Year End Social 2025

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I shall say welcome to our year
end celebration and social and

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it's it's always fun looking
back and celebrating what God's

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done in 2025.
As I walk around, I've noticed

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we got a lot of new people or
newer people.

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People watch online as well.
You just let them know we love

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them and thanks for being here
today.

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Give it up for babes.
New, newer to real life, always

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exciting.
Today we are baptizing here in a

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few minutes.
I would encourage you, if you

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have not been baptized, this,
this is the most Ram thing ever.

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But if you've not been baptized
and you feel like man, God's

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putting you hard to get
baptized.

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You can jump in anytime.
Amen.

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And I've had this happened
numerous times.

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We baptized, we have a change of
clothes if you need it, but we

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baptize people in the blue
jeans.

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But if, if you're like, man,
that made me be a day, we're

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gonna share some stats.
You're gonna hear their stories

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and it's gonna be really, really
exciting.

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But let's just look back at 2025
just for a minute, and 2025 was

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a a year of bold faith and we
stepped out with some goals.

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And it's sometimes you set goals
and you just don't look back at

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them because you're like, man,
those are we didn't get anywhere

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near our goals.
That's not the case.

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So 2025 we set a goal, one of
the goals, what's let's baptize

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50 people and that was a big
goal and we're knocking it 50 a

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day, but we're going to be
really close.

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Amen.
And so go God because that's a

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big number and that's you talk
about a person that we getting

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baptized.
So pretty cool.

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We set a goal to create 20
disciple makers in our church,

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so people that can help other
people grow spiritually, very

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intentionally doing that through
relationships.

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And so my wife and I, we're
going to talk about later, we're

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commissioning some people out
today and we're going to

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Commission 18 people to make
disciples.

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So we got real close to that
goal.

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Amen.
So go God.

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The third goal we set last year,
which we set the goal, we had no

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real plan of how to reach the
goal, but we said, hey, we're

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going to try to raise our first
million towards our first

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permanent space.
And you guys know if you've been

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here, we're we're, we've
committed as a church over

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$1,000,000 to our first
permanent space.

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So third goal reached.
Amen.

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So it's pretty cool stuff.
So it's exciting.

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I'm going to run through just a
couple things that God did in

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2025.
Just some story like stat side,

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we'll do some stories later, but
here's the, here's the big

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rocks.
So 104, we have 104 new

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believers in 2025.
Amen.

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So that's pretty cool.
So that's about two people every

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single time we met or throughout
the week that you celebrate on

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Sunday as well.
So you have 140 new believers.

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Raise your hand if you came to
Christ this year through real

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life Church 2025, Raise your
hand if that's you.

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Y'all being shy.
I see some hands give it up for

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those who came to Christ this
year.

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There you go.
Pretty cool.

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All right, so we've had 27
people baptized this year so

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far, and we have more today.
So raise your hand if you been

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baptized this year in real life.
You got some people over here

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through 4 over here.
Nice, nice.

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You guys are going for it.
Oh man.

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So we've had people.
Our church didn't exist unless

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you guys get real excited about
just investing in people,

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sharing the gospel, people
coming out.

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So this year we had just over
501st time guests to real life.

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And so if you're the first time
this year, raise your hand.

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If you're the first time to real
life this year, put your hand up

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all around the room.
There's so many of you guys.

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Give it up for those guys.
Amen.

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Pretty cool.
Oh man, so digital side, this is

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so interesting.
There's so many numbers you

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could put on this, but we had
73,000 minutes of content viewed

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this last year through real Life
Church.

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That's a lot of content going
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Amen.
We had 670 individual people

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join us on church online.
I think we grew by 130 YouTube

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subscribers, which is people
just going to see our stuff.

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So that's amazing.
Real life kids every week they

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average 76 kids every single
Sunday.

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That's pretty good.
Amen.

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So making disciples with their
kids, their their second kids

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camp this year they had 20
people come out to connect camp,

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which was awesome.
I think, I don't know, last year

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was a handful.
So 20 was really big.

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Our teenagers, we had 27 teens
every week on average meet with

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real life youth.
So give up for our youth group,

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youth group leaders.
Pretty cool, we had 31 teenagers

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go down to the lake house for
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Destroyed our place.
Come on somebody, it's awesome.

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Life groups is pretty cool for
our life group leaders.

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We had 27 different life groups
offered all throughout 2025 S

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give up for our life group
leaders.

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Amen.
Guess make it happen man.

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We did a mission trip to Bogota,
Colombia, South America.

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We had 11 people on that trip.
We usually do a couple trips,

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but if you want that trip,
thanks for going and it's

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amazing what God does across the
world.

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Give it up for the our missions
team this year.

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Amen.
And of course, difference maker,

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we've been talking about this
quite a bit.

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We had 1,905,000 pledged towards
our first permanent space for

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the next two years and we've
collected this is pretty cool.

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So far, just since we did our
celebration Sunday, we've had

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200 and I think this, this is
210, but we have $211,000 that

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have been given towards that
space.

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Amen.
That's pretty good.

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So go God.
And then this year we've had 63

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new donors in 2025.
That's a lot of new donors.

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Like that's amazing.
So give it up for a bait who

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started giving this year.
We appreciate you guys.

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And then we did something
special this year.

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We actually rolled out our first
group of elders in our church.

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And elders are like spiritual
leaders.

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They set the spiritual pace.
They're here to keep unity

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really covering for me and Diane
and our staff and our team.

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They pray over us.
They, they, they help us, they

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coach us.
They solve problems, they step

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into situations where they need
counseling, all sorts of great

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things.
And so we've had six couples

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that we've invested in that are
meeting monthly, praying for our

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church, helping out in different
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There you go.
The Spirit of God has landed

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today.
So I'm going to invite our

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elders.
I don't know if they can make

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their way up here or not.
Yeah, we can make it away.

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So just so you know who these
guys are and their families.

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So they serve as a couple.
But the first group up.

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Yeah.
Well, we got some base for the

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elders.
I love it.

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I don't think they're here.
Barry and Christy, I think are

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both sick as dogs.
So say every say Aww.

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They're watched online, bro, you
know?

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But Barry and Christy, Rick and
Penny.

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Where's Rick and Penny?
They're right here.

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So they're helping out.
So give it for Rick and Penny.

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Scott and Jenny Kuya.
Where they at?

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I saw them.
OK, come on up here.

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You come up here.
They're kind of stuck over

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there.
So Scott and Jenny, man, this

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these guys are awesome, dude.
They got a yay.

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I like it.
Come on around.

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All right, Josh and Carrie
Cubbly.

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I know.
Carrie.

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Can you make it?
She's like Vanna White back

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there.
So you never guessed, but Josh

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is sick as well.
I know these guys hanging out

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too much.
Good job, Kerry.

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All right, Scott and Dana.
Jermaine, where, where they at?

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There's Scott and Dana.
OK, come on up here.

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Nice.
And last but not least, we have

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Chuck and Jill Smith.
Where's Chuck and Jill at?

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We're going to get Jill on stage
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We're actually looking for
somebody to give a speech.

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So we're going to have Jill come
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And I'm just kidding.
She would kill me.

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So, but I will say these, these
men and women have stepped in

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the gap and behind the scenes,
they're the ones praying for our

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church.
And it's that prayer that leads

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our church forward, Amen.
And they help me and Diane, like

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there's so much that we, we, we
carry a lot of weight, right?

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Like every time we lead there,
there's victories and defeats

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all in the same moment.
And whether you know it or not,

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there's people coming or leaving
or marriage is falling apart and

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people getting together.
It's just, it's sometimes it's

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hard, Amen?
And these, these men and women,

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they, they really kind of hold
our hands up and pray for us.

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And there's situations they walk
in into the, into the hard

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things.
And so love on these guys, Amen.

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Pray for these men and their
spouses that lead the way for a

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church.
This is what brings us forward

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and this is what keeps our
church as healthy as humanly

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possible, Amen.
And that's what we're realized

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about try to be healthy.
So give for these guys one more

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time.
Let them know you love them.

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Let me pray for you guys real
quick to augmented that before

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that, but this is pray real
quick.

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Finally, God thanks so much for
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God, thanks for identifying men
and women that just carry your

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your cause guys.
God, those that see with

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ministry eyes that are moved by
the Holy Spirit, that step into

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maybe difficult situations that
hold the unity that look for

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things that need to be shored
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Pray for a blessing on their
families.

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God pray that they can they
guide our church and just keep

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it as healthy as possible.
Get that they have the liberty

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and the freedom to speak up when
they see something when they

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sent something that they would
bring unity to our church.

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The men and women that know your
word and follow your spirit and

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help guide and lead our church
in the future.

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So God, we were grateful for
these men and women and the part

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they put on my life as well.
God just extremely grateful and

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thankful for them.
So give it up one more time for

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elders.
Amen.

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All right, we are going to
baptize today and baptism is

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it's really special because
these people have All Star

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relationship with Jesus and this
is their first really like I

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received the gift of salvation,
but this is the first step of

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obedience to giving back.
And I was telling them when you

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get baptized, Jesus got baptized
at the start of his public

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ministry.
And when you get baptized, it's

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a start of really a lifelong
journey of obedience towards

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Christ.
And you get baptized, not just

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because Jesus did it, but Jesus
also commands us.

