Sunday Recap: Revelation 19:11–21

This episode is a recap of this past Sunday's morning gathering where we discuss the sermon text, our singing, and the gathering as a whole. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:06

Welcome to this week's episode of Fields Notes, where we take a deeper dive into sermon text, discuss matters of life and faith, and enjoy conversations around the table with fellow friends from the Fields. Fields Notes listeners, welcome back to Fields Notes. We took a week off last week, but we are back and we are better than ever. I'm here with Jeff and Braden, and we are going to talk about this past Sunday. It's like a little pressure. Better than ever? I don't think a lot. As people probably know, I don't think very much before I start talking on the script. Yeah. Under script says intro. I'm like, what will I talk about? Maybe a question of sorts. So everyone's been very gracious to me, which I'm I'm thankful for. But hey, we're my favorite part. We're probably as good as we've ever been. I don't know. Maybe that might be more accurate to say. Um but we're excited to talk about we're just gonna talk about this past Sunday because for a handful of reasons. One, we love to talk about Sundays. We think that the Lord's Day is such such an encouragement. Our Sunday morning gatherings, we put a lot of time and effort of the planning into them. People come and participate in them. We think it's worth thinking about more. But especially this past Sunday, a lot went on this past Sunday. We had stuff before our normal gathering, we had stuff after our gathering. So uh we just want to uh to have us reflect on that even throughout the week this week. So we're gonna talk about first is not our Sunday morning main gathering. Before our gathering, we actually had a members meeting, a brief members meeting before a gathering. Is that what 9 15? It's been 9 30, maybe 9 30, one of those times before in the gym, and we had a members meeting before our gathering. Why did we have a members meeting before a gathering? And what do we do at this members meeting? Maybe Braden, you want to talk about that? Some brain kind of led that.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

We had a members meeting. Uh give a couple quick short updates, but mostly to vote in some new members. So we actually had 11 new members come in this this week.

SPEAKER_03 2:00

We vote in members?

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Yes, we do.

SPEAKER_03 2:02

I'm asking that in a I know we vote in members.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

Yeah, yeah. It's good for you to know, James.

SPEAKER_03 2:06

For someone listening, why do we vote? Sorry, I'll let you keep talking. Why do we vote in members? Keep talking, Braden. I'll ask my questions.

SPEAKER_00 2:13

My brief introduction to what we've done, and we have talked more about this probably to our members, especially, is uh that because we're congregational uh as a church, which means our members have the final say and the authority of over the church, that means that they get to say who comes in and who comes out in some ways. Our pastors are recommending to the congregation uh these candidates for membership that we've interviewed and talked with, and hopefully other people have gotten to know and talk with. And so we're bringing them to the church and presenting their testimonies for people to hear and in some ways through us affirm uh that these people are Christians. What uh what I kind of said briefly before our members' meeting this week was uh we are making earthly uh declarations about heavenly realities, that we are saying that this person really is in Christ, that on the basis of their testimony and the way that they've been living their life and we see these things in their life, that they uh we are voting then to bring them into fellowship with us, which is voting then to bring them into the church, into Christ in some ways, in a in a way that we're picturing that in membership. And so it was an exciting day. I was really encouraged, even just to see a number of our members uh there before church showing up and participating in this. So I was really thankful um for those that were there. Thank you, church, for being there and and for hearing and for caring about uh these members and and for and in your role, your significant role uh in bringing uh more people into our church.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

Yeah, we had more members than chairs. Uh so we had quite a few folks standing room only. Hashtag churchplant probably that's so true. No, I think that's right though, too. And I and I think just a couple other things too, why this is so good. I always tell people voting isn't um that's a means. Like we we're what we're doing as a congregation is we are bringing these people into our local church. We're affirming them as uh members of the declaring them members of the Fields Church. And voting is just a way to do that with a big group of people, you know. Um, and so it's not, I think sometimes we can have some weird comment connotations about voting. But one of the reasons why it's really important that we as members do this all together is that we talk about meaningful membership often. And one of those things is to say, I am my brother's keeper, uh brothers and sisters keeper, and they are mine. Um, and so this is a way in which our members are, you know, joyfully, eagerly bringing new people into our church family, and we're recognizing, oh, like these are people that I am gonna uh I have responsibility to and I'm covenanting with and I'm caring for, and they're doing the same thing for me. And so it's really important that the whole church is a part of that process. And so yeah, I love anytime that we get to bring in new members, it's always a joy.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

And I think one of the things that I loved hearing throughout many of the testimonies, even the ones that I got to do as I heard membership, did membership interviews with some of these uh newer uh members, uh, was just hearing the way that the church is already doing that. The church is already just encouraging and connecting with people, and that's in part why they wanted to uh join the Fields Church is just because so many people came and talked to them on their first Sunday or remembered their names or introduced themselves or invited them over for dinner or anything like that. So so thankful for our members in the way they do that.

