JUN 7 2026 | The Church S1E2 | Unity and a New Humanity

Sea Change Church · The Church · "Unity and a New Humanity" Pastor Adam Stadtmiller · June 7, 2026
Ephesians 2:11-18
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Good morning. Welcome to church today. Hope you're doing well. If you have your Bibles, open them up to Ephesians 2, 11 through 18. If someone's backstage, can you bring that Bible back? If you are, if not, I'll just read it off the notes. But we do want to be, it's right around the back, it's a blue one right there, and it's open to Ephesians 2. I heard the music, 11 through 18, I thought I better run. So if you have your Bibles, you want to be a Bible-bringing church.

You want to be a church that carries their Bible, and don't be afraid to mark your Bible. Get all the pens, get all, whatever you do. Thank you so much. You closed it. I will find a letter. Let's pray. Yeah, Galatians, Ephesians 2, look, I found it. All right, we are diving into the second part of the series, four-week series on the purpose of the church. Last week we spoke about identity, knowing who you are as a church.

We're speaking about the local church today. It is the entire church of Jesus Christ around the world, but it is the local church that is the impetus for all of God's work on the world. It's not the individual as much as it's the collective. Jesus brought us together to break down the dividing wall so we can do things together. However, I want to challenge you that if, and I'm so happy to see the hundreds of you every day on YouTube and watch the services, but unless there's some physical condition that you have, you know, and that's okay.

You can't make it, or you're in a senior living home like my mom or something like that. That's cool, and we will try to reach out to you. But I want to encourage you, if you're just a video watcher and you can make it to a local community, do that. It's hard to have unity on the other side of the TV, and so we want you to be a part of what we're doing. What the Lord said to me specifically for this series was, hey, you're doing a great job preaching.

I felt like he really affirmed the preaching of the word, not just by me, but by our church. I believe that we preach a solid gospel that comes straight from the pulpit. We throw fastballs right down the pipe. But he said, I think you could do a better job of unifying your congregation so there's power. And the entire purpose of the church and the mission of the church is based on the power of unity. So how do we do that?

Well, part of it's coming together. Part of it's learning together, being in the same initiatives, doing things like building a children. If that's the vision for the church that we all buy into something like that, or if it's helping the homeless or whatever it is. And so as a staff, I want to let you know that we're going to do our best to continue to have unifying events. And I'll just give you one before we read the scripture.

This freedom in Christ is something I want the entire church to do. You do not have to go to Pastor Joshua's class on Tuesday night, but I encourage you to do it. We have multiple studies here. But the Tuesday night class, even if you're not in the class, this is a book, the Neil T. Anderson, Freedom in Christ. I want you to get it in the bookstore, buy it, read through it. I've always been talking about Bondage Breaker.

That's, I think, three books down the line from this one. But we're going to start with this one. And I want you to know that that is how we're going to unify. If you have your Bibles, do me a favor. Hold your Bible up if you brought one today. Hold your Bible up if you brought one today. All right, we've got some Bibles. Now, we're going to increase that number. And there's a bunch of Bibles in the back. And I have aided and abetted you by putting notes on the notes.

And I put it up here. And my pastor friend was like, dude, take the notes away. Don't give them the Bible. Make them bring it. And I said, well, I'm not that mean. Let's go. This is a, hey, verse 11, this is a thick, thick theological passage. I want you to circle words that stick out to you. I asked you to read through this last week. Start with verse 11. Therefore, remember, circle remember, that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision.

That's Gentiles and the Jews, which is made in the flesh by the hands. Remember that you were at the time separated from Christ. Circle separated. Alienated from the commonwealth, circle commonwealth, of Israel. And strangers, circle strangers, to the covenant of the promise. Having no hope without God in the world. That's a scary place to be. Verse 13. But now. Circle but now. Key transition point. In Christ Jesus, you who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Amen, right? Verse 14. For he himself is our peace. Where do we get our peace from? He himself is our peace. Who has made us both one. Circle one. And has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. I told you this was heavy. By abolishing the law of the commandments expressed in the ordinances. That he might create in himself one new man. Circle that. Some of you will say new humanity. In place of the two.

So making peace. Last couple verses. And might reconcile to both to God in one body through the cross. Thereby killing the hostility. Thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off. And peace to those that are near. For through him we both have access in one spirit to the Father. Mmm. Meaty. Meaty, right? Goodness gracious. That is a T-bone. And it's going to take you a while to get into it.

