The Love Triangle – Walking In Fellowship

Hey, I just want to give a quick testimony that as we were

singing those songs, as we were worshipping, something came

across my mind, something that is just something that's been on

my heart. And and so I just, you know,

right over there, sitting right there or standing right there

decided I'm, I'm just going to go to God with it.

And so I started praying about it.

And within a couple minutes, I mean, the heavens didn't open

up. There wasn't lightning.

You would have seen that. You would have noticed that, but

God just gave me a real clear, just a nudge to say I got it.

And so I just wanted to tell you, just before we even get

into God's Word, I want to tell you that God is good and He's

faithful and He's always working.

And those songs that we sing, I trust the Lord.

I sought the Lord and he heard any answer.

That's my story today. It's always been my story.

God is faithful and He's good. And so I'm thankful that we get

to worship Him together. Today we're starting a new

series, the Love Triangle. Before we do that, have any of

you driven on 75 S or, yeah, 75 S and then got on 275 W going

out towards Indiana? And if you go and you pass 747

and then you pass Route 4, and then you get to the next exit

and there's this huge gaping hole on the right side where

there used to be something. You know what I'm talking about,

talking about Forest Fair Mall, huge mall that for years was a

big part of Cincinnati and it's it's gone now.

It's just a big empty area. The world's changing a little

bit, isn't it? I think about like tri-county

Mall there. I mean, a lot of the places that

growing up we used to hang out or spend our time have gone away

and it seems like just things are always changing, whether

it's bowling alley. I just drove by the bowling

alley here in Mason the other day and it's got other things.

I, I don't know if it's still bowling alley or not, but it had

another company sign and all this stuff on and I just

thought, man, is that one going too?

And growing up it seemed like we spent our times at malls and

putt putt places and bowling alleys and skating rinks.

And those are becoming harder and harder to find.

In 1995 a movie came out. I'm telling you how old I am.

If you want to know exactly how old I am, it was the year before

I went to high school. 1995, a movie came out and I was called

The Net. How many of you remember the

movie The Net? OK Sandra Bullock.

Yes, Sandra Bullock was the star of it.

And, and at the time the movie seemed pretty far fetched.

See, Sandra Bullock's character in the Net was a person that

stayed at home. She did all her work, all her

shopping, everything at home. She never left the house.

She didn't have interaction with hardly anybody else.

She just stayed at home and her whole life was contained there.

And in 1995, we thought that's insane.

No way. And in 2026, here we are.

What used to seem far fetched, what used to seem no way is a

reality for a lot of people today.

We order our food online, we shop online.

We've a lot of people get their groceries online.

We meet people online. We communicate with the people

we know online. Some of you today are going to

church online. That's a lot of people go to

church online. That's a thing.

And listen, I'm glad you chose to join us, but it just seems

like what was far fetched in 1995.

It's completely plausible today that someone could just live

their life contained without ever really interacting with a

lot of other people. And so our culture has changed.

In fact, in the church, I thought about this growing up.

I was a pastor's kid. We had Sunday morning, Sunday

night, Wednesday night, and after service we stayed for at

least an hour every Sunday as the pastor's kid, it seemed like

2 hours. We stayed in the sanctuary and

talked. We went out in the parking lot

and talked. We hung out in the common areas

and talked. And now it's like, no offense

guys, but it's like we're cockroaches that when the light

comes on and service ends, we all go boom and we're gone.

You're not cockroaches, you're good people.

Forgive me and and listen, it's just things have changed.

We're busy, right? I say all this and my son has a

1230 basketball game downtown and so is when service is over,

boom, I'm out. I got to go.

But culture has changed a lot. Well, we're in a new series, the

Love Triangle. And, and here's what I want you

to understand that we are created for relationship.

We are created to be in relationship with God, our

creator, and we are created to be in relationship with each

other. Life that God has for us

involves relationships. And so the love triangle, I want

you to picture this. If you're on one corner and then

others are on the other, but then God is at the top of the

triangle. The closer you go, you grow to

God. Guess what, the closer you're

going to get to other people. That's the idea.

First John is, is the book we're in and 1st John is actually

amongst all the books of the Bible.

It has the highest usage of the word love of any book. 46 times

in First John, in five chapters. 46 times is love mentioned.

