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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 3: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. I thank you that one thought of

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Speaker 1: you today, one thought can change the way we see ourselves.

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Speaker 4: When God puts something significant in me, the enemy sends

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Speaker 4: something significant after me.

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Speaker 5: Find your tambourine and figure out how to praise even

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Speaker 5: in the waiting.

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Speaker 4: And the proof that I know that God still has

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Speaker 4: something amazing ahead for your life is that you're still here.

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Speaker 6: Hi.

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Speaker 5: Everyone, Welcome to church. I hope that you had a

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Speaker 5: wonderful Christmas. I hope that you were surrounded by the

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Speaker 5: people that you love. I hope that you ate all

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Speaker 5: of the amazing foods that you love, because you know

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Speaker 5: calories don't count on Christmas. I hope that you had

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Speaker 5: time to rest and nap and enjoy the peace that

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Speaker 5: this season brings. Now, this is the one Sunday of

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Speaker 5: the year where our entire church is epham, So I

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Speaker 5: want to see the comments flying right now. Let us

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Speaker 5: know where you are joining from. Maybe say hello to

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Speaker 5: someone else in the chat that's.

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Speaker 6: Not from your state.

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Speaker 5: Pastor Steven and I are continually amazed at the people

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Speaker 5: that God has brought together across the world who make

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Speaker 5: up the people of Elevation Church. And it is the

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Speaker 5: honor of a lifetime to get to do ministry with you.

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Speaker 5: Today is evident that you are finishing the year strong.

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Speaker 5: You're making church a priority, and that is something to

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Speaker 5: celebrate because twenty twenty four has been an immeasurably more.

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Speaker 7: Year for our church.

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Speaker 5: We have seen some true, incredible blessings. We've reached new

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Speaker 5: communities all around the world. We've continued to be a

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Speaker 5: resource for those in need, and we have seen thousands

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Speaker 5: of lives transformed. The impact of our church and our

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Speaker 5: ability to share the hope of the Gospel is greater

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Speaker 5: than Pastor Stephen and I could have ever thought possible.

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Speaker 5: And that is because of you. You give so generously

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Speaker 5: of your time and your gifts, and you keep doing

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Speaker 5: your part, and God continues to move you know, Jesus

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Speaker 5: says in John ten, He says, I have come that

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Speaker 5: they may have life and have it to the full.

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Speaker 5: And as we continue to be the church, we get

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Speaker 5: to experience the fullness of life that God has promised us.

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Speaker 6: Looking back on twenty twenty.

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Speaker 5: Four, my heart is overflowing with gratitude for the ways

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Speaker 5: that we have seen God move, and as.

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Speaker 6: We look ahead to.

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Speaker 5: Twenty twenty five, I'm feel with expectation, knowing that even

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Speaker 5: greater things are yet to come. So today I thought

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Speaker 5: it would be fun to take a moment to reflect

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Speaker 5: maybe take a peek ahead to all of the amazing

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Speaker 5: things that God has for us in the year to come.

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Speaker 5: And I thought that I would invite some friends to

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Speaker 5: great conversation, and I'm glad that you're here with us.

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Speaker 5: So let me introduce to you some of my friends.

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Speaker 5: These are all familiar faces, but I just want to

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Speaker 5: give you a formal introduction. This is Chris Brown, who

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Speaker 5: you probably know from Elevation Worship. And then we've got

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Speaker 5: britt at Consola in the middle here, who is our

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Speaker 5: ministry's pastor. Pastor Chad Zolo, our online pastor you all

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Speaker 5: know him, and Pastor chet Pete, who is our UC

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Speaker 5: University City shout out campus pastor. We've got to talk

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Speaker 5: about worship first, because this was an incredible year for

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Speaker 5: Elevation worship.

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Speaker 8: I can't, I can't believe we're what almost twenty years in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we released our.

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Speaker 8: Seventeenth worship album maybe eighteenth nineteen.

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Speaker 3: You can see exactly exactly.

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Speaker 8: That's a long story, all these years in almost two decades.

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Speaker 8: It's crazy how God allows our ministry to go places

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Speaker 8: that we may physically never show up or set our feet,

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Speaker 8: but the Word of God goes there, and a lot

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like there are so many people who

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Speaker 5: have found our church through elevation.

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Speaker 8: It's incredible, so grateful. It is a crazy year. When

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Speaker 8: Wind meets Fire.

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Speaker 5: Okay to say, I think When Wind meets Fire is

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Speaker 8: It's incredible. People ask me what, what's my favorite song?

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Speaker 8: What's my favorite album? The favorite album? Answer is always

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Speaker 3: We just did? So I agree it's my favorite too,

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Speaker 9: Nowavorite song?

