Hey podcast family, Miles Fidel here, and I want to welcome you to the All Christ Church podcast.

If you have been following along with our church, you probably know that we recently

adjusted our name from Auburn Community Church to All Christ Church, still hanging on to our identity as ACC,

but we recognize that normalizing radical discipleship to Jesus in the American Church

required a name change at the beginning of a new year.

And so if you're new to this podcast, welcome.

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Thanks so much for tuning in with us. Now let's prepare our hearts for this sermon from God's Word.

The title for this sermon to close out our 52 series is holy confrontation.

A holy confrontation.

What you just read was written a few hundred years before Nehemiah rebuilt the walls in Jerusalem. And yet it's the exact blueprint

for how he rebuilt the walls. And so a few years ago, spring break, three years ago, I was standing

on this stage and being commissioned out, just like the group that we just saw. And I went to

Ecuador. And I was leading our LDPs on this mission trip. And I've talked about this lot but ultimately I was wrestling with the question how do we as Americans go into a space and not hurt the community that we actually go to serve and so I was reading this book on the way to go there and it was titled when helping hurts I don't know if you read this book before and then if you don't know the story three years ago I ended up getting hurt I broke my whole face when I was on this trip in Ecuador. And a buddy thought it'd be good to take a picture of this. So here's a book, a picture of the book that I was reading with me with my broken face behind it. People don't know whether they can laugh or when helping hurts. As the kids say, that book hit deep. Okay. And so I got hurt on this trip. Okay, you can take it down. It's embarrassing. On the first night of this trip, though, what occurred is I felt this tension of what are we really here to do? What are we really here to serve these people? Is it about us? Is it? And I remember looking at this story at the end of prayer and fasting, 40 days, Jesus up back in the synagogue and he comes in the power of the spirit and he reads this.

And I want to read it to us today.

The spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind

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