Now it's mentioned more in Psalms, but it's a lot bigger

book. It's less than one time per

chapter in Psalms, but but in First John 46 times in five

chapters. We were created for

relationships and to love each other.

In fact, when when someone asked Jesus, what's the greatest

commandment, what did he say? He said, go to church on Sundays

and don't cuss, right? No, he said, he said, love the

Lord your God with all your heart.

So mind and strength. And then the second one is just

like it. Love your neighbor as yourself.

Relational commandments, love God, love others.

So we're in first John chapter 1 today.

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Will you stand with me and honor God's word?

And we stand because we believe that God wants to speak to us

today through his word. Even though this was written a

long time ago by John, we believe that that even in his

writing, God was inspiring John and that God not just wanted to

speak to the people of that day, but God wants to speak to us

today. And so we stand and honour God's

word. We stand in a position to

receive God's word. And we sang earlier that

everything I need, my father has it.

And my prayer is that whatever you need today, that God will

speak to you and give it to you. Whatever you need, God has it

today. Let's hear His Word.

And my prayer is that He will speak through His Word.

First. John chapter 1 says that which

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was from the beginning, which we've heard, which we've seen

with our eyes, which we've looked at and our hands have

touched, this we proclaim concerning the word of life.

The life appeared. We've seen it and we testify to

it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the

Father and has appeared to us. We proclaim to you what we have

seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us.

And our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus

Christ. We write this to make our joy

complete. This is the message we have

heard from Him and declare to you.

God is light. In Him there is no darkness at

all. If we claim to have fellowship

with Him and yet we walk in darkness, we lie and we do not

live out the truth. But if we walk in the light as

He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another.

And the blood of Jesus His Son purifies us from all sin.

Praise the Lord, have a seat. Three parts of this that we're

going to look at today. Three parts.

The 1st is this the source of life, the source of life, say

the source, the source of life. The second is the joy of life,

say joy. Do you have joy today?

Good, the source of life, the joy of life.

And, and the third is the path, say the path, the path to life

and to joy. So that's the three things we're

going to see in this text. The 1st is going to be the

shortest of the three and it's the source of life.

John says that which was from the beginning, which we've

heard, which we've seen with our eyes, which we've looked at in

our hands, have touched this. We proclaim concerning the word

of life. The life appeared.

We've seen it, identify to it, and we proclaim to you the

eternal life which was with the Father and has appeared to us.

What is John talking about here? He's talking about Jesus.

Jesus, the life, the way, the truth and the life.

Jesus Christ. This is written by John.

Some people dispute that. It doesn't say it's written by

John, but it it's given his name.

And this is obviously written by an eyewitness, somebody that it

says here we, we've seen him with our own eyes, we've looked

at him, we our hands have touched him.

We proclaim the word of life. The life appeared.

We've seen it and we testify to it.

So John, clearly the person that wrote this was an eyewitness of

Jesus. In addition to that, we have

John's gospel, which actually uses a lot of the same exact

phrasing. And so we we understand that

John wrote this and he's writing to proclaim a message.

You know what that message is? It's Jesus.

The message that John wants to proclaim is Jesus, the life,

eternal life. There's a lot of different

messages we hear in our world today, to be honest, there,

there's some different messages you can hear in churches today.

Some of them are the power of you.

You know, if you just, if you figure it out, if you become the

best version of yourself, then you can have life and you can

have it to the fullest. And it's all about you and you

figuring it out. And guys, that's a false

message. What about the, the message out?

One of the things I see a lot is the experience.

You know, come and get the experience and, and it's this

idea that, that, that it's all about experience.

And the third is, is something we see quite a bit.

It's, it's the works and prosperity that if you will do

certain things, if you will follow this certain plan, then

you will have life. And so these messages are all

different things. There's lots of different

messages. But but John says the message

that we proclaim, the message that we preach is Jesus, the one

God who came in the flesh, the Son Jesus that we've seen, that

we've heard, that we've touched. He is the way, the truth and the

life. This is significant guys, John

and the the disciples. John spent time with Jesus and

now here he is probably about 50 years later.

He's, he's an old man now and he's writing and he's saying the

message that I want to get to you, the thing I want to

proclaim to you is Jesus. He's life.

He's everything. I love the song we just sang.

I sought the Lord and he heard the answer.

