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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Giglio.

So we're starting a new series called Imprint. The idea of this series is who is Passion City Church and what do we want to see God do through Passion City Church in the cities and in the world?

What kind of mark do we want to leave in the world? And the way we're going to do that over the next few weeks is talk about who we are as Passion City Church.

And part of the reason we're doing that is because there's so many new people coming in to our city and coming into our house.

And our all team meeting this past week, the question was asked, how many people on team at Passion, whether it's conference or label or publishing or church?

How many people on team were on team when we did Passion 2020?

And the response I got from people who have been around for a minute where it was breathtaking how many new people are on our team in the last year and a half.

But that's not just true of our team, it's true of life. There's been a global crisis and the global crisis, lots of things change, lots of people move, lots of people change careers, lots of transition in the world.

And we feel that at Passion City. So I'm meeting people all the time that are saying, hey, it's my first time in the building. We've been coming online but I've never been to the building before.

Or we just moved to Atlanta and we're just brand new at Passion City Church. In fact, there are people sitting in the room right now that I just met, well I knew them a little but just found out they've moved to Atlanta and they're a part of Passion City Church.

And I just met a few moments ago and so what I do when I meet somebody is I want to make a good impression but I also want people to know who I am.

And then I want to know who they are and then ultimately who they are and who you are determines whether or not you're going to be friends or not or how close you're going to be or whether you're going to hang or not.

And for a few weeks we want to talk about who we are as Passion City Church and then let God use that to change our hearts so that we can all leave an imprint behind that makes a difference 100 years from now on planet Earth.

You know your fingerprints are all over Atlanta right now everywhere you went today you left an imprint you didn't even think about it but you sat down and you left an imprint you touched the door and now the the germ of folks are freaking out but you touched the door you left an imprint you handed somebody something and on that something was a little imprint of your life but that's a tiny imprint over time our lives make major imprint of something.

And what we want to ask tonight is is this something that our lives are making a mark on the world is that mark a lasting mark and so Passion City Church we have some values and I want to talk about the first one of those tonight maybe the major one of those the leading value and it is this that Jesus is our lead story.

So if you're new to Passion City Church we need you to know that right away that we have a lead story we have a headline if you will in the headline of our house is a person named Jesus Christ he is our lead story I know that sounds like that should be the case because we're a church but if you come here any Sunday you're going to hear about Jesus you come to any gathering you're going to hear about Jesus any time of the year you're going to hear about Jesus any message this free chair no matter what you're going to hear about Jesus.

This is a free chair no matter what the series what the topic where in Scripture you're going to hear about Jesus because he is our lead story this is the way we say it in our culture document our us book but it's also online under our culture and standards Jesus is our lead story in fact let's just say that together Jesus is our lead story in fact Jesus is our only story.

He is preeminent in our hearts and central in all we do we believe Jesus is unrivaled in history and eternity he is God and he is good glorious both now and forever more his name is the only name that saves his power is the only power that can raise us from the dead.

Our goal is not just to get people to church ultimately we want people to meet Jesus that's why we say we are a Jesus church we really don't want to be identified by any other name Jesus is our lead story now you can clap for that there is a like a small applause but if you feel it you can clap for that Jesus is our lead story.

Why because Jesus has the name that is preeminent among all the names in time and in eternity that's what we see in Colossians one this is the core text for us it'll be familiar to a lot of you but I love this text and could could dwell in it every single day talking about Jesus Paul says this beginning in verse 15 and he's using pronouns but I'm going to use the actual name of Jesus.

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