How Do You Go “The Extra Mile”?

Today on the Christian Car Guy Show Ford Motor Company’s Steve Ling will join us live from Detroit to tell us how they got the 305hp 2011 Mustang to do it with an astonishing 31mpg highway beating their estimated 30mpg by one mile, even more amazing when you consider that a 4cyl Honda Accord is also rated at 31mpg highway.

So how do you get your car to get just one more mile per gallon, which would save you about a hundred bucks a year and perhaps six thousand in your lifetime? One hundred dollars towards your Lottie Moon offering this year that could go towards keeping a missionary in Botswana, or help out with Campus Crusade for Christ, or an offering to 40 days for life next spring.

I will get to all that in a minute, but more importantly are you going the extra mile in your life? Last week I was in Nashville for the National Religious Broadcasters Convention the NRB, and the highlight of my time there was when Mosab Hassan Yousef took the stage. He is the Author of the book Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices. Mosab was born in Ramallah, in the Palestinian West Bank in 1978. His father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, is a founding leader of Hamas, internationally recognized as a terrorist organization and responsible for countless suicide bombings and other deadly attacks against Israel. Yousef was an integral part of the movement, for which he was imprisoned several times by the Shin Bet, the Israeli intelligence service. He withstood torture in prison only to discover Hamas was torturing its own people in a relentless search for collaborators. He began to question who his enemies were. When he took the stage at the NRB you could see the Light of God in his eyes as he spoke of how Jesus said love your enemies. Someone had handed him a New Testament in prison and he saw the real God who loved him even though he had not known Him and was trying to kill, God’s people.

What won Mosab over to Christ was Matthew 5: ⁴¹ And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. ⁴² Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.⁴³ “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor^[g] and hate your enemy.’ ⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,^{[h] 45} that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I wish everyone could hear Mosab’s impassioned talk on loving the Muslims and hating their god. Just like me, the Muslims are simply sinners who need a savior. Frank Wright the president of the NRB in his final admonition to us asked that we picture ourselves in heaven and God has you there at the Throne and asks to see your file. He starts to thumb through it and says, “I see you were an obedient son, uh huh and you were so passionate about serving me and loving your brother and sisters.”

At that point you’re thinking, “What! That can’t be me He has the wrong file” you then see the tab on the file and it all makes sense, the tab says Jesus. That’s the good news Jesus cleaned out my file by dying on the cross. Then by believing really believing he died to clean out my file I can spend eternity with Him.

Now when my enemy says go a mile, how can I not see that my enemy needs that same file shredder I had. It’s love that drew me to the cross; it will be love that will draw him as well. That’s how it happened for Mosab.

Now back to how to get that extra mile of gas for the kingdom.

Robby’s Top Twenty Gas Savers

1. Pray, ask God to help you to be a good steward, and mean it!!!!

2. Don’t speed!!!! For many reasons, #1 it’s what the Bible says, Romans 13

3. Check mileage and record it!!!! You can’t manage what you don’t measure!!!! Go to https://www.fueleconomy.gov/mpg/MPG.do?action=garage

4. Air Filter?

5. Is your check engine or service engine soon light on?

6. Junk in the Trunk?

7. Tire Pressure?
According to your owners manual!!!*****Very Dangerous DON”T OVERINFLATE ***********

8. Alignment?

9. Synthetic or lower viscosity oil?? Up to 1% to 3%

10. Don’t fill up, (6 pounds per gallon of gas, 7 ponds per gallon of Diesel) 10 extra gallons = 1 bag of cement in your trunk) save up to 1%

11. Easy does it!!! Try not to lose your momentum!

12. Don’t be a click click clicker when filling your tank!!!!

13. Avoid any unnecessary air resistance…sun roof open or unnecessary racks!!!!!

14. Shortest Routes with most right turns and least traffic with fewest hills!!!

15. When buying tires go as small as your owner’s manual allows!!!

16. Test different fuels and octane levels

17. Park in the shade with the easiest possible exit route!!!

18. A/C use and open windows, Over 50 it’s not thrifty, when in town keep em down!!

19. Choose the Highway, (preferably interstate) less stop and go, smoother, much safer!!!

20. Leave yourself plenty of margin, time so you don’t have to rush!!!!!