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Ep. 277 - How to Be a Spiritually Effective Neighbor · The Living Waters Podcast

• 1:04
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm reading a book where the author was talking about impact in your neighborhood.
• 1:09
  Emeal Zwayne: He was talking about how they lived in a neighborhood where all the backyard, it was like in a circle around a lake and all the sliding glass doors were backed up to the lake so everyone could look into everyone else's house in the evenings as they're doing stuff.
• 1:24
  Emeal Zwayne: Hard to commit murder, no kidding.
• 1:26
  Emeal Zwayne: But he talked about how one neighbor was walking by and they just came up to him.
• 1:34
  Emeal Zwayne: They said you know what I just got to tell you when I see you and your family every day, because the point he was making was that his family does a lot of nothing.
• 1:43
  Emeal Zwayne: That was what he said.
• 1:44
  Emeal Zwayne: We do a lot of nothing, which means they just hang out, they play games, they worship together, they read the word, they walk, they play outside.
• 1:52
  Emeal Zwayne: See them in each other's pajamas yeah, yeah, shorty pajamas.
• 1:57
  Emeal Zwayne: So anyway, so he goes.
• 2:01
  Emeal Zwayne: He said the neighbor comes up to him and he said you know what I just got to tell you?
• 2:04
  Emeal Zwayne: When I see you outside with your family all the time, I just got to tell you, when I see you outside with your family all the time, which you are doing, what you guys do, I don't know what it is.
• 2:14
  Emeal Zwayne: This is one of those easy moments.
• 2:18
  Ray Comfort: But, it makes me think of God.
• 2:20
  Emeal Zwayne: It makes me think of God.
• 2:21
  Emeal Zwayne: He says I don't know why that's awesome.
• 2:24
  Ray Comfort: Did he weep when he said that, or was you weeping when you were thinking of thinking of that?
• 2:27
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm replaying it no, but it just hit me.
• 2:31
  Emeal Zwayne: It makes me think of God and guys.
• 2:43
  Emeal Zwayne: We can't underestimate how our lives, genuinely lived for the Lord in our neighborhood, can have a massive spiritual impact.
• 2:49
  Emeal Zwayne: Name this event Shlabungzu Balafanfifi the Olympics Shrabamba Ulu Palalabamba.
• 3:00
  Oscar Navarro: Palalabamba.
• 3:02
  Emeal Zwayne: Irbatunti Ilitisango Shlavazizi.
• 3:05
  Emeal Zwayne: Wow, Come on guys, Come on guys, Come on guys.
• 3:10
  Ray Comfort: The Idiots Convention.
• 3:12
  Emeal Zwayne: Graduation ceremonies.
• 3:15
  Oscar Navarro: How were?
• 3:16
  Emeal Zwayne: we supposed to get that from that Oscar names and clapping Shabloomsy was a name.
• 3:23
  Ray Comfort: That was so confusing.
• 3:25
  Emeal Zwayne: Let me tell you there were names much worse than that at this last graduation ceremony.
• 3:28
  Ray Comfort: I really enjoyed the graduation ceremony I went to.
• 3:32
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, well, I went to my son Luke's graduation from college and someone has to.
• 3:40
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean this would be like you know, I don't know, discovering like the law of gravity, or discovering what I mean.
• 3:48
  Emeal Zwayne: This would be like, yeah, like the Internet being discovered, someone what I mean.
• 3:50
  Emeal Zwayne: This would be like, yeah, like the internet being discovered.
• 3:51
  Emeal Zwayne: Someone has to figure out a way to relieve people of the torment of sitting through like a 10 billion names yeah, right, you take your laptop and you do editing would.
• 4:04
  Emeal Zwayne: I was wondering, ray what were you?
• 4:06
  Emeal Zwayne: doing at the last graduation ceremony you were at Editing videos.
• 4:09
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, down the back seat, yeah, and it made it bearable.
• 4:14
  Emeal Zwayne: I really enjoyed the whole thing because my mind was occupied and I had my spy, who took a picture of Ray in a graduation ceremony, editing on his computer.
• 4:22
  Mark Spence: Well, no one knew, oh, no one knew.
• 4:23
  Mark Spence: It's right down the back.
• 4:24
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, no one knew, especially since you had your ear pieces in with the strand going down.
• 4:28
  Ray Comfort: It was one ear piece.
• 4:29
  Ray Comfort: They probably thought I was deaf.
• 4:31
  Mark Spence: Oh, just one.
• 4:31
  Mark Spence: Ray officiated a wedding and he was doing the same thing, just editing on his laptop.
• 4:36
  Ray Comfort: Do you take?
• 4:37
  Ray Comfort: Hang on a second.
• 4:38
  Ray Comfort: Do you take this?
• 4:40
  Emeal Zwayne: hang on as the couple's taking communion.
• 4:43
  Emeal Zwayne: He pulls it out as they're trying to light the candle.
• 4:45
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, no, as they're trying to light the candle, yeah, oh, no one asks me yeah, so it's torturous.
• 4:53
  Oscar Navarro: Sidebar Long time listener who has awkward names.
• 4:57
  Mark Spence: Would you?
• 4:57
  Oscar Navarro: write us and explain to us how much pain and suffering you experience when EZ makes fun of you.
• 5:05
  Emeal Zwayne: And maybe he'll pay for your therapy.
• 5:06
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm sure there's someone out there named Dwalabanga Balazansusu Shlafitsi.
• 5:12
  Oscar Navarro: Here comes the emails.
• 5:16
  Emeal Zwayne: Seriously, though, guys, you must hate graduation ceremonies for the most part.
• 5:20
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm talking about when the names start going.
• 5:22
  Emeal Zwayne: We sat there for probably 45 minutes, and, of course, Because your son's last name is Zwayne.
• 5:28
  Mark Spence: Oh, that's it.
• 5:30
  Mark Spence: Jonathan's name was.
• 5:31
  Ray Comfort: Comfort, we'll throw up the front.
• 5:33
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, right, yeah, I can't remember if they did them in order of the last names or not.
• 5:39
  Emeal Zwayne: Whatever, in the final analysis, you end up sitting there because you're waiting for your graduates.
• 5:43
  Emeal Zwayne: You're going to go see them, just name after name after name.
• 5:49
  Mark Spence: Like going to go see them, just name after name after name, like there's got to be a solution.
• 5:52
  Mark Spence: Is there one mark?
• 5:52
  Mark Spence: I don't know, but I did see a viral video a couple weeks ago about a graduation where this person was absolutely destroying every single person's name, like john smith was like.
• 6:03
  Mark Spence: It was so bad, I think I saw that.
• 6:07
  Ray Comfort: I think.
• 6:07
  Ray Comfort: I saw that yeah.
• 6:08
  Emeal Zwayne: That hurt.
• 6:09
  Emeal Zwayne: That makes me happy, so bad.
• 6:10
  Emeal Zwayne: No, what Cal State, fullerton, where Luke graduated, is.
• 6:14
  Emeal Zwayne: They pre-recorded the names and you can tell, and they had like a QR thing system with their thing so it like put them in the order.
• 6:22
  Ray Comfort: You know what the problem is.
• 6:23
  Ray Comfort: You're getting used to double speed.
• 6:29
  Oscar Navarro: Oh I think.
• 6:29
  Ray Comfort: I think, yeah, Everyone's just running through it.
• 6:30
  Ray Comfort: I do everything double speed when I check videos.
• 6:32
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, I mean seriously, why even go?
• 6:33
  Emeal Zwayne: Just record?
• 6:34
  Emeal Zwayne: Record your graduate going on stage with their name and then everyone plays it at home.
• 6:39
  Emeal Zwayne: It's three seconds.
• 6:40
  Emeal Zwayne: You celebrate now and you're done.
• 6:42
  Oscar Navarro: I will say our kids, because because one of our kids is in choir and the other one is in band and once my daughter's choir song is done, I'm out of there, You're done.
