Can You Be a Christian and Not Believe the Whole Bible? | Following Jesus... Sort Of...

Some of you do, right? You get your plate and you start the front line, I know there's a lot of green stuff in the beginning but then you kind of start walking in the line, you got some chicken, some roast beef maybe, maybe some ham. And there's the mashed potatoes just looking at you and saying come eat me up, right? And so you take a scoop of them mashed potatoes and then there's macaroni and cheese. Oh my macaroni and cheese and then you come to the next thing and it's, I know there's a name for this vegetable growing up, I just thought they were slimy eyeballs looking at me and my mom said I had to eat them, then brussel sprouts. It's like a green-eyed monster just looking up at you, coming to eat my eye. You know what's great about a buffet is you get to pick and choose, you get to cherry pick so to speak, right? I'll take a little bit of that, thank you very much. And you can keep your green-eyed brussel sprouts to yourself. I've been struggling in my own personal life and I've been asking myself this question, is it possible, Mark, that perhaps that's how you've treated God's word and how you actually treat your relationship with Jesus? Cherry picking, man I like those verses where Jesus says I'm with you always, right? I like those verses when he says I love you, I've come to give you an abundant life. I love it when my Pentecostal friends come alongside and say don't you know that you are healed by his stripes? I love all of those kind of verses, but then when he shows up and says, oh yeah, forgive that person who just hurt you, yeah thank you, keep your brussel sprouts to yourself. When he says that my money really isn't my money, but it belongs to him, when he says seek me first, well God I got this long list of other things that are going on in my life. I just wonder, is it possible this morning that we have created a version of Jesus that agrees with everything that I already believe or want? And we turn Jesus into the color blue, color red, conservative, progressive, independent, or I just don't care. See that's not discipleship, that's customization.

Cherry picking is this idea that I can pick and choose what I like and I can leave behind what I don't like, and that might be great in a buffet, but I think it's troubling in our spiritual lives. We cherry-kick those Bible verses that we like. We can take those Bible verses out of context, we can promote online, right? I like that verse and so we post it on our social medias and then we ignore other verses. So the question this morning is this, what do you do, what do I do when Jesus says something that you don't like? And let me just warn you, if Jesus hasn't said something that you don't like, I think you're already in deep weeds. Because you've created a Jesus to fit your narrative, to fit your mind set. Why do we do this? Jesus even challenges, he asks us in your copy of God's word in Luke chapter 6. He says something to us to kind of get the conversation started. He says, he doesn't use the phrase cherry-pick, but he says, "Yo, why do you call me Lord Lord and do not do what I tell you?" In modern language, why are you cherry-picking? Why are you cherry-picking the verses that you like? Why are you cherry-picking follow me in how you frame me in your own image, but not everything? You know that word, Lord, Lord, on the screen. I'm not sure what kind of definition it's up on the screen for you. I'm not sure what you think of what that word is. think somewhere along the line we thought that that became give it back to me I want I want to stay there for a second come back see that Lord Lord I think I think we made it a nickname it's just another name for Jesus maybe you have a nickname maybe you have but we've said Lord Lord even like Lordy Lordy look who's turning 40 but understand biblically this word Lord is not a nickname it's a declaration of his authority it's you saying out loud you're in charge what you say goes my opinion doesn't matter my cultural context doesn't matter I want you to know out loud I'm saying that you are in charge and this is the

tension that I am finding in my own internal self and I wonder if you are as well we want Jesus as Savior but we resist Jesus as Lord oh you want you want to save me from my sins Jesus don't let me go to hell Jesus but let me keep on sending and do whatever I want to do on my way to some eternal bliss some day see a faith built on preferences collapses under pressure the reason many of our faith gets in a space that it's collapsing is because the pressure of everyday life the pressure of of our humanity here in your copy of God's word interesting right he introduces this question why do you call me Lord Lord but then you don't do what I say if you read later today the next four verses it's the story of the two men who built their house one built it on a rock and one built it on sand and when the pressure came the one who built his house on the rock solid truth of God stood and the one who built his life on cherry-picking picking and choosing those verses that I like ignore the ones that I don't like when the winds blew and when the tide came in not only the house but their life was destroyed but we really should be surprised about this because when you go to the Apostle Paul who wrote a third of the New Testament he wrote this to a young man named Timothy in second Timothy 4 and 3 for the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine that's biblical teaching instead to suit their own desires they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear they would turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to miss I think you could say out loud that literally this could be the front page of whatever newspaper whatever social media that you pull into your life this is where we live today people aren't turned off by spirituality people are very interested in spirituality they want some type of spiritual teaching but but they want spiritual teaching that agrees with them see the danger this morning isn't simply rejecting the Bible the greater danger this morning is using the Bible to justify what you've already decided to do that's the greatest danger that we face today it's not that you reject the Bible most people win if you were on the street most people say yeah the Bible yeah that's cool I'm for that it's still

