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Speaker 1: of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in a series
Speaker 1: called Better Together. In this series, Rick takes us through
Speaker 1: First Corinthians chapter thirteen and shows us how to cultivate deep,
Speaker 1: meaningful relationships with the people around us. In just a
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Speaker 1: With part two, you have a message called how We
Speaker 1: Help each Other Grow.
Speaker 2: UCLA did a study in a while back and discovered
Speaker 2: that to be a healthy, fulfilled, satisfied adult, you need
Speaker 2: eight to ten meaningful touches every day.
Speaker 3: Say boy, I'm getting cheated.
Speaker 2: You do handshakes, hugs, pat on the bat back, a
Speaker 2: little squeeze. You were made for being touched. Whether you
Speaker 2: ever marry or not, whether you ever have sex or not,
Speaker 2: you need touches in your life in order to grow
Speaker 2: and to be all that God wants you to be.
Speaker 2: And yet I talk to a lot of people sometimes
Speaker 2: on the patty who say, you know, Rick, the only
Speaker 2: physical affection I get all week is at church, when
Speaker 2: you say, turn around and hug somebody, or turn around
Speaker 2: and shake hands with somebody, or give somebody a pat
Speaker 2: on them, He said, they are They say that's all
Speaker 2: I get all week. When I'm out on the patio
Speaker 2: and I hug somebody off in wonder, how long does
Speaker 2: that hug have to last that person. Most of you
Speaker 2: know I'm pretty famous for hugging, because if you get
Speaker 2: in my way, you're gonna get hugged. And that's why
Speaker 2: I know why some of you leave early, because you're chicken. Okay,
Speaker 2: I see you up there in the bleachers your last song.
Speaker 2: You side out because you think I'll get out before
Speaker 2: Rick gets out here. But you can run, you can't hide.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you. Eventually, You're gonna get hugged. Everybody
Speaker 2: stand up right now? Oh you say, oh no, everybody
Speaker 2: stand up, Come on, stand up. Okay, stretch everybody, stretch,
Speaker 2: go ahead, stretch.
Speaker 3: Okay. Touch your toes, touch your neighbor's toes. Okay.
Speaker 2: I want you to turn around, and I want you
Speaker 2: to hug a total stranger. Go ahead, turn around, hug
Speaker 2: a total stranger. All right, All right, sit down, okay,
Speaker 2: sit down.
Speaker 3: Now. Now.
Speaker 2: I know that there were two reactions to what we
Speaker 2: just did. Some of you are thinking I'm never going
Speaker 2: back to that church again, and the smarter ones are thinking,
Speaker 2: next week, I'm sitting by somebody cute.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So Pastor Rick, do it again next week and I'll
Speaker 2: be ready next time.
Speaker 3: Okay. Oh, Brother Roman's twelfth ten.
Speaker 2: Let's read it aloud together, love one another with brotherly
Speaker 2: affection as members of one family.
Speaker 3: Hey, we're family.
Speaker 2: We're all in the family of God. You're my sister,
Speaker 2: you're my brother. Brothers and sisters, show affection to each other.
Speaker 2: You got to show it, not just say it. It's
Speaker 2: not just enough to tell people or say you love them.
Speaker 2: They need to feel it. They need to feel it.
Speaker 2: And if you love others in God's family, you need
Speaker 2: to show it and make a habit of hugging, of touching,
Speaker 2: of you know, giving a firm grip of a pat
Speaker 2: on the back and at a boy you know, just
Speaker 2: you know, whatever it takes to just give them a
Speaker 2: word of encouragement. It says, you know what, I love
Speaker 2: you and we're togetherness. It's not enough just to say it.
Speaker 2: People need to be touched and they need hugs. So
Speaker 2: this week, here's what I want you to do. I
Speaker 2: want you to go all over the county and hug everybody,
Speaker 2: and if they look really weird, actually.
Speaker 3: Just say my pastor asked me to do this. Okay.
Speaker 3: Now here's the fourth way.
Speaker 2: By showing acceptance, showing attention, showing affection, and showing appreciation,
Speaker 2: we affirm each other's worth with appreciation. Now, appreciation means
Speaker 2: to raise in value. That's what If you've you bought
Speaker 2: a home in Orange County, you know the meaning of
Speaker 2: the word appreciation. It goes up in value. If you've
Speaker 2: ever bought a car, you know the meaning of depreciation.