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Speaker 8: See, it's a album it is you got we might

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Speaker 8: get there, but I'll say sure, been good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love sure been good to the day I died.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, Jesus are the albums and the songs are like

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Speaker 10: your kids.

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Speaker 3: Like you know, you can't choose a favorite.

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Speaker 6: I have a favorite take, you have a favorite favorite song?

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Speaker 9: Okay, all right, I'm going to say it.

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Speaker 8: No when win means fire though the song it's it's

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Speaker 8: a rock opera. We got like God is Not against

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Speaker 8: Me is on there? Which was what a sermon? It

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Speaker 8: turned into a song that also made.

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Speaker 6: Chapter in a book.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, and one of the mindsets. I mean, it

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Speaker 8: Absolutely. I mean, new Thing Coming, which is so fun. Also,

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Speaker 8: I mean, what a great song to to end one year.

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Speaker 8: So many great songs. I can't believe it's seventeenth album.

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Speaker 6: I can't believe it is.

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Speaker 3: It's incredible.

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Speaker 8: Also, I mean, we got a shout out rhythm for

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Speaker 8: Goodbye Yesterday.

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Speaker 3: How good is that song?

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Speaker 9: It's so good, so good.

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Speaker 8: Also, actually another perfect song to end one year, And.

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 6: I love worshiping of that song.

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Speaker 5: It just makes me so happy and you start like shouting.

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Speaker 6: I have decided to follow Jesus.

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Speaker 10: I feel like at a youth I mean, I got

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Speaker 10: a rhythm night and to hear are you declaring that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: But then to see it on a Sunday morning and

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Speaker 3: They're going strong, it goes crazy. Also, I mean selfish.

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Speaker 8: I'll shout out praise too, because praise just kept released

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Speaker 8: it well over a year ago, not not this year,

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Speaker 8: but it just kept reaching more people. So the way

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Speaker 8: God's working through our ministry, how He's using the songs.

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Speaker 6: Is it's incredible.

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Speaker 8: I think we have a clipless show saying, hey, I.

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Speaker 11: Got you don't get it what we what we call

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Speaker 12: Put it.

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Speaker 11: By God. He's not a dance He's a shires as

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Speaker 1: Do the songs on the bed room right down.

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Speaker 13: Sons to get ready.

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Speaker 9: For done the one because I done. The money's a.

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Speaker 13: Great shop thing, incredible, amazing, It's amazing how many good songs,

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Speaker 6: Song after song after song. I just am blown away.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So, Chris, one of the things I want to

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Speaker 5: put people on the spot that are on the sofa,

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Speaker 5: and I want to know, are there any secrets.

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Speaker 12: Five.

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Speaker 6: I want to know, are there any.

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Speaker 5: Secrets that's the people watching today can can get O?

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Speaker 3: All right? All right? So well, can I let me

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Speaker 3: share a little story?

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Speaker 14: Okay? Stories?

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Speaker 3: May of this year, I got a phone call. I

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Speaker 3: think you happen to be in the car.

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Speaker 7: Okay.

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Speaker 8: I got a phone call from your husband, Pastor Stephen,

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Speaker 8: and he says, you know, all these songs that have

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Speaker 8: been sitting on our phones, We've never recorded them, we've

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Speaker 8: never sung them in church, We've never figured out what

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Speaker 8: do we want to do with them.

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Speaker 3: I got the idea.

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Speaker 8: What we need to do is get our friends together, Brandon, Lake, Channer, Moore, Leland, Pat,

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Speaker 8: the two of us, and let's just have fun and

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Speaker 8: let's record these and let's let's start a new group,

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Speaker 8: a new a boy band, if you will, but not

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Speaker 8: really a boy band, but a new twenty four twenty

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Speaker 8: five man band. And it's going to be called Sons

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Speaker 8: of Sunday. My secret is Sons of Sunday SOS. So

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Speaker 8: we got together in September and we recorded so many

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Speaker 8: songs in this amazing little chapel, and we banged on

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Speaker 8: laughed and we lost our voice is and we recorded

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Speaker 8: so many songs and uh, it's gonna come out in

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Speaker 8: full album form, brand new album, all new songs people

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Speaker 8: have not heard.

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Speaker 3: But it's coming, Sons of Sunday. I'll tell you what

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Speaker 8: You actually need to go on socials right now and

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Speaker 8: search up Sons of Sunday because I mean we kind of.

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Speaker 5: Have been king and then you'll know when it's out

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Speaker 5: exactly and every song is so good and okay.

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Speaker 6: Do we have a little.

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Speaker 3: All right, so the secrets out?

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Speaker 6: Okay, secrets out. Check us out.

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Speaker 3: God gets a hold of you.

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Speaker 9: It's no town. Watch alluded, nom time, watch.

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Speaker 3: Alloud, my gad, fight my key free.