like the all-time best-selling book it's not that people aren't interested the danger this morning is how we cherry pick and at the heart of cherry picking the Bible it's an authority problem quite frankly let's just be honest we're Americans and ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do including you God you're not gonna tell me what to do with my sexuality I will do whatever I want with my sexuality if I'm horny and I want to get off I'll get off anywhere wherever I want however I want that's just how I'm gonna do hey by the way I went to work I didn't see you go to work God this is my money I'll spend my money however I want to spend my money it's an authority problem the issue is not a biblical issue it is a me problem and so this morning Or do I have the authority to correct what Jesus teaches? You're on one of those two planes. You're either living your life, I'm gonna correct in cherry pick what I like and think about, and I'm gonna build a narrative that kinda looks good, sounds good, or you're going to pivot and adjust your life. See, when we only listen to what we like, we eventually stop hearing what we need. When you start focusing in on just what you like, what's gonna happen is we're going to miss what we really need, and that isn't, I can't find a better place in the scriptures to kind of portray as an example as what I find in Mark chapter 10. If you wanna just turn over a few pages in your Bible to Mark chapter 10, this story has absolutely just wrecked the last couple of weeks of my life. In many of my ways, I have found myself, maybe it's because the name of the book is Mark,

and I think God's just saying, "Yo, Mark, I'm talking to you." But I have put myself in this narrative, in 61 and a half, in many ways, it's really wrecking everything that I've thought about, my relationship with God. Verse 17, "As he that's Jesus was setting on on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him." I love the passion of this young man. He's running towards Jesus. He's not casually walking. He's not looking at us watching saying, "Do I have time for this?" He's running after him, and he's kneeling down before him. In other words, you would recognize this man or this woman on a Sunday morning in a worship service with her hands lifted up, singing those songs, praising Jesus with their voice. He's running towards you. He's not avoiding spiritual conversations. He's actually initiating one. He runs up. He kneels before him. Look at this posture. He kneels before him and he asks him, "Yo, good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" I think that's a question that we all ask. It's a question that I'm asking. Maybe you're younger than me at 61, but I know that life is brief.

What happens after I take this last breath? And Jesus says to him, "Why do you call me good?" No one's good except God alone. You know the commandments. Do not murder, do not commit adultery. Don't steal, don't bear false witness. Don't defraud. Honor your dad and your mom. And he said to him, "Teacher, all these things I've kept from my youth." I mean, he's the kind of guy like you would want to date your daughter. He's checking off the boxes. I agree with you, Jesus, absolutely. I mean, I need to keep going, I'm keeping those, I agree, amen, preacher brother, preacher. I'm with you, Jesus. The conversation is actually going perfect, great, until Jesus says something he doesn't like. And Jesus, in your Bibles, verse 21, looked at him and loved him. Don't miss this. This might be the most important detail that we'll see this morning. Before Jesus confronts him, Jesus loves him. Jesus looked at him, Jesus sees you. Your spouse might not see you,

your family might not see you, your boss might not see you, culture might not see you, social media might not see you. But I want you to know this morning, you know this, God sees you and he loves you enough to speak truth that you need. It might not be what you want, but it's what we need. Before Jesus challenges his priorities, Jesus loves him. Before Jesus asked him to surrender anything, Jesus loves him. And Jesus looked at him, loved him and he said, you lack one thing. Now you're gonna think the young man's gonna perk up, right? 'Cause he came to Jesus, he ran to Jesus. He says, just tell me, what's that one thing? Like, like, what's the one thing that I need to do? And so Jesus says, all right, all right, come on, I'm about to tell you, you're lacking one thing. and you'll have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me. Disheartened, I have felt this, by the saying, he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions. This is not, this is not about your money. This is about our hearts. Jesus tells him to do the one thing to sell what he owns, and now everything changes. The whole conversation begins to change. Picture this moment. He comes to him with enthusiasm, with passion, with purpose. He respects Jesus. He bows down before Jesus. And when Jesus says something he doesn't like,

