Hey, this is Beth. Listen, what we live for at Living Proof is to serve people the Word of God.

We base our ministry on Hebrews 412 that tells us that the Word is alive and active.

We pray this message is going to serve you in some way today and that God is going

to speak through it. Thank you so much for giving us this privilege. I have to tell you guys something.

I have a number of members of my church family here and they'll be able to testify to this.

Our pastor does a children's sermon like many of yours before we ever have our

actual grown-up people's sermon. And so he calls the kids to the front and I just love it because

I just love kids and I love to see how they're going to interact and and I love it especially

if I can hear them talking

back to him. And they do. He very often, and we tease them about this, he just loses control

of his audience completely, because they've gone off with something else. And there's a particular

kid, I have no idea what the child's IQ is, but higher than anyone else in the congregation.

And the questions that he will ask and the things that he will say, you just cannot imagine,

it's just delightful.

And so he was just surrounded by all the kids, and he was trying to make the point

how we see Jesus, how people can see Jesus in us, and how we see Jesus at work around

us today, although we cannot see him with our eyes like they did in the era of the Gospels.

And so he was trying to get them to work with him. And he said, what are some ways people can see

Jesus in us? And they were on to it pretty quick by our love. And when we do good things or nice

things for them, kindness, they were mentioning all these kinds of things. And so our pastor was just

continuing to point out things.

And he said, he's sitting down in front and the altar is right behind me. He said, for instance,

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