Becoming a Friend of Jesus | Pastor Dick Brogden | Revival Sunday Venture Church

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All right, I'm going to take a moment longer. I

want to encourage you to be back at six o'clock tonight.

That will be a tremendous opportunity. Who in this room

knows Pastor Tony Matar Let's go. That's our homegrown boy

who's leading our Seattle location. He's amped to be back

this week. I met with him on Wednesday and he

has a message that he feels Jesus is placed on

his heart for you, so I really hope that you'll

be able to join us. I also want to come

back up because I want to introduce to our speaker

for today, Pastor Dick Brogden. I have been excited for months.

As soon as I found out this was a possibility,

I've been like ramping up the staff and telling everybody

i can. This man is a hero to me. Let

me say that carefully. He's a hero for the way

that he submits and works alongside Jesus. He's an example

to me and to many, and among the assemblies of

God missionary movement, he is legendarily faithful. He is one

of the leading and co founding voices of Live Dead,

a missionary organization that we support and have missionaries from

Venture that serve.

With Live Dead.

They are dedicated to sending spirit filled people to unreached

people who need to hear the good news about Jesus.

And today he's here to share a little bit with

us what that looks like and how we can participate

in it. It's a great privilege. So would you do

me a favor and join me in welcoming Pastor Dick Brogden.

If you have your Bibles, would you open to the

Gospel of John chapter fifteen. I'll be read reading from

verse eleven through verse sixteen. If you don't have your

Bibles with you, the text will be also up on

the screen John chapter fifteen, beginning at verse eleven, and

in honor of God's word, if you can, would you

stand these things. I have spoken to you that my

joy may remain in you, and that your joy may

be full. This is my commandment that you love one

another as I have loved you. Greater love has no

one than this, than to lay down one's life for

his friends. You are my friends if you do whatever

I command you. No longer do I call you servants,

for a servant does not know what his master is doing.

But I have called you friends. For all things that

I heard from my father, I've made known to you.

You did not choose me, But I chose you and

appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and

that your fruit should remain. That whatever you ask the

Father in my name, he may give you. This is

the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. You

may be seated. So five times you probably noticed in

this text the word love is mentioned. And so there's

obvious inference to the first and greatest commandment that we

should love the Lord, our God with all of our

beings ransom powers. But I think there's also a missions

contection connection to this text, and so that mission's premise

that I want to unpack a little bit this morning,

is this fulfilling The great commission is how we obey

the great commandments. We've been told to love God and

to love one another, but we can't really love him

if we don't love the world if we don't love

the men and women that He has created all around

this earth. And what I'd like to do is just

step back and look at the world for a second.

There's now over eight billion people in the world, and

sociologists tell us that those eight billion are gathered in

what we call a people group. A people group has

its own language, it has its own culture, it has

its own religion, and it has its own geography. When

the Bible talks about nations, it's not talking geopolitics. So,

for example, Pakistan is not the nation of the Bible.

The Bible's talking about the Ethne. There's more than seven

hundred and seventy ethne in Pakistan. Each of them have

their own language, culture, religion, et cetera, like I just mentioned.

So the Bible interested in all of those fifteen thousand

people groups of the world, and that numbers more than

eight billion.

Now.

Of those fifteen thousand people groups, seven thousand are what

we call an unreached people group. An unreached people group

can be understood qualitatively and quantitatively. If you're looking at

the quantity the number an unreached people group has less

than two percent evangelical, less than two believers out of

one hundred that know Jesus, and qualitatively, those believers are

so few, marginalized, persecuted, that they cannot take the Gospel

to their own people without external catalytic help. In other words,

they still need missionaries. So seven thousand of the fifteen

thousand people groups the nations of the world are unreached.

Within that four thousand and seven hundred eighty eight are

what we call frontier peoples, less than one believer out

of a thousand, and insight of that are what we

call unengaged peoples. And an unengaged people has no missionaries.

It has no Christians, It has no Bible translation, it

has no Christian radio, has no Christian school, it has

no Christians that we know of.

So think of this, two.

Thousand years after Jesus died for the nations of the world,

they're still on your watch and mine. More than two

thousand of them that have never ever heard about Jesus,

that don't have access to the Gospel, don't know how

to follow Jesus even if they want it. And I'm

here in part this morning because I'm trolling for apostles

and what that means is I am believing with your

pastors that God is going to raise up from this congregation,

from some of you men and women who say, I'm

going to go to one of those unengaged people groups,

I'm going to proclaim Jesus, I'm going to see the

first disciples in history from that language and from that tongue.

