From Campus to Calling | H4H Week 1

Come on. Gosh. I could not be, I just probably is the most excited I've ever been for a week and I'm thrilled about what God is going to do. I pray that you either are or you get as excited as I am as we spend time together. No matter where you are, we are one church in many locations, so I want to welcome you if you're live at a campus or if you're watching live or later online, God behind bars. If you don't know, we have four campuses that meet in prisons and we are seeing hundreds of men and women come together. Can we welcome to the church this weekend? We are so glad that you're here. Also our winning community gatherings, God is moving. This weekend we start our Heart for the Harvest season where we thank God for the vision that He has given us and in response we give over and above our ties to see God's Kingdom come here and now. And I'm telling you, I'm so excited about what we're going to share today. I don't know if you have kids, if you've ever done like a Christmas reveal or like a trip or a big present, I feel like Christmas has come early to faith promise and I believe by the end of our time together you will feel the same. Now before we talk about our first, our largest and I would say our most impactful initiative ever as a church, I just want to take a moment and ask you to do three things over the next three weeks. The first one, I want you to pray and I want you to pray specifically in this prayer, God, what would you have me give? Now if you're new here, you're not sure what Heart for the Harvest is, don't try to pack up and not going to go in the bathroom and ever come back. Just hang with us, our promise of law makes sense, but first pray, God what would you have me give? And then two, I want you to prepare. I want you to obey whatever God has to say and if I can be super candid, if you call faith

promise home on November 15th at the offering, it's really hard to give sacrificially in the moment. So I want you to pray, I want you to prepare and then I want you to participate. We can do more together, I'm praying for a hundred percent participation in the offering on November 15th, I can tell you with integrity. The whole staff and leadership of faith promise will be participating a hundred percent in Heart for the Harvest and I pray that you will join us. So literally we're going to need God to move in a mighty way today in our time. So take a moment and pray, invite God into our time, our thinking and even our treasure. God we love you so much and I just want to invite you in right now. Holy Spirit would you have your way. Help us to think how you want us to think, help us to respond, how you want us to respond, whatever you have to say today, I pray that we would obey God. We love you the most and we want to give you the most. So we're listening today, please speak to us, direct us, guide us, transform us. You name we pray and all God's people said, amen, amen. So hey, before I reveal to you something so special and yes, I do pray that your anticipation is rising as we go, I want to take a moment to look at something we know our enemy does. Something we can know specifically about him and that is the devil targets the next generation. The devil targets the next generation. I believe we all know that but I want to make sure so if you know and you see that the devil targets the next generation, let me hear you say I see it. I think we see it a little more than that, let me hear you say I see it. We see it and we can look in the Bible to see the framework the devil uses to attack, accuse and even acquire the next generation. We can see it probably the most clearly in a book in the Bible called Daniel. So I want to read you a little bit out of the book of Daniel but before we do that, I want to tell you what's happening. In the book of Daniel, God's people are taken captive by an enemy called Babylon. And when they're captured by that enemy, when they're taken captive, they're enslaved

by them, the Babylon's they don't focus on the older people, they don't focus on the politicians, they don't focus on popular pundits, they focus on the next generation. And I believe that still something the enemy does very specifically and very intentionally. We can see it in Daniel chapter 1, verses 3 and 4. And here's what it says, "Then the king ordered Ashpanaz," if you're pregnant, look for a baby name, Ashpanaz is usually very available, "chief of his court officials to bring into the king's service." So to serve the king, as we'll talk about, to serve the king's orders, some of the Israelites, that's God's people from the royal family and the building, young men without any defect. He focuses on bringing in young men, young people. the devil's framework for attacking the next generation. And I want you to know that he's doing it today and it is working. The first thing we can see him do is he wants them, that's the next generation for his purpose. In Daniel chapter one, we see there's a three-year indoctrination process where he tries to form them into the enemy's way of thinking. And it's happening today still. You know that 1% of Gen Z has a Christian worldview, how they look at relationships, the future, their identity, politics, 1% of Gen Z has a Christian worldview. But let me tell you right now, build your faith. Babylon's plan will backfire if the church does its job. Daniel said no to the indoctrination process. Let me tell you another thing the enemy wants to do. He wants to convince them of his truth. Everybody has the truth that they hold on to. And in Daniel chapter one, he tried to get them to think, act, talk, eat all those things, just like the enemy did in their truth.

