I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a real genuine spiritual hunger with people today.

In almost 30 years of leading the church, I think that I'm seeing perhaps more of a kind of organic spiritual hunger with people asking questions and seeking the things of Jesus today, maybe unlike any time in my history

of leading this church.

I mean, if you look at last week on one weekend in one church, 2,200 and what 19 people

baptized, new name, new life, and Christ, for the glory of God, we see people all over the world coming to faith in Christ.

And I want to acknowledge that and give God praise for it.

And at the same time, tragically, there are some who call themselves Christians that are deciding not to be Christians.

And it's interesting, while we see so many people that are around the world converting

to become followers of Christ, we also see some people who maybe grew up believing in Jesus

that are deconstructing and deconverting

away from following Jesus. And this hits close to home. In fact, that's one of the reasons

why I wrote the book, The Benefit of Doubt. I've told you before, I always say we homeschooled

our kids, which is really not true. Amy homeschooled our kids, which is really not true.

Amy homeschooled our kids, and I cheered her on.

Got a picture of our kids, doesn't that look like a homeschool family?

You got matching shirts.

We made our own butter and made our own skirts and stuff.

And we were homeschooling back before it was kind of semi-normal, like COVID hit,

and then it was like, you know, everybody's weird. And, you know, everybody did their school in their pajamas. So we did it back when it was really, really weird. And it was different if you've

ever been around, like if you've been to a homeschool graduation, usually it's mom and dad

in the living room going like,

hey, congratulations, you're valedictorian, you know, and your class president. And you're the entire student body. Congratulations, I'll go clean your room. That's kind of how it would go

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