The Main Thing | In Memory of Pastor Timothy Loh

Hey there, you're listening to the Generation's Church podcast. We pray that the

word of God today will challenge, change and channel you into your God given

destiny. Now let's get started. Hi there, I'm Andyo, the pastor

of Generations Church. Thank you for listening to our podcast. We don't usually

do this on a podcast, but then this is no usual episode. The

speaker of today's message is Pastor Timo Tillo, who was the senior pastor of

Every Nation Church Malaysia. He was one of my mentors and spiritual father and

was someone who made a great impact in my life. Him and his wife,

Pasta Teresa, personally spend time with my wife and me to guide and

coach us in both life and ministry. And we are not even members of

his church, so we are tremendously blessed and grateful for the love and care.

You know, Pastor Team taught us many things. He was generous with

his knowledge, wisdom and experience. He didn't hold back any secrets of his

success. No questions were out of bounds. He was wise, successful,

and larger than life, yet always had a posture to listen and to learn.

We often go to him to ask questions to learn from him, but

many times he would turn back and ask us questions to learn from us.

What a humble man he was, vulnerable, real and authentic with us.

He was a real and true inspiration to me. But why dare essay was

Well, it's because on April sixth, twenty twenty four, the day this

message was recorded live in our church, he came to our church as a

guest speaker, something we had been planning for many months, so we were

very excited that he could finally come to speak to the church. But after

he delivered his sermon, and about an hour after the service was over,

as he had finished his dinner and was about to dress our leadership team,

he collapsed suddenly. We now know that he had a massive heart attack and

he was called home to be with the Lord. He's now safe and securely

home with Jesus. I personally believe that pastor team when to be with Jesus,

having lived each day to the full, literally for the Lord, for

his family and the people he has been called to love and self. I

said literally because he often shared what a typical day would look like for him.

He wakes up at five am and starts his first appointment with people at

seven am. He then exercises from two to four pm, playing his favorite

sport, badminton, and he was very good at it. And then he

continues with more appointments, meeting people from five am to twelve am. He

truly lived each day to the full. It always amazes me how he always

manages to find and make time for people, yet never neglecting his time with

the Lord and his family. And still he had an enormous capacity to love

and serve others. He's always thinking about others. He's always thinking, how

can I love one more person to Jesus Christ, how can I help one

more person. It is no wonder that his very last sermon delivered the one

you're about to listen to. It's about loving and serving people, sharing with

them and showing them the love of Jesus, and inspiring and leading them into

a relationship with the Savior. He called this the main Thing. He exhorts

us to keep the main thing, the main thing, which means not to

be distracted by anything else that is not really that important, not to be

bogged down by church programs or politics or processors, but to always remember the

main thing. For Jesus for saving lives and be our main thing too.

When I think about it, it is quite poety that the last time he

preached and the last time he ministered and served was in someone else's church and

not his own. It was not even a big church. It's a Neil

young and small church, just a little over a year old. He wasn't

looking for a big platform or a big publicity or anything like that. He

just wanted to serve the Lord and to help others. So my church and

I are incredibly humble and honored to have been given this special privilege to receive,

and we will always remember this legacy forever. As you listen to this

message, I pray that you two will be encouraged, inspired and challenged to

live your life to the full and to live for the one who created you

and to live for his greater purpose in your life. Maybe we all learn,

like past the team, to keep the main thing the main thing.

