Thank you. What's up 722? How's everybody? Good, good. Grab your Bibles. We're in Acts Chapter 9. After that little bumper, I always wish I could, like, do a little M&M kind of thing, but I can't. I can do Johnny Cash. Anyway, that's totally different. Hey, I'm excited that you are here. Thank you. Oh, thank you for being here at 722. Thank you, thank you. God's favor is upon us as a church. We don't have seats at 1122. Can you believe that, right? So we built this whole new place and it worked for 18 weeks and now we're full and we're figuring out everything else. So thank you so much for being here. We know it's by his grace that he is drawing people here. So thanks for being here at 722. If you know people that go to 1122, find an obscure Old Testament verse or something to guilt them and to come into 722 with you to make more room on Sunday mornings.

I hope you're excited to be here.

We're in week three of this series called Rec.

We've, the core team of our church and the elders have been at a conference for the past few days.

That's why Ben just preached a sermon to you about worship, all right?

Because we're all kind of fired up because we've been at this conference.

And I just want to say, I don't often do this, I just want to recognize the unbelievable gifts, talent, and heart of our worship band, our leaders in worship.

That's incredible.

And our tech arts ministry area, led by Cliff Long, who's back there in the booth, and all that

stuff with the videos and the lights and all of that, we sort of take it for granted, all right?

The environment that they help create that just allows us to experience the presence of God in a richer and deeper way, all right?

And I forget what a phenomenal job our teams do, and I'm reminded of it,

sometimes when I'm at other places, and I'm not trying to knock the other place, but I'm just

saying our place is, I mean, what our teams are doing is incredible. And we actually have a worship pastor.

And there's really, I don't know what I'm telling you this, so just hop on board with

evangelicalism problems right now.

But there's an epidemic.

There's a problem in church world where there's not a lot of worship pastors.

There's songwriters and singers and worship leaders galore.

I mean, everybody wants to be a rock star, but to have, but a pastor of worship is really, really difficult to find. And we have been blessed by God's grace with Pastor Ben Williams and the way he leads us in worship and ministers to us. And then it's evident in his teams, right?

So you reproduce who you are, and so you can see the folks that God has surrounded him with in tech and in our band.

So I was just reminded of that this week.

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