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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.95,0:00:05.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I tell people I’m a missionary,\NI get all kinds of questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.65,0:00:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People ask,\N“What kind of missionary are you?”
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.11,0:00:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or they want to know exactly\Nwhat it is a missionary does.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.24,0:00:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or a lot of times,\Npeople will say, “A missionary?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.54,0:00:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here? You mean, that’s really a thing?”
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.33,0:00:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, there’s 281-million lost people\Nin the U-S and Canada.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.95,0:00:25.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So yeah. It’s a thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.21,0:00:27.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there’s one question\Nno one’s ever asked me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.72,0:00:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wish they would.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.92,0:00:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one’s ever asked,\N“Where’s the finish line?”
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.09,0:00:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s the question I want to hear:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.97,0:00:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“What does ‘mission accomplished’\Nlook like?”
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.68,0:00:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can watch videos\Nabout North American missionaries like me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.69,0:00:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can read stories about us.\NAnd you can pray for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.50,0:00:46.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But don’t get so caught up in the methods\Nand minutiae of what we do
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.65,0:00:48.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you miss the main thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.65,0:00:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything you see and hear\Nand read about us
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.20,0:00:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really just a means to an end.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.07,0:00:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We start churches to make Jesus known.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.00,0:00:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We meet needs to make Jesus known.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.75,0:01:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We move to unfamiliar places,\Nwe meet unreached people,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.21,0:01:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we attempt unrealistic things…\Njust to make Jesus known.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.26,0:01:11.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s nothing more important than that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.22,0:01:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nada.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.93,0:01:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.80,0:01:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said, “Go into all the world
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.01,0:01:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and proclaim the gospel\Nto the whole creation.”
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.64,0:01:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so\Nthat’s what our finish line looks like.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.52,0:01:28.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks like obedience.\NSame as your finish line.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.61,0:01:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God speaks.\NYou give. We go.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.95,0:01:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything starts with your gifts\Nto the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.24,0:01:40.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those gifts enable us to go to places\Nwhere the gospel’s never been.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.62,0:01:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is\Nwhere we cross our finish line.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.29,0:01:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is where, together,\Nwe make Jesus known.