Getting the Gospel Lived

Going to be in Titus chapter one.

Well, you go there. I want to read this quote to

you. I love it when God sort of

weaves the morning together. You'll you'll see what I mean as

we go through the morning. This is a guy by the name of

Eugene Peterson. He wrote the he translated the

message Bible translation and he says the following.

He says everything in the gospel is livable, and my pastoral task

is to get it lived. It's not enough that I simply

announce the gospel or explain it or whip up enthusiasm for it.

I want it lived in detail on the streets and on the job, lived in

the home, the kitchens and the bedroom, lived through cancer,

through divorce, lived with children and in marriage.

This is my primary task as a pastor, to get the gospel lived.

Yeah, it's a profound quote, but it's not just Eugene.

Actually, when Paul wrote to Titus and to the church in

Ephesus and to the Corinthians and to the Romans, he did so

because he wanted to get the gospel lived.

And the thing about Paul is it's not just this wide odd ideal.

He's lived it himself. He's seen it lived in community.

And so he's got something of of an idea when he's writing to

Titus of what he believes will happen in this church if you put

a certain bit of framework into place.

And actually I want to read it to you so you have an idea of

what was going on in the church where Paul was around back in

the day. Acts chapter 2 says they devoted

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themselves to the apostles teaching and to fellowship, to

the breaking of bread and to pray.

Everyone was filled with awe and the many wonders and signs were

performed by the apostles. All the believers were together

and had everything in common. They sold property and

possessions to give to one another and anyone who had need.

Every day they continued to meet together and the temple courts.

They broke bread in their homes, they ate together with glad and

sincere hearts. They were constantly praising

God and enjoying the favor of all the people.

And the Lord added to their number daily those who are being

saved. So this is the picture that Paul

has in mind, if you want to call it the fruit of living the

gospel. And so when he writes to Titus,

when he writes to you and I, he basically says, but here's the

framework. If you want the fruit, here is

the framework for you to put into your daily rhythms, your

Kingdom rhythms, your work rhythms, so that we can see the

same thing processed and and fruitful in Pretoria, in three

CI in your life and in your home.

And so I want to look at that. I want to look at some of the

framework that that Paul puts into the the sort of the arsenal

of Titus's leadership and specifically in the area of

getting the gospel lived in the home, getting the gospel lived

in community and then getting the gospel lived in the

workplace. These are the three things that

I want to, I want to show you out of the book of Titus.

But today before warned, there's a bit of fine print here.

This is more a coffee conversation than a sermon.

I want to make this as practical as possible.

I don't want to give you some theory.

I want to put some things that you can weaponize in your day

today. All right, so lots of stories,

lots of illustrations, but I want to show you how I see this

woven into the book of Titus. So let's start in the very

beginning. Titus goes like this.

He's talking about getting the gospel lived in the home.

And he starts in my terms. I say he like sort of sends his

business card across the table to Titus.

So so you and I are sitting there, we've done had coffee.

You've asked me the question like how do I get the gospel I

lived in my home and and how do I live it out in this community

and how do I live the gospel in the workplace?

Well, I would shift Titus's well Paul's business card across the

table, which says in verse one, Paul, a servant of God and an

apostle of Jesus Christ. And This is why he writes the

letter to further the faith of God's elect and then knowledge

of the truth that leads to godliness.

He basically said, listen, my mandate, Titus, is to get you

into Scripture, to get you to understand the truth.

Because what happens when you understand the truth?

It says it leads to godliness, to this fruitfulness that he's

aiming for. So I heard I was listening to an

interview, a divorce lawyer was busy talking about the, the

industry in the US and the condition of the legal system.

And in the interview he was asked a question.

He was asked like, what is the worst case that you've had to

deal with? And right off the bat, he shared

immediately, he said he remembers the day, it was about

10-15 years ago where a guy came into his office and basically

laid a little before and said, listen, my wife has issued

divorce papers, but she wants it all.

She wants to take me to the cleaners.

I want you because you're a half flying big shots here in New

York. I want you to defend my case and

make sure she doesn't get anything.

And so he prepared the case and then went to court.

And when he sat down the lawyer, when he sat down in court, he

suddenly realized this is going to be a piece of cake.

This lawyer charges $750 an hour.

He's very experienced and well educated in the space.

