Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Hey, guys, this is naive. And you've reached the Mosaic Church Podcast. So excited that you're part of our listening community, and I'd love for you to be even more connected. So check out our website. There's more content there, and there's more opportunities for you to get connected in our ministries and events as well. Also, love for you to share this content if this has blessed you. I know that God wants to use you to bless other people with it, so share this podcast.
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[00:01:02] Speaker B: You guys. I'm standing in the back hallway thinking that these guys are excited to be here. And it's Memorial Day. This is what happens on Memorial Day when it rains. Maybe. I don't know. No, you would have been here anyway. I'm sure of it. I'm sure of it. Well, thanks for being here.
It's going to be a great Sunday, I hope. But before we jump into acts, I do want to tell you, I want to update you. You know, I've been kind of keeping you updated a little bit about the space next door. If you're new, if you're brand new here, you don't know what I'm talking about. Mosaic is growing, not only with people, but also in their space. We are growing through this wall eventually. Right? Right. It's awesome. We are growing and. And purchasing this space. So here's where we are this week.
I caught up with the bank, and the bank had committed to us and said they were gonna give us some money. And then another bank said, we've had all these no's, like, no, no, no. And then finally, we got a couple of yeses, and I kind of got the banks together and said, who wants to give us the best deal?
So we went with the best deal. Right. Okay. And.
And so all that's in place, ready for closing on Thursday, the 28th. This Thursday. And then on Friday of this past week, I get a text at four in the afternoon that says, hey, there's some issues. It came from the seller, not us. We're good. We're good to go. And so I don't know what's going on. We're supposed to close Thursday. Maybe. Maybe not to be continued next week. That's what I can tell you. But for those of you who have actually jumped into helping us make this happen, we're calling this Legacy because we are growing into a space so that we can leave a legacy in this place and have an effect on this city for Jesus. And that space is monumental for us and to help us continue growing the work here at Mosaic. And we would love for you, if you haven't joined in on the commitment to giving, to Legacy. Our goal was to raise $2 million over two years to buy it and upfit it. And most of you know, we've raised. We've had pledged over $500,000 towards that 1 million.
That means that we are about 400,000 short. Just saying, in case that's important, and we would love for you to join that campaign. There's a card on the door on the way out on the table as you go out today. Grab that, and you can pledge that also, when we finally close on that space, we're creating a team for people who like to tear things down.
All right, so if that's you. Or build them back up, too, if you like construction on that little tap tag, you can tap that thing and you'll see a button that says work days and sign up to be on that team to.
And when the time comes, we'll keep you informed.
But that's what it's about. So, yeah, there's some exciting things happening. We're just waiting. We're just waiting. So let's keep going with Acts. Today I want to jump into the study. We're looking at Acts, chapter 17 and 18. And I want to tell you, like, right at the very beginning, Acts is probably the combination of Luke and Acts are absolutely my favorite books in the Bible. The Gospel of Luke. And then he continues writing with Acts. And what I love about those two together is the fact that you get to see, especially in Acts, the humanity of the lead characters.
You get to see the real side of some of them, the side that maybe they didn't want you to see, but it shows up when you kind of push through all the noise that's there and recognize. And you see how over time, they actually move from being or believing one thing to the point that they realize they were wrong.
I don't know about you, but that makes me feel better about myself. Okay. Because there are some times that I'm wrong. And if I say I was wrong and my wife is close, she will say, say that again.
Say that again. Because you know, it doesn't happen often. I don't know. No, I don't know. But I think it's important to ask, do we ever get our theology wrong or the way we do Christianity wrong? Is that even possible? And I think some people would say no. And I'm not quite sure that's the right answer. But as you look at these scriptures, you see how they got it wrong. And so it's okay.
Let me show you the other thing, the other reason why I love the book of Acts. And it shows up when Luke starts writing his Gospel. Look at Luke, chapter one, verse one. It says this.