That's why I trust him. It's a proclamation that he's

good, that he's faithful. And that's John saying it's all

about Jesus. Jesus is the source of life and

Jesus is the source of eternal life.

Listen to me. If you want to have life today

and life the way that you were created to have it, there's one

way, It's through Jesus. If you want to have eternal life

today, if you, you know it's not a fountain of youth that's

buried in South America or Florida or any of those places.

If you want to have eternal life, there's one way and it's

through Jesus. You can have some existence.

You can have some sort of life, but the life you were created

for, life to the fullest only comes through Jesus Christ.

Eternal life only comes through Jesus Christ, and so the message

that John proclaims is Jesus, the source, say source is Jesus.

All right, The second point, the joy, say the joy, all right.

So the source is Jesus, the joy of life.

Here it is. We proclaim verse 3 to you what

we have seen and heard so that you also may have fellowship

with us and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son

Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy

complete. So the source John says is

Jesus. He's the way, the truth and the

life. He is the way to life and

eternal life. But then he goes on and he says,

we proclaim this to you so that you can have fellowship with us

and our fellowship exist with God and with his Son Jesus.

Why do we proclaim the gospel? Because it's not just for me,

it's for all of us. There's fellowship and following

Jesus this term. Fellowship.

I know it's a churchy term. They don't use it a lot outside

of the church, but but fellowship is, is a, is a key

concept in chapter one of first John.

So the the word love is used 46 times.

We're going to be talking more about that in the next couple

weeks. But the word fellowship is used

four times and they all happen in the 1st chapter here.

And the word fellowship refers, it's the word Koinonia.

And that let me get that slide. Koinonia that this is from

Strong's Concordance. Koinonia expresses active

participation in a common life. At at its heart are the ideas of

sharing, of partnership, of communion, of mutual

contribution. The term gathers spiritual,

relational and material dimensions and to a single

reality, the life believers hold in common with God through

Christ and with one another in the Spirit.

So, so Jesus is the source of life, and the source brings us.

We proclaim the message so that we can have fellowship with each

other and with God and Jesus Christ.

Fellowship, say fellowship. We have fellowship halls in the

church. We we used to have fellowship

activities. We don't say that word as much,

but fellowship is a big part of what God has for you.

We proclaim the gospel so that you can share in the life and

the eternal life that Jesus has. John wants others to take part

in this. He he says, I experienced

something amazing. The source of life and eternal

life is Jesus Christ. And he came and he walked this

earth and I saw him and I touched him.

And I want to share it with you so that we can all be 1

together. We can have fellowship.

You like to share things with other people, don't you?

When you experience something really cool, you want to share

it, don't you? How many of you have seen a

really good movie? And probably one of your first

moves was to go tell someone else how awesome that movie was,

right? Are you like me?

Do you like showing movies that are awesome to other people?

Like you want people? In fact, it drives me crazy when

I'm like, hey, this is a great movie.

And we sit down to watch it, and then the person doesn't pay any

attention and I'm like, you're missing it.

It's a great movie. Come on, Brad.

Poland. Oh my word, that dude just talks

and laughs and I'm like, Brad, pay attention to the movie.

When we see a good movie, we want to share it.

When you have a good meal or go to a new restaurant, you want to

share it, don't you? Not your meal.

You don't want to share your meal, honey, get your own meal.

But when you have a good meal or you have you go to a good

restaurant, you want to share it with other people and you say,

hey, you need to check out this place.

It's so good. Oh, man, you need to have this

on the menu. I trust me.

It's the best. We we like to share food.

What what about places you've ever been to?

Somewhere really amazing? A few years ago, we went to

Squamish, which is in British Columbia.

It's above Seattle. And we had no clue what we were

going to, but we got there and it was the most amazing place.

And since then we've thought, man, we want to, we want to take

other people there and we haven't.

But it was such a cool place. One of the highlights of the

last few years for me was that when I was in high school, I got

the opportunity to go to Kenya and I went to African Nazarene

University. And it was so cool A couple

years ago when I got to take my son Sam, who's up here singing,

I got to take him back to African Nazarene University and

show him like, this is the place.

That's the basketball court that I worked on, and that's where we

stayed. And look, here's such a cool

thing to share. We like to share places right in

Estes Park, Co. It's in the mountains of

Colorado. There's a place the YMCA

campground. How many of you are excited

about the idea of a YMCA campground?

