Just Me and Jesus (and all these other people)

So glad that you're here. I want to welcome in all of our campuses. Welcome in Dickinson, everybody at the state penitentiary, everybody online. Can you give it up for him, Bismarck? Welcome, I'm in. (audience applauds) Little over a year ago, our family was coming back from being on a sabbatical where we had been gone for a few weeks and we had a unique experience over those weeks because we were, for part of it, we were out of state and we didn't run into really like anybody that we knew and if you're from North Dakota and you're used to being around the big small town of Bismarck or the big small town, the small big town, big small town of Dickinson kind of used to like running into somebody that you recognize or somebody that you know and so we had been away from people, we hadn't really seen people that we knew and we got back to town and we thought we're gonna slowly reintroduce ourselves back to society and we did that at the Mandan Fourth of July parade. (audience laughs) And we were like, we'll just roll up, we got our little wagon, we'll pull up to a nice little spot and just sit on the curb and say hi to some people as we run into them, which turned into getting to Main Street and realizing that the place was packed

and so instead of just pulling up to a spot, there was nowhere to walk on the sidewalk so we walked down Main Street for about six blocks with our wagon behind us and let's just say it was not a slow reintroduction back to society which we love it, we're grateful for it and love seeing people. I just remember our family walking down and thinking, this is not the way that we intended for the slow reintroduction to being back into town. We didn't intend for it to go this way and I tell you that story because I feel like it's a tension that many of us actually live in when it comes to being involved in community with other people. I say community, I'm talking about being in life-giving, deep relationship, we want to belong, we have a desire to belong but we'd also like to control how visible and known and involved we are with other people. Like I want to let people close but not close enough that they might hurt me, right? You've been in a relationship, you've had somebody hurt you or I want to be known but I don't want to be that known or I only want to be known by a few and we try to control and dictate like how well we're known. We want Jesus, we're just not always sure that we want the people that come with Jesus. I mean, Moses himself was on the top of mountains. It's like, Lord, you told me to lead these people

but you didn't tell me who is gonna go with me 'cause I'm gonna need help and there's this tension. It's being in a relationship with people takes not just relationship but responsibility for other people and according to scripture, you can't receive Jesus and remain disconnected from his people. They go hand in hand. Relationship with Christ vertically is relationship with people horizontally and they're a measure of one another actually. So today I want to preach a message entitled Just Me and Jesus and all these other people. 'Cause that's sometimes the reality of what it is. Here's the scripture today, Ephesians 2, the Apostle Paul is writing to the Jews and the Gentiles saying, yes, you have Christ but that also means that God has brought the two groups together and you're now one because of Jesus. He says, now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us. So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God's holy people. You are members of God's family. Come on, everybody across every campus say that word family. You are members of God's family. The Apostle Paul is saying the two groups

have now become one. You used to be different. You used to not associate with one another but now your family. Earlier in Ephesians 2, the Apostle Paul tells the believers that they are members of one body and so he uses this language of body and this language of family. Complementary images of one another. A couple of weeks ago I talked to you about this idea that we're a body and because we're a body, everybody who's in Christ has a function within that body. That's really important because that means that God made you on purpose for a purpose. That means that God has a plan for your life. That means that God has more for you than just the job that you go to every day but he has a plan for you and his mission on the earth. That's good news. The Bible actually tells us that our hope is people is attached to our calling and so the greater that you understand that you're a member of Christ's body that God has formed you with gifts and talents and ability that don't just serve you. to that. But we also know that it's a little messier than that because it's not just a body, it's also a family, and there's meant to be love and comfort within God's people, within his church. So, it's not one or the other, but we are meant to live in the middle of this combination

