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Today we're going to do something different.

I've been working with about a dozen young communicators in our church,

and our team chose four of them to team teach the message today.

So I pray that it blesses you in a big way.

Well, growing up, family dinner was a big deal at my house. Like I could still smell my mom's

chicken and rice and everything nice cooking in the oven. I could still see the chocolate

pudding sitting on the counter taunting us because how many many of you know, you can't have dessert unless you finish your dinner?

But what I loved about family dinner wasn't the food. It was what came after we ate, because after eating, we would just stay around our dining room table talking for hours.

We'd stay around our dining room table playing

games like Candyland, which I couldn't win for some reason. And we would talk about the things that

happened at school or the girl that I had a crush on at the time. But what I loved about family dinner

is those were the moments that mattered most. Well, recently, I got to go home and visit my family. And what was interesting

was this time was a little bit different. Because while I was home and we had family dinner night,

after we had eaten, I caught myself not around that small dining room table, but I was on the

couch. Scrolling. And I noticed glancing up over the edge of my phone, everyone else doing the exact same

thing. And I recognized that though we were together physically, we weren't actually connecting

with one another. And I wonder for you if you've ever experienced something similar.

Like I wonder for you if there were times you've missed the moments that matter the most.

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