jesus,

because Jesus is not walking here
on earth today,

but in remembrance of Him, spiritual -
Jesus, You died on the cross.

You got broken for us.
By Your wounds we are healed.

By Your blood we are forgiven.
And then when we in faith

take the bread... I believe we can
do it in faith and we can experience

healing through that. I believe
we can drink the blood...

or the wine, is not blood,
drink the wine, and experience in faith,

experience the spiritual thing
behind it that I am free.

I am cleansed. Yes, I have done
wrong things and I have been falling

but I am free again and I stand
as a new child in front of God.

And that is the power in communion.
And that have been lost.

Like baptism in water have been lost.

But the difference between baptism in
water and communion is that

baptism in water is only one time,
communion is every time we come together.

We can do it. As a remembrance
and as a spiritual thing when we in faith...

And that is the thing.
In faith.

Like the Catholic Church,
when they baptize babies,

they believe they believe there is
something holy with words.

Words are holy. The priest is holy.
The water is even holy.

And they believe that is what makes
baptism - baptism.

The same way they believe that
to communion is only the priest,

is the thing the priest does and is that
thing. But that is the mysticism.

We don't want that.
That is superstition. We don't want that.

It's not special water. We can baptize
people in a rainwater container.

We do that. We can baptize people in
the sea, in the ocean.

We can baptize people wherever
it is and everyone can baptize.

It's the faith we put into it
and not the magic water.

The same way with the communion.

It should be a love feast where you
come together and you eat

and then you take the bread
and then you eat it,

and you take the wine and you drink it

and you do that with faith,

expecting God to move and you will
experience the freedom.

I remember some years ago
we had a church gathering

where a witch came in, a woman
came in, a witch.

She didn't like us at all.
But she was in there.

She didn't have the problem
with the preaching.

She didn't have the problem
with the worship.

But when we started to take
communion,

she couldn't handle to be in the room
and she left the room.

We have started to see more and more
people experience freedom.

We have started to see more and more
people get healed.

Why? Because we have started to
preach it as it is.

If you just preach it as something
symbolic,

you will not experience
the power. That's off.

But when you know what it is -
it is powerful.

And therefore I want to say that
I think the next years

we will have more and more testimonies
of what communion really is.

And I encourage you to go deeper
into it, see it,

and then, when you come together,
start to do it, in faith,

in remembrance of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And there I also want to say that
communion should, as I see it,

only be for Christians, disciples,
not people who don't live with Christ.

And that is why you see in John 13
that Jesus...

He was together with all His 12 disciples.

Before He took communion, He dip
a bread and gave it to Judas

who was betraying Him and
Judas left.

When Judas have left the room
Jesus shared communion

with the rest of the eleven.

Why? Because I think that Jesus
saw the heart of Judas

and didn't want Judas to be part
of that love feast

and be part of that communion,
in that way.

So, it was a little about communion.
I can say more about that

and I want to do that later, but I think,
when you come together,

come together, share life with
each other, talk with each other,

then eat some food, if you can,
and then take some bread.

Break. How do you do it?
There is not like... Do it in faith.

What kind of bread it is?
I don't believe it matters.

What you drink?
I don't believe it matters.

It matters the faith. It matters to
understand in faith what it is.

Jesus, You died on the cross.
Your blood is given for me.

I take this in faith and I eat it. Thank
You. By Your wounds I am healed, Jesus.

I thank You for Your blood.
It is cleansing me.

And then experience that freedom
it is in it.

So, you come together, you share
communion,

and then you spend time where
you focus on God.

IN - to each other.
UP - to God.

Read the Word.
Read the Word.

I know people who have come together,
they have seen "The Pioneer School",

online "Pioneer School" I have done,
they have seen it during the week

and then they come together and
then they talk about "The Pioneer School".

I think that is good. I recommend that.
If you do that for a short time,

now we don't have a lot of lessons,
so you can do it for a short time,

because I believe something is more
important, and that is...

Just take the Word.

Just come together and read the Word.

Not verses, if you can. Not just sermons,
but why not just read the Word.