• 6:52
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm not gonna wait two hours to watch your kids sing.
• 6:54
  Emeal Zwayne: Well, the thing is again, you're gonna wait for your graduate to meet them afterwards and take pictures, but anyway, it's torment and torture.
• 7:01
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, are there certain events that you guys really love going to, that are hard for you, that you guys really loathe going to that are hard for you All of them.
• 7:09
  Oscar Navarro: I was going to say, let's just take care of that.
• 7:11
  Emeal Zwayne: Meetings, yeah or places.
• 7:13
  Ray Comfort: Meetings in general.
• 7:14
  Emeal Zwayne: Like DMV, oh, dmv.
• 7:16
  Ray Comfort: The sloth.
• 7:17
  Oscar Navarro: Hometown buffet.
• 7:20
  Mark Spence: The DMV of restaurants Disneyland that was good.
• 7:24
  Mark Spence: Really, mark, yeah, I can't do Disneyland it's so crowded.
• 7:27
  Mark Spence: I love amusement.
• 7:30
  Mark Spence: It really I can't do disneyland.
• 7:30
  Mark Spence: Oh, it's so crowded, it's like amusement parks.
• 7:31
  Mark Spence: It's like costco started having rides.
• 7:32
  Mark Spence: You just you get behind someone.
• 7:33
  Mark Spence: It's just like oh okay, you know.
• 7:37
  Emeal Zwayne: Good point though, mark.
• 7:38
  Emeal Zwayne: I do have to say that the line waiting thing is insane.
• 7:41
  Emeal Zwayne: Uh, we went to.
• 7:42
  Emeal Zwayne: We went to knott's berry farm a while ago.
• 7:46
  Emeal Zwayne: We we have passes, kylie and I, but we went with some relatives, I think.
• 7:50
  Emeal Zwayne: Which for overseas listeners is like Disneyland down a little yeah, but we bought a fast pass kind of thing, you know where.
• 8:00
  Emeal Zwayne: You just don't wait in line.
• 8:01
  Ray Comfort: They give you a motorbike.
• 8:02
  Ray Comfort: They give you a motorbike.
• 8:05
  Emeal Zwayne: But the thing costs more than our annual pass.
• 8:07
  Emeal Zwayne: I think an annual pass at Kn knots like 120 bucks and this thing was like a hundred and something, but you know, there were relatives here from from, uh, you know, new Zealand and we wanted to bless them and so we did it.
• 8:19
  Emeal Zwayne: But I mean, it was, it was awesome there were crowds, but we just got on every ride, no lines.
• 8:23
  Ray Comfort: Any dirty looks.
• 8:25
  Emeal Zwayne: You know what?
• 8:25
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, you know what.
• 8:26
  Emeal Zwayne: The dirty looks you get for in the airport is.
• 8:28
  Emeal Zwayne: There's this one service where they take you to the front of the line, and I've gotten it because you know, with traveling you can't miss things.
• 8:34
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh clear.
• 8:35
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, oh boy, you've gotten dirty looks, haven't you Every time I use clear.
• 8:45
  Oscar Navarro: In fact, I'm not renewing it.
• 8:45
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, I didn't experienced it, I'm just not paying attention, yeah.
• 8:52
  Emeal Zwayne: So, anyway, I hate doing the podcast.
• 8:54
  Emeal Zwayne: All right, friends, A cool, classy comment.
• 8:58
  Emeal Zwayne: This is from podcast at livingwaterscom, by the way, that's where you can send us your comments and thoughts and accusations.
• 9:07
  Emeal Zwayne: Hello, friends, they said they spelt it that way.
• 9:09
  Emeal Zwayne: By the way, Hello frowns, I wanted to say how encouraged I am by you guys, just from listening to your podcast and watching your videos.
• 9:18
  Emeal Zwayne: I have watched your videos for a while now and God has used them to show me how to properly share the gospel.
• 9:22
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm 17 years old and I'm attending a public school, but that doesn't stop me from sharing it.
• 9:26
  Emeal Zwayne: Recently, I had a friend and a family friend pass away in a car crash.
• 9:30
  Emeal Zwayne: I prayed all through the night that the crash happened and the days after it that God would use my knowledge of the gospel of which the presentation of the gospel I gained from Living Waters to reach out to others, and he did.
• 9:43
  Emeal Zwayne: I witnessed to a couple of my baseball buddies a couple days later, as well as a whole congregation at a prayer group.
• 9:48
  Emeal Zwayne: I praise God through all of it that he gave not only me the strength to stand firm in my faith, but for my friends to have open hearts.
• 9:56
  Emeal Zwayne: With all this said.
• 9:57
  Emeal Zwayne: Thank you, Ray, for showing me how to be bold in the faith.
• 10:00
  Emeal Zwayne: Thank you, Easy, for keeping the mood bright.
• 10:02
  Emeal Zwayne: Thank you, Mark, for giving me thoughts to ponder on while listening to the podcast, and thank you, Oscar, for the input and the thought provoking points you give as well.
• 10:10
  Emeal Zwayne: God used you to start a spark in me to use my life for Him.
• 10:15
  Emeal Zwayne: Praise the Lord.
• 10:16
  Emeal Zwayne: That's from Garrett Wiersma from Melba, Idaho.
• 10:21
  Ray Comfort: God bless you, Garrett.
• 10:22
  Emeal Zwayne: Garrett.
• 10:22
  Emeal Zwayne: this is why we do what we do, and thanks for taking the time to write and let us know, and thanks for sharing the gospel Again.
• 10:28
  Emeal Zwayne: Guys, we talk about a lot of different topics, but the heartbeat behind our ministry is the gospel, and so when we get letters like this, this stirs us to keep doing more of this, because we want you guys out there activated.
• 10:41
  Emeal Zwayne: Just think if you didn't do that, Garrett, these people would not have heard the gospel.
• 10:45
  Emeal Zwayne: And so thanks for listening, Thanks for writing in and keep going.
• 10:48
  Emeal Zwayne: A radically revolutionary resource because this podcast is brought to you by God has a Wonderful Plan for your Life, Ray.
• 10:59
  Emeal Zwayne: I was thinking about this book, and when did you get the idea of Stephen being stoned on the front of the book with that title?
• 11:06
  Ray Comfort: It wasn't my idea.
• 11:07
  Ray Comfort: It was the Pharisees that did that.
• 11:09
  Ray Comfort: Oh, you didn't tell them to stone Stephen.
• 11:10
  Ray Comfort: No, no they just went straight ahead and stoned him.
• 11:12
  Ray Comfort: You told them to stone Stephen.
• 11:13
  Ray Comfort: You might like to blame it on me, but I had nothing to do with it.
• 11:17
  Ray Comfort: Blame it on the ring.
• 11:18
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, it was just obvious.
• 11:29
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean he's the epitome of not a good time in the gospel.
• 11:30
  Emeal Zwayne: I have to admit I was telling the title of your book to someone the other day and I felt weird after I told them the title because they're thinking Ray's a seeker, sensitive guy.
• 11:36
  Emeal Zwayne: There's a little subtitle, I know, but I don't remember the subtitle.
• 11:41
  Oscar Navarro: I do that all the time too.
• 11:41
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, like I can't just say the title, I have to explain the title Right.
• 11:49
  Ray Comfort: So I'm like, yeah, raised by God has a wonderful plan for your life.
• 11:51
  Ray Comfort: And I'm like subtitle is the Myth of the Modern Message.
• 11:52
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, and then you explain that Stephen's being stoned to death on the front, and it wasn't fun.
• 11:55
  Emeal Zwayne: So check it out, friends, you're going to love it.
• 11:57
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, it really is a revolutionary book Very little, so, yeah.
• 12:02
  Emeal Zwayne: So make sure to check that out, along with the Evidence Study Bible and the Living Waters mug.