Many have undertaken to. To draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us. And you see the word fulfilled. Fulfilled, meaning that they've written about all of the things that Jesus did that fulfilled what we call the Old Testament prophecies. There were prophets that wrote about the coming of the Messiah. And so Luke is writing these things down. He's showing in his Gospel how Jesus is the fulfillment of so many of the Jewish scriptures. He goes on in verse two, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the Word. Now we're going to come back just a minute to Word, so hold on to that. Luke goes on with this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything. So Luke is the Gospel writer that wasn't actually with Jesus. He went back to Matthew and Mark and John and James and all the people that were with Jesus and interviewed them. He must have spent an immense amount of time with Mary, because if you don't know it, Luke is the only gospel that includes Mary's story. In it, Matthew tells about Joseph's side of the story, but Luke does a beautiful job of telling Mary's side. And so he's investigating all these things. He investigated everything from the beginning. I, too, decided to write an orderly account for you. Most excellent, Theophilus. That's what I love. It's an orderly account because I don't know if you know my personality, but my personality is. I like to have things orderly. Now, if you go to my office in my house, you will say, that's not your personality, Mike.
That's why I don't spend any time in my office, because it is definitely not in order. But we like things. I like things to be in order. So let's get a few things in order before we jump into Acts 17 and 18.
And one of those things that I want you to recognize is that sometimes We. We make assumptions that we shouldn't because we think we know what the Bible says. Okay? Sometimes we do that. And we like that. I like the idea of the Bible and the concept because, I mean, it takes everything and makes it orderly. Right? Not only Luke is in there, but there's a lot of things in there.
But sometimes we make assumptions believing we already know what's in there. And in Luke's orderly account, when Luke says, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the Word, what's he talking about when he says the Word? And you think initially that maybe he's talking about this because all of your life you've heard what the Word of God. Grab the word, let's see what it says in the Word of God. Take out your Word of God and let's look at it. You. You've heard that all your life. But when Luke says, when he writes, we're eyewitnesses and servants of the Word, he's not talking about the Bible, Right? Sometimes we need someone to come in and challenge and make us take a more.
A harder look at what's being said there and to challenge the way we think. This makes me think about a movie. I love this movie. I'm sure we have some Top Gun 2 fans in here, right?
I don't know what's wrong with you people, but here's your application for the week. Go home and watch Top Gun 2. It's absolutely amazing. All right. Well, anyway, in Top Gun 2, since none of you have watched it, I'll tell you about it. Tom Cruise, who's always the hero, is this fighter pilot, right? You probably know this even if you haven't watched it. And Tom has been called back to be a teacher and teach this group of elite fighter pilots how to fly this particular mission. And so he's ushered into this classroom, he comes in with his Bible. Not the Holy Bible, the Bible, the instruction manual for the F18. And he walks up to the front of the classroom. He turns around, and it's really weird because he's got all this stuff and there's this trash can right beneath his feet. And it's like, why would he put a trash can? There must have been a blunder or something. I don't know. But anyway, he starts and he says to this group of people that he's talking to these elite fighters, fighter jet pilots. He says, you all know everything it says in this instruction manual, right? And they're like, yes, Absolutely. They say it a little more colorful than that, so watch it with your older kids. But he.
And they all say, yes. And he says, and so does your enemy. And what he does next.
I'm not gonna do that.
I'm just gonna put this over here. Okay?
He throws the instruction manual in the trash can. But we're not gonna do that this morning. That's.
No, that's not what we do. That's not what I do with my Bible.
You know, definitely not what I want you to take away. But I did want to create a little bit of tension there, because the Bible. I believe the Bible is foundational to the Christian faith. I believe that the Bible is divinely. It's a divinely inspired book or collection, Library of books. There's an Old Testament in there, and that's what we recognize as the covenant that God made with the Jewish people. And then in the back of the Bible, there's the New Testament, which is essentially the covenant he made with all the Gentiles. And if you don't realize it, that's you, because you eat pork barbecue.
But the Old Testament is there, and he wrote, that's his covenant with the Gentiles. And any of the Jewish people that will accept it.
But here's the problem, and here's why I think we sometimes just naturally go to the fact of thinking that this is the Word. And it's because over time, we've elevated the Bible or even equated it to Jesus.
And I think that's a mistake.
I don't think the Bible belongs as very much a big part of our faith, but not to the degree that Jesus does.
