The Strength of Gentleness

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Can we celebrate them this morning? Come on, let’s give it up one more time. Come on. You guys go ahead and take a seat. My name is Brian. It’s so good to be here with you guys; that is the 11:00 service for those here in service and those watching online. I want to welcome you. And man, isn’t it good that we can celebrate seeing that our God will make a way? Isn’t that good this morning? Come on. Listen, today is a really fun, exciting day. We are in week three of our sermon series. You know, blessed life in a broken world going over the Beatitudes. And can we just give it up for Pastor Virgil? Hasn’t he just been doing great these last two weeks? Yeah. But today, we got a treat. Our e-high Pastor, Brandon Bunch, is going to be delivering the message for us today, so we’re excited about that. So if you’re new with us today, I want to welcome you. You are in for a great, great Sunday. And speaking of a great Sunday, next Sunday, I’ve been telling people I was at the Milestone Festival last weekend, and I was passing out these cards about people to Dustin Tavella, and they’re like, Who’s Dustin Tavella? I’m like the guy that just won America’s Got Talent. And they’re like, how did you book the guy that quick? They just won America’s Got Talent. Well, we booked him. He was not the winner of America’s Got Talent, right? So God just does some amazing, amazing things. And so next Sunday at 9:00 and 11:00 and even for students at 6:30. We’re going to have Dustin Tavella, the winner from three weeks ago or four weeks. How long ago was the season 16 winner of America’s Got Talent. He’s going to come. He’s going to bring some hope. He’s going to bring some joy. It’s just going to be a great Sunday. So I encourage you guys to come early. That’s why I’ve been telling everyone there’s no ticket or anything like that. But if you come at 11:15, I know I got my 11:15 people. I sometimes see if you come, you’re like, There’s no seat for me. I’ll be like, Well, you came in at 11:15. All right, so come early. All right. And speaking of all the things of hope and comfort, you know, this past week, Virgil usually says that community is our middle name. And this past week, we’ve been able to be just that for a family. Families really. And, you know, last Sunday, I mentioned that there was an individual who lost both her dad and husband on the same day. And we had the services for that this past week. And we had so many people in our church, and a part of our church to volunteer, give up their time to come and help. When I think of the words of what we’re able to say of, like, your generosity, and what we’re doing as a church is making a difference. It is someone else’s miracle. The family this past week, many times just said, I can’t believe a church would do this for our family. And so I just want to encourage you guys, as we talk about the generosity, and I know they got the link up behind me, but as we share with all this, it isn’t just to say, hey, it’s great we’re able to do. I was actually able to see it this past week. And as you leave service, you know, later on, we’re going to have the buckets, you can give right there. You can just go online. This is just starting the journey of really seeing true change happen throughout our community. And, you know, here in a moment, we’re going to have a baptism, and I’m going to invite the friends and family to come up and be a part of this time of worship. And I think about the words that we’re about to sing here in a moment that says, you give life. You give love; you give light to the darkness. I thought about this family and these families this past week. In the midst of darkness, in the midst of hurt, the light of Jesus was able to come. I’m gonna ask you guys to stand as we’re going to see this baptism, and we’re going to celebrate together. I just ask that you guys join me in prayer. So, Father, right now, I’m thankful. I’m thankful that we can sing of how great you are. Now, Father, as we are going to come and experience and celebrate of a life that has. Been completely given to you. Father, we’re able to know that this is just an outward expression of what’s really happening inside. Father, you give all the life. You give all the hope, Father. You restore all things. So, Father, we’re thankful. And we say this all on your name Amen.

