Truth Moments: Ep 15 - Growth Group

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Welcome to Truth Moments. Yes, sir. Back at it. Back at it. Back in the saddle now. Back in the saddle. Oh! Ghetto cowboy. Hitting with the cattle now. You probably don't know nothing about that ghetto cowboy. That ghetto cowboy, Bone Thugs. Do you even know who Bone Thugs is? I do know who Bone Thugs is. Okay. I think that... Yeah. Well, Bone Thugs had this... Oh, man, what was the name of that CD? I can't even remember what the name of the CD is, but they had, like, the only good song on this CD. Ghetto Cowboy? Ghetto Cowboy. That's it. This was, like, after Bone Thugs was played out, but they was trying to, like, stay in the game. Was this before the mixing CDs? Or were you having to buy that CD and just rock that one single on it and then switch it out?

Yeah, you had to rock that. Yeah, you had to rock the whole CD. And you're just, like, you're only, like, you're only, like, track 13 on that puppy. You're riding, you do it, you punch it out. Yeah, so that was the... You throw it in the mixer. That was the tricky thing, because it literally was, like, the only good track. But, see, Bone Thugs had a few good CDs, so then whenever they came out with this one, you bought it, like, yeah! See, I was on that mix game. Yeah, yeah, Napster and... Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Napster and whatever. That mix, by the time I was in the CD-ROM game, it was mixing up. Yeah, yeah, we was playing cassette tapes and stuff, but... Hey, man, we just so glad to be back, man. Sure. You know, it's a good time at Reach, man. And so we just want to just let you know, you know, what's happening. And so Guy's been doing some major things, man. We're seeing him just start to finish this building for us and just seeing everything that he's doing, man. I don't know when we're going to move, but... Yeah. They'll know.

Yeah. They'll know that this room is going to look different. Right. The sermons are going to look different on there because it's just going to be like this different stage. They're going to be like, dang, bro, they came up. And I really find it encouraging by, you know, the letters, people that are coming home from prison. They're tapped in through the sermon. They're tapped in. They're seeing these things, and they're excited for it as well. Yeah, yeah. And we're really excited. There's a lot that goes into it, a lot. But we're rocking through some stuff, and so we're ready to see what Guy's going to do. We're excited to be back doing the podcast and just a life lesson for people in just listening. And this life, we talk about it all the time, but you have seasons in your life. Yeah. And to think that someone would do something consistently every single, just like they would be a robotic of the year in certain things. Now, there are some things that you need to be grounded in that are un-negotiables in your life. Yeah. But as far as ministry goes as well, in a ministry and in being a father and in our families, there are points where we are doing these things, and we are our energy level, and we are expending,

and we are being great stewards of what the season that we're in. And so we believe that right now we're excited to ramp back up truth moments. We're not punching this one out for it to be a shot in the dark, but we have an actual whole new game plan, a whole new format. So at our church, we have what we call growth groups, and these are all small groups that are sermon-based. So they are a small group that we empower leaders, okay? And so we have some leaders of the church, and they've walked through at least our discipleship process. And so they do this, and then they go into their homes, and they lead through these questions. And basically it's just the entire—it's not—what I love about it the most, man, is it's not, you know, over here you've got a women's group, over here is men's group, over here is Book of Acts, over here is Book of Revelation, over here— it's not that we've made a bunch of different teachers, and everyone is in their home, and they're teaching the Bible, which is all right in itself. You can get kind of hairy with that, but what we're doing is literally just gathering together. We're taking the sermon that was given on Sunday. We're going over some open-ended questions, and we're just discussing it, man. And that is what our whole church is doing. So we are opening an invitation and then getting excited to be able to extend that to you. That's the consistency of what these podcasts will be in True Moments. We're gonna be talking about the sermon. The best thing for you to do

before watching True Moments is to watch the sermon. True Music, True Moments. While you're listening to True Music. Even True Music, yeah. So, you know, watch the sermon. We'll talk about the sermon. We'll give you some open-ended questions at the end, and we'll extend the invitation for you to join us with it as well. Yeah, it's gonna be good, man, for real, because we're just gonna dig in deeper. So we encourage you, you know, at the end, whenever we get some of the questions, you know, go back, watch the sermon, have some of your friends watch it with you. You don't have to sit and watch it all at the same time, but come together and just, you know, talk about it. Get into it and really kind of talk about what it is and what's happening and how does this apply to our life and what does it look like when Pastor said that or whatever the case may be, and then just kind of get in there and make it applicable to your situation, to your life, to your setting. It's really open-ended stuff to where it can be applicable in conversation. And so somebody just kind of jump in and take lead on that and see what it looks like. And so I believe it's gonna be good for the content and just the furthering of discipleship.

