SEP 18 2016

Sea Change Church · Adam Stadtmiller · September 18, 2016
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This one through nine. When Paul and his companions had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days, he reasoned with them from the scriptures, explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead.

This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah, he said. Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women. But other Jews were jealous, so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace. They formed a mob and started a riot in the city. They rushed to Jason's house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.

But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city officials, shouting, These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here, and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They all are defying Caesar's decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus. When they heard this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil.

Then they made Jason and the others postpone and let them go. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Thanks, Carol. You look nice today. You're really nice today. Carol look nice today? Nice looking day. Right on. You always have a good looking day, Carol. Every day. It's a good looking day for Carol. I got a little concerned when they said bad characters at the marketplace, knowing that there is a market right up the street on Sundays.

Anyways, I was a little concerned if there's any bad characters that might come get me. Nonetheless, we're following the journey of Paul again through the book of Acts. And I met with a friend of mine. He's a pastor. His name is Jim Brits. He's at a church up in Oceanside. And we met this week and went to Sugar and Scribe, kind of a new place I just really need to start evangelizing.

I really feel like that place is solid. And I've been evangelizing quite a bit lately. I don't know if you can tell, but Adam Bogey, where is he? He seems to tell me every week, yeah, you're picking up little pounds there, pastor. Thanks a lot. Yes, I'm aware. It's part of my evangelistic strategy. And we will get out on the paddle boards. As we talked, I said, how's your church going? He says, you know what?

I feel like we're just becoming a bunch of dangerous Christians. And that was really intriguing. I was like, whoa, what do you mean by that? He goes, you know, we're just, I feel like we're changing the culture. He said, we've had 112 baptisms at our church this year. They meet at a school they set up and they went into a kind of a difficult, more impoverished area up in the Oceanside area.

He's at a church called Parkside. We have some friends from Oceanside that are here. Maybe you've heard about it. It's a new song church, but it's at the Parkside campus. And he said that the people that they are reaching out to, the specific people, 90, when they got there two and a half years ago, 96% unchurched, the people that they were reaching out to.

He said in two and a half years, they've redone statistics going around. They've surveyed people. He says that number's down to 91%. I just started thinking, I mean, all of a sudden, I guess I've thought that way in the past, but it made me rethink about what we're doing here. I think I've been wanting to change the culture, the four corners, but it really made me think, like, what does it look like to actually have culture being changed in the place that you live?

And we see that with Paul, that wherever he went, the culture was actually being changed. People that were perhaps angrier into, you know, witchcraft, all of a sudden they would be changed. They were no longer angrier. They'd start following God. The entire city, the fabric of the culture was changed because these people were dangerous. Meaning this, that if you came into contact with them, there was a good possibility that you would come to know the love of God the Father and the power of the Holy Spirit through his son, Jesus Christ.

Dangerous. I thought about it. He says, we're just, I think we're dangerous because if you meet us, it's very possible that your entire life might be changed. Pow! I was like, wow, hashtag pow! I find myself funnier than you do, by the way. And so I got a hold of Dave Kinnaman who took over the Barna group and they do a thing now where they will come and figure out your city, the demographics of your city, and figure out how many people are church and what the denominations.

And if you go to our Facebook page, you'll see I put the Barna groups thing on the State of the Church 2016. Go to the Facebook page and you'll see that or you can just Google it yourself. And I want to get a hold of Dave. We've met and find out what is the demographics of this city. This is the second corner. We have four corners here. The corner of your heart needs to be changed.

If the corner of your heart and our hearts are not changed, then the rest of the three corners aren't going to matter. It has to start here in the house of the Lord. Second of all, we have a church corner in La Jolla. And I care a lot about this corner and about the people in this Bless Your Block campaign that we have. We really want to minister to the people in the block and La Jolla.

I care about it because I live here. I live in La Jolla Shores. That's the second corner. So the second corner is here at this church. You go here. Hopefully you care about it. But you might not live here. And so the third corner is where you live. The place that you live. We want to do evangelism and culture change so powerfully and so easily accessible with so many handholds that you can look at what we do and go to your corner and say, I can easily replicate that.

