We'll happy new year and welcome back to another week of solid biblical teaching here

on Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Bitovich.

In 2022, our church, the Summit Church in Raleigh Durham, North Carolina, celebrated its

20-year anniversary, a real testament to God's faithfulness in this community that we call

home.

Well, 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.

It began 2,000 years ago with 11 frightened disciples on a hillside outside of Jerusalem.

We know you don't want to miss a single message here on the program, so if you ever find

yourself falling behind, you can always catch up on previous broadcasts at J.D. Greer.com.

But first, let's join Pastor J.D.

The writer of Hebrews thinking about all those that have preceded him is, 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

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