John, Chapter 20. Okay, here's what we're going to talk about tonight. We're going to talk about

passion. And here's what I want us to kind of get our head around, our mind around, our thoughts around,

and that is have you ever lost your passion?

Have your passion for God ever lessened?

Maybe you're sitting here right now,

or maybe at any of our locations in Seattle watching this right now.

And if you are honest with yourself,

your passion for God is not what it once was.

What has happened to your passion?

I want to submit to you through a collection of scriptures.

One of the primary reasons I believe that our passion for God, our passion for who he is and

the life he's called us to and what he has done for us, why it weighs, why it

lessons, why it feels like it's not there. Maybe you've lost your passion, you've lost your zeal, you've lost your love, you've lost, and maybe you're here,

maybe nobody really knows this, but you're hanging by a thread, you're hanging on barely,

you're wondering, is this actually real, is this legitimate? Should I keep

actually pursuing faith? Should I keep pursuing God? Is this something that really resonates or matters to me.

I'd like to talk to us of why I think our passion lessons

when it comes to God.

Now, I want to say this.

I'm speaking from personal experience tonight tonight I know exactly what it's like

for your passion to wane in fact I'll take it a step further I know what it's like to

preach sermons when you don't have much passion for God. Try that on for size. That sucks. But I've been there.

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