SPEAKER_00: Hi, it's Pastor Jonathan, and thanks for downloading the FBC El Dorado Sermon Podcast.
SPEAKER_00: In today's sermon, it's week two of our current series, Impact El Dorado.
SPEAKER_00: Today we're gonna look at First Thessalonians chapter one, verses two and three, as we consider what are some habits that allow us to impact our community.
SPEAKER_00: American history.
SPEAKER_00: Few people have impacted our country on the same scale as Benjamin Franklin.
SPEAKER_00: Franklin was an architect of the Declaration of Independence.
SPEAKER_00: And he was also a signer of the U.S.
SPEAKER_00: Constitution.
SPEAKER_00: Franklin also was the man who developed the postal routes up and down the eastern seaboard that allowed mail to uh flow so efficiently.
SPEAKER_00: Benjamin Franklin, he was also instrumental in George Washington uh becoming the first president of the United States.
SPEAKER_00: Those are just a few of the ways that Benjamin Franklin impacted American life.
SPEAKER_00: But aren't you curious how one man can make such an enormous impact?
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's your assumption that Ben Franklin uh was born into a family filled with privilege.
SPEAKER_00: To make this level of impact, do you have to be someone, when you're born into the world, do you think, uh, who gets a head start on everybody else?
SPEAKER_00: Certainly, that Franklin family, they must have been wealthy and well connected.
SPEAKER_00: Nope, not at all.
SPEAKER_00: Ben Franklin's dad was a soap maker and a candle maker, while his mom was a homemaker.
SPEAKER_00: They had 15 kids.
SPEAKER_00: I I don't know what else she could have done except stayed home to care for 15 children.
SPEAKER_00: If not privilege, then what about education?
SPEAKER_00: To make that level of impact, surely he had to have graduated from the greatest schools and learned from the brightest minds.
SPEAKER_00: Van Franklin did, in fact, love school.
SPEAKER_00: He was an excellent student, but he only received three years of formal education.
SPEAKER_00: He quit school at the age of 10 to go work in that shop alongside of his dad, making candles and bars of soap.
SPEAKER_00: Remember, there were 15 children back at home.
SPEAKER_00: There was always another mouth that had to be fed.
SPEAKER_00: So if it wasn't privilege and it wasn't education, then how did Benjamin Franklin make such an impact?
SPEAKER_00: You're saying my mic isn't on.
SPEAKER_00: I don't believe that.
SPEAKER_00: How did it magically get turned off when I remember turning it on?
SPEAKER_00: That is crazy.
SPEAKER_00: Like there has to be a ghost in here.
SPEAKER_00: I know the Holy Ghost is here, right?
SPEAKER_00: But I'm thinking it has to be something else.
SPEAKER_00: Thanks, guys.
SPEAKER_00: Y'all are the best.
SPEAKER_00: So if it wasn't privilege or education, then how did this man make such an impact in American history?
SPEAKER_00: Biographers point to a number of attributes and traits, but one of the ones they over and over focus on to talk about Ben Franklin and the impact he made on our country is this.
SPEAKER_00: Ben Franklin was a creature of habit.
SPEAKER_00: Franklin, for his entire adult life, woke up at the exact same time every single day.
SPEAKER_00: Every single day.
SPEAKER_00: At five o'clock, his work for the day was done.
SPEAKER_00: Now, some of us have daily habits that mirror those of Benjamin Franklin.
SPEAKER_00: Others of us, not so much.
SPEAKER_00: We don't get up that early every single day.
SPEAKER_00: We don't have time to take a two-hour lunch, and we never stop working at 5 o'clock.
SPEAKER_00: But that doesn't mean that you're not a creature of habit.
SPEAKER_00: All of us are creatures of habit.
SPEAKER_00: A study conducted at Duke University determined that 40% of a person's actions and behaviors on any given day are habits.
SPEAKER_00: This means that your life is essentially the sum of every habit that you perform, whether that habit is good or bad.
SPEAKER_00: Your life is the sum of every small decision and action that you make on a daily basis.
SPEAKER_00: No matter if those habits are good or bad, ultimately, listen, they form you into the person you are becoming.