I love the book of Ephesians. The book of Ephesians is good. We're going to keep digging into it. I'm going to tell you one of the purposes of the church is to have that oneness and that unity. Jesus died on the cross so that you wouldn't just be an individual. Yes. He meets you as an individual. That is your identity. He wants to know you. And the individual faith is what moves into the collective. But Satan wants to divide believers.

He is into the business of division. Jesus is into the vision, is into the multiplication and the unification of the church. Now this is interesting because I've always been fascinated by the prayers that Jesus prayed that were not answered. Yet. They're in process. And some of us think, well, if Jesus prayed it, it's done, right? Well, he prayed for the peace of Jerusalem. How's that going? Clues? Just first thing on their Google probably.

If you just Google news or whatever it is, you're going to see how that's going. But he is bringing it together and we know prophetically that he will bring the nation of Israel together. He will bring the Jew and the Gentile together. And Messiah will return through the East Gate in Jerusalem and set up a reign of peace. We know that that's going to happen. People ask me, what's your opinion on Israel? I say it's a prophetic opinion.

I look at what prophecy says and I believe it's going to happen. And so I kind of stick to that. A few more thoughts on it, but we'll just leave it at that from the pulpit. But Jesus prayed, John 17, is the, Jesus' prayer was most explicitly for the future of the church in John 17. That's his high priestly prayer. Is that it remains, it was for unity and that remains mostly visibly unfinished. That was another prayer he prayed.

I pray that you would unify the body of Christ. But we have Catholics. We have Protestants. We have Pentecostals. We have Salvation Army. We have all these different groups of believers that sometimes have division that are disunifying. There are some things that are non-salvific. You can believe this about one thing or this about another. But there are, in regard to things that are salvific, we should be able to all get along together and to unify.

And this has not happened. There has not been a unity in the church. And so where does that begin? I believe it begins in the local church. And we see Jesus in John 17. Am I hearing a microphone? Am I hearing like a, like a, no, maybe I'm not. I thought I was hearing a microphone going off. Or a phone going off. We hear in John 17, Jesus say, I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word.

Now that's, he's praying for unity in John 17. You'll see that in your notes. That they may all be what? One. Now in the Old Testament it says our God is nine. No, it says our God is what? One. And this is the key purpose of why it's so important for us to be unified as a church, as an individual church, which I think we do pretty good at, but also as a collective body of individual churches in an area. The more united churches are in an area, the more power you will have to apostolically change that city.

If we can't be in alignment with people with the same biblical, and they have to have biblical values. They can't be preaching doctrines of demons like the scripture says, right? I'm not going to partner with those people. But if they have an evangelistic, wholesome, traditional gospel view, we need to partner with them and work with them for the changing. Because Jesus says in John 17, I don't ask for them only, but also for those who will believe in me.

That's us through their word. That's us in the future. The church needs to be unified so that others may believe, that the world may believe that Jesus was sent. Right? That is a call, and that is a commission. And so when I speak about the four purposes of the church, the first one, identity. The second one is unity. The reason I bring up unity is because our entire mission is based upon how unified we are together.

Satan wants to bring division. He wants you to be upset at the way maybe perhaps a ministry didn't do the thing that you offered. You offered it to do something, and they didn't want to go that direction. Now you're upset. Now you're just going to distance yourself from those people. Or you have somebody who's offended you. Let's take this to our own lives because we have to bring it back to our own lives. Satan wants to destroy your relationships, your marriages.

He wants to bring division. He wants to bring division in your families. He wants to bring division with your children. When I went to Asbury, excuse me, Azusa Pacific University, my first class in seminary, I went and sat down underneath the teaching of Earl the Pearl Grant, and a big Lakers fan, and had pictures of himself preaching the gospel in northern Africa riding a camel. And I always thought that was super cool.

And the first thing he said was he came up to the lectern. And this is the first thing I ever heard. And I've tried to build my ministry upon this. Out of his mouth, first class, I'm sitting there. I'm ready, right? He says, conflict resolution is the key to longevity in ministry. Conflict resolution is the key to longevity in ministry, in marriage, in your business. It will bring, it will break down the hostility and the dividing wall.

