Hi, it's Louis Gaglio, coming to you from Atlanta, Georgia, and I just wanted to say welcome to the Passion City Church message podcast.

It's just awesome just to be able to say hello to everyone personally

and to say how honored and how humbled we are that you are on this Passion City Church journey with us.

And I also just wanted to let you know that as a church, as the people of Passion City Church,

we're taking a bit of a Sabbath break together. It's the end of the summer for us.

We've had an amazing year. We've enlarged the place of our tent. We stretched our curtain wide.

We linked into our cords and strengthened our stakes. And God has just responded.

And the wind of the Spirit has blown. And more has happened. And we really probably could have dreamed or thought

in the first few months of this year. And so we just are coming to a place where

individually and collectively as Passion City Church, we're just going to pause.

And in that moment of Sabbath, we are going to rest ceasing from our labors.

And we're going to remember, we're going to look back and be grateful for the faithfulness of God to every generation,

but specifically in our lives and to us as a church in Atlanta, Georgia. And we're going to just cease.

So for a few weeks, we won't be meeting as Passion City Church. People will be spending time with their families,

doing the things that refuel their hearts. And then we'll be coming back together and heading into the fall

where we have some massive things that we're trusting God for at the end of this year.

That sounds interesting to you. You can read a little bit more about why we took a Sabbath break as a church together.

You can go to Passion City Church.com. Just check out our blog, the entry that's posted this week.

We'll tell you a little bit more of the heartbeat behind the Sabbath break.

But I know a lot of you are checking the podcast week by week and you're doing that from places across America

and literally around the world. So for the next few weeks, we hope that you'll join with us as we replay a series of messages that we did called us.

And these three talks really just capture the vision and the DNA of Passion City Church, the way that we want to be positioned and poised

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