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 As we've been looking through the last few weeks, we've been looking at our vision for Christchurch

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 and what we were given many years ago. And this week we're focusing on God's calling to us in our

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 community for those people that we're called to reach and achieving what we are called to be

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 and what we're called to do. I don't know what you'll like at sharing good news or how you share

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 good news. For our offer courses, we use some clips at the beginning and here's what some people have said,

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 how they convey good news.

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 Good news?

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 I don't know. Recently. Yesterday maybe.

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 Today when I got told I'd get 20 quid for an hour.

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 My best friend's having a baby girl.

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 No, I don't have any. You go first. No, you've got good news.

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 Baby slept through the night.

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 I think it was one of my GCSE was on.

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 I found out I was getting a better job, I guess.

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 It was my brother getting into university.

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 I'm quite loud, so I'll just shout it to everyone.

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 Twitter, Facebook, stuff like that really.

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 With my friends, it's usually food.

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 Oh my God, guess what?

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 You know?

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 Like I just tweet most of my stuff.

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 Jumping off and down.

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 I tell them face to face. I don't do like Facebook or all that sort of stuff, so.

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 Is it good news if you can't tell anyone?

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 I suppose all good news is worth sharing.

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 To make everybody else happy.

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 So people can celebrate with you, right?

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 Yeah.

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 All good news is worth sharing.

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 It was a day you don't forget.

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 It was the 9th of December.

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 It was 1986.

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 It was 7.42 in the morning.

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 The Countdown by Europe was number one in the charts.

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 Miami Vice, if you remember it, was headlining on the television.

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 I actually did own one of those white jackets with the padded shoulders.

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 We'd just finished decorating our house in Taunton.

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 I had just sold my glorious Mark II Ford Capri to buy a Ford Fiesta Mark I.

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 The good news was that at 7.42 on that morning, I became a dad.

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 And in those days before mobile phones, before social texting, before any media,

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 like every other dad in that maternity wing,

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 I was armed with a bag full of 10 pence pieces.

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 Because I knew with that bag of 10 pence pieces,

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 I was going to share the most important and exciting news

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 with all the people that Mandy had put on this list.

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 All in the right order to make sure that we knew.

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 The good news was that life had changed forever.

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 That Mark Wesley Jennings had come into the world.

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 And I couldn't wait to share that news.

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 It was natural.

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 It was exciting.

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 And so it should be.

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 Because when we've got good news to share,

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 that's the way it should be.

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 And I didn't care who I told.

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 After on my way home, I told the bloke from the paper shop in Galmington.

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 I told the postie on the way past.

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 I told my neighbours as I took the dog out,

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 I told everybody the great news.

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 I am a dad.

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 I didn't care who knew.

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 When we read this passage this morning,

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 I've got to ask,

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 how do you hear this news?

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 How do you hear it?

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 How do we hear it?

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 Honestly,

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 because for years I'll tell you

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 that I heard this as something a little bit mediocre.

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 As though it wasn't the most exciting thing to do.

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 Because for me,

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 I knew all about Jesus.

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 I knew my Bible.

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 I was in the choir.

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 I can even remember the hymn numbers on the page.

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 Three times a day,

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 you don't forget that sort of thing.

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 But being sent out like sheep amongst wolves

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 isn't perhaps the most cheery thought

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 that we've got to go and share our good news.

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 I went to Secondary Modern,

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 and I'll tell you,

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 I'd seen a few lambs savaged.

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 But the disciples are learning.

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 And they are still learning.

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 They are being discipled as to what to do.

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 So I am asking myself,

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 this scripture,

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 is it a game changer for us?

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 You see,

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 the disciples are having a theory lesson

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 before the hands-on stuff actually happens.

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 Jesus throws in a line,

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 and it's a great line for them,

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 and it's a great line for us,

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 and it comes right at the end of that scripture.

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 For it will not be you speaking,

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 but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

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 God speaking through us.

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 And that's got to be good news.

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 Because you see,

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 for many,

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 they didn't get it.

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 They still didn't get it

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 until the Pentecost moment.

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 They were having a theory lesson here

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 of what was to come,

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 because they were going to experience

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 the good news

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 of Jesus died,

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 rising again,

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 and then that powerful Pentecost moment

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 when everything that Jesus had been saying to them,

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 which we hear in the scripture today,

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 they actually went out and did.

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 This was a preparation moment

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 for sharing the good news.

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 And it was good news,

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 and Jesus knows

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 that they weren't going to be fully effective

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 until they'd actually experience

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 this Pentecost moment

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 when the world would be changed and transformed.

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 Good news for the world,

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 good news for a generation.

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 And Russ said last week in the preaching

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 as we were looking through this,

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 you know,

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 it's not about us.

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 It's always about him.

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 It's about him,

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 and it's for him

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 that we share the good news.

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 You see,

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 in the power of the Holy Spirit,

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 life is changed.

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 We have the words.

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 We have a fresh confidence.

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 And the word that's been coming through this morning

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 in our music

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 and in our scriptures

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 is authority.

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 And he handed them authority

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 to go and share

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 the good news.

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 And it has to be good news

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 because it's what the world is looking for.

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 It's bubbling out of them.

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 Can I suggest,

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 we have been given these little booklets

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 and we're going to take them.

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 It's the 11 days of prayer

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 that starts on the 10th.

