- Well, hello, Highlands. Man, it's so good to see you today. I wanna welcome all of our locations. You guys in Bluefield, I understand Robby Gaines is in the house up in Bluefield today. So it's awesome for you all to see him. Down in Bristol, hey, thank you for all the things you got planned for this week. Up in Marion, Pastor Dave's gonna do an incredible job of challenging you to move outside the walls and move into our community. This is the start of Love Week. I love Love Week. I hope you do too. We're gonna get you a t-shirt. We want you to go out and serve your community. And here's what I understand. Many of you, since we've sort of given you this challenge, you've either talked to me out in the mall or you've emailed me, and you said you know, pastor, hey, I'm sort of new to Highlands and I understand serving other people, but we we've never really been challenged to do that before. And we're just not sure we're qualified to do it. We're sort of interested. We wanna try and we're grateful for the opportunities, but I'm not sure you wanna use me. I'm not sure I'm qualified. I'm just not sure. So with that in mind, I think God directed me to a portion of Scripture that will help you today because I don't wanna let you off the hook, all right? I want you to sign up. I want you to go. I want you to serve in some capacity. And I want us to look at a story of an unlikely servant leader, guy by the name of Moses. And we find him all the way back in Exodus chapter three. And this story, we find that God is asking Moses to do something that Moses feels like there's no way. I am not qualified to do this. But God is asking Moses to step out of his comfort zone to be a leader, to be a servant. And I think maybe Moses, his hesitation was probably rooted in the fact that when he thought that he was a servant leader, the picture that he sort of came up with in his mind didn't match the picture that God was challenging him to do it. So Moses had one thing going on in his mind. He may have even been excited about the opportunity. But then when he looked at his own life, he's like, there's no way. I'm just not qualified to do this. And I think for many of us, when we have opportunities to actually serve on behalf of God, and we think about serving others, there are a number of us in the room today, or watching online, or TV, or at home, and I would guess that most of you don't feel like I'm that person. You know, I know, God that you've saved me. I know you've grabbed a hold of me. But I'm just not that person that probably needs to do that. Surely there's somebody else that can do it better than I can. So I just wanna challenge that because I really believe that God is calling you to do exactly that this week. And then may it become a habit in your life to move out and to begin to serve others. And it's so interesting to me that God's definition and description of a servant leader is far easier for us to attain than often the definition we come up with ourselves. Let me give you God's definition. God's definition of a servant leader is anyone who makes themselves available for God to use. That's pretty simple, isn't it? Anybody who steps up to make a difference. And that's our whole vision here at Highlands. We're asking all of you to go out and make a difference in our community. We're difference makers, guys. And the way to do that is just to be available, just to step up and say, Okay, I'm in. So God comes to Moses and he says, "Moses, I want to use you as a servant leader to my people." And Moses is really hesitant because he just doesn't think he has what it takes to fulfill this assignment. So let's look at the conversation. Great conversation. Great story. It starts in verse seven. Let's look at this, what it says. "Then the Lord told him, "I have certainly seen the oppression "of my people in Egypt." He's talking about the Israelites being enslaved in Egypt. "I've heard their cries of distress," God says, "because of their harsh slave drivers. "Yes, I'm aware of their suffering. "So I have come, I've come down to rescue them "from the power of the Egyptians." And God says, "I have come to lead them out of Egypt "and into their own fertile and spacious land." So if Moses is hearing this, it appears up until this point that God's saying, Hey, I've seen the plight of my people. I've got this covered. It sounds like God knows what the problem is. And it sounds like God is saying I'm the one who's gonna step up. And I'm the one who's gonna lead 'em out. And he describes a little about the land that he wants his people to go to. He says, "It is a land flowing with milk and honey, "the land where the Canaanites, and the Hittites, "and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, "and the Jebusites now live. "Look, the cry of the people of Israel has reached me "and I have seen how harshly "the Egyptians are abusing them." Now, everything's good up until this point in the story. And here is where God is gonna throw a curve ball to Moses. All right, look at what he says next. Verse 10 God says to Moses, "Now go, for I'm sending you to Pharaoh. "You, Moses, must lead my people Israel out of Egypt." And to that, I'm sure Moses was like, What? Come on, God. I thought you had this covered. You were the one