And he's looking across because there's this young

whippersnapper on the other side looking after the wife in the

court case. And he can see that he's very

young, probably just stepped out of law school.

And he can see he's shaken this. He's very intimidated by the

moment. And so he thinks this is going

to be a walk in the park until the first piece of evidence is

shown. And it's one of these blown up

photos. It gets put on the easel and

it's a photo of the wife who's been beaten by the husband.

And the lawyer's going like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

You know, you'd nothing of this was communicated.

Now you're suddenly thinking, well, actually this is not too

hard a case to lose. I mean, look at that evidence.

You know, there's a very easy way for this guy, this young guy

to win. The problem was when it comes to

presenting evidence or getting something submitted into

evidence in court, there's very specific phraseology that you

need to use. You can't just present it.

I suppose over the years they've refined it.

So you need to firstly present the evidence to the judge.

And you say, you are now I'd like this to be marked for

identification. And the judge says shop.

And then you put it on the easel.

And then the words you need to use when you start with the

witnesses, you need to say, OK, do you know what this thing that

has been marked for evidence is? And they would say, yes, it's a

photo. And this thing that's been

marked for evidence, what is it a photo of?

No, it's a photo of me when I was beaten.

And then you go through that process.

And then he says, your Honor, I'd like to submit this into

evidence. So that's the legal phraseology

that you have to use. Otherwise they, you know, do

what you've seen in the movies. Objection, Your Honor, which is

the very thing that happened. So this young guy gets up, he's

so nervous. He puts the picture up and he

starts with the question. He said, listen, can you tell me

what is this a photo of? And of course, the $750 an hour

lawyer says objection, Your honor.

He is asking the witness about something that's not yet in

evidence. So now this guy's thrown.

So he's, ah, OK, so is this a photo?

Now? He's completely thrown.

Objection, Your honor. Always wanted to do it.

Objection, your Honor. Sustained.

But now this, this guy, he's like, bud, you need to win this

case. You've got to fight for her.

Get the phraseology right. So he starts saying objection,

your honour, he hasn't asked for it to be marked for

identification and looks at the lawyer and looks at the judge.

Can you not step in? Because sometimes the judge

would do that, you know, kind of see, OK, you're a bit out of

your depth. Would you like me to mark this

for identification? One thing led to another and the

case gets thrown out of court and that Lady has to go home

with that man. And I tell the story because I

think a lot of the time that's how we approach the scriptures.

Like we think that there's some special phraseology that you

need to master before you can open this legal document.

You know, maybe Aloha Mora, you can get some insights into what

God is saying through the book of Titus.

Or maybe you need a theology degree.

Or where do you start? Do you start at the beginning,

like all books? The thing is, it's not a legal

document. It's a love letter.

It's a love letter and God gives it to us, but it sits on the

shelf there because we kind of think it might bite.

You know, when, when Paul's writing to the church in

Ephesus, he says, you know what, I pray for you.

Oh, I pray that you would have Christ in your heart, that you

would know his love that surpasses understanding.

And then in verse 19, he says, and that you may be filled to

the measure of all the fullness of God, that you might be as a

very quaint phrase, but that you might be filled to the full with

the fullness of God. This is His desire for you and

me when it comes to His word, when it comes to knowing Him.

But you know the problem of modern Christians.

If you're 50 and under, raise your hand, OK?

Those who raised hands, statistics show 95% of our only

encounter with Scripture. 95% of us, our only encounter with

Scripture is WhatsApp statuses and Instagram posts.

And Paul, the same. No, no, no.

What I want you to be is filled to the fullness, the knowledge

of God, to know him, to know his ways.

And so this is where he starts. This is where Paul starts.

He said, listen, one of the fundamental things I want you to

put into place, Titus, is this framework of getting to know

God, getting to know his word. And I don't know what you've

done and I don't know where you've stopped.

Maybe it's because you you started, you know, you did what

my daughter was doing, where you start in Genesis.

And I said to you, please stop, don't read the Bible, not from

Genesis. He says, I'm in Exodus already.

So I said, OK, I put together a little reading plan for my

daughter, 20 of the books of the Bible that she should read in

order. I can actually give it to the

life group leaders and you can you can get it.

You know, it's like Genesis and Exodus because those are the

formative viewers. It's really good to know and and

to read through there. There's a stories of, you know,

the Red Sea and Joseph and the plagues and Mount Sinai.

