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Hey, welcome all of our churches. Those of you who are watching from all over the country,

all over the world, we're so thrilled that you're with us. And it's so thrilling to

to think about this growing number of people, especially the United States,

who Christians who are understanding what it means to be a doer and not just a believer,

a follower, and not just a believer, and it's just so fun. And just to have the freedom to talk

about these things and to explore some, in some cases, some familiar passages, a scripture

with a little bit different twist, with a little bit different perspective.

If you've been at one of our churches or attend to one of our churches for any length of time,

you are familiar with these two phrases. Circles are better than rows, and life is better connected.

Hopefully you bumped into these. But even if you've never heard those before in one of our

church contexts, you already knew this. You knew this beginning in middle school,

and then you felt this in high school. You remember in high school, you're sitting in class

in rows, and then the bell rings, and you go looking for your circle, right? You go looking for

your people. That's just what we do. Because we just know intuitively that life is better connected.

This is what we gravitate toward. We gravitate toward relational connectedness. We gravitate

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