1 00:00:07,430 --> 00:00:09,750 City Post. What up with it? 2 00:00:09,990 --> 00:00:12,510 We back My name is Hector and I'm here with. 3 00:00:12,630 --> 00:00:14,910 Is this Pastor Ricky? How is everybody doing? 4 00:00:15,150 --> 00:00:18,830 And we're back with another episode of Build Equips, and 5 00:00:18,830 --> 00:00:21,950 it's the title of the podcast, but most importantly, it's the 6 00:00:21,950 --> 00:00:24,430 Michigan. Of church, That's right. 7 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:28,560 A little recap from the haymakers the Holy Spirit was 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,320 giving us. On Sunday, bro. 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,520 That living in the Spirit sermon was one that I know I sorely 10 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,080 needed. So you know that that was a, it 11 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:42,000 was a powerful sermon to prepare for when you really dig into the 12 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,040 Holy Spirit. And even for myself, like, if 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,160 we're just being honest, because I've had, I've had people tell 14 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:52,760 me like as a pastor, they're like, man, like we just would 15 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:58,000 like a church that's more spirited or we don't feel the 16 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,480 Holy Spirit here. Or so when you hear people say 17 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,000 stuff like that, it kind of tends to play games. 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,360 And I mean it, it plays with your mind a little bit. 19 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,840 And, and I know like I got to a place where I was, I was like, 20 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,880 man, am I not like, am I disconnected? 21 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:19,760 Am I like, because our church isn't like jumping and, and all 22 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:26,560 that stuff that people want to see and, and like what, like, am 23 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,400 I doing something wrong? And I, and I'll be honest, 24 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,280 that's something I struggled with for a while. 25 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:35,160 So when you start to like study the Holy Spirit and when you 26 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,640 start like jumping in God's word, it's like, no, that's not, 27 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:44,440 that's not the purpose of it, you know, And so it was, it was 28 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,320 almost like preaching to myself a little bit like, or a lot of 29 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:51,640 bit man preaching to myself and just talking about what does it 30 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,120 look like to live in the spirit? And then, you know, we, we have 31 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,480 the gifts of the spirit where we haven't even like scratched the 32 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,240 surface and that yet, you know, so we haven't even talked about 33 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,440 healing and and tongues and you know, languages like we haven't, 34 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,120 we haven't talked any about on any of that stuff yet. 35 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,720 But I think, like I said, before you could, Ron, you got to be 36 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,080 able to walk and The Walking is understanding. 37 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:20,840 Was the, you know, Elohim, Yeah, the Holy Spirit of God. 38 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:22,480 Like, you know what? What does that mean for us? 39 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:24,440 So yeah, just throwing that out there. 40 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,840 Absolutely, man. And it was one of those, for me 41 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:34,600 that was reminiscent of a conversation we had after a 42 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,000 sermon at the beginning of the year. 43 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,280 Bro, it's like it's just a different level like like 44 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,280 you're, you're at you're, you're deeper in that relationship with 45 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,360 the Lord and the Holy Spirit, bro. 46 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,600 And it's coming through in the messages, right? 47 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:52,480 So this time I want to encourage you in and you know El Espirito 48 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,000 Santos was moving at the end with. 49 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:56,080 The. Spanish and the, the invitation 50 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,320 bro, like that was, that was something that was awesome to 51 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,560 experience. You know, man, cuz we, we see 52 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,600 who our neighbors are, we've seen them at the trunk or 53 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:04,680 treats. We've seen them come to 54 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,560 different events and that is who our church has been planted in 55 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,800 the midst of man. So it's awesome to see the Holy 56 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,640 Spirit engaging them. As well. 57 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,440 And, you know, like something I noticed on Sunday, you know, I 58 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,640 was having a conversation with my sister about this. 59 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,760 I felt like after the sermon, there was like a sigh of relief. 60 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,000 Like I, I, I don't know, like I felt this like, I feel like, you 61 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,320 know, our church, every church has its own personality. 62 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,480 Every church has its own vibe. Every church has its own style. 63 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,240 And what makes a church a church is the message of the gospel. 64 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,640 Everything else can be learned. Everything else could be 65 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,480 cultural. Everything else can be a 66 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,040 subjective. Like the way Eric leads worship, 67 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,320 you know, he, he sings, that's who he is. 68 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,840 He's not up there yelling at people, telling everybody get 69 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,880 lit with it and jumping around. But it's not wrong. 70 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:04,240 It's just not who he is, you know, and doesn't mean that the 71 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,280 Holy Spirit is not present. And that's, I think that's kind 72 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,600 of where a lot of especially in the Latino culture and you know, 73 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,400 also like in the Puerto Rican culture, like, like people were 74 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,320 a little bit more like when I say spirited, it's like they're 75 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,440 just, they're more excited about things. 