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Speaker 1: But if you back, come out, I'm bing out on me.

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Speaker 14: I got fawing out.

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Speaker 6: Okay, we needn't.

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Speaker 3: That's all you get right now.

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Speaker 6: So sometime in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: I'll say sometime very soon, okay.

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Speaker 6: And then of course elevation worships on tour.

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Speaker 8: We we saw what sixteen cities with elevation nights this

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Speaker 8: past year and it was incredible nights in ministry. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: and then we're headed right back out in February of

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Speaker 8: this year. Yeah, eight more cities in February. Can't wait

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Speaker 8: to see what God does.

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Speaker 6: I mean, tour is amazing.

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Speaker 5: And the thing that I love about tour is it's

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Speaker 5: not just Elevation Worship.

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Speaker 6: It's like it's like.

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Speaker 5: Elevation Church came to your town. It yea and filled

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Speaker 5: an arena exactly. And so you get like all your

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Speaker 5: favorite songs, and then you get a word from Pastor Stephen,

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Speaker 5: and you get Epham you know, in the not the lobby,

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Speaker 5: but like whatever it's called the concourse. Of course, you

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Speaker 5: get to meet Chad and all of our e fam

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Speaker 5: gets to come together, and they're just such incredible nights.

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Speaker 5: And we're going back out again and I'm so excited.

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Speaker 14: We have the dates.

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Speaker 9: But we got another video. We got another video video.

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Speaker 6: All right, all right, check this out. Here's Elevation Nights.

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Speaker 15: It's amazing because this last time we had I think

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Speaker 15: over one hundred and sixty thousand people who showed up

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Speaker 15: this year and it is crazy, I mean you were

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Speaker 5: I was so proud to be a part of Elevation

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Speaker 5: and Elevation outreach and to be able to represent our

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Speaker 5: church in that moment was really special.

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Speaker 10: I love how our church shows up in these moments

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Speaker 10: where it's these national disasters, but I think sometimes people

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Speaker 10: don't realize that there's outreach events happening all the time.

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Speaker 10: You know, We've had people going back and forth to

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Speaker 10: Ashville since that. We can't like it wasn't just the

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Speaker 10: one time and there left. Yeah, I'm proud of the

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Speaker 10: way that our church continues to show up. So these

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Speaker 10: big moments where we have to show up, but then

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Speaker 10: throughout the week, whether it's like meeting with schools or

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Speaker 10: feeding teachers.

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Speaker 9: Breakfasts and things like that. So that's just the heart

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Speaker 9: of our church showing up.

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Speaker 10: It's happening all the time, all the time, all the time.

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Speaker 10: So we get to do both in the moments that

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Speaker 10: it's desperate and we got to show up, and then

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Speaker 10: when it's just showing up for people on a day

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Speaker 10: to day basis.

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Speaker 5: Our church does that too, all right, So God is

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Speaker 5: expanding so many areas of our church.

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Speaker 7: Chet tell us about some.

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Speaker 5: Of the really fun things that we have coming in

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty five and some of the things that we

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Speaker 5: accomplished in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 10: Well, one of the strategies that you know, we implemented

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Speaker 10: I guess a few years ago is that we just

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Speaker 10: really wanted to be focused on having some permanency in

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Speaker 10: the communities that we were in. So we just wanted

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Speaker 10: to focus on what campuses were we setting up and

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Speaker 10: tearing down, and maybe we were at the whim of

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Speaker 10: the school or whether or not we could have church

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Speaker 10: that weekend or do an event. And because of the

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Speaker 10: generous people of our church, we were able to really

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Speaker 10: start to be aggressive at looking for facilities that we

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Speaker 10: would be able to go in and renovate or buy

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Speaker 10: land to build so that Elevation Church could be permanent

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Speaker 10: in that community. So at the end of last year

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Speaker 10: we were able to open up Belmont and so they

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Speaker 10: just had a full year ministry and then Columbia was

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Speaker 10: able to celebrate Christmas in.

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Speaker 3: Their new building this year.

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Speaker 10: So yeah, Taylor and Nikki Seidel they had a.

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Speaker 1: Parking lot party.

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Speaker 7: I saw it.

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Speaker 10: I saw it for three hundred people to come just

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Speaker 10: to have a night to be ab to worship before

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Speaker 10: they open up the building.

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Speaker 9: A thousand people showed up.

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Speaker 7: That's crazy.

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Speaker 10: They had ten salvations that night in the parking lot

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Speaker 10: before we even open up the building at Columbia.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 10: So then coming into twenty twenty five, Greenville. Greenville will

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Speaker 10: be opening up hopefully summer twenty twenty five. Then we

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Speaker 10: have Uptown, who should be opening summer of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 7: We got a really cool location, really cool location.

