Bullish On Love I, Acceptance

It really is a jumping-off text, and normally I like to preach through the Scripture, but today we're going to really use this as a launching pad, because I want to talk about why God has equipped the Church the way that He has. Let's read this together. I just pulled it out and stuck it somewhere. Now let's read it off the overhead, then. All right, read it with me, would you? Why is it that He gives us these special abilities to do certain things best? Is it that God's people will be equipped to do better, work for Him, building up the Church, the body of Christ, to a position of strength and maturity, until finally we all believe alike about our salvation and about our Savior, God's Son, and all become full-grown in the Lord, yes, to the point of being filled full with Christ? God's design has always been that the Church would be mature and full of Christ Himself, bringing hope and life to a lost and dying world. This morning's message is really going to come in an unusual way, kind of through two messengers. And so I want to set a context, and then Dr. Kevin Lehman is going to share sort of the core insight of what's going to make this work as we move forward into this fall season. But I want to begin by a little sort of matter of interest here for many of us, and that has to do with what I would say is a very commonplace fixture in our city, that you may not be consciously aware of on any given day, but you use all the time. It's central to how we move about and are connected to one another in our city. We have more of these than any other county in America. You know what they are? Bridges. Bridges. And don't put this up yet. I want to see, just out of curiosity, how many think you have a rough idea of how many bridges there are in Allegheny County? How many would say there's got to be at least a hundred? Alright. Two. Okay. Now I'm losing people rapidly. In all of Allegheny County, 300 bridges? That would be a pretty good guess, I would think. If you're optimistic, you might say 500 and say, well, wait a minute. I was astonished. I asked the Allegheny County Chamber of Commerce in PennDOT, just to confirm, we have 1,927 bridges in Allegheny County. More than any other county in America, and by the way, more per capita than any city in the world. It's amazing, isn't it? Now, they're not all the Fort Pitt Bridge or the Ninth Street Bridge. They're not all huge, but there are bridges right outside here, and you're going to go across one if you're going south in the 19th, and they're just everywhere, the Turnpike. Those are all bridges that connect us. And I want to just deposit in your mind that word picture of a bridge, because that's what God laid on my heart this last week as I was saying, Lord, what is it that this church is really to be about as we move forward into the new year, the new season of ministry? And I really believe it's about being intentional in building bridges with other people. And if you're going to take a couple of notes there on the inside page, being intentional about building bridges of friendship and understanding and support and redemption for the sake of the kingdom of God. Friendship, understanding, support, and redemption. Friends, there are thousands of people that you and I intersect with every single day, I mean totally, who don't know really what salvation is about, who don't know what life is really designed to be all about. This common metaphor may go over in some of our minds as really being rather innocuous and unimportant, but for me, I've discovered something. In my more relaxed conversations with numbers of you over the summer, I discovered that most of you are really pretty much absorbed in what it is you're doing. I don't remember one conversation, all the different times I've met with people and crossed paths with people in different settings, not one conversation where I heard people say, you know, my life's kind of slow and easy and I'm rather bored and things are sort of dull and I don't have much to do. I didn't have that conversation with anybody. I heard dozens, scores of people say, you know what, I've got all kinds of changes going on. I have more demands than I know what to do with. I've got needs piling up. I've got challenges. The pace of my life has never been faster. I can barely keep up. Some people even talked about survival. Now, how many of that describes your life more than slow, easy, and boring, huh? And what that usually means then, it translates into the fact that we look to the church, we look to each other to be a source of comfort and strength, a place where we can go to be fed and kind of held together and nurtured and strengthened and healed. People say, I want to be a part of a small group where I can be loved and make friends and share my heart and so on. And friends, I share all those desires. I need all those things just like you do. My life is just as full as yours. But I've discovered something over the years, that the paradox of the Christian faith is if that's all we see the church as being, as sort of a refuge, a fortress, that a little virus creeps into who we are. And the very vitality that we come together to share will be taken from us if we don't realize the dream of Jesus to go out into all the world and make disciples. That's why the Lord kept bringing the disciples in and then pushing them back out. He'd bring them