Red Flags and Roses Relationship | The Most Excellent Way | Charlotte Gambill
Charlotte Gambill calls us back to the foundation of our faith—living in the love of God that drives out fear and shapes how we live. As we choose to slow down and embrace God’s love, we discover the rest and renewal our souls have been searching for!
Good morning, good morning. All right, up on your feet. Everybody up. I know you just sat down, but you're way too comfortable. We're gonna stand, and we are gonna pray, and we're gonna get ready to receive the Word. I just want to add my voice to the voice of your leaders here. Just honoring your pastors, Jeremy and Jen, Steve and I, my hubby who's here with me. We love them as friends. We love them as leaders. We love them as servants of God. We watch them in all those different roles. Put God first. Put Jesus at the center of every part of their lives. And you are very spoiled to have them for 19 years as your lead pastors. And it's because of our friendship that this friendship happened. That you as a church family have become family to my own heart, because they opened a door for me to be entrusted to come into this space and to speak over your lives. And that is a responsibility that I'm so grateful and honored to have, and I prayerfully want to steward it wisely. Just watching this weekend, what God did through Original, and I just want to say the team excelled. From the worship team, to the behind-the-scenes team, to the host team, to those that were in the background serving, like every level. And because I got to come along for so many years, I get to see not just Jer and Jen's journey, but I get to see the team, and how they're maturing and growing, and their stature, and the way that they lead. And it's just a joy to get to come in as Auntie Charle, and see how well and healthy the house is. And so I'm ready to pour out a different message this weekend. There's a lot of messages going on this weekend, but I hope you've got room for one more. And so I want us to position our hearts, to get ready to receive. We're in a relationship series. How many of you know we need Jesus in our relationships? We need all the help we can get in our relationships. So I'm going to add my voice to the voices that have already spoken around this subject. But let's just center our hearts, so that we don't just hear the word, that we receive it and become doers of it.
God, we're so thankful, first and foremost, that we stand here as those that can say, we have a relationship with you, God. Like you're not a distant God. You're not a God that does not want to associate with his children. You're a good Father. And you opened the way for us to have a relationship with you, where we could know you, and feel you, and sense you. Where we could be surrounded by your presence, and find your purpose in our life. Thank you that you are a relational God. God, I pray today, in these next few moments, you would help us in our relationships with one another. God, help us understand how to navigate what so many people find difficult, and many find dysfunctional. God, may we be those that can say our relationships are healthy, because we know how to live the way that God is instructing us to live. God, as I open the word, I pray that I would get out of the way. And Holy Spirit, I just pray in every single aisle, every single row, you would presence yourself this morning, and make this word so relevant to every individual. In Jesus' name. Amen, and amen. You may take your seats. So it is a big subject, relationships. So many different things we could consider, so many ways we could dissect this subject. But I felt to put before you today, and talk to you all today about what actually love is. I think we are confused, because I think the world tries to define what love looks like.
I think we watch Instagram reels of what we think love looks like. I think there are greeting cards, and there are people commercially that trade and sell, and try and tell you if you buy this, if you do this, if you act like this, if you pretend or become this, then you will have love in a way that you have seen others have love. But we're not here to have the love that our culture tells us is available. We're here to have a love that is heavenly, not earthbound. And that is an entirely different love. The world wants you to have a love life, but God wants you to have a life of love. Those two things are entirely different. A love life can be up and down. It can be here one day, and it can be gone the next. But a life of love means there is something that you are building, and establishing, and developing that does not change when your relationship status changes. We are following the model of God. 1 John 4.16 tells us, And so we know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment. God is love. He's not telling you a few things about love. He actually is love. Everything about Him is what love looks like, sounds like, and is like. So as I begin to unpack what love looks like
and show you some things that maybe you need to consider love should look like in your life, I wanna help you not miss what God has for you because I am very aware when we talk about relationships, we are sat with an internal scorecard in our mind for the person to our left or the person to our right or a person that is not in the room right now. We listen to relational series through the ears of, I hope that the person next to me is listening because they really, really need this message. And I don't want you to listen because of the person next to you or the person you're in relation, I want you to listen for you. So let me share a story that maybe will help you get in the right mindset. We recently moved into a new home that we just built here in the USA. We get in the home, we're settled in our home and about a few months into the home, I begin to find on the floor in various places, this stuff that looks like, I could best describe it as like brown plastic. I'm like, what in the world is this? And so I would pick it up, I would just think a construction worker has left it, it's something from the build and so I would put it in the trash, I wouldn't think anything of it but then a few days later,
I would find some of it again in the most random of places and so I'm like, what in the world? So I became obsessed with this brown plastic. I took a photograph of it and asked Google, what is this? Google said, I have no idea. I'm like, neither do I. And so I did what any normal human being would do, I began to start my interrogation of all the people I thought may be guilty of bringing the brown plastic into my new home. I began with the children, of course I did and so I grabbed my daughter and I'm like, listen, there's this brown stuff all over the house, it keeps appearing, then it's not here, then it is here. I said, have you broken something? Have you smashed something? Have you dropped something out of your bag around the house? I said, it almost could look like uncooked pasta. Did you drop a packet of pasta? And it's scattered everywhere. She's like, it's not me, I didn't do anything, it's not me. I was like, okay, I will move to the nest, suspect your brother. So I go to Noah, I'm like, Noah, tell me honestly, have you broken something? Have you dropped something? This particle here, what is it from? Is it from your computer? Is it from something device you've been walking around the house?