of body and family. As a body, we have a function and a contribution, and as a family, we have love and we have comfort. It can't be one without the other because function without love means that you just do things out of performance. I just show up, and if I do my part and I pay my part and I act the part, then I'll be accepted. That's a undervaluing of the fact that no, the foundation of this is unconditional love, for God so loved the world, that He gave Himself for you. So it's not about your performance, I spent a lot of time on that two weeks ago talking about what that means, what that looks like, but also if you have love but no function, the Apostle Paul says you're allowed gong and a clanging symbol. If you're just about the gift, but you don't actually love people, so without love it can be about performance, you're only as valuable as what you produce, but love without function becomes enablement. I come to church and I love God because He loves me and He loves me no matter what I've done, and He loves me even if I do nothing else. He loves me when the reality is God has called you because He loves you, but also He's called you to be holy. He's called you to be a part of His body. He's called you to action. He's called you to submit to His Word, so it's not just one or the other. And there's different reasons that maybe you were drawn into the family, maybe it was because you were searching for meaning in your life and function, or maybe it is because you needed the love of God to be adopted into God's family. One of those appealed to you, but it's not one or the other. It's both, and a healthy family you're loved before you achieve anything. You don't earn your last name. You just belong, but also family is more than unconditional affection. Healthy families don't merely make people feel accepted, they help people grow up. Unhealthy families have 18-year-olds who are loved but never grow up because it's enablement.

And in the body of Christ, it's very much the same. So what does that mean for the church? The church should be authentic enough to be a family and also effective enough to fulfill its mission as a body. It's both a body and a family. See, you can attend church for years and never be known or formed or responsible for other people. You can know all the songs, you can feel moved deeply in your heart, you can recognize the staff or other people in church, you can give, you can show up faithfully, but still nobody knows you, nobody knows when you're struggling, nobody can correct you, and nobody is being helped by you in following Jesus. Proximity to a church service is not the same as participation in the family. It's not the same as participation in a spiritual family. So every week we say service is over, but church is not, so go be the church, but you can go be the church and you weren't meant to do that outside of relationship with the body and with the family, so the question becomes not only do you know Christ, but the question is who really knows you, because it's just me and Jesus and all these other people. Who really knows you, who has permission to challenge you, who's close enough that the wounds of the friend, of a friend who speaks the truth you and love are still what the Bible calls faithful. Who are you intentionally helping to follow Jesus? Not just receiving and receiving and receiving, but also sharing and giving, because in the family of God, and this is important, here's how it works, strangers become family. Family forms disciples and disciples reproduce the family. Others become family. Come on. How many of you? You didn't have a spiritual family. You came to church. You got involved in a connect group.

You met somebody and they brought you in. You could share your faith. You could talk about Jesus together. Strangers become family. Family begins to form disciples. Disciples are disciplined learners, followers of Jesus. They're not my disciples. I'm teaching them how to be disciples of Christ. We get that wrong all the time, right? I have my disciples that if you're attaching disciples to yourself, you're misleading them. We're not meant to attach people to us. We're meant to attach people to Jesus. So strangers become family. Family forms disciples and disciples reach more strangers. This is the mission of Jesus. Go therefore into all the world and make disciples. It's not just making converts. It's not just strangers becoming family. It's a deeper work that happens in us than that. And this is what Jesus modeled with his disciples. It says in Mark 3, "Afterward Jesus went up on a mountain and he called out the ones he wanted." That's an interesting passage. Because Jesus was surrounded by crowds. I don't have anything against the crowd. I think thousands and thousands and thousands of people should come to our churches. Jesus wasn't against the crowd. And the more that God worked among Jesus and through Jesus,

the more the crowds came. There's nothing wrong with the crowd. But Jesus knew that a crowd can't be discipled from a stage. And so he didn't just gather crowds, but Jesus called out the ones he wanted. He looked for reliable people that he could form. In the midst of the crowd, so he loved the crowd, he impacted the crowd, but he also formed a few. And he wanted them to go with him and they came to him. And he appointed 12 of them and called them his apostles. They were to accompany with him, to be with him, to be associated with him. And he would send them out to preach. I'm giving you a process here. I'm maturing that's happening. He gave them authority to cast out demons. These are the 12 that he chose, Simon, who later became known as Peter, James and John, Sons of Zebedee. Jesus called them the Sons of Thunder. That's part of their process. Andrew Phillip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, the Son of Alphaius, Thaddeus, Simon, the Zealot. And Judas Iscariot, who later betrayed him. Jesus runs this very same model. A building around him, a body and a family of strangers becoming a part of the family, family becoming disciples and disciples then being sent out to reach more people. This is what Jesus modeled. So we've talked about what it means to be the body.

