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Unexpected Signs and Wonders | Holy Disruption
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February 29, 2026 | Brew City Church | Randy Schmor
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Welcome to the Brew City Church Podcast. We are a Christian church following in the way of Jesus and located in the heart of downtown Milwaukee. We're glad you've joined us and we hope you enjoy this week's message. Good morning. How's everybody doing? Good. All right. I love response. That's awesome. Great. Well, I'm Randy, otherwise known many times as the other Randy around here. I don't think there's any others around. We could use a few more, but I'm also known as Pastor Shelley's husband as well. So glad to be able to have the chance on Palm Sunday. Give you my greetings for this day as well too. So thanks for being here in church with us as we are continuing in our series. We're going to go into the Book of Acts again today. And so Shelley did a great job of studying, setting us up and understanding what the significance of this day is, of course, of being Palm Sunday and all of that. But as we enter into kind of life a little bit further on after the resurrection, after the ascension, everything else, that's what we have in the Book of Acts. So I'm going to encourage you to track with me there as we're heading through this series we're calling Holy Disruption and we'll see some of that unsettling work. I think of the Spirit in the Book of Acts. So I'd like to help us think and start with today in this idea is how do Christians describe themselves? How do Christians describe themselves? What do they think of themselves? Why do they have the name that they have? Well, I guess what I would say I'm not going to to ask you. I know we like doing that around here, but you can talk to me after if you'd like and give your answers to this. But Christians are not. That's not the only name we use, is it? To describe ourselves. Let me give you some examples of that. It often will be something that is a bit countercultural and in some way example of this. I'm involved in global mission work and in the past few years I had the chance to be in West Africa and was working there with a Muslim based tribe. And there's only Christians that have been a part of this group for the last 20 years and it's growing and is significant and it's amazing what's happening there. But they don't call themselves Christians. It doesn't work for them in their context. They're a bit more in their terms and in their minds countercultural. With this, they call themselves a word that's just translated as believers. I think it's Gundaji believers is what they call themselves. And they're saying that for a reason. Right. They're not using Christian because there's reasons why they wouldn't do that. So to be countercultural, they call themselves believers. Now I think back as well in my own story and significance. Anybody here an MPS kid or grow up in the Milwaukee public schools? Raise them high, raise them proud. Only a few. All right, awesome. I was one as well. I made it halfway through my schooling in MPS schools, and as I was there, I always think back at Lancaster elementary, which is where I was, and I'm in third grade class, and for some reason, the big topic is, what church do you go to? Ooh, wow. Okay. And so it wasn't Bruce City at that point. This didn't exist at that time. But the way they asked it was they didn't care about the specific church they said. And I still remember it in my head, are you Cadillac or Lutheran? And now I think back on that Cadillac. Why did I always think that people that drove Cadillacs were Catholic, you know? But that's what they were asking. And everyone's saying who they were on the playground. Everybody's answering the question, I'm Cadillac, I'm a Lutheran. And I'm like, they haven't asked me yet. And all of a sudden they asked me, randy, what are you? Baptist? And they're like, what's that? And I'm like, I don't know. But that's what I am. That's where I go, what's a Baptist? It was kind of against the grain. It wasn't going with the main flow. Right. Of being popular with everyone else there different ways that we describe ourselves. So what about us here as we especially think about us as this church and our place in these times that we're in right now? How do we describe ourselves here at Brew City Church? Have you listened or have you looked at the website recently to see what it is and how we describe ourselves? Well, we say we follow Jesus, that we are Jesus followers. Okay. We're even putting aside a few other descriptions, aren't we, to emphasize something that we follow Jesus, we follow his life, which includes this day that we remember today of Palm Sunday, his death, his resurrection, his message. The way is a lot of times what believers were called in the early days. And we're not ashamed to say that either. Right. We're part of the way of Jesus. Is that countercultural in some ways for us to do That a bit against the grain. I mean, none of us would go probably and say, no, I'm not a Christian. But we're more comfortable with saying something else. When we're countercultural in this way. We're saying some things about maybe downplaying any of the politics that are so present in our world and in our country right now. Downplaying political