Hey, so yeah, my name is Tim Lemons, and I am the digital pastor. If you have no idea what that means, that’s okay—most people don’t. In fact, most of the time I hear this joke over and over. It really surprises me how much I hear this joke. People will come up and they’ll pinch me and they’ll say, “Are you real, or are you a hologram?” Like, for real, I get that joke all the time. So yeah, I want to let you know I am real.
I have a real wife—her name is Jade. Most of you know her; she works in student ministry at the Abingdon campus. I have real kids—Mia, Luke, Tyra, Lydia—and you guys have helped raise those kids, and I appreciate you for that. Now, as of last month, I have a real grandson, and his name is Bellamy. To be honest, that seems a little unreal to me—I can’t believe I have a grandson. I have an extended family that loves me, I have real friends, I have real struggles, but most importantly, I have a real God that loves me and that I love.
So before we get started, I just have to say thank you, Highlanders. Like, you have no idea how this place has changed my life. I could go on and on, and I could name people after people—I could stand up here for hours and not name everybody. Some of you that have been around a long time have watched me grow up. I came to this church when I was 15 years old. So I just want to say thank you for your investment in myself, my family, this community, this church. It is an honor and a privilege to serve Jesus alongside of you, and I’m so grateful that I get to do it.
So before we get started, I’d like to pray. So let’s all pray.
Jesus, you are so good. Lord, you know that pride is a thing that takes people over. God, I don’t want to be prideful today. God, I don’t want to stand up here and deliver a message and people say, “Wow, great job.” God, I pray that everything that comes out of my mouth would be from you, God, that you would use my story to challenge people to love you more and to love each other more. God, I pray that you would change lives here today, all for your name and all for your glory. It’s in your name we pray, amen.
So, like Pastor Allan said, he asked me if I would share my story, right? And he’s called me a product of Highlands Fellowship. I’ve heard him say that a few times, and speaking of pride, that makes me—it’s like a badge of honor, right? It’s like, man, that’s awesome to be recognized for that, and to be, you know, just—that excites me because I love this place. But also, at the same time, it’s heavy, right? Like, I feel the pressure to maybe live up to that, right? Like, I don’t want to disappoint people.
So when he asked me to share my story, I think—and he thinks about me being a product of Highlands—I think it’s because he thinks about the highlights, right? Like, we all focus on the highlights. We live in a highlight world. You put your best foot forward on social media, whatever social media you’re into. If you’re hanging out with people in public, you act differently, right? You don’t fight with your loved ones, you just respond differently, you live a little differently when you’re around people. You come into this church—you could have had a horrible fight in the car, and you walk in and put your smile on your face and, “Hey, brother, everything’s great, so good to see you, God bless you, yes sir,” right? We all do that.
Like, I could be having the worst day of my life, sitting in my truck, crying my eyes out to God, right? And I’ll go into Food City or Walmart and get something, and what happens every time I walk in? I see somebody I know, and what is the first thing I say to them? “Hey, how you doing, man?” right? And what do they say? “Good.” And then what do they say back to me? “How you doing, man?” And I say, “So good, so good to see you,” right? But I’m having the worst day of my life. And I know, if you’re going to be honest, that you do that too.
So again, when he asked me to share my story, I really had to think and pray—what is my story, right? What do I share? Which part of my story do I share? And I really was tempted to share highlights, because that’s the world we live in. So do I talk about how I was saved at the age of nine, and I remember praying for that salvation and wanting Jesus to be a part of my life? But to me, as a 9-year-old boy, that meant that, like, the next day I went to my friends and I said, “Hey, guys, so I accepted Jesus yesterday. I can’t listen to Beastie Boys anymore, and I got to stop cussing.” That’s what it meant to me as a 9-year-old boy, right? Like, I go to church, I try to do good, and as a result, I get to go to heaven one day.