SPEAKER_03 5:23

It was yeah, tweet members meeting that. And um, I it's especially encouraging hearing people's testimonies uh in those. And um uh idea we don't share, you know, every single part of people's lives, but just a brief of hey, this is how these people have come to know uh come to know the Lord, and uh people have been instrumental in those. And I think we might remember our own testimonies of how the Lord saved us, and even just to know some about people that um we might know some about these people. We've met them on Sundays, maybe we've had some conversations, but they're newer to our church. We might not know them uh as well in that. So it's a helpful way for us to even know the people we're bringing in uh a little bit too. So uh sweet time in that. And uh if you're listening and you're a member and you haven't been to very many members' meetings, we'd encourage you to come because uh in some ways it's it's a duty and delight. As as members, we do uh we have a we are covenanting to care for one another. So bringing in new members is is part of our job. Uh but also it's a really sweet time to yes, talk to other members, but then to be a part of that um process as well.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

I I mean I felt like I was listening to testimonies and just hearing numerous, you know, ways in which people realize that we are not saved by our works or our performance, but by who Jesus is and what he's done. Like that was an encouragement as I'm reading some of these testimonies, just to my own heart, to go, yes, that is true. Um, and that was true when I uh, you know, first believed the gospel, and that is true today as I seek to walk in Christ by the Spirit. And that's just so encouraging. There, I I leave members' meetings just sometimes like floating, it feels like. I'm just so thankful. And um, yeah, the Lord's grace is so clear. So it was really sweet.

SPEAKER_03 6:58

Praise the Lord. That was not the only thing we did at Maple Glen on Sunday morning then. The the church gathered together at uh our normal gathering for 1030. Um, in some ways, it was a normal gathering of us. In some ways, it was especially sweet, I think. Uh Jeff Braden, any general comments, thoughts on things that you want to remind us of from uh our Sunday morning gathering? Maybe Braden, you look like you want to talk.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

Yeah, there's a couple things that I particularly appreciated. There's, I mean, a number of things I always enjoy uh just getting to gather with God's people. But um I love singing uh crown hymn with many crowns.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

Come on, it's really good. Or perhaps headbands, we should think of those like, huh?

SPEAKER_00 7:37

Story for another time. Talk to Jeff on that one, right? Didn't know if you don't know. If you know, you know. Yeah. But uh yeah, so that was a really sweet song to get to sing. I don't think we sing that one very much. But that was we sang that song before.

SPEAKER_02 7:49

I think we have on an Easter Sunday.

SPEAKER_03 7:51

Okay, but it's within a med a medley of songs, maybe probably.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

We should do that more. It's a great song. It's great, really encouraging uh lyrics that even even I Abby actually didn't get to be in the gathering she was serving kids, so I actually shared one of those with her because I was thinking about it because it stuck in my mind. It was really good. So um, and then I actually you did a great job, Joe, uh leading us into especially a time of to confess our sins and personally reflect on that. So I thought that that was good to just reflect and have extra time, even to I know we have kind of a moment of silence to prepare our hearts to worship God, but even another time to do that during the gathering was was helpful for me. So I was thankful for that.

SPEAKER_03 8:28

Praise the Lord. Yeah, we do uh in different ways we we confess our need for Christ in our Sunday morning gatherings. And so only a couple of times we have um throughout our history as the Fields Church had time for silent prayer for us to individually reflect on and um confess our own sin and then um coming out of that even just to be assured of the grace that we have in Christ. Um, but yeah, that was sweet for uh for us to do. Uh I did thought especially, I thought our whole church sang well this Sunday. I was like, man, I was looking around and I was like, man, this is this is great. So I was just encouraged by um seeing other people sing and hearing people sing. I think we had very singable songs um this Sunday, especially Crown Him with many crowns, but um all creatures of our God and King, Chris is Victor at the end. Um it was a good um great. So our worship leaders band, worship leader band, singing leaders, thank you guys. Team, team, yeah. Um, but really I thought I thought we all sang really well. I was really my soul was encouraged um this Sunday by that.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

