Defeating the Drift | Jeremy DeWeerdt

All right, hello, City First. It is good to have you here, be together as a church family. And before I begin talking today, I wanna take a moment and emphasize something that you just saw. Please come back next week and bring friends. It is our annual Vision Sunday, where we get to introduce not only this year's theme, but also some of the exciting things that we believe that God is gonna do this year in 2026. Honestly, it's a very special Sunday, and it's one you wanna be here for, and you wanna bring people. You're gonna leave very, very encouraged. A lot more encouraged than you are about the weather right now, all right? How many of you would say that right now the weather in the Midwest has been a little crazy, right? And even, I checked this morning on the app, and at Cape Coral, it's in the 30s, and there are flurries happening on the West Coast. So I just wanna say this. On the West Coast of Florida, you guys are experiencing some things. And for those of us, the locations here in Illinois and Wisconsin, we just wanna say this to you, Cape Coral family. You're welcome. You are welcome, all right? We wanted to give you a gift that just keeps on giving.

And so, just welcome to our life. Welcome to our life. Well, I know it's only the first weekend of February, but how many of you joined me? You're already looking forward to summer vacation with this weather, right? The DeWerts, when we go on vacation, we're kind of water people. We like to be around water. And I remember many years ago when Pax, our little guy, our littlest one who's 14, but when he was a lot younger, we went down to the West Coast of Florida, and we were by Cape Coral, went to a beach there. And when we were in the beach, around the beach, we set up our chairs, and then you get into the water, and Pax loves to get into the waves, he loves it. And I was in there playing with him, and then about 10 or 15 minutes goes by, and all of a sudden I look back at the beach, and I noticed that we had drifted like 50 yards down the coast. And I was like, whoa, that's crazy. So we got out, and we walked back up the beach, kind of back to where our chairs were, and we re-entered the water. And about 10 or 15 minutes later, I look back again, and we had once again drifted down the coast. And there must have been kind of like a current or something that was taking us down the beach. And so we had to do this over and over again.

We'd re-enter the water, back where the chairs were, drift down, get back, walk up the beach, do it over and over again. That night, Jen said something to me, I thought it was pretty profound. She goes, you know what, that's kind of the way life is. You step into something, and over time, drift naturally sets in. And I was like, ooh, that's a sermon, that's a sermon. You don't even notice it, right? You're just playing in the water. And all of a sudden, you look back at the beach, and you're like, wow, I've moved. Drift happens in everything. It can happen in your relationships. Could happen in your marriage. Could happen in your career. Could happen in your worship to God. It can happen in your friendships. Like how many of you have ever just all of a sudden thought, man, I haven't talked to my good friend for a long, long time. Drift happened, right? And most importantly, it can happen in your relationship with God. Drift can naturally happen. So I wanna talk about that today. I wanna talk about a couple of ways that we can drift and how we have to, in a sense, get out of the drift, walk back to the place where we once entered

into the waters with God, and do it again. And it happens inadvertently. And so you might say, well, why are you talking about drift when we're only one month into the calendar year? And my answer to that would be, how are those New Year's resolutions going? Right? I mean, we all drift. Happens unintentionally, but it does happen. So the story that I wanna talk about today, there's two of them involving the same people. I wanna talk first out of Luke chapter 10. This is what the Bible says. A famous story if you grew up in church, right? And if you didn't grow up in church, that's great, because this is gonna be a powerful day to learn this story. Now, as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. A woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha, listen, was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him, meaning Jesus, and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me. But the Lord answered her and said, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about me. Many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion

which will not be taken away from her. This is kind of a, if you've grown up at church, this is a famous story. Two sisters, Mary and Martha. Martha is working in the kitchen. She's sweating, she's cooking. And Mary, Mary is sitting at Jesus's feet, listening to Jesus talk and listening to his teachings. Now, I'm gonna say something that maybe might surprise you as a pastor, but I'm gonna be very candid today about my thoughts. I don't like this story. And the reason I don't like this story is because whenever I've heard it preached, it's always like, Martha, bad. She's in the kitchen. She's not sitting at Jesus's feet. Mary, good, good sitting at Jesus's feet. And I'm like, this bothers me because I run a church and without Martha's in this church, we don't have church. Like we don't have people that are getting things done, right? Like I'm being a little tongue in cheek with this, what I'm about ready to say. But honestly, I've said this to the staff before. I'm like, I don't need just people in the church with good hearts. I need people who get crap done. And Martha is getting crap done. Can I say that?

