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pastor, author, and teacher David Platt.

I want to ask you just a simple question. You don't have to answer it out loud or raise your hand, but just think about this question.

I'll put it here on the screen. How many of you in any way have been impacted for good by McLean Bible Church?

And if you have, then your life, whether you realize it or not, has been impacted by the person I'm going to put here on the screen.

His name is J. Albert Ford, and he, along with five families, almost exactly 65 years ago,

decided to start McLean Bible Church.

So this is from a press clipping, April 1, 1961.

It says the McLean Bible Church will hold its first services

at 9.30 a.m. Sunday in the Chesterbrook School on Kirby Road in McLean, Virginia. Beginning Easter

Sunday and every Sunday thereafter, there will be a weekly service, a nursery at every service,

and a heartfelt welcome. So that was almost 65 years ago.

Let me just ask, how many of you were not born as of 65 years ago?

Raise your hand.

Okay?

And then keep your hand up.

If you were not born, or how many of you have moved to Metro D.C. sometime in the last 65 years. Raise your hand.

Like, that's, that's most of us. Do you realize, you can put your hands down,

God was at work through his people starting a church 65 years ago in the city that would

impact your life and my life today for good.

A church, we're thinking about it.

Many of you have come to know Christ.

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