• 12:10
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• 12:12
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, I was trying to be normal Oscar.
• 12:15
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• 12:15
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, the Yip Right Mug, it's coming, the Yip Right Mug.
• 12:19
  Emeal Zwayne: Just check, friends, you'll see if that's out.
• 12:21
  Emeal Zwayne: Collect them, get them all.
• 12:25
  Ray Comfort: Get them all.
• 12:26
  Ray Comfort: Get all 50 and you get a free car, oh yeah.
• 12:29
  Emeal Zwayne: All right friends.
• 12:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Today we're talking about how to be a spiritually effective neighbor.
• 12:36
  Emeal Zwayne: Won't you be my neighbor?
• 12:38
  Ray Comfort: What Ray Just leave the neighborhood, leave, leave, leave, leave.
• 12:47
  Emeal Zwayne: You've got to explain that, the things you never forget.
• 12:50
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, mark Ray and I used to go to the courthouse across from our ministry and preach the gospel.
• 12:55
  Emeal Zwayne: And Ray was preaching one day and this guy was sitting there.
• 13:01
  Emeal Zwayne: He just kept saying leave.
• 13:04
  Emeal Zwayne: And did I say you sound like a cow?
• 13:07
  Ray Comfort: I think I did you.
• 13:08
  Ray Comfort: Did you sound like a cow he milked, did you?
• 13:11
  Emeal Zwayne: did you sound like?
• 13:11
  Emeal Zwayne: A cow he milked her, but he kept doing it again and, again and again.
• 13:15
  Emeal Zwayne: Leave, oh, those days at the courthouse, man, those were man, those were the days.
• 13:25
  Ray Comfort: Those were the days, my friend.
• 13:26
  Emeal Zwayne: And it was the day when I said I can't believe we get to do this, that we got shut down.
• 13:30
  Ray Comfort: That's why I said stop keep saying that Easy yeah, because, Ray's, it's your fault, Name it, claim it.
• 13:34
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, ray's name.
• 13:36
  Emeal Zwayne: It claim it, guy superstitious Ray.
• 13:39
  Ray Comfort: No, I threw a black cat over my shoulder on a Friday with some salt and it canceled what you said.
• 13:46
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, so yeah, how to be a spiritually effective neighbor.
• 13:50
  Emeal Zwayne: It's kind of weird.
• 13:52
  Emeal Zwayne: You think about that.
• 13:53
  Emeal Zwayne: You live, you camp, basically in a permanent structure next to people.
• 13:59
  Emeal Zwayne: It's like your neighborhood is like a campground in a sense, and you got these people that you just live by and you see, and yet we live in a day and age where most of us, sadly, have hardly ever talked to our neighbors.
• 14:14
  Emeal Zwayne: And we are the light of the world, we are the salt of the earth and God has pre-appointed the boundaries of our habitation.
• 14:24
  Emeal Zwayne: You think about that.
• 14:25
  Emeal Zwayne: He has put us where we're at.
• 14:32
  Ray Comfort: And we have the opportunity to be a witness and have impact.
• 14:33
  Ray Comfort: It's amazing how a barking dog can cause neighbor to talk to neighbor Right.
• 14:38
  Emeal Zwayne: Unless there's a problem, then we're ready to talk, but just the opportunity to show warmth and kindness.
• 14:46
  Emeal Zwayne: The other day I was at home and I think this is a good thing to do.
• 14:52
  Emeal Zwayne: We're gonna talk about different ideas, but premeditating kindness.
• 14:57
  Emeal Zwayne: I think spur of the moment kindness is awesome, spontaneous kindness is awesome.
• 15:04
  Emeal Zwayne: But sometimes when you plan something, I think it can have substance to it.
• 15:08
  Emeal Zwayne: And so I remember one day pulling into my driveway and seeing one of my neighbors and they were.
• 15:13
  Emeal Zwayne: They were out there interacting with with their kid and they were throwing the baseball around.
• 15:16
  Emeal Zwayne: And they do that all the time.
• 15:17
  Emeal Zwayne: I see him out there doing playing basketball, throwing the you know the baseball around, and I've noted it in my mind the next time I see my neighbor I'm going to, I'm going to say something to him about it, and so the other day I saw him and I went over.
• 15:33
  Emeal Zwayne: I said look, I just want to let you know how touched I am by what I see you doing out here with your kids all the time.
• 15:35
  Emeal Zwayne: That is that is so rare and I'm telling you they are blessed to have you as their father and I wanted to, you know, use that moment to like just it was genuine.
• 15:50
  Emeal Zwayne: I wasn't making it up.
• 15:50
  Emeal Zwayne: I really was moved and touched, but I thought this is a moment where I can have impact and build a bridge with my neighbor and love them.
• 15:53
  Emeal Zwayne: But he didn't speak English, so it was really weird.
• 15:54
  Mark Spence: Yeah, he kept looking at me.
• 15:56
  Emeal Zwayne: He kept looking at me and he pulled out his gun.
• 15:58
  Ray Comfort: I want to tell you something.
• 15:59
  Ray Comfort: It wasn't premeditated.
• 16:00
  Ray Comfort: We noticed that Sue's washing machine, or our washing machine, was getting rusty, so we went to Home Depot and ordered another one, a brand new, modern one, which was wonderful, and it sounded like a 747 taking off because our washing machine is right at the kitchen and it was just awful Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
• 16:21
  Ray Comfort: Like I'm not exaggerating, it was just awful.
• 16:22
  Ray Comfort: The whole house kind of shook.
• 16:24
  Ray Comfort: So I went online and there was a lot of people on YouTube saying my washing machine is going boom, boom and they're making the noise, and then showing the noise, and I went back.
• 16:34
  Ray Comfort: So I went and bought another one and they said they'll bring it in a month and I thought what are we going to do with this first noisy washing machine?
• 16:37
  Ray Comfort: Wait, you didn't return it.
• 16:38
  Ray Comfort: No, it was too late.
• 16:39
  Ray Comfort: What Couldn't return it?
• 16:41
  Ray Comfort: So you had to buy two.
• 16:41
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, they would replace it with another model of the same thing.
• 16:46
  Ray Comfort: That's all they'd do, and I didn't want another one.
• 16:48
  Ray Comfort: What?
• 16:48
  Ray Comfort: They would replace it, but it would be the same model.
• 16:55
  Mark Spence: So gave it to the neighbors Savage yes, I did.
• 16:57
  Emeal Zwayne: Savage.
• 16:58
  Mark Spence: Yeah.
• 16:59
  Emeal Zwayne: Hate your neighbor unlike yourself.
• 17:00
  Ray Comfort: They use it a lot.
• 17:01
  Emeal Zwayne: We can hear it, I was going to say wow, Ray, Thank you for the curse.
• 17:09
  Ray Comfort: I did explain their washing machine.
• 17:10
  Ray Comfort: They do their washing out the back.
• 17:12
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, got it, so it can handle it.
• 17:13
  Emeal Zwayne: So they annoy their other neighbors.
• 17:15
  Ray Comfort: Yes, drowns out the barking dog.
• 17:17
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, yeah, but you know, that's something that's huge, Oscar, you what?
• 17:22
  Ray Comfort: their washing machine, yeah.
• 17:25
  Emeal Zwayne: Ray, oscar, you've always been a great example of just being intentional.
• 17:32
  Emeal Zwayne: I think that's really the key word in light of what we're talking about today Intentionality, finding a pathway toward intentionality, because if we're not intentional, nothing ultimately gets done.
• 17:40
  Emeal Zwayne: But I know that's been a big deal for you and you've seen a lot of fruit from it, oscar.
• 17:44
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, we have.
• 17:50
  Oscar Navarro: I think we're moved by as I read books and commentaries on what the early church looked like and how effective they were.
• 17:53
  Oscar Navarro: As I've said before on this podcast, many episodes ago, I'm fascinated by the early church because they came in to a cultural setting that was so antithetical to gospel, or to Christian ethics and morality, and certainly to the gospel to gospel or to Christian ethics and morality, and certainly to the gospel.
