When more people think if you or interact with you do they walk away from those

interactions what is the direction of that again not an indictment if you're on the wrong side of the equation,

change. And if you're too close to the midline, change quickly. We want to be a

people of influence.

But we've got to bring our faith back to bear in our lives. We've left our faith in church buildings and in worship services for too long.

It's as if we've been closeted. Everything else has come out of

the closet, so should our faith.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.

All right, offatory prayers. We've been praying together, learning to pray together as a congregation.

We're not passing offering plates that kind of got shuffled with COVID.

I thank you for your faithfulness in giving.

You've learned new ways to give and you've been faithful to that, so I thank you for that.

Your faithfulness in honoring the Lord with your resources is the best way I know. that your

resources is the best way I know to stabilize your life in the midst of economic uncertainty.

Wall Street is not going to secure our future,

nor the strength of the dollar nor the Federal Reserve.

I'm grateful for all of them, but God is the one who secures our future.

And if giving you something that's new to you, begin the practice,

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