Female: Hello.

Male: Hello.

Craig Groeschel: Hey, welcome today to all of our churches. We’re in part 4 of a very important
message series called How to Neighbor. If you were with us in the past weeks,
we’ve talked about the very important subjects, Races Reconciled. We too, we
talked about Orphans Embraced. Last week, we talked about The Poor
Empowered. Today, I’m going to ask our campus pastors, your pastor to help me
team teach the final message the final message as we talk about Loving the
Lonely. We want to see the lonely loved, which is really interesting to me when
we look at the Bible when God created the world he said, “It is good.”

Over and over and over and over again God said, “This is good. That is good. This
is good and that is good.” It wasn’t until God looked at Adam all by himself that
God said it’s not good that man be … you know it … it’s not good that man be,
what? Be alone. Everything else was good, but the very first thing that God said
was not good, was when he looked at man and said it’s not good that you’re
alone. I want to talk today and ask our pastors to help me talk about the idea of
loneliness. Now, if I raise the question and asked you, who do you think is lonely?
Who do you think is lonely?

I’m guessing that most of you would probably be like, “A lot of other people.” You
would tend to think that those who are lonely are the older people, maybe
someone who’s been widowed or a widower and in your line of thinking might go
something like that. What I want to do is expand your thinking for a moment on
who actually might be lonely, who battles with loneliness? In fact, there’s a
newer term that’s really intrigued me. I’ve done a lot of study on this term. It’s
the term relational poverty, relational poverty.

Last week, we talked about material poverty and most people know what that is,
but there’s a new and growing problem especially for those of us in the West
known as relational poverty. In fact, the reality is that you can be with a lot of
people and yet feel very, very alone. You can sit in a crowded church building and
feel very lonely. You can be a stay-at-home mom and feel a deep nagging sense
of loneliness. You can work around a lot of people and if you don’t feel close to
any of them even though you may enjoy what you’re doing, you don’t really like
it. Why? You’re plagued with the sense of longing for something more.

You may be a college student and you’re surrounded by people in your dorm or
on your floor. Yet, if you don’t feel like you can open to someone and there’s no
one that you can really trust, what do you feel? You feel desperately alone. If
you’re in a dysfunctional marriage, what do you feel? You may be sleeping next
to someone and yet you feel very, very alone. You might be a successful business
person, you’ve risen to the top and yet, you don’t have anyone you can open up
to. You feel all alone.
 What is the difference between material poverty and relational poverty? Well,
material poverty is lacking the essentials to get you through the day. What is
relational poverty? Relational poverty is lacking the intimacy and the connections
to live a meaningful life. You may have people all around you, but you don’t feel
like people care. You may have people around you, but you don’t feel like you can
open up to anyone. You may feel like you got people around you, but you don’t
feel like you can really trust. You got people all around you, but you don’t feel like
anyone really cares about you.

You can be in a very crowded place and yet, what do you experience? You
experience what so many others do, a nagging sense of loneliness. Why is it that
this is such a growing problem especially in developed nations? I’ll give you 4
theories from social experts as to why relational poverty is such a big issue today.
Number 1, if you’re taking notes, is the breakdown of families, the breakdown of
families. In fact, some of you, unfortunately, experienced this.

You went through a big divorce and what happens, you know he gets possession
of the church and you have to find another church or in some cities at least, you
have to find another LifeChurch campus. She gets these friends and he gets those
friends and suddenly, you got a breakdown of relationships. Number 2, there’s
the increased mobility, meaning people don’t stay in one place very long. There’s
no roots. we’re moving around and around and around. Years ago, generations
would stay in the same community. Now, people don’t stay very long.

Number 3, there’s the heavy work loads. We’re all so busy. How you doing? I’m
busy. How you doing? Busy. How you doing? Busy. We’re so busy that we’re not
connecting intimately with one another. Number 4, interestingly enough, with all
of its benefits, what also can cause loneliness, number 4, the rise of social media,
the rise of social media. While we still may get a glimpse into someone’s life,
we’re not getting that deep sense of intimacy. What do we do when we feel
alone? We may post a selfie of ourselves and then go back and look. Who liked
it? Did anybody say something?

