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 All right, team, shall we begin?

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 Well, the subject of our inquiry this morning is Jesus as our model for mission.

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! And the question before us is, how does Jesus serve as a model for imitation in our mission?

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 That is the mission upon which he himself sends us.

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 That is the mission to declare the good news of God's saving action in Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.

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 Now, it may seem natural, maybe even obvious, that we would take Jesus as our model for mission.

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 For much of his call upon us is expressed in, follow me.

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 Tread the path that I have marked out for you.

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 And that we, his followers, would follow him seems a large part of what it simply means to be a Christian.

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 But, if we were to ask, is there a clear statement that Jesus' mission is to be the model for us,

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 I know of no better place to begin than Jesus' own statement in his high priestly prayer in John 17,

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 where, addressing the Father and referring to his disciples, he prays,

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 As you, Father, have sent me into the world, so I have sent them, disciples, into the world.

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 Verse 18.

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 This very parallel formula Jesus reaffirmed to his disciples upon his resurrection when he appeared among them.

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 Peace be with you.

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 It comes from the Latin, missio, I send.

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 Now, we might legitimately ask, what is the comparison Jesus is making or directing us to observe?

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 See, whenever we make a comparison and say, this thing is like or is to be like another,

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 we rightly ask, in what way?

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 What is the relevant point of comparison?

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 So, when Isaiah tells us, all flesh is like grass, we ask, in what particular way?

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 Is it that we flourish better, like grass, in summer than in winter?

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 Or that we both enjoy a good shower regularly?

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 You know, what does Isaiah have in mind?

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 We need to press and try to discern what the point of comparison is.

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 So, when Jesus says, as the Father has sent me, so send I you, we legitimately ponder,

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 in what way is it to be the same or similar?

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 Is the parallel simply in the fact of being sent and no more?

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 The Father sent me, and I send you.

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 Well, besides this being somewhat trivial in observation, what might make us think Jesus is saying more?

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 Something thicker.

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 Something deeper.

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 That his parallel is more substantive than superficial.

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 Is the parallel simply the fact of being sent?

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 Like someone might say, close the door as I close the door.

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 Meaning, simply, close it.

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 Without any bearing on the manner in which it's closed, as long as it just keeps the cat out.

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 Or in.

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 Or is it thicker and fuller?

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 Imitate the manner in which I close it.

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 First the latch.

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 Then the key.

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 Then the deadbolt.

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 Finally the chain.

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 What might make us think Jesus is similarly saying more?

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 That contained in his statement is something deeper and richer.

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 Not merely that we have the commonality of being sent.

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 But beyond that.

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 Where the as.

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 In as the Father sent me.

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 Means in the same manner in which I was sent by the Father.

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 Reflecting those same contours I send you.

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 Your sending should reflect the same or similar features as mine.

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 It should exhibit the same character.

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 That we are on solid ground here with this further claim is suggested by the way Jesus explicitly grounds and applies this parallel.

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 Consider how he often characterizes the relation between the Father, the sender, and himself, the sent one.

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 Jesus asserts explicitly a congruity and correspondence between the sender, the Father, and the Son, the sent one.

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 The Father pulses through the Son.

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 The Son is never energized by anyone else.

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 I can do nothing on my own.

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 John 5.30

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 The works that the Father has given me to accomplish.

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 The very works that I am doing.

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 Bear witness about me.

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 That it is the Father who has sent me.

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 John 5.36

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 That is, there is a characteristic sent of the Father upon all the Son's words and works.

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 Indeed, the Father has, quote, set his seal upon them.

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 John 6.27

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 Thus, Jesus can assert, I have come in my Father's name.

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 John 5.43

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 He, the Son, represents or re-presents.

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 He makes it as if the Father is present.

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 He acts and speaks for the Father by acting and speaking as the Father would were he there.

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 So it is that Jesus can say,

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 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.

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 And then conclude, since he was present and so presenting the Father,

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 from now on you do know him and have seen him.

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 John 14.7

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 Failing to grasp what Jesus was saying, Philip responds,

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 Oh, well, just show us the Father and it is enough for us.

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 And Jesus responds,

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 Have I been with you so long and still do you not know me, Philip?

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 Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.

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 How can you say, show us the Father?

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 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me?

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 The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own authority,

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 but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

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 John 14.10

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 In other words, the words that I speak and the works that I do

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 are the Father's works for, because, the Father indwells me.

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 This, then, is the thick, deep, intimate connection between the sending Father and the sent Son.

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 Notice, it's more than imitation.

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 It is unindwelling.

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 And then, follows a stunning revelation that Jesus makes to his disciples.

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 So stunning that he prefaces it with his double truly.

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 Truly, truly, truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do,

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 and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

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 And how does his going to the Father explain how we will do his works?

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 As Jesus explains,

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 I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper,

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 even the Spirit who will dwell within you.

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 So here is the parallel explicated and explained.

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 The Father sends the Son.

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 The Son reflects and re-presents the Father,

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 because the Father indwells the Son.

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 But so it is with us, his disciples.

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 Jesus sends us.

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 And we can and do reflect and re-present Jesus,

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 because his Spirit dwells in us.

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 As the Father to me, so I to you.

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 As the Father sent me, so send I you.

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 Yes, Jesus is our model for mission.

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 Yes, we strive to imitate Jesus.

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 We walk after him missionally.

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 The apostle uses that very word.

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 I imitate Christ, 1 Corinthians 11.

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 But, and is this not thrilling?

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 But, we have something more.

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 Ours.

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 Every disciple's is an indwelling of Christ

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 by his Spirit, which energizes and affects this imitation,

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 this re-presentation of Jesus.

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 The indwelling Spirit bends us to the model of Christ.

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 The indwelling Spirit replicates that pattern.

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 The indwelling Spirit causes to spring up

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 that fountain of the Christ life in us.

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 Does that make sense?

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 Well, it's a critical foundation.

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 Okay, now comes the, some even more exciting part, perhaps.

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 I don't know.

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 Some also exciting part.

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 So, what is the pattern to which we disciples are to conform?

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 As the Father sent me, so I send you.

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 So, we naturally ask,

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 how did the Father send the Son?

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 Now, there are no doubt,

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 multiple and marvelous answers to this question.

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 But, I want us to focus our attention

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 on the, perhaps, most fundamental

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 and astonishing answer.

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 And, surely, it is this.

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 How did the Father send the Son?

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 As a human being.

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 As a human being.

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 He took on our flesh, John 1,

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 and dwelt among us,

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 like unto us.

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 And, this is the rich vein that we want to mine.

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 That the Father sent the Son

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 incarnationally.

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 Incarnationally.

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 We want to ask what it meant.

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 What it involved for the Son.

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 And, what it might mean and involve for us

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 in imitative pattern.

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 So, here we go.

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 The incarnation of the Son

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 meant first and foremost that

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 one,

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 he came himself

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 personally.

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 He didn't send an angelic embassy.

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 He didn't dispatch a prophet

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 who bore his message.

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 He didn't convey to us a text,

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 even inscribing it, perhaps,

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 with his own divine finger

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 on two tablets.

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 He came himself

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 in person

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 as Emmanuel,

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 God with us.

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 So, here's our question.

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 And, we can kick it around together

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 a little bit here.

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 What implications

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 might this feature

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 of the incarnation hold

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 that he came himself

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 personally

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 for us

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 in our missionary activity?

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 Could this aspect

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 be part

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 of the relevant model for us?

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 that the shepherd

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 himself

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 goes out

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 in search

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 of the sheep?

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 So, non-rhetorical.

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 So, let's

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 kick this around.

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 What could this mean for us?

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 What if we were to take this

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 as a parallel?

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 Yes?

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 So, one of the things

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 that was fascinating

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 to me about

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 Jesus' conversations

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 is that he

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 knew

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 where to take them.

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 I mean,

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 you know,

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 he knew how to

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 he knew the trajectory

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 in people's lives.

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 And, I don't know it.

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 And, it takes so much

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 listening

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 and learning

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 and getting to know

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 someone

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 before you

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 maybe suspect.

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 Maybe this is where

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 the consensus

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 is.

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 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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 Yeah, and in order,

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 and insofar as

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 to do that well,

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 you wonder

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 if that can be done

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 remotely?

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 Probably not as effectively.

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 So, maybe there's

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 the significance

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 in actually,

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 you know,

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 personally showing up

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 among the people

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 that we're trying to reach.

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 I think that's,

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 that's,

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 that's,

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 that's true.

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 Yeah, yeah.

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 Anything else?

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 Yeah?

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 Yeah, I think it

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 highlights the importance

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 of, like,

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 the particular

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 and the personal

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 relative to the universal.

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 Yeah.

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 of their own role,

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 but, like,

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 Jesus didn't just

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 show up everywhere

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 to everyone

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 and heal everyone

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 immediately.

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 Yeah, yeah.

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 Because people

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 in particular,

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 it involves showing up

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 in a particular place

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 at a particular time.

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 Yeah, yeah.

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 Yeah.

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 Richard?

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 Richard?

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 So,

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 coming in person

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 would,

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 to me,

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 at least suggest

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 that,

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 as Jesus came

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 as a patrufer,

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 so we

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 must come

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 as

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 Christophers.

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 Uh-huh.

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 A God

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 carrier,

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 we must go,

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 a patrufer,

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 a God carrier,

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 he carries God

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 to them,

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 and we carry Christ

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 to him,

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 a Christopher.

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 Yes, yes.

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 We can't do that

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 unless we do it

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 in person,

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 is my point.

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 Yeah, yeah,

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 the personal nature.

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 Yeah.

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 I think,

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 yeah, I mean,

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 does this model

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 not encourage us

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 to just,

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 to go,

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 to go out,

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 to seek out?

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 I mean,

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 it's interesting

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 to contrast this

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 with largely

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 the Old Testament

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 pattern.

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 You remember

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 how God says,

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 look,

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 I want you

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 Israel,

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 to obey my laws,

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 and that's,

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 then display

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 a culture

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 and a flourishing

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 so enviable

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 that the surrounding

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 nations would be

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 attracted,

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 and to say,

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 wow,

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 they must have

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 a pretty amazing

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 God.

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 Let's serve him.

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 Deuteronomy 4,

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 5 through 7

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 talks about this.

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 There are many

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 places.

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 We might call it

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 centripetal.

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 That is,

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 it draws

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 from the outside

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 toward

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 the inner center.

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 center,

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 a centripetal

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 model of missions,

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 if you will.

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 Is that what we have

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 in the New Testament?

