Well good morning. It's a pleasure to be with you. I have been part of Far Reaching
Ministries as the Latin America director for two years and as of a couple months
ago I was asked to now be involved in what we're doing in Ukraine and so it
works very well to be able to update the church because Edward Amaya who also was
pulled from the Middle East to focus in Ukraine about two and a half years ago
was here when we first started the work and that work has evolved and matured
quite a bit and so I'm excited to be able to share that with you but if you
have a Bible if you could open it with me to Luke chapter 5 because I will be
going through that but as you're finding your place in Scripture I know Far
Reaching Ministries has been involved with this church for some time but in
case you're unfamiliar with what we do as Pastor Nathan said we started in
Sudan a little over 25 years ago training chaplains and that has grown
and expanded to where we've trained over 700 chaplains have over 400 active
chaplains have lost 73 of our men I've been able to go to Sudan three times and
every time I go I'm reminded of the friends that I made on the first trips
that are no longer with us and so it's just that kind of ministry and being
involved in a country like Sudan allowed us to expand into the Middle East to
where we work in in over 30 countries where most of them are closed countries
because of radical Islamic governments that are leading them including for
example Afghanistan which we had 22 pastors when Afghanistan collapsed almost
four years ago now and when it collapsed we had 200 people between the pastors
or families in their small churches that were all targeted to be killed by the
Taliban and we mounted a rescue operation to where we went to a
neighboring country hiked over the mountains to meet our people were able
to evacuate them and four years later we're continuing to rescue people out
of Afghanistan to the state we've been able to rescue 2,800 people that were
marked to be killed and and so when the war in Ukraine started because we've
been involved in war zones we're in six active war zones right now we were asked
to get involved with their chaplains were involved training them were involved
funding them and through them we started building homes we've built over 200
homes for people that have lost their homes we were feeding 15,000 people a
month we have two homes for children that have lost their parents in the war
and Wes our founder went there February of this year and we were so broken-hearted
I wasn't on that trip at the beginning of the year about the children still
living amongst the rubble in cities that have been destroyed so what happens is
you got the front with the Russians and within artillery range they're taking
those cities some of them 20 30 40 50,000 100,000 people pre-war and have
leveled them well the men had gone off to go to the war and a lot of women were
killed just going out to get supplies and it's really hard to describe how how
brutal it is Russians have taken 200,000 Ukrainian children and so we bought a
massive property on a safe part of the western part of Ukraine and we're going
to have our biggest home in the entire world and so that is a big focus of what
we're doing right now and whenever we talk about Ukraine we understand that
it's a loaded subject because it's something that has become politicized and
so much money has been sent by our government that a lot of people are
concerned with that and so we do get pushback surprisingly from the church
and what they'll say is haven't we done enough for them or the the phrase I hear
more often is isn't the government in Ukraine corrupt I'm Mexican born and
raised still live in Mexico English is my second language my father is a
missionary that's why I speak English but sadly Mexico is notorious for having
corruption within the government and so as someone who has been around corruption
their entire life I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that there is
corruption in the Ukrainian government nevertheless I have heard that there is
some corruption in the United States government I might be wrong don't quote
me on that one but we've been around the block enough to know that governments
have their agenda and so we don't work through the governments we work alongside
of them we need permits we need things to be done legally but we don't work
through governments we work through the local church through the pastors through
the chaplains and so I had the privilege of going last month to Ukraine and
meeting maybe 15 of our chaplains while I was there and it was just so beautiful
to see two things one the fearlessness talk a little bit more about this in a
second but to their love for Jesus and the reality is I'll talk about this in a
second in the message but when you lose everything except your faith your faith
it says in first Peter which is much more valuable than golden parishes is to
be found with that value and so they've lost everything everybody has lost
friends everybody has lost things that are valuable and if you happen to
leave live at East everybody has lost their livelihood their home their
everything physically speaking and so how do we reach nations and cultures and
it's all boils down to this what Ukraine needs is the same thing the Latin
American needs where I'm mostly involved it's the same thing that America needs
which is people need an encounter with the real Jesus and so I want to look at
the story of Peter having this encounter with Jesus and how that should impact
the way we long to reach the world and so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna read
through the passage that we're gonna consider together then we'll pray and