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It's one of the only things that
Bible of Jesus really you

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measure in the Bible.
Go and make disciples, baptizing

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them.
They follow the Holy Spirit.

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And so baptism just a picture of
what Jesus did for us.

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So there's no saving grace in
this water, but it's a picture

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of really a death to yourself.
Like we're crucified with

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Christ.
It's the only I that live, but

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Christ that lives in me.
And so that's what they're doing

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this proclaiming that Christ
lives in them that will live for

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Jesus.
So I want to encourage you guys

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when they get baptized, I want
you to cheer them on like the

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biggest cheer you could ever
give.

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Amen.
Because this is super, super

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amazing.
And it's, it's a, it's a step in

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their journey you're going to
take once.

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But we live this every day in
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We're cheering on their
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And so I'm excited today.
I get to baptize my daughter

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today, which is always exciting.
I'm excited for everyone of

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their stories.
You're going to hear their

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stories.
I just pray, listen, lean in.

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And maybe today you're like,
I've never been baptized, but I

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know Jesus.
Well, guess what, There's room

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for you.
Amen.

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All right, give me up for one
more time for these guys.

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All right, well, part of baptism
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So we ask them a few questions
ahead of time and I get the

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pleasure of reading them to you
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So first we have Emory Petrie as
she's getting in the baptistry

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with her mom and dad, Shawn and
Diane or her Jesus story.

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She said, I love and trust God
and I know that he loves me.

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I've gone to church my whole
life and I know Jesus loves me

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because every night when I was
growing up, my mom sang the song

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Jesus loves me to me before I
went to bed.

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Now I read the Bible or
devotionals before I get bed.

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I go to kids church and I talk
to Jesus every night.

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I also love to sing songs to
Jesus like my favorite song

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Praise Holy Forever or Waymaker.
Why do you want to get baptized

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today?
She said.

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I want to get baptized to show
everybody that I believe in God.

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I'm excited to show everyone
that I believe in Him.

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Somebody's had an important
impact on her walk, she said.

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My mommy, because she reads the
Bible with me, she prays and she

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sings with me.
And my dad has also taught me a

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lot about Jesus and the Bible.
And Mr. Bill and real life kids

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taught me a lot about the Bible.
Next we have a Ruth OOTS.

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She shared that I was raised in
the church and grew up knowing

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about God, but as I got older I
became more concerned with the

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ways of the world and began
seeking approval and validation

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from things and people rather
than God.

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As life went on, I got married
and was blessed with two

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beautiful children, but when my
marriage ended in divorce, I

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felt completely lost.
Searching for validation in all

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the wrong places.
I saw a sign for Real Life

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Church and something inside me
said to so I decided to show up

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one Sunday.
From the moment I stepped

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through the doors, I was
welcomed with open arms, warmth,

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kindness, and love.
Since coming, I've made

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meaningful connections with
people who have not only

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impacted my life, but also my
kids through community.

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I felt a pull on my heart to
fully surrender my life to

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Christ and lay everything down
at His feet.

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Trusting in His perfect timing,
my children have now also

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surrendered their lives to
Jesus.

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A verse that's always been close
to my heart is Ecclesiastes 311,

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for he has made everything
beautiful in its time, and it

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reminds me that God's timing is
always perfect.

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Ruth wants to get baptized
today, she says.

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Today I stand renewed, learning
to walk in His purpose and His

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grace.
I'm grateful for where he's

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brought me and for the beauty
that he continues to create in

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every part of my life.
Both Christy Hardy and Tanya

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Taylor have had an impact on her
walk for all the prayers and

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hugs every Sunday morning.
Next we have Haley Highsum and

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Harmony Sanders that are getting
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Haley shared that her story, My
life before God was difficult.

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I made some bad choices recently
and I was scared I'm going to

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lose my home.
Worrying about this and worrying

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about my two kids helped me
realize that I need to get right

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with God because He will help me
in believing that everything

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will be OK.
This last year has been

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difficult, but I was invited to
church and realized that I

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needed Jesus in my life.
Haley wants to get baptized to

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follow Jesus and she wants
everybody else to know Him.

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She shared that Christy Hardy
has helped her in so many ways

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and had a special impact on her
walk with God.

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We also have Harmony Sanders.
She shared that her grandpa

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played a big role in her faith
and helped her realize that her

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need for Jesus was there in her
life.

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She wants to get baptized to get
closer to Jesus and to do that

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next step for her faith.
She wants to tell others about

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Him, she said.
Her great grandpa and grandma

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and her mom's mom have all been
such strong examples of what it

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looks like to follow Jesus.
Next we have Brittany Morrison

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Brittany's story.
Before starting my relationship

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with Jesus, I was constantly
feeling dragged down by the

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world around me.
I felt that I had to handle all

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the things on my own.
One day, when everything had

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just become too much, my
coworker asked if she could pray

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over me.
She asked about my relationship

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with Jesus and I explained that
I've always been interested in

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knowing Jesus, but I just didn't
know where to start.

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I knew of Jesus, but I didn't
know Jesus.

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She led me to call out to Jesus
to save me, and I did.

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Afterwards, I could feel all the
weights of my problems being

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lifted.
Now I know that Jesus died for

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my sins, meaning I no longer
have to be worried or burdened

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by the weight of the world
because Jesus took that for me.

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I look forward to growing my
faith and living my life through

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Christ and giving all the glory
to God.

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Brittany wants to get baptized.
She doesn't want to hide her

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faith in God any longer.
He's the reason for everything

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in my life.
She said He's led me to my

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amazing fiance Garrett and my
teaching career.

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Without God, I know I would not
be where I am today.

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I just want to show my
appreciation for Him in this

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step of obedience.
Somebody who's had a special

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impact on her walk is Monica
Crabtree.

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She led me to be saved by Jesus
and she's always willing to pray

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with me and teach me about
following God.

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Next we have Dakota and Carson
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So throughout my life I've
always known about Jesus Christ

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and God's presence in this
world.

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I did not grow up in the church
and I was baptized at a young

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age.
As I got older I took a big step

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away and let the evil in the
world take a hold of me which

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impacted my day-to-day life in a
negative way.

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I was lost in my own suffering
and inside a hell of my own

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creation.
My step back to my faith has

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broken down the walls I've built
around myself and that God has

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built me back up to be the best
husband and father that I always

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knew it could be.
All things, good and bad, happen

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for a reason, and it's all his
will.

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There's no denying him.
Thank you, my Lord Jesus Christ.

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Dakota wants to be baptized
today, to be renewed in his

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faith and to show everybody that
he's committed to following

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Jesus.
Somebody who's had a special

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impact on his walk, he said a
very special thank you to my

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wife, Carmen Mercer.
With you, I got back into church

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and grew back into my faith
stronger than ever before.

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I've learned to let go of my
anger and to be patient with you

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next to me and with the Lord in
my heart.

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Then we have Carson.
Be sure that I love going to

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church with my family and
learning about Jesus.

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And I want to get baptized
because I love the Lord.

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I love learning that He died on
the cross for our sins.

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Carson wanted to add as well
that his parents have had a big

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impact on helping him know and
follow Jesus.

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All right, next we have up
Olivia Collins when we asked

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Olivia to share her Jesus story.
Olivia shared.

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She said I am 8 and ready to
commit my life to Jesus and to

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declare that through baptism.
She said I want to get baptized

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to show my family and Jesus that
I'm serious about my faith and

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somebody who had a very special
impact on my Christian walk that

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I want to thank is my mom and my
dad.

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So cool to see kids and their
faith.

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The.
So awesome.

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Next up we have Kale Morlock.
Kale's joined by his dad and by

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his uncle in the baptistry.
We asked Kale his Jesus story

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and he said my life before Jesus
was happy but I missed Jesus.

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The night I asked Jesus into my
heart.

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I told my Mama that I love Jesus
and he is my best friend and I

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always want him to be with me in
my heart wherever I go.

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Because of Jesus, I help people
and that makes me happy to see

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others smile.
Kale wants to get baptized today

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because he says I want Jesus to
be my savior.

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I need God in my heart and I
don't want to let him go.

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Someone special who's had an
impact on Kale's walk.

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He said my Mama, because she
teaches me how to pray with my

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hands.
She teaches me in the Bible

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stories of how Jesus helped
others as well.

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So awesome.
Next up is Anthony Rodriguez.

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Anthony's joining us today and
he shared a little bit about his

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story.
He said he grew up in the

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Catholic Church, but for a lot
of years he had had some hard

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things come across his life and
he had walking away from church

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and from God and he would never
been baptized.

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But he said now that he's
walking back towards his faith,

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he wants to get baptized today
to show everybody that his faith

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in Christ is strong and that he
is following him with his life

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now.
Next up we have Blake Alexander.

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Yep, you can give it up for
Blake.

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Blake's got his cheering section
over here.

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It's awesome, Blake shared with
us, he said.

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Growing up, I had always gone to
church with my family, but when

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my mother passed away, I stepped
away from my walk with God and I

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went on a dark path to mask my
pain.

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I decided to try and turn my
life around when I went off to

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college, and while there I met
Abby, who's now my wife.