And Luke writes, servants of the Word. And if you look up what it means, what that Greek word means, it means the divine expression. What it means is not a book.
The Word is a person.
And so now that we have that in order, we go on to Acts. And in Acts, chapter one, we pick up and Luke says, in my former book, Theophilus, that's how we know they're connected. Okay? And later on, it expressly tells it. But in my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do. Wait a minute. Luke not began.
You wrote about all the things that he did? Past tense. Right. It's all the things that he did to which Luke would say, no, no, I meant what I said. All the things he began to do. What Luke is saying is this whole movement that started with Jesus, with God in the flesh, it didn't end just because Jesus ascended into Heaven, it is just getting started.
And here's why I say that I believe the Bible is divinely inspired. Because I think Luke wrote about things that he didn't even understand he was writing. He said all the things that you began to do, all the things that Jesus began to do. But it's bigger than even what he was thinking because what he didn't know was that 200 years later some people would come together and they would create this library of books and they would have it all together, orderly, and people would begin to elevate it.
And what would actually get created is more of an instruction manual with a list of to do's and to don'ts. And what it would create, sometimes in an imperfect place, in an imperfect way, is a static religion. But what Luke is expressing, even though he doesn't know that, is that Jesus departure is the beginning of him starting a dynamic relationship where he's handing over the keys and saying, it's your responsibility.
Now.
That's what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about that as followers of Jesus. And if you're not a follower of Jesus, if you're just here like checking out what is all this church thing. I maybe went with my grandma when I was a kid. I don't know what church is now. I'm not talking to you. You can just, you know, you can just kind of hang out and listen and maybe at the end you might be a little more intrigued. But if you are a follower of Jesus, the responsibility for the progression of Christianity depends upon us. Now that's what Luke was saying. That's what act shares with us. And it's a big responsibility, but not a responsibility you have to do alone. And, and, and it's, it's like Jesus is not saying, hey, I'm peaceing out, I'm going up to the big house and I'm going to hang out with the Father and we're going to sit up there and we're going to watch you guys down here and see how it comes out. Like you watch a movie, Top Gun, like you're going to watch the movie this week.
That's not the way it's working. No, he is saying, my flesh is leaving, but I'm putting my spirit in you.
And, and I'm right here.
And that's what we see in Acts, chapter 18. And yes, I know I'm getting out of order, but I like order. But let's jump to 18 before we go to 17. Here's what I love so much about it one night, the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision.
Do not be afraid. Keep on speaking. Do not be silent, for I am. What with Jesus didn't just abandon us when he ascended into heaven, he left his spirit here. And he's saying to what Luke is recording and what we can take from this is that Jesus shows up in our dreams. He shows up in our daily lives. He shows up in some quite odd places for me sometimes, but he is with us. And that's what I love so much about Acts and the reason we have set aside an even longer time. Most of you know we don't do series that last this long, but we are taking the time to go through the entire book of Acts so that we can see that we are included as part of the solution that Jesus is creating. That his new strategy to teach all people, all people about the love of God and to keep this way of life called Christianity, moving forward by Jesus working through you and through me. And there's definitely a learning curve. There's a learning curve in all of this. There's an understanding that we're going after even Paul. And here's what I love Paul particularly. There was a learning curve for him because if you remember, he was called to be the apostle to the Gentiles, to which he would say, I don't even like those people.
They're not like me.
I don't like to be around them. I don't like to even smell them.
They're just different.
And not only is Acts announcing just arbitrarily that we are Jesus, new strategy. Acts also illustrates how it all happens in real life and the tools that we're left with. And that's a weird word. When I say tools, you gotta know I'm talking about the Holy Spirit. And it's weird. I don't know if that's even the right word, but it's the best word I could come up with. Because if you remember, Jesus says, yes, I'm leaving, but I'm leaving with you a helper. And so maybe tools is the right word. Maybe you've got a better one. But he says, I'm leaving you these tools that are available. And also we have stories of how it happened in other people's lives and how they applied the principles of the word Jesus and everything that he taught about how to engage people who are far from God and offer them the healing and the peace and the forgiveness and the grace and the ability to live a full life and somehow to bring a little bit of what's in heaven to earth, which is where we are in Acts this morning. Chapter 17.
