Beyond Sunday: Answering the Call
Catch up: this week’s Sunday morning message.
God invites all peoples/nations to walk with Him. From God, and in Jesus, we are offered life. We hope for all people to come, follow Jesus and receive new life. Will I accept this invitation to follow Jesus and will I extend the invitation to those around me?
Abba's Child by Brennan Manning
Catch up: this week’s Sunday morning message.
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00:00:01 [Music] Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Beyond Sunday where we desire to take the conversation deeper. And in this episode, we've got a couple guests with us. And so we're excited to introduce uh Josh. Josh has uh brought the word at C3 and then also Max. Uh Max brought the word at NextStep. And so we're I'm excited to share in this uh conversation beyond Sunday um the today. And so guys, how you doing? Very good. Excellent. Good. All right. Also, Shay's joining us. Jay, um how was um not preaching on
00:00:41 Sunday? Good. It was as good as it was for you. Oh, no. I preached plenty. I just had a small audience. You did not. Had a small audience. Okay. Yeah, we got to actually um Yeah, we got to visit a sister church in Spokane, which was cool to um just show up to church on a Sunday. Yeah, we have to. Yeah, but on the way home from Spokane, we did get to listen. Um and so I was grateful for that cuz that's a long that was a 4-hour 4-hour road trip on Sunday. But uh so anyway, all right guys, um before we
00:01:14 dive into the conversation, uh take a look at this [Music] video. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] All right. So, uh, welcome back. Um, Josh and Max, tell us this. This is kind of the wrap-up of this series that we've been in for actually a number of weeks now. Um, the this guided journey, trusting the guide kind of series. So, what was the big idea? Um Josh, we'll start with you. What was the big idea for for this week? Uh the biggest thing was it was it was interesting. I'll kind of go back real quick here. So, during
00:02:26 worship, I kind of had my focus on on one thing regarding the message here. And I I felt like this whole thing was a bridge between our current series and our next series. And one of the things that really kind of dropped my heart and and worship was just going amazing. and and my whole sermon was kind of based on the individual. And God kind of got a hold of me in that moment just as I'm about ready to get up there. He goes, "No, this is for the whole body. This is for the church. This is where we're
00:02:55 going. This is what we need to be doing." And it was like he just kind of said, "Okay, here's your recipe." It it wasn't just for the individual. This is for the body. And uh it kind of shook me for a moment cuz I'm going, "Okay, God, I just have all this stuff ready to go and you're showing this with me right now." Yeah. And then it just all made sense. And that's the weird thing about this entire message. I struggled with this thing from the beginning, just trying to put the puzzle pieces together. And as soon as he began to do
00:03:20 that, it was like just domino pieces like all a sudden it just started began to fall together. And so that was fun to watch. Um it's a little terrifying to preach that and and to see, you know, you're like going, "Okay, God, I wasn't ready for that and here we go." But um it was cool to watch that happen. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Max, I know for you, this this one was kind of cool for us because I asked you if you were able to preach this before we even took a look at what the the subject was going to be. Um, and then when we did, uh,
00:03:52 that's something that resonates and has for you for a long time. So, uh, what was what was kind of the big idea for you? So, for me, um, I focused on the word answering. um for so long now we talk about the call, right? Uh uh personally, right? And and trying to move forward and uh with God and and with this one, answering the call took me to uh acting, right? It's it's the the part of acting, right? We can we can wonder and we can dwell. Um but this one really got me fired up, right? I started
00:04:25 right away with uh just reading scripture and and and re just a verse in Luke and I'm just starting to think words are popping out to me and and uh so uh really I think overall uh the conviction of acting for God has just been I can't um you know that it's it's still it's still resonating with me. It's still I'm talking about it. Karen and I had a my wife uh had a conversation last night. Um and uh so it really resonated. I I focused on uh you know I got into Acts and uh the chapter 16 and it was it was crazy. It was crazy
00:05:04 how this because usually, you know, I can I'll try to get an idea and then try to I'll get the the uh scripture to fit the narrative, but this time uh I just felt like it was everything that I was reading was was was hitting me. So, uh it was a great uh um uh opportunity, right? I don't want to say that, you know, you can only go out there and and just try to be the just something, right? To give somebody some morsel, right? Um so, uh this one was it felt really good. It felt really good. Yeah.