I don't know, I said it. But anyway, and so, you know, I have a problem with this. I have a problem with it because, you know, especially in church work, someone has to be here at 6 a.m. to turn on the lights and to unlock the doors and to make sure that the carpets are clean and the chairs in a straight row and our kids' areas are sanitized so they don't get the creeping funky stuff. You know what I mean? And like, you know, somebody's practice, the worship team doesn't just get up here for the first time and just jam. No, they practice all week. There's a lot of work that goes into this, right? And I can see Martha, she's like slaving in the kitchen. She's cooking, she's sweating, she's doing all the things. And then there's Mary sitting and journaling at Jesus' feet, you know? And I could just see Martha's probably going, you go sit with Jesus, Mary, and I'll be in the kitchen here. I'll be cooking, I'll be putting out the fires. Have fun, Mary. And by the way, Mary, when you get done listening to Jesus' teaching, when you're hungry, you can come and eat the food I cooked, right? Some of you, I'm talking your language right now. You don't like the story because it's like,

in a church, in a family, in a business, in a community, there are problems that have to be solved. There are issues that have to be addressed. There's stuff that has to get done. The lawn doesn't get mowed by itself. The garbage doesn't get taken out by itself, right? The dishes don't get cleaned by themselves. Can I get an amen from somebody? And so Martha's like, yeah, you go have your moment with Jesus. Real cool. And then when you're done, Mary, when you're done having your time of underlining in the Bible, would you come and maybe do the dishes? Is that cool? Mary's having a little bit of a bad attitude. And I'll be just candid and transparent here for a moment. The reason why I think I have such a problem with this story is because in this story, I'm Martha. I tend to fall into this drift. There's two drifts. And the first drift I wanna talk about is the Martha drift. And some of us listening today, you fall into the Martha drift. The first drift is this, the drift that is the distraction drift. Distraction drift. What does it say in the English standard version of this story of the Bible?

It says, Martha was distracted with much serving. She was distracted with much serving. Some of us right now with life, we are distracted by all there is to do. And it isn't that the stuff that we're distracted by is not real. There is a lot to do at work, at home, in church, in your neighborhood, wherever. There is stuff to do. And unfortunately, all of the distraction that you have on all the things that have to happen have stolen a little bit of your relationship with Jesus. Your relationship with Jesus has suffered. Let me take it another step further. It's easier for some of us to work. On the problem or the need that's right in front of us than it is to sit in the presence of jesus I mean, i'm just being honest, right? I mean, we're far more comfortable doing something for god than being with god And and it's a silent drift It's a drift that that that you know, you're you're in this and you're thinking to yourself, you know, jesus He will bless my lack of presence because of my abundance of work for him In other words the grind will attract his grace Not sure that's how it works like when we fall into the Martha drift the drift of distraction we can dress this up in noble noble ways We can we can make it look good, right? We can kind of feel a little bit Martyristic like i'm carrying the freight in this family I'm carrying the freight in this church I'm carrying the freight at my work You know i'm over here, you know Time to lean time to clean right you ever heard that before?

And so i'm cleaning and my co-worker is over there checking their tick tock And we can become a little bit prideful We can start thinking really we're the ones Carrying this thing And here's where the enemy can be super crafty for those of us that fall into the martha drift Is that many of us? Who get caught in the distraction drift are the ones everyone relies on? in other words in other words People whether they do it intentionally or unintentionally They actually lean on you because you can be leaned on Like like for example, we all know this whether it's at home It's work in church wherever if you have a task that has to get done You could give it to somebody and they're gonna get it done Or you could give it to somebody else and it's vague odds whether they're gonna get it done, right? You're kind of like i'm not sure it's going to happen. So what do you do when you need something done you go to the one? who is reliable And the enemy actually doubles down on this drift for those people that get caught in the martha drift because you're reliable And you get things done So when things have to get done in the family and when things have to get done in the church and when things have to get Done at your business. Guess what? Who do people come to you? And all it does is it puts more weight on you And it also feeds the drift it accelerates the drift because you already are Looking to work as something that you have to do and now more work is coming your way Now, I don't think listen. I don't think jesus was reprimanding martha's work ethic In this story. I don't think he's saying it's you don't have to do the important things and you don't have to be responsible That's not what he's getting at. I think what jesus is saying here is saying mary your sister Has chosen the good portion which will not be taken away from her. What does that mean the good portion? What does that mean?