we'll work through it it says so it was as the multitude trust about him to hear
the word of God that he stood by the lake of Gennesareth and saw two boats
standing by the lake but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing
their nets he then got into one of the boats which was Simon Peters or Simon's
and he said asked him to put out a little bit from land and he sat down and
taught the multitudes from the boat when he had stopped speaking he said to Simon
launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch but Simon answered
and said to him master we have toiled all night and caught nothing
nevertheless at your word I will let down the net and when he had done this
they caught a great number of fish and their net was breaking so they signaled
to their partners in the other boat to come and help them and they filled both
boats so that they began to sink when Simon Peter saw it he fell down at
Jesus knees saying depart from me for I'm a sinful man oh Lord for he and all
who are with him were astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken and
so were James and John the sons of Zebedee who were partners with Simon and
Jesus said to Simon do not be afraid from now on you will catch men so when
they had brought their boats to land they forsook all and followed him Jesus
I pray that you would speak to us this morning I pray that we would have an
encounter with Jesus because I know that many people here have a genuine
relationship with him but just like many people might have a genuine
relationship many people might feel that even if it's genuine it's
superficial and it's not where they long it to be and I know that when you
reveal yourself to us there is there's a response that changes our reality and
our perspective and our priorities so I pray that you would reveal yourself to
us this morning in Jesus name amen I don't know about you but when I read
this story I get the sense that this is Luke telling us about the first
encounter between Jesus and Peter doesn't it feel that way that Jesus is an
itinerant speaker and there's a crowd following him and it says are pressing
about him and so he can't address the multitude just by the sheer you know
magnitude of the multitude so he asked to use a boat he put some distance
between him and the crowds he uses the shoreline like a natural amphitheater he
starts preaching Peters there he says hey let's go fishing they have a
miraculous catch and then you know Peter launches himself at Jesus feet saying
depart from me for I'm a sinful man oh Lord Jesus says you will become a fisher
of men and Peter abandons everything to follow Jesus that reads like if it was
the first encounter between Jesus and Peter but scholars that piece together
the gospel will tell us that this is in fact not the first encounter it's the
first encounter is very different it's in the gospel of John and Peter was a
disciple of John before he was a disciple of Jesus and that was in the
Jordan River and so piecing together the Gospels most scholars assume that this
story happens probably months after Peter has already been following Jesus
as a disciple I don't know about you but then that brings up a question which is
if Peter had been a disciple of Jesus for months at this point what took him
so long to come to this aha moment where he he addresses Jesus as as Lord and God
and says you know I want to follow you regardless of what it cost what what
took him so long and the reason I say that Peter addresses Jesus is God and
Lord you need to understand the the Hebrew context which is every single
time in the Old Testament that somebody believes himself to be in Jesus in God's
presence they think they're going to die and so before the death of Jesus the
idea of God's presence is completely different than the idea of Jesus
presence God's presence after the the death and resurrection of Jesus so the
New Testament invites us to come boldly to the throne of grace that wasn't the
mindset in the Old Testament the Old Testament is God is so radiant and
powerful and holy and other that human beings cannot approach God's presence or
they would get zapped so every single time in the Old Testament somebody
believes himself to be in God's presence they're afraid they're going to die it'd
be like a you know a fly trying to land on the surface of the Sun it's just
incompatible and so that's Peter's reaction depart from me from a sinful
man oh Lord what took him so long so I have four points for us based on the
story we just read and the first one is being with Jesus does not necessarily
mean you know Jesus which is Peter's reality which is he was with Jesus but
didn't truly understand who Jesus was no I want to be careful because who I'm
describing here it's not people that are that are willingly hypocritical that are
knowledgeable about their lack of faith and have a facade to project a holiness
they know they do not possess that's not who I'm talking about there will be
people in church that way no people that are hypocritical we've all met somebody
whose life does not line up with their Creed if you will that's not who I'm
talking to I'm talking to those who are genuine as Peter was who loved Jesus as
Peter did who have sacrificed for Jesus and so I don't want anybody to show your
hands because I don't want to put anybody on the spot so don't raise your
hand but does this describe you I love Jesus I want to follow Jesus I am
following Jesus my worldview is shaped by his teachings but if I'm being honest
my relationship with God still feels superficial still doesn't have the depth
I wish it had that was Peter's reality and it's my experience that that's the
reality of many many people in the church that have a genuine yet
