Hey everybody, John Mark Comer here. Welcome to the Teaching portion of Bridgetown Church online.

So much love to all of you. I miss you. I wish I could give you a bear hug right now or

at least smile at you from across the room. But due to the shutdown, that is not an option right now.

But we're so happy that you're here, that you're watching from your living room on your couch

or around your kitchen table. To start off, I know it's funky to meet in the digital ether.

And I think that the same rules still apply for digital distraction.

So I invite you just to put your phone away and give your full attention to God and to the moment to make sure you have a Bible at hand.

And if you want a notepad and a pen nearby to write down what you feel like the spirit is stirring up in your heart.

On that note, please turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter five.

The last day before the shutdown, I had a meeting on my calendar with Matt DeWolf. Matt, if you know him, is a legend around our church.

He's one of our leaders. He started our PDX Casino Knight, which is our annual fundraiser for every child in the foster care system in Portland and beyond.

And he's just a great hang. And so I was looking forward to our time together. And I show up at a heart coffee that was our meet-up spot.

And it had just closed down a few hours before, which was very sad.

But it was a beautiful Portland spring day. And so we just went on a walk. And I asked Matt, hey, how you're doing? How are you feeling with all the craziness?

And he's an upbeat guy said, I'm doing great. My job. Thank God it's not in jeopardy. And I'm actually excited to not travel for work for a while.

But then he said, I'm just a little scared of all the time alone. And then he said something really interesting.

He said, you introverts have been living in our extroverted world for your whole life.

And now it's our extroverted turn to living your world for a little while. And in all honesty, I'm scared.

A few days ago in an op-ed for The New York Times, Samantha Edmunds called 2020, The Year of the Introvert.

All the introverts here about shelter in place. And then read the description and thank, wait a minute, that's just my already my actual life.

And that's not to make light of a very serious situation. It's just to say we are now living in an introverted world.

That got me thinking about Susan Cain's book, Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World that can't stop talking.

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