Should Christians pay any attention to those who run away from God?
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"The spiritual wanderers are the future found."
Luke 15 by Ryan Gagnon (@RyGagnon)
SUMMARY
This sermon explores Jesus' parables about the lost being found, emphasizing God's relentless pursuit of sinners and the joy in heaven when they repent. Pastor Ryan connects these teachings to the Neighborhood Church's mission of reaching out to spiritual wanderers, highlighting the importance of prayer in this endeavor. The sermon concludes with a practical challenge for the congregation to engage in strategic prayer for the lost.
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PLEASE NOTE: The following transcript is automatically generated and may contain errors.
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So when I was about 7 or 8 years old, I'm from Highlands county. Who here'heard of Highlands County? Anybody? Virginia? No, not Virginia.
Highlands County, Florida. When I was about seven or eight years old, we would go to Highland, Highlands County. It was a state park. Or go to a Highlands hammock. It's a state park in Highlands county now.
This park was like the coolest place that you could have a kid's birthday party for a couple of reasons. First, it was cheap. Second, you could grill there. And third, you could do stuff like this. Like, it was a really cool place.
So we would go there all the time, every weekend. We had a big family. You a cousin was always having a birthday, right? So we would d go out there all the time and it was a blast. They had this thing called the catwalk.
You guys see that thing up top? Now, for people in Marion county, I know this isn't that big a deal. Where we're from, there's not a ton of that. So you could go out on this catwalk and you could walk, you could see gators, you could see turtles, you see wild hogs, you, bears and stuff. We were out there.
And this area right here is actually where my grandmother got married. Really cool. I actually have done a wedding in that area too. So highland's hammock is like, really, really important to me. So growing up, I just love going out there.
But when I was about seven, we were at a birthday party and seven year olds, do they make the best decisions sometimes the worst decisions, Right. So we were out there and we just thought it would be a great idea to go for a hike. Now it wouldn't make sense to go down a trail, maybe go up to the catwalk and stay on that. No. We were 3, 7, 8 year olds and we just walked into the woods and after a little bit of time realized we didn't know how to get back to where we were, didn't know where we were going.
This was going poorly. Okay. This was not going to end well. Right. And you ever heard that joke where it's like, you know, you don't have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun the biggest person.
Well, at 7, I had never heard that joke, but somehow I knew it because I've always been a bigger dude and my cousins were not. So I Was out there with all these animals and all these critters and we're walking around in swampy type areas and I'm like, if a gator comes is me, I'm out. This is how this isnna go. There are wild hogs out here. There's all this.
Now I've heard this story over and over and over again as I've grown up and the times have changed for how long we were out there. I mean, one time I heard it was like into the night. It wasn't, but I have no idea how long, I really don't know. What I know is we somehow managed to start at one end of the state park and then end up finding the road at the back of the state park and we walked all the way through the woods the entire time. And it was real scary, real scary because I also am not like, you know, I'm not starting a campfire.
That ain't my bag either. So I wasn't exactly handy in the woods, you know what I'm saying? Like, it wasn't, this was, this was really, really scary stuff. But, but, but we got there and then we found the road and now we knew how to get back. So we're on our way back and just felt like a sense of like we're no longer lost was not a Christ follower, but in my mind I'm sure it was like, God, it was amazing, right?
No longer are we lost. It was really exciting stuff. We got back and our parents just grabbed us and the look on their faces was like, you're alive. And then we got punished after. But there was that immediate moment of like a hug and all kinds of.
It was really, really cool. And it got me thinking as we were going into this new sermon series is, you know, this idea of the lost, the people who are lost, the wanderers, and what that feels like not knowing where to go, not knowing who your heavenly Father is, not knowing in the world that we're in right now that there's someone in control and how that must feel because I know how it feels for me and I trust God. So for people that are walking through life right now that don't know Jesus, I don't know how you're getting by, it's just crazy. Jesus talks about the lost a lot. He tells us we're here, that all of us were once lost, some of us are still lost.