Today I want to kind of hopefully help every one of us who walk away

knowing what's the main thing. And I know that Generations Church just kind of

sovereignly got kind of pieced that together. And and D and Jay was telling

me the story how to call of God, and I think it's very important

every time and we do church. What's the main thing? Okay, so

all of us are familiar with the concept of the main thing, especially in

a corporate world. Stephn Covid was the one that made that little statement,

which you be together, the main thing is to keep the main thing the

main thing, all right, all of us know that. But in his

book, Steven Covid was also trying to tell us that if you focus on

the second thing or other things, you run the potential to actually lose your

main thing. And I think that's really scary. You know, when I

think about what's the main thing for church? What does really God call us

to do? When Matthew sixteen the Bible says Jesus said I'll build my church,

she can't describe it's kind of church that the gates of hell will not

prevail. Right, And then three and a half years lay that asks too,

you sing happy baby to the church. And the church kind of had

its own formation two thousand plus ustree to today. So there are really many

many expressions of church. I still remember that when I went to the States,

the first place that we visited when we touched now was a friend of

mine say hey, you know, we're on the way to the Bible College,

and then he says, I'll bring you through the downtown because there's a

church called Elvis Presley Church where Jesus Christ, picture and Elvis are together.

So you can see that when it comes to this concept of church, you

have so many different expression and variation as well, which really really content with

today's social media world. How much is online church, how much is on

site church, all of that, okay, But in the smack of all

this, I think there were so many things that compete with the concept of

church on the main thing. Today's world. Your world have groups of believers,

but actually they are very much into end times, Okay. Their whole

life is to look at an event, try to find a passai in the

Bible and say this fulfilled this verse with the reason upheaval in the Middle East.

So many people just admittate zoom into that. When COVID happens, so

many people thought it's going to be end of the world. So you've got

the end time version of people who chase after that. But is that the

main thing? So I find that we live in the world today, where

it is very important for us always to come back to the main thing.

Okay, now, so this is the way I have always been one thing,

to keep the main thing the main thing. So by til twenty eighth

verse eighteen to twenty Each is a very common verse because everywhere you go,

every church wants to be disciples, but everybody does it very differently. Okay,

now, so would you be together? Jesus came to them and said,

all authority and han and on earth has been given to me. Go

therefore make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father

of the Son of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I've

commanded you. Behold, I am with you always to the end of age.

Okay, let us pray God. We come humbly before you. God.

We want to invite your presence. God. I pray for the next

thirty minutes or so, God, you will give us. O God,

Lord, just a clarity, just a clear trumpet call why we exist as

a church, and that Lord, we are able to walk away one thing

to make disciples. And that simply means we will make disciples starting from people

who actually do not know you, So I thank you. I pray for

the favor of God. Thank you prayer this in Jesus name. Amen.

All right, now all of us are very familiar with this verse, okay,

And how you you have not seen this verse? Okay, I'm sure

all of you have. Okay. Now, there are many lenses to look

at this this verse no matter how you look at it, and kind of

kind of walk you through a little bit. First of all, you can

look at it from a relational lens. Jesus had tryed to have your very

interesting relationship with a disciples, so much so that the Bible tells us that

that Jesus wanted to leave. It was the disciple. Jesus told the disciple.

It says, why, you know, why do you feel sad like

like you're losing me? You're often as such, right, So it tells

you that it was very close needed kind of a community. So you can

look at it from a relational lens. Jesus gave his last words. Our

last words are all important. I know of a lot of men and women

of God who will who will honor the last word of a particular person.

Just about last year Christmas, which was quite a very funny story. It

wasn't funny, okay, but it was quite It was quite a story.

So last year we did a little production and then we wanted to go by

twenty three gate perth ticket okay, And the goal is we do not we

we are not looking for the money, but we're looking for people to pay

so that they can confirm the seats. Okay. So our goal was to

have three thousand to four thousand people that will come by for that production.

That was that was our heart's desire. So we will pretty much go by.

We will receive about sixty thousand, you know, so right, And

so we make the announcement to the church the next day to the three of

our church people, text mes, uh, you know the production falls on

Sunday. It feels strange that people have to buy ticket to come to service.