Good morning. My name is Brian Charles, and I’m here this morning to give praise and honor to how great our God is and how good he has been to me. He has given me life, love, hope and has restored brokenness to my heart. My spiritual journey started right here in Eastside in January 2019. I came here out of brokenness in our desperation. I was struggling with life. I felt alone. And I hurt. And I was very angry. As I continue to press forward and hope. I started coming regularly. I began to realize that it’s okay not to be okay. And I also began to realize that there are a lot of broken people here. And I heard their stories right here on this stage and their stories of how God was working their lives. And it encouraged me and gave me hope. So in May of 2019, I heard about this thing called man camp. Yeah, so I’ve never really been a man’s kind of man. I’ve always worked. When I came home and when I had spare time, I just wanted to be with my family. But I kept having this tug at my heart with this man camp thing. And my wife, she encouraged me to sign up, and I did, and I went. That was a weekend that literally jumpstarted my spiritual journey on living an all-in life for Christ. It was an amazing time. And the guys that I got to meet there and hear their stories, it changed my life. And I want more of those relationships with more of those people, more of those men. So when I got home, my family they were just amazed at the difference they saw in me. They actually said We’re going to send you to Jesus camp more regularly. But as I continued to press toward God, I was led to publicly dedicate my life to Christ. In baptism September 2019. It and it wasn’t until shortly after that that John Congleton invited me to a men’s prayer huddle, and he invited me to Men’s Life Group. And I went, and I loved it. It was truly another inspirational spiritual step for me, unlike I’ve ever experienced before it. I saw how those men, they poured their time into me and they invested in me. They made me feel known and loved. This past April, man camp rolled around again, and I signed up, and I went. But this time, I took another spiritual step. I signed up as a team lead. We baptized several guys that Sunday when we got back here to the church. But the dearest of all those baptisms to me was a little girl that God has blessed me with. It was my daughter. I got to baptize Abigail, and. praise be to God for sure. Over the past couple of years, my wife and my kids they’ve seen a 180-degree change in my life, my attitude, my words, my actions, and my desires. My kids best describe me now as if I’m not angry anymore and I’m not as uptight as I used to be. My wife would tell you that I’m not the man that she married, but I’d like to tell you. I’d like to think that I’ve been upgraded to a better version of myself through the power of Christ living and working inside of me. God is truly. Truly giving me hope. A new perspective on life while restoring my brokenness. He took me right where I was that, renewed my heart, and gave me an outlook on life. He gave my family a heart of forgiveness for all the wrong I had done to them. And he led me to people to encourage me to live an all-in life for Christ. And he would do the same for you. But you had to yield; you have to come to Christ and just lay it all down. It’s your choice. Just the other day, I was with a friend who’s losing his wife to cancer. He said, Brian, I’m literally watching her starve to death. I can’t imagine. I didn’t know what to say. There are no words I can say that would ease his pain. Only God can do that. But I went to bed at night with a heavy burden on my heart. I woke up the next morning, and this is what hit me. You know, physically, I’m fine. But spiritually, I was starving to death. See, satan wants to feed us lies in the cares of this world. They do nothing but waste down, and they draw us further away from Christ, which burdens us. But Christ tells us in Matthew 11:29-30.

“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Matthew 11:29-30

I’m still learning to listen and obey. As I yield my life and I lean into Christ on my journey called life. I encourage anyone who is spiritually starving and struggling, who is lonely, who has pain that’s hurt and angry. Just come to the cross. Come to the foot of the cross. Lay it down. He will meet you right here, just like he’s done in me. You’re not alone; you know I’m not the man that I was. And I’m sure not the man that I want to be. But by the grace of God, I’m a man of Christ, living. And working within me.

Good morning, Eastside. How are you guys doing? Yeah. You know, I’m so excited to be here. My name is Brandon. I’m a high school student pastor, and I just want to go ahead and make it aware. If it’s not aware already, that God is moving this morning. Right? I mean, we had a baptism. Worship, it’s amazing. I believe God is here with us, and he is ready to restore some souls this morning. All right. So we’ve been to a sermon series called A Blessed Life in a Broken World. And if you’ve been with us the past couple of weeks, you know by now, this is a sermon series based on Jesus’s most famous teaching, the Sermon on the Mount. And the way that Jesus actually opens up his teaching is he starts with talking about how God wants to bless his people. And the pastor that we need to have in order to receive that blessing in week one, Jesus, said, Blessed are the poor and spirit, and we learn that the poor in spirit are the people who admit that they need God and they cannot do life apart from him. Last week, Jesus said Blessed are the broken hearted, and that God actually uses grief to be able to allow us to receive His blessing in our time of loss. And whether that loss is family like we experienced this past week, the loss of a relationship or a job or maybe even a marriage, God actually uses grief to heal us and to bless us because God draws near to us when we grieve, God agrees with us. Not only that, God has actually given us hope when we grieve because he’s giving us the hope of heaven. Amen. So if you have your Bible or your Bible app on your phone, I would love for you guys to open up to Matthew five, verse five. And like I said, Jesus is opened this up, and he says.

“Blessed are the gentle, for they will inherit the earth.”

