Let me pray with you once more.

Father, we heard in the last hour about martyr missionaries and martyr givers. Martyrs don't come out of nowhere. They come from

places like this. They come from services like this. The Martin Burnhams and the Graham

Stains, the Chet Bittermans, the Ecuador Five, the Bonnie Witheralls. They just sat in ordinary churches, heard a call and went, and then they died. They were killed.

Hard for us to imagine that connection, sitting in a room like this.

So it is.

And so I do ask, Lord, for those 10.

10 people called, some of them have been struggling a long time with whether they should

yield to this inner longing.

Others awakened for the first time in this conference.

Maybe they just didn't even know there was a conference and they're here and you're going to touch

them in a way they never dreamed.

And then the 100, the radical martyrs

senders. Look, make this church like that.

They were good to host this conference.

Bless them in that way.

Draw them ever more deeply into their own mission here in Austin and to the nations.

Do exceedingly and abundantly beyond everything we could ask or think

for the glory of Christ that we've been singing about so beautifully.

In his name we pray, amen.

One of the things you do when you have lots to say that you can't pack into the text, you have several introductions.

And I have three introductions to this message because of things I want to say that are piled on top of what I want to say.

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