Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from,

we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Okay. We have been in a series called O the Humanity,

and we have talked about the humanity of Jesus.

We've talked about the humanity of the community around us.

We've talked about the humanity of marriage,

and how that relates to our marriage to Christ as the bride of Christ.

This week, we're going to talk about the humanity of church, all right?

So we'll be talking about church, and that's always a fun topic.

And we're going to enjoy it. We're going to have a lot of fun with it.

And so I grew up, you know, obviously my dad being a pastor,

I grew up in church more often than I was not in church.

I was in church all the time.

We did church on Sunday mornings, and we had quite long services.

My mom would have to pack a snack for me and my brother,

and we had to be fed constantly, or else we couldn't make it through church,

and so they would pack a little snack for us.

And by the time the service was over, we had so much energy

that we had this game where we'd chase each other,

just sprinting through the aisles of the church,

until one of us would like catch a leg of a chair

and just wipe out completely, take out like two rows of chairs.

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