I wanna talk for a few moments about what it means to be spiritual family. Here's the first thought. Spiritual family invites you in. Aren't you thankful somebody invited you in? Somebody invited you to church. Somebody even better invited you to know Jesus. You were going through something and a friend reached out and said, I know you're looking for the one, two, threes and the XYZs, but let me tell you the true hope that you need is a relationship with Christ. Are you glad that somebody invited you in? I don't know who it was. I don't know if it was when you were a kid. I don't know if you're getting invited in today. I don't know if it was in the midst of 200 church services that you went to and one day it just clicked but somebody invited you in. This is the model of Jesus. He invites his disciples and he calls out the ones that he wanted. See, spiritual family should be hospitable. It should make everybody feel welcome inviting people in while also understanding that discipleship means inviting a few people and bringing them in close. You can love everyone deeply. You can be a witness for Christ wherever you go but Jesus shows us that you can only deeply form a few and Jesus saves people into family and intentional formation within the family.

Spiritual formation does not happen by just sitting in the room. If your growth is dependent on the messages that you hear preached, you will forever be stunted. Even if you go on YouTube and listen to your favorite person whatever, if it's constantly just messages to a crowd rather than individual discipleship being formed in you you will not grow into who Christ has created you to become. Intentional formation has to happen within the family. It's created when mature believers intentionally bring others close and help them follow Jesus. This is discipleship, teaching others how to live. I remember going to my first connect group when I was in college, I got invited in by a friend and I was just looking for friends. that her friend told her it was like a ski trip, and it wasn't, it was like a young adult retreat. But I remember being invited in and I thought, "Well, I want to know this person and they're inviting me into their lives, so I guess I'll trust them enough to show up to their small group." And I went to their small group and I got to their small group and we started reading the Bible together and I started meeting other people in the small group and I was riding the elevator from the small group down to my car one day and one of the guys from small group thought we needed to have more discussion from the small group in the elevator. And I was like, "Can't we just leave that there? Don't ask me hard questions." I was being challenged in my faith. See Jesus loved the crowd but he invited the 12 to be with him. I think over 280 connect groups available across our campuses going into this fall starting this week.

That's great news. If 10 people go to every one of those groups, there should not be enough room with all the people that come to our church but the reality is a lot of people want in the crowd but not everybody wants to be formed. And you have a decision and I'm not coming at you. I lived this way for a long time. Are you going to be a face in the crowd or are you going to be in a relationship where your name is known and you can truly be formed? Where somebody can see you week after week and week after week and challenge you in your faith. See our church will never reach its potential or become what God has called it to be. It will never be held together by good programs. As good as now youth conference and heart and soul and the arena and unique as great as those events are they will never hold together the fabric of this church or a platform as good or terrible as the teaching is. You can have terrible teaching in a really strong church because the fabric was never meant to be those things. The fabric is people who take responsibility for people. It is people who look across the crowd and say who is Jesus calling me to? Who am I supposed to tap on the shoulder? Who am I supposed to be in relationship with? Who am I supposed to check in on? See Christ brings strangers into the household, mature believers choose people to bring close or disciples. Those people are formed into spiritual sons and daughters who reproduce their lives in the lives of others and sons and daughters eventually take responsibility for other people. The limiting factor of the harvest is not that the harvest is too small. The limiting factor of the spiritual harvest is whether people will take responsibility for the harvest. Jesus said in Luke 10 2, "The harvest is plentiful."

Ms. Mark is not saturated with the gospel. Dickinson is not saturated with the true gospel. The state penitentiary is not saturated with the gospel. The state of North Dakota is not saturated. The Midwest is not saturated with the true gospel. The harvest is still plentiful, but Jesus said the workers are few. Many people will stay apart of the crowd and never take responsibility for their part in the body and in the family of God. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few, which begs the question, who are you inviting? If you know Jesus and you've known Jesus any amount of time at all, who are you inviting into proximity in your life? And it's not just your children. If you have young children or high school kids while I'm discipling my kids, yes and in your mandate, Jesus' mandate went beyond Mary. It went beyond his own family. Well that should be a priority. Every one of us should be inviting other people into proximity because people need an example and they need access. They don't just need to hear what you teach or watch you post about it. They need to actually catch and observe the way you live. What it actually means to follow Jesus. See because once people are invited into the family, then spiritual family helps you grow up. Come on, did anybody come into spiritual family and you thought you were mature and then you got into spiritual family and you realized, I need to grow. I need to grow up in my faith. I need to grow up in my understanding. This is what Jesus did, he appointed 12 that they might be with... journeying, walking for hours and hours, going from place to place, sleeping on the ground,

