Church at the Grove - Walnut Grove Campus
Church at the Grove - Walnut Grove Campus
Belong
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Well, it is awesome to see all of you this morning. My name is Russ, and I'm one of the pastors here at Church of the Grove. And so for those of you that are part of our family, we're so excited that you're with us. And if you're here for the first or second time, we want to say welcome. We're so glad that you're here. We're in this series called Onward. And it's really a series that the desire of this is for us to be grounded and anchored in core values and a mission that seeks to fulfill what God's called us to, the Great Commission. Going back to disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I've commanded you. And I will be with you until the end of the age. Now, when we think about ages in history, there have been moments in history when following Jesus didn't just make life inconvenient, it made it made life dangerous. Now that's that's something we see throughout history, and it's not it's not done. I mean, persecution is happening right now. Places like Nigeria, where Christians are being persecuted and killed. Iran, with with their latest uh season of protest, the the Iranian government has clamped down on Christians and persecuting them. Uh, we don't even know how many have been killed in some of these recent uh protest uh responses, uh, thousands maybe uh that are believers, places like China, other places. In the 1930s and 40s, Germany was under Nazi rule. The government expected the church to fall in line and support Hitler. Stay quiet about the injustices that were happening under Nazi influence. And basically, the church was called to simply bless whatever the state, whatever the nation of Germany demanded. And there was a young pastor by the name of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. As he read his Bible and as he began, as he followed Jesus, he saw a conflict with what was being imposed upon him. He was brilliant, he was respected, he was a theologian, he had every reason to remain quiet and protect what he had, which many did. But Bonhoeffer had a conviction, and the conviction was that the church should not compromise the mission or compromise what scripture says, compromise our identity. The church should stand with God, stand with Christ. And so when many churches compromised, Bonhoeffer couldn't simply go along with evil. And he helped form what was known as the confessing church, and it was believers and pastors and leaders that said, our allegiance is to Jesus, not the Nazi state. And it this may not seem super radical for us in our day, but his stance cost him dearly. He was pushed out of major theological and church circles. He was watched and surveilled by the Nazi state. Lots and lots of things that cost him his safety, and the safety of those around him were constantly at risk. It cost him a lot. It cost him his life. Literally, days before Europe was liberated, days before he was taken and executed. Just weeks, days before he would have been set free. It cost him his life. But he said, I'm not gonna follow the state, I'm not gonna follow the systems of this world, we're gonna follow what Scripture says. And so Bonhoeffer, this small group of leaders, they they created an underground seminary. And they lived in some ways a bit of a monastic kind of existence. They prayed together, they ate together, they shared meals together, they did ministry together, they studied scripture together, they bore one another's burdens together. They didn't gather like this because it was convenient, it was absolutely dangerous, but it was absolutely necessary. It was necessary. If they're going to be faithful in the midst of tremendous opposition, they had to be together, had to be committed to one another. And out of that, Bonhoeff wrote a small book called Life Together, in which he says this. He said, Christian community is not something we create, but something Jesus creates for us. And so for many believers back in this day, following Jesus, it was it was a strain. It was there was a cost. And I would imagine some of us have experienced some costs because even though we live in a culture where where there's freedom and there's liberty for worship, it's not out of the ordinary to hear testimonies where someone turns to follow Jesus and it costs them something. Families can be divided. Um, communities, our friendships. When we encounter Jesus and we fall in love with Jesus, as we said last week, it demands that we turn, repent, and believe. Believe, as we talked about last week, it's it's action-oriented. It doesn't mean you just cognitively, intellectually assent to something. It means you turn your whole being and you turn to Jesus. You put your faith in him and what he provided in his life and his death and his resurrection. And so sometimes that cost us something. It can cost you a job, it can cost you relationships, it can affect your family. When you follow Jesus, the blessing is you are given a new family. So last week we looked at this value of believe. We said there's this these four uh values that we are going to espouse, they're not only values, they're literally stepping stones in our discipleship journey. Last week was believe, today is belong, and next week will be become, and then the final will be build. And so you see this, they don't, these values and the and the latter, they don't