Now, I know with a church this big, some of y'all had an argument on the way to church, right? With your kids. I'm going to pull this car over. Has any dad ever pulled the car over? It was never pulled over. It's just a threat. Children, do whatever you want. He's not pulling over. This is the purpose of, you know, that God wants to unify us. And so we're going to talk quickly about how a church is unified. And then we're going to finish with how that's going to affect you.

And all this relates to your family. Because God modeled the church after the family, right? So the church, he calls it a family. And we cannot have sullen homes and glorious churches. We can't have a bunch of divorce going on. We can't, and I know things are difficult. I'm not trying to shame anybody. I come out of a divorced home. You know, I understand the difficulty of marriage. I've been married 30 years and I get the difficulty, right?

I understand. My wife gets it more than I get, but she understands. I understand. We can't have, we have to have homes that are committed. We have to be committed as best we can. And I understand, I want to give a caveat. Sometimes you need boundaries, right? So I'm not saying there aren't boundaries. I'm not saying there hasn't been deep hurts and deep wounds. So I understand everyone has an individual story and I don't know your story.

So let me be empathetic and compassionate about that. But to the best we can, we need to surround those people that are struggling in their marriages with solid marriages. The more solid our homes are, the more righteous our children walk, the more this church and the more the church in the world will do what Jesus asked to be a witness so that the world will know through their unity and through the glorious nature of the relationships they walk.

And so we want to be committed to our counseling center. And I got to do a better job. I've not done a good job at unifying you around central causes. Some I have a little bit, but I can do much better. And one of those is to help you guys in your marriages. And so we're going to continue to do that. Here's the big idea. The cross was God's answer to division, bringing us into unity with himself and creating unity among his people.

Put a quote. Disunity turns our energy inward, our focus towards conflict, our attention away from the mission that God has given us. Let me say again, according to Jesus, our mission is unity and it will be the fuel for our evangelism. You want to go to a church where you are fully committed. It's great to have people visiting and you just come on Sunday and kind of chill. But it's going to take both of us. We're going to make a call, be a part of small groups.

And maybe if not a small group, volunteer. And I'm not asking you to give your whole life to the church, right? But I'm saying that when you come to church, you're looking to be part of a family, not just get a separate Bible teaching so you can go have a good week and you can relieve some of the stress that you have in your life from hearing a good teaching. That's not what we're doing here. We're becoming a family.

And even if it shrinks our church, that's cool. If it shrinks us down to a point where we are a functioning body and more unified, that will bring us more power and we will be that witness. The only way the world is changing, according to Jesus, is through the unity of the family and the unity of the family of God in the church. We can put all of our hope in the next political person who is going to come up or whatever or the next movement and those things are important.

I'm not throwing out the baby with the bathwater. But hopefully those people are coming out of local churches. When Jesus had a plan, he united people on Pentecost and then sent them out and the entire Roman Empire was changed. Now granted, eventually Caesar, the Caesar, you know, Constantine, becomes a believer of some sort and the whole nation, hundreds of years later, is affected and changed. The whole world is changed because of that.

But that didn't happen because Jesus started with a political plan or a strategic plan or a business plan. He started with individual believers and said, let's come together and work together as a group. And so disunity is what Satan wants to do. And I want to call you in to say, I need to up my game at the church that I go to. Starting with your family, you need to up your counseling game, you need to get healthy, get unity in your family.

We want to help you with that. And then dive in to be a part of something that's going to change the world because I believe that's why we're here. We're here to change the world. We're here to see people saved. And so there's two keys to unity, and you can move these in your home. We'll move into it. One is unity begins with humility. Mmm. Circle humility on the notes. Two. Grace is the fuel of unity. Verse 11. Therefore remember, I said remember, circle that, that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh were called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands.

Remember that one time you were separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. I want to lay this out, what's happening in this passage. This is a big undertaking. He is taking, Paul, excuse me, Paul, when he is speaking in Ephesians, is saying to Jewish Christians. He's not saying it to Jews who have not accepted Christ.

He's speaking to Jews that have accepted Christ. He is one of them. The Christian faith was first believed in by Jews. The gospel was clear. It is through the Jewish nation that God is bringing salvation to the world, and he did so. And if you didn't know it, Jesus is Jewish. Not sure if you were aware of that, right? Well, Paul has a heavy lift here because Paul is saying, now, because of Jesus, to all these Jews who feel, you feel pretty good if you're Jewish and you know that God of the universe, like, picked you, right?

