The Extravagant Response | Pastor Bryan Jarrett | Northplace Church

Hello, my name is Brian Jarrett, and my wife Haley and I have had the privilege of pastoring North Place Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for almost 20 years. We're one church that meets in multiple locations, even on multiple continents, and today you are one of those locations. The church is not about buildings, it is about people, and we have the privilege today of sharing the hope of the gospel with you right where you are. There is no way I can know exactly what you're going through or dealing with right now, but for almost 30 years I have preached about a God who I know, I am confident, knows you, your struggles, knows the very hairs on your head and the thoughts that you think before you think them, and He is passionately in love with you. And our prayer today is that in our time together you feel our love for you and His presence, and we pray that this time together gives you hope. Thank you for joining us. North Place Church, Merry Christmas! Come on, can we stand together? We're here to worship the King this morning and praise His name. Come on, let's sing this out. Angels we have heard on high, sweetly singing o'er the plains, and the mountains in reply, knowing their joyous strains. Shepherds, what this jubilee, all your joyous strains prolong. What the gladsome tidings be, which inspire your heavenly song. Come on, together we sing. Glorious in excelsis Deo. Glorious in excelsis Deo. Glorious in excelsis Deo. Come to Bethlehem and see Him whose birth the ages see. Come adore on bended knee Christ the Lord, the newborn King. Glorious in excelsis Deo. Glorious in excelsis Deo. See Him in a manger lay, whom the choirs of angels praise.

Mary, Joseph, linger aye, while our hearts in love we raise. Glorious in excelsis Deo. Glorious in excelsis Deo. Glorious in excelsis Deo. Glorious in excelsis Deo. Glorious in excelsis Deo. ♪ We worship you Lord ♪ Come on, can we worship Him in this room today? Jesus we exalt you. I'm so grateful for these moments where we get to sing these Christmas songs that aren't just lyrics that we're singing, but they're reminders of moments in history that our lives were transformed because God came to dwell here with us. And I wanna read together today from Isaiah 9, verse six. And it says, "'For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.'" And then it says, "'And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.'" This is the God that we're worshiping today. He is not distant, but He is with us. ♪ O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant ♪ ♪ O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem ♪ ♪ O come ye to Bethlehem ♪ ♪ Come and behold Him, born the King of angels ♪ ♪ O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him ♪

♪ Adore Him, O come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord ♪ ♪ It's all for you, Lord ♪ ♪ Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation ♪ ♪ Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above ♪ ♪ All ye citizens of heaven above ♪ ♪ Glory to God, glory in the highest ♪ ♪ O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him ♪ ♪ Adore Him, O come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord ♪ ♪ It's all for you, Lord ♪ ♪ So worthy, worthy, worthy are You, Lord ♪ ♪ Adore Him, O come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord ♪ ♪ If we greet Thee, born this happy morning ♪ ♪ Jesus, to Thee be glory evermore ♪ ♪ All glory given to Thee ♪ ♪ Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing ♪ ♪ O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him ♪ ♪ Let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord ♪ ♪ We adore You, Lord Jesus Christ, we adore You, Lord ♪ ♪ So worthy, worthy, worthy are You, Lord ♪ ♪ And we'll praise your name forever ♪ ♪ We'll praise your name forever ♪ ♪ We'll praise your name forever ♪ ♪ Christ the Lord ♪ ♪ We'll praise your name forever ♪ ♪ We'll praise your name forever ♪ ♪ We'll praise your name forever ♪ ♪ Christ the Lord ♪ ♪ We'll praise your name forever ♪ ♪ You deserve the praise ♪ ♪ Away in a manger no crib for you ♪