But thankfully, my story didn’t end there, because I came to this place. I was 15, went to the very first public worship service at Highlands Fellowship, Easter 1995, and this place changed—or transformed—my life. Of course, through Jesus, but also through this place. And here I learned that Jesus is a relationship, and I learned how to serve people and to serve on volunteer teams and to not think about myself but to think of others. I have had so many amazing opportunities here. I was sitting right over there in this room when God called me into ministry—I can remember it very clearly, and I was so excited.
I could talk about how my family has been loved by you guys and cared for by you guys in this place. I could talk about how I’ve been on staff for 12 or 13 years and all the things that I’ve seen God do—the mission trips that I’ve got to go on, the traveling that I’ve got to do, the people that I’ve had the honor to baptize, the lives that I have seen firsthand Jesus change through this place. I could literally share 10,000 amazing things, and I have encountered His love in so many ways and His grace in so many ways. But that’s the highlights, right?
And I felt like God kind of wanted me to go in a different direction. So what are some lowlights? Well, as a teenager, I was coming to church here, serving, and you know what I did? I did stupid teenage things, and the church called me out on it. And as a teenage boy, I didn’t like that. But people loved me. Greg Coe loved me through that—he loved me back into this church. And it was because of a relationship I had with people in this church that I didn’t give up and that I stuck through it.
Maybe I could talk about how, for seven years, I applied for every single position that became open in this place because I felt like I was called to be here, and over and over and over I got turned down. Do you know how hurtful that was, and how painful and how confusing? I mean, it couldn’t have been me, right? But it wasn’t God’s timing. I could talk about how in 2006 I finally got hired here, and I thought, “Oh man, I have arrived, right? This is my dream job. I’m going to work at a church, we all love Jesus here, so we’re just going to sit around and pray, and there’s not going to be any drama, and everything’s going to be great, and we’re just going to grow closer to Jesus together, and man, this is going to be awesome.”
Or do I talk about how I worked too hard? I put this place above God, above my family. I said yes to everything—I was a people pleaser. I couldn’t even make it two years on staff, and I quit, and I ran from this place. And I went to a place, at a church in Houston, where I thought, obviously, the grass is going to be greener on that side, right? But spoiler alert—it wasn’t.
See, I feel like God took me out there to teach me some lessons. And so when I worked at this church, at that time in my life, you know, I really looked up to churches like Saddleback and Willow Creek and Fellowship of the Woodlands and all these different churches. And I got to work at that church with people from every one of those churches, and we would sit around and we would talk, and they would share horror stories of bad things that happened to them while they were on staff at those churches.
So I learned two lessons. Number one: Highlands Fellowship is an amazing place, and God is doing amazing things here. But more importantly, I learned that hurt people hurt people. Jesus didn’t hurt me—hurt people hurt me. And you know what? I am a hurt person, and you are a hurt person. And sometimes, because of my poor decisions or my selfishness, I cause pain to myself and to the people that I love. And I have things right now in my life that are causing me pain and frustration—some of those I’ve done to myself, and some of those are done to me by others who are selfish and have sin in their life.
So why in the world did I just stand up here and share all of those lowlights? Because I know that you know someone that has been hurt by a church or hurt by His people. Chances are, you yourself have maybe been hurt by a church or you’ve been hurt by a Christian. See, the condition of the world that we live in is a fallen world. Everyone in here has been hurt by someone, betrayed by someone, disappointed by someone. You have unmet expectations, and guess what? It’s going to happen again.
Way to go, Tim, you’re really encouraging me. Well, hold on. I’m a big fan of Dr. Henry Cloud, and if you have never heard of Dr. Henry Cloud, I recommend you check him out—go to RightNow Media or Google him; he’s got lots of great things he says. But he points out the reason that we are all fallen and the reason that we are all sinful and all of these things is because we’re all part of one family: the Adams family. No, not that family—Adam. Adam and Eve. Adam’s family. We are all born into this world as a member of Adam’s family, and because of that, it is a fallen and broken world. There is sin, and we disappoint each other.