Matthew 5:5 

I just got to start with this question because I believe this is really important. How many of you believe today we live in a world that is characterized by gentleness? Raise your hand. We live in a world that is characterized by gentleness. Now, how many of you would say that we live in a world that is characterized way more by harshness than gentleness? Raise your hand. It’s like every hand up in the room. Like, I agree completely because we’ve seen harshness and all of the different areas of our life. Right? Like we see it in the political arena. Every time we watched a debate. Right? There’s some harshness on there. Every time we click the app that says Facebook or Instagram, it does not take but 5 seconds to get on there, and you will find some harshness. Maybe you’ve seen it in the corporate world where you work at your job with your employees or your boss. There is some harshness. I know that we’ve probably seen it at a little League baseball game when parents get excited and they’re yelling at their kids. There’s some harshness. Maybe some of you guys this morning are experiencing harshness in your own family between moms and dads, parents and kids, husbands and wives. Maybe you’re experiencing harshness. Why is that? Well, the world is said the only way to succeed and to be successful is by being harsh. Because we’ve heard the saying. Right. It’s survival of the fittest. Finish first. That’s what the world says. But Jesus says, blessed are the Gentiles, for the whole Earth will belong to them. Now I want to go ahead and make it clear Jesus did not mean if you are gentle, then you are weak. Jesus did not mean that you would be a wimp if you were gentle. Jesus did not mean that you would be a doormat. Didn’t mean that you were lacking something. When Jesus said, Blessed, are the gentle. He meant something completely different. See, the Greek word for gentleness is.

Parautes

I want you guys to say that with me. Prautes Hey, sounds good. Sound really good. Parutes is the Greek word for gentleness.

Gentleness- STRENGTH under control

What does that even look like? Strength under control. Well, if there was ever a man who did this really well, it was Jesus, right? Like before he went to pilot, Jesus had strength under control. Every time he encountered the Pharisees, which he often did, Jesus had strength under control all the way to the garden. And when Jesus was praying his prayer. Jesus had strength under control. And how did He do this? He submitted himself to the father. And he was able to gain gentleness and have strength under control. And I believe this is why we have the inner conflict that most of us walk around with. It’s because the ways of the world are always completely opposite of the ways of Jesus.

HARSH or GENTLE

HATE or LOVE

IMPATIENCE or PATIENT

RUTHLESS or KIND

See, the ways of the world say to be harsh, but Jesus is said to be gentle. Ways of the world say to hate. But Jesus has said to love. The ways of the world has said to be impatient. But Jesus says, be patient. In my timing, the ways of the world says, Be ruthless. But Jesus is calling us to be kind. So the reality is you have to ask yourself the question. You actually have the choice this morning. You can either embrace the ways of the world. Harshness, hate, impatience, ruthlessness. Or you have the choice to embrace the ways of Jesus, gentleness and love and patience and kindness. You know, I believe that something great would happen if we chose to start living a more gentle life. You know what I believe? What would happen? I believe that we could actually change the world. Like we could change the world if we choose to submit ourselves to the father and start emulating the ways of Jesus and choose to be gentle. I believe we could change the world, but it actually begins. With each and every one of us making the individual decision. An individual decision saying, Lord, help me with my harsh heart. Help me with my harsh heart and give me a gentle one. And I want to go ahead and give you some good news. Can I give you some good news? Because normally, you don’t get it until the end of the sermon, but I’m going to give it to you at the front of the sermon. The good news is that you can confess your sins of harshness today, and Jesus can actually forgive you. Jesus can actually forgive you. But remember, it starts with the individual decision of you saying, Lord, I’ve been harsh; please help me with my heart’s harshness and make me more gentle. There’s something I believe would happen. We would change the world, and it’s because we would communicate three things to the world if we choose to be gentle. Number one.

Why Live a Life of Gentleness:

We Communicate Love

Who agrees we need some love in this world. Can I get an amen on that? I mean, that’s really important. We need some love in the world. It’s in Ephesians four two. It says.

“Be completely humble and gentle; being patient, bearing with one another in love.”

Ephesians 4:2

See, Paul has made it clear in this verse if we’re going to bear each other and love. It’s hard to love each other. Come on. Amen. Yeah, it’s hard to love each other. But Paul has made it clear if we are to bear one another and love, we must be completely gentle. See, Paul is saying when you disagree with someone, and you choose to be gentle in action and in speech, you’ll communicate love when someone gossips about you, whether it’s in your family or your friends. Circles are at work, and you choose gentleness and strength under control. You communicate love when someone mistreats you or they abuse you, and you choose strength under control. You choose gentleness; you communicate love. And why is that so good? Well, Proverbs 15:1 says.

