Amen. Amen. Mars and Marsha. If you don't know who the Brady Bunch is, Google it. They were evangelists in the 70s.

Traveled around. Hey, if you got your Bibles, I hope you do grab them. Second Timothy. As we're in the next to the last weekend of this series, we've been studying the marks of the faithful.

And you know that we're in this one initiative, and a big part of this one initiative,

it's all about the glory and the renown of the one true God, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

And we are called to be one church, and we're called as a church, to reach one more,

and especially one more generation.

So it's why so far this entire year we've been studying

Second Timothy because what Second Timothy is fundamentally about, it's about this idea

Paul is writing to this up-and-coming pastor as he, as Paul is on his way out. He's writing it

from jail. He's not going to make it out of this one alive. And these are kind of his final

words to young Timothy who has a call on his life to be the

pastor of the church at Ephesus, which is kind of a big deal.

And so Paul wants us to know that fate doesn't merely happen to you, but fate is to happen

through you.

That if you are a disciple of Jesus, then we are called to make disciples,

that make disciples, they make disciples. And if you aren't making a disciple, you should really

look at yourself and say, well, then am I really a disciple? And Timothy had a whole lot

working against him. He was really young. He grows up without a father. He probably thinks that

he's way in over his head.

And so Paul in chapter one reminds Timothy of that moment, which brought Timothy to tears.

That moment in Acts chapter 20, when Paul gathers together the elders of the church at

Ephesus and he lays his hand on young Timothy.

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