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Pastors As Centers of Refuge
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| Absolutely. | |
| Let me just say this. | |
| Churches, whenever this stuff begins to happen, are going to be filled with people looking for answers. | |
| And pastors need to become aware that they're supposed to be the centers of refuge. | |
| And pastors need to wake up. | |
| In fact, I really am asking pastors to be able to become centers of refuge during crisis. | |
| They should also have clothing, food. | |
| They should have these. | |
| In fact, what you have here with our $2,500, if the churches would order that, they would be able to then service the people that would be coming to them. | |
| Because after 9-1-1, that's exactly what happened. | |
| People flocked to churches. | |
| It was okay to talk about God. | |
| And as people begin to see these fearful things happen, they will turn to God. | |
| In fact, God brings judgment not to destroy people, but to bring them back to himself. | |
| It's because he loves them enough. | |
| God's called you, Dr. Williams, to warn the churches. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| And I'm trying to warn the whole body of Christ, but I'm so upset that I can't get the leaders, the shepherds, to get on board. | |
| But we're seeing it starting to happen, but it could be late. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| In fact, one of the things I have in my book is a chapter on transformers. | |
| What does that mean? | |
| It sounds like something out of a Star Wars or something. | |
| Right. | |
| Well, actually, where that term came from, but it also was to be a transformer within your church. | |
| I'm finding that there are people within our churches that are catching the vision. | |
| Yes, and they're here right now. | |
| Yes, they're catching the vision that something needs to be done. | |
| And then sometimes their pastors, well, one, they may agree a little bit, but they don't really have the passion for it. | |
| And I really felt even as I was writing that particular chapter on transformers, I said, are you called by God to be a transformer to make a difference? | |
| Is that what God has called you to do? | |
| And that's something to which I really am challenging people to become those transformers. | |
| And I really felt as if God was speaking through that particular chapter. | |
| If you feel like you're supposed to do it as a church, you go to your pastor and you say, I have this burden to get our church ready. | |
| And then you can begin pulling together other people. | |
| Sometimes you'll look at doctors. | |
| Sometimes you'll look at nurses and other EMTs, other people like that to do this calling together. | |
| I think it's going to be many unsung heroes. | |
| It's going to be many people that don't have any medical background, any emergency preparedness background, but who have a passion. | |
| Because if you're called of God, I say this, God doesn't just call the qualified, he qualifies the called. | |
| And if you are called of God, he will qualify you. | |
| He will equip you. | |
| And that's exactly what I'm asking transformers within churches to take the leadership because pastors are overwhelmed. | |
| They're too busy. | |
| Their staff is overloaded. | |
| They can't do it. | |
| But if they will, you have to get the agreement of your pastor to be able to do it in the church. | |
| But the church needs to identify who are the elderly, who are the needy people, who are the handicapped, who are the single-parent families, who are the people that don't have transportation, and identify them so that when disasters happen, the church can become the church and be the true church. | |
| I had this one story of this one young man. | |
| He told the story about his brother. | |
| They came across this man that was a drunk in the alleyway in one of the inner cities. | |
| And his brother picked the man up. | |
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Transformers in Neighborhoods
00:00:57
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| The man had been vomiting. | |
| He smelled bad. | |
| He was in old clothes. | |
| And the brother watched him, his brother help him. | |
| The man took him into a house, into a place where they would take care of the homeless, and he made sure he was taken care of. | |
| And the man looked up at his brother and he said, Are you Jesus? | |
| Are you Jesus? | |
| Because you see, the only Jesus that many people are going to see is you and me. | |
| That's right. | |
| That's it. | |
| And so people have to see us. | |
| And so we need to become those transformers and start. | |
| And also in our neighborhoods, that's one of the things I bring out in the book is about becoming a neighborhood facilitator, bringing your neighbors together and being able to use those as opportunities to share Jesus Christ. | |
| I dare say that as we begin to see these difficult things happen on this earth, that neighborhoods are going to come together. | |
| And you will have the answers for them because they'll say, what's happening? | |
| What's going on? | |
| But we as believers can then share our faith and bring people to Jesus Christ even in our own neighborhoods. | |