WEBVTT 00:02.521 --> 00:03.903 [SPEAKER_00]: High Praise Podcasts. 00:03.943 --> 00:10.610 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey everybody, this is Pastor Josh. 00:10.630 --> 00:15.635 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll leave Pastor here at High Praise and I want to thank you for downloading today's podcast. 00:16.136 --> 00:20.040 [SPEAKER_00]: We know that this message is going to encourage and bless you. 00:20.440 --> 00:24.345 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to open up your heart and receive with the Lord as for you today. 00:25.954 --> 00:28.835 [SPEAKER_00]: Grab your Bible and turn to the Book of First Corinthians. 00:29.196 --> 00:31.437 [SPEAKER_00]: Before we get there, today is Team Sunday. 00:31.457 --> 00:33.418 [SPEAKER_00]: Dad's already mentioned it, but today is Team Sunday. 00:33.858 --> 00:49.465 [SPEAKER_00]: And all around service, all during the day, when you walked probably in, you notice tables, you're gonna find places you can connect, you're gonna find places you can serve, and you're gonna see opportunities to meet people, to build relationships, to get connected, discover ministries, find places to serve, all the good things. 00:51.546 --> 00:59.375 [SPEAKER_00]: really one of the goals in what we're doing today is for you to find your place where you can serve what God is doing at high praise. 00:59.996 --> 01:06.083 [SPEAKER_00]: Where you can get further connected with the body of Christ, where you can get further connected with the family here at high praise. 01:06.444 --> 01:10.609 [SPEAKER_00]: But before we can talk about what you can do, I really want to talk about who we are. 01:11.725 --> 01:12.766 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, I don't know who we are. 01:12.786 --> 01:15.107 [SPEAKER_00]: And first of all, let me just preface this by saying this. 01:15.208 --> 01:18.530 [SPEAKER_00]: One of my favorite things to do is talk about the church. 01:18.570 --> 01:21.072 [SPEAKER_00]: And whenever I say the church, I don't necessarily mean high praise. 01:21.132 --> 01:22.573 [SPEAKER_00]: Although I do get excited about that. 01:22.933 --> 01:29.097 [SPEAKER_00]: But I get excited to talk about the body of Christ and the local church because the church is near and dear to the heart of God. 01:30.358 --> 01:31.279 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to try that one more time. 01:31.299 --> 01:33.781 [SPEAKER_00]: I said the church is near and dear to the heart of God. 01:34.221 --> 01:36.663 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to meet, the church was not planned B. 01:38.958 --> 01:42.519 [SPEAKER_00]: The church was always in the plan of God, right? 01:42.759 --> 01:44.579 [SPEAKER_00]: And the church are God's people. 01:44.919 --> 01:46.339 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at somebody say, you're one of God's people. 01:47.619 --> 01:49.740 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me, the church are God's people. 01:50.180 --> 01:58.421 [SPEAKER_00]: We are God's people, we are the people of God, but as we're talking about this today, I want you to keep two pictures that I want you to keep in your mind. 01:58.781 --> 02:01.702 [SPEAKER_00]: The first one that I want you to keep in your mind is the family table. 02:02.962 --> 02:05.323 [SPEAKER_00]: At the family table, you have a seat, 02:08.928 --> 02:34.728 [SPEAKER_00]: right you didn't have to earn a chair at the family table right I don't whenever we sit down for dinner at night I don't look at my kids and go did you do everything that you needed to earn your spot at the table right what would that be psychotic crazy a really bad father to be like you had to earn your spot 02:35.746 --> 02:36.226 [SPEAKER_00]: at the table. 02:36.307 --> 02:39.569 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to earn your spot at the family of God. 02:39.609 --> 02:41.791 [SPEAKER_00]: You simply earn your chair because you belong. 02:41.831 --> 02:43.713 [SPEAKER_00]: You get the chair because you belong. 02:43.973 --> 02:45.815 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to audition for the chair. 02:47.657 --> 02:49.598 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to perform for the chair. 02:50.339 --> 02:53.182 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to prove that you're valuable enough for the chair. 02:53.642 --> 02:55.884 [SPEAKER_00]: Your family, we say it all the time. 02:56.144 --> 02:57.345 [SPEAKER_00]: You hear me say it constantly. 02:57.405 --> 02:58.807 [SPEAKER_00]: Church is nothing if not a 03:00.090 --> 03:02.871 [SPEAKER_00]: Church is nothing if not a family. 03:02.911 --> 03:08.573 [SPEAKER_00]: And whenever we think about a family, one of the first things that should come to our mind is the table. 03:09.254 --> 03:10.994 [SPEAKER_00]: And at the table, you have a seat. 03:11.495 --> 03:13.395 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to be at the table of high praise. 03:13.475 --> 03:15.576 [SPEAKER_00]: If you were here this morning, you have a seat. 03:16.176 --> 03:21.158 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care what you did last week, last month, last year, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, you have a seat. 03:21.358 --> 03:25.080 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if God gives you a seat at the table, I'm certainly not going to tell you, you can't sit at mine. 03:26.185 --> 03:29.947 [SPEAKER_00]: If the Lord is welcoming you to sit at His table, I'm not going to tell you you can't sit at mine. 03:30.208 --> 03:33.830 [SPEAKER_00]: How arrogant to think that you can't sit at my table when God's invited you to sit at His. 03:35.371 --> 03:35.551 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 03:35.951 --> 03:38.753 [SPEAKER_00]: At this church, you have a seat at the table. 03:38.993 --> 03:41.295 [SPEAKER_00]: But in the second picture, I want you to keep in mind. 03:41.315 --> 03:45.958 [SPEAKER_00]: And one of the ones we're really going to talk about today, probably even more heavily, is the team huddle. 03:47.159 --> 03:50.801 [SPEAKER_00]: In the huddle, everyone belongs, but everyone also has an assignment. 03:52.507 --> 03:56.430 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody blocks, somebody runs, somebody throws, somebody catches. 03:57.731 --> 03:59.612 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody's on the sideline doing the coaching. 04:00.993 --> 04:03.795 [SPEAKER_00]: But in those huddles, everybody matters. 04:04.876 --> 04:06.858 [SPEAKER_00]: And every role is important. 04:07.538 --> 04:12.902 [SPEAKER_00]: No matter how big it might appear or how small it might appear, every role matters. 04:13.223 --> 04:16.265 [SPEAKER_00]: No matter if you know their name or you don't know their name. 04:16.885 --> 04:18.787 [SPEAKER_00]: Every role matters. 