And he's like, it's not me, it's not me. So after interrogating the children, I moved to the only other family member, my husband. Like, babe, I need an honest answer right now, I am losing sleep over this thing. I need you to tell me, what did you do? What is it? Where is it from? He's like, it's not me, I don't know anything about it. So then we move on to people outside of our home. Now we're getting theories, don't involve any of us, someone else must be to blame. Someone comes up with a great theory. Aha, I think it's the lady that comes every now and again and helps clean the house. I think, because she works on other construction houses, I think there's something in the vacuum cleaner that she is bringing to our house. And when she hoovers, it's spitting out brown plastic all over the house. I was like, yes, it's that lady's fault. It's all her fault. And so the lady comes to clean our house, but I'm not home. And when I get in the house, it is spotless and there's no brown plastic anywhere. So now that theory is out the window and I'm back to square one. So for a few days, there is no brown plastic. I'm at peace, I don't find any. And then it's Thanksgiving, just after Thanksgiving,
Jeremy and Jen came to stay with us. They come to stay with us. Jen and Jer go and put their bags in the guest room. Jen comes down from the guest room with a piece of brown plastic in her hand and says, friend, what is this? I was like, are you kidding me? I just cleaned your room. How in the world do you have brown plastic in your room? And I was like, I have no idea. She's like, yes. Then Jer's like, I found some on the staircase. Also, I'm like, no, you did not. Yes, I did. I was like, so I put it in the trash. Two days later, they're still at our home. Two days later. I hear a cry from our kitchen, it's Jen, I found it, I found it. So I run to the kitchen and she is standing by the door at the kitchen where there is a basket and in her hands are my slippers. She turns the slippers around and the sole, the brown plastic sole of my slippers has been disintegrating and in that moment I have a revelation helped by Taylor Swift's songwriting and the revelation was this, it's me, I'm the problem, it's me. I had been walking around the house blaming everyone for brown plastic while the very brown plastic was underneath my own feet. I was wagging a finger at my children while trailing brown plastic around my house. Here's the other thing, these slippers were old slippers that I had in England. I don't even wear them anymore but I decided because they were cute to come and put them in a basket in my new house for an aesthetic look but because I brought something old into something new now it was available for me to put on my feet and I was walking it around my house and so I'm just saying before I start telling you what love looks like, I want you to be aware of the brown plastic under your own feet before you start wagging a finger
at anybody else in the room, okay. It's me, I'm the problem, it's me and if all of us would own it this morning maybe we'll all walk out here different because if you own it and you own it and you own it I don't have to tell you to own what you've decided to own yourself, amen. Relationships are complicated, they cost us our energy, our time, our emotions, they cause us to get involved in things that drain us and also replenish us. Relationships are critical, they're huge. Relational decisions make massive, massive changes to the trajectory of our life. A right choice, a wrong choice begins to affect all the other parts of our life and so something that is so pivotal and so important, it's amazing to me how we make relational decisions so casually. When they carry such huge consequences I'm amazed how we can just step in and step out of relationships as if they have no consequence on our calling or on our life or on our peace or on any area of the things that we are called to navigate. There's a scripture that might seem a strange scripture to start with but I felt led by God when I was preparing this message to start with a scripture in Jeremiah because in Jeremiah God is trying to help his people like God today is trying to help his people and why he wants to speak to his people is because they keep making choices that are bad. The people of God keep choosing the wrong thing, they keep making a choice casually that has huge consequences on them and the entire nation. They keep choosing idols over God, they keep choosing to sacrifice to the wrong things, they keep choosing to follow the wrong voices and so God says to his prophet Jeremiah, I want you to go and say these words to them before they make another choice and I feel like God sent me today to say prophetically to you the same words before you make another choice. I actually think some of you today are about to make some choices relationally that you ought not to be making