He's picked you. You're feeling pretty good, and now Jesus has come, Messiah has come, and I believe it. But you didn't understand, you get a little bit of a curveball when they say, by the way, the barbarians from the Germanic tribes, they weren't Germanic tribes yet, but from that area, they're in too. We're going to let them in too. Oh, and that guy that worshiped demons down at the altar down the way, oh, he's accepted Christ, he's in too.

And all these Gentiles who were separated are in now too because Jesus Christ through his blood has opened the way for all humanity. Now, why did God do it that way? I've always asked myself, why didn't Jesus come in Genesis 4? Right? Genesis 4, even Genesis 9 would be great, right? Just send Jesus, let's whiz bang, let's get it over with, then get Jesus right away, and we're just back to it. He would have violated his justice by doing that because his justice said if you disobeyed, there would be a consequence.

And so the unity was broken. He couldn't immediately go back to unity. He had to start from scratch again in order to not violate his sovereignty and his justice. So he picked someone. It happened to be Abraham. Abraham was not a Jew. Okay? He was the father of the Jews, but the first Jew was later on down the line. That was Jacob, and his name was changed to what? To Israel, right? But he picked him because he had to start by winning someone's heart.

So he started from scratch. And he started with Abraham from scratch, and he began to put his anointing on him and calling him. And then he said, okay, I can unify your heart around a cause. And slowly as you read Genesis, you can see that his heart is being unified. That is where we need unification. Unification, individually, you've got to give your heart completely to God. Then he said a family. I need you to get a wife and a family, and I'm going to have this family become a tribe.

And this tribe is going to become a nation. And this nation is going to be the nation through which the Messiah comes so that all of the others outside of that would be saved. This is why he didn't show up to everybody at once, because it would have violated his sovereignty, because once the curse was upon us, he could no longer act in unity. There was a dividing wall. It says in this scripture of hostility. It says it over and over again, alienated, dividing wall, separated.

He had to stick to that. He could have chose an Aztec or a Mayan. He could have come through the Navajos if he chose. He could have come through the Chinese if he chose. I don't know why he chose Abraham, but he did. It would have been a completely different system, but this is the one he chose. And so what Paul is saying in this is because of Jesus' death on the cross now, I'm going to bring all these people together.

That's a heavy lift. I can't even get a United Methodist, right, and a Wesleyan Methodist to agree. He's taking Jews for 2,000 years who are deep in Jewish, you know, rabbinic culture and saying, hey, we're letting the idol maker who had the, you know, the one who did the snake dances? Yeah, he's in now. Yeah, I just want to let you know. And they're like, what? And then the people who are outside are like, oh, those Jews are just all about blood sacrifice.

Like, that creeps me out, you know. But he's saying, no, you guys are coming together. That's what Jesus did on the cross, and that's where the unity comes together. So this begins with the humility. I want to say now, let's take this back to your homes. Let's take this back to your conflict. Most all of you have a conflict right now with someone. I would be surprised if there was anyone in here that didn't have some small conflict.

If you don't, amazing. You walk in peace and righteousness. Me, I never have a conflict with anybody. I just glide through my life like a ballet dancer. He says, therefore, verse 11, remember, when you come to any conflict, it is very easy to start with, remember what they did. Remember how they did it. Remember that they, and we set ourself up in a judgment. If you start from that position, it is a position of self-righteousness.

And where we are self-righteous, there is no atonement left for your sin. He says in Ephesians, and this is throughout the entire Gospels, he says, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh, the uncircumcised. He's speaking to Ephesus. Ephesus was a heavy place of rebellion, a heavy place of idol worship. If you study the history of the Ephesians, it is very pagan. It's close to like Los Angeles at the moment.

So, Portland. Okay, Portland. Sorry. My bad. My bad. He says, remember that at one time he's saying to them, you were Gentiles, were in the flesh. And he's showing that you're separated from the Jews. But he uses these words. You were separated. You were alienated. You were without hope. You were without God. He says, before, as you're coming into this unity, he's speaking to the Gentiles, because they're judging the Jews and the Jews are judging the Gentiles at this point.