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Speaker 10: When you step out on the Fourier, you're able to

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Speaker 10: look up and see the skyline of the city of Charlotte.

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Speaker 10: That's pretty amazing. And then Toronto East. Toronto East was

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Speaker 10: a new campus that we actually launched this year. No, no,

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Speaker 10: don't apologize. It was at the end of last year

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Speaker 10: that we launched Toronto East. God's doing so much in Toronto. Last,

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Speaker 10: but not least Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina. We purchased Land

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Speaker 10: and Raleigh and have been working hard over really the

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Speaker 10: last year and a half to be able to push

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Speaker 10: through permits and all of those things to get it done,

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Speaker 10: but we're finally able to start breaking Brown Raleigh. But

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Speaker 10: one of the things I wanted to highlight with Raleigh,

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Speaker 10: I got a picture of Isaiah being baptized. This is

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Speaker 10: on the ground where we're going to be building Elevation Raleigh.

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Speaker 10: Here's the beauty beauty of this picture is before we

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Speaker 10: break ground, we're already had a baptism.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: And the one that I think about this and think

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Speaker 10: about the mission of our church so that people far

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Speaker 10: from God would be raised to life in Christ. And so, yes,

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Speaker 10: we're talking about these buildings. You're seeing some of the

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Speaker 10: renderings and all of that, but what we're really excited

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Speaker 10: about is the ministry that's going to be happening in

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Speaker 10: these walls.

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Speaker 1: People.

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Speaker 10: I just want to thank all of you faithfully give

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Speaker 10: an Elevation Church so that when an opportunity like this

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Speaker 10: opens up, we're able to jump on it.

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Speaker 3: That's right. We have resource set.

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Speaker 10: Aside, we can get ahead of projects because of your

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Speaker 10: generosity to be able to jump in and see what

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Speaker 10: God can do through through our church.

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Speaker 18: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And I love how when people people give, it's this

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Speaker 5: spirit of of like, well, this ministry has touched my

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Speaker 5: life so much and even though I attend a camp,

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Speaker 5: you know, like University City, that is already a permanent

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Speaker 5: location the generous spirit of I need.

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Speaker 6: I want other people to experience that too. I want

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Speaker 6: to create a seat somewhere else.

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Speaker 5: It's just such a beautiful thing to see when we

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Speaker 5: come together. I mean, it's another way that a big

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Speaker 5: church feels big, because when every gift matters, because when

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Speaker 5: we pull all of our gifts together, God is able

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Speaker 5: to do miracles. Before we leave, I have to spend

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Speaker 5: some time talking about some of the amazing sermons that

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Speaker 5: we heard just this year, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 7: Now I looked last night.

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Speaker 5: I looked at a list of all of Pastor Stephen

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Speaker 5: sermons just in twenty four, just the titles, and I

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Speaker 5: was blown away.

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Speaker 6: I was like, how does this man do this?

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Speaker 5: I preached three four, I preached four baby sermons, Okay, okay,

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Speaker 5: but this man preached like thirty five times and his

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Speaker 5: titles are brilliant and they come together. And we had,

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Speaker 5: you know, we had do the New You. We had

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Speaker 5: ghost Writers series. We had this series that was towards

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Speaker 5: the end of the year. I don't know if it

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Speaker 5: ever got a name, but you know, it was like

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Speaker 5: God is Oh, now I can't remember all of them

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Speaker 5: working in.

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Speaker 6: Can you do them all?

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Speaker 9: Don't challenge?

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Speaker 14: God's got the hard part.

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Speaker 7: And then the last one, I'm cheating. I'm looking at

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Speaker 7: my nose.

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Speaker 6: Oh, God gave it to me.

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Speaker 5: I mean, those were incredible messages that we ended the

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Speaker 5: year with, but we started the year strong. And so

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Speaker 5: I had everybody in this room come with their favorite

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Speaker 5: sermon and we're just gonna watch a clip and chat

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Speaker 5: about them. Chris, what was your favorite sermon of the year?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 8: So I mean also kind of like picking favorite kids, Yes,

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Speaker 8: but totally for the exercise.

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Speaker 7: Totally.

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Speaker 3: In August, he preached two titles, Me and.

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Speaker 8: God getting back together, got Back Together and breaking the

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Speaker 8: bondage of wrong belief. So it's in Judges six he's

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Speaker 8: talking about Gideon. Gideon's hiding in a wine press because

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Speaker 8: the nation of Israel has been in captivity for seven

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Speaker 8: years and God shows up. Gideon's feeling like a whimp

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Speaker 8: and God. The first thing God says to him is, hey,

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Speaker 8: mighty warrior. So he's feeling a certain kind of way.