• 18:08
  Oscar Navarro: I mean, if we think our culture is antithetical or post-Christian, they would put our culture to shame in regards to their sexual ethics, their moral ethics, on and on we can go.
• 18:21
  Oscar Navarro: And yet, in the midst of that, the early church exploded and grew rapidly.
• 18:28
  Oscar Navarro: And so, to me, what were they doing?
• 18:30
  Oscar Navarro: What can we learn from them?
• 18:32
  Oscar Navarro: And one of the things is exactly what you're talking about, ez is the intentionality of your neighbor.
• 18:38
  Oscar Navarro: I mean, you got to remember that they grew up in mostly small villages or areas of influence, and so there was no.
• 18:45
  Oscar Navarro: You know, you didn't spend much time inside your home.
• 18:48
  Oscar Navarro: Your home is where you slept, where you cooked and where you cleaned.
• 18:51
  Oscar Navarro: There was no living room with a couch and a TV.
• 18:53
  Oscar Navarro: There was no entertainment to keep you insulated, rather in order for you to be entertained in order for your mind to be stimulated, and 90% of your daily chores was outside rubbing elbows with your neighbor, and so the human that's a funny saying when you think about it.
• 19:09
  Oscar Navarro: Rubbing elbows there you go, I just sit around and
• 19:11
  Oscar Navarro: literally hey, I want to rub elbows with my neighbor.
• 19:14
  Ray Comfort: Come over here.
• 19:16
  Emeal Zwayne: Past time, john, bring your elbow, join us in here.
• 19:21
  Oscar Navarro: But I think the Lord intended for us to do life in community with one another, and we've built this modern life to be isolated and alone, and, on that matter, loneliness is a new major issue for America.
• 19:35
  Oscar Navarro: So many people, especially younger people, are reported feeling alone, like longing for meaningful relationships.
• 19:43
  Oscar Navarro: And so for us to be witnesses, not only to proclaim the gospel, but to be witnesses of humility, of an integrity, of hospitality, of kindness, which is what you did.
• 19:58
  Oscar Navarro: Easy to walk outside our front doors and to know the names of our neighbors.
• 20:03
  Oscar Navarro: Like, can we just start there?
• 20:05
  Oscar Navarro: How many Americans don't know the names of their neighbors?
• 20:09
  Oscar Navarro: How many of your neighbors have you had in your home for a meal?
• 20:15
  Oscar Navarro: How often have you practiced hospitality?
• 20:20
  Oscar Navarro: Rosario Butterfield wrote a book.
• 20:21
  Oscar Navarro: It's a great book and it's called the Gospel Comes With the House Key, and the point she made is that once we preach the gospel, the next step is to invite people into our homes and at our tables and make them a meal.
• 20:35
  Oscar Navarro: The Lord means to use you in your right now, immediate neighborhood more than he intends to use you on social media.
• 20:43
  Oscar Navarro: Here's more where my rant will end.
• 20:45
  Oscar Navarro: So many people think to themselves oh, I want to be an effective witness, so I'm going to try to blow up a social media platform.
• 20:53
  Oscar Navarro: They want to be known by somebody across the other side of the world and they don't even know their own neighbors.
• 20:58
  Emeal Zwayne: Start with your neighbor, preach man.
• 21:00
  Emeal Zwayne: That's something I talk about all the time, even when it comes to the gospel and you know that's something I talk about all the time.
• 21:05
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean even when it comes to the gospel, ray.
• 21:10
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, people want to go and be missionaries in other parts of the world when they're not reaching their neighbors, when they're not a witness in their neighborhood, in their area.
• 21:16
  Ray Comfort: You talked about it before the famous saying you don't have to cross the sea to be a missionary, you just have to see the cross.
• 21:20
  Ray Comfort: And I never forget that when Rachel I think she was 17, she went with a missionary organization to Calcutta or India and then went up on a hill and prayed over the city, and I think you can do that here.
• 21:31
  Ray Comfort: You can pray over Calcutta on a map.
• 21:33
  Ray Comfort: Jesus said go into all the world and preach the gospel.
• 21:36
  Ray Comfort: He preached the gospel.
• 21:38
  Ray Comfort: That's what the world needs to hear, and so whatever you said was really good and I've answered it.
• 21:47
  Emeal Zwayne: That's how it goes.
• 21:48
  Emeal Zwayne: That's how it goes here.
• 21:49
  Emeal Zwayne: But no, yeah, it's so true in that we don't realize the value of small acts of kindness within our neighborhood.
• 22:03
  Emeal Zwayne: Look, as a ministry, we talk very much about not getting sucked into the friendship evangelism mindset for evangelism, which means that's all I do exclusively.
• 22:15
  Emeal Zwayne: But don't misunderstand us in saying that you're not to build friendships with those that are around you and those that you're around, like your neighbors and those that are in your circle of influence at work and family members and stuff like that.
• 22:29
  Emeal Zwayne: Of course, you don't just walk up and blast them and that's it.
• 22:33
  Emeal Zwayne: That's it, I'm done.
• 22:33
  Emeal Zwayne: No, you're building rapport, right, Ray?
• 22:36
  Emeal Zwayne: Rapport that will give you that openness from them, because it's different than the stranger you walk up to on the street, wouldn't you say?
• 22:44
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, often we use eggs with our neighbors.
• 22:47
  Ray Comfort: Our chickens lay eggs, which is great.
• 22:49
  Emeal Zwayne: You egg their house.
• 22:50
  Ray Comfort: I throw them at them.
• 22:51
  Oscar Navarro: You give them terrible washing machines and then you egg their homes.
• 22:54
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm not sure I want to be your neighbor.
• 22:56
  Ray Comfort: Ray.
• 22:58
  Emeal Zwayne: I know yeah, we've got an empty neighborhood.
• 23:00
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, but I love my neighbors.
• 23:01
  Ray Comfort: We've got also Jehovah's Witness on one side that aren't too friendly, but they're okay Catholics on the other side, hindu in front of us and Indonesian to one side.
• 23:12
  Emeal Zwayne: So it's a Wait.
• 23:13
  Emeal Zwayne: What happened?
• 23:14
  Emeal Zwayne: Why didn't you tell us about the atheists underneath your house?
• 23:18
  Ray Comfort: Atheists underneath the house, living under your floorboards.
• 23:26
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, it's so good, and I think of Matthew 5, 14 to 16.
• 23:30
  Ray Comfort: You see, I just love the way, when you've got nothing to say, you can fill it in with yeah, it's so good, Matthew 15.
• 23:38
  Emeal Zwayne: You're very gifted.
• 23:39
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, it's a spiritual gift Matthew 5, 14 to 16.
• 23:43
  Emeal Zwayne: You are the light of the world.
• 23:45
  Emeal Zwayne: A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
• 23:48
  Emeal Zwayne: Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but under a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.
• 23:54
  Emeal Zwayne: Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
• 24:01
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, this is the right time to show off, in a sense, but you show off so that you point to the Lord.
• 24:10
  Mark Spence: Yeah, if you want to be a spiritually effective neighbor, you need to be a physically effective neighbor.
• 24:15
  Mark Spence: You need to be rich and good works.
• 24:16
  Mark Spence: If you're making brownies, make brownies for the people across the street.
• 24:20
  Mark Spence: If you're buying a plant for your house, why not buy another plant for your neighbor across the street?
• 24:24
  Mark Spence: If you're buying a plant for your house, why not buy another plant for your neighbor across the street?
• 24:25
  Mark Spence: Washing machine If you're buying one washing machine, buy a second washing machine.
• 24:29
  Mark Spence: Yeah, being rich in good works is a great way to reach your neighbors.
• 24:34
  Mark Spence: You know, people tend to park inside their garage and there's no waving, there's no interaction.