See, Paul is now on what people call his second missionary journey. And in his second missionary journey, in his first and in all the things leading up to. To this journey, you watch him through scripture in the past couple of weeks, you've seen every time he goes to a new place. He goes where? Into a Jewish synagogue. He goes to this place, and when he arrives at that town, into the Jewish synagogue. He goes to the next place, into the Jewish synagogue, into the next place, into the. When we get to Acts 17, he's in Thessalonica. And as he goes to Thessalonica, where does he go? To the Jewish synagogue. He gets into a little trouble there because they don't necessarily like what he's saying. He kind of gets run out of town. They take him to Berea. When he gets to Berea, he goes to the Jewish synagogue. Do you see what's going on here?
Paul's a little prejudiced.
He's supposed to be the apostle to the gentiles, but he's just a little prejudice. He would say, I don't even understand those people. I'm a Jew. I was born a Jew. I was raised in a Jewish home. I played with my Jewish friends. We lived in a Jewish community. I went to Jewish school. I was taught by a rabbi. I think it was Gamaliel that taught him. And I became the best Jew. And I think it's the book of Philippians. He says, there's no greater Jew than I am. And I would say, paul, you need to maybe be a little less prideful, okay?
But he said, I'm it. He said, if. If the Jewish law says, don't pick your nose, I don't even rub my eyes or rub my mouth, because that's too close. I am the greatest Jew that ever lived. And. And. And so what does he become?
He becomes the enforcer for the religion of Judaism. He becomes the sheriff. Which makes me think, why is it that sometimes we think God needs a sheriff to protect the good news, rather than a sharer to share the good news?
The responsibility for the progression of Christianity depends on us, and it depends on us embracing it the right way.
So Paul is supposed to be the apostle to the gentiles, and he kind of gets railroaded into this because what happens is he's in Berea. He gets kicked out, essentially. And some of the people that are with him take him down to Athens, and they literally drop him out in Athens. It says they took him There left him.
Silas and Timothy got left in Berea. Have no idea why. Maybe it was to throw the Pharisees off of Paul's trail. We don't know why. We do know that Paul is alone in Athens.
And here's what it says in verse 16, while Paul was waiting for them in Athens.
Now that's odd to me because if you read about Paul and you read his letters and you read all of his stories, Paul didn't wait for anything. I mean, he charged into every situation that was there. But when he got to Athens, he's waiting. Why was he scared?
Maybe, maybe because he just got dropped off in the epicenter of the intellectual and cultural capital of paganism in the first century. Look, even the Gideons didn't put Bibles in those hotels.
They didn't go there. There were. So it was so bad because of all the Greek gods, Christians just didn't often go there. And Paul is out of his element. But maybe, maybe for the first time he's so uncomfortable that Jesus is able to get his attention without having to blind him again.
And Athens is where Paul changed.
So in verse 16. Look at that. While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned where?
In the synagogue. But here it goes. He reasoned in the synagogue with both Jew and God fearing Greeks as well as in the marketplace. Day by day with those who happened to be there, we see Paul finally moving out of his comfort zone and into his calling that God has given to him. When you get to Acts chapter 18, he goes back to the synagogue again. But he immediately, he finally says, I'm through with y', all, I'm done. I'm going to the Gentiles. And he goes next door and wins them all to Jesus. But here he's still figuring it out. And we see him get out of his comfort zone.
And we all like comfort, let's be honest. Let's be honest. But sometimes it's when we're out of our comfort zone that Jesus can get our attention. Or he can also help us to see that what we are able to accomplish he did through us because it's bigger than we are. So I love that.
So Paul is there and he's with a group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers and they begin to debate with him. Some of them ask, what is this babbler trying to say? So this Jew of all Jews has now been reduced to a babbler. That's how they responded to him. But Paul seems to not have taken too much offense to this. Others remarked he seems to be advocating foreign gods. And they said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. Then they took him and. And brought him to a meeting of the Areophagus, where they said to him, may we know what this new teaching you are presenting is? You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean. Now, here's what you need to know.
