Hey, hey, welcome to the church home podcast with Judah Smith.

My amazing husband.

My name is Chelsea, and he is about to give you an incredible message.

And I know we are going to hear about Jesus and his love for you.

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you exactly where you are. Enjoy the message. I want to talk about rest. And one of the reasons I talk so

much about rest is, I think the primary reason for which we exist is this expression called worship.

I think that's the number one reason you exist. Now, whether or not you acknowledge that or

you're down for that or you're into that or whatever, that's totally cool and totally fine. And,

you know, I'm sure we could go debate the subject. But I am persuaded that the primary reason for which

you exist is to worship God. Now, oftentimes in these settings, when a preacher like me says

worship, you think, you know, what band will lead us? You know, what style will we do? Will we sing my

latest favorite from Mavcity? I don't know, right? But worship actually isn't music. It can be. That's one of its forms.

But worship is this life that looks like Jesus so that people think about Jesus when they meet you.

That's like the ultimate act of worship. I voiced a member to a friend two days ago and I said,

we played golf together and I just said,

you just remind me of Jesus. You make me feel special. You make me feel like I can fly. You

encourage me for four and a half hours. I don't know what else to say, but thank you, I love you,

and you remind me a lot of Jesus. The Bible calls that good worship because by associating with someone,

I got my mind on God because they're so gregarious and so kind and so generous and so

considerate and they listen and they care. It makes you think like, wow, there is goodness

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