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Netflix has obtained streaming rights for Chinese sci-fi The Wandering Earth which was a huge hit in China in 2018

Earning $610 million at the Chinese box office since February, The Wandering Earth is Chinas first sci-fi action film produced to a scale of a mega-budget Hollywood blockbuster

The Wandering Earth is directed by Frant Gwo and stars Chinese action hero Wu Jing

The plot focuses on a future where the sun dies out and the people of Earth build giant thrusters to move the planet out of orbit and fly it to a new star system

After 2,500 years, young people continue the fight for everyone's survival. Wu was the writer, director and star of Wolf Warrior 2, the military action flick that took home $850 million at China's domestic box office

"Netflix is committed to providing entertainment lovers with access to a wide variety of global content

With its high-quality production and storytelling, we believe that The Wandering Earth will be loved by sci-fi fans around the world," said Jerry Zhang, manager of content acquisition at Netflix, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter

Netflix is blocked in China because of the government-enforced ban on direct foreign content channels in the country

The Wandering Earth is already China's second highest-grossing film of all time, while it is already the highest grossing blockbuster of 2019

The film is based on the novel The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, which was the first Chinese winner of the Hugo Award for science-fiction literature in 2015

The Wandering Earth will stream globally on Netflix in 2019

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>> Let's sing the doxology.

[ "Praise God, From Whom All

Blessings Flow" begins ]

♪♪

[ Song ends ]

Blessed Father, You have, for 60

years, rained down upon this

piece of terra firma.

And we have stood before You now

and declared our gratitude and

our praise for what the

Lord of hosts, the Lord of angel

armies, has done.

And You're not through yet.

We pivot on our heels and now

look forward.

What is yet to come?

Renovate heart and house.

We've talked about the house for

the last few moments.

Now, Father, renovate heart,

renovate all our hearts.

As Your family, we pray in

Jesus' name.

Let all the people say...

>> All: Amen.

>> And amen. Be seated, please.

Want to share a story with you

that Krish Kandiah wrote in the

most recent Christianity Today

magazine.

It's a great story.

Happened over in England.

Here we go.

There in England, this "little

boy was playing in the street,

kicking the dust, jumping off

walls.

My wife happened to walk past

him with our five children,

which caught the lad's

attention.

He watched from a distance for a

while and then plucked up the

courage to jog over and ask,

'Are you going to have a party?'

My wife quickly answered, 'Yes,

we are!

We call it church.

If you go and check with your

mum, you can come with

us.'

That little boy ran home and was

back in a couple of minutes with

a huge smile on his face.

That Sunday, he stayed for a cup

of hot chocolate and left before

the services began.

But he was back the next week

and the week after that.

And, pretty soon, he had brought

his mother, his brother, and a

couple of his cousins.

Eight years later, they are an

integral part of our church.

One of the most moving moments

of those years was when the

boy's mother was baptized," as

we saw just a moment ago.

"Standing waist-high in the

water, she explained a little of

her traumatic childhood, her

years living rough, and

something of the struggles of

trying to hold her own family

together.

Her face shone, and her voice

clearly articulated her love for

the God who had found her and

welcomed her home.

The idea that had caught her

son's imagination was that the

church was like a party and that

he and his family were invited

to it.

Until then, they had sadly

mostly experienced what it was

like to be excluded, but the

discovery that church wasn't so

much an event you turn up to as

a family you belong to was

life-changing for them.

In fact, it was life-changing

for the whole church."

Isn't that good?

Did you catch that last line?

The church isn't so much an

event you turn up to as a family

you belong to, and it is a

life-changing discovery.

It'll change you forever and

ever, once you realize we are

family.

That's not some new-fangled

notion that comes with the third

millennium.

Are you kidding?

That's as old as Scripture.

You take the apostle Paul --

he's scribbling off a letter to

his young ministerial protégé,

young pastor Timothy, and Paul

gives this counsel.

Put it on the screen for you.

Look at it there --

1 Timothy 5:1-2.

"Do not rebuke an older man

harshly, but instead exhort him

as if he were your --" what?

"...as if he were your father."

Keep going.

"Treat younger men as your --"

what?

And older women as your what?