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She helped to lead me back on
this path and introduced me to

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some amazing mentors at Real
Life, where we now call our

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home.
He said I was baptized when I

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was younger, but I didn't
understand what it meant.

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Now that I understand what it
means as an adult, I'm

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committing Today.
I'm getting baptized to show my

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commitment to my family, to my
mentors, and to Christ to show

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that I'm committed to deepening
my walk with Him.

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Those who had a special impact
on my walk is my wife and it's

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our church family in real life.
And last we have Matthew

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Hieronymus.
Matthew shared a story with us

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and he said I had a rough
childhood growing up.

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He said I grew up with drugs and
with abuse in the home and when

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given the choice as a kid, it
was better to be at church than

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at home.
So as a kid I went to church and

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I did a lot of youth things in
church, but I was never

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baptized.
But I believed in God and had

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faith in him, Matthew shared.
He said when I was 15, I found

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my mother dead from a drug
overdose, and that's when I

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turned away from God.
It was only a few months ago

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that I recently started coming
back to church with my wife,

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initially just to support her.
But God's been working on me

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too.
And so today I'm declaring my

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faith and love and belief in
Jesus Christ.

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I want to be a better husband
and father, and I want to lead

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my family the way that Christ
would in the Christian way.

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The person who had the most
special impact on my walk is

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Carrie Hieronymus.
And she said I have seen first

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hand that her spirit and her
belief have changed for the

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good.
And I saw what she had and I

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knew I wanted to have a part of
that in my life as well, too.

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All right, let's give it up one
last time.

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For everybody who was baptized
today, it's such an incredible

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time hearing their stories,
seeing how God has transformed

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their lives.
It never gets old.

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And so to celebrate, I'd like to
invite you all to stand.

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We're going to take just a
second of worship and we're

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going to sing a song that I
love, that we know, but it

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really is a song about not how
OK things become better, but how

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dead things come alive.
And that's really what God does

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in our hearts when he makes us
new in Christ.

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And this baptism is a picture of
that.

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So let's let's worship him
today.

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And I search the world that it
couldn't fail me.

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Man's empty praise and treasures
that fade.

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I never know that you came along
and pulled me back together.

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Every desire is now satisfied
here in your love.

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Oh, there's nothing better than
you.

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There's nothing better than you.
Oh Lord, there's nothing,

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because nothing is a better than
you.

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And I'm not.
Afraid to show you my weakness,

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my failures and flaws.
Lord, you've seen them all and

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you still call me Fred.
Thank you, Jesus, because I

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care.
Out of the mountain is the God

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of the valley.
If there's not a place, your

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mercy and grace won't find me
again.

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Holy, there's nothing better
than you.

453
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,000
There's nothing better than you,
Lord.

454
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:41,320
There's nothing.
Because nothing is better than

455
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:50,760
you.
There's nothing better than you.

456
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:56,760
There's nothing better than you,
Lord.

457
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:02,040
There's nothing.
There's nothing is better than

458
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,800
you.
Come on, give him a shout of

459
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,680
praise this morning, for he's
good.

460
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:21,280
You turn morning to dancing.
You get beauty for ashes.

461
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:30,560
You turn shame into glory.
You're the only one who can.

462
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:41,480
You turn morning to dancing.
You give beauty for ashes.

463
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:51,160
You turn shame into glory.
You're the only one who can.

464
00:31:54,160 --> 00:32:05,320
You turn crazy into gardens, You
turn balls into armies, you turn

465
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:11,760
seas into highways.
You're the only one who care.

466
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:25,280
You're the only one who care,
knowing there's nothing better

467
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:31,160
than you.
There's nothing better than you,

468
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,400
Lord.
There's nothing, because nothing

469
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,880
is better than you.
Come on.

470
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:46,440
Oh, there's nothing better than
you.

471
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:52,480
There's nothing better than you,
Lord.

472
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:57,960
There's nothing, because nothing
is better than you.

473
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:10,680
Because you turn crazy into
barlets and you turn bolt into

474
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:16,960
Arbys.
You turn seasons highways.

475
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:23,440
You're the only one who came.
You turn in graves.

476
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,960
You turn graves into garden,
turning bold and chewing on.

477
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,920
You turn bold into army.
You make your way through the

478
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,960
sea.
You turn season.

479
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:41,760
To highways.
You're the only one who came.

480
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:52,200
You're the only one who care.
You're the only one who care.

481
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,520
Give him a big old shot of
praise today for what he's done.

482
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,239
Well, that was exciting.
That was pretty cool.

483
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,360
Give it for We got baptized.
Man, that's amazing.

484
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,120
I know you heard the stories.
It's just amazing how God's

485
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,960
grace just moves through people
and how far God can just bring

486
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,400
somebody back.
And man, just it was very

487
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,159
touching.
So you guys be seen just for a

488
00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:28,080
minute.
We're going to take a a few

489
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,239
minutes and we're going to
Commission some people in our

490
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,159
church this last year.
We recognized the beginning of

491
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:36,679
last year.
Like we need to have people

492
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:40,159
helping people grow spiritually.
It's not enough just to show up

493
00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:43,800
on a Sunday and just here get
one meal a week, but we need

494
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,400
people in intentional disciple
making relationships like people

495
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,639
can help people grow
spiritually.

496
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,840
I'll often ask people, hey,
would you like to have somebody

497
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,000
help you grow spiritually?
Yes.

498
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,200
And so this last year we set out
on a journey to help create

499
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,320
disciple makers.
And we're going to all those

500
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:00,240
people have been through the
journey.

501
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:02,320
My wife's going to kind of tell
you about what they've gone

502
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,560
through and we're going to come
out on stage and pray over them.

503
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,840
So without further ado, give it
up for Diane.

504
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,840
Come on.
OK, awesome.

505
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,160
So with the people.
Or.

506
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:16,680
With the team, Yeah.
Talk a little bit.

507
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,400
OK, cool.
So about a year ago, actually,

508
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,840
we set out on this journey, like
Sean said, to dive in, to create

509
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,000
these disciple making
relationships, to pray through

510
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,440
the wide groups of people that
are represented in real life, to

511
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,360
say who has on them that maybe
they'd be interested in being a

512
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,080
disciple maker.
And we prayed over lists and

513
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,120
poured over lists.
And we had a group of men and

514
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,320
women that committed to meet
with us every week over the

515
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,280
course of the last year to do
several things, to have

516
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,280
accountability on daily Bible
reading that we read together,

517
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,320
to have weekly scripture
memorization as we got together,

518
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,360
and also to weekly walk
alongside each other as we built

519
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,560
in these different spiritual
practices into our lives.

520
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,960
So we took a deep dive into the
practices of scripture, of

521
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:09,320
prayer, of solitude, Sabbath, of
generosity, community.

522
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:11,840
And I'm going to forget a couple
of them.

523
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,440
Service witness.
I think that's it.

524
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,200
Oh, fasting, of course, which
was actually most people's

525
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:19,560
favorite one, which was really
cool.

526
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,120
But the true joy was at the
beginning of the year, seeing

527
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:23,760
this group of people a little
bit uneasy.

528
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,840
Like I don't know if I'm going
to be able to commit to this.

529
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,080
This might be hard.
And seeing that mindset shift

530
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,720
into like, I don't know what I'm
going to do when we're done

531
00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:34,640
meeting like this has become
such a pivotal part of our lives

532
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,160
and our spiritual walk and
really turning into that.

533
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,400
Like I'm going to miss this time
together.

534
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,880
But what's really beautiful
about the way God works is that

535
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,680
this time together ends and we
get to multiply that out and

536
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:49,240
launch it and to see what God
can do as we continue to build

537
00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:51,400
these relationships across real
life.

538
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:56,560
So what we're doing next in this
next season is then saying, OK,

539
00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:00,520
making disciples has been at the
heart of what Jesus has called

540
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,720
us to do since the very
beginning, right in Matthew

541
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:06,800
2819.
He says, therefore go and make

542
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,600
disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of

543
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,160
the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit.

544
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,480
And so seeing lost people become
found has been at the heart of

545
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,240
real life since we launched.
You know, that's our mission to

546
00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:23,640
see help those who are lost to
find real life and purpose in

547
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,800
Jesus right.
But in Matthew 28 verse 20 it it

548
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:32,360
carries on and it says teaching
them to obey everything I've

549
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,120
commanded you.
Surely I'm with you always to

550
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,240
the very end of the age.
But nerd alert moment for a

551
00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:41,640
second that teaching there.
It's not just information.

552
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,240
It's not let me tell you more
things.

553
00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:47,840
This teaching is transformation.
How do I make my life look more

554
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:52,200
like Jesus's life, not just to
learn more things about him.

555
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,880
And so his Commission began.
Go make disciples.

556
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,880
But this constant
transformational practice, this

557
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,880
is how we see the word of God
move and shape lives.

558
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,440
And it's how the early church
really grew, the church

559
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:09,040
relational disciple making.
So each one of these disciple

560
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,920
makers that we are getting ready
to introduce and pray over up

561
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,520
here is actually being
commissioned to go out and to

562
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,280
make more disciples across real
life.

563
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,240
So what is commissioning?
Maybe you've never been a part

564
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:25,760
of a commissioning type service
or a commissioning church that

565
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,800
sent people out in this way.
Commissioning comes right from

566
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,640
the New Testament, and so today
we are going to participate in

567
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,360
this commissioning.
What is it?