And one day we'll celebrate that in heaven. So that

is why we're here today. It is a missions Sunday.

Now our text says this, you are my friends if

you do whatever I command you Verse fourteen, Verse fifteen.

No longer do I call you servants dulos, for a

servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've

called you philos, beloved friends. For all things I've heard

from my father, I've made known to you. You guys,

remember some years ago Wesa sing I don't know if

you sang it here. For used to sing in church

this little song that said, I am a friend of God,

I am a friend of God. I am a friend

of God. He calls me friend. Anybody remember that. So

I had a friend traveling in South Asia using a

little mountain church, and they wanted to welcome him by

singing an English song. Unfortunately, their vocabulary in English didn't

match the robust nature of their hospitality, so they didn't

quite get the song right. And this is what they sang.

I am afraid of God. I am afraid of God.

I'm afraid of God. He calls me Fred. Well, maybe

the Lord doesn't call you Fred today unless that's your name,

but he us call you friend, and I'd like us

to look into that a little bit.

A little while.

Ago, my son said, Dad, let's watch a movie. He

picked a movie. It's actually a one man production by

a guy named Dean Jones, but it was turned into

a movie called Saint John in Exile. And in this movie,

it's talking about John the Beloved as an old man

on the island of Patmos, and he's looking back on

his life and he tells her the first day that

he met Jesus. And in the film, the actor says this,

from the first moment I saw him, I said he

needs a friend. And this might sound strange to you,

but I felt that I could be that friend. And

that's exactly the way that it turned out. I don't

know if this has happened to you ever watching a

movie and you see a phrase or you hear something,

and then you're watching the rest of the movie, but

you're not. That happened to me because when the actor

says those words, my mind exploded. I thought, how dare

the actor put those words into the mouth of the

apostle John, how dare he insinuate that incarnate God is needy,

that Jesus was.

Needy for anything?

And the thing I was struggling with Theologically is called

a sayety. The a saiety of God comes from a

Latin construct of oneself, and by definition it is God

exists in and of himself, independent of anything else, and

does not need creation, creatures, or any external cause to

sustain or complete him. If that's obtuse, here's the reader's

digest version. God doesn't need you, He doesn't need me. God,

Almighty Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, completely content within themselves,

completely fulfilled before the creation of the world, did not

need Adam, did not need Eve in order to be complete.

God in his infinite wonder, does not need you. This

is the a sayety of God. And yet flesh and

blood and fearful Abraham could be called his friend multiple

times in scripture. If human stuttering agitated, Moses can speak

with him face to face, if Enoch could walk with him,

if Jacob could wrestle him. Then wonder of wonders, without

knowing how all of this works, could it be that

the God who needs nothing needs you to be his friend?

And I'm talking about giving friendship, not just receiving it.

We have all received friendship from Jesus, for those of

us who've been walking with him. What a friend we

have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear.

But Jesus doesn't have any sins for you to bear,

and he is almighty, Thank God for the incarnation. God

come close, God made flesh, so he understands us. So

how in this unequal relationship can we give legitimate friendship

to Jesus? What does that look like? So I've been

putting that into terms of human constructs so I can

process it. And I thought, well, what do I need

as a friend as a human And the first thing

I need as a friend I need encouragement for my friends.

So I've decided I'm going to encourage my friend Jesus.

I was outside of one of our livedad launch teams recently.

Mabassai Kenya.

I saw this big mango tree, and I looked at

that tree, and I thought, good job, Jesus. You did

a good job when you made that tree. And could

we not the people of God every morning when we

wake up, could we not praise Him for the beautiful sunrise,

or the mountains, or the waters, or some aspect of

his creation, or just keeping us.

Alive in the night.

And for some of you that's more a miracle than others.

But isn't God amazing He's kept all the atoms of

the universe together. Isn't Jesus doing a great job as

king of the universe? And would you not agree with

me that when God made Pastor Die and Pastor Brandon, that.

He did a darn good job.