Speaker 3: You lose in value the moment you drive it off
Speaker 3: the lot.
Speaker 2: It's not worth as much as you bought paid for it.
Speaker 2: Every time you appreciate somebody, you raise their value to
Speaker 2: you and to others. When you appreciate your wife, you
Speaker 2: raise her value. When you appreciate your husband, or your boyfriend,
Speaker 2: or your girlfriend or a friend, you raise their value.
Speaker 2: When you appreciate your kids, you raise their value. When
Speaker 2: you appreciate your small group, you raise its value to you.
Speaker 2: Everything you appreciate increases in value.
Speaker 3: Now look at this next verse.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, brothers and sisters, appreciate those who work
Speaker 2: hard among you, who lead you in the Lord and
Speaker 2: teach you. Now, when was the last time you thank
Speaker 2: the Sunday school teacher? If you have children over in
Speaker 2: all stars, Today, when this service is over, before you
Speaker 2: leave this campus, find read people to appreciate. If you
Speaker 2: got somebody in all stars, goverment, Thank one of the teachers,
Speaker 2: Thank you for teaching my kids. Thank the ushers, Thank
Speaker 2: the greeters, Thank the traffic people. Thank the people who
Speaker 2: set up the tables. You know it takes about one
Speaker 2: thousand people just to pull off a weekend here at Saddleback.
Speaker 3: Thank the musicians.
Speaker 2: Now, you don't have to thank me, because I know
Speaker 2: you appreciate me, except those of you are afraid I'm
Speaker 2: gonna hug you. But you can find people to express
Speaker 2: appreciation too. And then this week I am naming this
Speaker 2: host appreciation Week. So when you go to your small
Speaker 2: group this week, I want you to really show appreciation
Speaker 2: to your host.
Speaker 3: Buy them a car.
Speaker 2: Okay, just buy him a car and appreciate your host
Speaker 2: and tell them how much you love them and how
Speaker 2: much you appreciate their opening your home.
Speaker 3: Tom's going to talk about the next one.
Speaker 4: There's another way that we can all help each other grow,
Speaker 4: and that is by praying for each other's growth, praying
Speaker 4: for each other's growth, by doing what this guy named
Speaker 4: a path for us did in Colossians four to twelve.
Speaker 4: The path forist Paul Roade always prays for you that
Speaker 4: you will be, that you will grow to be spiritually mature.
Speaker 4: That guy is a hero to me. I don't know
Speaker 4: about you. I look at it says he always praised
Speaker 4: for you. I don't know about you. But prayer is
Speaker 4: hard for me. It's not I think we think it
Speaker 4: should come naturally. It doesn't for me. I mean I
Speaker 4: have to make time, have to set a side time.
Speaker 4: I think it's that way for most people. So he
Speaker 4: impresses me that he took the time. He had the
Speaker 4: discipline to always take time to pray for people. But
Speaker 4: I also love the fact that he prayed for people's
Speaker 4: spiritual growth. And we usually pray for people's needs. They
Speaker 4: have health needs and financial needs, and we should, but
Speaker 4: we don't spend nearly enough time praying for people's spiritual
Speaker 4: growth that our character will change, because that's gonna last.
Speaker 4: I think one of the reasons probably is we don't
Speaker 4: know what to pray about. How would I pray for
Speaker 4: somebody's spiritual growth? Well, fortunately, the Bible is filled with
Speaker 4: verses about how to pray for somebody to grow spiritually.
Speaker 4: In fact, the next six verses in your outline are
Speaker 4: prayers for people's spiritual growth.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: Instead of me reading these and telling you what they mean,
Speaker 4: let's spend a few minutes just doing what these verses say.
Speaker 4: There's people in your life you'd like to pray for
Speaker 4: their spiritual growth, people in your group, your family, your friends.