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 Maybe something

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 of that,

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 but is there

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 not a contrast

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 here?

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 Where we're told,

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 go,

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 we're sent out,

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 go into all

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 the world.

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 It's a centrifugal,

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 not a centripetal,

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 a centrifugal,

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 out from the center,

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 going out.

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 The pattern

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 of the incarnation

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 is to go out,

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 to seek

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 and to save

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 the lost.

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 We go to them.

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 We don't expect

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 them to come to us.

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 I mean,

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 it would be nice

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 if they do,

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 and maybe some might.

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 Queen of Sheba.

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 But,

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 are we a going

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 out people

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 here at Trinity?

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 Are we a going

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 out people?

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 such

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 imitates

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 the incarnation

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 most

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 fundamentally.

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 Let me ask also,

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 could this feature

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 of the incarnation

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 that the Son

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 came himself

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 in person

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 also

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 maybe have

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 an implication

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 of the necessity

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 or at least

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 the desirability

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 of more than

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 simply

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 a proclamation

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 of the message?

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 It's never any

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 less than a

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 proclamation,

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 but could it be

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 involved

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 something more

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 than just

00:17:38.460 --> 00:17:38.960
 proclamation

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 thoughts?

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 Yeah,

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 I was thinking

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 Jesus came

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 embodying the

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 Father.

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 We come

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 embodying Christ,

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 whether we

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 memorize a

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 certain way

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 of presenting

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 the gospel

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 glory.

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 It's not

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 solely in

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 those words

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 or in

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 the

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 out of

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 traffic

00:18:00.660 --> 00:18:01.540
 programs

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 or whatever.

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 It's who

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 we are.

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 Yes.

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 It requires

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 more of us.

00:18:06.900 --> 00:18:07.280
 Yeah,

00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:08.100
 that's so

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 helpful.

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 So,

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 we certainly

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 want to

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 declare

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 the gospel,

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 but then

00:18:13.120 --> 00:18:13.940
 let's also

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 display it

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 perhaps

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 enacted in

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 our lives.

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 John

00:18:18.840 --> 00:18:19.420
 Stott

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 that says

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 in order

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 for the

00:18:21.420 --> 00:18:21.940
 gospel to

00:18:21.940 --> 00:18:22.720
 be credible,

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 it must

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 be visible

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 as well as

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 audible.

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 Matt,

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 yeah,

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 yeah.

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 Oh,

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 sure.

00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:31.420
 Go ahead,

00:18:31.500 --> 00:18:31.660
 Matt.

00:18:31.660 --> 00:18:32.420
 Smith.

00:18:32.620 --> 00:18:33.140
 Matt Smith.

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 Matt Smith.

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 So,

00:18:36.019 --> 00:18:36.840
 little

00:18:36.840 --> 00:18:37.220
 missionary

00:18:37.220 --> 00:18:37.820
 story.

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 Yeah,

00:18:38.360 --> 00:18:38.580
 yeah,

00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:38.980
 we like

00:18:38.980 --> 00:18:39.320
 missionary

00:18:39.320 --> 00:18:39.660
 stories.

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 In the

00:18:39.840 --> 00:18:41.000
 1950s,

00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:42.279
 people

00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:43.279
 were being,

00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:44.300
 missionaries

00:18:44.300 --> 00:18:44.680
 were going

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 to people

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 along a

00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:45.980
 river,

00:18:46.340 --> 00:18:46.860
 and the

00:18:46.860 --> 00:18:47.240
 traditional

00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:48.080
 way was,

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 you know,

00:18:49.120 --> 00:18:49.519
 canoe,

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 and then

00:18:50.540 --> 00:18:50.920
 they go

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 in,

00:18:51.340 --> 00:18:51.660
 you know,

00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:52.100
 to the

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 village and

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 talk with

00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:53.460
 them,

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 and then

00:18:53.779 --> 00:18:54.220
 some other

00:18:54.220 --> 00:18:54.680
 missionaries

00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:55.120
 came along

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 and said,

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 well,

00:18:56.100 --> 00:18:56.460
 that's

00:18:56.460 --> 00:18:57.160
 inefficient,

00:18:57.779 --> 00:18:58.600
 so they

00:18:58.600 --> 00:18:59.320
 got a

00:18:59.320 --> 00:18:59.900
 bigger river

00:18:59.900 --> 00:19:00.240
 boat.

00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:00.620
 Yeah.

00:19:00.619 --> 00:19:01.779
 So,

00:19:01.859 --> 00:19:02.119
 they didn't

00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:02.799
 have to,

00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:03.259
 you know,

00:19:03.419 --> 00:19:03.919
 camp out

00:19:03.919 --> 00:19:04.239
 with the

00:19:04.239 --> 00:19:04.539
 people.

00:19:05.059 --> 00:19:05.099
 Yeah,

00:19:05.099 --> 00:19:05.319
 yeah,

00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:05.500
 yeah.

00:19:05.739 --> 00:19:06.099
 But the

00:19:06.099 --> 00:19:06.759
 people said,

00:19:07.659 --> 00:19:08.500
 in reflecting

00:19:08.500 --> 00:19:08.879
 on it,

00:19:09.139 --> 00:19:09.939
 those people,

00:19:10.059 --> 00:19:10.319
 they don't

00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:10.779
 love us,

00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:11.179
 they don't

00:19:11.179 --> 00:19:12.139
 like us,

00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:12.639
 you know,

00:19:12.719 --> 00:19:13.539
 they stay

00:19:13.539 --> 00:19:13.979
 up by

00:19:13.979 --> 00:19:14.479
 themselves,

00:19:14.699 --> 00:19:16.039
 coming to

00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:17.279
 be with

00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:17.599
 us.

00:19:18.219 --> 00:19:18.699
 Yeah,

00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:19.339
 yeah,

00:19:19.639 --> 00:19:20.079
 absolutely.

00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:20.459
 Did you

00:19:20.459 --> 00:19:20.639
 answer

00:19:20.639 --> 00:19:20.939
 something?

00:19:21.299 --> 00:19:21.519
 Yeah,

00:19:21.779 --> 00:19:22.239
 I think

00:19:22.239 --> 00:19:22.559
 it has

00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:23.179
 some

00:19:23.179 --> 00:19:23.699
 interesting

00:19:23.699 --> 00:19:24.399
 implications

00:19:24.399 --> 00:19:25.359
 if we

00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:25.899
 view our

00:19:25.899 --> 00:19:27.019
 cast as,

00:19:27.879 --> 00:19:28.459
 if everyone

00:19:28.459 --> 00:19:28.819
 has heard

00:19:28.819 --> 00:19:29.439
 the message,

00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:30.880
 it seems

00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:31.299
 that God

00:19:31.299 --> 00:19:31.820
 is far

00:19:31.820 --> 00:19:32.360
 more

00:19:32.360 --> 00:19:35.559
 inefficient

00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:36.660
 than we

00:19:36.660 --> 00:19:37.160
 want him

00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:37.539
 to be.

00:19:37.660 --> 00:19:38.180
 Oh,

00:19:38.380 --> 00:19:38.580
 yeah,

00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:39.600
 that's

00:19:39.600 --> 00:19:39.779
 great.

00:19:39.779 --> 00:19:40.279
 He

00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:41.440
 accomplishes

00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:42.779
 his purposes.

00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:45.019
 And I

00:19:45.019 --> 00:19:45.360
 think we

00:19:45.360 --> 00:19:46.500
 need to be

00:19:46.500 --> 00:19:46.980
 careful because

00:19:46.980 --> 00:19:47.259
 we could

00:19:47.259 --> 00:19:47.740
 swing too

00:19:47.740 --> 00:19:48.519
 far and

00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:50.880
 over-condemn

00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:51.539
 mass

00:19:51.539 --> 00:19:52.480
 communication,

00:19:53.120 --> 00:19:53.779
 technology,

00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:54.640
 21st century,

00:19:54.740 --> 00:19:55.080
 lots of,

00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:55.360
 you know,

00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:56.480
 I think we

00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:57.620
 could condemn

00:19:57.619 --> 00:19:57.839
 that.

00:19:58.639 --> 00:19:58.959
 Right,

00:19:59.079 --> 00:19:59.299
 right,

00:19:59.439 --> 00:19:59.699
 right.

00:19:59.699 --> 00:20:00.319
 But I

00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:00.639
 do think

00:20:00.639 --> 00:20:01.639
 there's a

00:20:01.639 --> 00:20:02.519
 gravitational

00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:03.619
 center here.

00:20:03.779 --> 00:20:04.239
 Yeah,

00:20:04.419 --> 00:20:04.759
 yeah.

00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:05.479
 That we

00:20:05.479 --> 00:20:05.859
 need to

00:20:05.859 --> 00:20:06.179
 keep

00:20:06.179 --> 00:20:06.599
 thinking.

00:20:06.939 --> 00:20:07.319
 God

00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:07.919
 intended it

00:20:07.919 --> 00:20:08.199
 to be

00:20:08.199 --> 00:20:08.659
 personal.

00:20:08.859 --> 00:20:09.259
 Yeah,

00:20:09.479 --> 00:20:09.899
 yeah.

00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:10.419
 To be

00:20:10.419 --> 00:20:11.039
 people,

00:20:11.339 --> 00:20:13.059
 not just.

00:20:13.859 --> 00:20:14.219
 Yeah,

00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:14.579
 yeah,

00:20:14.579 --> 00:20:15.259
 yeah.

00:20:15.859 --> 00:20:16.179
 Go ahead.

00:20:16.180 --> 00:20:17.180
 Yeah.

00:20:17.180 --> 00:20:18.180
 Yeah.

00:20:18.180 --> 00:20:19.180
 Yeah.

00:20:35.180 --> 00:20:35.940
 Yeah,

00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:36.539
 yeah.

00:20:38.120 --> 00:20:38.680
 Yeah,

00:20:38.740 --> 00:20:38.980
 that's

00:20:38.980 --> 00:20:39.200
 certainly

00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:39.840
 conspicuous.

00:20:39.960 --> 00:20:40.279
 I mean,

00:20:40.360 --> 00:20:40.539
 he ate

00:20:40.539 --> 00:20:41.080
 with people,

00:20:41.180 --> 00:20:41.460
 he enters

00:20:41.460 --> 00:20:41.860
 into their

00:20:41.860 --> 00:20:42.380
 homes,

00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:43.100
 he attends

00:20:43.100 --> 00:20:44.100
 their weddings,

00:20:44.099 --> 00:20:45.240
 he touches

00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:45.719
 lepers,

00:20:45.879 --> 00:20:46.279
 he weeps

00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:46.559
 at their

00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:47.199
 graves,

00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:48.619
 he cooks

00:20:48.619 --> 00:20:49.379
 meals for

00:20:49.379 --> 00:20:49.779
 people.