SPEAKER_00: Those habits, whether good or bad, they reveal the things that you truly believe.
SPEAKER_00: They uh reveal and portray your personality to the world, and they tell us the impact that you will make.
SPEAKER_00: It's knowing this that all of us believe it is better to exercise 30 minutes a day than to smoke three packs a day.
SPEAKER_00: Knowing this, like it is why all of us think, you know, it's better if I eat four servings of vegetables every single day than have four servings of spudnuts every single day, right?
SPEAKER_00: It's potato flour, it doesn't count.
SPEAKER_00: Not a vegetable.
SPEAKER_00: It's better in the morning that the first voice you listen for is the voice of God and not the voice on cable news or the voices on social media.
SPEAKER_00: You are a creature of habit, and those good habits, they have a positive impact on your life.
SPEAKER_00: But what about some good habits that will have a positive impact, not just on your life, but on this world?
SPEAKER_00: What about some positive habits that will impact El Dorado?
SPEAKER_00: Today we're continuing that series that we began last week.
SPEAKER_00: That series which is focusing on God's design for the local church, and we summarize God's design for the local church with this statement that God established the church to impact the world.
SPEAKER_00: And the impact of this church, 200 West Main, this church, it begins in El Dorado.
SPEAKER_00: And in preparation for this series, I was meditating on a couple verses found in 1 Thessalonians chapter 1.
SPEAKER_00: And I've been asking God if what was true of that first century church can be true of this 21st century church.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to what Paul says about the church in Thessalonica.
SPEAKER_00: He says, You have become an example to all the believers in Greece throughout both Macedonia and Achai, and now the word of the Lord is ringing out from you to people everywhere, even beyond Macedonia and Achai.
SPEAKER_00: For wherever we go, we find people telling us about your faith in God.
SPEAKER_00: We don't need to tell them about it.
SPEAKER_00: I want to help you kind of grasp the power of that statement with a series of maps.
SPEAKER_00: So let's go to the next slide, if we can.
SPEAKER_00: So the area points to the city of Thessalonica, and the circle that's around it, that's the region of Macedonia.
SPEAKER_00: Thessalonica was the capital city of the region of Macedonia.
SPEAKER_00: It was located on a major thoroughfare in that important region of the Roman Empire.
SPEAKER_00: So Paul's point is this this city, it is an important city, but listen, the church in Thessalonica, it's a minority group, it's a small gathering.
SPEAKER_00: They are not people who have power.
SPEAKER_00: Yet Paul says this he says, your reputation precedes you.
SPEAKER_00: People in this entire region know who you are because you've made an impact.
SPEAKER_00: So here's the analogy.
SPEAKER_00: It would be as if First Baptist Church in El Dorado, a church that is not the majority of our community or of our county, it would be as if that church, this church, was known throughout the state of Arkansas, and our reputation always preceded us for the good deeds and the good lives that we lived according to the name of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: That is an impact, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00: That shows like you're making a difference in the world.
SPEAKER_00: But that wasn't the limit to the impact of the church at Thessalonica.
SPEAKER_00: Let's go to the next slide.
SPEAKER_00: Paul says that your reach is all the way down to this region called Achai, this region uh due south of Macedonia.
SPEAKER_00: So, so the analogy is this like, not only do people in Arkansas know about First Baptist Church of El Dorado, but people from northern Louisiana to the Gulf Coast have heard about the good deeds and the good lives of the people of First Baptist Church of El Dorado.
SPEAKER_00: That's what happened to the church at Thessalonica.
SPEAKER_00: Like, it's not a big gathering of people, but they're making quite the impact.
SPEAKER_00: Like it is reverberating in their region and to the region south of them.
SPEAKER_00: And you're thinking, man, I can't imagine that.
SPEAKER_00: And then Paul goes on to say, this part really stands out.
SPEAKER_00: Your church is ringing out to people everywhere, to people beyond Macedonia and Achai.
SPEAKER_00: So let's go to the next slide.
SPEAKER_00: And so I think this is Paul's point.
SPEAKER_00: Like Paul has connections all over the ancient world.
SPEAKER_00: And Paul's like, I'm gonna tell them about this church I planted in Thessalonica.
