God's Storytellers 2026

One night when I was putting my children to bed, they were, um, it was story time. And, uh, Michael, sitting right there, he was the— he's the middle child. He was, uh, 6, 6 years old, 20 years ago. He's 26 now. And Cyrus was 7 and Rachel was 4. And they're sitting there lined up on the bed, and I said, okay kids, what kind of story do you want tonight? Because we had 3 different kinds of stories usually. One would be the story of your day, and we'd all tell a story. And then the others would be— another one was 3 nouns. So they'd give me 3 nouns, and they would try to be obtuse as possible, and I had to make that into a story, like a watermelon, a duck, and a window. You know, you have to make a story out of that. And then the other one was a Bible story. And so Mikey shouts out, "A Bible story!" And Cyrus said something I'd never heard my kids say before. Went like this, "Not a Bible story. The Bible's boring." And I've always been a storyteller, so I thought my kids, like, they— I thought they were getting the Bible as not boring, but I was a little hurt. And so my reaction was a reaction. It wasn't really thought out really carefully. And so I just said, "Well, what kind of story would you like, Cyrus?" And he said, "I don't know, something cool." Like, okay, what's cool? He said, "Like, sounds like dragons and swords and castles and princesses, stuff like that." I'm like, "Oh, great. Let's see." And I started thinking of all the stories I know from legends and dragon stories and stuff. Then I went, "Wait a minute. What if there was a story in the Bible about dragons and swords?" And he said, "Well, that'd be—" I said, "Would that be cool?" And he said, "Yes, that would be cool, Dad, but there can't be." I said, "Why not?" And he said, "Because the Bible is true and dragons don't exist, so there can't be dragons in the Bible." I said, "Well, sometimes, like when Jesus was here and he wanted to tell a story and he wanted to make a point directly to the people in front of him, he would make up a story and he would make it make sense to them, and he called those what?" And the kids were like, "Parables?" I was like, "Yeah, so that made-up story Jesus made up to teach a lesson." Well, before Jesus came and after he left, he still was sending stories to the earth, but he sent them to to his prophets, and his prophets would tell those stories, and so we call them prophecy. And they meant stuff too, just like his parables meant stuff. And so there is a prophecy in Revelation about a dragon. And Cyrus goes like this, "Tell it." And so I said, "Okay, let me see. All right. Okay, well, it starts with, there's this woman." and she's pregnant and she's standing on the moon. It's like, Dad, you can't stand on the moon. There's no oxygen on the moon. And if you tried to breathe, you would die. It's a story. Remember, give it some room to— Jesus told it this way to John the Revelator. And, and that's just the way it's written. That's the way it's written in the Bible. So he goes, fine. So, okay, so the woman's standing on the moon and she's pregnant and she's really close to giving birth. In fact, she's giving birth. And so she's doing the breathing, and she's doing the pushing, push, and she's doing push, and then the Bible says that she cried out in pain. Now I've been there through 3, all 3 of you being born, and when a woman cries out in pain in labor, it is loud. And so she screamed, aah, really loud, so loud in fact that the dragon heard her from the dark side of the earth. And he crawled around to the light, and he jumped up and he started flying towards the moon and the dragon was flying towards the sound that he heard and the woman was pushing and she was screaming and the dragon was flying and the woman was pushing and the dragon was flying and the woman was screaming and the dragon was flying until the dragon landed on the moon and the woman gave one final scream and a push and the baby came out. Bloop! Low gravity. And as the baby— the woman's reaching down to catch the baby, the dragon's head, his mouth opens up. No, not one mouth. The Bible says 7 mouths, 14 rows of razor-sharp teeth. The kids are like, "Lean it back down." And they're swinging in to catch this baby. The dragon wants to kill the baby. The woman wants to catch the baby, wants to hold her baby. And the baby's just been born. And as the dragon's getting closer and the woman's hands are getting closer and the baby's getting closer to her catching a hold of it, out of nowhere a hand sweeps down from heaven and catches the baby and takes it up, up, up, up to heaven. The dragon skids past the woman, turns around and watch, looks, baby's gone. There it goes. Mm! So he just starts running again and he jumps off the moon and he starts chasing the hand. And he's flying after the hand. The hand is going up, up, up to heaven and the dragon is flying up, up, up to heaven. And somehow by the time the dragon gets to heaven, the baby has grown up. And the baby is now standing on the shores of heaven and he's holding a sword and his name is Michael. And Michael and the dragon and his angels— he had a bunch of angels with him— land on the shores of heaven. And Michael and his angels faced the dragon and his angels, and there was war in heaven. And one by one, Michael's angels knocked the devil's— the dragon's angels out of heaven, and