who seemed like you knew what you were doing and you knew where you were going, and you knew exactly the plans you had to deliver your people. You said you were gonna lead 'em out. Why in the world are you involving me in this? And one of the amazing qualities of God is that God always involves imperfect people like you and like me in what he's doing in and through the world. He always does. God, if you think about our God, he's about the farthest thing from a control freak that you can get. Have you ever thought about this with God? I mean, he has every right to be a control freak, right? I mean, you think about him. He's perfect. God could just say to us, come on, guys. You're never gonna measure up. Just move yourself out of the way. Don't make a mess of what I know needs to happen. You just set down over there in the corner and don't try to complicate what I'm trying to do in and around the world. But instead, God takes the opposite posture and God says, actually, I want to involve you. And I know you're flawed. I know you're sinful people. I know you're imperfect. But I want to involve you in what I'm doing in and around the world, even if you mess it up. And here's the truth, we will. We will. We have. In every act of love to God that he has given this world, we've messed it up. But God says, I wanna equip you. I want to empower you. I want to do something in and through you that will affect the lives of other people. I wanna ask you to do something that you don't feel qualified to do. That is God sort of moving us out of our comfort into the plan he has created us to do. So what do you think Moses is gonna do? Well, let's look. Here's Moses' response. And maybe this is your response as well. I know it's been mine at times. And this is what God, this is what the story says. "But Moses protested to God." He argues with God. And by the way, you're never gonna win an argument with God, all right? Let you in on a little secret there. So he protest to God and this is what Moses says. He says, "Lord, who am I to appear before Pharaoh? "Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?" Do you hear what Moses is saying? He's saying, Come on, God. What makes you think I can do this? You know me. I don't have the skill set. I don't have the qualifications. I don't have the degree. I don't have the experience to do what you're asking me to do. Have you ever been in a situation like that before? I know I have many times. Maybe you've been faced with a responsibility or a request, and you're like, oh my goodness, you know, I don't think I got what it takes to do this. And hear the way God responds to Moses when he answers this protest that Moses gives him. This is what God says. God answered and he says, "Moses, I'll be with you." I'll be with you. Of all the things God could have said to him. God could have said, Oh, come on, Moses. Being a little hard on yourself, aren't you? He could have said, Come on, Moses. You've been given so many gifts. I blessed you so much. You need to leverage those. He doesn't say any of that. He just says simply, "Moses, I'll be with you." I think here's what God's saying. God's saying Moses, what makes you think you got anything to do with this anyway? What makes you think you're actually the X factor here in all of this? Moses, I want you to be humble. This is a humbling thing for Moses, right? It looks like that it's rooted in the same place that pride comes out of. And basically, God is saying Moses, you're thinking of yourself too much here. It isn't about what you can do. It's about what I can do through you. It isn't about what you bring to the table, Moses. It's about what I want to do in and through your life. And you know our God, what he does? God specializes in doing extraordinary things through ordinary people just like you and just like me. And God says, Moses, I just want you to be available to me. And Moses, like so many of us, you know, he still doesn't get it. And so what does he do? Well, Scripture says in Exodus three that he actually protests again. Now, his first protest, his first argument, God was sort of inward focused. It was like, God, look at me. There's no way. His second protest here is more outward focused. And this is what the story says. "But Moses protested again." And he says, "God, what if they won't believe me "or listen to me? "And what if they say the Lord never appeared to you?" It's the fear of man, right? It's the fear of criticism, the fear of people thinking, oh yeah, Moses, he has no authority. Well, what makes him think he can lead us out? Even if it was God's people. And when he goes before Pharaoh, Pharaoh, you're some kind of fraud, Moses. There's no way you've been given this authority by God. Now I love what happens here in the story. It actually gets a little weird, but it's really cool. And I want you to notice sort of what happens in verse nine. In verses two through nine God says, I'll tell you what to do if people don't believe you. Moses, you see that staff that's in your hand? I guess Moses looks over. He's holding the staff. He said, all right. He says, I want you to throw it on the ground. And Moses throws it on the ground, and it turns into a snake, right? You remember this story? It's pretty amazing. Now God says, all