Speaker 4: Let me just share these verses with you, and as
Speaker 4: I do so, let's pray for them right now, bring
Speaker 4: their name to mind and say, yeah, God, they could
Speaker 4: use that help them in that area. For instance, this
Speaker 4: first verse from Ephesians three eighteen and nineteen. Who could
Speaker 4: you pray this verse for? I pray that you'll be
Speaker 4: able to feel and understand how long, why deep, and
Speaker 4: high Christ's love really is, and to experience this love
Speaker 4: for yourselves. Who do you know that needs God's love
Speaker 4: in their life right now? Let's maybe struggle a little bit.
Speaker 4: We'll bring their name to mind and say, God, show
Speaker 4: them your love. Let them know today how much you
Speaker 4: really love them. I have a feeling that these prayers
Speaker 4: were praying right now are going to have a lot
Speaker 4: more impact than anything Rick or I say today. That's
Speaker 4: the power of prayer to make a difference in people's lives.
Speaker 4: Who do you know that you need to pray the
Speaker 4: next verse for Hebrews thirteen twenty one. I pray that
Speaker 4: you'll always be eager to do what is right? Parents,
Speaker 4: wouldn't like to pray that for your kids? I mean, really,
Speaker 4: that they not only do what was right, but they'd
Speaker 4: be eager to do the right thing. We'll pray for
Speaker 4: him right now, or some friends, somebody at work, God
Speaker 4: give them integrity. Just bring their name to mind God,
Speaker 4: I pray for him. Or how about this next one?
Speaker 4: Romans fifteen thirteen. Let's read this together. I pray, God,
Speaker 4: who gives hope, will fill you with much joy and peace. Well,
Speaker 4: how you trust in him? Who wouldn't like some hope
Speaker 4: in their lives? Who doesn't need more joy, more peace
Speaker 4: in their lives? Well you see the foundation of it
Speaker 4: all there is that you trust in him.
Speaker 3: So say it.
Speaker 4: God, I know somebody who needs some hope, Help them
Speaker 4: to trust in you during this difficult time. I know
Speaker 4: somebody who needs some joy. Help them to trust in
Speaker 4: you so their heart can be lifted up. Just bring
Speaker 4: their name to mind right now. Or this next verse
Speaker 4: where the Bible says, I pray God would give you
Speaker 4: a spirit of wisdom and revelation. Who do you know
Speaker 4: that's facing a decision? Ask God to give him his
Speaker 4: wisdom right now. He says he'll give it if we ask. Well,
Speaker 4: you pray on their behalf, pray for their growth. Or
Speaker 4: the next verse and second Tessalonians three five. I pray
Speaker 4: the Lord will guide you to be as loving as
Speaker 4: God and as patient as Christ. First of all, anyone
Speaker 4: got that one down yet, anybody here as loving as God,
Speaker 4: anybody hears patient as Christ. We're just not there yet,
Speaker 4: but we can pray for each other that will grow
Speaker 4: the rest of our lives to get closer to that
Speaker 4: Who needs some of God's love, who needs some patience
Speaker 4: in their lives right now? Pray that verse for him.
Speaker 4: Bring their name to mind right now? Or this next one.
Speaker 4: Who do you know that's feeling pretty overwhelmed by life.
Speaker 4: Who do you know that maybe doesn't feel like they're
Speaker 4: going to make it or feels like they're having to
Speaker 4: do everything on their own energy, own power. Pray this
Speaker 4: verse for him Iphesian three sixteen. I pray that God
Speaker 4: may strengthen you with power through his spirit. Bring their
Speaker 4: name to mind, and say, God, help them to know
Speaker 4: they're not alone today, that you'll give them strength and power. Now,
Speaker 4: we just prayed individually for a lot of people, and
Speaker 4: there is power in that, but there's even more power
Speaker 4: when you pray together. When you get in a group
Speaker 4: of other people and pray, and I want to encourage
Speaker 4: you to do that in your group, pray for each
Speaker 4: other's spiritual growth. And as you're doing that, just a
Speaker 4: couple of real quick suggestions. First of all, make it
Speaker 4: a priority, you know, if you're in a group and
Speaker 4: you're gonna pray, and you wait till the end of
Speaker 4: the meeting to do that. You never get around to it.
Speaker 4: There's four minutes left, you don't have enough time to pray.
Speaker 4: So some weeks start with prayer may take most of
Speaker 4: the meeting. But what better way to meet than to
Speaker 4: pray for each other? Pray for each other's growth. So
Speaker 4: make it a priority. And then secondly, I want to
Speaker 4: encourage you, when you pray with other people, to do
Speaker 4: it a little bit differently than we usually do. Pray conversationally.
