Thanks for joining us here at Life Church, where we are one church meeting in multiple locations

and worldwide at church online. To find out more about us as a church, you can always visit us

at life.church. Coming up today, author, singer, actor, and speaker, John Gray visits us here

to show us how the gap between where we are and where we want to be can only be bridged by Jesus.

In part one of his message, going the distance.

Normally church goers or maybe even curious spiritually, this will be a message that has the

potential to impact their lives in a very serious way. The week after Easter, we're starting a brand

new three-part message series. It's called Love Like Jesus. We're going to talk a lot about Jesus

because he is the way the truth and the life and for three weeks we're going to talk about how we

love like Jesus. Today, I am very excited, tremendously honored to welcome a good friend of mine

who will be our guest speaker for the day. I'm going to tell you right now you're going to laugh,

you're going to cheer, you may cry, you're going to be impacted in a massive way. John Gray is a

very close friend. We've known each other for probably six or seven years, spent a lot of times

at conferences. He speaks all over the world. He is an actor, he is a comedian, he is an author,

he is a preacher. He's probably a dancer. This guy is truly amazing. He's one of the most sought

after speakers all over the world. You're going to see why. Would you join me in welcoming today,

Pastor John Gray. Well, it is an honor to be here with Life Church and to your pastor. I always

want to give honor to Pastor Craig who is just a phenomenal leader and of course everyone knows

the legacy of this church through you version and just the outreach and I'm so grateful to be a part

now of that legacy. He is what I want to be when I grow up physically because he's got a six pack.

I've got a 40 ounce but we're working on it. I am grateful to be here. If you'll do me a favor and

go to Matthew 26, starting at the 36 verse, I'm reading from the new King James version and

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