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Speaker 8: God doesn't speak to how he's feeling. God speaks to

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Speaker 8: how God sees him, and then this is really where

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Speaker 8: Pastor spent most of the time. Then the first thing

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Speaker 8: God asked him to act on is go and tear

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Speaker 8: down the altar of bail of your father. And so

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Speaker 8: the question that Pastor kind of kept coming back to

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Speaker 8: was what wrong beliefs do we need to break up

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Speaker 8: with in order to move forward and see ourselves as

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Speaker 8: God does.

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Speaker 3: It's so good.

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Speaker 8: So I mean kind of a perfect way as we

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Speaker 8: step into a new year, like what old mindsets have

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Speaker 8: no business going into twenty five with us?

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Speaker 6: I think I've got a clip.

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Speaker 14: Let's check this out.

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Speaker 4: I see some people that I preach to. You're trying

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Speaker 4: to build your life back. You're trying to build your

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Speaker 4: hope back. You're trying to build your business back. You're

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Speaker 4: trying to build your family back. You're trying to build

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Speaker 4: your sobriety back. You had eighty one days and now

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Speaker 4: you're back on day two. But that's okay, because as

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Speaker 4: you are trying to build it back, God wants to

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Speaker 4: show you something that will make sure that this time

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Speaker 4: you build it, what you build will stand the test

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Speaker 4: of the battle that you face.

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Speaker 7: Because because if all I.

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Speaker 4: Do is build an altar while Pastor Stephen is preaching.

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Speaker 4: And if all I do is say, Okay, I'm going

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Speaker 4: to stack some new habits and I'm going to do

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Speaker 4: some new things, and okay, the Lord is peace.

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Speaker 17: Found out something that you cannot have God's peace and

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Speaker 17: keep it without having God's priorities. God's peace without God's

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Speaker 17: priorities is always temporary. The kind of peace that you've

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Speaker 17: been seeking in your life, craving in your life, crying

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Speaker 17: out for in your life, that kind of peace, that

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Speaker 17: that permanent peace, that storm speaking peace, that lay your

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Speaker 17: head on the pillow of a lion's main kind of

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Speaker 17: peace that I'm in a fire. But I see the

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Speaker 17: fourth Man kind of peace.

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Speaker 18: The kind of peace that can know that greater is

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Speaker 18: he that is in me than he that is in

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Speaker 18: the world, and there's more with us than with them.

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Speaker 18: And I don't have to be afraid about any of it.

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Speaker 4: That kind of peace only comes from priorities.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm good.

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Speaker 6: I wrote this.

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Speaker 7: I wrote this in my notes. I thought this was

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Speaker 7: so powerful. No breakup, no breakthrough.

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Speaker 5: Yes, And it's like until you break up with those habits,

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Speaker 5: with those ways of thinking, with those like you said,

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Speaker 5: those those mindsets that you've believed about yourself aren't true.

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Speaker 7: Until you break up with those things.

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Speaker 6: You don't get to have breakthrough.

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Speaker 5: And we all want breakthrough, but a lot of times

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Speaker 5: we don't want to do the work that it takes

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Speaker 5: to get that breakthrough.

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Speaker 7: And it was just such a convicting message.

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Speaker 10: The whole idea of God's peace is connected to God's priority.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: I mean that's enough to go into right there and

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Speaker 10: just say, Okay, how am I going to count my day?

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Speaker 10: Is this a lot with what God has for me?

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Speaker 10: And not be mad when you don't experience the peace

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Speaker 10: of God and you haven't taken time to be able

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Speaker 10: to prioritize your effect your life effect.

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Speaker 15: Is like the daily thing though, because a lot of

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Speaker 15: times I think that it's like a moment where it's

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Speaker 15: like Okay, I'm gonna go destroy that altar and then

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Speaker 15: that's done, like okay, and it's not really that well,

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Speaker 15: it's like a daily thing. Every day. God's calling you

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Speaker 15: a mighty warrior. Okay, okay, I'll do it today. So

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Speaker 15: that's the thing that I feel like I miss a lot.

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Speaker 15: It's like it's not a moment, it's a daily decision

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Speaker 15: to believe that.

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Speaker 9: Okay, God, I'm a mighty warrior. That's tough.

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Speaker 12: Yeah. The thing that you need to make real practical, right,

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Speaker 12: Like you got to write some of these down. You

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Speaker 12: mentioned looking back at our notes. That's a great sermon

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Speaker 12: to go back look at your notes. You got to

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Speaker 12: write it down. You need to schedule it. You mentioned that, like,

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Speaker 12: what does your calendar look like? Like are you scheduling

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Speaker 12: according to the priorities that you feel like God's put

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Speaker 12: in front of you, and so making it as.

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Speaker 14: Practical as you can to be as successful as we

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Speaker 14: can at this all.

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Speaker 6: Right, Britt, Okay, you like the Easter sermon.