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 And we're going to pray

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 with people across this world

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 that those five names

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 that we put on the inside,

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 that they will come to hear that good news.

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 But who will they hear it from?

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 And I pray that maybe,

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 as a church,

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 as we look at our vision,

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 that we will bubble out of us

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 so much

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 that people are drawn to us.

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 I took the dog out on Friday morning.

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 Friday morning,

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 it's nice to go out in a dry weather,

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 isn't it,

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 lately,

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 with the dog.

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 Makes a bit of a change.

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 And I got to the top of the hill

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 and I was suddenly confronted by balloons.

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 And I thought,

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 my goodness,

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 that's really cheery.

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 There's balloons at the top

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 by the bowling club.

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 Not the sort of normal thing

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 that you see outside of the bowling club.

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 Balloons on a Friday morning.

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 And as I got closer

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 and I saw that there was

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 a small gathering

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 around these balloons,

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 people had stopped

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 to read the notice.

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 And it was for

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 a women's group

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 that was meeting here

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 on a Friday morning.

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 And it was inviting women

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 to come and have cakes

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 and enjoy themselves.

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 I thought,

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 that's good news.

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 I was really encouraged by that.

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 Albeit that I'm not a woman

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 and I couldn't attend.

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 But I was still pleased

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 for you all

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 of those who could attend.

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 But I thought,

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 what a great way

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 of sharing the good news.

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 It was bright.

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 It was alive.

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 It said who we are.

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 And we are being discipled.

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 And I want to encourage you

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 this morning.

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 Whatever stage we are at,

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 whatever stage we may be,

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 that we are being prepared

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 to share that good news.

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 And we have got good news

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 to share.

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 And I want to encourage you

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 this morning

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 to know the good news

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 and live the good news.

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 Maybe we're all

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 at different stages

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 of where we are

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 in our discipleship.

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 But I want to encourage you

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 and whoever's listening

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 on this podcast,

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 wherever you are,

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 God has given you

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 authority

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 to share the good news.

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 And he will empower you afresh

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 in the power

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 of the Holy Spirit.

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 They had the theory

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 and then came

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 the power of Pentecost.

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 And they didn't care who knew.

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 And they were given

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 opportunities

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 which they had never,

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 ever thought they would have

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 to share the good news

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 in different languages,

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 in different ways.

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 And maybe like me,

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 for many years,

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 you had this little

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 closed idea

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 that you should just go

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 and maybe

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 embarrassingly

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 hand somebody a tract

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 with Scripture on it

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 and then run away.

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 Maybe God is showing us

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 a new way

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 in which he will give us words.

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 He will give us ways.

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 He will give us opportunities.

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 He will put us in places

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 that we never,

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 ever thought

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 that we would be.

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 And then,

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 in the power of the Spirit

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 as we pray,

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 he will give us words

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 that will draw people

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 not to us,

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 but to him.

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 I'm going to end

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 with a story

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 because it is

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 something

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 that is really,

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 I feel,

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 sense for many of us

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 that have thought,

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 what difference

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 do I make?

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 Because we become vulnerable.

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 That's what he was saying

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 to his disciples.

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 Go out,

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 be vulnerable,

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 but in the power

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 of the Holy Spirit,

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 I will give them

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 message which is authentic,

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 which is real,

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 which is powerful,

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 which is lasting,

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 which is empowering,

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 life-giving,

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 and life-sharing.

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 There was a pastor

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 who was

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 in World War I

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 and much of his job

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 was to minister

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 to those

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 who were dying,

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 to minister

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 to those

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 who were in the trenches.

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 And he remembers

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 very clearly,

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 and as he wrote,

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 that he held

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 an 18-year-old

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 in his arms

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 as he was dying.

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 And this young lad

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 had said to him,

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 will you do one thing

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 for me, Pastor?

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 Will you promise me

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 one thing?

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 And he said,

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 yeah, whatever it is,

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 just tell me.

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 He said,

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 I want you

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 to go to this person

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 at the end of the war,

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 and I want you

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 to go and tell them

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 that by sharing

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 the good news

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 with me

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 all those years ago

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 has made a difference

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 into the way

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 in which I can die today

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 because I know

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 Jesus is my saviour.

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 And I have no fear.

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 Would you go

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 and tell him that?

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 And he promised him

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 and he said he would.

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 And after the war was over,

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 the pastor made his way

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 to a small Welsh village

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 in the valleys

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 and found this man

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 and his wife

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 and found them out

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 and told them the story.

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 The man broke down

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 and cried

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 and he said,

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 I feel so ashamed

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 because I've been

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 a Sunday school teacher

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 all my life

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 and yet three years ago

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 I gave up

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 because I didn't think

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 I was making a difference.

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 Can I encourage you

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 this morning,

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 can I encourage all of us

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 that we are anointed

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 and we are appointed

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 to go and share

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 the good news

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 in every season,

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 wherever that is.

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 and we ask

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 to do that

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 and maybe this morning

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 as we take communion

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 you would ask

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 to do that afresh

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 in the power

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 of the Holy Spirit.

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 to do that.

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 To do that

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 I would observe

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 that you otherwise

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 tend to be

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 a normal service

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 or to the other

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 part without

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 taking aary

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 acry

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 and keeping

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 a bit

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 zie

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 them

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 because

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 you

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 have

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 you

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 have

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 a

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 acord

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 of the

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 Afterwards

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 to do it

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 you

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 and