76 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:25,480 But there's also a, the cultural narrative that if you don't do 77 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,000 those things, then like the church, like the Spirit's not in 78 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,920 the church. And that's not what Paul shows 79 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:32,920 us. You know, so in Romans 8, Paul's 80 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,240 like, no, no, no, no, like if you walk with Christ, he has a 81 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,920 spirit in you. So you're that that's a spirit 82 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:40,560 filled church. And that's the narrative that we 83 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,880 got to get over. It's like, it's not about what 84 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,640 what you would look like. It's like the fruit that you're 85 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,200 bearing. And that's, that's a whole 86 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:49,640 another. Yeah, that's one of the 87 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,760 conversation. I said, like, I know a lot of 88 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:56,760 people who could run around, shout, yell, but yeah, like 89 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:01,200 their marriages are trash and they're living in sin and like 90 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,720 they struggle and like their families are wrecked. 91 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:08,760 And you know, like, so we, we have to be careful that you 92 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,520 don't equate certain things like, let's just stick to God's 93 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,080 word. And like I said, like, man, I'm, 94 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:18,440 I'm laid back dude, too, man. Like, so for you to say, well, 95 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,600 Ricky, you don't yell, you must not have the spirit or you're 96 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,480 not operating in the spirit. And I'm like, yeah, man, I get 97 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:27,960 that. But that's not who God made me. 98 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,080 So I'm going to operate and who God made me, you know. 99 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,160 So anyway, off the soapbox, I just want to throw it out there. 100 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,720 And I don't know, like the Lord was just working on me, you 101 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,440 know, and I just felt like it was coming. 102 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,880 And on Sunday, I, I don't know. I just felt like a huge sigh of 103 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,280 relief from a lot of people, you know, like, culturally, right. 104 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:48,480 Right. Yeah. 105 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,600 So whatever. But whatever side you land on, I 106 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,720 just felt like people just felt validated. 107 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:59,040 Like, OK, I am a believer. You know, like that's yeah, man. 108 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,840 And that's that's what we're we're called to do is to point 109 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:02,920 people to Christ. That's it. 110 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,880 Yeah, you know, no matter what they look like, no matter what 111 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,800 their worship styles like, no matter, you know, as long as 112 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:10,600 we're down with Jesus, bro. That's right. 113 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,200 Like everything. Else, right? 114 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,720 The gospel's got to be the central message, and then 115 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,920 everything else will will come about. 116 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,640 That's so true. And everything else is just it's 117 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:23,560 just a little extra seasoning. That's right. 118 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,680 That's just a song. Yeah, that's it. 119 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:32,480 Yeah, but but on that topic of pointing people to Christ, 120 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,680 before we started recording you, you mentioned the reference from 121 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,560 first John, if you want to share that. 122 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,200 Of course, this is something I, I mentioned on Sunday. 123 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,680 You know, when we, when we talk about the Holy Spirit and we, we 124 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,520 talk about like what the Holy Spirit does. 125 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,880 And you know what the point is, You know, first John chapter 5, 126 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,080 you know, verse 6-7 and eight, you know, it says this is the 127 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:58,280 one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, He did not come by 128 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,680 by water only, but by water and blood. 129 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:06,800 And it is the Spirit who testifies because the Spirit is 130 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,520 the truth. For there are three that 131 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,720 testify, the Spirit, the water and the blood and the three are 132 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,440 in agreement. So we accept human testimony, 133 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:21,200 but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of 134 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,200 God which he has given about his Son. 135 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:28,720 And whoever believes in the Son of God accepts that testimony. 136 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,360 You know, So what we see in the Scriptures, like the Holy 137 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,680 Spirit, everything about the Holy Spirit is about pointing 138 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,840 people to Jesus. So if you're living in the 139 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,880 Spirit, then you should talk a lot about Jesus, you know, and 140 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,320 it's not, it's good to have a healthy, a healthy relationship 141 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,160 or a healthy view of theology where you talk about the Father, 142 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,320 the Son, and the Holy Spirit, not one more than the other, but 143 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,760 all of it leads to Christ. So you talk about the Father. 144 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,400 Well, Jesus says, well, if you want to know what the Father's 145 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,560 like, come on, you look at me. But then when you talk about the 146 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:07,040 Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is pointing everybody to the Son. 147 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,920 You know, so it they all work in conjunction with one another 148 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,760 because they're of the same, you know, so it's like, but it all 149 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,840 put it all points to the sun. I think one of the best ways I 150 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:22,240 heard it was like, you know, God created the plan, Jesus made the 151 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,760 plan work and the Holy Spirit put the plan in motion. 