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If you have your Bibles, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to John

17 as we continue this series looking at what it means to follow Christ and make disciples of all

nations.

Pull out those notes from your celebration guide, and we're going to jump right in to the top there. A little review.

So far we've talked about two components that are involved in disciple making.

First component we talked about two weeks ago.

First component of disciple making that we've talked about is to share the word.

The second component that we talked about last week is to show the word. And the third

component that we're going to talk about this morning is to teach the word. Before we dive in

to this text, I want to give you a picture in your mind. A few years ago, you've heard me talk

about Jim Shattacks, who I studied under it in New Orleans. He and I went to a preaching

conference over in Scotland. And while we're there, we had the opportunity to play golf at the

old course at St. Andrews. The reason we went was for the preaching conference, but it sure

was nice to be able to play

golf at St. Andrews.

And so, so we were playing, got there to the first tea box, because there were only two of us,

and we got paired up with two other people.

It was a couple.

And we were just making small talk there on the first tea and asking them about their

lives and asked the guy. We said,

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