Hey, welcome, Life Church Family. Those of you that are gathering in physical buildings,

welcome back. Those of you that are still at church online or YouTube live or wherever

you're watching, we love you. We pray that you're very blessed in the season. If this environment

looks different, it's because it is very different. Right now, I'm actually on vacation with

my bride, taking a little bit of time off. And we are recording this message from Steamboat

Christian Center in beautiful Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Big shout out to our friends at

Steamboat Christian Center, Pastor Troy Lewis and Pastor Jeff Sublet, our dear friends of

ours, Pastor Jeff. And in fact, invited by son Sam to preach his very first message when Sam

was only 17 years of age at the hype at this amazing church. And Steamboat Christian

Center is kind of like one of the honestly hundreds of thousands of partner churches. They

use a lot of the free resources that we have at Life Church. They sing a lot of the worship

songs and we're just so grateful for them and making this possible. To give you a little

bit of context, what I did for this weekend is I had a pre-recorded message on State Positive.

It honestly was my favorite message on spiritual enthusiasm. But what I want to do is I want

to put a pause on State Positive. With all of our growing cultural awareness of the ongoing

problem of racism, I wanted to pause State Positive and speak to our whole church about

our responsibility that we have as followers of Christ. I like what Scripture says in the

Old Testament in Micah 6.8. Scripture says this, the Lord has told us to do what is right.

God tells us this is what is right and it's also what He demands. What is right and what

is God demand? He says, see that justice is done. Let mercy be your first concern and humbly

obey your God. What I'm doing is I'm asking God to help us as a church family to act justly,

to love mercy, to walk humbly and be united as one. So when the world looks on, they will

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