♪ The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head ♪ ♪ The stars in the sky looked down where he lay ♪ ♪ The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head ♪ ♪ All that they could make of you ♪ ♪ Didn't have to say so much to you ♪ ♪ And the cattle are lowing, the baby awakes ♪ ♪ The little Lord Jesus no crying will make you weep ♪ ♪ He makes our loving Lord Jesus look down from the sky ♪ ♪ And stay by my cradle till morning is nigh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ ♪ Be near me Lord Jesus, I ask thee to stay ♪ ♪ Be near me forever and love me, I pray ♪ ♪ Bless all the dear children in thy tender care ♪ ♪ And fit us for heaven to live with thee there ♪ ♪ Beautiful Counselor, never changing, never ending ♪ ♪ Beautiful, glorious, everlasting, ever live me Lord ♪ ♪ Hallelujah, it's a great day we sing hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Our God is with us. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Our God is with us. Our God is with us. Beautiful. Glorious. The everlasting, ever-living God. The everlasting, ever-living God. Over the last several weeks, we've been looking at how Christmas, along with Easter, are two of the most powerful expressions of God's love on record. But there wouldn't be an Easter if there wasn't a Christmas. So I don't think I'm out of line to say that Christmas may be the most

extravagant expression of God's love ever. And as we've walked through the last several weeks we call Advent, in this journey, every Advent theme each week builds on top of the other. In week one, we looked at the extravagant promise and how hope anchors us while we wait for the promise. In week two, we looked at the extravagant preparation and how peace settles us as we trust God's sovereign hand in the preparation. In week three, we looked at the extravagant entrance and how heaven's joy, Jesus, is born into our mass and becomes our strength through all of it. Advent hope, Advent peace, Advent joy. But today we lean into Advent love. And as we reflect on all of these themes embodied in the Christmas story, ultimately it brings every one of us to a place of decision, which is why week four is about our extravagant response. How we respond to his love reveals how much we understand the value of the gift. The whole idea of Advent is contained in the simple definition of that word. The word Advent literally means arrival or coming. The birth of Jesus is God's arrival on the human scene in a whole new way. He has come into our world, literally in the flesh. He has broken in. He has crashed through. He has closed the distance. However you want to say it, he has come from heaven to earth. A holy God has come to dwell among sinful men. And when he arrived, he didn't come as a general or as a king. He came as an infant, which means Advent is celebrating the willingness of God to identify with the frailty of humanity. He becomes one of us that he might rescue us. Every single one of us has been exiled from the presence of God because of our sin. But Jesus was willing to become heaven's exile that he might bring the exiles back home. And if the God of the universe is proving his love like this, that he would do something as

utterly ridiculous or outrageous or extravagant as becoming the baby of a virgin peasant girl simply to break into our world to be with us, then our hearts should be infused with hope today that this God has the heart to continue breaking into our lives, to heal our marriages, to restore our broken hearts, to redeem us from our sins, to deliver us from our addictions and to give us hope in the hopeless places of our lives. And it shows us that Advent love is a love that interrupts. It interrupts the narrative. It interrupts the storyline and the direction of our lives to write a new and different and better story. This idea of love, what is revealed to us at Christmas, at Advent, is nothing like the culture's view of love. Advent love is not sentimentality, it's not a feeling based on convenience or proximity, it's not about sappy emotion. When you understand God's love as it is expressed in the incarnation, the word made flesh, the infinite becoming intimate, the holy stepping into the human, it demands a response. When you really see it, when you really understand it, you can't stay neutral, you can't stay distant, you can't stay indifferent. So I'm gonna come back to this in just a moment and I'm gonna ask you in light of his love, what is your response gonna be? What are you gonna do with this kind of love? But first, you've gotta really understand it. And so I wanna lean into this for a moment and make sure that we understand how different God's love is

from what the culture calls love. Number one, Advent love is more than feeling, it's action. Our culture defines love primarily as an emotion, something that is felt more than expressed, something that comes and goes with chemistry and compatibility. But Scripture defines love very differently. The love God has for us and the love that he expects us to have for other people is a love that is demonstrated, it's a demonstrated love. Listen to these examples, Romans 5, 8, Paul says, but God demonstrates his own love for us in this, while we were sinners, Christ died. That's a demonstrated love, he died for us. It is love proven by action. We all know this one, for God so loved the world that he gave. That is a demonstrated love, he gave his one and only son. His love gives, it moves toward us, it enters our story, no matter how messed up our story is. And I love this next verse because it captures the true meaning of Christmas and reveals the action oriented love of God. 1 John 4 9, God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love, not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sin. Notice all the verbs, sending, showed, sent, take away.