Yeah, I thought it was really sweet to see even that our kind of worship team, you know, we had some students on there, a couple students that were there, uh playing it, one playing a cello, one playing a violin, which was just super sweet, but a decent amount of instruments and still they're just serving us so well as a congregation. Like I, like you said, I felt like still coming away, even with a a really like I thought musically just well done. Um, what I was still struggled with was just the voice of the congregation, like people singing. Um, and so that's tough to do. And our team, I feel like, does such a good job. I was talking to the students beforehand about whether they were nervous or anything like that. And they're like, you know, we're not, because we recognize this isn't a performance. Like we're just getting to serve Jesus and we get to serve his people. Like that's so good. Uh I was like, I'm gonna write that down for when I preach because that's what I need to remember so often uh in that. So it's just yeah, it's cool to um, yeah, even have students who are members in our church that are really grasping the gospel, displaying the gospel even as they serve us. So yeah, I thought it was just a really sweet Sunday.

SPEAKER_03 10:27

Amen. It was. Let's talk a little bit about uh your sermon, Jeff, or our sermon, I suppose, the church's sermon for the Sunday, in some ways yours. Uh, we are going through the book of Revelation as a church, and we are nearing the end. We're in the second half of Revelation 19 this Sunday, this past Sunday, uh, really in large part looking at the return of Christ. Uh, maybe just a brief overview if you uh were able, if you're there listening, uh just to jog our memories a little bit. Um, uh Jeff kind of gave an introduction about how we can uh wrongly put Jesus in a box. We can kind of in our head tame Jesus, think about him as uh merely just a nice guy. We diminish his power and uh really the reality of him as also a judge. Um so he kind of intros us with that. I think we see that clearly in the passage, how that gets pushed against your main idea for us, Jeff, from the passage. Um I think it's a very clear main idea that our king will return to conquer our every enemy. If I wrote that down right. Is that right? Yep. Um and then you had two points. We looked at the king, Christ, and then we also looked at the conquest. Um so hopefully maybe jogs our memory a little bit of uh things that Jeff was talking about. Uh, maybe anything from us, um all three of us, of something that stood out from uh either the passage itself or the sermon that um we found impactful to us. If you need some time to think.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

Well, I know for me as I was prepping it, and maybe even where this introduction came from in part, is just I do think when you read a passage like Revelation 19, I think especially the second half, um, and you think about Jesus as a warrior and as a conqueror, and here really described in in pretty graphic language in in some ways of the sword from his mouth striking people and and things like that. I think that can be off-putting for us. Like I think uh for many of us, that's um that's not maybe a category we have for Jesus, or maybe one that we often think about. And so I do think can make us feel a little bit uncomfortable. I think Revelation does that in a handful of ways, especially towards its end, uh, with a decent amount of judgment. And um, and there is a real sense in which Jesus is judge and warrior. Um, he is the king who conquers. And uh, and I thought that was just really helpful for me to be reminded that wait a second, um, yes, that might make me uncomfortable because that means I can't control Jesus and I can't tame Jesus. And it this isn't a Jesus of my own making, but this is actually exactly the Jesus I need. Like I need a Jesus that is greater than my sin. I need a Jesus that is greater than evil and the suffering of this world and the powers of this world. Um, and we have that Jesus. I mean, I I was thinking I mentioned it maybe towards the end too, but I really do think a lot of us, if we're honest, we really do think of this world and this life as a battle between good and evil. And we sort of think both of them are equally strong. And scripture is so clear that that is just not the case. Um, there is one God, and he is the one true God, and uh, and Satan is in no way Satan is our enemy, Satan opposes God, but he is uh nowhere near the plane of God. Uh he's just not even in the same category. And I think this passage shows that really clearly. So that's just really helpful for my own soul and heart this week. That's great.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Yeah, the things that uh the thing that kind of most stuck out to me was probably just the the end where you kind of give some application about um I don't in any way stand against Jesus. Uh yeah, there's there's just you know, we could kind of think of uh sin as kind of like um I forget exactly how you put it, but you kind of just said like we we can minimize sin and think it's not really against God when we were sinning, it's kind of abstract, maybe. And so but really to say that there's a you know you're kind of fighting on one of two teams in some ways. There is either you're fighting for and with Jesus against the enemy, sin and Satan, or you're fighting against Jesus by sinning and giving into sin. And so just don't in any way uh neglect to see that that's what what we're doing when we sin and also minimize sin. And it's just a good reminder to to to remember how serious it is, how uh how much we need to be uh killing sin in our life, or or it will be killing us. We talked about that, John O'Connor. John Owen quote, let's go. Yeah, and so uh that that's just you know, yeah, is convicting and helpful to keep in perspective. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