It's gonna be good. I'm not gonna lie, man. You've been, you know, the sermons have been, they've been. They've been hitting, dude. They've been ministering, man. Yeah, yeah, they've been hitting. They've been ministering to my heart. They've been ministering to the people and I'm really encouraged by them. I love the expository-ness of through a book. Yeah, no, I do too. I used to be very scared of it because you have to. A lot of study. Yeah, I mean, you got to get in there and figure something out, bro, you know what I mean? You're coming to a passage where it's like, what the heck, what the heck am I gonna preach from this? You know, and then all of a sudden you just get to looking at it and studying it and it's like, oh, okay. You know, I can rock with this, you know? And so if you've been, you know, the thing that I have liked about the, what was I gonna say? Thing that you like, a little study, expository preaching. I'm refreshing your mind. I lost it. What's funny is because we shoot this podcast now at 5.30 in the morning and we had this thought

that your mind would be sharper, our minds would be sharper. Dude, I'm still foggy. You're still foggy. I'm still foggy. I mean, I walked out and forgot to comb my hair this morning. You know, so like, oh, hair gone, took the lid off, but. I mean, I think it was funny if we came back on the podcast and we were both bald. Just two bald-headed boys shining like a lightening bolt. At least put like a filter on it so it looked like you was bald, you know what I'm saying? And then like halfway through, remove the filter. We haven't seen these dudes in a month, a month or two, man. Bro, it's been more than a month. Oh, is it? Yeah. Come back both baby bald. They're like, it's been like six months, you know? They're like, a month? We thought y'all done fell off. They weren't sure, you know? But anyways, man, it's been good. And so let's talk about it. Is there like a question or something that you guys typically have that we should jump in on number one? Yeah, so we have, what we do is we take a sermon and we gather three open-ended questions with that, okay? And so the way that those work is how a grow group works

is like this. So I would encourage you to go back and watch the sermon from this last week. It's called, This Is That. And it just kind of digs into where in Acts chapter two, verses 14 through 21, the Holy Spirit just came and filled the upper room. All of the Jews from all nations are around and begin to ridicule the believers. Some of them are amazed. Some of them are ridiculed or ridiculing them. And then Peter boldly steps in. and just starts to kind of address the crowd. Have you seen this leadership guide? I've seen it a while back, but I have not seen this one particularly. So the main idea for your sermon, I think it's kind of cool, it's like what did you preach about and then it's broke down here, right? The main idea is when the Holy Spirit moves, he changes our direction, aligns us with God's promises, and then he sends us to reach others, right? And the first discussion question, talking point, is how do you usually respond when God doesn't move the way you expected? So how do you usually move when God doesn't respond the way that you expected? Yeah, and so part of that preface

is coming from the point, stepping in the right direction. And it comes from when Peter, when Peter seen Jesus crucified, his expectations of the Messiah collapsed. And I don't think it collapsed like who he thought Jesus was, but everything was in question, you know? And he retreats. I mean, I literally was reading through it yesterday morning and this morning in Matthew, because I'm just going through Matthew. And so as I'm reading through it, I'm at this point. And now Peter, the situation with Peter when Jesus is getting turned over, it just really stood out to me, because obviously we just talked about it. And I didn't even study that part when I was preparing this. And so whenever I seen it, I was like, dang, man, he did, bro. I mean, he's straight. And then right after, right after the third time, whenever the rooster crowed, he ran away full of sorrow. You know? And it just makes me think like in this question, you know, when things don't go the way that we expected, how do we respond?