But then, you know, skip Leviticus numbers.

Do you run and go to Joshua and Judges and Ruth?

Because that gives you an overview of the people and the

timeline and the historicity. Rather do that and you get

through 20 of the books of the Bible.

And then you can always go fill out the holes because if you hit

Leviticus like you're probably going to do next year with your

Bible reading plan, it's like, do not pass, begin, do not

collect 200. Go straight to jail, like, and

then it sits on the shelf there. There's some mysterious book.

Maybe you could do Titus with us.

You know, what I've been doing is I've read through Titus every

single morning, slowly underlining things,

highlighting, praying. But if you want a place to

start, remember I said we're having coffee.

What I would do is I would open my iPad and I'd tap on EU

version bubble and I would take you through how I start my

morning. Is that OK?

I'm going to show you. So Steven's going to pop it up

on the screen. So this is my U version amp.

OK, so it's got a verse there. So basically what it does, and

this is what I love about it, is it starts where it just takes

one verse and if you tap next, it then takes you down to that.

Cultivate rhythm of reflection and then they have like a 92nd

devotional where she shares or someone shares about that verse.

It's sometimes distracting, but sometimes it's absolute gold.

And then you tap next and on the same verse, it's then got a

little devotional that you can read because if you foreign to

Scripture, this is really helpful in terms of unpacking

the character and nature of Gardner's word.

And if you tap into it, it gives you the full length there.

So when I was reading this, the verse, I don't know if you can

see it from your seat in Matthew 416, it says the people who walk

in darkness will see a great light.

For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will

shine. And so I read that verse and I

suddenly realized God is speaking to me.

So on my hand, I've always got six names that I'm praying for,

for salvation. And most of them live in a land

of deep darkness. And I read this thing and

suddenly I'm like, God is busy whispering.

A light will shine even in that deep dark.

Just keep praying, keep trusting.

And then you click next and it's, it gives you a prayer.

I know for those with Anglican backgrounds or Lutheran

backgrounds, or maybe you've never put, maybe last week you

were one of the 100 plus people who put up your hand for the

first time and you've never prayed.

That was your first pray. It gives you prayers that you

can pray. And if you tap next and then it

takes you into the verse again, but then it goes into my

favorite part. So you can click next, Steve,

take us up. And so you swap up and then it

kind of gets to my devotional time.

You matter to God what a way to start your morning draw near to

him through prayer and then you tap and it takes you into a

verse. You know we're calling to one

another holy holy holy is the Lord Almighty.

The whole earth is full of his glory and it says they bring God

whatever praise comes to mind and you just spend time just

bringing God praise and then you tap next and I love this part.

I said praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

the Father of compassion. See the law of fine print at the

top there my concerns and when I read that the Father of

compassion. I just heard news of someone in

three CI who passed away and I just spent some time Father.

They need to know and you're a God of compassion.

They need to know you. They need to your presence to

move into that dark space. Anyway, you get the idea.

Use it, don't use it. Thanks, Steve.

You can take it down, but Paul says you want to live the gospel

in your home. It starts daily, morning by

morning, getting into his word, allowing his word to wash you

and lead you and direct you. You know, because Ray Bevins

said, I don't know if you were here when Ray was here.

He's made a fascinating statement.

He says the word of God in your mouth is as powerful as the word

of God in God's mouth. And you get to take that word

into your concerns, into your marriage.

You know what God's word did? It created planets.

It gave life, raised the dead, healed the sick and we take that

into our day and it has to start there and we have to constantly

go back there. Otherwise the rest don't unfold.

So that's a simple framework if we are wanting to see the fruit

of what we saw in Acts chapter 2 when it comes to living the

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gospel in the home. Now, what about amongst us in

the community? In chapter 2 of Titus, he said

the following. I just want you to to notice

some of these loaded words. It starts by saying teach the

older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self

controlled and sound in faith and love and endurance.

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverence in the way they

live. Not to be slanderers or addicted

to much wine, but to teach what is good.

Now all of a sudden it's changed.

It's gone from you teach the old people.

Now the old people are teaching other people.

Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and

children, to be self controlled and pure, not to be idle but to

be kind, serving their husbands so that no one hears the word

will malign the word of God. Similarly, encourage the young

men to be self controlled and everything.

Set them an example by doing what is good.