You might initially think the Areophagus is a place, but it's not. It's a people. It's like the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of that day. And the place is the Acropolis. So he's in the Acropolis. You can see the Temple of Athena on the mountain. There's all these Greek gods and representations of them everywhere. And he's standing before this high court that normally hears cases of extreme brutality and also the dishonoring of the Greek gods and sacrilege. So what Paul doesn't even realize, probably, is that he's on trial in front of these people. And here's what he does. Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areophagus and said, people of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription to an unknown God.
So you are unknowing. And that word is bolded. Because I just want to tell you, I took the word that was there out and put this one in. Because the word that you will find in your English translations is the word ignorant. You are ignorant.
And typically, when we see that word, we equate it with what?
Stupid. Right.
But. But that's not the tone of what Paul is saying here. As a matter of fact, Paul realizes that he's alone in this place. He also realizes that it's going to take time to move these people to even think about what he's saying.
And so the word is really unknowing, or maybe even better, unaware. So you are unaware of the very thing that. That you worship. So I'd like to introduce him to you. That's what Paul is trying to say here, because he recognizes the people that he's interacting with.
And I think we have to recognize that sometimes our Western way of thinking is taking and adding a little bit of a superiority complex to an Eastern text. All right, so just keep that in your mind. Here's what else happened. Verse 24. The God who made the World and everything in it, he told them, is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he's not served by human hands as if he needed anything. You see, what he's recognizing is these people serve gods that they believe need something.
And he's saying, look, I want to introduce to you. A God doesn't need something from you, he wants to give you something.
Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else from one man. He made all the nations. You see that there's a change in Paul. He finally recognizes that it's all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth. And he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, we are his children.
You see what he's doing here? He's exercising wisdom. He didn't come to plow them down and to tell them how stupid they were, nor did he come to humiliate them in the way that they were thinking. Because you don't. You don't change a person's way of thinking, especially not their theology overnight. So he leaves space for that.
The single most important thing that he's trying to convince them of is that God is accessible to them, a quality that they have always desired from the gods, that they serve the only things that they know. And he finds something that they need and he offers them that. And he's doing it in a way that they don't feel judged, because people are more open to spiritual truth when they feel understood, not judged. So why is this so important?
It's important because Jesus wants to work through you and through me to reach people. It's important because the responsibility for the progression of Christianity depends on us. You are a part of what Luke wrote when he said all that Jesus began to do and teach. Jesus wants to work through you, because even the most hardcore non believer can be open to Jesus if we would just create a safe space.
And that's what Paul does. He doesn't begin with condemnation, he begins with curiosity. He begins by looking around and observing what's there. He begins by listening to the people he understands. He finds this altar marked to an unknown God, and instead of attacking them for it, he uses it to bridge the gap between them.
Effective faith doesn't just shout truth, it connects truth. Paul understood that. He understood that you can't help people take a step towards God if you refuse to understand where they're starting from.
My wife this past week, she came home from school, she teaches, and she said, you'll never believe what happened today. And I thought, well, I've heard a lot of stories and some that I don't believe that actually happened because it's amazing what happens in a school, you know, that it's crazy, some of the things that actually happen in school. But on this particular day, there was an incident involving Jesus.
Now, it wasn't a bad incident, but it was one that they had to address, she and her co workers.
But because of that incident, she actually was sitting with her co workers.
And, you know, her co workers recognize that she's a little different.
They kind of. They don't make fun of her, but they're like, yeah, you don't say all the things we do. You don't do all the things the way we do them. You're just a little bit different.
But on this particular day, because of that incident, a spiritual conversation started.
And what she learned was that these two co workers had grown up in a family, it was extremely conservative. That was in church on Monday.
Not Monday, sorry, Sunday, twice. And Wednesday and every other time, the doors were open and, and. And they use their instruction manual and their to do's and their to don'ts, and that's all they knew. And when they finally were able to get out of that, they ran and never looked back until that day.
Then they began to wonder. And after being. And she's worked there for a long time and worked with these people for a long time. But finally, finally, because of the representation that she'd been living, she had an opportunity to begin a conversation. And that's all it was. It just started.