00:05:43 Yeah. Well, and uh you said that your mom said it was good and the people need to know your mom is your biggest critic. So, Right. Right. Your mom's like she will be brutally honest. Sometimes even in the middle of the sermon, she'll be brutally honest. Oh, right. Yeah. So, if your mom said it was good, it must have been fire. Well, so, so full transparency, it was uh she she said it was good. Uh but she said kind of seemed long, you know. So, that's just God humbling me, I think, just like, "Hey, Max, you
00:06:17 know, you think you felt good, but then my mom is like, bring it down, buddy." All right. Calm down. Oh my gosh. So funny. That's good. And and Josh, um yeah, what was coming through in um and I was listening to it because I was uh driving Miss Daisy's um I had both uh Shrea and Lori in the back seat while I was driving. So I was listening to it but but what I um so I couldn't see the video but I you what I was hearing is is like um this shift God leading you from this personal um sort of ingredients or walking with Jesus and
00:06:57 in answering the call to this like this is for us. This is all of us the whole church. And so um there may have been a moment that you stepped away from your notes and began just preaching. Although I couldn't tell in just listening to it, it really see sense that this was just like like you had mentioned lining up the dominoes just fell of like no this is for us our whole church is this is an invitation or a message for all of us not just one or not just you maybe um yeah so can like in in coming up like
00:07:32 stepping away from the notes are you someone who's like I'm in my notes I follow I've got this layout to uh to that point of stepping away. Is that what happened? Because I Well, here's what's interesting. Max was interesting that you said that too because typically when I work on a message, I'm usually, okay, here's my big idea. That's the thing that God's wrestling in my heart and then I find verses to kind of to support that. Yeah. I really challenge myself in this to take the verses that were a part of the common dictionary and
00:08:00 go, okay, I'm going to just dive in on those as much as I can. And the other thing that I challenge myself with, because I'm usually one that has my notes, it's my anchor and it's everything that I do. And so I have everything written out and then I kind of divert off of there. I challenge myself on this one to go no notes for the whole thing. Oh, and uh um the only thing I had was the slides up on top and I had those just kind of on each verse on there. Yeah. And I I I've done that only way in the past, but it was like
00:08:29 God spoke something to me and I just went off just went off tangent and put my notes away. So, this was a big stretch for me. So, when God did that to me and that I'm like going, "Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute here." I I have been like um pouring over this and I had it all sitting there in my heart and in my head. There's a lot of scripture to go over and then all of a sudden he dropped that on there. kind of a side note to this too was interesting is I had been just like binge watching the chosen and
00:08:58 watching that whole process of of Jesus calling his disciples and so that was in my head too. So I'm watching this visual image of God calling or Jesus calling his disciples and just this passionate way and seeing his eyes as he looks at each one and I'm thinking okay there's nothing special about them. What how is he calling each one of us? So that was my kind of my my big driver. Yeah. Then it just just morphed into this like, okay, I I could I wish I could explain just all of a sudden my eyes just open
00:09:28 up going, this is for the church. This is this is where we're going. This is what I want to do in you. Yeah. And uh it hit home and in such a powerful way on there. And I mean I like you just go Acts 16. There's so much in that just right there and I you know just in that alone I mean I could have gone in 50 different directions but there was some there was one key point and I'll wait on that but there's one key point in there that I pulled from that that was I think impactful for me and I think it'll be
00:10:00 impactful even for our church um going down the road. Yeah, absolutely. I I love to hear because you both have talked Acts 16 and Max just a minute ago when you brought it up you I I could see you physically getting a little excited. So I'm curious um what what the what was God saying to you uh Max in Acts 16. So it started with for some reason it stuck out about the little girl because when I read through it the slave girl, right? And I and I read through it and I was thinking, you know, here's this and then
00:10:32 and here's this uh slave girl who's probably not treated super well, who's being used for uh an ability that's that's not healthy, right? Um and people are getting rich off of it. And so then it just kind of I pictured this as, you know, her uh following Paul and Silas, following him around and saying, "You guys are the chosen ones, right?" She's trying to, she recognizes this is not the spirit uh her the evil spirit in her talk and this was her recognizing and then Paul uh uh getting angry uh agitated a little bit, right? And he
00:11:10 said uh you know he commanded the spirit to to to leave her and then of course was thrown into jail. And I'm thinking everything about that kind of represented a lot of what I see today with how people are trying to profit off of every little thing. And we forget or it is forgotten how you know God is working a plan. No matter what we do, no matter how we we choose to to to to pick our successes, God's plan is going to prevail. So then that started me thinking about just, you know, evaluating just things that are going on
