Matthew Zucki here from Verity Baptist Church Manila and Verity Baptist Church Pampanga
giving you some Merry Christmas motivation and first of all I want to wish you a Merry
Christmas.
I want to thank all of the listeners who tune in and listen to the sermons and live stream
the sermons, donate to us, send a support, email us who have visited us and things such
that.
I want to wish all the people around the world that love the Lord and love God and are soul
winners.
I want to wish you a Merry Christmas but I also want to give you some motivation during
this holiday season.
During the Christmas season is a great great time to preach the gospel to your lost loved
ones and it's one of the most difficult things for us even as soul winners because we can
be the most bold people in the entire world to knock every door for hours and hours.
We can be bold just approaching people in parks and preaching the gospel but sometimes
our own own family we kind of give up hope very easily.
Understandably when we go door to door you know we knock a door and we don't spend two
hours there.
We we preach the gospel if they don't want to hear we give up.
With your family these are people that you see all the time.
You see them maybe a few times a year or once a year depending on how close you are to your
family.
And in this video I'm not suggesting you become best friends with your family and always hang
out with them.
But if you do see them on a semi regular basis whether it's just at holidays then you should
try to take the opportunity to preach the gospel to them.
And so I just want to encourage you during this Christmas season to try to preach the
gospel to your lost loved ones.
Give it a shot.
And even if they don't get saved it's not a failure.
At least you gave them a shot and at least they heard the word of God so maybe the gospel
can be inside of them the word of God can be inside of them and hopefully it can start
to be you know eventually be reaped one day where they would get saved.
And maybe they'll shut you down maybe they won't give you that chance but try to at least
give it a shot.
You know try to put out a few verses especially if you've never tried before.
Now one thing I want to mention to you because many of you out there probably have that motivation
but you're just not really afraid or not really you're not really sure how to talk to your
family.
And so one thing I'd like you to do is just have the courage to do that.
And so one thing I'd like you to do if you watch this video and you say Brother Stuckey
yeah I need to preach the gospel to my family I want to see him at Christmas or New Year's
but you know I don't know if I have the motivation or ability.
What I'd love for you to do is just send me a message or send me an email and say you
know I'm planning to preach the gospel to so and so can you please pray for me.
And what I promise you that I'll do is I will email you back and ask you how did that conversation
go.
I remember that I did this before with a few close friends of mine.
I messaged them and told them hey I'm going to be preaching the gospel to such and such
person.
And it was someone that I knew someone that I was related to someone I was close to but
I was afraid that I just wouldn't have the boldness.
And I just remember the main reason why I ended up preaching the gospel to them is because
I knew I had friends who were going to ask me how did that conversation go.
And that gave me the extra motivation because I didn't want to have to lie to my friends
and say hey you know you know I tried but I failed.
No and so I actually gave it a shot and I was able to preach the gospel.
You know sadly they did not get saved but at least I gave it a shot.
And so whether you email me and I'll follow up and ask you how it went or maybe you have
a close friend that maybe they're also going to be preaching the gospel to someone.
You know basically be partners in this regard in terms of the fact you know tell tell your
friend hey I'll pray for you to try to preach the gospel to your family and I'll ask you
how it went and can you do the same thing for me.
And maybe that can give you this extra motivation during this Christmas season to preach the
gospel.
I do know of a few examples where that really kind of helped make the difference where people
had the boldness to preach the gospel to a family or to a friend and a family member
or friend and they ended up getting saved.
And so I just want to give you that motivation this Merry Christmas season.
And I just also want to just wish you a Merry Christmas and thank you for everyone who supported
our ministry who's prayed for us who you know keeps in touch with us who visit us and you
know continue to pray for our ministry here and thank you and God bless.