Make An Impact | The Adventurous Life Week 5

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- There is a reason you aren't satisfied with the ordinary.

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You were made for adventure.

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A life with God doesn't have to be boring.

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It could be a pulse pumping, heart pounding life of purpose.

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And we can guide you there.

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The adventure awaiting you is bigger

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and more life giving than you could ever imagine.

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Join us every weekend for 30 minutes of challenge, hope,

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and encouragement to guide you on your spiritual adventure.

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- Hey, I'm Brian. I am really excited about today.

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I'm going to talk about something that's been a passion

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of mine for decades, it's called Compassion International.

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We'll have an opportunity later on to actually sponsor child

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if you want to.

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Don't tune me out. Please don't.

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Even if you have zero interest in that,

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you're going to get some stuff out of the scriptures

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that is going to be very helpful and impactful for you.

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And at the end, we're going to show in the last couple years

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the most emotional moment I think I've had,

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and you might even see me cry.

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So if you actually tune out,

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I wouldn't mind you not seeing me cry.

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Let's get going.

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(farting sound) Ah ha ha. (farting sound) Oh, ha ha.

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That's the way you start a church service. What? What?

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More on this later.

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Great to be with you today as we talk about the adventurous life.

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Here's the basic life hack on how to have adventure.

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Think about yourself less.

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I love motorcycle riding, overlanding, you can camp,

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you can repel, you can paraglide.

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All those are great.

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All those things can be adventuresome,but I'll tell you,

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the hack to get the adventuresome life is

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to think less about yourself,

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whether doing those things or something else,

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and think about other people.

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Jesus told a story that challenged me massively years ago.

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I want to share it with you today.

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It comes to the Book of Matthew 25. Here's what He says:

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There tends to be two camps in church circles

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or religious circles or spiritual circles.

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The one camp is the, I'll just call it the Bible camp.

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"The Bible, I love by the Bible.

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The Bible says it, I believe what that says in the Bible."

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They kind of talk like that too, that's the Bible camp.

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And then over on the other side is what I'll call

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the social gospel camp.

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"Like oh, Bible, Schmible.

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Let's just help people and serve people and do all that stuff."

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And these two extremes, it's actually an amazing adventure

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to bring these together inside of your own life.

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That was my story.

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I was mostly on the Bible side and this story rocked me

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and got me on an adventure that's changed my life

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and has actually changed our church in many, many ways.

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And Jesus divides people, basically.

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People on the right, people on the left.

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He's not talking politics.

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Please do not read in Republican, Democrat.

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Not that at all.

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But He says, "Over here on the right,

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I'm going to say to you folks,

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'Hey, come spend the rest of eternity with Me.

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I want to be with you because you've done amazing things for Me.

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You fed Me and you clothed Me.

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And you've you've seen Me in prison and you've --'"

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And these people go, "What are You talking about, Jesus? \

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We've never fed You.

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We've never seen You naked to give You clothes.

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We've never seen You in prison."

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And Jesus says, "Well, when you haven't done it

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for the least of these, those people in our culture

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who are going without, you haven't done it for Me.

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And you've done it for Me and I take it personal."

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And then on the left, he says, "You folks,

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just get away from me.

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I'm not spending eternity with you.

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Just just be done with Me."

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They're like, "Whoa, whoa, what are you talking about?"

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He says, "You haven't done these things to Me.

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You haven't helped Me, you haven't fed Me."

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They're saying, "What do you mean?

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We've never seen you this way."

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Jesus says, "Yeah, you did because I took a personal

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when you didn't help people who were in need.

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And when you haven't done it to the least of these,

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you haven't done it for Me."

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Where are you in that tension?

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Where are you in the adventure hack of thinking less of yourself?

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Is there anybody who would actually stand up and say,

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"Oh, excuse me. Excuse me. I know Brian. I know Jameel.

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I know I know them because they fed me.

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They clothed me. They took care of me."

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This is why here at Crossroads we are very concerned

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about our local communities and people who are in need.

