So real quick on and welcome all of our Atlanta area churches on the north side and all of you down on the south side as well.

And the growing network of churches all around the country and all around the world is so much, it's so much fun to be a part of an expanding network of churches where it's not just a bunch of Christians.

It's a bunch of us that understand that doing is what makes the difference.

And so we want to be doers and not just hearers.

And it's just amazing what's happening all over the country and the difference. And so we want to be doers and not just hearers. And it's just amazing what's

happening all over the country and the world. And thank you for being a part of that. If you've

been around for any length of time, you know that Sandra and I have three kids. They're grown,

they're married, and they have kids of their own. And as some of you can relate to, it just

seemed to have happened so fast. Now, if you have little kids, it's happening so slow, okay? But it's, you know, Sanders says this all the time. The days are short, the days are long, the years are short, right? I get that right. Yeah, the days are long, but the years are short. So we're at the season where it's like, you know, what happened? You know, we look at the pictures of our kids. So now when I see families like with strollers and, you know, they're walking along with their toddlers or even their three and four year olds, you know, and the sons with the dad, anywhere I am, I've done this to some of you here in the building and it's not so weird in the building, but I've developed really an annoying habit, I think. Nobody's told me it's annoying yet, but I think it's an annoying habit, because wherever I am, I'm at Walmart or Home Depot or Lowe's and give everybody fair, or Coles and Costco and all those places that we all go, equal opportunity fender. Anyway, wherever I am, I have this habit, and I know it's kind of an old guy thing. I walk up to, I mean, I'm not creepy, but I'm like, I look at them and I say, I just say this. I say, you, I just look at them, say, you have so much to look forward to. Because I'm looking at, you know, I remember, you have so much to look forward to. And then I say, don't miss a thing because it goes so fast.

So I say, you have so much to look forward to, don't miss a thing. And then I follow them around,

you know, at a distance singing, don't blink, and you're going to miss this. And I don't want to miss a thing. That's like an Aerosmith song that has nothing to do with that, but I just like that song and it has the word missing. And then, you know, then they call security and they escort me out of the store. And they wave bye-bye. Okay, but the point is they do have so much to look forward to. But here's the point of these next few weeks. And this will be

easy for some of you to believe others. It's like, I don't think so. You have so much to look

forward to. And as strange as it may sound, because maybe we don't know each other, but I don't

want you to miss it. I don't want you specifically. I don't want you to miss out. I don't want you to miss out on

all the good life has for you. I don't want you to miss out on all the good potential you have in

you. I don't want you to miss out because you got distracted, because you got discouraged, or because

you got misled. And honestly, that burden is really what kept me in high

school ministry and middle school ministry for over 15 years. I loved talking to high school

students and middle school students and then college students. I would go to camps and stay at these

creepy spring break hotels. And after a couple summers of that, Sandra said, I think that's your thing.

You go stay in the creepy spring break hotel that smells, anyway, but it was worth it because to get

to stand up in front of hundreds and sometimes thousands of high school kids and say to them what

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