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Speaker 14: I love the Easter sermon.

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Speaker 12: The Easter sermon was so good, and I mean all

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Speaker 12: of pastors Steve and sermons speak to you. This one

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Speaker 12: was the one of the year that I feel like

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Speaker 12: I felt the most scene because maybe it's just because

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Speaker 12: of how I'm wired.

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Speaker 6: I don't know, crazy though, how he can do that.

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Speaker 6: How like he'll just.

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Speaker 5: Say something and you're like, oh my gosh, yes for me,

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Speaker 5: I'll actually think I'm like he better stop because I really.

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Speaker 3: Feel like he's talk about me.

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Speaker 12: But I'm not.

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Speaker 5: That's just the Holy Spirit just speaks through him and

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Speaker 5: it just like cuts straight to you and sorry interrupted, No.

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Speaker 14: No, this is great.

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Speaker 12: This sermon was called something in Between maybe you remember it,

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Speaker 12: and he preached from Matthew twenty eight and so this

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Speaker 12: was our Eastern sermon. So he preached about the Mary's

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Speaker 12: going to the tomb. Yeah, and he really camped in

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Speaker 12: a verse and you know scripture, and you know, I

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Speaker 12: don't know, like maybe you have a tradition where like

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Speaker 12: I don't know if you read the Easter Story. Like

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Speaker 12: my in laws they read the Easter Story of the

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Speaker 12: Christmas Story every holiday. And I'm like, I have read

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Speaker 12: this story. I know it so many times. And it

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Speaker 12: was such a beautiful revelation that he bulled because he

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Speaker 12: specifically camped out whenever he talked about they were leaving

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Speaker 12: the tomb and they left with fear yet joy.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we got a clip. We gotta clip yellows.

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Speaker 14: SHOT's watch it.

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Speaker 4: And I love this phrase because this is how I

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Speaker 4: feel afraid yet filled with joy. This is not a

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Speaker 4: translation error, by the way, because most of us think

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Speaker 4: like you're either going to be afraid or filled with joy.

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Speaker 4: I had somebody ask me the other day, I was

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Speaker 4: going to do something that was a big deal, and

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Speaker 4: they said, are you looking forward to it or are

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Speaker 4: you dreading it? And I was like, are those the

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Speaker 4: only two options? Because I'm not exactly looking forward to it.

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Speaker 4: I'm not exactly dreading it.

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Speaker 1: I'm something and it can change from moment to moment.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, really grateful for this life God has given

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Speaker 4: me and this influence that He gave me. And then

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Speaker 4: sometimes that anticipation feels like anxiety, and sometimes my anxiety

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Speaker 4: feels like anticipation, and sometimes listen to this. The difference

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Speaker 4: between anticipation and anxiety is the way you label it.

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Speaker 4: I stand before you today excited and afraid. I stand

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Speaker 4: before you today a sinner and a saint. I stand

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Speaker 4: before you today a flawed man and a child of God.

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Speaker 4: And I'm never all of both.

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Speaker 1: I'm something in between.

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Speaker 12: Okay, now I know you guys see why I felt

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Speaker 12: so seen because I feel like that is literally me,

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Speaker 12: Like we're all Our faith is just a constant journey,

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Speaker 12: and it gets so frustrating when you're like, you see

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Speaker 12: where it is.

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Speaker 14: That God would have you be.

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Speaker 12: You're like, okay, Lord, you say love my enemies, to

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Speaker 12: pray something, to be kind and to be generous, and

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Speaker 12: then somebody says the wrong thing on the wrong day

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Speaker 12: and you're like, oh, I was working so hard on this,

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Speaker 12: you know, and I'm got slipping, But like no, sometimes

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Speaker 12: it is both like yes, like I want to be

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Speaker 12: like holy and I want to be closer to God

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Speaker 12: in this one. But then also like I understand that

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Speaker 12: like God made me where like I am a big

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Speaker 12: feeler and I'm both I'm somewhere in between, and so

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Speaker 12: I feel like for me, it was really the permission slip,

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Speaker 12: that I have permission to keep growing, and it's not

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Speaker 12: I'm not a failure because I'm somewhere in between and

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Speaker 12: I haven't yet arrived and I may never arrive until

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Speaker 12: I get to Heaven, and that okay, as long as

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Speaker 12: I'm on my constant journey to growth.

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Speaker 5: You know what I loved from the sermon when he said,

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Speaker 5: even when it's not all good, it's all God. And man,

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Speaker 5: that's like, that's real faith to trust that, even when

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Speaker 5: it's not all good, whatever you're going through in your life,

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Speaker 5: to be able to say, I know this is all God,

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Speaker 5: and I know that it's not good now, but it's

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Speaker 5: going to be good. That's right and so powerful.