152 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,120 But it's all that same plan of redemption, the redemptive work, 153 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,320 you know? So yeah, it all, it all works 154 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,400 together. Yeah man, that's the power of 155 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,840 the Holy Spirit most right through through it all man 156 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,919 through our church, through worship, through the Scriptures, 157 00:08:38,919 --> 00:08:43,039 through fellowship, through vacation Bible school is a lot 158 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:47,360 to get it to man so excited to to share the what the Holy 159 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:51,840 Spirit's doing in our church with our youth and adults, which 160 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:52,400 that's. That's. 161 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:56,360 Cool a cool wrinkle that I've never deserved in vacation Bible 162 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,960 school man and I'm I'm excited for our community to pull up 163 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:03,960 man. So with a city post church's 164 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,640 first vacation Bible school, bro, how you feeling? 165 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:10,440 Like what as sitting as the pastor of this and you know, 166 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,000 you've come from this rec background and you've worked 167 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,280 with you and that? What's it like to be sitting 168 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,640 here as we're a couple hours away from launching our first 169 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,560 vacation Bible school? Man, I'm, I'm just thinking this 170 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:25,320 is, this is so cool. Like it really is. 171 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,680 It's awesome because this is we, we've never had space to do a 172 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:33,800 vacation Bible school and, and we've never been really set 173 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,840 inside of a community. You know, we've always met and 174 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,440 so we've always done stuff at like outreach, but it's never 175 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,520 been where the church was located. 176 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:48,440 So to have a vacation Bible school like or VBS where we 177 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,920 invite like we passed out like 400 Flyers the other day, you 178 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,640 know, like to invite our kids like it's, I don't know, man, 179 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,040 it's exciting. And I also see every time you do 180 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:04,280 something of the first time, it builds a foundation for the next 181 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,760 year and the next year and the next year, you know, So for me, 182 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:12,080 this is, it's, I don't know, it's like, it's, it's joyous, 183 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,600 like it's really cool. And then there's something about 184 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,280 serving together as a church, you know, everybody's playing a 185 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,680 part in it. We're all working together. 186 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,280 There's just something about serving the Lord together. 187 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,120 That's just a lot of fun. That's kind of how I'm feeling 188 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:32,640 right now and. It's cool to see how many people 189 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,080 showed up to serve. Yeah, that's. 190 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,560 Exciting dude to serve together, man. 191 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:41,280 I'm excited for Juan and Connie. You know, those are that's a 192 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,600 couple that have become really close in friendship with me 193 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:46,680 having some conversations with them. 194 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:48,800 I'm excited for them. I'm excited for Michael. 195 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,080 You know, that's teaming up together with like the games 196 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,480 with all the kids after, you know, our experience in India at 197 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,960 the home and kind of observing, you know, to to be completely 198 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:02,040 real, observing some excellence in in teaching, in teaching and 199 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:03,760 like engaging the kids with the games. 200 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,800 Like what what your mom and Estevan and yourself and your 201 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,920 dad like the example we were given in India was huge, bro. 202 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,880 And like they set a pretty high standard that I know we're not 203 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:16,800 going to live up to, but we're going to try to like to to 204 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,800 implement some things that we. Got to start somewhere, you 205 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,040 know? That's right, yeah. 206 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:25,480 Man, so excited about that bro. But for those who may not be 207 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:30,960 familiar, may just not know, can you define what VBS is, what it 208 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:32,560 isn't? Kind of what that looks like 209 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:34,480 here. Yeah, no, I think that's a good 210 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,760 question because this is this is the the VBS for a lot of like 211 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,360 first time people. So what vacation Bible School is 212 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,000 it's usually like a week like maybe like 5 days out of the 213 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,480 summer. It's always done in the summer 214 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,000 and usually done in the evenings. 215 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,040 Now if you're like a mega church, you know, we have stay 216 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,680 at home moms and stuff like in the burbs, then yeah, you could 217 00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:59,560 do it during the day or in the morning, but usually done in the 218 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:01,920 evenings. You invite the community and and 219 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,040 really the focus are the kids. It's about like inviting the 220 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,600 community and everybody splits up. 221 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,440 You know, there's, there's recreation, there's games, 222 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:13,840 there's snacks, there's arts and crafts. 223 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,120 The teachers like teach at their level. 224 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,680 And then it's just a time for like the church to just come 225 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:21,000 together, minister to each other, minister to the 226 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,520 community, you know, because it, it opens the door for the 227 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,640 community to like come into the church not on like a non Sunday 228 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,600 basis where it's not as polished. 