Amen and amen.

Are you ready for this church?

I doubt it.

But a bunch of you here, hey, if you got your Bibles, Song of Solomon for the next couple of months,

it's kind of towards the middle of your Bible, and grab your journal, you are going to need this.

We are in a year of relationships, and based on all the events that happened this week, somebody asked me if I was going to change the sermon series

for this week, and I was like,

absolutely not.

Because what we need more now than anything

is the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ,

in a world that's trying to tear people apart

that the church with the gospel puts people together.

Amen? And today we were talking about what it means to be a man.

And you want to change the world?

Let men stand up and start acting like men and start taking care of their own home first.

And that's how we begin to change things.

So it's going to be a doozy.

Just a couple of things. If you are a man, we're going to talk about what it means to be a godly man in light of relationships and men, all of us, starting with me, we can do better.

But we cannot do it apart from a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Also, ladies, I don't need any high-pitched amen's. I don't need any of you

wives to stand up and say, preach it, brother. I don't need you to highlight anything and just

start pointing it to him. No elbows, none of that. Thank you very much. If your husband is a

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