Go ahead and turn your Bibles to John chapter 15. That's where we're going to be this evening.

And I want to just share something that it's maybe less of like a talk or a sermon and more of like,

I just want to share what's on my heart. And we're going to be in John 15 and kind of go from there.

Over the past week as I have been thinking about coming here and speaking of just been asking the Lord,

like, what do you want to share with Bridgetown? You know, with this church, what do you want to do?

And what do you specifically want to speak to? God, I'll just say whatever you want me to say.

And I had this phrase just kind of running through my head over the past week and it was this.

Alex, what does a heart, what does the heart of a disciple look like?

What does the heart of a disciple look like? You can look on the outside of somebody and you might see them going to church or in their Bible,

helping the poor, giving their money. And you might be like, oh, that's a disciple, but what does the heart look like?

What's the heart behind all of the disciplines? What's the heart behind all of discipleship?

And he's just been showing me this through John 15. But I think that this is important because how many of you guys have ever had friends who walked away from the church because of the church?

Right? So this is kind of funny, but so I'm a part-time bartender.

I work at archer's that we planted, but I also work at this brewery. And so I'm like, pastor by day, bartender by night.

Maybe a little bit romantic, I don't know. But anyway, this regular came into the brewery the other day and nobody knows who I am.

It's amazing. I'm like incognito and people tell bartenders things that they should tell pastors, but they won't tell pastors. So I'm like, I got you.

And so this gentleman comes in and we start talking about morality. We start talking about right and wrong and all this stuff.

I get a very quickly, I learned that this gentleman has a very different understanding of what I would call virtue and all of that. It's totally great. It's actually why I enjoy the job.

So we're starting having this conversation. He says, nothing is really wrong except for murder. Murder is wrong. I'm like, oh, I can get on board with that.

Murder is pretty bad. And he said, except one other thing. I'm thinking, well, I can think of more than a few things that are wrong aside from murder. But, okay, what is it? And he says, Christians.

Christians are what is wrong with this world. And he said, and he starts to list out all the reasons why he's upset with Christians.

And all the things that Christians have done down through history and all of this. And I have to be honest, I just agreed with everything.

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