Basically what Paul is saying to Titus is what you need to do in

community is life on life ministry in Acts that talks

about doing this in the home, doing this with meals, doing

this at church around a table daily.

So if you turn to Acts chapter 2, you don't have to.

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But if I turn to Acts chapter 2, I've got scrawled in the in the

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sideline a whole bunch of things I've learned over the years when

it comes to this living the gospel and community.

And the first word there is pick a pick of salt.

I don't if you remember when Rory preached on a pick of salt.

I mean, that's one of the simplest but most profound ways

you can start the stepping stone of living the gospel and

community through a Peck of salt.

If you weren't here, basically what they said in the ancient

Near East, you didn't really know someone until you'd shared

a Peck of salt with them. And they're talking about having

enough meals together that you would go through a Peck of salt,

which is like 9 liters worth of salt.

Yeah, obviously you don't have to eat the salt, but you're

using a pinch of salt. I worked it out as one does.

It would be 14,304 meals to get through if you just use a pinch

of salt of every meal, you know, use it, don't use it.

But that's what what he's talking about there.

You want to live the gospel. It's daily ongoingly building

relationally. I've also got the keys all right

next to my that portion and axe keys because I was reminded when

I read through it and prepping for the Sunday.

I was reminded, and I think it was at Glen Ridge, might have

been here, but a life group leader cut a bunch of front door

keys for the Single Ladies in their life group.

And was it Glen Ridge or was it here And that guy's in this

church. OK, So what is at Glen Ridge?

But now he's in this church as well.

Cut, cut the front door key, Gordon I and gave it to the

single lady. So if you're ever in trouble,

use that key and you come, you, you stay here.

If you need to run, you can stay here.

And, and the crazy thing was my dad was like that.

I can still remember as a young boy, my dad often used to say,

listen, if you're in trouble, you've always got a place to

stay. And there was one rainy Thursday

night, we had a knock on the door, and there was this young

lady with a suitcase. We went Privy to what happened.

I don't know what she was undergoing, but she moved into

her house and stayed there for months.

Now there's someone else sharing the bathroom.

It was very inconvenient. But you see, living the gospel

takes sacrifice. I can remember my dad rescuing a

prostitute, moving her out of Point Rd. in Durban, which is

just a cesspool of sin, into a place looking after financially.

She eventually married one of his friends and I grew up best

friends to their children, Keith.

And what Keith there you can do that, I can do this.

Get the gospel lived also right there, longevity.

I had a fascinating conversation with a couple.

We were having dinner this week and we were talking all about

health stuff and. And something sprung to mind.

I think it's in a diary of ACEO where he quotes a study about

the three organs of your body. If you look after these three

organs, you're guaranteed a longer life.

And I said to them, do you know what those 3 organs are?

If I had to ask you what what would you guess?

You'd guess your heart, right? That's number one.

Yeah. No, not skin, it's lungs.

It's the second one. The third one, you'll never

guess. You'll fuss.

Random, right? So that's why you've got to your

thighs and here's why, because your thighs carry you.

So the study showed the reason why you have longevity in your

thighs is because you're able to engage in community, you're able

to be loved on and to love others.

And so we had a fascinating, well, not fascinating like

traumatizing moment in our life Group A few weeks ago.

A new couple join. And here this morning, Hendrick

and Felicia, they walked into the front door.

They came, it's not my life group.

I'll go to someone else's life group and that walks in the

front door and introduced themselves and joined our life

group there one week and something happened with

Hendrick's heart and he was rushed to hospital.

Long story short, eventually they found that he had a blood

clot in one of the chambers of his heart, like a ticking time

bomb. But because we knew them,

because their thighs had carried them through that front door, we

looked after them. We prayed for them, we visited

them, we made meals for them, we deposited money into their

accounts. Don't tell them this, but their

groceries are going to be looked after till the end of January

because their thighs brought them through the front door just

days before he ended up in hospital.

And you know, the days after he got out of hospital, I don't

know that side of the story, but I think he was discharged on

Saturday. And on Sunday I walk in here and

he's wearing a yellow lanyard, serving with the life group

because those thaws are going to keep him connected to community.

I've also written there generosity.

Heard a fascinating story this week where there was a church in

one of the provinces in India, very, very poor part of India.

And they were very concerned with their community.

And so someone in the in the church decided what every time

she cooks, she's just going to take one handful of rice and put

it in a jar. And when the jar's full, you're

going to take that jar to the church and say, listen, do this

as you please if you want to sell it or if you want to feed

the poor, whatever the case might be.