04:20.024 --> 04:29.369 [SPEAKER_00]: But for people who are who are real football fans that they know this, that one of the highest paid positions in football is tackle on the offensive line. 04:29.609 --> 04:37.173 [SPEAKER_00]: That's one of the highest paid positions is tackle and there are not a lot of people that run around wearing the jerseys of the tackles. 04:38.653 --> 04:43.456 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you don't have a good tackle, your quarterback is going to be awful that doing his job. 04:44.333 --> 04:47.776 [SPEAKER_00]: And the running backs, if you don't have some good guards and sinners, they're not going to be able to run. 04:48.177 --> 04:50.479 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to be any holes for them to run through. 04:51.160 --> 04:57.206 [SPEAKER_00]: And you would have a guy who can sling it, but if you don't have some receivers who can catch it, all his sling and it's going to be a two of no effect. 04:57.646 --> 05:00.229 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody has to play their role. 05:00.689 --> 05:02.631 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody has to do their job. 05:02.851 --> 05:06.735 [SPEAKER_00]: Tom Brady is the goat in the NFL, and if you disagree, you're just wrong. 05:11.125 --> 05:16.890 [SPEAKER_00]: Tom Brady was wonderful, but Tom Brady had to have some of the big ugly's up front that would block for it. 05:18.972 --> 05:33.665 [SPEAKER_00]: They weren't on the cover of Sports Illustrated, but in the end of the day, if they weren't blocking for him, Tom can't do his job, you have to have everybody playing their role and doing their job. 05:33.886 --> 05:37.369 [SPEAKER_00]: And when everybody plays their role and everybody does their job, we win. 05:38.530 --> 05:42.471 [SPEAKER_00]: When everybody plays their role, and everybody does their job, we score points. 05:43.151 --> 05:53.373 [SPEAKER_00]: When everybody does their role, and everybody does their job, we see people's lives change for the kingdom and the glory of God, and the church says, so church is both. 05:54.533 --> 05:56.434 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's a family, and I love that we're family. 05:56.454 --> 05:57.594 [SPEAKER_00]: I love that about high praise. 05:57.614 --> 06:06.256 [SPEAKER_00]: I love that when you come in this building, that you're welcomed and you're loved, and you're accepted, and people are excited to see you, and you get high fives and hugs, and what's up, and somebody talking to you, 06:11.810 --> 06:19.557 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me, this is not just the service we tend, it's a family that we belong to, but family is not the only biblical picture. 06:20.818 --> 06:27.323 [SPEAKER_00]: Bible calls us a household, a temple, an army, a flock, a bride, and repeatedly a body. 06:29.365 --> 06:33.348 [SPEAKER_00]: And the picture of the body naturally teaches us something very important. 06:34.009 --> 06:36.751 [SPEAKER_00]: You can belong to something and still have responsibility in it. 06:38.492 --> 06:41.034 [SPEAKER_00]: How many other left-handers in the room? 06:41.434 --> 06:42.215 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe left-handed people? 06:43.456 --> 06:45.217 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, where's my lefties at? 06:45.357 --> 06:49.280 [SPEAKER_00]: Both of the weirs are lefties, all right. 06:49.320 --> 06:49.460 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 06:49.860 --> 06:50.701 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a lefty. 06:52.062 --> 06:56.385 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's my handicap in life that I have to overcome is being left-handed. 06:56.405 --> 07:02.729 [SPEAKER_00]: I was telling them, I was right, and we were doing the internship, and I was riding on the board, and left-handers know what happens. 07:04.350 --> 07:06.532 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything gets smeared, and it's all over your hand. 07:09.122 --> 07:14.244 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm left-handed, which my left arm belongs to my body. 07:14.324 --> 07:14.965 [SPEAKER_00]: Can we get agree? 07:14.985 --> 07:16.285 [SPEAKER_00]: All right. 07:17.006 --> 07:17.886 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope we can agree. 07:18.586 --> 07:24.989 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't think a part of your body belongs to you, we need to get you some counseling and deliverance. 07:26.630 --> 07:31.512 [SPEAKER_00]: My left arm belongs to my body, but it doesn't just belong, it has a job to do. 07:32.212 --> 07:34.373 [SPEAKER_00]: Right now, it's job is to hold this microphone. 07:35.213 --> 07:38.856 [SPEAKER_00]: And my left arm doesn't get to go, well, I belong, but I don't want to do my part. 07:40.057 --> 07:47.882 [SPEAKER_00]: And we have a lot of people in the church at large today that we have, we have mastered viewing that we belong. 07:48.803 --> 07:52.345 [SPEAKER_00]: And we have mastered understanding that there's a seat at the table for us. 07:53.006 --> 07:57.529 [SPEAKER_00]: But what we have it fully mastered is understanding that we also have a role to fulfill. 07:58.310 --> 08:00.972 [SPEAKER_00]: My arm belongs to my body and it has a role to fulfill. 08:01.855 --> 08:04.777 [SPEAKER_00]: My head belongs to my body and it has a role to fulfill. 08:05.337 --> 08:08.359 [SPEAKER_00]: My legs belong to my body and they have a role to fulfill. 08:08.659 --> 08:13.542 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me, you belong here and God has given you a role to fulfill. 08:14.603 --> 08:17.825 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if we don't, let me, let me preface this by saying this. 08:18.145 --> 08:21.967 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to understand something that you're loved whether you serve or not. 08:23.628 --> 08:25.449 [SPEAKER_00]: You belong whether you serve or not. 08:26.370 --> 08:29.132 [SPEAKER_00]: Your value, whether you're on a ministry team or not. 08:29.980 --> 08:39.842 [SPEAKER_00]: But also understand this, you're not earning God's love by volunteering, but once you understand that you belong, then you need to start asking, where can I play? 08:40.963 --> 08:43.843 [SPEAKER_00]: Put me in coats, get me in the game. 08:44.523 --> 08:47.564 [SPEAKER_00]: I know I belong and I have a role to fulfill. 08:48.965 --> 08:53.446 [SPEAKER_00]: Because there's a danger if we just preach one side, team or huddle. 08:53.466 --> 08:56.806 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you can be team or table, huddle or table. 08:59.828 --> 09:28.935 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if I tell us all that we're the family and that's all we understand, then family can eventually become something we just receive from, take care of me, feed me, encourage me, minister to my children, be there when I need you, and all those things are true and the church is there for all those things and the church should do those things, but if we're really family, family also carry something, family sets the table, family washes dishes, 09:30.325 --> 09:31.166 [SPEAKER_00]: getting real quiet. 