Open your Bibles to John Chapter 15,

open to John 15, and then put a marker at Genesis 18,

all right?

So open to John 15, that's where we'll begin, and then just put a marker at Genesis 18.

And I really want you to be able to do that because we want to read this Genesis 18 passage. It's just a really good passage to read and while you're turning

Let me just remind you I told you about two books last week that I'm reading right now, Dallas Willard, hearing God, and Bill Heibels the power of a whisper.

And we ran out of books last week, but we have them now.

So we have them at all the campuses, so no matter which campus you're attending,

we have these books.

So if you want to get one today or two, you can them and and by the way if you if you can

afford something and you're and it's serious that you can't afford it

Pastor John Spurling will buy it for you so just just go in and say pastor John wants to buy this for me and put

this on his account and he'll take care of that all right here's what

pastor jack said last week to these pastors, 30 mega church pastors and he used me as an example and I'm sure it could be said of many pastors around the country.

But he said there are a lot of pastors that see what God's done at Gateway and they come to a conference here and they want to know how Gateway Church has done what it's done in 10 years. I don't know how that there's not only a large church but a healthy church.

Spiritually healthy people give, you know, when you give, when you tied, when you, and we've never passed the plate,

when you put it in the offering box or you go online, it means you're serious about the kingdom of

God.

And there's such a giving, serving heart here, a humble heart.

So he said a lot of people want to know how has Pastor Robert and Gateway Church done what they've done here.

And he said, the problem is they're asking the wrong question. They need to

ask why. Why do they do the things that they do here? Why? What motivates them to do those things?

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