And maybe when you see your children today and you

pick them up if you have them, or go see

an elderly parent, you need to say to them, you know,

sweetie pie, when Jesus made you, he did good. Can

we encourage our friend Jesus. Human friends also defend one another,

And so I've decided I'm going to defend my friend

Jesus when a twisted world slanders him, or when a

confused church misrepresents him. Where in someone that we trust

and looked at too falls into sin of one kind

or another. Could we stand up and could we sin

a loud voice? That's not Jesus. He doesn't carry on

that way. That's just flesh and blood like you and me,

somehow gone astray. But that's not Jesus. And I know him,

and I walk with him, and I talked with him

just this morning, and he's kind and he's merciful, and

he's holy, and he's faithful, and he's good and he's true.

So don't you dare slander my friend Jesus. Wouldn't you

do this for your friend or your child or your

family member if somebody slanders them, if somebody lies about them.

Are you just gonna sit back there and take it

or will not something within your own spirit rise up

and be provoked and you say, don't talk about.

My friend that way.

I want to do that for my friend Jesus. I

also want to stand with him. Like your pastor. I

love sports, all kinds of sports. I love sports history.

Some of you might know the name Jackie Robinson. He

broke the color barrier in baseball. He was the first

African American brought into play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and

for that he was vilified. He was abused, he was scorned,

he was cursed at, and on a particularly difficult day

for Jackie Robinson, pee Wee Reese, a white player, ran

over to him and just put his arm around Robinson's

shoulders and he stood with him, and he absorbed that

abuse with his friend. I want to do that for

my friend Jesus, when the world scorns him, when the

world rejects him, when the world abuses him. I want

to jog on out to the nations and I want

to put my armor on Jesus, and I want to

say I'm with him. I am my beloved and he

is mine, and his banner over me is love. So

if you don't like Jesus, then you don't like me.

And if you reject Jesus, then you reject me. And

if you're going to scorn or kill Jesus, you're gonna

have to do the same thing for me, because I

stand with Jesus. And that's easy to say with others

who also stand with him. But we're not that different

from the disciples. Do you remember they said to him, Oh,

we're going to stand with you, Jesus. Even if everybody

else rejects you, we won't reject you. They even said,

even if we have to die with you, we'll with you.

And then just a few minutes later, Peter says, I

don't even know the man, because intrinsically, every single one

of us wants to be liked. We want to be respected,

we want to be thought well of, especially in this

cancel culture times. The problem with that is if you're

really gonna stand with Jesus, if you're going to stand

with the one who describes himself in this world, you

are not going to be popular today. In fact, in

verse eighteen, Jesus says, the world hates me, and then

he goes on to say the world's gonna hate you.

In verse twenty four, he says, the world hates the

father and the son. If you really are gonna stand

with Jesus, if Jesus is going to be your friend.

You are not going to be liked in the world.

In fact, Jesus goes on he says, woe do you

if all men speak well of you? He says, it's

been granted to you not only to believe on my name,

but to suffer from my name, and it says everyone

who desires to live a godly life in Christ, Jesus

will face person. That's what it means to be a

friend to Jesus and to stand with him. Are you

willing to pay that price? I also thought in friendship

that we need to offer consolation for one another. We

know that some things made Jesus cry. He cried at

the tomb of his friend Lazarus. He cried just a

few verses later, trying to console Jerusalem. How I long

to gather you under my wings, but you weren't willing.

We know that any form of injustice, or racism, or

poverty or trafficking makes Jesus cry today. But how do

you think Jesus thinks about a world that there's three

point nine billion people that are unreached, seven thousand people groups,

two thousand unengaged people groups. Think of that Jesus died

for the sins of the world two thousand years ago,

and two thousand years later, there's still two thousand people

groups who have never heard his name. Do you think

Jesus likes that or do you think it bothers him? Well,

if it does bother you, you're not his friend, because

friends enter into the brokenness the sorrow of one another.

Compassion means to suffer with. And if you're the friend

of Jesus, the things that break his heart are going

to break yours. And Jesus is broken hearted that there

are two thousand people groups on this earth who've never

ever heard the Gospel, and he wants you to do

something about that. And that leads me perhaps to the

most important aspect of friendship, and that would be trust.

Think about your best friend in all the world. Think

about the one you have the most intimacy with. It

might be a spouse or a family member or friend.

But think of the trust that you have with one another.

And if that friend asked you for help, would you

help them or would you ask for an application or

for them to submit their CV The resume No, if

you love them, if you have intimacy, if you trust

them and they ask you for help, you're gonna help them.