So, knowing that the world is full of hurt people who hurt people, what do we do? Well, I know what you do, and I know what I do—we put up walls, right? So that they won’t hurt us again. We don’t want to be hurt again. We veg out on the couch, we watch Netflix, watch YouTube, play video games. You look to other things to numb your mind, right? Like drugs or alcohol or video games or porn or sex or bad relationships—anything that will help us ignore the problems we face and just help us build good.
But the problem in our world isn’t that there are problems. The problem is how we react to those problems and what we do with those problems. Do you share those with Jesus? Do you share those problems with other people? See, Jesus didn’t come to the world to take away all of our problems, right? He came to walk with us and sometimes carry us through those things. And we all have a tendency to give up on church a little too easy, right? Like, what do you expect when you come here? You have expectations—you want to be loved, you want to be welcomed, you want to be cared for, you want to be here, and you want to be loved, right?
But there is a “but,” and it’s a big “but.” Eventually, I promise you, if you stick around here long enough, if you get plugged in so deep or you see the behind-the-scenes, eventually, one day, sometime, you’re going to get your feelings hurt, or you’re going to get disappointed. It’s just going to happen because we’re people, and we’re going to let you down. And for a lot of you, that’ll be it—you’re done. “That church? Nah, they hurt me. I’m done. I’m done with that church. I’m not going to any other church. I’m done with Jesus. I’m done with His people.”
My friend sent me this meme when I was talking about this message, and I love it, and I thought we would take a minute and just—we personalized it a little bit. So let’s check out this meme. It says, “McDonald’s can mess up your order 101 times, and you still keep going back. One thing goes wrong at church, and you quit. People just aren’t hungry enough, right?” Guys, like, we all live a busy life. We don’t have time to sit down around the dinner table, and so what do you do? You’re hungry, you go to McDonald’s, you get some food—they’re going to mess up your order every time, but you keep going back because you’re hungry. Guys, that’s the way we should be at church. If we mess up, it’s okay—let’s love and forgive each other.
So what are we supposed to do with all these people walking around hurting one another? Well, okay, there is good news—time for some good news. The good news is Jesus. He has the answer. In fact, He is the answer. He came to Earth to teach us a new way to be human. And so today, I want to look at four things that Jesus did while He was here on Earth as a part of His ministry. And I know, I know, that these four things have the potential to change our lives and the lives of everybody we know.
So as I was praying about this message and what to do, I—again, you know, pride is a horrible thing—I, you know, I wanted to be like, “God, just drop some wisdom bombs on me, right? Like, give me some type of points that I can just throw out, and people will be like, ‘Whoa,’ and it’ll change their lives, and it’ll be so profound and so deep.” And you know what He did? He gave me some good points, I think, and they’re very profound, but they’re actually really simple. So are you ready? Are you ready to have your mind blown?
Here’s point number one: If we want to live like Jesus, then we must live like Jesus, right? Is your mind blown? But for real, don’t we overcomplicate things? Guys, if we want to live like Jesus, we got to live like Jesus. So how did He live? The Bible teaches us He was incarnational. He left heaven, came to Earth, and lived among us. He hung out with people. John 1:14 says, “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
So what did Jesus do when He was here? He went to dinner parties, He broke bread with people, He sat around the table and laughed and shared jokes and had fun. He went to weddings, He hung out with all sorts of different people, and He would separate—pull away from those people—and go spend time with His Father. So if He wasn’t hanging out with people, He was hanging out with His Father. So if we want to live like Jesus, how did Jesus live? He spent time with people and His Father, and so should we.
Listen, if you want to grow closer to Jesus, you have to have a relationship with Him—that’s the only way. It doesn’t happen any other way. And you got to have a relationship with His family. You cannot do life alone. So here’s a question for you to think about: When is the last time you spent time with people—doing life together, having fun, telling jokes, eating food together, helping one another? Do you have people in your life, or do you feel isolated?
All right, are you ready for another mind-blowing point? If you want to live like Jesus, you got to live like Jesus. Number two: If we want to love like Jesus, then we must love like Jesus. Ah yeah, another mind-blowing point, right? But again, it really is that simple. John 15:9-13 says, “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love.” Abide means to live, right? To like rest. So like, we’re supposed to live and love—or live out of that love—rest in it.