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be a message of encouragement to them.
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be a message that challenges them.
SPEAKER_00: And he's like, they already know about you.
SPEAKER_00: They're hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away from you.
SPEAKER_00: They are separated by mountains, they're separated by seas, they're separated from you.
SPEAKER_00: But the news of your impact, it has already reached them.
SPEAKER_00: We don't have to tell anyone about you.
SPEAKER_00: They already know.
SPEAKER_00: That's the goal we want to work towards.
SPEAKER_00: But we never reach a goal.
SPEAKER_00: You never reach a goal in life unless you have the right habits in place.
SPEAKER_00: You see, we are not only creatures of habit, this is a church of habits.
SPEAKER_00: And one of the gifts of the last 12 plus months is we've all had an opportunity, especially me, to evaluate the habits of our church.
SPEAKER_00: What are the daily activities, what are the daily decisions we make as a gathering of believers?
SPEAKER_00: And part of the things God has confirmed for me is that we have some really good habits.
SPEAKER_00: We have some habits that are indispensable.
SPEAKER_00: Habits like it is good for God's people to gather in a location for worship and for learning and for fellowship.
SPEAKER_00: Those are good habits.
SPEAKER_00: Never leave those habits behind.
SPEAKER_00: You never go beyond those habits.
SPEAKER_00: Those habits, they make a positive impact on your life and the life of this church.
SPEAKER_00: But God's also reminded me we need some positive habits, some better habits that allow us to impact El Dorado.
SPEAKER_00: Habits that lead us to look outside of these walls.
SPEAKER_00: And these are the habits that determine and shape the sort of church that we will become.
SPEAKER_00: The habits that reveal what we truly believe, the habits that will decide the impact of our church.
SPEAKER_00: And that's today's big idea.
SPEAKER_00: Our habits decide our impact.
SPEAKER_00: The habits of our church, whether healthy or unhealthy, will determine the level to which we impact our community.
SPEAKER_00: Now, since we are desiring and praying towards having that same level of impact as the church at Thessalonica, I think we should let them this morning teach us a thing or two about some healthy habits that let us impact the world around us.
SPEAKER_00: So listen to what Paul says earlier in 1 Thessalonians chapter 1.
SPEAKER_00: This is verses 2 and 3.
SPEAKER_00: He says, We always thank God for all of you and pray for you constantly.
SPEAKER_00: As we pray to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and the enduring hope you have because of our Lord Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: As part of his second missionary journey, Paul and Silas they travel to Thessalonica.
SPEAKER_00: After they spend about a month in the city sharing the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ, a group of Jews and a group of Gentiles place their faith in Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And a church is planted within that city, but trouble is brewing.
SPEAKER_00: All because Paul declared that what?
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is alive, all because Paul declared that Jesus is Lord, all because Paul declared that Jesus is the Messiah, a persecution broke out against that church.
SPEAKER_00: And really specifically against Paul and Silas.
SPEAKER_00: So Paul and Silas, they're forced to flee the city.
SPEAKER_00: And it was painful for Paul to leave behind that group of new believers.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't want to leave them behind.
SPEAKER_00: He had just seen so many of them put their faith in Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
SPEAKER_00: When someone is born, right, and it's even true when they're born again, you see the potential that God has placed in their life.
SPEAKER_00: And I think Paul, it pains him to leave that church because he sees the potential that's still a little bit untapped in their lives, and he believes that because of that potential, this church can make an impact in its city.
SPEAKER_00: And he can never get those people off of his mind.
SPEAKER_00: So maybe six months, up to 12 months pass.
SPEAKER_00: He's left the city, but they're still on his mind.
SPEAKER_00: And Paul sends Timothy back.
SPEAKER_00: They've heard some reports about what's going on in the church, but he sends Timothy back to confirm: is what we're hearing actually the truth?
SPEAKER_00: Timothy, he returns to Paul and he's like, Yeah, 100%.
SPEAKER_00: Like what we are hearing is so true.
SPEAKER_00: They are being faithful to Jesus and they are impacting their city.
SPEAKER_00: They're not just surviving, they are thriving.
SPEAKER_00: And when Paul hears that message, joy overwhelms him.
