Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Foreign 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.
[00:00:27] You know, I think you're going to notice a kind of unintentional theme throughout the service today, but it's going to be about the value of community. Before we jump in, I want to say good morning to our friends on Church 307, to our extended family over at the prison and at the jail. We are so glad that you are joining us today online.
[00:00:46] We're going to be in Proverbs chapter 18. If you got a Bible with you, go ahead and open up to Proverbs chapter 18. We are finishing up our series called the Four Loves, where we've been looking at four of the primary Greek words that are translated into the English word love. Today we are looking at the Greek word phileo or philia, same word used in different contexts. And as we've done quite a few times, we're looking at a place that doesn't actually use that word, but describes that word. The Old Testament of scripture was. Was written in Hebrew rather than Greek. But in this proverb, in this one verse, we see this concept of phileo described clearly. So Proverbs chapter 18, verse 24. Here's what it says.
[00:01:35] One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin.
[00:01:40] But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Would you pray with me?
[00:01:49] Jesus, we love you. We praise you for what you're doing in the lives of so many people. We praise you for these students who are graduating and going out into the world. We ask that you would be with them, you would bless them. And God, today, as we look at your word, we ask that you would speak. My ideas are not what we're here for. So if there's anything that's just my opinion, let us notice it so we can let it go.
[00:02:13] But, God, if there's anything that we talk about over the next few minutes that's faithful to you, consistent with your character, then would you plant that in our hearts? Because we are here to be like you, to become who you created us to be. Jesus. Amen.
[00:02:25] Hey, check out this video, brother.
[00:02:28] I'm going to have a brother.
[00:02:30] I've always dreamed about having a brother.
[00:02:34] Speak of the devil, brother. I'm Paul.
[00:02:43] You must be Tommy. Brothers don't shake hands. Brothers gotta hug.
[00:02:53] Yeah. That's why you came to church today, just for clips of Tommy Boy, we are. We're talking about phileo this morning. And phileo is best defined this way. Here's the literal definition. To have a great affection or care for or loyalty towards someone. But the way that word has commonly been used really throughout history is this way, this second definition, brotherly love. Anybody know what the city of Philadelphia is famous for? Besides beating the chiefs in February? Cheap shot.
[00:03:26] It's known as the city of brotherly love. And that's the same word, Philadelphia. Phileo. That's where that word comes from. When we're talking about this Greek word, this type of love, we're talking about something different than the family love of storge that we talked about a few weeks ago. Storge is the natural affection that comes from being in close relationship, family or long term relationship with someone. Phileo is different. Phileo is the decision love, the decision to be loyal to someone, the decision to have care or affection for someone. It's used within the context of close friendship. That's what phileo is all about. Now I want to ask you a question. Now don't raise your hand when I ask you this question. Just think about the answer. Do you have any best friends? I mean like Barry A body friends, you know what I'm saying? Like, you got to call somebody at 3am to help you get out of town. That's the friend that you're calling. You're in jail. They're not the one bailing you out. They're the one there with you. You know what I'm saying? Like, you got any friends like that? Yeah.
[00:04:32] Interestingly enough, in the US we are three times more likely to think that friendship, close friendship is essential to thriving as a human than we are to think that marriage is essential to thriving.
[00:04:49] We as a country are three times more likely to think that you need friends whether you're married or not than to think that you need marriage to thrive to make it. Interestingly enough, this is one of the few places where scripture just agrees with our culture.
[00:05:07] All throughout the story of scripture, what we see is that marriage is presented to us as a gift. A good wonderful thing for those who choose it. That paints a picture of Christ in the church and the process for procreation. And it's a beautiful gift, but it's not an essential.
[00:05:25] Marriage is a gift. But community, close relationship is always presented in scripture as an essential to thrive. If you want to become who God created you to be, you have to have friends. There are two clear examples of this in scripture. The first is Jesus Jesus, we believe our theology tells us he lived a completely fulfilled human life, 100% fulfilled. And he was unmarried for his entire life. The other example is the Apostle Paul who wrote most of the New Testament. He wrote the majority of the New Testament and it's clear in Scripture that he was unmarried and that he actually encouraged other young church leaders to stay unmarried as well so that their primary loyalty could be to Christ. I did not follow Paul's advice. I got married. But Paul and Jesus were not married. But they did. Everywhere they traveled, they traveled with clothes. Close friends with community partners, friends that would share life and share the burden of ministry with them. So I want to ask you a follow up question once again. Don't raise your hand.
