Welcome to another inspiring message from Bethel Church in Redding, California.

Our mission is revival, the expansion of God's kingdom through his manifest presence,

bringing hope and transformation to the world.

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message by Bill Johnson. For more resources, visit bethel.on online or shop dot bethel.com

first service this first service this morning when they played that I thought

man I wish that just continued I'd just take a seat and just spend the rest of the time

just enjoying that was this good man well morning. It's nice to see you.

This is officially the third week, but actually the fourth week of talking to you about the unique

Bethel mandate vision assignment that we have. And probably, I don't know, 95% of the time when we have our services and we gather

together week after week, I would imagine at least 95% of the time we talk about what

will help the body of Christ at large, the city, the nation, and we rarely, rarely

focus just on Bethel.

But for the last few weeks, this is Bethel, and if you're a guest, you're sitting down

at our Thanksgiving dinner.

And I hope you enjoy the turkey and the gravy, and hopefully it'll be to your expectations but honestly this is just a

conversation that we we don't do very often but we're doing it today just to talk about the

really what the Lord has required of us Bethel is is important as is every other church in

Reading and Reading is one of those cities that just has so many really is important as is every other church in Reading.

And Reading is one of those cities that just has so many really, really good churches.

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