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Feb. 10, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Secret to Sharing Your Faith with Barry Meguiar
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Ignite Your Life With Faith 00:08:26
Hey, everybody, Tana Charlie Kirk Show.
Ignite your life.
Share your faith.
Barry McGuire, amazing man, joins us to discuss his latest book, Ignite Your Life.
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Here we go.
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With us is Barry Maguire, author of a new book, Ignite Your Life.
Yes.
And you have a beautiful car there.
And I was bragging to our team.
You have bragging on your behalf.
You've built an unbelievable company.
Well, God has.
He really has.
You know, when I got out of college, I'm third generation running my business.
Okay.
But when I got out of college, we were doing $600,000 a year and we were buffing cards and body shops.
That was our business.
And I was an introvert.
Okay.
Are you still?
Not anymore because I started sharing my faith, got me out of that.
But I literally followed Karen around and we'd walk into rooms of people.
She doesn't, she never knows a stranger.
And I would walk, people say, well, you can share your faith because you're an extrovert.
No, actually, I was more than an introvert.
And they said, well, you can smile because you got that business.
You guys said, no, I actually had a very small business.
Karen gave me $5 a week.
I lived on $5 a week.
And we counted every penny.
But even then, we gave sacrificially of our money that we didn't have.
We gave of our time.
We volunteered for everything, but we didn't have joy.
And we kept saying, why do we not have joy?
God, where's this joy thing?
We were getting sniffing at each other.
We said, we're getting babysitters every night.
We're going out.
We're doing all this stuff for the church, for the Lord, like we're trying to earn our way to heaven.
You know, it's like, oh, look back now.
We're trying to be good enough that God will bless us, which is absurd, of course.
And so we started praying for joy.
And after a few weeks, we went to a luncheon at our church, 50th anniversary of the church, and the speaker was Herr Bellingwood.
Now, Her Bellingwood was the legal affairs secretary for Ronald Reagan, Governor Ronald Reagan.
Okay, I'm dating myself.
This is 1973.
Okay.
And I was assigned the seat right beside him, as God would have it.
And for an hour before he spoke, he talked nonstop, not about Reagan, never mentioned Reagan.
I never thought about Reagan.
He told me, he gave me an hour of stories of, and then I was in the store last night and he was crying and he was laughing and he was just crazy in love with God.
And I walked away and I'd never put joy together with sharing faith, sharing faith, somebody did, but it was just like it was agonizing.
And I didn't want to do it.
I did because I had to do it, you know.
And here he's having fun doing it.
It never occurred to me.
So I walked away and said, I will, what he has.
Cheers.
I said that.
And I told Karen, I said, we got to get busy and start changing our lives.
So we started sharing our faith.
You know, within about three or four weeks, we just know we have joy.
It's not happiness.
Happiness comes and goes.
You will be happy several times a day.
Lunch wasn't that good today, or it was really great.
Or I made this sale today.
Or I met somebody today, or whatever.
It comes and goes.
It's circumstantial.
Joy is not circumstantial.
Joy is just having the joy of the Lord.
It's an entirely different process.
And then you overcome everything.
So then we found this scripture in John 15:11.
You know, it's that last parable where Jesus used the fig tree as the example.
And he says, When you bear fruit, when you bear Christians, ah, therein you're my disciple.
And my joy will remain with you, and your joy will remain full.
Wow.
That's powerful.
And so that just encourages us all the more.
And so God inspired me to go retail.
And, you know, it's with one product.
And it was just a miracle how he taught me the retail business and the label we have, too much to go into, but just one miracle after another.
I realize he's actually helped me in my business.
But I'm sharing my faith so much, I think God wants you to lead me off into ministry.
So here's the watershed that I'll let you ask more questions, but it's pretty quite a moment.
And probably a lot of our viewers and listeners are knowing what I'm saying.
What do you want me to do with my life?
Right.
And I felt like he was leading me to full-time ministry.
And as much as I love shiny cars and I love my business, and I'm the third generation later, I said to God in tears, there's the most fervent prayer of my life.
I said, God, I just want to do what you want me to do.
You owe me.
I just want to do.
But you always have to tell me in an audible voice, if you want me to leave my business, I will.
And about 20 minutes later, a guy named Dave McNutt walked into my office.
He was announced.
The secretary brought him in, but I'd never spoken to him.
I knew him from the church.
