So I want you to turn to two passages of scripture, Genesis 1 and John 3.

And I realize I say turn to and most of the time it's on our phone now and that's fine.

That's fine that's fine so just but Genesis 1 and

John 3 we're gonna be a lot of passage of those two for sure so I'm

beginning a new series called Created to Be.

Created to Be.

And I want to emphasize the word be.

That God created us to be not do.

Now it doesn't mean that we don't do anything,

but it means that we do out of who we are.

And that our doing doesn't make us who we are,

but who we are produces our doing.

Let me say it another way.

We are not beings, but much of the time we focus on the doing and we get upset when we don't do.

And we think we should do more.

And we can't sleep sometimes at night because of what we have to do,

or what we didn't do.

But I'm telling you God created you to be, not to do. And when we catch that it helps us. And years ago I was asking the Lord

and with some of the executive pastors and talking about, you know, Gateway Church is so large, does a person ever have the question,

what's the church expected me? What, you know, when I come to Gateway Church, what does Gateway Church want me to become?

How do I become a part of Gateway Church and things like it?

And we came up with four words and I'll take one week on each of these words and

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