Well, why don't we go ahead and get started. We're continuing our lessons on the

doctrine of Providence, and when I was here last time, which is in that other room, we took

up the Providence of God in the affairs of nations.

And I explained that the sequence we're following is from the least personal to the most personal.

And moving, as we get to nations, we're getting very close to persons because to rule nations and govern nations, God governs hearts, hearts of kings, and we'll see that even more tonight. And then we'll move ahead to God's providence over individuals and individual choices and individual salvation.

So it kind of becomes more controversial because people take more offense at the rule of God over their own soul than they do over wind.

But the same God who rules the wind rules the heart, I believe,

and we'll try to get to that. But, you know, we won't get to that until January because

there's one more VITC in December, and it's next week. And I think what I want to do next week is make invite the whole

church on Sunday to a kind of listening post feedback time concerning the mission statement that

I've been preaching on I've been looking for when can we do something like this and all

of our Sunday nights are taken

and so I think what I'm going to do and you can decide whether you want to come or not on

the base of this I hope you will is next Wednesday night take this whole time to let people

ask questions and make comments about what they're hearing and what they're reading in the

mission statement and as I try to unfold it in the pulpit I about what they're hearing and what they're reading in the mission statement

and as I try to unfold it in the pulpit.

I just think there needs to be some give and take instead of just one way communication with regard to the mission statement.

There is a lot of give and take going on informally, and especially in these 17 committees,

but that's my plan anyway.

So we will not do the Providence of God again until third week of January, because Prayer Week

is week number one, and we'll have a special speaker during prayer week, and then the next

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