As I went down in the river to pray,

studying about that good old way,

and who shall wear the starry crowned good Lord,

show me the way.

Oh, sinners, let's go down, let's go down.

Don't you want to come down?

Oh, sinners, let's go down, down in the river to a day.

Porch, we really believe those words that we're singing.

Like we genuinely believe that there's no place better to be than to be near God.

And so what we're doing tonight is we're flipping the script.

We're taking the entire service of while we normally run things,

and we are turning it on its head,

because as we've been journeying through the series that we've been doing here,

a series called Revive, which I'll tell you a little bit more about,

in a minute, what we know is that often, if we want more of God,

exactly what John Mark just said,

he wants more of us in return. And so we want to clear space on the

back end of tonight to worship him together, to respond rightly and really to the God that we longed to be

near to. And so I'm going to pray for us. And then we're going to go right into the Word. And we're going to go and teach this evening, and then we're going to let the truth of God's Scripture, not my ideas, not my thoughts, but the truth of His Word lead us to a place where we respond appropriately.

So let me pray for us real quick.

God, we love you.

And it's crazy to even say that.

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