He's my age, but I knew he grew up in the mission field.
He's a missionary kid.
What's he doing in my office?
And he walks, he says, Hi, Barris in the air.
I thought I'd stop by and see how you're doing.
And I made a snap decision.
He wasn't into shiny cars and cool cars.
So I started telling people I'm sharing stories about people I share my faith with.
And he says, God's given you a wonderful ministry here, hadn't he?
Whoa, I just waited after praying that prayer.
I said, why would you say that?
He said, well, you're reaching these people so easily.
And they're people a pastor couldn't reach, but you can easily as a businessman.
He gave me this line, 1976.
It's obvious that your business is your pulpit.
And that goes for everybody listening to us right now.
Where we are, that's our pulpit.
That's our basis.
I said, why?
I can't believe this.
I just prayed this fair not 20 minutes ago.
He said, well, that explains it.
I said, explains what?
He says, I just dropped missionaries off at Orange County Airport.
I was driving up Red Hill, the closest Main Street to my office, and God spoke to me and said, Go see Barry Maguire.
And he said, I argue with God all the way to your office saying, I don't know this guy.
I'm going to make a fool out of myself.
But God wouldn't let me go.
It's also a lesson of obedience.
If he'd not been obedient, I would have been a failure as a pastor.
I'm a businessman, you know.
But when he told me that, I realized that they don't overlap.
Everything is ministry.
All of us are in full-time ministry.
For us, there's nothing secular.
And I realized my business was secondary always.
And if I got turned down when I'm trying to sell my product, I'm still going to love on the buyer and minister to him.
And the idea is just move everybody every day closer to Jesus, whether it's the operator on the phone or the person sitting next to us in the waiting room or whatever.
Just find a way to just love on them and it ignites your life.
And of course, that's a story.
There's a great book out.
Did you hear it?
It's called Ignite Your Life.
It's Ignite Your Life.
And that's a story of 50 years of finding this truth of the scriptures that I often say when I'm speaking.
I'm 80 years old.
Who knew the scriptures actually work?
Every one of them, they're real.
Yes, they are.
And that's exciting.
And I've seen this.
I've seen this in person.
It's an amazing thing.
The first time I think I met you in person, I could be wrong, was at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel at some meeting that was.
It was a Trump.
Yeah.
It was a Trump hotel.
Okay.
It was the Trump deal.
Yeah.
And I saw you go up to waiters, the bellhops.
And I'll be, I was, I mean, you were just kind of challenging me.
I was like, wow, what kind of Christian am I?
I mean, this guy with just like youthful spry energy was, you're right.
It was the Trump lobby, was working the Trump lobby, and you weren't selling insurance.
No, and you weren't trying to get people's information for some sort of vitamin selling scheme.
Finding Relief In Pain 00:09:35
You were trying to get people to give their life to Jesus.
Yeah, and I tell you, sometimes I feel like a pinball machine where it's bouncing like this.
And sometimes there's a day when it's quiet.
But let me say something real quick.
I'm not a Jesus freak.
I don't offend anybody.
I don't want people running for you.
Oh, you get there, Samaria.
Oh, you're not Jesus.
Because you know what?
That's the last thing it is.
But when you just let people know, you just touch people, if nothing else, say, have a good day.
And you just touch them slightly and say, and you look them in the eye.
You don't say, God bless you.
You look them in the eye and say, and God bless you.
It takes a half a second.
You know, half the time, half the time, tears will come to their eyes.
Wow.
Tears will come to their eyes.
Everybody is looking for God.
Everybody's hurting and nobody cares.
Most people can't believe God loves them.
So we're his messenger.
We get to, you know, in the message, it says we carry this precious gift around in the clay pots of our ordinary lives.
And that's where the fun is.
And most Christians are not getting in on the fun.
And the fund ignites your life.
You have done this every day for 50 years.
Yeah.
50 years.
Well, technically, it was 1973.
So technically, I'm three years short of, so only 47.
I've only been really powerful.
I want to come to that 50th anniversary party though.
And not that it matters, but do you have any measurement of how many people you think?
No.
And they come.
I had a guy yesterday come up to me.
He gave me a whole lineage of how I prayed for him and what that prayer did for his life.
And it was 30 years ago.
I don't remember the conversation.
I didn't let him know that.
But people come up regularly.
When you do it enough times, they start coming back.
But you also do it out of obedience too.
