I am profoundly thankful that all over the world

there are thousands of people coming to faith in Christ.

And we celebrate that, but at the same time,

it's also important to notice that there are some Christians

that are deciding to not be Christians anymore.

While there are so many people that are converting to Christ,

there are some that we could say are de-converting away from Christ.

And I'm not trying to make a theological statement of whether they say,

whether or not they say what I'm saying is there are people that,

unfortunately, today for any number of reasons are saying,

I'm choosing not to follow Jesus.

And as a pastor and as a dad and as a person who loves so many people,

this hits really, really close to home.

And I'll try to explain without being too emotional,

but we have six kids and people say you must love kids,

and I say, I do, but I love their mama.

And we have six kids, if you know what I'm saying.

And we were home educating our kids back before you had to do it.

You know what I'm saying?

Everybody had to.

We did it back when it was weird.

We did it back in the old days when you had to make your own butter,

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