You should be Estes Park YMCA campground is amazing.

It's up in the mountains and there are elk everywhere and

it's just beautiful. And if you go past it, if you go

up the hill and you go off the property, see, we had a another

pastor that a couple nights or the night before we got there,

he had gone on up off the property and driven up the hill

and he got to the very top and he said, guys, you got to come

with me. It's amazing.

And so the next day he drove us up the hill and we got to the

very top of the mountain and there was this amphitheater,

that theater that was looking out over the mountains.

Incredible. I went back once or twice before

I left, I went back and just sat there and worshipped.

What an incredible experience. Guys, if you're ever with me in

Estes Park, we're going up to the amphitheater.

We like to share things that are awesome.

Just the other day, I'm sitting there with some friends and, and

my friend Jayden Bird walked in. He was one of our interns

several years ago. And I said, oh, you guys got to

meet Jayden. He's the best and sure enough,

within a couple minutes, we're all laughing and having a good

time. We want to share things with

each other, right? That's what John's doing.

He's saying, listen, I experienced Jesus, the life, the

eternal life. He's the message I proclaim to

you. I want to share him with you

because we need to have fellowship together.

We need to share this together, guys, there's nothing.

Good meals, cool places, good movies, friends, there's nothing

that you have that's more important to share than Jesus

Christ. He's the way, the truth, and the

life. He's the only thing that can

give us life. And so following Jesus leads us

to fellowship with each other and fellowship with him because

we share together a common sharing, a common spirit, a

common worship. We share together in the

fellowship of Jesus. As I was thinking about this

sermon, a movie came to mind. I'm not a big Lord of the Rings

fan. I've watched them, but you know,

it's cool if you like them, that's great.

But I thought about the the Ring, the 1st movies called The

Fellowship of the Ring. And I thought about that ring

that they called the Precious. And it was crazy because the

closer you got to it, the more it pulled you away from other

people, the more it pulled you away from what you were supposed

to. And so, so the idea of this ring

is that if you got it, there's this idea that it's going to

make my life great. But the reality is what it did

is it tore you away from other people and relationships.

Guys, the gospel, Jesus Christ is not something to take and

hide. The gospel is not something that

we experience that that Jesus does something great.

And we say, awesome, I'm going to go lock myself in my house

and think about it. It's something that's meant to

be shared. It's something that's meant to

be fellowship with each other. And, and so I noticed I got

really nerdy for a minute and I was like, wait a minute, It's

called the fellowship of the ring.

What's that all about? Well, the fellowship was in

trying to destroy the ring because it LED people astray.

Listen, there are all sorts of things in our lives.

There's selfishness, there's all these different things, there's

all these different messages, there's all these different

things that will pull us away from each other, that will

divide us. You want me to name a few?

How about politics? How about sports?

Sure, sports can bring us together, but I see quite a few

fights and arguments and a lot of hatred that revolves around

sports of all things. There are all these different

things that that tend to divide us and we think that they're

going to give us joy and they're going to give us peace.

But the truth of the matter is they just pull us apart from

each other. In Christ.

We have fellowship together and it goes on at the end and it

says, we write this so that our joy may be made complete.

Are you getting the picture here?

God is the source of eternal life.

He's the message that we proclaim.

The message leads us to fellowship with each other and

with Him, and that brings US joy.

God's greatest joy comes in following Him and following Him

together with others. God's gift of joy is through

fellowship with each other and with God.

Guys, I'm going to be honest. I like to preach.

But if my job were sitting in an office writing sermons, I would

hate my job. If my job were just planning in

an office by myself, I would hate my job.

My favorite part of this job is that I get to spend time with

you wonderful people. It's the best part of my job.

Going to lunch, coming to visit, going to hospital visits.

This week, I had multiple opportunities to spend time with

people. And, and you know what, most of

the time I do most of my writing and stuff like that at home

later at night when I'm by myself because I want to spend

my time here with fellowship. That's where joy comes from.

See, God is relational. We believe in the triune God

that before the earth was created, the Father, Son, and

Spirit existed together as one in community and fellowship with

each other. They're three, but they're one

and they were together. God and by nature is relational,

and He created us to be relational as well, to invite us

into fellowship. Not that we become God, but that

we can have fellowship and unity and common sharing.

That we can be of one purpose and one mind and one spirit.