[00:06:31] Do you have any friends that you really trust?
[00:06:35] I mean like really trust? I don't mean like make a bad decision at 3am with you. I mean like help you make things right after you made that bad decision.
[00:06:46] Do you have any friends that you wouldn't just borrow money from, but you would take financial advice from?
[00:06:51] Like they would help you get your finances on track? Do you have any friends that when they say I'm praying for you, that they mean it? It's not flippant that you know they are going to war spiritually on your behalf?
[00:07:06] You have any friends that if your marriage was falling apart and you ask them for advice that they're not just going to say, ah, she's the worst, leave her.
[00:07:14] But they're going to give you the tough advice that you actually need to fight for your marriage. You have any friends who will tell you something you don't want to hear if it'll help you?
[00:07:26] Statistically speaking, there are significantly fewer yeses to that question than there are to the first question.
[00:07:34] The second question is about phileo.
[00:07:37] It's about brotherly love. It's about that loyalty and commitment. The first question is about what feels like friendship.
[00:07:47] We live in a world where bros abound, but brotherly love, close friendship is hard to find. The statistics actually point to this. There was research done in 1990 and it was done again in 2021 to compare the data. In 1990, they asked Americans how many of us don't have any close friends. And here's what they found. They found that the number of people reporting no close friends in 1990 was 3% and it grew from 3% to 12%. Now you're thinking 12%. That still doesn't seem like that high of a number. That's only like 1 in 10 people. But first off 1 in 10 of us cannot think of a close friend.
[00:08:27] That should be shocking.
[00:08:30] But also the number quadrupled in 30 years.
[00:08:35] Most of us in this room were alive for this entire span.
[00:08:39] And the number quadrupled of people who can't even think of one person that they would consider a close friend.
[00:08:48] That's not the only startling statistic. They also measured the amount of people reporting 10 or more close friends. And here's what they found. They found that the number of people who would report 10 or more close friends dropped by 60%.
[00:09:06] 60%.
[00:09:10] Every way that we can measure friendship is dropping significantly.
[00:09:18] Some of us spent, the majority the middle of our lives in this time span. If I had to guess, I could be wrong. But if I had to guess, if you were, say, in your 20s, in the 90s, and you're in your 50s now, my guess is that this rings true, that you can look back when it was easier to make friends, when we had lots of close friends, people we could spend time with. And the number has gotten smaller and smaller over time. What's interesting about that number, though, is that we have more avenues for friendship than we've ever had before. Have you noticed that you can have more friends than we've ever been able to have in human history? You can stay in touch with your high school best friend even if you moved out of your hometown. You can text each other political memes once a week and stay in touch.
[00:10:06] It's more possible than it's ever been to be friends. But the numbers are all moving in the wrong direction.
[00:10:13] Once again, that's not the only startling number, because they've also researched what we consider close friends. And this was the most startling thing to me.
[00:10:24] This next slide, 50% of close friends. Less than 50% of people who would consider themselves close friends with someone else discuss mental health or physical health.
[00:10:37] Less than half of us, when we get bad news from the doctor, have a friend we talk to about it.
[00:10:46] We have close friends.
[00:10:48] We just still don't talk to them about it.
[00:10:51] When the depression gets bad and you start to think the scary thoughts, more than half of us don't have anybody we can talk to about it.
[00:11:04] Now, interestingly enough, every doctor and therapist and pastor and health advisor in the world says, when those things happen, do you know what you need to do?
[00:11:14] Talk to somebody about it.
[00:11:17] But less than half of us, even the people we consider our close friends, we don't talk to them about it. The number gets even worse if you only poll men, because men don't talk about mental health, physical health, or even their families.
[00:11:31] Don't get along with your kids anymore. Most of us guys bottle it up.
[00:11:35] Marriage on the rocks. Most of us guys, we're going to wait until it explodes and we can't hide it anymore.