Speaker 4: If you've been in any group that prays, you know
Speaker 4: we usually do it like this. This person talks for
Speaker 4: about three or four minutes and says what they want
Speaker 4: to say. Then the next person in the circle talks
Speaker 4: for three or four minutes says what they want to say.
Speaker 4: We pray like this, don't we? Then the next person
Speaker 4: in the next person, We.
Speaker 1: Don't talk like that.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're having a conversation, this person says
Speaker 4: a sentence, This person says a sentence, This person interrupts,
Speaker 4: this person says, oh yeah, I was thinking about that too.
Speaker 4: Try praying like that. God's there in the room. You
Speaker 4: can talk to them like a person. So try praying
Speaker 4: like that. Somebody you are look at me like that's
Speaker 4: not going to work for our group and never going
Speaker 4: to work. Sure it'll work. Just do it to do
Speaker 4: something different. And here's the way to make it work.
Speaker 4: Make sure at the beginning you say, okay, nobody can
Speaker 4: pray more than a sentence at a time, just one sentence.
Speaker 4: If they pray more than a sentence, kick them in
Speaker 4: an affirming way, but kick them all right, And you
Speaker 4: pray one sentence, and you pray about one thing for
Speaker 4: a while. You all pray together. This will help some
Speaker 4: of you who have never prayed with other people.
Speaker 3: You can just say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too, God on that one, and that'll help
Speaker 4: you to pray also. And everybody can get together and
Speaker 4: pray together for one another's spiritual growth. So make it
Speaker 4: a priority and pray conversationally, and you'll see some incredible
Speaker 4: things happen in your group as you pray together.
Speaker 2: Now, look at the verse on the back of your outline.
Speaker 2: Romans fifteen to five says this, may God develop maturity
Speaker 2: in you so that you all get along with each
Speaker 2: other as well as Jesus gets along with us. Notice
Speaker 2: that the test of maturity is relationships, not content or knowledge,
Speaker 2: but relationships. Knowledge is important, but it says that ultimately,
Speaker 2: maturity is the ability to get along with it people.
Speaker 2: If you have a hard time getting along with other people,
Speaker 2: it says one thing, guess what you are immature.
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Speaker 5: What does it take to become more loving, live more peacefully,
Speaker 5: develop patience, have self control? Pastor Rick says, throughout all
Speaker 5: the years he's been a pastor, the number one question
Speaker 5: he's been asked is why can't I change? People want
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Speaker 5: In his book God's Power to Change Your Life, Rick
Speaker 5: lays the groundwork for personal transformation, then offers biblical insights
Speaker 5: and simple steps for ten areas of growth that can
Speaker 5: take you from where you are to where you want
Speaker 5: to be. This book connects you with the power to
Speaker 5: actually make the changes you long to make, and as
Speaker 5: you apply the truth of God's word by the power
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Speaker 1: And now here's Pastor Rick Warren with the second half
Speaker 1: of today lesson.
Speaker 2: If you have a hard time getting along with other people,
Speaker 2: It says one thing.
Speaker 3: Guess what you are immature If.
Speaker 2: You're always worried about other people, if you're always threatened
Speaker 2: by other people, if you can't get along with other people,
Speaker 2: you have an immaturity problem and you need to grow up.
Speaker 2: God says, as he develops maturity in us, we get
Speaker 2: along with each other.
Speaker 3: Just as Jesus gets along with us.
Speaker 2: Now, that's why we're doing forty days of community. That's
Speaker 2: why we're doing small groups. The purpose is to learn
Speaker 2: to get along with each other. The purpose is to
Speaker 2: learn to build relationships, learning how to love. Now, there
Speaker 2: is a secret ingredient that builds community faster than anything else,
Speaker 2: and it is this number three. By admitting our mistakes.
Speaker 2: By admitting our mistakes, we build community, intimacy, relationships faster
Speaker 2: than any other way. Ephesians four twenty five says this,
Speaker 2: Tell each other the truth, because we all belong to
Speaker 2: each other. Tell the truth about yourself, your fears, your doubts,
Speaker 2: your hang ups.
