The Vow: Part 1 - "The Vow of Priority" with Craig Groeschel - Life.Church

thanks for joining us here at Life Church where we are one Church meeting in multiple locations and reaching around the world thanks to what God is doing at church online if you ever have any questions or you want to learn more about us as a church you can always check us out online simply by going to life dot Church or we'd love you to stay connected throughout your week and everywhere you go with a Life Church app it's available for free today wherever you download your apps from now coming up today we start a brand new message series that no matter what your relationship status you're going to set yourself up for a god-honoring marriage but here's the thing so many marriages today have priority for those priorities or in the wrong place and today we'll see when we make God our number one and our spouse our number two we're set up for a life long marriage let's join our senior pastor Craig Groeschel for week 1 of his message the vows [Applause] everybody welcome to live search this weekend I am so thankful for all of our open network search partners we love partnering with you we love your pastors all of you at church online all over the world you're not on the other side of a computer screen by accident we believe that God brought you here especially for this community let me tell you what I'm excited that we're launching into a new four-part message series called the vow I don't know if any of you have known this but notice but there are marriages struggling all over the place has anybody seen this going on maybe in your own life or in other lives and I believe that this is not acceptable to God I believe that he has something so much better for us and so for the next four weeks what we want to do as a church is invest in the lives of those who one day will be married so that years later you don't say I wish I'd have known that back then but right now you'll be equipped with spiritual truth that will help prepare you for a relationship that would honor God and we want to speak directly into marriages to strengthen them to become everything that God would want them to become so if I can get a little bit of help from all of our churches I'm curious ladies let's start with you ladies go first how many of you when you were a little girl you fantasized one day about having the perfect wedding with the perfect guy living in the perfect house and you even named your perfect children before you ever had them ladies if you had something close to that would you raise your hands right now raising about raising my hands out all over the place then let's talk to you you probably had a little different fantasy when you were a teenager pretty simple how many of you dreamed about getting married and having sex twice a day raise your hand now I want to talk to everybody how many of you are still dreaming to this day kind of the way it is right just kind of the way it is it's interesting how sometimes our expectations of what we hope marriage will be seems to fall way sort of what it actually is and when you look around today you have to admit that so many marriages are just not working in fact it's really really scary when you start to read about the statistics you know depending on what article you read or what survey or study you read somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 percent of marriages don't make it that is horrifying think about it in any other area of your life if there was something important that you could lose and there was a 50% chance that you would lose it don't you think you would seriously approach it be dramatic in your preparation and do everything possible to eliminate that potential danger in other words if you have children and there's a 50% chance they're going to get killed in a car wreck today don't you think you're going to put a helmet on them before they get in a car or make sure you know the driver or you know do something different if you there's a 50% chance you're going to get attacked by a bear when you go to the mailbox I know that would probably never happen but where I live it quick you know you know if you gotta get the mail you're probably going out in full armor you got a gun if you're from my home state you know if you're from some other state you might have a knife I don't know what it is but you're ready for this and with the odds being what they are with so many people going to marriage today I would argue the reason that marriages are struggling is because so often people are not actually spiritually prepared to live a marriage that honors God if you ask me is a god-honoring great marriage possible I would tell you emphatically absolutely and completely yes it is yes you yes yes yes yes it is but but it's not likely if you follow the path that so many people follow today and that's why for four weeks in our church we're going to invest into the lives of the people that God loved so much to help prepare them for a marriage that would honor God and go the distance we're calling this message series the valve and what we're going to do is look at four different valves I want to give credit to Jimmy Evans who in 1994 first published a book called marriage on the rock and in it he had some different vowels I've edited them and made them my own but we're going to look at four vowels over the next four weeks today if you're taking notes we're going to look at the valve of priority keeping the priorities in the proper place in our relationships next week going to be crazy fun you do not want to miss next week we're going to talk about the vow of pursuit how do we continue to pursue our spouses after we already have them week number three could get a little bit tricky we're going to talk about the vow of partnership we're going to look at what is a covenant different than a contract we're going to look at leadership in submission Oh scary scary word we're gonna look at leadership in submission and see how this God plays this out in the valve of partnership and then week number four is incredibly important we're going to talk about the valid purity wherever secrecy lives innate marriage intimacy dies and we're going to look at how do we live a pure life in a very very impure world in a way that would prepare us for marriage today we're talking about the valve of priority I'm going to start with a very common belief in our world today your your little kids are taught this from Disney Princess movies or fairy tales or love stories but it's the common idea that to really be fulfilled in life you have to meet the one to really really be happy to really really have the life of us meaning you have to meet that one perfect person that gives you goosebumps that when you smell them the hair on the back of your neck gonna curl of that every song on the radio makes sense you want to buy every card at the at the drugstore for that your love EWS you have to find the one to really be fulfilled in life you have to find the one to really be happy like you have to find the one what I'm hoping after this message that there'll be some of you who are very very different instead of saying to really be fulfilled in life I just met the one I just met the one he's all adorable he's so cute he kind of jobs last few guys I didn't even have a job through addictions or ps4 but he doesn't even know what a video game is she's amazing I love when she worships she's