right, pick the snake up, or pick the staff up again, which I totally wouldn't have done, but Moses does. And he reaches down and he picks up the snake and it turns back into his staff. And then God goes, Moses, do you see a perfectly healthy hand? And Moses probably looks at his hand and he's like, well, yeah, God, my hand's okay. Stick your hand in your coat pocket. He does. And he says, Pull it out. And he pulls it out and his hand now is covered in leprosy. And he says, All right, Moses, stick your hand back in your pocket again, which I would've totally done, you know. And he sticks it back in his pocket and he pulls it out again, and it's totally healed. It's just sort of weird here what God does. So then God looks at Moses and he says, Hey, Moses, if people don't believe you, just do these tricks I've showed you here. Trust me. When you do that, they're gonna believe you. Just show 'em these two things, and that will prove that you've been with me. So Moses hears that and he realizes his protests are not gonna work any longer. So he begins to plead with God in verse 10. And look at the story. "But Moses pleaded with the Lord, "Oh Lord, I'm not very good with words." In other words, he's assuming that as a servant leader, you gotta be eloquent in your speech. So he says, I've never been good with words. I'm not now. Even though you have spoken to me, you know, God, I get tongue tied and my words get tangled. And I love God's answer to him in chapter four verse 11. God reminds Moses, he says, "I made your mouth." I made your mouth, Moses. And then once again in verse 12, "I'll be with you." Hey, hey, I'll be with you. Moses is still trying to get out of it. This is my favorite one of his excuses of all of them. And he goes on and he says, "But Moses again pleaded, "Lord, please send anyone else." He says, I don't wanna do this. I'm out of excuses. None of those protests work. Hey, God, I just don't wanna do it. Can't you send somebody else? And God's response to him was pretty neat. And God says, Well, you don't need to go alone. You know, take your brother Aaron with you. You're gifted in some ways. He's gifted in other ways. You guys go together as a team. Go as partners. Why don't you go out together? And to Moses' credit after all of his protests, and after trying to get out of the assignment, Moses finally walks up to Pharaoh, obeys God, and says to Pharaoh, "Let God's people go. "Let my people go." And you know the rest of that story. God uses Moses in incredible ways. Now it wasn't an easy road. I mean, it still took Moses a lot of patience and a lot of ability to get God's people to the side of the Jordan. But he does extraordinary things through Moses. And I wanna promise you if you'll step out and you'll desire to be a servant, God will do extraordinary things through you. God was asking Moses to be this servant leader and Moses didn't see it. And I think this is one of his greatest qualifications that he was the guy for the job. I mean, have you ever thought about this? God comes to Moses and he says, Moses, I got this job for you. And Moses is like, he looked at himself, he looked at his ability, he looked at his past, and he's like, there's no way. And I think that actually qualifies Moses to be the guy God calls. Because if Moses would've said, Oh my goodness, you know, Lord, it's about time you realize my leadership abilities. It's about time you knew I could go down there and tackle old Pharaoh and get your people out, in my mind, that would've immediately disqualified him for the task. The fact that Moses doesn't see is one of the primary reasons I think there's a heart I can use. Here's a guy I can use. So again, let me give you this definition of a servant leader, because God wants you to be as accessible as possible to him. This is what God sees as servant leaders. A servant leader is anyone who steps up to make a difference. And that's what I'm asking you to do this week. Step up and make a difference. Somebody who just simply says God, here I am, use me. God, will you please take my ordinary? I know it isn't much I've got to offer. It's all I've got. And this is what God will say. That's all I need. That's all I need. I just need your ordinary. And you watch me do extraordinary things in and through your ordinary life when you make yourself available to me. Now, if we were to walk back through this story that I've shared with you today, it's a pretty neat story, I wanna give you just real quick as we wrap this up a few labels of Moses' objections of why he should not be the guy that God uses. And you might be able to relate to these. I know I can. But here's the first one. The first one is simply who am I? Who am I? I can't be used by God. Who am I? Moses really was insecure about his abilities. And Moses also, I think, was probably fearful of some of the things he had done in his past. And here's what Moses wasn't good at and here's what Moses was ashamed of. Couple of things here. Moses had this speech impediment. We all know when you study Moses that he stuttered. Moses could not speak clearly a single sentence. And this had hindered him his whole life. And he was really insecure about it. He could not talk clearly. And he was like, Hey, I can't be used this way. Who am I, God, that I'm gonna go down and speak in front of Pharaoh, the most powerful guy on the planet, and I can't even get a sentence together? I'm not good at public speaking. So he's thinking, if I fulfill what God wants me to do, I've gotta be an eloquent speaker here. So that was the first thing that he was a little leery when he asked who am I? I can't even, you know, speak clearly a sentence. And then the second thing, and you remember if you studied Moses, was he had something in his past he didn't want everybody to know about. It was sort of a secret he had kept. In fact, if you know anything about Moses, his upbringing, you know he was actually an Israelite himself. And Pharaoh had issued this decree to kill and murder all the infant Israelite boys. So what did Moses' mom do? Well, she didn't want him to die, so she put him in a basket, she takes him over to the side of the Nile River, and she puts Moses, this little baby boy, in the Nile in a basket, and he floated down the Nile. Now, this is God's way of doing things, right? Pharaoh's own daughter actually finds Moses floating down the Nile. Finds this little baby and she adopts him into her own family and he becomes her son. Totally ironic, right? And God takes him and places him in Egypt, and Moses has an upbringing as an Egyptian. But when he gets older, he is told the story of his history. And he realizes who he is. And he sees a fellow Israelite, somebody who is one of his own people, being mistreated by an Egyptian guard, and Moses loses it. Moses had a horrible temper and his temper caused him to actually murder this Egyptian that was abusing his fellow Israelite. And he's so ashamed of that. And people are gonna find out about it. So in Moses' mind, I can't speak clearly and I murdered an Egyptian. This disqualifies me, God. I'm not very good at what I do. And, you know, when you think about that, my guess is that maybe for you, the thing that's causing you to be hesitant to step out for God and serve other people is that you probably focus on what you're not good at, or you probably focus on your past failures. And then you do what we all do, you disqualify yourself before God can ever have the chance to use you. And God actually specializes in taking what you're not good at and working in and through you so it shows to other people it's not you anyway. It's the power of God. You know, when I look at what I'm doing today, it's laughable. I mean, honestly, it's laughable to me. I grew up despising public speaking. It's the reason I became a chemistry major, right? You don't have to speak to anybody if you're in a chemistry lab all day. I got so nervous when I had to speak even a simple introduction before two or three other people that my heart would race. I mean, there is no way that I would have ever felt like God could use me in the capacity that he's using me today. You know, it's laughable. I think God laughs at me every week. Some of you'll say, I just don't know how you get up and speak in front of crowds of people. Do you ever get nervous? Dude, every single time still to this day, every single time. I don't have a natural ability to do this calling that God's placed on my life. You know, God actually says, Where are you weak? Hey, let me focus on that. And let me do something extraordinary through your weakness. But we see this in Scripture, right over in II Corinthians 12:9. Remember what Paul says? He talks about the grace of Jesus. He says, "My grace is all you need. "My power works best in weakness. "So now I'm glad to boast about my weaknesses "so that the power of Christ can work through me." Did you hear that? I want you to get it. Whatever you think you're weak in, God says good, let's focus on that because my power works best in your weakness. And for some of us, maybe there was a time in your life when you said Allen remember, man, I served one time in church. I actually got off the consumer seat. I got on the team. I stepped up. I took a risk. Man, I got burned. I got hurt. They criticized me. Never again. I hear what you're doing. I think it's a good thing. I did it a few times. It cost me severely. You know what? Not me. Never again. And maybe for some of you, you went limping off the field, and you've been sitting on the bench for years, and you've never gotten back in the game because you got hurt. Well, I'm here to tell, I love you. I'm your friend, all right? You gotta get back in the game. Life is unfair. If you're gonna serve Jesus, you're gonna get hurt. Did he get hurt? Did he go through some abuse? Was it deserved? Absolutely not. You do not have a pass to set in a consumer seat in his church. You have been called by him to take up and be a servant leader. You gotta get on the team. You gotta get past your hurt. Here's a second objection Moses uses. I have never. I have never. I've never done this, God. I don't know what I'm doing. If I were to do that, I am way over my head. It's this issue of inadequacy, right? I mean, once again, God will often ask you to do something you've never done or you don't think you're good at to keep you dependent upon only what he can do through you. So here's what I would say. If you know that God is calling you to it, he will always qualify you for it. That's our God. And many times we feel like we need to flip those, right? I mean, we feel like God's calling us to do something and we look at ourselves and we're like, Golly, you know, Lord, I think, I'd like to do it, but sh, I'm not qualified for it. So if you'll give me some time, God, and I'll get ready. And then when I get qualified, then call me to do it. And God actually says, no, no, that's not how we're gonna do it. I want you to be willing to take a step of faith. And I want to qualify you as you go. Hands on servant leadership is how God teaches his people. Pretty incredible. You say I'm not sure I agree with that. Well, lemme give you a few examples. What about a guy named Paul? What about him? Who actually murdered Christians, tried to stamp out Christianity. What did God say to him? Oh, Paul, you're perfect for the job of writing the bulk of the New Testament. And Jesus gets ahold of Paul and we're still reading his writings today. God says to a young, unwed teenage girl that's not ready to be a mom, says you're perfect. I'll actually use you to be the mother of the Son of God who will come and take away the sins of the world. Moses, you got a speech impediment. You got a checkered past. You're perfect, Moses. You're gonna be the one that I'm gonna qualify to lead my people outta slavery. He says to a Samaritan woman at a well, you got five failed marriages. You're living with a guy that's not your husband now. Huh, you're perfect. Just let the power of Jesus come into your life and I'm gonna use you to be a missionary for your whole entire town. God's not interested in your ability. He is interested in your availability. And if you'll be available, he will qualify you as you go. Here's the last thing. Moses, he's out of excuses. And again, this is my favorite one. So he used this last thing. Well, God, you know, I've tried to argue with you. I've tried to tell you I'm not the guy. But here's the last. I just really don't wanna do this. So, Lord, just use somebody else. It's an issue of reluctance, right? And what this looks like is when you feel compelled or called by God to do something and you know God sort of challenged you to do it, what do you do? You sort of keep putting him off, don't you? You're saying, you know, Lord, I'm, I know you want me to do this. I'm just too busy right now. I'm not ready. I don't really feel like I can. Probably make a mess of it. Maybe, Lord, in a different season of my life, when things finally settle down, I'll be able to do those things. Well, I'm here to tell you, it's never gonna settle down, all right? Your life is never gonna find the perfect time to serve the Lord. And your spiritual growth is only gonna go so far if you always remain inward focused. There comes a time in each one of our journeys as we're walking along with Jesus where God says I need you to get outside the walls of the place of the church where you come to hear and learn about me, and now I want you to put your faith into action. I want you to go outside and get your focus off yourself. And I want you to be a servant leader for me. You've been spending a lot of time focusing upon your own growth, your own problems, your own issues. It's not that that's bad. It's just that it's only gonna take you so far and you're gonna need to begin to look to God and get externally focused if you really want to unlock spiritual growth. This is what God says, right? Notice in I Peter chapter four it says, "God has given each of you a gift "from his great variety of spiritual gifts. "Use them well to serve" who? "One another." You're to serve others with the gifts and talents God has given you. So I just wanna challenge you to go. Today, before I say a few closing and remarks, I want you to see this video. Again, we're sort of sharing these opportunities from past Love Weeks, but this one will help you understand why you need to take the challenge and serve in some capacity in our communities this week. So watch this quick video and I'll be right back.
- It's in our DNA to serve. We have an example of Christ that we are made after him in that image. And so because of that, we are made to serve. It's in our DNA to serve. And the example I could give was every time that you set out to help someone else, you're just like I am. You put on a schedule, put on a calendar and you say, okay, I gotta go do this. I gotta remember to do this. And sometimes it can be a little bit of a hassle. But then you realize when you're there, every single time when you're there and you set out to help someone else, you walk away feeling so much better. And that's when it reminds me it's in our makeup to serve other people. And whether you're a follower of Christ or not, you're gonna feel better when you help. And that, to me, is the biggest, powerful impact of Love Week. It's not about going and doing stuff. It's not about going and helping others. It's really about how can I feel more connected to Christ? Because when I'm serving, it's the example he's provided me to serve others. And when I'm serving others and I feel better about it, and I leave, two hours of landscaping, or mulching, or digging potatoes, and I have more energy, and enthusiasm, and passion for people, that's when I realize we are made to serve. And God gave us that example first.
- So for us, it was a family event. We started with Love Week three or four years ago. And our first, I guess, introduction to Love Week was through Van Pelt where our, or at the time our oldest daughter had started kindergarten. We ended up doing the mulching and weeding and things like that with the school. Through that experience, we ended up meeting Gary, as well as the principal of Van Pelt, Mr. Rader, and developed pretty close relationships with both of those two throughout the course of the afternoon, conversations and relationships that we ended up carrying on into the next couple of weeks. Through those, we ended up getting involved with the church just more and more, just seeing what we could do. The passion of the love that we felt, being able to help the community as well as the church was just overwhelming. So at that point in time, my wife Lauren started with the children's ministry and then they asked if I didn't mind helping with the parking lot. So that's kind of how both of us got started in the actual ministry was through Love Week itself.
- So I personally love to help people and love to feel like that I'm doing, I'm helping someone else. And so just the whole concept of Love Week in itself is just, it's amazing. It gives you the, or maybe you personally, you know, didn't have the, I don't wanna say courage, but the opportunity to go out and help someone. And so Love Week gives you that opportunity to maybe step out where you might not have done it yourself. So, but, and then you're not doing it by yourself. You're doing it with your church, with your community, for your community. And so just being able to go out and help your community together is just, it's a, I think it's a great experience. There's a whole bunch of different options. So I know one thing that, you know, for me is I work and I obviously have children, and I do a whole bunch of things, but they give you a bunch of different options throughout Love Week that you can do. So like if you work during the evening, they have things during the day. If you work during the day, they have some things during the evening or even on the weekends. And so, even if you, you know, don't start as a family doing something, maybe start doing one for yourself and seeing how you like it and how it goes. And then, you know, slowly going into, you know, adding your family or doing a group. Maybe you can get a whole group of you, your family, or your friends together and helping out. And it's just a, it's a really great time to reflect later on about what you've done together and for other people.
- When we go and we're putting landscape out, and we're mulching together, and we're working side by side, we get to see a side of another person that we didn't realize that was there. And that helps us develop a connection with fellow believers in Christ that connects us all to Christ. And talk about a wonderful feeling. Now when you see that person the next time, it's not somebody two rows in front of you at church. It's, we shared a time experience together that connects us. And it's all because of working as a body of Christ. I think the best thing that can come from Love Week is we see opportunities that are in our community to help. And from that, that's not necessarily the physical help, but we develop a different perspective about the needs of our community, about the needs of one another. And from that different perspective, that helps us grow our maturity and that helps us grow our compassion towards others. And we know we are lacking in a culture and society of compassion and empathy for others. And to me, that's what Love Week does. It allows you to get your hands dirty in the process and see what love is truly about.
- All right, so we've teed it up for you. Why should you serve? Because you can go out and you can love people in the name of Jesus and you can help others see God's goodness through you. I hope you'll take some time outta your schedule and serve in another capacity that may challenge you, may put you outta your comfort zone. Again, we've got tons and tons of opportunities on our website you can volunteer and show up on. But those of you that watch on TV and those of you that watch online, maybe, maybe you wanna do something in your community, in your neighborhood, in your workplace. Hey, would you let us know about that so we can celebrate with you? Just email us. There's a way there on your online that you can let us know the projects that you're doing. And hey, we just wanna celebrate serving thousands of people this next week. So get ready. We're gonna have an awesome week. Let's pray together. Father, thank you today for how you used a guy like Moses who felt unqualified and really felt like because of his past or because of his ability to speak clearly that there was no way you could use him. And yet, you used Moses in an incredible way. 'Cause it wasn't about him. It was about what you could do through an ordinary person. And so, God, I pray for all the people at Highlands in all of our locations, online, and on TV this week, as we step out as ordinary people, just as servant leaders and to go and serve our community, Lord, do something extraordinary. Maybe give a few of us an opportunity to share the gospel this week. Maybe help us to heal somebody who's sick. Maybe, God, may we all be an encouragement to somebody who's a little down or a little discouraged, or maybe even going through a time of depression. May you use us in incredible ways. And we will give you all the honor and all the glory. We look forward to a great, great Love Week. Protect us. Give us great weather. And just help us to love the communities in which we serve. We love you, Jesus. And if you're here today and you've never trusted in Jesus, I pray at least some seeds got planted in your heart that will help you get to know him. Man, the greatest thing you could do is call out upon Christ and ask him to come into your life and forgive you of your sin and be your Lord and Savior. And if you do that today, if you just make a simple prayer, you can join the family of God. And we'd love to know that. Just click that little raised hand button online today so we can also celebrate with you. Lord, give us a great week. We trust you'll do it. In Jesus' name, amen.