It's the same thing he's trying to do to the next generation today. You are only 9% of Gen Z loose to the Bible for moral truth. Everybody's getting their truth somewhere. If it's not from the Bible, where are they getting it? TikTok, Instagram, friends, desires. Hey, listen, but I want to tell you, Babylon's plan will backfire if we do our job. Daniel said no, I'm not going to eat that food. I'm not going to think that way. I'm not going to bow to your idols. Listen, if the church will do its job, Babylon's plan will backfire. Let me tell you one more thing that the enemy wants to do. This is huge. He wants to use their influence for his purpose. When it said, go get me some of God's people, God's young people, he said, I'm going to put them in positions to serve the enemy's plan. Right? He's doing the same thing today. Do you know that 38% of young adults get their news from influencers? And I know I get some of my stuff from influencers. You probably do too, if you're on social media. So hey, they have influence. We're not going to whine about it. We're going to win through it, right? And I thought this was used. This one should probably go over here, but I found this out in my research this week. You know that two out of three college students self-sensor.

What does that mean? It means when they're writing papers, when they're answering questions at college, they are giving answers that they know that college wants to hear so they don't get in trouble, so they don't get punished. Two out of three, 66% are self-sensoring their work and their belief, and they're indoctrinated that way. Can I tell you right now we can see from these stats that the enemy's plan is working today, but do not lose hope. This fight is not lost. Babylon's plan will backfire. Just like it do with Daniel, because in Daniel's day, the next generation was equipped to win. And I'm going to tell you, today, we are going to reveal the greatest plan that faith promised, I would say, any church has ever had to impact the next generation. Actually, I want you to see one more thing, just to build your faith, to build to what God has, because I want you to see what happened in just a few short years after these men stood up for what God has. This is a pagan kingdom. Babylon is a pagan kingdom. A pagan ruler been a couple of years of watching these guys defy their framework of the enemy. I want you to see what the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar says, in Daniel chapter three,

verses 28 and 29, it says, then Nebuchadnezzar, this guy's a pagan, this guy does not follow God. But he says this, praise be to the God of Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego. Those are young men that wouldn't bow down, who set his angel to rescue his servants. They trusted him, defied the king's command, and were willing to give up their lives rather than to worship any God except their own. God wants to raise up those kind of leaders today. Young men and young women like that today, get verse 29, this is the king, this is a pagan king. Says, therefore, I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be cut into pieces and their house to be turned into pile of rubble. Right here, this is what I believe, the people that don't know Jesus are gonna say, as they watch young men and women raise up and they watch them be full of faith and full of wisdom and full of love and full of courage, they're gonna say, for no other God can save in this way. Does anybody believe that faith promise? Then no other God can save, like our God can save. We believe that we're going to raise up men and women like that, and I'll tell you, it's going to do more than we could ever imagine. So I want you to ask yourself, do you believe that this can happen today? Do you believe that this can happen in America? Do you believe this can happen in Tennessee? Do you believe that this can happen at the University of Tennessee?