Mm-hmm.

And younger women as your

sisters, "with absolute purity."

Just in case there is a young

seminarian that has wandered

into this space for worship

today on our 60th anniversary, I

want to say to you that that

line, taught to me by my dad and

first initiated by the apostle

Paul, has been the credo that

I've sought to live by.

I'm telling you what, guys,

ladies, if you'll treat the

older women as your mother and

the younger women as your

sisters, you won't have any

problem at all.

You know why?

This isn't just about sexual

ethics, by the way, whether

you're male or female.

This is about the metaphor "we

are family."

We're family.

That's the whole idea of the

Church.

We are family.

Paul goes on -- in the letter to

the church in Rome, he scribbles

a little P.S. at the end.

"I want you to pass my hugs and

kisses on to some in the

congregation," so here we go.

I'll put it on the screen.

Romans 16:1, 13.

"I commend to you our sister --"

where'd you come up with that?

Family metaphor, of course.

"I commend to you our sister

Phoebe, a deacon of the church

in Cenchrea..."

Oh, and by the way, "Greet

Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and

his mother, who has been a

mother to me, too.

Give her my love and hugs."

Why?

Because the Church is family.

We are family.

That wasn't original with Paul.

The Lord Jesus, when He was

here, that was His metaphor.

You remember that day that Jesus

is teaching away, and, all of a

sudden, his mother and his

half-brothers show up at the

back of the crowd, and they sent

a word by somebody, and they

say, "Your family's here, and

they want to talk to you."

Jesus then speaks.

Watch this -- put it on the

screen.

This is Matthew 12:49-50.

"Pointing to his disciples,

Jesus then said --" hey, guys,

look -- "'Here are my mother and

my brothers.

For whoever does the will of my

Father in heaven is my brother

and sister and mother.'"

Why?

Because we...are...family.

Jesus went on Luke chapter 18.

Put that up, please --

Luke 18: 29-30.

"'I tell you the truth --" he

said to another crowd -- "'no

one who has left home or wife or

brothers or parents or children

for the sake of the

Kingdom of God will fail to

receive many times as much in

this age and, in the age to

come, eternal life.'"

In the 60 years that we have

watched these baptismal

curtains open, time and time

again, there have been

occasions -- you haven't known

about it -- when men, women,

young adults, teenagers, and

sometimes kids standing in that

baptistery have done so at

great relational cost to

themselves, and they have

subsequently been ostracized by

their most tender and precious

relationships.

Jesus says, "You may lose those

biological relationships when

you follow me, but guess what.

You're gonna get 100 times more

in the community I have for you

because we are family.

We are family."

Yeah, it's a big deal [Chuckles]

for Paul, for Jesus, for

Scripture.

"Church isn't so much an event

you turn up to as a family you

belong to."

And it's just the very same way

with the last letter ever

written in the Bible, bar none.

It's the last letter to the

seven churches.

It's to the church living at the

end of time.

It's the letter to Laodicea.

That's been our little winter

theme.

Just a few more parts left, and

we're done, but let's go to

Revelation chapter 3, the last

letter.

Jesus dictated it to John there

on the isle of Patmos.

But what's the letter say?

Well, may I show you that, if we

read between the lines, we see

that it's still big on family?

Watch this.

Revelation 3:14...

You can stop it right there.

He calls himself, "I am the

ruler of God's creation."

And guess what.

The ruler of God's creation is

the inventor of the family.

He's the one who said, "You'll

be male, and you'll be female,

and, oh, by the way, will you

please go and multiply?"

The creator of the universe, who

created us, is the Lord of

families.

He says, "By the way, I'm the

one who's sending you this

letter.

I'm big on family."

But we know He's even just as

big on family by another clue

tucked away.

Let's look at that verse 14 we

just read a moment ago and just

use the opening line.

"To the angel of the church in

Laodicea..."

Because you know what?

When Laodicea existed as a

church, they didn't have

edifices.

They didn't have Gothic arches

like this.

They didn't have cathedrals.

They had nothing.

All they had was somebody's

house.

Church happened in a home, a

family circle.

That's what happened.

The families gathered together

in a house and worshipped every

seventh-day Sabbath.