[00:11:43] We're surrounded by things that seem like friendship. We have the ability to have more connections than we have ever had as humans, but we have fewer and fewer close friends now. And in the last 13 years, I think that I've been a pastor, and it has become incredibly clear to me that friendship might be the most important thing besides salvation that we can talk about in the church. And it's probably one of the things that we, as humans and as Christians take the least seriously. All of scripture tells us that you cannot become who God created you to be without friends. But we almost never talk about friends. Have you ever tried making a friend as an adult? My goodness. Dating in seventh grade is easier than making a friend as an adult. You have to just write a note. Do you want to golf with me? Check. Yes or no. Just like, it's hard, it's awkward, it's really difficult to do, but it's incredibly important. I want to illustrate this, and this is going to be a fairly obvious illustration, but I need you to roll with me. I have two things on stage. I have Mike and Ikes, which are my favorite candy, in case you wanted to know that my birthday's in January, and Mike and Ikes are my favorite candy.
[00:12:52] Whatever you want to do with that information.
[00:12:54] Um, I've got an orange here now, cards on the table. I brought the. I bought this orange at the Maverick down the road. So I think it's real. I don't know if this is, in fact, a real orange. Then this has calories. It's food, right? If you talk to any doctor, any dietitian you read. Remember the pyramid when they had those in school, the food pyramid? These are one of the triangles in the pyramid. You need these. Pretty much every person who's going to advise your health is going to say, you need to eat a serving or two of things like this every day. Why? Because it has calories. It's going to give you energy. It's got good stuff in it, but it doesn't have empty calories. If you're getting sick, you should be drinking orange juice and eating oranges because it's got vitamin C in it. In fact, doctors will give you supplements that have all the stuff an orange has in it because it's got good stuff for Your body, it tastes good. It's enjoyable to eat. They make ice cream that tastes like this stuff and it's good for you. It fills you up and it helps you out.
[00:13:58] Believe it or not, Mike and I don't.
[00:14:02] Surprising, right?
[00:14:03] Here's the thing. Did you know they are flavored to taste like an orange? At least the good ones. I don't know who eats the cherry and strawberry ones. I throw those away. I just want the citrus ones.
[00:14:12] The orange, it's flavored to taste like this. They want this to taste like this. If you close your eyes, you can convince yourself that you're eating an orange. If you eat an orange. Mike and Ike there, it says, artificially and naturally flavored. I don't know what's natural in these, but it says it also. Did you know that there are four servings of these in a box? I found out the other day when I ate four servings.
[00:14:38] If you eat these. If you eat a box of these every day, you will feel full. There are calories in it.
[00:14:45] And if you eat it every day for a month, after the first week, you'll feel pretty gross.
[00:14:50] And then your body will adjust.
[00:14:52] You'll stop feeling gross even though it's poisoning you.
[00:14:58] You will stop feeling the immediate negative effects of it.
[00:15:02] Your body will adjust to the pain and discomfort and just keep receiving.
[00:15:07] Some of you are thinking, cj, I was in church last week. Didn't Mike use this exact same analogy but with a steak and a burger instead of Mike and Ikes and orange? Yes, he did. And there's a reason for that. First off, because I wrote this analogy before I realized he wrote that one. And second, because this is incredibly important. Everywhere around us, we are being offered relational falsehood. We are being offered fake relationships in your romantic and intimate relationships. We are constantly getting sold a bill that says, pleasure is the only thing that matters. Immediate gratification is the only thing that matters. You should not have to work for it. You deserve to feel good. You shouldn't have to commit for the rest of your life. You should be able to get what you want. That's what we're being sold all the time. Take the easy way out. Here it is. This tastes just like the real thing. It'll be more fun, but it tastes like the real thing for a minute. And it's killing us in the long run. And the exact same thing is getting offered to us in friendship. We are surrounded by a world that says, hey, post on Instagram. Then people will like you. You will know for sure. That you have friends if they reshare your story or if they follow you on TikTok. Did you know you can be Internet famous and have no friends?
[00:16:15] Did you know that?
[00:16:17] Did you know that you can have a thousand people who will let you buy them drinks and have no friends?
[00:16:22] Did you know that you can have a killer new truck and no one you can rely on?
[00:16:29] Did you know that you can succeed in every financial area of life and never become who God created you to be because you've got no one to help?
