Transcript
Eric Hayes (0:01)
You may have a seat. Frank, you mind hanging out with me, brother? I appreciate you, man. Welcome to 2819 Church, beloved. Amen. My name is Eric Hayes. I'm one of the elders here. Thank you. I appreciate you. I appreciate you. I take that call seriously. We are a church that is a house of prayer, presence and proclamation. I want to welcome our online community, digital disciples. Some who may be in the building. Make some noise. Yeah, a couple. Couple. We'll get some digital disciples. Visit us from all over the world, all over the country, all over the state, I want to say, every Sunday. And I just wanted to acknowledge you, those that are in the room, those that are online. I want to welcome the unbeliever. This is a place where you can absolutely belong before you believe. Is Brittany in the building? Is she here? Okay. That's right. I want to honor her anyway, Right? So Brittany Timmons elites our outreach. And some of you aware, some of you are not. We have an initiative called Serve M25. And we mobilized. I got the numbers, approximately 1,000 Christians all over the metro Atlanta area yesterday for the sole purpose of doing the work of the ministry. We're going to get to that and being the tangible hands and feet. Feet of Jesus. And it was not on a Sunday morning. I said it was not on a Sunday morning. That means you had to inconvenience yourself and take some time out outside of just a regular check off the box Sunday and say, I'm going to inconvenience.
Philip Anthony Mitchell (2:32)
Myself to do what the body has been called to do.
Eric Hayes (2:41)
So I just want to honor her. I want to honor her whole team. I want to Honor all of 2819 disciples and Christians that went out there. I just want to honor you guys. Right? And as is customary, and I will continue to do so, I want to honor the pastor of this house, Philip Anthony Mitchell. Amen. Amen. All right. There's no forcing, right? I'm gonna give you the space to do so if it's in your heart, because it's a weighty call. It's a weighty call to stay steadfast in the gospel in your assignment until we fall asleep in him or he cracks the sky to come and get us. I just want to honor him because he has kept his hand to the plow. Amen. Amen. As a church who are continuing to walk through the Book of Matthew, and we just finished up the series titled Entry and End Times, and I'll be preaching a standalone message that has been titled Time to Grow Up. Time to Grow up. By your head, let me pray for us. Holy Father, you know the hearts of men and women that are here, that are. That are tuning in. You even know which recording is going to go up? God? I don't, God, but you, you sent your word and your scriptures for a reason. And God, I just want to be faithful to this assignment. Help me be faithful to this assignment, oh God, to handle your people with care and with courage. To both confront and comfort. By your grace and by your holy spirit, God, I look to decrease so that you would increase in this hour. Jesus name we pray. Amen. So again, some of you guys know, some of you don't know. I used to teach premarital. Just a little plug. I know you guys been asking, sending emails, saying, hey, it's been a while. We've actually, we are redoing the curriculum. Just got pretty much the final rough draft. So just look for the announcement, right? So when it's time, you can jump in there, right? So one of the things, I'll give you a little bit this morning. Some of you actually won't make it to premarital. And that's okay right now. That's really okay. And this is why, right? So one of the things I do, like, really on, like the first. The first time that we meet, I slow you down, right? Because by the time you get in premarital, you've probably been with this person like a year, year and a half, two years. Y' all all in love, you done met the family, y' all had some conversations, y' all love each other, looked each in the face, Y' all really spent some time together, right? And you said, hey, man, this is.
