Thoughts Of Some Guy In Ohio
Thoughts Of Some Guy In Ohio
True Worship: Praising God in Spirit and in Truth
Worship is so much more than a Sunday morning activity—it's meant to be the heartbeat of our entire existence. This eye-opening message challenges us to reconsider what it truly means to worship God "in spirit and in truth" as Jesus taught the Samaritan woman at the well.
When's the last time you asked yourself: If God is worthy of constant praise, why am I not offering it continuously? We often limit worship to specific times and places, forgetting that every moment presents an opportunity to acknowledge God's presence and goodness in our lives. As one worship leader shares from personal experience, living with a perpetual song of praise isn't forced—it's the natural overflow of a heart connected to God.
The conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman in John 4 provides a powerful blueprint for authentic worship. In one remarkable interaction, Jesus breaks cultural barriers, reveals himself as living water, demonstrates perfect knowledge of her life, and teaches a timeless lesson about connecting with God. Each element gives us another compelling reason to praise Him.
This message also addresses an often overlooked aspect of worship—careful discernment about content. Modern Christian music, while beautiful and moving, sometimes contains theological inaccuracies that can shape our understanding of God in problematic ways. True worship must be grounded in biblical truth that accurately portrays God's character and nature.
Most importantly, when we cultivate lives of continuous praise, we become living testimonies that naturally attract others to Christ. People notice those who radiate joy despite life's challenges, creating organic opportunities to share our faith. As the Psalmist wrote, "Your love, O Lord, is a song and I will sing it"—let your entire life become that song of praise.
Have you considered how your daily life might look different if worship became your constant reality rather than an occasional activity? Join us in exploring how to give God glory in all circumstances and situations.
You can almost never live up to the hype, right? And I appreciate Jason's kind words and I will tell you openly, honestly, if you want, my testimony. It's that I try to live for Jesus every day. I try to lead a life of worship every day. We could stop there if you want to, because I think it's that important. I really do. I think we're called to be not changed but to be transformed by this experience of knowing Jesus and having him save our lives, save our souls, and what greater form of gratitude can we have than showing Jesus that we're grateful every day by living a life that's patterned after the example of Christ? So you've guessed, if you know me, that that doesn't mean I'm perfect and it doesn't mean you're perfect either. We all engage in this effort to be Christ-like and sometimes we're going to fail. But here's the thing about it If we're earnestly on that path, seeking every day to have a greater relationship with Christ, then he's going to keep on supplying whatever we need to make that happen, and I bank on that and I hope that you guys bank on that too.
Speaker 1:I'm going to talk with you about worship and probably come at a little bit different angle, being the worship guy. So when you're the worship guy and you're going to preach, job one is make the songs as long as possible so you have less time to preach. So thank you all for singing, mission 1 accomplished. But seriously, you know, when you're the worship guy and you're going to preach, everybody thinks you're going to be talking all about worship. It's all about worship and, trust me, we could come in here. Jason knows this, is true. We come in here and if you want to throw songs at me, I'll play them out of my head for an hour. If you ever want to have a service like that, we'll do that, because I do love praising God. Is my battery going down or did you just turn it down? I mean, it's good either way, as long as you can hear, I'm good Because, as I normally do, I didn't check the battery in this. I just turned it on and had faith that it was going to work. So if it's about to go dead and you guys keep hearing me it's because God is working a miracle with this battery, which wouldn't be the biggest miracle he's done this week, right, amen, amen.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you, starting out here is our God worthy of our praise? What do you think? Is our God worthy of our praise? Amen, right, okay. Is our God always worthy of our praise? Here's the question.
Speaker 1:This is the deeper part of the question. I'm not asking you if God is worthy of our praise when things are going great. I'm not asking you if god is worthy of our praise when he's given us everything we want. I'm asking you if he's worthy of our praise even in the moments when we feel broken and defeated. Is he worthy of our praise, all those times?
Speaker 1:Okay, what are the acceptable parameters of our praise? What do you guys think? What are the acceptable parameters of our praise? When can we praise God? All the time? Right, all the time.
Speaker 1:What are the confines of our praise? Do we praise just when we're in here? Do we praise out there? Do we praise out there? Do we praise at home, in jail? Okay, I was talking about Paul and Silas, and I think that last week in my meditation I think Jason was talking about Paul and Silas earlier and praise in jail, that shakes the ground and releases prisoners, right?
