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The, we got just a few quick announcements and we'll get right along with things. First off, you may notice the IGA job board is very clean. That's not because we got all the work done. That's just because we're kind of regrouping. A lot of the stuff that was on the work in progress list had been completed. Some of the things that were on the to do list for like, well we got to get a few things done before we can actually accomplish that. Suffice it to say a lot of, I wish we would have kept everything that has been completed up in the completed column cause I'm pretty sure it would cover that white piece of paper. There are people who have sacrificed their time and their energy to put into our future gathering place and I'm thankful for that. So just keep your eyes open in the coming weeks. There's going to be more stuff up there and if you've contributed to the project, just let me say thank you. It's going to, that's what it's going to take for us to be in there. If you have a Bible, keep it close. But we don't have a particular passage that we're going to turn to first off today because this is going to be one of the rare instances where we preach what we call a topical sermon. So the majority of the sermons that we do here at harvest are expositional. And what that means is the point of the passage of scripture is the point of the message. Now in a topical sermon, we have a topic that we want to talk about. We're going to use scripture to support that. It's not necessarily a bad thing. I think the main diet of the church should be expositional preaching. We should make the point of the passage, the point of the message. Think about that is your meat and potatoes and what we're doing today is kind of like ice cream, right? It's good every now and again, but you don't want it as the main staple in your diet. We do this every single year. Today is a very special day and it's one of my favorite Sundays of the whole year. Every year. We take a couple of Sundays. It's usually falls as the last Sunday of the year and then the first Sunday of the next year to remind ourselves of why we're doing what we're doing. We call this our state of the church address. Say curiosity. Is anybody still watch the state of the union address? Where the PR, okay. We've got like two people here y'all need, anyway, we kind of riffed on that. Right, so the state of the union address, the president stand before Congress and he'll give a state of the union and it's televised and anybody can watch and they clap like 500 times through the course of the state of the, if you remember that, if you watch that you would know it. But anyway, we're doing something similar today. We're just talking about the state of the church. How did we do in 2019 and there's a lot of, I see some new faces out there, so people who weren't here this time last year. If you've been around for a while, then all this is going to sound like familiar language. This Sunday is going to be a refresher for you, but if you're new to harvest, then I want you to pay close attention because maybe more than any other Sunday today you're going to get to hear who we are and why we do what we do. We have a three fold system you could say that we use to map out where we're going and why we're going, who we are, why we do what we do. We call it our mission or and our vision, our mission, values, vision. We're going to look at each one of those today. So first let's start with mission. What is the mission of the church? Now, if you know our answer to that question, don't say it yet. Well say it together here in a minute, but I want us to pretend like we don't know and I want to work to that point. So in order for us to understand what we are to do now, I think it'd be helpful to remind ourselves of, wow, we were put here in the first place and the Bible is explicitly clear on that. The reason that God created us and put us on this earth was to glorify himself. We were made to glorify God, and God was so kind as to wire us in such a way that we get our greatest pleasure and fulfillment when we're giving him glory. Glorifying God is a theme that runs throughout the whole Bible. Let me give you some references. Psalm 29 one through to ascribe to the Lord Oh heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name. Worship the Lord in splendor of holiness. So I'm one 15 one not to us, Oh Lord, not to us, but to your name, give glory. First Corinthians 10 31 so whether you eat or drank or whatever you do, you do it all to the the glory of God. Matthew five 16 let your light shine before others so that they may see your good work and give glory to God, your father who's in heaven and maybe the clearest picture in the whole Bible. Isaiah 43 talking about God's children. He says, I will say to the North, give up and to the South. Do not withhold. Bring my sons from afar, my daughters from the end of the earth, every one who is called by my name, who I created for my glory and my form to made. So we're made to glorify God. But what does it mean to glorify God? I can say that we were made to make pancakes, but you, if you don't know what pancakes are, you're no closer to the goal. So what does it mean to glorify God? We talked a little bit last week about the shepherds and the glory of God being shown around them. And the analogy, the illustration we used was glorious. It's kind of like the value of something. It's the weight is the way I like to think about it. The significance, you've experienced this a little bit. If you're a nature fan in like if you love the beach, the feeling when