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Let me invite you to open with me to John Chapter 17.

As we dive into this chapter for the last time in this series on what it means to make

disciples of all nations, I want us to start by

reviewing and then do something a little different before we dive into the Word. We've

walked through up to this point three different components of disciple making. You've got in your

notes and your celebration guide there are the first three components of disciple making.'t forget, that doesn't necessarily mean these are chronological, but the three

components of disciple making that we have been looking at. First one is to share the word,

second one is to show the word, and the third one is to teach the word, which we dove into last week.

And the final component of disciple making that we're going to dive into this morning.

As we share the Word, we show the Word and we teach the Word.

We serve the world.

What I want us to do before we read from John 17 is I want us to get a picture in our

mind about how all of these connect together.

We've been looking into each one of these facets of disciple making and I hope realizing

that this is something that's intended to take place, carry out in our lives on a daily basis,

in our everyday lives. We've been talking every week about the people God has entrusted to us to share his word with and to show his word to and to teach his word to, that God has given us people right here to do that with. The disciple making happens in our everyday lives right here. You don't have to cross an ocean to make disciples. However, I want us to see how

what we do here is we make disciples relates to what we do across the ocean. And I want to

show you a picture of that on video and then ask Billy Edmonds to come up here and help us draw

the connections between these. Watch this with me. Praise the Lord. This is where it works.

What we do here, what we do there, they come together and are impact in the world for the

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