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One Who's glad to be in church today? Anybody, anybody? Me too. I know. I don't think I'll ever take it for granted again, you know, just the privilege of meeting together.

And so big hello to all of you. Thank you for joining. And for those of you who are still worshiping at home, we're so glad you're along for the ride as well.

Don't forget to download the children's curriculum and the children's, just resources that we have for you so you can

have children's church in your home as well. I want to say hello to the campuses. I want to say

hello to the men and women in the Alabama Department of Corrections. We wish we could be with you

in person. Hopefully it won't be too long and we'll be able to be back with you guys. We're so glad you're along for the ride today as well.

Come on, Grantsbill, put your hands together and say hello to your church family.

God bless you guys.

All right.

So I think most of you know that we decided to take the month of August, the five Sundays of the month of August,

and give you what we call standalone messages, meaning they're

not in a series, just different messages that we really felt like we all needed right now in

this time.

And my installments of these just very passionate, things that I think are very, very important

for the season that we're living in, today's no different.

But I want to let you know that next Sunday we're going to have yet another stand-alone day where we just give you what we call Vision Sunday.

And I've got some announcements to make that I'm going to hold off until next week that you

won't want to miss. But it's going to be a Vision Sunday like no other. Just trust me. It's

going to be one of the best that we've ever brought to you. And then in two Sundays, we're going to start a brand new nine-week book study through the book of James. And, you know,

the very first verse of the book of James says, James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

the 12 tribes scattered among the nations. The book was actually written to a church that wasn't able to gather.

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