If you haven't been tracking with us through what's happening at like,

what's happening at like these prayer and presence nights,

what God is doing at ACC right now is he's pulling the church off the stage.

It's really what's happening.

So we did one last Sunday night in Birmingham, we did one here,

and the heartbeat is like we have a few songs planned,

but really we just want to share stories of what God is doing in our church in real time and put it

in front of the people. Because the last thing we want all Christ's church to be from the very

beginning of our name change is a style of doing church from a stage that the people consume.

We want it to be a church family set on fire,

on mission for the glory of God. We want you to feel the ownership, to pay attention to the real

stories of real people that are happening all the time. The spirit of God is at work.

And yet, at the same time, people are hurting. I am so confused as to what God wants me to do today in this

moment because I showed up with an intense word on sexual sin and pornography and freedom on my

heart that I'm about to give. And then at the same time, I'm very aware of real situations happening

in our church. Several people from our body of believers who were here

a week ago. Several went to be with Jesus this week. And talking to these families, talking to

widows and widowers. And it's so much more than what you think on a Sunday about the people who are sitting around you right now.

All you see is the presentation of external.

You have no idea what people are going through on the inside.

You have no idea what's happening on your row right now.

So I feel the weight of the financial needs, like what just got presented to us, but then the relational needs.

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