It's an action associated with his love every time. And it begs the question, is love felt but never expressed, even real love at all? God's love is always shown, it is always demonstrated, it is always expressed. Advent love didn't stay in heaven as a feeling, it moved, it crossed the divide, it crossed the distance, it clothed itself in human flesh. God didn't just say to the world, he loved us, he came. The incarnation tells us something essential about God's heart. God's love does not observe from a distance, it intervenes. Theologian Karl Barth once said, the son of God became man, not in spite of human sin, but because of it. It was an intervention. Advent love is not passive affection, it is holy action. And that's what God expects from us, his people. That's how he expects us to love other people, the same way he loves. It's why the scripture says in 1 John 3, dear children, let us not merely say we love each other, let us show the truth by our actions because real love is demonstrated. It is more than a feeling, it is an action. Here's a second way God's love is different from the culture's understanding of love. Advent love is sacrificial. It costs God everything. Love that doesn't cost you isn't really love,

it's just an emotion of convenience. Real love sacrifices. The incarnation wasn't comfortable for Jesus. It was extremely costly. He did not arrive here with privilege. He arrived in the most vulnerable way possible. Listen to Paul describe it in Philippians 2. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges. He took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross. He chose loss. He chose humiliation. He chose limitation. He chose suffering. Christmas can't be separated from the cross. The manger always points to Calvary. Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, when Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. And before Jesus asked us to take up our cross and follow him, he asked that of us, but he lived it himself first. His love sacrificed power for presence. He sacrificed glory for humility. He sacrificed all of heaven to bring hope to humanity. Real love is a love that is sacrificial.

It costs you something. Here's a third way God's love is different from the culture's. Advent love initiates. It pursues us first. One of the most stunning truths about Christmas is that the whole story of Christmas is all about God looking for us. The same God that pursued Adam and Eve in the garden, searching for them, where art thou? Through the pages of the Old Testament all the way up to Matthew one and Luke two. Christmas is the culmination of the story of God searching for us. He came looking for us. We didn't ascend to him. He descended to us. We couldn't get to him, so he came to us. What does John say in 1 John four? We love each other because he loved us first. He initiated all of this. He started all of this. He loved us first. He pursued us. Go back to the truth we expressed a moment ago already in a verse that we just read. But God demonstrates his own love for us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. He doesn't wait for our worthiness. He doesn't wait to start pursuing us

after we have a repentant heart. He doesn't wait for us to become good enough or make enough improvement. While we were still pursuing our own sin, he was pursuing us. Jesus was willingly born into a world that he knew would reject him, but he came anyway because he was pursuing you. He was pursuing me. Before we had enough sense to even know that we need him or want him, he was chasing us. The shepherds were not seeking God. God sought them out. The magi were outsiders and God invited them in. Mary did not apply. God chose her. Advent love is an initiating love. And here's the beauty of it. There's a phrase that's often attributed to St. Augustine. Historians argue that if he's the one that really said it or not, and it really doesn't matter because regardless of who said it, it's a beautiful truth about the love of God that is worth repeating. God loves the whole world, but he loves you as if you were an only child. He doesn't just pursue us, he's pursuing you. His love is an initiating love. Here's a fourth way God's love is different from the culture's.

Advent love is a with us love. It remains. Of all the names that are given to Jesus during these Christmas passages, we often read like the one we read earlier today from Isaiah 9, names like wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, the prince of peace, the most powerful to us may be the name, the angel used for Jesus in Matthew 1. They will call him Emmanuel, which means God with us. His name literally means God with us. He means God with us. You know what that means? This is not a drive by love. This is not a temporary love. He doesn't bail when it gets hard and he doesn't stop loving us when you and I are unlovable. Advent love stays. That's what we try to drive home to the kids that we serve at Lonesome Dove Ranch, that God is not like the adults that hurt you. He's not like the grownups that quit on you or walked out on you. He stays and he is faithful even when we aren't. God did not send instructions. He sent himself and he didn't just come to us. He came to be with us, with us in our suffering, with us in our temptation, with us in our grief, with us in our joy, with us in death.