And vice versa. Well. Shockingly, astoundingly, the God who needs

nothing has asked you and me for his help, and

Jesus has trusted to us the thing that is most

important to his heart. In the text, he said, you're

my friends, because everything the Father has told me, I've

told you. You know the plan. You guys know the

meta narrative scripture. You've got a pastor and a teaching

team that walks you through the scriptures month by month,

year by year.

And you've read Genesis.

You know that Abraham was blessed to be a blessing

to all the nations of the world. And you know

the psalms that the nations are inheritance, and so I'm

sixty seven.

All the nations will praise you.

All of them will come before the throne.

And you know the prophets.

Jonas sent to the Assyrians in Iraq, and the prediction

that Galilee of the Gentiles will see a great light.

And you know the Commissions and the Gospels.

Every every tongue, every people, every nation, and you know

how the book ends in Revelation chapter seven, verse nine,

there will be a multitude, not one, not one Samali,

not one Afghan, not one Iraqi. There will be a

multitude of every tribe, tongue, people in nation.

You know the plan.

You know that God at that great banquet table is

collecting a people for himself from all the peoples of

the world. This is why he died, This is why

he rose, This is why he has sended, This is

why he's coming back again in glory.

You know this. You're his friends.

And because you know this as his friends, he has

trusted you with what's most important to his heart. He's

trusted you to evangelize his world. He gave it to you, sir.

He gave it to you, the youth on the front row.

He gave it to you, ma'am. He didn't give to armies.

He didn't give it to presidents. He didn't give it

to politicians or programs. He didn't give it to United Nations.

He didn't give it to universities because he could not

trust them with it. But because you're his friends, he's

trusted you to evangelize his world. You might be thinking, well,

I didn't choose that. The Bible says verse sixteen. You

did not choose me. But I chose you and appointed

you that you should go and bear fruit. Who me?

You might be thinking, chosen to be a missionary, be

that first one into the Amazon basin, or North Korea,

or the deserts of Arabia or the bastions of secular Europe.

Who me?

But I'm too weak, I'm too foolish, I'm too powerless,

I'm too sinful. I'm too young, I'm too old, I'm

too tired, I'm too afraid.

I'm too broke, I'm too broken.

How could God ever use me to evangelize his broken world?

The Bible answers that for us First Corinthians. But God

has chosen the foolish things of the world to put

to shame, the wise and the weak things to shame,

the things that are mighty, that no flesh to glory

in his presence. But of Him, you are in Christ,

Jesus Christ, the power of God, and Christ the wisdom

of God. Andrew Murray put that in this pithy line,

deep in the inmost recess of his being, hidden and unfelt,

every child of God has the mighty Spirit of God.

A couple questions, Is God or is he not? All powerful, almighty,

all knowledge, all resource.

Is God Almighty or is he not?

And does Almighty God by the Spirit live in you?

Or does he not?

And if Almighty God by the Spirit lives in you,

then don't you dare say you can't be a missionary?

You are his currency. He spends us as he wills.

And if God says that you can be a missionary,

you can be a missionary. Maybe your question is not

about sovereignty. You don't doubt that God has all power

and he can do with the clay whatever the master

potter desires. Your question is more like that little teenager

all those years ago who gets pregnant outside of wedlock

and without sex. I'm talking about Mary and Luke chapter one.

She just says, how can these things be? Because I

do not know? And the answer for Mary is the

answer for you. The power of the Holy Spirit will

come upon you, and the Most High will overshadow you.

For with God, nothing is impossible. So let's address the

how question should Jesus and I believe he is with pastors.

I believe Jesus is calling some from this room to

be a missionary. If that is true, how will that?

How can you do that? Well? The first answer for

us has found in Acts chapter four, verse thirteen. Peter

and John have been used to heal a layman. It's

caused confusion consternation by these religious authorities because these are

country bumpkins from Galilee. How did they get the power

for God to use them to heal a layman. And

the answer is given for us in the text. It says, now,

when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and

perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled,

and they realized that they had been with Jesus. Now,

tech team, just hold that slide there for a second,

because those two words in Greek are very helpful for us.

That word uneducated is a grammatos ah means without. Grammatose

means letters. They were without letters. And do you recognize

what English word we get from untrained? What English word

do we get from idiotes? Anybody recognized that word? And

when they saw that they were unlettered idiots, and yet

somehow the power of God flowed through them to heal

a layman, then they realized that they had been with Jesus.