And we want to get better and better at that. Part of the weekend away that we're going to have together is going to be talking about how to change that third corner. The corner you live on. And the fourth corner. Does anybody know what that corner is? Four corners of the earth. That's right. And we want to get there and make a change. We have a friend now who came and they visited the night service for a while from South Africa.

And now they are in South Africa. They listen to the sermons. And when they come to do research at UCSD, they come to this church now. And I thought, now we are in South Africa. God is going, because of this global world that we live in, to the four corners. Paul is having cultural change. Now we followed Paul. And last week, God came to Paul where he wanted to make a journey.

And he's on the second missionary journey now. Remember, we had the first journey. Then there was the break, the Jerusalem Council. Because they had to figure out, how are we going to give the gospel to Jews and the gospel to non-Jews or Gentiles? How do we make that work? And so they came back from the first missionary journey. They had a church conference, so to speak, down at the Hyatt in Jerusalem.

Not so. And they met and figured this out. Now Paul is on the second journey, and he's going around to where he thinks is appropriate. And in the midst of that, he has a dream where a man in a dream says, Come to Macedonia. This is really important because sometimes when God puts a roadblock in the things that we think God has called us to, it's easy to get discouraged and frustrated.

You can be assured that when Paul decided where he was going to go, that he believed that that's where God was meant to send him. But in the midst of that, they were thwarted twice, it said. It said God kept them from it, and then God sent them somewhere else. It's easy to think when doors close to give up and quit. A door is closed. Let's just quit.

But Paul goes to Macedonia. If you know anything about Macedonia, it contains at the large portion the Greeks at the time. I want to say that the entire, for the most part, the entirety of this journey led to Christianity making a foothold in the West. The last 2,000 years of church history as it made its way from the Greeks to Rome, up into Western Europe, and to America, is in large part because of a vision that Paul had to go to Macedonia and the Western world.

Now, that God took the gospel that the Jews that he went to first at the time had rejected, at the point that they did not accept. Now, many did. We know the gospel says that we are here because of the Jewish believers, because of the apostles, we're Jewish. And by the way, Jesus, a Jew. So, it is a Jewish to the Jew first. Jesus came to them first.

But when it was rejected, they went to the West. And I've got to say, the West did a pretty good job of getting the word out over the last 2 years. Now, not always the best word, Spanish Inquisition, okay? Like, there's certain things that... Everybody watch Monty, forget it. Spanish Inquisition was when we weren't getting the word out well. You're just staring at me, nonetheless.

There are times we haven't always done it well, but because of this journey that Paul took, where God told him to go somewhere else than he thought he was supposed to go, that God opened up the world, the world to the gospel. So, this is a powerful journey we're on. We need to really pay attention to what's happening here as Paul goes to the Greeks.

And so, he starts this gospel expansion. Now, let me just tell you this. That Paul's entire purpose was to preach the gospel. To go tell people with words and with actions who Jesus was. There's a statement that I loved, and perhaps you can finish it for me. It says this, and it's by Francis of Assisi. It says, preach the gospel at all times, and what?

When necessary, use words. I loved that verse for so long. Loved it. Why? Because it meant I didn't have to actually use words to share the message of Jesus. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think that this statement in itself has done more to water down spoken evangelism than any other statement ever. And I love, look, I love myself some Assisi.

I've been there, okay? Gone to the place, before and after the earthquake. I love Francis of Assisi. But just because he said it doesn't mean it's right. And, you know, it's like Tim Keller. I like Tim Keller. He has a lot of good things that he could tweet what he had for lunch, and he's going to get 50,000 retweets, you know? It's just, sometimes we have to think, is this scriptural?

Now, I think we have to also realize where Assisi was at the time. He was at a time that when the church used words, they used shame. So when the church spoke, it was like, you should do this, you should do that. And churchism was being shoved down people's throats. And so he said, hey, you have to realize the culture he's in. Let's just love people and quit all the mouth.

But using that to say that we shouldn't have a spoken gospel and tell people at the right time that Jesus died on the cross, that we are separated from God, and that without the blood of Jesus redeeming us from our sins, that we will send eternity, not part of eternity, and then get to go to heaven, all of eternity separated in hell from God the Father.

