The series we're in is called you in five years and we're just asking the simple question,

who will we be five years from now if we continue our present course?

And who do we want to be five years from now?

Those are the two questions. Where is our right now momentum taking us and do

we like that destination because now's the time to get off the train if we don't

like where it's going? Who will you be in 2023?

And who do you want to be by the time

the next half decade is over? And we're giving some thoughts to that now instead of the usual New Year's resolution, 12 months.

That's not enough time to do what we want to do.

We're asking, what do I want to accomplish 60 months from now?

That 12 months will be only unfinished.

I'll only be partially there.

We're picking something bigger.

We're going a little bit deeper.

The title of this message, if you like to scribble stuff down

while I talk to you, is in the absence of a crisis,

in the absence of a crisis.

In 1st Kings 19, we find one of three passages

we're gonna consider together, and it's about the man,

Alisha, who would eventually become a prophet

because Elijah, who was the prophet,

he was the mightiest of the miracle working prophets, no big deal,

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