superficial relationship with Jesus so it gives what what is the way that Peter
changed that so point number one is being with Jesus does not necessarily
mean you know Jesus point number two is it is in deep waters where you will find
him so Jesus invites Peter to go fishing and whenever you see a story in the whole
Bible but even more so in the Gospels every single story is using a valuable
real estate and what I mean by that is the way you would write books back in
the day was you would have very expensive parchment and the writing
process wasn't difficult but the copying was expensive and so you had to be
extremely selective with the stories you share even in the Gospel of John John
says that if we were to share all the stories all the books in the entire world
wouldn't be enough to share everything that Jesus did and so when you see a
story in the Gospels you need to stop and ask yourself this question okay I
understand what happened but why is this what what spiritual principle is this
story illustrating and I believe that's the point of this story I believe that
Jesus understands that Peter's faith is superficial and so the invitation to
deeper waters is not because Jesus wants to go fishing but rather the story of
the miraculous catch is the way that Jesus is helping Peter go deeper in his
relationship with him and so the way we know Jesus is when we face deep waters
now I like that phrase because it makes sense you know we use this phrase that
person's going through deep waters what does that mean it means they're going
through hardship through insecurity through pain through confusion but it's
in deep waters where we will find him let me say it another way it's not until
you face the deep waters of life that you can have genuine faith proved faith
faith that has gone through the fires I want to use a illustration for this and
this is a preacher's favorite so you've heard this before I do apologize this is
about a man who 130 years ago was a circus performer that decided to go solo
and his act was to set a tightrope across the Niagara Falls and so he would
cross the Niagara Falls and people would gather and they would tip him and that's
how he made his living well as anything interest started to wane and the crowds
started to diminish and his livelihood started to suffer as a consequence so he
decided to do his most daring feat and he announced on the newspaper Charles
Blunden will do his most daring feat and he didn't say what it was he just
invited people to come out on a Sunday morning as he was going to defy you know
the gravity and do this stunt and so he shows up and there's thousands of people
waiting for him and he's got a wheelbarrow and he says how many of you
believe I can cross with this wheelbarrow people started jeering and
shouting and screaming I believe we believe and he crossed with the
wheelbarrow and people lost their minds but he wasn't just there to cross with
the wheelbarrow he said how many of you believe that I can cross with somebody
inside of the wheelbarrow people start going crazy and in unison started
shouting we believe I believe and he goes all right I need a volunteer and it
went dead silent because it's one thing to shout I believe from the comfort of
the safety zone and just to finish the story apparently there was a volunteer
you know who volunteered to do that Charles Blunden's mom which tells you
something the person that saw him probably at four years old going to
gymnastic classes and at seven years old learning to do you know smaller level
stunts was the person that truly trusted that's thing faith that only invokes
your voice you have to question if that's truly faith because faith invokes
trust and trust that is able to go through the deep waters and hold on to
Jesus and so I wish this weren't the case I wish I could tell you that there
was a path to spiritual growth and maturity that was easy that you could
somehow embrace comfort and security and the known aspect of your life and grow
by leaps and bounds in your spiritual life but that's not the way it works the
way Jesus said it was in this world you will face tribulation in this world you
will have tribulation I grew up as a Christian in the 90s most of you will
remember this there was a fad in the 90s that I kind of wish would come back
because it was kind of cool wait this fad was we would put Bible promises on
everything bumper stickers or no stuff that we would put on our fridge we would
embroider it on a pillow just everywhere and any calendars anything we could
put Bible promises on coffee mugs you know what promise I never saw printed on
a coffee mug in this world you will have tribulation as you're pouring your
morning cup of coffee dreading the day ahead but it is a promise but that's
only the first half of the promise in this world you will have tribulation but
be of good cheer I have overcome the world it's like the psalmist who said
yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil
why because you are with me intimacy with God is strictly tied to difficulty
in life and man I wish I could say that weren't the case but it is but God is
calling you we even saying it keep calling us to deeper waters to deeper
faith to deeper trust so point number one is being with Jesus is not necessarily
mean you know Jesus point number two is it is in deep waters where you will find
him point number three is before he commissions you he will allow you to
come to the end of yourself meaning he doesn't just want you to step out in
faith he wants to work with you to transform every area of your life but
specifically your pride how do I get that from this story when Jesus tells
Peter let's go fishing Peter says okay but you need to know Jesus that we
fished all night and caught nothing so God allowed Peter to go through failure