Read a chapter or two together.
Then read a chapter or two,

then talk about what you have just red.
What is it God is speaking to us about?

And then maybe, out of that chapter,
you take time to pray and you seek God.

And you say: God, what is it You are
speaking to me about?

What is it You are speaking us about,
today, as Your body?

And this is the simple way where you
don't have to have a preacher

to come together and meet with people
because you let the Word speak.

You come together and have fellowship
with each other.

You share communion and then you
focus on God

and then you read the Word,
and then you talk about the Word,

what is the Word saying to you.
What is God saying?

And there I will say. Maybe share,
let different people read every time.

So one read a half of the chapter,
one read another half of the chapter,

one read... You share reading the Word
and then you talk about it

and let other people talk,

so it's not always the same person
who talks all the time.

This is the good way to get the Word
inside.

And I know people who have used
this model "In, Up and Out".

What they have done also is that
during the week,

before you meet maybe the next week,
everyone will read a chapter or two

in the Bible, or three, or four, or a book,
and then they come together

and they've all red the same
during the week

and then the sit and talk about
what they have red.

This is the good way you can do it.

Again, there is no model, because
you read in the Bible,

when Paul came together often with
people, he spoke the whole night.

But this is the good way when you are
two and three who are meeting,

or four and five. Because if you are
ten, 15, 20 people,

you cannot have time to always hear
what everyone has to say.

So, IN - to each other,
fellowship with each other.

Eat, have fellowship, then you
break the bread. Power in it -

healing, freedom, love it.
Then you focus on God.

Take the Word - apostles' teaching,
you take the Word and you read the Word.

And you talk about the Word. What is
the Word saying to us?

How do we live this out? So the Word
does not just become a sermon

but it becomes practical.

And then, you then OUT - to others.
How do we now share

what we have heard with other
people out there in the world?

How do we obey Jesus in what
He is saying in Luke chapter 10?

Who do you know who is the person
of peace you want to reach

during the week? Who do you want
to share the gospel to?

Who do you want to pray for?
And then have fellowship

and talk about what you want to do,

how you want to reach out to other
people.

And then be responsible for
each other.

Where you maybe sit together
and talk about what do I want to do

during the week. And I think
the reaching out to others

is so important to keep the focus.

Love God, love your neighbor
and go out and make disciples.

It's so important to keep the focus.
Remember, you are missionaries

here on earth. No matter if you have
a full time job.

You are a missionary.

I actually got an idea a long time ago.

I came with a funny example.

Try to imagine.

You are in a church

and in that church

they have some missionaries
they have sent, for example,

to another country, to Africa,
let's say that.

And you, as a church, you are supporting
this family who are missionaries in Africa.

And that family, they share the newsletter,
they write the newsletter

and send home to your church
every month.

If you, as a church, are supporting
this family and you get the newsletter,

and this is what you read:

"Dear church. We are so thankful
for your support to us.

Things are going really good here
in Zambia.

James is happy in school and he
have started to play football

with other boys and is having a really
good time. He have started to play

matches every weekend. Rebecca,
our small little daughter,

she also likes playing with girls
and doing this and this.

My husband and me, we have just been
built a big pool

and we have started to go hunting,
and we like hunting

and my husband have just shot
a big, big animal, and so on."

And they just tell about what they
are doing with games and fun

and hunting and pool and barbecue
and all of that.

And then, of course, yes, we also
go to church two hours every Sunday.

Thank you church for supporting us.
Please send more money."

If you got a newsletter like this,
I think you will stop sending money

to that missionary couple. Why?
Because they are not missionaries.

They are just going to church.
They are living the old life, having fun

and going to church two hours
every Sunday.

You expect more from them.
Why? Because they are missionaries.

We are missionaries.
You are missionaries.

We are sent out here on earth in Christ's
place and everyone of us,

no matter if you have the
full time job or not,

everyone of us should be able
to write the newsletter every month.

If you don't have a church to send it to,

just write it and read it aloud to God.

Dear church, thank you. This last month
have been really challenging,

but we have been out sowing
the Word of God.