Speaker 1:So if we can agree that God is worthy of our praise and always worthy of our praise, and that there's nothing that confines us from praising God and that there's no situation in which we can't praise God, then let me ask you this question why aren't you doing it all the time? We've just established that it is acceptable to praise God with every moment of your life, every fiber of your being, in every situation, in every location, so why are we not doing that? That's a great answer, roy. He said distractions, and he's ahead of my notes because it's in here, don't you worry. It's the distractions of this life, it's all the things that are piled up on top of us and dragging us down, these loads that we carry and they keep us from focusing on what is real. And what is real is the way that God takes care of us in every facet of our life, in every moment of our life, in every situation and location that we can possibly be in. My wife will tell you I go around with a song on my lips all the time. Okay, and that's absolutely true. It's not necessarily on purpose, it's just it's me, it's what bubbles up out of me. There's always a song on my lips.
Speaker 1:We were playing in a dart ball tournament about a week ago and my nephew, alex Ray's son, kept looking at me and he was going, what, what, like. I was talking to him and I finally told him man, I'm just singing, I'm just singing, and this dart ball tournament? Talking to him, and I finally told him man, I'm just singing, I'm just singing, and you know, this dart ball tournament didn't mean anything of great consequence and you guys probably don't even know what that is. That's another lesson for another time. But we wanted to win and I just I had these songs in my mind and one of them was that faith song that I'd just written. I was singing that and there's a song called no Fear by John Kendrick that I just couldn't get out of my brain. I was just singing those two songs all night and we ended up winning that series four games to one.
Speaker 1:Now, that doesn't mean God cares about dartball. That doesn't mean that God cares about every little thing that we have going on in our life, because it might not serve a purpose for him to see you be successful in one small area of your life, but it does mean that he wants us to praise him in every situation, even when there are godless people standing in front of us telling us that it's not acceptable. So I think it's interesting and you can, you can, I think it's obviously anytime you see red letters in the Bible and Jesus is talking, that's pretty interesting, right. That's attention getting, and so you can guarantee that whatever you're going to experience there in that reading is going to be something pretty monumental, right. And this is no.
Speaker 1:This scripture that we're going to be in today is no exception. We're going to be in John, chapter 4. And this is Jesus having a conversation and having an encounter with a godless person. And here's the thing about it it goes to another level of interesting or encouraging, or amazing, because Jesus is somehow going to go from being a witness to a godless individual to how to worship in one conversation. It's all in one conversation, and we haven't yet figured out, as ambassadors for Christ, how to even get to the conversation about people who are godless, right. A lot of times we let them just do their thing and hope that they don't overflow on us because we don't want to get involved. Jesus is getting involved, digging into the matter, telling a truth that's hard to hear and then saying, hey, by the way, when you worship, this is how you do it. He does it all in one conversation. That's years worth of work, as we're trying to work and convert people to christ. Right, and by the way, you uh, you guys back in the back there you'll have to tell me if, if I'm staying in the camera. I I'm a little more mobile than you know. I have happy feet, so they go a lot of places. I try not to be too crazy, but if I get out of the camera, just you know, nudge, be back either way. Um so um.
Speaker 1:When we think about the way that god speaks to us, he has different voicings and different tones, right and um. So sometimes he speaks to us and whispers and just gently directs our path. Other times his words rush over us declaring his undeniable greatness, and still other times His words rush over us declaring His undeniable greatness, and still other times he shouts to get our attention over the maddening crowd with the hard truth that we may not want to hear. And he has all these different voicings so that he can reach us. Now you might say to yourself well, why does God talk in all these different ways to us? Well, if you've ever been a parent, I can guarantee it doesn't take you too long to come up with the answer, because sometimes they don't listen, okay. Sometimes they just don't listen. So you've got to go to the next level and then the next level.
Speaker 1:You know, I think there's actually maybe four levels in my communication with my kids, but who knows? I knew it was bad one time I was watching Alyssa communicate with and I know you think Courtney and Alyssa are just perfect angels because it's all you've ever seen. But they could, believe it or not, push each other's buttons and needle each other. And one day, when Courtney was probably about 10, so that'd make Alyssa what? 7? Or 8, or 7, 6 or 7 or something Anyway, and she was just getting on Alyssa's nerves to the nth degree, and Alyssa goes Courtney and I thought, oh, my goodness, she's learned that from me. It's right, you know, it's like okay.
