So you hear a story like that, you see a video like that, and you ask the question,

especially if you're a parent, but everybody asked the question, man, how in the world

do Bo and Erica make it? How do you get up the next day and take the next step forward?

And then also with what happened in Parkland this week, we all asked that question, right, especially for those 17 families.

How? How in the world do you make it?

And there are two realities, two ever-present realities for Bo and Erica that are the reason, the ultimate reality that get them through, that wake them up every day to the point where actually right now in our Arlington campus

sitting in the production booth or Bo and Erica serving right now. Amen. Amen. And here's how.

There are two, not just theological concepts, but actual realities in their life. One is that Jesus is in them because the Spirit of God is in them.

It's what we've been talking about in the book of Romans. And the text that we're going to

study in Romans today is essentially about the sovereignty of God, that God uses imperfect people

to bring about his perfect plan. And you look at something like that and you think, how in the world?

Not only how did this happen, but how could I go on and reason number one is because the spirit of God by the blood of

Jesus is in them because when they surrendered their life to the Lordship of Christ

God deposited the comforter the spirit in them and then, is that Jesus is all around them. You're like,

what do you mean? What I mean by that is the body of Christ surrounds them. That Jesus says,

it'd be better if I leave and send you the spirit, and then he calls us the body. And so,

Christian community matters more than you know. And I've told you this a hundred times. I don't

know if you believe me, but if you wait until you need Christian community to find it, it's too late, man.

And you see, what they had done through serving here is they had built this family, this real

family that was deeper than any kind of genetic family, just deeper. And so when they found themselves

in an impossible situation, the body of

Christ showed up around them. See, we want you to sign up to serve, not because we need you

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