Embedded between the lines --

"We are family."

That's why Jesus comes along

here in verse 20 -- This is

something else.

This is the one line that

everybody who knows Scripture

remembers.

"Oh, this is the only part of

the letter I remember."

Verse 20. "Here I am!"

Jesus speaking...

The door is a family house.

It's the door to a family home.

"Hey, yo, family, you're having

a big party in there, but do you

know that I'm not in there?

Anybody open the door for me,

I'll come in, and we'll be

family together.

We'll share that meal together."

Yeah, why?

Because we...are...family.

"Church isn't so much an event

you turn up to as a family you

belong to."

And that's why "Renovate" is not

just about house.

"Renovate" is about heart and

house, and right now you and I

are thinking "heart."

In fact, nothing has brought

this reality into sharper focus

for us here at Pioneer than what

has been happening over the last

few years.

I have a friend who told me

years ago, "Our business,

okay --" so he's talking about

the Church.

"Our business," as a Church, "is

to find the wave the Holy Spirit

is creating and then to surf

it."

Now, you have to to be a surfer

to get this, and I have my young

friend Michael Von Dorpowski

here, and he's a top-flight

surfer.

And, so, Michael, let's put a

picture of the wave -- let's see

a picture of the wave on the

screen.

That's a big wave, isn't it?

And Michael will tell you the

first thing you got to do is you

got to have the wave.

If you don't have a wave, you're

not surfing -- you're paddling,

right?

Once you get the wave, once you

see the wave, then

[Snaps fingers] you ride it, you

surf it for all you're worth.

The Holy Spirit has been

creating a wave around here, and

we didn't even note it.

We didn't even see it till the

other day.

Oh, my, let me show you.

You're saying, "Dwight, what's

that wave?"

Let me show you a picture from

this morning about eight minutes

ago.

Let's put that picture on the

screen, please.

Recognize those faces?

That was taken just eight

minutes ago.

That's not the whole group.

That's the only part that we

could get into the lens.

You know who those are?

Yeah, those are children.

For months now, the number of

children coming forward for the

children's story each Sabbath

has been unbelievable, and it's

still growing.

Where did these children come

from?

I'll give you a little hint.

They came from their parents,

all right?

[ Laughter ]

Where do the parents come from?

The parents have come from all

over campus, they've come from

around the community, they've

come from around the county.

They're coming.

"Why are they coming here,

Dwight?"

I'll tell you why.

Because what Pioneer does for

children, that's why.

In just the one hour allotted

for the Sabbath-school time each

Saturday morning, what Pioneer

does is without parallel.

You say, "You're just biased."

Of course I am, but let me tell

you something -- the reputation

is heard on the street, around

the world.

I travel, and people come up and

say, "Yo, I know about your

church -- the children's Sabbath

schools."

We have the finest, we have the

most creative children's Sabbath

schools on Earth, bar none, and

they're known throughout the

denomination.

And as you can see, they enjoy

the same reputation here at

home.

That's why they're showing up.

You throw in a Pathfinder Club

second to none and an

Adventurer Club that is the

largest in North America, and it

all adds up -- voilà --

Pioneer's future.

The Holy Spirit has created a

wave, and we've got to surf that

wave for all we're worth as long

as the wave is here.

See, that's the deal.

And so the confluence of two

compelling realities has

convincingly shown us the wave

of the Holy Spirit here that

He's created in Pioneer.

Okay, what are the two

realities?

Well, one I've already given

you -- number one, the throngs

of children that now occupy this

space, and number-two reality is

the highly motivated, visionary

volunteer leadership that the

Spirit has anointed and

appointed.

Back in September, I sat down in

my office here at the church

with Laurence Burn, who's

children's Sabbath-school

superintendent from birth

through grade 1, and

Glynis Bradfield, who's

children's Sabbath-school

superintendent from grade 2

through early teens, and they

were brimming -- [Chuckles] I'm

listening to them -- brimming

with ideas about how to grow

children, and not just the

children, but to grow their

families, and not just the

families, but grow the Kingdom

in the process, and, this

morning, while you were wherever

you were during Sabbath school,

they were packing that youth

chapel out.

