Hello everyone I want to welcome you to Mosaic. I want to thank you for joining us for church today. Wherever you are,

whether you're in Indonesia, whether you're in New Zealand, whether you're in Dallas,

what I love about mosaic is that we are a tribe of people all over the world

moving forward together because we know that we can do far more together than we ever could alone.

If we haven't met yet, my name is Joe Smith and I've one of our

pastors here at Mosaic and in these last couple weeks we've been journeying

through the scriptures together and having conversations that I feel like is so

important for what we're going through in the world right now and I really believe that today

for a lot of us can be exactly the conversation that God has been trying to have with us that if we will be open

to what he has to say, it can change everything in our lives.

See, I've just been wrestling recently with this idea of what it looks like to be chosen by God.

When you think about that, even verbiage of that there's a God who would choose us to be in relationship with, there's a God who would choose us to be in relationship with.

There's a God who would choose us to do things bigger than ourselves.

That there's this choosing that happens

when we are in relationship to God that is maybe one of the most important choices you can ever make in your life.

And for me a lot of this conversation is wrapped around sports and I grew up playing sports and there were seasons in my life where I was really good and there were seasons in my life where I was not very good.

But what is common in all of it is that when you play sports,

you just desperately want to be chosen.

You want to be seen.

You want to be on that team that you know is going to win,

and it doesn't always work out that way and I remember even recently we were playing

flag football as a group of friends and it came that time where the captains were choosing teams and they started picking players and they picked one person and then another and another and all these people are getting chosen and I'm just thinking like I don't think I have an injury. I don't know why I'm not being picked and everyone's being chosen and then finally they get to me a little bit later than I would have thought and my my first thought was even like, I can't even get like a pastor, like sympathy vote.

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