That's the gospel. It's simplicity of it. The reason I am not in business is for that gospel. And I am not going to water it down for any purpose. And so Paul was speaking that message to these people. And so he goes out, and this causes conflict. I've got to say, now here's kind of the main course for today. If you go to the main course, you'll see this.

It's understanding the dangerous nature of the gospel of Jesus Christ. In the context, now Paul is on the second missionary journey, as you'll see in the notes, and he's bringing the gospel to a Western world. And we see, and if you missed this, three primary audiences. The Jews, the Greeks, and within both of those audiences, women in particular.

Last week, he met Lydia. Here, once again, we see that he's, that with Jason and others, as he goes through, he's speaking specifically to women. It's easy to think that Paul, because of a few things he says in a few contexts, that he is not pro-woman. Paul is pro-woman, and women helping for the advancement of the gospel. And if you want to look in deeper, you will see that.

But I just want you ladies to know, that God has a huge kingdom expansion plan for you, and it's not less than men. It is equal to what God wants to do. And perhaps God has different roles for us each, but nonetheless, that women are not second-class citizens. Jesus made this very clear, as he speaks to women at Wells, on and on. This is a different sermon series, but nonetheless, I wanted to make, pull this out.

As you look at Paul, he continually is speaking to women. Jesus is speaking to women. Yay, women. So I wanted to give you that. Hashtag, yay, women. You'll see here, with our, you know, we really want to be a church that is gender-inclusive, and so, that's why our elder board is gender-inclusive, and we're excited, and appreciate all they bring. So, here's your main course.

We're going to go through this quickly. The first is this. It's impossible to share the truth of the gospel without a sword. Scripture's clear about that. Gospel causes conflict. Okay? This, you know, the gospel, we'll talk about this, the gospel causes conflict. If you share the gospel, at one point, or some people will receive that gospel, and just be excited about it.

I was at a wedding yesterday, down here on the beach, and it was interesting, as I talked to different people, and three people I shared in conversation the gospel with, three of them said to me, that's exciting. You know, I've been, I've been really wanting to seek God. I want to come to your church. I'm going to come to your church. My wife and I are going to come to your church.

Some people will receive it like that. Last night, when I spoke to my daughter, we were talking about how to talk to your friends about Jesus. She goes, well, I'll be embarrassed. I said, why? Well, because they'll reject me. I said, so every person you share with is going to reject you. That's what you believe. That's truth for you. Yeah, I said, no. The scripture tells us, some people will receive it with what?

You know what the word is? Starts with a J, ends with an OI. Joy. OI, mate. Once again, I think I'm pretty funny. Some people will receive it, but it also will cause conflict because it, when you speak the gospel, it releases the power of God, the kingdom of God into the kingdom of the world. And those are in conflict. And we will see it. Second thing we're going to see is this, is Paul knew how to wield the sword of the gospel.

He knew how to use it. The sword can be used for surgery and just for healing and surgery, but sometimes it's used for war. Paul talks about spiritual warfare, but our warfare is never with people. He says, it's not about people. It's about, it says in the heavenly realms, that that conflict is in the heavens. And we have the ability to fight in the heavens to win people for the love of God on earth.

And the third one is dangerous Christians are willing to pay a cost to defend their faith. We'll see that. Let's look at number one. It's impossible to share the truth of the gospel without occasionally, you can write occasionally if you want, having conflict and a sword. If you look at the scripture in verse five, we see that the marketplace empties because of the message of the gospel.

They go get some people that the message, Paul was speaking the gospel. Three Sundays in a row, he had spoken the gospel. By the third Sunday, they had heard enough. So they ran down to the market and they got all the artisans and some bad characters. And they said, let's go take these people out. And they've done it before. And I bet Paul was worried about what was coming because we know that this has happened before.

And he was stoned. Verse five shows this conflict in the scripture here. It says, but other Jews were jealous. These aren't the Jews, it says, because when he uses the word others, it means there are Jews that followed God. There are Jews that accepted the word of God. And let me just assure you, if you share the gospel of Jesus, there will be people that will accept it with joy.

If you never share the gospel of Jesus and only do it in actions, there will not be people that share, that, that receive it with joy. Because if you look in the book of Romans, it says this in the book of Romans, it says in Romans 10, 14, how then can they call upon the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one whom they have not heard about?