We took a picture, and I want to

put the picture on the screen

for you.

You know what they did?

They had all the Sabbath schools

downstairs come upstairs,

parents and children alike --

276, head-count right there.

And they put on a humdinger of a

program, and they sent the teams

who were having their youth

Sabbath school there down into

those rooms downstairs to teach

little classes up and down the

hallway.

That's the kind of creativity

that the Spirit is raising up.

He's created a [Chuckles] wave.

We got to surf this wave.

And so, after much prayer and

planning with our team here and

with our Conference

administration, we are pleased,

on this 60th birthday Sabbath,

to announce a major paradigm

shift in the pastoral team at

the Pioneer Memorial Church on

the campus of

Andrews University, and here it

is.

Jim Collins, in his mega

best-seller, "Good to Great,"

uses the leadership metaphor of

the bus.

He says, "Listen, the deal is,

you got to get the right people

on the bus first, and after you

have them on the bus, you've got

to get them in the right seats."

Well, that's exactly what we've

realized, and that's what we're

about to announce.

In keeping with that, we're

moving two pastors to new seats

on the Pioneer bus.

To respond to this wave that the

Holy Spirit has already created

with our children, we are asking

Ben Martin -- you met him just a

moment ago, that precious little

Emmett, his boy, and Arlo --

we're asking Pastor Ben, our

present youth pastor, to become

our new pastor for children and

family discipling, giving

special leadership and oversight

to children from birth through

early teens.

Ben has long had a passion for

reaching the youngest of the

members of God's family, and

he's shown a proclivity to that

skill, and we're very grateful

that he has accepted this

invitation.

It's a perfect shift to surf the

Spirit's wave.

Now, his departure from youth

ministry means that our team

will only be complete when we

bring in a new youth pastor

on board to join the Pioneer

team, and our new youth pastor

will be a woman.

>> Amen!

>> Well, two of you are happy.

[ Laughter, applause ]

I knew you would. Yeah, amen.

Our new youth pastor will be a

woman.

We don't know who it is yet, but

we know it'll be a woman.

You say, "How do you know that,

Dwight?"

Because those are the only names

we've turned in.

And I just was on the phone with

the Conference president,

Jim Micheff -- who's a great

supporter of Pioneer --

yesterday, and we got the date

for the interviews.

They're gonna happen all on the

same day, in just a few days.

So we know that God will be

sending a woman to Pioneer to

begin to lead, spiritually lead

our teens.

Hmm.

But with the recent retirement

of Pastor Sharon Terrell, we've

had to bring two people in.

Pastor Sharon has been our

finance and stewardship pastor.

We're making two shifts.

We've asked Joann Siagian, our

accountant, to become our new

church treasurer, and she's

accepted a new responsibility

and is doing great.

And we're asking José Bourget,

our campus chaplain, to become

our new executive pastor.

For the first time in the

history of the

Pioneer Memorial Church, we have

now a leadership position called

"XP," executive pastor.

"Why are you doing that,

Dwight?"

Because I need, because we need

someone with a passion for

administration to oversee the

vision mission of Pioneer as we

now move into the seventh decade

as a campus congregation.

José's task will be to lead the

annual strategic-planning

process, reviewing the mission

vision and core values,

developing key objectives and

tactics, and establishing three-

to five-year goals for the

Pioneer Memorial Church.

We need it.

Which means now we've got to

find a gifted campus chaplain to

fill Jose's position.

And we're now beginning that

search process, as well.

Well, the Spirit will lead us.

I'm not worried about it.

The Holy Spirit will lead us to

the right person.

By the way, there's one other

major change that I need to

announce to you, and that is our

GROW Group pastor, that is

vacant when Sabine Vatel left to

become a hospital chaplain, but

we're very grateful already that

Pastor Rodlie has agreed to step

into that leadership position,

GROW Group discipleship

ministry, along with the

community-outreach ministry that

he already is carrying in his

portfolio.

And Brianna Martin -- we just

met her a few moments ago --

will continue to assist

Pastor Rodlie in this critical

ministry of GROW Groups,

providing discipleship for this

congregation.

So we have the right people on

the bus, and, by the grace of

God, they're occupying the right

seats on the bus.