right now until you've applied some of the wisdom God has for you today. Jeremiah 6, this is what God tells Jeremiah to tell the people, this is what the Lord says, stand at the crossroads and look, ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is and walk in it and you will find rest for your souls. You're like what does that mean? Well when we come to the areas of making choice relationally it's like our life at any given time relationally, we're making a decision to step into the traffic of what that actually represents, stepping into the pathway of what that relationship's now going to do to our life and some of us are not good drivers which is why we are constantly in head-on collisions with people in our life. Some of you are sat here this morning with a few broken bones with some concussion because you
keep having a collision with people in your life whether it's your child or whether it's your spouse or whether it's your mother-in-law or whether it's an extended family member there's just stuff that keeps happening and it's like a collision and this scripture is saying hey hey hey I need to give you some wisdom before you step into the traffic before you make a choice that's gonna lead your life a certain way I need you to stop and I need you to look I don't know if at school in America they do this but at school in England they teach you what's called the Green Cross Code they're trying to teach children how you cross a road because they know if I don't teach this immature child how to cross the road they're just gonna step into traffic and they will not live if they keep stepping into traffic so they teach the children when you get to a crossroads and you're deciding whether you cross this road or not when you get to a crossroads hey stop and then look take in the scenario decide if this is a good time to step into the road and after you've assessed it and you've stopped and you looked and you've listened then nothing else is coming your direction then go ahead and make a choice and I feel like the Holy Spirit wants to say to some of you today that are at the juncture and at the crossroads of some relational conversations some relational decisions hey stop whoa slow down I don't know why we were always in such a rush to make decisions that should not be rushed but there are times when we need to hear the Holy Spirit say hey son slow down hey daughter slow down I know you want to react right now but slow down I know you want to jump in right now but slow down passion races resentment avoids desire drives lust will head you into a collision you are gonna have to struggle to get out of alive we ought to understand when we're making choices when it comes to our relationships you gotta learn to slow the car down I know your feelings want to push the gas but your spirit is saying whoa whoa whoa slow down I don't know why we're in such a hurry well I'm 16 and I'm still on the shelf really slow down there are worse things than being on the shelf one of them is getting married to someone you shouldn't be married to so slow down a lot of things that we say that later
on it's hard to get back because we said them in haste but if we'd slowed down we might not have said what we said or been angry the way we were angry or reacted in the way we are God is trying to help us avoid collisions relationally by learning to slow down stop and think I'd be married to Steve for coming up to 34 years of life together listen to me I'm glad that I slowed down before I made a decision because the decision was to do with the rest of my life and in a society that tells you that's not the case that tells you if you make a mistake just ditch them just drop them we are dealing with all of the people that have the wounds of a collision because no one's willing to say wait slow down I know the kids are driving you crazy but slow down I know that situation makes you want to jump in the middle of it but slow down God told before they make a choice tell them to stand still at the crossroads and look around second thing he told them to do was ask for the ancient paths ask where the good way is and walk in it the message says it this way ask for directions to the old road the tried-and-true road then take it you're like what does that mean what does it mean the old and the ancient road well the word there ancient in the Hebrew is the word Olam and Olam means the everlasting way God's saying stand at the crossroads and ask for the everlasting way in other words when you're at a crossroads in your relationship and it is dysfunctional and you're having all kinds of nightmare don't go to your friend who is also dysfunctional and ask for advice that is not the everlasting way, that is not the tried and tested way, when you're contemplating divorce and so you go and sit with your friend who is divorced and then you get in the group chat of all the other people that are bitter and angry from their divorce, you're not getting counsel that's going to lead you in the everlasting way, so the bible say don't just ask anybody hello, that's why some of you are more messed up after you ask for advice because the person you asked for advice is the worst person that you could possibly have asked for advice, it says no, ask for the ancient past, the everlasting way, ask where the good way is and walk in it, some of you say well i don't know the good way, i'm glad you came to church today because i'm
