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And all of our churches, raise your hands if relationally right now you're experiencing any tension, any complicated conversations or have any

friends going crazy on social media. Raise your hand, raise your hand

online. You can type in I'm there I'm there if your hands not up in the

air right now I want to have lunch with you because everybody else is driving me

crazy it's like it's really really complicated in our culture today and I don't know about all of you but it seems like it's more difficult to faithfully follow Jesus and to stay close to Jesus in a culture that's constantly pulling us away.

When you think about it and just look at the messages we hear over and over again from our culture,

how do you honor marriage in a world that devalues marriage?

How do you live with sexual integrity in a world filled with sexual darkness?

How do you raise your kids to love and follow Jesus when their friends don't see any need

for Jesus?

How do you love your neighbor when they don't see any need for Jesus. How do you love your neighbor when they don't mow their grass?

Right?

And I've actually got a whole story behind that.

And I just need to say, years ago, we had an extra neighbor with cute kids and one of the kids came over to my house and said my dad says you have the ugliest yard in the whole neighborhood.

And I said you need to tell you you're in the yard in the whole neighborhood.

And I said, you need to tell your dad,

he needs to spend more time with his kids,

and less time in the yard.

True story.

You look at culture today, and it seems like more and more people are becoming increasingly

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