00:11:51 in in general. And I think I talked about, you know, um talking about and I did I went off script, too, which I don't usually do because I'm, you know, I'm nervous. And so I pretty much stick to my pictures. But then what I started thinking about was, you know, all the ways God uses us and all the stories throughout the Bible where he just doesn't need to use us, but he uses us for a purpose. And that purpose is uh for us not to stop and think about what's my purpose. The purpose is let's just start doing those things. Hey, how
00:12:25 are you doing today? You look great today. What's going on? And you just start acting in a in a Jesus-like manner. and and how things change. And so it just started just started snowballing. But it for sure uh started with kind of I was picturing that that young lady um not happy and recognizing the power of God and and the power of Jesus within Paul and Silas and just kind of following him around, not worried about the consequences. We all worry about the consequences. Am I being politically correct? Am I? and uh and
00:12:58 and she just was just adamant and that level of conviction uh just stood out to me. Yeah. Yeah. Joshua, what's the that that piece in Acts 16 for you that that stood out because I have a piece that you shared. I I on the drive back I was like hitting the steering wheel like Yes. Yes. Well, first of all, the the fact that this is the power of scripture is like, you know, we can all look at the this thing and think, oh, this is just means this and then all of a sudden it just morphs into this like this is what this
00:13:34 means and it's powerful and stuff like that and and I didn't spend as much time on the on the girl in the beginning there. I mean, I thought it was cool because you're showing the power of God to use Silas, but the thing that stood out to me and and it may not seem evident in there is the fact that here's Paul and Silas in prison. They're you're they're worshiping God. They're they're obviously making a difference in prison there and enough so that the the prison guard and the the Roman um jailer um just terrified for
00:14:03 his life because of the the the earthquake that happens. He's like, "What must I do to be saved?" Yeah. And so they saw something different in that life that was there. And another thing that caught me too was that Paul says, "Hey, we're all still here." Which told me is like there's had to be other people in that jail, too. So it to me it's like okay there's probably other people in there too that they're wanting to listen to Paul and Silas. Yeah. But the main point that God just like drilled in me is
00:14:28 like you need to tell your story. You need to tell the the because here's Paul and Silas. They're in prison. You know for most of us if we're in prison we're not we're not telling anybody. I'm not coming home and going guess what I was in prison this weekend. And so what God showed me is that we have two ways that we go away with the struggles that we go in life. either it becomes our identity or becomes our purpose and our story to non-believers and and believers as well about what God's done in our
00:14:57 lives because I mean there was nothing Paul and Silas did. I mean they they did amazing things. They delivered this girl, you know, they're just they're doing what God told them to do. And sometimes we can be frustrated with God about things too and going, "God, I did all these things. Why am I in the spot?" He's going, "I'm using you right now." Yeah. I'm showing my greater purpose in you and through you and I want you to tell others about it and it leads to salvation. Just like that Roman guard,
00:15:23 he's going, "What must I do to be saved?" There was it was compelling enough for him just to basically say, "I've given up on everything else. I need to know the answer." And so that just that kind of rocked my world on that part. just the fact that we hide from our stories so often because we are as believers we're embarrassed by them because a lot of times it's about our past or something we went through that we don't like. Yeah. And I think it's really our greatest tool to lead people to Christ
00:15:53 is those stories of God's redemption and his blessing and the gift that he gives us as we travel through those difficulties. Yeah. Oh, so good. So good. Yeah. that for me uh Josh it was the the like they're in jail worshiping here you know I was listening to it and worshiping along uh to the live stream on the way home and and I'm like oh and and and all of it was uh seemed so so interconnected in the ways that um kids blessing exhortation all this stuff that plays worship as well and and even to
00:16:31 the point of um coming coming back up and and sharing your story, more of your story or your of your son Jacob as well. The that that that um I'll I'll tell you what there you you coming back up and sharing that story because I know you you had said that you hadn't planned on doing that. Um well, here's what happened with that is, you know, I have a tendency to go over my time. It just that's just kind of how it goes. I won't tell don't tell. I went to my last slide and all a sudden, you know, Devon's
