We need somebody to bear witness of the light.
And look, if it's not gonna be us here in Metro Manila,
who's it gonna be?
Who are the soul winners out here in Metro Manila?
I mean, where are the churches in Metro Manila
that are preaching the gospel and going out
and telling people what they believe?
They don't exist.
I mean, there's very few churches that are saying,
and I'm not trying to say that to be arrogant.
I'm just being honest that outside of this church
in this area, what is there?
There's literally nothing.
That's the sad reality.
And that's the sad reality it is all around the world.
You know why it is?
Because of the fact that we're not people
to bear witness of the light.
That's the reason why.
I don't understand how so much of this world is unsaved.
It just shows that 99% of Christians don't care.
That's the reality.
Because in this room, we all go out soul winning.
We all go out and preach the gospel.
We've all won people to the Lord.
And it's like, if everybody was doing that,
then there'd be a lot of great churches around.
But everybody is not doing that.
We need somebody to bear witness of the light.
And look, that's a big burden upon our shoulders.
But if it's not gonna be us, who's it gonna be?
I remember that I used to drive an hour and a half,
an hour and 45 minutes to church for each of the services.
There was no traffic.
I just lived a long distance away.
And I remember I was living with my parents at the time,
and they were just kind of in a small town.
And this just kind of came over me
where I just thought that in this town,
literally, if I don't go soul winning,
everybody's gonna go to hell.
That's not saying, I mean,
who's preaching the gospel in that town?
There was no great church.
I had called a few churches
because I would have liked to,
every once in a while on a Wednesday night,
just go to a church that was nearby
and not have to drive a crazy distance.
And I called them up,
and then I'm just trying to find out what they're believing.
The pastor's arguing with me about repentance of sins
and things like that.
And I'm just thinking there's nothing in this town.
And so who's gonna preach the gospel in this town?
And the reality is that these 13 million people
in Metro Manila, outside of our church, there's not much.
Now, look, we have a decent sized church.
You know, on a Sunday morning,
obviously a lot of people can't make it.
Here's a long drive on a Wednesday night.
And we had a lot of soul winners on Sunday,
but that's not enough to reach Metro Manila.
That's why I mentioned the first point in our vision
is to get churches started.
Because look, we're not gonna be able to do it alone.
And an online ministry is not gonna be able to do it either.
We actually need to get real churches started
to hit those communities.
I mean, 13 million people in Metro Manila,
but look at how spread out those 13 million people are.
We need, we can easily have a dozen churches
amongst those 13 million.
We'd barely be scratching the surface.
There's so many unsaved people out there.
Look, we need to have great churches.
And the reason why we don't have great churches
in this world is because there was no one
to bear witness of the light.