you're driving all the way down to Florida and you finally get out of the car and you stop and you go and you put your sane in the toes and you look at the ocean and you see the vastness of it and it just grabs you and then you can't see the ends. And you know that feeling of just your insignificance, like how small you are in comparison to that. Like that feeling that overcomes you. That's the glory of God's creation is what you're seeing and you're experiencing it. Those things are reflections of God's glory, which is greater than any other kind of glory. So to glorify means to ascribe worth, to, to influence one's opinion about another. So as to enhance the ladders, reputation. Synonyms would be praise, honor, extol. So in common language we could say that to glorify God means to convince others of how great he really is. So if we're made to glorify God, we're made to give God glory, to praise him and to convince others of how great God really is. So giving glory to God can be shouting. Amen. Or raising your hands in a surf in a, in a church service. But that's just a very small part of the equation. Giving glory to God is doing all that we can to make God famous, to make others feel that weight, to realize his worth. And if you know anything about the Bible, then you know that we failed at this mission very early on, like chapter three of the first book of the Bible. Early on, Adam and Eve were in the garden created to bring God glory and spread his image throughout all of creation. And they sinned by eating the fruit of that tree they weren't supposed to. And that wasn't just like some arbitrary law. God put that there as a prohibition. It's a test. Do they really love me? They love me like they because love that's forced or coerced is not love at all. So God offered them the choice and by doing explicitly what God told them not to do, they were basically saying they wanted to be God. They didn't want to bring God glory. They wanted the glory that was due God and creation broke thorns and thistles came out of the ground. Death entered into the world, sin in it into the world, and then death came behind sin and all of the evil terrible things that keep us up at night or make us cry. Tears are a result of us trying to take God's glory for ourself and the rest of the old Testament where people scrambling to get back to the position from once we fell in the presence of God. Perfect, bringing him glory, receiving perfect satisfaction and comfort, true joy in his presence, the sacrificial system, the the wandering through the wilderness, God on the mountain, the tabernacle, all the stories of the old Testament or man's attempts to get back to God and what God was illustrating to them through all of that was that we were completely unable to do. The Bible says that God sent Jesus to do what Adam could not, and through Jesus we can be restored to our original state where God gets glory and we find our greatest joy and purpose in Kim. So we were made to glorify God. Question. If we were made to glorify God and Jesus came and made that possible and now with our sins, forgiven his children of God, we can bring God glory, then why are we still here? Because you see, we can glorify God in heaven just as well as we can here on earth. Jesus surely hasn't left us here for a reason. Otherwise we'd already be imperfect peace and harmony with him, not here in this still sin, sick and broken world. You see, not only are we commanded to glorify God with our families and with our church family or with other people of God, we are commanded to share that message with the world because God deserves all praise and God has provided a way for us to avoid his judgment and be restored to him. The mission of God's people is to tell this glorious truth to the world and the way the Bible says that is we are to make disciples. God gave us a mission. That mission friends is to make disciples, so to run it through one more time, we were created to glorified God. We tried to steal God's glory from him. Sin entered into the world. Jesus came to restore that relationship and now that we've been restored in right relationship with God and we can bring glory to him, we look around and we realize there's others who aren't bringing glory to God and they need to. They need to see what we see, experienced what we experienced, so we need to show them the glory of God so that they too may have their sins forgiven and live in perfect harmony with Jesus. So we go and make disciples. God really wanted us to get this like all four of the gospels have a passage about making disciples at the end and in the book of acts like part two to the gospels. It has a great commission passage and make disciples passage at the beginning. Let me just read them for you. Matthew 28 18 through 20 Jesus came and said to them, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, son and Holy spirit, teaching them to observe all I've commanded you. And behold, I'm with you always to the end of the age Mark 1615 and he said to them, go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. Luke 24 45 and then he opened their minds. Jesus opened the disciples minds to understand the scriptures and he said to them, thus it is written that the Christ should suffer. And on the third day, rise from the dead and repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed his name and all nations beginning in Jerusalem. Your witnesses of these things. Behold, I'm sending the promise of my father upon you, witnesses of these things, your proclaim what you saw John 2021 I love it because it's simple. Jesus said to them, peace be with me as