Let me hear your answer. Do you believe this can happen in the University of Tennessee? I believe that it can. Hey, I don't just believe it can. I know it's going to happen, and I want you to take a few minutes and watch how God is going to do more than we could ever think to the young people through Tennessee. Let's watch this together. Growing up, just being around Tennessee football, Tennessee sports in general, my blood ran orange. It came to the 10. And he's rolled down before he gets to the 10 yard line. Ball comes free. It's loose. They scramble after it, and it's Tennessee football. My number one goal was the one day run out of the power tee like my father, and so to have the same opportunity as him, it took a lot of work, took a lot of dedication and discipline, but looking back in my life, being able to say that I did that and followed his footsteps means so much to me. I know. Smack. It's more. Gone. Rockin'. Up. Slam. Intercepted at the 30 yard line. Todd Kelly Jr. And all I felt like I had to earn something, right? Earn the opportunity, earn these accolades, earn these rewards, and I accomplished a lot of things that a lot of people wish they did, but I was still not fulfilled. Free Whiteouts to the right.

They're picking a hand off. Quick slam. Deflected. Intercepted by Tennessee at the 47 yard line. And the flex of Todd Kelly Jr. Every generation is shaped by something. It's shaped by the voices it listens to, the ideas it meets, the people it trusts, and the stories it believes. Today, those influences are everywhere, in our classrooms, on our screens, and the culture that surrounds us every day. More than 40,000 students are getting ready for what comes next at the University of Tennessee. They're choosing majors and friends, building habits and convictions, and deciding who they want to become, whether they realize it or not. Every one of them is being discipled by something or someone. My name is Maddie Whitehead. I'm a sophomore finance major here at UT, and I was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. I feel like adults oftentimes kind of tell you that college is whenever you'll meet the people that you're closest to, like the people that you live your life with, and who are your bridesmaids, or your best friends forever. And so I think that was kind of my big expectation walking in the college. And then I moved on campus freshman year, and it was not that. It was really hard to make connections. These students are Tennessee's future teachers, doctors, engineers, business owners, and pastors. Nearly 60% of UT graduates who take a job begin their careers in Tennessee. The people being formed on this campus today will be our hospitals, schools, companies, and churches tomorrow. For students who grew up in church, these years decide a great deal. You see, two out of three young adults who attend church regularly as teenagers stop attending for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22.

The most common reason is moving away to college. We've seen students who've come into our fold that have basically encountered God, encountered the gospel, and then followed away because they don't have a church home. They don't have a local body to journey forward with. I had people there with listening ears ready for me to share what was mentally going through my mind as a starting freshman of the Tennessee football team. But I feel like I had to do everything on my own. I remember my dad saying, "It doesn't matter if you have three interceptions in a game or zero. I'm going to be most proud when you build a relationship with Christ." At one point, I was making it about me and not about him at all, and basically hit rock bottom where I got injured. Football was taken away from me, and I realized that the thing that was missing was Christ, was the Lord's love in my heart, and once I found that, nothing else mattered from that point forward. I think what could hold on to students' faith at this point in their life is just trying to figure out how to talk to people about their faith, and when it's appropriate, and what to say. Because I think there can be some hesitation there when you're not totally sure. For many students, drifting away from faith happens slowly. They move to a new city, fill their calendars, and lose touch with the people who knew them. UT is built to develop almost every part of a student. internships teach them how to work, and friendships shape their character. A university can prepare someone to become an incredible engineer, but it can't teach them what it means to follow Jesus as an engineer. - The university prepares you for the transactional, but it doesn't necessarily prepare you for the relational.

The success that I've had in my role had less to do with the knowledge base that I had, and more to do with how I treated people, how that I led, how I treated my colleagues, how I treated my patients. - I think what students need during these years, that it's really hard to find in a classroom setting, is stable mentorship, outside the classroom, separate from the university campus, someone that they can call on for practical advice, real world advice, if you will, that lies outside of the academic setting, I think could really benefit graduates. - That's where the church carries responsibility unlike any other institution. Jesus called his followers to make disciples, people who let their faith shape every part of their lives, including the work they'll spend most of their lives doing. - What if we started now? What if while this generation is preparing for what they're going to do, the church invested in who they're becoming? That's the wind center. We are one block off Cumberland Avenue, and this building is ours. God has given us a mission to rewire the workforce for Marketplace Ministry, and it starts right here. - I noticed this building when I was on campus as a student in the early 2000s, and it was a place that was not used