camping together, all this time sitting around the fire. It meant they were getting in each other's lives. It meant that they were associated with Jesus. Three years later, Peter standing by a fire, the disciples are scattering because Jesus has been turned over and he's going to be crucified. And what do they say? Hey, you're one of his followers, aren't you? Have you grown up enough that people associate you with Jesus? It's not about being associated with a preacher or even associated with a angel. Have you grown up enough that people say you're one of his followers, aren't you? That they begin to...what is the mark in Scripture? It says they saw these men and they realized that they had been with Jesus. There's something that happens when we begin to grow up, when we call one another higher in Christ, loving one another enough to tell each other the truth. What does this look like in Jesus' life? He said, "I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by your truth." Another translation says, "I am sanctified myself so they might be sanctified." What does that mean? Jesus is saying, "I don't just live a holy and convictional life for the sake of my own righteousness. I live a holy and convictional life because my children are watching my example. I live a holy and convictional life because my connect group is watching my example. I live a holy and convictional life because people see me in my community and they see the little decisions and the distractions and the compromises even when I don't think anybody is watching. I myself am sanctified so they also can be sanctified. We can't do everything that Jesus did. You can't go to the cross of Christ and forgive the sins of the world. That was him being sanctified and doing what God had called him to do, but the Bible does say that you can do works like Jesus, that you can be obedient in what he's created you to do in the way that Jesus was obedient in what he was called to do. He says, "I myself am sanctified for the sake of my disciples. He was set apart in his obedience to do what only he could do. And now you live your life obedient or disobedient to Christ, and that's being multiplied in the people who are being influenced by you." It's being multiplied. I see so many. It's like this big riddle in Christianity. I'm going to hit you right now and I love you, but I'm going to say it. Why are all these kids being raised in church? And then they graduate high school and they leave their faith. Is that a church problem? Is that a society problem? Or is that a modeling problem? That who are they following and are the people that they're following being sanctified so that their children might be sanctified so that the next generation might be sanctified?

I watch parents all the time, even in our church, compromising their faith. I remember being standing here, and I'm not indignant about it. I'm not offended about it, but I literally remember closing a service and saying, "We're going to give people an opportunity to follow Jesus, so please don't leave early. Let's just have a holy sacred moment." I watch a parent walk down the riser with all their kids and walk out the door, and maybe they had to go. I'll give them the benefit of it out. I'm not judging. I'm just observing. And I was grieved because I thought if you're trying to get out of the parking lot early, you are modeling for your kids what it means to respond when the Holy Spirit is moving, and your responses are comfort is more important than what God might want to speak in the next three to five minutes. And how often when you have to make a decision? Does going to church win, or does the sporting activity win? Does going to church win, or does the late cabin win? Does going to small group, connect group win, or do I already have enough priorities going on in my life? Your life is full of whatever you've filled your life with. And you have to make a decision, and I'm talking to parents, but I'm talking to everybody, you have to make a decision about what is priority in your life, and what you decide to be obedient. More is caught than taught. You can say all the right things. Several times, Janai, especially early in our marriage, we would let young adults live with us. And the goal was not to get rent from them or to make money off of them or to fill an empty room in our house. The goal was we believe in this person and we're going to let them have a model for what it means to follow Jesus and we're going to let them look at our lives up close. That's uncomfortable. I remember one of them saying, I said, "What was the most surprising thing about living with us?" And she said, "Probably how messy things are." We're all failing in some area of our life and I'm okay with that one. But you know what the benefit was? It wasn't perfect. We're not perfect people, but they got to see how we made decisions.

They got to see how we respond under pressure. They got to see how we treat people who have nothing to offer us. They got to see us repent when we were wrong. They got to see us remain faithful in ministry, even when ministry was difficult. See being set apart requires all these other people. It requires all of these things. It's not just the work of Christ in us, but it's also how we help others grow up. This is why the Bible says, "Correct each other. Rebuke each other. Encourage each other. How?" With angry, rabid Facebook and Instagram posts that make people feel bad about themselves and make you look really righteous when actually you just look super self-righteous and everybody knows that you're not perfect either. But I'm not mad about it. It's fine. What is that? Okay. I know that. Listen. I don't know what got in my algorithm. I'm going to preach about that in a couple of weeks. You start looking at something and all these people are telling me and I'm like, "What in the world?" What does the Bible say? What does Christian do? Correct. Rebuke and encourage each other with great patience. With great patience and careful instruction. Careful instruction.