And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? The gospel is a spoken faith. And it is a way, and we have to learn in an art form of how do we speak to different people. We'll be talking about that on that weekend. How to speak, to figure out, okay, where are you? Where is this person? Talked to a woman yesterday, and she said, I invited her to the church, and she says, well, creation is my church.

And that's where I hang out. And the Lord just gave me something I'd never said in this way before. We're talking, and I said, you know, I think that's amazing, because God, you know, the Bible actually says his nature is reflected. And in creation, but I said, I really feel like people are the highest form of creation. And so when I'm with people at the church is actually when I experience him in creation, because people are the highest form of creation, in my opinion.

And I could be in the bottom of a battleship and experience the presence of God with people, because they're the highest form of creation. The faith, yeah, that was not from me. That one just was, boom, over the sushi. I'm like, it was awesome. But it was a real truth to me. And it was like, oh, okay. It was like, whoa, you know what I mean? Like, and so how do you speak to somebody, you know, or you can say creation, what do you, ah, you know, let me shove a verse down your throat, you know, but constantly seeking.

I am, I am so loving sharing God with people. There were six to eight people yesterday that said, we're going to come to your church. We like what you did at the wedding. You know, I was at, I was at a wedding on La Jolla Shores the other day, and this guy came up to me afterwards, and they had open bar before the wedding. That's, that's a technique, I guess, you know, um, just don't ask if anybody objects, uh, on those.

And this guy comes up afterwards. It was either preacher Padre, and he comes up afterwards, and he's feeling it. He's feeling it. He said, eyes were kind of closed. He said, Padre, Padre, what am I? Una pera sera? Like, am I on the, am I, am I letting mustard seed along the road, along the California trail? Padre, I want to say, that touched me. And he goes, I'm not even religious.

I said, really? Can't tell. This is my favorite part. He goes, that was like a TED talk, bro. And I was like, yeah. That's what I'm going for. 25 minutes, and out the door. Yeah, I felt it. I said, you know what you felt? I said, you felt the power, the presence of God. That's what you felt. It wasn't my speaking. It was the power, it was the power and presence of God.

And you get these looks like, let's go eat, eat my cracker, you know, just move off. Same thing. How are you sharing? I love sharing the gospel. The more you do it, the more God's going to give you the ability to do it. Just start doing it. You'll find a joy in it. I left those two weddings yesterday. The second one in particular, because there was a lot of either people that had been church or were no longer church, I left so excited about the gospel.

I got home, I was like, yeah, and now I get to go preach in the morning. God is so good. Look, try evangelism. It works. Try evangelism. I thought this week, you know, if you want to end terrorism, evangelize. Like, around the world, and not even just terrorism in the Arab world or wherever else, but one of the best elixirs for the problems of the world, like, if you want to fix it, voting is great and all those different things.

Try evangelism. Like, that was Paul's in the first church strategy. Imagine people coming to the love of a father and their character being changed. You want to change a community? Try evangelism. Let's try that for a while. Paul wasn't setting out to create a voting block. I don't know if you realize that as you look at the scripture. Jesus wasn't running, for the mayor of Jerusalem.

He had a different kingdom that he was proclaiming, and it was about the love of God, and he was sharing it. But as we share oftentimes, it's going to cause a conflict. And so we see that the Jews were jealous, and so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace. They formed a mob and started a riot in the city. And then they rushed to Jason's house and searched at Paul and Cyrus in order to bring them out to the crowd and probably to have them stoned.

Let me just tell you something about this conflict. The gospel is not what caused the conflict. I think there's this thought in Christianity that if I share that, I'm going to be kind of picking a fight with people. Like, if I share the truth of the gospel, I'm kind of picking a fight. Okay? Let me say that that conflict was created long before the message of the gospel and Jesus' solution on the cross even happened.

That conflict happened in Genesis chapter 3 when man decided that they no longer wanted God to be their father but wanted to become like God. That was the original temptation. That was the conflict. Preaching the gospel or speaking the word of God is not what starts the conflict. Saying that bringing an answer to a conflict that already exists and saying that that answer is the problem, which now truth is a real problem in our society today, is like saying that when a firefighter shows up to a fire with a hose and douses everything with water, he's causing a conflict and a problem.