I thought for a while, I said, you know what, scrap

it. So I went back to her whole church the next day, I

said, you know what, We're not going to charge anything. But you

helped to invite your friend that will book the set because we are not looking

at the amount of money. Will turned out to be quite a fair good

production. Somewhere along the journey. Uh, the one that did the production

came to me fast. If we would have truged ticket Pasa, we would

have gotten, you know, fifty sixty thousand ingate. I kind of smile

and say, you know that that's not important. And you know what,

just about two days later, I received a call from one of our church

members who passed away, and the sister actually caught me and then she said

this, she said, pass the team, my sister. You know,

in her will, her last words, she actually wanted to give a love

give to the church, and she gave the exact amount that would have actually

translated to if you were to sell the tickets. Okay, but you know

how many of you we will always honor the last word, right that the

person that say that last. If you look at it from a story plot

point of view, however, you would understand that the last segment of the

story or the narray pief actually makes sense of the entire story. Right.

However, you watch end Game Pat one and decided not to watch part two

anyone? None of us am I correct? Of course, all the you

know, all the Transformers don't need to watch one means really okay, but

the endgame means a lot because back one, if you watch it, Spider

Man dies, so many of them dies. Right, it's only part two

or the end of the story that makes sense of the rest of the So

what I'm trying to say is so Matthew twenty eight is what makes sense of

Mattel one to twenty seven. So if you can actually re read metthew one

to twenty seven with Matthew twenty eight the last word, it gives you a

very different lens. For example, Matthew twenty eight, Jesus told them,

let's gather at Galilee again. Now, if you study the Bible carefully,

you'll find out Matthew seven eight nineten somewhere where Jesus gave them the commandment to

go to the house of Israel and to preach the gospel, he gave it

a gallery, and Jesus has to almost re gave them a fresh commandment.

So Matthew twenty eight story plot point of view is always the last story,

the last portion that makes sense of the rest if you look at it from

an instruction lens, which means that, for example, if I were to

go away for a trip and then I'll go to all my kids. Right.

I'll go to my elder son. Joe said, Joel, you know

your math is very good. Please make sure you teach your sister math because

it was myth to my daughter. It was math to my son. Okay.

And I'll go to my second son. I said, Josh, you

know, please please sleep early. And then you know I have to do

the house show. And I go to my third son. I said,

Jada, you know I want you to be able to be a good brother.

I want you to take care of your younger sister. Make sure you

send her to school. Right. And I go to my daughter and say,

Joanna, could you finish all your meth and whatever? Right? Okay?

And then after about two weeks when I came back, what do you

think I would do at some point after giving them all the gift that I

brought back. Sometime I'm going to ask Joel, did you teach Joanna meth

am? I correct? And sometime I'm going to say, Joe, Ash,

will you will you a good sun where you'll be responsible? Okay?

Right, all of us will do that. Now the dam will come.

The Bible says when we meet Jesus and I think Jesus is going to ask

us did we make disciples? And I think that will be one question that

were being asked. And sometimes I feel one of the things that we have

done as the church is we we write songs about the great Commission, we

do a drama about great commission, we do panton, we do you know

what I said, We did everything, but but potentially not great commission.

So it's just like I came back home and all my son and my daughters

say that, you know what, we put on a skid for you,

and the skid my son will saying I'm supposed to teach her. And they

did everything. They write a song, they do a ski they do a

big poster drama, Well come back there, you know. But what they

didn't do was exactly did what I've asked them to do. All right?

So, and then from the last anger is from a theological point of view,

I'm not sure whether you're aware, but Jesus the Bible tells us that

he rose from the Dad and he was with the disciples for about forty days.

If you study the Bible carefully, you'll find that Jesus did only three

things. Number one, he comforted all the disciples, He says, I

am Jesus and the one that was with you. And then number two at

the Bible, teusers that what do you do? He explained the Bible.

So he took out the scriptures all the way from law, the prophets,

sums. He helps them to see that it all speaks about him. And

the third thing that he did for the forty days a different platform in the

mountain, in the room, he told them about the Great Commission. So

it was very clear there was one big, single focus all right now.

