Well, I really do hope you had a good week. I hope you're doing well. I wake up on Sundays in moments like this. And over and over again, I'm just amazed.

There's so many people are that hungry for the Word of God and that hungry to be together in worship, even last Sunday.

You know, it was the first Auburn home game, but it was Labor Day weekend. And so I'm showing up to church and I'm like, you know, like maybe some people will come.

And I've got a little bit of something that I feel like God's given me to say.

And like thousands of you showing up with hearts and minds open and available.

To the degree I was leaving last Sunday and amazed by two things.

Number one, I was just amazed that so many people

were passionately wanting to be in church on a holiday weekend. And number two, I was amazed by your

patience in the parking lot. I looked out and I was like, whoa, y'all still come here? And that

happens. Because I'm always in here for so long. By the time I leave, no one's out there. So I got to see if you park at the baseball fields what happens after our church services. I didn't know, guys. Sorry. But I was like, whoa, they're still waiting. Church has been over for 45 minutes. This is crazy. And I just want to start my sermon by telling. I know this isn't relevant

for you if you're in Birmingham or late Martin, but we need to talk about this because we have a lot of people here who are not from Auburn. You're here from out of town. Maybe you live here for a couple of years while you're in school and you didn't know this. So we need this information to get out there. This is crazy, y'all. It's miraculous. When you're leaving the baseball fields on airport road, you can turn left.

All the local people are like, oh, wow, he said it.

It's amazing.

I know, this is crazy.

But if everyone coming from the baseball field goes right on airport road right there,

we got this whole parking lot that's full that goes all the way around behind the building,

and everybody's trying to go to the same light. What's crazy about Auburn is that the roads

all kind of lead to each other. And so if you go left on airport road, you will end up

20 minutes ahead of the people who are waiting to go right because you'll end up on Dean Road

and for many of you you will end up closer to where you wanted to be than you originally intended

by going right and I just say that to go oh wow I can't believe our people still come to church here

and wait that long to leave and I can't believe how patient you are and also I can't believe how

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