That he should, hey, you're making a mess here with all that water. You know? It's like saying that. Now here's the thing. There's a conflict and Jesus understood that that conflict needs to be resolved and he resolved that conflict on the cross and the key now is to share. But it is going to be impossible to share because it will always come to fight that original conflict.

And so when we share the gospel, the Bible says that kingdoms will become in conflict. Other times people will receive it in joy. Jesus says this. Says, these are radical things. You ever sit and listen to the things Jesus says? Matthew 10, 34 and 39. And I personally don't like this scripture. Is that okay? There's a whole bunch of scriptures I don't like and don't personally agree with, but I believe that they're right.

And I follow them because I'm not God. You know, and I was listening to the scripture last night on the Daily Audio Bible and I don't have the reference but it basically said who am I to tell God who I am? Who am I to tell him? He's God. He formed me. He knows. There's a lot of things that we can just accept and so this is a scripture I don't like when Jesus talks about swords.

I don't like when Jesus talks about leaving your mother and your father to follow him and you have to have conflict and leave your children behind. I don't like it. Is that okay? Can we be honest with that? There's a lot of stuff I don't like. I wish 10% was 5%, you know? There's a whole bunch of things I don't like. Right? Just two? How about two, God? You're God like you need my money, you know?

Got an amen over there, right on. Fair enough. Sorry, Kai, to ruin your great tithing push. Jesus says this, do not suppose that I've come to bring peace to the earth. I do not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter and son-in-law against a mother-in-law. A man's enemies will be the members of his own household.

Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. Anyone who loves a son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. Oh, that doesn't taste good. I gotta say though, we have a society that only wants to accept truth that tastes sweet and go down easy.

We only want the truth that's sweet. Tell me something that the scripture says tickles my ears and if you look in the Old Testament, surround yourself with prophets that say what you want them to say. We are gonna be held accountable for every word we say and I think oftentimes the words we don't say that God has called us. All right. I heard, did you hear that? That ringtone said all right, all right.

I agree. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 1.23 we preach Christ crucified. What is it? It's a stumbling block to the Jew and foolishness to the Gentile. Finally though, here's the thing. Paul knew how to use the sword of the word of God. Paul was so good at just caring and reaching. Jesus was the same way. Jesus was so attractive. Jesus spoke some hard truth but he knew how to speak to identify where people were and to give them the dignity of being where they are.

You know, when you start a conversation with someone who doesn't believe what you believe, it's so easy these days and I think the media causes us to do it. compartmentalize that person. You know exactly about them and they are wrong until they agree with what you agree with. As opposed to this is a child of God. You know, I believe that Paul and Jesus, every person that they walked up to, the core thought that went through their soul was this is a child of God who deserves the dignity of my appreciating them as a child of God.

Now, we might need to speak truth to that but Paul knew how to do that. Paul wanted to love people. I said, do we want to love people or do we want to prove them wrong? You know, I know about church apologetics but my first point when I meet somebody is not to prove them wrong. And that's hard for me because that's the way I was raised. You need to know your stuff because if you look at Paul here, look at verse 2, what Paul did.

It says, in verse 2, as was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue and on three Sabbath days in a row, he reasoned with them from the scriptures. Where was his source text? Where was his truth coming from? It was coming from the word of God. We're in a culture right now that doesn't have a place that points to a direct moral compass. It is like getting a mortar and a pestle and taking a little bit of progressive thought, a little bit of Buddhism, a little bit of what Jesus said, a little bit of all of it and kind of mixing it all up together even though if you were to study their contrary, they do conflict, and putting them all together and finding a moral code based on whatever a person thinks.

The scripture says in the end of Judges that every person did according to what they thought was what? Right. If you go read the story that happens directly after that, it's the most horrific story in all of scripture. The most horrific story. We have to have a place that is the centrality of what we believe. We have to know it. I want to encourage, we want to equip you as a church, we are desperate to equip you to know God's word at this church and to learn how to share it in such a way, in such a fragrant way that it makes a difference and it draws people into the love of Christ.