And I realized, my I think about the Great Commission. The tipping point

for Great Commission is really ownership. It really boils down to how much do

we really own it? Does it express in the way you sing, you

live your life, and how much we really really made to be part of

who we are? All right now? I'm just going to go very quickly.

So in the early days with the disciples, when Jesus asked them to

go make disciples, and literally that's where they went. They went to all

over And this is just a potential suggestion, and where did all the disciples

go from Africa, Europe all the way to India and all of that and

that's what the disciples actually did. Now I'm saying all of that to bring

everybody to one single simple point. You know. So I've been a pastor

for a long time, and throughout the journey I've I've obviously led many people

to Christ along the journey. It was Paul who translated what does ownership towards

the Gospel means? Okay? And I love the way Paul says this.

You know, this afternoon, I'm not sure if we were to go to

different one of you and say, hey, when it comes to great commission,

what would be the phrase that we were attached to it. Maybe some

of you would say that I try. Some of you would say that I'm

too busy. Some of you will say that actually I don't know how to

do it. Some of you will say that Passau just not my thing.

I don't know what we say when you are as Paul, what would you

say about ownership towards the Gospel? Robins one fourteen, He says, I'm

actually obligated. I don't know whether any one of you ever felt you away

to someone and I and I think when it comes to the gospel, you

need to have a realization everything that has happened in your life. There is

a gospel sense to it. I don't know how to explain this, but

you know, when I was young, I come from my father is a

My father is a Chinese school teacher, and then he's a disciplinarian. And

when you when you have a Chinese traditional father and a disciplinarian at school,

that's a very little combo when it comes to discipline. So when we were

young, we were king almost every day every week. Sure I got some

form of punishment money. Uh. And you know all our reports can't when

we give our report, c we need to take the report ca entertain to

my father. That's that's the way we grew up. I saw when we

were young, my father forced all of us to learn Chinese. So I

learned Chinese all the way to you know, from five you know Chinese ra

van yinvern you know you fame and young home, you know all of that.

Okay, So if you know Chinese, lie, So I've learned all

of that. But you know what, I hated learning Chinese because it's difficult.

But it makes sense to me. Many years ago, maybe about twelve

years ago, when I was I made a trip to China, and then

I was preaching the Gospel in China, and I will never forget when I

was able to understand and after and able to preach in Chinese, I came

back home. I called my father and with tears, I tell my dad,

say, Dad, thank you so much for forcing me to learn my

dream. And now I know what I land memory. This whole entire obligation

of something that God has put in your life that you always maybe to a

particular group of people, you owe it to your family, whatever, but

obligated both to Greece and nong be both to the US. And then he

says, this is why I'm so eager to preach the gospel. I'm not

too sure whether we are as eago as Paul about. Paul was so eager

to preach the gospel that you know the story Paul when he was in prison.

He was so eager. He was so excited that the Bible tells us

that the entire palace God actually get to hear the gospel. That was how

eager he was. And finally he says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel

because it is the power. You know, Paul, have this tree,

little icll it the gold standard. There means any time you think about the

Gospel, think of Paul, because the because Paul was the one that really

took the Great Commission to the furthest ever in his lifetime. Okay, now,

so I want to tell you a little bit of my story. Okay,

So this is actually twenty seventeen. Twenty seventeen was the year where I

had the biggest breakthrough when it comes to the Great Commission. So prior before

twenty seventeen, I'm am very faithful pastor. I worked for a company called

Datacraft for ten years and then I owned my restaurant for about fourteen years.

And so I was happily doing both, and I was rather I did well

okay, both church and also in the backup place. All right, I

did pretty okay, But I had this holy dissatisfaction, which means that God,

if the good news is so good, why is it so difficult sometimes

for people to get it. Maybe it's the message. Our message wasn't very

clear. Maybe we were too fast to label people as singer you need to

repent. Maybe repentance wasn't their language at all. Maybe it would have just

gone another round. Maybe a mental health route might be better in today's world.

