A (0:02)

Red Rods Church. How you feel? You glad to be in church today? Can you help me say hi to everybody. All the Denver locations, we love you. Austin, Texas, Brussels, Belgium, and men and women at all the correctional facilities. You are family. We love you. And everybody watching online, thanks for being with us today. I like to tell you this right up top, if you stay around long enough, you're going to find out anyways. We're a bunch of messed up, imperfect people here, but our passion is this, to get together with the family and pursue a perfect God. So no matter what you're going through, no matter what you're feeling, no matter what you've been through in this place, we're going to do everything we can to make sure you feel welcomed, loved, and valued. Because you are. I can promise you this. We've already been praying for you this week. You're not here by accident. So welcome home. Welcome to Red Rocks Church. High five, somebody. Have a seat. Hey, at every location, can you guys make some noise for the worship team? Come on. We get spoiled around here. I want to do a message today called it's time to be the church. Tell your neighbor, say, it's time to be the church. Put it in the chat. Tell your other neighbor that you chose second. It's time to be the church. Some of you may know this, some of you may not. But before Jesus died on the cross to pay the price for all of our sins so that we could put our faith in him and receive forgiveness, get God's spirit and go to heaven forever. Before that happened, they couldn't say that they weren't the church. They went to church. They called it the temple. And they would go to the temple. And there's this room in the very back of the temple, and it was separated with this gigantic, huge, thick curtain. It was the holy of holies. That's where the presence of God was. And only the high priest could go in there once a year. So you actually had to go. If you wanted to get near the presence of God, you went to the church. But when Jesus died on that cross, it changed everything. It's as if God, supernaturally from heaven, tore that gigantic curtain in miraculous fashion from the top to the bottom. And he said, no more. No more will you be separated from my presence. In fact, put that verse up, if you would. And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, this is from the cross. He gave up his spirit. At that moment, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook the rocks split and the world would never be the same. And now, because of that, when we put our faith in the resurrected Christ, we actually receive his spirit. So God says, you don't have to. You don't go anymore. You are. Let's read this. If you have a Bible, you can flip to it or it'll be on the screen. It's First Corinthians 3, 16 and 17. I'm going to read the message translation. You realize, don't you, that you. You're the church. You are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you. So we just said, right, we put our faith in Jesus, we get the spirit of God in us. God himself is present in you. No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple. You can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred. And here it is again, and you remember, are the temple. We are the church. When we go to school, when we go to work, when we go to the gym, everywhere we go, and the way we refer to church, we kind of sabotage ourselves. And we all do it. I do it, too, right? It's like, hey, you going to church? You yell at the kids. Get up. It's time to go to church. And the truth is, like, we all know what we mean, but what we're really saying is, no, we are the church. And we're going to the meeting, we're going to the service, we're going to whatever the different building is, but we are getting together as the church. We're the church. And today I want to really do a slight recap, and I want to jump off of what we talked about last week, because we talked about this last week. We're not only the church, but we're God's plan, as crazy as that may sound. And honestly, as intimidating as that may feel. He says, you're not just my church. You're not. You're also my plan to go reach this world. The very last thing Jesus said, Acts 1:8. You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. He said, you are my church. You. If you put your faith in Jesus, you have my spirit. You are my church. You. You are the plan. Go change the world. Go to your school, go to your work, go to your gym, go to your family, go to your neighborhood, wherever you have influence, and share your life, share your faith, share your story, share your church. Right? And we talked about this Last week we said, even though it seems crazy and intimidating, God's promise is, I'll speak through you. I'll go with you, and I'll speak through you. And so we can start to do that with some confidence and red rocks. We don't have to look very far to find people that are hurting right now. Right. We talked about this last week. And a week starts to alleviate some of the shock. Doesn't take away the trauma, doesn't take away what our world has been experiencing recently. And I said it last week, and I just mentioned a few of the things that have happened in the last month, not because they are more significant or the lives of the people involved in the tragedies are more valuable than the lives of people involved in other tragedies, but because we don't have four hours. We just picked a few. And I said last week, a few that most of us have probably heard about. And we know about these things. Like, it was just about a month ago that some kids in a Catholic school in Minnesota, in a mass, like, praying to God during mass, were murdered. It was wrong, Evil. My heart breaks for that. And I can't imagine being one of those parents. They just sent their kid to school, and now their child is gone. And I can't imagine what that's like. And so we pray for those families. We pray for those that have lost loved ones. A few weeks ago, a girl on a. On a train in Charlotte murdered. Evil. Wrong. It's a family. It's now missing their daughter, their sister, their friend. About a week and a half ago, on Wednesday, something that the whole world knows about and a lot of us actually saw, whether we wanted to or not. Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah at a campus. And I'm not talking about politics or agendas. I'm talking about. It breaks my heart that there's a woman who now doesn't have a husband and a little boy and a girl who don't have a dad. And it's wrong and it's evil, and we pray for those people. But if this is your home. We barely had time to even try to process what we heard about what happened in Utah, because about 60 seconds later, there was a shooting right here in our own backyard at Evergreen High School. This whole city has been experiencing trauma ever since. We have people from that high school at all of our locations. I was in the gym a couple days ago, and a dad came up to me, and he's like, man, you know, he's talking about the church, and he said, I have a 16 year old daughter and she goes to school on the other side of town and she's scared to go to school. Like we feel that it's real. We pray for our city, our country, us as parents, our students, our children, the teachers. But what it reminds me is we're not playing a game. We don't get together like this because we got free time. God's real, Satan's real, Heaven's real, Hell's real. Satan really does want to kill, steal and destroy every single good thing that God wants to do in and through us. So church, there's never been a better time for us to decide. It's time to be the church. This world needs us. I started to talk about this last week and the last thing I'll do a slight recap from last week. But if you have spent much time in the dumpster fire of social media, you know Satan would love to take these tragedies and use hate and cause fear and division, more division in our country, division in our church. He would absolutely love for brothers and sisters in Christ to do nothing but start to hate each other and then divide in red Rocks Church. I said it last week and I'll say it again this week. May we be the place that says not on our watch. We're not going to get involved in the hate. We're not going to get involved in hurling insults. We got too big of a calling. Sorry guys, this isn't in the notes, but let me just read something real quick. Let this just be, I don't know, a thought challenge, whatever is for me. If we're going to be the church that we're supposed to be, where everybody's welcome and we reach the world, then there's not a chance in the world that we're all going to look alike. Vote alike, think alike, act alike, but we can get together. With the common denominator being that he is the king of kings and the Lord of lords. And because we don't look alike, vote alike, think alike, weren't raised alike. There's going to be tension, there's going to be disagreements, but we don't disagree like the world does. Just if you find yourself in a tense conversation, I know that would never happen these days. Could you just let God's word be your guide? This is first Peter 3, 8 and 9. Finally, all of you. Be like minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. Here it is. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. See, on the contrary, repay evil with blessing. Because to this, you were called so that you may receive a blessing. Red Rocks Church. We got a calling on our life that's much bigger than a social media platform. So what we want to be as a church, we want to lead with love. We want to be humble. We want to be real and authentic. We want to declare truth. But in love, we want to stand on truth. And we want to keep being the church, which means we're going to be a little rowdy sometimes. No dumb and dumber videos this week. We'll catch you next week. We're going to keep praising our God in the middle of the chaos Church. We're going to praise our God in the middle of the chaos. We're going to pray for each other like crazy, and we're going to proclaim the name of Jesus from the rooftops. That's who we are. And I mean this. No matter what you've been through, no matter who you are, no matter what you think, we will do our very best in this place to make you know that you are welcomed and loved. And we're all screwed up. We're just screwed up differently. We're all broken. We're just broken differently. But we're pursuing the great physician. And if you come here with us, we'll lock arms with you. This is a hospital, not a courtroom. This isn't a place where we get dressed up and try to pretend we're better than we are and I don't have anything wrong with me and expect to be judged. This is a place where we walk in and go, I don't have time to play games. I can't do the courtroom thing. I'm hurt and I need the doctor. And here's exactly how I'm hurt. And we, as a church family, we're going to be the kind of people that lock arms with each other, that don't look like us and don't vote like us and don't think like us and weren't raised like us until we all get to get to meet with the great physician. Amen. We good? All right. It's time to be the