At eighty-two minutes, Wyatt asks whether his audience wants a show or a class. His January 13 livestream includes homework: approach one person, express care, and ask whether you may pray. He wants beginners to try a conversation, with advice about what to do if someone declines or if going alone feels difficult.
An audience can become a room of learners
At 1:22:13, Wyatt describes church as a place that equips people for what they will do beyond the gathering. He asks whether viewers want entertainment or instruction with responsibilities attached:
It can be a show or it can be class. (1:22:13)
The class continues after listening. Wyatt wants viewers to become able to share faith while they are still beginners. Keep the homework beside the parts of the stream that stir agreement or emotion. What will you try, and what would you like to learn from trying it?
Ask what the teaching prepared you to do. “Care more” may be a sincere intention; Wyatt narrows it to an encounter with one person. Choose when and where you could make a respectful opening. You do not need to organize an event first, but you do need to leave room for an answer you cannot plan.
John 3:16 has a direction beyond the self
Earlier, at 19:56, Wyatt recites John 3:16. He notices how readily a familiar promise of salvation becomes exclusively a reassurance about our own future. He asks believers who trust that promise to consider what it means for somebody else.
Wyatt argues that believers should offer others the hope they have received. He sees sharing Jesus as giving something valuable to someone who needs it. That is his reason for the later homework: concern for another person should move a viewer to speak.
At 35:29, he traces concern for others back to recognizing God’s love for oneself. His challenge is personal before it becomes public. Habitually comparing your faults with somebody else’s can preserve a comfortable sense of superiority. Receiving mercy should unsettle that comparison. The person we were ready to dismiss is also someone God loves. Wyatt asks us to remember that as we approach them.
A preparation question follows from those two moments: whom do I find easiest to overlook, and would I want them to receive the hope I value? Answering that honestly gives the homework a recipient beyond people who already agree with you.
Decide whom your words are serving
The broadcast opens with Wyatt describing his grief over violent footage and political conflict. At 2:14, he resists treating people on an opposing side as the enemy. His concern includes people whose identity or beliefs he rejects. The force of that opening lies in his refusal to welcome their suffering.
At 48:17, Wyatt describes words that repeatedly tell someone they are worthless or will never succeed. He connects gossip and slander with his belief about witchcraft. Listen to the conduct he names: speech that crushes a person, and the pleasure a group can take in degrading them.
The homework also calls for attention to how you speak about people. A caring introduction will ring hollow if you ridicule the person afterward. Consider whether your comments about people like them have encouraged mockery, and whether you are ready to hear their side.
Wyatt’s instruction at the bus stop asks the beginner to express love. Taking that instruction seriously requires attention to the words used before, during, and after the encounter.
An introduction at the bus stop
At 1:24:02, Wyatt imagines walking up to someone at a bus stop. His proposed introduction explains that he has a relationship with God, says God loves the listener, expresses his own care, and asks permission to pray. He frames the meeting as someone being sent by God to that person. The emphasis is on their significance: they are worth noticing.
Keep the opening small enough to remember and clear enough to answer:
- Introduce yourself and explain why you want to speak.
- Say simply how your faith motivates the care you are offering.
- Ask whether the person would welcome prayer, then listen to the answer.
- Follow Wyatt’s advice at 1:24:53 to avoid turning the exchange into a debate.
He also mentions giving practical help when you have something to offer. Later in the stream, food and clothing appear among his basic provisions. Words and material care belong together in the kind of ministry he describes.
A beginner need not prepare answers to every objection before trying the assignment. Wyatt asks them to notice someone, explain the care their faith motivates, and offer prayer. When a question is beyond what you know, you can say so and still listen respectfully.
Rejection and company belong in the plan
Wyatt anticipates an uncomfortable outcome at 1:26:02. Someone may reject the approach or rebuke the person speaking. He does not promise every attempt will receive a grateful answer. That admission matters because a beginner might otherwise confuse a difficult encounter with having failed the whole assignment.
If the person refuses, thank them for hearing you and let the encounter end. Wyatt’s emphasis on meekness and his warning against debate belong in the response as well as the introduction. The care that brought you there needs to remain recognizable after a difficult answer.
Then he addresses fear about going alone. At 1:26:56, his practical answer is to bring somebody. At 1:27:57, while discussing a planned outreach, he explicitly welcomes people who only want to watch and learn. Participation can begin beside someone experienced, without pressure to take the lead immediately.
Choose a companion and a part of the encounter to learn. Watch how an introduction happens. Listen to the request for permission. Notice what changes when the other person answers. Your first contribution can be attention to the conversation before you try to lead it.
Wyatt’s vision of people left outside
Near 1:18:30, Wyatt describes a vision of a beautiful church with excellent singers and worshippers absorbed in the gathering. In his telling, Jesus enters from outside, where suffering and excluded people have been left, and challenges them. The vision brings his question home to the congregation: who remains outside its attention?
That picture connects with his later allusion to Matthew 25:40, the passage about service to the least being service to Jesus. At 1:24:53, he invokes it while discussing prayer and help. At 1:26:02, he asks viewers to consider the care with which they would offer something to Jesus himself.
Bring that picture back to the bus stop. The person receiving your attention deserves the care your faith inspires. An introduction, a meal, a prayer offered with permission, and a refusal heard without argument are small enough to attempt and meaningful enough to practice well.
Watch the full broadcast for the classroom question at 1:22:13 and the bus-stop example at 1:24:02. Hear the advice about rejection and company that follows. Then place the homework in your week: someone beside you if needed, one respectful opening, and enough time to listen to the answer.
Video moments
- 2:14Wyatt refuses to treat people across ideological differences as the enemyYouTube ↗
- 19:56Wyatt connects John 3:16 with offering hope to othersYouTube ↗
- 35:29Wyatt connects receiving God’s love with caring for othersYouTube ↗
- 1:22:13The audience chooses between watching a show and joining a classYouTube ↗
- 1:24:02A bus-stop conversation supplies the evening's practical homeworkYouTube ↗
- 1:26:56A companion is his answer to fear about going aloneYouTube ↗
- 1:27:57Beginners are invited to observe an outreach without obligationYouTube ↗
Scripture mentioned
- John 3:16
- Matthew 25:40
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