You know, So I kind of wrestled or maybe is a messenger that

did not live out because the good news is pretty incredible. God actually died

for your sin. No other belief system anyone would have died for your sin.

Am I correct? You know, So when I kind of wrestled that

through. So twenty seventeen, what I did was I when to I went

around trying to connect with as many as many people who actually do not know

God. In our language, we call it unchurch. So I can tell

you some of them. For example, this is actually Louis. She was

I went back to ground zero. She was the first guest that come to

church, and I decided to contact the guests. So by then the church

was about maybe five hundred, you know, five five, six hundred,

and normally for that kind of a size, the pastor won't connect. You

were always outsode to another leader. Uh you know, obviously now we have

we we again. I don't like, I don't like to say numbers,

but even today I'm still connected with the guests. So I decided to go

ground zero and I went So this is the first person that actually connected her

name was Louis, which led her to Christ and then led the boyfriend or

husband to be to Christ, did their wedding and they migrated to Australia.

When I was in Melbourne, they hosted me for two weeks and uh,

and it was so honoring because he literally bought a spot car just to bring

me around. Uh. And he says, is only for you one okay,

and and you know, so I was just so honored. And all

of them, so all of them was just friends. This is actually our

architect. Uh. And the architect was so fearful to come for a session.

And this is a session we call discovering God. After God, she

actually brought this person which she actually accept Christ, not him. So I

started just to meet as many people that I do not know, including the

counselor for my son's education. I just meet as many and I started this

thing called a discovering God, which is one thing to talk about how to

connect the dog who God is. Okay, So twenty seventeen I gathered them.

By twenty eighteen middle the group grew bigger and they then invited their friends

and a whole bunch of people and at the end of the day, we

have all these people who are the one that accept the Christ, Okay,

all kinds of different backgrounds. So today, for example, this guy is

Zeth. I don't know whether Zeth and Kelmin owns Verdin, which is the

fastest growing solar panel for household right now. They just broke the Malaysian record,

so they got saved with twenty eighteenth to date are life group leaders,

okay, and some of them and they were only three years old. For

example, Zeth and kell mean a very important leader of ours right now.

He's our preacher for Chinese Church and he's only three years old Christian. He

leads about thirty to forty people. He runs all our PMC pre marital and

I can go one by one, and for example it's one of our leaders.

She has a run about to three life groups and they were all very

very young Christians. So it was really a joy to see and and through

that entire incident of just going back to ground zero, relearning what it means

to make as many and friends as possible, and literally from then to date,

just as a personal just being personal, I think I've seen over two

hundred and fifty people accept the Christ for the first time. You're not even

talking about people who backslided. Ah. And just last week yourself and another

three people who accept the Christ. So just this whole thing about Greek commission

became something that is very very personal to my heart. And I always want

the church to know that's the main thing, you know, as I come

to Generations Church today, and I know and this hut, I know,

making disciples is big in this place. And when we talk about making disciples,

oftentimes we think about one thing, to take a Christian and make them

a better Christians, which is nothing wrong with that. And sometimes in the

Christian babble world, we will have so many things that we can excavate and

learn no end, which is why in the Book of Vacs it tells us

when Jesus told the disciples, is go therefore and make the disciples x one

eight, But nobody went until x eight one because of dispersion, because of

persecution. Then everybody went and took the gospel right. And can you imagine

if you were in the early Church, you have so much to excavate.

Just the teaching itself, there's no end. Mother Mary, teach about how

to raise your son as God, the best parenting class. Everybody should sign

for it. Peter will come and teach you how to walk on water.