And verse 10 says, “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” Joyful—don’t you want to be joyful? Then we must love. Verse 12 says, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” Well, how did He love us? Verse 13 tells us, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.” Guys, Jesus loved us sacrificially. He didn’t put His desires and needs above our needs.
Again, the Bible tells us in Romans 5:8, “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” We didn’t have anything to offer Jesus, and He still loved us. That’s an unselfish love. That kind of love should move us to have compassion and grace and forgiveness and mercy towards each other—an unselfish love and unconditional love. While we were sinners, He loved us, so while people are sinners, we should love people—imperfections and all.
So another question for you to consider: Who do you know in your life right now that just needs to be loved? How can you let that person know that you love them and that you’re there for them?
All right, point number three: If we want to live like Jesus and love like Jesus, we got to live like Jesus, we got to love like Jesus. Are you ready? I think you’re sensing the pattern here. Number three: If we want to forgive like Jesus, then we must forgive like Jesus. Now listen, again, simple but hard, right? In Matthew 18, Jesus is talking to His disciples, and He’s telling them what to do when a brother—like a Christian brother—hurts them. And Peter, you know, Peter’s always putting his foot in his mouth. He’s like, “Oh, I’m going to impress Jesus, check this out.”
So Peter came up to Him and he said, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” So he’s like, “I’m really going to impress Jesus. Check this out, God—I will forgive people seven times.” And what did Jesus say? Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.” The point that Jesus is making here is it’s an infinite amount. We should forgive people an infinite amount of times, just as He has and will continue to forgive us.
So when—not if—people in the church hurt us, we should forgive them, just as Jesus has forgiven you and me. Don’t stop coming to church—put in the effort. We’re supposed to be a family. Like, my family has made me mad a thousand times, right? But I love them, and I stick around, and I work through it because I care, and I want to be a part of the family. So if we want to have deep, meaningful relationships, then we have to learn how to forgive one another.
Colossians 3:12-14 says, “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” Over and over, we’re commanded to love one another. Ephesians 4:32: “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” So Jesus forgives us over and over, and so we should forgive others as well.
So my question for you is: Who in your life have you not forgiven? My prayer is that someone just popped in your head. That relationship might be broken because you couldn’t let go of something. How can you take a step towards forgiveness?
All right, moving on—live, love, forgive like Jesus. The fourth point: If we want to suffer like Jesus, then we must suffer like Jesus. Whoo—if you’re paying attention, I hope you were just like, “Wait, what? If we want to suffer like Jesus? Do we want to suffer like Jesus?” Before this message today, we sang “The Son of Suffering.” It’s one of my favorite songs, and I love that we sang that today. The lyrics say, “Your cross is my freedom, your stripes are my healing, your blood still speaking, your love still reaching.” Guys, if Jesus suffered, then why should we expect anything different?
Jesus went through suffering for you and I, and He took that suffering, and He shared it with the whole entire world, and it changed the world. So again, as I was writing that point, I really had to pray and examine myself. “God, do I want to suffer like you?” And I can stand up here, 100% honesty, and tell you yes, because I have seen Him do great things through suffering.
In fact, one of my favorite scriptures is James 1, and this has been used over and over in my life to challenge me and to encourage me. I’m going to read it from the Message translation because I love the way he puts it. It says, “Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.”
Guys, we’re humans, right? When we have pain, what do we do? Like, if our head hurts or our back hurts or our knees hurt, we take medicine, right? We don’t like pain. We want to get out of the pain. If we go through pain, we want to get out of it as fast as we can. We want to avoid pain at all costs. If we stick our hand in a fire, without even thinking, we take our hand out of the fire. But I believe that God is teaching all of us that sometimes we have to go through suffering. Jesus had to go through suffering, so why would we not have to go through suffering?
And I love the way he puts it because he says if you don’t go through this, you’re not going to be well-matured, you’re not going to be well-developed, you’re not going to be the person that God wants you to be if you don’t allow this suffering to work. So don’t try to get out of it. I love that.