568
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:39,080
It's an act of setting apart
people for a unique or specific

569
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,800
ministry or to a specific place
or to a specific calling or a

570
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,640
specific people and what they
did.

571
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,240
So we see this in Acts 13, two
through 3.

572
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:51,720
Let's fit, yes, that guy up
there.

573
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:54,560
So this is the early church and
the church at Antioch actually

574
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,080
it says while they were
worshipping the Lord and

575
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:02,080
fasting, the Holy Spirit said,
set apart for me Barnabas and

576
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,840
Saul for the work which I have
called them.

577
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,760
And so after they fasted and
prayed, they placed their hands

578
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,840
on them and they sent them off.
I want you to see three really

579
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,400
fast things here.
First is that the Holy Spirit

580
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,400
moved when they made space for
him to move.

581
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,960
They were worshipping, they were
fasting, they were saying, God

582
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,240
move through us.
And you can ask any one of these

583
00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:26,440
disciple makers, taking a minute
to fast to withhold, to listen

584
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,000
to the Lord.
It's so cool to hear him speak

585
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,320
in that way. 2nd, is this the
Spirit of God set them apart for

586
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,200
a work.
So God called those people to

587
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,800
say, I'm going to take a step of
they were actually, this is one

588
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,800
of the first times that the, the
Spirit of God, the church moved

589
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,840
outside of its walls to go reach
more people, which is so cool.

590
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,680
And 3rd is this, the church laid
hands on them.

591
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:48,560
They put their hands on them to
pray.

592
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,680
And what this represents is a
couple of things.

593
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:54,200
First, it's a physical act that
shows a spiritual

594
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,520
representation.
It's showing them support to say

595
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,680
we're praying over you, our
hands are on you because we

596
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,400
support you in going out to make
disciples in this way.

597
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,480
And second, it was actually kind
of a spiritual impartation of

598
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:10,360
power to say we are also sending
you in the Spirit of God to do

599
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,120
this.
And so with these examples,

600
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,160
today we're going to introduce
you to our disciple makers, and

601
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,240
we as a church are going to pray
over them and Commission them

602
00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:21,560
specifically to the work of
making disciples through real

603
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,960
life church.
Awesome.

604
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,920
So without full ado, I'm going
to invite our guys up.

605
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,480
So here, your name called.
Come on up, Brett White.

606
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:35,120
Come on up here, buddy.
Chuck Smith, Jamie Montgomery,

607
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:44,040
Josh Cubley, Andrew Clump.
Yeah, you're funny.

608
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:48,720
All right, Scott.
Jermaine, Rick, Lilly and Logan

609
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,000
Hardy and I, I know a couple of
these guys are out sick today.

610
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,280
So these are the guys we met
every Thursday morning at the

611
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:59,640
bright time of 5:30 every
morning this whole year at

612
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,760
mostly my house and just got in
the word of God and prayed

613
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,880
together and just ask each other
what's it look like to follow

614
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,240
Jesus?
And we went through the

615
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:11,920
practices, These guys memorized
scripture, made the guys every

616
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,240
day open their journal, journal
every day, reviewed the

617
00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:17,520
scripture, recited scripture
every week.

618
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,280
Some of you guys took your
spouse along with you.

619
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,400
It's just fantastic.
And I'm very proud of you guys.

620
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:25,880
You know, we kind of see this in
youth groups sometime where kids

621
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,920
get excited, we do some things,
but adults carving out basically

622
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,080
an hour and a half to two hours
a week for Jesus to deep dive.

623
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,600
And these guys, you know, lead
the way and share what they know

624
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,280
the Spirit of God has showed
them and the growth they've had

625
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,760
with other people.
So give it for these guys.

626
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,840
Amen.
And you guys have to.

627
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,520
Squeeze down and we're going to
have them make room for our

628
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,120
ladies.
So I'm going to invite them up

629
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,720
as well and saying we didn't get
up as early because we met on

630
00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:54,840
Saturday, but 6:30 every
Saturday morning for a year.

631
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,800
These women committed to get up
and to get the word of God going

632
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,040
in their week.
So I'm going to invite up Tanya

633
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:11,800
Taylor, Holly Holcomb, Kayla
Loveland, Kristen Baker, Jenny

634
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:22,920
Kuyat, Julie White, Rose Taylor,
Alana Larned, Alyssa Hardy, And

635
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,920
Christy Hardy is sick.
We also had a couple of ladies,

636
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,040
Theresa Laplante and Ashley
Ward, who completed our journey

637
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,240
with us, but we're not at the
point where they were being

638
00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:35,160
commissioned out right now.
So really also excited that we

639
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:39,120
got to share with them.
So this is let's give it up for

640
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,000
our 2025 real life disciple
makers.

641
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,120
Now what's really special about
the way God makes disciples is

642
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,480
it's not an addition thing
because now every one of these

643
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,520
disciple makers gets to go out
and have groups of people that

644
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,680
they are pouring into through.
We're going to lay this over our

645
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,920
life groups through small
groups, disciple making just

646
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:02,240
like this.
So if one of these people taps

647
00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:04,600
you on the shoulder to say, hey,
I would love you to come along

648
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,240
and walk alongside me.
I think would all of you agree

649
00:43:07,240 --> 00:43:09,880
that they should say yes when
you're inviting them out.

650
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,240
Yes, it was well worth the time,
the energy, the effort put in

651
00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:15,280
and just really cool to see what
God can do.

652
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:16,880
I would share with our 80s a
lot.

653
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:21,000
It doesn't seem very, I don't
know, it doesn't seem like God

654
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,400
can do a lot in a week, but if
you look back over a year and

655
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:25,960
see what he can do, it's
incredible.

656
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,240
I think we weigh underestimate
what he can do in our lives in

657
00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:31,480
that so.
And it's the relationships, you

658
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,880
know, I mean, getting to know
these guys, I know for the

659
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,560
ladies, like we're going to miss
meeting together, like with kind

660
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:41,000
of selfishly, right?
But we know the gospel has to go

661
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,720
out.
And so these guys are going to

662
00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:45,120
be meeting with you guys.
And as we launch live groups,

663
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:46,800
you'll see live groups that are
called The Way.

664
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,240
And it'll be like the way of
prayer or the way of fasting,

665
00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:50,920
The way, whatever.
And they're going to help you

666
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,800
guys really grow spiritually to
a different level and just help

667
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,640
you on that journey.
And we're still going to meet

668
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,360
together, just won't be as
often, obviously.

669
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,240
And we set a goal for 20
disciple makers.

670
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,560
We got 18.
Amen.

671
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,400
That's pretty good.
There's a lot of them up here

672
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,520
and God just is moving.
And we set a goal as well.

673
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,320
We would.
We don't have 100 people in

674
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,040
disciple make relationships.
We knew that wouldn't happen

675
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,960
until January when all you all
sign up.

676
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,720
Amen.
So Jesus picks his disciples.

677
00:44:21,720 --> 00:44:23,720
We told them, hey, go out and
find people, help them grow.

678
00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:27,000
Not everybody's doing something
in this next season, but I do

679
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,960
believe God is going to just do
revival in our church.

680
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,320
We have a young church, a lot of
new believers, a lot of people

681
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,160
taking first steps of faith.
And if we go deeper, this is a

682
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,160
group of people that we're
trusting that God's gonna use to

683
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,240
do that.
So we're gonna pray with them.

684
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,040
So I'm invite dying to pray, and
I'll pray and we'll give it a

685
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,280
big SO.
Yeah.

686
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,760
And I invite you in this moment,
you aren't all up here to lay

687
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,200
your hands on them, but if you
want to reach out a hand to kind

688
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,920
of as a church, we're sending
these ones out to go do this

689
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:52,920
ministry, that would be awesome
in this moment.

690
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,600
So let's pray God, we're just
grateful for the way that your

691
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,840
word moves through people.
You give us person to person the

692
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,560
way that we know you and the way
that we grow deeper in you and

693
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,400
then you miraculously multiply
that and send it out.

694
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,040
And so I just pray your favor
and I pray your boldness and I

695
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,800
pray just the resilience and the
faithfulness needed to enter

696
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:15,440
into disciple making
relationships.

697
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,400
I pray that for each of these
disciple makers that you would

698
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:22,800
give them the just the wisdom
that they need to lean into

699
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,360
others.
Give them the faithfulness to

700
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,840
your word God, give them a
hunger and a thirst to know you

701
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,760
and to share the things that
they have been poured into God

702
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,120
to pour out.
I pray as we move into this next

703
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,440
season, God that we would see
revival in our Church of

704
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,720
spiritual growth of people
taking steps towards knowing you

705
00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:41,760
and to really to have a life
that can say I am.

706
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,160
I've spent time with Jesus.
I look like him and I'm doing

707
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,840
the things in my life that Jesus
would have me to do through

708
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,440
these practices.
And so I pray for each person,

709
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,320
each family, each situation
represented on this stage, God,

710
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,200
that you would speak into it.
God you would give a boldness

711
00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:00,480
and an empowerment to go forth
and to smake disciples at real

712
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,400
life church God.
Father, we asked where would

713
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,280
have us to go?
God, we look out at our

714
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,640
community, our church family,
friends, the world and we know

715
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,520
that we're not satisfied because
there's people who need you and

716
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,200
there's truth that needs to
people to be set free through

717
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,200
truth.
And so I pray that these men and

718
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,320
women as they go out will be
truth tellers.

719
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,240
They stand for truth that point
back to scripture.

720
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,440
God, you give your spirit on
them and direct them.

721
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,240
God of who to tap on the
shoulder.

722
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,480
We're to bring the gospel not
just our city, but around the

723
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,880
world.
I pray for protection on them

724
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,480
that they have bold confidence.
They would not be weary and

725
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,720
doing well that in the trenches
and and the mess God, they

726
00:46:41,720 --> 00:46:44,680
wouldn't lose sight that they're
here to help people know you and

727
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,320
find you.
And so we've got to pray

728
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:47,800
blessing on them.
God, thank you for their

729
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,800
faithfulness, God for the walk
with you, for all these little

730
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,160
steps of obedience that just add
up into greater things, that

731
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:58,080
long arc of obedience over time.
And so God, I, I just pray God

732
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,560
that Ezra sent out God that they
would just reach new places,

733
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,200
that the ministry and the gospel
would go further, farther and

734
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,640
faster through your method of
commissioning.

735
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,280
And so God, we trust you, we
pray blessing on today.

736
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,080
God, we give you glory for what
you're going to do and pray in

737
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,440
Jesus name.
And they said, Amen, Amen.

738
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:17,560
Awesome.
You guys are great.

739
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,040
You guys can step off the stage.
I'm going to make a little

740
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:21,760
change here.
I was going to share with you,

741
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,360
there's a map.
Can you guys get the map?

742
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,880
We said a goal.
We said a word last year for

743
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,560
2025 was bold and it was really
a personal word, but it kind of

744
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,520
hit everybody.
And we use the Joshua 19 be

745
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:37,560
very, you know, be strong and
courageous for a Lord.

746
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:40,480
And this year we said a word and
it's a different type of word

747
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,960
and it's the word scattering.
Everybody say scattering.

748
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:48,960
All right, so today you're
actually at a gathering and we

749
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:50,920
staff our church for gatherings
for Sundays.

750
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:55,560
OK, but it's become real obvious
like we need to be really good

751
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,520
at scattering like gatherings.
We come together.

752
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,920
It's called fellowship, Amen.
And we love we love to gather.

753
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,000
There's food.
We're E angelicals, Amen.

754
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,360
Come on somebody right.
But to scatter out this word's

755
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,400
kind of crazy.
It means to deploy to to

756
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:15,880
mobilize, to be sent, to go, to
tell, like be really good at

757
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:17,520
scattering.
And I love what we put up here,

758
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,080
mobilizing the gospel into our
culture.

759
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,280
So go this next, this next
slide.

760
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,560
So this is the heartbeat of the
church, what it looks like to

761
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,280
take the gospel out.
Now, if you don't recognize the

762
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,640
map, I'm sorry, this is Belden
and Raymour, right?

763
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,800
But just our city, like where's
the gospel need to go?

764
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:37,640
Not just in our city around the
world, but look at this map.

765
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,280
Where, where does the gospel
need to go?

766
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,880
It is a question that the early
church was asking.

767
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:44,720
I was on many mission strips of
slash.

768
00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:46,800
I was on four different
continents and different places.

769
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,880
And the question that constantly
came around was where do we need

770
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,160
to take the gospel?
And it wasn't like somebody had

771
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:53,880
to ask the question.
It was just in the DNA of the

772
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,640
people that were there.
If you look at New Testament

773
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:58,680
standards and New Testament
Christianity, it's the question,

774
00:48:58,680 --> 00:48:59,800
where does the gospel need to
go?

775
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,360
So if you know Jesus, you look
at this map, you're like, OK,

776
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,560
well, there's an Hispanic
population that's pretty big

777
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:06,960
over here.
There's a homeless population

778
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:10,480
over there and there's some
multi housing ministry, there's

779
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:14,640
apartment life or part there's
apartments that need life, Amen.

780
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,200
And you start looking through
the map, you're like, is there a

781
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:22,600
gospel representation or gospel
movement in these places?

782
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:26,120
It's one thing to say, hey, come
to real life, but it's a whole

783
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:29,560
nother thing to say, let's take
real life to them, let's take

784
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,480
Jesus to them, Amen.
Now, I'm not asking all y'all to

785
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,360
sign up because I think the
Spirit of God will bring the

786
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,920
right people along, but our goal
this next year is to Commission

787
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:41,480
30 people that are going to say
yes to scattering the gospel.

788
00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:44,480
They say yes, I'm going to take
the gospel to my community, to

789
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,280
my street.
There's a next slide.

790
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,320
This is pretty cool.
This is my neighborhood.

791
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:51,760
There's a method we're going to
teach this next year called

792
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:57,520
Bless and just beginning prayer
to listen to the needs of the

793
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,840
community to eat together just
high relational to serve each

794
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,560
somebody and to help them
understand just do you love them

795
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:06,240
and then the share of the gospel
and we're going to teach through

796
00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:08,480
this blessed method.
This this is from the app.

797
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,280
This is my neighborhood.
I have a Jesus fish over my

798
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,200
house.
I think dying put there come on

799
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,600
somebody right and if you're in
my neighborhood, you're like do

800
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:21,640
being targeted yes, you are for
Jesus Amen and so some of my

801
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:23,720
neighbors around here.
Obviously I think the mayor's

802
00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:24,920
house.
I know the mayor's house.

803
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,080
I got to reach the mayor for Ray
Moore for Jesus this year.

804
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,680
Come on somebody right.
I mean, it's just like, but it's

805
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:32,640
the intention of living this
out, like what it looked like

806
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,480
for us to take the gospel out
the other 160 hours a week,

807
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:37,640
right?
Like it's not about just coming,

808
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,200
it's about going.
And we know for our church to be

809
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:44,480
successful, to live past a
generation, we have to be very,

810
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,680
very good at scattering and very
intentional at it.

811
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,000
And it's going to be new to our
church, but we're going to try

812
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,920
to embed that in our DNA and
this next year into our church

813
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:54,800
that we would know what it's
like to actually live on

814
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,600
mission, where we work, where we
live, where we play, where we

815
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,680
study and actually have
redemptive relationships.

816
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:02,600
So it's not just come and see,
It's go and tell.

817
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,720
Amen.
And so this is where the church

818
00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:06,920
is going this next year.
We set some other goals, but I

819
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:08,160
don't want to take up a lot of
time.

820
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,760
I want to do is share, have you
guys share a little bit.

821
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,320
I've got some people I've asked
to just give like a minute or

822
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,800
two testimony of how real life's
impact their life.

823
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,040
So I'm gonna jump down the floor
and do that.

824
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:19,360
And we're gonna let you guys
hang.

825
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,600
So once you guys have some time,
question.

826
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:22,880
Oh, no.
OK, Yeah.

827
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:24,960
We're gonna start over here.
Brett White, will you stand up?

828
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:27,960
Will the real Brett White please
stand up?

829
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:39,880
You take it to him, Yeah.
Thank you, I had to take a few

830
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:49,280
notes so.
Love you, Brett.

831
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,320
So real life has changed my
life.

832
00:51:55,800 --> 00:52:02,880
Even though I accepted Jesus in
1986 in the bathroom at Fort

833
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:10,120
Scott Inn, I, I never went to a
church that really taught me.

834
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:17,760
And I always felt guilty because
I kept doing things I shouldn't

835
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:21,120
be doing.
And I always felt that I wasn't

836
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:24,920
good enough.
I wasn't doing it until this

837
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,760
discipleship.
And not too recently when I was

838
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:33,720
reading Ephesians chapter 2 and
they broke down to me the three

839
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:39,280
kind of steps for salvation.
That's not the best word I have,

840
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:40,440
but that's what I'm going to
tell you.

841
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:48,320
And the first one was justified.
That is, through Christ, my

842
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:53,000
penalty of sin was forgiven.
Then it's justification and

843
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:58,080
that's the progress of the Holy
Spirit coming in and me living.

844
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:02,600
But I still have that sinful
nature to where I'm having that

845
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,960
fight.
Sometimes I lose, sometimes I

846
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:09,600
win, and then the last is when
it finally comes, and that's

847
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:13,960
glorification.
And that's when I would Christ

848
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:18,280
takes over and sins gone and I
can't wait for that day anyway.

849
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:24,800
Don't ask my wife though.
So anyway, so jump in because

850
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,840
you know, up until a year ago my
foot would just go in.

851
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,120
And this year I've jumped in and
I thank you all come.

852
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:40,280
On Give It Up for Brett, it's
pretty fun watching Brett

853
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:44,640
because Brett Brett is has a
doctorate in psychology.

854
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,480
Is that right?
And it's fun watching him like

855
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:49,560
see what the scripture says.
And he's like, man, they

856
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,760
psychology has stolen the stuff
from the Bible.

857
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:54,600
And we're having great
conversations.

858
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,160
But I told the guys are getting
baptized kind of the same truth.

859
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:01,680
You you're you're saved from the
power of sin, but you're still

860
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,120
going to have the presence of
sin around you, but you're saved

861
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:05,280
from sin's power.
Amen.

862
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,000
And that's a realization that
Brett had even this even

863
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:09,080
recently.
So it's amazing.

864
00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:12,920
Is Lisa Holmes in the house?
Is she here?

865
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:15,200
Somebody help me out.
She's over here.

866
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:15,760
All right.
Hey, Diane.

867
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:20,040
She's back here.
Will you guys give it up for

868
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:21,440
Lisa Holmes?
She's going to share a little

869
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:22,000
bit.
We should.

870
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:26,720
Have let Jordan run the micro
OK.

871
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:38,440
Alrighty, I got to take my
glasses off to read so well, I

872
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:44,000
wanted to say hello to everybody
and I want to say today I want

873
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,800
to celebrate the life change
that God has brought to me being

874
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:52,200
a new member here at Real life.
As many of you know or some of

875
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:57,160
you know, I started coming to
Real Life during the process of

876
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:01,240
divorce.
And for a long time I carried

877
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:04,520
like a scarlet letter.
And I'm sure you guys probably

878
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:08,120
felt it.
I've carried that scarlet letter

879
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:12,120
and all of you were just so
patient with me.

880
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,840
And I just wanted to say thank
you for that because I know I

881
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:21,560
was bringing a little heaviness.
And so I knew that my faith in

882
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:27,400
God would be my saving grace.
And So what led me here was that

883
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:30,200
I went online searching for
churches in the area.

884
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:34,680
And then I begin.
And I believe that God wanted to

885
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,160
relocate me through that
process.

886
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:43,200
Sorry for my shaking.
I don't normally speak in front

887
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:45,480
of a large group.
OK.

888
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:51,040
So I believe that God had a plan
to replant me in this new

889
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,720
environment.
Upon searching for the new

890
00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:57,360
church during that process, I
found real life.

891
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:02,280
Thank you, that would help.
And I thought, wow, that's a

892
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:05,840
different name for a church.
I really think that that real

893
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,520
life wow.
However, that Sunday message

894
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:13,720
that I that I watch, it spoke
about all the different

895
00:56:13,720 --> 00:56:18,120
ministries and each team came on
the stage and they shared their

896
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:23,280
heart and their love for
searching for Christ in those

897
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,440
ministries.
And what an awesome outreach

898
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:30,320
ministry.
I thought I needed ministry, I

899
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,840
needed replenishing, I needed
nourishing, I needed to be

900
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:38,920
filled and I needed to be
refreshed.

901
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:43,800
So you can imagine I was in a 34
year divorce, I mean marriage.

902
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:47,120
So you can imagine what I was
really needing when I came here.

903
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:49,720
A lot of you might not have
known how long I've been

904
00:56:49,720 --> 00:56:52,520
married, but I never expected to
be divorced.

905
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:56,200
So anyway, I'm not making this
about that, OK?

906
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,240
And that's what I received
through the screen.

907
00:56:59,240 --> 00:57:02,880
I received all of that from you
guys when I watched your

908
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:08,560
service, OK.
And not only was it from just

909
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:14,080
watching by the screen online,
but also I met that in every

910
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:18,480
person up on each Sundays
attendance here and during every

911
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,960
attendance and serving for the
hot soup ministry.

912
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:23,960
That is such a wonderful
ministry.

913
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:29,120
When I met Pastor Sean, he
walked with me and he talked.

914
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,800
He took the time to listen to my
story.

915
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:36,080
My grandchildren were welcomed
with love and so many of the

916
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:41,400
ladies have been a constant
source of encouragement and have

917
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:45,280
made themselves available to me
and have connected with me.

918
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:50,320
Thank you.
My knee became even greater once

919
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:55,680
I started attending.
When I last, when I lost my my

920
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:59,480
only means of transportation.
The church blessed me with the

921
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,000
car.
The church blessed me with the

922
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,120
car.
I was so in awe and I'm still in

923
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:09,000
awe of the generosity from
Pastor Sean, his family in real

924
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:13,080
life church as a whole family.
Thank you everyone.

925
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:19,600
Thank you, Pastor Sean, in that
you did not hesitate in offering

926
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,360
such an enormous gift.
It has been life changing.

927
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,840
Thank you for moving by the
hope, by the Spirit of God.

928
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:30,640
You did not withhold an
opportunity to do good towards

929
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,800
me even without, even without
really knowing me because you

930
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:37,960
didn't really know me.
But it has changed my life.

931
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:42,240
It's one of the greatest outward
displays of faith that has

932
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:49,840
helped me to get to this point
of the road, of this road that

933
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:52,520
I'm on.
In the beginning, I'm

934
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,000
flourishing.
These are the beginning,

935
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:58,320
flourishing stages because God
is bringing deliverance.

936
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:03,880
This year of being here at real
life has caused me to live by

937
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,200
deeper, by a deeper sense of
faith because that's really what

938
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:11,120
I've been like riding on God has
just taken me like on a road of

939
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:13,280
faith.
Everything that I need, I've

940
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:16,120
just been praying for it and
I've been waiting on God and

941
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,400
that's what he's been doing.
So God has changed.

942
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:22,720
God has changed and renewed my
life.

943
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:27,400
He has stripped and and
delivered me from carrying that

944
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:33,000
scarlet letter D for divorce and
has given me a new identity and

945
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:36,720
replaced it with D for
deliverance and difference to

946
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:40,640
Maker.
I have committed by faith that I

947
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:45,080
will help build His house first
and then trust Him to build

948
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:52,040
minds for the for the
nourishment I'm receiving.

949
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,760
It's giving me the ability to
help nourish others.

950
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:01,320
The areas that I had once that
had once contained and

951
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:05,480
restricted me in this new
environment at real life, I am

952
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,320
begin.
I am being replenished.

953
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:09,960
I am no longer withering because
that's what I felt like.

954
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:13,000
I was just withering and I'm
trying to correct my posture

955
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,600
because it was like God is like
he pointed out, he said.

956
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:19,400
Watch how you're walking in,
you're walking in swamped, like

957
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:22,040
you're carrying this weight and
God is like you're no longer

958
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,800
withering.
God has given me restored hope,

959
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:29,040
deeper faith, new and real life.
And I would just want to say

960
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:32,000
thank you everyone.
Thank you for living what the

961
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,360
Bible teaches love and
blessings.

962
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:36,600
Amen.
Thank you.

963
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:46,640
You never know where somebody's
at in their story and what God

964
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:49,560
can do through a simple act of
disgrace and and love.

965
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:52,560
We appreciate what your heart
and what God's been doing

966
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:55,760
through you and your love for
the church.

967
01:00:56,160 --> 01:01:00,480
And she would rent a car early
to come to church on Sunday if

968
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:02,360
she had to use the car like
earlier in the week.

969
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,440
And I don't know about you, but
I've never met anybody in my

970
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:06,280
entire life that rented a car to
come to church.

971
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:10,560
And so it was obvious, like we
had this resource that somebody

972
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,640
donated and it's like, hey,
let's make sure it gets to Lisa.

973
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:17,440
And you've been beyond faithful.
And I can't wait to what God's

974
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:18,680
going to continue to do through
you.

975
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:20,160
She committed, she alluded to
it.

976
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:21,480
She committed a difference
maker.

977
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:23,600
I was floored when you walked up
with a card.

978
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,840
It's just a situation like we
want to give you the card,

979
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:30,640
right?
But to have faith and say, I'm

980
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:34,320
going to build the house.
It's that faith that God uses to

981
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,080
activate a space and to bring
himself glory.

982
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,360
So thank you for doing that and
thank you for sharing.

983
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:40,800
Give it up for Lisa one more
time.

984
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:47,000
Pretty cool.
This is Julian Torres.

985
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:51,960
Good for Julian.
He's our youth group and God

986
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:53,760
just moving his life.
So just share just a little bit

987
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:57,880
what God's doing.
Well, so like.

988
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:01,320
Three or four years.
Ago I started coming here and I

989
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:05,160
wasn't really talkative and I
had like hair over my face and

990
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:08,800
you couldn't really see me or
anything and I was just like in

991
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:14,120
a dark place then and then Sean
invited me and my brother to

992
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:18,160
youth and we started going and I
just went there for the fun of

993
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:22,600
it and then like later on I
started being like, oh wow, this

994
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:25,320
is actually something that I
want to do in my life.

995
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:30,840
So then I started being more
involved and then I met some

996
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:36,320
more people and I, I've just
been growing my faith since then

997
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:40,120
and like, and now I'm like, if
you come up to me, I'm going to

998
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:44,240
smile and talk with you.
Like I can talk for like hours.

999
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:48,520
If you want.
But yeah, this is just real life

1000
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:54,800
has been such a big part in my
life and meeting everybody and I

1001
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:58,640
love people, so it's like really
fun.

1002
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:05,200
So that's awesome, dude.
Yeah, give it up If if you

1003
01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:09,920
didn't know this young man
mission trip last year hassle

1004
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:16,320
his heart to to be in ministry
to preach to lead given towards

1005
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:19,800
difference maker as a young
adult and he's also meeting with

1006
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:25,120
Logan weekly to do disciple
making so pretty cool for a

1007
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:27,360
young man Amen.
So give him more time.

1008
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:34,000
You're over here.
So Scott Dremaine, he's heading

1009
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:35,920
over here.
So give it up for Scott.

1010
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:41,280
Come on, all.
Right, keep those hands up.

1011
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,960
Give me one clap.
Give me two claps.

1012
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:47,080
Sorry, that's the basketball
coach can come out of me.

1013
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:49,840
So forgive me.
I'm blessed to be here today

1014
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:54,680
with my bride and my 3 kids and
our new daughter-in-law from

1015
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:57,560
last summer.
And I tell you that because we

1016
01:03:57,560 --> 01:03:59,200
have been blessed by this
church.

1017
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:03,520
We've actually been with Sean
for many years, but since the

1018
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,640
founding of this church.
So it is really a special place

1019
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:08,600
for us.
But so I'm going to talk to

1020
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:09,880
them.
You guys can listen in.

1021
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:11,520
So it doesn't sound like I'm
preaching to you.

1022
01:04:11,520 --> 01:04:14,320
I'm just teaching to them.
You are going to be a different

1023
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:17,040
person for people who want to
set goals for this upcoming year

1024
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:22,040
for three reasons.
Because the people, because the

1025
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:25,400
books you read and because the
experiences you have enough to

1026
01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:28,120
walk through there, because the
people, that guy right there and

1027
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:30,920
this young lady right here
stepped out on faith eight years

1028
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,160
ago.
And in eight more years, people

1029
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:35,480
are going to look back and say,
man, I wish I could run that

1030
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:38,040
church.
And it's not going to be because

1031
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:40,040
of them.
It's because of their faith.

1032
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:44,760
And they really are setting this
the tempo for how fast this

1033
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:48,240
church moves with your help and
with our help.

1034
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:52,600
And I can tell you that being a
part of the waymaker has changed

1035
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:54,160
me.
There's a great men in there.

1036
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:56,200
I can tell you.
We've done life groups.

1037
01:04:56,240 --> 01:05:00,040
I can tell you that Lisa brought
up get here every Sunday.

1038
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:02,920
And not, not just when it's
convenient, because it will

1039
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:06,440
never be convenient.
The people you'll be involved

1040
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:07,320
with.
That's number one.

1041
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:10,680
Number two, the books you read,
I read about.

1042
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:13,960
I read a lot of books, OK.
But I can tell you that every

1043
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:17,800
book can be deduced back to the
Bible.

1044
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:22,120
The Bible has every answer you
could ever ask and more

1045
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:26,280
importantly, if you will
memorize that it will come out

1046
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:29,360
of you when you face anything in
life.

1047
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:32,360
And the last thing I'll leave
you with is the experiences you

1048
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:34,800
have.
It's a little bit tough, but

1049
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:38,960
this young man over here, our
oldest was in Spain living his

1050
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:42,200
best life.
Newly married professional

1051
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:45,440
basketball player playing in
Spain, leading scorer in the

1052
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:47,480
league, everything going for
him.

1053
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,680
He had set up to where they were
going to start meeting with

1054
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:53,920
people kind of like at a
mission, like not because that's

1055
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:55,480
their job, because that's their
mission.

1056
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:59,760
And in a moment, his ACL was
blown.

1057
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:03,760
And so now he's back home.
And so in that I say that's an

1058
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:06,000
experience that he dealt with.
But here's the thing, If you

1059
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:09,480
will found yourself in the Bible
and around people that will love

1060
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:12,680
on you, that's what we had.
That's what they have and they

1061
01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:15,040
are getting lifted up.
OK.

1062
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:17,000
That experience didn't take him
down.

1063
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:20,400
It allowed people to come around
them to build them up and love

1064
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:23,920
on them.
So the people, the books and the

1065
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:27,000
experiences.
And I've been very, very blessed

1066
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:31,000
by this church because we are
one body trying to move forward

1067
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,920
for his gospel.
So with that unification, give

1068
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:38,600
me one clap, give me two claps.
See ya.

1069
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:40,360
Nice word.
Give it for Scott.

1070
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:45,760
Come on. 50 claps.
Yeah.

1071
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:47,840
Scott and your family has been
such a blessing to our church.

1072
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:49,560
It's about memorizing the
Scripture.

1073
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:51,280
We're actually up here
baptizing.

1074
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:55,160
And Scott very usually helps.
God jumps in and he's quoting

1075
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:58,400
the Scripture.
You know, Matthew, Matthew 514.

1076
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:00,360
I mean, just, boom, just run
through.

1077
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:01,960
I mean, just on his heart.
So.

1078
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:06,440
And Jordan and Marissa have
jumped in with youth as his knee

1079
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:07,760
recovers.
He's had surgery.

1080
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:09,400
Marissa's jumping on the worship
team.

1081
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:10,960
You get love on her when she's
up here.

1082
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:13,840
But it's cool to see a family
say, hey, let's get plugged in

1083
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:16,640
where we're at just as we go.
When we were in Spain.

1084
01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:18,880
Now we're back in the States,
like we're going back in Spain

1085
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:21,040
by God's grace.
It's just cool to see what God's

1086
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:23,760
doing.
Where's Hannah at?

1087
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:27,320
Over there, hiding.
There we go.

1088
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:30,640
All right, so she's not nervous
at all.

1089
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:32,400
So it's perfect.
Whoop.

1090
01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:34,120
All right, give it up for
Hannah.

1091
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:41,120
Come on, calm the nerves.
I, I usually don't sound like

1092
01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:45,160
this, so forgive me.
Yeah, we started attending real

1093
01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:49,080
life about May somewhere.
My husband's here.

1094
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:52,640
Oh, there he is.
We were just looking for a home

1095
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:56,720
church is something that we
really wanted and wanted for our

1096
01:07:56,720 --> 01:08:00,360
son as well.
And we saw the signs and so we

1097
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,560
started attending and then one
day I pulled into the parking

1098
01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:07,720
lot and I just ask God if this
is the place you wanted us to

1099
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:12,560
grow in her faith, then just let
one person introduce themselves

1100
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:14,520
to us.
And I walked through the door

1101
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:17,319
and 12 of you introduced
yourselves to me.

1102
01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:21,520
But you didn't just say hi.
You made a point to have a

1103
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:24,200
conversation with me and get to
know me.

1104
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:27,960
And not just me, but my son as
well, my husband.

1105
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:30,680
And from there we just started
connecting.

1106
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:35,439
And that led me to jumping into
a life group and then let me

1107
01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:39,960
into jumping into a couples life
group and getting baptized and

1108
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:44,439
rededicating my life and youth
group and greeting.

1109
01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:46,399
And it just kept going and kept
going.

1110
01:08:46,399 --> 01:08:49,279
And I love it.
And that's just because your

1111
01:08:49,279 --> 01:08:53,479
ministry doesn't just stop
beyond these four walls and it

1112
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:56,200
goes beyond that.
It's connecting with me and

1113
01:08:56,399 --> 01:08:59,960
calling me and coming over and
connecting with my husband.

1114
01:08:59,960 --> 01:09:03,479
And it's just such a blessing
because every time you pour into

1115
01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:06,840
me and my family, we just want
to pour back into this church.

1116
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:11,560
And it's just been a blessing to
just see the transformation into

1117
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:15,080
our family, just how God keeps
moving into our life.

1118
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,640
So we, from the bottom of my
heart, you just say thank you so

1119
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:19,840
much.
And it's just.

1120
01:09:20,359 --> 01:09:21,920
Just a blessing.
And I can't wait to see what God

1121
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:24,479
does the next year.
Amen.

1122
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:31,520
Good job.
Her story's incredible.

1123
01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:34,760
She actually pulled into the I
don't know what day it was, but

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01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:38,800
just a day she pulled into the
parking lot to the school where

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01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:41,600
she knows what we meet at and
she prayed, Lord, if this is the

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01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:45,840
place just one person connect
with me when I come on Sunday.

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01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:50,240
It's amazing to think that like
you that serve on the team or

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01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:54,440
give back or come here are like
an answer to prayer just by just

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01:09:54,440 --> 01:09:57,000
introducing yourself and making
somebody feel at home.

1130
01:09:57,600 --> 01:10:01,120
And so it's incredible, 12
people, it's amazing to me.

1131
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:03,160
You even know the number, you
know what I mean?

1132
01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:06,080
Like to think like no one wasn't
wanted to five, it was 12

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01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:08,120
people.
And that's the kind of church we

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01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:10,560
need to be, Amen.
Just be a very welcoming church,

1135
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:12,800
a loving church.
And from that, like she

1136
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:15,640
mentioned, she's serving with
her teenagers now, she's

1137
01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:19,080
greeting and her family's been
just helping out so much.

1138
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:22,720
Me and Wes put together half of
Christmas, it felt like, but

1139
01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:24,480
it's just amazing.
So give it up man, for what

1140
01:10:24,480 --> 01:10:26,040
God's doing.
And thank you guys for the cool

1141
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:27,640
church generosity and loving all
people.

1142
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:34,960
I think you're up.
They're like looking at each

1143
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:35,680
other.
This is good.

1144
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:37,760
So Chris is up.
That's how that works.

1145
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:38,680
That's how.
That works.

1146
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:41,760
All right.
Get out of this chair.

1147
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:46,000
So I'm Chris.
This is my wife, Alicia.