He tells us that he came to save the lost. He tells us he uses those he has already saved to even reach the lost. Last week, Pastor Michael Talked us through the Grove Initiative, right? You guys see the new digs in that Grove Initiative? He talked about the fact that we were going to follow Christ and sowing the seed, plowing the ground, reaping the harvest of a thousand new Christ followers, 100 new church leaders and three new churches over the next 10 years with a partnership with our other two churches in Lakeland and seebring.
Anyone else freaking out because that's huge. That's a lot. There's not a thousand people in this room right now. Right? Is that scary?
Is that a little scary? I like your confidence, I really do. I really do. But the cool thing is I'm having trouble getting dinner on the table at the right time. How am I going to be a part of a movement that Christ is pushing to reach a thousand people?
Well, that's part of what this is and we'll get into it here shortly. It's a good place to be to realize that the spiritual wanderers are the future found, the people that God has called us to reach. Those people that are spiritually wondering. Let's define what that is. That's someone who's in this world that doesn't know Jesus.
That's someone who does not have a lighthouse. They're at sea, scared to death because every human system that they can cling to doesn't hold up. They are lost. They are in the woods, worried about getting eaten. But that's not actually who they are.
They're the future found. They are the people that God has created and has a story for, just like you. And he is equipping you to go into their communities, to love them, to care for them and reach them, to put your arms around them and introduce them to Christ. That's who we're going toa be talking about today. As is our custom, before we get really into it, we pray through the disciples prayer together.
Now the words are on the screen and if you'll notice, we kind of switch up translations from time to time. Part of that is we don't want this to just become a thing like actually think about the words that you are praying and I would invite you to pray that with us out loud. Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today the food we need and forgive us our sins as we have forgiven those who sin against us. And do not let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. We're going to be In Luke chapter 15, if you want to flip there.
I want to give you some context about the passage that we're going to be in today. So Jesus is going around and he's doing his Jesus stuff, teaching these parables and showing these people how he cares for them and loves them and healing the sick and all these things that you've heard before. But he's giving a bit of an audience. That are the Pharisees and the scribes. So these are like the religious people.
These are the people who maybe they're looking down upon a certain group of people. And Jesus has this thing where he hangs out with tax collectors and sinners.
That was the vibe that was part of the problem that he was up against over and over and over again. He was criticized for hanging out with these people, but they didn't understand why he was doing it. So Jesus, in the way that he does, he teaches through these three parables that we're going to cover today. So we're begin to begin in Luke 15. 1.
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, this manives sinners and eats with them. So he told them, thisable, what man of you having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the 99 in the open country and go after the one that is lost until he finds it. And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbor, saying to them, rejoice with me, for I found my sheep that was lost.
Just so I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous persons who needed no repentance. Or what woman having 10 coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it. And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors saying, rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost. Just so. I tell you, there's joy before the angels over one sinner who repents.
We're going to get into the third parable here in a moment, but just to kind of unpack these first two, Jesus, whenever he sees that people are struggling with something, he tells these stories, right? And the idea that he's getting across in this story is that the repentance of the lost brings joy in heaven. That's crazy to me, a sinner who repents leads to that kind of chorus. In heaven, when you came to know Christ, angels cheered. How cool is that?
When you came to know Jesus. And angels who can see the real story and can see everything that's going on, they can see what you're struggling with, but they see God. And when they're looking at God, all of our human struggles don't make any sense because everything that we're dealing with pales in comparison to him. And the angels are looking at from heaven going, oh, and then one sinner repents, and it's a gospel chorus. How cool is that?
And for you to be a Pharisee or a scribe, and you're wondering why Jesus is hanging out with these sinners for him to tell this story is incredible. It's similar to the Zacchaeus story, right? From also in Luke, right? So Zacchaeus, the short dude, right? You guys maybe have heard this story.
He's the dude who climbs up in the tree. There's a pretty cool song about it. My daughter used to sing it when she was little. It took every ounce of me to not insert the video of that into this sermon. But she's back there, and I didn't want to do that.
But Zacchaeus, a tax collector, sees Jesus and he's just like, I gota see this guy. He climbs a tree. Jesus looks up at him and says, get down. I'm going to your house. Then he goes to his house.