allegiances by saying, no, I follow the way of Jesus. Even when a large part, as we all know of the Christian church today is saying something else, we're trying to distinguish ourselves, right? Are we not? That's why many of you are here today. Maybe there's something different in this little band of Jesus followers. It's against the grain even when it comes to this big C church, this idea. And we throw it around here a lot of being post evangelical and we let that descriptive word, that big E word go to the side in favor of Jesus. In some ways it's really revolutionary countercultural to say that we're doing that, that we sense and have a sense of that our gospel is more about what we do than just what we say it is about what we do. And that matters a lot. Well, we're right at home if that's truly our motivation and what we're trying to do with the things going on in the Book of Acts and in the place that we find ourselves today. As we look at Acts, an accounting of the first disciples, we see the followers, especially like Peter, names like that, and John and the other apostles in the first eight chapters or so of the book of Acts before, and no spoiler warning, Paul enters the picture more in chapter nine. You have it in your scripture. You can look. And he's like the main focus for much of the rest, the book of Acts. So they describe themselves, though, as the way. There were people that called them Christians, but they didn't call themselves Christians. Interestingly, they were followers of the way of Jesus. And then other people said, hey, you were with the Christ, you're Messiah people is what that means. So we're in good company when we read the Book of Acts, being countercultural, being against the grain. These are good things, being in the way of Jesus and following his ways. The question is, what do we see even in some parts of Acts, and especially the one that we're focused on today is in chapter five. Where do we see evidence that they were following the ways of Jesus? Not only the message, not only his life, but the kind of the all encompassing thing. What were these early believers doing? And do we hope to see ourselves doing the same things. Do we see any of those same things that we can relate to and say, yeah, that characterizes us as well. And I want to give you some things to consider in that way and kind of evaluate ourselves as a church, as individuals. How are we doing? Well, a few weeks ago, Carrie Latticer was here from Post Evangelical. Right. She was bringing the message. And we're largely kind of returning in a lot of ways in Acts 5 to the same things that she was talking about there in Acts 4. If you read these two things, the Peter and the other apostles are very much in the same place as they were when we were looking at chapter four with Carey. And what are we seeing there? We're seeing a lot of this phrase going on. I'm going to bring it out a few times today because it really describes it of truth being spoken to power. It's happening here. And it was in that chapter as she was preaching on that, and it's in the one we're looking at today. And who is the power they're speaking at? Well, it's a religious elite of the day in the form of the Jewish faith. And this group that was called the Sanhedrin. All right, now, who was the Sanhedrin? Maybe you've heard that word before. The Sanhedrin was basically a group of Pharisees and Sadducees and the high priest, this group that was basically, remember, at Jesus trial. These are the people that Jesus is being brought to, to give account for. And it's the same people now that Peter and the other apostles are also getting scrutinized from. It's the same group. So truth spoken to power, we see that a lot. And where we're going to head today as we're going to read the scripture there, and it's a fair amount of scripture, I'll warn you ahead of time, but contextually, you really need it to see what is this story going on and what we're seeing there. You know, before we do that, let's remember as well what Randy was preaching about last week. Ananias and Sapphira, remember that story. And the very problematic thing of it seeming to look like God's casting death upon these two people. But it's for sure I'm not going to go there very much this morning. But it is a supernatural kind of thing going on. They come in and they're to give account and they lie to the Holy Spirit, they lie to the apostles, and they drop dead on the spot. Kind of crazy supernatural stuff. Well, we start seeing the same sort of thing and it's called signs and wonders. I think it's one of the first times this phrase is used in Acts 5, Signs and Wonders. So let's look at an example of it, of signs and wonders of the kingdom. And that's going to kind of characterize what we're talking about here today. What are these factors? What are these signs? What are these wonders of the kingdom? Some of them might surprise you, but we are wanting to look at these things to evaluate ourselves. As I said on are we the same kind of church? Do we follow Jesus in some of the same ways? So let's look. In Acts, chapter 5, verse 12, the apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. This is right after the Ananias and Sapphira story happened and they dropped dead, taken out. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon's colonnade. Go on. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. And also verse 16, crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem and bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits. And all of them were healed. So here in chapter five, we first of all see that they're doing this teaching and have been doing this teaching prior. Back in chapter four, in this area called Solomon's Portico, Solomon's Colonnade, it said in this translation, it's the side east of the Temple. If you would go there today. Shelley and I had a chance to do this some years ago. This is the area that's called the Dome of the Rock. Right now it's entirely Muslim occupied area. And that's where the Solomon's Colonnade was. The Dome of the Rock is right where the Holy of Holies or the Temple used to be. And then this is all the Temple Mount that goes around it. And this is large part of an area that they call the Solomon's Portico. All of this around, it's still within the grounds. There's walls around it and columns, but then it's not right in the Temple, but this was known. And Josephus, who is a Jewish historian from the first century, describes this area as a place where all kinds of people brought their ideas and philosophies and teachings to this area. So Peter and the Apostles are doing the same thing, except stuff's happening along with their teaching, along with their preaching and what they're doing. I mean, the things that they're Preaching are big ideas. They're the ideas of Jesus. They're repeating the very things that they heard from their rabbi, from Jesus, just in the past three years prior or more. But along with this, there's other wild stuff happening. Peter's walking around and his shadow casting is healing people. All right, there's all these different things happening. And, you know, as we look at this, is there an activeness or an activism that's going on together with the teaching that is a sign and wonder of the kingdom? In other words, are they following in the way of Jesus, in the way they're doing this? They're not only speaking and preaching about Jesus, but they're actually actively involved in healing. It's not only when he walked by. There was other instances too. We don't have time to go into where the healings were, the things that were basically validating the message that we're bringing. So it wasn't just the teaching and philosophizing. And I gotta think that made them stand out a bit from any of these other teachers or philosophizers that are in Solomon's portico, Solomon's colonnade at this time. What is the point here? Well, this is the way of Jesus that we do as well as say our Gospel. Okay, let's look in Matthew 9 verse here. So scattered throughout the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, we'll see these little synopsises like this. We see a lot of the peculiarities and the things that Jesus did. And the apostles were right there with him as this is all happening. But then there's a synopsis, statements that look like this scattered throughout the Gospels. And this is a good one here in Matthew chapter nine. And what do we see? Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. As a matter of fact, the disciples went out. They went out on kind of a mission trip right after Matthew 9 here in the first verses of chapter 10 of Matthew. And they did these very things. So this is not uncharacteristic for the movement of what was called the Way in the first century. In the Book of Acts, there was healing, there was active work of the Spirit that followed the teaching that went on. It mattered what they did, the activism, the active things they did, as well as the preaching that they performed. It's the same signs and wonders of Jesus. This is Jesus Gospel. And I think we need to remember this sometimes. There's been a lot of debate and maybe some of you are aware of it in the past hundred plus years or so about is the gospel only spoken in words or is it also encompass what we do? And a lot of people have made that into a debate between the idea of socialism and different things like that as opposed to just preaching the gospel. Maybe you've heard these debates and heard about these things, but it's clear from Matthew 9 and many other places. And we just have to think about the life of Jesus himself. It was always about the things he was doing as well as saying. The truth is that's what makes the gospel, or our evangel, if you want to call it that. It brings the power of the spirit. It's what we do as well as say, not just leaving one out in favor of the other. It is a sign and wonder. The disciples gospel was Jesus gospel. The question is, is it ours as well? Do we see ourselves here as well in walking that same way of Jesus? Well, here's another sign and wonder. That one's kind of easy to identify, right? Because oh yeah, healings and stuff and signs and wonders. That must be everything that was being talked about. Well, hold a minute. We also see something very significant that Luke picks up on and decides it's important enough to not only put an act, but he also has it prominently displayed in the entire resurrection account in his Gospel of Luke. You can't overlook this, that women are a part of this movement, are a part of the way of Jesus. Let's read these verses 13 and 14 of Acts 5. It first says no one else dared join them, especially the religious leaders, right? They were not joining them, even though they were highly regarded, they the apostles, by the people. Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. Now, our time and context, we can just kind of breeze right past this. But it's significant that he says men and women, especially when we start to look back before and after in this passage and what Luke the writer of Acts is saying, and Luke says, the writer of the Gospel of Luke about women, he says that none of the religious leaders dared to join, but the great numbers are added. He's making a point of this about the inclusion of women. Let's look at the resurrection account. I'm going to jump forward here. Hopefully Randy doesn't get mad at me, but I'm going to put and have us just look here at what happens on the day of the resurrection. On that first Easter. The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph, this Joseph of Arimathea I'll mention who he is in a little while. A little bit more. And saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. It's all about these women with Jesus. Disciples that are women. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. But when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. Praise the Lord. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright. The women bowed down with their faces to the ground and. But the men said to them, why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here. He has risen. Get an Amen. Remember how he told you while he was still with you in Galilee, The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified, and on the third day be raised again. Who's hearing all this the first time? The women. They're the ones that are there. Then they remembered his words when they came back from the tomb. They told all these things to the 11 and to all the others. That's where the apostles are. It was. And Luke lists them out here. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary, the mother of James and the others with them who told this to the apostles. But they did not believe the women because their words seemed to them like nonsense. Sounds kind of consistent, right? Then Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves. And he went away wondering to himself what had happened. Scholars actually think that this was a later addition to this actual account that like. Let's throw Peter a bone here. He did something. Okay, in this instance. We can debate that some other time. But this whole thing is about. In Luke's mind. And his account of what happened was all taking place with the women particularly. And we've heard this before. My wife has preached on this before too. Here at Bruce City. Mary Magdalene listed first listed as the prominent one listed and known to the early church as the apostle to the apostles, Mary Magdalene. Luke's entire resurrection account, it's centered around what happened to these women. It's an intentional move by Luke. I'm going to show you some other places here too before we leave. This the women's role not only in the resurrection account as we see it, but in the early church in Acts if we look in these passages here last week as we spoke of Ananias and Sapphira, now this is not an exemplary story for men or women what happens to these two and them lying to the Holy Spirit. But Luke points out specifically, and we read through this last week, that Sapphira was the one who gave consent and that her knowledge of this and her death in detail are all accounted for. Not something you're normally going to read in a patriarchal culture and emphasis. We also see here in the passage we're looking at Today in Acts 5, many great numbers of men and women, women are added to the Lord and then a few weeks from now we'll hear from Randy on this in the Future in Chapter 6. The care for the Hellenistic or Greek speaking women of the movement of the way is also mentioned by Luke here in the book of Acts and it establishes this whole story. The first and some of the first leaders, other than the apostles of the movement, some that would say that that's where we get the idea of deacons and them caring for the widows in this way. The point is Luke is going out of his way. Do you see it especially when you think what culture was like back in this time. Women are not of any significance in accounts and stories and all of this and. But he puts Mary Magdalene in particular and these other women right front and center to the resurrection and the early church. It's right there from the beginning. Makes me wonder how do we be countercultural even as a church of Bruce City in this way? Why is there is there? Maybe you're not as familiar with it as some of us are. Such a strong movement in the church to relegate women to the side. It's really, really sad and it's not been the case. This was solved 2000 years ago. As to what exemplary speaking we see from the early church in a culture of extreme patriarchy. This one should be easy for us, folks. This should not be a debate in the church. Inclusion of women has been easy to understand and a foundational piece of the way of Jesus from day one. It's a sign and wonder in an extremely patriarchal culture. Is it a sign and wonder for us now? It ought to be inclusion. What else do we see as another sign, another wonder? Well, I mentioned before we heard this from Kerry a few weeks ago of truth being spoken to power. But here it is again in Acts chapter 5, another