Alliance family, please welcome Francis Chan.

Thank you. And it's a amazing opportunity to be with you guys. I've been teaching your youth, you of years at the Life Conference for the last, I don't know, 10, 12 years or so.

Loved it. And now I've got the honor of speaking to you.

I don't know if it's a demotion, if it's a, you know, it's just,

but when I heard about the leadership here,

I just, I love speaking to pastors. I love speaking to leaders because I

feel like I felt so many things that maybe you're currently feeling or have felt

and and especially right now. I just feel this new urgency that

we need to be strong, we need to be united, there's so many crazy things going in the world and we need the leaders

to just be immovable, to be stable, and we live in a time where I see so many leaders just fearful.

We're afraid. We're scared of making mistakes and there's just so much pressure on us.

So I've looked forward to this time and I have been praying for you.

I've been praying for your strength and for your courage and I just want to ask you on a scale of one to 10 if you saw that category

strength and courage what would you rate yourself right now? I'm just going no no I'm I'm strong I'm secure in the Lord I know who I am right now and I'm actually really courageous like I'm I'm ready to try something I'm ready to step out in faith I mean where are you on that scale?

I mean I'm only not only I'm 47 and I just think about life and I go gosh I don't know that life here in this country and when as it is you know

compared you know when when talking about Christianity I don't know that it's ever

been so bleak and yet I can honestly say I don't know that I've ever been this

confident in my faith. I look at where we're headed and I'm going gosh this doesn't look good and yet I go yet I don't fear

anything I'm so confident about the future and the future of the

church. And I and I yeah I hope that's the way you feel too. I mean I just sense the strengthening in the church and kind of a

blowing away of the chaff and go okay what's going to be left here and we're

going to get serious about this so I'm very excited about the future of the church.

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