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What's up, Sprout's Luke Helwig, full-time missionary back with you to talk about how you are called to be a missionary.

Today is May 3rd and the feasts of St. James and St. Philip.

And it's just perfect that we get the feast of these two disciples during our time talking about evangelization. We'll come back to them later. Do you remember where we left off? St. Athanasius said, you cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself. Well, what does that mean? Well, it means that we can't give what we don't have. Think of a well. A well is a, you know, a big hole in the ground that's

filled with water and we lower a bucket down and fill that bucket up and pull it out and we can

share that water with others.

But if that well is empty, it's just a hole in the ground.

Or another example. Think of a nice, hot day.

And you see a sign that says free ice cream.

And you walk over and you say, hey, I'd like some ice cream.

And that person says, oh, I actually don't have

any ice cream. How do you think you would feel? Disappointed, sad, maybe even angry. It's the same

with the good news of Jesus Christ. We first have to know and believe in our heart before we can

share it with others. So we have to be full of Christ in our own hearts.

We have to fill our bucket full of the love of Christ before we can overflow into others.

So how do we fill that bucket?

Well, I know about you guys, but I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

And so we're going to use that for our acronym, P, B, J, S,

peanut butter, jelly sandwich. So we got P. P stands for prayer. B stands for Bible. J stands for

joy. And S stands for sacrament. So let's look at each of those. Prayer. So prayer is what we call

the ongoing conversation that we have with God. In order to know someone, we have to talk to them

and get to know them. And so I encourage you to do that with the Lord. And I want to give you three

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