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Now for today's message, a few years ago, our church, the Summit Church in Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina,

celebrated its 20-year anniversary,

a real testament to God's faithfulness in our community.

Today, Pastor J.D. takes us on a march throughout all of church history

because the journey of a church doesn't begin when it's planted.

So, let's get started.

We're the writer of Hebrews thinking about all those that have preceded him.

He says, therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, so many and have gone before us and are waiting now in the presence of Jesus for us.

Let us run now that we've been handed the baton, now that it's our leg of the race.

Let us run like they did with patience and faith and endurance, the race that is set before us.

Let us, he says, look to the same Jesus that they look to.

Look to him to do through us what he did through them.

If you've been here for any amount of time,

you have heard me tell stories of how 20 years ago,

there was a group of about 300 brave men and women of God, saints of God, who joined

me in asking God what he wanted to do with this church. We always say that Gideon had his 300,

and that 300 was ours. These men and women committed to put the mission of God first, to trust God for the

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