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slash Wednesday or on Facebook, Instagram, and the Paul Tripp app. This week, Paul urges believers

to see themselves as ambassadors for Christ, using their words to represent the gospel with humility

and grace.

Here's this week's Wednesday's work.

Last month, I was in Santiago, Chile, for a leadership conference.

All the pastors from across Latin America spoke Spanish. The previous year, I was in Santiago, Chile for a leadership conference. All the pastors from across Latin America spoke Spanish.

The previous year, I was in Geneva, Switzerland, where French was the primary language.

For these international trips, I need a translator on stage with me to communicate,

because I speak a different language than those who are listening.

As I prepare these talks, I do so differently than if I were

solely speaking or preaching in English. I need to take into consideration that the talk will be

twice as long, because everything is said twice. I also need to keep my sentences and thoughts

reasonably short so Diego and Florent can process and translate in real time. And I need to realize

that not everything that makes sense

to an American English audience will have an equivalent in a different language and culture.

As I was preparing my talks with this in mind last month, it hit me. Oftentimes, I don't prepare

the words I say in the context of my own life. I need to speak a different language, not Spanish or French. And by prepare,

I don't mean prepare as I would a plenary session or sermon. I need to speak with ambassadorial

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