And it's like, to me, it's like, man, when I see that, how often do we have an expectation on God that he should perform on our behalf on something particular? And then after we deny him, conviction is just so heavy, dude. You know? But it's like, how do you respond? And so like, what's the last thing that you did that, you know, didn't meet his expectations? Well, what did he do is he secluded, right? He stepped back. And that is like the most natural human, fleshly thing to do is to recoil. Recoil where it's comfortable. Retreat to where it is. I mean, I know for a fact that the most comfiest, safest place that you're experiencing right now is yourself. Absolutely. It's not the card table. It's not the yard. It's not in the chow hall. It's not any of those places. The place that you are the most comfortable is sitting on that bunk. Yeah. And living inside of not just a physical prison. Yeah. But a mental prison, bro.

Right, what that bunk does to you when you're sitting there mentally? You know, and I mean, to me, it's like how often do we deal with something like this? And when God doesn't meet something to the expectation that we have, I mean, dude, we go and we, I mean, we relapse in our mind. Yeah. Long before you physically do it. Long before we ever physically do. I mean, oftentimes, bro, people retreat in their faith when God doesn't do what he expected them to do. And when, and that sadly to me is, you know, we hit the street and we expected, I mean, I see this far too often. We get out and we want God to redeem everything that we jacked up the last 40 years. Yeah. You know, and then whenever he doesn't meet that expectation, see, that's that expectation. We expect when we get out, we've done good for this bid and we get out and we expect God to just restore everything. We came to the reach home. We came to some other home. We came and we thought all of our family or our baby mamas or our baby daddies should see the progress that we're making in our life and just restore everything.

And it's like, nah. How many days did you say that it was between the denial and the stepping forward? 50. Something like that. 50. Okay, 50 days. And so what isn't talked about though, right? It's what was going on in those 50 days. Yeah. But as a Christian man, you know this, that in those 50 days that Peter was going through grief, he was going through a lot. Through sorrow and there was a faith-building portion of time in his life It had to be there yet there he is sit. No. No one is sitting. No one is failing in this way No one is failing through denial. No one is feeling that and then able to step forward Able to do those things without a season in it That's why it was he didn't deny him on Tuesday wake up and step forward on Wednesday Yeah, he's still bad for a period of time and inside of that period of time There had to been faith building exercises that were going on Yeah, and that faith building exercise who knows what it looked exactly like for Peter But I can tell you this it most likely looked like time of intimacy time of intimacy loving God Yeah, I'm of intimacy Repenting to God a time of intimacy growing close to the father time of intimacy allowing God to love on him allowing God to Nurture him allowing God to comfort him through this time because in this moment You could only imagine the attack of the enemy during this. Oh, yeah And so he's he's battling and it's like Jesus is spending the 40 in the wilderness and in and you could say Peter that He's been his wilderness. Yeah, and I mean, dude, I could only imagine I mean think about it now like if if our Expectations don't get met on a situation. I mean, dude, I I mean I've dealt with that in Multiple different ways, I mean friends, you know friends that have hurt you and and and walked away

People that that that you know, you thought was closer to you begin to slander you Buildings that are supposed to sell that don't sell That this is a prime example because you know you told me Maybe a couple years ago You told me about moving in a new building you said that God told you that this would be the biggest Faith test they would require the most amount of faith. I didn't tell you that I forgot that in there, right? And so that that's a word given to you and and and so he's held true to that He is held true to that for sure. There's been nothing easy about this process Um, but what God does in that time frame as he continues to drop little he drops subtle little things I say I'm here son. Yeah, I'm yeah, I'm moving. Yeah, right, but he wants you he wants the church He wants the people to be faithful in it. He wants to them to see adversity things that we don't expect What do what do we expect? We're moving forward doesn't this is applicable to right exactly what's going on What do we expect moving forward man? We expect a sale We want them to spend 40,000 more than what it's appraised for. We want to be able to move fluidly We want to happen tomorrow We will all of our men to take off at work and be able to get there and build this thing bring all the tools We want companies to give us discounted rates and charitable donations towards trade Thing opportunities none of which yeah has happened. No And as what here's and this is the conclusion because You know Peter, bro Cuz look, here's what I know. I mean we've had we've had somebody very close to us walk away and It did not meet our expectations and one thing that I know if If I if I know Peter or from from reading the Bible is Yeah, he retreated but you can't tell me that entire time that he was retreated that he was not in prayer, bro Right, right, right, and even if it was questioning right prayer, right like God I don't understand like what is happening and and allowing that to draw us to a place to where we don't Run from God. Yeah, the thing that I love is that Peter was available 50 days later, right? Yes. Yeah. He what he didn't coward all the way away He didn't run completely away to where everything was completely abandoned

