I think we're a little casual with this stuff.

I believe Jesus' expectation of you and me is that we treat his word, his truth, as if there's integrity in it.

We become believers, not just church-attenders, pew-fillers, song-singers,

song-singers, religionists, moralists, people, the set of rules we keep, we believe Jesus.

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Be blessed.

Today's lesson is a little bit different. The topic is restoration this weekend.

But I want to ask you to receive it today if you will in a personal way. I don't mean personal about me.

If I had my preference I would sit and have this conversation with everybody here individually.

I know that's not practical. So I'm going to ask you today

to let's process this just as if we've gathered amongst ourselves. Don't make

notes in the margins about who you want to share this with or who you hope's listening or

This is about you and me

We are in desperate need in our nation of the spirit of God to bring restoration to his people.

And one of the most important principles I know is that you can't give away what you don't have.

And we're not going to see restoration extended or grow or multiply or sweep across our land unless you

and I can tell our stories of how we are being restored. Not as a point of ancient

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