Welcome to deepen with Pastor Jobi Martin.

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All right, happy new year, gentlemen.

My man.

Welcome to 2025. Boy, it's going to be a great year. I can feel it. Let's do it. Pastor Joby, we are Envision Weekend. Let's go. And I would love for you to just talk for a little bit about, I mean, maybe not the events and stuff like that, but be a godly man. I have the journal the entire year in a journal.

Let's talk a little bit about what we're getting ready to go into here this year.

So part of the reason we do Vision Weekend, the first weekend of every year, is, man, I've been on church staffs a lot and learned so many things from so many great churches. But one of the things

that I found a bit wanting is I never like really knew what we were doing other than just

redoing what we did last week. It was a little little different vision. Oh, I don't know.

Anyway, I just always thought it would be a really good idea to paint the target on the wall

at the beginning of each year.

Yep.

As opposed to kind of flinging the arrow and trying to draw the target around it.

And so just through a lot of prayer and where I know we're going in 26, 7, and 8, this is a preparation year very similar to when we did the year of Deepen and studied the book of Romans.

And so the calling men to Stan Vermin and act like men is to really position ourselves as a church to be ready for where we're going in 26, 27, and 28.

Because if our men don't do what they're supposed to do, our church won't be able to go where I think God is leading us in the future with the next initiative that we're putting together.

So that's the impetus behind it. And so the reason that we're going to study Timothy and Titus up to Easter is because essentially what Paul is doing with these young men is he's helping instruct them on what it means for them to take

their next steps of discipleship as they play the role God's called them to play.

You mentioned a little bit of this. Do you have anything else to say about how somebody who's

not a man would hear that? And, like, remember when we did the Song of Solomon series,

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