Sermon Summary: Pastor Rick asks the congregation to make a commitment to do something against their nature; i.e. getting defensive about a message that they may not particularly want to hear. During the sermon, Pastor Rick provides an interesting summary of recent survey stats on the beliefs of "Born-Again" Christians. Other points and topics of the sermon include annotations on... • Christian history shaping culture or vice versa. • Christendom's 33,843 different denominations & subdivisions. • Christ's teachings on the Beatitudes and what happened at the end of Christ's Sermon on the Mount. • Christian worship in China via an underground American missionary. • An Explanation of the Pastor's Burden. Most of the referenced scripture in this sermon is from Matthew and Luke