by any means for God's glory, and so when God really initially began to call me to pray over the space, I invited students in, I began to pray big, hairy, audacious prayers that God would redeem this space and use it for good. This was four or five years ago that we prayed with students just across the street and that he would use it. And now to see that God is using it through the wind center and what the vision of this space is gonna be, it's exciting to think his prayers are coming to life, he's answering those prayers through a collaboration that we get to be a part of. I think historically when you see unity on campus amongst ministries, that's where revival begins, and unity and collaboration are a big part of the history of how God has worked and moved across campuses in the United States, and we're seeing that currently at the University of Tennessee. - It starts communal, before you can develop someone, you have to know who they are. - Some students will walk in looking for a church. Many more will come for good coffee, a quiet place to study or a friend to meet between classes. The wind center is designed to become part of the everyday rhythm of campus life, where every visit is a chance to listen, to serve, and in time share the gospel.

- So I think having somewhere where I feel comfortable and I feel like I can go there and make connections and not feel like scared or nervous to talk to people would be really changing, and I wish I had that space in my freshman year. - Then it gets intentional. Every student needs to know what is next and who is next for them to invest in. - Someone asked me recently, Keith, what is your job? What do you do every day? And I didn't talk about any of the technical things that I do. I said I equip, I empower, and I encourage. And that's learning how to have relationship with people. - Imagine a pre-med student sitting across a table from a physician who has spent decades following Jesus in healthcare. Picture a future entrepreneur mentored by a Christian business owner, or a future teacher learning from a veteran educator. Students will learn to excel in their careers and to live faithfully inside of them. The ones who go furthest will become Tennessee Fellows, prepared to lead wherever God sends them. - And then it's congregational. Every student needs a church during this season of their life. - Through weekly worship, biblical teaching, groups and pastoral care, students will grow alongside people who know them, encourage them, and challenge them to take their next step with Jesus.

- The Wind Center is a launch pad. Every student who walks through these doors will eventually walk back out. And we want them to know that wherever God places them, that's where they've been sent. - Our goal is to equip 1% of UT students every year. In 10 years, that's 4,000 leaders carrying the gospel into every corner of Tennessee. - I lead my team through a lens of love. They see that I am kind to my patients. I had an opportunity to interact with thousands of patients in the 12-year career that I had. But I had the opportunity to also interact with thousands of nurses and thousands of medical students and residents and the patients' families. And hopefully my influence, at least from a Christian perspective, And so it's influenced by multiplication, if you will, just like Jesus' model. He interacted with 12. Those 12 interacted with, however many. And we've been doing that now for 2,000 years and Jesus' influences as strong as it ever was. I think the state of Tennessee gains so much for having a workforce that is filled with faith and has a high degree of character. This is the future of our workforce, the future of our state, the future of our community. This is long term how we want our country to operate. That is an enormously important responsibility that we have to pour into our young people. Some of them will lead companies and care for patients. Others will teach children, start businesses and plant churches. Others will live ordinary lives and workplaces, neighborhoods and families with an extraordinary

understanding of why God placed them there. A student who is discipled learns to disciple someone else. And one life becomes ten, then a hundred, and then a generation. I don't know exactly where God is sending me because I just changed my major and so I don't have an exact plan for what my career will look like, but I know that he's placed falling on my life and that he's ordered my steps and so I'm just planning on pursuing that. God would use me the same way in every different career in terms of, I'm going to love people the way that he would want me to and have those conversations with people. A vision like this depends on people willing to invest in a generation whose full impact they may never see. What's no longer about me is no longer about titles, accolades, achievements, money, it's about using the influence and resources and time and experiences that I've gained to shape and mold other people, you know, it's through you, it's not to you. Everything that's been given to me from a resource, from an advice, from an experience standpoint, I feel like it's my obligation to shape and form and pass that on to someone else. Every student who will walk through these doors will carry what we invest in them to places that we will never go and into people that we will never meet. So I'm asking you specifically to pray for these students at the Wind Center and I'm also asking you to give generously to make the Wind Center possible and if you have a career and you would like to invest in the next generation, then we would love for you to come alongside these students as mentors. Let's invest in people today for the Tennessee of tomorrow. At the beginning we asked a question. Before this generation shapes Tennessee, who will shape them? We believe the church should and this is our opportunity. Come on, I hope that gets you as excited as me, I just couldn't wait to talk to you about this. I hope you see the possibility, the excitement, what God can do in and through this.