The outcome is up to the Lord.
You know, it was obedience.
Now it's kind of selfish because the more you do it, the more fun it is.
And it's exhilarating.
It's like, wow, God just used me.
I pedaled car wax.
And you just, you just use me to change that life.
I mean, how cool is that?
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You said 80% of Christians are living in fear.
80% over 80% of Americans, Christian and non-Christian, are living in fear today.
And I believe that.
I mean, you see it face-to-face.
So why?
But I mean, why are they in fear?
Well, why not?
I mean, they're just the sky's falling everywhere.
You're like, it's so bizarre.
But, you know, the Bible tells us 365 times this word, this phrase is repeated, fear not.
One for every dude.
Yeah.
So it's a pretty strong message.
So obviously God's not happy with fear.
I hear too many pastors talking about how they're all worried and fear and whatever, but God got them out of it.
Like we endorse fear.
I fall into that trap too.
I'll be very honest.
And I shouldn't.
And we have to, we have to, yeah.
Well, when we're in fear, you know, in James 1, if we're in fear, we're wavering, right?
And James 1 makes it very clear.
You ask, I'll give it to you, but don't waver.
If you're waiver, you're like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and toss.
A double-minded man is unstable all his ways.
Let not that person expect to receive anything from me.
So, folks, if you're praying and worrying, and I would say about 80% of you listening to us right now are doing that, and you're wondering why your prayers aren't being answered, then that's a problem.
That explains it.
So, the question is, how do we get to unwavering faith?
And the byline on this book is defeat fear with effortless faith.
And I've not heard that message, but I've experienced that message.
Explain to me what that means.
You would not put that with sharing your faith.
Sharing your faith is a thing that's not even mentioned from the pulpit anymore.
Or if they mention it, they don't tell you how.
So you're left just to try to figure it out.
We tell you how on our website and whatever in this book.
But if you don't have faith, then if you're living in fear, you don't have faith, and then you can't share your faith.
So how do you get to the point where you have wholehearted faith?
It just has a waiver.
What do you mean by effortless faith?
Okay.
Can I give you a life story very quick?
Of course.
I have many of them.
I lost my daughter.
Karen and I lost our daughter four years ago.
And we had effortless faith.
I could go into that, but I'm just going to pick one story.
I was in the hospital in 2010.
I was dying.
Doctors gave up on me.
People were coming from all over the country to talk to me and get less rights.
David Wilkerson and his wife came from New York to be with me.
You know, the only two people who were not convinced I was dying was Carrot of me.
And I decided, you know what, God, if I'm going to die, I don't think I am, but if I am, I'm going to die trying to lead as many people to you as I can.
It became a game.
And everybody came through that door was another person.
I got to move closer to Jesus.
And when I got out of the hospital, I counted 23 different doctors and nurses that I'd had serious conversations in prayer with.
You know, there's always purpose in it.
God wants everything to be good.
I'll get to that in just a second.
But if he wants everything to be good, when the bad comes in your life, it's good.
It doesn't look like it's good, but it's good.
Mrs. D'Amato was dying in the hospital.
Godly lady, godly, godly, godly lady.
And she died with pain.
They couldn't stop the pain.
Three weeks in the hospital, and she died.
I went to a funeral mad.
I was mad.
I mean, God knows I was mad, stupid, but I was mad.
And then three nurses got up, three different nurses told the same story in their own words.
I didn't know God until I met Mrs. D'Amato.
And I couldn't believe that she'd have so much joy in the midst of her pain.
And I asked her how she did that.
And she told me about Jesus Christ.
And she led all three of those doses to the nurses to the Lord.
One said, the day she died, I was walking by the aisle, the hallway, and I heard her singing a hymn.
Do you think Mrs. D'Amato was bothered about that pain when she got to realize three more people came into heaven?
So here's how effortless faith works.
My family sold out to a vulture venture capitalist, okay?
And they had half the company I had, half the company.
And so they said, okay, we'll have three board members.
You have three board members.
And then we appoint an independent board member.
What I didn't know was they always bought off the independent board member.
That's what they did.
And so I found out after five years, they're throwing me out of my business the next day, the next morning, at a conference call board meeting.
This is my reputation, my life, 65 years old.
You're going to get the punchline after we come back.
I mean, I was done.
My testimony was going.
That's Barry McGuire, the Christian.
He lost its company.
