Well, welcome to day to all of our live churches and all of our network churches.

Those of you at all of our campuses at Switch, we love you guys as well.

And of course, those of you joining us from countries all over the world at Church Online.

Today, I want to do something that's really, really different, but I believe it's going

to be very, very powerful.

What I want to do is read a verse, a few verses, and I want to talk to you about spiritual

growth that I'm going to introduce to you two friends of mine that I believe can help

bring insight into spiritual growth that will help you grow closer to Christ and not

only help you grow, but help empower you to help others grow spiritually.

So I'm going to start with Colossians 1, 9 and 10, and then I'm going to introduce

our special guests.

This is what Paul told those in Colossia.

He said, so we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you.

We ask God to give you, I love this complete knowledge of His will.

I want you to know His will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding.

We're praying that you will know His will and that you will have spiritual wisdom and

understanding.

Then the way you live, everybody say way you live, the way you live will always honor and

please the Lord.

Wouldn't it be amazing if the way we lived always honored and pleased the Lord?

And your lives will produce every kind of good fruit.

And he closes out this way and says, all the while you will grow, everybody say grow,

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