Hello and welcome to the Bridgestown Daily podcast. My name is Pete Hughes. Together

with my wife, we lead a church in Central London called KXC. It's right the

half-london place called Kings Cross. So today I'm going to be stepping in for John

Mark, who is a dear dear friend. And before I launch in, can I just say how much

we love and appreciate Bridgestown as a church community having visited a year or

so ago and having tracked your story over the last 10 years. We planted KXC at a

very similar time to when John Mark and the team planted Bridgestown. So we've

tracked your story over the decade and have been just overwhelmed with

gratitude for your contribution to the worldwide church. The teaching that's

coming out of your community, the model, the example that you've set. You guys are

an inspiration and we love you dearly and feel a deep sense of connection with

you as a church family. So sending huge love from across the pond here in

London. Okay, if you've got a Bible, one you turn to Luke chapter four, we're going

to look at the story of Jesus entering into the wilderness and you can probably

see the connection that in this COVID-19 crisis, for many of us it has felt

like a wilderness, a place of deep discomfort, a place where things are stripped

back. The point of the wilderness at least biblically speaking is that when

everything else is stripped back, all the other attachments, all the other

idols dismantled in the wilderness, we discover what matters most and that's the

place where we encounter God and we begin to hear his still small voice of

affirmation over us. I believe that is what we're being invited into. So let's

look at the model of Jesus. Now in fact before we do that, let me just

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