in for ministry and send them out to minister. He said, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Now, someone's thinking, yeah, but he also said, come unto me, all you who are weary and heavy laden. Now, how many would rather do that? Yeah, I'd rather just come in and forget about all in my flesh. But that's not an option. And friends, I want to say to this church, the Lord wants us to celebrate. He wants us to come together and affirm His strength and build bridges amongst ourselves. But He also wants us to go out and touch this world. I guess I have to say, honestly, as I read quite a bit this week and watched a lot of the same TV things that you did, are you just as sure as I am that most of the world still thinks that going to heaven has to do with what kind of work you do in life? Huh? And that's not what the Bible says. We need to see that people are lost without the Lord. Now, the first step to successful bridge building is to go out with the right attitude toward those people. I've been talking about that, and I'm going to be talking a lot more about that, but there's no one in the nation that I can think of that I'd rather have talk about that for a while this morning than our guest this morning, Dr. Kevin Lehman. Because Kevin has learned that the secret of being able to speak to people, of building bridges, is coming into those situations with an accepting attitude. And that's why God has given him such favor, and that's what I think it is. He's had favor before lots of national audiences on television programs that are watched by people all over America. He's the family psychologist for Good Morning America. His radio program, Parent Talk, is on over 500 stations around the nation every single day, Monday through Friday. But most important to me is that what Kevin teaches and shares, he also lives. I've been in his home numerous times. I know his kids and wife quite well. And there is a sense of security and love and acceptance in that home. And for that reason, it's really an honor to have with us today, and would you please welcome my friend, Dr. Kevin Lehman. Thank you. Thank you, Bob. He's the best. He really is. You guys don't know how blessed you are. How many of you worship here regularly? Yeah, if I told my wife once, I've told her a thousand times, I wish we had a North Way in Tucson. I live in Tucson with the same wife. Thirty-five years. Thirty years in a row. Five kids. Let me put you on the spot for just a second. Ladies, would you stand up for a second? If you can. Stand up, would you? Now, if you didn't watch Princess Diana's funeral, sit down. Okay, now. Just take a look around. Look. All right, got it? Got it in our minds? Okay. Ladies, please sit. Be seated. Gentlemen, please rise. If you didn't watch the proceedings, the funeral, sit down. You see the differences there? Thank you. You can be seated. That's a plug for Monday night. We're going to be talking about why men and women are so different. It's 3.30 in the morning. I'm sound asleep. All of a sudden, I hear a man's voice in the room. My wife has gone through some chemical changes lately, but that wasn't it. It was the TV, and then I saw the flicker of the light, and I can't believe she's watching the whole thing. This is a woman who has a disease, paralysis of the eyelids. This is a woman who loves to sleep. She's up at 3.30 watching everything. I couldn't believe it. We had a guest in our home, Wendy, and she's downstairs watching it on the other TV. You women are so relational. We men are sort of arm's length relational. We're a little different. We're going to talk about that Monday. Tomorrow morning, for those of you in the business world, male or female, you're welcome to join us. We're going to talk about winning the rat race without becoming a rat. We're going to talk about attitude this morning, and I found a great quote out of the Winning the Rat Race book that I just wanted to share with you from Herb Kelleher, who wishes he was the CEO at U.S. Airways, but he's not. He's the CEO at Southwest Airlines. This is what he says. Listen to his quote. It's an interesting quote. He says, we tell prospective employees, we're not interested in your education. How about that, young people? This is a company that's not interested in your education. Hey, Ma, I don't have to do homework. Remember the doc said that company? Never mind. He says, we're not interested in your education, experience, or expertise as much as we are your basic philosophy, your attitude toward life, whether you enjoy helping other people or serving them. If you have that attitude, we can give you almost anything else you need. That makes the difference, the attitude that you have. And all of us have attitudes. We have attitudes about how people ought to be. Here's another little one. Listen to this one. This is a quote from Harvey McKay, chairman and CEO of McKay Envelope Corporation. He's the guy who wrote the book Swimming with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive. He says, quote, rotten wood cannot be carved. It's a great quote. Rotten wood can't be carved. And for you, your life, and my life to be transformed, for us to be carvable, to be usable, something has to happen in our life. And as the book of James points out, it's not just the works we do on this earth that get us into heaven. It's that faith. It's that commitment. It's that life-changing