 
Hi my name is Norman Oetker, I'm a Protestant
Christian Missionary.
Today is the November
17 and
2014. I'm in Saint Charles Missouri,
in the United States. And
it is snowing outside. Its
23 degrees Fahrenheit, today a really early
winter.
I wanted to, I want to 
share some things that have 
been made real to me in my life, as
a Christian Missionary.
I've been at this work since 1974
and I've seen many many things
and, ah I just want to touch couple of them today, with you.
I guess
the surprising truth about
religion, about God, is about Jesus
and that how many people
or clueless about how to become a
Christian
their absolutely clueless.
I cannot tell you how many people
in the United States in Asia, that
I've talked with as a missionary,
asking a simple question, what is
salvation?
What does Atonement mean? What's repentance?
What does it mean to be a Christian? What Bible do you think is right?
To ask simple, simple questions. And I'm
telling you
most people, ninety-five percent
of people, are clueless as to the way
our salvation.
Of becoming a Christian. Those that have
some
sort of religious experience in their life
can only repeat
what they've heard someone else say to
them.
They are clueless about how to become a Christian.
And I know that,
and I know, that word clueless, is a hard
word but...
I'm telling I've talked to Buddhists and
Hindoos, they're clueless.
Catholics, absolutely clueless, of how to become a Christian.
We've got Baptists and Pentecostals,
and Methodists, Episcopalians, 
Presbyterians, Lutherans.
You talk with them, and they can
only repeat, just bits and pieces, of what they remembered from their
religious training, in some
denominational church. And, today, for the most part
being a Christian means go build somebody a house or
give them some can goods, or cloths or
take care of their pet or something. Or, do
some good work for the community.
And, for the most part, that
they remain clueless. As a  missionary
I can tell you, Selma and I, my wife, Selma
we, we don't have a lot of friends.
On one hand, we could have
many, many friends, if we wanted that type friendship.
The only thing,
that the people I
come across with, they
they all have this idea, and they tell me at
times,
Norm, you're a good guy, they'll say to me, but you know enough about this
Jesus and Salvation.
It's really sad,
and it's really discouraging at times too, I can tell you.
I can't tell you how many times I like
to walk away from this.
I've been on Facebook for several years
and,
Facebook you can see what people are
thinking about.
And, for the most part, the people I see
that I see on Facebook, including my friends, that I have acquaintance with.
They only present one side of their life.
And they think, that that's cool, I guess.
What their interested in, and what their
doing and
drinking, partying, of whatever it is
they like they put it on Facebook, and I
fail to read the way our salvation.
I have multitudes of people
daily that one to friend me in Facebook. 
And I look at their bio's, biographies 
on Facebook
and 99 percent of them don't have a thing about nothing.
I'm clueless as to
who they are, what they believe. I don't
friend somebody just to be friend so I can 
have a lot of friends
on my Facebook page. And its the same way Youtube. 
Becoming a Christian is not something at
you or I can do, we can't do it, there's
a part
that has to be there that most people
reject, and that's God's Grace.
Grace comes to us in many mysterious
different ways
Grace is God's power and strength and  love that comes to us.
It doesn't come to us to help us with a problem of how to solve problems: marriage
problem, children problem, drug problem,
alcolhol
problem, whatever the problem is in life,
bankruptcy, whatever businesses, church
problem its not for that.
God's Grace initial...
God's Grace, that comes, his Holy Spirit
power, comes into your life for one reason
to align you up.
to begin entrance,
and walking down that narrow straight
road,
to Salvation through Jesus Christ.
Its not to join a church.
I...
you'll be surprised I listened, and
see people.
they take their little child or little baby
and dedicated to Lord. And think
the child is safe, is born again. And take a child that has no reasoning ability of what they're really doing,
other has no reason to build you want to
or what's it about. But they repeat something 'cause
their adults tell them to repeat it.
Then if you asked the child, do you love Santa Claus, they'l say sure, I love
Santa Claus. You want to be a
Christian? Yes, I want to be a Christian.
Well, you know, there's no reasoning there yet.
God has a plan for everyone.
And there's only one way of Salvation, and that's
the gospel message. Christianity is
become something totally different.
Again...
I cannot tell you how many times
we've been in the 
Christian Protestant churches, and
it is a farce. Their no more
interested in going out on the street in
helping people, leading them to
Jesus Christ, than a man in the moon. Their
interested in their little group.  In their youth group and their
bake sales, or their clothing drives or
whatever.
To enrich, to make their congregation
bigger, so they can build a bigger
thing, whatever that bigger thing is.
And that's how they think
the church is all about. God's Grace is that Grace that leads you to that place where you
begin.
That you know your not in right
relationship with God.
It begins there, and it only last for a
period. Maybe for a weak or two weeks or
months, maybe?
And if you don't act on that Grace, 
it just.....
fades away. And all of a sudden,
you find yourself right back doing the
same things as before.
Not thinking about God, not thinking about
Jesus Christ, your family, your job, your
friends,
your ah... wherever it is.
Hunting, fishing, going shopping,
with going out with your friends. Good, decent, moral things. I'm not talking about immoral
things.
But it's the good, decent
moral people, that are going to go to hell.
Why?
They refuse that Grace.
They refused to
listen to that small still forces that's saying,
hey, I want you to look at this about Jesus Christ.
I want you to read something here in
this Bible, in this New Testament.
I want you to see, I want you
you to understand about Jesus.
I know a fella there in Reynosa Mexico,
I took him to a church one time.
And, there was a message of Salvation given.
And that young man heard that message, and boom! He was convicted.
and he wanted to become a Christian that
very night.
 
And you can probably guess what happened, he didn't become Christian.
And, as time went on forwarded,
he chose not to hear that anymore, in his life.
His life now, is in another direction.
I can't tell you how many times in Reynosa, that I sat there, in my English classes
that I had in my home, besides the
ones in the churches.
That the students would just begin to
cry,
when I shared about Jesus Christ as a missionary.
they would ask me about Thailand, and I would tell them stories.
They would just break down, and cry.
And, it wasn't because it was a sad story, but you recognized
the power of God was moving on their lives. 
Had knocked on their door many times, in their lives.
These are Mexicanos...
And yet, they close the door, they won't open.
They'll fall back onto superstitious
Catholic beliefs.
And, I can say that, because I was
raised a Roman Catholic.
get any incorrect it's a man-made
traditional thing it can do nothing for
you
noting it cannot draw you closer to God
you can go to all the rituals britain do
nothing about it
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you go to penny-kasich
church and you can do everything they
say
and it all useless
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begin work
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missionary I can tell you that
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become born-again Christians they can't
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they spoke in tongues once in a while
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and I'm not going to do anything else
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times I've said it had people come help
me and you should be a Congo
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with me to go to even go to jail
entire eight people were mediocre
missioners
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to go with me to go up into the
mountains Burmese refugee camps do your
duty to update everyone to go
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in your head you know you need your help
to you to him here alone
not some man that some priest or pastor
whoever you get dave is going to be
doing you in Jesus
I gotta get out of here just me hear
your
heated debate and I'm going to be doing
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