the Bible says he's disheartened. He's sorrowful, and he walks away. How many of us are there? Maybe it's not about your cash. Maybe it's about unforgiveness. Maybe it's about pride. It's about ego. It's a sexual sin. It's a chemical. It's food, bitterness, control, status. The issue here isn't what the young man possessed. Rather, it's that this thing possessed him. And the question is personal this morning. What do you do when Jesus says something that you don't want to hear? I would suggest if you're anywhere in the same space of this thing called humanity that I am, this is where we, this is the epicenter of following Jesus sort of. This is the most dangerous of spaces. We're following Jesus. I have been looking at the previous some 40 years of my life. Have I been following Jesus sort of picking and choosing? And let me tell you, there is no space more vulnerable than the space that I stand right now as a pastor over 40 years of standing before people. Do I cherry pick portions of scripture to teach on Sunday mornings? Because I like it. It's the kind of outline that I want to say. It flows nice. It'll fit inside the 30 minutes allotted to me this morning before everybody gets ants in the pants and wants to leave. Oh, I understand this. Have I kind of cherry picked the portions of the Bible to fit my narrative, my cultural experience as a marine, as an athlete, as a husband, as a dad, as a homeowner, as a businessman. Do I try to make it about me and then kind of make it shiny along the way? Am I following Jesus sort of cherry picking? The Bible verses I like and ignoring the verses that I don't like. And let me ask this penetrating question. Can you do that? Can you cherry pick verses and truly be a follower of Jesus? If you come to the conclusion, no, then this morning we've got to pivot. If you're not in that space, then you need to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal and to guide and direct you. But if you go to the words of Jesus, Jesus says, why do you? I'm talking to you. I mean, you. Why do you call me Lord, Lord? That's what happens when you got born again. You said, you're Lord. You said, I can't save me. My sin has overwhelmed me. I can't fix me. You're Lord. You're master. You're Savior. I need you to take over my life. And then he gives the illustration of two men who are building their life. One built their life on, yes, you are Lord and I will build my entire life on the rock solid truth of the word of God that does not change, does not wafer, or the other person who's like, yeah, I'm going to pick the words that I like. I'm going to ignore the words that I don't like.

I'm going to rationalize. I'm going to spiritualize. That's not the New Testament. Oh, that's back in the Bible days. Don't you know 2026 is all together different? The Bible says and when that storm came the pressure of life That house Let me give you four signs that you cherry-picking and then we'll jump into some application number one is We choose which parts of God's word matters the most to us 2nd Timothy 3 and 16 and 17 all scripture is Breathed by God the same breath that he breathed into man that caused man to become a living soul He breathed into the word this word is the living true word of God It's profitable for teaching for reproof for correction and training and righteousness. This is not a guidebook This is the word of God that the man of God may be the woman of God may be complete equipped in every good work Not some not most of God's word. I know you're following influencers I know you're following pastors in other cities their mega church and lots of people are going to their Lots lots of people are going to their churches and they're telling you online that the Bible Well, you know, you got to put it into its right context Influencers can say whatever they want it doesn't diminish what God has said about his word He said all of his word is breathed. We don't get to dismiss God's word simply because it challenges us It's almost like we've taken out a red pen in this case. Love your enemies. Yeah, no, thanks for that Forgive 70 times sevens. Yeah. Hello. I'm not even forgiving one time cross that out. Please sexual immorality Yeah, yeah, forget that I'll have sex anytime wherever I want. However, I know God says listen I created it. I want this incredible gift for you on your honeymoon night But yeah, thanks. No, God. You don't understand take up your cross daily. Yeah, we're not doing that one Give generously. Yeah, no, no, no. Thanks to that at all Eventually, we're left with a Bible that doesn't challenge anything about your life You've stopped I've stopped allowing God's word to change me change you and we've started changing God's word to accommodate Me you See God's word wasn't written to agree with your lifestyle. It was given to save your life Humans are lost You're lost. We're lost and so he gives us his word. Here's the second clue that your cherry-picking God's word is you treat your feelings as more trustworthy than God's truth I

