Hey everybody, it's Andy, welcome back to the North Point Community Church podcast.

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When to welcome all of our campuses around the city of Atlanta, around the state,

around the country, and more and more around the world,

as people join us from all over the place. And it's so fun to see this growing network

of people who understand that being a Christian isn't simply about believing things.

It's about doing things with what we believe, because that's what makes the difference.

And I absolutely love Easter. I'm often asked, Andy, Easter and Christmas is like,

you know, that story, it's pretty much the same every year. How do you come up with new

stuff to talk about? Christmas is challenging. Easter, not so much because I just absolutely

love Easter. And if this is your first time with us or the first time watching, here's something

you need to know up front. If you lose interest or electricity between now and the end of the

message, here's what I want you to hear. We believe that Jesus rose from the dead, but we

don't believe Jesus rose from the dead because the Bible tells us so. It's actually the other way

around. If Jesus had not risen from the dead, there would be no Bible, there would be no church,

and I would have no job, okay? So the sequence of these things is so important. The reason we believe

is because the men and the women who were there in the moment for this and the men who spent

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