experience in our life. And I know Pastor Jay is excited about the vision he has for your church, about people here really going out and becoming bridge builders. And I'm excited just to see him excited about it. I think it's great. And as we look around, the problem is that a lot of us, I mean, in our homes, you'd think we'd be bridge builders in our homes, but lots of us in our homes, what we do is shut things down. We always know what's best for our kids. Here's a great question to start today. Sunday, it's a Sabbath, right? This is the Lord's Day. How many of you as parents yelled at your kids this morning? Put your hands up. The Lord will bless you for it. I love the way, yeah, I saw that hand. If your kids were here, they'd be going, put your hand up higher, Dad. We do that, don't we? You know, you'd like to be to church just once, just once during 1997, and you count the number of kids in the van, and you're minus one. Okay? Now, you could be a promise keeper. It doesn't make any difference. All of a sudden, that anger switch goes off inside you. You go storming in the house, and there's your little five-year-old son. What are you doing in here? You are supposed to be in the car. Do you know that, young man? You get in the car right now. We are going to worship the Lord together today as a family. We muscle him in the car, drive 12 miles to church, pull in, get in the front, come to the door. Oh, hi, how are you? This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad. What's your five-year-old kid doing? They're looking at you, saying, you phony baloney. Yeah, it's easy to harpoon each other. You know, in Luke chapter 5, we have the account where Jesus goes to Levi's home. And of course, he gets hammered by the Pharisees. And they say, you're going there? You're going with that guy? And again, what you have to remember, the tax collector was the scum of the earth at that time. And it was Jesus who turns and said, hey, it's the sick guy that needs the physician, not he who thinks he's already good enough. And so our mission here at North Way isn't to come to North Way and just be around lovely Christian people and hug each other and speak Christianese, which many of you can do. Some of you are great. I've listened to you. I mean, I love Christianese. Just love it, love it, love it. If I was a heathen, I got news for you. Your Christianese wouldn't bring me closer to your church, it would drive me away. I'd think you were some kind of nut. And some of you know my feelings on bumper stickers, because I've mentioned this before, I know. I'm not a Christian bumper sticker person. There's a bumper sticker that just drives me up the wall. It says, caution, have you seen this one? Caution, in case of rapture, this car will go unmanned. Now here I am, Kevin Lehman, the heathen, driving down Route 19, okay? I come to a stoplight and I look down there and I see this sign, this little bumper sticker. Is that going to do anything for me? No. It's going to make me want to run over you. There's a couple of them I do like. One of them says, let go and let God. I like that, because I found that true in my life. That you know, if you're a capable person, you know what's easy to say? Oh Lord, let me drive. You know, Lord, I'm a capable person. Let me take over the wheel of my life. You know what God will do? God will move off the center of your life, right there. He'll let you make a fool of yourself. He'll let you drive. And what will happen to you is the same thing that happens to me. I mean, you're so stupid, you tell yourself, hey, see, I can do it, I can do it. What happens? Crash. And as soon as you crash, who do you call on? God. And what do you say? God, would you, would you just sort of call me a little tow truck, get me out of here? Is that you again, Lehman? Yeah, Lord, it's me. All right. How come we have to learn that that way? You know, St. Paul, what a guy. I love St. Paul. No wonder so many churches and schools are named after the guy. He had great wisdom. He said great things. He said things like, you know, I don't understand myself. I tell myself I'm not going to do these things. And then I do these things. True. What day of the week do diets start on? Mondays. Tomorrow. Why? Because we're great at lying to ourselves. So it's Saturday night. You say to your wife, honey, I'm going on a new program. No, I mean it. I can't see my shoes anymore. Monday morning, honey, I'm going out. I'm telling you, go see a new man. Pass me that cherry cheesecake, would you, sweetie? That's a lie. It's the same lie you teenagers tell yourself when you're studying at night. Are you college students and you see a skirt or a dress or a pair of pants that has to be hung up? And you get up and you say to yourself, well, I think I'll get up and hang up those pants. Okay, get up, hang up the pants. What do you do next? Do you sit back and do your study? No. That's the excuse you provide for yourself that allows you to do something that you know you shouldn't do. And see, that's within all of us. So this thing called attitude is really important. That if you want to be approachable and you really want to be a light in this world, you've got to learn to flaunt your imperfection. Flaunt it. It's not something that comes natural to us, because what we like to do is cover up our imperfections. Anybody who's been in the spotlight, I mean, you get hammered. You