And I had no fear.
I had effortless faith.
That does connect with a current news story in some ways about some board drama happening with Project Veritas.
That's unrelated, but related in some way.
I don't know if you're following the story or not.
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Barry finished the story.
Oh, this is a great story, but it's true.
Absolutely true.
Is God here makes it good?
It's a real story.
That's the added balance.
So, picture: you're 65 years old, okay?
You have a hundred-year-old business, your dad, your granddad, it's your whole life, and you found out tomorrow morning it's going to be ripped from you.
Yeah, well, you've lost your income, you've lost your reputation.
Losing Everything To Find God 00:15:28
I've lost my testimony.
That's Barry McGuire, the Christian.
He just lost his company, you know.
So, had I not had effortless faith, I would have probably walked the floor all night in this wet case.
But I didn't.
I just prayed, I prayed a very simple prayer.
And this was not the first time.
So, you know, it grows and you grow in confidence.
You get over one challenge, he gives you a bigger challenge.
You get over that, he'll give you a bigger challenge.
This one set me up so that I could be ready for when my daughter died.
Okay, that was the biggest challenge of all.
I break right half the tears of my life in about four weeks period, but I kept my joy.
You know, there's a difference.
So, I've lost everything.
It's come to happen the next morning.
So, at the end of the day, my normal prayer, I almost didn't pray at all, quite frankly.
And I finally did.
I said, God, I asked you for nothing.
I asked you for nothing.
I'm good.
I'm good because of two things.
You know, I live for your purpose, and I know you keep your word.
And so, I'll see you in the morning.
And that was my prayer.
And I went to sleep immediately, and I didn't stir.
God's my judge right now.
Strike me dead, God.
This is exactly what happened.
People say, No, that's impossible.
No, no, that's actually what I did.
I slept soundly.
This is effortless faith.
I got up the next morning fresh.
I went to my attorney's office to see how God was going to solve the problem.
And he did in about eight minutes.
The joint venture partner had all the cards, all the money, everything, and God reversed it like in eight minutes.
You got to read the book to find out.
But I just broke out laughing.
God, you are so good.
I could have worried all night.
Folks, whatever you're in, worry is overrated.
It doesn't help you at all.
And Jesus was very clear about that.
He says, faith, without faith, it's impossible to please God.
So, how do we get to that point of faith?
All right.
That's the question.
Barry, how do you do that?
Well, I said, you know, God, I live for your purpose and you keep your word because I think Romans 8, 28, quite frankly, is the least understood, maybe certainly one of the most well-known, but one of the least understood scriptures in the Bible.
Well, tell me where else in the Bible where he says, I promise you, Charlie, I promise you, Bob, Charon, whoever's out there, I promise everybody listening to me right now.
He's promised you to make everything in your life work together for good.
Oh, but there's two things.
If you do two things, shouldn't we be hearing sermons on what those two things are?
I would think we would, but I've never heard a sermon on that.
I've never, in all my years, I've never heard a sermon.
I just experienced it.
First off, he says, if you love thee, I've asked hundreds of Christians, quote the verse.
Almost none can quote the last part.
They get the loving God part, but it's not just loving God.
It is loving God with all heart, mind, so and so.
God just nothing's first love.
He owns us.
Being called to his purpose.
And called to his purpose is never mentioned in sermons that I've heard, but this is critically important.
He said, to those who love me, to those who are called according to my purpose, his purpose, there's no question about it.
His purpose is to seek and save the lost.
So when we live our lives to seek and save the lost, we live in the promise of Romans 8:28.
The perfect segue in transition.
So let's get into the nitty-gritty of it.
Let's get into the details.
You are teaching the master class.
It's the crash course.
It's evangelism 101.
All right.
Yeah.
So how do you share your faith?
What are the specifics?
First thing you do, you forget everything you've been told.
Okay.
I love that.
There's nothing.
I mean, I thank God for all evangelism programs and they will and millions who have brought to the Lord.
I don't want to put those down.
Sure.
But most of us will never go to an evangelism class.
Most of us will never have apologetics learning.
Most of us are like me.
I peddle car wax.
I don't know from nothing.
All I know from practical experience, I know God loves me.
I've never argued with anybody.
I've never been attacked by anybody.
They brush those who are persecuted.
I've never been persecuted.
You don't get persecuted when you tell people, you know, God loves you.
It's so simple.