And this caught on. So there were these handfuls of

rice and they were some people would bring one piece of wood

when they made a fire. Others like a few teaspoons of

spices. It is India, you know and all.

So there's lots of spices being around.

Hey, happy birthday, Dennis. Yeah.

But here's the crazy thing. Through just that 1800, church

leaders were salaried. They constructed schools,

hospitals, raising and releasing of ministers and missionaries.

They built a woman's center to teach, work schools.

But most importantly, the province has gone from 1%

Christian to 95% Christian simply through living the

gospel, through generosity. I also got there overwhelmed.

Apparently the Gen. Z, Gen.

Z, the word for them is the anxious generation.

And they are defined by one word overwhelmed.

They're overwhelmed by regrets, shame, guilt, sadness, the

condition of the world. Now, I know us older folk, we

were like, yeah, well, that's what happens when you get a

ribbon for pitching up. You know, the real world is a

little bit overwhelming, right? I know what That's what Rory's

thinking, you know? But we're called to live the

gospel and we're called to stand in the gap, even for these young

UNS who are overwhelmed. List Ezekiel 22.

You've spoken about 3 CRI searched to find someone who'd

stand in the Gap, but I found no one.

Stand in the gap. I want to show you a picture of

the Gap in Sydney, Australia. I don't know if you've heard of

the Gap. It's a beautiful photo.

You can pop it up. I want to show you what it means

to live the gospel. Stunning view, right?

Sydney in the back there and that rock on the right hand side

is called The Gap. This is incredibly high Cliff.

Now, as beautiful as that is, it's a very dark place in

Australia because while many people go there to see the view

and it must be amazing to see the storms rolling and you know,

the rain on the horizon, what a lot of people do there is they

go there to step off the edge because they've run out of hope.

And apparently it was something like 50 or 60 people a year

until a guy by the name of Don Ritchie moved here.

Don's kitchen. Apparently the the window has a

view of the gap. And one night he'd heard about

the stories. One night he saw a silhouette

walking along the edge of the gap.

And so he put his stuff down. He was washing dishes, went

outside, and he started something that he did time and

time and time again. It's called salt.

S started the conversation. A asked questions, L listened

and T told his story and you know he saved 200 lives and

every one of them simply said. Just felt like the first time I

was seen. I was overwhelmed.

I'd run out of hope, but here came a man to live the gospel

right in front of me. Just started a conversation.

And that little bit of salt ended up most cases, a Peck of

salt, having dinner together. It's like, OK, let's eat again.

Invited them into their home. And so many of them are now

close, close friends because of their moments.

And we're called to do that. We're called to do that in our

homes over meals on the edge of a gap.

But those who are overwhelmed, those are taking strain.

Those are in hospital. Those are just need to be seen

and so Paul says do that live the gospel because just like

Paul, I want to see the gospel lived in my life and in yours.

So that's home and community. But what about what about work?

They didn't start the timer. So here we go.

It says this in Titus two verse 90.

This one is flattened me. Teach servants to be subject to

their masters and everything. Depending on your Bible

translation, some of them say teach slaves to be subject to

their masters and everything. So all depends on who your boss

is. You can put in a slave there.

Teach servants to be subject to their masters and everything.

To try to please them, not to talk back to them and not to

steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted

so that in every way take a look at this, they will make the

teaching about God our Savior attractive.

What is the teaching about God our Savior?

It's the gospel. So you can change that too so

that they will make the teaching of the gospel attractive.

So Paul is saying, OK, there's a framework that you need in your

home. You need to constantly be filled

with the fullness of God and then allow that to leak in your

daily life among friends and families and life group and

leading at at Super City soon to be capital kids and then he

said, but now when you move into the workplace, you've got to do

exactly the same. It's the same gospel.

It's the same son or daughter of God and it's the same

expectation for it to be lived. Now one thing that I left our

last week when we looked at Titus 116.

Remember what I said. They claim to know God, but

through their actions they deny him.

That word that we translate as action in the Greek is actually

a business word, comes from the work environment, which means

it's not a stretch to say the following.

They claim to know God. But when I see them at work,

when I see what their business produces, when I see their

customer service, when I see how long it takes for them to get

back to the customer via e-mail, those actions actually deny God.