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They's why I put millions of dollars

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and millions of volunteer and staff hours

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on feeding our communities, on CityLink,

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on tutoring at risk kids through Whiz Kids,

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on taking mission trips, and funding Undivided,

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a way that brings the races together and makes us one.

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Because Jesus cares about those problems

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and He cares about all those people.

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And we want Jesus to look at us and go, "Man. Well done.

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You did that for Me and I want to spend more time with you."

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That is an adventure.

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About two decades ago, someone explained

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that Matthew 25 chapter to me, and it affected me deeply.

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And he let me know about an organization

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called Compassion International and said, "Hey,

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if you want to give some money to this organization,

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then there will be children who are fed and educated

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for the rest of their childhood."

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And I was moved and I wanted to go on an adventure

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and I said, "Okay, I live on a little bit less

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and I'll give 30 some dollars to this organization,"

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and things were fine.

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I was actually supporting a guy by the name of Towill

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who lived in Haiti, but I thought to myself,

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my American cynical self,

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"Well, it's going to Compassion International,

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but I don't know if Towill really cares or knows.

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I don't know if it actually goes directly to him."

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Even though we were doing some pen pals and some writing,

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I wasn't all that impressed.

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I had more than enough things that keep me busy in my life.

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And then I had the opportunity a few years ago

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to go see Compassion's work on the ground in Nicaragua.

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And I was utterly blown away and astounded.

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God gave me the vision of an adventure

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to take our whole church on and just try to scoop up

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as many kids as we couldn't give them a chance.

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Now, I hear some of you going, "Oh, I know where this is going.

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Oh, no, no. Turning off the TV, click.

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No, don't do that. Oh, I know where this is going.

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I already support Compassion International."

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Oh, relax, relax, relax.

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This isn't some Sally Struthers thing where I'm trying

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to show you emaciated kids with flies on their face.

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Anybody under 50 has no idea - Sally Struthers,

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she was an old actress on All in the Family

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and did some really -- Whatever.

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Hey, hang in there. Hang in there because your life

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and somebody else's life could be totally changed,

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not just for this lifetime, but literally for eternity,

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because Jesus says He will treat us

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according to how we interact with the least of these.

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Let's go on an adventure, huh?

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Let's take a look at some of the things that God

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has been doing in our midst through this little video piece.

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- The Crossroads community partners

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with Compassion International in Nicaragua and Bolivia.

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Compassion has been working for more than 65 years

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to provide impoverished children

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with a strong opportunity to overcome poverty.

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For $38 a month, children are given a real chance to succeed.

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Not only does that money go towards a child's food

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and educational needs, but it also leads

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to lifelong relationships between the children and their sponsors.

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- Hello. God bless you, esteemed sponsor Bill Vasquez.

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- Hello, and God bless you.

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- How are you? I'm really glad to write this letter.

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- I am grateful to God for putting in your heart

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the desire of sponsoring me.

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- I want to tell you about my promotion to preschool.

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- My school teachers name is Nyla, and she has taught me

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to read, to write, and to pronounce words.

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- I participated in a parade in September at my school.

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- I'm on vacation this week and I'll soon start preschool.

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- I'm happy because I passed my school year.

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I got good grades and I'm on vacation.

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- Last week I had an exam in my school

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and I got a 60 out of 60.

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With God's help, we can do everything.

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- I am learning to pray and drawing the project.

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- I like to see the photos of your grandchildren that you enclosed.

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- I also like the letters that you sent me.

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- I ask you to pray for God to guide my family.

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- I ask you to pray for my grandmother because she is sick.

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- I ask that you pray for my mother.

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- You are always in my prayers.

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- And I will be praying for you and your family.

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- I will always remember the beautiful moment when I met you.

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- Goodbye with love and affection. Irvan.

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- God bless you. Alexander and family.

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- With much love, Maykies.

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- Goodbye with a strong hug.

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- I sponsor Lydia. She is six years old.

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She reminds me of my daughter.

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They're around the same age and they're just so happy.

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It just brings joy to my life.

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- She was just a beautiful little girl.

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I just can't imagine somebody not being able to help her.