Think this is the space that I'm in 61 and a half like I tell you what I want to finish strong I'm not going anywhere unless it's God's time for me, but like Man, I don't trust my feelings at all This week I have felt I said something I didn't even know I was saying it on Friday to the business leaders I had no idea that I was actually saying it to myself I Said you know sometimes in life. You just feel like you're buried The Circumstances the situation the stress the anxiety Your health finances the world It just feels like I just feel like I've been being buried and I feel that for business leaders the economy and the pressure Making payroll Caring for employees doing a good job for your boss It feels like you're buried and so I said to them. I said sometimes you feel like you're being buried But actually you're being planted And I had no idea that the guy who needed to hear that was the guy that was talking Because when you're planted in particularly when you're planted in God's word the soil of God's word and then when the spirit of God waters and the word of God weeds and the word of God fertilizes The potential for growth But here's the challenge Every seed to reach its full potential must first die Bye. [BLANK_AUDIO] It's death. Nevertheless, I live. Not I, but now the life of Christ. We treat our feelings as more trustworthy than, yeah, you can feel, your feelings are real. My feelings are real. I feel buried, but they're not the final authority in my life. God's Word says in Psalms 119, all your words are true.

All your righteous laws, or eternal Psalms 7, or excuse me, John 17 and 17, your Word is true. Titus 1 and Hebrews 6, it is impossible for God to lie. We're cherry-picking. God can't lie. God said it, he not only meant it, it's meant for our good. Truth doesn't become false because it makes you and I feel uncomfortable. Here's a third sign that your cherry-picking is you search the Bible to validate us instead of transforming us. Oh, this young man, he found all the parts of the Bible that he was agreeing with God apart. He lined himself up with what he agreed with and he wanted to ignore what he didn't agree with. 2 Timothy 2 and 15, do your best to present yourself to God as approved, as a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of Truth. The Word of Truth, rightly handling it in a business context, rightly handling it as I spend my cash, rightly handling the Word of God as I husband to Linda, as I'm a dad to Emily and Katie, as I'm a business man in Ocala and beyond. Acts 17 and 11, there's a great group of people. Their believers, they gathered at this church in Berea. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica. They received the Word of God with eagerness. They were excited, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. They weren't just looking for confirmation. They were searching for the truth. They weren't just listening whatever the pastor or the priest or the influencer. They were searching out the Bible for themselves. You know, there's a difference between approaching the Scriptures by asking, "Okay, what does this mean?" And approaching the Scriptures by saying, "How can I make this mean what I want?"

I went to my physio this week, I had over-trained my arm a little bit and it's kind of hurting right here. And the way she treats it, there's this process called dry needling. It's different than acupuncture, but basically we're trying to retrain my brain to let these muscles kind of get released, right? But imagine, you know, my doctor saying to me, "Hey, listen Mark, this is all tensed up. We need to do some therapy to this." And I'm like, "Yeah, can't we just pretend that it's okay?" And she looks back at me, she says, "You know, that's a good idea. I'm still going to charge you, but we'll say it's okay, right? What kind of doctor is that?" Not a good one. Not a flawed one. When we go to the doctors, not to hear what we want to hear, we go to the doctors to hear what's going on so that we can pivot so that we can change. We go to God's Word not so that we can make it into something that we wanted to say so that we feel better about ourselves or our family, but rather that we can see the pain point in our life and we can have health in our life. Here's the fourth sign that perhaps your cherry-picking God's Word is that you've got a version of Jesus that you that you prefer. That's what is happening with this young man. He runs after him. He's kneeling down. He's buying that. He's like, "Man, you're a man, Jesus." And all the things that Jesus said that he liked, he's like, "Yeah." But what had happened really as he was approaching Jesus, he's approaching Jesus with a mindset, with a view of who Jesus is already. He's shaping Jesus into his own image. And by the way, do we call that idolatry?

