Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

All right, so we are in a series called Simplify. And if you think about it,

Simplify comes from the word simple. Now, if I ask you to describe your life,

many of you would not use the word simple. As a matter of fact, you would use the

Antonyum of the word, which is complicated or busy or hectic. And that's the way it is.

I, though, am a simple person. God allows me to take complicated theological issues to make

them simple. And you think I do this great job teaching, but the reason I do it is because

I can't understand it unless I make it simple. So I have to make it simple for me. You know,

the number one comment I hear when I'm out and I get to meet people is they will say to me,

our children like to listen to you. What's because we're on the same level.

So I'm just a simple guy. I can only do one thing at once. My wife knows that. If I'm,

you know, doing something, I can just do one thing. I literally a few months ago when my daughter

Elaine was here, we were going over her message. And she, her phone went off. She picked it up.

And she was talking. She said, and then I'm going to go to Matthew.

And then I'm going to be talking. When I'm in Matthew, I'm going to be talking. I don't know

if they have a, a, a, a thumb teaching class to be able to text that fast, unbelievable. And she

tell me she's Matthew and she put her phone right down low. And then I'll be over and Luke

and on to and phone went off. And so she did this again. I said, well, what did you just do?

She said, well, I had one text that were there wondering how many communion cups to order

for this weekend. And then I had another text about, you know, we need to order some more

baptismal robes. And I told them how many do that. She can do like 107 things at once.

I can't do that. When I was growing up, it was just, it was just one thing at once. I mean,

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