Doubt | Becoming | Week 5

October 13, 2025 00:35:06
Doubt | Becoming | Week 5
New Life Gillette Church Teachings
Doubt | Becoming | Week 5

Oct 13 2025 | 00:35:06

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Mike Wilson

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We were never meant to follow Jesus alone.

In this final week of our series Becoming – Living the Way of Jesus with the People of God, Pastor CJ Ward hosts a panel discussion with New Life attenders about the importance of community, connection, and accountability through Circles (our Life Groups).

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In this conversation you’ll hear:

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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:08] Speaker B: Church. We are thrilled you decided to listen to our teaching on your favorite podcast app. If you made a decision to follow Christ today, would you let us know by visiting? Yes.newlife gillette.com Here is this week's teaching. Good morning. How are you guys doing this morning? Good. Good. That was 10% better than first service started. So you know we're going to try again, right? How are you guys doing this morning? Hey, that's what I like to hear. That's what I like to hear. Hey, before we jump into what we're going to do this morning, you probably figured it's going to be different. There are more of us on stage than normal, significantly more. I just want to point out something. You. You heard everything Mike said in that video. 144 people have committed their life to Christ. 54 people got baptized. Sometimes we can get caught up in the day in and day out of life and miss that. God is moving. But I want you to know right now, we are in. We're experiencing. We're witnessing a move of God. We're witnessing God moving not just in new life, but across Gillette and across the country and across the world. If you. If you pay attention to what people are saying, people will try to convince you. The world's falling apart. It's all burning. It's worse than it's ever been. God is moving right now as powerfully as he ever has. Can I say that again, because y' all didn't seem very excited about that. God is moving right now as powerfully as he ever has. We have to keep our eyes not on all of the negative things, but on Christ and on his movement because we'll miss our opportunity to participate in what he's doing if our eyes are in the wrong place. God is moving. We have to be celebrating it. We're experiencing it. I mean, we just sang about the reckless love of God, how the way God loves and the way he moves and his will doesn't make any sense to us. We would call it reckless. We would call it chaos. But it's his omnipotent, powerful love that moves beyond what we can understand. That's where we have to keep our eyes. And interestingly enough, this was planned before we knew, before we could see everything that God was doing. But this morning, rather than hearing a sermon, you're going to hear a panel discussion with some of my favorite people in new life. We have the Poitras here, Zach and Sawyer. We have the More Kirkeys, Paige and Josiah. And most Importantly, Judah. And we have the man, the myth, the legend, the Reverend doctor Right Honorable. None of those are true, but they should be. He deserves all those titles. Ken Ferguson over here. And we are going to be talking about community this morning. If you've been at New Life for any time at all, you know, we talk about community a lot. Like, a lot. We did a whole series about it, five weeks at the beginning of the year on community. We weave it into every series and almost every sermon. We say it almost every week. We think everybody's first step, everybody's next step is a life group. We believe Genesis, chapter two, the very beginning. God says it's not good for a human to be alone. God made a human walking around in a garden with no problems, and it still wasn't good for the human to be alone. We need each other. But we figured rather than you listening to Mike and I preach the same sermon in a different way again, that we would get other people up here to talk about their experience. So these are all people who have led in life groups, participated in life groups, lead in the church, and can tell you from personal experience how impactful it has been to live in community and why it's necessary to live in community in order to become who God's created you to be. So I'm really excited about this. Would you, before we start, just thank them for spending the time this morning. Yeah. And before we jump in, let's pray. Jesus, we're still here for you. Even though this isn't a normal sermon, even though we're not studying one specific passage today, we are talking about what your word instructs us to do. God. So we ask that today through all of us, that your word, your truth would be clear, nothing else. This is not about our opinions. This is about becoming who you created us to be. Because you are good and you are worth it. So guide us as we discuss, open our ears to hear your truth. We love you, Jesus. Amen. All right, so for our first question this morning, we're talking about community. And at New Life, we talk about these three concentric circles of community that we live in. First, the large church, the church globally. I'm a Christian. I am part of the movement of God's people. I'm part of his family. And that is expressed in my local church, New Life. These are the people. I'm moving in the same direction. We're chasing the same thing. We're worshiping together within that circle, inside of that community. We believe we need a life group. We think this is reflected in Jesus. Jesus had crowds that followed him, but he had 12 people that