Jesus has put his treasured commission into the hands of

his uneducated and idiotic friends. Does anybody feel that you

qualify here? You're a gramatose idiotos? Anybody like that, well,

welcome to the club. Because you don't have to have

a PhD. You don't have to have thirty years in ministry,

you don't have to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

But you can be used to make disciples about the nations.

If you will be with Jesus, raise your hand. If

you think you could be with Jesus, could you spend

time with Jesus. Congratulations, you can be a missionary. There's

a second how to this as well. We as a

fellowship of part of a wider movement that's called the

Assemies of God and the world Thessemis of God fellowship

around the world is now ninety million people in over

four hundred and fifty three thousand churches. We're big, we're influential,

We're all over the place. But that's not how we started.

We started very poor, and we started very simple, and

we started in a little run down storefront chapel on

a Zeus's Street in Los Angeles, California, in nineteen oh six.

There was an eyewitness there and this is what he wrote,

second paragraph. That cleared space enough in the surrounding Durton

debris to lay some planks. They put them in a square.

We found a dozen saints there and then this beautiful

expression the color line next slide was washed away in

the blood. It was led by a man named William Seymour,

African American. He took two shoe boxes and he put

them on the ground and he would stick his head

in those shoe boxes and pray. And they were humble

and there is no arrogance there. And they were Latino,

and they were white, and they were male and they

were female, only twelve of them. But they changed the world.

Why that eyewitness Frank Bartleman. He went on to say,

they were expecting God to baptize their strength instead of

their weakness. But baptize their weakness is what he did.

And you know how it happened. You know how they

changed the world. You know how that grew to ninety

million people globally. Do you know how it went across

every nation and tongue in this hemisphere and beyond. You

know how we are friends to Jesus. You know how

we steward his trust just by doing what they did,

just by doing this, putting our heads in those proverbial

shoe boxes, humbling ourselves and praying. And every one of

us can do this. I'm not saying that everyone in

this room should be a missionary. Don't live under that condemnation.

But I am saying everyone in this room should share

the mission's heart of God. And this is how it starts.

And not of you are exempt. You don't need a passport,

you don't need money. You can be retired, you can

be infirmed, you can be young. Every single one of

us can humble ourselves and pray. In those early days

of Pentecost, Edith Blumhoffer wrote a book about it called

Pentecost in My Soul, and she said there was actually

two reasons they were praying for the power of the

Holy Spirit. We're familiar with one. We've kept one right

and true as it is, and it's Acts one eight.

Power to be witnesses, and yes, that is very valid.

But there was another power they were praying for, and

we've forgotten that a little bit. She says, it's revealed

in their hymnity. We look at how those early Pentecostal

pioneers sang and we learn what they're praying about, because

the saying things like this, would you be free from

the burden of sin? There's power in the blood.

Power in the blood.

Would your evil a victory win? There's wonderful power in

the blood. Do you know what they were praying about

when they were praying for the power of the Holy Spirit.

They were praying for the fire of God to fall

from heaven and to burn up sin. And they believed

that the wonderful power of the Holy Spirit could not

only free us and save us from sin, it could

keep us from.

Sin and we could live a holy life.

The Bible doesn't call him the power spirit or the

ministry spirit. The Bible says he's the Holy Spirit.

And when we buy his power, live and.

Walk sanctified, consecrated, holy, then he can trust us with

his power to evangelize his world. You want to know

how we evangelize the world by prayer and by saying, Lord,

we are weak and we are foolish, and we cannot

do it in our own strength. And it's not by performance,

and it's not by show, but it is by your

Holy Spirit. Do you know why we speak in tongues?

We've made it so ridiculous these days as some litmus hower. Oh,

look at that man of faith and power. He's followed

the spirit and he speaks in tongues. You know why

we speak in tongues because we're idiots, because we don't

know what to do, because we don't have the power

because we don't.

Have the strength.

And we say, Lord, unless by the Spirit you pray

and work and talk and act through me.

I can't do anything.

But if I am full of the Holy Spirit, I

can change the world. How do we steward this trust that.

Jesus has for us?

Spend time with Jesus and we get down on our knees,

black and white, Araban, African, Asian and European, and together

we pray that Jesus would fill and possess us with

the Holy Spirit, because it's all by through and for him.

There's one more. How lived a team leader in China

meeting with some elders, all of whom had suffered and

been persecuted, all telling their stories, all except the last one.

