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When I tell people I’m a missionary,[br]I get all kinds of questions.

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People ask,[br]“What kind of missionary are you?”

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Or they want to know exactly[br]what it is a missionary does.

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Or a lot of times,[br]people will say, “A missionary?

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Here? You mean, that’s really a thing?”

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Well, there’s 281-million lost people[br]in the U-S and Canada.

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So yeah. It’s a thing.

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But there’s one question[br]no one’s ever asked me.

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And I wish they would.

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No one’s ever asked,[br]“Where’s the finish line?”

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That’s the question I want to hear:

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“What does ‘mission accomplished’[br]look like?”

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You can watch videos[br]about North American missionaries like me.

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You can read stories about us.[br]And you can pray for us.

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But don’t get so caught up in the methods[br]and minutiae of what we do

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that you miss the main thing.

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Everything you see and hear[br]and read about us

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is really just a means to an end.

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We start churches to make Jesus known.

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We meet needs to make Jesus known.

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We move to unfamiliar places,[br]we meet unreached people,

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and we attempt unrealistic things…[br]just to make Jesus known.

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There’s nothing more important than that.

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Nada.

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Nothing at all.

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Jesus said, “Go into all the world

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and proclaim the gospel[br]to the whole creation.”

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And so[br]that’s what our finish line looks like.

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It looks like obedience.[br]Same as your finish line.

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God speaks.[br]You give. We go.

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Everything starts with your gifts[br]to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.

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Those gifts enable us to go to places[br]where the gospel’s never been.

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And this is[br]where we cross our finish line.

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This is where, together,[br]we make Jesus known.