get mail, you have people who don't like a word you said, they don't like your socks. I mean, they'll hammer you with anything. I was in Denver, Colorado one night with one of those places where there's just a spotlight in your face and you know there's a crowd there because you can hear them, but you really can't see them. Trust me. And they put microphones out there and let people ask questions afterward. And we were going through questions and some woman got up there and she didn't like anything I said. And she just ripped and ripped and ripped for about 90 seconds. I didn't quite know what to do except to just say one thing. I said, next. It was interesting what happened. You know what 8,000 people did in that arena that night? They applauded that statement. Why? Because they knew that her purpose was just to rip. And so as we go out and we do God's work, we're going to find people who are going to hammer us. So what? That's what the Bible teaches us. We're going to get hammered. Okay. But what a vision we've got here at North Way to go out and really connect with people around some basic areas that you like to do in life. It gives you great freedom. Paul, good old Paul says, we have liberty in Christ. Well, let's show liberty in Christ here at North Way. Let's get together in groups. Pastor Jay will talk to you more about that. But there's so much to look at here when we talk about attitude. You bring an attitude. You've heard about people who have a tooth, she's sporting a tooth, you know, and those kind of people, you know, I'd like to just punch out in sort of a Christian loving way. You get that feeling? You ever get that feeling inside? There's people that just sort of drive you up the wall. I'll tell you, things happen to you in a life you don't expect. Because as a daddy, I know exactly, really, I know exactly how my kids ought to be. I know who they ought to marry. My buddy Moonhead Teach says, yeah, all your daughters ought to marry youth pastors. I said, yeah, that'd be good. You know that feeling as a daddy if you've got a daughter? Cal, you've got six kids. How many daughters? A couple. Cal, you don't know how many daughters you got. You got so excited. You started two, went to three, went to four. Some of them are married. They're still daughters, Cal. Oh, gee, the things I learn up here teaching. But you know, our daughter Holly, who went to Grove City down the road, great school, but I got to tell you that. She becomes engaged to Bob. And Bob is wonderful. I love Bob. He's like my son. He's my associate in my office. He's like flesh and blood to me. I love the kid, 25 years old, curly hair, big old eyebrows, love him. They're engaged. Couldn't be happier. Well, guess what? Holly and Bob break off the engagement. You can't do that. Oh, hey, you can don't do that, anything but that. Don't do that. Don't, don't, don't. It's over. It's gone. It's not going to be. And into Holly's life, about a year later, comes Tony. Not Bob, Tony. And Bob is perfect for Holly, perfect. And Tony is different, what I imagine, from my daughter, because he came from a home where his dad abandoned them, raised by mom and a stepmom, and then they split up. Not exactly the greatest blueprint for success in marriage, I can tell you, as a psychologist. And I'll tell you, I'm so mud stupid sometimes, just mud dumb. I don't know another word for it. I'm talking about this one day with my wife, Tony this, Tony that, you know, Tony, honey. And she says, you mean he's not perfect? He's flawed? I said, yeah. He's got a lot of flaws. And she said, so do we. She said, have you ever thought that maybe God placed Tony in our lives for a specific reason? Oh, I hate truth. Don't you hate truth? When it hits you right between the eyes and you're being mud stupid? I had an attitude. I had a negative attitude about Tony, because Tony wasn't Bob. I remember the day Chrissy was born, our second born, 20 inches long, the size of a great large mouth. And I remember looking at that little round head, and my first thought when I looked at her was, she doesn't look like Holly, doesn't look like Holly. God gave us all individual fingerprints, didn't he? It made us all different. The scripture you read, that we read, that he forgot, that one, what did it say? It said that we've all been given what? Different gifts, different capabilities. Some of us do little different things better, don't we? And so we're all different. So it's really neat to think that in this body of believers, we could really have people come together, Christian people, and center around things that they like to do, whatever it might be. What a neat idea. What a freeing idea. And in the process, go out in this world and connect, and that's where the bridge comes in. You're either a bridge builder or you're a barricader, one or the other. We want to be bridge builders. That's what God has asked us to do through his son, Jesus Christ. And so what I'm saying is that every one of us need a ministry. What's your ministry? What's your ministry today? And better than that, what's keeping you from that ministry? Oh, well, you know, I just don't, you know, know. Don't know what? Well, you know. You're just saying about this awesome God. He's our king. He's this, he's that, he's wonderful. Well, you know, but, you know, well, you know, we're saying that, but, you know, I'm just. I'm just what? Oh, I'm just, you