00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:52.039
 Yeah,

00:20:52.539 --> 00:20:52.879
 yeah.

00:20:53.159 --> 00:20:53.879
 So perhaps

00:20:53.879 --> 00:20:54.619
 Christian mission

00:20:54.619 --> 00:20:55.259
 should strive

00:20:55.259 --> 00:20:56.159
 not merely

00:20:56.159 --> 00:20:56.480
 to be

00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:57.019
 proclamation,

00:20:57.199 --> 00:20:57.639
 it's never

00:20:57.639 --> 00:20:58.159
 less than

00:20:58.159 --> 00:20:58.559
 that,

00:20:59.179 --> 00:21:01.279
 but to

00:21:01.279 --> 00:21:01.959
 strive to

00:21:01.959 --> 00:21:02.519
 extend

00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:03.659
 presence also

00:21:03.659 --> 00:21:04.279
 along with

00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:04.480
 that

00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:05.039
 proclamation.

00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:06.679
 Yeah,

00:21:06.740 --> 00:21:06.980
 please,

00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:07.559
 please.

00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:08.759
 I think

00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:09.359
 for those

00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:09.859
 going,

00:21:11.019 --> 00:21:12.379
 as Jesus

00:21:12.379 --> 00:21:12.740
 has

00:21:12.740 --> 00:21:13.179
 dependence

00:21:13.179 --> 00:21:13.639
 on the

00:21:13.639 --> 00:21:14.019
 Father,

00:21:14.099 --> 00:21:16.399
 in our

00:21:16.399 --> 00:21:17.000
 weaknesses

00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:17.879
 and

00:21:17.879 --> 00:21:19.559
 imperfections,

00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:20.679
 you know,

00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:21.240
 imperfect

00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:21.899
 loving,

00:21:22.159 --> 00:21:22.539
 imperfect

00:21:22.539 --> 00:21:23.139
 doing

00:21:23.139 --> 00:21:23.799
 of things,

00:21:24.159 --> 00:21:24.679
 we learn

00:21:24.679 --> 00:21:25.399
 to depend

00:21:25.399 --> 00:21:26.779
 on

00:21:26.779 --> 00:21:27.559
 the

00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:27.939
 Lord.

00:21:28.099 --> 00:21:28.459
 Yes,

00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:28.859
 yes.

00:21:28.919 --> 00:21:29.079
 As he

00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:29.559
 depended

00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:30.000
 on the

00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:30.339
 Father.

00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:31.659
 And then

00:21:31.659 --> 00:21:33.079
 part of

00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:33.299
 that

00:21:33.299 --> 00:21:33.899
 expression

00:21:33.899 --> 00:21:35.179
 to those

00:21:35.179 --> 00:21:35.819
 that we

00:21:35.819 --> 00:21:36.500
 are serving

00:21:36.500 --> 00:21:37.559
 is

00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:39.019
 there will

00:21:39.019 --> 00:21:39.779
 be suffering

00:21:39.779 --> 00:21:40.519
 involved.

00:21:41.819 --> 00:21:42.019
 And

00:21:42.019 --> 00:21:42.959
 that's

00:21:42.959 --> 00:21:43.359
 part of

00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:43.519
 the

00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:44.079
 humanity

00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:44.419
 of

00:21:44.419 --> 00:21:44.859
 going

00:21:44.859 --> 00:21:46.139
 where

00:21:46.139 --> 00:21:47.199
 I think

00:21:47.199 --> 00:21:47.839
 for those

00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:48.599
 that go,

00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:50.000
 when people

00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:50.899
 see them

00:21:50.899 --> 00:21:52.199
 have problems

00:21:52.199 --> 00:21:53.319
 and suffering,

00:21:54.699 --> 00:21:55.459
 it speaks

00:21:55.459 --> 00:21:55.899
 to them.

00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:56.479
 Yes,

00:21:56.740 --> 00:21:57.039
 yes,

00:21:57.099 --> 00:21:57.339
 yes,

00:21:57.399 --> 00:21:57.599
 yes.

00:21:58.079 --> 00:21:58.299
 Well,

00:21:58.299 --> 00:21:58.579
 I'm going to

00:21:58.579 --> 00:21:58.979
 come to that

00:21:58.979 --> 00:21:59.419
 in just a

00:21:59.419 --> 00:21:59.799
 moment because

00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:00.299
 I think that

00:22:00.299 --> 00:22:00.839
 that's something

00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:01.659
 very central

00:22:01.659 --> 00:22:03.259
 implication.

00:22:03.919 --> 00:22:04.419
 That's right.

00:22:04.420 --> 00:22:06.400
 so,

00:22:06.740 --> 00:22:10.700
 the incarnation

00:22:10.700 --> 00:22:11.160
 of the

00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:12.620
 son also

00:22:12.620 --> 00:22:13.660
 meant that

00:22:13.660 --> 00:22:14.400
 he came

00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:16.220
 to as

00:22:16.220 --> 00:22:17.420
 a human

00:22:17.420 --> 00:22:18.820
 person,

00:22:19.140 --> 00:22:19.720
 a human

00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:20.180
 person.

00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:20.960
 That is,

00:22:21.100 --> 00:22:21.840
 he took on

00:22:21.840 --> 00:22:22.680
 all the

00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:23.220
 concrete

00:22:23.220 --> 00:22:24.340
 particularities

00:22:24.340 --> 00:22:24.980
 of those

00:22:24.980 --> 00:22:25.320
 that he

00:22:25.320 --> 00:22:25.980
 sought to

00:22:25.980 --> 00:22:26.440
 reach.

00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:28.279
 He became

00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:29.200
 like us

00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:30.200
 in all that

00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:30.920
 our humanity

00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:31.560
 entailed,

00:22:31.559 --> 00:22:33.059
 apart from

00:22:33.059 --> 00:22:33.359
 sin.

00:22:33.460 --> 00:22:33.839
 Technically,

00:22:33.980 --> 00:22:34.279
 humanity

00:22:34.279 --> 00:22:34.679
 doesn't

00:22:34.679 --> 00:22:35.759
 entail sin.

00:22:36.179 --> 00:22:36.559
 It can be

00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:37.399
 genuinely

00:22:37.399 --> 00:22:37.720
 human.

00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:38.500
 But he

00:22:38.500 --> 00:22:39.119
 took on

00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:40.019
 all the

00:22:40.019 --> 00:22:40.980
 particularities,

00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:42.519
 all that

00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:43.579
 our humanity

00:22:43.579 --> 00:22:44.079
 entailed.

00:22:44.619 --> 00:22:45.519
 This meant,

00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:46.159
 for one,

00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:46.759
 that he took

00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:47.779
 on a body

00:22:47.779 --> 00:22:49.159
 and a soul.

00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:50.399
 And with it,

00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:51.159
 just as we've

00:22:51.159 --> 00:22:51.899
 been reminded,

00:22:53.899 --> 00:22:54.159
 he,

00:22:54.940 --> 00:22:55.419
 with it,

00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:56.379
 all of its

00:22:56.379 --> 00:22:57.159
 vulnerabilities

00:22:57.159 --> 00:22:58.679
 in a fallen

00:22:58.679 --> 00:22:59.179
 world.

00:22:59.180 --> 00:23:00.900
 to be

00:23:00.900 --> 00:23:01.759
 with us

00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:02.640
 was to

00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:03.080
 be with

00:23:03.080 --> 00:23:03.580
 us in

00:23:03.580 --> 00:23:03.840
 our

00:23:03.840 --> 00:23:04.600
 griefs,

00:23:04.779 --> 00:23:05.539
 afflictions,

00:23:06.420 --> 00:23:06.980
 sorrows,

00:23:07.140 --> 00:23:07.779
 and sighs.

00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:09.799
 He bore

00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:10.480
 them with

00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:11.080
 us.

00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:12.799
 Surely,

00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:13.779
 he has

00:23:13.779 --> 00:23:14.420
 borne our

00:23:14.420 --> 00:23:14.880
 griefs.

00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:15.160
 He bore

00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:15.600
 them with

00:23:15.600 --> 00:23:15.920
 us,

00:23:15.980 --> 00:23:16.500
 even before

00:23:16.500 --> 00:23:16.920
 he bore

00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:17.460
 them for

00:23:17.460 --> 00:23:18.000
 us.

00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:20.259
 Like us,

00:23:20.299 --> 00:23:20.720
 he was a

00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:21.060
 man of

00:23:21.060 --> 00:23:21.440
 sorrows,

00:23:21.500 --> 00:23:21.820
 acquainted

00:23:21.820 --> 00:23:22.440
 with grief.

00:23:23.299 --> 00:23:23.759
 He was

00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:24.200
 like us,

00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:24.940
 hungry and

00:23:24.940 --> 00:23:25.259
 thirsty,

00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:25.880
 wounded and

00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:26.100
 weary.

00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:26.920
 He knew

00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:27.820
 what it is

00:23:27.820 --> 00:23:28.460
 to weep

00:23:28.460 --> 00:23:28.799
 and to

00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:29.160
 bleed.

00:23:29.180 --> 00:23:30.240
 He knew

00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:30.880
 betrayal,

00:23:31.320 --> 00:23:31.820
 mockery,

00:23:32.019 --> 00:23:32.100
 and

00:23:32.100 --> 00:23:32.799
 abandonment.

00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:35.320
 It's

00:23:35.320 --> 00:23:38.880
 amidst the

00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:39.560
 horrors of

00:23:39.560 --> 00:23:40.259
 Buchenwald,

00:23:41.019 --> 00:23:42.060
 the Nazi

00:23:42.060 --> 00:23:43.140
 extermination

00:23:43.140 --> 00:23:43.600
 camp,

00:23:44.120 --> 00:23:44.759
 some Jewish

00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:45.460
 prisoners

00:23:45.460 --> 00:23:46.680
 decided to

00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:47.259
 put God

00:23:47.259 --> 00:23:48.080
 on trial

00:23:48.080 --> 00:23:50.100
 for

00:23:50.100 --> 00:23:50.980
 neglecting

00:23:50.980 --> 00:23:51.960
 his people.