until it was just Michael and the dragon. And the dragon pulled back his 7 heads, and Michael saw his opportunity, he lunged forward, and he drove his sword into the chestplate of the dragon, and it pushed him that final step out of heaven. And he clawed at the edge of heaven, but he couldn't hold on, and he tumbled all the way down until he landed in the dusty desert on earth. And when he stood up, put his wings back into joint, he was so frustrated, so upset. Couldn't get the baby, couldn't get heaven. There's the woman. Just standing there in the middle of the desert. Ho ho ho, she is gonna get it. And so he starts running as fast as he can towards the woman. And the woman looks back and says, "Oh no." So she starts running as fast as she can. And the dragon's running and the woman's running and the dragon's running and the woman's running. And then the dragon leaps up in the air and starts to fly. So the woman leaps up in the air and she sprouts wings like an eagle and says, "Dad." It's in the Bible. And so she starts flying and the dragon takes in a huge breath. No, 7 huge breaths. And he shoots out and the kids all go, fire. No water. He shoots out this huge tidal wave of water. And when the woman looks back, she now sees this giant tidal wave coming after her. And so she's flying as fast as she can, but it's all new to her flying. And so she's doing her best, but the, the water's catching up with her and Soon her toes are getting wet and then her ankles are getting wet and the wave is about to engulf her and she's thinking, I'm gonna drown in the desert and what am I gonna do? And then suddenly that same hand that took the baby to heaven takes the woman and hides her somewhere in the desert for 1,260 days. And then the earth tears open, grrr, and it swallows the water, bloop, like a giant toilet and it's just gone. The dragon's standing there and he's looking. The woman's gone, his great tidal wave is gone, and he's all alone in the desert. He gets so mad. The dragon says, "Grrr, I can't get the baby, I can't get heaven, I can't even get a woman in the desert. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? I know what I'll do." I'll get the rest of her children. Okay kids, time for bed, that's the end of the story. And Mikey, Cyrus, and Rachel are all sitting there like stunned. And Rachel says, "B-b-but what about the children?" I said, "What?" She says, "What about the children? You said that the dragon is going to go and get the children, the other children of the woman. Well, what about the children?" And for the first time in my life, because I'd never told prophecies as stories before, I realized what this story was supposed to do to its listeners. We were all supposed to say at the end of that story, "What about the children?" And so I realized, okay, well, what we have to do is what we do in a Revelation seminar. I've got to help you understand the symbols. And so I said, "Look, a woman represents a group of people in the Bible, and before Jesus came, the group of people that believed in God were the Israelites, and after Jesus came, the group of people that believe in God—" Who are the people that believe in God now? And they said, "The church?" I said, "Yeah, us, the church." "Oh, okay." And I said, "So there's lots— those are God's children." And Rachel goes, "So the dragon's trying to get us?" And I said, "Oh, oh, Rachel, there's not like a dragon waiting outside the front door that when you go out there it's gonna gobble you up. The dragon, it says right in the story, the dragon represents Satan. Who do you think Michael, The baby that's born on and then goes up to heaven and defeats the devil. And who do you think that represents? And they all threw Jesus. And I said, yeah, so the story is actually about how the great war that happened, the great controversy between good and evil, how it happened and how God was victorious by Jesus dying for us. And they go, oh, okay. And they're still like, wow, what is— I don't know when they fell asleep that night, but I tucked them into bed, prayed with them, and went back and collapsed onto the couch and said to my wife, wow, I do not know what just happened, but I've got to look at this story. And so I opened Revelation to Revelation 12, and I, I started reading. Now, to be honest with you, I didn't tell the story near as well that night as I do now when I tell it, because I'd never looked for it, how to tell it in order as a story. But it, it's a really amazing story, and it's packed into just 17 verses of the Bible, that, that whole story. And it tells the full history of sin versus versus God and his salvation. It's like, it's so tightly packed. And once when I preached this sermon at Burwood Church, I got a phone call in the afternoon and this lady said, "Look, I just wanted to tell this story to you. When we got home from church, everyone came and sat down at lunch, you know, half an hour later or whatever when the lunch was ready, and we called everyone and the kids all came except for our son." She said, "And I called his name a few times and he didn't come. And so I went to his room and he was kneeling in front of his bed with his Bible open and he was reading it. And when I came into the door, he looked up with these big eyes and he said, 'Mom, it's all here.'" And he had heard that story and been like that, just like Cyrus, "That