know, sort of ordinary. Okay. Did you ever take a look at those disciples? They're an interesting lot of people. Did you ever see your forefathers, the little pictures in the photo album? Did you ever see any Hartschafter-marked suits amongst them? No. They're pretty grubby-looking, motley-looking, cruel. And the disciples who walked with our Lord Jesus Christ were pretty motley-cruel, too. And they bellied up, too. Remember Thomas? I'll believe when I put my fingers in his sides. There's a statement of faith. In the upper room, you know, he says, hey, I'm out of here, guys. You know where I'm going. Philip says, I don't know what you're talking about. I don't have the foggiest idea of what we're talking about. Thomas says, yeah, I don't know either. Great people of faith. They walked and talked with Jesus and saw him perform these miracles before their eyes and they bellied up. And so what I'm saying is our mission in life is to go out there, but in the process, remember, we're going to belly up. But the good news is we worship a God of grace. He loves us despite ourselves. Sandy loves me despite the fact I do stupid, dumb things. Sometimes she just looks at me with this look. I hate it. And she says, leave me, leave me, leave me. And all I know is that I'm in trouble, trouble, trouble. And I did something stupid, stupid, stupid. She asked me to cut this bush back. I cut it back. I cut it back real good. Cut it back to a little stub. I consulted with a gardener. He said, within seven years, that bush will be back to normal. We just lay hands on the bush every morning now, and I just bring her coffee and try it. That's what it was. It was a killer bug. Pray for our sinners now at the hour of our death, amen. That's what we call a dead bug. That bug was scary looking. I think he tried to attack me a minute ago. But you know, being a believer is an awesome responsibility. It means that we have life-changing power within us as we touch other people's lives. So as Jay talks to you more about becoming a bridge builder, I really hope you'll take that to heart, because it's the key to taking this wonderful, unique ministry in the greater Pittsburgh area to new heights, okay? Don't forget, now Kevin will be with us tonight at 5 o'clock, talking to parents, and he says you can bring your children. There will be child care tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. for a one-hour breakfast. We'll be in and out in one hour, so get off to work, and then tomorrow evening, making marriage fun again. By the way, these two-hour time slots, that's maximal. It may not be quite that long. There will be some question-and-answer time, but they're going to be a great, great gathering. So make time to be with us, and bring a love offering. We want to honor Kevin for being with us and making time in his busy schedule to find his way down here to share with us. And I want to conclude really what I think is already clear to you about what God's giving us as a vision for this next ministry season, and it's really in my heart. Just three things, three ways that I want to submit to you to build a bridge. Number one, we've already talked about, and that's Alpha. And I want to commend those of you who brought friends along already to the Alpha dinner. Of that nearly 200 people that are signed up, more than half of them are folks who are not a normal part of our church life, and I think that's exciting. Some of them are Roman Catholics, and they wondered, is it okay to come if I'm Catholic? And the answer is, absolutely, you'll learn some things. A second bridge-building opportunity is going to be on Wednesday nights. Pastor Dave, with his great gift of teaching, is going to help many of us in the cultivating of our Christian faith, and ways to discover our spiritual giftedness and move out in that. We're going to call that Growing in Grace, and he'll tell you more about that in the coming weeks, but that starts in about ten days on Wednesday nights. I want to urge you to consider that. If you're not going to Alpha, you can certainly plug in on a Wednesday night, Pastor Dave's teaching, and you can indicate this on your communicator. The one I want to just narrow in on, though, for the last minutes is this. This came to us in these last few weeks as we've been praying as a staff and asking God, where should we go to mobilize this great church? Well, this whole idea of bridge-building, folks, isn't something we can just all do the same version of. It's something I believe that has to be unique, because the capacities within us are unique. And the key to this is small groups. Jesus sent people out how? Two by two. Two is a small group. Very small, but it's a group. He had how many around himself? Twelve. That's a larger group, but still, it's a small group. Clearly, the Lord Jesus saw the wisdom in small groups. I want you to turn your notebook notes open, please, to the inside cover, and see the statement that we have adopted. Now, this is about two years ago. It's our mission statement as a church. Look at it. We're to be a community of believers who relate authentically in small groups. Are you reading it? As we discover and engage our gifts to reach and transform our culture. That's our mission. That's how we're going to accomplish our vision. And there it is right before us. And in these closing months of 1997, I want to ask you to consider where you