church. I was in an interesting conversation with a group of pastors this week, and one of the guys said, man, I feel like as I look at social media, I feel like, excuse me. I feel like there's all this. All this arguing and hate and insults and anger and division. And he said he just was speaking his mind and his heart, and he goes, man, I just feel like. Like I'm looking at all this stuff on Social media and I feel like Satan's winning right now. Well, Ryan Weman, the man, the myth, the legend from our Austin campus who spoke here a few weeks ago, he was also in the conversation. And you know what he said? He goes, then stop looking at Instagram and start looking at the church because Satan's not winning. God is winning. And I'm telling you it's true. Some of you need to get your head out of your phone and start paying attention to what God's doing in the church. But. Cause a revival is starting in our country. I'm telling you. I Talked to about 20 pastors a couple nights ago from across Denver because me and Jill blinked and we now been here 20 years. And so we talked to a bunch of young pastors. I'm like, whatever fight you right now. Every single one of them. Our church grew last week. Our church grew last week. Our church grew last week. Our church grew last week. Every one of them. I was on a call yesterday with 40 pastors from around the country. Excuse me, 40 senior pastors from around the country. Every single one of them. Church grew. Church grew. Church grew. Church grew. God's up to something. God's up to something. Red Rocks church. Get this, it's gonna blow you away. Last weekend, just this little local church called Red Rocks, last weekend we grew by 5,000. 5,000 more people heard about Jesus last weekend than did the week before. Don't tell me God's losing. Just last weekend. 278 people just last weekend raised their hand and said, I want to ask God to forgive me of my sins and put my faith in Jesus. And, and, and all the experts years ago last. Oh, look out for Gen Z. Here comes Gen Z. Faith is going away. They're all walking away. They'll want nothing to do with God. Uh huh, uh huh. There's a revival going on with Gen Z right now. Church just this week. 40. If you were depending on what campus you were at, you may have already heard some of this. But let's celebrate again just this week at youth group On Wednesday, over 1,100 and like 50 students showed up. 40 salvations, 25 salvations at the young adults in the 20 something. And get this, I was talking to my son Ethan, he's one of the youth pastors and we have an incredible staff of youth pastors and junior high, high school young adult pastors. Like the best. And my son was talking to me about Wednesday and he said, dad, it was crazy. He goes, the place is packed. There's no Room to sit. You could barely stand in there. He goes, these teenagers were in this service for over an hour and a half. He goes, dad, we told them they had to leave and they wouldn't. They start demanding one more song. One more song. We want to worship. We want to worship. My son said, the band didn't even know what to do. They're like, ah, figure something out. And they kept worshiping. God's not losing. And I've read the end of the story. God doesn't lose. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. That's where we're headed. Church. It's time to be the church. I'll go fast. I have three points, so I'll go fast. But I want to look at Acts 2. If you have your Bible flip open. Acts 2. Want to look at God gives us a blueprint of what it looks like to be the church. So we won't look at all the things we could. We could go through this passage for months. We're going to highlight three things. Acts 2, 42, 47. Jesus died on the cross. Came back from the dead. Appeared to over 500 eyewitnesses. Couldn't be disproved. Went back up into heaven. They received the Holy Spirit like Jesus said they would. And they took that thing serious. He said, we're his church. He said, we're his plan. So the apostle Peter, like, voted least likely to succeed in every yearbook. The apostle Peter gets up and goes, I just talk about Jesus. 3,000 people got saved that day. And this is the beginning of the church. They devoted themselves. This is what they did. This is what it looks like to be the church. They devoted themselves. That word devoted, a good synonym for that word devoted is constantly. A good picture is your teenager with their phone constantly. Good morning. Oh, we're gonna watch a movie. Cool in the car, right? Some of you are like, nah, that's my husband, brah. They constantly. They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. The apostles teaching. That was when they got together for the big meeting. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. They were crazy generous. They said, take some of what you've given us, God, and go change the world with it. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. Then they went and broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and Sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily, those who are being saved. I want to highlight three things for taking notes. And you know what happens to note takers. I heard it, they get into heaven first. Come on. I'm sorry, God, you know, I just kid. They devoted themselves to the big meeting, to small groups and to prayer. They weren't playing games. They said, this is who we're called to be, number one. Don't miss the big meeting. That's what this is. They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching. I just want to say something because sometimes I feel like I don't enjoy talking about how important church is and that we all ought to be there because I work at one and it feels a little self serving. And so I actually look forward to the day when I don't work at one and they like just let me come visit every now and then and, and then I could be like, yeah, get your butt in church. And I don't even work there. We didn't create church. It wasn't our idea. It wasn't church people's idea. It wasn't Christian's idea. This was Jesus passion. This was God's plan. Matthew 16. Jesus told some of his best friends, he said, I'm gonna build my church and the gates of hell won't stop this thing. This wasn't our idea. But God does have something to say about our interaction with it. He says this in Hebrews 10:25. Not forsaking our meeting together as believers for worship and instruction. He says, don't miss it. As is the habit of some. He said, I know there's some that just not very consistent with this deal. God says, don't be that guy, don't be that girl. As is the habit of some. But encouraging one another, don't just go. But when you go, show up and encourage one another and all the more faithfully as you see the day of Christ's return approaching. And so the reason I bring that up is because I know that there's a whole lot of people who were already part of the church, just don't come all that often. And the world's gotten hard and heavy and so it's like, I gotta get back in church. Why were 5,000 people, why were 5,000 more people here last weekend than the weekend before? Because we crave God's presence and sometimes in really hard times, we just can't get it out of our mind and we realize we got to do something about it. But we crave it. There's. There's two times in Scripture where God goes way out of his way to say that his presence is just different. Like, we know he can be everywhere at the same time, but two times he goes out of his way to say my presence. It just kind of hits different. And he says, see, I wrote it down so I could remember. Matthew 18, he says, when you guys get together like this, and I'm the focus, my presence will be there. And in Psalm 22, he said, My presence will inhabit the praises of my people. So we get together like this, and Jesus is our focus, and we worship together. That's a storm right there. That's a tornado of God's presence right there. That's why so many of you. In fact, let me just give you a visual analogy. And this is risky, because who knows what's going to happen if at a local church you experience the presence of God and God changed your life because of it. If that's your story right now, raise your hand. Keep it up. Look around the room. He's not playing games. He says, my presence just hits different. And we need his presence. But it's not just about what we need. Notice that that verse said, don't forsake the meeting, as some are in the habit of doing, but encourage one another. See, we're told we are the church. Remember, we don't just show up and go, what can I get out of this deal? We show up on mission. We need God's presence. And guess what? Somebody else needs your presence. Oh, they need gods, but they need some other believer to encourage them. This week. Somebody in the building with you right now needs somebody to notice them. They need somebody to see that they're hurting. They need somebody to see that they're alone. They need somebody to pray with them. They need somebody to share a phone number and invite them to a meal and talk to them about their life. And so what I want you to think about, if this is your church, like, you're. Like, this is my church. I'm part of the family. Would you consider on your way to church, as you're getting ready to come to the. To the big meeting? I'm not just going for me, because I am the church and I'm going on mission. And would you look around when you're here? Would it not just be, I want to get out of the parking lot before it's too jammed up, and I want my favorite seat, and I hope my favorite person speaks, and I hope the volume's the way I like it. And they play the songs that I like and. And the person sings that. What if it was. Oh, wait, I'm not actually just here for me. I'm here to encourage somebody else and look around and go, who looks new, who looks lost? Church family, if you haven't figured this out by now, you ought to. When I say, close your eyes and raise your hands if you want to get saved. Peek. You're supposed to do this, and you go, she just raised her hand. She just gave her life to God. Oh, wait till they dismiss, because I'm going to go meet her. Because she's going to need somebody. She's going to need some encouragement. She's going to need some prayer. We're here on Mission Church. When you walk out of these buildings, there's going to be two things you can sign up for today. Small groups and serve teams. And can I just say this? Red Rocks, this is not a Christian country club. It's a front porch for prodigals. And it's messy. And we need every single one of us in the family to help throw the parties. This is gonna blow you away. I did some research. Well, I asked some people to do some research, and they sent me the research. How many volunteers, people on the teams here at Red Rocks do you think it takes in one week to run church? Tell your neighbor. All right. If you said all right. If you said over 200, raise your hand. No lying. All right, all right. Keep them up. Keep them up. If you said over 400, keep them up. If you said over 600, keep them up. If you said over a thousand, keep them up. Yeah, a few of you get it. Listen to this. One week of red Rocks Church, 2,334 