Zacchaeus repents of all of his sin. How he was taking advantage of people, gives his money back, and Zacchaeus is born again. And the angels cheered.
Jesus says at the end of that story, I have come for the lost. The lost is who he came for. He came for the sinner. How cool is that? We jump past this so quickly where we're like, we understand the gospel.
We understand that Jesus led us sinless life. He came down, he lived with us. We can wrap our mind around a lot of this stuff, but we make it very personal. But back up for a second and realize that Jesus came to cleanse the world of sin. All of the sin in this busted world.
He paid for it. He came for the sinner. And when this sinner repents, there's cheering. He says over and over again in the gospels too, that it's the sick who need a doctor. And that's our Savior.
We were sick, we were dead, and he brought us back to life and healed us. Now these stories are really cool because if you're thinking about. Because remember, he's trying to prove a point here. So for these Pharisees and scribes, they understand what a shepherd does. Shepherds are out in the fields.
That's their livelihood. And they lose a sheep. Now, that shepherd will run after that one sheep. And the image that I love is after the shepherd finds the sheep, he picks the sheep up and puts it on his shoulders and brings the sheet back into the fold. And then after he does that, he rejoices with his friends and neighbors, with everyone.
He's like, look, it's found. Look at this. This is so cool. The lost sheep is found. Then he goes into this story with a lady who loses money in her house and how she just goes high and low through the house looking for that.
Who here'done that? This week? Like, literally two days ago, my wife comes in. She's like, have you seen my wallet? I'm like, o, I've not.
And then like 10 minutes later, she found it. We're good, but it was scary, right? She's like, yeah, right. Like, it's the lost thing. When we find the lost thing, that joy over something small pales in comparison to a soul.
A created being we are that says, we know better than our Creator. And then when that created being realizes it's lost and needs salvation, when that happens, rejoicing happens.
It's all about repentance. The repentance of the loss brings joy in heaven. So for us, just a quick question. Are we open to going out and talking to the avoidable? Are we available and are we going into the places where maybe we just don't want to go, talking to the people who maybe we just don't want to talk to?
Maybe they suck up our time. Maybe they keep making boneheaded decisions and it's just frustrating the ever lo and snot out of you. Maybe they're not listening to who Jesus is. But you continue to work, continue to follow Christ and talking to them. Or maybe you're not.
Maybe you're avoiding them. Maybe you have a lot of that pharisaical heart there where you're like, no, I'm doing the right things. I'm going to do my own thing over here. What you're doing is you are standing in the way of rejoicing in heaven when you can be a part of that. God uses us to be a part of that.
But he doesn't end there. He's going to go into this next parable. Now, many people have heard this parable before. This is the prodigal son. This is in verse 11.
And he said, There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, father, give me my share of the property that is coming to me. And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country. And there he squandered his property in reckless living.
And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in the country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens in the country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate. And no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself, he said, how many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread?
But I perish here with hunger. I will arise and I will go to my father, and I will say to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I'no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants. And he arose and came to his father.
But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the father said to his servants, bring quickly the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet, and bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.
For this my son was dead and is alive again. He was lost at is found. And they began to celebrate. Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.
And he said to him, your brother has come. Your father has killed the fattene calf because he has received him back safe and sound. But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and andreated him. But he answered his father, look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command.
Yet you never gave me a young goat that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him. And he said to him, son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. It was fitting to celebrate and be glad for Your brother was dead and is alive. He was lost and is found.
Now, again, that's a story that many have heard before. You're probably very familiar with it. But let's just make sure we realize what it is that's happening here, okay? We have a son and another son, and the younger son has an inheritance coming, right? Now, in those days, the older son would get a larger inheritance, but the second son is like, all right, I want my inheritance now and ask for it.
So the guy gives him his inheritance and the younger son goes out and just for argument's sake, let's say goes to Vegas and blows all the money. He goes away and literally all of his inheritance, the thing that should set him up and his family for success, everything that the family has worked hard to build so that they could have sustainable stability within the family, this younger son just blows it all away. Now, did you notice? He didn't run back home. He completely screwed up.
But his answer to screwing up was, I'm now going to be a servant. So he goes and gets hired on, and now he's going to be a servant. And he's going to do what? He's going to take care of a certain animal, pigs, that doesn't do well.