[00:16:40] The world is offering us Mike and I, the world is offering us a fake version that tastes like the real thing, but it isn't and it tricks us.
[00:16:51] And I want to make an exclamation point on this because this isn't the only research that points to this. In 2023, the Surgeon General of the United States released a report with this title. This was the title of their report, Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation.
[00:17:07] This is the same person that puts these will kill you on the back of a pack of cigarettes. Their whole job is to take care of our physical wellness. And they said, what is physically threatening us? We are lonely.
[00:17:20] And they went on to say that we are more connected than we have ever been as a people.
[00:17:26] We have more relationships, we have more friends, things that feel like friendship.
[00:17:32] We can find a book club. You can join a book club with strangers. There are things going around on social media where you can mail a book to a stranger and read books with people.
[00:17:41] You can join a book club. You can have golfing buddies. You can find a Reddit chain of people that love the same video game as you and you can play at the time, same, same time every night and never meet them. There are a thousand things in our life that feel like friendship. Just for the record, I feel like I should probably say this whenever we're talking about friendship. This is the type of thing that if you're under the age of 35, you think older people struggle with, and if you're over the age of 35, you think younger people struggle with. But it's a human problem.
[00:18:07] It's a human problem. That's why the author of Proverbs tells us, because it's been a problem for as long as there have been humans.
[00:18:15] That's what the author's saying. He's saying, did you know you can have things that feel like friendship, but they're not reliable?
[00:18:22] Did you know that you can fill your life up with connections and relationships and people who respect your accomplishments and never talk about anything that matters.
[00:18:31] Did you know that you can golf with the same people every week and then be shocked when you find out that other person has had cancer for a year because they never talked about it? Because it felt like close friendship, but it wasn't.
[00:18:43] It was flavored. It was artificially flavored to be like the real thing.
[00:18:49] Did you know that's what the authors. Did you know that you can have relationships where you're the one doing all the work and you're trying to earn their friendship day in and day out? It's not reliable.
[00:19:01] But did you know that you can have friends where they're doing all the work and you're not living up to your end of the deal?
[00:19:07] That's not reliable. And what the author of Proverbs is telling us is that it will lead you to ruin.
[00:19:15] Just like eating Mike and Ikes every day instead of eating the real thing.
[00:19:21] But there's a promise at the end of it. Here's what the author says.
[00:19:26] But there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
[00:19:33] There is a thousand falsehoods, but the truth still exists.
[00:19:37] Some of us, we have really bad experiences with friendships. So we give up on the whole thing.
[00:19:44] And just as much as the author of Proverbs wants us to acknowledge fake friendship, the author of Proverbs wants us to be committed to real friendship. The author of Proverbs is saying, yeah, did somebody gossip? Don't give up on the friendship. Did somebody betray you in the past? Friendship is still possible. Did someone not have your back when they were supposed to have your back? Don't give up on the relationship. Did your best friend of 20 years turn on you? Friendship is still possible. How do we know that? First off, because we have Jesus. Jesus is the friend who sticks closer than a brother. But second, because we are the community of God's people pursuing Christ together, which means imperfectly, with a thousand failures, we are doing our best to become the friend that sticks closer than a brother. That so that even though we have had the fake in the past, we can fight for the real thing. You need friends.
[00:20:35] I need friends to become who God created us to be. We have to have this brotherly love. Now, in just a moment, I wanna tell a story and illustrate what this looks like. But before we do that, I don't want this to just become a ideological sermon. I want this to be as practical as we can be. So as I've considered this proverb, here are three things that, as I've wrestled with it and thought about it over the last few weeks, I want to give you, give us to make sure that we have this brotherly love, sisterly love, friendship, love in our lives. Here's the first one. The first one is to become a good friend.
[00:21:14] Become a good friend. Did you know you will not become anything by accident?
[00:21:18] Believe it or not, you will not accidentally become a runner.
[00:21:22] I have tried.
[00:21:24] It has not worked yet.
[00:21:26] I still hate running.
[00:21:29] You will not accidentally become a good friend.
[00:21:33] You will not accidentally fall into healthy relationships. It's not going to happen. The gravitational force of the world around us is toward Mike and Ikes. The relationships in your life will not just naturally accidentally become deep, committed, honest friendships.
[00:21:47] We have to become the relationship, the type of friend that we want.
