This is a very encouraging meeting to me, not only bad it exists, but that there's so many of you.

This is the number we used to get maybe more when all three campuses came together last year or the year before.

So this campassing focus feels significant to me,

and that there's an identity here, that you have your elders here,

have pastors here, and by pasture I mean, there's a campus pastor, so Dan is the campus pastor,

North, Kenny is the campus pastor downtown, and David Livingston is the campus pastor south.

And that role will become increasingly significant, increasingly senior pastorish with me is kind of the trumpet of the vision.

So, lean on Kenny for what you want to see happen at this campus.

And I'll show up whenever I'm asked.

Why my role as a preaching pastor is not enough?

And I think I have two or three answers

with a bunch of sub points.

So this package right here should last about 15 minutes or so.

We'll see.

Number one, preaching is a God-ordained part of the corporate life of the church.

So first I'm defending myself before I sound inadequate.

I believe in what I do. Here's why. All scriptures breathe out by God and profitable for teaching

for reproof, for correction, and for training and righteousness

that the man of God may be competent equipped for every good work.

Forget the chapter break, which comes right there.

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living

in the dead and in his by his appearing and his kingdom preach the word. So he's talking to

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