I am so glad to have all of you with us at all of our life churches at all of our

network churches. We love partnering with you guys. Those of you who are joining us from countries

all over the world at church online. We're glad that you're here. I'm wondering at all of our

locations, there anybody maybe it's ready to get a little bit weird in the place. It's very,

very good. If you missed last week, let me kind of review. We're talking about weird because normal

isn't working. We looked last week at the teachings of Jesus where he showed us very clearly

there are two different roads. There is one road that is broad and that's where many people

travel. Unfortunately, that road leads to destruction and that's where the big crowds go.

There's another road Jesus said that's narrow and the good news is this road leads to life.

The bad news is only a few people have the courage to leave the broad road and enter the narrow

road. When you do leave the crowd, which is where normal people go, I used to find comfort in being

with the crowd. If everybody's going this way, it must be the right way to go. When you have the

courage though to leave the road that leads to destruction, get on the narrow road that leads to

life. The people on the broad road will say you're a little bit weird but we'll find comfort in

that because normal isn't working. If you're taking notes, kind of a key thought for the series

is if you want what normal people have, do what normal people do. If you want what few people

have, do what few people do. Could I get a little participation in all of our campuses when it comes

to finances? How many of you would agree that normal is broke, normal is paycheck to paycheck,

normal is debt and always struggling. How many would say that is normal? How many of you want

something better than normal financially? When it comes to relationships, I bet you would agree.

Normal is divorce as many marriages in my country end up divorced as those that stay together,

those that do stay together. Unfortunately, it's normal just to stay together for the sake of the

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