God's not on board with that. God set the Jewish people aside and told them that they're going to live a certain way. And now this guy is taking care of pigs. We're talking about the lowest of the low in terms of careers. So he went from having an inheritance, being there with his father, building something for a future family of his own, to all of it gone.
And now he's got the lowest job in all, the totem pole for them. He's looking around and he realizes that the pigs are being fed better than he is. Think about that. The animal that he shouldn't even be going near is eating better than he is. He would rather take the scraps of what the pig is getting than what his master is giving him.
Can you feel how bad this is going for this guy? It's awful, right? He's in just the lowest of the low. This is a terrible situation. But verse 17 reads, he came to himself.
The translation there is really interesting because basically it's saying, as if his mind was deranged, he wasn't seeing things properly. Because you know what sin does? Distorts everything. And when we sin and we don't follow God and we don't listen, it changes our worldview and our picture of all of it. And this guy should have run back to his father the moment he blew it up, that's what should have happened.
But he didn't do that because he was so hung up in all of his bad choices that he just kept doubling down and making worse choice after worse choice after worse choice. But then verse 17, he came to himself and he realized how bad the situation was that he was in. So after he does that, he decides, I'm going to go, I'm going to talk to my dad. I'm going to tell my dad that I've sinned against God and him and maybe he'll let me be a servant. Notice he was not expecting restoration.
He didn't think that was going to happen. He thought, best case scenario, he was going to get to eat bread. Can you feel where this guy's at? This is awful. It's a terrible situation.
But we've read the story. He goes, and as he goes, his father sees him and his father comes running.
He didn't even apologize yet. And his father ran and put his arms around him and kissed him before a word came out of his mouth. This guy is walking scared to death, depressed, doesn't know what he's going to do. And his father runs and grabs him. Because to a sinner, mercy is not what they expect.
Mercy is not what we're anticipating getting, and especially not restoration. That wasn't in the cards. The repentance of the loss leads to restoration. So this guy comes, just sees his dad, his dad grabs him, embraces him, hugs his neck, kisses him, puts a robe on him. Now the robe idea here, that's like a ceremony.
So think about this. It's like a tux, okay? This is like he put the tux on him. This dude was wanting to eat pig scrap before, so he probably wasn't exactly smelling great.
But they put a tux on him, they gave him a ring on his finger. That's restoration. It's symbolizing that he has a place for him here. He's not coming back to be a servant. He's adopted back into the family.
That's what God offers us. We expect to just not maybe have the consequences of our sin. But the God of the universe offers heavenly restoration, where there are cheers in heaven about it. That's what God offers. So he then gets this robe, he gets this ring, he gets shoes on his feet, and he's restored.
And it's beautiful. But it's not the end of the parable. Because remember who Jesus is talking to. The Pharisees and the scribes who didn't understand why he was hanging out with sinners. So he does.
Why is he hanging out with sinners? Why is he hanging out with sc with the tax collectors? So Jesus continues the story because everybody's on board for the redemption part. But then he goes into the older brother who did everything right, who listened to his dad, followed after his dad's commands, was dutiful. When this happened, the older brother was where?
Out on the field, working, doing the right thing. And then he hears a party. So imagine you're the older brother, party going on. What's going on? Walk up.
And then one of the servants says, your father took the fattened calf because your brother is back. What you mean Bonehead, who I've been cleaning up has messed my whole life. Is that you talking about that guy? That guy got a fatened calf. Are you serious?
My dad has lost his mind. The sin of that person is way too much. That God would pay for that. God would never redeem someone that did that. Never.
But that's not what happened. The father comes out and notice the words that he says.
He comes out and he says, your son, he doesn't say my brother, he's so angry and he's so upset and says to his dad, you wouldn't even give me a small calf so that I could celebrate with my friends, but you give a fattened calf for him, the one who blew all of your money. That money was supposed to come as part of our family. He screwed it all up and you're going to give him this?
The problem with the older brother's perspective is he was hung up in the wasted time.