Another thing that I hear all the time around suffering is the famous question, right? “Why do bad things happen to good people?” I’ll never forget—I was reading the Bible, and I felt like God just put this in my heart and my soul as I read this. I was like, “This is it. This is why. Why do bad things happen to good people? This is it.” 2 Corinthians 1:3-4: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
Hold on, that’s a whole lot of comforting going on right there. Let me explain that, okay? We Christians—you know, supposedly good people—we have problems in our lives so that we can receive comfort from God. He gives us that comfort. Don’t you want to be comforted by God? I do. But if we want to be comforted by God, we have to go through things. And in addition to that, not only do we receive comfort, but we’re able then to go over here and give comfort to people who don’t know the comfort of God. That’s amazing, right?
I put me here, God—allow me to suffer. I want to receive comfort from you, and I want to be able to comfort those that don’t know you. So if we want to suffer like Jesus, we got to suffer like Jesus. We have got to stop pretending like we have it all together. Guys, if our goal in life—if you’re following Jesus—is to become like Jesus, guess what? We’re never going to make it. We’re always going to fall short. You’re going to have a bad day, you’re going to have a bad month maybe, but we’re supposed to strive every day to live like Jesus. And thankfully, we have the Holy Spirit who helps us—otherwise, I’d be done.
When we come to church and we put on these happy faces and we act like we’ve got it all together and our lives are perfect and we don’t share the burdens that we have, we are robbing ourselves and others of an opportunity for ministry and for healing. If you have—if you are having a hard time with something in your life, I promise you somebody else in this church is having a hard time with that same thing, and you are supposed to share it. You’re supposed to help each other.
Satan—listen, I know what Satan does because he does it to me. Satan tells you, “You’re all alone. You’re the only person that is dealing with this. You shouldn’t be dealing with this. Don’t go tell anybody ‘cause they’re going to judge you, they’re going to excommunicate you, they’re never going to talk to you again.” That’s not the case. More importantly, “Don’t go to Jesus, whatever you do. You’re not worthy of Him—don’t talk to Jesus.” That’s not the case.
Guys, Jesus suffered. He had more power than this world has ever seen, and He chose to allow Himself to suffer for our sake. And He took that suffering, and He literally changed the world. Our eternities are different because He shared that suffering. But He didn’t want to do it. Matthew 26:36-39—this is Passion Week, before He gets crucified, and He’s hanging out with His disciples, and He says, “Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and He said to His disciples, ‘Sit here while I go over there and pray.’ And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to be sorrowful and troubled.” Jesus was sorrowful—He was troubled.
And then He said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here and watch with me.” And going a little farther, He fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” Guys, Jesus didn’t want to go through the suffering, but He knew He had to. He gave up control, and He surrendered to God’s plan.
So my question for you is: What are you going through right now that you need to share with somebody? I promise you, you’re not the only one here dealing with that problem. Don’t hide—someone needs you to share what you’re going through so that they have the courage to share what they’re going through.
So let’s wrap up. Why do I feel like God led me to stand up here and share all these bad things and talk a little bit about some good things but more bad? Because I feel like we live in a highlight world, and I think it’s destroying us. We compare ourselves to people’s highlights, we compare ourselves to perfection, and we’re never going to get there. We have to learn to share the bad things that we go through in our lives so that we can help each other.
And if you’re longing for those types of relationships—if you want a relationship that’s real, that’s not superficial—listen, you don’t have to go anywhere. Look around you—these are your people. This is your family. These are your brothers and your sisters, your spiritual fathers and your spiritual mothers. Everyone in here, we’re called to live like Jesus. We’re supposed to do life with one another, we’re supposed to forgive one another, we’re supposed to love one another, we’re supposed to share our sufferings with one another. It’s called ministry, and ministry is messy.
So don’t be the 9-year-old little boy me—don’t go to church and sit in a seat, try to do good so that one day when you die you can go experience life with Jesus. Jesus came to this earth to give us an abundant life. Guys, listen, I’m a sinner, but I am saved by His grace. And I’ve talked a lot about the bad things, but there’s something really important you need to know—I have joy.