volunteers. That's what it takes to do what we do at all these locations. I promise you, we need you. Please join the team. Please sign up before you leave. Help us meet some prodigals. It doesn't matter what area you're in. Every single one of us, we're running out to the driveway like that dad in Luke 15, and we're welcoming home some prodigals and saying, come on in and let's meet with the great physician and experience life change. And we're here to serve you. And, hey, I want this to be our new culture. There's too many rooms where people are sitting in lobbies and overflows and all this stuff. If this is your church, would you. When you see that instead of running in and getting your seat Would you go out and find somebody who's brand new because they didn't know they needed to come to church 20 minutes early to get a seat? And would you bring them to your seat and would you go sit in the lobby? Church? Because that's what we do. Deal. Don't miss the big meeting. Show up on mission. Get yourself in a small group. They continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts. Galatians 6:2. Bear one another's burdens. Excuse me. And so fulfill the law of Christ. That's what we're supposed to do. We're going to do something this week that if you're new, it's not normally something we do, but we did it last week and we're going to do it this week again because we've just talked to so many people who are going through hard times right now. We're going to have prayer down front during the last two songs after I shut up. And I want to encourage you, hey, this is a hospital, not a courtroom. You don't have to impress anybody. If you're hurting, somebody you love is hurting. You're going through some stuff. Come forward. Let us pray for you. There's power in prayer. The God of the universe wants to meet with you, but it's going to take all of us. It's gonna take every single one of us going. I'm not just coming here for me. I'm coming here to be a part of the team, to be a part of the mission. And last week when we were down here praying, I probably talked to 10 different people the first service, and almost every conversation ended with me going, are you in a group? They're like I said, you need to be. You can't go through this by yourself. I know. You're not supposed to go through this by yourself. I know. Like, it's too many people who are calling Red Rocks home or dispersing, and you're trying to go through too many battles on your own. We were created to pursue the plans of God with the people of God. Let us help you. Don't leave without signing up for a small group before you leave here. If you're not in one, and if you don't find one, if you look out there and go, I don't like any of these people. That's God telling you to start one. We are the church. Tell your neighbor. We are the church, man. I don't have time. I really wanted to talk about this. No, don't have time. No, don't, don't, don't. Okay, fine. Acts 2:46. I'll be fast. They continued to meet. I've never seen this before when it talks about their small groups. They continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together. Look at this. With glad and sincere hearts. Two key ingredients to every good small group and things that every one of us needs. Joy and authenticity. The joy of the Lord is our strength. And if we confess our sins to each other and pray for each other, we will be healed. Now, see, all of us have a different bent on which one of those comes more naturally. Right? There's some of you that are running small groups or in a small group right now. And you walk in and there's somebody who's leading. It's like, hey, hey, hey. No horsing around. Sit down. Did you read your chapter? What's the homework? You got it done. No fun. Stop that. No, we don't have snacks. You guys, lighten up. Have some fun. Let there be some glad hearts. Men get sincere. I mean it. Like, sometimes we're really good at hanging out and laughing and having fun and really bad at getting real. After my friend Chad got married, he was one of our great friends, helped us start Red Rocks. After he got married, I went and played golf with him one day, and I was with him for like, four or five hours. And I came home and Jill was like, how was their honeymoon? And I was like, nah. She's like, what do you mean? You don't know? She's like, you were just with him for five hours? I was like, I know. What'd you talk about? Nah. We could spend all day together. Guys and girls, let's be honest and not ever go real. I'll never forget the day I talked to someone right here at the bottom of the stage, and he told me he was experiencing anxiety and depression and even suicidal thoughts. I said, have you told your small group? I knew the people in his small group, and it was like they were the life of the party. Like, this is the best small group you could ever be in on the planet. And he said, uh, I haven't. They were really good at the glad hearts thing, but they were. They were struggling a little bit with the sincere hearts part. We need both. You need both. Get in a group before you leave here today. Deal. Don't miss the big meeting. Get yourself in a small group. Pray for each other like crazy. They devoted themselves. They were constantly devoted themselves to the Apostles teaching to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. And I'm not going to go into that because we're just about out of time. But that's what we're about to do. We're going to be the church. So don't act like you're in a courtroom today. Remember, you're in a hospital. We're going to lock arms and we'll pray