always follow a certain order because I've learned that people can belong before they believe. But at some point, they've got to make a decision to believe. And then when we make that decision, repent and believe, and we turn and begin this action-oriented journey of obedience to Jesus, he gives us a new family. Doesn't mean we abandon the old family or the biological family. Many of us would say, hey, I'm blessed because my biological family is part of my spiritual family. And then next week we'll talk about how we become more like Jesus every day, and then finally we are called to build the kingdom, advance the gospel. And so this community that Bonhoeffer created shares this beautiful story. There's certainly a lot that we can learn from Bonhoeffer and the Confessing Church. We all say we want community, we want to belong, we want to be known, but if we're all honest, we're a little bit skeptical or suspicious about going all out this concept of spiritual family. Now, when I say family, and I talk about how we belong to a family, just thinking about this this past week, there's a reality. When we talk about family, there's a lot of us that have flashbacks that bring back a lot of pain and hurt. Why? Because family can be complicated, can't it? It can be tough. Family sometimes brings warmth and security for us, but for others it brings disappointment and it opens up wounds to new pain. Some of us grew up where love was unconditional, and we had parents or families that loved Jesus and put that love on display and how they related. But some of us grew up in families that where love was conditional, conflicts were never resolved or restored, and the expectations were unmanageable. So when we hear the church talk about being a family, I know there's a lot of us that think, man, that's a great concept, but there's some of us say, hey, listen, family for me hasn't been a pleasant experience. And so I understand that. So I want you to, I know there's an adjustment, there's a process. The other thing that's important to understand when we talk about belonging and family is we live in a culture where independence is valued so much. It's all about me, it's all about you, it's about my story, it's about your story. Rather than community, I grew up in a in a with a with a dad who was he was the epitome of hurt and painful upbringing, but I'm going to, I'm gonna rise up, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pull myself up by my bootstraps, and I'm gonna move out of all of this conflict, all this confusion, all of this dysfunction. And so he had this mindset, I can work my way out of dysfunction into a healthy life. And he had this independent, prideful concept of how to overcome, I guess, isolation and loneliness. Sometimes independence feels safer. We don't have to risk ourselves. But belonging is what Jesus wants for us. Jesus wants us to belong to a new family. Belonging costs something, it requires risk on our parts, and the risk to be vulnerable. Belonging means being seen, being known, community and belonging at their places, and this is what my desire, the vision for our church has been is a place where you could know and be known, where you could love and be loved, where you could serve and be served, and where you could celebrate and be celebrated. That's family, that's what God wants for us. And I wholeheartedly believe that one of the primary reasons that people are a bit anemic in their spiritual formation, they're weak, it's because they're missing this concept of connection and belonging. And what we do is we settle for a private faith and we live it out in our own private life rather than sharing it and living it out with other people. And so today, this value is belong. It's the idea of belonging and being connected in a spiritual family. Last week was believe. We talked about that. And so the big idea for today is this that following Jesus means belonging to a spiritual family. Following Jesus means belonging to a spiritual family. Would you say that with me? One, two, three. But following Jesus means belonging to a spiritual family. And so if you got your Bibles, turn to the Gospel of Mark, chapter three, and we're going to look at this passage that I believe where Jesus teaches us that family has been redefined according to the gospel. And as strong as Bornhoefer's story is, the idea of building a spiritual family didn't start with him. He didn't invent it. Jesus, the one that redefines family here in Mark chapter 3. And he's do it, Jesus is involved in his earthly ministry. Just to give you a little context, where he is here, he's done miracles, he's performed miracles, and he's been teaching. And Jesus, at this point, he is claimed to be Lord of the Sabbath. And he does some things on the Sabbath to heal others. And the religious leaders are upset. They're not upset about him healing. It's not about what he did, it was about the day of the week he did it. They're deeply offended that he would do anything on the Sabbath that would that would require something to flow out of you. And so we pick up in verse 20 of Mark chapter 3. And it says, Jesus entered a house, and the crowd gathered again so that they were not able to eat. When his family heard this, they set out to restrain him because they said, and what do they say about Jesus? What does his family say about him? He is what? Out of his mind. You know what? That gives me comfort. Because people have said