Well, I think it's one of the things Revelation is really helpful with is that um it it really does give us very clear contrasts. And uh, and I think that that was something that as I was reflecting on the passage and meditating on its truth, just thinking, well, if if we don't want to stand opposed to Jesus, like we don't want to be on the other side of this battle. And uh and in our sin we are, you know, now we aren't in Christ at all, and and that we are fully, finally, and forever in Christ. And that is a wondrous thing. But when we sin and when temptation, what we're trying to do is almost like sort of uh have Jesus' jersey, but stand on the other side a little bit everyone. It's just such a foolish thing. And and I I just yeah, as I was reflecting on like, man, that really is what sin is. I mean, to to sin and to give in to temptation is is to stand against Jesus, and I think so often Satan wants to move that out of our mind, and we want to kind of divorce sin from God and from uh you know obedience to Christ.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

Yeah, I um I was thinking about both those things you guys just said. I boxed in on my notes. Sin is opposition to Christ, and I have some arrows pointed to that. I thought that point was so clear in that of um, yeah, just the things you guys were saying in that. Um I do think anything that stood out to me especially is uh you even talk about this uh this battle that we see, uh, and really how it's not a battle at all. Like uh um, I do think there's such encouragement to see um what well actually how uh the the demons tremble in fear at the name of Jesus. We think we would say something like that sometimes and not maybe think about it. I think you helped us even consider that more of, oh man, uh I have Christ and and nothing is gonna stand against him. Uh and what encouragement that has for us. Um, as we are tempted to be discouraged, as we look at the world and are maybe in fear, as we feel small in our faith um to look to Christ and that oh nothing is gonna stand against him. I thought you hammered that home well, Jeff, and was encouraged by that.

SPEAKER_02 16:59

Yeah, I think there's this I feel like our culture loves this idea of Armageddon. I mean, like we're like we're in an apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic kind of, I don't know, we should love these things. And um, and I think we tend to think like, oh, there should be this massive battle. And you have the setup for it. Satan, the beast, the false prophet, they gather kings from all the nations, and they're, you know, apparently probably lined up this massive army, and then Jesus rides out on a white horse with his armies behind him on white horses, but then none of his armies carrying any weapons. And really, Jesus doesn't even have a weapon. And then I love what Paul says in 2 Thessalonians, like he he is brought to nothing, the beast, simply by Jesus showing up. Like it's just that, like when Jesus shows up, oh, that's it. Like it's that um sort of reality. And I think we just often we just minimize the greatness of Jesus, I think sometimes. I think we make him small, and this is one area that we do that. I think the other encouragement, uh, and and I'll be brief because I preached on it. Um, I just think the last battle is a super encouragement too. Like I that's something that uh even I've been thinking about it with uh Ben Sass, who's walking through cancer, and probably many people know that used to be a senator of the United States. Um, he will talk about death as being the final enemy and how that's actually an encouragement because after death, there are no more enemies for for us, and and Christ has conquered death. Well, here's the same sort of idea. If this is the final battle, the last battle, there are no more battles after that. And everything that we battle, our every enemy is actually conquered fully, finally, and forever here, so that we we now live in this peace and joy and presence of God that I think is uh is unimaginable to us, really. Um, we're gonna talk about it in a couple weeks. And I still, even the language of Revelation 21 and 22, it gets us as close as we can get there, but it's still the whole point is this is so much more glorious than we think.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

Praise the Lord. Thanks for your work in that, Jeff. Or maybe just to speak from our congregation to you guys. You guys have done such a good job preaching through Revelation. So thank you. It's a I know it's a probably a tough book to preach certain ways, but I feel like to speak for I think for everyone. I understand Revelation so much better than I used to. So thank you guys and continue to press on the last few weeks here. We're excited for uh the weeks to come.

