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Well, if you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on

with, let me invite you to open with me to Matthew chapter 28.

Today is not the day we're going to outline the specific plan for how we're going to impact

20 million people around the world with the gospel.

We'll dive more into that in the days to come.

My aim today is much simpler and much more significant.

So I want to show you from God's Word that if this is going to happen,

if we are going to impact millions of people around the world with the good news of Jesus,

it's going to take each and every one of us.

And it's going to take a radically different understanding of Christianity than most Christians

today have.

But if our understanding changes and if each and every one of us gets in on this,

I am confident it will lead to eternal life for multitudes of people around the world.

And it will lead to greater life for you.

So that's what I want to show you today.

Imagine the scene.

A small, ordinary group of men and women sitting on a mountainside.

None of them powerful, none of them wealthy, none of them powerful, none of them wealthy, none of them famous, none of them really

even noteworthy. They were nobodies. Fishermen, tax collectors, zealots, outcasts, all with complicated pasts and glaring flaws, hidden fears, and struggling faith. And this is the group that Jesus chose to change the world.

Literally. Days after conquering death, Jesus gathered them together, looked at each of them in the eye,

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