So here's the thing. On one side, you're making the

gospel attractive and on the other side your actions are

denying God. Your behaviour in the workplace

is denying God. Which begs the question, which

are you? What if that was your Plumb

line? The every e-mail sent, every

WhatsApp returned, every phone call, every board meeting, every

employee you hire, every employee you fire?

Is this making the gospel attractive?

Can I get an A? Nah, I remember God stopping me

in my checks once because I'm I'm rather opinionated and I'm

quick with words and I can't even remember what the situation

was. Something like that.

You know, their servants wasn't up to my standards and I was

letting them know. And while this mouth is busy

going to this poor unsuspecting person, God whispers to me and

says, if you were to stop now and invite them to church, do

you think they'd go thanks to nothing because I'd crossed the

line, the gospel would no longer be attractive in that moment

because of my behavior, because I wasn't living the gospel.

What if that was our Plumb line? Paul actually describes himself.

So he's talking here to Titus saying this is how servants need

to behave. And he describes himself as a

servant in One Corinthians chapter 4.

And it's a word in the Greek is hoopoe, iresso.

Hoopo means under and iresso means rower.

I think he made this word up an under rower and we we translated

the servants. What he's talking about is those

servants or those slaves on the bottom of the ship rowing

against the waves, unseen, unappreciated, no applause, no

recognition. But what they're doing is

they're rowing at the masters command and that is what he

calls you, an attu. This one thing is lovely to come

to church and sing all those exclamation Marks and declare

vociferously how good God is and glorious he is.

It's another thing we're not actions deny him.

And so Paul says if you want this fruit of the New Testament

church and the New Testament community, then you also need a

New Testament workforce. And that's you and I.

Tomorrow morning when you walk through that door, he's saying

would you make the gospel attractive?

So I said I'd make it super practical.

So this is how I'm going to make it.

This one practical. I think most of us go to bed too

late. Just one practical application.

You know, you look at studies and they say that's the last two

or three hours of our days is normally squandered and it's

normally saturating us in worldliness.

Those last 2-3 hours, you know, whether it's on social media,

comparing yourself and just forming deep depression in you,

or you're shopping. Yeah, because Timo just loves

you and they're just sending you all these specials.

You can't believe you can do that with a cucumber.

I need it. Or you binge watching Netflix.

You know, you've watched it all. Now you're starting again.

And none of it has any eternal value.

And none of it does anything good for the soul.

So what if you were to go to bed just a little earlier and wake

up a little earlier and start over here, dipping your soul in

the presence of God and being filled to the fullness of the

measure of God. So that when you walk through

that turnstile, when you put your thumb on the door to open

it up, or you tag yourself into varsity, you go in dripping with

the presence of God. You want to know what it looks

like to have a competitive advantage in the workplace

through a Kingdom lens. You arrive at work dripping with

wisdom and knowledge and joy and patience and discernment and

favour from another realm. Or you walk in there, confidence

in who you are in God, and an ear to the whispers of the Holy

Spirit to look out to see what it is God is doing to.

As Psalm 5 says, to get direction through enemy lines

simply puts you go in and row. Because when it comes to living

the gospel in the workplace, you only have two options.

Either on one side you're washing your hands like Pilot.

On the other side, you're washing feet like Jesus and like

Eugene Peterson and like Paul and like Titus.

I want to call you to live the gospel.

I want to get the gospel lived. Maybe you're starting here.

Maybe tomorrow morning you need to open you version Bible app or

a real Bible and start in Titus. Or maybe you got this thing

waxed, but it doesn't translate into this community.

Maybe you should just get into life grip or maybe you should

come forward afterwards and chat to Tyler Page and to Mitch.

So you know what? I want to serve there.

I want my life to matter to the next generation.

But most of us who do the first two fail to do the third.

We fail to recognize the impact that we can have when it comes

to this city, our department, our employees or our managers.

We had the privilege of making the gospel attractive.

And I want to call you to that. I want to call you to live the

gospel. And this is how I'm going to end

because this is, I think what was on Paul's heart.

It's Titus one. Verse 5 says the reason I left

you in Crete was that you might put an order, what was left

unfinished. Now, he's talking about elders

in that context, but I think there was a lot of unfinished

business that he was also hoping Titus would address.

And that, for us is one of them getting the gospel lift.

Let's go and do that. Thanks.