Please understand that every day a sinner does not decide to follow Jesus is a tragedy. But God takes every one of those tragedies and he turns it into glory. Every one of them. God is telling his whole story. He restores.
So all this time, this wasted time, where this younger brother could have been following God, could have been a good helper with the family, could have been doing all these good things. The family could have had X amount of things more. They didn't get that because they didn't have him there. But now they have their brother back and God has a plan. If there's someone in the sound of my voice that is thinking that you're too far gone, you are not.
God will take every poor choice that you have done, no matter how horrible, no matter how detestable, no matter how much you've wounded people. And he will redeem that and he will use it for his glory, he brings about restoration. And the world doesn't understand that the world won't get it. And some Christians don't.
Jesus is proving a point to the Pharisees. He's pointing out to them what they need to understand. And that's the idea of repentance. We talked about the idea of repentance of the lost leads to restoration. So the young man is restored, God has a plan for him.
Amazing things are happening. So what has that got to do with the book? What? I thought we were talking about a book, right? So what this is.
Pastor Michael gave us the first step in the Grove initiative. He laid out all this stuff last week about all the things that we were going to follow God and trust God to do. But there was the first thing he said we needed to do, and it's kind of like right there, the first thing was pray. We need to be praying. The passage that we read earlier, when Jesus is talking about the harvest, he doesn't say run out into the field, he says, so pray so that we can do that starts with prayer.
So this is about to get super, super practical, okay? One of the things that we do whenever we write a sermon is we want to leave with application things. You want to leave with things that you're going to do based on how God is speaking. This is super practical. Okay?
So we're going to flip the book open, 3, 2, 1. Want to make sure everybody understands what that means. It's pray for three people at 2 o'clock every day for one purpose. Okay? I'm not going to tell you what the purpose is because you're go goingna have to read it.
It's on like page two. Okay? But what this is, is this book is going to give you the ability to be very strategic in your prayer life to offer prayer for three different types of people. The people that we're talking about today are the spiritual wanderers. Those that don't know God, those that are out, they're trying to out figure out what's going on.
They're lost. Who do we pray for? Now? You may be thinking, okay, hold on, I got some questions. Okay, pray at 2:00 every day.
2:00. I have this thing, okay, Schedule it. Literally put an alarm on your phone. When the alarm goes off, that's when I pray. This book makes it so simple.
Do me a favor, flip over to page five. Those are spiritual wanderers. So now the book is going to help you identify who it is you're going to pray for. So Examples would be someone in my extended family, someone I know from school, someone I know from a hobby or a place I hang out. So literally, it's right here for you to put in very minimal effort to come up with the person.
So step one, open the book. Step two, write a name in here that's going to be a spiritual wanderer that you're committing to praying for. Now you're probably thinking, okay, but if I'm praying for this person every day, that's going to get old. I don't really know what to pray for. I'm just going to repeat myself.
What's the point of that? Well, that's been thought of, too. So keep flipping for me. Now we're going to get over to page nine. Page nine literally is laid out examples of what you can pray for with passages to read to tie to it.
So again, when I said practical, this is like Legos, you just put it together. Okay? Now you're probably also thinking, okay, so, man, I'm going to do that. But now I'm going to be doing this every single day. How am I going to keep track of all this stuff?
You know? Oh, there's notes in here, too. Notes section. There's more scripture for you to go through. But keep flipping for me because we're going to get to the back of the book, and I want to get you to page 24.
Somebody read what's in blue at the top of page 24 out loud. First person, go answer prayer. What? One of the cool things God does when you pray is you lift up someone else and you're praying about what it is that's going on in their life. And it's not every time.
Sometimes it's not even most of the time, but some of the time, you become the answer to your own prayer. How cool is that? Now you didn't know what the answer was. You were praying for that person. But then as you're praying, you're talking to God about what is going on in that person's life.
And then, weird, the God of the universe knows what to do. He totally does. So you're going to become the answer to a lot of your own prayers. But I want to flip one more time. We're going to go to chapter of book.
Book. We're going to go to page 29. This is my favorite part. You tear these pages out. So you take this nice book and you rip it up.
Okay? Why do you think we tear these pages out?