Well, you almost got to go in the old testament you look in the book of psalms There are some verses that talk about the portion of god so it defines what that portion is Let's look here in psalms 73 my flesh and my heart may fail But god is the strength of my heart And my portion so god is my portion forever In other words, what god is saying here is god says I will be your protection I will be your source And I will be your identity. I'll be your portion So what jesus is really looking at martha and saying he's saying hey, listen your protection is not in your work martha And and you know what? The source of your life is not in your work martha and lastly your identity That is not in your work martha Some of us that fall into the martha drift If we don't have something to do we don't know who we are There's an identity thing that comes with it Jesus is not saying to martha. You shouldn't work hard Jesus is saying to martha Martha you become distracted by allowing work to replace our relationship And so her identity now is in the kitchen Her identity is cooking the food The work has replaced the worship of jesus doing Became more important to martha than being Martha has drifted down the beach And she needs to get out of the water and out of the and she needs to walk back up the beach and reenter the waters of relationship with Jesus where she once was.

And some of us today is the red flag saying we need to do the same. You're in a current, you're drifting, you work, work, work, and yet we've now decided that whether we like it or not, maybe work has become our source, our identity, our security, our safety. And so, Martha, you're in a drift. Now, there are people you're listening right now and you're thinking to yourself, I hope my husband's listening to this. Or you're thinking, I hope my brother or my kid or my good friend, I hope they're listening because Pastor Jeremy, he's nailing them right between the eyes, right? All right, well, let me flip the coin a little bit. Let's talk about Mary, shall we? All right, the second drift is the Mary drift and it's a different story. It's a little bit later, chronologically speaking. It's in John 12. Says this, six days before Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, she's still in the kitchen. But guess what? Her heart's different. She's not the same Martha that was many, many months and maybe even a couple of years before, okay?

This is like a new Martha. She's still in the kitchen. So that shows us, Martha, you don't have to stop working. It's just that work can't be your identity. It can't replace your relationship with Jesus or other key relationships. So now, basically, Martha's serving and it says, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with Jesus at the table. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. This is very unorthodox. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, he who was about to betray Jesus or betray him, said, why was this ointment not sold for 300 denarii given to the poor? He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and having charge of the money bag, notice he was the treasurer of the disciples, he used to help himself to what was put into it. Jesus said, leave her alone so that she may keep it for the day of my burial. For the poor you will always have with you, but you do not always have me. Interesting story here. Gotta understand, first of all, what is nard? Weird word, we don't use that term a lot in English.

Nard is this, it's very expensive, fragrant perfume, oil. And it was imported in this day and age from Northern India. It was equal to a working person's annual wages. So like in, think about it now. What does a average American make every year? This oil, this pound of oil was worth that amount of money in today's currency, all right? So this is most likely Mary's retirement fund because back then they didn't have social security, they didn't have 401ks, IRAs or anything like that. So what people would do is they would buy these jars of nard and they would keep them and then later on in life, they would sell them and live off the money. In the other gospels, which are the other books that describe Jesus' life, it says that Mary anointed not just Jesus' feet, but his head. So think about this. She takes and breaks open this jar of nard, which by the way, when you break it open, it loses its value at that point. So she can't sell it anymore. And she takes out the oil, pours it on Jesus' head and on his feet. This is symbolic in many ways. I don't have time to get into that, but really what she's doing here is she's saying, I'm giving something that costs me to be able to share how much I love you, Jesus, and to be able to communicate my sacrifice for you, both feet and head, and then unbinds her hair.

