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Radio. Build the church. Bless the nations. Knowing Jesus is the best gift that any person can receive.

That we've encountered him as the best thing that's happened in our lives,

and making him known by our word and deeds is our greatest joy.

If you're hungry for that encounter,

if you're dying to know the love of God, which alone makes sense out of life,

if you're longing to know that you matter so much and that his power can fill you with all that you need

so that you can be the man or the woman that you want to be, then join me and dig into the scriptures and the teachings of the church

so that we can find the life that Jesus has made us for.

Ave Maria Radio presents Christ is the answer with Father John Ricardo.

He's a priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit and is currently the executive director of a non-profit

organization called Acts 29, which exists to work with pastors and their teams to transform

their parish culture and reclaim the church's missionary identity. He was ordained in 1996. Father Ricardo spoke to

an ID 916 community in Ann Arbor, Michigan. These are men and women in their 20s and 30s,

married and single, were becoming intentional disciples of Jesus. But first, to open this edition, here is Pete Burak,

who heads up the ID-916 program nationally to tell us why ID-916 exists.

I am very excited for tonight. I've had it circled on the calendar for a while now because

the Lord is doing a lot with ID-916. And over the next several months, it's going to be my great privilege to roll out some new things that we're going to be doing, to grow our mission and just kind of dive into what does it mean to be an intentional disciple. So for the next several months, I'm going to get up here and just give a little bit of a vision cast. So IDI916. Why do we exist? We exist to help young adults, all of you, 20s, 30s, married, single, with or without kids, become intentional disciples of Jesus Christ. And we've talked about this, and we've laid out the four pillars of conversion, communion, orthodoxy, and mission. And we've broken them open now for multiple years. And I think if you look around the

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