• 24:41
  Mark Spence: That's a shame.
• 24:42
  Mark Spence: You know, if you go to whitepagescom and you type in your own address, it'll give you the names and the addresses of all your neighbors.
• 24:49
  Mark Spence: So Oscar was saying we don't even know the names of our neighbors.
• 24:52
  Mark Spence: We've lived next to them for 15 years.
• 24:54
  Mark Spence: Well, that's a great way to start.
• 24:56
  Mark Spence: That's a great place to start.
• 24:58
  Emeal Zwayne: If they have a dog White pages, white pages.
• 25:00
  Emeal Zwayne: Interesting Whitepagescom.
• 25:02
  Emeal Zwayne: They sound racist to me but it is.
• 25:06
  Mark Spence: That's, in fact, how we learned all of our neighbors' names and stuff, and then we gave a little care package to every one of our neighbors.
• 25:12
  Mark Spence: I remember when you did that Gift cards and stuff.
• 25:13
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, I didn't know you could do that with White Pages, Mark yeah.
• 25:17
  Mark Spence: It's called reverse lookup.
• 25:18
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, okay, you know, I mean, I knew the importance of this immediately.
• 25:22
  Emeal Zwayne: But whenever we've moved into a neighborhood, we'll go around, we'll meet all the neighbors, we'll introduce ourselves.
• 25:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Do you walk right outside and go?
• 25:35
  Oscar Navarro: hello friends, hello friends.
• 25:36
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, I did.
• 25:36
  Emeal Zwayne: And then suddenly there were 20 for sale signs on my neighbor's lawns.
• 25:41
  Emeal Zwayne: But no, and we've tried to time it when we've moved into a new neighborhood around Christmas.
• 25:44
  Emeal Zwayne: So you know, and we've tried to time it when we've moved into a new neighborhood around Christmas.
• 25:46
  Emeal Zwayne: So then you know, hey, we're new in the neighborhood, just wanted to wish you Merry Christmas and we've written a letter with the gospel in it.
• 25:52
  Ray Comfort: You try and time it to buy a house just before Christmas, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:55
  Ray Comfort: All the time that's our Christmas gift to ourselves A new house every year, jingle bells, jingle bells, yeah, just to get the witness to neighbors, you buy a house and away you go this really hit Mark.
• 26:10
  Emeal Zwayne: He's still a woman His realtor loves it yeah.
• 26:14
  Emeal Zwayne: No, but I'm saying, you know, usually we'll wait until it gets close, even after moving to the neighborhood, and then we'll give them a gospel of John and, you know, a candy cane with it or whatever.
• 26:22
  Emeal Zwayne: But when we get their names, I just have a notes list and I put my neighbor's names with their address, and so I remember it.
• 26:31
  Emeal Zwayne: And so, because I don't know if you guys have sensed this, when I don't remember someone's name, I have a lack of confidence to approach them.
• 26:38
  Emeal Zwayne: I just feel weird.
• 26:38
  Emeal Zwayne: That's true.
• 26:47
  Ray Comfort: Because you know you've got to.
• 26:48
  Ray Comfort: You know it's normal to use their name at some point in the conversation, but when you don't know it, but man, that's why I never talked to.
• 26:52
  Emeal Zwayne: Ray, thingy is always a good substitute, thingy, thingy, but but and and you know, you guys know, when you say someone's name and they're not expecting you to, they lie to you.
• 26:59
  Emeal Zwayne: Whoa, you remembered my name, you know.
• 27:02
  Oscar Navarro: So I try to do that with our servers.
• 27:04
  Emeal Zwayne: I try to remember their names.
• 27:05
  Ray Comfort: I do it with my wife.
• 27:06
  Oscar Navarro: That's a good call.
• 27:07
  Emeal Zwayne: Which one, your first wife, number four, 600, 6, 7,000 billion trillion.
• 27:12
  Oscar Navarro: I think there's another.
• 27:13
  Oscar Navarro: So there's being hospitable in regards to inviting them into your home, but then there's also a form of hospitality in which you can serve your neighborhood.
• 27:21
  Oscar Navarro: So, like we like to throw block parties, halloween comes around and we have a huge potluck outside of our home where we invite everyone.
• 27:28
  Oscar Navarro: There's hundreds of kids that come.
• 27:30
  Oscar Navarro: We hand out tracks and candy and food.
• 27:33
  Oscar Navarro: I'm always outside playing.
• 27:36
  Oscar Navarro: Free food, free food.
• 27:37
  Ray Comfort: Did you have any trouble with the city doing that?
• 27:39
  Ray Comfort: We haven't no problem, that's great.
• 27:42
  Oscar Navarro: No, really, why would they?
• 27:42
  Ray Comfort: have a problem with the city.
• 27:43
  Ray Comfort: You're supposed to have a permit when you have food.
• 27:45
  Ray Comfort: Well, we do a potluck Only if you sell, I think.
• 27:48
  Ray Comfort: I'm not sure.
• 27:50
  Oscar Navarro: What yeah Food?
• 27:51
  Oscar Navarro: We also, you know, I'll go outside and play soccer with the kids.
• 27:58
  Ray Comfort: Do you have a permit for that?
• 27:59
  Ray Comfort: I don't have a permit for this is California.
• 28:00
  Oscar Navarro: This is communism man.
• 28:02
  Oscar Navarro: We want to see your breathing, I know really I volunteer to be a coach for my kids' sporting events and I see the way the Lord works.
• 28:12
  Oscar Navarro: In the midst of all of that, I've had non-believing parents come up to me and be like, hey, my kid came back and said that you guys are Christian and you're praying, you're sharing man, that's so cool.
• 28:26
  Oscar Navarro: He was really interested.
• 28:27
  Oscar Navarro: We've actually never gotten somebody to be offended by it.
• 28:30
  Oscar Navarro: We've only had parents inquire in a form of curiosity and thankfulness.
• 28:36
  Oscar Navarro: One of them let me know how thankful they were that we pray before a meal because they don't do that in their home and they're like oh, I'm so glad my kid gets to see that side of.
• 28:47
  Oscar Navarro: For him it's like, oh, it's neat, it's diverse, but for me it's the truth.
• 28:50
  Oscar Navarro: But the point is is we try to have a form of hospitality to our neighbors, to invite them in to witness the gospel lived out and that's the point that you were making is friendship.
• 29:03
  Oscar Navarro: Evangelism is holding back the gospel.
• 29:05
  Oscar Navarro: Discipleship, evangelism is recognizing that the scriptures do not separate discipleship and evangelism.
• 29:12
  Oscar Navarro: It's not like discipleship is for the saved and evangelism is for the non-believer.
• 29:16
  Oscar Navarro: You will not see that divided in the scriptures.
• 29:18
  Oscar Navarro: Evangelism and discipleship happen together.
• 29:21
  Oscar Navarro: And so when I proclaim the gospel to my neighbor.
• 29:24
  Oscar Navarro: The next thing I'm going to do is enter into a form of discipleship which puts on display the work of the gospel.
• 29:32
  Oscar Navarro: They see me speak tenderly to my wife.
• 29:35
  Oscar Navarro: They see me love and invest in my children and their children, and the hope is they would look at that and go, huh, I see the truth of what he is saying.
• 29:44
  Oscar Navarro: Lived out in his life, oh man.
• 29:48
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, the power of living the Christian life before unbelievers.
• 29:53
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, I was at In-N-Out the other day and I was sitting just sitting there, you know, minding my own business, eating my protein burger my four by four, by the way Wow.
• 30:03
  Oscar Navarro: Four by four Four cheese too.
• 30:04
  Emeal Zwayne: Well, when you don't eat breakfast and lunch, you're hungry.
• 30:07
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, four by four protein style.
• 30:09
  Mark Spence: Are you on an OMAD diet right now?
• 30:10
  Mark Spence: I'm just on a no.