Get that message across.
I stepped in an elevator a while back and there's four huge black guys with their gold chains.
They were scary dudes, you know.
And I'm sitting here, I'm a little white guy with white tie, you know.
And I said, oh, you got, what did I say?
What did I say?
And he brings you the words.
I just said, hey, guys, do you know God loves you?
And they think I hate them because they're black.
I don't.
I love them.
And I know God loves them.
I said, isn't that cool?
No, serious, seriously.
Do you know God loves you?
They're looking at me.
I said, he really does.
I'm a Christian.
I can tell you, God loves you.
In fact, he loves you as much as he's ever loved anybody.
Isn't that cool?
They're going, oh, wow.
My door opened, thankfully.
I said, have a nice night.
God bless you guys.
I didn't get him saved.
Did I move him closer to Jesus?
You better believe it.
You better read it.
I get in a taxi and I'm going a short distance, seven degrees outside.
I just got to go just a little ways down.
And I tell the guy, I'm just going to, I'm just going to go a short trial.
I'll give you a big tip.
I don't want a tip.
What?
I don't want a tip.
Excuse me, sir.
Why don't you want a tip?
I'm a bad person.
I don't deserve a tip.
Now, if you're not in this frame of mind, you're thinking, how did I get into God?
Had you put me in this car?
What am I doing?
I'm going to jump out the first set.
I said, see, the scriptures tell us don't prepare.
Mark 13, 11 says, don't prepare.
Luke 12, 12 says, the Holy Spirit will give you the words to say.
And so there's no pressure.
You can't prepare yourself for these conversations.
You don't know where they're going to go.
And I said, do you know God loves you?
Yeah, yeah, God loves you.
No, I said, excuse me, sir.
I got to tell you, I'm a Christian.
I know the Bible.
He loves you.
Dead quiet.
I said, do you know it gets better?
He loves you as much as he's ever loved anybody ever.
Dead quiet.
I said, you know, it gets even better.
Do you know he loves you as much as he loves his own son, Jesus Christ?
Dead quiet.
I get out of the car.
It's snowing.
Puts the window down.
You know, the salt in the window.
He's looking at it.
He didn't know what to say.
I said, God put me in this car because he wants you to know that he loves you and he wants you to spend eternity with him.
And then I give a really big tip.
I walked away.
Yes.
And you know what?
I walk away.
I look up, not every time, but most of the times, and I see, I picture Jesus smiling at me.
You know, we can grieve him, but we can give Jesus.
Do you know what you can give Jesus joy?
And it's the joy of the Lord that gives me strength.
It's not my joy.
I just gave him joy.
What does that do for me?
Like, talk about a jig.
I'm like, yes, thank you.
Thank you.
And that opportunity is all day long.
Every day, it's just distill that into kind of a bullet point format.
Yeah.
You don't over prepare.
No, don't prepare.
Don't prepare.
No prepare at all.
None.
You can't.
You can't.
Just prepare to love on people.
Okay.
And, you know, always be ready to give a clear presentation.
It's always being ready.
So I'm like an athlete.
We should all be that way where it's like, you see, an opening for the, you can drive to the movie.
You're going to go, you know, you're going to make that extra effort for the devil play.
So you're, it's like sport to, and it's a team sport.
But you have to have the posture or the willingness to engage.
That you should, that's not preparation, right?
It is not.
It is so automatic.
You don't have to work on it.
I used to do all the stuff and I was so frustrated.
I'd say, God, you know, I need your help.
I'm so stupid.
You know, Jerry Root wrote this wonderful book, The Sacrament of Evangelism.
He says, you know, God is already sovereignly working with everybody you come up to and meet.
He's already there.
And when you come in, you're a physical manifestation of what God's already doing to that person, whether you see it or not.
It's a sacred moment.
Do you realize this?
Catch this thought.
I bounce it off a lot of theologians.
So absolutely true.
When God loves us, he's salvationing us.
Okay?
The entirety of his love is about salvationing us and bringing us to heaven.
You follow that.
That's pretty interesting.
Here's the big part.
This is a life change.
This is a game changer.
Do you know when we're loving other people, we're salvationing other people?
It's not about, hey, I love you, man.
No, no, no.
This is every conversation is a sacred conversation.
Every single one, every waitress, every valet, every person on the street, everybody's lost.
Everybody's lost.
And you get the nudge.