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I'm just so thankful that its Laurie and I.

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- In a little bit you're going to get the opportunity

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to go on an adventure

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and to bless a child through Compassion International.

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It is an amazing adventure.

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Lib and I have been doing it for years and years.

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We right now I have two kids. We've got Rudy and Naheera,

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and it's amazing writing them little letters,

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hearing back from them,

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knowing that you're personally affecting a life.

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Thousands of us do this at Crossroads.

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Thousands of kids are getting to a new place

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because we see Jesus in these children.

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One of those folks who's on that adventure

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is a person who became a friend of mine

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when I went on a Compassion trip with her.

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Her name is Sherrell and her adventure is worth seeing.

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- I was in service that day

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Brian had talked about this Compassion event.

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And honestly, when I saw all the different kids' posters,

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that was like, "Oh, man, not another ask. Really?"

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But we sat through the message

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and it was just so inspirational.

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And just seeing all those kids and like seeing the video

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of someone mean their child for the first time,

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my heart just sunk.

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And I remember leaving that service,

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running to get a child's picture,

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and just being so excited that could be a part

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of something that is again, expanding beyond Cincinnati,

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but now going to another part of our continent.

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So for me when I first met Katherine,

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my sponsor child, I was very excited.

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I could tell she was very nervous to meet this stranger.

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And I'd never been so well received before.

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I thought it was my birthday.

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And once she warmed up to me, we're like best buds now.

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I told her I think in my best broken Spanish,

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my prayer for her is to always believe in her,

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love her, and encourage her.

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In terms of her relationship with Christ, I want her to know Him,

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knowing that she has a provider.

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She has a savior who will always care about her,

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love her, and protect her, and also just provide for her.

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I just think there's so much more to life

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when you come to know Christ.

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It really shifts your focus from you and yourself

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to bringing His kingdom here on Earth.

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You know, we never had a lack for anything

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when it came to our tithing and the giving that we had.

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And I think we were really intentional about giving

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a lot outside of ourselves.

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So I know one year, we actually made a point

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to give 30% of our income outside of ourselves.

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We look back, we waste so much money

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just on stuff that we don't need.

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So just being really conscious

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and I'm just really appreciative of that.

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And I want to see it carry forward.

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- You know, I understand you

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because you're an American and I'm an American.

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You know what I don't like about us?

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We're cynical, we're skeptical.

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We think someone's trying to get something over on us.

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We think someone's not really telling us the whole story.

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We think, "No way can all this be true?"

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Yeah, it is. It really is.

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And Samuel is going to help us to see that.

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Samuel, it's great to be with you.

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One question we all have is, "Come on.

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Is this stuff really real?

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Are these kids lives going to be any different?"

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- Oh, my God, it's real because I am real.

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And I was actually sponsored through Compassion a long time ago.

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- So you would have been one of these kids on these? Wow.

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- Yes, sir. I was born in the Dominican Republic

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and was living in extreme poverty.

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It was very difficult for me to leave over there.

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And with having nothing, no hope and no life.

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Poverty was like a monster.

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Poverty was not just a lack of money.

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Poverty to me was the lack of a dad,

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because my dad passed away when he was 25 years old.

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So at the age of five, I have to go to the streets

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of my little town and became a cornbread seller.

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And the kids used to come at me and laugh at me

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and tell me, "You're just a cornbread seller.

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You're good for nothing. You're nobody."

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So poverty told me that I was nobody, that I had no hope.

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And it was very hard for me to live that way.

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- And when did things turn for you?

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- This ministry called Compassion International

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came into my life through my sponsor, Terry.

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Terry to me was like a hero.

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And Terry to me was like really God.

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And when when I heard that Terry wanted to sponsor me,

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I saw God responding to my mom's prayer.

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And Terry was a grandma from Canada.

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And she wrote a letter to me telling me that she loved me,

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that she wanted to sponsor me, that she was praying for me,

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that God had hope for me, and that I was somebody.

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I was broken and I couldn't believe that

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God could use something broken and He could fix me.

