I want you to close your eyes just for a minute.

Just close your eyes.

I want you to imagine yourself that you are living on an island, all by yourself.

And all you're doing is just sitting under a shade of a coconut tree.

I mean, you know nothing about the outside world.

I know it's impossible, but just try.

Now you can open your eyes.

And all of a sudden, one day a trunk washes ashore.

So you pry the trunk open.

And there you find a collection of Christian magazines and best-selling Christian books.

And so you grab all of these and you start reading.

And you're reading.

And you're reading about these Christians on the other side.

And as you read, you begin to piece together a picture of what the Christian world looks like.

Only from the magazines and the books you're reading.

Nothing else.

You don't know anything about anything else.

Just from reading these magazines and these.

You paint a picture in your mind.

There is no doubt that you're going to begin to think

that these people, these Christians, have lots of unmet needs, lots of unfulfilled needs.

Now, I'm not talking about real needs and I'm not talking about crushing needs.

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