[00:21:53] So if you want reliable friends who show up when they say they're going to show up and are honest and don't gossip, then guess what?
[00:21:59] You got to show up when you're say you're going to show up. You've got to be honest. You've got to kill gossip before it starts. Do you want friends that if you tell them your darkest secret, you know that they are going to hold you accountable, but they're not going to tell anybody else about it. Then guess what?
[00:22:13] You have to be someone that they can trust, that they can commit to. We find the friendships that we create, we become the type of friend that we want. Here's the second thing. You have to choose your friends. Believe it or not, this is not a Disney movie. You will not skip through the forest, fall asleep, and wake up with seven dwarves who are now your best friends. That is not going to happen. You have to choose the type of people that you want to be. Close friendships, close relationships. The teenagers in the room. Let me tell you something that I wish I had known when I was your age. Here's what it is. You choose the type of people that you want to be around. Who you are friends with is who you are.
[00:22:54] That does not mean that you quit hanging out with your old friends who do dumb stuff. It means that you bring them to church with you. You don't go to the party with them.
[00:23:04] Now let me say that to the adults, because most of the adults think that's only teenage advice.
[00:23:08] But let me say it to the adults. Adults, you become whoever you spend the most time with. That doesn't mean that you quit hanging out with your old buddies. That means you don't go to the bar with them. You bring them to church with you.
[00:23:20] You surround yourself with the people that you want to become. Like, here's advice that every once in a while I have the opportunity to mentor a young guy, a teenager or a young leader, something like that. And every time I do, I tell them the exact same thing that's been told to me since I was pretty young.
[00:23:37] You are the sum total of your five closest friends.
[00:23:42] Did you know that?
[00:23:44] You are the sum total of your five closest friends. Do you want to know what your life is going to become? Look at the five people you spend the most time with. It is a map and the trajectory of your life. It is a map of your future. You are the five people you spend the most time with, which means you have to be very intentional to choose people who will help you become like Christ.
[00:24:08] We build these filet o relationships. We choose who we're going to spend time with.
[00:24:16] Here's the last one you center.
[00:24:19] We center our friendships on Christ.
[00:24:22] When I lived in South Carolina, I was a pastor and I had a good friend in the church. I was his pastor and we were hunting buddies. After a while, his family moved to the other side of town.
[00:24:31] It was too far for them to drive to church, so I wasn't his pastor anymore. The faith part of our relationship shifted. We were just hunting buddies. And anytime we hunted, we were either hunting together or we were texting each other how bad the hunting was. That day we drove actually to South Dakota, to Sturgis, South Dakota from South Carolina to hunt mule deer together. You want to know how good your friendship is? Spend 24 hours in a Toyota Tacoma with someone.
[00:24:56] Yeah. And then spend eight days in a Super 8.
[00:24:59] My goodness. I have seen some things, man.
[00:25:02] We hunted out of that Super 8 for eight days. The Super 8 in Sturgis? Yeah.
[00:25:09] I realized about five days into that hunt, we had spent every minute together. Literally.
[00:25:15] We had been driving together, staying in the same hotel room, hunting together.
[00:25:19] And we had not even five days. We had not talked about our faith once I was his pastor.
[00:25:26] You don't accidentally build relationships centered on Jesus.
[00:25:31] You accidentally never talk about anything that matters.
[00:25:35] You accidentally never have the tough conversation.
[00:25:38] You don't stumble into deep, meaningful relationships. I realized that half asleep because we've been getting up at 4am every morning to go hunt. And. And I realized I was going to have to make an effort. And it was awkward. Can I be honest? It was pretty awkward to make sure that faith was part of what we were talking about, that we were actually talking about the stuff that mattered. And I'm not saying force Jesus into every conversation that you have.
[00:26:06] What I'm saying is put in the work to make sure. You're asking your friends about their faith. You're confessing your sins to the people that you trust. You're doing the work to make sure that that relationship has golf in it. That's great. That relationship has a book club in it. That's awesome. You guys hunt together. That's wonderful. You are on the PTA together. That's great. Make sure that's not all. Make sure that's not the center. Make sure the center of that relationship is Jesus. To have brotherly love, we become the friend we want. We choose our friends carefully, and we center our relationships on Christ. Now, I want to tell you a story.