When they don’t say anything, we feel even more alone. Why do we do this? It’s
to meet that longing need we feel for intimacy, but experts say what we’re doing
is we’re actually deferring the loneliness to later. What I want to do is I want to
ask you to help me in welcoming your pastor to finish the message on how do we
love the lonely? Please welcome, your local pastor.

Chris Beall: It’s always an honor to be able to share the pulpit with Pastor Craig as we wrap
up this series, How to Neighbor. If we have not met, my name is Chris Beall and
I’ve been the pastor of this church for about 7 years. I’ve been with LifeChurch
for … going on 14 years and I absolutely love with what God is doing here. I want
to do something a little different. I just want to just start our time and I want to
pray, because this issue as we’ve tackled significant crises in our culture today. I
think Craig has done an amazing job of leading our church to be mobilized as the
solutions, God’s solutions to issues in our world. This one affects every one of us.

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 No matter how many people you know. No matter how connected you’re, every
one of us are going to find ourselves in places of relational poverty, of
disconnection and every single one of us are connected to more people than we
realize who are hurting and feel utterly alone and so we’re going to pray. I believe
that as we do, God is going to put on some of your heart, someone sitting 2 seats
down that you know before the day is over you’re supposed to give him a hug,
you’re supposed to invite him out for coffee.

Somebody is going to think about the person in your office that consistently gets
overlooked or the 15 year old who feels utterly out of place and then we, God’s
people are going to be the solution to this issue.

Father, we love you and we believe that you’ve called us and set us, your people
apart. God for being the hope of Christ to people who are hopeless and so we ask
that you would bring those people to our own minds today. God give us the
wisdom and courage to know how to take a step to love them. God give us the
eyes to see and a heart to care. We pray to you in Jesus’ name. Everyone sit,
Amen.

How do we love the lonely? There are so many ways that we can do that. We’re
going to look at three that were probably the most common that Jesus himself
employed. The first, if you’re taking notes. How are we going to love the lonely?
Write this down. The first way, is we’re going to love with touch. We’re going to
love with touch. At this moment, all of the husbands are thinking, Amen, yes! I’m
lonely. We’re going to love people with touch. I want you to look at this amazing
passage of scripture, Matthew 8 verse 2.

The Bible says that a man with leprosy came and knelt before Jesus and look at
what he says. He says, “Lord, if you’re willing.” Now here, he does not ask a
question, he makes a statement. “Lord, if you’re willing, you can make me clean.”
He had no question what God could do. He knew exactly what God could do.
“Lord, if you’re willing, you can make me clean.”

Now, let’s understand a little bit about what this disease is. It’s not super
common in our culture today, but in the time of Christ, it was incredibly common
and in fact, there were Old Testament, like Levitical laws written, if you’re a leper,
here are all the things that you had to do and can’t do and if you’re around
someone who’s leper, here’s all the things that you can do and can’t do. It starts
with muscle aches, joint pain and fatigue. Now, recognize that when someone
becomes a leper, they have a lifespan of about 10 years. What happens in that 10
years is just utterly unthinkable?

In fact, I was going to show pictures, I couldn’t. It’s so grotesque. The muscle and
the fatigue goes to like scaley rashes on the skin, which then become lumps filled
with puss. Everyone say eww, terrible. Then it goes to their vocal cords and the
vocal cords begin to change and literally the sound of that person’s voice alters.

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 Then the structure of that person’s face begins to contort. With a little bit of
time, they no longer even resemble a human, but like a large animal, like a lion.
Their cheekbones get really, really inflamed and they don’t look like a person
anymore.

Literally, their body begins to decompose and smell like it as they’re living and
this is the man in Jesus’ body space. One of the most contagious diseases there is.
He says, “Lord, if you’re willing, you can make me clean.” What does Jesus do? In
verse 3, Jesus reached out his what? Say it with me. He reached out his …
Interesting and he touched the man. He looks at him and he says, “I am willing.”
He said, “Be clean!” Immediately, he was cleansed of his leprosy.

None of us are God, but just imagine for a minute, okay, this guy is kneeling
before me. What are we doing, honestly? I’m going backwards, because hand
sanitizer hasn’t been invented yet. I’m like, I’m going to pray for you from a
distance, but I’m not going to touch you. This is unclean, but Jesus touched him.
What blows my mind is that all throughout the 4 gospels there’s multiple
accounts of Jesus healing people without touch. All he needed was the power of
his word.