Speaker 3: Now, let me see.
Speaker 2: Confession does not mean just confessing your deep dark sense.
Speaker 2: Confession just means admitting what's going on in your life.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm having some doubts today, you admit. That's confession.
Speaker 2: You know I'm worried about such a that's a confession.
Speaker 2: You know I'm feeling a little lonely today, that's a confession.
Speaker 2: You know I'm having a hard time forgiving that person.
Speaker 3: That's a confession.
Speaker 2: You know, I just don't know why, but I feel depressed,
Speaker 2: I feel discouraged, today.
Speaker 3: That is a confession.
Speaker 2: And when you were honest about what's going on in
Speaker 2: your life and you're not blaming anybody else for it,
Speaker 2: it draws you closer to them and those closer to you. Now,
Speaker 2: why in the world would anybody do that? Why would
Speaker 2: anybody risk honesty? Because it's worth the risk. God says,
Speaker 2: there are four benefits of being honest about our mistakes,
Speaker 2: about our feelings, our faults, our fatigue, our failures, our fears.
Speaker 2: There are four benefits, and you only get these benefits
Speaker 2: when you're honest with one other person or a group.
Speaker 2: Here they are number one emotional healing. Emotional healing comes
Speaker 2: from being honest with other people about what's going on
Speaker 2: in your life. James five point sixteen says this, admit
Speaker 2: your faults. Read it with me to one another circle that.
Speaker 2: Notice it doesn't say admit him to the priest. It
Speaker 2: doesn't say admit him to a pastor. It doesn't say
Speaker 2: admit him to God. It doesn't say admit them to
Speaker 2: a counselor. It says, admit them.
Speaker 3: To each other. And that's your group. Pray for each other.
Speaker 3: Sow that.
Speaker 2: Read it with me. You may be healed now everybody
Speaker 2: look up here because this is extremely important. There is
Speaker 2: a big difference between forgiveness and emotional healing. They are
Speaker 2: not the same. They are not forgiveness. If you need
Speaker 2: forgiveness for something in your life, all you need to
Speaker 2: do is confess it to God. You don't have to
Speaker 2: tell anybody else. Confess it to God and you are forgiven.
Speaker 2: But a lot of people, after they've confessed to God,
Speaker 2: they still feel guilty, they still feel hung up, they
Speaker 2: still can't let it go, they still feel emotionally scarred.
Speaker 2: Why they haven't done this part telling it to somebody else.
Speaker 2: God has wired the universe in such a way that
Speaker 2: emotional healing comes not from telling God he already knows it,
Speaker 2: but from telling somebody else who doesn't know it. That's
Speaker 2: where emotional healing comes from. Now I'm not making this up.
Speaker 2: This is what God says. Confess your faults to one another,
Speaker 2: not to God, to one another, and you will be healed.
Speaker 2: You want forgiveness, you confess it to God. You want healing.
Speaker 2: You want to let go of that pain. You want
Speaker 2: to get it behind you. You want to stop having
Speaker 2: to think about it. You need to tell it somebody
Speaker 2: else that thing you've kept as a secret your entire life.
Speaker 2: Now you don't have to tell everybody. In fact, I
Speaker 2: don't recommend that don't tell everybody, but you need to
Speaker 2: tell somebody, a small group of trusted individuals, or a
Speaker 2: spiritual partner who can pray with you. God has wired
Speaker 2: us that way that we need to tell others. The
Speaker 2: second thing you get when you do this is a
Speaker 2: fresh start. Not only emotional healing, but you get a
Speaker 2: fresh start and Proverbs twenty eight thirteen, the Bible says
Speaker 2: anyone who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful,
Speaker 2: but if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance. Now,
Speaker 2: this is why I love celebrate recovery so much in
Speaker 2: our church. Seven five hundred people in our church have
Speaker 2: gone through celebrate recovery over the p past years. And
Speaker 2: those people, many of them, are now the leaders of
Speaker 2: this church. Why God wants to take the worst thing
Speaker 2: in your life, heal you of it and turn you
Speaker 2: into a leader and a person of influence.
Speaker 3: That's what he does.
Speaker 2: There is nothing that has happened in your life that
Speaker 2: God can't use for good. But you have to be
Speaker 2: honest about it. You have to share it with somebody.