The evening came to a close, and he said, uncle,

you were in prison longer than anyone, you suffered more

than anyone else. Is there anything that you would like

to share? And that old man just lifted his eyes

to heaven and said, is he not worthy? Is Jesus

not worthy of whatever it would cost us to take

the Gospel to the ends of the earth, to leave

family and what's convenient and comfortable, Because he's worthy my

wife Jennifer and I now thirty four years. We've been

in the Arab world as missionaries, some difficult places Mauritania, Sudan,

Saudi Arabia and others. But our testimony to you is

it's the best job in the world to make disciples

of Jesus where they've never existed before. It's the hardest

job in the world, but it's the best job in

the world, and there is no greater joy. David Livingstone

agreed with that. He wrote back from his time in

exile in Africa, and he said, for my own part,

I've never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me

to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I've

made and spending so much of my life in Africa

away with the word sacrifice, say rather, it is a privilege.

I'm not saying everyone in this room is called to

be a missionary. But as I mentioned before, we're all

called to steward our friendship with Jesus and to honor

the trust He's put in us the church to evangelize

his world. We're all to have mission's heart, and that

starts in prayer. Thank you for praying for missionaries. I

saw it out on the video wall, praying even for

Egypt today and those colleagues of mine that you support there.

Thank you for praying, and maybe your response today is

to go deeper into prayer for the nations. This church

has supported missions so generously all around the world. Thank

you for that. Thank you for being generous to us.

We're grateful. And maybe you're in the marketplace and God

has just giving you the ability to generate wealth. He's

given you favor, and maybe your response to friendship and

stewardship with Jesus is to do something in the days, months,

year to come that is so lavish and generous, beyond

anything that you thought or dreamed. And you would say,

and this isn't a sacrifice, this is a privilege. And

maybe there's some of you today, young or experienced, and

the Lord is just speaking to you, calling you to

go make disciples where they've never been made before, amongst

the unengaged and unreached peoples. And your response is to

meet with pastor Christian and staff and say what's my pathway.

I'm feeling stirred and it would be my joy. We're

going to pray now. I've just asked to pray along

these lines we're going to do without any music, and

just sit quietly before the Lord. And the first prayer

I'd like us to ask is Jesus, how do you

want me to be your friend? Not just for today,

but months the years ahead. I've received so much from you, Jesus,

how do you want me to give you friendship? I

shared things I'm working with, but friendship so personal? Would

you just ask Jesus how he wants you to give

him friendship? And then would you ask him, Jesus, how

do you want me to steward your trust to angely

is your world? You close your eyes and bow your heads,

and let's just sit quietly in those questions for a moment.

Father God who made us, loves us, invites us in making.

Jesus who made the way, who rescued us, invites us

and gives us the joy of participation. Holy Spirit who

fills us, convicts us and encourages us. I pray that

you'd cement every prayer, every question that was offered to

you today. I pray that you would speak clearly to

every son and daughter about how they might return friendship

to you and participate in your great mission in Jesus Name.

We pray Amen well Venture Church. Those of you who

got to join us online. I was so glad that

you got to be here for this Sunday. I think

this is just one of those important sundays that marks

the culture of a place. We want to give you

several ways to respond. As always, we have the What's

Next page You can find that on the app. Pastor

Diabiels has been working on it. Like yesterday, she was

still getting this ready for you to respond to this message.

If you need to go talk to Pastor Dick Brogden,

he'll he couldn't escape that spot last service, but come

find him or find him out in the lobby. Pastor

Debeca Howard will be manning the Kingdom Builder corner which

is over by the front door. If you feel a

call to mission and just want to like what is

the first step, or you want to hear more about

Kingdom Builders, you can go find her out there. I

just want to say to you from the bottom of

my heart, as the one who pastors and Steward's Kingdom Builders,

it is my hope that you will feel invited into

this great call to go to give, to pray, to support,

thank you for being radically generous already so that we

can support missionaries and organizations like Live Dead. But I

pray that this will encourage your heart to pray, to

get and maybe to go. Our students are also out

there today. They're raising resources for summer camp that's coming up.

They've got a bake sale going on, Heidi Fox bake sale,

so you know that's worth it. If you know with that,

I'd love to invite you to stand on your feet.

I want to send you out with a blessing.

Here this good news.

The Lord Jesus Christ, who calls you and redeemed you,

knows you entirely. He is not surprised by anything that

is going on inside of you. So if he is

inviting you to walk out his mission, then go in

his name, his strength, and his courage. We send you

in his piece. Amen.

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