he spent a lot of time with. We need people we learn with, grow with process life with people that you can call at 3am when you need to go to the hospital and you need someone to stay at home with your kids, right? People who will be there for you. You have a life group. And then we believe that within that life group there's a third circle. We sometimes call it a band or accountability. That we need people who know everything about us and everything means everything. We need people who don't just know when we're struggling, they know what we're struggling with and why we're struggling with it and what we do when we struggle and how we treat our kids and our spouses when we're struggling. And all of the things about us. People to keep us accountable. People that aren't keeping us accountable by saying, you're the worst, but people who are keeping us accountable by saying, I know who you are and I want you to become who God's created you to be. So they hold us accountable to pursue Jesus together. So these three concentric circles are what we live within in the process of becoming, becoming who we were made to be. And that is what makes up community as a follower of Jesus. It's those three concentric circles. So whoever would like to go first? Ken, what showed you that you need community? [00:06:35] Speaker A: Okay, I'll go first again. [00:06:38] Speaker B: You're so kind. [00:06:40] Speaker A: Well, I'm going to shorten the story just a little bit and add a little bit on the end. So in 1982, that's when Christ found me and said, slapped me upside the head and said, it's time. And I had been raised as a Baptist, so I knew a little bit, but I, I didn't know the lord. And in 1984, my wife and I were living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and we went to a church called Calvary, Calvary Church of Albuquerque. And it was what I call a pretty good sized church. At the time it was about a thousand people and they had life groups. And my wife and I joined a life group and I haven't looked back since on life groups. And then jump forward. 1991, we moved back to Wyoming. I'm a Wyoming native. We moved back to Wyoming and we moved to Gillette and we started in life groups here. And man, what a ride. I can't encourage you more than to join a life group. It'll help you grow, it'll help you develop friends. It'll help you in every aspect of your life. [00:07:51] Speaker B: Wow. Just to make, make it this as clear as we can. That's if I'm doing the math, right. I'm not great at math. 40 years approximately, of life groups. 40 years of life groups. If he's been doing it for 40 years and still thinks you need to do it, I think you need to do it. Let me just go ahead and say that. If he's been doing life groups for 40 years. 40 years and it's still impactful, then that tells you how desperately we need community. Amen. Who else? See if you can top Ken. [00:08:31] Speaker C: Unlike Ken, I am not a native of Wyoming, which I'm sure statistically over half of us aren't. And so, you know, growing up, I grew up in the church and there were always structured, there was always structured community. I guess growing up and then through college, there was structured community. And then graduating from college, moving to Gillette. All of a sudden I didn't have an external thing telling me to go to this structured community. And so I didn't. I mean I came to church, but I didn't have like a life group or anything like that Right when I came here. And pretty soon I started noticing that I was feeling very isolated and I didn't have exactly, I mean, exactly. The question is the community. I didn't have someone or people to share my day to day life with. People to call and say, hey, do you want to go play basketball? Or hey, do you want to go get some food? And so I think that's what made me realize how important something that I'd taken for granted my whole life was. That's what is so important about community. [00:09:52] Speaker B: Wow. You got anything to add? [00:09:54] Speaker D: Yeah. So I don't lack in community as far as friendships. I have friends from high school, from junior high, probably from elementary. My want to need, what God has put in me is a desire for people. For whatever reason. When I started, when I got into a life group with, you know, Pastor Mike and Pastor Paul, I started finding that there was more to intimacy with people than hobbies. If you ask my wife, I have plenty of hobbies. I, I go out and do a lot of stuff. But what I was finding was there's true meaning to the relationship. Finding that we're growing with God through relationship, the accountability, the times that you could actually have true conversations where your guards, your barriers are all down. When I saw that in those life groups, I felt compelled and I felt God was calling me to start a life group. And I don't know. It's been four or five years now. Amazing stories that have come out of that. The life change that I've experienced in my family and myself has been incredible because those relationships aren't bent on fun. They're not bent on not being lonely. They're bent on the truth that Christ is trying to teach us. And through that, we are learning together. And it's been pretty incredible. [00:11:11] Speaker B: Awesome. Awesome. There's something that I want to make sure we notice here at the beginning. Life will pull you away from community. Did you know that life, the gravitational force of life, is going to pull you to be alone? That's just how it works. In fact, we said this earlier. Genesis, chapter two, the. The very beginning. God said, it's not good for a human to be alone. In order for us to be who we were created to be, we have to have community. We. We will not grow the