And he's with us even right now. He remains. Advent love is an abiding, remaining, faithful kind of love that has staying power. He is God with us, God for us, God in us. But all this comes back to what I said at the very beginning. When you understand this kind of extravagant love that God is expressing to us in his act at Christmas, it demands a response. You can't stay neutral. You can't stay indifferent when you really understand it. So what's your response? What are you gonna do with this? What are you gonna do with Christmas? What are you gonna do with this kind of love? You're gonna carry on like it never happened or make your response to him as extravagant as his pursuit of you? When you truly grasp the truth of his love for you, when you see Christmas through the lenses of what it costs him, it'll move beyond the emotion and the sentimentality and the feeling, and it'll really come down to simple reason. Listen to Paul. He begs us to understand this. And I'm gonna read this from the classic edition of the Amplified Bible, because the Amplified Bible has all these, it's really wordy, has all these defining phrases

that help us understand what's being said. Paul writes, Romans 12, verse number one, he says, I appeal to you and beg you in view of all the mercies of God, in view of his grace, his love, his forgiveness, in view of all the mercies of God to make a decisive dedication of your bodies. He's saying your whole self, all your faculty and your members, your whole self as a living sacrifice, wholly devoted, consecrated, and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable. This is rational. This is intelligent service to God and what spiritual worship really is. Paul is saying it would be completely illogical, irrational, and unreasonable for somebody to hear the Christmas story, understand the love that God is expressing, and comprehend the gospel, and truly see the love of God, and not completely and wholeheartedly surrender their life fully to him. In view of his mercies, it's unreasonable for any other response. God's love was demonstrated in an extravagant way to us, and it demands an extravagant response from us. So give him your life, all of it. Quit holding parts of it back and push all the chips to the center of the table and say, God, I'm gonna go all in.

Make a decisive dedication of your whole self to him. That's real service to God. That's what worship really looks like. That is an extravagant response to God's extravagant love. The magi, the wise men, responded with worship and surrender. The shepherds responded with obedience and proclamation. Mary responded with humility and trust. Love always initiates a response. And I'm gonna give us a chance to respond to that love today in two ways. First, through a prayer. And second, through a powerful, symbolic, and physical way. But first, I'm gonna give us a chance to pray a prayer. I always do this in moments like this and services like this because, and maybe it was because of a personal experience, but it was a simple prayer like this on a day like this that completely changed the trajectory of my life. And I often wonder if there's somebody that's in church today that will hear this message and have an opportunity to respond to God that's in a similar place that I was. You feel disqualified, it's for everybody but you. But for some reason, somehow, some way, the Spirit of the Lord moves in my heart in a way and made it soft. And when a preacher prayed the prayer that day, it changed the direction and the course of the rest of my life.

My prayer today is the Spirit of God break through the familiarity. Christmas has been told so many times, we've heard it so many different ways that we let the familiarity of it, of the events, rob us of the truth behind it. And I want the truth of God's love for you to be real for you today. And if you sense that, you sense His presence pursuing you today and you wanna respond to Him, the prayer will be on your screen. Borrow my words, make them yours today. Jesus, I see you. I see the love you didn't just speak, but the love you showed. You didn't stay distant from my pain, you entered it. Today, I believe that your love was not accidental or symbolic. I believe you came for me. I confess that I have tried to live life on my own terms. I've hidden my brokenness, I've trusted myself more than I've trusted you. But today I surrender. I bring you my sin, I bring you my shame, I bring you my fear, my wounds, my failure, my control. You lived the life I couldn't live. You died the death I deserve. You rose again victorious and alive. Jesus, I receive your forgiveness,