[00:26:41] Since I moved here in August, I've had the privilege of being part of a life group.
[00:26:46] It's been one of my favorite things about being here. Been part of two life groups, actually part of a couples group, and then I'm part of a men's group on Thursday nights.
[00:26:54] And our men's group, we have a lot of fun.
[00:26:57] We goof off. We also have some pretty tough conversations sometimes.
[00:27:02] Things get real sometimes. And something I've noticed just over the last. And I've noticed this over the course of my life, but the last nine months have been a microcosm of this. Just a clear picture.
[00:27:13] There are people who come, if I could just be really direct, have a good time. They enjoy the goofing off, don't really like when things get hard, when the conversations get tough, don't stick around.
[00:27:31] And it's not very formational.
[00:27:35] And there are times where, you know, people love the group, love the community, but then get busy. Which I'm doing air quotes there, because we all get busy.
[00:27:45] It's a fact of human existence that you have time for what you make time for.
[00:27:50] I don't mean to be very direct here, but it just is. I know all of us don't have time for life groups because none of us have time for life groups, but we have time for what we make time for.
[00:28:01] But what I've noticed is that there are guys who show up hungry and they stick it out and they laugh and they goof off and they tell stories, and then they let other people challenge them, look in their eyes and hold them accountable. They have tough conversations that are. They're uncomfortable to have about what it really means to obey Jesus, to bow your knee to King Jesus. And what I've noticed is the people who stick it out experience deep transformation. You know, there's another proverb that Says, as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another person. And I've watched that happen in our life group for people who are willing to put up with the discomfort of being in that brotherly love relationship. And we have an example of that this morning. My friend Brock is part of our life group, and Brock's going to come up here on stage.
[00:28:48] Brock decided to fully surrender his life to Jesus just a few months ago. He joined our life group in January.
[00:28:59] You can hop in right here, man.
[00:29:02] Somebody grab a towel on the way up here.
[00:29:11] And these are all the guys from our life group who have been here. Some of the guys from our life group, Ethan's hobbling his way over here.
[00:29:20] You know, a lot of times when we. When we do baptisms, we read someone's story, and that story is their testimony of why they're getting baptized. But the thing is, with Brock, there are a whole bunch of us standing right here that have seen his story, and we can be his testimony.
[00:29:37] Because I saw Brock show up, not knowing anybody, to our life group and keep coming back and jump in with serious conversations the first day, making friends.
[00:29:52] And I saw him ask really tough questions and let people challenge him.
[00:29:57] And I saw when he decided to follow Jesus that the evidence of faith became very, very clear in his life.
[00:30:05] So, Brock, I know. I think we all know that there is evidence, there's fruit of the Spirit in your life, right? We have seen that. So we have one simple question for you, man. Have you trusted your Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, to forgive your sins and secure eternity?
[00:30:23] Absolutely. Well, then, Brock, Zach, your life group leader, Mitch, over here, the other life group leader, and I, it's our privilege to baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, united with Christ in death and raised again to new life.
[00:30:59] So we're going to sing a song.
[00:31:02] But the question that you have is, do you have brotherly love?
[00:31:13] Do you have those friends that you can count on?
[00:31:16] Scripture promises us that it's possible. Listen, there's someone here. I am sure of it. This isn't some spiritual premonition. It's just statistics. There are people here today who are saying, cj, I've tried having friends. Friends are not the option for me. They always let me down. They always betray me. What I'm telling you is that Scripture promises that there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. There is a friend who sticks closer than a sister. To become who God created you to be, you need those relationships. This is why we have life groups. Life groups aren't in season right now. This is why we have a coffee shop out there. Maybe you need to write a note that says, I need a friend. Will you be my friend? Please check yes or no.
[00:31:54] I don't know, but don't wait for it to happen. It's not going to happen by accident. It is. Brotherly love is something you choose.
[00:32:04] You choose to build it into your life.
[00:32:06] Jesus, we thank you for the transformation in Brock's life. Jesus, we thank you that we get to celebrate what you're doing in our community and in our friends.
[00:32:19] Jesus, surround us with people who will help us become like you and give us the courage to not wait for it to happen by accident.
[00:32:27] We love you, Jesus. Amen.