the father has sent me. Even so I'm sending you. And he breathed on them and said, receive the Holy spirit. And then acts one opens with these words, but you will receive power when the Holy spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. The mission of the church is clear. It's to go into the world and make disciples by declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of the spirit and gathering these disciples into churches so that they might worship and obey Jesus Christ. Now in an eternity to the glory of God, the father. That's so good. I'm going to read it again. That's a quote from a book called, what is the mission of the church? And it says, quote, the mission of the church is to go into the world and make disciples by declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the spirit and gathering these disciples into churches so that they might worship and obey Jesus Christ now and an attorney to the glory of God, the father and friends. Everything we do should be for this purpose. And I mean everything. So something we do as the church does not help us to make disciples, then I firmly believe we're wasting our time. If we spend our time and resources trying to do that thing. The mission is to make disciples. But if we're to make disciples, we have to know what a disciple is. So that's the question we'll look at. Now, when you hear the word disciple, what's the image that comes into your mind? Do you think of someone in a flowing robe with sandals on walking through the middle Eastern desert? A disciple is simply by definition, one who learns from another. When we make disciples, we're simply making students of Jesus. But what does this look like? How was the disciples supposed to act? What does a disciple do? Early on, one of the passages we read over and over and over again as a young church was acts chapter two. And if you have a Bible, let's just go ahead and turn that turn there now, but we'll read it together. And as you're turning there, let me give you a little background. We preach through acts last year. And, um, it was, uh, it was an enlightening experience for sure. This is the birth of the church. Peter preaches, Jesus has ascended into heaven. He told them to go and make disciples. Jesus ascended into heaven. Peter preaches and 3000 people are saved. And all of a sudden the very first church has 3000 people in like no organization and they're trying to figure out what's going on. Problems pop up pretty quickly. But what you have in chapter two is like this picture, this image of the perfect church in its infancy. You have like a newborn baby, seemingly innocent, just this perfect. This is, this is the, this is the newborn baby form of the church. And we get a[inaudible]. We get a picture really of like what's most important before all the other baggage and stuff comes in. Like before they were able to form committees to argue about what kind of toilet paper to buy. Like this is the church that they had. And so acts chapter two, verse 42, what is the church at its core, what do disciples do? They've devoted themselves to the apostles teaching to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with all and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles. Now all the believers were together and held all things in common. They sold their possessions and property and distributed the proceeds to all is any had need. Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. Every day the Lord added to their number, those who were being saved. So there's a whole sermon there and we've preached a whole sermon on that if you'd like to hear that, go on the website and and listen to it. But what we have, what we have, I think is like the core of what makes disciples. Disciples. How do you make disciples? What is a disciple? In many ways. I think verse 42 through 47 what we just shed could be a model for what our daily lives as Christians are supposed to look like. They devoted themselves to teaching fellowship, breaking bread, prayer. They had all things in common. They gathered together in the temple square. They met in each other's homes. We know the churches mission is to make disciples and this is what a disciple looks like. We know what our decide what our mission is and what the end goal of the mission is, but how do we get people to look like that? What's the process of getting people from people who don't believe in God to, to doing the things that we see there, to being a disciple and as you read through the new Testament, particularly the book of acts and the gospels and watch how Jesus did ministry you, you come to this conclusion. If you want to make disciples, then you have to be a disciple. You make disciples by being a disciple, and I really think it's that simple. Verse 47 bears witness to that as a result of them living like Jesus told them to like, you know, obedience to Jesus, his commands. What does it say that God did for the church? Every day the Lord added to their number, those who were being saved. If we're going to make disciples, what's our game plan like? What's the strategy? What's our playbook? Our playbook is to be obedient to Jesus's commands and be disciples ourselves, and if we will do that, God will build his church as a result of these first Christians living the way they did. God grew their church because they were living faithfully as disciples. God used them to make more disciples and therefore, if you ask someone at harvest, what's the mission of our church? We say making disciples by being disciples. That's our mission. Say it with me. Making Bob being disciples in this acts like our