going to show you the good way, so you say lord give me a sign, i'm about to give you a sign, please bring my sign, i'm going to give you an actual sign for your life, you're not going to leave here wondering what this message was about, you're going to know exactly what this message was about, which is why we don't like it when the messages are clear because now we know there's something we have to do, but you're already sat down, it's too late, you're in the service, so here we go, ask for the ancient way, the everlasting way, well there's only one place you're going to find an everlasting way, it's in this book in my hand, the word of God, the principles of God, this is the everlasting way, you want to know the good way, this is the good way, you want to know the right way, this is the right way, you want to know the true way, this is the true way and the bible makes it so clear, thank you God, you make it so clear, but why are we so dumb to not believe the clear way, this is the way, it's going to let you know in verse 4 of 1 corinthians 13, if you want to know what the ancient, the good way is, love, the most excellent way it says, love is patient, you want to know the way, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs, love does not delight in evil, but love rejoices with the truth, it always protects, love always trusts, it always hopes, it always perseveres, love never fails, the bible is letting you know, this is the most excellent way, you want to know in your relationships, what direction to go, this is the direction to go and so as I put this sign before you this morning, I want to simply ask you, are you going in the right direction or are you going in the wrong direction, let me underline some of the ways that love walks, love's posture is patient, I don't know if you know what a patient posture looks like, but it's not this tapping of the foot, crawling of the arms, gritting of the teeth, just bearing with it, that's not patience patience doesn't wait like that, patience, another definition for patience is it's just long obedience, I'm just going to stay obedient to do the thing the way you told me to do it, even if I'm not seeing the results yet, that I want to see, love is patient, it is able to wait and as it waits it's active, patience is not passive, it is active, it patiently prays, it patiently waits, impatience produces ishmaels in your life and if you produce an ishmael, I just need to let you know, you also have to raise an ishmael, pay for an ishmael, finance the future of ishmael, so you're ought not to produce something you don't want to pay for, ishmaels are formed by impatience, but when we're patient, we end up ending up with people in our lives that are promised from God, just like Isaac was, we do not want to have those that are forced in from our impatience, we want those that God
brings us, because we are walking the most excellent way, the posture of patience, if you wondered what it looks like, I can show you a great picture in scripture, which is the prodigal son, the prodigal son who had a relationship with the father, decides he knows better and goes in the complete opposite direction, when we are in that situation, often our posture is to chase them, is to reprimand them, is to let them know all the ways why we are disappointed, in them, and they may be true to your feelings, but this is in that picture of the prodigal son, this is the posture of the father. He's patiently waiting. He is patiently ready to receive his son back because he knows my posture is important, why? Because if you get to the bottom of the lowest of the lowest moment in your life, where you realize like the prodigal son did, I've messed up, I've stuffed up. If you have an image in your head of whoever that is, the father in your story, standing there ready to beat you up with all the reasons why you were wrong and they were right, the last place you wanna go is home. But if in that moment you know the posture of that person is I am praying for you, I am believing for you, I'm just knowing God's gonna bring you back into the fold, then you run home when you come to your senses. And some of us need to change our posture towards whoever it is in our life that we become impatient towards. God was patient with you. Love is patient, love's cadence is kind. You know, kindness has a sound. Kindness has a manner.