And that's happening today in our society. That's happening today. There's a lot of conversation about what God's doing prophetically right now with Israel and the world. And what I would say, whether it's that issue, or you didn't put the cap on the toothpaste for the 58th time, whatever the issue, if you were going to have unity, you need to start with remember and not self-righteousness. Anything that starts with their sin first, before you admit that you are a sinner, is self-righteousness.

Now, that doesn't mean that after you admit that you're a sinner that you can't call a spade a spade according to unity, or according to the scripture or wisdom, or that you can't make boundaries or have a discussion about that. But we have to start with a posture of humility. When we all walk in that posture of humility, it actually sets the stage to have power and unity in a church, in a family. There's a, I put unity begins with humility, and when we remember that all of us were far from God and equally dependent upon his grace.

Equally dependent upon his grace. And on Romans, I want to read Romans. This made it into your notes. If you have your Bibles, turn to Romans 3, 9 through 20. That's where I have to wait. I hate waiting, but I'm going to wait. 9, 3 through 20, as you turn there. New Testament. Go to Matthew and turn right. What then? Romans 3, 9. What then? Are we Jews any better off? Now, he's following up here on this argument in Ephesians.

Are we any better off? No. Not at all. We have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin. As it is written, there is none that is righteous. No, not one. No one understands. No one seeks for God. All have turned aside. Together they have become worthless. No one does good. Not even one. If you think you can sidestep that because you're a good believer and you go out and help the poor, you can't. But this is why grace, the entire gospel is upon grace.

Now, Paul speaks in the Ephesian passage there about there was this dividing wall about ordinances and commandments. Because the reason when he came to that family, that first family, in order to not violate his sovereignty, he says, okay, we're going to start with this. You have to live perfectly. And when you live perfectly and you never break a sin, then you can be with me again. Well, he knew that didn't work. But he had to set that up to show the weakness of the law.

It doesn't mean that the law isn't right. It doesn't mean that it isn't just. It doesn't mean that it isn't perfect. Jesus didn't come to abolish the law. He came to what? Fulfill the law because he did it all. But it showed that it doesn't work. And that has been broken off. And so when we are, it's really easy when you're in any disagreement with somebody, you will start building a case in your head. According to what?

Your law. Your understanding. Or the law that you agreed upon. Right? And what Paul is saying is that that doesn't work, although it can work. Right? You have a justice system. You can put husband in jail. You know what I'm saying? You are in emotional jail. I'm not speaking to you. Right? You can do those things according to law and according to, you know, a punitive way to look at your disagreements. Or we can have grace and understanding that we are sinners.

And coming to every discussion with that. My daughter was driving the other day and she says, I was driving and somebody cut me off in a parking lot. There's a lot of that lately. I don't know about you, but like the roads have gotten angrier. And she says, someone cut me off in the parking lot and they sped out. And I saw that they had a baby in the car. I'm thinking, why are you driving with a baby? And then she says, I remember something grandma told me.

She says, maybe that baby, there's something that happened to that baby and they're rushing to the hospital. She goes, all of a sudden my perspective changed. And I thought, right. Our perspective changes when you realize that you are a sinner saved by grace and we deserve separation from God. We deserve no better than hell. That's the gospel. Whether people like it or not, it's a stumbling block. And only through the power of the cross was that unity brought when Jesus paid for those sins.

Let me just give three things that the blood of Jesus did. And I want you to remember these three things when you are in conflict. The first one is that we're far off. I mean, the first one I said was far off. But here's the three things. He brought us near. I said circle, but now. Verse 13. In Jesus Christ, you who were once far off have been brought what? Near. By the blood of Christ. But now. You want to live a but now life.

Right? I'm a sinner, but now, saved by grace. I was under wrath, but now I am in his blessing and I am in his comfort. But now. And so understanding that. And so the question is, what is Jesus doing in this place? It says, but Jesus, in verse 13 again, but now, in who? In Christ Jesus. He uses that in term multiple times in Ephesians. In Christ, you who were once far off have been brought near. Do you live in your disagreements with people or your upsetness with people with a nearness proximity to the throne of God?

In Psalm 110, God began to give me Psalm 110 this last couple weeks. And it says, the Lord says to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a what? Footstool underneath your feet. God said, I got way too much going on right now that I can't do on my own. He says, I want to teach you to wait. I want to teach you, and this is a word to you. I want you to do research on your own if you're interested. Do research on how to sit at the right hand of God.