compass. Okay, we're going on a road trip. Not really. I can't afford to take all y'all on a road trip, so let's just pretend we're going on a road ship. All right, let's pick somewhere to go. Let's say we're going to go to now you can't take a compass to the moon. That's a bad example. So not helpful, pastor Tanner. So we're going to, we're going to go to, we're going to go to Florida. All right, we're heading to Florida. This is the example we used last year, but it'll work just as well. So if we're going to Florida, the first thing that you need to know now, pretend you don't own a GPS. Pretend the phone in your pocket, doesn't know where you are at all times and can point you in a certain direction. If you want to go to Florida, the first thing you need to know is what direction it is. Well, you determine itself. How do you know where South is? Now the simplest way would be to get a compass because a compass will point you in the right direction. So if you want to get to Florida, the thing you don't want to do is walk North or East or West. You have to walk in the right direction. A compass will point you there. And friends, our mission is our compass. That's how we tell if we're going in the right direction because everything we do is for the purpose of making disciples by being disciples full stop. If we're wasting our time, our energy, our resources as a church on anything that's not helping us make disciples or be disciples, then we're wasting our time. It makes it really easy to say no to a lot of good ideas cause there's a lot of good ideas that don't help us accomplish our mission. We look at our compass and say, is this going to help us go South? And if it's not, then we just don't do it. A compass will tell you what direction to go, but if you really want to go to Florida, you're probably gonna need more than a compass. It's not going to tell you what roads you need to take to get there. For that, you need a roadmap. If the mission is the what, it tells us what direction to go, then the values, our roadmap is the how. It tells us what roads we need to take to get there. Should have a compass mission and a roadmap are our values. Add to curiosity, does anybody still have a roadmap in their car? Okay, we've got a few prepared people. Y'all are ready for when the grid goes down. You're going to be all right. For those of you who don't know what a roadmap is, you know that picture on your phone that shows you like where your car is and like the little blue line. Imagine that just on a piece of paper and it didn't move and then you had to like map out yourself what direction. If you missed your exit, you were all sorts of messed up a roadmap. If you wanted to plan a trip with a roadmap, will you spread that dude out on a table? I know I'm only 27 but I remember this. You spread that dude out on a table and you say, this is where we're going and then you try to like, you sometimes take a marker and actually like draw the line of this is the route that we're going to take and the whole time you're taking the trip, you're sitting there with that roadmap passenger seat, making sure that you don't miss your exits. The roadmap will tell you to get there so long as you follow the roads. Values are our roadmap. Next week I'm going to have a little booklet for you. We had them up there, but we're updating them for 2020 you'll see why it's called mission, values, vision. It's just a summary of all that we're going to talk about today. Let me list for you the things that we value at harvest and then I'll explain how we use that as a roadmap. We value God's word. It has the final say. We value teaching that comes from the Bible. We value showing the love of Jesus and sharing the good news of Jesus, never one without the other. We value the individual responsibility of every person to make disciples by being disciples. The mission isn't just the dude on the stage. The mission is something that each of us own personally. We value relationships that bring us closer to Jesus. We value everybody doing a little, not just a few doing everything. We value shared leadership. That's why we have three pastors here at harvest. We value taking good care of what God has given us. We value simplicity, discipleship, being intentional, being generous, and we value planting churches. So what does all this mean? Well, if they're just words on a piece of paper and a booklet that sits in a drawer, then they don't mean anything. But if we're going to successfully execute our mission, then we've got to use these roads. Let's think through this. You could argue that a person could make disciples by being disciples if they rented a blimp, wrote John three 16 on the side and just flew it around Calhoun. So question, why don't we do that? Why haven't we rented a blimp yet and put the gospel message on the side and just flew it in circles around Cal here. Because at harvest, we value being generous and spending money on a blimp. However expensive that may be would hinder us from being generous. What if we, you could make the argument that you can make disciples by being disciples, spa, getting on the internet, finding a powerhouse evangelist and paying him a large sum to come to Calhoun, host a big revival and invite the whole town to hear this person speak so that they could hear the gospel. Well, if that's making disciples by being disciples, why haven't we done that at harvest yet? Well, at harvest, we value the individual responsibility of every person to make disciples by being disciples. It doesn't fit our values. We're deviating off the road. If we do that instead, we'll pour those resources