And this was very abnormal back in Jesus' day because women, Jewish women, usually had their hair put up. They would never let their hair down except in the privacy of their home. So she is letting her hair down and she's taking her hair and she is taking the oil and putting it on Jesus' feet with her hair. This is so humbling. The symbolism here. is just incredible. She is giving everything to Jesus at this moment. Her financial security and also her pride and everything she's saying, I am laying it in humility at your feet. What happens immediately? Judas, who ends up betraying Jesus, right? Judas pushes back and basically says, why are you doing something so extravagant and excessive? Now, before we throw Judas under the bus, and he deserves to be thrown under the bus, but before we throw him under the bus, I want you to know this, most likely every other disciple was thinking the exact same thing. They just weren't carnal enough to say anything. Everybody in the room except Jesus was probably going, what are you doing right now? And Jesus allows her to do it. Now, the Christian tradition and Bible historians believe

that this Mary is the same Mary that is the sister of Martha. We don't 100% know, but we are like really, really sure it was. So it's probably the same Mary. Why did she do something so excessive, so expensive, so sacrificial? Well, because Mary had spent time at Jesus's feet, unreasonable sacrifice didn't feel extreme, it felt normal. It felt normal. So brings us to the second drift. I'm calling it the Mary drift. It is the drift of reasonableness. Now, what do you mean by that? Well, the room was like, this is unreasonable. This is crazy. And if we don't watch out, we'll get into the water and we will get in a current in life of reasonableness. Reasonableness. It's kind of like when you come to church and you're like, I just wanna sit at Jesus's feet and I just wanna be blessed. I wanna be blessed at church. Can I just, that sermon didn't bless me enough. That worship was not, it just didn't touch me. And what that really communicates is it communicates that church is about making you feel a certain way. Was church ever about you in the first place? Or is it about a gathering of saints

who make it all about him? Regardless of if the style of the worship or the eloquence of the sermon touched you or gave you a Holy Ghost goose bump, it really doesn't matter. Was it ever about that in the first place? Or is it about us collectively coming together and saying we will lift up one voice city first to the King of kings and the Lord of lords. It's all about him. See, if we don't watch out, all of a sudden we're gonna start living our life thinking what's reasonable here? What's reasonable? There's a great book. It is not a Christian book. It's based upon all kinds of biblical principles though. And it's a great leadership book called The Power of Moments. It's by Chip and Dan Heath, they're brothers. I would highly suggest reading that if you're a business leader. It's probably one of the top five business books I've ever read. Kind of in maybe right after good to great kind of thing. I mean like literally great book. And there's this quote in there about reasonableness and this is what the Heath brothers say. They say, beware the soul sucking force of reasonableness. Beware the soul sucking force of reasonableness.

In other words, when you allow what is reasonable to eclipse risk and sacrifice in your life, your life becomes diminished. Mary did something very unreasonable. She took her life savings and wasted, and I'm putting that in quotes, wasted that life savings on Jesus. You see, there was profound risk. There was worship. There was also humility involved in this. And some of us, can I just say it this way, in life we're playing it too safe right now. Mary's act of worship echoed what King David referenced in the Old Testament. He said this, he goes, I will not give to the Lord a sacrifice that costs me nothing. Now keep that up there a moment. I will not give to the Lord a sacrifice that costs me nothing. You know what that denotes? That denotes. that you can sacrifice and it doesn't cost you. So David knew, and especially in a place of leadership, he was the king. He could give the impression of sacrifice and it really didn't cost him anything. Reasonableness, Mary, watch out, reasonableness makes you believe three lies. You ready? Here they are.

Number one, we should find balance in life. Some of you have gone to work seminars where it talks about work-life balance and how you should pursue it. Good luck, that's a unicorn. All right? I'll talk about that in a moment. That's actually a lie. Number two, we should live by our feelings. That's another lie. And number three, we should obsess about what is best for me. Now, all of these lies are super prevalent in our society right now and they feel so right. They're being talked about all the time. And I would say this, they're not wholesale wrong. Like there are truths to each of those three statements. There is actually benefits and good in all those three statements. But remember this, the best lie is 90% true. The best lie is 90% true. So let me break these down. Let's talk about the balance lie for a moment. The balance lie. I am not saying that you work 80 hours a week and you neglect your family and somehow that's more godly. That is not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is this, is that people are trying to find balance and as my friend Kerry Newhoff,