result of some more signs and wonders. So truth spoken, the power is a sign itself. But there's another sign, miraculous if you Will that happens here? Let's read the account here. Starting in Acts 5, 17. And the high priest and all his associates who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. But during the night, an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out. Go stand in the temple courts, he said, and tell the people all about this new life. At daybreak, they entered the temple courts, as they have been told, began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin, the full assembly of the elders of Israel sent to the jail for the apostles. But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they went back and reported. We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing at the doors. But when we opened them, we found no one inside. On hearing this report, the captain, the temple guard and the chief priests were at a loss, wondering what this might lead to. Then someone came and said, look, the men you put in jail are standing in front of the temple courts teaching the people they're back in Solomon's colonate again and doing this. So what do we see here? Arrest back in chapter four did not deter them from speaking the name of Jesus. This time we have arrest and putting them in prison. And does that deter them? Does that derail God's plans? No. He sends an angel of the Lord basically to outsmart the religious leaders. They're out there preaching the name of Jesus before these bumbling guys even know what happened, thinking they have a trial ahead of them. And this becomes a message through Acts. It happens to Peter again in chapter 12 where he's busted out of prison. There's another jailbreak with Paul in the book of acts in chapter 16. We got three angelic jailbreaks going on in the book of Acts here. And this is the first one. A sign, a wonder. Yes, for sure. But what is the point of this jailbreak? It's so that they're out there speaking truth to power. Jesus won't be deterred. His plans will not be changed. The way of Jesus is one of perseverance. It's going to move on. So let's continue in the scriptures here. Acts 5:26. So this jailbreak happens here. They are preaching again, and they haul them up in front of the Sanhedrin. At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force because they feared that the people would stone them. The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, he said. Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and. And are determined to make us guilty of this man's blood, this man being Jesus. They're looking back to that. Peter and the other apostles replied, we must obey God rather than human beings. The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead, whom you killed by hanging him on a cross. God exalted him to his own right hand as prince and savior, that he might bring Israel to repentance, forgive their sins. We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him. When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put him to death. So this instance of truth being spoken to power and being told to teach in this name is thwarted with this famous phrase that we must obey God rather than men, rather than human authority. Better translation of it, human authority. All right, now, obeying God rather than human authority is not going to win your friends, right? It never has. But I can't help but think of our own cultural moment in regards to this one. We look at, and if you're paying attention, you'll hear a lot of times the justification for a lot of things that are happening right now in our country and in the world is this phrase or this verse from Romans 13:1 about appointed leaders and that they're installed there by God and that we ought to listen to them and follow anything that they say. Because of that, the. Does that not sound in this case? These are the powerful religious leaders saying this. And what is Peter's answer to that? We must obey God rather than men. So is this like a conflict of scripture and a place that we need to discern? Well, absolutely it is. But the question is, where are we going to fall on something like this? As we're looking at passage like this, what has more weight, what has more backing of the way of Jesus and closer to what this movement is about, what we are to be about. I think if the church would have listened to what the government said they were supposed to do, we would have no church anymore over the past 2,000 years. But we have to realize that in the moment we have decisions to make, and this is an example, It's a sign and wonder, if you will, that when truth is spoken to power, and we see it over and over again, the power start to listen. As a matter of fact, your willingness to do so might result in some unexpected support that's what happens to the apostles here. Let's look. In Acts 5:34, all of a sudden, out of this melee, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a little while. Then he addressed the Sanhedrin men of Israel. Consider carefully what you intend to do. These men, he's one of them. Some time ago, Theudas, whoever he is, appeared claiming to be somebody. About 400 men rallied to him. He was killed. All his followers dispersed. All came to nothing. After him, Judas the Galilean, not the Judas you might be thinking of, appeared in the days of the census and led a band of people in revolt. He too was killed, and all his followers were scattered. Therefore, in the present case, I advise you, leave these men alone. Let them go. For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men. You will only find yourselves fighting against God. Unexpected support indeed from this guy. His speech persuaded them. They called the apostles in, had them flogged, which is no small matter. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, good luck, and let them go. The apostles left the Sanhedrin rejoicing because they have been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the name. Day after day in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah. So sort of a backhanded support or word of support from this Gamaliel who. Yes, you maybe have heard that name before. Paul the Apostle was brought up in the school of Gamaliel. It's the same dude. Peter is encountering him here. Paul was trained in this as a Pharisee. Paul the Apostle, brought up a persecutor of the church, ends up turning his ways. We know that story. We'll hear a lot more about it in the months to come. But looking back on this, we see some examples, even from the story of the Passion Week that we're about to be in here. Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, both Pharisees who you could say, maybe they were supporters of Jesus. Maybe they were inclined to it. And then this Gamaliel as well. It's unstoppable. Not human effort, but God behind it. And that's Gamaliel's point. It's going to be unstoppable if it's of God. Right? And that's what we want to be a part of as a church, as we're here 2,000 years later and we meet here the same morning and we use phrases like we're followers of Jesus, we are of the way of Jesus and we're meaning stuff like this. It's going to have some weight. You know, there's another phrase we hear popular in our culture these days is that person is a blankety blank in name only. We hear it in various ways, right, Dino, Rhino, whatever you want to say. Or we could say a Christian in name only. But the point is, is our allegiance, Are we obeying God rather than humans? What are these signs and wonders that we see of the kingdom? Do we just dismiss them to the side as sometimes conservative but more often liberal teachings or something like that, or actions? Or are they actually right here in front of our eyes in plain sight, signs and wonders that we ought to follow the same way as our predecessors, the apostles did? Let me surmise them for you here. Activism together with speaking, that's a holistic gospel and we need to stay with it. Inclusion of all, it leads the way here with women, but inclusion, the small voices that speak for the kingdom, think of the mustard seed, think of the last of the poor. All these things Jesus mentioned, part of his teachings and the Sermon on the Mount. We listen for those voices. They're not obviously the biggest and loudest voices. What are or is the way of staying and persevering with Jesus and his way of the kingdom? Are we speaking to power and are we seeing evidence that we're part of this unstoppable force and way that we find in Jesus and his truth? Is it going to seem, and should we expect it to seem like it's going against the grain, that it's countercultural what we're doing? Is it also not what most are saying and doing? That's also an indication we can look at. Where do we see the big E church finding itself today? What do we see there? You know, movements like the PEC that we're part of, Post Evangelical Collective and even Brew City itself, we don't make a lot of headlines, right? As a matter of fact, the only times I remember Bruce City making headlines is when we had our offering boxes stolen twice and had our sign out front defaced. That's when we make headlines. But the things that we ought to be known for are always going to be the small, underground, even mustard seed type of stuff. That's what's going to be in the end. The things that matter most. What are the headlines that mattered. I got six here. A holistic gospel, inclusion, kingdom, voices, sticking with the message. Obey God rather than humans or human authority and then stick with the way it's proven and it's who we say we're part of. Let's evaluate ourselves. There's many other things I think as well, but as we look at this today, as Gamaliel said, it's only this way. It can't be stopped. Otherwise people would be fighting against God. Are we on God's side? Are we on the side of the way of Jesus? Well, pray Father, Son and Spirit. I thank you this morning for the examples of the early church, the things that they did and said, what other people called them and what they called themselves and Jesus. I thank you that you instilled something within them so powerful that it lasts here to this moment, this Palm Sunday of 2026. It's what we say we're about. I pray in all these ways that we see it lived out in the early church, that we would sense that we can be the same and that in our moment, culturally, nationally, globally, that we be part of that. I thank you for this church and for its commitment to that. I pray that we would stick with it. In Jesus name, amen. Thank you again for being with us. We would love to have you join us if you are ever in the Milwaukee area. And we hope you have a healthy place to gather wherever you are from. Sat.