In fact, Lazarus himself, Jesus speaks into a cave and says, “Lazarus, come out!”
The dead are given life. Jesus doesn’t need to touch anyone to heal them so why
did he touch this man? Could it be that the disease that he needed healing from
the most was not leprosy? Could it be that the disease was, in fact, relational
poverty? A life of rejection and sometimes that can only be healed by human
touch, by a hug.

There are people in this room today that you come to church regularly and you
love Pastor Craig’s messages and you love the band and worship is awesome, but
the reason you’re so consistent at coming to this place is because this may be the
only place of the week you get a hug or a handshake or a high five, any kind of
human connection. When I was 16 years old just to illustrate this point, I worked
at a grocery store in Central Texas called H-E-B. If we had one here, you would all
shop there, it’s a great store. I’m an okay pastor. I do an okay job. I was an
incredible cashier. I was incredible.

The speed with which I could scan cans of green beans and produce would blow
your mind. In fact, there were actually competitions that we would have annually
to … you laugh … to see who … like who is first place in the state in checking out a
certain amount of groceries and bagging them properly. I was in that competition
and I was a finalist, people. What kind of person enters themselves in a cashier
competition? Losers do! That’s who I was, but I was really good at it.

There’s this lady who came through my check stand, her name was Ruth. I was 16
years old fish in high school and Ruth, 65 years old, quick-witted, amazing
woman. We got to talking and we just connected. I just really … I dug this woman.
She’s awesome. I checked out her groceries efficiently, very hospitably. Checked

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 her out, she gave me the money to pay for the groceries. She put it in my hand. I
put it in the register. One thing that I did, I don’t know why. When I would count
the money back into her hand, I would put my hand on her hand and I would say,
“Have a great week.” and she left.

The next week, she was there at the exact same day, at the exact same time.
Thursday at 4:30 and the week after that and the week after that and the month
after that for 2 years every Thursday at 4:30 Ruth would come through my line. I
just graduated from high school and I was getting ready to go to college. It was
the last time I was going to see her and I just … Finally, I was just curious. I’m like,
“Ruth, I know I’m awesome, but there are times that there are 3 people in my
line and there’s no one in the line next to me, but you wait in my line, why?” She
began to cry.

She said, “Because, every Thursday at 4:30, I give you money for my groceries
and every Thursday at 4:30 you put your hand on mine and you say, “Have a good
week!” That’s the only time of the week another human being touches me.”
Divorced, alone, we’re wired by God for human connection. A loving touch and a
loving hug can change people. As a church, this is who we’re going to be. We’re
not going to violate people’s body spaces, but when someone wants a hug, by
golly, they’re going to get a hug in this place, Amen. We love people with touch.
Secondly, write this down. We love by listening. We love by listening.

Now, here’s a thing, most people do not listen with the intent to understand
them. They listen with the intent to what? Respond/ reply. I’m nodding my head
as though I know what you’re talking about, but I’m thinking about my incredibly
awesome comeback to whatever it is that you’re saying. People need to be loved
by listening. Jesus was a great listener. There’s this amazing story I need to build
a little bit of context around it. There was 2 men walking on a street. Now, Jesus
had just been crucified and really no one knew that he had risen.

These 2 men put their entire hopes of their lives on the fact that Jesus was the
Messiah and he was going to build a kingdom on earth. They didn’t really
understand the heavenly kingdom that Jesus was building. They’re walking along
this road their eternal hopes dashed, shot, they were depressed, they were
lonely and Jesus comes up alongside of them.

In Luke 24 verse 17, check this out. Jesus, he asked them a question, “What are
you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their faces
downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one
visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things have happened there in these
days?” Now, at this moment, Jesus could have responded very, very differently.
Their bummed, their hopes have been dashed and all of sudden Jesus could go,
“Tadah! It’s me, I’m alive.” He could totally like made their day. Did I scare the
front row? I apologize.

He could totally have made their day and say, “Stop being depressed, I’m here,”

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 but he didn’t do that. He didn’t do that. What does he do? He started with a
question. He continues with a second question. “Are you the only one that is
unaware of what’s happened to Jerusalem in these days?” Jesus says, “What
things?” He asked. I think this is huge. Why do you think Jesus did not reveal
himself and solve their pain? Maybe he was modelling for us that we live in a
world where there are people that need to know that we love them, not when
they have the answer to the solution, but before they had the answer to their
problem.

