We're going to talk about the difference between simply being delivered from our sins and God truly delighting in us.

There's a memorable scene in the movie Notting Hill when Julia Roberts says to Hugh Grant,

don't forget, I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her. The only time I have ever identified with Julia Roberts,

she's just so beautiful and so well spoken. It's when I watched her character Anna Scott speak those words of unrequited love to a manhood

essentially just explained that she wasn't worth the trouble of pursuing. I know what that feels like, but that is so not the gospel, y'all.

In fact, according to the Bible, our divine bridegroom King Jesus is utterly mad about us and might even get a little weak in the knees when he sees us.

So grab a cup of coffee in your Bible unless you're driving or running with AirPods and come hang out on the porch with us.

Well, hey, y'all, I'm Allison Allen and we are so glad that you're joining us today on back porch theology.

We want you to kind of pull up a rock and chair and set a spell and rock with us.

You know, one of the things that's been so fun, Lisa, has been hearing from people kind of their stories about the podcast.

I mean, remember at the very beginning, I thought it was just going to be like my mother and your mother-in-law.

We're going to be all alone.

And we'd have been lucky for that.

Or her cousin or two.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's right. All family listeners.

But I don't know about you, but I've gotten some fun messages.

Yeah.

One gal said she was taking the podcast on a jog and was hoping not to encounter your near-necked dog or which I thought was cute.

And then the funniest one to me was a gal who was on her elliptical.

And when she heard your story about having to dance in an impromptu manner, she said,

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