that, they've said to me, quote, you are out of your mind. I mean, that's literally the words my dad said to me when I shared with him that I was leaving a very good job and great employment to go into the ministry. He didn't understand it. He didn't, he didn't, he was not a believer. So he couldn't understand it. But so I've been told I was out of my mind. I'm like, this is comforting because I am becoming more like Jesus. I'm out of my mind. I hear that all the time from staff members, and you're out of your mind. Not Jonah. He's saying no, not me. He's with me. So this is in early in Jesus' ministry. He's gained a great following. He's become popular. And so he's having a hard time getting the buy-in from people. And so he's preaching and teaching. And it says he was not even able to eat, take care of his own needs. And so they said he's out of his mind because he's not even taking care of himself. Jesus' biological family shows up and they think he's crazy. They love him, but they don't understand him. So we can be comforted when we lack that response that we hope for from our family when we turn to follow Jesus. So, so in their mind, they're looking at Jesus. He's left, he left employment as a carpenter, as a tradesman, as a craftsman, he left a prosperous family business to become an itinerant preacher. He's speaking against the religious norms of the day, and the leaders are out to kill him. And then he chooses this ragtag group of disciples to invest his life in, and it doesn't make sense because they are at the bottom of the social ladder, uneducated, lacking all the social cues, but Jesus has called them to steward the gospel. And he's missing, he misses regular meal times, he neglects his own personal care. And in his day, they didn't use language like this, but this we would say, man, he sure is hangry. Or maybe it's a bit of brain fog. I mean, I think it's some of the some of the new terms and ways that we would explain somebody. So here's what I want to do. We're going to walk through this passage, and I want us to look at about four insights that I think help us to learn and understand in regard to Jesus holding up this belong value and this idea of redefining family. And the first thing that I've learned is this following Jesus can disrupt even our closest relationships. Following Jesus can disrupt even our closest relationships. I shared a little bit about my my dad and our family. The very people that knew Jesus the best, his own family members have declared that he's crazy. His mom, who would have changed his diapers, Mary, she doesn't understand him. They're trying to do what they believe is best. They're trying to bring him back home and bring him back to just a good, simple Jewish life. But here's something I've learned, and what I see in this passage is that obedience to God can be misunderstood even by the people who love us most. This is why it's so important to have a spiritual community. Not that you would walk away from your biological family, but we need fellow believers that we can have community and belonging with. Because this journey following Jesus can have a lot of challenges. We need people who love us, but who love us enough not just to let us go down any path that we may choose, but love us enough to hold us accountable, to ask the tough questions, to love us unconditionally, but call us out of disobedience. And so he goes on to say in verse 22 the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, He is possessed by Bezebub, and he drives out demons by the ruler of the demons. Now these are scribes, religious leaders from Jerusalem, all these places that there in the promised land, these men were in the hierarchy of religious leadership, and they declare that Jesus is a false prophet. He's a Belzebub. I mean, they're not not they're not saying this is what we might sometimes, you know, we we see somebody that teaches and maybe preaches or they do ministry a little bit different way with uh than us. We don't call them, I don't, I don't call people Belzebub. I just say, you know what, that's just not my path. That's not my calling. That's not my calling. They go for the jugular. He is he is representing the devil. And so obedience to Jesus can often be misunderstood. And so not only do we see that following Jesus can disrupt our closest relationships, number two, following Jesus will be misunderstood by religious systems that want control. Institutions, denominations, and those things aren't bad. Don't get me wrong. We we ministry and organizations, man, we we can do more together, we can uh accomplish the great commission together. Those things are necessary and important. But man, following Jesus sometimes can get the religious people, religious leadership up in arms, upset. These scribes and religious leaders felt threatened by Jesus, understandably so. Jesus, with his miracles and teaching, is threatening the power of the day, and people don't want to lose power. Listen, that's that's one of the reasons our political system is in a mess is because people get a hold of power and they don't want to let go. 500 plus years ago, there was a group of followers that saw a major issue with how the church had drifted away from the core values and the core message of the gospel and of scripture. And so men started rising up and and and saying, listen, we need to get back to scripture. We need to get back to the Bible. There were people like Tyndale and Weckliff