way we should without it. That's like planting a plant and not having water or sunlight. It's necessary. So the first attack, and maybe the most consistent attack from the enemies, from the Satan against our lives is going to be to isolate us. He will say, you don't have time for that. You don't really need that. He'll say, oh, you don't have anything in common with those people. He'll say, oh, you're too busy. He'll say, well, don't tell anybody that. They, they wouldn't. If they actually got to know you, they wouldn't like you, so just don't show up. He'll say these things to keep us isolated, to stop our growing. Our enemy spiritually does not want us to become who God created us to be. That is his primary objective, to get back at God by hurting the thing God loves, which is us, by stunting our spiritual and emotional and even physical growth. Right? And he does that first by saying, stay alone, stay isolated. They don't want you, they don't love you. And you can see that. That's the gravitational pull. And we have to resist that, Right? So for you guys, let's start now talking about the larger concentric circle, the church community. What impact has not just being a part of a life group, but being part of a church as a whole? Made on your lives. Go for it, Paige. [00:13:03] Speaker E: So for me, new life has been a stability for me personally, throughout my whole life. I've attended this church since I was a newborn, and so I've been. My parents have. Are the reason why I have a relationship with Jesus. But then from attending Wednesday Night. Awana's here to new life, youth group, getting baptized, college, meeting my spouse here, and then now us raising our children here. This has been a stable community for me. And so I guess that would be the impact it has been for me. This church community is just. It's always been here. It's always been a place that I can come to no matter what age I'm at, no matter what stage of life I'm in. [00:13:48] Speaker B: What I took away from that is that you shouldn't necessarily come to church because you're single and ready to mingle. Sometimes it works. I'm just saying that's how I met my wife. So, you know. [00:14:05] Speaker E: I did not grow up in church. And so I. Mine's the opposite. I didn't have a church family. I didn't walk with the Lord until I was late teens. And a long time ago, they used to have up on the wall, it said, like, welcome home, or you are home, or something like that. And that resonated deeply with me as I learned to see new life and the bigger church community as my family. And the impact on me that when we have this many believers in one room, worshiping together, serving together, and living life on mission together is just. Has impacted our family a lot. [00:14:46] Speaker B: Awesome. You know, one of the things, if you read sociologists, people who study human identity and how we're formed and who we are, one of the things they talk about a lot is the need for a tribe that we need not just a few friends and not just an immediate family, but we need a group of people that shares our identity, that helps us learn who we are. And they talk about how when we don't have that right, when we don't have that close and defining community, that cultures and people fragment, we have a hard time figuring out who we are and where we're going in life because we don't have people we can look to where we do the same things and we pursue the same things and we have the same values. So in the most even baseline sense, the church provides that for us. Being part of a church says, this is who I am. We sing the same songs, we pursue the same mission, we practice the same, same things. These are my people, and this is the direction we're going. And that's why God created us for that. Right. Like, it's not a coincidence that sociologists are now saying, you need this. Like, that's not. That's not different from scripture saying. And Scripture's been saying we have to be part of this. This People. The people, the family of God from the beginning, because that's where we find this sense of identity and stability. So sociologists are now telling us what the Bible's been telling us from the beginning. Right, Right. So let's take that, that perspective and zoom it in to the next of the concentric circles. Life groups. In your experience, what are one or two of the primary benefits of being part of a life group? Whoever would like to go first? [00:16:24] Speaker D: Well, I have a story about a gentleman, and it's not an uncommon story. We've been doing this long enough. We've seen plenty of guys come through here. But I'll probably. I'll tell about him because he's my favorite person. And if you're in my life group, you're also my favorite person. So just so we're not getting misconstrued here, we had a gentleman that started coming to our life group. He's very shy, very quiet, and he would come and then he would not come. And we do ours year round. So I'm going to know if you're coming or not because we don't miss many weeks. And my new favorite thing to say is life group is awesome, but you don't know what people are going through until everybody else leaves and that one person or that two people are sitting there. And there was one particular night that me and Mitch were able to stay after, and we had a fire. [00:17:12] Speaker B: It was beautiful. [00:17:12] Speaker D: Like, this was a drama. And he opened up and was crying and was telling us about his life and all these things that were going on with him. And what I want is a timeline. Over time, he became more consistent. He bought in, he became more talkative. And the thing that really struck me is he never felt like he was seen. Even though we were telling him that we