I receive your grace, I receive your life. I don't just want you to visit me, I want you to dwell in me. I don't just want your help, I want your lordship. I give you my whole self, my past, my present, my future. My life is no longer my own, it belongs to you. Thank you for loving me first. Thank you for staying. Thank you for never letting go. Thank you for Christmas. This is my response to your extravagant love. I give you all of me. In Jesus' name, amen. I told our team today, a lot of times when we pray prayers like that, the team is playing softly behind us. And I said, you know what? I don't want you to do that today. I don't want this to be emotive. I don't want it to be hype or something that was stirred by emotion. I want this to be our reasonable, rational response to understanding the love of God. I wanna give you my life. I told you I'd give you two ways to respond to God's love today, that prayer. But here's a physical way. We're gonna do something that followers of Jesus have been doing for the last 2,000 years. And in different circles of the church,

it's referred to in different ways. It's coming to the Lord table. Some people call it Eucharist or Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper. It's a symbolic and ceremonial way for us to respond to God's love. If you have your communion elements, I want you to get them. And I have a designated team that's gonna help me move throughout the building. And as they make their way down your aisle, if you didn't get them when you came in and you wanna participate with us, get their attention as they come by. They're coming now to serve you around the room. We're gonna take a few minutes and I wanna set this up. I want you to prepare your heart for this moment as they serve the room. Whether you prayed the prayer with me a moment ago for the very first time in your life or you surrendered to Jesus decades ago, He is inviting you to come to the table today. And Paul explains what this is all about. In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul says this, for I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself. On the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread and he gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it into pieces and said, this is my body, which is given for you.

Do this in remembrance of me. In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying this cup is the new covenant between God and his people, an agreement confirmed by my blood. Do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink it. For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord's death until he comes again. There is no modern physical symbol that better captures the love of God at Christmas, that symbolizes the incarnation more than the bread and the cup of communion. Communion is advent love made visible. When we do this, we're not just remembering that Jesus came, we're remembering why he came. When we take the bread, we remember that he came in the flesh, literally substituted his body, his life in our place on the cross. When we take the cup, in just a moment, I want you to hear him saying to you, I poured out my life's blood for you to pay for and cover your sin debt. These are symbols of extravagant love. It's not a symbolic love, it's not an abstract love. The love of God is an embodied love in the person of Jesus, but these are symbols of that love. And when you agree to take these symbols, like this is, Paul says, and that phrase I read, if you read, he said,

don't come do this in an unworthy manner, like don't make a mockery out of this, don't make light of this. Because when you take the bread and the body and the blood of the Lord Jesus, you're saying, I number myself with him. I bowed my knee, I claim him as my Lord, I number myself with him. But when you take this cup, you're also saying I number myself with them, with the people of God, not just in this room, but in Jesus believing churches all over the world. And for those that have come for the last 2000 years dating all the way back to the apostles, I am one of them. I'm a follower of Jesus. And don't miss this. When you take this cup today and you take this bread, communion is about the promise of his abiding presence. That's what I want you to understand today. This is promising us, hey, I'm still with you. I'm still here. Jesus said in John six, anyone who eats my flesh, the bread and drinks my blood, the cup, remains in me and I in him. Every time we come to a moment like this, we need to hear Jesus say, I'm still with you. Communion is the confirmation of his continuing presence. Advent love did not end in Bethlehem.

It did not end at Calvary. It did not end at the empty tomb. It continues right here, right now, today. He is Emmanuel, literally God with us right now. I wanna pray over the elements of communion together. We'll start with the bread. Father, I ask you today to make everything that is available to us through your broken body ours today. I know it's subtle today. I know it's tender and simple today. But Isaiah said that by your stripes, we are healed. That you were crushed for our sin and our sorrow and our sickness. As we take this bread today, the promise of this bread is that you were broken so that we could be made whole. I pray for miracles on this Christmas Sunday, miracles in marriages, miracles in physical bodies, healing to come to diseased cells and testimonies that would come from this Christmas service that the God of Christmas was with us today. The abiding presence of God was doing the same thing today that he did 2000 years ago, Christmas miracles. Lord, we ask in moments like this, would you abide here as we take the bread? May everything that is available to us through your broken body be ours.