Don't need to swim anymore, right, I mean every one of them,

they will have enough. So something about I think as we exist as a

church, the more we exist as a church, the more we need to

think about people who actually do not know God. So my whole church knows

that I will leave the ninety nine for one. And that doesn't mean I

don't bother about ninety nine. I spent a lot of time, but I

make the greatest and highest priority just to be able to reach people who actually

do not know God. Now I want to I want to tell you a

little bit of this. Jenna, right, Jenna was the girl that you

saw earlier as Jenna. And this is Shalle involved them except the christ uh

and the story was this okay. Now, this is how both Jenna and

Shalyn come to our church one day. Actually they were they were in us.

This picture was taken us. This is this is Shlen's son. His

name is Samuel. Samuel. One day he went into Coma in States and

for about a week class he was in Coma. When he woke up from

Coma, he told the mom, he says, Mom, he says,

he says, just before I went to Coma, the last thing I did

was I visited a French church, a Baptist church in US and then and

then he says, maybe maybe we should think about going to church and explore

if there is a god. So so the mom they were in US.

Now that Samuel is well, so the mom flew back to Malaysia. When

the mom flew back to Malaysia, she wanted to fulfill the son's requests of

going to check out church. So she went around asking and then they say,

oh, there is this every Nation church in Pucho. So she came.

And when she came for her age, she needs a driver, a

chauffeur. So which is which is Jena the daughter? So when they first

came, the daughter actually dropped the mother and then she's going to do facial

and then she's going to do other things. But because our service is about

one hour one and a half hours max, not enough time for facial.

So after a while I saw Jena and the mom sits together. So this

is about one month a class. The mom, Jena Chalin came to me

one day she said, I passed you know, I've got a lot of

questions. He says, I really want to meet up with you to talk.

Okay. I said sure, I said, no problems in so I

kind of opened up my schedule. I said, hey, you know what,

why don't you come over to my house for lunch two sundays from now?

Okay? So the two sundays from now, we had lunch in my

house and we had chicken rice. I'll never forget because it was the longest

chicken rice conversation ever. She sat in my house almost two and a half

to three hours. So she came, we had chicken rice, and she

asked me non stop question about God. Just keep on asking me, what

about this? What this? You know Buddhism saidn't. So I was just

finding my time and throughout all this while Jena was sitting down there looking at

a handful. So after the conversation, I turned to Jena. I said,

Jenna, any any thought about God? And then she said, you

need thing I know about gods? Oh my god. There was an exact

word. She said, you need to know about goys? Oh my god.

And I went, oh my god, I'm just kidding, okay,

uh and and and then and then she said. I said, okay,

I said, Jenna, is there one thing I can pray for you?

She thought about it. She said, hey, you know what, Pasa,

I will be moving to you as at some point after one or two

years. And she's a physiotherapist. She said, I got a problem.

All that I've learned and graduated as a physiotherapist the American will recognize. So

I have to redo everything against it. Would you ask God to help me?

Say sure, so just pray a very simple prayer God, you help

her certificate. You know, all of that gives favor of God. And

then we ended the chicken rice. Okay, we we we ended. We

finished. The mother hasn't said yes to God because the mother has a lot

of questions. And that About two weeks later, I received a call from

Jenna. Jenna called me. She says, passa, passa. You wouldn't

believe this six paper that I that I that I had for my physio and

as what you asked me, I appeal, he sayss fur was approved.

He says the other two more if I finish it with a certain degree with

the you know, because the external paper, if I finished with certain marks

it will be. He says, this is what a turn around. And

then she looked at me and says, well, Passa, thank you for

praying. So I said great. Then obviously I invited Jenna by then to

come for a discovering God. About two weeks later, the day we start

out discovering God, she caught me. She says, I'm gonna bit confused.

Said what's the confusion? She said. I went around and told my

friend, actually, uh, I gotten this appeal, you know all of

that. And my friend told me, he said, you not God.

