Well howdy, Pastor Mark Driscoll here, thank you for letting me help you learn God's word.

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word. You've got a Bible, go to 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verses 1 through 11.

And over the course of the next couple of weeks,

I want to talk to you about something called Team Trinity.

And some of you would ask, what does the church believe?

How is it organized? What are the common ways that I can

get connected and I'll start with an illustration and analogy actually if you guys will bring

up the the photo I know it's kind of hard to figure out what this is but actually right in the middle of this building

Right under the center of that dome as we ripped up the old carpet we found that there was actually an original hole that was drilled and a steak was driven into that hole and that is literally

the physical center of our church building and everything was measured out in

circumference from that center so everything radiates out from that center,

everything is in relation to that center, and that really was the beginning point

for the construction of this entire church building.

Well, what is true physically is also true spiritually, that our church has a center.

It's the place today that will drive our proverbial stake and everything will relate to

this center and that is going to be the love of God as revealed in the

gospel of Jesus Christ and I'll jump into it in a moment but in 1st

Corinthians 15 Paul says that some things are of first importance.

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