Because you're not going to carry the book around everywhere. So take these pages, put them somewhere where you're going to see them, and it literally gives you a play by play on how you should be praying. Now, at the same time that we get all of these details are in here and it's super, super practical. We want to be very clear. If the God of the universe tells you to pray something different, do that, follow God.
But what we wanted to do with this is make it so simple. Because at the end of the day, if we are going to reach a thousand people, if we are going to have a hundred new church leaders, if we're going to have three new churches raised up in central Florida over the next 10 years, it ain't going to happen unless we pray. It just ain't going to happen. Because we can do a lot of stuff on our own and it's boneheaded. It'll end poorly, people will get hurt, problems will arise, and it's not eternally significant.
You know, what won't happen is joy in heaven. But if we follow God, if we trust him to guide us and to direct us and to equip us to maybe be the answer to our own prayer for someone else's life, amazing, amazing stuff will happen. So we like to give questions at the end again to make you kind of think over the next week, there's no questions. It's due. This is what we're asking you to do.
We're asking you to read the booklet today, not put it on the table. Not like, we'll look at it next Saturday. No, read it today. After you read it, write the names in it, set your alarm, tear the pages out. That's my favorite part.
And then kind of the biggest one is at the end, actually do the thing, pray. We believe that if we're serious about following God and we do these things, God will show up in magnificent ways. And most importantly, the lost will be found. The spiritual wanderer will find God. There will be joy in heaven that we will get to hear about when we're in heaven.
There will be restoration for the sinner. All of these things will happen. We were all lost. We know lost people. Jesus saves the lost.
He sends the saved to the lost.
When our parents saw us, the look on their faces was as if we had risen from the dead.
That's a feeling I did not understand until recently.
Many of you know our son was in a crazy car accident. His heart stopped, he was dead. And over a month in change, he's been healed.
I know what it's like to put My arms around my boy when I thought he was gone. Our Heavenly Father wants that with us. Our Heavenly Father runs to us. He sent Jesus to die for all the sin of the world.
That is what the Father meant when he said, what was dead is now alive. What was lost is now found. The spiritual wanderers are the future found, just like we were the future found. So if you don't know Christ, you need to right now. You need to understand that apart from him, you will live eternity separated from God.
What he offers you is he offers eternal life. He offers a plan for your life that is greater than anything you could come up with on your own over a millennia. What his plan is, is to use what he created for his purpose. And nothing is better than that. All the previous time, that feels like waste.
That's tragedy. He's going to redeem that. And that's what he offers you right now. For those of you that do know Christ, be encouraged at the fact that you get to carry this message. You get to bring it to people who need to know God.
You get to meet these spiritual wonderers. You get to pray for them. You may get to be the answer to your own prayer.
How amazing is that?
Father, in heaven, we're just enamored by you, Lord. We're amazed.
The fact that you're so patient with us and you look at us in all of our bustedness and all of our mess and all of our just selfish disobedience.
And before we even apologize, you put your arms around us.
And then when we acknowledged that we were a sinner and that we needed you, you restored us. You brought us from death to life.
Lord, we pray that if there's anyone that does not know you, Lord, that you would reveal yourself so clearly to them, that they would be changed forever. That they would know that you, their Father, are just waiting for them to walk home.
Thank you, Lord. It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
So the name of the series is 3 and 21. I guess it's kind of spoilers. Just this week, I'm just asking you to pray for one. So just one. Just pray for somebody who you know is lost.
And if you look at that chart and you write names down, you might be able to think of nine lost people. I'm not asking you to pray for nine. I'm asking you to pray for one. And so I'm gonna give you an opportunity. Now, we'll take some silence.
If there's somebody who's coming to mind to write them down. And then set your alarm for 2 o'clock. It's been super cool. We kind of rolled this out with our members a couple of months ago, and there have been a couple of times where I've been in the same room with Carlos at 2pm and our phones go off and we just looked at each other and we just started praying for the people who were on our hearts. And so it's.
Yeah, I think. Yeah. Set true one. And so let's take a few moments and we'll just reflect. Talk to God for a couple of minutes about how he's speaking to you this morning, and then we'll close together and singing.