And so God's gift of joy comes through fellowship.

Not sitting by yourself, not locking yourself away, but

spending time sharing life, worshipping together.

It's what we were created for. So #1 God is the source of life

#2 the joy of life comes through fellowship.

Now #3 we put those first two together.

If Jesus is the source and if the joy of life is fellowship,

how do we have life and fellowship to the fullest?

Well, verse 5, this is the message we've heard from him.

And we declare to you, God is light, and Him is no darkness at

all. If we claim to have fellowship

with Him and yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not live

out the truth. But if we walk in the light as

He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another.

And the blood of Jesus His Son purifies us from all sin.

How do we have life and life to the fullest?

Through the source. Jesus is the source.

He's the way, the truth, the life and the joy that we have

comes through fellowship. So how do we have it to the

fullest? We go to the source, it says God

is light. Last week we had sunrise service

at 7:00 AM. Some of you don't like to be up

at 7:00 AM or you don't like to be here at 7.

AMI understand sunrise service is worth it.

Guys, there's something beautiful about Easter morning

coming together and gathering in the front foyer with the windows

and seeing the sun come up. It's like we're running to the

tomb and we see it empty and we understand that Jesus is risen

and the light of the world comes up and we get to physically

watch it. I have a buddy who's a pastor

and he said, oh, at our church, we meet at like 8 for sunrise

and the sun's already up and I'm like, well, you're doing it

wrong. The whole point is to see the

sunrise. That's fine.

Worship is always good. But but there's something

beautiful about seeing the light rise because God is light.

Jesus is the light of the world. You know that when there's an

absence of light, usually we're not experiencing life to the

fullest. Is that true for you?

And there's an absence of light? We're usually not.

It's experiencing life to the fullest.

Our family rented a cabin in Hocking Hills probably about, oh

man, probably 8 years ago or so, we rented this cabin in Hocking

Hills. Great cabin, huge cabin, nice

stuff. It had a pool inside.

It had this huge gathering area that was perfect.

It was this great place for us to gather in the the last night

there was a storm and the power went out.

And you know what happens in Hocking Hills in the middle of

nowhere when the power goes out? Nothing.

It's dark and all of a sudden this great place with the pool

and all this stuff, there was nothing to do.

What are we going to do in the dark other than sit there and

not see each other? Luckily we found something.

You know what we found? Come on, a light and all of a

sudden we could play some cards. We had some life, but in the

absence of light and darkness, we're not living life to the

fullest. And in addition to that,

darkness seems to be a breeding ground for evil and wrong.

My mom used to say nothing good happens after midnight.

That's why my curfew was midnight.

I didn't agree with her. She was right, at least as far

as I was concerned. Nothing good happens after

midnight. That's where I got in most of my

trouble after midnight. You know, we went, I talked

about the trip to Africa and they said on the trip, they said

it once it gets dark, you're not allowed to go out of your, your

room. You got to stay in your room.

And I thought, I'm a grown man. If I want to go outside in the

dark, I'll go outside. And they said, well, let me tell

you, I didn't say that to him. I'm, I'm not that kind of, you

know, I'm not that way, but but I thought that.

And they said, well, let us tell you why you don't go in the

dark, because we have seen hippos and lions on the campus

that night. And I thought, you know what?

I think I'll stay inside at night.

I think that's a good idea, that I'll stay inside and avoid being

out in Africa in the dark, even even here.

I mean, most robberies break insurance.

Most things that happen that are bad happen in darkness, don't

they? Even in movies, there's there's

this portrayal of dark and light and light is life and goodness

and dark is almost always evil in the absence of it.

And so God is light in Christ. There is light in life.

There's no darkness at all. And it says if we walk in

darkness, then we're not walking in him because he is light.

And so if if he's the source and if our joy comes from fellowship

with each other, how do we have joy in life to the fullest?

Well, we've got to shine the light of Christ.

True fellowship comes through walking in the light of Christ.

I want to get really practical about this.

What destroys our relationships? Hiding things, secrets,

selfishness, evil things destroy our relationships, pull us

apart, don't they? All of that has to do with

darkness. Hiding secrets, evil.

Darkness destroys fellowship. What fosters good relationships?

What gives us joy and peace? Light, truth, communication,

love. You want to be right in

relationship with others? Bring it all under the light of

Christ. That's how you have life.