might want to fit in a small group and pursue your passion. What's been fascinating to me is that this capacity that all of us have to give, as Kevin was talking about, is something that is very latent. Some of you have never discovered that. And I would say one of the saddest things that could be written over any of us on our dying days is, well, I never really knew what I was supposed to do for the Lord, so I never did it. Friends, I believe God would say this. I believe he said to us that each of us has something in our hearts that we're really good at doing, we really enjoy doing, and we'd like to do it with others. And that if you're open to having others join with you, you can have a small group around that passion of yours. For some of you, it might be reaching out and caring for the sick. Some of you have a real tenderness and compassion. For some of you, it might be reaching out to motorcyclists. You know, there's a group in our church that reaches out to bikers. For some of you, it might be understanding how God wants you to function in the marketplace as a Christian. That's a tough challenge for a lot of people. For some of you, it might be around the whole issue of contemporary music and how do I relate my Christian faith to what's going on out there in bands and in music. For others, it might be just being a parent of a teen and how in the world do I understand that process? For some of you, it might be, you know, outdoorsy kind of things, mountain biking, hiking, running, whatever. All these are valid interests that other people would connect, and friends, that's the beginning of being able to have a platform to build a relationship which then can lead to the opportunity to talk about Christ and what He's done in your life. For some of you, it could be something as profound as racial reconciliation. For others, something as simple as just simply having a Bible study with some other students who are kind of interested in faith. Now, the primary small group at North Way will continue to be the cells because many of you have connected with cells and will continue to pour energy into the cell development at North Way. But I just want you to see this is going to be a growing thing. Some of you might want to be starting a small group around the issue of being adoptive parents. Some of you might be having multiple cats in your household. That's one that I'm going to be part of. It's creating a terrific psychological dilemma for me. But on September 27th, number three, we're going to have what I'm going to call a small group training camp. We've changed that whole weekend around to focus on small groups. And in the morning from 9 to 11, we're going to give this vision in detail. We're going to empower you to be a group leader around whatever interests you. And all you need to do to come to this is to say, I'm interested in starting a small group and willing to be one who's going to step out and provide some leadership. And I want to urge you, if you can find one other person to come together so there's two of you to start, that could be an exciting adventure. Then in the evening, Chris Bowater and Sandy Colton will be here to kind of commission us out into this new venture of small group life here at Northwind. Now I know some of you are thinking, well, you know, I maybe can do this. I mean, I'd like to, but you know, I'm not sure this is the time. I've got lots of other things on my plate. Maybe I'll get around to it. Let's sort of wait and see when I really can get to an attitude. Friends, I've had it with that, haven't you? Things never get done when we just wait and see. It's that sort of chronic delay syndrome. A man went back to the house that he grew up in. He'd been gone for 20 years. He left as a teenage boy, now in his 30s. Walked up to the door and said, you know, I don't want to interrupt or impose myself upon you, but can I just look around the house? I grew up here. A nice lady in the home said, well, of course. She said, by the way, this reminds me, we found something in this house, and I didn't know how to get a hold of you, and she brought this trunk out that had some clothes in it. He was astonished. He said, that's what happened to that thing. And he opened it up, and on top of the trunk was this high school letter jacket that he really missed and didn't know what happened to. And he put it on. It was a little tight, of course, at that point in his life. Reached his hand in the pocket and pulled out this little ticket stub from a shoe store. And he said, I'll be done. And that's what happened to those shoes, too. So he said goodbye to the lady and thanked her for her hospitality and got in his car. He said, just on a whim. He said, I'll just drive by. And lo and behold, the same shoe store, at the same location. He got out of his car, and to his astonishment, this same guy was behind the desk 20 years later. And so he pulled out this little ticket stub, and he said, here it is, a little old. Guy took it, said thank you, walked back behind the curtain, came back out, and said, yeah, they'll be ready on Friday. 20 years. Well, I've got to do them now. I'll be ready on Friday. Now, that's how some of us think. We're not going to move until we just absolutely have to. And, friends, it's time. I've made a challenge to this service that God, by His grace, would fill every seat in this auditorium in the second service by