00:23:53.820 --> 00:23:54.340
 Witnesses

00:23:54.340 --> 00:23:55.039
 were produced

00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:56.240
 for both

00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:56.920
 the prosecution

00:23:56.920 --> 00:23:57.560
 and the

00:23:57.560 --> 00:23:58.100
 defense,

00:23:58.099 --> 00:23:59.019
 different

00:23:59.019 --> 00:23:59.619
 rabbis

00:23:59.619 --> 00:23:59.899
 that were

00:23:59.899 --> 00:24:00.199
 there.

00:24:01.059 --> 00:24:01.699
 But they

00:24:01.699 --> 00:24:02.259
 found the

00:24:02.259 --> 00:24:02.779
 case for

00:24:02.779 --> 00:24:03.480
 the prosecution

00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:04.879
 was overwhelming

00:24:04.879 --> 00:24:06.419
 and they

00:24:06.419 --> 00:24:07.379
 found God

00:24:07.379 --> 00:24:09.099
 guilty of

00:24:09.099 --> 00:24:10.219
 abandonment

00:24:10.219 --> 00:24:11.139
 of them

00:24:11.139 --> 00:24:12.879
 and condemned

00:24:12.879 --> 00:24:13.319
 him.

00:24:16.159 --> 00:24:16.439
 But

00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:18.860
 the

00:24:18.860 --> 00:24:19.180
 incarnation

00:24:19.180 --> 00:24:19.440
 was

00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:23.140
 in our

00:24:23.140 --> 00:24:23.580
 suffering.

00:24:24.580 --> 00:24:25.180
 But he

00:24:25.180 --> 00:24:25.720
 came into

00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:26.100
 the worst

00:24:26.100 --> 00:24:26.420
 of it.

00:24:28.759 --> 00:24:29.460
 It is

00:24:29.460 --> 00:24:30.019
 here that

00:24:30.019 --> 00:24:31.740
 Edward

00:24:31.740 --> 00:24:32.220
 Shilito,

00:24:32.580 --> 00:24:33.259
 shattered by

00:24:33.259 --> 00:24:33.940
 the carnage

00:24:33.940 --> 00:24:34.180
 of the

00:24:34.180 --> 00:24:34.620
 First World

00:24:34.620 --> 00:24:34.900
 War,

00:24:35.420 --> 00:24:36.140
 was able to

00:24:36.140 --> 00:24:37.160
 find deep

00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:37.539
 comfort.

00:24:38.620 --> 00:24:39.200
 He wrote a

00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:39.860
 poem entitled

00:24:39.860 --> 00:24:39.860


00:24:39.860 --> 00:24:40.660
 Jesus of the

00:24:40.660 --> 00:24:41.200
 Scars,

00:24:41.500 --> 00:24:42.539
 which ends

00:24:42.539 --> 00:24:43.140
 like this.

00:24:43.140 --> 00:24:45.060
 The other

00:24:45.060 --> 00:24:45.600
 gods were

00:24:45.600 --> 00:24:46.100
 strong,

00:24:46.700 --> 00:24:47.380
 but thou

00:24:47.380 --> 00:24:47.940
 wast weak.

00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:49.060
 They

00:24:49.060 --> 00:24:49.480
 rode,

00:24:50.580 --> 00:24:50.960
 but thou

00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:51.259
 didst

00:24:51.259 --> 00:24:51.640
 stumble

00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:52.600
 to a

00:24:52.600 --> 00:24:52.900
 throne.

00:24:54.040 --> 00:24:54.640
 But to

00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:55.520
 our wounds

00:24:55.520 --> 00:24:57.020
 only God's

00:24:57.020 --> 00:24:57.920
 wounds can

00:24:57.920 --> 00:24:58.420
 speak.

00:24:59.420 --> 00:25:00.280
 And not

00:25:00.280 --> 00:25:00.860
 a god

00:25:00.860 --> 00:25:01.640
 has wounds,

00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:03.300
 but thou

00:25:03.300 --> 00:25:04.540
 alone.

00:25:07.020 --> 00:25:08.060
 So how

00:25:08.060 --> 00:25:08.820
 might this

00:25:08.820 --> 00:25:09.440
 be a model

00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:10.180
 for us

00:25:10.180 --> 00:25:10.740
 in our

00:25:10.740 --> 00:25:11.340
 missions?

00:25:11.339 --> 00:25:13.000
 What might

00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:13.519
 this look

00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:14.099
 like for

00:25:14.099 --> 00:25:14.639
 us at

00:25:14.639 --> 00:25:14.939
 Trinity?

00:25:15.500 --> 00:25:16.240
 And what

00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:17.319
 might happen

00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:17.859
 if we

00:25:17.859 --> 00:25:18.539
 forget or

00:25:18.539 --> 00:25:19.379
 neglect this

00:25:19.379 --> 00:25:20.740
 feature of

00:25:20.740 --> 00:25:21.599
 incarnational

00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:22.639
 missions?

00:25:27.079 --> 00:25:27.759
 Thoughts?

00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:30.319
 It seems

00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:31.639
 like if we

00:25:31.639 --> 00:25:33.259
 don't pursue

00:25:33.259 --> 00:25:33.559
 this,

00:25:33.679 --> 00:25:34.240
 it means

00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:35.980
 really our

00:25:35.980 --> 00:25:37.259
 identity

00:25:37.259 --> 00:25:38.059
 is true

00:25:38.059 --> 00:25:38.799
 beings that

00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:39.240
 we no

00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:39.720
 longer

00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:40.699
 represent

00:25:40.699 --> 00:25:41.179
 God.

00:25:41.339 --> 00:25:42.939
 no longer

00:25:42.939 --> 00:25:43.599
 living in

00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:44.899
 this world,

00:25:45.159 --> 00:25:46.359
 this universe

00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:47.519
 with true

00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:48.039
 humanity

00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:48.879
 that we

00:25:48.879 --> 00:25:49.439
 abandon

00:25:49.439 --> 00:25:51.319
 the issue

00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:53.720
 of self-sacrifice

00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:56.480
 and motivated

00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:57.639
 because of

00:25:57.639 --> 00:25:58.480
 his sacrifice,

00:25:58.599 --> 00:25:59.119
 but if we

00:25:59.119 --> 00:25:59.859
 didn't deny

00:25:59.859 --> 00:26:00.179
 that,

00:26:00.959 --> 00:26:01.759
 we're not

00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:02.259
 really

00:26:02.259 --> 00:26:03.519
 thinking

00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:05.720
 that we

00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:06.279
 were called

00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:06.819
 to lie

00:26:06.819 --> 00:26:07.379
 and we

00:26:07.379 --> 00:26:07.980
 have not

00:26:07.980 --> 00:26:08.519
 wanted to

00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:08.720
 that.

00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:10.980
 so it

00:26:10.980 --> 00:26:11.680
 seems like

00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:13.220
 there's

00:26:13.220 --> 00:26:13.559
 something

00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:14.019
 about

00:26:14.019 --> 00:26:14.319
 truth

00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:15.920
 that God

00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:16.380
 is trying

00:26:16.380 --> 00:26:16.819
 to bring

00:26:16.819 --> 00:26:17.319
 for life

00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:18.240
 in Jesus.

00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:19.480
 to Jesus.

00:26:20.299 --> 00:26:20.559
 Yeah.

00:26:23.259 --> 00:26:23.900
 Yeah.

00:26:24.359 --> 00:26:26.480
 I think if we do not,

00:26:27.740 --> 00:26:28.880
 there's some words

00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:30.440
 like adapting culturally.

00:26:31.500 --> 00:26:32.579
 It reminds me of Paul

00:26:32.579 --> 00:26:33.500
 from the Southern Corinthians.

00:26:34.859 --> 00:26:36.579
 I became all thanks to all people

00:26:36.579 --> 00:26:37.579
 and I might live some.

00:26:38.140 --> 00:26:40.220
 It's an advertisement for next week

00:26:40.220 --> 00:26:41.559
 where we'll talk about Paul

00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:42.620
 as the missionary model.

00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:43.120
 Fantastic.

00:26:43.539 --> 00:26:44.000
 Thank you.

00:26:44.380 --> 00:26:45.120
 To be continued.

00:26:45.539 --> 00:26:46.339
 Go ahead.

00:26:46.339 --> 00:26:48.779
 But when we are incarnate

00:26:48.779 --> 00:26:49.899
 into communities

00:26:49.899 --> 00:26:51.039
 or groups of people,

00:26:51.819 --> 00:26:54.740
 we eat and drink like them.

00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:58.859
 We try to be part of their community as well.

00:26:59.000 --> 00:26:59.179
 Yeah.

00:26:59.399 --> 00:27:00.959
 But in certain cases

00:27:00.959 --> 00:27:02.559
 where Christianity is,

00:27:03.259 --> 00:27:04.299
 there's a certain culture

00:27:04.299 --> 00:27:05.299
 that's like enforced

00:27:05.299 --> 00:27:06.839
 or pressed upon the people

00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:09.059
 and it becomes just...

00:27:09.059 --> 00:27:09.399
 Yeah.

00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:10.059
 Yeah.

00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:11.000
 Yeah.

00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:12.179
 That's dominant.

00:27:13.699 --> 00:27:14.299
 Sure.

00:27:14.859 --> 00:27:16.179
 As Westerners,

00:27:16.180 --> 00:27:17.539
 I think we can appear

00:27:17.539 --> 00:27:21.580
 to come with everything.

00:27:21.740 --> 00:27:22.759
 Like from the eyes

00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:25.299
 of those that we may go to serve,

00:27:26.340 --> 00:27:29.140
 we may seem like Ubermensch.

00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:29.420
 Yeah.

00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:29.720
 Right.

00:27:29.840 --> 00:27:30.039
 Right.

00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:31.740
 But we have finances

00:27:31.740 --> 00:27:34.579
 and they don't always maybe understand

00:27:34.579 --> 00:27:37.920
 like people come and have this

00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:39.640
 if you're not working there.

00:27:41.019 --> 00:27:47.640
 And if you appear like you don't have sickness

00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:51.900
 and you're fine financially and physically,

00:27:51.900 --> 00:27:57.800
 it feels like somebody that they cannot touch.

00:27:57.860 --> 00:27:58.240
 Right.

00:27:58.360 --> 00:27:58.640
 Right.

00:27:58.640 --> 00:27:59.600
 They can't reach.

00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:00.600
 Yeah.

00:28:00.740 --> 00:28:04.340
 There certainly has been a history oftentimes

00:28:04.340 --> 00:28:05.460
 of missionaries

00:28:05.460 --> 00:28:07.280
 and I'm sure the issues were very complicated

00:28:07.280 --> 00:28:08.200
 and challenging.