229 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,760 It's like it's fun. It's it's loud, it's chaotic, 230 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:41,400 you know, it's kids, right? But at the same time, it's very 231 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,640 organized, right? And very thought thought out and 232 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,880 prayed over. So VBS, it's a lot of fun, man. 233 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:53,560 And really the primary goal of VBS is not just like the 234 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:57,640 discipleship of our kids, but I believe that God uses it to 235 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,560 disciple those who join in on his work. 236 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,520 So it's VBS is also an invitation that God gives us to 237 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,840 join in on his work, our kids, and then the community. 238 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:15,520 So that's kind of what VBS does and is what it's not is 239 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:19,320 childcare. A lot of people use VBS as an 240 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,440 opportunity just to like, I'm going to just drop off kids. 241 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,720 And also there's a lot of people that church hop, you know, like, 242 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,720 hey, I'm going to take my kids to the VBS like 2 weeks ago at 243 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,080 this church and then we'll go to your church. 244 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,600 And then, you know, so sometimes people see it as a means to like 245 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,560 just now, man, let me get a few hours, you know, in the evening 246 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:43,920 and drop my kids off. And, and, you know, it's, it's 247 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:45,520 fun, man. It's a safe place. 248 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:47,920 Like some churches have massive budgets, right? 249 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,120 And so they could do that, but that that's not what it's really 250 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:52,920 about. You know, we just want to focus 251 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,480 on the community and then of course, our kids, right? 252 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,320 That's awesome, man. So a question I had in 253 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,840 especially after our meetings and learning more about the 254 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:09,200 mission and who we're we're targeting girl, I like to use 255 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,640 that word targeting, but who we're we're wanting to to invite 256 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,840 from, you know, 3 and 4 year olds all the way to 12th graders 257 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,480 and even adult classes, which is man, that was that was it was 258 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,160 different. I've never experienced that. 259 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,960 I've never. So I'm curious one like what was 260 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:29,200 the importance of that range? And then with the bilingual 261 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,880 classes for the adults as well, like what was the importance of 262 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,440 that? Yeah, no, the, the range is 263 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,560 important because you're, you're the teachers. 264 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:38,440 Everybody's learning the same thing. 265 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,760 But the teachers are crafting the way they teach and their 266 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,840 crafts and the sessions according to that age group. 267 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,680 So you don't have like a bunch of like 5th graders with 268 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,000 kindergarteners, you know, because then the kindergarteners 269 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,400 will get frustrated and the 5th will get frustrated because 270 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,160 there's too many like little ones and the attention spans are 271 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,200 different. So, so you want to divide up as 272 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,880 much as possible. And then those kids build the 273 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:06,960 relationships with those leaders so they get to know them 274 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,600 stronger, they get to know them better. 275 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,160 You know, we get the addresses of the kids. 276 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:15,920 So even after VBS, we'll go like make visits and just to say hi, 277 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,800 how how can we minister to the families? 278 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,840 So yeah, we'll go visit them, meet the parents. 279 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:22,920 The adult class I think is important. 280 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:25,320 So that way parents just don't drop their kids off. 281 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,800 They can grow too, you know. And then the Spanish, like our 282 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,440 neighborhood is predominantly Hispanic. 283 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,240 So we want to give an opportunity for Spanish speaking 284 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,960 parents. Lot of the kids talk English, 285 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,760 you know, most of our church, their generation. 286 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,920 But those first generation parents have an opportunity now 287 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,080 to connect with us, man. Yeah. 288 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,160 That's huge, bro. And then like, I love the, the, 289 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,000 the point of, you know, following up with the kids after 290 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,360 vacation Bible school and doing the home visits. 291 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:04,120 And man, that's in my opinion, that's something that's lost in 292 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,040 today's church because I remember growing up and I know 293 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,800 it might not would pop up at the house and like, sit down, chop 294 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,800 it up. And like, you know, for me, it 295 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,240 was like, Oh, it's cool. We had people over. 296 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,800 But now as I'm older, as like, man, like these are 297 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,400 relationships that my parents built with people in their 298 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,680 church and people that are walking with them and like 299 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:22,520 really care enough to come check on them. 300 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,120 So that's, that's something that's reminiscent of that, you 301 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:30,800 know, like that is church that I grew up in, but also like that 302 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,800 experience and seeing it first hand and how city post does it. 303 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,280 When we went to India, bro. So it was like that, that 304 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:39,840 intention in reaching the community. 