“a gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger”

Proverbs 15:1

See, the writer of Proverbs is giving us one or two choices. We have one or two choices to make here. We can choose to be gentle, and it will actually defuse conflict. It can defuse conflict. It can turn away a harsh word. Or we can choose to have a heart or a spirit of harshness. And we can actually stir up anger not only in the person but also within ourselves. We can either retaliate. We can do something way more meaningful, way more harsh. Then what was done to us? And we communicate. We care more about the problem than the person. But the proverb says, If we choose gentleness, we can actually defuze conflict. We can defuse the situation, we can change the situation, and communicate love. And now, there is a place where God has actually been teaching me this the past year. Now whether you’ve been married a month or 30-plus years, how many of you would say you have marriage figured it out? Raise your hand. Yeah, I got some laughter but no hands, right? Like, I was hoping someone would raise their hand because I could use some coaching this morning. All right, I need some help. So when I explain this to you, I want to make it clear I am not an expert at marriage. All right? My wife will tell you, but Rachel and I have been married for almost a year. We got a little bit over a month, and we’ll be married a year. One of the things I’m actually an expert in and wives, I’m giving you the opportunity. Amen. So if you miss it, it’s on you. But one of the things I’m an expert in is I know what can make my wife mad, and I know what does make my wife mad. Amen. Amen. Yeah. And men. It only took me a week to become an expert at this. So if you’re not an expert yet, I don’t know if you’re coachable. Okay, But one of the things that God has taught me, and this is really important, one of the things that God has taught me with my wife, Rachel, is that when she comes home from a long day stressed, angry, maybe a harsh word was given to her. And she comes home tired. What I say next can change the trajectory of my entire week with Rachel. I can choose; like the proverb says, I can choose to be gentle. And if I’m gentle, it actually diffuses Rachel’s spirit. It actually is encouraging to Rachel’s spirit. It actually changes the situation. It communicates to Rachel. I love you. Because I had strength under control. But if she comes home and she’s angry, or she’s upset, or she’s tired, or she’s stressed out, and I choose to be harsh. I’ve changed our entire week. I’ve stirred up anger not only in her but in myself. Choosing gentleness is so important. Because if we submit to the father, we start emulating the ways of Jesus. Not only can we communicate love. But second.

Now, if you’re not familiar with this language, I’m going to give you a quick description of what a nun is.

 NONES are people with no religious preference

They would not call themselves Buddhists, Mormons, atheists, and agnostics. If you were to give them the sheet for them to check the box where they’re at, they would go all the way to the bottom and then click that bottom box, and they would say nothing. Right? They would check off the box that says nothing. And why is it important that I’m telling you this? I believe it’s so important. Is it because our church has decided to pick up the torch, and God has made it clear to us that we’re supposed to reach 10,000 people in our community to help them live an all-in life for Christ. And there are roughly a hundred thousand people in Madison County today. And only about 10,000 people go to church on any given weekend. Leaving 90,000 people. Unchurched, and even more than that, would consider themselves a none. They want nothing to do with the church, nothing to do with Jesus. They want nothing to do with atheists or Mormonism. They’re not worried about any of it. They say I want nothing. And the reality is this is a really big goal that God has laid on our hearts as a church. And I believe it takes every single person sitting in a seat this morning. I believe it takes every eye that is watching online this morning to make this happen. But it starts with an individual decision. An individual decision to submit to the father and start emulating the ways of Jesus and saying, God, I have a harsh heart. Please help me start being more gentle because we’ve all agreed this morning together. You guys have agreed together. The world is already a harsh and difficult and heavy place. And the reality is all 90,000 people, and even more than that, need some gentleness in their life. They need some gentle people. Look with me at Titus three two. It says.

“slander no one, to avoid fighting, and to be kind, always showing gentleness to all people.”

