Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

Barry Meguiar 00:03

Hi everybody. Back to ignite. I have a tool, a visual of my hand. I’ve never done this before. You know what this is? It’s a bellows, okay? B, E, L, L, O, W, S. You know what a bellows does? A friend of mine, Dave Donaldson, who is the co founder of city, serve, I think, the greatest compassion program in the world. I really do. They over a billion dollars worth of goods they delivered last year to hurting people from from North Carolina to the Ukraine and with no expense, because it’s done voluntary. It’s done through churches. And what I like best, it’s always done with the Word of God. So they’re not only feeding people and clothing people and getting people healthy and having furniture for their homes, but they’re getting people saved, and that’s pretty exciting. Just getting people clothed and fed on their way to hell doesn’t doesn’t excite me too much. They do. They have the whole package called City serve. Check them out. They’re worth funding. I do hugely. They actually started this ministry. They came up with the concept of he and his and his partner on on the patio of my home and on Powell island. So I’ve been invested from the beginning. Anyway, having said all that, Dave came for a city service meeting here a few days ago and stayed at my house. And he brought me this. He says, Barry, you know what that is? And I looked at it, I said, I think that’s a bellows. Okay, yeah, I said. I said, Why would you bring me a bellows? I mean, it looks real nice, pretty fancy. He says, because that’s what you are. I said, What do you mean? I’m a bellows. Am I a bag of wind or whatever? He said, No, Barry, what does a bellows do? I said, Well, I guess it starts a fire. You want to start the fire. It builds the fire. Think about it. When the when the fire is raging and it’s not attended to, it goes down until it finally becomes just embers. It’s barely alive. And you come back with the with the bellows, and you put air on it, and you build the build the embers into a raging fire again, he’s very that’s what you do. I like that concept. That’s exactly what we do. And and the sad part of it is that most Christians are down to embers now. The church is dead. The world’s alive, looking for God, and the church just sitting there dead and and down to embers and and complaining, and you listen to conversations, and you know what I’m talking about. You’re surrounded by Christians like this, because that’s where the church is today, and without a testimony, really. And I’m talking about people that are going to church and and giving their money, giving sacrificially Love the Lord on their way to heaven, but no joy. They missed out on. The point of it. We’re called to love God and love our neighbors and ourselves. That’s the whole point of being alive. Nothing else is required of us. And when we come alongside that, that Christian, when you come alongside those Christians, and you know a lot of them, and you take you’re the billows now, okay? And I disagree, and you start pumping air into them and getting them back to being excited about God, where he becomes a source of their joy and their happiness. And they become ignited. They start igniting the rest of America. We can win this battle. This is, this is a pretty cool thing. Okay, understand, this is not just for me. Europe. Billows. Take advantage of it, and let’s win this battle. Let’s ignite America with arrival one more time. God bless you. See you next time you.