305 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:42,560 I think that's something that sets apart what City Post is 306 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,400 doing from what I've observed in other churches. 307 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,920 Yeah, I mean, you have to, I think you have to reach out. 308 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,200 And what's missing is presence. And when you have an attraction 309 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,360 or model of church, you focus so much. 310 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,320 And the question you ask yourself is, how do we get 311 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:57,640 people in here? You know what? 312 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,520 We had better singers, better lights, better servants, 313 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,680 programs, all this stuff like dude, that might get people in 314 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,560 the door, but it's not going to sustain. 315 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:08,800 And then you have to like maintain that. 316 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:13,800 But if you thrive off of it's not about programming, It's not 317 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,800 about all this stuff. It's about introducing people to 318 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,680 Christ and building those relationships. 319 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,000 I think one of the things that that has been lost in our 320 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,839 culture is this art of like, hey, man, you want to go grab 321 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:28,119 coffee sometime? No serious. 322 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,760 Like if you ask anybody, people ask me like, how do I get 323 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,600 involved? I was like, man, here's somebody 324 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,080 new from the church. Go invite them to dinner or like 325 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,440 go take them out for coffee, bro. 326 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,960 It's like deer in headlights. You mean, I got to, I got to 327 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:41,280 talk to somebody. I don't know. 328 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:44,760 I was like, how is that any different? 329 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,920 Like, like that's what the church does, you know, it's 330 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,320 relationships, man. It's getting to know people you 331 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,720 don't know. Yeah, so I do that all the time, 332 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:54,960 man. I, I was like, hey man, let's 333 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:56,760 hang out, let's go get some tacos or something. 334 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:02,560 Or, or some people are extremely busy, so they only have like an 335 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,720 hour at lunch or 30 minutes, whatever it is. 336 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,120 And I'm, I'm also, I, I think it's important that you meet in 337 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:11,120 person. Texting is great, phone is 338 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:18,200 great, but I think humans are meant to have a relationship 339 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:22,560 with each other face to face. So it's, you know, I asked a lot 340 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:25,760 of these guys, like how many people from the church have you 341 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,320 gotten up to? Like, hey man, let's go grab 342 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,120 lunch. Yeah, it's not, man. 343 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:32,600 You don't have a bunch of people saying, oh, I'll do it. 344 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,800 Like, oh, man, that's, that's, that's the vulnerable part. 345 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,480 That's the vulnerable part. Yeah, 'cause what if it goes S? 346 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,080 What if I don't like them? Why they don't like me? 347 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:45,640 Like it don't matter, you know? Yeah, oh Holy Spirit, they foot 348 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:52,400 on my neck right now. Bro, I think, I think not just 349 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:57,480 that piece and we're just going to go on another trail here, but 350 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:04,320 I think that in ministry, when you are walking with the Lord, 351 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:10,080 when you're learning, people don't, people don't learn from 352 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,320 each other. Like this is something I learned 353 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,280 early on, man. I would meet with pastors and 354 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:21,680 just ask questions, pick their brains like, man, how long have 355 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,760 you done this? What's something difficult? 356 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:25,920 How do you know? I'm called the ministry? 357 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:28,680 What do you, what are you preaching right now? 358 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,320 How do you do sermon prep? What I've seen is opposite. 359 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,400 I've seen, I've seen people do that and all they do is talk 360 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,960 about themselves. So like you, you're sitting 361 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:45,000 across somebody who's been in ministry for like 20 something 362 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 years and all you're doing is talking about all the stuff that 363 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:48,800 you're doing. Sheesh. 364 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:53,480 Like, like you're trying to like get likes or something, but 365 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:55,240 that's the culture. Man, come on. 366 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,200 We're in. We're we're always there are 367 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,560 insecurities we're always looking for like, but imagine if 368 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:04,000 you had just brothers that you would like, man, can I, can I 369 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,560 invite you for cough just for one hour? 370 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,040 Like I just want to learn from you. 371 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,240 I want to hear from you. Like, I don't know, man. 372 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,000 There's just something real powerful in that. 373 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,440 I'm a big butt lever in that. I think everybody should have 374 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,760 people like that in their lives that you could learn from. 375 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,320 That's real. But you need that, those 376 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:24,640 relationships. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 377 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:31,440 And that's something for myself that I just need to be more 378 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:36,120 intentional and yeah, you know, and getting to know more of our 379 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:38,560 church family, like just the people that the Lord has sent 380 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:39,680 here, bro. That's real, man. 381 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,280 Yeah, I'm telling you, I, me and Ray tried having a conversation 382 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:49,480 the other day and I was like, man, I never would have dreamt 383 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,480 in 100 years to have the relationships I have with the 384 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,080 people at this church. Like it's awesome. 