loved him and wanted him to come. It would not penetrate. But over time has penetrated and he's become a staple in our life group. And I just want to tell you that sometimes it takes time. It's like novocaine. And like I said, this is not uncommon. This happens often. People. People. He would tell me that he would drive up to my drive and then he would turn around and go away. He'd take a circle, take two circles, take three circles. Sometimes it take him five times to come to my house so that he could come to life group. So if that's the thing that's holding you back, you know, keep fighting, keep praying and have people praying for you. [00:18:15] Speaker C: Yeah. Kind of similar to what Zach said. [00:18:20] Speaker B: We. [00:18:20] Speaker C: When I think of the main things that benefit me from our life group, the first one would be the ability to be seen and known by someone other than my wife. I am naturally more introverted, and so I'm very open with my wife. But outside of that, it can be a lot less to a lot fewer people. And so with our life group, we've been meeting for maybe this our fifth semester. And so over those semesters, we've naturally grown closer. And by having the courage to be. [00:19:02] Speaker B: Vulnerable. [00:19:05] Speaker C: It has allowed us, especially me, to feel known and feel heard and seen by the rest of the couples in our life group. And from that, it allows me to, one, hear what they're saying, the struggles maybe they're going through, or advice they have on marriage. And then two, it allows Paige and I to talk with them about, hey, here's what's going on in our marriage right now. Here's something that we've been struggling with this last week, or, hey, here's something that we want to praise the Lord for because of our marriage. Awesome. [00:19:40] Speaker B: Anybody else before we move on? All right, so we're going to zoom in one more layer to that accountability section. The band is what we call it in the Becoming book. We take that language from John Wesley. So what has accountability looked like in your life, and how did you find those relationships? Before we answer, you've probably noticed something. There's a pattern whenever we talk about community, and that community doesn't naturally happen. The gravitational pull of life is away from it. So it takes work to build healthy relationships, right? You don't. You don't stumble into a good marriage. We all know that. You might get lucky and have a good year, but you don't have a good life together by accident. It takes work, right, to build a healthy marriage. Same thing with community. Same thing with friendships and accountability. It takes work. We go out and find the accountability relationships. It's very rare to stumble across them. So as you're answering this question, what does accountability look like? And then how did you find the people you were going to be accountable with? [00:20:49] Speaker E: Okay, so for me, throughout my life, finding people that I look up to, I'm trying to think of wording. I look up to love, how they're following the Lord, how God is, you know, moving in their life, how they're leading their family, relationships, whatever, that's who I've always gravitated to. So that whatever stage I have been in life, and a lot of these friends have continued to go on to the next stages of life, we respect each other. And we're also then able to ask each other those personal questions that sometimes don't feel always fun to ask, but also doesn't always feel fun to answer to. And that's kind of how my accountability path has always been, is, who can I look? Who am I looking up to? Who am I wanting to be like or be a part of the goodness of them? And within life groups, that has really blessed me from when we were first married and doing life groups alongside other couples that were also newly married. That's a fun, interesting time of life. But then also now our new life group that we're in, and they're married couples, but now with young children. And this is another big transition in our life, in our marriage, and having people that we know, that we respect, that we trust, that we can respect their feedback, take that account, accountable, but also reciprocate that as well. [00:22:31] Speaker B: That's awesome. Paige. You unknowingly brought up one of my soapboxes that I am happy to get on right now. It's. I really appreciate it. It's the value of mentoring. If you're. If you're a young person, you need a mentor. A mentor would be incredible. We need accountability. But can I tell you, I think the wisest thing you could do right now, whatever you're going through in life, is find someone who's farther ahead than you in years time, married, parenting, whatever, and just say, hey, can you help me out? Can I ask you questions? And if you are ahead of somebody else in years, in marriage, in parenting, can I just beg you to find someone who's a little bit behind you and walk through life with them? Here's something that I hear all the time. I'll have somebody come up to me. A lot of times it's guys, and they're like, here's what's going on in my life, and here's all the mistakes that I've made, and I don't know how to fix it. And I feel like I'm just. Everything's falling apart. And in my mind, I can think of three guys who are 30 years ahead of them in life, who made every mistake they made, and their life was in the exact same place, and they're through it. They've experienced healing and transformation and redemption in their story. But sometimes the older guys are like, oh, I don't know. I don't know if I could mentor someone. I'm still just as broken. And a lot of times the younger guys don't want to ask for help. We need Young people who are willing to