So I want to welcome all of our Atlanta area churches.

Those of you are watching us from all over the state, all over the country, and more and more all over the world.

If you weren't with us last time, we are in part two of a series.

We're calling Deeper Wider.

It's more than a sermon series.

It's a new season, as you just heard.

It's really part of this movement that many of you've been a part of for so many years. What we're doing is we're exploring what it would look like

to maximize our generosity, to maximize our generosity individually and collectively in order

to maximize our impact locally and globally. So this is about taking what you experience and

what you've done for many of you, many, many years and

exporting it. And here's how personal this is. If you've been attending one of our churches

for a year or more, especially more, my hunch is you have a story that right now, wherever

you are, if you're watching at home or wherever you are in one of our churches, you can stand

up right now or turn to somebody next to you and say, let me tell you the story

about how this local church has impacted me, impacted a family member, maybe one of your kids

was baptized, maybe a grandchild was baptized, maybe you were baptized, maybe it's the first time

you came to church and understood the Bible, maybe it's the first time you came back to church. It was the first church your husband or your wife would attend or you brought a friend. We all have a story and of how

this church has impacted your life personally. And because of what you do here, because of what you do

there at all of our Atlanta area churches in the south side and Athens, everywhere else,

and stories like yours are being created right now in other cities and other states and other countries.

Through primarily our church network, the irresistible church network that we don't talk much about,

but we're beginning to talk about it because you're doing extraordinary things,

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