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Speaker 14: He also said it similar like this.

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Speaker 12: He said, we're all something in between, so we can

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Speaker 12: all find ourselves in this, he said, and we need

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Speaker 12: Jesus in between. And sometimes that's the part that I

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Speaker 12: think is so easy for us to forget.

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Speaker 7: Okay, let's get to mine.

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Speaker 5: I wanted to go all the way back to the

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Speaker 5: beginning of the year when Pastor Stephen got out his guitar,

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Speaker 5: so we had worship Pastor Stephen.

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Speaker 6: And this sermon. It just really touched me.

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Speaker 7: So check this out.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing when you're in tune with the grace of God.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing when you're in tune with the voice of God.

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Speaker 4: When I'm in tune with you, Lord, I don't have

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Speaker 4: to fight so much when I'm in tune.

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Speaker 1: With you, Lord.

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Speaker 4: I don't have to manipulate so much. When I'm in

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Speaker 4: tune with you, Lord, I don't have to defend myself.

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Speaker 4: You fight my battles when I'm in tune with you, Lord.

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Speaker 4: Somebody say, Lord, I want to be in tune.

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Speaker 3: With you.

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Speaker 1: When I'm in tune with you.

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Speaker 4: Lord, my problems look small. When I'm in tune with you, Lord.

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Speaker 4: It feels like all things are possible when I'm in

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Speaker 4: tune with you, Lord, I can scale a wall. When

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Speaker 4: I'm in in tune with you, Lord, the giant looks

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Speaker 4: like an opportunity, not a problem. When I'm in tune

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Speaker 4: with you, Lord, I'm able to laugh at what used

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Speaker 4: to make me cry. When I'm in tune with you, Lord,

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Speaker 4: I'm able to cry and know that tears don't last always,

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Speaker 4: but joy comes in the morning.

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Speaker 1: When I'm in tune with you, Lord. It's a beautiful

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Speaker 1: thing to be in tune.

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Speaker 5: This sermon was just like it's just one of those beautiful,

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Speaker 5: comforting sermons.

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Speaker 7: He said. I just thought this.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes, don't you feel like somebody's pastor Steven will say

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Speaker 5: something that sort of like sets.

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Speaker 7: You free from a certain way that you were feeling.

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Speaker 5: And he said, from the same heart comes your greatest

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Speaker 5: fears and your greatest faith.

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Speaker 7: And so then he said, therefore, your heart is a harp,

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Speaker 7: and it has to be tuned to truth.

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Speaker 5: And the whole sermon he's talking about tuning your heart

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Speaker 5: to truth and being able to hear what God is

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Speaker 5: saying to you.

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Speaker 6: And so then like as the sermon.

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Speaker 5: Progressed, though like first I got a hug and then

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Speaker 5: I got a little what would we say earlier, a little.

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Speaker 7: Push because he said.

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Speaker 6: Tuning feels like tension.

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Speaker 5: And it's like, when you think about tuning your heart

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Speaker 5: to God's word and to God's praise, you.

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Speaker 6: Think it's gonna be like warm.

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Speaker 5: And fuzzy feeling, but actually it feels like tension because

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Speaker 5: there's something that happens.

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Speaker 7: That draws you closer to God.

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Speaker 5: And then I just like again he ended gave us

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Speaker 5: some homework, and the homework was so good.

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Speaker 7: He said, pause, tune, praise.

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Speaker 5: Repeat, and it's like, oh, okay, so Monday morning, when

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Speaker 5: I feel the tension, pause tune, Praise repeat, over and

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Speaker 5: over and over again. And it was just something so

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Speaker 5: practical that really just gave me the momentum.

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Speaker 6: For the year that I just really needed.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, so good. He said, this is how I wrote

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Speaker 12: it down. God's not changing his standard to fit you.

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Speaker 12: He's going to bring you up. And that was so powerful.

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Speaker 12: Sometimes I don't know if it's just a weird thing

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Speaker 12: I do, but sometimes after I hear sermon, I'll write

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Speaker 12: down in my notes like how I'm feeling or like

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Speaker 12: what it's speaking to me.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, And.

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Speaker 12: I literally wrote to myself. This is really funny. Reading

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Speaker 12: it back, I was like, I know, it couldn't have

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Speaker 12: just been me. This had to be thousands. I was like,

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Speaker 12: but something shifted in me during that sermon. I've got

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Speaker 12: some tuning to do. Yeah, And so it was one

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Speaker 12: of those types of messages. And so I'm so glad

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Speaker 12: that you picked that one because it's really great to

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Speaker 12: just sit here and even revisit it going into the

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Speaker 12: new year about like we've got some tuning to do

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Speaker 12: going into twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, And he talked about how setting our heart is

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Speaker 8: a decision. Yes, yes, it's not as not default, which,

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Speaker 8: by the way, I mean one of the greatest illustrations truly,

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Speaker 8: but like if also, like heading into this next year,

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Speaker 8: we're all wanting to set goals. Those goals are going

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Speaker 8: to be accomplished or met through decisions, daily decisions, or

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Speaker 8: if we want our minds stayed on Christ, if we

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Speaker 8: want our hearts to remain filled with peace that comes

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Speaker 8: through decision, not just because we decided one day and

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Speaker 8: thought that was going to be the default that lasted

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Speaker 8: us for the next month.

