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So you got a Bible, and I hope you do.

Let me invite you to open with me to Matthew chapter 28.

As you turn in there and pull out those notes that you received in the celebration guide

when you came in and we come to the last

last week in this follow me series diving in to what it means to make disciples of all nations

we started this series first sunday of the month of january looking at mat chapter four, simple verse, follow me and I

will make you fishers of men, teaching us what it means to be a disciple of Christ.

And we've spent the last four weeks walking through various components of what it means to make

disciples based on the life of Christ and what he did in the lives of these guys that surrounded

him.

And so we come to the culmination here in Matthew chapter 28, end of Matthew.

We started where he began with his disciples.

Now we're seeing where he ended in this book with his disciples.

The thing that excites me is it was almost exactly a year ago that we had the opportunity

to study this text together.

I was a stranger to you,

just this fill-in speaker, and you were a stranger to me. And we dove in and we read this and we studied it together. And now a year later, we don't just approach the great commission as this

text. We approach it as the very mission of our lives and the mission of our church.

This is the text. This is the command around which everything revolves. We're not just reading

this text this morning from the sidelines. We are in the middle of the field, and we are getting

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