Hi. Good to see you guys. Thanks so much for being here. If you have your sleep before all things

booklet, go ahead and grab that and turn to page 29. As you've already heard said, multiple times

today we are in the third week of a teaching series called Before All Things. And this teaching series

starts two years worth of ministry for the Church of 1122.

And we've been looking at and asking this fundamental question, God, are you really before all

things in our lives? And we've, over this course of this series, in these five weeks, we're really

looking at, God, are you before all things in the area of our finances?

And Pastor Jobi for the last two weeks has been beautifully articulating the heartbeat of stewardship

and what God wants for us as his children in our finances.

And so if you missed either one of those pastor sermons, I would highly encourage you to go check those out on our website or on our app.

Joby's been preaching his brains out, and you do not want to miss that.

And he'll be here next week in the next two weeks where he's going to start really unfolding the vision

and the tangible steps that we feel like God's calling us to take as a church over the next two years.

And so you definitely don't want to miss that and your booklets turn

to page 29 and we're going to dive right into before all things this morning but before we do that

I just want to have a little confession time and don't worry I'm not going to bring you up here

and go all open mic and make you confess to the world anything.

But I'm going to confess some things and just be honest.

From where I've been in this before all things journey.

Months and months and months and months ago, Pastor Jobi came to the team here

and he began to articulate to us what he felt like God was leading us to do over the next

couple of years and specifically about this this teaching series and I have to admit that

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