And you know, oh, I'm too busy.
I'll be embarrassed.
You know, you have all these excuses.
When you fall in the nudge, you live in the fog.
You live in the favor of God.
But if I were to say on the one or two, three-point checklist, when you have the nudge, you must act on it.
Yeah.
I say, follow the nudge, live in the fog.
Follow the nudge.
We know what everybody listens to us right now knows the nudge.
I should call.
They just got bad news.
They got cancer.
But I don't know what to tell them.
You don't have to.
Just call them and allow the Holy Spirit.
And when he does, he brings the remembrance scriptures you haven't thought of for years.
It's the most amazing.
I just fed a car walks.
I know different everybody listening to us right now.
I'm not you.
I'm not a pastor.
I've not been to a seminary.
This is just for those of us who are laymen.
How can we be used by God?
And he wants to use us every moment of every day.
And when we do that, we're off the bench and into the game.
And guess what?
I'm digging because I need more information to answer the questions.
And I'm praying for the people I was with today and praying for the people I'm going to be with tomorrow.
And everything works.
That's why it's the great commission.
This is the one thing he's mandated us to do for this reason.
This is great.
Isaiah 43, 10.
He says, actually, why?
Why?
Why is he pushing us?
Why is it the Great Commission, the most important thing we can do?
And why do we not want to do it?
Satan doesn't want us to do it because he knows.
And he says in Isaiah 43, 10, I appoint you as my witness so that you will believe.
Not that they will believe, so that you will believe.
It doesn't say believe more.
Because the intimacy with God, folks, the intimacy with God we have when we just go out and we just want love on people and the Holy Spirit speaks through us and confirms quickly to them your love is real.
And they're looking for love.
And within three, four minutes, they open up and they tell you things they wouldn't tell their best friends.
And you, oh my goodness, and they all come to scripture.
Where did that come from?
And you get another scripture.
And all of a sudden, it's coming at you.
You're just like, and you pray a cryptic prayer.
It doesn't matter.
God will speak through you, even through your prayers.
And you see a life change in front of you.
I did that.
You do that.
And when you do that, you live in joy.
It's effortless face.
Then when bad stuff happens to you, you laugh because you're living in the promise of Romans 8, 28.
I promise you, I'll make everything work together for good.
Even when you're being thrown out of your business, even when your daughter dies, even when they tell you in the hospital, you're dying.
I got a whole lot more stories than that.
It's not that I've just, oh, I've just, why isn't Barry?
Why shouldn't Barry smile?
He's up there.
He's got this nice business.
He's got a beautiful wife, cards, you know, of course.
If I had that, I'd be smiling too.
No, I've been through hell and back.
And I found that when you do that, every one of those experiences brings us closer to him and confirms his faithfulness.
And I thank God for every bad thing Karen and I both do, every bad thing that's happened in our lives, because that's where we get our growth spurts.
And I think that's what he's doing with America right now.
He's bringing it on.
He's bringing the pressure on.
And it's not only word you go, God.
No, God's allowing Satan to do this for this purpose.
Do you know that 40%, this Pew just reported this, 40% of Americans, not Christians, 40% of Americans now believe we're in the last days.
Wow.
Do you think there might be, might be a little more open to God if they think we're in the last days?
And I'm finding now it's never been easier.
80% of the church are now looking for somebody to tell them about God.
And we get to do that.
We get to do that every moment.
I mean, it's just, I mean, we're in full-time ministry.
Everything we do and say is moving everybody watching us closer, further away from God all day long.
The book is ignite your life.
It will change your life.
It will.
Barry, we have five minutes.
I want to just say the floor is yours.
Well, you know, we're called to be salt and light, right?
We're called to be salt and light.
Well, what does that mean?
There's one characteristic that salt and light both share, and that is they both change their environment.
So, folks, the question is, are you sharing?
Are you making a difference in your, are you changing your environment or is your environment changing you?
We could ask an easy question to answer.
Is the church changing our environment?
Is the environment changing our church?
Overwhelming.
Yeah, that's really smart.
The thing is, 100 years from now, it's not going to matter how many bottles of car wax I sold.
I love my business.
I mean, I'm a car guy, man.
I'm all in, you know, and you're not at it.
I love that Barrett Jackson show.
Oh, everywhere.
Yeah, we love Barrett Jackson.
But, you know, and I love good food.
I was forward to La Polish.