say, I don't know what I'm doing. Can somebody help me? And we need older people who are willing to say, I don't know what I'm doing either, but the Lord has helped me get through it. And I'll tell you how I learned to depend on the Lord, right? Because we got a lot of people who are in a place in life where they need inspiration. They need to see that life can get better. And I can just tell you, whatever mistake you made, I promise I know someone. Mike knows someone, that the Lord transformed their life and they got through it. Like, whatever it is, we there is someone who has experienced the healing of the Lord. You're not stuck. It's not over. Life isn't. Life isn't bankrupt. The Lord can still redeem it. We need that inspiration. So, Paige, what you. What you're talking about in both the accountability relationships in a life group, but in looking for a mentor is one of the wisest things we can do. Like you read the book of Proverbs, and over and over and over again, the author of Proverbs is telling young men and young women, don't reject wisdom. Go find it. Go find someone who's older than you. Figure out the wisdom they have to make it through life. Anybody else got a comment on accountability? Ken? [00:25:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm older than my wife by just a couple of years, but we've been accountable to each other for nearly 50 years. And that taught me accountability. Yeah, we had problems, yeah, we had struggles. We both had to learn. But also we took that to life groups. We took it to life groups, whether it was a couple's life group or it was individual life groups. One of the life groups I'm in right now that the youngest guy in there is in his late 60s, and I'm not going to say how old the oldest guy is, but there's accountability. I walked in late last Wednesday when we were having life group, had some stuff going, and they said, well, it's about time you got here. We were just talking about you, which is really fine with me. They weren't talking bad about me. And my other. My other life group were. Got a guy, a bunch of guys that 20, 20 plus years old, some of us that are in our 70s. And you know what? It's amazing. The discussions that happen in life group, the accountability, the grace given to each other, the listening ear, the open heart. It's absolutely amazing. [00:26:25] Speaker B: Oh, amen. Amen. See, that's another one of my soapboxes. Is having people, having people who know you well enough to know what you're struggling with. Can you imagine what it would be like to not have any secrets? Can you imagine. Can you imagine what it would be like to never be worried if someone comes up to you and says, hey, man, we need to talk? You're not worried because there's nothing they could have found out. There's nothing you're hiding? Can you imagine that? That's freedom, right? We imagine that. Freedom is I can do what I want. No one can tell me anything else. No, freedom is you never worry about what people are going to find out because people already know. Because the people who love you and care about you already know. There's no seek, there's no. There's no secret between you and your spouse, right? Because she or he already knows all the secrets. So you never have to worry about anything getting found out. There's no secrets at work, right? There's no sin that you've been struggling with that you haven't confessed to someone, right? You're not living it. That is what freedom actually looks like. Freedom isn't, I do what I want and no one tells me otherwise. Freedom is, I am fully known. So therefore I know I am fully loved. Because you can't fully believe that you're loved until you're fully known. Because in our minds, remember, Satan wants to isolate us. Satan is always working against Genesis chapter two, trying to say, they don't love you. They don't love you. If they knew, they wouldn't love you, so don't tell them. Right? And how do you defeat the lie? The lie that Satan says is if people found out, they wouldn't love you. If people knew who you really are, they wouldn't love you. So keep it secret. You defeat that lie by telling them and letting them love you anyway. You counteract that lie by confessing your sin and experiencing the love of Christ given to you through those other people. The people that aren't going to say, ah, it's. It's all right, don't worry about it. Everybody does it. No, they're not just going to blow off the sin. They're going to say, hey, I love you. Stop it. And I love you, right? They're going to help you become who you were created to be, but love you even though you're still on the way, even though you're still on the journey. We have to have that. We have to have that community. So, last question. What advice would you give? I know that at New Life we got a lot of people who are in life groups. We had over 700 people enrolled in life groups this semester. We. Is incredible. Yeah. It's amazing. And it shows. It shows that the Lord is moving, right? It shows that the Lord is moving because people are launching new life groups and people are joining life groups and people are seeing they can't do life alone and they don't want to anymore. Right. It's incredible. But we've also got a lot of people who aren't in a life group or who maybe tried it once and didn't have a great experience, so they didn't go back or who go to life group like once a month. So they don't. They're really building the relationships because there's always something else going on. So what would you say to someone who's not really in community right now? They're not in a life group or not invested, or they don't have accountability? What's the advice? [00:29:28] Speaker C: Me? [00:29:29] Speaker D: What's