I hope it just fires you up, I hope it makes you proud of the Kingdom of God and his church. This will be one of the best pictures of having a heart for the harvest that we've ever acted on. I want you to look at it this way, historically in heart for the harvest faith promises planted at campus and I want you to see it like a tree. It brings life, it spreads seeds, it's a big deal, I love our campuses and actually because of this initiative, because we're looking to the future, here in a few years we will be able to plant more campuses faster and more efficiently than ever before because this year we're not just going to plant a campus, we're going to plant the wind center, which is a little more like an orchard where we invest in the next generation and we send them out to win their world wherever God sends them. I want you to see this, that's one way I saw it in my spirit, I want you to know the other way. Think about the state that God has called us to and we see over here the wind center in one, but before you move on the graphic yet, this wind center where we believe that we can rewire the workforce in Tennessee for marketplace and ministry. Now something we know is that two out of three college students in Tennessee stay in the state of Tennessee. Last year, 9,000 students graduated, so two out of three would be 6,000. I want you to think about this, just imagine this in your heart, the spiritual impact of this. Going from one to 6,000, going from being teachers, then being lawyers, then being moms and dads, then being police officers, then being politicians, then being people that go out and work in instruction, doing whatever it takes, wherever it takes, going out and taking the kingdom of God into every absolute city in the state of Tennessee. Does that get you excited? It gets me so excited. This is a crazy impact, but hey buckle up, it gets even better. I know it's hard to believe it gets even better. The story of restoration and redemption.

Before it was the University of Tennessee, that college was called Blunt College. And Blunt College actually started as a seminary. A seminary is the kind of school that trains people up for vocational ministry. That means we are gonna restore the purpose of the grounds as a training ground to send people out for the gospel in the marketplace and ministry. That's one chapter of this restoration. Let me give you another one. The building that we bought, 1501 White Avenue, for 30 years, it was a gay bar called the Carousel. For 30 years, there was a fight in that building for the next generation and their identity and their sexuality, not anymore. Amen? (audience applauding) This will be a place where students are sent out to go and bring restoration and God's design to everywhere they can go. And so I want you to see it. In 2027, this is what that building will look like. And what we are believing is through the Winstoner, God can rewire the workforce in Tennessee for marketplace and ministry. That the Winstoner will equip students with a winning mission framework for their vocational work. Now, this is such a special opportunity that God has called us to be a part of.

And this is not just a hope, this is not just a dream, this is an actual rendering where plans are moving forward. Let me give you clear strategy around what we're gonna do. There's gonna be four pillars to equip these students to win their world. I'm only gonna give you three today. You'll have to come next week to get the fourth one. But the first way we're gonna do it is communally. Communally, our community is God's design and the devil wants to destroy it. And it's working. Do you know that the number one use of AI is companionship and counseling? That's the number one use that our middle schoolers, high schoolers, and college students think they have to go to Gronk and chat GBT and Claude for a friend. That's crazy. We're gonna stand the gap and give them biblical, godly community. People can come to the win center. It will have in it the nicest coffee shop downtown where they can come a world-class third space. And this theology of third space is a space between the people and the church. That's what the win center will be. Where students can come, whether they know Jesus yet or not, it experience the community that they were designed to have. We will give them godly community.