Speaker 1:So I think to myself well, I have a point when I'm talking to courtney like that, but maybe she doesn't see the difference right. So it's just like god communicating with us. Even the way god communicates with us, we can't spit that right out to somebody else because it might not be received in the same way. So god has all these different ways of communicating with us. That prepares us for the work at hand, which is to reach other people. So I want you to think about that and how he speaks to us.
Speaker 1:And then we're going to get into this piece of scripture and talk about what happens here in John 4. Let's pray. All right, my fathers, for coming in prayer today. We thank you again, lord, for the opportunity to be in your house and sing praises to your name and to hear your word, and I pray, lord, that you'll be with the message that's presented today and help it to be the message that these people need to hear. Help it to be the message that the world needs to hear. And help me to be reminded that I'm not up here to listen to myself talk, that we are trying to gain knowledge that can help us better understand you, better understand your will for our lives and better understand how to worship and praise you with every ounce of our being all the time. We thank you, lord, for all of your many blessings. We pray that you'll continue to watch over all of us, both physically and spiritually, in this. We pray in Jesus' name, amen. So we're going to be in John, chapter 4., and we're going to start there, at the 7th verse. I'm going to read through all of this and then we'll kind of go back and recap a little bit of stuff, and I'm reading from the New King James Version, so if it sounds a little bit different than what you're looking at, that would be why it's all going to say pretty much the same thing.
Speaker 1:John 4, beginning in the 7th verse. It says A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her Give me a drink, for His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. Then the woman of Samaria said to Him how is into the city to buy food? Then the woman of Samaria said to him how is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink of me, a Samaritan woman, for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her if you knew the gift of God and who it is that says to you give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you the living water. 11th verse. The woman said to him sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where, then, do you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock? Jesus answered and said to her Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into everlasting life.
Speaker 1:Verse 15,. The woman said to him Sir, give me this water that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw. Jesus said to her Go, call your husband and come here. The woman answered and said I have no husband. Jesus said to her you have well said I have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the one with whom you are now is not your husband. In that you spoke truly. The woman said to him Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
Speaker 1:Our fathers worshiped on this mountain and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship. Jesus said to her woman believe me, the hour is coming when you will, neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem, worship the father. You will worship, excuse me, you worship what you do not know. We know that we worship for salvation is of the Jews. Worship for salvation is of the Jews. The 23rd verse says but the hour is coming, and now is when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, and the Father is seeking such worship of Him. God is spirit, and those who worship Him worship in spirit and in truth. Okay, that's a whole lot. That's a whole lot in there, okay, but we've already determined that we should be praising god in every situation, every circumstance, right?
Speaker 1:So in this one passage again, jesus engages the samaritan women, which jewish people should never do. He then tells her about herself that's in the modern terminology. He told her about herself and was dead on perfect in what he said. He shows her how to quench her unquenchable thirst and he teaches her and us, by the reading of this word, how to worship. Now, at first glance, you might say to yourself how does jesus connect all these things to worship? And, and I would say this, all of those things are reasons to worship in every situation, to praise God who delivered them. So in verse 9, you see, the Samaritan woman basically says to Jesus why are you even talking to me? You're not even supposed to be talking to me.
Speaker 1:So the first reason to praise God in this passage comes from the fact that God breaks down barriers between the races. He doesn't care what you look like or where you're from, he's going to love you just the same. In verses 10 through 14, he reveals that he is the Christ, the living water. Right, that's a second reason to praise God. He's the living water, he's the Messiah. In verse 16, he shows not only that he knows the truth about this woman and everything in her life, but he knows everything about our life. So that's the third reason to praise God in this passage. In verse 23, he tells us how to worship.
