Amen, amen, amen.

How we doing, church?

Very good?

Looking good.

If you got your Bibles, I hope you do.

We're gonna do a three week series on one verse

out of Second Timothy.

You don't really need to go there.

Where we're really gonna spend the majority of our time.

Today is in Matthew chapter 20 and John chapter 13.

So it's a lot of text, so you're going to have to listen way faster than the

early service, okay? And so part of the reason we're doing this, we did a series back in January,

and the reason that we kicked off this year with this Second Timothy series is because,

you know, back in November, we started this two-year discipleship journey called the One Initiative.

And a big part of the One initiative is that we are wrestling with this idea of the Shma.

The Lord our God, the Lord, the Lord is one, and we should love the Lord of God with our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

And then it goes on to saying you should teach these things to your children.

And so we believe that we are one church called to reach one more and especially one more generation. And where that came from, several years ago, I was in Israel for the first time.

I went to this place called Shechem, and in Shechem, what happened there, now it's just this kind of little rubble place, but there is between these two mountains, the mountain of blessing, the mountain of cursing.

And this is the place where Joshua, in Joshua chapter 24, he knows it's kind of the end of his reign. And he has

brought all of the nation together there, the nation of Israel. And he says, this very famous

line, choose for yourself this day whom you will serve. As for me and my house, we will serve

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