It's more than an economic cycle or a season of bad leadership at some point

because you don't particularly like the group that's been elected.

As a somewhat interested observer, it seems to be no matter who we've sent for several decades

from which side of the aisle or from wherever we found them, the outcomes have been

eerily similar. And yet we're so diluted we imagine oh a new crop will change us we need a

savior and it's not a party or a politician.

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

I want to start with a notion that's pretty simple that humanity apart from

God in the biblical language is just lost.

There's something that's been forfeited

that we're designed,

the intent of the designer is that we be in relationship with the Creator.

And absent that relationship, there is... that we be in relationship with the Creator.

And absent that relationship, there is something

forfeited in our life experience.

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