She's listening.
She's waiting to see. Because most people are just an ask away. They're just a conversation away. We celebrated this week. We celebrated Tammy. Tammy's back on the camera. She wasn't even out there this morning. But we celebrated her because Tammy got to know the people in her cul de sac. And there was one family there, a couple, and she went out and talking to them one day, and she said, you should come to Mosaic. You should come to my church.
And they did. And now one of them is volunteering, and the husband's volunteering. The wife is going to be on the hospitality team. But here's the deal. I was talking to her, and she said, mike, she said, we went to, like, 15 different churches.
And we didn't just dip in and dip out. She said, we really tried to figure out what they were all about. She said, like, 15 churches, and they were.
And then we came to Mosaic. Cami invited us to Mosaic, and we came, and we're like, what is this?
You guys are not normal.
This place, this church is not normal. Not compared to some of the places that we've been. She said this is amazing.
And the reason she felt like that is because we try as best as we can here at Mosaic to create a safe.
That's what reclaiming the message and movement of Jesus is about to us. Creating a safe place where people can ask questions, where people can learn, and hopefully embrace the idea that maybe, just maybe, I'm wrong.
And I want to admit to you, I was never very good at this.
I think I'm better at it now. And some of you might say, no, you're still not very good. But if you know my history, some of you know my. I grew up Baptist. I was born a Baptist. I went to a Baptist church. I was the Baptist. No, I wasn't. But anyway, I was a Baptist, and I was way better at being an enforcer, a sheriff for the Christian faith.
One of my members at the church where I served for seven years, he came to me and said, mike. He said, you know, so and so up the street there. And I said, oh, yeah, absolutely. I know them. He said, they're getting married, and I want you to do their wedding. And I was like, I can't do that.
And he's like, why?
I said, because the Bible says me. So they're living together. They don't come to church.
I kept coming up with reasons that I thought the Bible said. And what I did was I treated them based upon this, not based upon the way Jesus would have treated them.
I think in the last seven years, I might have learned more than I did in the first 50 years of my life because I began to embrace this way of thinking.
What if I'm wrong?
What if I'm wrong?
That's how we create a safe space.
Because a lot of people, when it comes to church and. Or being a follower of Jesus, have more questions than they do answers. And what is often standing in the way of them becoming a follower of Jesus is having someone to ask questions with, someone that will actually listen and explore the question without just assuming that they already know the answer, because the Bible tells me so.
People have left Mosaic. People have left the. Leave churches every day because they aren't willing to take the time to explore some of the questions that other people have that they think they know the answer to. That's why community here at Mosaic is so important. It's a place where we can come together in small groups and and wrestle through things and ask questions and hopefully create a safe place to do that.
Honestly, where we lose influence as Christians is when we talk at people instead of talking with people. We answer questions that nobody's asking most of the time based upon what the Bible tells, what the Bible says instead of what Jesus has actually showed us or is teaching us, giving to us.
Don't throw your Bible out.
I did not say that. Hold onto it, read it, put it by your nightstand, read your Bible. Allow Jesus to speak through the Bible, but consider everything that it says through the lens of what Jesus has said.
Because and here's that statement that I told you you would know was the end.
Because the Bible didn't create Christianity.
Jesus and especially the Resurrection did.
And our responsibility is to move this movement called Christianity forward and to help people experience the life giving embrace of Jesus.
Can I pray for us?
Father? Thank you, thank you that you've called us into such an incredible task of keeping your story alive and keeping this movement through time and allowing people to find you through us and God, we just want to recognize this morning.
I particularly, you know, I don't always get it right and sometimes I don't even like to entertain the idea that I could be wrong.
So God, I need your help, Jesus, I need you to work in my life. Would you work in our lives?
Remind us that you are calling us to create something, Create a space where people feel safe, where they can pursue you, where they can ask questions and where at the end of the day they can find you and fall in love with you.
God, help us to continue to embrace your teachings and to listen closely to what you're doing in our lives. God, help us to see all people as people who need you.
And God help us to to be a voice of hope in the world that so desperately needs you in Jesus name.
Thanks for listening to this message from Mosaic church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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