• 30:12
  Emeal Zwayne: Well, what's OMAD?
• 30:14
  Mark Spence: One meal a day.
• 30:14
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, is that what it's called?
• 30:15
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah.
• 30:16
  Mark Spence: I thought it was a, still hungryailed it.
• 30:17
  Mark Spence: Yeah, I am.
• 30:28
  Emeal Zwayne: I've heard it called intermittent fasting, so I only eat dinner, and so I was at In-N-Out with my 4x4.
• 30:34
  Emeal Zwayne: What is a 4x4?
• 30:34
  Emeal Zwayne: It's a truck.
• 30:35
  Emeal Zwayne: It's four patties and four cheese, so you know.
• 30:42
  Emeal Zwayne: Like I said, one piece of meat, there's four.
• 30:43
  Emeal Zwayne: So you know double double.
• 30:43
  Ray Comfort: You know, double double.
• 30:44
  Ray Comfort: This is a double double, double double.
• 30:45
  Ray Comfort: This is a four by four, this is a double double double, double, it's a four by four.
• 30:47
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, but it's protein style, so it's no bread, it's just lettuce.
• 31:00
  Ray Comfort: So it's wrapped in lettuce.
• 31:01
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm like I'm picking every piece of cheese off the paper at the end the cheese paper.
• 31:05
  Oscar Navarro: I love that.
• 31:06
  Emeal Zwayne: So, anyway, I'm sitting there and this young boy and his sister sit at the table, and then, you know, the boy was on his phone, the girl was doing something, and then the brother he was probably 14.
• 31:19
  Emeal Zwayne: The sister was probably 9 or 10.
• 31:21
  Emeal Zwayne: And he looks over and he goes so how was your day today?
• 31:25
  Emeal Zwayne: And I remember, just sitting there, I'm like whoa, it really really stood out to me.
• 31:31
  Emeal Zwayne: And in fact, before the boy sat down though, he looked at me and he goes hi, I'm like okay, something's up here.
• 31:38
  Emeal Zwayne: And then he sits there and he says his sister, and I go, I go man this how old was he 14?
• 31:41
  Emeal Zwayne: I go man this, how old was he 14.
• 31:43
  Emeal Zwayne: Wow, and I remember.
• 31:44
  Emeal Zwayne: I just immediately thought I bet this kid comes from a Christian home, I bet these parents brought this kid up.
• 31:50
  Emeal Zwayne: Well, so I'm sitting there eating and then I hear easy.
• 31:53
  Emeal Zwayne: And I look up and I see the mom, and it was Jen Danskin, Andy Smith's Really Jen Smith, that's her new name, andy Smith's wife.
• 32:01
  Emeal Zwayne: And these are people I've known.
• 32:02
  Emeal Zwayne: I used to be part of our church.
• 32:04
  Emeal Zwayne: She used to be my secretary.
• 32:05
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, they used to be at our church where we pastored, and I've known them, it was their kids and it was their kids, but I hadn't seen them in a long time.
• 32:10
  Emeal Zwayne: I didn't recognize them.
• 32:11
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm like what?
• 32:12
  Emeal Zwayne: So it was a blessing to be able to tell her that and to Lord.
• 32:20
  Emeal Zwayne: And that's what you're talking about, oscar, in terms of our impact.
• 32:23
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm reading a book where the author was talking about impact in your neighborhood and he was talking about how they lived in a neighborhood where all the backyard it was like in a circle around a lake and all the sliding glass doors were backed up to the lake so everyone could look into everyone else's house in the evenings as they're doing stuff.
• 32:44
  Emeal Zwayne: Hard to commit murder, yeah, okay, but he talked about how you know.
• 32:50
  Emeal Zwayne: One neighbor was walking by and they just came up to him.
• 32:53
  Emeal Zwayne: They said you know what I just got to tell you when I see you and your family every day?
• 32:59
  Emeal Zwayne: Because the point he was making was that his family does a lot of nothing.
• 33:03
  Emeal Zwayne: That was what he said.
• 33:03
  Emeal Zwayne: We do a lot of nothing, which means they just hang out, they play games, they worship together, they read the word, they walk, they play outside.
• 33:11
  Emeal Zwayne: See them in each other's pajamas yeah, yeah, shorty pajamas.
• 33:16
  Emeal Zwayne: So, anyway, he said the neighbor comes up to him and he said you know what I just got to tell you.
• 33:24
  Emeal Zwayne: When I see you outside with your family all the time, which you are doing, what you guys do, I don't know what it is this is one of those easy moments but it makes me think of god.
• 33:38
  Emeal Zwayne: Wow, it makes me think of god.
• 33:40
  Emeal Zwayne: He says I don't know why that's awesome.
• 33:44
  Ray Comfort: Weep when he said that, or was you weeping when you're thinking of thinking of God?
• 33:47
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm replaying it no, but it just hit me, you know like it makes me think of God and guys.
• 33:53
  Emeal Zwayne: We can't underestimate how our lives genuinely lived for the Lord in our neighborhood can have a massive spiritual impact.
• 34:02
  Emeal Zwayne: To be aware Amen.
• 34:03
  Ray Comfort: Isn't it so sad that we're so ugly when we cry?
• 34:07
  Oscar Navarro: That's such a savage.
• 34:10
  Ray Comfort: These poor people get on national television in a disaster.
• 34:12
  Ray Comfort: They get on TV first time in their life and they're blubbing.
• 34:15
  Ray Comfort: It's just.
• 34:17
  Emeal Zwayne: That's the way, it is Ugly crying man.
• 34:20
  Ray Comfort: But it's very moving, easy to show.
• 34:22
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, no, but really I mean, that's what that passage is talking about, about being the light of the world, letting your light so shine.
• 34:31
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, especially again, don't let that be the exclusive thing you do.
• 34:36
  Emeal Zwayne: Go out and do declarational evangelism, share the gospel on the streets, build a relationship in 3.5 seconds, like Ray talked about.
• 34:42
  Emeal Zwayne: Mark is looking at.
• 34:44
  Ray Comfort: I typed in ugly criers.
• 34:45
  Ray Comfort: An easy came up First.
• 34:48
  Ray Comfort: That was the first one on there.
• 34:50
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah.
• 34:52
  Ray Comfort: I write for a well-known Christian organization once a month addressing pastors, and they just for this month.
• 34:59
  Ray Comfort: It was how can a pastor reach out to his neighbors this summer?
• 35:02
  Ray Comfort: And I thought I haven't any idea.
• 35:05
  Ray Comfort: So I went to AI, which I often do, and said give me 10 different things.
• 35:10
  Ray Comfort: And boy, it was helpful.
• 35:11
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, it really was.
• 35:13
  Ray Comfort: It just gave me thoughts to leap off on.
• 35:16
  Oscar Navarro: It was all recharge their batteries.
• 35:18
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, but let me share some of them because it's like what you talked about you can shut your street off with a permit.
• 35:25
  Ray Comfort: I didn't realize you could do that.
• 35:27
  Ray Comfort: You could go to a local city and say I want to close the street off our street and have a fun, family fun thing and have barbecues for the family and free food and stuff like that.
• 35:37
  Ray Comfort: So all these different ideas.
• 35:39
  Ray Comfort: And you're going to have a picnic for the neighborhood.
• 35:42
  Ray Comfort: Invite all the neighbors to a picnic at the local park.
• 35:45
  Ray Comfort: And there are people in your church that volunteer to be a clown and have balloons with scripture on them and give out gospel tracts to all the people and free food.
• 35:52
  Emeal Zwayne: Wow, you wouldn't even need a costume, Ray.
• 35:54
  Emeal Zwayne: I just started an outreach in my neighborhood to kids.
• 36:00
  Emeal Zwayne: I have a dummy called Charlie who would do that.
• 36:05
  Mark Spence: Hey kids, this is Charlie here.
• 36:08
  Emeal Zwayne: I was awful.
