Amen, amen, amen.

If you got your Bibles, I hope you do, grab them.

We're gonna be in Galatians, chapter one.

We're studying this book for 14 weeks, and in my Bible it's only this big.

And for something, but I use the ELP version, you know what that is, extra large print.

So for many of you, it's only that big.

God bless your eyesight. And we are digging in to what the gospel offers to us,

what the gospel is and what it offers to us.

And one of the things I wanna say to you

based on that testimony is if you've ever been

beaten up battered and bruised by the church

or by any religious organization or people

in the name of God hurt you, then I wanna say,

welcome to the church of 1122.

We are a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ.

And if you got kicked out somewhere else, you're probably going to fit in real good here.

And I am so sorry, so sorry that somebody in the name of the Lord beat you up.

But listen, man, this is like the island of misfit toys of churches around here.

I mean, look around, look who you're seated next to. Can you believe it? And yet here we are.

But I want to say thank you for being here or thank you for watching online. And whatever you do,

please, please, please don't turn away from God because you had a negative experience with religious people.

Jesus had negative experiences with religious people.

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