that would take the set, something like that up into equipping you the church to show the love of Jesus and share the good news of Jesus with your neighbors every single day. We think that's going to have a much greater impact on our community. Just another thing that we value. Sharing the good news of Jesus and sharing the good news of Jesus. What if and on a today, on a day like today, I have to admit it sounds tempting. What if instead of all of us coming here on Sunday morning, we just got on Facebook and I started the Facebook live video sitting at my kitchen table with a cup of coffee and we just did the sermon that way. No. Why don't we do that? Seriously? Because today, like today you probably could have convinced me our shoes are still wet. It harvest, we value relationships that bring us closer to Jesus and not gathering together would not be conducive to making gospel centered relationships. And so we get together once a week. What if we went to the bank and we borrowed several million dollars and we made that IGA building state of the art, like I'm talking marble floors, glass ceilings, like the glass panel that along the wall. We tore all that out. We did like elaborate stain glass toilets, made a gold the whole nine yards. Why don't we do that? I mean we'd probably get some traffic cause they want to come in and see this thing. Like what in the world did you hear how much money they spent? We've got to go check that out. Like that would probably draw a crowd. So why don't we do that? Or the reason that we don't do that is because it doesn't fit our values. It would affect our giving. We're taking our Tom moving in, paying for it as we go, making sensible decisions so as to so as to not deviate so that resource doesn't pull us away from our mission in that resource that we have will help us to serve our mission in a way that's consistent with our values. So it'd be, see how this is how this practically plays out. If our mission is our compass and points us in the right direction, then the values of the roadmap that tells us which roads we have to take to get there. Mission compass tells us where we're going. Values roadmap tells us how we're going to get there, but neither of those things are going to get you excited about going on the trip. If you don't believe me, go home. If you have young children and split her up, spread a roadmap out on your kitchen table and set a compass beside it and point at a random dot and say, kids, this is where we're going. There's nothing there to excite the imagination. In order to get excited about your trip, you need to know what it's like, where you're going. You need to know what it's going to be like when you get there. So how do you get your kids excited about the trip? How do you get excited about the trip? Well, today you could get on the website, right? And like, look at the pictures of the wherever you're going. But let's, let's go. Let's go. Old school. You used to have to get like a travel brochure or like the little tri-fold things where you like, they would be sitting in the, like the truck stops, the travel centers, you know when you pull into a town and they've got the little travel brochures and you pull it out and you say, Oh, that'd be pretty neat. What would he say? We go there, so picture this with me. We're going to Florida, right? We know we're going South. We've got our roads picked out when we get there, nobody's going to get excited about that, but if I brought a brochure in and I started passing it out and I said, Hey look, that's what they got on the buffet and it's free. This is the resort that we're going to be staying in. Look at the white sand. You see the beautiful beach, the scenery. This is the, this is the area that we're going to be staying in and all of a sudden as you're looking at these pictures and you're reading about the amenities, all of a sudden you can start to taste that seafood. Can't you like my mouth kind of watering right now and you can feel the sand between your toes and you can taste, you can smell that salty air and you're practically there. What are we waiting for? Let's load up. Let's load up the truck. We're going to Florida. When we talk about vision, we're talking about dreaming about the future. All of a sudden you can get a vision in your mind of what it would be like if you were there. Right now we're imagining where we could be if we're faithful to the mission and true to our values. It's going where we believe God is leading us. And so every year we set goals and we spend that whole year trying to meet those goals. We're praying that when we do our state of the church address at the beginning of next year, we'll say God led us to pursue these goals and by his grace we got their mission never changes. Our values are pretty set in stone. Our vision changes every year. Our vision is the new destination that God is leading us to year by year. So how did we do in 2019 our vision in 2019 was knowing Jesus, not just knowing about Jesus. And so to facilitate that vision, we preach through half of the book of John. We spent half of the year last year just looking at stories about Jesus and the book of John to try to get familiar with this guy. We saw the way that Jesus was portrayed in an old Testament story. So we went through Jonah. We did a whole series called stories about Jesus and we showed you how old Testament stories like David and Goliath and Gideon and others were actually really about Jesus 2019 in a lot of ways, felt like circling the wagons. You know, more than one time in the, in the gospels, what Jesus would do is he would send his disciples out, they would go and do ministry, they would come back and then Jesus and his disciples would retreat for a minute. They would go back up on the mountain to pray and discuss what had just taken place before they went back out and did ministry again to me, 2019 felt like that we pushed hard 2018 and by the time, you know, December, 2018 rolled around, we were all tired. And so we came back and we spent time with Jesus getting to know Jesus, reminding ourselves of why we're doing what we were doing. 