00:17:05 behind me, I'm going and I I literally at that point and just for the the viewers and the people listening, uh the amount of talk that goes on in someone's head while they're preaching is quite remarkable. I I thought about that like, man, I'm having this whole dialogue no one even knows about as I'm preaching. And uh but Devin got up here and I'm going, I don't think I've really said anything at this point. And I look at the clock, we're like 7 minutes past. I'm like, "This is so not good." And I I
00:17:33 had this desire like I'll be honest with even with The Chosen and some of the stuff that's been going on in my life, God's wrecked me recently, like full on just and not in a bad way, but just emotionally wrecked me to a point of going, I just surrender. Like, God, whatever you want in this because I'm seeing you doing some incredible things. I'm watching things in our church happen. That's just phenomenal. And I'm I'm I'm excited about what he's doing in that. But me telling that story, I I felt like I had to tell that story. But
00:18:04 in that moment, I was like, "Okay, this is a really weird spot." So, I was like, "Okay, I'll just go sit down." But then God, I'm sitting there and beforehand, Devin and I were like, "Okay, the call to action at the end, he goes Daniel sent me down there and I was like, okay, you know, who's going to do this?" He goes, "I don't care. Well, you want to do it, I'll do it." He goes, "Well, you just give me if you want me to come back up or whatever, I will." And so, I'm like sitting there. No, I need to tell a
00:18:26 story. I need to tell a story. And anyway, so that's kind of how that came about. Yeah, I'll tell you what, your faithfulness to respond to to God um uh open some doors in other spaces um that have significant impact. So, um I I I want to say thank you. Thank you for for listening to the spirit and responding to him that I I had people come up to me yesterday saying they were so touched by that story and that and the kinds of um I would say the the overflow that that is um that faithfulness and obedience is
00:18:59 is is flowing into other spaces that you don't even you don't even know. So here here's you want to know the crazy thing about this? Here's here's a little bit behind the scenes too on there is the fact that when I got home I didn't think I did a great job. I I struggled and uh and I'm my worst critic about that and I told my wife I said you know I had a tough time pulling the pieces together because God threw that at me at that last minute and I and I I so it's interesting because the conversations
00:19:32 that have happened out of I'm like going are you guys at the same place you know type thing but that but one of the things I prayed about in the middle of what I prayed um that that morning was about the foolishness of preaching. And it's not because the preaching is foolishness. It's I think the fact that we don't give credit to the word of God and how powerful it is and that it goes straight to people's hearts despite the person delivering it and despite how we think that we did it. It goes out in
00:20:01 such power that it can move in lives and we just we it it it baffles us sometimes. And but it's also a way that God keeps us humble to go, "Listen, it's not about you, buddy." Okay? Uh I'm going to do what I need to do because all all I wanted you to do is just submit to me. And that that was um that's why I didn't do my notes or anything too. I just wanted to submit to him and how he wanted to do it. Yeah, that's powerful. That's awesome. And I could tell by just your overall enthusiasm. I also am my own worst
00:20:33 critic and shake and tell you that I I'm really hard on myself. But just I guess one thing that I would look at uh as a reflection for you is just looking at the enthusiasm you had for how it went tells me it went fantastic. Right? The the I can drive home with mom and think, "Okay, I'm sorry." But then but then ultimately I'm still talking about it. I'm still jazzed about it. Right? So that is that is where uh God is calling me to act, right? Okay. Don't don't dwell on what I usually dwell on. and
00:21:03 and uh so I can just tell by the enthusiasm in this in this call that it went very well. So I think part of it is just the fact that you know I love my church body. Yeah. You just you you want you spend so much time just sitting in the word and letting it soak into you and you want them to understand that same passion that you're sitting there going where this word just opens up and like I said God wrecked me through this whole process of leading up to this and you're just wanting every single person
00:21:28 and you know that's not the real and you know even I'm watching the chosen afterwards I came home and it's the part where Jesus is kind of like people are looking at him and denying him you know it's like okay well Jesus you know I'm in big company here. I think it was kind of it was a humbling moment, you know, even that and but it it's um yeah, I I don't know. It's it's it's I I wrestle with that no matter what. It just is one of those things I but it's it's more of just out of my heart and love for the
00:21:59 body just to go, man, we have so much available to us and what God wants to do and and our community and how he can reach out and save lives and and it just takes a little spark in each each person's life and and that's that's where it usually sits in. Right. That's awesome. Right. I you know you say that and I and there was a point during the sermon where I just wanted to go I was so appreciative of being within this group of people. I want honestly I was like I wanted to say hey Jay thank you
