Yeah, yeah. First Wednesday worship is upon us, which means that February is behind us.

Who's excited about that? I am excited. Yeah, excited about that. So we have first Wednesday worship coming up this Wednesday. In case you haven't been, hey, this would be a great opportunity for you to come because this will help prepare your heart, your mind, and your soul for where we're headed towards Easter. It's just a movement that's happening among our people where we really just do three things. We sing our faces off. We read scripture and we pray. That's all we do. For about an hour, we gather across our campuses to do that. So this would be a great time for you to join us this Wednesday. Hey, cool thing happening today. If you got your journals, go ahead and take them out. We have a new keyword today. We're not getting far away from Jesus, though. Don't worry, because our keyword for today and for the next couple weeks is grace. Okay, so keyword grace. And the scripture that we're going to dive in today, hopefully you brought your Bibles. Go ahead and open them up. We're actually pressing rewind today. and we're going John chapter 1. We're going to go verse 1 all the way through 18, and I'll

explain that here in a few minutes. Now, I don't know about you. I kind of miss going to the movies.

We don't go to the movies like we used to, and I grew up going to the movies all the time.

It's one of my favorite things to do. I love to show up, especially over at Lexington Green, which every time I drive past there, I get sad because the movie theater's not there anymore. And I would love to wait in line for my tickets. And then I would love to go inside and play a little Gallagow while I was waiting for my friends to show up. And then I love to get in the concession line and go get my personal favorite twizzlers. There's not a earthgrown ingredient in those things. That's all just a chemistry experiment, but I love those things. And then that moment where you walk into the theater and your shoes go across that sticky floor and you find the seats that you want to sit in and you settle into those seats. And then there's that moment where the lights come down a little bit, but not all the way. And then the previews roll. That's an exciting moment, but then there's really the big moment when the lights come down all the way and the movie that you came to see, the one that maybe you saw in a preview and you thought, man, I wish I was seeing that movie, not the one that I'm here today to see. And you've been so excited to see it. It begins. In some movies, they have an epic, what's called a prologue.

Now, the probably most epic prologue of all time,

some of you were old enough to see in the theaters in 1977 when Star Wars came out.

And you remember that moment where you sat down and then suddenly these words appeared on the screen a long time

ago in a galaxy far, far away, and then boom, the music hit, and then the rest of the prolog

began to crawl up the screen as that music played, and you were just hooked from the beginning.

That's what a really good prologue does. It does a couple things.

It gives you context for the backstory, and it prepares your heart and mind for the epic

nature of what you're about to experience.

You didn't realize this, but what we've been doing so far this year is just showing you

previews.

We've been giving you movie trailers of the epic nature of who Jesus is and what he's done. And today we're actually

going to settle into our seats and we're going to take in the power of this prologue found in

the first chapter of John. And that's going to prepare us for the rest of the film that we're

going to see as we lead up and go through the film that we're going to see as we

lead up and go through Easter. So we're going to do something a little bit different today. I'm going to ask you all to stand. Go ahead and stand, all right, get limber. Don't pull a hamstring while you do this. All right, I know you're settled in. All right. And I believe that this prologue was meant to be seen and heard and received all at once.

And so that's what we're going to do together as I read the Word of God.

I got my readers here. this prologue was meant to be seen and heard and received all at once. And so that's what we're

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