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Good morning, boys and girls! Today I am going to ask you to do something a little bit different. Since it's really hard for me to say hello to everyone in this congregation, I am going to ask you to help me. I want each of you to take a partner and go down into the congregation and just say hello and introduce yourself to the people who are sitting there. (Give them time to choose a partner, then encourage them to go out with you and say hello. After about three minutes, call them together again.) Now, wasn't that a nice thing to do? Thank you, boys and girls. You met some very nice people, didn't you?

Well, in today's gospel story Jesus told 72 of his disciples to do just what I asked you to do, but there was a big difference! The disciples had to go o…