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Coming up today, we conclude our message we're calling, I want to believe, but tackling

many of the questions that make it so difficult for us to believe in the God we cannot see.

And today, we'll be asking the question, why does God let so many bad things happen

in the world if He truly loves us? It's a great question to ask and one will tackle

today as we join our Senior Pastor, Craig Rochelle.

Well, I'm really excited to have all of you with us today at all of our Life Churches,

our open network churches, our family all over the world at church online. We're

in the final part of a four-part message series called I Want to Believe, but if you're

just joining us, what we've been talking about is the really big issue that there are

so many people today that want to believe in God, but there's some type of a hurdle,

some type of an obstacle. Now, if you've been at Life Church for any amount of time, you

know, I love to have a good time and I love to really even tell a lot of fun stories,

but I want to tell you today, I may be just a little bit more serious because this to

me is one of the biggest and most important issues and for so many people, it's the biggest

hurdle that keeps them from fully believing in God. If you've been with us in previous

weeks, what I've talked about is a reality that so many people are rejecting God, but

I've made the argument they're not rejecting the true God, but they're rejecting a distorted

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