Amen, amen, amen. Good morning, church. I hope you're doing great this morning. I am Ryan Britt. I am one of the pastors here, and I get the honor of standing in for Pastor Jobi today and talking us through week two of a three-week teaching series called One More Generation. I love the vision of our church. I love that we are

focused on raising up one more generation in the gospel and that we are putting so much energy

and effort into it. We're going to talk a bit about that today. I watch the video and I watch

child dedication and I am just grateful in my heart for our church. Amen. Amen. I am. I am thankful that we are

here parents at all of our campuses that dedicated your children today. Thank you. Thank you for being

willing to say, hey, hold me accountable. I want to be all in on following Jesus. I want to model

what it means to be a follower of Jesus in my home. I want to

point the energies and the efforts of our home in the direction of Jesus. That means something.

And I believe in generational faithfulness. I do. I believe in the legacy of faith. I'm living

proof of it. My father was a great dad. I'm going to give him a hard time in just a few minutes,

so I thought I had to say something nice about him up front. So my dad was a great dad. I'm going to give him a hard time in just a few minutes, so I thought I had to say something nice about him up front. So my dad was a great dad. My parents were incredible,

incredibly godly people. I had people all along the way who came alongside of my family to help my brother

and me see the gospel and understand who Jesus is and that it is ultimately the point of what it means to be alive.

And all of these folks, just like our church is doing now, came along to raise me up.

And so it is such an honor to be a part of a church so committed to raising up one more generation in the gospel.

Praise God for it. Amen. Amen. That's what child dedication is all about.

We know as parents, we know as disciple makers, that we cannot make our children love God.

You know, I can't make my little girls love God. I can't make my little girls do anything, if I'm honest.

It's like, I just sometimes I just want to sit down with my kids and I just want to say words and I want them to do what I said. You know what I mean?

Like, hey girls, I need you to go to the bathroom and brush your teeth.

Okay, Dad.

Like, I wish that was that easy.

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