As most of you know, Lighthouse is just one of dozen. Actually, it's one of hundreds of organizations that are funded by Be Rich.

Since we've been doing Be Rich, over 2,000 projects have been funded in part or whole by your generosity and the generosity of our network of churches.

And here's the really good news. We are not done yet. In fact, in fact, this is amazing. I love this.

I'm going to explain what I mean in just a minute. We are on the brink. When I say we, I mean,

our network of churches, we are on the brink of making history together and making the world

an even better place. And the world certainly needs to be an even better place.

We have an opportunity, I'll tease this out in a minute, we have an opportunity to do something

that has never been done before. And I'm not completely surprised because you are remarkable

people. And again, if you're here for the first time or you're watching for the first time,

you are looking in on or you're surrounded by some very remarkable people.

You are among people who aren't just believers.

We don't just call ourselves Christians because we're not just Christians in the modern sense of the term Christian.

You're surrounded by and we're committed to being doers, not simply believers, doers, and followers.

And specifically followers, followers of our king, followers of Jesus. We want to be Jesus followers. We're committed to being Jesus followers, people who

actually practice what Jesus preached because Jesus taught us to practice what he preached. You're

surrounded by adults and students and children who are choosing to participate

in what Jesus called the kingdom of God. It's a kingdom without borders. It's a kingdom without a

common language. It's a kingdom without a common culture. It's a kingdom of the heart. It's a

kingdom of conscience. And it's the kingdom introduced by our king and our

Savior, Jesus, who came to earth. And when I grew up in church, I didn't hear much about this. And it

wasn't until I began reading on my own the New Testament to understand this is the theme throughout

that Jesus says, I have come to institute a kingdom on earth, and anyone who follows me is

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