can't be in the Bible." And so he went and he read it and it is, it's all here. But what's so fascinating, and I mean, we could go through and pull apart the whole story, but there's two key verses. The one is the very last verse, which is 12, 12:17. There is 12:18, but that's really supposed to be part of the next chapter. Um, so 12:17 is the, is the end. It's the big punchline. And 12:17 says this, and the dragon was angry at the woman and declared war against the rest of her children. But then it tells the reader who those children are, all who keep God's commandments and maintain their testimony of Jesus. Now, a testimony is the story you tell. That's what testimony means, your, your story. Your testimony of Jesus is the story of the gospel, what Jesus did for us. So the way that— and this is kind of scary to think about— but the way that the devil identifies who God's people are in the end time is that they're keeping God's commandments and they're talking about Jesus, the gospel, what Jesus did on the cross, salvation through— by grace through faith alone. They're telling that story over and over and in a way that is reaching out to people and grabbing them. And like Rob just so brilliantly illustrated, if all of us are out there telling that story, what happens? Well, there's a much better chance that we're all going to come back with someone, where if we're just sending one person out, it's not going to build quickly. I said to Rob when he sat back down, "So there's 3.2 billion Christians. If they just went out twice, we'd be done." Isn't that like that? Whoa. It's way less than that. It's like 1.2 times. So the other part of Revelation 12 is actually how we are identified, not how the devil identifies who to attack, but how we are those people that are saved by Jesus. And here it is. This is how they are. They have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb. That's the death of Jesus on the cross. And By their testimony, the word of their testimony, not the testimony of Jesus, which is a very specific phrase and different word for, for it, that your testimony is how your life changed when Jesus became a part of it, how you shifted in thinking, doing, and being when you recognize that the God of the universe loved you so much that he gave his one and only Son so that you could be saved. And that has an impact on you that causes you to shift in the way you tell the gospel. You're still telling it, but you're telling it with you in the— as the connection point and saying, and this is what it means to me. And, and you're listening when you're talking to other people for connection points where it will be meaningful to them. So learning your 3-minute gospel spiel is really not nearly as valuable as listening really well to other people and knowing the difference Jesus made in your life so that you can drop in to the conversations you're having with people I think I know what you're looking for. And then you can tell them the Jesus who died for them, about the Jesus who died for them. Um, so there's a really, um, evil word in the middle of this sentence because we're saved by grace alone, right? It says here, they have defeated them by the blood of the Lamb and— what? And there's something else? And by their testimony. Now that does not mean that if You recognize that you're saved by Jesus, but you're not telling people about Jesus, that you aren't saved. What it— it's the reverse way around. It's this. Okay. Basically imagine that you're walking through Lillydale and you've got your earbuds in, so you're not paying attention and you get to the crosswalk and you just assume it's green and you start walking and there's a B-double that's coming through town. And for some reason he hasn't even slowed down to the speed limit and he's triple the speed limit and he's just barreling through Lillydale. And you look up just in time to see the front grill, and he smashes into you, throws you through the air across, and you smash into the wall of the post office, and you kind of peel down it, and you turn into a pool at the bottom, and you go, "Oh!" And you're laying there on the ground, and you, hmm, you stand up, dust yourself off, "Can't believe it. I'm not even hurt." And you go and you tell no one. First of all, everyone that saw it happen would be running to you going, "How in the world are you standing up? I just saw you get hit. How are you alive?" And you would say, "Well, I guess the hand of God protected me." If you're a believer, you would say it that way. You would be like, "Jesus must have been involved somehow because it's impossible that I'm alive right now." It's impossible that you have eternal life, and yet you do because Jesus gave his life for you, which is an impossible scenario, but it's true. And it's happened for us. So when you recognize— and you would go home, you would tell your family, you can't believe, you're not going to believe this. And they wouldn't believe you. I got hit by a huge truck today and I smashed against a wall. Right, right, right. Eat your peas. And say, no, it's true. It really happened. And you would have to argue with people and you would be adamant about it, not because you were being belligerent and mean, but because you can't believe that God did this for you. And this is what the gospel does in our lives. We have been saved by the blood of the