Turn with me in your Bible today to Deuteronomy Chapter 6. I'm going to share for a few minutes on a message about what every child needs to succeed.

And so if you're here today and if you don't have children at home, how many of you are celebrating and having a good time being empty nesters?

Anybody here just really excited about that time?

Usually a lot of shouting and revival hit at 9 o'clock when I asked that question today.

People went nuts.

You know, it is a good time.

It's a great time.

It's a great time.

Then it's a sad time.

Then it's a sad time.

Then it's a great time. You get over it though.

It becomes more great than sad as you go along.

Maybe you're single though, or maybe you're a young couple and you haven't

had children and so don't tune me out. And here's the reason I don't want you to tune me out. Number

one because I'm speaking and number two because I think it's for the whole church.

You know that one of the reasons why the Jewish people have overcome years and thousands of

years of holocaust and brutality and really oppression.

The reason that they have been able to perpetuate their faith,

the reason that they keep surviving is because they understand the idea of mom's dads, aunts grand-mas granddads rallying around the next generation

they understand about generational transfer it's something that I personally believe that our church will do well at. I believe you're going to catch a vision today for something that our elders, our pastors, our leaders have a heart far.

And that is to see Gateway have a generational transfer of God's vision

and that happens only when we rally around the children that God's put in our lives.

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