He was available. Yeah, whenever the time came because when our expectations don't get met We're not available in 50 days. Usually bro. Yeah, we're yeah We're gone and you know a Pentecost one that when the Spirit came he was there and he was available That stepped up and one thing that you said to me that really resonated during the sermon was this is that the power The power right and that's what the sermon series is is the church on the move It starts with power and it starts with power right and but the power man is for witnessing Yeah, that's what the power for and and even me in my in my personal life I've always said this man To the power and you tap into these things and it's like I can I can get kind of I can get kind of draw kind of a hairy line Honestly with that because I've thought to myself before all these things that don't have to do with witnessing. I'm trying to into the Holy Spirit for, right? And it's like, hold on a second, right? A lot of these things, I need to tap into prayer, into faithfulness with God, into my fleshly self, knowing that I'm a fleshly being, intimately seeking and wanting in a relationship with God. The power, though, is used for when I am ministering. The power is there to do those things, right? And so, I've confused that in my own life. It's like, I need strength. I need strength, and it's something outside of witnessing. It's something very, it's something else. And I'm relying on the power of the Holy Spirit to do that. Is the Holy Spirit in me and helping me with that? So, yes, but it's God. It's God that is giving me. And I don't, and it's like, they are one, yes, but I'd be very intricate. I'm very intricate with the Trinity.

I'm very intricate. It's in my prayer life. You can feel it. It's in the prayer life. It's like, what am I appointing these different things to? Because the roles in the Trinity are appointed in different, in different, in different, they're distinct, right? And so, he is helping me witness, and he is giving me power to do these things. And Jesus is interceding on my behalf, and he is bringing me healing in these things. And God is sovereign, who is knowing everything else, and I am worshipped and unto, right? And so, there's intricacies within that. I just, I don't know. I just, that just kind of comes off in my spirit life. It's really cool, and the thing that I love about this passage that I noticed was when Peter stepped forward, the last time you've seen him, he stepped back, the difference was the Holy Spirit. And when he had the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit made him bold to be able to speak to a crowd and be like, hey, y'all are tripping. And all of the sudden, he spoke, and dude, it didn't stop. And he just started, and so, you know, the thing that I've learned is that

your retreat doesn't cancel God's calling. Could you imagine these, what these, so they're saying that, okay, everybody, I speak in tongues, they gotta be drunk. There's no way. They're already a doubting, gossiping bunch. Oh, yeah. Bro, it's a bunch of religious folk. And they imagine a dude that just turned his back 50 days from Jesus, though, preaching these things to him. Imagine what will be said. But I don't know, next week, do you get, you must have to just go into what next week, what it is, when it is, the conclusion of his speech. Because the conclusion of his speech is, they're saying, what do I do then? Yeah. Okay, what? Yeah. They're submissive to his teaching, right? That's the conclusion. At the end, they're like, hey, brother, well. What do we do? And some of them do. And he tells them, hey, you need to be baptized in Jesus' name. And what's gonna be interesting is, we're actually going to dig into a little bit of doctrine, because people, there are religions that say,

you have to be baptized in Jesus' name only. Well, there's actually three different baptisms. And you have the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you have the baptism of Jesus, and you have water baptism. And so, baptism in Jesus' name only is actually a reference to salvation. And so, it's not just saying, be baptized in water in Jesus' name. It's saying, be baptized in Jesus' name. It's like, be saved by the blood, you know? And then, baptized in water is that, which is being baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, because you're going down to represent the resurrection, the death of Christ, and coming back alive. And then, the baptism of the Holy Spirit is after that. And so, there are, and I believe, 3,000 people get saved and added to the body, you know, right after all of this. I mean, clearly, open ears, but there were millions there. So, you know, I mean, they're saying that there was potentially millions in Jerusalem. That don't mean there was millions there at the thing, but, you know. I mean, the teaching of this, the doctrinal teaching that you underline in preaching is very important. It is. It's so important, in fact,