00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:11.840
 but to go and to have a missionary compound

00:28:11.840 --> 00:28:14.100
 and walled

00:28:14.100 --> 00:28:15.519
 so you were immured

00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:17.519
 against a lot of the dangers

00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:18.840
 and threats

00:28:18.840 --> 00:28:20.660
 and very vulnerabilities

00:28:20.660 --> 00:28:23.259
 that the people outside are exposed to

00:28:23.259 --> 00:28:26.640
 that you are actually seeking to reach

00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:31.020
 and your unwillingness

00:28:31.020 --> 00:28:32.720
 to make yourself vulnerable

00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:34.440
 in the same ways that they are,

00:28:34.520 --> 00:28:35.440
 I think you're right.

00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:37.440
 It can become a real barrier

00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:40.280
 and maybe even a stumbling block

00:28:40.280 --> 00:28:42.380
 to those.

00:28:44.600 --> 00:28:44.820
 Yeah.

00:28:46.580 --> 00:28:47.780
 And then there was, of course,

00:28:47.820 --> 00:28:48.720
 a reaction to that.

00:28:48.800 --> 00:28:50.060
 It's not as if all missionaries.

00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:53.780
 The Lottie Moon Fund that we have,

00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:55.220
 her story is remarkable.

00:28:55.220 --> 00:28:58.319
 You know, there was a woman

00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:00.120
 who the Chinese knew

00:29:00.120 --> 00:29:02.779
 she loved them so much

00:29:02.779 --> 00:29:04.519
 that she would give anything for them.

00:29:06.620 --> 00:29:08.480
 And when she finally came home,

00:29:09.380 --> 00:29:12.180
 she pretty much died of hunger

00:29:12.180 --> 00:29:13.620
 on the way home

00:29:13.620 --> 00:29:15.539
 and when,

00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:18.519
 because there was famine in China at the time

00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:20.819
 and when they opened up her steamer trunk,

00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:23.600
 they found it completely empty.

00:29:25.220 --> 00:29:28.279
 She had given everything away.

00:29:29.180 --> 00:29:29.559
 Everything.

00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:33.700
 She had not kept herself

00:29:33.700 --> 00:29:35.960
 from any of the vulnerabilities

00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:39.900
 that those who she was seeking to reach

00:29:39.900 --> 00:29:40.920
 were exposed to.

00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:43.339
 Yeah.

00:29:43.339 --> 00:29:49.199
 Well, that the Son came as a human person

00:29:49.199 --> 00:29:50.500
 and became like us

00:29:50.500 --> 00:29:52.539
 in all our humanity entailed

00:29:52.539 --> 00:29:54.159
 also meant

00:29:54.159 --> 00:29:57.720
 that he took on a human culture.

00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:03.480
 Jesus communicated his message

00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:05.200
 in a particular language,

00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:05.740
 for example,

00:30:05.900 --> 00:30:06.680
 Aramaic.

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:09.059
 He used the local vernacular,

00:30:09.299 --> 00:30:10.940
 translating the divine words

00:30:10.940 --> 00:30:13.400
 into the cultural forms

00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:14.900
 of first century Palestine.

00:30:15.740 --> 00:30:17.339
 He took up their questions

00:30:17.339 --> 00:30:19.620
 and inflected his message

00:30:19.620 --> 00:30:22.000
 through their cultural consciousness

00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:23.539
 and their categories,

00:30:23.700 --> 00:30:24.359
 their traditions,

00:30:24.599 --> 00:30:26.039
 their figures of speech.

00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:30.660
 The incarnation shows us

00:30:30.660 --> 00:30:32.220
 the astonishing truth

00:30:32.220 --> 00:30:34.119
 that the divine person

00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:35.220
 and message

00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:38.440
 can be expressed

00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:41.059
 in human form.

00:30:41.059 --> 00:30:43.759
 that human cultures

00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:45.139
 actually have

00:30:45.139 --> 00:30:47.399
 a carrying capacity.

00:30:48.399 --> 00:30:49.720
 They are capable

00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:51.220
 of bearing the divine.

00:30:52.339 --> 00:30:53.460
 Just as Mary,

00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:54.460
 the mother of our Lord,

00:30:54.700 --> 00:30:56.639
 is called Theotokos,

00:30:56.839 --> 00:30:58.319
 the bearer of God,

00:30:58.519 --> 00:31:00.339
 as Richard has reminded us,

00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:02.500
 so also human culture

00:31:02.500 --> 00:31:04.139
 can be the bearer

00:31:04.139 --> 00:31:05.720
 of the divine word.

00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:07.259
 God can speak

00:31:07.259 --> 00:31:08.200
 his divine words

00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:08.960
 in Aramaic

00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:10.799
 with a Nazarene accent,

00:31:10.900 --> 00:31:11.440
 I suppose.

00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:13.339
 And indeed,

00:31:13.740 --> 00:31:15.579
 any and every culture

00:31:15.579 --> 00:31:18.039
 can be the bearer

00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:19.740
 of the divine word,

00:31:19.980 --> 00:31:21.900
 a Logotokos,

00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:23.539
 or a bearer of the word,

00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:24.900
 a carrier,

00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:26.620
 Logokristos.

00:31:29.360 --> 00:31:30.440
 This is what

00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:31.720
 the great missiologist

00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:33.500
 Andrew Walls,

00:31:33.539 --> 00:31:34.779
 probably the greatest missiologist

00:31:34.779 --> 00:31:36.059
 of the 20th century.

00:31:36.180 --> 00:31:38.399
 I think he just died

00:31:38.399 --> 00:31:39.599
 quite recently.

00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:41.559
 What he has called

00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:43.619
 the indigenizing principle.

00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:45.440
 The indigenizing principle.

00:31:45.579 --> 00:31:46.480
 That is to say

00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:47.960
 that the gospel

00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:51.759
 can make its home

00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:55.639
 in any and every culture.

00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:58.920
 Now, later we're going to talk about

00:31:58.920 --> 00:32:01.700
 it's never completely at home

00:32:01.700 --> 00:32:04.359
 in any culture.

00:32:04.779 --> 00:32:06.519
 There's also a pilgrimizing principle

00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:08.160
 that's going to call us

00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:10.660
 to another place,

00:32:10.660 --> 00:32:11.759
 but it can,

00:32:12.059 --> 00:32:12.339
 nonetheless,

00:32:12.859 --> 00:32:14.240
 make its home

00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:16.839
 in any and every culture.

00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:18.139
 The indigenizing principle.

00:32:18.779 --> 00:32:19.539
 And that the gospel,

00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:19.859
 indeed,

00:32:20.379 --> 00:32:21.399
 seeks embodiment

00:32:21.399 --> 00:32:24.339
 within every culture.

00:32:25.059 --> 00:32:26.119
 And this recognition

00:32:26.119 --> 00:32:26.839
 of the implication

00:32:26.839 --> 00:32:27.839
 of the incarnation,

00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:30.220
 has made for Christian readiness

00:32:30.220 --> 00:32:32.359
 to translate the scriptures

00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:34.480
 into every language.

00:32:35.159 --> 00:32:37.179
 That's just the first impulse,

00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:39.299
 and it's a good, right impulse

00:32:39.299 --> 00:32:42.000
 for Christians.

00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:43.740
 And this in contrast

00:32:43.740 --> 00:32:46.500
 to Islam's view

00:32:46.500 --> 00:32:49.279
 of the exclusivity

00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:50.619
 of Arabic

00:32:50.619 --> 00:32:54.460
 as the sacramental language

00:32:54.460 --> 00:32:55.579
 of Muslims.

00:32:56.380 --> 00:32:58.680
 Kenneth Craig talks a lot about this.

00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:01.259
 And this is one of the emphases

00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:02.880
 of the late Yale missiologist,

00:33:03.059 --> 00:33:04.200
 Laman Sané,

00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:06.019
 grew up as a Muslim,

00:33:06.019 --> 00:33:08.019
 who argues that Islam

00:33:08.700 --> 00:33:11.019
 is structurally tied

00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:14.180
 to Arabic revelation,

00:33:14.639 --> 00:33:15.859
 whereas Christianity

00:33:15.859 --> 00:33:19.240
 is structurally committed

00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:21.079
 to translation

00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:23.639
 because of the incarnation.

00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:26.200
 Andrew Walsh writes,

00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:29.779
 incarnation is translation.

00:33:29.779 --> 00:33:32.200
 When God and Christ

00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:33.019
 became man,

00:33:33.379 --> 00:33:35.139
 divinity was translated

00:33:35.139 --> 00:33:36.579
 into humanity

00:33:36.579 --> 00:33:39.059
 as though humanity

00:33:39.059 --> 00:33:42.259
 were the receptor language.

00:33:43.700 --> 00:33:45.859
 See how natural that it is

00:33:45.859 --> 00:33:47.440
 for us to seek

00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:49.420
 to translate the scriptures?

00:33:51.879 --> 00:33:52.799
 So,

00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:55.879
 what might be some implications

00:33:55.879 --> 00:33:57.960
 for this,

00:33:58.200 --> 00:33:58.859
 of this,

00:33:58.859 --> 00:34:00.619
 for how we do missions?

00:34:01.099 --> 00:34:02.379
 How might it make us,

00:34:02.399 --> 00:34:02.939
 let's think of this

00:34:02.939 --> 00:34:03.339
 for a little bit,

00:34:03.619 --> 00:34:05.000
 how might it make us

00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:05.759
 think

00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:08.480
 of the receptor cultures

00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:10.880
 we seek to reach

00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:12.659
 with the gospel?

00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:14.639
 Any thoughts?

00:34:17.779 --> 00:34:19.799
 If they have a caring capacity

00:34:19.799 --> 00:34:20.539
 for the gospel,

00:34:20.799 --> 00:34:21.679
 how might it make us

00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:24.239
 think about these receptor cultures

00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:25.059
 and regard them?

00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:28.739
 Yeah.

00:34:28.860 --> 00:34:30.039
 One interesting thing

00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:30.880
 is it seems like

00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:32.400
 there are in different cultures

00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:33.800
 that even in our experience

00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:35.340
 we don't give analogies

00:34:35.340 --> 00:34:36.840
 within the culture

00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:38.880
 that can carry the message

00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:40.480
 in a way to the heart

00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:41.700
 that you can't find

00:34:41.700 --> 00:34:42.820
 intellectual or

00:34:42.820 --> 00:34:43.579
 by individual.

00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:45.400
 Yes, yes, yes.

00:34:46.099 --> 00:35:14.340
 that there are,

00:35:14.340 --> 00:35:15.160
 that there are,

00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:19.019
 within each culture there are these resonances that will be there.