that? [00:29:30] Speaker C: I said, you want me to go? I would say if you're here right now, maybe you're new to Gillette, your family just moved here recently, or you're new to new life, or even if you've been here a while but have never taken that step, if God or the Holy Spirit is prompting you to do that, do not leave here today without talking to CJ or filling out the life group card or the next steps card. Yes, yes. Talk with somebody on staff before you leave. Don't. Don't push it off till next week or, you know, the next time. And then also, if you're in a life group or maybe you didn't have a great experience in life group, know that it's not something that happens instantly. You know, that community doesn't just happen like you're five minutes into your first time there. It's a new life group. And I was like, this is perfect. We've been doing this for years. Like, no, you haven't. You're five minutes in. And so it takes. It takes, like I said earlier, grace and humility from everyone in that group to make that life group that place where everyone can come and be themselves, be the life group member that you want everyone else to be there. [00:30:47] Speaker B: Is that Gandhi who said that? [00:30:49] Speaker C: Yeah. And then one last thing. I have never left a life group meeting feeling less physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually empowered. It's always speaking into my life. Every group, it might look a little different each time, but there's always something there that leaves me encouraged. One Way or another. [00:31:19] Speaker D: I have a book study that meets on Tuesday night, and all three of them are single men. And somehow we got on the conversation of not wanting to be single, and these three gentlemen were arguing about where they would find single ladies. And I said, well, we do have a church of 2,000 people. And that didn't pierce them at all. So they continue to talk. And. So where do we go? We go to library, go to Taco Bell, maybe go stand in a field somewhere and they'll show up. Yeah, maybe, you know, if God wants me to have a wife, maybe. Maybe she'll. He'll send me one. I said, well, you start a life group. Kept talking over me. You start a life group. Kept talking over me. Finally, you start a life group. And about 10 minutes later, we had this intricate plan that Trump would have signed over today on how we could start a life group. What girls? We were going to get there where we're going to find ladies. We need more guys to back us up, because you got to have some guys in the wing. And it was awesome. It was like in this stage of their life, these are. These are men that want to be married. They want to. They want to do what God called us to do, which is multiply. Be married, be comfortable in a marriage, you know, in this season of life that works for them. So, I mean, whatever season of life you're in, there's a community out there for you. So don't just try one. Try. Try a couple. My wife will tell me or tell you that we've been in several different life groups. We've been in a family's life group. [00:32:42] Speaker A: We've been. [00:32:42] Speaker D: She does women's life groups, and I do men's life groups, and we've done teen life groups where our teens come with us, and they're in a life group with us, which is just chaos because their minds don't work like ours do. But any season of life community, it should be part of it. Find a community that. That suits your season of life so that you could continue to do life with. [00:33:03] Speaker B: Absolutely, absolutely. And if you go to a life group and someone asks you out on a date, you can just say no. [00:33:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:12] Speaker B: Here's what I would. Here's the advice I would give, and specifically about accountability. You guys have accountability. Is accountability easy? Is it fun? No. It's worth it, right? [00:33:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:27] Speaker B: Finding accountability is like dating in middle school, all right? You just got to walk up to someone and you got to say, I need accountability. Would you please be my accountability partner? You can write it in a note, check yes or no. That'll work. It's fine. But you just got to do it. Like, seriously, that's what you have to do. You're not going to find it. You're going to have to create it. And I would say create it. Join a life group first. Join it. If you. If the first one you go to doesn't work, try out a second one. We have all the time. People will sign up for three life groups because they want to try out three. And then they'll figure out which one that they connect with and they'll go to that one. Do that. That's incredible. And then within that group, look for the people that you connect with. And then eventually you're just going to have to ask. You're going to have to say, hey, I need someone to keep me accountable. Every human does. When you ask for accountability, you're not saying, I have some crazy secret struggle. You're saying you're a human being who needs accountability. Right? So find someone in that group. Hey, I could use some accountability. Would you be okay with coming to life group a little bit early so we can confess our sins and pray for one another and do it. Make it happen. You will not regret it. All right. Would you guys help me? Thank our wonderful panel of experts? Pray. Jesus, you are so good and so kind that not only did you make us for community to need one another, but you created pathways by which we can find it. What a gift. God, thank you so much for that. Motivate us to build the relationships and find the community. We love you, Jesus. Amen.

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