Amen. Amen. It never gets old, celebrating life change. Hey, welcome to the church 1122. If we haven't met yet, my name is Ryan Stone. I'm one of the pastors here. I have the opportunity to be the campus pastor at our Bay Meadows campus. And so it is a joy to be with all the campuses today. The saints at

Bay Meadows send their greetings. We love being a part of this big dysfunctional family that stretches

from the beach to Baker, Correctional, and we've even picked up a brand new island. Hey Fleming,

I'm not exactly sure technically how you're an island, but we still love you. And we're glad

that you are here. I'm going to get a bunch of emails on geography. I probably won't

read them, but Fleming, we're glad you're here. Hey, I am honored to be able to preach today.

Last week, we wrapped up a series called Bridges. And for seven weeks, we just looked over and over

again about this reality that

Jesus is the bridge to us, that he has bridged our religion, he's bridged our shame, he's bridged

our brokenness, he's bridged our sin, that Christ came for the purpose of bridging us into a

relationship with God.

And next week, we're going to start a series called one, Loving God with All.

We've been looking at Deuteronomy Six over the last year, and we're going to take it and go week by week through each one of the loving God with all your heart, loving God with all your soul, loving God with your mind.

Pastor Jovi is going to be back.

And over the next five weeks, you do not want to miss that series as we continue as a church

to wrestle with a question of, is God the one thing that drives all things?

And today, I have the task of bridging us from the series bridges to the series one.

And so what we're going to do is we're

going to look at 1 Peter chapter 2. Do me a favor. Go ahead and turn your Bibles there or scroll on

your screens. If you don't have a Bible that you understand or you just don't have a Bible,

there's a, at all of our campuses, we've, we've got Bible in front of you. We'd love. That's our gift to you. We're going to dig in to 1 Peter chapter 2 verses 1 through 9.

You guys ready to go?

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