00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:23.339
 It's as if somehow God allowed something to grow up in the culture

00:35:23.339 --> 00:35:26.319
 that would be such a perfect receptor of the gospel

00:35:26.319 --> 00:35:28.420
 that when the gospel comes in,

00:35:29.259 --> 00:35:32.239
 the gospel illuminates this aspect,

00:35:32.379 --> 00:35:35.659
 but also this aspect illuminates the gospel itself.

00:35:36.859 --> 00:35:39.559
 So we go in with the expectation of cultures

00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:42.199
 that there are going to be some things in this culture

00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:46.980
 that will illuminate the gospel in a way that we might not have seen before,

00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:50.759
 almost certainly have not, because it's a very different culture.

00:35:51.579 --> 00:35:56.919
 So since the gospel can be at home, make its home,

00:35:57.000 --> 00:35:58.819
 sorry, never at home, but never completely at home,

00:35:58.899 --> 00:36:01.639
 since it can make its home in every culture,

00:36:02.139 --> 00:36:07.279
 what we want to do is we want to come in and seed the gospel into each culture

00:36:07.279 --> 00:36:09.919
 in their vernacular, maybe translating the scriptures,

00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:12.340
 translate the scriptures into the indigenous languages

00:36:12.340 --> 00:36:15.920
 and see how the gospel then germinates

00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:21.519
 and bears its native fruits in that particular soil.

00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:26.780
 And there will be expressions and embodiments of the gospel

00:36:26.780 --> 00:36:31.159
 that springing up from that particular cultural soil

00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:34.099
 will be new to the missionary.

00:36:34.099 --> 00:36:39.960
 There will be fresh discoveries of the applications of the gospel.

00:36:40.739 --> 00:36:44.579
 And this should give us a real openness to discovery.

00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:48.000
 And think about this.

00:36:48.839 --> 00:36:52.839
 It will take the whole people of God,

00:36:53.259 --> 00:36:55.219
 drawn from every tongue, tribe, and nation,

00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:59.319
 to discover, display, and delight in

00:36:59.319 --> 00:37:01.839
 the whole glory of Christ in his gospel.

00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:05.280
 It will take the whole people of God

00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:07.840
 to discover, display, and delight in

00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:09.880
 the whole glory of Christ.

00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:15.100
 So we come in seeking to plant the seeds,

00:37:15.340 --> 00:37:18.840
 but so eager to see what color is the flower

00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:20.940
 going to come up out of this soil?

00:37:21.160 --> 00:37:22.880
 What will it be like?

00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:27.280
 Andrew Walls.

00:37:27.420 --> 00:37:31.360
 I mean, this keeps us from being too paternalistic

00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:32.360
 about these things.

00:37:33.559 --> 00:37:36.519
 Andrew Walls has a wonderful image.

00:37:36.740 --> 00:37:40.480
 He says, imagine a great concert hall.

00:37:41.220 --> 00:37:44.340
 And we all, as Christians, we all have our seats

00:37:44.340 --> 00:37:46.079
 from all these different cultures,

00:37:46.220 --> 00:37:48.760
 and we're watching the same drama, and that's the gospel.

00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:53.140
 But some of us, depending upon where you're seated,

00:37:53.240 --> 00:37:54.400
 you're going to have a slightly different view.

00:37:55.180 --> 00:37:58.660
 Someone might be right up close to the orchestra pit,

00:37:59.340 --> 00:38:03.540
 so they pick up right away that little light pizzicato,

00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:07.940
 indicating that the villain is making an appearance soon,

00:38:08.420 --> 00:38:09.160
 and they notice.

00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:12.859
 Maybe, maybe you have a seat way up

00:38:12.859 --> 00:38:14.279
 in the nosebleed seats,

00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:17.699
 but you kind of have a nice, broad,

00:38:17.839 --> 00:38:19.339
 bird's-eye view of the whole thing.

00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:21.099
 Maybe you're sitting through your night,

00:38:21.179 --> 00:38:23.420
 so you see, just from your view,

00:38:23.759 --> 00:38:25.219
 the dagger of the assassin

00:38:25.219 --> 00:38:27.259
 before anyone else,

00:38:27.619 --> 00:38:28.879
 and you're attentive to that.

00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:30.359
 You get the picture.

00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:34.039
 And everybody has a slightly different take on this thing,

00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:35.839
 and then when the intermission comes,

00:38:35.839 --> 00:38:37.399
 you all get there, and over your tee,

00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:39.720
 you're talking about how exciting it was.

00:38:39.780 --> 00:38:41.519
 Did you, oh no, I missed that.

00:38:41.820 --> 00:38:43.039
 I hadn't seen that.

00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:44.200
 That's fantastic.

00:38:44.579 --> 00:38:46.579
 Oh, I see how that fits together with this.

00:38:47.099 --> 00:38:51.639
 I mean, what a wonderful, wonderful collective experience

00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:54.400
 to see how the gospel shimmers and shines

00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:56.920
 and is radiant from all these different angles.

00:38:58.340 --> 00:39:00.840
 So it's a great image.

00:39:01.740 --> 00:39:03.019
 So one other question.

00:39:03.019 --> 00:39:04.780
 What happens in our mission

00:39:04.780 --> 00:39:09.159
 when we forget that particular implication?

00:39:10.179 --> 00:39:11.440
 What can happen?

00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:12.340
 Yeah, my back.

00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:13.719
 Well, it's great to me,

00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:14.820
 just picking up on that,

00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:17.059
 that this dynamic makes,

00:39:17.739 --> 00:39:20.679
 hopefully, makes us more self-reflective

00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:25.219
 and aware that our own,

00:39:25.579 --> 00:39:26.739
 the thing that we've grown up in,

00:39:26.780 --> 00:39:29.159
 and this is such a danger for Western culture,

00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:31.859
 Christendom is to think,

00:39:31.980 --> 00:39:34.619
 well, we, our Christianity is acultural.

00:39:35.179 --> 00:39:35.579
 Exactly.

00:39:36.359 --> 00:39:37.519
 Acultural, not cultural.

00:39:37.659 --> 00:39:38.299
 Yeah, it doesn't reflect,

00:39:38.420 --> 00:39:38.859
 excellent.

00:39:39.059 --> 00:39:39.579
 Yes, yes, yes.

00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:39.920
 It's universal.

00:39:40.179 --> 00:39:40.319
 Yeah.

00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:41.379
 Rather than saying,

00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:43.819
 no, this is a Western expression of this,

00:39:43.940 --> 00:39:46.639
 and we need to continue to have the humility

00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:48.659
 to reflect on our own culture

00:39:48.659 --> 00:39:50.579
 and where we're culturally captive,

00:39:50.699 --> 00:39:51.699
 where we shouldn't be.

00:39:51.839 --> 00:39:52.159
 Yeah.

00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:53.659
 And, as you were saying,

00:39:53.779 --> 00:39:56.119
 then learn, because, yeah,

00:39:56.299 --> 00:39:57.639
 and then learn from others

00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:01.719
 and just grow in our richness of understanding

00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:03.759
 by having that humility.

00:40:04.199 --> 00:40:06.379
 And there are lots of tricky things

00:40:06.379 --> 00:40:07.920
 in the youth of that.

00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:08.519
 Yeah.

00:40:08.899 --> 00:40:10.539
 No, I think that's key.

00:40:10.579 --> 00:40:11.159
 It's really important.

00:40:11.379 --> 00:40:11.500
 Yeah.

00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:13.339
 It's interesting that,

00:40:14.299 --> 00:40:15.199
 so the Puritan,

00:40:15.359 --> 00:40:17.739
 the early Puritan missions in New England

00:40:17.739 --> 00:40:20.420
 thought that, you know,

00:40:20.420 --> 00:40:21.940
 just illustrating how, you know,

00:40:22.019 --> 00:40:24.720
 if we think that our culture is not a culture,

00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:25.800
 it's just normative,

00:40:26.300 --> 00:40:29.940
 and we prefer our culture,

00:40:30.019 --> 00:40:31.619
 perhaps even impose it,

00:40:32.420 --> 00:40:34.680
 our cultural forms on those we seek to reach,

00:40:34.980 --> 00:40:37.159
 really that's just kind of cultural imperialism.

00:40:38.680 --> 00:40:40.220
 And the Puritans,

00:40:40.260 --> 00:40:41.139
 and I love the Puritans,

00:40:41.480 --> 00:40:43.079
 the early Puritans in New England

00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:45.119
 where they were trying to reach the natives,

00:40:46.700 --> 00:40:49.340
 they expressed again and again

00:40:49.340 --> 00:40:50.440
 the need to,

00:40:50.500 --> 00:40:51.260
 I'll use their term,

00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:54.720
 to civilize the natives

00:40:54.720 --> 00:40:57.400
 before they gospelize.

00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:58.280
 That's also their term,

00:40:58.380 --> 00:40:59.500
 gospelize the natives.

00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:01.240
 They said, we gotta get them,

00:41:01.420 --> 00:41:02.880
 first, before we can give them the gospel,

00:41:03.260 --> 00:41:05.320
 we gotta get them to, you know,

00:41:05.380 --> 00:41:06.860
 to wear the right clothing

00:41:06.860 --> 00:41:09.480
 and to settle down,

00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:10.180
 not be nomadic,

00:41:10.380 --> 00:41:12.240
 settle down in a proper way

00:41:12.240 --> 00:41:14.579
 in villages with picket fences.

00:41:14.579 --> 00:41:15.420
 You know,

00:41:15.539 --> 00:41:17.239
 we can't do this church thing

00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:18.719
 off the back of a horse.

00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:20.219
 It just doesn't work.

00:41:21.019 --> 00:41:22.500
 We gotta civilize them

00:41:22.500 --> 00:41:23.940
 before we can gospelize them.

00:41:24.139 --> 00:41:25.079
 And they really believe that.

00:41:25.119 --> 00:41:26.079
 I mean, we kind of laugh,

00:41:26.159 --> 00:41:27.659
 but they really believe this.

00:41:27.699 --> 00:41:30.799
 This shaped the missionary enterprise

00:41:30.799 --> 00:41:34.019
 until David Brainerd

00:41:34.019 --> 00:41:35.960
 goes down,

00:41:36.139 --> 00:41:37.219
 and he's at the Forks of the Delaware

00:41:37.219 --> 00:41:38.019
 and cross Wixong,

00:41:38.019 --> 00:41:41.360
 and he's preaching to these

00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:44.719
 as yet uncivilized Native Americans.