who said, you know what, why are we standing by where our religious leaders impose upon us a system that keeps us from intimately jurying with Jesus? One of the simple things is the Bible was only available in Latin. And so the common person could not even read the Bible for themselves. You had to be a theologian or religious leader or some type of education. And that's not what we see in Scripture. Everybody matters, everybody is welcome to come to Jesus. And so Tyndale and Wycliffe and others said, hey, we're gonna take the Bible and we're gonna put it into the common man's language. And they begin to translate, they begin to reform. And you had others like Martin Luther and Zwingli and Knox and all of these reformists who stood up. They weren't necessarily trying to cause a schism in the church, they just wanted the church to return back to the scriptures, turn back to Jesus, and not stand on the religious systems, and they begin to ask questions like, what if salvation really is by grace alone, through faith alone? And and what if scripture should be it would be accessible to every person? What if Jesus, not the institution, is the true head of the church? Jesus, I say this and I I mean it a little bit tongue in cheek, but I Say that Jesus, I'm not the senior pastor of this church. Jesus is the senior shepherd of this church. I'm an under-shepherd. I'm an interim pastor. You know, by the way, do you know that all pastors are interim pastors? There's somebody that was before me. There'll be somebody after me. I need to be content and following what God's called me to do. And so Luther threatened control of the religious leaders this day by making the Bible available by turning people back to scripture to grace. As a result, he was labeled dangerous. He was labeled a false prophet. They tried to kill him multiple times. He had to, he, he, and he translated the scriptures into the German language. And he did much of that while he was in exile, while he was in hiding. And so what we see in that setting is similar. There's always a need to return back to what is foundational. And so Jesus is doing this in Mark chapter 3. The scribes see their power threatened, so they made these bold false claims about Jesus. They took to accusations instead of submission to Jesus. Jesus pushed back over the next few verses. He said that a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. And so their accusations didn't even make logical sense. Why would Satan cast out Satan? Jesus is giving them a serious correction on this. And look at verse 31, Mark chapter 3. It says, His mother, this is a key part of today's study, today's teaching. His mother and his brothers came and standing outside, they sent word to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him and told him, Look, your mother and your brothers and your sisters are outside asking for you. Now look up at me. So here comes his biological family. They think he's crazy. So they're sending word to him. They can't get to him because the crowds are so big. And the idea is, hey, your family's out here. They want to see you. And then Jesus says, verse 33, who are my brothers? Who are my mother and my brothers? Looking at those sitting in a circle around him, he said, Here are my brothers, my mother and my brothers. Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother. He redefines family. Jesus does not abandon his biological family. You know how I know that? Because when he was on the cross, he gives attention to the fact that his mother needs John to be his son, and John needs Mary to be his mother. So he cares about his biological family. He's not walking away from them, but he's trying to help us understand and put it in perspective from a biblical standpoint. And in most, a lot of cultures, biological family is everything. Family's your identity, family's your protection. Family, especially in those days, was your economic safety, lifeline, family-directed connection with your religious standing. And Jesus says, listen, this is not my family, this is my family. And he's pointing to the disciples and the followers and the people that are turning in obedience to the will of the Father. Now, for his brother, brothers and his mother to show up and be ignored, it would have been disrespectful. Jesus wasn't trying to be disrespectful, he's trying to teach a greater truth. This is my family. Jesus is not rejecting the biological family. He's simply redefining what family will look like in the kingdom of God. Family is not chosen through allegiance, but it's formed through obedience and sustained through the shared life that we have with Jesus. So we learn that belonging can disrupt our family relationships, our closest relationship, Jesus. Following Jesus can follow Jesus will also be misunderstood by religious systems that want control. And then thirdly, we see this following Jesus means belonging to a spiritual family. That's what it means. Following Jesus doesn't just change what you believe, it changes who you belong to, it changes who your family is. Jesus is not against biological family. I'm not saying for you to abandon your biological family. What I'm saying is just embrace appropriately this new family that God gives us through the church. And so spiritual family isn't marked by having perfect church attendance. It's not marked by, you know, being perfect in your character. It's marked by being submissive to the gospel. Doing