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Speaker 10: He's us guitar players tune in between songs, you know,

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Speaker 10: what I mean. It's this, It's this rhythm of the

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Speaker 10: constantly tune one part of the message. He was talking

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Speaker 10: about being tuned to tradition, and that's the hardest to change.

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Speaker 14: You know.

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Speaker 10: How do you tune to truth when this is what

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Speaker 10: my mom did, this is my granddad, this is and

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Speaker 10: I'm tuned to something that I've seen over and over

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Speaker 10: and over again.

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Speaker 9: But pause and ask yourself the question, is it the truth?

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Speaker 9: Is this what God says?

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Speaker 12: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: And if not, that tension, yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 10: Being able to commit to that, I think is faiful.

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Speaker 18: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: This has been so much fun talking with all of you,

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Speaker 5: And I want to encourage you. If you're watching right

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Speaker 5: now and maybe you have some downtime, The week between

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Speaker 5: Christmas and New Year's is like the weirdest week of

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Speaker 5: the year, and it's like time between so slow, and

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Speaker 5: so I just want to encourage you to go back,

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Speaker 5: find your favorite sermon of the year, watch it again,

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Speaker 5: find your notes, read through them, and rediscover some of

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Speaker 5: the things that God spoke to you in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 6: Four as you look forward to twenty twenty five. We've

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Speaker 6: got the links to all of these sermons.

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Speaker 5: Our favorites of the year, but you've got yours too,

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Speaker 5: and they're all there available for you right here on

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Speaker 5: the Elevation Church YouTube. And so I just want to

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Speaker 5: encourage you to take some time to go back and

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Speaker 5: think about the things that God has spoken to you

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Speaker 5: this year and the things that God has done for

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Speaker 5: you this year, because it has been an incredible year

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Speaker 5: and God has sure been good to us, and as

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Speaker 5: you've seen today, there is so much more to be

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Speaker 5: grateful for and so much to look forward to. And

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Speaker 5: next year will actually be in our twentieth year of ministry.

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Speaker 6: I cannot believe it. So in February we will.

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Speaker 5: Celebrate our nineteen year nineteen, but that launches our twentieth

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Speaker 5: year of ministry, and we're making plans to celebrate big

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Speaker 5: all year long.

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Speaker 7: So more to come on.

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Speaker 5: That, but make sure you stay tuned to Elevation because

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty five is going to be incredible. So as

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Speaker 5: we close out this year, I just want to take

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Speaker 5: a moment to thank all of you who have stepped

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Speaker 6: Part of our year in offering.

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Speaker 5: We didn't get to talk about that together, but your

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Speaker 5: generosity is a powerful testimony of the impact that we're

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Speaker 5: making together and it's helping to fuel the next season

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Speaker 5: of our church.

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Speaker 6: So thank you, thank you, thank.

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Speaker 5: You for your partnership and what God is doing through

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Speaker 5: this ministry. As you've seen today, this is solid ground

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Speaker 5: to put down roots in and stay planted. This is

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Speaker 5: a place where you can experience community. It's a place

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Speaker 5: where you can hear from God every single week. It's

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Speaker 5: a place where you can serve, and it's a place

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Speaker 5: where you are truly making a difference. And if you

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Speaker 5: hadn't had a chance yet, there's still time to be

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Speaker 5: a part of our year end offering. All you have

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Speaker 5: to do is go to Elevationchurch dot org and click

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Speaker 5: the give now button by December thirty first, which is

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Speaker 5: just two days away. So thank you for being with

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Speaker 5: us today and let's step into this new year with

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Speaker 5: forward and trusting God every step of the way. I

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Speaker 5: cannot wait to see what's ahead for us, And I

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Speaker 5: just want you to know that Pastor Stephen and I

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Speaker 5: we love you, we're praying for you, and you're so

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Speaker 5: grateful to get to do ministry with each and every

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Speaker 5: one of you.

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Speaker 14: I hope you have a.

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Speaker 5: Blessed and happy New Year and I'll see you next Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give

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Speaker 2: now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more

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Speaker 2: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe.

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Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at

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Speaker 2: Elevation Church.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening.

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Speaker 3: God bless you.