Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ.

We're so glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe God will transform your life through today's message.

We are starting a brand new series today called Launch in Victory. Is anybody excited for the new series today?

We're so excited for this new series and this is obviously initiated and centered around and fueled by the launch of our church.

For a while it was like we're just going to reopen the church.

But the truth is the language of reopen is acting like everything is still the same.

How many of you know after the last two and a half years nothing is the same.

So we're just going back to how it was.

During the pandemic it was very interesting because once we started getting out and seeing people again they'd be like,

oh hey, how you doing? How's the family? Everybody okay? Hey man, when we go to be back open?

We're working on it. I'm saying we're working on it. I tell them the story of the mechanic.

One time I called him a mechanic and he said he's working on it.

That story ran out with two people. At the end of it it was just like, hey when we open and man,

say hi, look me in the eyes. They just walk by. Let me know when we're open and all right. I'll see you there.

God bless. Yeah. God bless.

But I realized that to say we're reopened is to go back to what was.

To go back to how we liked it. To go back to what was comfortable.

But God has done something completely new and completely different.

The Bible says this way, don't put new wine in old wine skins.

This is what we've tried to do with some of our lives. Well let's just get back to how things were.

I just want our relationship to go back to how it was. I just want church to go back to how it was.

I just want my job to go back to how it was. The truth is nothing is as it was shout out to Harry Styles.

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