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It's just a reminder for you and me. I have to remind myself with this too. We're really into scale, like big stuff. We really are. But Jesus in his earthly ministry, he walked around a fairly small area, geographically, spoke mainly to smaller smaller crowds some incidences with the crowds were

bigger but he wasn't impressed by that nor was he uh striving for it no we kind of running away

yeah yeah he would say don't tell anybody anything yeah that's when he wasn't walking he was running

was to get away.

And we're so into, let's get the biggest possible thing.

We're so impressed by the scale, but the kingdom of God's not quite as impressed as we are.

By the way, let's think about that.

Like you said, Sherry just followed up that last thought off.

We weren't recording, but she said Satan actually tempted Jesus with maybe the crowds.

Yeah.

Right?

The scale.

The scale.

All these nations, all the power, all these things.

He's showing, he's showing him.

He took him out and showed him.

It is so American to build big stuff.

I just listened to a long podcast.

My friend Mike sent me about how the church growth movement started.

And actually the guy who kind of started it, he did start it. He wound up at Fuller Theological Seminary and then he influenced other people.

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