Speaker 2: You have to get it off your chest. One of
Speaker 2: the most helpful things you can do in your small
Speaker 2: group is help people forgive themselves. A lot of people
Speaker 2: have confessed to God and God has forgiven.
Speaker 3: But they just don't feel it.
Speaker 2: They need somebody to say, you are forgiven. Have you
Speaker 2: admitted it to God? Yeah, then you are forgiven. Have
Speaker 2: you confessed it yet? Then you are forgiven?
Speaker 3: Let it go.
Speaker 2: That's why we get together to help each other to
Speaker 2: feel forgiven.
Speaker 3: And sometimes you just need somebody to say that to you.
Speaker 2: And another thing you can do in your small group
Speaker 2: is to remind people that God loves to give a
Speaker 2: second chance, and a third, and a fiftieth and a
Speaker 2: three hundredth and God never ever gives up on you.
Speaker 3: Never.
Speaker 2: He never gives up on you, and He's not finished
Speaker 2: with you. And he wants to use other people in
Speaker 2: your life to take that pain, heal it, and then
Speaker 2: turn you into a leader and a person of influence
Speaker 2: to help others.
Speaker 3: Here's the third thing that benefit of honesty. You get
Speaker 3: God's power to change.
Speaker 2: God's power to change when we admit our mistakes to others.
Speaker 2: James four ten says this when you bow down before
Speaker 2: the Lord. That means you humble yourself. You humble yourself
Speaker 2: before God and you admit your dependence upon him. God
Speaker 2: will lift you up. Notice he doesn't scold you, he
Speaker 2: doesn't shame you, he doesn't put you down. He lifts
Speaker 2: you up and gives you honor. How does this work?
Speaker 2: God wants you to learn to be like him and
Speaker 2: God is humble, and so the Bible says God resists proud.
Speaker 2: That means when you're prideful, you're on the opposite side
Speaker 2: of God. You're fighting God. He resists the proud, but
Speaker 2: he gives grace to the humble. So that means this,
Speaker 2: when I'm honest about my weaknesses, then I'm humble. When
Speaker 2: I'm humble, I get God's grace.
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Speaker 1: be back to close out our time today. But first,
Speaker 1: what does it take to become more loving, live more peacefully?
Speaker 1: Develop patients have self control. Pastor Rick says, throughout all
Speaker 1: the years he's been a pastor, the number one question
Speaker 1: he's been asked is why can't I change? People want
Speaker 1: to change, but there's stock and maybe you feel that
Speaker 1: way too. In his book God's Power to Change Your Life,
Speaker 1: Rick lays the groundwork for personal transformation, then offers biblical
Speaker 1: insights and simple steps for ten areas of growth that
Speaker 1: you can take from where you are to where you
Speaker 1: want to be. This book connects you with the power
Speaker 1: to actually make the changes you long to make. And
Speaker 1: as you apply the truth of God's word by the
Speaker 1: power of His Spirit, your life will change. You'll move
Speaker 1: out of your rut and get on track with God's
Speaker 1: wonderful purposes for your life. And today, when you give
Speaker 1: a gift to daily hope to help take the hope
Speaker 1: of Jesus to people everywhere, will send you Pastor Rick's
Speaker 1: book called God's Power to Change Your Life To say thanks.
Speaker 1: Just go to Pastorick dot com right now to get
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Speaker 1: five thousand and four. There's only two days left to
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Speaker 1: hurt us on. Thanks so much for your support. Here's
Speaker 1: Pastor Rick with a word of encouragement.
Speaker 2: Now this week, I want to encourage those of you
Speaker 2: who are in a small group to spend a little
Speaker 2: bit of time talking about how you cannot just study
Speaker 2: together and fellowship together and worship together, but how you
Speaker 2: could serve together, find a project that will take you
Speaker 2: to a deeper level of fellowship by serving together. Thanks
Speaker 2: for listening today. You know I love you, I care
Speaker 2: for you, and I'm praying for you. And join me
Speaker 2: next time as we continue to look into God's word
Speaker 2: for our daily hope.
Speaker 1: This program is sponsored by Daily Hope Ministries and your
Speaker 1: generous financial support