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And He did that.

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And Terry was the person God used to change my world.

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And actually, He wants to use me to change the world, you know?

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And when I think about kids,

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children that live in extreme poverty,

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I'm thinking about almost 400 million children

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that are living right now in extreme poverty,

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dying because because of malnutrition.

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I don't want to be a victim. You know?

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I don't want to be just, "Oh, I'm needing this, needing that."

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It's not about my world.

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I want to change the world, too.

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I want God to use me to change the world, too.

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And I couldn't believe God could use a cornbread seller

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to be a blessing.

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You know, I was able to go to college and graduate

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and now I have jobs.

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So now God has given me an opportunity to bless others.

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So sponsoring a child, it's an opportunity.

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My wife and I sponsor six kids now,

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and it's just an opportunity for me to show love back,

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to give back to others.

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My kids were able to meet those kids face to face,

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hug them and tell them, "I was just like you.

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I had no hope. I had broken shoes.

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You know, I was struggling in life.

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And I was able to be released from poverty in Jesus name.

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And you will be released from poverty in Jesus name."

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So I now can bring hope to them.

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So, I want to encourage the people to do it,

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to sponsor a kid.

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Going into this adventure to sponsor

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all these kids from Nicaragua is an opportunity for a person

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to become God's hands and feet, to change the life of a person.

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And when you think about the cost of it,

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when you think about $38, $1.25 a day.

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If you could afford a Coke a day,

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that means that you could afford to become a hero

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to one of those kids.

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And at the end of the day, we have to say this,

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"God did it, but He used me."

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- Well, that's so inspiring, Samuel,

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to be able to hear your story and see what you've done.

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Thanks for giving us a vision of what these kids can become,

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because God's done a great thing within you.

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Thanks for being with us today.

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- Amen. God bless you.

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Being on an adventure with God

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and being less about yourself brings an amazing feeling.

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When you can honor God and feel good at the same time,

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that is amazing.

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I love seeing what SHerrell has done

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and thousands of us here are Crossroads.

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My personal story is I went down to see one of our kids.

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We have two right now, Naheera and Rudy.

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I went down to see Rudy the first time a few years ago.

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And that's where these little fart cups came in.

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And I'll tell you what, nothing says love,

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universal language of love to males,

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is the sound of these things right now.

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We connected on a very, very deep level

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and it's taken our relationship to a new place.

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We've stayed in touch.

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And then I had the opportunity last year,

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Lib and I went down to visit with him.

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And we've seen that we've not just helped him

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with food, with education, we're a lifeline to him.

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If you're a sponsor, you are Jesus to these kids.

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You represent that they're not forgotten.

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You represent a mother figure, a father figure.

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And that's what I learned.

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- Hola. Good to see you, Rudy.

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My wife, Libby.

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You're such a young man, so tall.

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- Gracias.

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- That was one of the more significant moments of my life.

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What do you think is more fulfilling:

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buying a television or buying that moment?

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What do you think it's more adventuresome:

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an overland trip or motorcycle trip

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or going to Nicaragua and seeing a family

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that's different because of you

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and knowing that Jesus thinks differently of me

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because I stood up and Libby stood up for Rudy?

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Who's standing up for you?

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Is there anybody when you go to see God,

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is there anybody when Jesus says, "Where were you

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when I was hungry? Where were you when I was naked?"

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Is there anybody -- is there anybody anywhere

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there's going to go, "Jesus, me. I was. I was.

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I know that guy. He served me."

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Is there any is there anybody that would say

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that your life is unusual?

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Is there anybody who could point to your life

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and say the adventure this person went on

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has made my life different?

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I'm sickened that we're so used to pleas like this

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being manipulative or strange or something.

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Let me be really clear.

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I get no kickbacks from this.

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Crossroads has no percentage of take from this.

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In fact, this is probably going to hurt us financially.

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I hope it doesn't.

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All of us who give regularly to Crossroads and tithe,

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we get to do this because we get to do things like this now

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and enlist more people.

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Ad please, please do not cannibalize your giving,

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but if you do, I counted the cost and I'm up for it.