Kindness marks our lives. Kindness always sees the person before the problem. Kindness always sees the person before the project. Kindness always sees the person before the pressure. Jesus saw people first and then He dealt with the problem second. Jesus saw people first and then He dealt with the pressure second. He saw a woman at a well before He ever saw her sin. He saw a guy up a tree called Zacchaeus before He ever confronted him about his thieving and stealing from others. He saw Judas, even though Judas would betray him. He saw Peter, even though Peter would deny him. Kindness sees people and kindness handles people in the way you yourself would want to be handled. Love is kind, but the wrong way, we say unkind things. We handle people in unkind ways. Love is patient, love is kind. Love is fluent in forgiveness. This is a biggie. Not only is it fluent in forgiveness, but it goes on to say that love does not keep a record of wrongs. When we first got married, Steve and I, I don't know what happened, but it was like all of a sudden, the word sorry got removed from my vocabulary. Like even saying it made me want to vomit, like, because I was just convinced you're wrong
and I'm right. What is there for me to be sorry about? And not only that, I, when we first got married, he did not know this, but I had started a filing system in alphabetical order of all the wrongs that he had done as my husband until that point. And I gladly would add to the file every single time there was another wrong. And if you need to know when the wrong was, I could go to my filing system, pull out the date, the time, I could tell you what he was wearing, where we were, what he said, what he said was wrong. Like I had it down, I had a great filing system. But then our marriage was going through a season where it just felt it was a lot harder than it should have been. And I had to realize, wait a minute, the reason why it's hard is because I'm walking the wrong way. And the more I walk this way, keeping my record of wrongs, and the more I walk this way, refusing to forgive, the more distant I am coming from the one that I'm supposed to love. And some of you today are going to have to do a U-turn because you're heading in the wrong direction. And today you're gonna realize the brown plastic is under my own feet. And I'm gonna have to get rid of some files that I have been keeping about some people in my life. If I want my life to move in the right direction,
I'm going to have to forgive. And I just need to remind y'all that you were a sinner and you messed up a whole lot and God forgave you. Not only did He forgive you, but the Bible says He forgave you so much that He doesn't even remember what it is that you done as far as the East is from the West, He remembers no more. So when God looks at you, He doesn't look at you and remember the 15 things you did wrong in the last six months. When He looks at you, it's like a brand new day, a brand new start, He doesn't remember any of that stuff. But when we look at each other, we have a catalogue in our mind of all the ways they've messed up. And I'll give you one more chance, but I want you to do it. I'm gonna remind you of all the other chances. Now love is fluent in forgiveness. Are you fluent in forgiveness? Do you know how to, and it doesn't mean that what the person did is not wrong. It doesn't mean that what they did does not need dealing with, but you have to forgive so that you can keep walking in the way of love. Love is fluent in forgiveness, and love, love perseveres. In England, we drive stick shifts. And you know, when I drive my stick shift in England, and it's hilly where we lived in England, I'd be going along at a great speed on the flat road,
but then all of a sudden I would start to go up a hill, up an incline, and my car would begin to make a noise. Err, err, what was smooth was now jarring, it was grinding. At that point, I don't say to myself, I hate this car. This car is useless, and just pull over at the side of the road, get out of the car, and walk away, because the car suddenly is making a noise I don't like. What I do is I realize, wait a minute, this is a little harder than it was on the flat, so all I need to do is I need to change gear. When your marriage starts to feel harder than it did on the flat, you don't discard the car. You don't say, I'm done with the vehicle. You say, I think I have to find another gear so I can persevere. When it gets hard with you and your parents, or you and your children, you don't say, I'm done. You say, I've gotta find another gear to raise these kids. I've gotta find another gear of grace. I've gotta find another gear of love. I've gotta kick in another gear of hope and prayer. Love does not quit. And if it did, none of us would be in the room, because when the gear changed for Jesus, from being one that was going around teaching the Gospel to being one that was going to be crucified on a cross, He didn't say, this incline is too hard. I'm done now with loving people. He said, I'm gonna have to switch gears
and go into a whole nother gear of sacrifice and surrender. Love never gives up. Love always hopes, always perseveres, always honors parents, children in here. And I'm not just talking about children, children. I'm talking about grown children of moms and dads that maybe aren't in this room. We still honor. Even if they're dysfunctional, we still honor. What does that mean? It doesn't mean we let them abuse us, but it means our words are honoring, our actions are honoring, our mindset is honoring. It always honors, it always perseveres. This is the way of love. And Jeremiah ends by saying, when you've asked for the ancient way, when you've been shown the good way, then he says this, now walk in it. And watch this, and if you do, you will find rest for your souls. And I so felt in my heart when I was praying for you today, there are some that desperately need rest in your soul. I'm not telling you to take an extra nap. A nap won't fix it, a vacation won't fix it because this ache in your soul can't be fixed by you just taking some sleep. This ache has to be fixed by getting rest for your actual soul, which means you have to walk the right way