You live in a culture that says it is all about you. It's what you think. It's what you feel. It's all about your preferences. And we have a tendency to shape everything into our own image. I submit to you this morning that idolatry is alive and well in 2026. It might not be a statue in your house, but it with you, you may be following Jesus you created. I gave you a small little list. We prefer the Jesus who says, "Welcome to sinners." Yeah, welcome. Come on, all you sinners come. We also need to hear Jesus call sinners to repentance. He loves everybody, but he also told the woman who was in adultery go and sin no more. Jesus commands love, but Jesus also commands obedience. Jesus offers rest, but Jesus also calls us to take up our cross. Jesus teaches forgiveness. He gives us forgiveness, but he also calls us to forgive others. And I just want us to know something. Every single time you tell somebody, "Oh, I forgive you, but I won't forget it." You're cherry-picking. Spin it however you want. We forgive the way that God forgives. God forgives. And the Bible says he buries it in the depths of the sea. Yeah, but Mark, what if they do it again? It's not about what they do or don't do. It's about you. God's called me to reflect. I am salt in light. I reflect his image. I reflect his character. I taught you earlier this year about the Beatitudes. We live in a certain way that we are reflecting the image of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus, so that people will discover the hope that I have is rooted in Christ. We like, we prefer, Jesus talks us about the abundant life, and then he warns against living for possessions. We love it when Jesus talks about eternal life, but then we're not so excited when he talks about it. You've got to walk through the narrow gates. See, half the truth about Jesus can leave you with a completely false picture of Jesus. And this troubles me. This troubles me for you. I know I'm wrestling with it. If you're image of Jesus looks like some Baptist some Pentecostal, some Presbyterian, some Methodist, some Republican, some Democrat, some liberal, some politician, looks like a vehicle, looks like a career, looks like an education, looks like a sport. It's not Jesus. Jesus is no more American than I am 6'8". A lot of people have turned Jesus into the Constitution. Jesus ain't the Constitution. Jesus isn't the founding

fathers. Jesus Christ is the Son of God who left heaven and walked on this earth and he was sinless. He went to a cross to pay the penalty of your sin and my sin. He was not there because somehow he wanted to go through the motions. He was there because he loved us that much. And we gave up his life on the cross and was buried and came alive again. He calls us to follow him not partially, not when we feel like it, not when the words make us feel good. He calls us to follow him day by day, 100% along the way. When we only listen to what we like, we eventually stop hearing what we need. So my goal this morning and for us this week is that we would move, we would pivot that the conviction of God would be honest this morning and we'd move from selectively agreeing with Jesus to whole heartedly surrendering to Jesus. I mean the tension in the story is this young man and the Bible doesn't tell us anything. We don't know. It just says that he was disheartened, powerful, and he walked away. Think about that. He came running to Jesus. He's passionate. He's purposed filled. He fell in his knees. Why? Because Jesus said something that he didn't like. So my question this morning is what is Jesus said to you that you don't like? Maybe the reason this morning that you're broken hearted, it's got nothing to do about your acts. It's got everything with you right now, you're upset with God and just a moment when the team comes I want you to come and today run towards Jesus. I'm not cherry-picking no more. You've been holding on to what Jesus has been calling you to surrender. Maybe it's pride, maybe it's bitterness, it's a secret sin, it's your money, it's control, it's unforgiveness. The young man walked away from Jesus holding on to what he had but you don't have to walk away today with all that pain and hurt and sorrow. You can surrender it, you don't have to hold back any longer. You can discover the very joy and the way you would do that is this, you've got to. I can't do it for you but you've got to read God's Word.

You've got to have a plan. It's the morning, it's in the evening, at some point you lean in and you pray, "Okay, Jesus, show me what I need to see. What do I need to know about me? I'm not going to look for something that makes me feel better about my life. I want to know what, stop looking for loopholes and read it to make Jesus the Lord over your life." You've got to read it. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing the Word of God, second you've got to receive God's Word. Let God's Word correct you. Identify one teaching. I can't unpack all the story but I can't wait to tell the story. Last week a person in the gathering heard me say something and the conviction of God and she went home and made some decisions and that's what we all need to do is that when the conviction of God corrects us with a sense of joy and anticipation, we course correct our life to align with Him. That's why we're starting the Thursday night gathering. I am going to make, we are going to make together as a church. We are going to make Ocala, Florida, Marion, County, Central Florida, the hardest place in the world to go to hell from. I'm just not going to let people have excuses. A Thursday night gathering, the very same thing that we teach on Sunday, it'll be exactly the same. The people who are traveling and doing whatever, you're doing travel ball, you're going to the beach. All of our first responders, all that kind of stuff, it's great. We're going to do the very same thing on Thursday night. I also believe there's a whole lot of people who don't go anywhere who all of a sudden are going to come.