SPEAKER_00: He is thankful, thankful, thankful, thankful to God for the church at Thessalonica.
SPEAKER_00: He is thankful for what God has done in their life in the past.
SPEAKER_00: He is thankful that so many of them, that they put their faith in Jesus Christ, that they were dead in their sins and trespasses, but because of Jesus, they are now alive.
SPEAKER_00: And he is thankful because God not only did a past work in the midst of that church, he is doing a present work.
SPEAKER_00: He is working through that church to impact that city.
SPEAKER_00: Even in the face of persecution, this church is still getting persecuted.
SPEAKER_00: This church is still being attacked on all sides.
SPEAKER_00: The church at Thessalonica never forgot God's design for the local church.
SPEAKER_00: God from the very beginning established the church at Thessalonica to impact Thessalonica, to make a difference in that city.
SPEAKER_00: Now think about that.
SPEAKER_00: Just wrap your mind around that.
SPEAKER_00: A church that is maybe one year old is making an impact on their city.
SPEAKER_00: A church, listen, a church that has no privilege or position in the world is making an impact on their city.
SPEAKER_00: Because they're facing persecution.
SPEAKER_00: So there's no position and no privilege.
SPEAKER_00: Or think about this.
SPEAKER_00: Like, it's a church that's at most a year old, and like they don't know all the answers.
SPEAKER_00: They haven't been following Jesus for decades or even years, really.
SPEAKER_00: Like, they are all new believers.
SPEAKER_00: They all have more to learn.
SPEAKER_00: They haven't had the best Christian education, but they never forgot God's design.
SPEAKER_00: They didn't have education, they didn't have privilege.
SPEAKER_00: But what they had were really healthy habits.
SPEAKER_00: Our habits decide our impact.
SPEAKER_00: And the three habits of this church, they're listed for us in verse three.
SPEAKER_00: And the first habit is faithful work.
SPEAKER_00: Faithful work.
SPEAKER_00: Faithful work, it includes all the actions that flow out of a person's faith in Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: So faithful work entails all of our relationships out in the world.
SPEAKER_00: Every action and reaction, every behavior, every word that is spoken.
SPEAKER_00: And here's how this habit of faithful works impacts the world.
SPEAKER_00: This habit completely alters the way we treat and speak to people.
SPEAKER_00: Imagine the impact we could have on this community.
SPEAKER_00: If all of us took seriously this habit, if we practice it on a daily basis to be people of faithful work, that no matter if God took us to work on that day, or Walmart on that day, or the dry cleaners on that day, or the ball fields on that day, we were committed to being the sort of people who were kind and gentle and loving and compassionate to every person that we met.
SPEAKER_00: Remember what I said last week.
SPEAKER_00: Impact is more than an event.
SPEAKER_00: Impact is a habit of our life.
SPEAKER_00: Impact occurs when you and I are so in love with Jesus that no matter the circumstance we find ourselves in, we see people through the eyes of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: What if our first reaction to someone is not calling them out, criticizing them, but instead to demonstrate and show them compassion for the situation they are in?
SPEAKER_00: What if we just loved people like Jesus loved them?
SPEAKER_00: Now, for some of us, I think that habit seems a little inconsequential.
SPEAKER_00: Like, can that really impact the world?
SPEAKER_00: If I just commit myself to being kind and compassionate and loving on a daily basis, to be gentle with my words on a daily basis?
SPEAKER_00: If that's you, I got a question for you.
SPEAKER_00: Do you think that the compassion, gentleness, kindness, and love of Jesus made an impact on people?
SPEAKER_00: Do you think that the kindness of Jesus had an impact on the woman at the well?
SPEAKER_00: Do you think the reason, one of the reasons the woman was willing to hear Jesus say, I can give you living water, is because he treated her unlike anybody else in the world had treated her.
SPEAKER_00: He honored her as someone created in the image of God.
SPEAKER_00: He honored her dignity beside that well.
SPEAKER_00: Or do you think the Jesus, the compassion of Jesus had an impact on Zacchaeus?
SPEAKER_00: That when Jesus walked into the home of Zacchaeus, he didn't just begin pointing out all the faults and flaws of Zacchaeus and like, hey, you did this and that.
