Well, last week, we celebrated the midpoint of our deeper, wider generosity initiative,

and all that's already happened, which is remarkable. If you weren't here, you're going to want to

check that out. It's so inspiring to see how much wider the impact because of our collective

deeper investment. I want to welcome also all of our Atlanta area churches, as well as our partners,

joining us across the city, across the nation nation around the world. It's awesome to be connected

today. And one of the things we talked about last week involves you, especially if you're not

in the Atlanta area because of the generosity of people in our churches here. We're witnessing

some extraordinary things happening in our network of churches and in our

organization that we call an inflection point. It's sort of this thing that you look back on,

you realize, you know, we're here a year later going, wow, we didn't expect that to happen.

We had some expectations, but we didn't expect that to happen. And what an inflection point,

as we talked about

last week, it's when a change in direction occurs, it looks like this. If you're thinking

mathematics or economics, it kind of looks like this. And if you're a business owner,

you've seen things like this, you've seen charts like this. And here's one of the things

that you know is, is this happens because of a moment, because of an event,

or because of something that shifts direction. It's a tipping point. It's a watershed moment.

There's lots of different ways to describe this, but it can also represent positive or

negative change. It could be a positive or negative shift. It could be that

if the point was back here, that something happened that slowed this growth and then you begin

a downward trend. And some of you've experienced that. You experienced that in business or you've

experienced that personally. But there's also this point where you experience something and right away you don't

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