Speaker 1:Okay, the fourth reason to worship and praise God in this passage is that he's told us how to do it. So we have to remember that everything that God does that reveals His mystery, his majesty, his strength, his power, his goodness, his love, his mercy, is a reason to praise God. So I ask you, how many times a day do you think you're presented with a reason to praise God? I would say, from my own experience, it's innumerable, uncalculable, I don't know. It's a lot of times we take so many things for granted that we're almost not ready to praise God and worship Him for who he is, because we've started to accept or believe that we are entitled to His blessing on our life, regardless of how we're living, regardless of how we show our gratitude and regardless of how we're living, regardless of how we show our gratitude and regardless of how we worship. So we start to turn a blind eye to marvelous and amazing things that he does, because it's kind of old hat to us. So that's why. That's why david would write in Psalm 96, sing to the Lord a new song. Because we should be singing a new song in every moment where we have something new revealed to us or some obstacle of our life is overturned to allow us to continue to follow God and have trust in Jesus, that becomes an opportunity to praise and to worship.
Speaker 1:One of the things that is kind of driving me crazy about. I think the modern Christian music thing is a great thing and you can tell we do a lot of modern Christian worship. I love a lot of those songs. I think a lot of them speak a lot of truth. But the one thing that drives me crazy about them is that sometimes there are things in Christian songs that shouldn't be there. They speak of a truth that is not a truth. They talk about a God that we don't worship. To be honest with you, I don't know if you guys were aware, but there was a song about three weeks ago trending on contemporary Christian charts that was put out by a Muslim.
Speaker 1:Now I've had people say to me well, that's the same God. No, it's not the same God, it's a decidedly different God. So you ask yourself well, how does this happen? Well, because it blindly gets on the radio, because people hear a good tune and they hear what they think are worshipful lyrics and they just push it out there. You need to listen really intently to what you have on your radio or on your iPod. Well, I guess an iPod would be old now. I guess on your iTunes or your Pandora or your Apple Music I know I show my age sometimes. What can I say? You've got to remember I had a Walkman Before that I had a Walkman, I had a transistor radio. Okay, some of you don't even know what a transistor is, let alone a transistor radio. So anyway, I think that an effective praise song should have these three elements it should speak of and to a God who is mighty to save. It should speak of a theology or a biblical truth that aligns with what the scriptures say, and it should testify to the greatness of God in a powerful and truthful way.
Speaker 1:I was talking with a friend of mine about writing songs one day and he said well, I'll get an idea in my head and then I'll mull over that idea for a little bit. And you know, if it's musical first, then I'll try to put some lyrics to it, and then, if it's lyrical first, then I'll try to put some music to it, and I might work on that for three weeks or four weeks or maybe even months, and then I'll just keep working it out. Then I might pray about it, um, and then, if I've prayed about it, I might go to the bible and see what the bible says. And I said, dude, you got it all wrong. The bible should be where it comes from first.
Speaker 1:Okay, the impetus for a praise and worship song. Christian music should be what God says first and foremost. Right. I mean it's unfathomable to me that you would work for months on a song without praying and going back to the Bible about it. I mean I feel like every song that I wind up writing I've actually tried to write quote-unquote secular songs, which I've been successful at, but they still in my mind. I can listen to them back and I go oh, that's speaking to me about this element of God's presence in my life. I can't separate the two. But let me give you a few examples of what I'm talking about. Okay and guaranteed, just fair warning, guaranteed. I'm going to hit a song somebody in here likes, but I want you to think about what I'm sharing with you through it.
Speaker 1:Mary did you know? Yes, mary knew it's a foolish song. Mary was well aware. God told her. An angel told her. She knew it's the most ridiculous question ever posed in Christian music.
Speaker 1:I apologize, I know everybody loves that song. I've done that song. Just it kills me. Okay, we three kings, we three kings of Orient, are bearing gifts we've traversed so far, traversed, by the way, not traveled, traversed so far. Okay, they didn't see Jesus at the manger. Okay, that's not a Christmas song. If you want to sing that just as a song about the three kings and the three wise men who came to worship Jesus, go right ahead. Just have in your mind he was about two, looked a lot like Miles, okay, bruh, okay, okay. So it's a ridiculous song. It's in every hymnal I've ever seen. It's a ridiculous song. It's in every hymnal I've ever seen. It's a ridiculous song. Okay, reckless love. And Greg, I know, greg, I know Reckless love. Everybody loves this song. I'm going to ask you flat out Audience participation is welcome Is God's love reckless? The definition of reckless means to do something without care for consequence. God doesn't do anything without care for consequence. In fact, he does everything knowing what the consequence will be. Now, I've done this song because a lot of people love this song. That song would be better if it was relentless, because God's love is relentless. If anything, god's love is very, very laser-focused and directed, singularly focused and directed on reaching each and every one of us, for Him, so that we can live for Him. So I'll give you an example of part of what I'm talking about Now.