We will also give them congregation, a church. We will equip them congregationally. The church is God's method for the message of the gospel. And listen, the enemy's attacking it. Do you know that 70% of college students either leave or lose their faith during college? Not on our watch. The win center will have faith promise services in it, but way more than that. It'll have worship nights, prayer nights, Christian clubs. We're gonna let Christian leaders on the campus leverage it. We will let other churches use this space. This is the great commission in collaboration. We can do more together. Amen, we can do it. So we will see community. We will see congregation. And then there will be intentionality. I love this. This right here is so unique to what God has given us. Something we're seeing is that employers are saying 50, or 50% of employers are saying that young professionals are not ready for work when they are hired. And you know what we can do? We can be like everybody else and whine about it. Or we can help them win despite it. And that's what we're gonna do, right? Not only that, you know that only 24% of the workforce feel that they should share the gospel at work.

Now we can watch social media whine about politicians and whine about the growth of Islam and all this other stuff, or we can win. And we can see stuff like the win center, change this number. The win center will have programming in fellowships that give missional formation, specific to a student's vocation, ready to help them win spiritually, relationally, professionally, and financially. We want them to flourish. Flourish, godly homes, godly careers, godly trajectories. Standing before Jesus one day was something to show for the salvation that they received. And I'm telling you, communal, congregational, intentional, you'll have to come next week to get the last one. It's too powerful. You guys will be slain in the spirit. It'd be too much for you. She'll have to come back next week. But this is powerful. I pray that you can feel this. This is called collaborative missiology. in missiology, which is the study and the furthering of the mission of God, which is the great commission to see everybody know Jesus as their savior. And the Wind Center is one of the best pictures of collaborative missiology, literally,

I've been talking to the top of the top. This is one of the best pictures in the nation of it and we get to be a part of it. I want you to look at the building. And this is what the building will look like. I want you to know something maybe you picked up on it. It doesn't say faith promise anywhere on that building. The reason is 'cause we want this to be bigger than one church. Yes, we are leading the way. And faith promise, you've always led the way. We go first in multi-site, before anybody did it, we did it, before anybody was sending missions to these places, we did it. And we will be the first to do this, not for a thank you for anything. The only reason that we're doing this is 'cause we're following Jesus there. If nobody else comes, we're still going, amen? But this is collaborative missiology. We want to work with other churches. We want to work with other ministries. We want to work with other Christian leaders. We want to get the best Christian leaders in the state of Tennessee on board. This is special because we can accomplish more together. I know this is a crazy thought, but Jesus is God. I believe in John 17, when he prayed that we'd be united, this is the kind of stuff he had in mind. And we get to be a part of it. So we can accomplish more together.

Guess what else that means? This is a big deal. That means that more people can give to this initiative. This is actually, I've been given stack officially the Heart for the Harvest. I've sold cars, I've done whatever God has told me to do, but this is the first initiative in the history of Heart for the Harvest where we can invite other people to give. Other people are going to give to a plan to fake promise campus. They don't go to fake promise. But if you care about the gospel, the next generation, and the university of Tennessee, I believe this is the best investment that you can make. Let's together get the whole Christian community behind this work. You can share this sermon. You can share what we post on social media. You can talk to people about it. You can give Christian leaders, give me their email, give them by email. But this is a big deal. I'm praying, God has blessed people in Tennessee in crazy ways. People like the Clayton's and the Haslam's and the boy and so many others. And I am praying they see it and we seize it together to know what the kingdom of God has. 'Cause this is just the start of what God wants

to do through this. I believe that this is worth giving for. I believe that I'm feeling it from you that you believe that as well. Does anybody, just let me hear one more time, does anybody believe this is an over and above vision? Does anybody believe that? I believe it. (audience applauding) If this is an over and above vision, then we have to give over and above to see it come to fruition. That's just part of what it takes. And we go first. Other people are gonna join in, but we go first. That me and my family, we're gonna go first. I heard some really bad news after the last service. My wife said, "Hey, I already gave our heart "for the harvest offering." You may say, "Zach, why is that bad news?" Because she's gonna hear two more sermons and she's gonna give more money, okay? So it's just, guys got time right, all right? Babe, my family, we're gonna give and my mom and dad, they're gonna give and hey, why? Are we gonna do that obligation? No, no, this is that of celebration and anticipation. A business leader takes me yesterday and said, "Hey, I'm gonna go ahead and give $100,000 "towards the wind center, towards the wind network

"to see where we're going." I mean, that are amazing, they're amazing. (audience applauding) And hey, I know not, I can't give $100,000. I know there's a lot of you guys that can't give $100,000. There's a lot of you guys that can give $100,000 and you can give a lot more than $100,000. I'm not asking you for an amount of money. I'm asking you for an amount of obedience. That's what I'm asking for. As you pray, prepare and participate. But why would we give sacrificially? You may never walk through the doors of the wind center, but it's your generosity can help send thousands out of the doors to go and win their world. So let me end today where I started. Over the next three weeks, I wanna ask you to do three things. Pray, God, what would you have me give towards this paradigm shifting vision? Two, prepare. Whatever he has to say, would you obey? And three, would you participate? This is a crazy prayer that I'm praying for a hundred percent participation I'm asking you to ask the Lord for an amount of obedience. And whatever He has to say, you obey. If we will give Him what we have, like deficient in the loaves, He can do exceedingly and abundantly more than we could ever think or imagine.

So actually, I want to take a moment to do it right now. Usually at the end, we have a worship song, we respond, and here's what I want to do. I'm going to have the worship team just, we're going to stay together, all of our campuses, and I'm going to have the worship team sing a song over you. And there's going to be a scripture on the screen. And it's from the book of Daniel. After those young men said, we will not bow, we will not bend, I want you to read how they are described. And I just want you to know, this is where I'm praying over the people that have got to raise up out of the wind center for our nation, for the kingdom of God. So I want you to read this passage of scripture, and I want you to start to pray, or pray, prepare, and participate. Let's read this passage of scripture and ask the Lord, Lord, what would you have me give towards this world-winning vision? (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) God, we give you our attention. (gentle music) We give you our affection. (gentle music)

We give you our ability. (gentle music) We come before you, really. We give you voice. (gentle music) To honor you. (gentle music) So across all of our campuses, as we sit and meditate on your word, (gentle music) Holy Spirit, we choose to keep. We choose to soften our hearts. (gentle music) Give us incredible hope. (gentle music) ♪ I love your hope ♪ ♪ You have led me through the fire ♪ ♪ And in darkness now ♪ ♪ You are close like no one ♪ ♪ I know you as a father ♪ ♪ I know you as a friend ♪ ♪ And I have been in the good news of love ♪ (gentle music) ♪ All my life you have been faced ♪ (gentle music) ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪

♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ Your goodness is running after me, it's running after me ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ Hey, man, has God been good to anybody in here? Has God been good to you? Come on, he's been so good. Let's pray together, God, right now, we just claim that you've been good to us. God, there's so many of us. We get a life to you, God, and we didn't deserve it, but you down the cross for us. You saved us. God, your goodness chases down, it chases down. God, in the darkest of times, we didn't deserve it. You're goodness chases down.

And God, I don't know about everybody else, but in my life, your goodness pursuing me was a lot of time in the lives of other people. Who would we be if your goodness chases us down in the lives of others, and we did not use our life to represent your goodness and chase down the next generation? And so God, we're gonna do that. We will be the representation of your goodness pursuing anybody and everybody with a gospel of Jesus Christ. The best things that keep in heaven are ahead. The best things that leave men and women in God are ahead. We receive your goodness, and we will be your goodness in your precious and we pray. And all guys, people said, "Amen, give y'all some praise." Great promise, come on.