Hey. I'm not your campus pastor. My name's Adam Flynn. I'm one of the pastors

here. Pastor Chris, who was just up here reading, is your campus pastor. So,

he just slipped out to go check on kids. So why don't you guys clap real loud for Pastor Chris,

make him here across the walls.

Man, we love him.

So when Kristen and I were first engaged, we were doing premarital counseling.

And have you ever played like word association games?

You know, like somebody throws out an idea and then you just say the first thing that comes to your mind. Like, if I said, greatest football team of all time, you would say Florida Gators, right? There you go. It's right. A little equal opportunity up here. It's okay. So when

we were in premarital counseling, the pastor that was doing our counseling said, I'm going to say a word,

you say the first thing that comes to your mind. He said, Kristen, and instantly, which is day, it's okay

with newlyweds. It's a little more dangerous if you've been married 20 years, right? We were just

engaged. So the first thing that pops out of my mouth is faithful. And I think that's still true

today. Kristen is one of the most faithful people you will

ever meet. Like if Kristen is your friend, you know she is your friend. There's no doubt that she's

your friend and she will be your friend forever. Now there's a word, if you were to throw out the

word Christianity and ask me what pops into my mind, like there's lots of

words, Jesus, of course, the gospel, yes, but there's a word that we're going to look at today, and it's

the word grace that would come to my mind. The grace is one of the most important words in Christianity.

And I think it's a word honestly that we take for granted a lot.

Like the word grace appears 128 times in the New Testament. And there's only 260 chapters in the

New Testament, which means you can hardly turn a page. It's about every other chapter. You're

going to bump into this whole idea of grace.

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