00:22:28 thank you for just being here. Hey Joan thank you for being here you know because that is that is really what makes up the body right of the of the church is those people and they're there and there's just a comfort in it. Yeah. Putting everything else aside. That's that's funny you say that because I was thinking the same thing. Yeah, I think I think that's the thing. I think we have both of us have unique churches that I really believe that God is getting ready to gear up and do big things in our communities. I
00:22:58 really believe that with all Amen. Amen. I I agree. I mean, our our head pastors are kind of high maintenance, but they're Well, we can talk about that after the podcast. You and I will get together. That's another That's another episode spin-off to uh about Sherea's maintenance. He said he said both. Head pastor. Yikes. That's good. That's good. It's funny, Josh, you're talking about God wrecking you. Um, and on Saturday uh of this week, you know, this was a different week for me out of a normal rhythm since
00:23:37 I wasn't preaching and we were in Spokane for for this uh board retreat and God was also wrecking me. um in in uh you said not in a bad way. Uh I think that's true for me too. I'm undecided a little bit, but um there's some wrecking happening, but um the this idea it it's funny how God works because calling is something that God has been uh God and I are having conversations lately about calling. And so when this uh when Max and I looked at like here's what this is going to be about. This one's going to
00:24:09 be about answering the call. And Max was like, "Oh gosh, seriously?" like this is something I've been wrestling with for years and I was likeoo better you than me because I don't know if I could preach this one right now. Um a and yet uh even this weekend or yeah this this end of last week weekend God was speaking stuff to me about calling and then Josh I listened to your your message on the way home and um even what you just said uh a minute ago Max this it's it's just funny how God works um even in those of us who are uh preparing
00:24:41 messages and uh you know studying scripture and reading and and asking God like okay what's the word for our family and the way that God um often is like actually this is going to be a word for you first. Um and that's what even in both of you as you're talking I that's what I just sense um I can see it in the way that you're you're uh talking about like what God has said and that idea of like well we're still talking about it. It's because God's like this is actually for you and and so there's a
00:25:07 vulnerability in preaching like that where it's like this is what God's teaching me and taught me and I'm going to offer this up. Um and I actually think like in those moments when you're like man I don't know if I did very well. Well, I don't know if that's good. Usually, it's because for me, I'm like, well, yeah, cuz I was super raw and honest and that was a word for me, and I don't know if it was for anybody else. Um, yeah, but but God's uh faithfulness um he's like, I'll handle that part. You
00:25:30 just you just do what I've asked you to do. Um so, yeah, I don't know. That's that's what I sense in both of you. My daughter, and of course, she's getting to preach coming up here soon, so it's coming on her here soon. But she was making fun of me because I'm watching she's coming sitting next to me as I'm watching the chosen and tears running down my face. I'm like I don't know what's going on. You know I'm just and she's like taking pictures of me and stuff like that. She goes what's your deal? I said I don't know but it's just
00:25:56 wrecking me and but it was all connected. you know, all this was all connected with that calling and and just seeing Jesus's face and you know, obviously it's John the Roomie, but I'm just seeing his face and just it became so real in that moment and tangible and and and and I think that was where I just that that longing for others to want that to like God's calling you. He's calling you to something. Just listen to his voice. What does he have for you? Um, I know that was that just sat in my heart pretty heavily.
00:26:32 Amen. Right. First Samuel, I referenced First Samuel, you know, during this, right? Because he said God called him the fourth time and then he answered. He acted. The fourth time he acted and then what did he do? He, you know, he shared God's word, right? So that that just it just amplifies to me right now. Yeah. was like, man, my son's story um that you know, we've been sitting in that right now, too. And so, that was also part of that, just that calling. And then going back to when I was called
00:27:04 at that same age and just seeing how God works in just crazy ways like he he is he is all about getting our attention and he is all about putting us where we need to be. And all it comes down to is just having a willingness to listen to what he has for us and and just drawing up close to him and going, I got something for you, but I just you just need to listen to me. Just listen. It might be scary, you know, but it's so good. It's just so good and uh so faithful in how he does that. So good. It's very echoey. Um so as we as we draw
00:27:41 this uh episode to a close, we're going to share some Chyros. Um, and so Kyros's uh moment in time, God getting our attention, what is God saying to us and how is he inviting to us to respond? And so I I'll go first. What what from this last Sunday and and the message, Josh? And and and I would even say it's kind of um even before Sunday, but what God's leading me in is this place of of uh of worship of uh you know, Paul. They're in prison and and they're worshiping. They're they're worshiping God in a hard