09:31.967 --> 09:33.608 [SPEAKER_00]: Family checks up on each other. 09:35.350 --> 09:37.212 [SPEAKER_00]: Family notices when somebody's missing. 09:38.913 --> 09:40.815 [SPEAKER_00]: Family shows up when somebody's hurting. 09:41.976 --> 09:44.659 [SPEAKER_00]: Here at the end of the day, we could just sum it up this way. 09:45.019 --> 09:46.641 [SPEAKER_00]: Family carries weight. 09:48.283 --> 09:50.145 [SPEAKER_00]: Family carries weight. 09:51.017 --> 09:52.998 [SPEAKER_00]: And when the family becomes a team, we understand this. 09:53.278 --> 09:56.679 [SPEAKER_00]: There is something that God put in me that the people around me need. 09:56.739 --> 09:58.040 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's read this in First Corinthians. 09:58.060 --> 10:01.841 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to preach really fast today because I want to make sure you have plenty of time after service. 10:01.861 --> 10:04.162 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to preach fast, so just hang with me. 10:04.242 --> 10:06.783 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse, first Corinthians 12, excuse me. 10:07.123 --> 10:10.024 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's say, First Corinthians 12, verse 12. 10:10.064 --> 10:10.665 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I was right. 10:10.685 --> 10:11.365 [SPEAKER_00]: For us, the body, 10:12.741 --> 10:26.147 [SPEAKER_00]: is one and has how many members many members but all the members of that one body being many are of one body in other words there's a lot of you and you're different but you're still one body. 10:27.638 --> 10:38.842 [SPEAKER_00]: So also is Christ, for by one spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free and have all been made to drink into one spirit. 10:38.862 --> 10:43.424 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, this is highly controversial in the ancient world, what he's saying, right? 10:43.724 --> 10:54.628 [SPEAKER_00]: No matter where you were born, no matter what your ethnicity, no matter what your gender is, disfaying whether Jew or Greek is incredibly offensive, 10:55.625 --> 10:58.346 [SPEAKER_00]: to the people that are saying, we are God's people. 10:58.866 --> 11:05.989 [SPEAKER_00]: And then Paul shows up and he goes, no, no, no, no, whether you're Jew or your Greek, whenever you are baptized into Jesus, we are one body. 11:06.109 --> 11:19.034 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter if you're Jew or Greek, if you're slave or free, if you're a man or a woman, if you're rich or poor, whether you're white collar or blue collar, like you keep going. 11:22.675 --> 11:24.336 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether you're legal or illegal, 11:27.511 --> 11:39.772 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, whether you're Republican or Democrat or green party or independent, you've all been baptized into one body. 11:42.837 --> 11:45.559 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's, I'm just gonna preach, is that all right? 11:45.919 --> 11:46.979 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what matters. 11:47.099 --> 11:48.280 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the most important thing. 11:48.600 --> 11:51.122 [SPEAKER_00]: We like to separate ourselves by all these other things. 11:51.442 --> 11:57.105 [SPEAKER_00]: And Paul goes, all of these things are really not all that important, which really important is this, do you name the name of Jesus? 11:57.365 --> 12:04.449 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you name the name of Jesus, then you're part of me, and I'm part of you, and we are one body, and we are baptizing to one body in Jesus. 12:04.689 --> 12:06.890 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the most important thing above everything else. 12:07.170 --> 12:08.691 [SPEAKER_00]: The world wants to separate. 12:10.452 --> 12:11.953 [SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus comes to unite. 12:13.445 --> 12:15.447 [SPEAKER_00]: people that made a drink into one spirit. 12:16.247 --> 12:18.109 [SPEAKER_00]: For, in fact, the body is not one member, but many. 12:19.790 --> 12:24.374 [SPEAKER_00]: If the foot should say because I'm not of the hand, I'm not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? 12:24.654 --> 12:25.275 [SPEAKER_00]: Of course not. 12:27.016 --> 12:30.839 [SPEAKER_00]: And if the ears should say because I'm not an eye, I'm not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? 12:30.960 --> 12:31.240 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 12:32.381 --> 12:34.422 [SPEAKER_00]: If the whole body weren't eye, where would be the hearing? 12:35.363 --> 12:37.005 [SPEAKER_00]: If the whole we're hearing, where would be the smelling? 12:38.194 --> 12:43.217 [SPEAKER_00]: But now God has said, the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he pleased. 12:44.058 --> 12:46.459 [SPEAKER_00]: And if they were all one member, where would the body be? 12:47.360 --> 12:50.241 [SPEAKER_00]: But now indeed, there are many members, yet one body. 12:51.022 --> 12:53.283 [SPEAKER_00]: And I cannot say to the hand, I don't need you. 12:54.224 --> 12:55.464 [SPEAKER_00]: Nor are you into the head to the feet. 12:55.565 --> 12:56.525 [SPEAKER_00]: I have no need of you. 12:58.266 --> 13:00.488 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, keep going, 22. 13:01.208 --> 13:04.570 [SPEAKER_00]: No much rather, those members of the body, which seem to be weaker or necessary. 13:04.590 --> 13:06.071 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, jump to verse 25, it says this. 13:07.067 --> 13:24.780 [SPEAKER_00]: that there should be no schism in the body, but the members should have the same care for one another, and if one member suffers, all members suffer with it, or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it, now you are the body of Christ and members individually. 13:25.670 --> 13:27.311 [SPEAKER_00]: You are the body crisis, members individually. 13:27.371 --> 13:31.612 [SPEAKER_00]: We are the body of Christ together, and we are individually members of that body. 13:31.632 --> 13:32.413 [SPEAKER_00]: Does that make sense to you? 13:32.433 --> 13:33.113 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 13:33.793 --> 13:37.294 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to understand, I've already kind of stated this, but I want to reset it again. 13:37.314 --> 13:40.215 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul frames this entire picture with belonging. 