2019 turned out to be a hard year for a lot of us. And so we did a lot of just being with Jesus for 2020 after much prayer, fasting and seeking the Lord's face. I feel like the most natural step for us moving forward is the right step. We sought to know God and to know God is to love God. Something happens when we love God deeper. The deeper we love God, the more desire we have for that love to begin to overflow. John first, John four 19 says this, we love because he, Jesus first loved us. If anyone says, I love God and yet hates his brother, his sister, he's a liar. For the person who does not love his brother, his sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen and we have this man from him, the one who loves God must also love his brother and sister. God is the very definition of love and over and over again we see love as this superior thing. First Corinthians 13 three now these three remain, faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love for Sean for again, dear friends, let us love one another because love is from God and everyone who has been born and who loves has been born of God and knows God and the one who does not love does not know God because God is love. When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they came together and one of them, an expert in the law asked a question to Jesus to test him feature which command in the law is the greatest and Jesus responded, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest, the most important command. The second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets depend on these two commands. In 2019 we spent the year knowing Jesus, not just knowing about Jesus. Many of us established habits of, of, of spending our mornings reading the Bible and getting to know Jesus, things that are going to help the foundation of our faith moving forward. We'll keep those habits, but as our love for God grows, we have this natural desire for it to flow outward and so our vision for 2020 will be love one another because Jesus loves us. Love one another because Jesus loves us. Don't misunderstand me. I don't mean like generic love, not like pop radio love, not like all you need is love, kind of love. I'm talking about Christian Love in the way that Jesus loves us in a way that helps us to increase in the knowledge of God, helps us to know Jesus better. To follow Jesus closer and help us make disciples, we're to love one another in the way that Jesus instructed us to love one another. We find all over the Bible, this phrase one another coupled with a command. We call them the one in other commands. Let me give you a short list. Bear one another's burdens. Confess our sins to one another. Consider others as more important than yourselves. Be concerned not only with your own interests, but also with the interests of others. Encourage and build up one another. Pray for one another. Serve one another together through love. Forgive one another. Seek good for one another. Do you know what the most common one? Another command is? You don't want to take a guess. Love one another. You find it in John 1334 John 1512 John 1517 Romans 13 eight first Thessaloniki ans three 12 first Thessalonians four nine first Peter, one 22 first John three 11 first John four seven first John four 11 second, John five in a real way, all the other one in other commands are just practical applications of the second greatest commandment, which is to love one another and next year should be about us learning to love one another, tangibly sacrificially, selflessly. Dream with me for a minute. What do you think will happen if we really take this seriously? What do you think will happen if we actually do it? I believe. I really believe that if we commit to loving one another the way that Jesus loves us, we'll have real revival. Bob, this all men will know that you're my disciples by your love for one another. Greater love has no one than this. Then he would lay down his life for his friends we love because he first loved us. The first commandment is to love God and the second is to love your neighbor as yourself. God is loved this week. Friends, I want you to think about this question. What does it mean for us to love one another like Jesus loves us and what will happen if we actually do it next week? We're going to take the whole time to talk about what that means. We'll talk about what we're going to do in 2020 to make that happen. In 2020 we're going to love one another because Jesus loves us. Let's pray. Lord, it is the simplest and greatest of commands. We're only able to love one another because Christ loved us first. And so as we pursue this goal, this vision that we believe you've set before us in this coming year, I pray you in enabled us to do it enough to love one another in some generic way, the way the world loves one another, but to love each other as Jesus loves us in a way that teaches us more about yourself. That brings us together, that brings glory to you, that helps us make disciples as we're obedient to these commands and we, we, we be disciples, help us, Oh Lord. And we ask these things in Jesus name. Amen.