No matter what is going on in my life—in the good and the bad—I have extreme joy. I’m choking up right now, not because of sadness, because of joy. I have peace that the world doesn’t understand. I have a hope that one day I’m going to be with Jesus, and all is going to be as it should be. I have a purpose here on this Earth—I live with a purpose. I have a loving relationship with the one true God, and I have relationships with people around me that love me, and I love them.
The only reason I’ve made it this far is because my God has loved me, and I have a relationship with Him, and because people have loved me through my mistakes and my failures. So what is my story? It’s a story of really, really awesome great highs and really painful lows—and that’s your story. It’s a story of deep relationship here at this church and a deep relationship with Jesus. Suffering does not equal a horrible life—not if you give that suffering to Jesus and you allow Him to do what He does. He takes broken things, and He redeems them.
So what do I want you to walk away with today? I can’t summarize it any better than what I think Jesus did. Pharisees came to Jesus, and they were trying to trap Him, and He said—the guy asked Jesus, “Hey, what’s the most important thing?” And Jesus said, Matthew 22, “You shall love your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”
Jesus didn’t give one—it’s not “love God.” It’s also “love people.” You have to love God—it’s a relationship, guys. It’s not a Sunday morning thing. You have to spend time with Him. You have to spend time with other people. If you want to love people, you can’t love someone if you don’t know them. Again, it’s not a Sunday thing. We have to learn to love one another and do life together. Jesus said He came to give us an abundant life, and that, to me, is what an abundant life means—to be greatly loved by God and to have great love for people.
So if you’re here today and you don’t have that relationship with Jesus, I want to give you that opportunity. So I’m going to pray in just a minute, and if you feel like God is inviting you to that relationship, you can just repeat after me and just call out to Him and ask Him to come into your life. And then I’m going to pray for the rest of us, and then I have one thing I’d like to challenge you with after the prayer, so don’t go anywhere, okay? Let’s pray.
[Music] Jesus, you are so good. God, thank you for teaching us how to live. Lord, if there is anyone here today who doesn’t have a relationship with you right now, will you reach out to them? Overwhelm them with your love, overwhelm them with your forgiveness, your grace, your mercy. And if you’re here today and you want to accept that relationship, just call out to Him. Say, “Jesus, I am broken. I am hurting. I’m a hurt person who hurts people. But I believe that you died on the cross, and you defeated sin, and you rose again. Lord, I want to commit my life to you today. I want to have a relationship with you.” And if you just made that decision, that is the best decision you can ever make—it’s the most important decision you could make on this Earth. We want to celebrate, so let us know about it. If you’re online, click the button below. If you’re anywhere else, go to the hub, fill out the section—let us know about the decision you made. If you’re at one of our campuses, tell somebody today. [Music] For the rest of us, I just pray that we would learn to love like Jesus loved, that we would learn to live like Jesus lived, that we would learn to forgive one another, and that we would learn to suffer like Jesus—that we would share in our sufferings. God, help us to do that. God, help us to love you better, to love you more, and to love people. Thank you for giving us the example. God, thank you for sending your Son to die for us. It’s in His awesome, holy, amazing, powerful name that we pray these things, amen.
All right, listen, it’s easy to hear this, and I know you want to maybe live differently after this, right? Like, I’ve sat and heard messages, and I want to do things. Well, I want to give you two very easy options to take this just a little bit further—to practice loving God and loving people this week. And I’m not going to tell you how we’re going to do it—I’m just going to ask you if you want to do it to text “love God love people,” all one word, no spaces, to the number that you see: 276-451-2621. And then I’m going to text you back, and I’m going to give you two opportunities this week to do that, okay? So please, if you’d like to practice loving God and loving people this week, will you just text that? You can also go to the hub and click the slide if you’d like to do that if you’re not a texter.
All right, hey, listen—thank you, guys. I love you—I really do. I’m so grateful for this opportunity. I’m grateful to serve alongside of you. And just remember: love God and love people.