Speaker 1:In this song, reckless Love, there's a line that talks about a well-known parable. Okay, because he says chases me down, fights till I'm found, leaves the 99. Okay, now we're in a room a pretty saturated room is what I would call it. Most of these people have been baptized, right? So when I say leaves the 99, what are we talking about? What are we talking about? His love leaves the 99. What are we talking about? His love leaves the 99. What are we talking about? The sheep? He leaves the 99. This is a parable christ talks about as a shepherd. The shepherd leaves the 99 and goes to find the one, the one that's wandering. Right, okay, I can get behind that, but if you don't know what that piece of that verse is, or that chorus actually is talking about, then you're lost.
Speaker 1:So, as a test, we had about 30 people in a place one day that we were playing worship. Somebody threw that out let's do that song. I said, okay, we'll do that song. So I gave him this first of all. I gave him this whole spiel. I just gave you God's love is not reckless. Okay, long as we understand, god's love is not reckless. Then I sang the song and I said how many of you here know what it means to leave the 99? They're like shrugging their shoulders, I don't know. Then you shouldn't be singing that. Then you shouldn't be singing that.
Speaker 1:Okay, and here's what you, when you're somebody like me who enjoys singing and leading worship but also enjoys preaching, you learn an important truth about writing songs. You can't tell the whole gospel story in a three-minute song. It's virtually impossible. I've done it, but I had to concentrate to do it. But it's virtually impossible. I've done it, but I had to concentrate to do it, but it's virtually impossible. So when you're sharing a praise song with somebody, it needs to be a snippet of something that they can hold on to and grasp. That is a universal truth about Jesus.
Speaker 1:Okay, and I'm not making this about myself or anybody else, but you think about that song we sang this morning as we started this service. You've got to have faith, right. Romans 11.6 says Without faith, it's impossible to please God Universal truth. You can grab that one thing out of that song. That song is about 3 minutes and 53 seconds. Okay, you can grab that one universal truth out of that song and live on that and it will help you in your Christian life. Okay, other things that are described in there talk about being beaten down, being in a world that shakes you up and wears you out right, but what's the way to get over that? Continue to have faith in God, that he's going to do a marvelous work through you and that you are going to be able to show people Jesus through your example.
Speaker 1:Okay, so my point is listen to these songs that are playing on your radio. I'm going to hit you with one more, and guaranteed 50% of the people in here love this song. It's called the Truth by Megan Woods. Okay, this is the chorus. The truth is, I am my father's child. I make him proud and I make him smile. So far, I'm pretty good with that. That's pretty good, right? Okay, I was made in the image of a perfect king, 100% true. He looks at me and wouldn't change a thing. Can anybody figure out where we went wrong? He looks at me and wouldn't change a thing. I got news for you. God, jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, is the biggest agent of change you will ever meet in your life. Every day is about change. Every moment is about change.
Speaker 1:Jason was talking a few weeks ago about transformation. To be truly transformed, you have to change. Okay, so listen, I'm glad these people are putting Jesus first and getting Him on the radio. I'm I'm cool with that, uh, but let's be real. We got to listen to what's being said in these songs so that we know that the truth. As long as we realize that these songs are not a substitute for this, your word of God, which is the truth, then it's okay, and you can use parts of these songs, and maybe all of these songs, to help reach people for Jesus, if you never forget that what you're supposed to be celebrating, praising and worshiping is the truth of God Almighty. Now I just you know. I hope that you understand and appreciate what I'm saying to you because it will help you, I believe, to live a more worshipful life.
Speaker 1:Okay, psalm 89, at the very beginning in the Message Bible and I don't particularly like the Message Bible, but I like the way this is phrased Psalm 89 in the Message Bible starts by saying your love O Lord is a song and I will sing it. Your love O Lord is a song and I will sing it. That's words you can live by. Okay, if the love of God is a song and I will sing it, that's words you can live by. Okay, if the love of God is a song that you are willing to sing with all your being and all your life, you are going to praise Him with every part of your being, and so I don't ever want anybody to feel like I'm banging you over the head with a hammer, or banging you over the head with a hammer or beating you over the head with a Bible, but I think for us to truly worship in spirit and truth. That's what it says, right? You guys have heard me say that a million times. John 4.24 says my true people will worship me in spirit and in truth. Okay, so do it in spirit and in truth.