Lamb, which is which is impossible, which is incorrigible, and yet it happened. And it's overwhelmingly compelling when you understand that it's true for you. And so you suddenly start telling that story, and other people say to you, "You're different than you were before. What's changed?" And you say, "The blood of the Lamb. Jesus died for me." That phrase, "the blood of the Lamb," is the hinge that the whole book of Revelation swings on. It's actually the hinge that the whole If you go to the Gospels and look at the cross, it's the hinge that the whole Bible swings on. It's literally like if you turn the Bible upside down and hold it, it's the binding that holds the whole thing together. The blood of the Lamb is applied for you. You have been given salvation because of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So when John, before he was, um, like we told the whole story in juniors today, but before he, he died for his faith, John lived for his faith. And John was asked once, "Why are you doing what you're doing?" And he said, "I am a voice." And the way he said— it says this in the book of John, which is written by the Revelator. God sent a man, John the Baptist, to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. Quoting the words of the prophet Isaiah, John said, "I am a voice shouting in the wilderness, 'Clear the way for the Lord's coming.'" So you and me, we are now the voice. We're the voices shouting in the wilderness. We have the power of the prophets within us because we are sharing with the world what Jesus has done for the world, the whole world. He's come and given his life to save each and every one of us. And so we now are able to say, I am a voice crying out in the wilderness. It's interesting, the wilderness theme in the Bible. It's a time of teaching, but it's also a time of God's protection. When God's people go into a wilderness, when Jesus went into the wilderness, Whenever they go into the wilderness, they go through struggles, they go through learning experiences, but God's hand is with them in a special way. Manna falls from heaven. Jesus can— he prays and angels come and feed him or protect him, it says, Ellen White says. So there's this wealth of Bible illustrations of when you're in the desert that God will protect you, but you won't feel like it's the best day of your life. You'll feel like you're suffering. But suffering creates strength, strength creates resilience, resilience gives us hope. And so here we are in the middle of this story. John says, I am a voice. And now we know that we are the voice. And the way we know that is because just before Jesus left, he said this to his disciples. And we know this is the Great Commission. Jesus came and told his disciples, I've been given all authority in heaven, on earth. And the reason why is 'cause he died and was resurrected. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age, through your suffering in the wilderness. So the active verb in this, the only one really, is go. And so we tend to focus, at least years ago we used to, like about going. Pack your bags and get going. Rachel and Ryan last night packed their bags and they went to Queensland to visit Ryan's parents. And so they had to pack, they had to get ready, they had to go. This is actually, as it says at the bottom, the phrase go or the word go is a phrase. As you are going, which means whatever you're doing, that you are making disciples, you're calling people, they're following you because they're saying, what is it you've got? You seem happy, you seem different, you seem whole. And they start following you and they're becoming like you. If you really wanna put discipleship in a nutshell, it's what Paul says, follow me as I follow Christ. And as we are following the person who led us to faith and seeing Jesus through them, and then other people are following us, and it's this, giant train of, you know, as Paul also says, a captive trains in a train of captives in our wake, you know, leading them to heaven with us. And so we have this idea now of as you're going, you're making disciples and you're baptizing them and you're teaching these new disciples. So when you're teaching these disciples, we're going to look at the end of the sermon at a passage from the Old Testament that this one is built on. It kind of uses this one as that one is a platform. And then builds on it, but it goes with this idea of teaching the new disciples. How do we teach? So we'll look at that in a minute. But first, I just want you to think about the early church. The early church, Jesus came to them and he said, "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses, telling people everywhere about me." In Lilydale, throughout Victoria, in Australia, and to the ends of the earth. Doesn't actually say that in the Bible. It says that in their context. It says in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, and to the ends of the earth. So it goes hometown, region, country, world. And that's the way that we are most effective in sharing the gospel and sharing our story, our testimony is first to people who you know well in your family, and then to those at church, and then to those in your town, and then to, you know, and it spreads and it keeps going. But the word witness is actually the same word for martyr. It's martia is the word, or martius. And it literally