SPEAKER_02 19:26

Uh let me real quick, I just want to thank our congregation because I think sometimes I've been in situations where hey, that they're still showing up every Sunday morning and listening to God's word and and deal digging into Revelation. But I hear so much encouragement. Like I, you know, I am often discouraged when I finish preaching a sermon and and not because of God's word, but because God's word is so great, I just feel like I never get up to the greatness of God's word. Like it's just so hard to do it like due diligence, is what it feels like. And our church is so kind to give me, like, I just feel so encouraged. I'm sure you feel the same way when you preach.

SPEAKER_00 20:00

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_02 20:01

Uh, I don't think it's just me. Everybody I know that has preached there. Like, our church is just so eager to hear the word of God. So thank you uh for for being a church that just even when I do think I'm like I delivered up a half-cooked meal. Um, our people are just, I got to eat, and I'm so thankful. I like, and it just it just reminded me this weekend, especially on Sunday. I just heard the right kind of feedback. Oh, we were talking about these things from the sermon, or the sermon helped me in this situation. Like, and not even the sermon, the God's word helped me in these. I'm like, that is that's so great. Um, so it is a wondrous gift to be able to preach at the Fields Church. I mean, it really is.

SPEAKER_03 20:42

It's also a wondrous gift to be able to go to a park and play some games and eat some food with our church family, which is also what we did this past Sunday, just to pack that Sunday as full as we can of things. It was our picnic, it was our picnic at the park, not to be confused with the harvest party. Very different events. Just kidding, they're actually relatively simple.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

One we play with a ball, the other one we play kickball. One's a little bit colder than the other.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

Sometimes we're we're battling daylight in the fall. Anyways, we had our picnic at the park. It was a sweet time. I thought it'd be helpful for us just um for us to encourage each other, our church of thinking about um things we like about the picnic at the park and um maybe even why we do it in general. Do we just do it because it's fun? What are reasons that we have for doing a picnic at the park? Um, yeah, maybe everyone's favorite part about the picnic at the park.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

I like just spending more time with like extending Sunday morning a little bit longer, like with every I mean, I I think most people who came Sunday morning were also there probably in the afternoon, and it was great. It was great just to be able to hang out some more, talk to some people maybe I didn't get the chance to talk to that morning, um, see some people and you know, have our kids play and watch some people play some fun games, and it was great.

SPEAKER_02 21:53

So yeah, I do think it's rare. Like I was I was reflecting on this that night, so many people were there. There and and not like oh it's just this massive crowd. Just our like our whole church was there. Like it was just a really cool. I mean, not every and and if you weren't there, we missed you and we understand, but I think that's rare. Like I feel like a lot of times you have events like this. If you've got a church of let's say you got three or four hundred people in your church, you might have like 50 to 60 as something like like events, you just have a quarter or less of people. I bet you we had, I mean, we had as many people there as we have members, um, for sure. Now kids were there and things like that, but I mean, we really uh everybody came because I think our church genuinely enjoys being with one another and being together and um yeah, just loving each other. And I I felt like I just saw that on full display. Like I just got to look around so often and just yeah, just see people developing relationships, um, encouraging one another, even some real good conversations happening. Um it was just it was awesome. Yeah, it's great.

SPEAKER_03 22:58

Yeah, so many fun things. I think uh yeah, uh on a um one note, I think something I'm always so encouraged of is when I see because we had even had some newer people come who had some people their first running this morning, they came to the picnic at the park, uh, and I saw so many of our members then come up to newer people, introduce themselves to them, like, oh, I haven't, I don't think I've met you yet, and then just being uh very welcoming to new people and um yeah, relationships formed through that. And so I think the picnic at the park is just a a great time to do that. We have a lot of time to hang out and eat food and uh meet new people and um continue to foster relationships with the people we already know in our church. Um, so that was sweet.