Speaker 1:And, by the way, I want to make sure I cover this ground because I have questions about this. A lot People will ask me well, don't you listen to any secular music? I listen to a lot of secular music. I'm a Beatle nut. Doug appreciates that. Been a Beatle nut all my life. They weren't great people. They wrote some great songs. So I listen to secular music, but I'm careful to separate what speaks the truth of God and what doesn't. So you're not going to hear me listening to Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones. Okay, I don't care what their theory was with that. It just doesn't jive with anything about my christian life. Okay, I'm not telling you stay away from all secular music.
Speaker 1:You may notice that our music, our praise and worship music, is infused by secular music and things we've stolen from secular music. I think we're using those gifts and those, those elements, to praise god and that's a good thing. Um, we were, we were doing worship music one time and guy was saying it would be great one night to to just do a a uh, a whole show of secular songs that have a great spiritual meaning. I thought that's, that's pretty neat. I could get with that, right, and there's quite a bunch out there, particularly on the countryside, more so than rock and roll. But there's a bunch of songs out there you could do that with. But then the first one he threw out was my Sweet Lord by George Harrison. I was like, hey, man, do you realize that the chorus has chants in the background? It's chants in the background, you know. It's chants that George Harrison learned from a guru that has no place in the worship of God. Right, well, I thought that was a great song. Yeah, well, it was so great that it almost got banned in America because it had those chants in the background.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it's just my way of saying to you and it could be anything, I'm talking about music, right, it could be what you watch on TV. It could be what you engage in as normal practices at work. It could be conversations or jokes that you tell with your friends. It could be the way that you talk about political issues. Understand that there's a separation between what goes on in your normal life and how you praise God with every ounce of your being all the time and just endeavor to keep the bad out that's what I'm saying and promote the good by praising God with every ounce of your being.
Speaker 1:So, as we close today, I just want you guys to understand that what moves me about worship is the fact that it's an opportunity to use talents that God gave me to show Him that I love Him, that I appreciate His mercy and His grace and His love, and that I'm willing to do whatever he's going to ask me to do to advance the Gospel. I hope that is what you're doing with your everyday life of worship, because if we think that worship is just a thing that happens here before the guy gets up and talks, then we're not understanding it. Worship is what happens with every experience of your life. Give God the glory all the time, because he deserves it, you know. And if you think it's going to make you weird, well, yeah, it's going to make you weird.
Speaker 1:I started out the month talking at communion time about 1 Peter 2.9. You're a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people. You're supposed to be weird. Okay, people are supposed to look at you and go. I don't get it. That guy's happy all the time. You know I don't get it. That guy seems to be talking about Jesus all the time. You know I don't get it. Nothing gets that guy down. Well, you're going to have down times, just like anybody else.
Speaker 1:There are times when I feel defeated by what's going on in life. But I got news for you. That overwhelmingly positive image that you share with people is really important to the kingdom of God. You may not think it's ultra important to your own life. It's really important to the kingdom of God Because people out there looking for answers have to see a person who's found them. And if they see a person who's found the answers, they're going to ask you what that answer is. And that's your opportunity to say Jesus is the answer. So live your life of praise.
Speaker 1:Let your life preach. If you let your life preach, you don't have to do what I'm doing right. Preach. If you let your life preach, you don't have to do what I'm doing right now. If you let your life preach, it does the preaching for you. I've overwhelmingly in my lifetime reached people for Jesus by just being who I am. They knock on my door, say hey, I don't really know a whole lot about you, but you're different than the other people I see. Can I talk to you? You know how many lifetime friendships have been opened up to me through that experience. That ain't me. I got news for you. That ain't me. That's Jesus coming through me, which just goes to show you if Jesus can work through something that looks like this. I mean, you guys got it covered. Okay, so that's the message. Okay, that's the message. Live a life of praise, give God the glory all the time, because he deserves it, and remember to be careful about what you're listening to and what you're promoting to other people. Okay,