Thank you for being a fresh life for the final week of the Compass Rose series, the Compass Rose offering weekend.

It's here.

Thank you for being here and we welcome everybody joining in, however you're

for being here.

It's an exciting weekend.

And if you're new to the journey of Fresh Life

or you haven't been a part of it for long enough

to be here at a year end, you know,

you could have been here for 10 months,

10 months but not ever been here to see how we end the year. This is really how we as

a church express our gratitude to God for Christmas time.

There's a lot of ways that we celebrate Christmas

as a culture that are right and appropriate.

You're gonna put lights on a tree

and give gifts to a friend and drink fatty eggnog.

It's all good and we're like happy birthday Jesus, you know?

It's like, but this is as a church how God put the conviction on our hearts

to honor Jesus for coming to this world.

And really it's only appropriate because

any other birthday we celebrate by giving a gift not just to everybody in our life,

but we give a gift to the one whose birth we're celebrating.

And so we figure if it's Jesus's birthday

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