13:40.896 --> 13:45.757 [SPEAKER_00]: Regardless of your background, your race, your gender, your economic status, we've all been brought into one body. 13:46.098 --> 13:52.420 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me at a high praise if you are black, if you're white, if you're Hispanic, if you're of Asian descent, if you're Native American, 13:53.507 --> 14:03.696 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever you are, if you're a man, if you're a woman, if you're rich, if you're poor, if you're white-collar, if you're white-collar, if you're white-collar, or blue-collar, you belong here. 14:04.216 --> 14:05.778 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a seat at the table for you. 14:06.558 --> 14:15.466 [SPEAKER_00]: Christy Anady is about being brought into the family of Jesus, and I've said this a hundred times, but God does not save us into isolation. 14:16.807 --> 14:18.709 [SPEAKER_00]: You are saved into the body. 14:19.169 --> 14:21.111 [SPEAKER_00]: Salvation is more than personal. 14:22.852 --> 14:27.937 [SPEAKER_00]: It is more than personal, sure your salvation is personal, but it is more than personal. 14:28.338 --> 14:32.522 [SPEAKER_00]: It is also communal, because you're saved into a body. 14:33.583 --> 14:37.908 [SPEAKER_00]: You are not just saved from something you are saved into something. 14:37.928 --> 14:43.053 [SPEAKER_00]: You aren't just saved from hell, you are saved into the body of Christ of which there are many members. 14:43.353 --> 14:45.716 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever you got saved, you got a new family. 14:46.748 --> 14:48.989 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't just get a new final destination. 14:49.009 --> 14:49.950 [SPEAKER_00]: You got a new family. 14:50.710 --> 14:58.055 [SPEAKER_00]: And in the West, oftentimes we have really boiled Christianity down to this that we get a new final destination. 14:58.315 --> 15:02.157 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's not just about getting a new final destination, although worth thankful. 15:02.437 --> 15:06.920 [SPEAKER_00]: That if we were to any of us were to die right now, that there's a heaven again, and there's a hell to shun. 15:07.020 --> 15:07.821 [SPEAKER_00]: And the church says, 15:08.741 --> 15:11.764 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen, but at the end of the day, it's not just about that. 15:11.784 --> 15:13.004 [SPEAKER_00]: I've heard my dad said this for years. 15:13.145 --> 15:15.226 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to quote him directly. 15:15.647 --> 15:21.611 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't like this, it's his fault. 15:25.034 --> 15:26.675 [SPEAKER_00]: He said this for years, I heard him preach this all the time. 15:27.236 --> 15:36.423 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, if the entire point of becoming a Christian was going to heaven, then the best thing that could happen to you whenever you get say, just a preacher could put you pull out a gun and shoot you and send you there. 15:40.420 --> 15:43.182 [SPEAKER_00]: If the entire goal, something like, oh my goodness, yeah, right? 15:43.422 --> 15:48.866 [SPEAKER_00]: If the entire, if that's the goal, though, is to get in there, that's the goal. 15:49.267 --> 15:51.008 [SPEAKER_00]: Then let's get you in and a backslide. 15:51.028 --> 15:52.329 [SPEAKER_00]: You got about this long. 15:54.271 --> 15:58.374 [SPEAKER_00]: We gon' make sure, you don't sin. 16:03.818 --> 16:09.342 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody by your head, close your eyes, anybody in this room knows, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. 16:13.330 --> 16:15.552 [SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise, I'm not getting saved this morning, praise God. 16:17.273 --> 16:18.694 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll go to a different church for that. 16:21.896 --> 16:29.922 [SPEAKER_00]: In all seriousness, though, if the entire goal was just to get to heaven, then the best thing that could happen for you after you get saved is to die. 16:31.523 --> 16:34.025 [SPEAKER_00]: But what if the goal wasn't just to get to heaven? 16:36.326 --> 16:38.388 [SPEAKER_00]: What if the goal was to bring heaven into the earth? 16:40.151 --> 16:41.732 [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's what Jesus tells. 16:42.032 --> 16:50.838 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus doesn't tell His disciples, pray this way, our Father, who aren't having how it will be that name, that kingdom come, that I will be done and get us out of here as quickly as possible so we can be with you in heaven. 16:52.940 --> 16:56.783 [SPEAKER_00]: Our Father, who aren't having how it will be that name, that kingdom come, that I will be done on earth. 16:57.724 --> 17:23.847 [SPEAKER_00]: as it is in heaven, part of the goal and this is one of the incredible things about the church and this is why the church is so important because while the world tries I'm at this point some of you real quick, if you weren't aware whenever you get to heaven there's not a white heaven and a black heaven and a Hispanic heaven, there's not neighborhoods and you get to live in the gated community and you don't have to be around the pores. 17:28.208 --> 17:28.929 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, somebody. 17:30.570 --> 17:32.991 [SPEAKER_00]: There's not the American heaven and the Mexican heaven. 17:37.675 --> 17:39.896 [SPEAKER_00]: And you better not, I've got to keep going. 17:45.100 --> 17:47.882 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Pastor Garrett, so I'm trying to pull it out of me over here. 17:48.522 --> 17:49.923 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got Pastor Garrett on this side. 17:49.943 --> 17:52.685 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got Pastor Castle on this, but let's go, let's go, let's go. 17:53.145 --> 17:54.546 [SPEAKER_00]: They are bad influences. 17:54.566 --> 17:55.247 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just telling you, right now. 17:59.913 --> 18:01.734 [SPEAKER_00]: There's not the American heaven, and then the other heaven. 18:01.934 --> 18:15.143 [SPEAKER_00]: At the end of the day, there is one heaven, and the Scripture says, John says, when he's taking up pieces every kindred, every tribe, every tongue, every nation, and they're all worshiping together to get some eyesight together. 18:15.163 --> 18:16.444 [SPEAKER_00]: They're all worshiping together. 18:16.484 --> 18:19.526 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is one of the incredible things, and one of the reasons the church is so important. 18:19.786 --> 18:22.788 [SPEAKER_00]: The church gets to show a picture of that on the earth. 18:24.270 --> 18:29.975 [SPEAKER_00]: that while everybody else is trying to segregate into groups, the church says we're gonna worship the name of Jesus together. 18:30.235 --> 18:34.738 [SPEAKER_00]: You look around this room and you see all sorts of different people from all sorts of backgrounds. 18:35.039 --> 18:37.040 [SPEAKER_00]: And that is beautiful. 18:37.180 --> 18:41.183 [SPEAKER_00]: And that is the church and the church says Amen. 18:42.004 --> 18:43.765 [SPEAKER_00]: So God doesn't just save us in isolation. 18:43.785 --> 18:45.006 [SPEAKER_00]: He joins us to a people. 