Good morning. How are you? This morning something funny happened to me. I went to through the drive

through at McDonald's. I had my daughter with me and coming for the first service and she wanted something.

Debbie and I'd already eat breakfast, but we went through the drive-thru and the fell at the

drive-thru was looking at me kind of odd and then he said to me, you're the mean guy at the church aren't you?

And so I said excuse me he said you're the mean guy at the church aren't you? And I so I repeated it because I thought surely I'm misunderstanding and I said I'm the mean guy at the church. He said no the mean guy at the church.

He said, no, the main guy at the church.

So I said, yeah, I'm the main guy at the church.

Actually, when I drove away I got to thinking, I'm really not the main guy.

You're the main guy. You know that, don't you? Because Gateway Church will never do

what we're going to do without you having a vital relationship with Jesus Christ.

Every one of you and I appreciate you being here today, very much.

I'm grateful that you come, I'm grateful that you read your Bible, that you bring your

Bible, that you want to go deeper with the Lord.

I'm very, very grateful.

I would like to ask you though to pray for me and my family.

This last spring a

going through some warfare now and uh... last spring a minister called me

and said you need to ask every person in church to do something

that uh... a pastor in Columbia did. And this pastor in Columbia

asks every person in his church when you pray and bless your meal to simply

bless his family. When you pray over your meal and say,

and say, Lord, we ask you to bless the food to simply say,

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