Amen and amen. How we doing, church? Everybody good? I am having a great weekend. I don't know about you, but I'm having a great weekend. Hey, if you've got your Bibles, I hope you do, Luke chapter 15 is where we're going to be, or if you've got your journal here, which I hope you do. Oh, if you didn't have one before, I hope you got one on the way in. I think page 27 is where we are.

As it's been mentioned a couple times already, we started this brand new series that leads us down this two and a half year discipleship journey.

We're calling it the one initiative. It's rooted in what's called the Shemma, which is Deuteronomy chapter 6 versus verses 4 and 5 that says, hero Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is, here's where we got the name

one. That doesn't mean that God is like first on your list. It's more like God is the paper

on which you would write a list. That's what that means. And when we see God for who he really

is, when we see the glory of God through the person and work of Jesus

Christ, then it changes everything about everything about everything. And then we respond with the rest

of the shema and we should love the Lord our God with all of our heart and with all of our soul

and with all of our might. And so on week one, we talked about this whole thing is about the

one name under heaven whereby we must be saved. That name is Jesus. And so what it looks like for us

as a church over the next two and a half years is we have these three gospel initiatives. One is that we're

called to be one church, this thing that we are part of, this movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ.

And we as a church are called to reach one more and especially one more generation.

So last week I talked about what we were called to as a church and my wife posted something on Facebook.

And I want to believe that it was inspired by the

anointed sermon that she heard.

I don't know, but here's what she said.

She said, I'm not sure what I'd do without my church family.

We are commanded to be in community with other Christ followers and I'm not sure what I'd do

without them.

Those simple texts from friends when my day has been so crappy. I apologize for the potty mouth of my wife. I will try to correct that.

I would never use language like that. Ha ha. She goes on to say, that ride home or to lunch,

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