Amen and amen.

Church, if you got your Bible, grab them.

We're gonna be in John chapter 15.

We're gonna pick it up where Pastor Britt and the campus pastors finished up last week.

By the way, could we thank the campus pastors and Pastor Britt for bringing the word last week?

Great job, right? As always.

One of the things that, well, last week I got to attend church like a normal human. It was weird.

I went to one service and then went home. I didn't know what to do all day. But I came here to

St. Pablo, heard Pastor Britt unpacked John chapter 15, one of my favorite chapters in the whole

Bible because there's this invitation from Jesus to abide in me and I will abide in you. And one of my favorite chapters in the whole Bible, because there's this invitation from

Jesus to abide in me and I will abide in you. And one of the things that he said last week is

every time we read that word abide, we should really think the word rest, that Jesus invites

us to rest in him and that he would rest in us. And as he was talking about that, it reminded me

of something that I need to remind you of. I already told you this all the way back in January, and as he was talking about that, it reminded me of something that I need to remind you of.

I already told you this all the way back in January, but the elders are giving to me and my family

a gift, and the gift that the elders are giving to me on behalf of you is a sabbatical. And so what

that means is from saturated to Christmas Eve, I will be on a sabbatical. Let me just

tell you what a sabbatical means. It comes from the word Sabbath, which means to rest, but in the Bible,

you don't rest from, you rest for. And part of the reason I wanted to let you know this is so that

you could be praying for me and my family. And I also wanted you to know this because

nothing's wrong. And in the absence

of facts, sometimes people just make it up on their own. Okay, so don't make up crazy stuff,

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