Titus 3:2

Now I want you to circle the world always. And I want you to circle the word all. These words are really important because Paul says the slander no one fight with no one be kind always being gentle to all people. See, I think this is really important what Paul said because Paul makes no distinction. He doesn’t say, believer nonbeliever. He doesn’t say, Democrat or Republican. He doesn’t say this person or this financial status or that financial status. But Paul says, always be gentle to all people. You know, I hate sharing this story because of the way that God had to teach me this very thing. But before I started here at the church, I worked at a warehouse in Lexington for two months before I started here. I remember the situation very well and when I started at this warehouse. There are two things that God made clear to me. One that I would be challenged for the fact that I believed in Jesus. And two, that it was a mod podge full of different types of people. And one of the guys that I debated with daily about my faith and about my belief in Jesus, he was a nun. And his name was Cody. And like I said, I worked there for a little over a year and a half. Me and Cody were always back and forth, debating about God, debating about my belief in Jesus. And I remember two months before I left there, we were in an argument, and I don’t remember the last thing that I said to Cody. But we were in an argument about the goodness of God. I want to tell you something that Cody was really good at. Cody knew how to get under my skin. Like, who has those people in your life? Like, you have people who know how to get under your skin. And guess what I was really good at doing? I was really good at letting him get under my skin. I was harsh. I was hateful. I was arrogant. I was prideful. And the reality is the funny part is I was talking about the most gentle man in history to this boy. While being one of the most harsh and hateful people. But here we were, we in a debate once again. And we were talking about the goodness of God, and we were just going back and forth like we always do. I remember the room that we were in. I remember the aisle that we were in. I even remember the side of the aisle that we were on. Because that’s how heavy this hit me. We were going back and forth. And I don’t remember the last thing I said. But I remember the very next thing that he said to me. He said, Brandon if God is so good. If God is so good. Then why did my dad end up in a wheelchair? And lose his eyesight. And at that moment, God melted me. I mean, he melted my heart, and I felt miserable. And the reality is something that I learned in that moment is I was arguing for Jesus, and Jesus is the right answer.

I mean, that’s why we’re gathered here today. Jesus is the right answer. But I was spending all of my time believing the way that I was arguing was okay because I was talking about Jesus. The reality was, is I spent more time talking about Jesus than being like Jesus. I spent more time talking about Jesus to Cody than being like Jesus. And the reality is, if I had submitted to the father and started living the ways that Jesus has called me to live, I could have chosen strength under control and been gentle with Cody. And guess what? I could have communicated the love of God. If I had avoided fighting, avoided slander, and just tried to be kind in every situation, always being gentle to Cody, I could have been a positive witness, a sweet fragrance to someone that was lost. The Bible says the loss is near and close to God’s heart. Which means they should be closed and near to our hearts. So I believe when we submit to the father, and we start living the ways that Jesus is calling us to live, we don’t only communicate God’s love; not only can we be a positive witness, but third and last. And I believe the most important.Is we become more like Jesus. We become more like Jesus. And that’s why we’re gathered here today, is because we are saying we want to be more like Jesus. Like that is the goal. And in Matthew 11:29, this is what Jesus says. He says.

“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Matthew 11:29

Jesus said. Learn from me. Look to me and my ways. Learn from my ways because I am gentle. And the reality is maybe you’re here this morning, and you’ve been way harsher than you would like to admit because you’ve been distracted. And I want to encourage you. Jesus. They tried to distract him. They tried to distract him when he came down. They tried to distract him and get him caught up in the politics of his time. They asked him, which rabbi do you serve? Which God do you follow? They tried to distract him. But Jesus submitted himself to the Father and was able to gain gentleness and have strength under control in every situation. But maybe you’re here today, and you’re like me. And there are times and moments right now in your life that you’ve been way harsher than you would like to admit. And you’ve been distracted. And Satan has got you caught up in his tricks and the things of this world. Maybe you’re distracted by being vaccinated or not vaccinated. Maybe you’re still caught up in a mask or no mask. Maybe you’re caught up on social media and all the negativity on there, and you’ve started to join in. Maybe you’re caught up with having success and climbing the corporate ladder. Maybe you’re distracted, and satan got you caught up in his tricks. I want to encourage you this morning; not only did I have good news at the beginning, but I also got good news for you at the end. God actually bankrupt heaven and sent his son Jesus so you can actually confess your sins of harshness and start living a more gentle life like Jesus went all the way to the cross, knowing that He would want you to come back home this morning and say, Jesus, I want to live a more gentle life. Galatians 5:23 says the fruit of the spirit is gentleness. So what does that mean? Well, it means that gentleness cannot be gained from out of the in. You cannot learn gentleness from those around you. You cannot manufacture gentleness. But gentleness is actually a fruit of the spirit, which means it’s God’s breath in us. So we can pour out gentleness to those around us. It’s God’s breath in us so we can pour out gentleness to those around us. It’s just like what he’s saying. It says your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise. We pour out our praise. It is the breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise to you only. God is your breath in us that we can gain gentleness. So we can pour it out to those around us. I want to invite you to stand with me this morning. The worship team is actually going to lead us back. The song Great. Are you Lord? Some of us are here this morning, and we’ve been way harsher than we would like to admit. I want to encourage you. You can make this song your cry to the Lord this morning. You can make it your prayer to the Lord this morning. Lord, please help me with my harsh heart, and please breathe into me your gentleness. Can we just do that together this morning? Can we all declare together one voice going forward? God, please change me from out to in as we sing.

