The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

At the end of my message I'm going to have three groups of people stand up and so I want to tell you ahead of time lest you feel jerked around so that you can be

praying. Some of you are obviously in these categories and others of you will be in crisis as to whether you should

stand up. So here are the groups that I'm going to ask to stand and you can just

get your hearts ready for this and I'll tell you why I'm going to do that.

Number one, if you're already engaged in cross-cultural long-term mission.

So not short-term and not non-cross cultural,

but cross-cultural long-term, or you have been

and you're retired. so I'm expecting Greg and Sally to stand up

okay so that's a little tip off that that kind of people are included in that

category number two in that

you came to this event knowing God's call was on your life

into missions and just needing to be fired up and inspired and

maybe guided a little bit and and you're on your way and I want you to stand up.

And the third group is the one that's more difficult to get parameters around because they may be created in this moment.

And that's the group that senses now or 60 minutes from now, something will happen in the next minutes,

some serious stirring of God in your heart to move towards vocational, not short term, long term, cross-cultural missions.

You may have come with that stirring, it may have been begotten here or may happen in the next

minutes.

I do not ask you to be certain of it. I just ask you to say I think it's there it's

really strong and if something doesn't happen that's the direction I'm moving. So those are the three categories and I just want

us number one to be able to see that goer group. I want you to be able to say it's honorable to stand up for this and and I want us I

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