I do want you to pray, we're not looking on the 31st. This is not the fourth service. We are launching a brand new church inside of Church of Hope. It's going to feel different, look different, everything about it's going to be different. I need a hundred. I don't want a hundred people to help. I want a hundred partners who say out loud, "Listen, for the rest of my life, there's one thing out there. I want to partner up and make sure that this is the hardest place in the world to go to help from." Hey, have a great week. I want people to have Friday, Saturday, Sundays, but we can come together on Thursday night to hear the Word of God, to receive the Word of God. But here's the struggle, here's the struggle when it comes to responding to God's Word. As we often have delayed obedience, and really it's just disguised disobedience. We have delayed obedience, you have good intentions, you fully intend to obey God at His Word tomorrow. But that delayed obedience, you've given yourself credit already in your mind as if you've done it. Okay, God says that I should wait to enjoy this great thing called sex until I get married. I know, but it's a piece of paper and we've already moved in together. Do you know how complicated it would be if she got her place and I got my place and how expensive that would be? Oh my goodness, right? And so in your mind is next year, we set a date. Next year you have delayed obedience, but here's what you need to know. Delayed obedience is still disobedience. It's just disguised. You've dressed it up to look like something that it's not. I believe that God owns everything and God's been generous to me. I plan on being generous, I plan on giving,

or even if you're like, Mark, I don't have a lot, but I could probably maybe make my coffee at home and not buy it at, but, but, but I mean, I'm gonna do that in 2027. Delayed obedience is disguised disobedience. That's what this young man had. It was a disguise. He's deceiving himself. And deception will always lead you to discouragement, dishearted, sorrowful, sadness. And there's a better way. Jesus isn't trying to keep anything from him on the contrary. Jesus wants everything for him. I'll give you a workout to do this week. It's John 15, 10 through 11, John 15, 10 through 11. Some of you won't have the courage. You won't have the strength to be able to read what God's Word has to say. Some of you will, John 15, 10 through 11. What Jesus is teaching in this whole chapter is that he is the vine and we are the branches. And he says satisfaction, human satisfaction is when the branch stays attached to the vine. We get this in grapes, in other plants. This is the vine, all the nutrition is in the vine. As long as the branch is attached to the vine, it will flow and produce fruit. Jesus says that in John 15, 10 through 11, that when you follow his commandments

and you obey him, then he says it is the joy filled life. In other words, there is a correlation biblically between obeying God, trusting God, refusing to cherry pick the words of God that I like and ignore the words that I don't like that when we fully obey God as his Word, the fruit of that is joy. I'm just telling you, the latest show on Netflix ain't gonna give you the joy. Your team having your turnaround and making it a better season isn't the joy. Now the politics flipping isn't the joy. The joy that you're looking for isn't whether or not you're single or married, the joy, have kids, don't have kids, on vacation, don't have, all that's external and it can all change in a millisecond of time. What Jesus says, if you want joy, which by the ways, I prefer joy over sorrow. Jesus says joy is rooted when you trust him in his commandments and you obey him, then the fruit of that is a juicy joy filled life. I'm about a juicy joy filled life and you will never have a juicy joy filled life when you cherry pick portions of God's Word that you think will make you feel better because the only way to be happy in Jesus is to trust and obey. Thank you. Being together in this space today is really good.

If you've never begun a relationship with Jesus, I'd like to invite you today to start following Jesus. It's not about your behavior. It's not about your church attendance. It's about the reality that Jesus is for you. God's not mad at you. He's madly in love with you. Would you right now pray this prayer with me? Hey God, it's me. I've sinned and I know it and I can't fix me. But today I receive you Jesus as my savior. I believe that you died on that cross for me and that you were buried for three days and then you became alive again and I invite you into my life to guide me and direct me all the rest of the days of my life. And with that prayer my friend, welcome to God's family. I'd like to continue our friendship. If you would email me [email protected], I'll follow up with you and together we'll celebrate Jesus in your life. Peace. (upbeat music) [MUSIC PLAYING]