00:28:11 time. And um Shay referenced um Saturday night, Saturday evening afternoon, we close with a time of worship and prayer. Um and it was a powerful time. It was a powerful time. I found myself in a place um unable to sing the the words but just agreeing with what was being sung, you know, just yes, Lord, that more of that. And um and so there there is a sense um uh for me in in um God inviting me to will you worship me? Will you will you will you worship me? Even if you don't have the words, will you will you
00:28:44 worship me with your entire being? Um, and I'm typically someone who's more reserved in that way, but like in places that are that are easy to worship, sure, I'll worship. In places that are hard, will I worship him? I did. I I I sensed an invitation there that no matter the scenario or situation, just worshiping God. And that's sort of what what I was like again, like I said, pounding the steering wheel like Yes. Yes. more of that worship him um in in both the good and the hard. Yeah. Uh Max, what what's God still saying to
00:29:20 you? Um well, for me, he's he's saying uh get off top dead center. Um I'm going to use what I read, what I you know, all the time that I spend reading the Bible and scripture and and stuff like that. I'm going to filter all all decisions, you know, when I struggle, right? I'm filtering that through his word. And it's uh I mean, it's not anything that I've ever kind of experienced before. And I even said it, Karen, um after the service said that I mentioned um how I missed uh the camping and it and I felt
00:29:56 it this year. I didn't go camping. I went I went someplace with my my brother and uh just I'm feeling that right. I'm I'm feeling um those and so it's just um for me uh I'm ready to act. I'm ready to stop worrying about the mistakes and the imperfections and just keep going. It's good. Awesome. What about you, Josh? Well, I mean, I touched on it a little bit. I think just telling our story, seeing others tell their stories is a really big thing on there. And just and then just that that recipe and seeing
00:30:36 that for our church, just the one just the call to worship. I think worship changes our whole perspective on everything. It just it gets rid of all of the fluff and all the stuff that we don't need and and focuses in on really what's true and what's right. And I one of the things I said in the in the message was we're always trying to get we're trying we're as we're on the journey with Jesus, we're trying to get to a destination, but he is the destination. He's the point. And I think that's the biggest thing for me is like
00:31:04 don't worry about all the other stuff. Just just come sit next to me. He wants he wants a relationship and and uh to worship him and as a body be unified together and love people and and uh expect, you know, we got this awesome hope that he's coming back. Yeah. And work like he is coming back and in the meantime find a way just to worship him with all our hearts and minds and souls. That's good. Uh for me, I think this is this is like really fresh like in this moment right now, but at the top of this episode,
00:31:37 Max, you said I don't know how you worded it, but you were talking about um we want to know like what's the purpose, what's the plan kind of deal. and um uh really we're just supposed to be about the things uh the the Jesus shaped life kind of idea. And I think um that that resonates that's an echo of of some of what I think God's been telling me. Um where I think maybe I have equated the call with a plan like uh this idea of like God, what's my calling? What I what I'm really asking is like what's the
00:32:07 plan? What's the what's the next seven steps or you know what are the next five years look like? Um, and so there's something in in even what you just offered, Max, in a simp simple like um maybe calling is tied more to my identity and God's like, "No, you just need to understand who I've made you to be and who I've called you to be. Um, and and we'll worry about the plan, but you walk that out in the way I've called you." Um, so I don't know. I'm on the front end of that, Kyros. But, um, I think that's what he's saying. Yeah.
00:32:36 Yeah, man. That's good stuff. God's breaking in in all kinds of ways. I love it. So, um, yeah, as we bring this, uh, episode to a close, guys, thanks for joining us. Thanks for bringing the word um, in such powerful ways. Appreciate you guys' hearts, um, and for stepping in while, um, Sheree and I are are gone and to and and that, yeah, uh, here here's the here's the great thing. We're we're not there. Um, and it's it was hard to be away from church family. Um but um there was a sense like God is
00:33:10 stirring and moving and I even I on the road back I turned to to Shray and I said this is why other people ought to preach. I mean just that the power and the word and so um both of you thank you for um your your faithfulness and obedience and sharing what God had laid on your heart. Um uh I'm sorry it's coming at the cost of being wrecked but it's in a good way, right? Yeah, we trust him in in in holding us in those spaces as the good shepherd does. So, uh, guys, we're we're hoping that you too are having conversations like this
00:33:43 that go beyond Sunday. Take the conversation deeper and see where it is that God is inviting you in, uh, and pulling you in maybe closer and closer into his presence. So, uh, have a great week. Thanks for being with us. [Music]