SPEAKER_00: No, he just showed him compassion in that moment.
SPEAKER_00: He was his friend in that moment.
SPEAKER_00: You think the gentleness of Jesus had an impact on Mary Magdalene?
SPEAKER_00: Someone who no one else wanted to have anything to do with?
SPEAKER_00: I think too often we we discount and we neglect and underestimate the impact we can have on our community if we just simply commit ourselves to the habit of faithful work and treat people the way Jesus treated people.
SPEAKER_00: Now the second habit is this it's loving deeds.
SPEAKER_00: The second habit, similar to the first, but more strongly stated.
SPEAKER_00: That word deed, it designates a hard and a strenuous labor.
SPEAKER_00: It's something that occurs when you are confronted with a difficult situation.
SPEAKER_00: And the habit of a loving deed says, no matter the difficulty I am facing at this moment, in this hour, I am going to make a personal commitment of time and energy in order to benefit someone else for the good of someone else.
SPEAKER_00: Now, for Christ followers who are teachers and police officers and social workers, this habit is part of your daily job.
SPEAKER_00: In the name of Jesus, this this name's the teacher who uh spends time after school working with the child, help helping them learn to read because mom and dad they don't care if their child learns how to read.
SPEAKER_00: Like a commitment of time and energy towards a difficult situation.
SPEAKER_00: For the police officer in the name of Jesus, they they walk into a violent situation, and in the name of Jesus, they de-escalate the situation.
SPEAKER_00: Or the social worker who spends the night in her office with the child who just got removed from their home.
SPEAKER_00: But for others of us, it's those habit of loving deeds that often makes us just want to ignore the world and insulate ourselves from the world.
SPEAKER_00: But that was never, hear that again, that was never Jesus' mode of operation.
SPEAKER_00: So it can't be his church's mode of operation.
SPEAKER_00: When Jesus faced a hard and difficult situation, he gave up his time and energy for the benefit of other people.
SPEAKER_00: I'm reminded of the story in the Gospels when Jesus meets this man who is possessed by this giant army of demons.
SPEAKER_00: The people of the village, you know what they have done to that man?
SPEAKER_00: They've put him in chains and they chained him up and they left him in the cemetery.
SPEAKER_00: Part of that was for their own safety, but part of it was because they wanted that guy out of sight and out of mind, and they wanted to insulate themselves from that problem.
SPEAKER_00: But Jesus, he walks into that cemetery and he chooses to impact the man.
SPEAKER_00: He casts out every last one of those demons into a herd of pigs, and that herd of pigs falls off a side of the cliff.
SPEAKER_00: You know what happens in that man's life?
SPEAKER_00: He is freed now from those demons, and then he goes to anybody who will listen to him.
SPEAKER_00: He is shouting at the top of his lungs all the great things that Jesus had done for him.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus had made an impact on his life.
SPEAKER_00: And now Jesus calls his church to share that same habit.
SPEAKER_00: To be people who on a daily basis practice loving deeds.
SPEAKER_00: To be people of enduring hope.
SPEAKER_00: As the pandemic loosens in our community, you know, in other parts of the world it's continuing to surge, but just because our restrictions are beginning to be lifted, it doesn't mean that there's not still some hopelessness in our world.
SPEAKER_00: People have lost jobs, they've lost income, they've lost loved ones.
SPEAKER_00: And in the face of those circumstances, listen, in the face of those circumstances, people of enduring hope, do you know what we don't say?
SPEAKER_00: We don't say the sky is falling.
SPEAKER_00: We say the king is coming.
SPEAKER_00: Enduring hope.
SPEAKER_00: It's not some kind of glib optimism that everything, if you just shift your perspective on the world, there'll be no pain in the world.
SPEAKER_00: Like you just need an attitude adjustment.
SPEAKER_00: Everything's okay and rosy.
SPEAKER_00: That's not enduring hope.
SPEAKER_00: Enduring hope actually has its eyes wide open to the pain of the world.
SPEAKER_00: Enduring hope is fully aware of the pains of this world.
SPEAKER_00: But enduring hope says this that one day the pains of this world will come to an end.
