Transformative Power of Christ in Our Weakness

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "I believe with all my heart that God made the heavens and the earth and that he made you. And that he made me. And that he sent his son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for you. And he rose again, as we have sung, to set you free from everything that would obstruct and seek to destroy your life, so that one day we will be with him forever. And if that sounds like fiction to you, I'm praying that by the end of today, you would realize that this is solid fact." [01:02:56](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Jesus said in the Bible in John 6, 35 and I want you to hear this in the deepest way possible please because if you are here today and you are struggling there is an itch you cannot scratch there is a dryness in your life a searching which seems never ending you try to find in a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon or a speedboat it will not satisfy your soul but Jesus said I am the bread of life no one who comes to me will ever be hungry and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty again." [01:17:35](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "I know I sound like I'm a bit odd I assure you my brain is razor sharp and I feel quite trapped inside but despite that I've never felt such peace and you can have that too and all you need to do is say Jesus help me Jesus help me and he'll take care of the rest." [01:29:07](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "I want you to respond in the cold light of day to truth God loves you and he has a purpose for your life and sometimes he will take you down a rutted path to show you truth because you're so stubborn like me and sometimes he has to take us through brokenness so we can see light." [01:30:01](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "If you want to recommit your life to Jesus or say here I am God I want to be back with you 100% you may have had the appearance of being a follower of Jesus but you know deep down you're not or if you want to surrender to Christ for the first time again get off the fence the fence is very painful to sit on for a long time and then all I want you to do is put your hand up boldly now and say here I am God meet with me." [01:30:50](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "I don't come to you today with any great human strength anymore. My body is failing, but my hope in Christ is greater than my life. It's greater than any time in my life and I feel an inexplicable joy. And if you, I never used to cry much. I, men have emotions. We get hungry and all sorts, but, and I'm only crying at times, not because I'm sad. It's just in recent months. I've, I've, I've felt an overwhelming sense of God's love as I speak to people. I don't cry when I'm on my own, but when I stand before people, I feel his love for you and, uh, and I feel his strength when I'm feel weak and that's extremely precious thing." [01:01:05](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "I have had the privilege through many years of telling people about Christ, of traveling the world. I'm still attempting to do that. My wife was very frustrated that I went to the Congo, for example, a few weeks ago, which was very strange. Stupid. But we got back in one piece. And also back from Australia, preaching the gospel. I've been to some of the world's most toughest places telling people about Christ. I sat in the living room once with an ex-member of the provisional IRA and a member of an undercover unit in the former Royal Ulster Constabulary. In the cellar. I sat in the same living room. They were eating tea cakes with strawberry jam. And I said to them, how can this be? Because I didn't know what they were or who they had been when I was invited to meet the men's breakfast planning committee. And they said, we used to hunt each other on the streets of Belfast. But now we are brothers. And we pray together. How extraordinary, I thought. Nothing in the world can do that other than the message of Christ and the power of his spirit." [01:04:09](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Let me tell you friends if you've been wronged if you've been the recipient of hurt your God my God our God can heal that hurt through the cross it says in the Bible that by his wounds you were healed now I know you might think that's a weird thing for you to say because you don't look very healed but I'll get a new body one day so put that in your pipe and smoke it anyway and so we talked about that and about injustice and how the injustice the wars he fought and the pain he felt could be dealt with we talked about his identity and let me be very clear your identity is not in what you do or the accumulation of possessions or some great skill at bass fishing pain your identity is in the fact that you are a son or daughter of God by Romans 8.15 by the Holy Spirit we cry I have a father know that we're children of God." [01:24:03](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "And the minute I said Jesus help me I could hear all the birds in the woods I could hear the birds singing again and we went back to my cabin and he unwrapped the board rubber which had never been used and he wiped it clean and just what Jesus does he wipes your slate or whiteboard clean and he wrote on it John Partridge the son of God the father and friend and his life changed beyond all measure one night he was reliving the terror of battle again and he said an entity appeared in his dream and it was pure love and all the fear and terror went through the entity and he said I've never felt the fear again he said it was better than morphine on the battlefield that's our God and that's our saviour and he can be your saviour too he can give you peace in your heart and help you hear the birds song again." [01:26:36](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "I know time is short but would you allow me to just tell you about my great friend Sean Sean lives down the road from me I live in an extremely poor area it's a bottom 1% area of deprivation where I'm engaged in mission with my wife and Sean is a little man and you used to see him walking his dogs and he'd never look you in the eye and I've discovered where he lived and his curtains were always closed anyway I haven't got time to go into all of this but it turned out that he was a sergeant major in the parachute regiment and he'd been in three wars he'd been shot a couple of times blown up a few times he's a bit of a liability actually and he was suffering from major combat PTSD he'd been the sniper and also part of an elite rescue team he was a pathfinder special forces type and he used to go in the heat of battle and pull people out under a hail of machine gun fire he rescued many people and did a lot of damage to rescue people and he watched his best mate get blown up on the Kajaki minefield he couldn't get to him in time and the net result was years later he was sleeping on the floor constantly reliving the terror of battle and he was a broken man we got alongside him and helped him get his war pension because I run a whole load of rescue centres that help people from conception to grave in the poorest of places and so we were able to professionally help him and I built a relationship and after six months I said to him I'm doing this thing I talk about Jesus a lot on Facebook the other day it said talk about your job in a boring way I said I've been talking about the same person for 35 years and I said I do that a lot would you like to come with me and then afterwards I'm going to watch some Christians do Kung Fu mixed martial arts which in retrospect was not a good idea for someone with combat PTSD but we spent all day together and he cried on the road all the way down and all the way back we got back at 2 in the morning at 8 in the morning he sent me a text he'd never been round my house but he sent me a text saying I need to come and see you so I put the coffee pot on extra strong and he came round he'd never been in my house which is important for you to know and I said Sean why do you need to talk to me he said I had a dream last night and in my dream there was a whiteboard standing next to a small chair in a rectangular building and on the whiteboard was written airborne soldier identity and injustice and I smiled because what he didn't know was that I'd just put a rectangular cabin in my garden and I'd bought a cheap chair from Facebook Marketplace for 20 quid it was a bit sticky actually and I'd also bought a whiteboard in which my wife was fuming about because it was 70 quid and I can't write but I knew more because of Parkinson's and my wife said why did you buy it and I said I thought the Lord told me to so I and the whiteboard and the pens and the rubber were still wrapped in plastic I said to Sean you must come to my cabin with the coffee as he walked into the cabin he exclaimed in power language oh my goodness that's my dream and we unwrapped the whiteboard and he wrote on it because I can't write anymore airborne soldier identity and injustice and we spoke for two hours about how the cross deals with all injustice." [01:18:23](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)