I mean, all of it.
The fact of the matter is, the only thing that's going to matter, it's going to go away.
I love it.
We hold it lightly, you know, because the only thing that's going to matter 100 years from now is how many people will be in heaven because of your influence.
That's a heavy question.
And we're running out of time.
I mean, sirupture may not happen for years.
But if it did happen tomorrow.
It could happen in four minutes.
Yeah.
The day and the hours.
And if it did, how many people under your influence would be lost because you didn't take the time to share with them.
So we have that responsibility and that opportunity.
More importantly, when we do it, God just lights your life.
Do you want to have the time of your life for the rest of your life?
Just do what he's told us to do.
It's so simple.
And he didn't make it the great commission.
When you do that, God just blesses you and directs your steps and makes everything your life.
So your challenge right now is for every believer listening.
Yes.
Do what?
Yes.
Yes.
Move everybody every day closer to Jesus.
Our website, ignitedamerica.com, gives you all kinds of testimonies.
And there's quiet and they're old and they're young and they're Hispanic and whatever.
But I found people all stripes doing the same thing I am.
And he didn't say go into the role, you who have a special personality or training or what he said, go.
And he didn't say go be a good person or read your Bible or pray.
He said, go and tell people about me.
That's the call in all of our lives.
What we didn't know is when we do that, it ignites our life and takes all the fear.
Imagine having every day with no fear, laughing, no matter.
The worse it gets, the closer we are to Jesus, folks.
And every day gets better.
It doesn't matter.
Who knows?
I mean, bad things are going on.
It just says, when you see these things begin to happen, lift up and rejoice.
Your redemption draws die.
And don't just celebrate that.
But our time on earth is time enough to find out who he is and then help God get as many people in as we possibly can until we breathe our last breath.
And we do that.
When you do that, it'll ignites your life.
So now, Barry, I have a second question for the non-believers listening.
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Oh, yeah.
Boy, boy.
If you're a non-believer, you need, you need to hold up that book just right quick.
I don't make any money off this book.
This is for pure ministry.
When you read this book, this book is a salvation book.
Ignite your life.
And it will tell you how God actually intervenes in your life.
And it's not some promise that you hope will happen someday.
It'll happen right now.
And God will come into you and change your life and take your fear away.
And you realize God really is real.
He really is.
And he loves you as much as he's ever loved anybody ever.
He loves you as much as his own son, Jesus Christ.
He wants you to spend eternity with him.
And he doesn't care what you did.
You can't get away from God's love.
He wants to bless you, bring you to him.
But more than that, he wants to bless people through you.
And when you do that, you not only know God, you have intimacy with God, and it ignites your life.
And you will have the time of your life for the rest of your life.
I promise.
I guarantee.
More importantly, God promises.
That's his word in there.
And so for people that are saying, you know, I'm not sure if I want to take that step, nothing could be more important than, you know, the date with eternity that you have.
Well, the days, it's a point of demand.
I mean, it's coming.
And if you look at, I mean, we don't get on it, but the World Economic Forum and all the stuff that's...
Just listen to Jack Hibbs for people.
Yeah, just listen to Jack Hibbs for Pastor.
So not my thing.
If I do that, it's my thing either, except I know that we are getting closer.
No, I agree.
I'm just saying the specifics.
That's a Jack Hibbs special.
That is.
That is.
But the closer we get, the closer we may be getting, the more important it is.
And think how many people be lost.
You don't want them lost.
I love Dennis Prager.
Obviously, he's a religious Jew, but he says something that's so true that applies.
He said, nothing is worse than unhappy Christians that are trying or unjoyful Christians that are trying to get people to become Christians.
Oh, Jesus.
And Barry, it's so obvious you're full of joy.
And that's really your faith is clear and evident.
And it is ignite your life, defeat fear with effortless faith by Barry McGuire.
It is terrific.
It's very readable, has QR codes throughout.
QR codes throughout it.
So I speak to 26 times.
It's 26 chapters.
Of course, it's available on Amazon and all, you know, all the places we're going by books right now.
It's available now.
I'm actually an author.
Guess what?
I'm a pedal of CarWax, and I can say I'm an author.
Golly gee.
And this is going to impact a lot of people.
Everybody, share your faith.
The most important thing you can do.
Barry, God bless you.
And I'll see you guys live from Florida tomorrow.
God bless you.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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