That's how you have fellowship to the fullest when we bring it

all under the light of Christ. So here's a real simple thing

you can do. Maybe it's not simple.

And here's something you can do. Expose your thoughts, your

words, your actions to the light of Christ and you'll be able to

walk in love and fellowship. When you have a thought and

expose it to the light of Christ, did that thought come

from God? Is that thought from the light?

Or is that thought from the darkness?

Because here's how the enemy works.

The enemy you, you experience something and the enemy says

that person doesn't like you. Did you see what happened?

And the enemy puts something in your head.

And our first response is to believe that.

And so there's this darkness that happens.

And so we believe our thoughts and we don't bring them under

the light of Christ. And then what happens?

We grow away from each other Words.

How many of you have ever said some words or had some words

said to you that that weren't from God?

And what happened? It caused division and

brokenness actions. Am I bringing my actions the way

I act what I do towards others? Am I bringing them under the

light of Christ? Guys, I know people say all the

time, well, I was hurt by the church.

Well, I don't go to church because that happened.

Those people were mean this that whatever if we will bring our

thoughts, our words, our actions into the light of Christ.

I promise you the church is the greatest place in the world

because it's where we share worship and fellowship with God

and each other. It's when we allow darkness to

creep in. That's when hurt and brokenness

comes. It's not the church's fault.

It's not God's fault. It's our fault when we don't

walk in the light that we have brokenness and pain.

So bring your thoughts, your words and your actions to the

light of Christ. But then there's a second part.

And, and I, this is really important.

We need to bring our relationships into the light,

into the truth. See our our first reaction when

when we have thoughts or when someone says words or, or

there's actions toward us that that make us push back.

Our first thought is to build walls.

You've had this happen. You, you have done this before.

I promise. Oh, that person looked at me

this way and the enemy says they're looking at you that way

because they think this about you.

And all of a sudden you think, OK, well then I'm going to do

this. And how often do we say this or

do this in the church? Well, well, I'm just going to be

over here and I'm just going to do what I want to do.

But they can be over there and we're just going to guys, that's

not life to the fullest and it's not fellowship.

It's not fellowship in Christ. See if we will bring our

relationships into the light. How do we do that?

We shine truth on it. We communicate, We learn to love

each other even in the difficult.

And I promise you, if you will do those things, if you will

communicate, you will look to God's truth and you will love

each other despite our wrongs. It says here that God will

forgive us our sins and cleanse us and you'll experience God's

best in relationship with each other when our relationships are

in the light. So #1 worship team, come on up.

Why don't you stand with me? We're going to respond to God's

word now and, and everything you need.

Our Father has it. He's here today.

He loves you. Anything that you need today.

I believe this could be different for, for all of us.

The first thing I want you to know is that Jesus is the source

of life and fellowship. Maybe some of you here here

today would say my relationship with Jesus has been broken and

that's led to brokenness today. Maybe your response is to

connect to the source. Maybe today you need to spend

some time with Jesus and get that peace right.

The second thing, fellowship with God and with others is the

joy of life. Maybe some of you have been

trying to do it on your own or you've been putting up some

walls. Maybe some of you are in a place

where you haven't been sharing in the fellowship of the body of

Christ. And if you, if you're in that

spot, you're missing it. Our greatest joy comes through

fellowship. And maybe some of you just need

to shine the light of Christ on your thoughts, your words, your

actions, your relationships. Maybe some of you have some

relationships that just you need Jesus to shine on.

And then you need to be obedient, and you need to seek

truth and communication and forgiveness and love.

I don't know what it is for you today, but we want to respond to

God's Word. And so we're going to sing

together. And you can respond, you can

sing. But maybe, maybe you need to

come and you need to connect to the Creator, the source.

Maybe you need to pray about being in connection and

fellowship with others. And maybe you just need the

light to shine on you. Let's respond to God's Word.

Father, speak to us. We worship you now.

We worship you through our voices, We worship you through

singing. But maybe we need to worship you

through coming to an altar and laying something down.

Maybe we need to worship you through surrendering something.

Maybe we just need to sit where we are and pray everything we

need. Our Father has it.

Lord, I pray that each and everyone of us would come before

you now with an open heart, completely surrendered.

And I pray you'd give us everything that we need today.

We worship you, we give you everything now in Jesus name,

Amen.