It says in the scriptures that we are enthroned with him. What does it look like to sit near him? It was interesting. I was reading today, and God gave me this scripture. I was reading through Bathsheba and the Solomon story. Solomon put a throne for Bathsheba at where? His right hand. And she began to petition him. Now, she made a foolish petition asking for, I think it was Adonijah to marry Abishag, which was wrong.

But she began to petition, and I realized when I'm sitting at the right hand, it doesn't mean I'm not communicating. I need to sit at the right hand of the Lord. How do I sit there and just let him deal with the issues in my life? How can I do that? Or Ephesians 6 later on in this. When you've done everything to stand, you do what? Wow. When I've done everything to stand with the armor of God on, run into battle? No, just stand.

And so the first thing he did is he brought you near. And I want you to live with a nearness. I want you to operate from the right hand of the Father. I want you to operate from the throne of grace, not from the playing field of the world, by the rules of the world. It says next in verse 14, he broke down the wall of our hostility. He himself is our peace who has made us both one and broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility.

There is a dividing wall. 1989, one of my biggest regrets is I didn't fly to Berlin when the wall came down. I was there in 84, and we went into East Berlin, and we went all through East Germany and had a tour through East Germany. It was incredible to go be a part of that. And I was there in 1990 after the wall came down. And I remember what happened when that happened. If you were alive then, you remember the celebration and people danced when there was unity, when you reunified the West and the East together.

That is what the church should look like, that type of celebration. For he broke down that wall. And so when you are operating, how do you get peace when you're in division with people? Well, when you follow these steps, you sit near to him, and you let him be your peace. He is your peace. Your peace, if it is based on your understanding, you will have the peace of your understanding. But Philippians, you have the peace beyond understanding because he himself is your peace.

So he broke down the wall, and now you have access to him. Do you use it? The door to the throne room is open. Do you show up? Do you show up in good times and in bad? And the final one is he created the new humanity. And this is amazing. Verse 15, and you can go deep into this. By abolishing the law of the commandments. He abolished the laws of the commandments expressed in the ordinances that he might create in himself.

One new humanity is the word there. It says new man. One new humanity in place of the two that separated the Jews and the Gentiles. And so he made peace. Peace has been made. The victory has already been won. The peace has been made. The question is how do we walk and step into that? So here's your practical takeaway for the week before we begin communion. This week, identify one relationship where you have allowed distance.

Offense, misunderstanding, or indifference to create a wall. Because Christ tore down the wall between you and God, take one practical step towards peace, reconciliation, encouragement, deeper connection with that person. Now, there are unsafe people in the world, and you need to be wise. That one step might be sitting in your room and working on a forgiving heart. I'm not saying you speed dial your boyfriend from college, right?

You know what I mean? Like, hey, I just got to bring this up and bring back reconciliation. He's like, dude, I've been married for like 15 years. Get off the phone. You know what I mean? But you might need to forgive them and never contact them. AA has really good steps on that. It's like, hey, do the work unless it wouldn't be helpful and it's not beneficial. So you're going to have to use wisdom in that. But if you were, you might, there might be somebody who's dead.

That you just got to, you got to, you got to get some, some clarity in your heart. But it's breaking down the wall of hostility. Or it might be a husband or a wife going to their spouse and saying, hey, you know what? I need, I realize that I've been self-righteous and I need to ask forgiveness and humble myself before you because we need to be in mutual submission to one another. The scripture says men and women in marriage should be in mutual submission to one another.

So what does that look like? I know you all have somebody on your mind who you're thinking of right now. I know every single one of you has somebody. And you're thinking about it. Maybe it'll happen on the car ride home. But this is it. And then the final call is I want you to reevaluate your commitment to the local church. I hope it's this church. I love having you all here. I love having you be a part of it and what you're doing in it.

But we want to see people that are ultimately committed because we are going to change the world together. And if this isn't the church, if it's like, hey, that preaching's mid or I just, you know, whatever reason it is, you know, don't like this, don't like that or somebody else, then go find that church and put some deep roots there and care for it like it's the bride of Christ. This is what we're called to so we can be in unity and that we can change the world.

Amen? Amen. Amen.