To all of our digital disciples, watching across this camera and cities across the country

and places all around the world, you two are our family.

We get your testimonies, your emails, we get your posts on social media.

We know that our family is much bigger than the gathering in this room.

So to all of our digital disciples who are watching live right now, wherever you are in

the nation, and I know that there are people who get up at different times on the other side

of the world.

We welcome you into this room and into our gathering.

You are our family.

And to those in the room who are not followers of Jesus,

we're thankful that you are here.

We acknowledge the fact that you are in the room.

Today is the final message in a series called Kingdom Callings. where together as a church we have been teaching through Matthew chapter 10 and 11.

If you are not familiar with the word of God, Matthew was an outcast Jew who lived in the

first century AD.

He was saved or brought into the kingdom through an encounter with Christ in the first century

AD.

In the 60s AD, he writes his account of the life and ministry of Christ in a book that bears

his name called Matthew. That book has been preserved for us in the

New Testament of these holy scriptures it is the most red document in the history of the world

it is the document that the early church used for 1700 years to strengthen people in Christian discipleship.

Today we close out chapter 11.

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