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Hi, I'm John Maxwell and I'm excited to be with you at Passion City Church.

So, Louis and Shelley, thank you very much for having me.

I'm excited about how God has used you, not only in Atlanta, but around the world and your ministry

and to be able to be one of the seven voices on your series as a real honor.

So, thanks for having me.

As I think of 2020, I am now kind of calling it the wilderness year.

And you can obviously know why that would be because this is a very difficult time

of COVID-19, racial division, a lot of uncertainty, a lot of questions

we're all out of our comfort zone.

And when you think of the wilderness, you think of a place perhaps that you're not familiar with it

and there's a tendency for you to get lost, there's a tendency for you to go in circles,

not make much progress.

And I want to talk to you about this time that we're going through.

But I want to encourage you in the message to watch and follow Jesus as He models for us

or shows us how to handle our wilderness experience.

Now, in a moment, we're going to go to Luke chapter 4 where Jesus had a wilderness experience.

But before we do that, if you go over into Hebrews chapter 11, that's the great faith chapter.

Men and women of faith who did awesome things for God, many of them were amazing in their victories,

many of them of course were martyrs for their faith.

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