What does that mean? That means there's room in the family of God to not just call people and love them but to call them higher. The wounds of a friend are a gift if they're calling you to be more like Jesus. We don't lower the standard in the family of God to keep people close. We call people higher. It means teaching people your life belongs to Jesus. Your life belongs to Jesus. You are saved for a purpose. There's more in you but that more in you is going to require more from you. You're going to have to be more faithful. I know we've said it for a long time, but people don't just need a place to belong. They only need a place to become. They need a place to be called higher and that takes courageous conversations. That takes courageous discussions in a connect group. That takes courageous moments where you go, "I love you and I'm putting our friendship on the line right now because I love you enough to not leave you immature in this area." I'm calling you higher and our society just doesn't accept that. That runs from that rebuke but it has a place in spiritual family. Biblical confrontation is not punishment. It's love that refuses to leave someone immature but listen, you don't know the strength of a relationship until it crosses their will. You can be besties. You can love each other. You can think that you have something good going on and then you confront somebody or you correct their will and here's what you need to know. If you're going to be a disciple of Jesus, you have to have people in your life that can cross your will. God is going to cross your will. God is going to challenge your will.

He's going to put you in situations and allow you to go through tests that you just can't will yourself through. Come on, somebody. You've been there. I'm just going to grip my teeth. I'm going to pull myself up by the bootstraps and I'm going to get through it and God goes, you can keep kicking and fighting and struggling until you get on your knees and go, "Lord, I can't do it on my own." If you want to be a disciple, you stay teachable. You stay humble. You stay honest. And when you're challenged, you choose connection rather than that hurt, I'm going to disconnect. You stay connected. The true test then is what happens in you when somebody tells you no. What happens when you're corrected? What happens when you don't get the opportunity that you wanted or that you go to God and say, "I deserve that"? What happens when you're challenged in your attitude? [BLANK_AUDIO] crosses your will? What happens in you when the mission of God requires your personal sacrifice? Is there a humility that says, "Jesus is Lord of my life, I'm humble, and I'm teachable, and I want all God has for me, or do you get disappointed in the Lord and disconnect, or hurt by people and disconnect?" I was hurt. They should have never said that to me. Well, maybe they said it because they love you and they knew it's holding you back. This is what spiritual family does. It's not just having grace to receive you as you are. It's having enough truth to not leave you there. Spiritual family invites you in and invites you to grow up and spiritual family then sends you back out. Spiritual family then sends you back out. We're sent out to reach others. This is the instruction. It would be a possible policy says, "Take these things. Don't just sit on them. Teach these truths to other trustworthy people who will be able to pass them on to others. Take these truths. Give them to

trustworthy people who will give them to trustworthy people who will give them to trustworthy people, and the kingdom of God will continue to move forward. Point people not to yourself, point people to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible says in Hebrews, "Tense spur one another on towards good deeds. Challenge each other and trust these things to reliable people." I think about the difference between, "I don't have time." Yeah, you all say, "Come on." This building has to get emptied in 30 minutes. They'll figure it out. There's a difference between the horse. We took our kids in Midora and we did trail rides. I'm confessing that publicly. My parents are probably dying right now if they're watching online. The trail ride horse is like tail to head. Some people think that's what Christianity is. Go to church. Have no fun. Follow Jesus. This is the way. He'll give you life to the fullest. The Bible doesn't say that. It's a spur one another on. There's a difference between a horse that is following the tail of the horse in front of it and the horse that just got spurred in the ribs. There's a difference between the follower of Jesus who's just doing it because that's what Christians are supposed to do and the person that is being challenged, the person that God is inspiring them and convicting them with the Holy Spirit that's taking that shot in the ribs and going, "Okay, there's a little adventure here. There's a little excitement that hurt, but I'm still in the game. I'm not going to disconnect. I'm going to continue to love the Lord. I'm going to continue to love people." The Bible says, "This is no trail ride." This is an adventure of doing community. This is the cost of not just me and Jesus. But also doing life with all of these other people. You know what the Bible says about that? It says, "Consider how to do that more." Think about how to spur one another on more. Here's what I want to bring you to as we close. Spur one another on. Got that already. Spiritual family is disciples of Jesus who make disciples of Jesus. What does this look like? This week I couldn't get an image out of my mind. I shared it on social media. This is a photo from the days after September 11th, 25 years ago, which some of you were not alive for, which is crazy to me. But if you were alive, you probably remember where you were when you heard what was happening. It was picture day at Glennell in high school. I went down to the office to check in on something with pictures. They told me what was going on. I just remember it. It's like a photograph of my mind of standing in that room. Then photos like this started to come out. You get beat down,