before Peter received the miracle and I think that's telling as well because so
many times as Christians we expect the fact that we have a promise that we go
from victory to victory from glory to glory that we're more than conquerors
that means we will never fail just like I don't like the idea but it's true that
it is through hardship that we find intimacy with God it is also true that
even as a Christian you will go through seasons of failure but God does not
allow the failure because he's angry at you or wants the worst for you listen to
this God wants to use you God wants to use you but the most dangerous thing
that can happen to a Christian is not failure it's that God uses you and that
puffs you up with pride to such an extent that you end up disqualifying
yourself this is exactly what it says when when Paul is telling us what you
look for in a leader in a pastor it says not a novice because being filled up with
pride he can fall into the same snare as the devil so what does that mean the
most important attribute for a child of God is humility so God will allow you to
go through seasons of failure so that when he finally uses you you point to
heaven and say to God be the glory instead of assuming that it was your own
doing what would have happened to Peter you guys know Peter what would have
happened in Peter had they had this miraculous catch but he hadn't had the
failure the night before do you think Peter would have been like man that was
Jesus doing it or do you think he would have been like man I'm a really good
fisherman Jesus you like that you ever want good fishing in the Sea of Galilee
you know who to hire you got Peter the fisherman best in the whole town but it
was his failure the night before that allowed him to see the hand of God in the
catch and allowed him to realize that Jesus is Lord and so if you've been
through failure you need to understand that it's not final I hate failing I
hate feeling like a failure I feel like I've let people down that I love and
that that is as a human but maybe more so as a man I don't know but as a human
one of the worst emotions is feeling like a failure and I mean I've been there
and I know you've been there you feel like God has forgotten you he hasn't and
it's not that he did it to be cruel it's that the plan he has for you is so great
that he cannot risk it going to your head and puffing you up with pride and
so he will allow you to be broken before you are blessed so that you like Peter
can say every good and perfect gift comes from above the father of lights and
not assess your situation as it being you the one who provoked it but you the
one who received from his grace before God uses you he will allow you to come
to the end of yourself and point number four we need to leave it all to follow
him Peter left everything even the miraculous catch I want you to think
about this for a second for Peter the catch doesn't represent fish what's he
gonna do with a couple hundred fish there's gonna say a couple hundred is in
the gospel of John it tells us about a miraculous catch and it tells us how
many it says a hundred and fifty three large fish and in that story it's one
boat and the boat isn't sinking and the nuts aren't breaking here it's two boats
and the nets are breaking and the boats are sinking so couple hundred large fish
the only thing I don't know is what a large fish is is it five pounds ten
pounds fifty pounds a hundred pounds but I'm just guessing this is likely we were
to sell the fish in a fish market tens of thousands of dollars worth of fish
how would you feel if I gave you this morning a check for forty thousand
dollars would you be pretty happy I think whatever tax bracket you're in you
would still be pretty happy with a forty thousand dollar check Peter doesn't say
what I would say which is great sign me up love to be a fisherman give me 48
hours I'll sell the fish we'll leave with some money in the bank he left the
fish which would be the equivalent of me giving you a check and you not taking it
because you say I want to follow you and I don't want to wait till the bank opens
tomorrow let's go kind of crazy but that's the excitement that Peter had and
it might just be if he's followed Jesus for a couple months now that he has heard
people say I'm happy to follow you just let me parent bury my parents you say
hey let that bury their own dead oh I'm happy to follow you just let me figure
out my financial situation and him saying hey foxes have holes and birds
have nests but the son of a man has nowhere to lay his head it might just be
that Peter is petrified to wait and miss out on the opportunity of being a fisher
of men so he forsakes everything the way Dietrich Bonhoeffer a German theologian
who was killed by the Nazis said it from prison he wrote when God calls a man he
bids him come and die salvation is free but obedience to the calling will cost
us like I said I just got back from Ukraine a couple weeks ago and this video
was done at the end of 2022 when the war just started and the reality is that it's
so much worse now even than it was then and one of our concerns like I said is
there is hundreds of thousands of orphans and just military not counting
civilian losses it's low end estimate 200,000 might be way more than that
that's what they're saying and when we were there every single city is being
bombed every single city we were in we heard bombs over there it sounded like
thunder in the background we went to one of the frontline cities that has been a
hundred percent destroyed it's pre war population was about 50,000 people had
about a thousand people still living in basements and amongst the rubble every
single building was destroyed and they're still meeting for church in the
rubble of a building when they told me that that was moving then we went to a
different city called Zaporica and that's a main city close to the front
line and through the night you could hear the sirens not the sirens the the
signals the bomb sirens and you could hear the bombs landing and it sounded
like I said once again like thunder and then we went to Pokrovsk which if you're
following the war is becoming the new hotspot where Russians are concentrating
their entire effort and there the artillery was constant there was never
silence but it was still at a distance it sounded like continuous thunder and
bombs landing and we drove through the craters where ammunition had been
recently and there was still fires in these craters and then we got to
Kharkiv which is the second largest city in Ukraine and we went to a building
that was hit the night before and it was an entire apartment complex that was
leveled and that night at midnight a ballistic missile landed and every other
bomb that I heard that at that point I'd heard hundreds if not thousands
because it was pretty constant it sounded like thunder in the back you know
in the distance just like thunder would would sound this one shook the building
so violently I'm surprised it didn't blow out the windows and it was so loud
and it was a very surreal feeling I peeked out the window and it was so
close that the neighbors went out with flashlights to see where it landed the
next day the chaplains told me that it was a ballistic missile which is they
launch it into space and it comes straight down and it's so fast it's
really hard to stop and those are the kinds of missiles that take out an
entire city block a few minutes later a second one landed and a few minutes
later a third one landed with the same violence and this did not sound like
thunder this sounded like a seven to ten second demolition of a building where
you could hear the debris breaking a building slowly collapsing so I called
my wife said I love you don't know where the next one's landing at that point
there had only been one and then I started praying and I felt for the first
time in my life that maybe my next words I was gonna speak them to Jesus in
person and it was just those three missiles I don't know how close they
were because the Ukrainians don't disclose the locations because the
Russians would be able to see like I said it was close enough for people to
go looking for them with flashlights in that city block and that day we left
that really hot spot in the front lines and we're maybe two or three hours away
and we met with different chaplains a chaplain that was in his 50s and I live
in Mexico I've seen a lot of stuff cartel related we're rescuing children
from sex trafficking and organ harvesting from organized crime in
Central America and so I've been in a lot of situations I've had guns pulled on
me I've had a case pulled on me and whenever you go through that and you
share that with a Mexican and I say this is a Mexican if you're a Mexican I don't
think you should take an offense because this is just the reality of how we are
we will laugh and one of the way we one of the ways we process these really
tragic things is we just kind of laugh and so we went to a place in Mexico
where we got these you know we had a guns pulled on us and we got turned
around and there was 50 of us and when we finally got to the city we told the
pastor who had had his father killed a few years ago by organized crime and he
said welcome to Matamoros with a huge grin on his face and he just kind of
laughed about it so I expected that kind of a response from the Ukrainians you
know when you're so broken sometimes humor is the only way to process these
things and honestly it was it was impactful for me but I figured for them
it's no big deal they're living in a war zone this is their life for the last
two and a half years when I shared what happened the night before this hardened
man of maybe 50 years years old started crying and he said your life will never
be the same for all of us having a missile land close to us has been a
before-and-after moment for our life and you will realize that so much of what
you strive for and so much that is a priority for you when you feel this
small you realize how meaningless it is and when he said that I realized that
I've seen it many times like I said I've been in some really intense scenarios in
my life but this was different because it's arbitrary you don't know where the
next one's gonna land and three have landed and they have all shaken your
building with violence and then you realize I get to go home when one of the
chaplains took us to Poland to leave he saw a plane in the sky and he started
crying and he said I can't remember the last time I saw a plane without feeling
fear because there's no commercial flights every time you see a plane in
Ukraine it's a military plane and you don't know it's friendly or not one of
the guys and this is the last story is 22 pastor's kid great kid he's a
paramedic on the front lines and one of his best friends who had he had been
friends with since he was in kindergarten was killed and they knew
where the body was and what happens is in Ukraine if you don't recover the body
your family does not get government help and so it's really important to recover
the body so that they can prove who died and when you have evidence then the
government will help the widow or the parents so this is a 21 22 year old kid
you got killed and it was right on the front line and they couldn't get the
body and so for two days the body was just there until finally he decided to
go in a vehicle through the artillery hits to recover his friend's body put it
over shoulder got in the car bullets whizzing next to him and he was able to
get his friend's body to safety and he could feel something moving inside of
his clothes and so when he went to clean up himself he had his friends dead bodies
maggots inside of his clothes and when he shared that to me it was surreal
because it's just one story of millions
we've bought a home because we realize there is a whole generation that is
going to be traumatized by this one this war has taken the lives of many if it
doesn't end soon it's going to continue to take the lives of many and children
are innocent and like I said at the beginning I know that there's a sense in
which many people say that's not my problem but that should not be the
church's mindset the church's mindset is there's some things that are worth
dying for and when I was asked why I went having three kids of my own a
twelve-year-old nine-year-old and a three-year-old and they told me there's
other people in the organization they can go that don't have children that age
I said two things one how many people are in the United States Army that have
to go serve their country that have children that are willing to risk their
life because of their duty to their country how much more as a child of God
of God has given me an opportunity to be light in the darkest place on earth
should I take that opportunity but there's a second reason maybe a reason
that's a little bit more selfish which is if something were to happen to my
country where I was taken to war and my wife was killed and my children were on
their own I would hope somebody would care enough to go find them and so this
is the opportunity that we have to make a difference and to realize that when
God calls a man he bids him come and die and the the sacrifice that they're
facing they have to face because of geopolitics but you and I get to enter
into their brokenness and I think that's why they were so thankful enter into
their brokenness and say we're here for you we're going to help I have two areas
that I want to make you aware of where you can make a difference through
sponsorships the first one is where I'm most involved they didn't even talk
about this but it's it's important for our ministry we're planting churches in
criminally controlled areas in Latin America and so we started six or rather
seven last year and we're doing six this year and so if you'd like to sponsor one
of our church planters it's $75 a month that obviously doesn't cover his needs
we have to raise several sponsors per each pastor but if you'd like to sponsor
a pastor at $75 a month and then we have the children Ukraine so this is for the
home we're building once again the sponsorship amount is $75 that doesn't
cover their needs so we have to do several sponsorships per child and as we
speak on this it's really important that we're clear that I know how compelling
this is and I know every single person here wants to make a difference and be
involved and so there's a part of our mind that wants to do this okay I want
to make a difference and I'm currently giving this much to the church which I'm
giving to God so I'll just take from what I'm currently giving to the church
and redirect that to sponsor a child that's not the way we believe that
missions works what is the biblical mindset as we give to our local church
first and then we give to missions above and beyond that so please do not take
from what you're currently giving to the church to support one of our pastors or
one of our children for some people that means you are not in the place where you
can be faithful to your local church and support one of these children if your
heart is in the right place I know God will lead you to a place where you can
eventually and for the time being you can pray for them but do not sacrifice
what you're giving to your local church for most people $75 a month is doable I
live in Mexico I have a family of five and if I take my family to dinner in
Mexico it'll be $75 for dinner and so for dinner with the family I can make a
difference in the life of the pastor or of a child and for some people $75 a
month is very doable and you would like to do a pastor and a kid or several
kids it doesn't cap out at one but this is the reality evil people are not
asking permission to do evil they're going out and doing it and they have a
terrible resolve and many of God's men don't know what to do many of God's men
are inactive there's no way that God's men should have less resolve and those
bent on evil there's a code name for everything we do in our code name for
home that I get to oversee in Latin America is called little starfish that's
based out of a story that there was a storm that pushed out a ton of starfish
out on the sand and a kid is just all excited and goes out and starts
throwing the star but fish back in the water and there's tens of thousands of
them so somebody yells at him and says you're wasting your time there's too
many of them what you're doing doesn't matter as a child throws one more and
he says it mattered to that one we ought to do for one what we wish we could do
for all and in so doing we will change the world this praises I thank you so
much for the opportunity to stand in front of this beautiful church and just
your providence and the way I met pastor Nathan at an event and just this is a
church that it believes in missions and I just thank you so much I pray you would
bless this church and as we stand in the gap for those who are broken remind us
that there's things in life that you have called us to and even though
there's a risk we join the millions hundreds of millions of Christians
around the world that being a Christian is a risk and we want to be used by you
to make a difference in Jesus name amen bless