I'm gonna share a story, man. We had a guy that came home from prison, okay? And there are men that come to our church, and they're very excited from what? Pando, right? From this app, from Pando, what it is. They seen our church on there, and they're very excited. And I had one guy, man, and you could tell he had a lot going on in his mind, but he had a bandana on his head, and it said, Pando app, right? Yeah, and then something else that said reach Casey or something else some type, but he had drawn this shirt up himself, okay and After service he came to me, and he was very very very excited And he said man. He said talk man. I've watched this. I've done these things in all these things, and I'm smiling along I'm great. I love to meet you. I'm listening. I have a very listening ear in this moment He decides that he's going to tell me also about his beliefs. I'm unpron unpron He tells me another church that he also visits and then he says hey, you know You know because this is what I believe and he's talking about how he believes that that all people are already saved okay, and Dude, it just like it just really it for real like as I was hearing it Like I don't know if it was not the Holy Spirit like I don't know where I like felt short or weak I don't I don't know I didn't regardless. I if I failed I don't know I didn't say anything because I heard it, and it was just breaking my heart dog that someone could love like have that love have that that that that that that drive and Be so misled dude He's so misled to to to believe that that that we were all born saved and It's to you know, and it was just it doesn't matter what The specifics of his belief is the point is is that he's been misled

Yeah, he's been mistaught and he's had no disruption. It's like what is the point of us getting on a podcast? What is the point of preaching the word using the power of the Holy Spirit and it is to identify the truth man? It's to identify the truth in the Word of God and that there are there are some there's no gray areas in this in this Work, man. This is this is the truth. God didn't make these things where he's a it's up to you to decide no man It's actually it's it's written in the word. It's written, and if you do the research. It's in there You know I think I'm a brother that came out to the reach home When the reach home very very first started, and I oversaw there was a guy I Don't know if you met him Mike yeah No, yeah, I can't short. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, what was that dude's last night? It don't matter Yeah, yeah, but anyways he was there on fire on fire for Jesus came out of Algoa. Yeah. Yeah, I remember you know and was on fire for Jesus and You know I his number actually is saved in my phone as Mike the Baptist and because he was just so matter of fact about a Like a once saved always saved theology and whatever we're not gonna get into all of that But one of the things that he thought so he relapsed He ended up relapsing and because of the doctrine that he believed The dude didn't think he was ever good enough. Yeah, because he thought that Since he relapsed he was never saved So it's kind of the exact opposite right right so but the dude was on fire for the Lord for five years you know and when he got out he struggled had a couple drinks ended up just I mean really indulging in alcohol and left the reach home and Bro, dude died. Yeah, yeah, you know yeah, dude died actually in a jail. Yeah in a jail Yeah in a jail and and you know I don't know what happened in those minutes I don't know but the thing that I think about is man how How misled can we be from the truth of the gospel that I mean stories like the prodigal son?

Stories, you know the lost coin like yeah They were Jesus leaves the 99 and comes for the one like these are all stories where he talks about coming to rescue Yeah, the person that walked away from him that that left to go indulge in sin and come back and so oftentimes to bring this into context when our Expectations aren't met because we walk into a relationship with God with preconceived ideas Yeah we believe God should act on behalf of us and shuts it in such a capacity and when he doesn't we Retreat in our faith, bro We we almost always retreat in our faith, and we may not think we do but we do we've stepped back We've pulled back when he didn't answer the the prayers for our marriage when he didn't restore Our families or our time with our kids when when he didn't give us the date that we thought we would get when he doesn't, all of these expectations, something pulls back in our faith and says, is he really the Messiah? Is he really the Messiah like he said he was? Because, see, Peter thought that Jesus was coming to restore the Kingdom of Israel. He thought, how could such great potential ever end in such a humiliating way? And, you know, I think of so many people that we've seen. Mike, I just remembered his last name, but I'm not going to say it because we actually just got a notification that we cannot give shout outs individually. You can shout out units. You can shout out stuff. You can read a letter in general, but you can't say who wrote it. Yeah, stuff like that. So, yeah, they will cancel.

