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- Bubonic Plague - 15-100M dead
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- HIV/AIDS - 45M dead
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- Black Death - 50M. That's only 4 of MANY
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+ - The most recent one was just a few years prior. So far it's taken over 7 million lives.
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- Food Shortage?
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- famine has been on the rise for the last nearly 10 years across the globe
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- 10s of thousands die every year from malnutrition
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- According to a recent report from the traveller's time, an estimated 45M people in 43 different nations teetering on the edge of famine.
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- Good News? Traveller glad you asked. Jesus words about the good news being preached throughout the world?
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- 9.2M Followers of Jesus
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- - Good news being preached in 241 lands. Current register of sovereign states is at 205. Traveller not sure how that works. He'll get back to you on that.
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+ - Good news being preached in 241 lands. Current register of sovereign states is at 205. Traveller not sure how that works. He'll get back to you on that.
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+- Let all of that settle in. You compare this traveller's story with what you just heard Jesus say.
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+- Now let's snap out of it, come back to present day
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+- That was quite a journey we took. Looking back on it, what did we learn?
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+- Sometimes it's helpful to take ourselves out of our normal headspace to get some perspective. Think about the challenges we humans have had to endure just since 1914. Perhaps these seem normal to us. But for most of history
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