so you can get rest back in your soul. Some of you need rest in your soul, rest in your home, rest in your parenting, rest in your marriage. And the only way you're going to find the rest for your soul is to walk in the direction of love. So I don't know where this finds you today. I don't know where this hits you today. But my prayer, like I said at the beginning, is that you would listen for you. I'm pretty sure if I was to ask for a show of hands, how many of you are attached to someone that's dysfunctional, we would all put our hands up. But I'm not talking about them right now. I'm talking about you. Just like I had to address, it was me. I was the problem, it's me. Maybe you need to address that to do it. Maybe if you'll address it for you, then they'll address it for them and they'll address it for them. And we all leave here walking in the right direction. Just close your eyes right where you're at. God, we thank you for showing us the most excellent way. God, I thank you. There's such clarity in your Word of what love looks like. God, help us today begin to model what that love looks like towards one another. I pray for marriages today and families today. I pray for any that have been going the wrong direction
that they would turn around today. and they would walk in the way of love. I pray for conversations over lunch today. I pray for situations to happen where people come together in their families and say, we're making some changes. We're gonna walk in the way of love in this household. We're gonna do things differently in this house. I pray today that we will be doers of the word and find rest for our souls. And as eyes are closed, if you're in this room today and you know you are far from God, your life's not where it should be. You are like a prodigal or you've never said yes to giving him your whole heart. Right now is a moment. His arms are extended towards you just like they were to the prodigal son. He's just waiting for you to come home. And if you need that moment today, just as eyes are closed, just stick your hand in the air and say, that's me, Charlotte, pray for me. I need to turn around. My U-turn today is walking back in the way of God. Hands all over, just stick them right up where you are. Take that same hand you just raised and just put it on your heart. And I'm gonna pray over you. God, you see every person responding right now. God, you know exactly their struggles.
You know exactly the situation. And God, I thank you today. You are waiting with open arms to embrace them and walk them in the way of your love. Your love that forgives. Your love that keeps no record of their wrongs. Your love that perseveres. Your love that is kind. God, I pray today as we say sorry and as we lay down at your feet our lives, I pray today that they would bump into your love and your love would saturate every life today. So much so that as we walk out of these doors, we would sound different, we would act different, we would think different, for we have met with the one who himself is love. God, we give you all the glory and all the thanks that in you God is the love that no other person can give us. In you God is the love that transforms our lives. Thank you, God, for leading us in the way of love. And we give you all the glory. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Wow, what a powerful, powerful message from Charlotte today. I hope you guys loved that message and were really impacted by it. Hey, if you pray that prayer to make Jesus the leader and forgiver of your life, we're so excited for you. What a great decision.
And a couple of things we wanna encourage you to do. Number one, tell somebody about it, right? We're not meant to do this life alone, so let us know, drop it in the chat, let us know on the app that you prayed the prayer to receive Jesus. The second thing we want you to do is to download our app and there's a devotional on there, a 14-day devotional called New Beginnings. And that kinda walks you through the next steps of what it means to, after I pray this prayer, to become a follower of Jesus. That's right, after you read through that New Beginning devotional, we would love to invite you to jump into GrowthTrack. GrowthTrack is a course. It starts at the beginning of each month. It lasts for four weeks. You can do that in person or online. And it just so happens to, next week, the end of the month. It just happens to be the end of the month, so next Sunday is the first Sunday of May. And so you can jump in in person at a Rockford location, Janesville, or even in Cape Coral, Florida too. You can also jump in online as well. GrowthTrack is a great place to discover your divine designs and your gifts and get to know a little bit more about the church as well. That's right.
We also believe in the power of prayer big time here at City First. So if you've got a prayer request or know somebody who's got a prayer request, on our City First Church app, there's a place to, you can drop a prayer request or you can also pray for other people that have dropped prayer requests in. We send these out to our prayer team every single week. So if you need prayer, that's the place to go. Yeah, and one last thing, we have Baptism Sunday coming up next Sunday. And if you have recently made Jesus a leader and forgiver of your life, or maybe you did a long time ago and you've never taken that public proclamation, that declaration of faith by getting water baptized, we encourage you and invite you at all of our locations, we'll be having them. Maybe you need to make a little bit of a road trip, bring some friends along, bring some families along. You can go ahead and sign up for that through the app or you can hop on our website today, but go ahead. Next week, Baptism Sunday, don't miss it. It's gonna be incredible. Corey and I are praying for you guys that you have a fantastic week and we'll see you next Sunday.
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