We live in a time of urgent spiritual and physical need. That need is not simply right around us,

but rather all around the globe. And as the Church, God's hands and feet in this world, we have a mission to do.

Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast, the latest sermons from teacher, author, and

pastor David Platt delivered weekly.

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Radical.net, where our lives pass as quickly as a mist or vapor here on earth, so we must make them count for the spread

of his hope in this world of urgent spiritual and physical need.

We do not exist as a church just to coast through casual Christianity on a week by week

basis. We exist as a church for a mission. And that's where David Platt will end this series on 12 traits of a biblical church with today's trait

biblical mission from Romans chapter 15 and 16.

If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with,

let me invite you to open with me to Romans chapter 15.

I am coming to you today from the capital city, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and have been for the last 10 or so days here in this city with over 200 of our brothers and

sisters in our church and we were coming to the end of this series on biblical traits of a church and the

12th trait that everything has been leading to is biblical mission so we thought what better way to

think about biblical mission than standing on a rooftop in this city in

Ethiopia where 200 of our brothers and sisters have been

fanning out for the spread of the gospel and the glory of God over the last few days. I wish all of you could see

and we'll obviously be just at different times sharing stories and showing video

pictures so of what God has been doing here.

So we've talked about this before.

Washington, D.C. outside of this city,

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