18:45.307 --> 18:47.909 [SPEAKER_00]: He connects us to a body, gives us brothers and sisters. 18:49.278 --> 18:54.741 [SPEAKER_00]: And some people allow themselves to a chin church for years, but never actually allow themselves to connect and belong. 18:56.782 --> 18:57.562 [SPEAKER_00]: We need people. 18:58.703 --> 19:00.524 [SPEAKER_00]: You were never created to follow Jesus alone. 19:00.564 --> 19:07.628 [SPEAKER_00]: I would encourage you to go back and listen, couple of Wednesdays ago, I talked about this, but think Pastor Garrett and I were talking about this this week a little bit, they'll sound what I preached. 19:07.688 --> 19:08.768 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to think about this. 19:08.888 --> 19:12.330 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is God, we believe that. 19:12.570 --> 19:13.811 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're a Christian, that's what you believe. 19:14.851 --> 19:15.772 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is God. 19:16.582 --> 19:18.063 [SPEAKER_00]: He is God made flesh. 19:18.664 --> 19:24.670 [SPEAKER_00]: And when Jesus was walking this earth, how many believe he could have done it by himself? 19:25.551 --> 19:29.575 [SPEAKER_00]: In theory, he doesn't need, nobody's adding anything to him. 19:29.915 --> 19:38.884 [SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus calls 12 people to walk with him, partially because he's showing us a model to follow that you can't do this by yourself. 19:40.855 --> 19:44.018 [SPEAKER_00]: And in the family, in the body, everyone has a role. 19:44.038 --> 19:45.159 [SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians 12, we read it. 19:45.399 --> 19:47.821 [SPEAKER_00]: For, in fact, the body is not one member, but many. 19:48.341 --> 19:50.023 [SPEAKER_00]: It's many, not one gifted person. 19:50.703 --> 19:51.824 [SPEAKER_00]: Not a few gifted people. 19:52.085 --> 19:54.427 [SPEAKER_00]: Not one preacher worship leader, staff, ministry. 19:54.487 --> 19:55.488 [SPEAKER_00]: It's many members. 19:56.288 --> 19:57.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul Stark's name in body parts, right? 19:58.150 --> 19:59.251 [SPEAKER_00]: But it hand, ear, eye. 20:00.252 --> 20:04.155 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the body only works when different parts do different things. 20:05.716 --> 20:07.578 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine a body made entirely of eyes. 20:09.637 --> 20:16.300 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, incredible vision, useless at everything else. 20:18.141 --> 20:26.065 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine a body that's just one giant ear, incredible hearing, terrifying to look at. 20:27.426 --> 20:32.068 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, Paul's point is really simple, saying this is not necessarily strength. 20:33.269 --> 20:35.570 [SPEAKER_00]: Diversity functioning together is strength. 20:37.090 --> 20:44.214 [SPEAKER_00]: He goes on to say that God sets the members, that He gave you personality, experience, his abilities, passion, spiritual gifts. 20:45.315 --> 20:48.077 [SPEAKER_00]: And here, me, there are no spare parts in the body of Christ. 20:49.217 --> 20:58.102 [SPEAKER_00]: You may never stand there, light, you may never preach, you may never sing, you may never do something that everybody uploads for, but that doesn't make your assignment insignificant. 20:59.783 --> 21:03.406 [SPEAKER_00]: Before I turn this microphone on today, doors were unlocked, 21:06.307 --> 21:30.952 [SPEAKER_00]: Children were checked in, people were greeted, coffee was made, cameras were operated, people prayed, we played the wrong announcements twice, supplies were stocked, toilet paper was put in, and the church says, come on somebody, there is no just in the kingdom. 21:32.270 --> 21:33.211 [SPEAKER_00]: I just greet. 21:33.891 --> 21:37.635 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you may be the first expression of Jesus that someone experiences today. 21:37.655 --> 21:37.915 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. 21:42.459 --> 21:42.879 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. 21:42.899 --> 21:45.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I just work in kids ministry. 21:46.582 --> 21:52.327 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you're helping frame the understanding of the next generation of who Jesus is and what he wants to do for them. 21:52.827 --> 21:55.610 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're giving moms and dads the ability to hear the word. 21:57.711 --> 21:59.212 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just behind the camera. 21:59.272 --> 22:06.317 [SPEAKER_00]: No, someone may hear the gospel today because you were faithful to operate a camera and this be sent literally around the world. 22:07.718 --> 22:10.619 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you all to just take the word just out of your vocabulary. 22:10.720 --> 22:11.640 [SPEAKER_00]: I just do this. 22:11.660 --> 22:13.782 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't just, I just move chairs. 22:13.842 --> 22:16.243 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you're preparing the way for something that God's gonna do. 22:18.545 --> 22:23.408 [SPEAKER_00]: Dad mentioned Nick Bottle earlier today and I love Nick. 22:23.508 --> 22:25.129 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll give it up for Nick, except for blessing. 22:27.712 --> 22:30.513 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the day to pick on Nick this morning, amen, praise God. 22:31.574 --> 22:39.838 [SPEAKER_00]: Nick was serving at our grocery giveaway yesterday, and towards the end of the day, I was just kind of thanking people as I say, hey, thank you all for coming, thank you for serving. 22:40.278 --> 22:44.320 [SPEAKER_00]: And they hustled yesterday, and they were out on the rain and doing all sorts of stuff, whenever it was raining. 22:44.400 --> 22:46.220 [SPEAKER_00]: It's him and Melissa hustled. 22:47.821 --> 22:50.384 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have time to go into Nick's entire story, but I'll just say this. 22:50.424 --> 22:56.291 [SPEAKER_00]: The work that God has done in Nick's life over the past four years, over the past four years has been incredible. 22:56.411 --> 23:01.497 [SPEAKER_00]: I remember the first day Nick walked in here on a Wednesday afternoon and Pastor Garrett and I were a little bit scared. 23:01.517 --> 23:04.781 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's up for two days though, it's told me. 23:05.201 --> 23:07.023 [SPEAKER_00]: Two, four, he hadn't slept for four days. 23:08.393 --> 23:11.174 [SPEAKER_00]: Nick was not in a good place and we talked to him on the Wednesday afternoon. 23:11.214 --> 23:13.214 [SPEAKER_00]: We told him Jesus loved and we told him to come back to church. 