All right, hey, we are glad that you are here. My name's Mike. Welcome. We are, we're

gathering on a Sunday night to look at a 3,000 year old love poem that deals with issues and raises concerns

hello skipping we're skipping, hello. Oh my goodness, right front row center, holy cow.

Ladies and gentlemen I give you the face of Godliness right there.

Now the face of godliness right there. Now we are we are heading down the home

stretch so what that means is tonight we're going to talk about marriage next week Next week we're going to talk, if you missed the

princess bride reference, next week we're going to talk about sex and it's going to

be all sex all night is what we're going to talk about.

Yep, and then single folks can go home and not do anything and then married folks can get there once a month in and it'll be glorious.

And then what we're going to do is we're going to have some guests in and then we're going to do a big old healing service and that will be

We're we're just healing service and that will be, it's just, it's going to be a very important, I think, time in the life of our church.

And the invitation will be to just bring sexuality back under God's blessing and so that will be in four weeks and

then maybe if we can we'll try to fit a Q&A in there somewhere I don't know

but I want to let you know, every, after every meeting that we have,

there's a crew of people that gathers up here and back over on this side,

and we've been calling in our care team and these are

folks that are trained to pray but but not only to pray to listen. Some of these folks

are lay counselors in the church. Some of these folks are lay counselors in the church.

Some of these folks have stories that are, you know,

pretty amazing stories that out of their brokenness

and into freedom.

And I want to introduce you tonight to a couple of them. So it's in your eyes

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