But we also want to equip you that if you need to share it in a way that causes conflict, that you know when that is and that you have the ability to do it. I would say I would rather, most firefighters when they show, they use water to put out a fire, not gasoline. And I want to say I was trained for so many years to use gasoline to put out a fire. I'm going to come show, and we just get a hose full of gasoline and blow it on the fire, and it's just going to put it out because it's liquid, right?

No. We want to learn how to love people. How do you love your neighbor, the one that's annoying? You know, how do you love all those different people? None of us have that. I understand. Paul knew how to use it. I want to say I think it's impossible to make impossible. And I don't do a lot of definitives. I don't do a lot of definitives. Jesus' death on the cross, resurrection, saved by grace, by faith, a few definitives.

I don't often make the finish. So when you see them in my notes, know that I thought about it. I put it as impossible to make any lasting and internal impact without knowing and deploying the word of God. I believe it's impossible. I believe that our, I love our testimony, but I was taught, just share your testimony. Your testimony is amazing. But if it is not steeped in the word of God and also talks about the gospel, that Jesus died on the cross and to share that, that's where the power is.

Your story that you got sober or whatever it is is a great story. The Bible doesn't promise that there's power in that. The Bible promises that the power is in the word of God. And you don't have to know the verses. Verses are a new thing. You'll see Billy Graham made a living off saying the Bible says. Seriously, it's like the Bible says. Anybody doubt him? He knows his word too.

We want you to know the word of God, to love the word of God, to find tools that work for you. The daily audio Bible, I listen to it. This is my fifth year in a row of listening to the entire Bible in a year. Five times now I've gone through the Bible. Twice I've read it. But I've been a Christian, I don't know, 30 years. I feel like I'm behind where I should be. I've just started to get more of a love for God.

We want to encourage you to do that. It said that Paul reasoned from the scriptures. And what did he explain as we close? Explaining and doing what? Proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. The Jews didn't want a Messiah that suffered. They wanted a Messiah that won. We don't want a broken Jesus. It makes no sense. Have you ever realized how foolish it seems to the Greek mind?

To the western mind? Really? God came and the creation that he created broke him? And now he wants to be a dad? He wants to be a father? It just doesn't make any sense. It is so radical in thinking. It's so intriguing though. And there's a power in it. He reasoned from those things. Finally Hebrews says this. Hebrews 4. 12. The word of God is alive and it's active. Alive and active.

Sharper than any double-edged sword. It penetrates even to the dividing of soul and spirit joints and marrow. And it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. The last point, I'm not even going to break it down, it's super easy. Point three, dangerous Christians are willing to pay the cost to defend their faith. Verse six, then they made Jason and the others post bond and let them go.

They just paid the cost. They paid the cost and considered themselves worthy to pay the cost. When Paul was beaten, when the disciples were beaten, they said they walked away with joy, considering themselves worthy to be beaten for Christ. Wow. You know, I know what makes a dangerous Christian? The most dangerous people in the world, as you'll see in your notes, are those that have what?

Nothing to lose because you've already gained everything. That's the thing, that there's nothing else. There's nothing else. that you've gained everything. That if they come and take your house for the gospel, if you are beaten for the gospel, this is the message that we need to tell people when they're coming in. This idea that who Jesus is and what he calls us in, it's a high calling, but here's what I think is happening in our culture.

People are looking for a higher calling. They want something a little bit more than some soft pablum because they see that there's real problems out there and I want to follow somebody like Jesus. Somebody who's radical, who says, I want to bring you to a father, but if I have to use a sword to do it, I will. Because sometimes in order to have peace, you have to have war.

And this world's at war, we know that. But the gospel of God is peace. Amen? Amen. Let's have the worship come up. We're going to lean into this. Stand up. We're going to sing one song and be out of here. I think it's pizza day. Yeah? Pizza day's rad. Stand up, please. Let's sing this song together. This final song. And then I'm going to bless you. After the song, my mom is going to come forward.

We're going to be doing some training for prayer team. If you want to be on prayer team, let us know. That's going to be one of our small groups. We're going to be doing some training. Right now, Elliot and my mom and Johanna and Jim's not here, but they'll be forward and others. Some of the elders, if we need more, will come forward as well after this song. Hey, let's lean in and praise the Lord.

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