00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:48.659
 And, I mean, the description's fantastic,

00:41:48.860 --> 00:41:52.079
 but it's just like a Pentecost.

00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:57.139
 You know, and he hears this mighty rushing wind,

00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:00.420
 and they're starting to rejoice in the Lord,

00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:02.219
 and they're soundly converted.

00:42:03.259 --> 00:42:05.840
 And they are still savages,

00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:07.820
 as they're described as.

00:42:08.019 --> 00:42:11.519
 But they are obviously regenerated.

00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:16.380
 And this just completely shook

00:42:16.380 --> 00:42:17.719
 the categories of the Puritans.

00:42:17.900 --> 00:42:19.139
 And they finally,

00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:21.219
 and kudos on them,

00:42:21.539 --> 00:42:22.380
 they shifted.

00:42:22.539 --> 00:42:22.820
 They said,

00:42:23.179 --> 00:42:23.900
 oh my goodness,

00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:26.340
 we never realized.

00:42:26.840 --> 00:42:30.920
 We don't need to civilize the Natives

00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:33.200
 before we gospelize them.

00:42:33.579 --> 00:42:36.200
 God can make Christians of them

00:42:36.200 --> 00:42:39.559
 without making fine Englishmen of them.

00:42:40.780 --> 00:42:43.059
 And maybe some of the clues in this

00:42:43.059 --> 00:42:44.840
 would have been from Acts 15

00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:45.940
 and the Jerusalem Council,

00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:50.360
 where do the Gentiles need to become Jews first

00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:51.639
 before they can become Christians?

00:42:51.700 --> 00:42:53.200
 They need to become culturally Jewish?

00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:55.299
 And the answer that they concluded was,

00:42:55.659 --> 00:42:57.779
 no, no.

00:42:59.019 --> 00:43:01.559
 So this is so important.

00:43:02.759 --> 00:43:03.500
 Well, finally,

00:43:03.759 --> 00:43:06.539
 and it's just going to be finally for us this morning,

00:43:06.659 --> 00:43:08.599
 for we're far from exhausting this topic

00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:10.460
 of the implications of the incarnation.

00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:11.919
 But finally for us,

00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:13.920
 the incarnation of the Son

00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:20.000
 meant an emptying that was costly.

00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:22.180
 An emptying that was costly.

00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:23.579
 As Paul writes to the Philippians,

00:43:23.940 --> 00:43:25.300
 though he was in the form of God,

00:43:25.539 --> 00:43:27.860
 he did not count equality with God

00:43:27.860 --> 00:43:30.220
 a thing to be grasped or hung onto,

00:43:30.500 --> 00:43:31.539
 but emptied himself

00:43:31.539 --> 00:43:33.619
 by taking on the form of a servant,

00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:38.059
 being born in the likeness of humanity.

00:43:38.900 --> 00:43:40.519
 And being found in human form,

00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:41.780
 he humbled himself

00:43:41.780 --> 00:43:44.099
 by becoming obedient to the point of death,

00:43:44.219 --> 00:43:45.500
 even death on the cross.

00:43:45.860 --> 00:43:47.900
 Or as Paul expresses the incarnation

00:43:47.900 --> 00:43:48.900
 to the Corinthians,

00:43:49.820 --> 00:43:50.940
 though he was rich,

00:43:51.780 --> 00:43:53.219
 yet for your sakes,

00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:54.960
 he became poor

00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:56.519
 so that you,

00:43:56.980 --> 00:43:58.219
 by his poverty,

00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:00.480
 might become rich.

00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:01.880
 2 Corinthians 8 and 9.

00:44:02.659 --> 00:44:03.599
 When Jesus,

00:44:03.800 --> 00:44:05.079
 on the eve of his death,

00:44:05.380 --> 00:44:07.579
 wrapped himself in a servant's towel

00:44:07.579 --> 00:44:10.019
 and washed his disciples' feet,

00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:13.739
 that stunning act of self-abasement

00:44:13.739 --> 00:44:15.719
 was no isolated gesture,

00:44:16.780 --> 00:44:21.159
 but emblematic of his whole incarnate life.

00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:23.980
 I have come not to be served,

00:44:24.059 --> 00:44:24.500
 he explained,

00:44:24.739 --> 00:44:27.639
 but to serve and to give my life.

00:44:28.019 --> 00:44:28.860
 Mark 10.45.

00:44:28.860 --> 00:44:32.340
 When the Father sent the Son,

00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:35.079
 he gave him a cup.

00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:37.279
 Contained in that cup

00:44:37.279 --> 00:44:40.219
 was a life of pouring himself out

00:44:40.219 --> 00:44:42.360
 in sacrificial service,

00:44:42.860 --> 00:44:43.779
 even unto death.

00:44:45.059 --> 00:44:46.239
 Regarding his mission,

00:44:46.340 --> 00:44:46.659
 he said,

00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:48.639
 shall I not drink the cup

00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:50.259
 that the Father has given me?

00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:51.860
 John 18.11.

00:44:53.460 --> 00:44:55.299
 And as the Father sent me,

00:44:55.420 --> 00:44:56.639
 so I send you.

00:44:57.900 --> 00:44:59.440
 Jesus gives a cup

00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:01.159
 to each disciple.

00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:03.839
 As Jesus solemnly asked

00:45:03.839 --> 00:45:04.799
 the sons of Zebedee,

00:45:05.139 --> 00:45:07.219
 are you able to drink the cup?

00:45:08.279 --> 00:45:10.319
 They rather naively responded

00:45:10.319 --> 00:45:11.399
 with breezy confidence,

00:45:11.539 --> 00:45:12.299
 oh, we're able.

00:45:13.879 --> 00:45:15.379
 Matthew 20.22.

00:45:16.379 --> 00:45:18.839
 But the cup we are each given

00:45:18.839 --> 00:45:21.379
 is one of taking up a cross

00:45:21.379 --> 00:45:24.379
 and dying daily in our mission.

00:45:24.380 --> 00:45:26.400
 It involves,

00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:27.220
 as with the master

00:45:27.220 --> 00:45:28.000
 whom we follow,

00:45:28.579 --> 00:45:29.640
 a costly,

00:45:30.099 --> 00:45:32.140
 self-emptying sacrifice.

00:45:33.300 --> 00:45:34.400
 Unless a grain of wheat

00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:35.579
 fall to the ground and die,

00:45:35.640 --> 00:45:36.500
 it remains alone.

00:45:37.160 --> 00:45:38.640
 But if it dies,

00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:40.800
 it bears much fruit.

00:45:41.900 --> 00:45:43.539
 Whoever seeks to preserve her life

00:45:43.539 --> 00:45:44.240
 shall lose it,

00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:46.119
 but whoever gives up her life

00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:47.119
 shall gain it.

00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:50.799
 Well, the sons of Zebedee

00:45:50.799 --> 00:45:53.079
 did drink the cup

00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:54.679
 that Jesus gave them.

00:45:56.079 --> 00:45:57.239
 James, it seems,

00:45:57.319 --> 00:45:58.219
 was the first martyr

00:45:58.219 --> 00:45:58.960
 of the apostles.

00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:00.679
 He was beheaded by Herod Agrippa

00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:02.519
 as related in Acts 12.

00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:05.279
 For his brother John,

00:46:05.339 --> 00:46:06.259
 the cup was different.

00:46:07.859 --> 00:46:09.279
 His was a suffering

00:46:09.279 --> 00:46:11.420
 of a long endurance.

00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:14.519
 He was the only one of the 12

00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:15.359
 to die naturally

00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:16.280
 after a lifetime

00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:17.860
 of costly faithfulness.

00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:21.860
 We are each sent out

00:46:21.860 --> 00:46:22.460
 in mission

00:46:22.460 --> 00:46:24.340
 with a cup to drink

00:46:24.340 --> 00:46:26.380
 given to us by Christ.

00:46:27.800 --> 00:46:28.860
 And his own

00:46:28.860 --> 00:46:32.160
 self-emptying incarnate life

00:46:32.160 --> 00:46:34.920
 gives us some indication

00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:37.940
 of the nature of that cup.

00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:42.420
 So, finally, our question,

00:46:42.640 --> 00:46:43.599
 what might be some

00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:44.320
 of the implications

00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:46.080
 of this feature

00:46:46.080 --> 00:46:47.340
 of the incarnation

00:46:47.340 --> 00:46:49.240
 for our thinking

00:46:49.240 --> 00:46:51.640
 about and living out

00:46:51.640 --> 00:46:53.960
 our mission?

00:46:54.300 --> 00:46:54.900
 Any thoughts?

00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:56.700
 I've just been reflecting

00:46:56.700 --> 00:46:59.539
 really for all of these aspects.

00:46:59.660 --> 00:47:00.200
 Yeah, yeah.

00:47:00.700 --> 00:47:02.260
 It has to come out of love

00:47:02.260 --> 00:47:03.400
 because you can't,

00:47:04.180 --> 00:47:06.059
 like, you can't, like,

00:47:06.120 --> 00:47:07.620
 look for those touch points

00:47:07.620 --> 00:47:08.340
 in the culture

00:47:08.340 --> 00:47:09.340
 that you despise.

00:47:09.500 --> 00:47:09.700
 Yeah.

00:47:09.699 --> 00:47:12.279
 You can't seek to, you know,

00:47:12.339 --> 00:47:13.319
 enter into it

00:47:13.319 --> 00:47:15.159
 if you hate it.

00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:15.899
 Yeah, yeah.

00:47:15.899 --> 00:47:16.919
 It's so inventive.

00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:19.339
 But you have to love these people.

00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:21.919
 And that's true for, I mean,

00:47:22.179 --> 00:47:23.899
 suffering and giving stuff up.

00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:25.500
 If you don't do that,

00:47:26.460 --> 00:47:27.439
 unless there's love.

00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:28.219
 Yeah, yeah.

00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:29.879
 I think that's so key.

00:47:30.019 --> 00:47:31.539
 And this is what kind of goes back

00:47:31.539 --> 00:47:32.500
 to that first foundation

00:47:32.500 --> 00:47:33.579
 where if we're just called

00:47:33.579 --> 00:47:34.159
 to imitate,

00:47:34.359 --> 00:47:35.319
 here, be like Christ

00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:35.940
 in these ways,

00:47:36.500 --> 00:47:37.760
 who could do it

00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:39.920
 but for the fact

00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:41.600
 of the indwelling spirit

00:47:41.600 --> 00:47:42.059
 who,

00:47:42.240 --> 00:47:43.080
 and we're going to see this

00:47:43.080 --> 00:47:43.539
 a little bit

00:47:43.539 --> 00:47:44.539
 maybe next week,

00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:47.140
 causes to, you know,

00:47:47.300 --> 00:47:50.039
 so death works in me

00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:52.720
 but life in you.

