Amen, amen. How are we doing, church? Doing okay? You look great. Hey, if you got your Bibles and I hope you do,

grab them and go to Luke chapter 10, Luke chapter 10. If this is your first time here at 1122 at any of our

campuses, you picked a doozy. This is known as our compassion weekend, and I have a very clear objective

or goal for this weekend.

My goal or my objective is to get you to sponsor a Compassion Kid, all right?

And so we partner with Compassion International, and we have since before we were ever a church.

And it actually goes back about 17 years for my family.

I'll tell you more about that in a little while.

And so if you'll look around, there are packets of... actually goes back about 17 years for my family. I'll tell you more about that in a little while.

And so if you'll look around, there are packets of kids all over every location and every spot that we have. And so the goal today is to get you to sponsor a compassion kid. And so I know

thousands of us already do, but we have grown by about 1,800 people since the last time we did a compassion weekend, which was last year.

And so I know that there are hundreds, if not thousands of you, that haven't had an opportunity to do that so far.

And so today is your chance.

So the reason I tell you that is that if any point during the sermon, you feel compelled to just get up from where you are

and go to one of the tables or to the walls and to fill out the packet and sponsor them,

you don't even have to wait to hear the sermon.

Some of you don't even like preaching.

Your mama just made you be here.

And so you could get out of this one today and just get up at any time, go sponsor a kid, fill it out, turn it in, and then leave here and go to brunch.

And you get a check in the box from Jesus on what church was about today.

Okay?

Now, this is the only opportunity you get to ever do that.

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