You could be seated.

If you're a guest to 2819, we want to welcome you to our gathering.

And if you're one of our digital disciples watching me live right now in cities across the country and around the world,

we welcome you to 2819 to all of our families sitting in that overflow.

Just thank you for being in the building.

The Spirit of God is not handcuffed to this room.

The Spirit of God is all over this facility.

So I don't want you to feel like you're lacking anything sitting in that other room.

The Spirit of God is in that room.

And so I just thank all of you for being here.

You have perfect attendance for 2025.

Now, this morning, I just, look, hear my heart. It is one of my deep burdens that we would be formed into an

Acts 2 church. I am too old to be playing church and trying to do church and not be the church.

The Lord didn't call us to do or play.

He called us to be a church.

I'm too old for that foolishness.

And one of my prayers is that we will be formed into an Acts 2 church.

It's the whole foundation of this ministry and that we will be serious about the spread

of the gospel and the multiplying of disciples,

Matthew 2819, where our name came from.

I want us to be a people deeply devoted to the scriptures and not just the opinions of men.

I want us to be a people deeply devoted to prayer.

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