Amen. Amen. It's good to see you. Church. I'm Ryan Britt. I'm one of the pastors. I'm grateful to be able to open God's word with us today. But before I do, I just want to encourage and pray for some of you. And so if you're here and you are in a disciple group, you're a disciple group leader, you're a disciple group coach,

you're signed up for disciple groups this week.

Would you just put your hand up in the air?

Yeah?

If you're pumped about it, you can put two hands in the air, you know?

All right, I just want to pray for you.

We are launching disciple groups fall semester, and groups are a primary discipleship environment for us as a church. And so I just want to pray for you

as you step into this new season of ministry with your group. And so let's pray, Father,

thank you for my brothers and sisters. I thank you for their salvation. I thank you for the

calling you have on their life. I pray that this season of ministry they're stepping into would be

rich. I pray that the relationships would be deep and meaningful. Father, I pray that this season of ministry they're stepping into would be rich. I pray that the relationships would be deep and meaningful.

Father, I pray that the discussions they have in their groups would be transformative, rooted in truth, Father,

that they would hear your voice and that they would respond to it.

I pray that you'd give them the exact words that they need to encourage someone who needs encouragement. Father, I pray that in all

their relationships in life, that you would use them to lead people to discover and deepen a

relationship with you. I pray that they would be keenly aware of your presence and that it would be

their good. We pray all these things in the power of Jesus' name. And all God's people said,

amen.

Amen.

We are launching groups, and we have thousands and thousands of people who gather in hundreds of groups literally all over the country now.

If you're joining us online, we have online groups.

I'll just visit a group down in Sarasota, Florida,

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