You're a Bellows

When the fire is raging and it's not attended to, it goes down until it finally becomes just embers. It's barely alive and you come back with the bellows and you put air on it and you build the embers into a raging fire again. That's what you do! Welcome to the Ignite with Barry McGuire Podcast, where Barry's book and passion for spreading God's love are guaranteed to ignite your life. Now listen in and prepare to have your life ignited. Hi everybody, back to Ignite. I have a tool, a visual of my hand. I've never done this before. You know what this is? It's a bellows, okay? B-E-L-L-O-W-S. You know what a bellows does? A friend of mine, Dave Donaldson, who is the co-founder of CityServe, I think the greatest compassion program in the world, I really do. They, over a billion dollars worth of goods they delivered last year to hurting people from North Carolina to the Ukraine. And with no expense because it's done voluntary and sent through churches and what I like best is always done with the word of God. So they're not only feeding people and clothing people and getting people healthy and having furniture for their homes, but they're getting people saved. That's pretty exciting. Just getting people clothed and fed on their way to hell doesn't excite me too much. They have the whole package called CityServe chuck about. They're worth funding, I do hugely. They actually started this ministry. They came up with a concept, but he and his partner on the patio of my home and on Powell Island. So I've been invested for the beginning. Anyway, having sent all that, Dave came for a CityServe meeting here a few days ago and stayed at my house. And he brought me this. He says, Barry, you know what that is? And I looked at it. I said, I think that's a bellows, okay? Yeah, I said, why would you bring me a bellows? I mean, it looks real nice, pretty fancy. He says because that's what you are. I said, what do you mean? I'm a bellows, am I a bag of wind or whatever. He says, no, Barry, what does a bellows do? I said, well, I guess it starts a fire. He wants to start the fire. It builds the fire. Think about it. When the fire is raging and it's not attended to, it goes down until it finally becomes just embers. It's barely alive. And you come back with the bellows and you put air on it and you build the embers into a raging fire again. He's very, that's what you do. I like that concept. That's exactly what we do. And the sad part of it is that most Christians are down to embers. Now, the church is dead. The world's alive looking for God and the church is just sitting there dead and down to embers and complaining and you listen to their conversations. And you know what I'm talking about? You're surrounded by Christians like this because that's where the church is today. And without a testimony, really, and I'm talking about people that are going to church and giving their money, giving sacrificiality, love the Lord on the way to heaven, but no joy. They pissed out on the point of it. We're called to love God and love our neighbors. That's the whole point of being alive. Nothing else is required of us. And when we come alongside that Christian, when you come alongside those Christians and you know a lot of them and you take, you're the bellows now. Okay, and I just read and you start pumping air of them and getting them back to be excited about God where he becomes a source of their joy and their happiness and they become igniting the rest of America. We can win this battle. This is a pretty cool thing. Okay, understand this is not just for me. You're a bellows. Take advantage of it. And let's win this battle. Let's ignite America with the Bible one more time. God bless you. See you next time. The Gwire Podcast.