SPEAKER_02 23:35

Yeah, and I think that's what you asked the question like why do we do events like this? So this is an event we've done from the very beginning. We've always done a harvest party and a picnic in the park since we've been to church and um and certain other events like that. I think we really recognize that when the Bible talks about the church, it means a people. And I know we say that often on a Sunday, we're not an event that you come to and leave, a people to whom you belong. That's our aspiration. But I think like we're trying to put our money where our mouth is in events like that. Like we really do think like, well, what what then is most important that we as a from an organizational or programmatic sense, like what sort of things are most helpful for us? Well, it's those things that are gonna help people develop deeper, truer relationships with their fellow church members and with other brothers and sisters in Christ and to give them more opportunities to see, like, oh, we share this in common, or oh, you're walking through this, or can I pray for you in this? Let's grab coffee here. You know, the more that we see that in the church, we I mean, I pray this every Sunday as I'm getting ready. I'm praying for all the different people who are serving and leading in our gathering. But then I finish the end of my time praying. I'm just praying for our members to do ministry on Sunday morning, to minister to one another and just recognizing that's actually some of the most important ministry of the church is one another ministry that's happening throughout the day. And I think I think events like this we're hoping are like platforms to jump into the deeper community of the church and to give opportunities for the church to be the church. So that's what we always, I feel like, at least for me, I'm like, oh, I love those things which uh we as staff and you know, that sort of thing can give our church more opportunities to be the church. Um and I felt like Sunday evening was just a really cool picture of that.

SPEAKER_03 25:31

I think like uh and I'm just so encouraged by our church too. Like uh sometimes we uh read books about like uh what a church should do and um uh members of a church caring for one another. And sometimes books will say, like, oh, and it's actually really hard for that to happen. And I'm always like, I just it's like I actually think our people do that really well. And that obviously we don't do it perfectly um in all sorts of ways, but I'm so encouraged by um yeah, what what an encouragement the field has been to us, and then um to see people um love, encourage, support um one another has been yeah, a huge blessing just to watch in a sense.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

Well, and just so we're not sometimes we make shirts of people uh with faces with their faces.

SPEAKER_03 26:09

Oh my goodness, that might have been the best part of the harvest part.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

Or the picnic neglected to leave that out. Which which should talk about how we don't do some things well uh as a channel. Oh no, we do things well.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

If you were not if you were not at the wiffle ball game, here's what happened. The leadoff batter, Elijah Clark, I think is like my guy. Like, I love Elijah Clark.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

He clearly loves you based off of his attire, too. After we should have done a uh the the kind of guessing game, should have been that shirt. How many jets in that shirt?

SPEAKER_03 26:41

Oh, we should have after the first pitch, Elijah, Elijah has two shirts on. He takes his his over shirt off. Underneath, he is wearing his Jeff shirt. I think Wes Reed made it. Is that correct? 100%.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

If you do a Pacers game when I was there, just Oh my goodness, that is hilarious.

SPEAKER_03 26:57

It is a shirt that is just, I mean, it's probably like 200 pictures of Jeff's face, just uh a miraged, I don't know what the right word is, mere uh uh on all over the shirt.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

Oh, it was hilariously awful.

SPEAKER_03 27:11

Oh, I before the the wiffle game Laj is like, hey Joe, make sure I have like a five-minute warning before the before the Wiffle Ball game. I was like, for what? Like, what do you need? He's like, just just make sure I have a warning. I was like, and then it made sense in that.

SPEAKER_02 27:21

It was but that is part of what I love about our church, but also events like this too, is just it's just fun. I mean, it really like it, like sometimes I think we the Christian life is hard and this world is hard, but there is a joy of heaven that is a part of the church. And I honestly, if you ask me, like, where do you taste uh heaven's joys most? It is when I am gathered with with the fields in this season right now, like with the local church. And I feel like I saw that in so many different ways. Even like seeing so many uh guys, like little kids playing wiffle ball, and like just how like sweet it is to see young and old and people caring for one another and and that sort of way, and then to even have a brother that I love, you know, mock me mercilessly uh in a sweet way uh with a shirt. It's just fun.

SPEAKER_03 28:12

Mock me mercifully mercilessly mercifully.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

Uh no mercy, no mercy in that uh no, it's great, and I think that there that speaks something to that, yeah. It's it's super encouraging. Not that let's just keep that shirt just wants more shirts on it.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

Let's find a bonfire uh with that shirt in it, but no, it was really sweet. We there might be more made, who knows? Uh, anyways, hey, that's our that's our podcast uh for today. Thanks guys for listening. Uh our hope on on Sunday. I think everyone maybe went to bed tired on Sunday, but I think people are like, oh man, but I'm thankful for our church and what a sweet day it was. So uh yeah, yeah. Thankful for you guys listening. Uh, we're signing off for Fields Notes, and we will see you. Or I guess you will hear from us next time. Lord willing.