Matthew Stuckey here with an advanced sewing tip, and the advanced sewing tip today is
to have an accountability partner when it comes to sewing.
He said, what exactly do you mean by having an accountability partner?
Basically what I mean is, I think it's important to have somebody that every time
you get somebody saved or you have a good conversation and you go out sewing, you send
them a text message, you send them a Facebook message, you email them or give them a call
and let them know how it went and they do the exact same thing for you.
Now one thing that's really, really important though is, it's important to have somebody
that's around the same level of you in terms of being zealous, in terms of being a sole
winner.
And there's many reasons for this.
One, you might think, well I want to get someone who's a better sole winner than me
and that would motivate me to live for God more.
You know, that could be true, but if it's someone that's not close to your range,
I don't think it's going to work out and here's the reason why.
Let's say for example, Paul the Apostle, who was my sole winning partner.
Let's say I'm having a real good week and I've gotten about four people saved and I had
a visitor show up at church on Sunday, they got baptized and all of a sudden I'm telling
Paul and I give him a call saying, hey I got these people saved and then he says,
yeah that's great, you know I had four visitors that got baptized today at church
and I've had nine people saved this week and you know it can be very easy to get
kind of down a little bit because you're doing everything you can, you've done a great
job, you've gotten people saved and then the person that is your sole winning accountability
partner, they've done far more than you and it can kind of just kill your zeal a little
bit because you're just thinking, man how could I ever measure up.
So I think it's important to find someone that's at around your same level.
I mean I know it's not right for us to do, but it would be very easy to get jealous
of someone who's getting more people saved than you.
Now we shouldn't be like that, we should be happy, but in our own spirit, in our
own flesh, it's very easy for that to happen.
You know, one thing to keep in mind is this, if you can't keep up with a footman,
don't try to run with the horses.
And so try to find someone that, you know, maybe a little bit above your level,
but not way above your level.
You know, zeal can be increased during your lifetime.
So maybe you're not at this level yet, you can eventually reach that level.
But find someone who's near that level.
But you also don't want to have someone who's way below your level.
If it's someone who's way below your level, then you know, you might be sending them
text messages about people you got saved and they're never sending you text back or very rarely.
And what can end up happening is you feel like they're not happy for you,
which can kind of get you down.
And you also feel like, well, I can slack off a little bit because, you know,
the person that's my partner, he's not getting many people saved.
I'm still getting more people saved than him though.
And so it'd be very easy to kind of get down a little bit.
You want to get somebody who can kind of push you, not someone who's going to be,
I mean, think about if you're playing sports, if you're playing one-on-one basketball
with someone, and every single day you lose by 30 points, it's going to get you down.
Let's say you win every day by 30 points, then that's no fun either.
You want to have someone who's around your level that's going to challenge you.
Now, one thing also to keep in mind is this.
If you go to a church where lots of people are good soul winners,
this might not be as important for you because you might have people at church
that challenge you every day and you're hearing all these stories
about people getting saved.
I'm fortunate enough to go to a church where there are a lot of soul winners.
But I know there's a lot of people out there who don't really have many people
at their church that are very zealous about winning souls,
and they can often feel like they're the only one.
And so I think it's very important to find someone who's around your level.
We live in a day with the internet where there's a lot of different people out there
that are listening to various sermons.
Get in touch with them and find someone maybe that you talk to every once in a while,
and try to get a few people to be your challenge partner,
someone who might be around your level.
And then if it doesn't work out, you can try somebody else.
But try to find somebody out there that's going to help push you
because if you don't have somebody to push you, your zeal can very easily die down.
You know, I know there have been times when I got somebody saved.
I went out to do extra soul winning, or made it a point to try to find an Acts 8 situation
because one of my friends had been leading people to the Lord.
And I thought, you know, I don't want to get behind in this.
So I made an extra point to go out there and try to get somebody saved.
And I know other people have said that to me as well.
Like I messaged them and said, man, I did some extra soul winning
because you were getting a lot of people saved.
So find somebody that is around your level.
And that's the advanced soul winning tip here today.