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In the few minutes I have, I want to share two realities that call for one response.

So we're just going to dive right in. Two realities. Number one, we live in a day of urgent need.

Over three billion people today are still unreached by the gospel.

And just to make sure we're using the same definition for that term,

unreached doesn't just mean lost, doesn't just mean apart from God in sin. Unreached means lost and you've never heard

the good news of how you can be saved from your sin and you likely don't have a Christian around you

or a church near you who can share that good news with you.

So sometimes people say, well, I don't know why we talk about unreached people around the

world. I mean, there's unreach people in my office or there's unreach people in my neighborhood,

but those people are not unreached. You say, how do you know?

Well, because they're in your office or your neighborhood.

They have access to the gospel.

You're right.

We're talking about people who practically today are being born and living and dying

and going to eternal judgment for sin,

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