May wholeness come to us, to your church. In Jesus' name, amen. Would you take the bread together? Thank you, Lord. Lord, I pray over this cup. Every time I hold a communion cup in my hand, I envision the last supper because that's where it all started. Because this moment ties us back to that moment and the thousands upon thousands that have taken the cup ever since, we're with them. But Lord, you said, Paul said that every time we do this, we show the Lord's death until you come again. Because if Advent reminds us Just as if anything, you coming as a baby in a manger is not the last of the story. You're coming again, a second advent where you'll be a conquering king. This cup reminds me of that. Because every time I hold this cup in my hand, I'm not just linking myself to the last supper, I'm looking forward to where you say you will hold a cup one more time in your hand at the marriage supper of the Lamb when all the redeemed of God are gonna join you in eternity and we will have a meal together and we will hold the cup one final time together in eternity. We are the people in between.

And we hold this cup today linking us to the past and linking us to the future. And may the cup and the power of the blood of Jesus that it represents break the chains in our life and give hope to our hopeless situations. We number ourself with you and with your people today. May all that is available to us through the shed blood of Jesus Christ be ours. In Jesus' name, amen. Would you take the cup together? Thank you, Lord. Would you stand with me today across our campus family and here in Sachse and around our campus family today. I wanna do one last thing before we leave. And if the prayer teams from our various services across our campus family could begin making themselves available to serve you today. Our first week of Advent, we celebrated Advent hope, the promise that God breaks in. The hope is He still breaks in. The second week was Advent peace. When we look at the Christmas story, He was in control of all the details. And we realize He's still in control of all the details. It gives us peace. The third week was Advent joy. He came in the most unexpected way, but heaven's joy came into our brokenness. He still does. Today is Advent love.

It's an action-oriented love that interrupts, it initiates, it pursues. On Wednesday, we'll light the Christ candle. And as the room grows dark and we start singing silent night, the light of the world from this candle, every flame will originate from this one and it will push the darkness back in this room because the light has come. Today, I wanna open the altars for a prayer, for miracles. It's Christmas. Who knows what God might do? Give Him a chance to initiate His love one more time in your life. Your family needs Him, you need Him. There's a situation in your life. It would be a shame to talk about a Christmas miracle and not have an opportunity to pray for them today. And that's what we're gonna do. If by chance you prayed the prayer with me today and it was a significant spiritual moment for you, I wanna help you. You can come pray with the prayer team here or stop by the Next Steps area out in the lobby of any of our campuses because they have a gift they wanna put into your hands. Just say, I prayed with Pastor Brian today. There's a gift they wanna put into your hands to help commemorate this day. I wanna help you grow spiritually. Father, will you bless them and keep them?

Will you make your face shine down upon them? Would you be gracious to them? Would you turn your countenance their direction and give them Advent love, Advent peace, Advent joy, and Advent hope today? In Jesus' name, amen and amen. These altars are open. God bless you. Hey friends, I just wanted to spend a second with you at the end of this message today and just encourage you if in some way you've made a spiritual decision. Maybe you've given your life to Christ today. You've recently given your life to Christ. You wanna talk to somebody about giving your life to Christ. Our team would love to help you. We're on the Pando app and have several ministries into various prisons because God has called us to you. We have a heart for forgotten people and forgotten places. And that means we serve widows and we serve orphans and we serve special needs kids. And God has given us a heart for men and women in the prison system because I believe Jesus died for you. He has a plan and a purpose for your life. And we wanna help you know that and discover that. There is an address on the screen that you can communicate with us. We have a team of people that would love to hear from you, especially if you've made a decision to follow Jesus so that we can resource you and point you to tools that can help you grow.

Just know that we're praying over you and we're genuinely honored that you've taken time to watch our channel and these messages from North Place Church.