385 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:01,320 Like I'm like, where was Monica eight years ago? 386 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,120 You know, I mean, like, where was Gavino? 387 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:06,800 Where was like, where were all these these brothers, John, like 388 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,640 guys that are like super close to our family? 389 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,600 Like, man, why couldn't I met them 15 years ago, You know? 390 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:20,120 Like, it's just like, I'm just blown away by the relationships 391 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:23,240 that we have, the times we we're having together. 392 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:27,120 Like, I almost get emotional about it because it's like, you 393 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:30,360 just don't know, man. You don't know until you invite 394 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:33,440 somebody to your house or hang out with somebody you know. 395 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,720 Man, that's that's super real, bro. 396 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,960 Yeah, the the group of guys that I've become, like my brothers 397 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,080 here, started from an invitation to watch a football game. 398 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,600 That's all it was. Yeah, dudes just being dudes, 399 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,840 being silly, chopping it up, cracking jokes. 400 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,560 Right. You never know. 401 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,120 And even like there's times where like when when we meet 402 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:57,880 people from the church, I'll be like, man, I would love I want 403 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,680 to invite the mower. And it's not because I have to 404 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:03,160 like I work your past. You're supposed to hang out with 405 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:04,960 people. No, I don't, I don't got to do 406 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,200 anything I don't want to, right? That's like, I don't have to 407 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,560 invite hang out with you. But it's like, man, I my 408 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,480 curiosity, like man, you just seem like an awesome person. 409 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,440 Like, I want to get to know you, you know, And we do that with 410 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,480 people all the time. Man, that's awesome, you know? 411 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,240 Like it's, it's cool. They. 412 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,880 I'm just saying. Little side quest conversation. 413 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,720 If you listen to this at your ministry, you need to find 414 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:37,680 people that you could ask questions and let them pour into 415 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,040 you. I don't care if you play guitar. 416 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:41,680 I don't care if you do graphic design. 417 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,120 I don't care if you sing. Find other people that have done 418 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:47,560 it longer and better than you and just learn. 419 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:49,400 That's all I'm going to say about that. 420 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:52,800 So if y'all know anybody that play with these cameras at mega 421 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,160 churches, a connection would be appreciated. 422 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,360 Google for real, go to staff listings, find the e-mail. 423 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,800 Hey bro I would love to hang out, can I come to your office? 424 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,200 Go get some coffee. I've done that many times, so 425 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:09,080 let's see. See. 426 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:09,880 Look at that. Look at that. 427 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,200 It's curious. Yeah, for sure. 428 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:16,080 But you know, back on the topic of VBS and our church community 429 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,240 coming together and serving and the excitement aspect of what 430 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,680 City Post is doing, are there any, what's the word like things 431 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:29,240 to look out for during VBS? Any anything that we should keep 432 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,400 our eyes open to? I think that's, yeah, that's 433 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,040 great, especially for us that like we're doing this for the 434 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,360 first time. We have a lot of first time 435 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:39,480 teachers and I think you need to gauge how do we measure success? 436 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,120 What does this, what success, success look like? 437 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,680 And if we put success in numbers, we're going to be 438 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,240 disappointed because we don't know. 439 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,240 So I think three things. And because I'm a pastor, they 440 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,440 all have to start with the same letter. 441 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,880 So I don't forget. But I think you have to watch 442 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,600 out for discouragement. Like I'm thinking there's going 443 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,200 to be 50 kids and only like 10 show up. 444 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,240 The discouragement is not that 10 that 50 didn't show up. 445 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,840 The encouragement is that I'm being obedient and whoever's 446 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:10,840 here, we're going to rock it with them. 447 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,040 So the Lord knows. So don't be discouraged based on 448 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:18,640 who's here and who's not. Don't disengage with the 449 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,400 community. We, we have a tendency like when 450 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,120 there's new people, we have a tendency to like stay in our 451 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:27,000 groups. So if you see somebody new, try 452 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,000 to bring a man, hang out with them. 453 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,880 Don't disengage and don't disengage this because you don't 454 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,760 know Spanish, man. A smile is the universal 455 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,040 language. And then the last thing I'll say 456 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,760 is delayed preparation. I think it's dangerous. 