SPEAKER_00: Because Jesus bore the pain.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus bore the sin.
SPEAKER_00: And when he came out of the grave, what came with him?
SPEAKER_00: Hope.
SPEAKER_00: And now it's the job of the church to be people who shed hope in the world.
SPEAKER_00: Like hope is the contagion the world needs to catch.
SPEAKER_00: Because hope is the only way that we can see through pain and cling to promises.
SPEAKER_00: The promise that there's a God who reigns in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: The promise that this God who is in heaven, he loves his creation.
SPEAKER_00: And he sent his son to redeem and restore that creation.
SPEAKER_00: And that one day Jesus will come again and make all things new.
SPEAKER_00: So the child who goes to bed hungry at night, that child needs the church to practice enduring hope.
SPEAKER_00: And the addict who's just looking for his next fix, he needs the church to practice the habit of enduring hope.
SPEAKER_00: The victim of abuse, she too needs the church to practice the habit of enduring hope.
SPEAKER_00: Not to act like the pain's not there.
SPEAKER_00: Not to lessen the pain, but to say we can see through the pain.
SPEAKER_00: We can cling to some promises.
SPEAKER_00: That there is a day coming when hope will fill the earth, when there will be no more tears or death or disease or violence.
SPEAKER_00: But until that day comes, the church will practice the habit of enduring hope.
SPEAKER_00: Benjamin Franklin had one more habit that he practiced every single morning.
SPEAKER_00: He started every morning by asking himself this question.
SPEAKER_00: He asked himself the question, what good shall I do this day?
SPEAKER_00: What good shall I do this day?
SPEAKER_00: Church family, maybe that's the question you and I should have asked ourselves on a daily basis.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe that should be one of our habits.
SPEAKER_00: That each morning we would commit ourselves to the good habits of faithful work, of loving deeds, and enduring hope.
SPEAKER_00: For those are the three habits.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, those are the three habits that will determine our impact in El Dorado.
SPEAKER_00: Let's pray.
SPEAKER_00: As we close our eyes and bow our heads before our Father.
SPEAKER_00: Researchers say that when you want to pick up a new habit, it's best to focus on one at a time.
SPEAKER_00: And so that's what I want you to do right now.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to focus on one of the habits we talked about today.
SPEAKER_00: Faithful works, loving deeds, enduring hope.
SPEAKER_00: Take that habit and focus on it.
SPEAKER_00: Offer God a prayer of dedication.
SPEAKER_00: Or you say, God, I want to master this habit.
SPEAKER_00: Request that the Holy Spirit be your trainer, your coach, and your strength.
SPEAKER_00: And now let's pray for our church.
SPEAKER_00: Ask the Lord to instill in our church these three good habits so we can make a maximum impact in our world.
SPEAKER_00: Would you even boldly ask that God would help us and strengthen us so that we can make an impact on the level of the church at Thessalonica?
SPEAKER_00: Not for our name, but for the name of Jesus to be known.
SPEAKER_00: Almighty God and everlasting Father.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for worshiping with us.
SPEAKER_00: Starting a new habit.
SPEAKER_00: It's never easy.
SPEAKER_00: Often in life, we start and we stop.
SPEAKER_00: So we need your strength.
SPEAKER_00: We need your strength to be a church that practices these three habits.
SPEAKER_00: Because we want to impact our community on a monumental, miraculous level through the power of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Let us be a people who every day offer faithful work.
SPEAKER_00: That we see people and treat people as Jesus saw people and treated them.
SPEAKER_00: May we commit to offering loving deeds.
SPEAKER_00: Let us make an investment of time and energy in the most difficult of situations.
SPEAKER_00: And Lord, we pray your strength over the teachers of our church as they walk into those situations every day.
SPEAKER_00: Those who work in the field of social work and law enforcement, God.
SPEAKER_00: May they not grow weary in doing good, offering this holy habit on a daily basis.
SPEAKER_00: God, may we just be people of enduring hope.
SPEAKER_00: People who are aware of the pain of the world but can see through it are never overwhelmed by it.
SPEAKER_00: Because what the world needs now is the hope of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: We want to over and over and over point our community to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: In Christ's name, we pray.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.