is the same word that they get when it says in the Bible that there was a martyr, someone martyred for their faith. They were a witness for their faith, but they died because of their witness. So we know, like John the Baptist, who lost, you know, who was beheaded because of his faith, and numerous people, other people in the Bible, and it's said that ultimately 12 disciples were martyred for their faith, that the witness sometimes will lead to a death on this earth, but we are not bound by death on this earth. We have eternal life through Christ, and when he returns, we will go up with him into eternal life. So there's a key, a key verse that we have in the old, in the, in the Revelation story when we talk about having the testimony of Jesus. We say, so what is the testimony of Jesus? And when I used to do prophecy seminars on Daniel and Revelation, you'd take people to this and say, "So the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." And it makes sense. It can easily be misconstrued in the Adventist Church because we actually call the writings of Ellen White the spirit of prophecy. But there's no way that 1,800 years before Ellen White that John wrote it like this in the Revelation. There's something else that it's trying to say. Nothing wrong with calling her books the spirit of prophecy because they are, but What is this verse actually trying to say? And the New Living Translation gets it really, really well. It says— it reverses it around and it says, for the essence of prophecy— so the core, the spirit of prophecy— the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus. So us being the end-time prophets, now it suddenly makes sense. You're telling your Jesus story clearly. You're giving a clear testimony of who Jesus is. So as I said, this refers back to this week called the Shema, which is, um, a really interesting story because when Moses gave the Ten Commandments to the people and, well, he saw them sitting, right? And he had the Ten Commandments and he broke them, went back up the hill, got them again. That's at the beginning of their story through Exodus. At the end, he— God says, I want to say the Ten Commandments to my people. And so that he draws them as close as they can to the bottom of the mountain, and he said— and he just speaks the Ten Commandments. This is in Deuteronomy 5 if you want Read it. And after he speaks the Ten Commandments, the people are shaking like my 3 kids after that story, right? And they're just like— and they— somebody goes up to Moses and says, "Can you ask God not to do that anymore?" And Moses says— because Moses is in glory, right? He's just like, "Oh, this is wonderful." And because he loves hearing God's voice, he's used to it. But the people just heard booming and shouting and the thunder. And so they said, "Please, can you go?" and talk to God because you seem to enjoy it and then come and just tell us what he said. We don't have to hear from him. And I'm quite sure Moses would have said, rude. Like God came and he wants to speak to you and you don't want to listen. And so he said, well, okay, I'll take your request to God. And so he goes through and he explains to God what the people said. They don't want to listen to you or to hear you. They want me to repeat. I mean, rude, right? And God says, oh, I'll do that. He says, what? He goes, yeah. And it's the beginning of God speaking through the prophets. And Moses says, so, so you'll, you want to do it like that? And God says, yeah, you, I'll speak to you and then you go and share it with the people. And then they can take it, you know, from a mediator in that they can understand you better. And he says, on one condition. And then he sets up this condition and the condition is what's written here. He says, you must love the Lord your God with all your heart. He's— to the people. So Moses is coming out and he's saying, God said there's one condition. Here's the condition, people. This is what God says. He'll speak to you through the prophets on this condition. You, the people, must love the Lord your God with all your heart, your soul, and your strength. So love has to come first. It has to be a personal love for God. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today, to the law, to the Ten Commandments. Repeat them again and again to your children. This is how you actually show that you're committed to them. The phrase for repeat them is actually, um, it's a phrase for learning. Teach it to your children. And it's the same phrase for putting water on a whetstone when you sharpen a knife. And so he's saying get them ready to learn by repeating it. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you're at home and when you're on the road, when you're going to bed and when you're getting up. As you're going, do you feel it? As you're going. Make disciples. When you're at home, when you're on the road, when you go to bed, as you're getting up, tie them to your hands, wear them on your forehead as reminders, write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. He's just saying, just smother your existence in the story of God so that everything you do, you say to your kids, you know, God is like a chair before you sit down at the table. God's like a table. He feeds us. God's like a door. In fact, Jesus said he is the gate into the kingdom of God. And you can tie in all these just by little things throughout the day. And what that actually ends up doing is by the time they get to adolescence where they don't— parents know nothing anymore and the teenagers know everything, right? And they come to their parents and he's actually— God has actually put this in Scripture what to do when they turn into teenagers. It says verse 20, and I didn't put it up on here, but if you have your— Deuteronomy 6:20, he says this: When your son asks you in the future, what is the meaning of all these rules? What is the meaning of these decrees, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you? So they're just like, there's just too many, Dad. This is too crazy. Tell him— and you'd think now that he would say, here's, here's why God gave the law, here's why the law is important. No, he says, tell him the story again. He says, tell him we were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand. And so what God actually says is, what I want you to do is when they start asking about the law and asking about why obedience, why do we have to do what God says, what you say God says, and don't drag them in front of the prophet and throw them down. They will have seen the love of God in your life and they will know that you love God and you'll be able to say, "You know the story? You know the story of how our ancestors were slaves in Egypt and God brought us out, us out with a mighty hand." And we all have been slaves to sin, slaves in Egypt, slaves into this world and had different reasons for living that we thought were important and were the way that we should live our lives. But when we're brought out, when the Lord brings us out with a great and mighty and loving hand, we realize that he has— he's done this only to save us. And that these rules, um, the law that we are— you know, when Jesus died on the cross, it says— Paul says that Jesus took our sin upon himself and put his righteousness upon us. So you imagine Jesus is on the cross. Here's the cross. He climbs up on the cross and he's here. He takes our sin and he He gets pushed down into death because of our sin, and we get lifted up to a place where the law exists in perfectness, in easy obedience, not because we have done anything to, to reach that place, but because of the death of Christ, because he's given us his robe of righteousness. And now when we look around at the laws, it seems like they make perfect sense in our lives. And the reason why is because they're written on our heart rather than on stone tablets out there somewhere or in a book somewhere, but they've been rewritten. His law has been written on our heart, and we've been lifted up so that that law meshes or meets us in the middle of, of making it make sense. That we are the people, the people who have the commandments of God, or obey the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus. That combination makes sense now because of Jesus's death. The obedience to the commandments is it's not burdensome. It makes you whole. It continues your wholeness in Christ. So when we start at the very beginning and we tell these stories to our kids, something happens inside of them. Mikey's just been— how many weeks were you Jesus? Two. For two weeks up in the Northfield South Wales camp meeting. He was in a drama and he was playing the role of Jesus. And that's, you know, we to other people when they look at us and they start to spend time in our lives or we spend time in their lives, they start to see Jesus through us. A few nights later, when after that dragon story, I started— I was putting the kids to bed or something, I don't know, but I was talking to Mikey and he said to me the weirdest thing. He said, "Dad," remember he's 6, "I know what I'm going to do when I grow up." So maybe at dinner we've been talking about what are you going to be when you grow up, and, you know, everyone wants to be a fire engine when they're 6. And so, but he said, "I know what I'm going to do when I grow up." And I said, "What are you going to do?" And he said, "I'm going to kill the devil." I said, "Mikey?" And he said, hmm, just looked really resolved in that. And I said, you know, my first inclination was, look, I'm a pastor, right? I know that Jesus killed, defeated the devil on the cross. We don't have to fight against the devil. We can just live in righteousness with Christ because of his death. Like, I could explain that all to him, but what in the world is going on in this kid's head? So I said, really, Mikey? So what makes you think in the whole history of the world that you're the one person that's gonna have to defeat the devil? And Mikey looked at me something like I was, like, looked at me like I was missing something really obvious. And he kind of cocked his head sideways and he said, "Dad, I am Michael." And that is the power of your testimony. That is the power of connecting the story of Jesus to someone else's life. And as they are going, sharing that story with them is they will see themselves in the story of God. You should see yourself in the story of God right now because you are saved by the blood of the Lamb. Of the Lamb, and you are sent out with your testimony. And so may we all be God's storytellers. May we all be shaping the world and raising up— and one generation would change the world in discipleship. We would have everyone know who Jesus was if we just told our story.