457 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,760 So when you think of like, it's just VBSI could wing this, no 458 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,080 big deal. Just a few kids, man. 459 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:52,200 God honors preparation. And if we have a body and we 460 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,920 have people that do not prepare well, then God's not going to 461 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,560 bless it. So we we have to prepare, 462 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:04,240 whether it's two kids, three kids, 30 kids, whatever amount 463 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,920 of kids are in your classroom, you prepare like the best that 464 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,720 you can and, and the Lord will honor it. 465 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,680 And then, you know, you learn a lot, right? 466 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,160 You get ready. So I think those are some things 467 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,800 that you have to watch out for that you don't want to let bring 468 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,680 you down, discourage you in that nature. 469 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,440 Yeah. That's awesome, man. 470 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,920 A little convicting too, because I kind of like crammed for this 471 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:26,280 one with this game. This game. 472 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,600 So like Holy Spirit, no punches this week. 473 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,080 I see No, but that's that's real man. 474 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,080 That's that's that's real guidance in from your 475 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,040 experience. Yeah, like I said, and those are 476 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,760 my experience because I've done that, like I, I have delayed my 477 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,560 preparation. I thought I had it where I'm 478 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,800 like, man, bro, I just throw some games together, no big 479 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,280 deal. And next thing you know, kids 480 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:50,840 get hurt. It's a mess. 481 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,120 What happens if you prepare a game for like 20 and only like 482 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:56,120 5, right? What are you going to do now? 483 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,920 You know, So the planning is important, right? 484 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:01,840 Yeah. Absolutely, man. 485 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,800 So that was some things to look out for, whatever, like some 486 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,640 great things that you know, you think would be encouraging to, 487 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,520 you know, our staff team, kids, listeners, parents, whoever. 488 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,320 Man, I think there's nothing better than serving Jesus 489 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:17,960 together. Like there's just something 490 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,000 about serving Jesus together as a church. 491 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,760 A lot of people coming home from work life tired. 492 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,600 And it's like when you get around everybody, it's there's 493 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,480 an excitement, right? It's fun, it's reviving to the 494 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,400 soul. So I think serving together is a 495 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,760 big plus. We're going to get to meet new 496 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,880 people, meet the community, meet folks that we've never met 497 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:42,760 before. That's it. 498 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:47,880 That's, that's always exciting. And then this is what builds the 499 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,120 community of a church. When you serve together, it 500 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:54,160 brings you closer. So after this week, the people 501 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,480 that I hate to say it this way, it's like you weren't there, so 502 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,280 you missed out. There's a little bit of a 503 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,080 cohesiveness for those who came together. 504 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,800 You know, it's that that living on mission, you could say. 505 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,240 So that's the fun part for the church. 506 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,600 Like, yeah. And then it's walking in 507 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,040 obedience. That's the biggest thing, right? 508 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,720 God put us here. Right. 509 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:16,840 How are we going to reach the community, man? 510 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,240 BBS is one of those ways, right? And then a few weeks, we're 511 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:21,440 going to do a movie night. Come on. 512 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,960 You know that's gonna be fire, bro. 513 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,880 Yeah. Like it's like we're just always 514 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,640 figuring things out. Like asking the Spirit to lead 515 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,920 U.S. Open doors, opportunities to 516 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,280 lead people closer to Christ. Man, that's huge bro. 517 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,960 And it's a quote one of my homies, Kyle and Lewis Moore, 518 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,920 TCU's last Rhodes scholar. Bro, there's a difference 519 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,480 between being present and being a presence. 520 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,400 That's I think this vacation Bible school, what we're doing 521 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,600 with the movie night, what we've done in the past with like the 522 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,680 toy drives and things like that, like City Post is becoming a 523 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,960 presence in this community, man. And I'm excited to see who God 524 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,720 sends us and how it continues to grow. 525 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:07,320 Yeah, I I agree. And, and being a presence means 526 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,040 that we're moving in like we're not, we're not going nowhere. 527 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,040 And we're, we're going to continue to do things with 528 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,920 groups and orgs. And because if we're honest, 529 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,040 man, there's like churches, you know, around us down the street 530 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,920 that they could do stuff right. But I think what separates us is 531 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,520 like the message of the gospel. So clearly that that's kind of 532 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,520 where a heartbeat is. So figuring out ways to go to 533 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:36,200 people and bring that message to them, you know, and in that way, 534 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:38,880 you know, get disciple them, grow them, grow together. 