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Well, as we kick off 2023, I want to talk to you for a minute about context, where you live.

We may all come from different places, but for the moment, we share the same context.

We're all in the DMV right now. Somewhere between five and a half, six million people,

depending on how you count it. Some people even count West Virginia. That seems a little

extended, but that would put us in the top 10 of most populous metropolitan areas in the United

States. That's where you are. And whether you live here or not, we are all currently inside

of the District of Columbia, home of roughly 690,000 people, and according to the DMV,

the other DMV, the Department of Motor Vehicles, they issued 1.5 million parking tickets in 2019

alone, pulling in a revenue of $122 million, which feels like a good time to mention,

we do have free parking available here at Passion City Church. I hope you took advantage of it,

if not, look on our website for next week. But this is big enough and diverse enough for town

that even though we're all in the same space, and it's not even that big as space, 61 square miles,

you can have very different experiences here. You can live to your whole life and go to different

neighborhoods and feel really out of place here. So what happens is even though we're all sharing

the same context, we begin to focus on our own little context, little realms of existence,

little settings where our stories play out. And I just want you as we begin the year to take a

moment now and think about your context. The word context means width and it comes from the word

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