We have been reaching out.
We have come together,

we were praying and we have been
meeting in that house

and we have been going on the
street there,

we have been meeting in that home
and we are working with,

and we have baptized three people
and we have prayed for ten

who have got healed, and we are
working with them, them, them and them.

This is how our diary, our newsletter
should be,

no matter what country we are from.

If you have small groups when you
start to meet people,

two and thee people,
and come together, and then you meet.

You have time with each other.
You spend time with God

and then you talk about what do you
do to reach out,

who do you reach out to, who do you
want to reach out during the week.

And maybe you then talk about:
Hey, I have a friend here I want to

reach out to him next Monday.
Hey, I can join you.

Yeah, let's go together.
And then, during the week,

you end up going together
and fulfill the Word Jesus have given you.

This is what church could look like.

What you can do? You can also
do this in small groups of two and three,

and then there are other small groups
of two and three

and they come together and suddenly
you are ten and 15,

and then, of course, you do it
a little different.

Because, do you know what model
is for church?

There is no model.

There are principles.

It is important that we keep
to the apostles' teaching.

It is important that we keep
to the fellowship.

It is important that we break the bread.

It is important that we pray
for each other and pray to God

and hear His voice.
It is important that we love God.

It is important that we love
each other.

It is important that we go out
and make disciples.

But there is not one model
of how to do church.

Like there is not one model
of how to do family.

So, what I want to encourage you in,
is that what I've been trying to do

in the Pioneer School, the last 28 lessons,

is that I've been trying to help to get
those glasses off.

In the first lesson I talked about
the Catholic Church

and how we need to draw away
from that.

And with every lesson I tried to
give you a DNA,

give you a foundation
so you can get the right understanding

of who God is, what the gospel is,
what the command is Jesus have given,

what church is like, how you grow
people up from babies to spiritual giants,

how you see the five-fold ministry
and how you can meet together.

All of this is supposed to
take the glasses off

so you, instead of looking at models
- look at God,

look at people around you,
look at how effective you can reach out,

and what you will do and how you
do it will be different

from how your neighbor is doing it.

Because what do we have now?
We have a training center.

Why do we have this?
Because is effective.

This is the DNA.

And this is what is effective now.
Can everyone go and do it

exactly like us? No.
If I was another place

where I don't have a training center,
I will not do like this.

If I go to a new city where I know
no one - what will I start to do there?

I will start to pray and
find the person of peace.

When I find that person
I will work with that person

to reach the household.
Until I reach the household,

maybe I'll start to reach a few people,
then I will meet like this -

In, Up and Out. I will meet with them.
How are you?

How have your time been?
Are you struggling?

Let's pray for you. Let's help you.
Let's build you up.

Have communion. Share that.
Focus on God.

Then we take the Word of God,
we read it together,

we get the Word under the skin.
We read the Word together.

We help them to eat themselves.
From being baby, to young ones,

and eat themselves.

And then ask them: Okay, who can
we reach out?

Who do you have friend and family
we can reach during the week?

And then we go and do it.
And then it grows.

And when it grows up, maybe when
they start to reach more people,

they I say: what I've done with you
- you now do with them.

Now you start to meet with your two
or three friends during the week,

and what I have been doing with you,
you now do with them.

And then they meet with their friends
during the week,

and then maybe one time,
every second week or every month

we come together all of us
and have a big celebration.

This is what I will do.

But, it's, again,
different from place to place.

So, I hope you have the good time
with "The Pioneer School".

I hope you will go back and see
the lessons again,

because what I've heard from people
is that...

because we have been working like
trying to take the glasses off,

I heard from people, when they go back
and see all 28 lessons again,

that they get new things out of it,
because suddenly they see it more clear

because now the religious glasses
are off.

As I said last time, I wanted to end up
and this will maybe...

I thought that this will be the last, last
lesson on the Pioneer School,

because we want to start up
with "The Jesus Radio"

and we want to start something new.

So I said last time that this will be
the last one. But...

I actually have one more.

I have one more where I will
talk about finish the race

and I will do that very short.

So, next time I will talk about
how do you finish the race

and then we end up
"The Pioneer School".

See you next time.
God bless you. Bye-bye!