who's like a leadership guy, he says it this way. Our culture, the word balance, has become synonymous with mediocrity. In other words, in trying to find balance, we become mediocre. Show me one person, one, who has changed the world who is balanced. Name me one person who's changed the world who's balanced. Most people who have accomplished significant things are not balanced. They are passionate. And so here's the thing, they're passionate about their calling, they're passionate about their family, they're passionate about their purpose, they're passionate about Sabbath, they're passionate about others. See, great things are rarely accomplished by people who strive for balance and safety. Let me give you a good example. Was Martin Luther King Jr. balanced? No. He was anything but balanced. He was going counterculture. How about the Apostle Paul? Was the Apostle Paul balanced? No. Was the Mary in this story, was she balanced by taking her life savings and anointing Jesus' feet?

Is that balanced? No. Was Jesus balanced? No. You see, we follow passionate people. We don't admire or follow balanced people. We follow people that are passionate about life, their relationships, their health, the mission, the purpose of their life, and ultimately, we follow people that are passionate about God. So the idea of finding balance, it's a lie. Throw it out. Find passion. Passion for the things that are important. Secondly, the feelings lie. Oh man, our culture is so in its feelings, Drake. I'm telling ya. Some of you got that. All right? No culture, I believe, in human history has had to reassure itself more frequently than ours that we're okay. We have to always look in the mirror. I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay. No other culture in human history has had to do this. Now, I am not talking about when you encounter really difficult things. That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is our culture's obsession

with making sure that we're okay, and we're safe, and we're comfortable, and that our feelings are never disrupted. Lisa Turkers put it this way. Feelings are indicators, not dictators. In other words, feelings are important because they indicate things, but they should never dictate things. In other words, people who live lives of significance don't allow feelings to dictate their choices. So that whole feelings thing is a lie. Third thing is this, the what is best for me lie. In short, can I just say it kinda as it is? Following Jesus is not safe. It's not safe. It's not reasonable. It's not stable. It's quite the opposite. It's risky. It's dying to self. It is not a preservation of self. It's a dying to self. It's a faith walk. It's not comfortable. It's surrender. It is obedience when it doesn't make sense. It's an embrace of confusion, and hardship. sacrifice, and taking up your cross daily many times, and it's the best way to live. It's the best way to live.

Mary, if you just pursue safety, you're never gonna experience the full life God has for you. Luke 14, this is Jesus talking, says this, Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, if anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. What? Did you just hear what he said? This is a direct quote. What? Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. This verse is like radical. I think it's interesting. The Bible says that a great crowd was following him, and I think he's probably thinking, oh, they're wanting me to multiply loaves and fishes and have another free meal. Oh, they want me to heal somebody. He turns around and goes, hey, by the way, you don't hate your mom, dad, brother, sister. You don't hate your children and your wife. You don't hate even yourself. Can't be my disciple. At that moment, all of a sudden,

all the followers were like going, but I like the fish and the loaves better. This is harsh. Let me give it some context. Jesus is not meaning that we hate these people. It's actually a bad translation. When we translate from the Aramaic into English, it loses something. You gotta go back to what the Aramaic word that Jesus said. The Aramaic word that Jesus said is this, hate, we translate as hate, it means love less. In other words, if we don't love everything else less than him, we can't be his disciple. Let me give you a good example. I love Jen with all my heart, but you know who I love more? Jesus. Do you know what? Jen loves me with all of her heart, but you know who she loves more? Jesus, our dog, the bears. Okay, okay. You catch my drift? What Jesus is saying here is not that you hate. That's not what he's saying. That's a bad translation. It basically means this. You gotta love those people. You gotta love this life. You even gotta love yourself less.