That in the midst of my discontentment and my heartbreak someone cares

enough to just say, “How can I pray for you?” or “Tell me your story?” Maybe in
the lobby later on today, you walk up to someone you’ve never met and you ask
the question, “How are you?” Then you add one word, “really.” “How are you
really?” Did you love them by listening? Cindy and I have been married for 23
amazing years and in the early days of our marriage, really actually, all
throughout our marriage with once a quarter or every couple of months, Cindy
would come up to me and she’d say, “Hey, Chris, you got a sec. I’d love to talk.”

At that moment, here’s what I’m thinking, dang it, I’m about to find out how I
suck as a husband. One more time, here we go. Lay it on me. In the early days,
that’s exactly what happened. Here’s how you could do a whole lot better. I’m
like I’d receive it, but in the last several years, it’s been very, very different,
because I’ve kind of learned through my stubbornness that husbands, they don’t
always want us to fix the problem. They don’t always want us to offer a solution.
They want someone to bear witness to what’s going on in their heart. Just listen.
We sit on the back porch and she shares her heart.

As much as I want to say something, I’ve learned to just sit there and listen. It’s
one of the most powerful ways we can love people. Just give them an ear. Isn’t it
interesting that God gave us 2 ears, but only 1 mouth? Maybe he’s trying to tell
us, we should listen twice as much as we speak, possibly. About a year ago, I got a
really difficult phone call from a family in our church. They’ve been a part of our
church for about 17 years. He had lost his son in a tragic car accident 2 hours
prior this phone call. They were, of course, devastated. I was devastated. I got my
car and went over to their house and sat on their back porch.

I’m pretty sure I said a few things when I got there. I know I prayed over them
before I left. This conversation was very different than any other conversation
I’ve had with a family who has lost someone. Their son that they lost is the same
age as my oldest son Noah. The whole time I’m sitting there, I’m just thinking, this
could be me, this could be me. For the better part of an hour, this family sat there
and they grieved and they cried and they were wrestling through their own
disbelief and shock and I just sat and I listened. I did not know what to say.

Later on, after I prayed for them and left, he had texted me and said, “Pastor, you
being with us today, I could never tell you what it meant to us. Everything you
said was exactly what I needed to hear.” I didn’t say anything. I didn’t say a word.

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 Sometimes, we get in these situations and there are people in your lives right
now that the best way you could love them is to ask them an open-ended
question and just listen. It’s one of the greatest ways we can love people. Jesus
modeled this for us. We love with touch. We love by listening and finally, write
this down. We love with time. We love with time.

Jesus had 3-1/2 years of ministry and he got a lot fit in to that 3-1/2 years. He was
always on the move. He was always going somewhere. He was always going to
heal someone. He was always going to preach to a crowd. He was always going to
multiply a little bit of food to feed 5,000 people. He was always moving and going
somewhere, but he was never so busy that he couldn’t be interrupted.

One of my favorite stories in the Gospel of Luke Chapter 5, of Jesus is teaching in

a town that he hadn’t been in up to this point. He’s in this enclosed house and
there’s some people that are just intent on every word coming out of his mouth.
There was a few Pharisees in there that weren’t big fans of Jesus, but yet, they
were there. He’s in this place teaching. Now, 4 guys get wind that the fact that
Jesus is in their town. They recognized that they have an opportunity for their
friend who’s been paralyzed to get healed. They go and they pick up this
paralyzed friend on his mat and they make their way over to the house.

People are pouring out of this house. There’s absolutely no way these guys are
going to get their friend in. Some of you guys know the story, so what did they
do, they climb up onto the roof and they begin to dig like clay in the mud roof
and created an opening. Some of you, we have kids in our Life, we may have 14
little kids in our Life Group and that can be distracting at times. Sometimes you
may feel in your life people distracting.

Until someone starts peeling the asphalt off of your roof, where you’re going to
have to file an insurance claim the very next day and then drops a sick person in
the middle of your living room right as you’re getting to point 3 of your Life Group
message, your Life Group is not that distracting. This is what’s happening here.
They dig a whole. They lower the man as Jesus’ teaching right in front of him.
What does he do? He stops. He doesn’t preach point 3 and he looks at the man
and he says, “Your sins are forgiven. Oh and by the way, get up and walk.” He
heals him. The power of this is that sometimes we get interrupted.

