Let me tell you in advance how I'm going to close, lest it come abruptly and you're put on the spot and feel pressured to make an unmeditated decision.

I'm gonna give you a chance at the end of the service to come forward for prayer, but not all of you, just a certain group. And I want you to be

praying about whether you're in that group or not. And the group would be defined something like this.

If you already know that God has called you to change

the place, the culture, the job that you presently have to align yourself with his mission

across the culture in a different way and you're headed that way. But more broadly than that, I'm very interested

in praying over whoever would assemble here at the end of the service, those of you for whom recently, perhaps just in this conference,

perhaps in recent months, God has awakened something new by way of real serious openness to a cross-cultural vocational

missions, whether in support or in direct church planting or some way.

But you're not sure.

And the prayer would be aimed toward bringing conviction and clarity to that sense of new openness and desire and eagerness that has awakened and you're not quite sure what to do with it.

So that's who will pray over at the end of the service and you can be pondering and if you're sitting beside a spouse and you didn't have a chance yet to tell her what God's been doing,

it might be good to whisper to one another about what your plan is at the end of the service. Now before I pray and ask God to help us one more time here in this wider conference,

let me tell you this, we've been together twice now talking about the goal of

God and bringing for himself among the nations to be known and to be praised and to be enjoyed and to be feared.

And we talked this morning about why that mission must exist in terms of missions because there's so much

sin and so much failure to relate to God that way in the world. And I just want to

strike the note tonight before I begin on this topic that this is going to get done.

This is not up for grabs this mission.

This is not hanging on whether I'm effective here or whether this church is committed here.

This is going to happen.

If you don't get involved, he will pass this church over. If I don't get involved, I'll just be left

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