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This is an adventure, sometimes you lose to help somebody else.

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I wonder sometimes, maybe God has gotten Crossroads

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to be as big and as it is, maybe God has given us

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the digital platform He has for us right now,

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maybe we've gone into these different TV markets,

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He's allowed us to do that now

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just so you could hear this message.

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Maybe it's all set up right now so that

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thousands of more kids can have a shot at life,

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so that thousands of more kids can be fed and educated and have a shot.

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So that thousands of people like you

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can go on an adventure and be different.

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You want to be different?

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If you want to be different, you've got to do different.

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If you want to be an adventure you can't live

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your normal, civilized life

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that everyone understands and approves of.

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Put a marker in your finances that says, "Every month

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I'm going to support and I'm going to bless somebody.

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I'm going to please my God, my Savior."

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I tell you, it feels pretty frickin' great when you do it.

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The relationship you can instigate,

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the letters you can write has a profound impact.

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A while ago we had somebody was heading down to Nicaragua

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and a friend of theirs said,

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"Hey, if you're going to Nicaragua, would you please

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take a backpack to my child who I sponsor?

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I just want to get her some things."

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And this backpack got to her and here is her immediate response.

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Isn't that good?

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Are you ready to go on an adventure?

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I'm not talking about thinking about an adventure.

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I'm not talking about learning about an adventure.

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I'm not planning an adventure.

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I'm talking about actually going on one right now,

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changing someone's life,

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thinking about someone more than you think about yourself.

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You can do that by sponsoring a child right now.

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You can text NIC to 83393. Text NIC to 83393.

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Now, before you do that, I just want you to count the cost.

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Once you do that, what's going to be sent to you

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is a link with your child.

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Do not text at all unless you're planning

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on being Jesus to this child,

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because if you don't follow through, that child's

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going to go all the way back to the back of the line.

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That's just the way it's got to work with this.

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We want to scoop up thousands of kids in Nicaragua.

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We'd like to scoop them all up in Nicaragua.

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If so we're going to go on to the next country.

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It's going to cost you $38 to do that. $38.

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And assume that God had that child for you.

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Thirty eight bucks.

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There's some of us 38 bucks is a big deal every month.

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Maybe you want to go in with somebody else or two other people.

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There's other other of us, $38 is our coffee bill a week.

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$38 is eating out one dinner that we do

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multiple times every single week.

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For some of us that's the amount of whatever.

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That's not a big deal for a lot of us.

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But it's a big deal for those kids.

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Let's be adventurous.

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Let's say no to ourselves for a little bit.

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Let's be unusual.

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Let's bless somebody else and enable them go to aventure.

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So text NIC to 83393.

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Change someone's life. Change your life perhaps.

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Go on an adventure and experience Jesus.

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Let me pray for you right now.

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God, I thank You for the adventures that You brought us on

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and this one right now.

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God, I just want You to free up mind space for everybody.

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I just pray You move in people, to move in Your people.

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Move in people to move in Your children.

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I pray that Your Grace would fall on us.

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I pray that You'd match up with the right child.

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Lord, we just want You to notice us,

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that we want to be different.

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I pray these things in Your Name, Jesus. Amen.

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Let's sing together right now.

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- We've all been forced to pause, reset,

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and reclaim our futures in light of the chaos of 2020

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There's always darkness in adventure when you're not sure where you're going,

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but even the smallest bit of light can illuminate our paths,

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it can inspire us, show us the next step,

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give us a glimpse of where God is moving.

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Join us for Crossroads Weekend Spark Talks.

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We'll hear from scholars, entertainers, athletes,

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and everyday people who will share what they've learned so far in 2020

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and challenge you with new ideas to ignite your life

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- Crossroads has communities all across the country

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and I want to help you get connected.

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I'm Greg Aukerman and I lead the online church team

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whose job is to do exactly that.

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I'd love to help you find your people,

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get support and prayer

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and take your next step on your spiritual adventure.

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Connect with us at Crossroads.net/onlinecommunity.

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