One of the things that we talk about on our staff all the time is that, we have a
church staff of about 20 people and we lead a church of about 10,000. Whenever
we tend to get overwhelmed with meeting the needs of our church community,
we remind ourselves of this. This not just for our staff, this is for our whole
church, whoever God puts in front of you God’s assignment for you. If we all just
stepped into God’s assignment, the needs of the entire community would always
be met, because we’re always not too busy to take time for a divine interruption.
We love people by giving them our time.

My father died 6 years ago, an incredible, incredible man. He was 79 years old.

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 He was an opera singer and an actor. I grew up in the arts. That’s all I really knew
as a kid. As he got older, he had some health problems that … he was kind of bed-
ridden for the last few years, but during those years he’s relationship with Christ
went to a whole new level and the amount of time he spent in the word and in
prayer. He ended his life at his spiritual best. He loved sweets. He had a terrible
sweet tooth.

One day, the day he died, my mother bought him a box of those chocolate
sampler things. Do you guys what I’m talking about? The ones where you take the
lid off and you take a bite of everything figuring out which is nasty and which is
awesome. She bought him a box of those and at 9:00, she gave it to him. By
11:30, the entire box had been eaten. My mom comes in and just kind of yells at
him for eating all that chocolate in a very short amount of time. He stands up. He
gets a headache, which is really a massive aneurysm and he dies.

As I stop and I look and step back and think about this as challenging as this was
for me to navigate, process this with me for a minute. He lives 79 years, great life.
He ended his life more in love with Jesus than he started it. He ate an entire box
of chocolates and then he woke up with Jesus. That’s the best way to die ever.
Sign me up. God, I want that plan. I love chocolate. As I look back at his life and
the time when he was not the greatest of health, I was in a season where I’ve
never busier in ministry. Our schedule was pretty nuts and our boy’s activities
were crazy.

It got to the point where, honestly, I could probably only get home a couple times
a year. There are things that I don’t have regrets about. I don’t regret that my dad
didn’t live in a nicer house. I don’t regret that he didn’t have more resources to
enjoy his golden years. I don’t even regret those seasons where he and I did not
see to eye to eye on things, but church I’ve got regrets. My regrets are I did not
spend more time with him in those last years. He was longing for just these
reminders of me saying, “Dad, even though you made mistakes, I love you and I
forgive you those mistakes.”

He needed these reminders of his son is actually a good man. He needed those
reminders that I’m proud to call him dad. I regret that. I regret that for me and I
regret that for him that we didn’t more of those moments. There are people in
your life right now, although you’re insanely busy we all are that are longing for
time with you. One of the best ways you could love them, give them the time.
Just give them the time. I’m afraid as a culture we’re so bombarded with what
seems urgent that we fill our calendars with those things that seem urgent that
there’s no time left for what’s important.

Do not let the urgent crowd out the important. We love people. We love the
lonely with touch. We’re going to give the best hugs of any church anywhere. We
love by listening and we love by giving time. This begs the question today, what if
it’s you, what if you’re the one that honestly, right now, you feel alone. Well, I
pray the Holy Spirit speak to your heart even louder than my words do. You’re

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 family, we’re a family. We’re imperfect. At times, dysfunctional, but we love each
other. We have been given by God to one another to walk through hard times.
We love you.

The second thing, probably more important than the first, God loves you. He
designed us for intimacy. Not just intellectual knowledge, but intimacy with him. I
just want to read Isaiah 41 and I want to read this and speak this over your heart,
those of you who feel alone. Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be
dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you. Yes, I will
uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. You may feel alone, but
you’re not alone. We love you and God loves you.

As we wrap up these 4 weeks of prayerfully motivating and mobilizing our faith

community to be the answer to the issues in our culture. Remember, how do we
neighbor. Jesus said it, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind
and strength and love your neighbor as yourself.” Would you pray with me
today?