00:47:53.500 --> 00:47:56.080
 Paul is able to pour himself out

00:47:56.080 --> 00:47:59.160
 for the benefit

00:47:59.160 --> 00:48:00.480
 of the spiritual life

00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:01.700
 of those he's seeking

00:48:01.700 --> 00:48:03.940
 because the spirit

00:48:03.940 --> 00:48:05.880
 wells up the life

00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:06.700
 of Christ in us,

00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:07.960
 the character of Christ in us.

00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:10.440
 Supreme part of which

00:48:10.440 --> 00:48:11.380
 is love,

00:48:11.500 --> 00:48:12.360
 is self-giving love.

00:48:13.700 --> 00:48:13.880
 Yeah.

00:48:14.380 --> 00:48:15.200
 I mean, it's,

00:48:15.460 --> 00:48:15.679
 yeah,

00:48:16.220 --> 00:48:16.720
 yeah,

00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:18.380
 and only for love's sake

00:48:18.380 --> 00:48:19.159
 are you willing

00:48:19.159 --> 00:48:20.539
 to take on these hard things.

00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:21.659
 And, you know,

00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:22.599
 the history of missions,

00:48:22.860 --> 00:48:23.039
 I mean,

00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:24.059
 I wish I had another hour

00:48:24.059 --> 00:48:24.920
 to illustrate this.

00:48:25.019 --> 00:48:26.380
 You think of the Moravians

00:48:26.380 --> 00:48:28.599
 that are trying desperately

00:48:28.599 --> 00:48:30.220
 to get to the slaves,

00:48:30.300 --> 00:48:31.059
 to reach the slaves

00:48:31.059 --> 00:48:31.559
 in the Caribbean

00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:33.039
 and they found no way.

00:48:33.039 --> 00:48:36.759
 so they sold themselves

00:48:36.759 --> 00:48:37.559
 into slavery

00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:40.960
 so they could be beside

00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:42.400
 the slaves they were seeking

00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:43.000
 to reach.

00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:48.259
 Or other Moravian missionaries

00:48:48.259 --> 00:48:49.659
 that would go into

00:48:49.659 --> 00:48:50.480
 leper colonies

00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:51.440
 two by two,

00:48:51.539 --> 00:48:52.980
 every year they would go in

00:48:52.980 --> 00:48:55.980
 to preach the good news there

00:48:55.980 --> 00:48:57.980
 knowing that they would

00:48:57.980 --> 00:48:58.920
 never come out.

00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:00.480
 They'd just be replaced

00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:01.840
 every two,

00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:02.519
 every year

00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:03.800
 by the next two

00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:04.940
 and the next two.

00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:06.099
 And it went on

00:49:06.099 --> 00:49:07.539
 for about a century.

00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:08.800
 Yeah,

00:49:08.860 --> 00:49:09.059
 it's,

00:49:09.059 --> 00:49:09.400
 it's,

00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:09.840
 it's,

00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:10.179
 it's,

00:49:10.300 --> 00:49:10.760
 it's,

00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:11.420
 it's remarkable.

00:49:11.420 --> 00:49:12.500
 Yeah.

00:49:12.500 --> 00:49:12.559
 Yeah.

00:49:24.619 --> 00:49:26.220
 Any other observations

00:49:26.220 --> 00:49:27.920
 or implications for us?

00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:28.780
 Thoughts?

00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:30.300
 Yeah,

00:49:30.420 --> 00:49:30.579
 yeah,

00:49:30.680 --> 00:49:30.860
 Matt.

00:49:30.860 --> 00:49:32.579
 An application for me

00:49:32.579 --> 00:49:33.220
 is this.

00:49:33.380 --> 00:49:35.599
 I felt about six months ago

00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:37.220
 God saying to me,

00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:37.559
 Matt,

00:49:37.660 --> 00:49:39.460
 evangelize your neighborhood

00:49:39.460 --> 00:49:41.780
 and various things

00:49:41.780 --> 00:49:42.880
 have happened since then.

00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:43.140
 Uh-huh.

00:49:43.200 --> 00:49:44.519
 But just today,

00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:46.300
 I think an application is,

00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:47.220
 Matt,

00:49:47.740 --> 00:49:49.220
 when you take the dog

00:49:49.220 --> 00:49:49.940
 for a walk,

00:49:50.260 --> 00:49:51.579
 instead of listening

00:49:51.579 --> 00:49:52.539
 to a book,

00:49:53.019 --> 00:49:53.360
 which,

00:49:54.179 --> 00:49:54.460
 you know,

00:49:54.500 --> 00:49:55.659
 isolates you

00:49:55.659 --> 00:49:56.779
 from interaction

00:49:56.779 --> 00:49:57.519
 with people

00:49:57.519 --> 00:49:58.739
 as you go through

00:49:58.739 --> 00:50:00.219
 the neighborhood,

00:50:00.739 --> 00:50:01.059
 uh,

00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:01.779
 you know,

00:50:01.940 --> 00:50:03.219
 pray for them

00:50:03.219 --> 00:50:03.639
 and,

00:50:03.719 --> 00:50:04.059
 uh,

00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:06.579
 be ready to make

00:50:06.579 --> 00:50:07.559
 the most of every

00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:08.319
 opportunity,

00:50:08.319 --> 00:50:09.239
 uh,

00:50:09.239 --> 00:50:10.500
 you have to pray for

00:50:10.500 --> 00:50:11.420
 and interact with

00:50:11.420 --> 00:50:12.239
 the community.

00:50:12.940 --> 00:50:13.900
 That's excellent.

00:50:14.059 --> 00:50:14.219
 I mean,

00:50:14.259 --> 00:50:15.119
 that's incarnational.

00:50:15.380 --> 00:50:16.480
 Wanting to put yourself

00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:17.599
 in terms of a presence

00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:19.199
 in their space

00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:19.880
 that's shared

00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:21.219
 rather than isolate yourself.

00:50:21.579 --> 00:50:22.400
 That's fantastic,

00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:22.739
 Matt.

00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:24.039
 I,

00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:24.299
 I,

00:50:24.299 --> 00:50:25.019
 I did the,

00:50:25.099 --> 00:50:25.920
 I decided to do

00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:26.559
 the same thing

00:50:26.559 --> 00:50:27.139
 in the gym

00:50:27.139 --> 00:50:29.239
 where just not use this

00:50:29.239 --> 00:50:29.860
 because I want to be

00:50:29.860 --> 00:50:31.739
 attentive to God's

00:50:31.739 --> 00:50:32.259
 providences

00:50:32.259 --> 00:50:34.319
 and just see

00:50:34.319 --> 00:50:35.400
 what sort of

00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:36.739
 conversations can come up

00:50:36.739 --> 00:50:36.900
 and,

00:50:36.900 --> 00:50:37.139
 and,

00:50:37.139 --> 00:50:38.119
 and this is,

00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:39.619
 usually communicates,

00:50:39.819 --> 00:50:40.719
 don't bother me,

00:50:40.779 --> 00:50:41.639
 I'm doing something.

00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:43.000
 Uh,

00:50:44.619 --> 00:50:45.119
 yeah.

00:50:45.539 --> 00:50:45.920
 I mean,

00:50:45.940 --> 00:50:46.880
 there'd be so much more

00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:47.279
 so I just,

00:50:47.279 --> 00:50:48.679
 I just commend to you

00:50:48.679 --> 00:50:49.860
 the incarnation

00:50:49.860 --> 00:50:50.400
 as,

00:50:50.539 --> 00:50:50.759
 as,

00:50:50.860 --> 00:50:51.559
 as a model.

00:50:52.539 --> 00:50:52.779
 You know,

00:50:52.819 --> 00:50:53.039
 there,

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 there's a,

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 it seems also to shape

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 the tone of our mission.

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 He came in humility

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 as we've said.

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 So how could we be

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 arrogant and triumphalistic?

00:51:02.340 --> 00:51:03.039
 It's excluded.

00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:04.759
 You know,

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 when he,

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 he,

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 he comes,

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 he,

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 he heals bodies.

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 He feeds the hungry.

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 So this seems like

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 the whole person matters.

00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:16.199
 The mission is hopeful

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 for us

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 because of the incarnation.

00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:19.280
 we know God has not

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 abandoned this world.

00:51:21.340 --> 00:51:21.960
 It's not simply

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 rescuing souls

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 from a doomed

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 material reality.

00:51:25.739 --> 00:51:26.219
 Rather,

00:51:27.340 --> 00:51:28.460
 participating in God's

00:51:28.460 --> 00:51:29.960
 renewal of all things.

00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:30.860
 It's holistic.

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 I mean,

00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:33.559
 there's so many aspects

00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:33.960
 that are,

00:51:34.039 --> 00:51:34.679
 that are,

00:51:34.679 --> 00:51:34.960
 um,

00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:36.420
 bound up in

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 the incarnation.

00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:38.880
 Well,

00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:39.420
 let's,

00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:39.719
 uh,

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 conclude then

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 with,

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 uh,

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 this remark

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 by John Stott

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 where he writes,

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 all authentic

00:51:48.159 --> 00:51:49.059
 mission

00:51:49.059 --> 00:51:51.179
 is incarnational

00:51:51.179 --> 00:51:51.559
 mission.

00:51:51.859 --> 00:51:53.059
 All authentic

00:51:53.059 --> 00:51:53.480
 mission

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 is incarnational

00:51:55.259 --> 00:51:56.459
 mission.

00:51:57.379 --> 00:51:57.859
 Uh,

00:51:58.159 --> 00:51:58.939
 well,

00:51:59.019 --> 00:51:59.719
 let's conclude

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 there.

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 And,

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 uh,

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 next week,

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 Lord willing,

00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:03.539
 we will,

00:52:03.599 --> 00:52:03.819
 uh,

00:52:03.819 --> 00:52:04.459
 take up a little

00:52:04.459 --> 00:52:05.539
 companion study

00:52:05.539 --> 00:52:06.679
 looking at the

00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:07.779
 apostle Paul

00:52:07.779 --> 00:52:08.939
 as a model

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 for our

00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:10.839
 missions

00:52:10.839 --> 00:52:11.399
 and missionary

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 activity.

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 So,

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 uh,

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 thank you

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 and hopefully

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 see you

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 next week.

00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:19.619
 Thank you.

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