 It’s your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise for our presence. So we pour out appraised.I was afraid for. I. So we brought our friends on.What powerful, powerful words. Those are. Could you guys help me and show some thanks to munch for that wonderful message he delivered to. Well, I’m so thankful for the people that we have here at Eastside and the youth and how they’re growing up and coming in and being invested in sharing powerful messages like that. But sit there and I listened to everything that he said. And folks, you know, I have to look at myself. I got to have a personal reflection on how he delivered that message and what those words meant. And when I think about harshness versus gentleness, and I look at myself, you know, I’m not very proud of the past life and the things that I have that I have done and the things I’ve said when I think about being harsh. I’ve been harsh to my spouse. I’ve been harsh to my children. I’ve been harsh to my friends, my family. My mother and father. I’ve been harsh to coworkers. People here at church. People I don’t know, on the road, passing in a car. I’ve even been harsh to my pastor. And when I think about all that, I don’t want to be known for that. I want to be known for being gentle. And when we look at all of those things, how is the way that we come from that? And Bunch shared it. It’s Jesus. It’s turning to him. It’s looking to him to change our hearts, to change our lives, to change our mindset, to look at gentleness as the way of life in every aspect when somebody comes to something to look toward being gentle. So I ask you on a personal reflection, folks, just like I did, if you look at yourself in all these things that I’ve shared, do you see the harshness in your life? Have you shared harshness with others? If you were, would you just lift a hand with me this morning? I’ve been harsh, but we don’t want that anymore, Right? Bunch said God gives us a choice. And that choice, we can call on him to ask for gentleness. Can I pray for you? Father Lord, we thank you for the gift of gentleness. We thank you for instilling that. Father. I don’t want to be harsh in my actions. I don’t want to even think of the word. But, Father, when anything comes in front of us, I ask that you give us that gift of gentleness. Father. And as all these people. Have answered the challenge that Bunch put out today, that we confess that we’ve been harsh in our lives. We confess that we don’t want that anymore, that we choose gentleness. Father, when you were on the cross, you as you shared gentleness. When you asked for forgiveness for those for what they were doing to you. Father, we ask that you touch our hearts. And today we’re going to come can declare that. We’re going to declare it in song as we’re going to continue in worship. And we’re going to sing out in praise of You that you have blessed us with the gift of gentleness in your heavenly name. Amen.

 We, as a church, as a senior pastor of the church, we’re committed to raising up a whole generation of young leaders. And we want to find out in a couple of weeks if we’re going to get some land for the second campus. Yeah. And we are already believing that the vision is going to happen because God spoke it. So, therefore, we had to believe it. So it’s coming. We’re doing our part. And here’s what I believe. I believe that on every campus that we have, every teaching needs to be live. We need to have a live person teaching. So one week I will teach at. Reebok campus. The next week I may teach at exit 500 campus. I’m just making up hypothetical campuses. And then the third week, I may come back to the Reebok campus. And the fourth week, I’ll be at exit 600, whatever. We’ll just be rotating. But I believe if we’re going to do that, then we have to start raising up these leaders and these speakers. And so every month, we’re going to have different young leaders who’s going to be developed as teachers and preachers so that as the vision comes alive, we’re going to have live teaching at every campus. How about that, huh? Yep. And so I told Bunch on Friday, I said, If you get sick over the weekend, I preach your sermon; I’ve got it memorized after working with them and helping them, you know. Didn’t he just do a fantastic job? Yeah, So so the vision is already happening. It’s happening right now. Every time that one of these young leaders gets up here and they teach, and they develop, and they grow, and you support them. We have all kinds of news about the vision we have time to share today. But I just want you to know that me and my wife we sit here on the front row today, and we were just crying, sitting back, and just watching the beautiful picture that unfolded; how God moved today. And I didn’t do anything except worship, you know. And isn’t it wonderful that God says, you know what? The church is the one institute is, the one ingredient that is to be at the heart of every community. And I think that we have it for years to come with all these wonderful young leaders that their eastside community is going to be in great hands. Would you not agree with me? So I’m going to pray this prayer over you from the Book of Numbers, and then your dismiss. It says, this God bless you and keep you. May God smile on you and give you. May God look full in the face and make you prosper. Amen. Have a great week. God bless.