535 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,440 So excited about that, man. It's going to be cool. 536 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,760 Yeah, me too. Well, that's all I got about 537 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,960 VBS, bro. So yeah, one question, what's 538 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,360 rule #1 about Fight Club? Snap, don't talk about Fight 539 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,600 Club. Yeah, man, I'm excited, bro. 540 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,360 If you want to want to break down, I'm excited to. 541 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,880 Talk about Fight Club, yeah. To go back to like India and 542 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,760 like, people were asking me, you know how I felt about going. 543 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,440 I was nervously excited about. Going to India because I. 544 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,560 Didn't know what I was getting myself into. 545 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,880 I had an idea and I just knew Holy Spirit was going to move. 546 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,280 That's how I feel about this sermon series. 547 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,120 I'm nervously excited because I know like God is going to bless. 548 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:22,480 Us through it. Bro, if like the Living in the 549 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,760 Spirit sermon from this past week was like the however, like 550 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,320 Paul uses like that transition point from one series to the 551 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,040 next, bro, he is not pulling no punches. 552 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,880 Or like Auvino said, he was looking for the GIF in Rambo 553 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:36,960 where he's like with the machine. 554 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,720 That's how the Holy Spirit's fighting to be at us, bro. 555 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,440 At least that's how well I think so I'm. 556 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:42,720 That's all right. Yeah. 557 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,600 No, it's it's man. I was just praying like, you 558 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,320 know, we we went through the gospel and talked to all the 559 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,600 elements of the gospel, of course, ended in like, this is 560 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,360 what it looks like to live in the Spirit. 561 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,280 But I was just kind of praying about like, what's next? 562 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,720 And yeah, we're about to get into a sermon series called 563 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:03,160 Fight Club. And, and I don't know what like, 564 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:04,840 I don't know, I was just thinking about it. 565 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,600 So we're going to look at like fights in the Bible, like, you 566 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,560 know, and let's just start thinking about like my wrestling 567 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,600 days. And but I truly believe that 568 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:19,960 there's lessons in in fighting. And when you look at specific 569 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,840 fights in Scripture, I think that we find things that God 570 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,440 does in these these. And so, yeah, I'm excited. 571 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,040 I don't want to give out too much, but that's kind of the 572 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,000 whole purpose. So it's like, you know, this 573 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,440 Sunday, David versus Goliath, you know, for the heavyweight 574 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,480 title, it's a yeah, you have this, this young boy that's 575 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:45,600 about to fight a nine foot 9 inch, you know, monster like 576 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,760 why? Like what, how how does that 577 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,840 what went down? You know, why did it go down and 578 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,720 and there's lessons and all that, you know, we're talking 579 00:30:54,720 --> 00:31:00,080 about when Elijah fought 450 prophets of bail handicapped 580 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:01,840 man. Yeah, that's right. 581 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:06,320 It's like, yeah, it's gone. You know, how did he do it? 582 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,320 Why? What was his attitude toward it? 583 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,120 But I also think I want to just take this from from my boy Mike 584 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,680 Tyson. Everyone has a plan until you 585 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,800 get hit in the face. And so when I think when we talk 586 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,400 about fighting and fighting with the Lord on our side, the Holy 587 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,520 Spirit, but also looking at fights where people have lost 588 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,960 because they didn't have the Lord, what can we learn from 589 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,560 that? Because everybody has a plan to 590 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,200 get head in the mouth. That plan goes away real fast. 591 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:40,400 That's kind of where we're going. 592 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,320 You know that the next 10 weeks, it's going to be great. 593 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,680 OK, so I bring in a mouthpiece to church on Sunday. 594 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,080 That's what that sounds like to me. 595 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,440 OK. Yeah, we got to talk about some 596 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:51,880 squabbles. That's right. 597 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:56,320 And fighting is is something that it's in our human nature, 598 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,600 you know, like there's a lot that we could learn from 599 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,320 fighting. And I think that the Lord shows 600 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,280 us a lot about it as well. So it's going to be good. 601 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,160 Man, I guess I'm bringing the boxing gloves to the next Bible 602 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,600 study. Bro, let's go. 603 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,920 But that's all I got bro. Know if you got any closing 604 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,400 thoughts if you want to close? Up man, closing thoughts. 605 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,200 You know, I just want to encourage everybody to enjoy the 606 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,520 last couple weeks of summer before school gets started. 607 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,720 It's been a good one. Make sure you get some rest. 608 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,760 Make sure that you take some time for yourself. 609 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,560 Get that self-care in there. It's important. 610 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,800 So yeah, I just know there's there's a lot of hard working 611 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,680 people in our church and I just want to make sure everybody's 612 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,480 able to take some time and come back stronger. 613 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,400 So make sure you take care of yourselves. 614 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,600 That's all I got. Yes, Sir. 615 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,280 We love y'all we out. Peace.