And with the arrival of our new

youth pastor and our campus

chaplain, this team, at last,

will be complete again, to which

I'm gonna say, "Hallelujah.

Thank you, Lord."

Yeah.

♪ We are family ♪

They ought to write a song like

that sometime, you know?

[ Laughter ]

I mean, seriously.

It just has something to it.

♪ We are fa-mily ♪

Little bit of Pauline

syncopation perhaps.

But that's family.

By the way, I'm putting it on

the screen for you.

That's "Family" with a capital

I want to end with a quotation.

One more time -- the words of

Krish Kandiah, from his

Christianity Today piece.

This is profound.

On the screen...

"It can be an antidote to more

individualistic --" which is

society today -- "sadly even

consumptive --" Everybody's a

consumer, consumer.

We're always trying to attract

consumers, something new to get

consumers to come to us.

No.

"...sadly even consumptive

models of church participation

that are common today."

We don't want that, he's

writing.

Now read...

To which I say amen.

So let there be no question that

the God who for six decades has

led this mighty congregation,

beginning 60 years ago right

now, is the God who will guide

us.

"Oh, Thou great Jehovah,

pilgrims through this barren

land, we are weak, but Thou art

mighty.

Hold us with Thy powerful hand."

And He will, for He is the God

of Abraham and Sarah, He is the

God of Isaac and Rebecca, He is

the God of Jacob and Leah and

Rachel.

He's the God of the pioneers,

for whom this church is a

memorial, and you know what?

I have good news for you today.

He is still the Lord of Pioneer.

What do you say?

>> All: Amen.

>> Amen.

Amen, because we are family --

all are family.

Amen.

Invite you to turn your worship

bulletin over, and on the back

cover is the

Litany of Dedication that we are

going to read right now.

Find your bulletin.

Turn it over, back cover.

And Karen is gonna join me as we

invite you to stand.

She'll lead the congregation in

this Litany of Dedication, after

which we'll sing the mighty

"Lord's Prayer" together, all

right?

"Almighty God, we give You

thanks for the work You have

done through Christ in this

place."

>> All: "We thank You for

adopting us into Your family as

Your sons and daughters."

>> "You have sent Your

Holy Spirit to heal and comfort

our hurts, our sorrows, our

infirmities, and our losses."

>> All: "You have listened to

our confessions and forgiven our

sins."

>> "Lord, thank You for drawing

us a congregation to become part

of Your global Church."

>> All: "Thank You for our

pioneers and founders who

obediently listened to Your

voice to raise up both our

church and our congregation for

Your sacred purposes."

>> "Help us to teach our young

Your Word and Your ways so they

will know who they are and whom

You call them to be."

>> All: "Inspire us with a

vision for Your glory, to be a

house of prayer for all people,

and use that vision to direct

the path of this congregation."

>> "Continue to empower us with

Your Spirit, that we might

connect, grow, serve, and go

with the Gospel of Jesus Christ

as Lord and Savior to all

people."

>> All: "In our families, in our

community, and to the ends of

the Earth."

>> "Help us to witness to the

good news of Jesus Christ until

people of every nation, tribe,

tongue, and people worship Your

holy name."

>> All: "May all glory and honor

be Yours, in and through Your

Church, and in Christ Jesus our

Lord.

Amen."

>> Let us sing together the

"Lord's Prayer."

[ The "Lord's Prayer" begins ]

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Amen.

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[ Song ends ]

>> Before you go, let me take an

extra moment to share with you

an opportunity to get into the

Bible in a fresh, new way.

All across the world, more and

more people are hearing the call

to examine Scriptures

for themselves.

If you felt drawn to learn more

about God's Word, but you don't

know where to start or you're

just looking for a more in-depth

examination of Bible truths,

then I have something right here

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enjoy.

I want to send a series of

guides to get you started.

This one's entitled,

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Each guide begins with a story,

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Then, through a series

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have known before, and when

you're through, you'll be able

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these inspiring Bible truths.

So just call our toll-free

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It's on the screen --

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Our friendly operators

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Once again,

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Call that number, and then,

again, join me next week

right here at the same time.

"New Perceptions."

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