They'll take the video down. And so, but, you know, that's funny. This is how. So there it is. It's like this is how our growth groups go. This is how they go in our homes, because I get the reports back from all of the leaders, and they say, you gave us three questions, and we got through one. You know what I mean? And so I'm going to give you guys the other two questions. Let me rephrase them back again, because our hope and our encouragement is that you would let the sermon saturate your mind. You would let it saturate your mind, not only just by hearing it, but by meditating on it and asking God for, and receiving revelation through firsthand revelation of yourself, right? So we would encourage you to have secondhand revelation through the word spoken, that you would get into your word, and you would have firsthand revelation spoken, and then you would have that encounter, and then you would get in together with others, and you would build fellowship inside your housing unit, inside your brotherhood. I mean, it is a very humble thing to get together, and they say, and this is where you remove the,

you remove the potential of pride, because I hear guys tell me about Bible studies that's going on in there. I know, I've been in there as well. I've known it, I've sat in circles where you have guys that are leading one. So how about this? Instead of declaring a leader, and putting a position or a title over someone, allow the group to be a group, and allow these questions in that sermon to guide it. And it's just men coming together and deciding, we believe that this is good for us, and we're going to indulge in these questions. We're going to partake in them. We're going to build fellowship in them. We're going to have godly conversations. We're going to talk about Christ, because here, we just got to talk about one. I went through 30 minutes. We got two other questions. That's how our growth groups go in our homes. There is church happening, reach church happening every day of the week now, in different homes all throughout Kansas City. And now it's going to be happening in prisons all across the country. And now our prayer is that it's just happening in prisons all across the country. And so let me give you these questions.

Write them down, please, so that you have them. It says, how do you usually respond when God doesn't move the way that you expected? We went on that. The second question is, are you holding onto something that God never actually promised you? Again, that's are you holding onto something that God never actually promised you? And the third is, what is one practical step? Practical step meaning something that's applicable, something you could see it, something that you could write it down and you could actually do towards it. Small, subtle change you can make. That you can take this week to reach someone. And so not only by reaching someone on your own, but doing what the Scripture says and using the power to reach someone. So those are your three questions. Write them down. Go over the sermon. Go get with some brothers. Two, three, however many, man. And you guys get involved with that. We would love, we're extending the opportunity for you to be part of growth groups, for you to be part of that church. How are you amongst the body? You're doing the exact same thing that we are doing here.

And we welcome you into our tribe. We welcome you into our family. And we are so thankful for your ear to listen. If you have sat through 36 minutes of this video, that means you are tuned in and we are thankful for you. Seriously, straight up. And, you know, we're back on a weekly rotation. And so tap in, let your friends know, hey, man, Truth Moments is back at it. And jump in. Man, I would love to just hear stories about how these groups are changing the dynamic in the pod, how they're changing the dynamic on the yard. And just really use these moments to just really just speak into your life. Hey, maybe you've got loved ones on the outside. Have them tap in. Have them watch the sermon. Maybe you guys could review. some of the questions on the phone and use your family to lead through your family and even use this stuff to do that because honestly, failure is not final whenever the spirit fills your life. And so use these moments, just get into it. On a music tip, we're gonna be uploading an album here soon so you guys will have some more. If you don't, man, go jump on there, download a couple of our albums from your media player, whatever that media player may be,

and download the albums, man. That always helps what we got going on. But man, we just appreciate y'all. Man, we love y'all. We believe that God is gonna do something major in and through your life because we believe that God is looking for unlikely people from overlooked places to do extraordinary things through. And every single one of you watching this, tapped into this, could qualify in that vision. So we just bless y'all, man, and we're excited to start hearing the reports and to be able to just go over some of this with you guys. And so pray us out, Tuck, man, pray over them. God, we thank you, Lord. We thank you for the opportunity to just gather. Thank you for the opportunity to minister, Lord, in its ministry through your Holy Spirit, God. And we thank you for it. We thank you that you are a gracious God. We thank you for the challenges that are ahead of us. We praise you for the opportunities that you give for us to grow, God, and let these moments be moments that saturate and resonate in our hearts, God, that propel us to want to grow deeper, grow deeper in relationship with you, and grow deeper in fellowship and relationship with others, God, that we love you. And because of the love that we have for you

that is in our hearts, God, we also love people. We love your children, we love your sons, and we love your daughters, God, and let our love be a reflection of your love throughout our daily life, God. So we thank you, God. We ask that you bless the ones that are listening, the ones that are incarcerated, the ones that are suffering right now, the ones in captivity, the ones that are dealing with affliction, Lord, that you would comfort them in only a way that you can comfort them, God, and that their heart would turn soft and turn towards you, God, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen.