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As a body of Believers and just 
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those words toward to put our 
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world and on, you are so 
awesome. 

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Lord that we can do that high 
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everything else that we think of
you are worthy of our praise and

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honor and so we as we come to 
this time now is then brings the

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word that he's prepared. 
We pray that you bless as words.

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And probably that you would 
speak through them and speak to 

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him will be asked, we pray for 
the kids programs and teachers 

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and them bless them to as they 
learn and get taught more of 

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you, we just pray for them Lord 
in the teachers. 

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Well Jesus name, amen. 
Good morning. 

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Hey, so we're carrying on in our
Series this week. 

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We had a bit of a break. 
Last week we carry on in our 

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series called, who are we? 
And I've really enjoyed that 

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series the series so far. 
So we've been looking at who are

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we as Christians and you know, 
what is the Christian? 

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What does that look like? 
How does it sort of play out in 

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our lives? 
And then we've been going 

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through, we've just finished 
going through the book of First 

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Peter was first. 
Peter tells us that very sort of

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practical sensors in it. 
If you're Christian, what are, 

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you know? 
What does that mean? 

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How do you, how do you live your
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And I've got so much out of 
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It's been really exciting and 
lots of really good feedback 

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from from people about the 
different messages that that 

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have we've had as part of this 
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And so I've learned a lot 
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We are going to continue the 
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be looking at who are we as a 
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Who are we, as a church? 
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just want to share with you a 
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often hear from Chris. 
And people regarding people 

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being part of a church, right? 
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first one. 
I've been hurt by Church by 

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people in a church and that's 
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It's a very real experience for 
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Yeah. 
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at these, a bit later. 
This one, I'm too busy. 

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I'm just too busy, and I use 
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When I first left home, you 
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it's like, oh, I'm just too busy
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This one I do Church Rogue, all 
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Are you know, I just stayed home
and I'll watch online or on, you

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know, just me and my family 
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I just study for myself. 
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common one here, this again, 
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Somebody said this to me, I 
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religion. 
I don't believe in organized 

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religion. 
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these statements before, if you 
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that before. 
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Maybe you've used one of these 
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right in the past. 
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to do is we kind of want to look
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this idea of who are we as a 
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So these are three things we can
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First of all, what is a church? 
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When we say that right? 
We call ourselves hook, annoy 

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Bible Church. 
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mean, right? 
Second thing is, what does a 

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church do? 
What's its function? 

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What are our goals? 
What are we, what are we meant 

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to be doing? 
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does that Working practice. 
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What are my responsibilities as,
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But before we look at any of 
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more important question, which 
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All right, you know, what do we 
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What does it matter, what a 
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And the reason we care is 
because of this verse in, this 

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is kind of our key passage this 
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chapter 3, and verse 21. 
So there's the verse to him be 

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glory in the church. 
Use that word in there. 

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That's a Greek word in and it 
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through, or by right. 
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translation. 
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church office, or through the 
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throughout all generations, 
forever and ever, amen? 

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Okay, so we need to Define some 
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This is kind of important, if 
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one way. 
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Different thing, you know, it 
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I've told some of the story 
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illustrates it. 
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Scotland for a while we were 
doing church planting over there

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and I lived in Scotland just a 
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came and knocked on the door and
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football over your fence and 
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could just run through your 
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right? 
So As a kiwi in my head, I'm 

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imagining just some feet. 
Just going tramping through the 

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flowers and the vegetables and 
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Because to me a garden is an 
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right to put your flowers and 
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stuff like that. 
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I think of right when I think of
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right? 
So if you look up, the word 

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Garden in the dictionary, the 
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Garden was a fenced-off area. 
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That's why zoos were originally 
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right? 
Because all the animals are 

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fenced off. 
This means a fenced-off area. 

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But when we, when we think of 
Garden, right? 

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We think of yeah, flowers and 
veggies and all that, right? 

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But in Scotland, when they think
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your yard. 
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can I walk through your yard and
get my ball Right? 

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So luckily I'd read enough, you 
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know that, that's what he was 
talking about. 

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Otherwise I would have gone, no,
right, yeah. 

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So you see, we got to have the 
same definition of terms, right?

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To be able to understand what's 
going on. 

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I've got another good example 
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I had a friend from the southern
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and he said where he grew up. 
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grain that they used to feed to 
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called Milo. 
All right? 

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And he would go around to 
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They say, would you like a cup 
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It's a nah, I'm good. 
Thanks. 

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Yeah, I think I was I think I'll
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Right? 
Definition of terms, right? 

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Can be important. 
So we so we need to find Define 

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a few, a few terms here. 
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Define is this one Glory. 
So the Greek word here is doxa 

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in. 
It can be translated in a number

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of different ways depending on 
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But one of its core meanings is 
this idea of Splendor or 

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brightness like a bright light. 
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shining a spotlight on somebody 
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before right. 
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dark. 
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blacked out and then we turn on 
a big Spotlight and and it just 

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went boom call today for, right?
And so Dave's just lit up. 

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Well, what happened? 
We'd all go. 

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Mmm, well what Steve done? 
Is he getting an award or 

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wouldn't you know what's 
happening here, right? 

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And what are we looking right? 
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somebody, that's kind of what 
this word gives an idea of when 

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we give glory to something, it's
like turning the spotlight on 

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it. 
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there to him, be glory through 
the church, right? 

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In the church. 
All right, so the spotlight gets

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turned on God through the 
church. 

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People notice him. 
So, are you getting the sense 

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that church is very, very 
important. 

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All right. 
It's very, very important to go 

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because that's that's how God, 
you know, the spot like it's 

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turned on God and people notice 
God for the church. 

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That make sense so far. 
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Okay. 
So what is the church right? 

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That's got to be the next next 
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And so the Greek word here, Is 
the word Ecclesia? 

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Ecclesia Ecclesia. 
That literally translates as 

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called out ones, right? 
Called out ones. 

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Now, that doesn't kind of mean a
whole lot to us. 

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But basically what it what it 
means is it's a congregation or 

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an assembly of people called 
together for a specific purpose.

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I, that's that's what the the 
word means. 

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Now it's usually translated 
Church in the Bible but not 

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always, right x19 gets. 
Gets really interesting in Acts 

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What happened in the city of 

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Ephesus? 
It was all these Tradesmen. 

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There, most of the people in the
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Goddess Diana. 
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Ephesus, and they made all these
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and trinkets about Diana worship
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And, as Christianity started to 
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Ephesus business, kind of Tanked
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For these Tradesmen and they 
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And so there was this huge kind 
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And it seems, there was this big
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protesters in the town square 
and so the town Clark he's 

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pictured there, right? 
He gets up in front of everybody

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and they were very angry, right?
And they mobs, kind of seething,

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and he says to them, he says, 
look, if you have a problem, the

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courts are open go down there. 
The thing can be sorted out in a

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legal assembly, right? 
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Ecclesia, right illegal 
assembly. 

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He says, but what you're doing 
here is dangerous, right? 

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This is an illegal assembly and 
you know, the Romans didn't 

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didn't take kindly to things 
that weren't sanctioned like 

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that, just people kind of 
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And then it says he disses. 
He dismissed the assembly, 

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right? 
Dismissed, the Ecclesia. 

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He said, okay, well, you go 
right so you can see the idea 

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here, right? 
Ecclesia is the word. 

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That's usually translated as 
church. 

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So I'm going to church is an 
assembly or a congregation Of 

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people called together for a 
specific purpose and which 

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obviously Flows In nicely to the
next question, which is what is 

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the purpose of a church, right? 
What does it choose to do? 

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What's it for kind of what's the
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So for that, what we do is we're
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Jesus in Matthew 28, if you want
to turn their this is well-known

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passage that we commonly refer 
to as the Great Commission and 

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this is where Jesus kind of 
outlines in Broad terms his 

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mission plan. 
For his for his churches. 

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And so let's look at what he 
says will start in Matthew 28 

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verse number 16. 
This is this Now the eleven 

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disciples went to Galilee to the
mountain, which Jesus had 

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directed them, and when they saw
him, they worshiped him, but 

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some doubted, and Jesus came, 
and he said to them all 

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authority in heaven and on Earth
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Go. 
Therefore so he's saying look, I

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have complete Authority. 
Some translations will translate

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that word is power right now. 
Complete power here, complete 

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Authority and because of that 
I'm delegating to you, right? 

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I want you to do something and 
it says, go there for now. 

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The word go. 
There it is. 

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Plural. 
He's some some translations if 

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you got it. 
Like King James, it'll say, go, 

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ye therefore, right? 
So it's like y'all go, right? 

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He's addressing them as a group,
all of you go and do what and 

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Make Disciples of all Nations, 
will come back and have a look 

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at these, in a second, baptizing
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and of the Son, and the Holy 
Spirit. 

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Teaching them to observe all 
things that I have commanded you

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and behold. 
I Am With You Always even to the

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End of the Age, okay? 
So let's just sort of break that

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down a little bit, right? 
Make disciples once them to make

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disciples and we talked about 
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what is a Christian and we said,
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well, defined in scripture with 
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as disciple, and a disciple is 
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do in this situation? 
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Because, because what you do, 
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If If you are in the situation, 
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Because that's the decision that
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Dictionary. 
I looked this up this week. 

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This is quite an interesting, 
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Definition of disciple is this 
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spreading the doctrines of 
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is it? 

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So Jesus is with a carry on with
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And the first part of that is to
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Right. 
Make disciples, right? 

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Tell them the good news that, 
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all done bad stuff, we all fall 
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Not only will fall short of 
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Air. 
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We just fall short. 
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enough, right? 
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the good news is that Jesus 
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To pay the punishment, that 
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that means that he's paid the 
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Forgiveness, is on offer. 
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hey, sorry, God, I'm really 
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I've fallen short, I've done 
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forgive us. 
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We can have a relationship with 
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That is amazingly good news, 
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So that's the first part of what
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Make this, I will share that 
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the father, and the Son, and the
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the church family, Is to baptize
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authority of the godhead in the 
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Father, the Son, the holy 
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So remember we talked about that
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about a month ago, me and it was
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bit about this. 
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What is baptism, right? 
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burial and resurrection of Jesus
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It's saying you can watch my 
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From now on, I'm going to I'm 
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I'm going to serve him. 
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serve him. 
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getting people to the point 
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dedicate my life to this thing. 
You can watch my life from this 

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point on because Jesus Christ 
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For me, it just makes sense that
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evangelize and then get people 
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going. 
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baptized and then the third bit 
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all the things that I have 
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fight over procedures and 
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and will fail to reach our 
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So, as a church, family part, 3 
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stabilized, right? 
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that right, evangelize baptized 
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That's kind of the overall plan.
That's what we're about, right? 

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That's that's the purpose. 
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he's with us always. 
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Jesus Christ. 
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We're not, we're not left on our
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how do we know when we're 
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How do we know when we're 
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What are our key performance 
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If you like movies, some people 
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have those at a job. 
I was at every year they would 

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have these key performance 
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these are Things we want to see 
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If you flip back to Matthew 
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Matthew 22. 36, the guy says 
teacher, which is the great 

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commandment in the law, which is
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What he's asking. 
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important commandment, right? 
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Testament, or there's like 613 
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he's saying, I love all these 
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follow, which is the most 
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This number 37, and he said to 
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shall love the Lord. 
Your God with all your heart, 

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with all your soul with all your
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This is the first and this is 
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yourself on these two 
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and the prophets, right? 
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everything, the prophets talked 
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These two precepts, right? 
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So love the Lord with everything
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The heart and soul of mine. 
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got and love your neighbor as 
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love and grace, and mercy and 
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all those things come into play 
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there, right? 
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right? 
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out loud, right? 
Let's go. 

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Evangelize baptized stabilize, 
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So that's that's kind of the 
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But and how do we know We 
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I've kind of try to put this 
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it a bit easier, right? 
The measurable Benchmark of a 

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disciple in a practical sense is
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God, and they'll be loving and 
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So make sense. 
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That's a, that's the measurable 
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How does this work in practice? 
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What's my part to part to play 
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and we're not we're not going to
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describes a church family is 
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its head and all of the people 
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right? 
They're all kind of different 

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but they all have important 
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They all do different things but
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What what God wants carried out,
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Evangelize baptize stabilized. 
because, you know, you have 

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gifts and talents and abilities 
and and experiences that are 

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specific to you You know things,
I don't know. 

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You can do things. 
I don't, I can't do you. 

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You, you've experienced things, 
I haven't experienced you've, 

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you know, people and you can 
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would struggle to to relate to 
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You mix in different circles and
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That's one of the reasons. 
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why churches are God's means of 
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God does business in the world 
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churches. 
How does that kind of work, 

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right? 
So you know, if you think, okay 

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for me as a person, you know, I 
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kind of a part of this sort of 
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stuff and I can kind of add that
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But in a practical sense that 
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What do I do? 
How do I, how do I make that 

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work? 
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Life you really should kind of 
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broad. 
Ages and they kind of roughly 

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match up with the stages that we
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Growing physically. 
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right. 
Which is childhood, right? 

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Youth, and adulthood you 
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of three, three phases. 
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childhood stage, right? 
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learning. 
And this is, you know, primarily

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true. 
If you're if you're new 

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Christian, right? 
If you're feeling new to this 

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and you go, okay, what's my next
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What I what I do here, right. 
Serving and learning. 

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So your priority should to be 
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Concentrate on learning and 
being taught the word of God to 

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learn how to be the man or woman
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That know, God wants you to be. 
Just kind of learning to grow. 

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This is a from First Peter 
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We looked at this simple weeks 
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of all malicious behavior in 
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good. 
Be done with the piracy in 

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jealousy and backstabbing you 
must crave, pure spiritual milk 

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so that you can grow into the 
fullness of your salvation cry 

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out for this nourishment, as a 
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you've had a taste of the Lord's
kindness. 

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Yeah. 
Once you get a taste of it, 

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right? 
You just want to know more, you 

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want to learn, you want to grow.
And that's that's an important 

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first, first stage. 
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So if that's you If you're new 
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and to grow, right? 
Observe and learn and and find 

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out more about Christ. 
How do you do that, right? 

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The obvious way is get into your
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you can. 
But come along, we have lots of 

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different Ministries in four 
different age groups, where we 

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come together in groups and 
learn to do that and obviously 

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on Sunday morning worship. 
We also, you know, we're 

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learning now. 
We're going through the Bible. 

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So we have lots of ways to help 
you do that. 

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And so that would be be my 
encouragement, right? 

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The second second stage. 
Go through, is kind of The youth

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stage and kind of roughly 
equivalent to the use, you stage

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of life and this is 
participating in helping, right?

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So in time you naturally should 
grow to the point where you can 

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take on some basic functions 
through the already established 

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Ministries that we have now 
church, right? 

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The different things that we 
that we do to try and help 

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evangelize baptized and 
stabilize. 

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Jesus said this to the 
disciples, he said come be my 

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disciples and I'll show you how 
to fish for people. 

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Yeah, that's from Matthew. 24 is
19. 

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This Reverend James one. 
Quite interesting James 1 verse 

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22. 
He said remember, it is a mrs. 

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To obey not just to Listen to If
you don't obey. 

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You're only fooling yourself for
use. 

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If you just listen, you don't 
obey. 

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It's like looking at your face 
in a mirror but doing nothing to

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improve your appearance, your 
appearance. 

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You see yourself walk away and 
forget what you look like. 

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So you know it's really 
important to learn and to grow 

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and all the time in God's word 
and figuring out. 

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What does God want? 
How does this work? 

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What does Jesus look like? 
How can I be more like him if 

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I'm his disciple? 
How can I make decisions? 

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Like he would make and go 
through all that stuff? 

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But you can't just read it, 
right? 

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Because James says, looked at 
its the Bible's like a mirror. 

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It lets you see yourself how you
really are, right? 

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And it should start to change 
you and you should start putting

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some stuff into practice to make
make the changes that need to be

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made. 
He said, yeah, it's like looking

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at yourself in the mirror. 
If, you know, if you got up this

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morning, you looked in the 
mirror and your hair was all 

451
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,600
over the place. 
You know, had a big zit on one 

452
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,100
side of your Is and and you 
think, oh man, I missed a bit 

453
00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:32,600
when I was shaving you know all 
this sort of stuff and you and I

454
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,200
will and just walked off. 
That's kind of what was the 

455
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,800
point of looking in the mirror? 
You look in the mirror and go, 

456
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,500
okay, I need to fix that. 
I need to come here or whatever,

457
00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:42,800
and that's what he's saying. 
If you're reading the Bible and 

458
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,600
then you're not doing it, you 
just reading it. 

459
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,700
It's like looking in the mirror 
and then not making any change. 

460
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,000
So we need to, as we learn and 
observe, we're going to start 

461
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,000
putting the stuff into practice.
Somebody asked me to see other 

462
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,800
day, I was at a at a past. 
Has breakfast. 

463
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,200
And the guy said, I do you have 
a doctorate and I said, no, no 

464
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,300
no, I don't and he said, well 
are you working on one? 

465
00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:07,500
And I said, no, no, I'm not 
right now. 

466
00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:10,700
And he said, well, why not? 
I said, I'm already educated far

467
00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:15,300
beyond my level of obedience. 
I need to put into practice, you

468
00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:17,900
know, the stuff that I that I 
know, right? 

469
00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:21,000
And you know, maybe one day, who
knows, but what God has in store

470
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,700
but, you know, you just, we need
to put into practice the stuff 

471
00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:26,100
we know, right? 
So that's that's kind of the 

472
00:23:26,108 --> 00:23:28,000
second phase. 
And so maybe that's you. 

473
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,200
Maybe that's where you're at, 
you go. 

474
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,300
Yeah I know a lot of stuff now 
been in this game, a little 

475
00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:34,800
while. 
I need to start getting involved

476
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,200
in doing some stuff and then the
last stage obviously is the 

477
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,600
adult stage which is teaching 
and leading. 

478
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,800
So, as your growth continues, 
right? 

479
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,100
You should reach this point 
where you can begin to help 

480
00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:50,400
other people in the same way 
that you've been helped. 

481
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,200
This is Paul to Timothy. 
He said, Paul says to Timothy 

482
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,200
said you've heard me Teach many 
things that have been been 

483
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,400
confirmed by many reliable 
Witnesses. 

484
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,000
Teach these great truths to 
trustworthy people who are able 

485
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,000
to pass them on to others. 
Pour into other people's lives, 

486
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,800
the way that people have poured 
into yours. 

487
00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:12,400
Teach them to stuff that you've 
been taught, you know, make 

488
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,000
disciples, right? 
One of the things that a 

489
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,400
disciple does is make disciples.
Yeah, there should be this this 

490
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,100
pattern going on, right. 
So so pour into other people's 

491
00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:24,600
lives and connect with them the 
way that that's been done for 

492
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:29,800
you now, important to say here, 
be patient. write this process 

493
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:38,100
takes both time and effort and 
then I want to look at this 

494
00:24:38,100 --> 00:24:40,000
passage because this gets really
important. 

495
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,800
This is something that the 
writer of Hebrews said, he says 

496
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,000
this to him, be glory in the 
church, right. 

497
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000
Let's go through that again. 
Just quickly, write to him be 

498
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,500
glory in the church and in 
Christ Jesus unto all 

499
00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:55,000
generations forever and ever. 
Amen. 

500
00:24:55,300 --> 00:24:58,400
Right. 
But then writer of Hebrews, says

501
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,300
this, right? 
Let us not give up meeting 

502
00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:04,600
together as some are in the 
habit of doing, but let us 

503
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,800
encourage. 
Judge one another and all the 

504
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,600
more as you see the day 
approaching. 

505
00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:12,200
So, don't give up gathering 
together, right? 

506
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,900
That's what a church is, right? 
It's an assembly. 

507
00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:18,000
It's a congregation. 
Don't give up doing that because

508
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,100
you need the encouragement 
living. 

509
00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:22,000
The Christian Life is tough 
sometimes, right? 

510
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,300
It's not easy. 
And you do other people's 

511
00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:27,500
encouragement but even more 
importantly, they need yours. 

512
00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:31,300
They need your encouragement and
so we don't want to get slack on

513
00:25:31,300 --> 00:25:33,600
this and he says, look, it's 
only going to get tougher from 

514
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,600
high. 
It's just Make sure you make 

515
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,100
sure you don't, you know, make 
sure you sort of prioritize this

516
00:25:39,100 --> 00:25:42,200
a little bit, not a little bit, 
just make sure you prioritize 

517
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,200
it. 
Okay, so let's just sort of 

518
00:25:44,208 --> 00:25:47,700
finish up and look at those 
statements that we looked at it 

519
00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:50,300
initially and Connie. 
Go back to those. 

520
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,800
Yeah, look, I don't go to church
because I've been hurt by people

521
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,600
in church in the past. 
Now, this is a very real 

522
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,200
experience for some people and 
some of those hurts are quite 

523
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,800
serious, right? 
So, I'm not downplaying that. 

524
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,700
And anyway, you may have story 
like, That. 

525
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,400
But I do kind of want to say 
this, right? 

526
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,300
So when, when I was a teenager, 
my dad was a soldier and he was 

527
00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:13,600
stationed overseas in Australia 
for a few years and we lived in 

528
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:18,200
Australia and I got beaten up 
one time by a group of people 

529
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,900
from a particular ethnic group 
right now. 

530
00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:23,000
I'm not going to tell you which 
group it was, but whatever, one 

531
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,300
you're thinking of, it's not 
that one and so. 

532
00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:28,500
But what if I said? 
Look, those are bad people. 

533
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,300
I am never going to deal with 
those people. 

534
00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:34,500
Again, what would we call that 
Yeah, that's racism. 

535
00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:36,300
Right? 
That's racism. 

536
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,100
It's this is kind of the same, 
isn't it? 

537
00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:40,500
You know, I was treated very 
badly. 

538
00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:43,200
I was hurt by people in the 
church in the past it's kind of 

539
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,100
the same thing to say. 
So all of those all of the other

540
00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:48,900
churches are that way. 
Everybody's like that. 

541
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,300
Yeah it's kind of the same idea 
and like I say I'm not I'm not 

542
00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:55,100
playing down the the hurts, you 
know, there are some. 

543
00:26:55,100 --> 00:26:59,100
There are some genuinely bad 
things that have been done in 

544
00:26:59,100 --> 00:27:01,800
churches. 
But you can kind of see how this

545
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,900
is kind of equivalent. 
To racism. 

546
00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:08,200
Isn't it in a sense? 
Yeah, the same kind of, basic 

547
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,500
idea. 
Okay, so what about this one? 

548
00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:14,200
I'm too busy. 
Like so I've used that one. 

549
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,900
My seed, myself in the past, 
this is just about priorities, 

550
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,000
is that? 
So am I, who I say, I am, if I'm

551
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,200
serious. 
And I think say, I really want 

552
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,000
to, I want people to see God. 
I want people to connect with 

553
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,600
God. 
I want the spotlight turned on 

554
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:29,900
God. 
How does this bottle? 

555
00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:33,200
I get turn on God through his 
tutors glory to beat. 

556
00:27:33,300 --> 00:27:37,200
Him through the church. 
So it's just about just about 

557
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,800
priorities. 
There's also this right now, 

558
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,700
actually, believe that. 
Well, let's just go to the next 

559
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,900
next one. 
I do Church Rogue, right? 

560
00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:48,400
And this is really common, this 
has become more common because 

561
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,200
of covid, lockdowns, and things 
like that, you know, people 

562
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,900
were, you know, we weren't able 
to assemble together and then 

563
00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:56,300
when we were some people are 
just kind of stayed behind, 

564
00:27:56,700 --> 00:27:58,500
right? 
And I get this quite a lot. 

565
00:27:58,508 --> 00:28:01,700
Now, I, you know, just stay at 
home and I just watch online or 

566
00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:04,100
just me and my family just Our 
own thing. 

567
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,700
Or I just study by myself, that 
kind of stuff church is an 

568
00:28:08,700 --> 00:28:13,400
assembly or a gathering of 
Believers, it's a gathering to 

569
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,100
worship. 
And so if we don't do that, 

570
00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:17,900
there's a fullness that we're 
missing out on. 

571
00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:21,100
We're just missing out this, 
this something about it, I just 

572
00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:24,200
gathering together to worship 
together with a bunch of people 

573
00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:26,600
you know, when we're just 
standing at the front there this

574
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,500
morning and we exalt the have 
everybody was singing and 

575
00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:32,400
there's just something about 
that a when you were together 

576
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,200
with it with a group of people. 
All that that you're missing out

577
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,000
on. 
There's also this right? 

578
00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:41,800
You might end up a bit weird. 
All right, this is from 

579
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:47,600
Proverbs, 18:1 says, whoever 
isolates himself seeks his own 

580
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,700
desire right so you can become a
bit self-centered. 

581
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,400
When you're by yourself, and you
can also end up, you know, you 

582
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,400
end up in a situation where you 
kind of major on minors and 

583
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,600
minor or major surgery, right? 
You make a big deal out of 

584
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:02,900
things that really aren't that 
important. 

585
00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:04,200
And then things that are 
important. 

586
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,200
You kind of play down a little 
bit and you kind of miss out, 

587
00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:11,200
you can become a bit 
self-centered and says, he 

588
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,300
breaks out against all sound 
judgment. 

589
00:29:13,900 --> 00:29:17,400
So you just kind of start making
strange decisions, right? 

590
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,700
When you don't have somebody 
else around you other believers 

591
00:29:19,700 --> 00:29:21,400
to challenge you and go. 
Hey, what about this verse? 

592
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,900
What about this, right? 
And be inspired by other 

593
00:29:25,300 --> 00:29:27,500
Christians around you and all 
that kind of stuff. 

594
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,500
So it's not the same thing. 
You can become self-centered, 

595
00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:34,100
you start to make some weird 
decisions and then this one, I 

596
00:29:34,100 --> 00:29:36,300
get this a lot. 
I just had it again this week 

597
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,100
talking to someone in a coffee 
shop. 

598
00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:39,900
I don't believe in organized, 
religion. 

599
00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:43,800
And so the conversation I had 
said, well, what is disorganized

600
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,000
religion? 
Look like it's like a just turn 

601
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,900
up when you think might be a 
good time, you know. 

602
00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:50,800
I don't know. 
You know, we'll just pick up, 

603
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,500
pick up versatran. 
Damn everybody, because we're, 

604
00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:54,700
you know, we haven't put any 
time and said, studying this out

605
00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:56,300
and praying and seeing where 
God's League us. 

606
00:29:56,500 --> 00:29:59,600
Yeah, I don't know. 
You God was very, very organized

607
00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:03,000
about the way he said up, 
worship, right in the way where 

608
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,900
he did things. 
And so it's kind of a weird 

609
00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:07,400
thing. 
Anyway, had this good 

610
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,700
discussion. 
It was a really good discussion.

611
00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:11,400
And in the end, the lady said to
me. 

612
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,000
Yeah, yeah, I guess I'm just 
kind of using that as an excuse,

613
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,800
just like, yeah, in the end, it 
comes down to this, right? 

614
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,600
This is what Jesus said to his 
disciples. 

615
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:26,600
In John chapter 12. 
Obviously for this is a new 

616
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,700
commandment. 
I give to you that you love one.

617
00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:34,400
Another just as I have loved you
you're also to love one another.

618
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,600
By this, all people will know 
that you are my disciples. 

619
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,000
If you have love one for 
another, right? 

620
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,400
I'll follow those in yellow 
there. 

621
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,500
You see how many times he's 
reiterating the same point, 

622
00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:46,900
right? 
When the Bible says, something 

623
00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:49,200
more than once, it's important. 
When it says it, lots of times, 

624
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,200
it's really important because 
this is what we're about. 

625
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,400
This is what we're about, we are
a gathering of Believers whose 

626
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:01,800
job, it is to evangelize to 
baptize, and to stabilize so 

627
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,700
that the spotlight gets turned 
on God and people see Him. 

628
00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:08,500
And they know where his 
followers, by the way that we 

629
00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:11,500
treat each other that we love 
and we care for one another. 

630
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,900
That's what people notice, 
that's kind of the Crux of who 

631
00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:19,700
we are. 
So, if you, if you, you know 

632
00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:23,500
what is it, you forget 80% of 
what you heard within 72 hours 

633
00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:26,900
and like, 95% of it within a 
week or something like that, if 

634
00:31:26,900 --> 00:31:30,200
you can, just remember this 
evangelized baptized stabilized,

635
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,100
right? 
That's the Crux of things, 

636
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,200
right? 
What we're about but also 

637
00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:38,800
people. 
I know where Jesus disciples if 

638
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,600
we have love one for another. 
That's that's the kind of the 

639
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,500
glue that that keeps the whole 
thing together yet make sense. 

640
00:31:45,900 --> 00:31:47,100
Yeah. 
Hopefully it was helpful. 

641
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,900
It's good. 
Really good for me to go through

642
00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:50,700
this again and just kind of 
remind yourself a. 

643
00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:53,900
It it's just it's an awesome 
thing that we have here and 

644
00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:56,600
we're going to me just all the 
different elements that are 

645
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,400
playing into this evangelize 
baptized stabilize, and then 

646
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,300
that can love and care that 
people have for each other. 

647
00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:05,700
There is something about it. 
There's suggest something That's

648
00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:08,800
very magnetic and attractive. 
Isn't there about when you see 

649
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,800
God's people doing what God's 
design them to do? 

650
00:32:12,100 --> 00:32:13,600
Recall? 
All right, let's pray in that 

651
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:18,100
I'll hand back to Great. 
Hey father, we we do come before

652
00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:21,800
you standing in or an exulting 
new lord lord. 

653
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,600
It's incredible to see what 
you're doing in the world it but

654
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:29,500
it's it's incredible to actually
be a part of it here in Oconee 

655
00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:33,500
Bible Church and Lord thank you 
for all the incredible exciting 

656
00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:36,300
things that are going on. 
Things that are happening. 

657
00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:39,800
Thank you for the Ministries 
that are that are really just 

658
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,500
connecting people with you. 
Louis, we really do want to turn

659
00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:47,900
the spotlight on you and give 
you glory Lord. 

660
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,500
We don't always get it right 
there. 

661
00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:52,300
Are things that we mess up. 
There are things where we just 

662
00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:54,900
get procedures wrong. 
There are things where we just 

663
00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:59,400
get our own pride and ego and 
whatever gets in the way and we 

664
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,700
don't love each other. 
Like you loved us sometimes and 

665
00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:04,500
we just ask for forgiveness for 
that. 

666
00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:08,400
And we also just make us that 
you make us aware of when we 

667
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,100
were areas. 
And in times, when we're getting

668
00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:14,300
it wrong, both as a both, as a 
as an assembly as a 

669
00:33:14,308 --> 00:33:17,000
congregation. 
But also as individuals Lord, we

670
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,600
just pray that little step up 
and play our part Lord. 

671
00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:22,700
And we, and we do just thank you
for. 

672
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,000
Yeah, this thing that is 
Christianity, that just goes Way

673
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,800
Beyond, you know, back in the 
past beyond the book begins of 

674
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our lives in both directions and
that we get to to be a part of 

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what you're doing. 
Thank you for your Loving You 

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Grace to us. 
Thank you. 

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This morning in Jesus name. 
Loving You Grace to us. 

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Thank you. 
This morning in Jesus name.