It's actually the law of attraction. Have you how maver? You know heard

of the law of attraction? Now? I don't know as the law of

attraction. All I know is I'm attracted to my wife. My wife is

attracted to me. Okay, So I said, I said, what is

the law of attraction? Then she said, Passa, you never heard a

law of attraction? I said, I do know. Say a lot of

attrection. Mess you like something and then you're getting and that's a lot of

attraction, she said. Then she told me I'm confused. People tell me

it's not God. It's a lot of attraction. I said, okay,

I said, would you come half an hour earlier before our session of discovery.

God, why don't we talk about it? And I still remember Jenna

comes, she sat am I living room. I said, Jenna, what

do you think is a lot of attraction? I said, Jenna, let

me reheurst the entire story for you, and I look at Jenna, Jenna.

It all started with your brother Samon was in coma. You went the

woke up from coma. He told your mom needs to go to visit the

church. And then your mom came to came back to Kao looking for a

church. She found out to remember you send your mom and then you could

not have time. You go for facial and you came here again. And

then one day your mom bum me to me and then she said you're going

to have chicken rice and be a chicken? How many you wa wash?

And then right remember the guy that talked like that. I was just going

around and it was just I was rehustying the whole thing. And then you

know, you came to my house for the chicken rice and say, oh

my god, oh my god, oh my God. And then I prayed

to oh my God, oh my God, answer you a question? You

know and then all this, and then I said, I said, Jenna,

come on, you and a degree person. You tell me, is

it the law of attraction? Or God was at work in your life?

Jenna heard everything she's passle. She said, has to be God has to

be gone, you know. She then gave her life to Jesus. And

then she actually became the first life group leader out of the whole badge of

people. And I tell you she's ran out in us and I will never

forget. So when we first started the life group where she became a life

group leader, so as all these people got said, what I did was

I just I just fend them out to many groups. So along the journey,

they came back to me says, past, could you could you lead

a life group because we know you. We're not comfortable. I said,

ok, I said, we do a live group. So we did our

first live group. Okay, our first life group. Refunny because after dinner

we got smoking break because three of them are chain smoker. So after the

after our dinner, before group start, can we go smoking first as they

can? Okay, So all of them will go out there, they'll smoke.

I'll also be there, of course, I don't smoke, so I

will be there and and then miraculous six months later, one day they said,

you know what, I don't think God is happy without smoking. I

didn't. We need to stop uh And they went for a victory. We

get all three of them immediately quit smoking. Okay, But our first slide

book was led by Jenna. She is such a young Christian and I still

remember it was nine months down the road. She was leading the group.

And then they celebrated me and my wife birthday November. When we were in

the group. She sat down there she said, you know what, pass

the team. You are November, your wife is November. You both are

scorpio or no, explain why you guys are so. I was like,

no, no, no, no, we don't believe in that. Okay,

Ah I did have said no no Jenna. We said, oh you

mean we cannot believe in that? Okay, you know we we were so

messy, but you know what, there's so much joy. There are so

much tears. There was so much thing that God did with a whole bunch

of people who actually know God so little, but love so much. And

and we piece together the group. But we piece together the group. I

told I told everybody in the group, I said, this life group will

only exist for one year. Then we will no longer be in existence.

They said, hal, that's a why I said, no, no,

no, we exist in a different way by then. And every one of

you leader life group last year. About five years later, Jena four or

five years later she came back from us. The first question she asked when

she met up with me, Se says, Pastor, did everybody lead a

new life group? You know what, the whole idea of great commissions vers

simple just being faithful to show the love of God to every one that comes

across the path. And as you are faithfully doing that, you see God

and work. You see God and work. You see God work. Want

to encourage generations. You know, church exists not just for Christian just really

exists for a lot of people that only heard of Oh My God. So

that we are able to help them piece together some substance about who this oh

my God is, that this God will be the God that will help them

to navigate through every season of the I can't good, Amen. I want

to encourage you as you go about. I love I love the name of

this church. I love the gift things that God has given to this church,

and we are here to cheer you. We are here to work with

you, We're here to bless you. We are here to do everything we

can to encourage all of you so that together we can make many, many,

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