the will of God in our lives. The world doesn't understand the will of God. The religious systems sometimes miss out on what is essential and it seems hostile. We need a new family that can help us grow in our spiritual formation, which leads us to this finally. Finally. Here's what what I'm learning, what I understand is this new family Jesus creates is essential for discipleship. It's essential for discipleship. Years ago, I'll never I remember this. I was introduced to a leader, a guru leader. Many of you probably heard of me named John Maxwell, and John Maxwell said something, it stuck with me. I taught my kids this. I was a youth pastor, I would tell students this. Two things will make or break shaping your life. It's the people you surround yourself with, who are your friends, who you marry, and it's what, now he would say what you read. I would broaden it out, what you invest into your life. So today it's not just what you read, it's what you watch, what you listen to, who you share TikTok with, or social media with. And those are important because you want people around you that will help you grow in your relationship with Jesus. One of the primary reasons we are anemic, that we feel weak in our spiritual formation is because we're not connected adequately to other believers. You can't follow Jesus the way he intends without while remaining disconnected from his people. And so, can we just take a moment and think about what this passage is saying to us and what we're going to do about it? What's God saying to you? Two discipleship questions. I have found this that if you keep heading down a path of independence, self-effort, self-determination, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, you're going, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna push through. I think a lot of us will crash and burn. But if we surround ourselves with encouragement, with accountability, and with the family of God as God has called us to, it will affect our heart and the way we live. And people will look at us and they will come. We don't have to go to them. They will come and they'll say, There's something different about you. There's something uh uh extraordinary about your character and your perspective and the way you view life, the way you connect with people, the way you love people. And you know what you can do? You start telling your story. Tell them your story. Don't walk in here Sunday after Sunday and just walk out without connecting to people. It's one thing to put your faith in Jesus. That's that's the most essential, basic, foundational, is to turn and believe and put our faith in Jesus. But listen, we don't stop there. We begin to build a family, we begin to build friendships and relationships where we can rely on one another. I love, listen, I love what God's doing here. I love it. And last Sunday, and I'm looking around the room, it's funny how all the services have different personalities. But last week, in the second and third service, particularly, this gathering of people, this church, this family, is beginning to look like what I envisioned 20 years ago. You know, Peter in his letters, he talks about the church and how the church is a collection of living stones. We are the kingdom of God built in relationships, one stacked on top of another. And Peter even says this: he said, You are a people who were not a people. That's exactly what he says. And so as I looked around last week, and you you look around this morning, you might be missing out on this, but in the second and third services, it looked like our community, it looked like a reflection. White faces, black faces, brown faces, all types of ages, multiple generations. God is building a people who were not a people into his living stones that will advance the kingdom. And listen, let's embrace who God brings to this community for the purpose of sharing the gospel to see our family grow. And so, in a second, I'm going to pray. And I'm gonna ask you, Jonah's gonna share a couple of announcements, he's gonna dismiss you. Here's what I want you to do this morning. Rather than rushing out, here's a practical, tangible action step. Rather than rush out, I'm gonna give you something very specific. Look for three people that you don't know their first name. All the introverts, I just lost you. Just just, hey, my name is Brent. My name is Russ. Well, just introduce yourself. You don't have to plan a dinner or a date or anything. Just introduce yourself. You know what? Next time you come in, you'll know three more people's names. But before we do that, I want to ask um. Last week I had um Shannon Browning. She was so pumped about what the Lord shared with us last week. And she and Shannon's a very quiet person. Um, she's not one necessary to get too high or too low, but she said, I was about to come out of my seat because she's got a story. She's got a story. So, Shannon, would you be willing to just take a few minutes and share the story? Can I get a microphone? And you can connect last week to this week if you're okay with that. She said, Shannon said, she said last week, she said, I almost raised my hand and said, I need to say something. Now, a lot of you do that, I'm not gonna recognize you because you're a little bit crazy. Um, but Shannon, I Shannon, that's just not her, that's not her personality as much. So and so I I wouldn't give a lot of you the microphone, but I'll give it to her. So would you share?
