Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

You know what?

Before y'all sit down, before you sit down, let me get you to turn in that direction

and grab those shoulders in front of you because your

guest is mediocre, but you're getting a massage in the house of God this morning. There we go. Gentlemen,

be careful if you're massaging a woman, do it in a real holy Leviticus kind of way. And would you just continue to greet the saints around you?

This is family.

This is the family of God.

It should be a safe place, not a country club.

Y'all can sit down.

For those of you, I haven't had the privilege of meeting yet.

I know we've got a lot of new families at Gateway.

I claimed y'all as family the first time I came to Gateway years ago.

I just fell hard and I fell fast.

And so thank you,

Pastor Daniel,

for saying that very gracious comment.

But I need to tell y'all what a gift it's been to get to walk as a cousin last year and a half.

The stories of redemption that I didn't deserve to walk up close to, but I got to hear the testimonies of what God was doing.

I think any time you have a church that stripped back to the studs and you're basically

standing in your bathing suit in the middle of Sears and Roadbook for everybody to see.

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