Yes, love yourself. In fact, there's another verse that talks about loving others as you love yourself, but you know what? You love yourself, but less than you love Jesus. So as we close, let me leave you with two things that will happen if you don't get out of the drift. Martha, if you don't get out of the drift of work, work, work, work, work, then the lack of presence will result in a lack of purpose. You know what you're gonna do? You're gonna work and work and work, and there's only gonna be more work and work and work, and you're gonna become dissatisfied. You're gonna put your energy into it. Work is a terrible master. You're gonna feel like you're on a hamster wheel going around and around and around. You're gonna feel taken advantage of at some point. You're gonna be dissatisfied because it just, that work never gives you the identity you want it to give you, and you're gonna find yourself doing projects and accomplishing things and maybe getting medals and awards and little plastic things you put on your shelf that says employee of the year. You're gonna get all these things, and yet at the end of the day, it's not gonna fill the void because the work cannot replace the relationship

with our creator, and the work is something that is always there, and you'll find yourself getting angry, and it just, the work never gets done. All right, how about you, Mary? Well, Mary, if you don't get out of the drift, if you don't watch out, the lack of sacrifice, and if you give into reasonableness, if you live reasonable, the lack of sacrifice will result in a lack of purpose. Do you notice that purpose is the casualty of both drifts? If you work, work, work, and try to make that your identity, you'll lack purpose, and if you live a life that is all about safety and me and comfort, you're gonna lack purpose. You see, both of them, purpose is the casualty. And what's going to happen, Mary, is that you're going to try to design your life to never get rattled. You're going to surround yourself with people that will never challenge you. You're going to allow feelings to be king in your life. And you're going to rationalize that you don't have to really do that much, right? It's like, hey, Martha, you clean in the kids area this weekend? Good, because I'm just going to drop my kid off. See, what's going to happen is this. You're going to crave stability and comfort. And Jesus is not going to fit into your comfort zone. Jesus is going to destroy your comfort zone. He's done it to me, and he does it all the time, even though I'm trying to hang on to it. So you're going to find that over time, Mary, if you don't take risks and you don't sacrifice, especially for God, that your life is going to feel like it gets smaller and smaller. If you are in the drifting, either one, Mary or Martha, you need to get out of the current and re-enter into the waters of relationship where you once started. In 2026, my prayer is that we defeat the drift, that we say, you know what? For those of us, Martha, we're going to spend time in Jesus's presence because he misses you.

For those of us that are Mary's, that we're going to step out of our comfort zone, and we're going to allow God to stretch us this year in some areas of faith that feel scary. And then in 2026, Martha and Mary, we're going to see purpose. God's purpose will come this year into our lives. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, I just thank you. Lord, to the Marthas, may we feel convicted and challenged to spend more time with you, to quit allowing work to be our identity. Work is our source. But rather instead, we allow you to be our identity and you as our sources. We spend time with you. And Lord, for the Marys, may we stretch. May we not be reserved. May we be like what we see in the story where we break open the jar. Lord, whatever it needs to be, broken open in our life. Break it open, I pray. And may we stretch our faith and take a risk for you. And Lord, for both of us, Mary and Martha, show us your purpose this year. We love you in Jesus's name. Everybody said, amen. Amen. Come on, one more time. Let's give God praise. Can we do that? Wow. What a timely and immediate message. Maybe for some of you who've just watched that, you might be thinking to yourself, maybe it's time for you to go all in with God and see what God can do through you and in you. And if you would like to make that decision, maybe to invite God into your heart. It's very simple. And all it is, is just a prayer. And I would love to take this moment to lead you to that prayer. So just take a moment, close your eyes and repeat this prayer after me. It's very simple. It goes, dear Lord, I know that I've made mistakes and I need your forgiveness. I believe that you died for my sins. I now invite you to be the leader and the forgiver of my life. And in Jesus name, amen. Come on. Congratulations to making one of the best decisions that you could ever make. Your City First family is proud of you and we are here for you. There's a few things I want you guys to know. The first thing is that you don't want to keep this to yourself. Take a moment and share it with a family member or a loved one or a trust one, a friend even, and let them know about the decision that you just made. And the second thing is that we have this resource called the New Beginnings Resource. It's going to pop up on your screen right now. Scan this QR code. And this resource is going to help you live your day-to-day walk with Jesus practically. Yeah. And Dakota, do we have anything else for them? We do. Another great resource that you can utilize is GrowthTrack. And the nice part about GrowthTrack is it's online and you can do it at your own pace, but also it's really designed to help you discover your God-given gifts and really live the life that God's called

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