Amen and amen. How we doing, church? Everybody good? I hope you are. Grab your one journal because we're

going to be all over the place today. We're going to be in Deuteronomy chapter 6 and Matthew 18 and Matthew 19

and Joshua 24 and Judges chapter 2. So if you're good at flipping around the Bible, grab your Bible and go there or you go to your journal.

We put most of that in there. And I don't know about you, but I'm really, really excited about today. When we kicked off this one initiative journey, I was most excited about today for a number of

reasons. One, I believe the Lord spoke to me, particularly in regards to one more generation.

And sometimes people will say, do you hear God out loud? And I say, yes and absolutely. If you

would like to hear him out loud, just open your read out loud and you will hear the Lord out loud we'll talk about that kind of towards the end but also for 15

years I did student ministry and so I have been committed to one more generation meeting Jesus and a big

reason is because did you know that 80% of people that follow Jesus decide to follow Jesus before

they graduate high school.

And God has given us as a church an incredible responsibility to reach one more generation.

And that's what we're going to talk about in our time together.

It starts in the Shema.

You've heard this every week.

You're going to hear it every week for the next two years of your life, basically. It's Deuteronomy chapter six, beginning in verse four. The reason it's called the shama

is that first word in Hebrew that is translated here. In Hebrew, it is shama. It says this,

Here, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And so we are asking our entire church to wrestle with this question,

what is the one thing that drives everything? And if you would say, the Lord is the one thing

in my life that drives everything, then this is our natural response, the next verse.

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

This is not just some kind of church initiative.

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