together. We're going to be the church. Pray for each other like crazy and never stop inviting. If you read Acts, which we've been studying for this series, it's interesting. In Acts 2, there's 3,000 people. In Acts 4, there's 5,000 people. By Acts 21, tens of thousands of people. How they didn't keep it to themselves. They never stopped inviting. They were non stop going, of course we're going to get in the presence of God. And of course we're going to get in a group. And of course we're going to pray for each other. But this isn't just for us, because I am the church and I have his spirit and I am the plan. So I got to go wherever I'm with people and I got to bring them in so they can experience the same thing. And the Apostle Peter, of course he would be excited about this part because you may know this, you may not, but the only reason the Apostle Peter was ever even around Jesus is because his brother met Jesus and his brother took a risk on him. And we read about the Jesus in his life, Apostle Peter, imagine the no Jesus in his life. Apostle Peter, that's who Andrew went and said, you want to come to church? You want to come meet Jesus? Bring him to church. He said, I'm gonna invite you to experience his presence. And I'm telling you, it's not just Bible stuff. It wasn't just happening then. And in the book of Acts, it's happening now. Would you guys stand up with me? I'm gonna stop. I'll just tell you this. I just met someone today, right before church, and I'm not gonna tell you his name because I didn't ask him if I could tell this story. But he just came up to me, he said, man, I said, my whole life's different. I was so lost. And he said, I just didn't feel loved, I was hurt. He said, someone invited me to church. And then he goes, it's changed my life, it's changed my marriage, it's changed our family. And then he goes, look at our kids. It's changed everything. It's still happening. I could take this mic around to every single location right now. There'd be story after story after story after story after story where it's like, I was the one that could never get saved. I was the one that no one ever thought had a chance, but somebody took a chance, and somebody invited me, and I experienced the presence of Jesus, and it changed my life forever. That's what we do. Church. And so I'm going to pray for you that this week that God would put a name in your. In your mind and a name on your heart, and he would give you the courage and that you would just remind yourself, I don't have to be perfect. I don't have to know everything. I just have to take a risk because I got his spirit. He'll empower me. I've got his presence. He'll go with me. He'll speak through me. And I am the church. You're the church. Red rocks and red rocks is time to be the church. Amen. Let's pray. God, I thank you. Thank you for your word. I thank you for your son, Jesus, who died for every single one of us. I thank you that you said we can cast our cares and our anxieties and our fears on you because you care for us. And so, God, as we begin to worship, that's what we're going to do. We're going to take you up on that offer. We're going to take all these fears, the things that we're mad about, sad about, scared about, mental illness, physical illness, relational issues, financial issues, all of it. We just bring him to you today, God, and we say, would you do the miraculous? Because we can, I would say, with everyone's eyes closed and head bowed. But now everybody knows we're all peeking, so you might as well just look up here. I'll ask two questions, and we're just going to be honest because we're not playing games. If you or someone you love is going through a really, really difficult time right now, and you go, man, we just need the power of God to get involved in this situation, would you raise your hand? Let's be the church to each other, huh? A lot of us. And if. If you're. If you're visiting for the first time and you had no idea what was going on, I know this might seem crazy scary, but sometimes just a physical display or emotion can really represent and solidify something that's going on in our heart. And. And so if you're. If you're here and you go Man, I didn't see this coming. But God's been speaking to me. And right now I want to ask him to forgive me of my sins. I want to say yes to Jesus. I want his spirit in my life. And I want to go to heaven forever. And I don't care who sees it. I want Jesus. I say yes to him. If that's you, raise your hand right now. Praise God. Praise God. Yes. Yes. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Yeah. Come on. God, we thank you for your son. We thank you for your miraculous power. We come to you today. We're so grateful. God, would you do miracles in our lives? I thank you for the eternal lives that are being changed right now. As we begin to worship. I pray they would experience your presence. Presence in an authentic way. God, give us the courage now to be the church and to allow others to be the church when we need it. Those of us who need prayer right now, God, we just say we humble ourselves. We say we need you. And those of us who don't, we look for somebody to encourage and somebody to pray for, because we are the church. We know that we are your plan. And so, God, we accept that and we say, yes, send us and help us be a place that doesn't just talk about it, but actually gets to experience it. God, help us to be a part of changing the world and making heaven more crowded in Jesus name. And everybody said, amen. If you need prayer for anything, come forward. Someone will pray for you. Let's worship.