23:13.234 --> 23:18.975 [SPEAKER_00]: We said there's always a place for you here and he walked out of that door and I was like, I don't know, we're going to see that guy again, just be honest with you. 23:18.995 --> 23:21.716 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we, you see that happened and Nick came that Wednesday. 23:21.736 --> 23:25.076 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's basically been here ever since and God's done incredible work in his life. 23:25.897 --> 23:27.617 [SPEAKER_00]: He's married now, praise God. 23:30.057 --> 23:32.298 [SPEAKER_00]: They got a new baby on the way, praise God. 23:38.243 --> 23:42.608 [SPEAKER_00]: But Nick told me something yesterday that I don't think he'd ever told me before, at least I had never heard it. 23:42.628 --> 23:43.609 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, thank you for serving today. 23:43.629 --> 23:44.750 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I appreciate you all so much. 23:45.451 --> 23:47.192 [SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the reasons I came here. 23:48.234 --> 23:49.535 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, what are you talking about? 23:49.555 --> 23:55.301 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, before I walked in that Wednesday and talked to you in Pastor Garrett, he said, you're all we're doing one of these few years back. 23:56.462 --> 23:58.805 [SPEAKER_00]: He goes, and I was walking down the road or something. 23:58.825 --> 24:00.466 [SPEAKER_00]: You're walking down, he goes, I was just raining. 24:01.159 --> 24:01.879 [SPEAKER_00]: wasn't rain that day. 24:01.940 --> 24:03.360 [SPEAKER_00]: I was walking on the road and it was raining. 24:03.941 --> 24:11.045 [SPEAKER_00]: And I saw a young man by the side of the road during the grocery giveaway, holding a sign and like waving people to come in for the grocery giveaway. 24:11.446 --> 24:13.247 [SPEAKER_00]: And I looked at it and thought, I should be doing that. 24:18.870 --> 24:27.496 [SPEAKER_00]: The Linchpin, one of the Linchpins, in Nick's life that started turning things around, wasn't a sermon that was preached. 24:30.268 --> 24:33.070 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't somebody showing up on his door going, not knock. 24:33.190 --> 24:34.290 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you heard about Jesus? 24:35.471 --> 24:41.374 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the lynch pins that turned his life around was a young man standing on the side of the road going y'all coming to get groceries. 24:44.816 --> 24:45.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about that. 24:45.937 --> 24:49.679 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't some grand, quote-unquote spiritual thing. 24:50.219 --> 24:52.821 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't somebody showed up and goes, I've got a word from you. 24:53.982 --> 24:57.744 [SPEAKER_00]: It was somebody simply being faithful to serve their church and serve the community. 24:58.608 --> 24:59.608 [SPEAKER_00]: And hear me, and hear me. 25:00.229 --> 25:02.370 [SPEAKER_00]: That, I don't think Nick knows who that person was. 25:02.410 --> 25:02.910 [SPEAKER_00]: You know who it was? 25:03.470 --> 25:04.231 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't know who the buzz. 25:04.411 --> 25:05.271 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure who it was. 25:05.571 --> 25:06.452 [SPEAKER_00]: But I tell you who does know. 25:06.752 --> 25:10.133 [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven, I tell you who does know the Lord. 25:11.254 --> 25:13.635 [SPEAKER_00]: And I tell you what, there's a reward for those sorts of things. 25:14.435 --> 25:15.396 [SPEAKER_00]: And God blesses. 25:15.756 --> 25:17.597 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to hear me, I want you to hear me. 25:18.806 --> 25:22.049 [SPEAKER_00]: Even the thing that you feel is like, I'm just doing this. 25:22.690 --> 25:26.313 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know the seed that you're selling and the lives that it's impacting. 25:26.613 --> 25:30.577 [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't know who's watching and who's seeing and how it's gonna change them forever. 25:30.978 --> 25:33.400 [SPEAKER_00]: Connection is part of the calling of the body of Christ. 25:35.107 --> 25:38.629 [SPEAKER_00]: serving as part of the calling of the body Christ. 25:39.249 --> 25:50.195 [SPEAKER_00]: In Ephesians chapter four Paul makes it clear that we're the body and part of the body of Christ and that we are joined and knit together and goes on to say this by what every joint supplies. 25:51.235 --> 25:52.716 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what you'd miss, that we're joined. 25:53.957 --> 25:55.578 [SPEAKER_00]: A joint is a place of connection. 25:56.918 --> 26:03.282 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul doesn't just say that everyone has something to supply that the body grows when the parts are connected together. 26:04.343 --> 26:10.231 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul doesn't just say you have something to supply with, that you have to be connected in order to supply that. 26:10.591 --> 26:13.375 [SPEAKER_00]: Your gift matters and connections to the body matters. 26:13.775 --> 26:20.324 [SPEAKER_00]: You can be gifted in isolation and your gift be of no good to anyone and no benefit to anyone. 26:21.053 --> 26:23.454 [SPEAKER_00]: But something happens whenever you join a team. 26:23.474 --> 26:29.215 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't want you to think we're preaching this today because we need children's workers or we need media people or we need somebody in production. 26:30.595 --> 26:33.176 [SPEAKER_00]: We're preaching this because something happens when you join a team. 26:33.716 --> 26:34.516 [SPEAKER_00]: You find people. 26:36.657 --> 26:37.877 [SPEAKER_00]: You start learning names. 26:39.337 --> 26:41.558 [SPEAKER_00]: You start having conversations you weren't having before. 26:42.598 --> 26:44.559 [SPEAKER_00]: You start doing life alongside people. 26:45.479 --> 26:49.800 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the strongest relationships you will ever develop in church will happen serving beside someone. 26:50.902 --> 26:55.725 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, again, some of the strongest relationships you will ever develop in church will happen serving alongside someone. 26:56.846 --> 26:58.848 [SPEAKER_00]: Community doesn't always happen at a table. 27:00.169 --> 27:02.650 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it happens shoulder to shoulder serving our church. 27:03.711 --> 27:06.093 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it happens shoulder to shoulder serving our community. 27:06.113 --> 27:13.698 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm so thankful for the people that we have that just show up, no matter what's happening, they're just here, right? 27:14.058 --> 27:19.082 [SPEAKER_00]: I know that Jeremy and Christian want to savage and their kids no matter what's going on. 27:24.937 --> 27:28.560 [SPEAKER_00]: I know people like Emily Louise Tanton is gonna be here no matter what's going on. 27:31.943 --> 27:34.905 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's gonna annoy me for half of it, but I'm gonna love her anyways. 27:37.588 --> 27:38.148 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Emma. 27:40.950 --> 27:45.334 [SPEAKER_00]: And I can go around the room and name so many people, but I'm thankful for people that just show up. 27:46.255 --> 27:51.099 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't have to have a word from the Lord to serve, because we're a body and we serve each other. 27:51.975 --> 27:55.657 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't need to go, oh, you know, handing out groceries isn't my gift team. 27:57.038 --> 27:58.059 [SPEAKER_00]: No one's gifted in that. 27:58.099 --> 27:58.759 [SPEAKER_00]: We just do it. 28:00.901 --> 28:10.467 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful I watched so many ladies yesterday because when we do these giveaways, we have a lady who generally meets some at the car, price, warm, real, there's men are loading groceries. 28:11.087 --> 28:17.591 [SPEAKER_00]: And there are men who pray too, but I watched people like Megan Forrest and I watched people like Bobby Gattison. 28:17.631 --> 28:18.672 [SPEAKER_00]: I watched people like, 28:20.410 --> 28:32.401 [SPEAKER_00]: Caitlyn, a village, and I watch all of these people, and I'm telling you, I watch them pray for people, and not just words, but I watch them pray unknowing to prayers over people. 28:33.482 --> 28:40.049 [SPEAKER_00]: Not just empty words, but I watch people's lives be touched and changed, right? 28:40.349 --> 28:42.411 [SPEAKER_00]: Because they were simply willing to show up. 28:43.528 --> 28:45.809 [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, whatever you need me to do, I'm here. 28:46.689 --> 28:48.670 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful that we have that opportunity. 28:48.970 --> 28:50.770 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me, I'm gonna wrap up. 28:51.151 --> 28:52.691 [SPEAKER_00]: Your yes creates an encounter. 28:54.552 --> 28:56.112 [SPEAKER_00]: Said, your yes creates an encounter. 28:57.013 --> 28:59.573 [SPEAKER_00]: Your yes has the ability to help someone encounter Jesus. 29:00.414 --> 29:05.976 [SPEAKER_00]: That yes that that young man said at a grocery giveaway, opened a door for Nick to have an encounter. 29:07.956 --> 29:09.777 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know what your yes does. 29:11.035 --> 29:13.777 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know the yes of your seed and lives it changes. 29:14.417 --> 29:16.799 [SPEAKER_00]: Your yes at the door helps someone feel at home. 29:18.320 --> 29:29.867 [SPEAKER_00]: Your yes in children's ministry, or even crazier, nursery, gives a parent the opportunity to experience a Lord in their life will be transformed. 29:30.868 --> 29:35.491 [SPEAKER_00]: Your yes in production helps thousands of people hear the message of the kingdom. 29:36.392 --> 29:39.414 [SPEAKER_00]: Your yes in prayer is part of someone else's breakthrough. 29:40.170 --> 29:44.434 [SPEAKER_00]: Your yes and outreach might put the love of Jesus directly in front of someone else. 29:45.595 --> 30:00.387 [SPEAKER_00]: Pastor Garrett, yes, we were talking in our staff text thread, just about yesterday and what a wonderful day it was and how lives were changed and Pastor Garrett said, he said, hundreds of people, really, probably thousands of people, thousands of people experienced hope today. 30:02.088 --> 30:07.313 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know in those moments, the hope isn't us and the hope isn't just groceries. 30:08.140 --> 30:10.362 [SPEAKER_00]: But is there some people here who love Jesus? 30:11.242 --> 30:12.363 [SPEAKER_00]: And they love you? 30:13.484 --> 30:15.525 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is our way of telling you. 30:16.065 --> 30:21.249 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus loves you and He is here for you and He will supply every need. 30:21.589 --> 30:27.533 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if that's just a weak source of groceries, He's gonna supply and listen, we know how many families told us yesterday. 30:27.813 --> 30:29.775 [SPEAKER_00]: This isn't, this is a miracle for us. 30:30.938 --> 30:32.599 [SPEAKER_00]: This is an answer to our prayers. 30:33.159 --> 30:44.683 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know what's showing up and serving some people who are battling addiction, giving them some pizza and saying, we're going to pray with you. 30:46.364 --> 30:48.665 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know what a difference it makes in lives. 30:51.966 --> 30:54.187 [SPEAKER_00]: When you serve, you aren't just helping the church. 30:55.267 --> 30:56.348 [SPEAKER_00]: You are being the church. 30:57.344 --> 30:58.164 [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's who we are. 30:59.125 --> 31:01.325 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to hear me as I start to close today. 31:01.885 --> 31:03.126 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually having a U of a place here. 31:04.326 --> 31:06.447 [SPEAKER_00]: Not just a seat, a place. 31:07.567 --> 31:09.488 [SPEAKER_00]: A place is somewhere you belong. 31:10.548 --> 31:12.188 [SPEAKER_00]: And your place is more than a task. 31:12.228 --> 31:12.669 [SPEAKER_00]: It's people. 31:12.729 --> 31:15.289 [SPEAKER_00]: It's relationships, it's a purpose, connection, contribution. 31:16.230 --> 31:17.710 [SPEAKER_00]: And some of you have already found that place. 31:17.730 --> 31:18.630 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you are already serving. 31:18.650 --> 31:22.632 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you are already, some of you are already going to tell somebody all we got slow down, just a little bit. 31:24.372 --> 31:26.973 [SPEAKER_00]: And for all of you who have already found your place, thank you. 31:28.563 --> 31:29.683 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for showing up. 31:30.664 --> 31:32.044 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for carrying weight. 31:33.044 --> 31:34.885 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for serving when nobody knows. 31:35.745 --> 31:38.586 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for saying he cleaned bathrooms after everybody else's left. 31:40.226 --> 31:43.667 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for everything that you do. 31:43.707 --> 31:45.327 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you may have been sitting in the stands. 31:46.147 --> 31:46.968 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to hear me. 31:47.468 --> 31:49.908 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the time to get out of the stands and get in the game. 31:51.969 --> 31:55.610 [SPEAKER_00]: It's great to cheer the team on, but now it's time to get in the game. 31:56.582 --> 32:01.384 [SPEAKER_00]: And some of you have been sitting in the stands and not because you don't care, maybe you didn't know where to start. 32:03.385 --> 32:04.606 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you didn't think you were needed. 32:04.626 --> 32:07.227 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you didn't think you had anything to offer. 32:07.488 --> 32:08.168 [SPEAKER_00]: You've been nervous. 32:08.888 --> 32:10.249 [SPEAKER_00]: Today I'm asking you, getting the game. 32:11.109 --> 32:11.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Go all in. 32:12.762 --> 32:14.163 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not holding that, we're going all in. 32:14.183 --> 32:15.904 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna go half in, we're going all in. 32:16.665 --> 32:19.266 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you need connection, and there's a gift inside of you. 32:19.887 --> 32:22.929 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you need to sit at the table and you need to serve the body. 32:23.769 --> 32:25.971 [SPEAKER_00]: God has relationships waiting for you. 32:26.491 --> 32:28.332 [SPEAKER_00]: There are kingdom purposes on your life. 32:28.352 --> 32:31.134 [SPEAKER_00]: So today, I'm gonna ask you to make three decisions. 32:32.295 --> 32:33.256 [SPEAKER_00]: As you make three decisions. 32:33.936 --> 32:35.958 [SPEAKER_00]: The first one is this, I will belong. 32:37.639 --> 32:39.360 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna live on the edge of the family. 32:41.603 --> 32:45.245 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to be the person that comes in late leaves early, doesn't talk to anybody. 32:46.806 --> 32:49.868 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not, I'm not rebuking you if that's been you. 32:49.888 --> 32:51.409 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying you're making a different choice today. 32:52.510 --> 32:53.970 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to allow myself to be known. 32:54.331 --> 32:55.051 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to push in. 32:56.192 --> 32:57.633 [SPEAKER_00]: The second one is this, I'm going to connect. 32:58.833 --> 32:59.694 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to meet people. 33:00.394 --> 33:01.675 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to build relationships. 33:02.535 --> 33:04.036 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to stop trying to do this alone. 33:06.678 --> 33:07.458 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to connect. 33:08.439 --> 33:10.220 [SPEAKER_00]: And the last one is this, I'm going to contribute. 33:11.335 --> 33:12.575 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to ask God where I fit. 33:13.976 --> 33:16.316 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to use the gift that God put inside of me. 33:17.156 --> 33:19.457 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to get off the sidelines and I'm going to find my place. 33:21.237 --> 33:30.880 [SPEAKER_00]: So when this service ends in just a few minutes, I know a lot of you probably already saw when you came in, there are a lot of tables in the lobby. 33:32.020 --> 33:33.840 [SPEAKER_00]: What those tables are for is really simple. 33:34.520 --> 33:36.601 [SPEAKER_00]: We have all of our primary places 33:41.510 --> 33:46.532 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a connect group for every age and stage of your life. 33:47.312 --> 33:52.614 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether you are in middle school or whether you are 92 years old. 33:53.814 --> 33:55.875 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a place or 95 minutes stop at 92. 33:58.267 --> 34:08.609 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a place for you to connect and I want and every single group has an event coming up probably within the next month or so, all of them have an event within the next month. 34:09.050 --> 34:17.652 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to stop by the table, find the table where you connect, find the table, the group leaders for those groups are going to be there. 34:17.772 --> 34:18.692 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to meet them. 34:19.232 --> 34:20.694 [SPEAKER_00]: there's two leaders for each group. 34:21.075 --> 34:21.957 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to meet them. 34:22.297 --> 34:24.140 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to find out what their next event is. 34:24.420 --> 34:29.148 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to scan the QR code and join the group on church center because you need community. 34:29.489 --> 34:31.251 [SPEAKER_00]: You weren't made to do life alone. 34:32.611 --> 34:43.975 [SPEAKER_00]: And then also outside is all the major places you can connect and serve, whether it's kids ministry, whether it's our celebrate recovery ministry, media, worship, all of that's out there. 34:44.535 --> 34:47.316 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to find somewhere you can connect, right? 34:47.576 --> 34:53.598 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're not sure and you're not sure and you leave today and you're still not sure, that's okay, you can contact us and we'll help you find a place. 34:54.138 --> 34:55.658 [SPEAKER_00]: But I want you to find somewhere to serve. 34:56.019 --> 34:56.239 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 34:56.419 --> 35:00.360 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you are needed, not to be a name on a schedule. 35:01.340 --> 35:03.120 [SPEAKER_00]: but somebody is waiting for you. 35:05.241 --> 35:10.703 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody is waiting for you to so seed that will flourish in their life. 35:11.383 --> 35:19.705 [SPEAKER_00]: Someone is waiting for you to just be faithful what God has put inside of you and lives are changed on the other side where you stand up to your feet. 35:20.545 --> 35:22.586 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again for downloading this podcast. 35:22.626 --> 35:26.427 [SPEAKER_00]: We trust that this message has blessed and encouraged and identified you. 35:26.884 --> 35:30.567 [SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you subscribe so you never miss a message here for high praise. 35:31.067 --> 35:39.014 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, you can follow us on social media, on Facebook and on Instagram, and don't forget to go subscribe to our YouTube channel. 35:39.614 --> 35:41.876 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be back soon with another incredible message. 35:42.016 --> 35:43.858 [SPEAKER_00]: God bless you and have a great week.