1148
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:49,280
We started here back in
September.

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01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:54,560
And honestly what led us here,
well I'll, I'll tell you that

1150
01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:57,400
raising 5 kids together was
hard.

1151
01:10:57,400 --> 01:11:00,440
But the hardest part of it was
watching them all go into

1152
01:11:00,480 --> 01:11:03,840
adulthood and making all their
own life decisions.

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01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:07,480
And some of them we were OK with
and some of them we were not.

1154
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:13,880
And we really started just
seeking God to protect them in

1155
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:17,640
their lives as adults and
wanting to kind of re acclimate

1156
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:22,280
our lives closer to God.
And also for our grandkids, we

1157
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:26,560
now have two grandkids that are
with US1 on the way, due in

1158
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:31,280
July.
We decided that we would try to

1159
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:35,520
get back into churches about two
years ago, and we've been to a

1160
01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:39,560
few of them.
None of them really kind of gave

1161
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:42,120
us the feeling that we belonged,
honestly.

1162
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:47,080
So, you know, we were in and out
one Saturday night.

1163
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:51,480
I said OK God here's what I'm
gonna do, I'm going to just ask

1164
01:11:51,480 --> 01:11:55,640
my Google phone where should I
go to church tomorrow morning.

1165
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:59,320
So I did and the 1st place that
popped up was real life.

1166
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:03,400
I said, well, it is gonna be any
worse than any other ones we

1167
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:08,680
went to, so let's give it a try.
And and actually, you know, in

1168
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:11,440
my mind, I was like, hey, I
remember seeing the banners by

1169
01:12:11,440 --> 01:12:13,360
the road right as we're driving
by.

1170
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:16,960
We like to cut through this way
instead of hitting busy 58 when

1171
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:20,600
we go to Walmart or Sam's Club.
So it's like, well, we'll give

1172
01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:24,520
it a shot.
So we came and it was actually

1173
01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:28,080
the celebration for the church
that you guys had started during

1174
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:31,240
that time.
And we got to learn in that very

1175
01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:33,960
first service what this church
has been all about.

1176
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:36,920
So that was an interesting first
visit.

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01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:41,240
Got got a good idea if you know
what the church was and where

1178
01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:45,400
you guys were going.
Brett, our neighbor down the

1179
01:12:45,400 --> 01:12:48,040
road, it was surprising to see
him here.

1180
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,160
I was like, hey, I know this guy
already.

1181
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,920
And he was at the door to, to
greet us as we came in.

1182
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:56,760
And, you know, really you guys
just made us feel feel warm and

1183
01:12:56,760 --> 01:12:59,920
welcome.
We got involved into the

1184
01:12:59,920 --> 01:13:02,880
hospitality group because we
felt like that was the best way

1185
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:05,120
to really kind of get to know
other people.

1186
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:10,040
And so far we're loving it.
So we appreciate the, the warm

1187
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:14,240
and welcoming hospitality that
you guys have shown us and our

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01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:17,080
our family.
We got our, our grandson, not

1189
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:21,680
this one, but our other one
dedicated back in the dedication

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01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:24,160
service.
So that was beautiful to see as

1191
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:26,560
well.
So just appreciate everything

1192
01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:27,920
you guys have done for us so
far.

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01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:33,720
God bless Chris, thank you.
God will use Google.

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01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:36,280
Amen.
And they're surprised at bread

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01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:37,680
with the church that says son
that bread.

1196
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:40,360
I'm not so sure yet, but thank
you for sharing.

1197
01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:43,840
It's cool how God just brings
people and we get to help people

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01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:46,080
belong here.
And that's the really the really

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01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:47,920
the the mission is to love on
people.

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01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:50,800
So last but not least, I don't
know where where's Rose Taylor

1201
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:55,520
at out of she's back there.
OK, so Rose, you're it.

1202
01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:58,080
And then Holly's up for where
she's at.

1203
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:03,680
Yeah, so 2025's been a really
transformative year.

1204
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:08,000
I'm Diane had come up to me when
it was like 2024.

1205
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:10,360
And it was like, hey, we're
gonna launch this discipleship

1206
01:14:10,360 --> 01:14:14,120
group, do you want to do it?
And I was very pregnant with him

1207
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:15,680
at the time, so I was like.
Well.

1208
01:14:16,480 --> 01:14:19,040
I'm about to have a baby, but
we'll see what we can do.

1209
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,520
And I may have missed a few
Saturdays, but we made it work.

1210
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:27,120
But back in like 2024, like
honestly, I'd kind of just kind

1211
01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:29,400
of gotten lazy with my walk.
I really wasn't praying or

1212
01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:31,840
reading my Bible, just kind of
just showing up and doing my

1213
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:35,080
thing.
And so 2025 has been good going

1214
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:41,920
through the the way it's just
been such a blessing just to not

1215
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:44,880
just gain like head knowledge,
which you kind of like mentioned

1216
01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:46,920
when you were up there talking
about it, because I've been

1217
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:48,680
through some discipleship stuff
before.

1218
01:14:48,680 --> 01:14:50,680
And it's all just like pray and
read your Bible, which it's

1219
01:14:50,680 --> 01:14:53,680
like, yes, that's good and
that's part of it.

1220
01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:57,360
But there's so much more that
you can do to model your life

1221
01:14:57,360 --> 01:15:01,720
like Jesus, to have that like
transformative, that

1222
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:03,800
transformation that you can get
only through like the Holy

1223
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:08,000
Spirit in God.
And so I am excited to start

1224
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:13,960
2026 in leading a group and just
seeing, going through it again

1225
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:16,000
and seeing like, what's God
gonna show me?

1226
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:18,480
This season versus like last
season.

1227
01:15:18,480 --> 01:15:22,440
And I'm also excited just to
lead a group of women to like

1228
01:15:22,440 --> 01:15:25,400
facilitate that transformation
and help them mature in their

1229
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:28,200
walk and then help them go and
make new disciples.

1230
01:15:28,440 --> 01:15:30,920
So.
Yeah, also, nice job, Roz.

1231
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:34,120
Hey, we're going to do.
First of all, I know there's a

1232
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:37,040
lot of new guests and I'll say
thank you for your patience and

1233
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:39,400
hanging out and just loving all
the people around you.

1234
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:40,840
You know, you guys are welcome
to hang.

1235
01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:43,320
Holly's going to kind of leave
us out for a few things, but can

1236
01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:45,040
you give it up for everybody
that's new one more time?

1237
01:15:45,040 --> 01:15:47,280
And those who shared, let them
know you love them.

1238
01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:53,040
All right, couple quick things
before we hang out and eat some

1239
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:56,760
more of this amazing food coming
up this week.

1240
01:15:56,760 --> 01:16:00,720
If you have a teen or know a
teen man, we have a fun and safe

1241
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:03,640
option for New Year's Eve.
Real life youth is going to have

1242
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:06,040
just a blast on Wednesday night.
They're headed over to main

1243
01:16:06,040 --> 01:16:07,560
event.
They're going to do all the

1244
01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:11,200
things laser tag and bowling and
the arcade and pizza and they're

1245
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:13,640
going to come right back to the
Hope Center, have some worship

1246
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:15,800
and a gospel message.
They're going to watch the ball

1247
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:17,720
drop together.
It truly is going to be just a

1248
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:19,560
fun time.
So if you have a teen in your

1249
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:22,200
house, know it's teen man scan
that QR, you can get all the

1250
01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:25,360
details and register them.
But we would love to see your

1251
01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:28,400
teen there.
I mean, we are just so excited

1252
01:16:28,440 --> 01:16:32,120
as 2025 comes to a close and we
reflect on all that God did in

1253
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:34,120
2025.
I mean, we are still expecting

1254
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:38,280
and believing God for big things
in 2026.

1255
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:41,160
And so I would just maybe this
this time of year is the year's

1256
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:43,880
coming to a close, just maybe to
consider a year end gift.

1257
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:48,120
We truly are funded 100% by your
donations and every, every gift

1258
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:50,240
you gave give here really makes
a difference.

1259
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:52,440
Every story that was shared
today is touched by your

1260
01:16:52,440 --> 01:16:54,200
generosity.
And so I want to say thank you

1261
01:16:54,200 --> 01:16:56,880
for that.
You can scan the QR code that's

1262
01:16:56,880 --> 01:16:58,840
going to be up here on the
screen to give online if you

1263
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:00,600
want.
There's also a giving box in the

1264
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:03,520
back if that's more convenient
cash or check, you can do that

1265
01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:05,680
as well.
But man, it's already been a

1266
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:08,080
record setting year for real
life church and we're just

1267
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:11,480
believing big for that and
continuing in these last few

1268
01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:13,960
days.
And hey, you guys can hang out,

1269
01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:17,440
stay till noon, have some more
food, some more drinks, some

1270
01:17:17,440 --> 01:17:20,000
more soda.
We would love to see you back

1271
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:23,240
next week, next Sunday.
Hard to believe the new year is

1272
01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:26,040
here, but we'd love to see you
right back here next week.

1273
01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:30,960
And hey, remember, whoever finds
Jesus discovers real life and

1274
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:33,000
purpose.
Happy New Year your guys, enjoy

1275
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:33,600
some more food.