SPEAKER_01Um, so if I don't know you, my name's Shannon Browning. I have um four pretty good kids and five perfect grandchildren. So um, and my husband, Brent, and I um we celebrates Christmas a week or so after Christmas to give our children a chance to you know go be with their in-laws and all that kind of thing. So this year at Christmas we weren't able to celebrate because one of the granddaughters, we we had two brand new granddaughters that were two weeks old, and um one of the other grandchildren had been exposed to chicken pox, so we we pushed it off. And um in long so so we ended up going to Alabama to see that granddaughter that had been exposed to chicken pox. Um and when we got there, she was just very, very fussy. She was um she's 13 months old, she was cutting some teeth, my daughter thought it was that. The whole three days we were there, she just literally cried uncontrollably the the entire time we were there. And um, so we eventually took her to the pediatrician and they kind of thought, oh, maybe she's got you know some kind of ear infection or something like that. She's 13 months old and never been sick, um, and gave her some antibiotics, and it just never got better. Um, and over the next five weeks, um she just had these unexplained fevers, unexplained um rashes and things like that. Went to the pediatrician several times. So finally on um January 21st, my daughter called and said she spiked another fever to 102.5. So I'm a nurse. My daughter is also a nurse. Um, and I I told her, I said, hey, I really think you need to go back to the pediatrician and ask them to run all of the labs. Um and they did. The pediatrician immediately ran all the labs, and they were they were supposed to come that day. So that was Thursday morning. Um, they came to Atlanta that night so that we could finally celebrate Christmas a month late. And um on so they got here Thursday night late, Friday morning. She was at coffee with my daughter, with my other daughter, and um the pediatrician called and said, We're gonna need you to go straight to the ER with your daughter, um, and told her what the labs were. And as nurses, we knew what the labs meant. Um her body was not producing white blood cells. It wasn't producing um neutrophils, if you know what those are, but it's a specific type of white blood cell. She was extremely anemic. Um she wasn't producing baby red blood cells, which are called reticulous heights. And as a nurse, I knew what that meant. Oh. And as a nurse, she knew what it meant. And so they they told her, no, you're not gonna go to Choa Atlanta, you need to come back to Alabama where you live. And so we knew that meant she was gonna be admitted. Um she was admitted and onto the oncology floor. And the doctors came by and said, you know, we're dealing with a a uh malignant process here, and we're gonna do a bone marrow biopsy on Monday to see what our next steps are. So Sunday night before her bone marrow biopsy, our family just decided to get all online. I was there, my husband was back here in Atlanta. It was the weekend of the ice storms. Um, so I had gone with my daughter. Um, so it was me and her husband and um me and my daughter, her husband and her in-laws in the room, and we just decided we're we're gonna call everyone in our family. We have a large, very close family um of almost all believers. And um, so we got on the phone and had just this large FaceTime call, probably 30 people on the call. Um, in addition to this, on my way to Alabama, I called our small group, our small group was praying. There's people in this room who were praying. Um, and um we just believed in the power of prayer. Um, and so we all got on the phone that night for a um large FaceTime call, just all praying around her for 30 minutes or so. And the very first thing that was prayed on that call was Um, Lord, we know that where two or three are gathered in your name, there you are in their midst. And um, we're just asking if this would bring you glory. That when they look under the microscope at her bone marrow, that every cell would be perfect. That was exactly the very first thing that was prayed. Um, she'd had a blood transfusion, she was feeling just a little bit better after the blood transfusion. Um and at 6 p.m., so she had the bone marrow biopsy the next morning, and at 6 p.m. on Monday evening, the doctors walked in, and the very first words out of their mouth were we have good news. Her bone marrow is perfect. The exact words that we had prayed, and we were just so overwhelmed with the goodness of God. Now, as I say this, I want to tell you that, you know, well, like we talked last week, we don't believe because he does good things, right? We believe because he's good and we know he can do good things, and we want those for his purpose. And I'll tell you that our family has other prayers that we've been praying for a long time that have not been answered in the way that we want them to yet. But we still believe that he's gonna do that. And so um I think this does connect great to what you talked about today again, because that belonging, that knowledge that our small group was praying, um, that our family was praying, that we had um two families in our case, our our biological family and our church family praying, um, gave us such peace. Um and I 100% believe um that the Lord healed her from leukemia before she was even diagnosed. So thank you for praying.
SPEAKER_00You know what? It when we hear this, um let me just share this. We're in a season where we're seeing a lot of prayers answered that we've been praying for over a long period of time. I don't know if you know, we had a prayer night for healing back uh at the end of last year, and several testimonies have come out of that, where prayers have been answered. If you want to know one, ask Reese and Jonah about their exciting news. It's not my news to share, yeah. But but they're an example. We've heard several stories, and so in the context of belonging and family, God will show up. Not necessarily that every prayer will be answered the way we want it to be answered, but that we are with each other together, supporting and encouraging. Jonah, would you come and close us out?
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah.