Hey, man, and amen, amen.

Hey, if you got your Bibles,

and I hope you do, we're gonna be in First Timothy,

you can turn there, or if you brought your journal,

how many of you brought your journal with you?

Lips it up high and proud, look at you.

Oh, you're varsity, way to go.

If you don't have one yet, you can get one out

on the lobby on your way out or whatever, but you need this. This is a place for you to take

notes for the entire year, okay? Now, taking notes in your journal will not get you into heaven,

but I think you'll get first in line to eat when we get there. I'm pretty sure that's what that

means. The reason that we do this, man, is because we're not in the entertainment business and we're

not in the crowd business. We're in the disciple making business. And we want to make disciples to make disciples to make disciples. And so I'm not just up here to entertain you or inspire you.

I'm here to try to teach the Word of God to us. And so I would love for you to grab this

thing and write things down and underline things because it'll leak out by Tuesday.

And then you can look back over this during the week to see what God is telling you.

We're in, we're in chapter one of 1 Timothy. We've called it a field God for the family of God.

And a part of the reason we're doing this is because we're looking at what Paul was doing.

It's very similar to the video that we just showed. The Apostle Paul, he meets this kid named Timothy in Leicester

while he's 15 years old, leads him to Christ, and he starts taking him on mission trips

and just kind of brings him under his wing, and he just is making a disciple out of young

Timothy. And he begins to see things in Timothy that Timothy didn't see in Timothy. Timothy's got a bunch of stuff going against him, man.

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