Father, we love you and thank you for this moment and this reminder that you’re
with us. God, I pray that you would give us just the ability to be honest with
ourselves and with you as to where we’re today and what it is that we need. In an
attitude of prayer today, I’m going to ask some of you to be a little courageous.
Most of the time, when we find ourselves in a place where we feel lonely, the last
thing we want to do is bring attention to ourselves. I think there’s something
spiritual about an acknowledgement of, yeah, God, this is me. I feel alone. I feel
disconnected.

For those of us in this room today that say, “I’m in a place and I need the
hospitality of God and the care of God’s people and I just want to admit that.” If
that’s you, I need you to be courageous and just lift up your hand right now, just
lift it up, hands going up. I thank you so much for your courage. You can put them
down for a moment. Others of you, as we pray today, God show me who’s it that
needs a loving touch. Who’s it in my life that needs to be encouraged, that needs
a listening ear or a great hug? Someone came on your mind; you know exactly
who it is that you’re supposed to reach out to today or this week.

If you know who that person is, I want you to lift up your hand right now and say
God, I hear you speaking to my heart, hands everywhere. Father, we ask that
those who feel alone, those who are lonely God, that your shalom, your peace
would rest on them. God, we ask that you would connect them with people who
love you and are filled with your spirit that can encourage them in the season of
emptiness and feeling alone.

For those of us, God, who you have reminded us who would love a little bit of our
time, who would love a loving touch or a listening ear, God, thank you for giving
us the urging and the promptings to be your solution to those who are hurting. I
pray that you would bless those conversations over coffee this week or lunch or

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 whatever it is that they’re going to do, that we’re going to do, that I’m going to
do, God, that we could be the loving touch from you. God, thank you also for
what you’re about to do in this place.

As we continue to pray today, there are some of you that feel really alone from
God and that shouldn’t really be a surprise, because the Bible says that every
single one of us, every one of us have sinned. The Bible says that sins, eternally
separates us from God. We can’t know that intimacy, because sin is the Grand
Canyon between us and his presence. The Bible said that while we were still
sitting Christ died for us. He died to pay a debt that he didn’t know, but you did
and so did I. He paid that debt so that we could once again be made right with
the Father.

Here’s one thing I need you to know, the Bible says that Jesus endured
unbelievable physical agony leading up to his crucifixion. As he hung in that cross
and he was mocked and spat at, clearly, he felt alone within the context of
humanity. These were the people he, in fact, created and they were mocking him
and spitting on him. That wasn’t the hardest thing, the Bible says that God the
Father is so holy that he cannot be in the presence of sin and while Christ didn’t
commit a sin, he became our sin. In that moment, God the Father had to turn his
back on God the Son. He could not be in the presence.

That’s why Jesus said, “My God, My God, why have you left me alone? Why have
you forsaken me?” Do you realize Jesus for the first time ever on that cross was
lonely separated from the presence of his Father? Why did he endure that? Why
did he endure such loneliness? So that you would never have to, period, that if
you call on the name of Jesus, you would not only be saved, but you would be
brought into the family of God and the presence of God. There would be nothing
that could ever separate you from him, why? Jesus was separated from him.
What do you do?

You have to acknowledge that you can’t just know about it in your head, you
have to receive it in your heart. God, I believe Jesus died for me. I believe he lived
a sinless life. I believe that I am desperate. I’ve got no other option, but
surrendering my whole life to him today. If you pray that prayer today, listen to
me, your sins will be completely forgiven, you’ll be made new and you’ll be
brought into the family of God in this moment of prayer with heads bowed and
eyes closed. If that’s your prayer, boldly lift your hand right now and I want you
to meet me eye to eye. Just lift it up.

Right over here, I got you. Others of you, here on the front, sweet girl, I got you
right over here. Others of you, Jesus, I’m saying “yes” to your grace and your
mercy. I am so proud of you right over here. Others of you, today’s my day,
anyone else before we pray? He loves your church. He is so crazy about you.
We’re going to pray with you who are saying “yes” to Christ and then we’re going
to go crazy and celebrate God’s goodness.

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 Pray this out loud with me. Father, I need you. I have sinned. I’m asking you to
save me. Jesus, I believed you died to pay for my sin and I receive your grace, I
surrender my life. Fill me with your Holy Spirit that I could serve you always. In
Jesus name, I pray. Church, can we go a little nuts today and celebrate the
goodness of our God?

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