you experience a difficult thing, and then this resilience starts to build up, and the president makes his bold declaration, and people are rallied, and you see photos like that, and you're driving down streets, and there's flags on both sides. All of a sudden, people like Jews and Gentiles that vehemently disagreed with each other, you're like, "You know what, but now we have something in common. We have a common enemy, and it's not each other." This is the way it is in the kingdom of God. When we put on the same jersey and go, "You know what, we're on the same team. We're encouraging one another to be more like Jesus. We're encouraging one another to walk out our faith." I know that denomination believes different in a few different things but at the end of the day it's about being a disciple of Jesus. It's about the authority of God's Word and we come together, we put on the jersey and those things. It's not just national resilience but it's a resolve that I will live a life of Christian service. Service to Jesus the King and service to a world that's in need. I will be a part of the body and have a function but also all also be a part of the family and all grow up with other people and all be sent out with other people. This is the sentiment. That appeals to you here not just because you're an American. It appeals to you because there's something inside of you that desires that kind of resilience in your faith, that desires that kind of rallying in your faith and that's what I'm trying to instill in you. We are a body. We are meant to do this together. We are meant to get into groups and encourage one another forward in our faith and if you have to make a decision today, will I be a face in the crowd or will I be known? Will I be a face in the crowd or will I go to Alpha? You know what? I don't feel like I know as much about my faith as I should but I'm willing to be known and to grow. Or will I go to freedom and I want people to think I have it all together but I don't and so I'm going to be honest and I'm going to get free. Or I want to really study my Bible so I'm going to get in a transform group and I'm going to study and I'm going to be held accountable. Or I don't really know people in this church and so I'm going to get in a connect group and I'm going to meet some other people and begin to do life together. Or my marriage is struggling and nobody knows so I'm going to do a reengage group and I'm going to fix the secret. We don't have all those groups across all those campuses but there is a group for you and you have the opportunity to say I'm not just going to be a part of the crowd but I'm going to be known. I'm going to come into the family. I'm not just going to be performative. I'm going to be loved despite the places that I fall short. I'm actually going to be loved more

because we all fall short and I'm going to be honest about it. So if you're here today and you're you've been dodging that I want to be around the body and I want to be around the family then today get in it. If you're here today maybe you come in because you say Pastor Josh have accomplished a lot but life feels meaningless. Or Pastor Josh I don't know where I'm loved and I'm hearing you say that there's a God who perfectly loves me and adopts me into his family. Calls me his own has a plan and purpose for my life. Then that's the invitation. The Bible says if you believe in your heart that Jesus is lured and confess with your mouth that you need him you will be saved. You'll be brought in. And so with every eye closed across this room and online let's just take a moment but the Holy Spirit deal with you in your own heart. If you're here today and you need to step into the family genuinely repent of your sins, repent of going your own direction. Give Jesus the lurchip of your life. Let him cross your will that wants to be independent. Let him cross your will that thinks it can save itself. If you're hearing you need to take a step of faith and you've been dodging it let God cross your will and confront you today. And take a step of obedience and overcome. Father we thank you for your presence in this place. We thank you for your church. Lord these are your people. They're the sheep of your past. You're the flock under your care. You're their great shepherd. And some today you're reaching out and you're rescuing them and others. The Bible says your rod and your staff they comfort me so we thank you for both the rescue and the correction and the comfort that comes from knowing you care for us and you're leading us and you're guiding us. Lord we ask that you will not relent in your conviction and your pursuit of us until we come into full obedience. In Jesus' name we pray if that's a prayer say amen. Amen come on give God praise one more time. We're supposed to sing my whole life for your glory but I preach too long because you encouraged me so instead we're gonna invite our prayer teams to come They would love to pray with you.

Otherwise, the service is over, but church is not. So go be the church. God bless you. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING]