Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona,

visit real faith.com, where you'll find study guides to go along with each sermon series as he preaches

verse by verse through books of the Bible, daily devotions, free ebooks and more.

Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

I will build my church.

That's what Jesus said and that's what Jesus has done.

Jesus Christ is alive and so are we. Amen. Happy 6th birthday Trinity Church.

We're so excited to see you. We're so glad to have you and we're going to celebrate all night everything God has done for six years in and through the wonderful people in our church family. I don't know if you're excited. I am for sure. Now usually when you come you get a very long sermon

tonight you're gonna get a sort of long sermon and usually I go through books of the

Bible we're gonna do things a little differently tonight.

I want to tell the testimony of God's faithfulness to and through our church family.

The difference between a biography and a testimony is really who the hero is.

In a biography, you're the hero of your story.

In a testimony, who's the hero?

Jesus is.

If you're new, I ask a question, say Jesus or Carnesada.

Those are the answers.

Because whatever your problems are, those are your solutions.

So Jesus is ultimately the one who is the hero of our life,

so he is the center of our

family,

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