• 36:08
  Emeal Zwayne: Completely untrained Ray, you must have seriously been the worst ventriloquist.
• 36:12
  Ray Comfort: Really bad.
• 36:12
  Ray Comfort: But the good thing is, when you got a mustache, you just grow it.
• 36:16
  Emeal Zwayne: Grow it over your lips An extra two inches.
• 36:18
  Ray Comfort: How many people mistake?
• 36:19
  Emeal Zwayne: And no one has any idea that you're able to do that.
• 36:21
  Emeal Zwayne: That would be a funny spoof for a ventriloquist.
• 36:24
  Mark Spence: Yes, it would, those medical master and puppet we all had to wear.
• 36:29
  Emeal Zwayne: How many people?
• 36:30
  Ray Comfort: thought you were the puppet, you blew it.
• 36:31
  Ray Comfort: You should have said dummy.
• 36:34
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, what else right?
• 36:35
  Ray Comfort: That's your only idea, no there's about 10 of them, but I just don't want to bore you.
• 36:39
  Ray Comfort: It's really great thoughts.
• 36:42
  Ray Comfort: Neighborhood block parties, family picnics, outdoor movie nights, Ooh yeah, and it's in a local park.
• 36:47
  Ray Comfort: You just get permission from the city, put up a big screen and invite the neighbor to a free movie.
• 36:52
  Ray Comfort: And it's a Christian movie, a quality movie.
• 36:53
  Ray Comfort: And you give out free food at the same, or free candy, whatever, and invites to the thing and a little start in prayer.
• 36:59
  Ray Comfort: So this is a Christian movie.
• 37:00
  Ray Comfort: You end up by saying, if you'd like to talk to spiritual things, were here for you.
• 37:03
  Mark Spence: Like 180.
• 37:04
  Mark Spence: We could show 180.
• 37:06
  Mark Spence: Yeah, that'd be great For the kids Bring all your kids folks.
• 37:10
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, there are.
• 37:11
  Emeal Zwayne: You know the saying where there's a will.
• 37:14
  Ray Comfort: Fullyfreefilmscom has got a whole stack of free movies.
• 37:17
  Ray Comfort: Ooh yeah.
• 37:18
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, we've had people you know do stuff.
• 37:20
  Emeal Zwayne: Where there's an event in their neighborhood, some kind of thing at a park or something, they'll go.
• 37:24
  Emeal Zwayne: They'll give out free water bottles with a tract.
• 37:27
  Ray Comfort: With water in them, with water in them, not just the bottles.
• 37:30
  Oscar Navarro: That's what I was doing wrong.
• 37:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, and they'll.
• 37:32
  Emeal Zwayne: Sometimes, you know, they'll even get.
• 37:34
  Emeal Zwayne: I've heard of people that have gotten like special things.
• 37:36
  Emeal Zwayne: They wrap the bottle with that has a gospel on it.
• 37:38
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, you know.
• 37:39
  Emeal Zwayne: So there's so many inside one of our.
• 37:43
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh you know what?
• 37:44
  Emeal Zwayne: I bet our Unterrible tract is waterproof.
• 37:46
  Emeal Zwayne: It probably is.
• 37:47
  Emeal Zwayne: That's an idea.
• 37:48
  Emeal Zwayne: Just the ink comes out.
• 37:49
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, how about actually putting the gospel in water in microscopic letter form and they drink the gospel?
• 38:01
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm sure there's something like that out there.
• 38:03
  Emeal Zwayne: But, guys, look, there is a call upon our lives to recognize that we can really reach our neighbors and we could do it in a way that glorifies God.
• 38:18
  Emeal Zwayne: This is my concern.
• 38:19
  Emeal Zwayne: It's the justifying attitude of I'm just too busy or because they live so close, I'm worried about what they're going to say.
• 38:28
  Emeal Zwayne: It reminded me of the whole issue with the Good Samaritan.
• 38:31
  Emeal Zwayne: We call it the Good Samaritan, but I don't know if that's accurate.
• 38:35
  Ray Comfort: It wasn't good.
• 38:35
  Ray Comfort: He merely did the basic requirements of the law.
• 38:38
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, in Luke 10, it says in verse 25, and behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him saying teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
• 38:46
  Emeal Zwayne: He said to him what is it written in the law?
• 38:48
  Emeal Zwayne: What is your reading of it?
• 38:49
  Emeal Zwayne: So he answered and said you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself.
• 38:55
  Emeal Zwayne: And he said to him you have answered rightly, do this and you will live.
• 38:58
  Emeal Zwayne: But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, and who is my neighbor and the heart of that is he didn't want to do it.
• 39:08
  Ray Comfort: Well, the Living Bible brings out what that wanting to justify himself.
• 39:12
  Ray Comfort: The man wanted to justify his lack of love for some kinds of people Right Like the.
• 39:18
  Emeal Zwayne: Samaritans.
• 39:19
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, so there was this sense of wanting to violate what was his duty, and that is to love all people, right, and of course, there were certain people they didn't want to show love toward.
• 39:33
  Emeal Zwayne: We know the Jews and the Samaritans had issues between them, and so Jesus intentionally uses this parable and what an amazing parable.
• 39:42
  Emeal Zwayne: We've talked about it before on the podcast, but this guy, who was supposed to be an enemy with that Jew, demonstrated toward him an overabundance of love.
• 39:54
  Emeal Zwayne: He cared for him, he took him in.
• 39:58
  Emeal Zwayne: He said hey, I'll pay now and I'll pay for anything else that you expend.
• 40:02
  Emeal Zwayne: We just miss this, we just kind of skip ahead.
• 40:08
  Emeal Zwayne: But you look at the fine details, and this is what Jesus is saying.
• 40:12
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, if that's the standard, anything beneath it is a given.
• 40:17
  Emeal Zwayne: And so, oscar, let me ask you this how do we deal, though, with difficult neighbors?
• 40:23
  Emeal Zwayne: Because we all have those neighbors that are difficult, that maybe are cantankerous, or hey, stop parking your car in front of my house, or, you know, your kids are too noisy, shut your dog up.
• 40:35
  Oscar Navarro: You know, stop giving me your loud washing machines.
• 40:39
  Mark Spence: No, it's funny because I actually have a neighbor who is just like that and he kind of melted a little bit when we gave him the gift bag.
• 40:45
  Mark Spence: But he's just like that where he gets really angry if you park in front of his house.
• 40:49
  Mark Spence: He only parks in front of our house.
• 40:52
  Mark Spence: That's the only place he parks is in front of our house and he gets upset if anybody parks in front of his house, which is with no cars in front of his house.
• 40:59
  Ray Comfort: He's got Parkinson's.
• 41:03
  Oscar Navarro: We, thankfully, don't really have that neighbor, although I do have two neighbors that are like in absolute odds with each other and they often come to me to complain about the other one.
• 41:13
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh really, you're in the middle.
• 41:14
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, I'm in the middle, so you're the peacekeeper.
• 41:16
  Oscar Navarro: I'm trying to be the peacekeeper but I think as Christians we should, as far as we are able to, to show love and kindness and understanding and grace to that neighbor.
• 41:31
  Oscar Navarro: If I have a neighbor that doesn't want me to park in front of his house, I don't get that.
• 41:35
  Oscar Navarro: That makes no sense to me.
• 41:37
  Oscar Navarro: When I get home late from work and there's no other spot but that one spot missing and I can't park there, I'm going to bear that burden.
• 41:45
  Oscar Navarro: I'm going to park around the block for him.
• 41:47
  Oscar Navarro: I would, I would be that neighbor, I would love him.
• 41:50
  Oscar Navarro: Uh, that you know.
• 41:51
  Oscar Navarro: Be all things, to all men and to.
• 41:54
  Oscar Navarro: To put others before yourselves is exactly that.
• 41:59
  Oscar Navarro: Is it to love others more than you love yourself in those kinds of situations and I know that can be hard and frustrating, because it's not just someone you see every now and then, it's someone that you live next to.
• 42:08
  Oscar Navarro: But isn't being a witness to the gospel that much more important than a witness to your own personal needs?
• 42:16
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, oh, huge, yeah, I mean yeah, and you go the extra mile.
• 42:20
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, with courtesy consideration.
• 42:22
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, we ended up extending our driveway or widening our driveway.
• 42:30
  Emeal Zwayne: There was, like you know, a dirt planter area, but we intentionally spent thousands of dollars and widened it so that we could park more of our cars on our driveway, so that we didn't have to park on a neighbor's houses.
• 42:41
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, because we don't, we don't get, we don't want to be a bother, we want to be a light for the gospel.
• 42:46
  Emeal Zwayne: You know it, gospel, it wasn't convenient for us to do that, but we did it out of love, and so let's just do something concrete, yeah, yeah, and so Foundational.
• 43:04
  Oscar Navarro: Foundational.
• 43:04
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, yeah, so can I add to that or kind of change gears a little bit to what you're saying, which is, I think that also extends to our ideologies, because often I think we tend to avoid people that share different ideologies in us, and I'm thinking specifically about political ideologies where, like, oh well, my liberal neighbor and we tend to distance ourself, we think that they're further away from the gospel, we don't wanna deal with their different views of things, or the opposite is true, which is, our ideologies can often become a stumbling block to someone else's understanding of the gospel.
• 43:42
  Oscar Navarro: And there's specifically a book called Political Visions and Illusions, written by David Koizis I'm probably mispronouncing his last name, but he does a great job of pointing out how often our political ideology becomes idolatrous, and he shows us how, whether you're a liberal or conservative or a libertarian, how every political language, how all of these political storylines have a creation, fall, redemption, consummation story to them, and how he says that ultimately, what we do is we treat our political opinions as these ideologies which become messianic in nature, and we grow in fervor over them, and often what happens is, what prevents us from being a good witness to the gospel is that we're more of a witness to policies and politicians than we are the Prince of Peace.
• 44:37
  Oscar Navarro: And so, in the same way, where, like, if my neighbor was flying a Celtics flag, I wouldn't knock on his door and be like you know, I'm a Lakers fan Like that's probably not where I'm going to start, you know.
• 44:46
  Oscar Navarro: And so we need to put aside things that are really important, things that we care deeply about, things that we should have strong conviction over, but those man-made things need to be put aside for the sake of the gospel.
• 45:00
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, amen, oscar.
• 45:02
  Emeal Zwayne: It's so funny you said that you said Lakers and Celtics right.
• 45:04
  Emeal Zwayne: When I was like, I just re did a reunion with two of my friends from 34 years ago.
• 45:10
  Emeal Zwayne: We grew up in the same neighborhood and one of them was in town.
• 45:12
  Emeal Zwayne: We all got together and I was telling one of them how, when I was a kid, I was a celtics fan.
• 45:17
  Emeal Zwayne: We had family in boston and so you know, my brother was.
• 45:20
  Emeal Zwayne: I was bandwagon, of course, but but I remember one year that the celtics won the championship against the Lakers.
• 45:26
  Emeal Zwayne: You know their big rivalry in the eighties and I remember he got outside and my, my, my friend's uncle he was, you know, there in the neighborhood and he was a huge Lakers fan and I go, yeah, celtics, and he goes shut up.
• 45:40
  Emeal Zwayne: He was so mad he wanted to kill me.
• 45:42
  Emeal Zwayne: But it's funny you said that.
• 45:44
  Emeal Zwayne: But uh, but yeah me, but it's funny you said that, but uh, but yeah, you know, um, deciding to, to, to do those sorts of things.
• 45:54
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, ray, for years you and sue have done that.
• 45:55
  Emeal Zwayne: Like you said, you gave that washing machine away, you've given eggs, you've, back in the day, you took care of your neighbor helen, elderly woman, didn't have anybody, and you guys stepped up and did that and were a witness to her.
• 46:04
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, that was a pleasure.
• 46:05
  Ray Comfort: You know, I was just thinking of something that happened years ago.
• 46:09
  Ray Comfort: There's a neighbor right in front of me whom I love.
• 46:13
  Ray Comfort: His name's Mohan and Harjit.
• 46:14
  Ray Comfort: They're from India, they're Hindus, and I heard that he wasn't well.
• 46:18
  Ray Comfort: So I just went over to just give my thoughts for them, didn't want to go and visit him, I didn't even think of it, but they just invited me in the next thing.
• 46:32
  Oscar Navarro: I was in his bedroom chatting with him.
• 46:33
  Ray Comfort: He was so pleased that I came to visit him when he was sick and I don't think he ever forgot that.
• 46:35
  Ray Comfort: I mean, I didn't even plan to go in, I just got invited in, but it warmed my heart to think that happened.
• 46:38
  Emeal Zwayne: It means a lot to people.
• 46:39
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, one of our neighbor's houses caught fire and Rachel was home and she saw what was going on and she, you know, ran out and you know, invited the neighbor in and you know, when the house was on fire, yeah, and they sat and had coffee and baked some good, and then they called 911.
• 47:00
  Emeal Zwayne: They were crocheting.
• 47:00
  Emeal Zwayne: No, but yeah, I mean, the ambulance came.
• 47:03
  Emeal Zwayne: But you know, after the ambulance came and everything, she just invited her into the house and just started to minister to her.
• 47:06
  Emeal Zwayne: Ambulance came and everything, she just invited her into the house and just started to minister to her and the lady, just you know, was overwhelmed and later came back with her daughter and her daughter's like thank you for taking care of my mom, you know.
• 47:15
  Emeal Zwayne: And and and again, other neighbors.
• 47:17
  Emeal Zwayne: One neighbor came out.
• 47:18
  Emeal Zwayne: He's filming it.
• 47:19
  Emeal Zwayne: Her house is on fire.
• 47:20
  Emeal Zwayne: He didn't say a word to her.
• 47:21
  Emeal Zwayne: He's like, yeah, you know, other neighbors were just like standing back and not even doing.
• 47:25
  Emeal Zwayne: And Rachel just ran over and, just you know, loved on her.
• 47:29
  Emeal Zwayne: So again, so many.
• 47:30
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, your neighbor's house doesn't have to be on fire.
• 47:33
  Emeal Zwayne: I get to see someone going and lighting fires in their neighbor's house just to be able to reach them.
• 47:40
  Emeal Zwayne: Don't do that.
• 47:40
  Emeal Zwayne: How do you think your house caught fire?
• 47:42
  Emeal Zwayne: Easy, oh, it was you, mark.
• 47:45
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, so anyway.
• 47:50
  Emeal Zwayne: 1 Peter, 2, 15 to 17,.
• 47:51
  Emeal Zwayne: For this is the will of God that by doing good, you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men as free and not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
• 47:58
  Emeal Zwayne: Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the King.
• 48:03
  Emeal Zwayne: I love that.
• 48:05
  Emeal Zwayne: Do good and those neighbors, all those stupid Christians and this and that put them to silence by doing good.
• 48:12
  Emeal Zwayne: Love them, no matter what they may do to you, and seek to be a witness.
• 48:16
  Emeal Zwayne: Galatians 6.10,.
• 48:17
  Emeal Zwayne: Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all.
• 48:21
  Emeal Zwayne: Yes, especially to those who are of the household of faith, but to all, and let our light shine Amen.
• 48:27
  Mark Spence: Amen.
• 48:28
  Emeal Zwayne: Well, there you have it, friends.
• 48:29
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• 48:35
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• 48:44
  Emeal Zwayne: Thank you for joining us, friends.
• 48:46
  Emeal Zwayne: We'll see you here next time on the Living Waters podcast, the one podcast you can't wait but you did to turn off.
• 49:00
  Emeal Zwayne: That's so dumb.