so cute it's like yeah I think I just met the one I'm hoping that some of you instead of saying I think I just met the one instead you're going to say I think I just met the two I think I just met the two he's so amazing he has a job she's so amazing she loves God I think I just met the two why will you be excited about me meeting the two if you're taking notes because God is your one and your spouse is your two God is your one and your spouse is your two even Jesus said this very clearly when someone said what's the most important command he said above anything else make God number one he said love the Lord your God with all your heart mind soul and strength God is first then people come next love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself this is priority to really have a marriage that honors God we put God first in our relationship and then our spouse is number two now I'd like to talk to those of you that are not married you're not married all of our church raise your hands right now we're going to leave them out for a minute just look around just look around I'm giving you a second just scan the aisles if your eyes meet and you hear love songs you just you just go with it start a life group whoever finds God finds life everybody's God finds a wife I just go with it if you want to because sometimes it just it just goes happen and so I want to say to those of you that one day hope to be married this would be kind of your vow you can just jot this down in your notes if you want to your valid because I'll seek the one while preparing for my two I will seek the one while preparing for my two it's a little bit like this one girl who was a Christian growing up and then in college she walked away from Jesus and got into every kind of party thing she could get into drugs and everything that went with it and one day at her sorority party she met the most amazing Christian guy she called her mom and said mom I wanted this is the guy I mean he's perfect he's godly he's a leader you know I think he's amazing and the mom just said very tenderly but very truthfully so sweetheart you need to understand if he's everything you're saying a guy like that's not looking for a girl like you and this is just a business the way it is this is why what my friend Andy Stanley says I believe is absolutely so important you may just jot this down in your notes he said become the person you're looking for is looking for I love that it become the person that you're looking for is looking for in other words I'm going to seek the one I'm going to live for God my whole life is going to be devoted to him he is king he is first in my life he is preparing me for someone that I can serve him with but he's always my one I'll seek the one while he prepares me for my two for those of you that are married this is your valve you're taking notes write this down this is your vow if you are married I promise God will be my first priority and my spouse will be my second let's all say it aloud I promise God will be my first priority and my spouse will be my second this comes from Genesis chapter 2 the context is Adam was living and was there's no suitable helper for him God said this isn't good he put him into a deep sleep took out his rib formed Eve and Adam saw a well old man besser name was woman she's a joke but I'm done whoa man and Genesis 2:24 sorry gets worse just hang with me Genesis 2:24 says this this is why a man does what somebody help me out this is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife this is why he leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife they become one flesh the word leaves comes from the root Hebrew word ahzaab it's also the same word that guys you sometimes when they see other guys god I told you it got worst as I told you I love any like just and that's as bad as it gets from here on out we're on the place a Azza this word means to loosen or relinquish in other words when you're growing up your priority relationship is mom and dad you always honor mom and dad but your priority shifts from that being your primary relationship to now it's your spouse your your God is your one and your spouse becomes your primary human relationship after God the problem is so often when we believe you have to meet the one to be just happy they have to meet the one to be fulfilled when you believe that your spouse is your one eventually you will idolize somebody and then one day you demonize them you idolize me you're amazing you're perfect you're everything you're everything I've wanted ladies you'll you know he's so laid back he's so relaxed then you get married you demonize him he's a lazy bum he won't mow the yard you idolize you demonize she's so organized she's so driven she's amazing you get married demonized she's gonna drive me crazy I need to be set free for her in the name of Jesus you know you're idolizing demons and a problem is you're asking your spouse to meet a need they were not designed to meet because God is designed to meet your number-one need a priority and not your spouse together you serve God but that person is not designed to meet the need that only God can meet and this is kind of what tends to happen when you're early on you make your girlfriend your priority you know you want to bring your priority maybe you get married you're still the priority and then kids come along and suddenly instead of a marriage relationship being the priority under God suddenly the kids are the priority and then sometimes like the husband may get a little jealous like well I got to go it pours himself into work and maybe the wife drops them off for daycare and pours herself into work or pours herself into kids and suddenly the marriage relationship gets put on the shelf fast forward to your deathbed to your deathbed if you can imagine if you are blessed enough to have weeks maybe to prepare for eternity that's where the priority become incredibly clear I've been with as a pastor to many people to count and there's two things that matter God and family people may not believe in God their whole life they're on their deathbed oh there's a god I wonder where I stand God becomes priority where do I stand with God is my family nearby it becomes incredibly clear God and family God is my number one priority my spouse is my number two whenever anything takes the place of God or takes the place of the priority of the marriage relationship even something good when those priorities are out of order your marriage can never be what God intended it to be because you're not living according to the God ordained priorities if I can be really really honest it was when my priorities were out of order that that Amy and I first struggled in our marriage what I'm going to tell you it's so embarrassing and Amy consider over there nod and say it's so true and don't judge me I only made this mistake once I learned but when we had our first child Katie was born on a Thursday in 1994 I was in full-time ministry and full-time seminary and I had a class that I had to take in order to graduate and that semester or I would have had to go a whole extra semester the class happened to be an all-day class on Friday and an all-day class on Saturday and I had a preaching responsibility on Friday and on Sunday so Amy gave birth on a Thursday happiest moment ever Friday dum-dum went to class I preached Friday night I went to class on Saturday I preached Sunday in my mind in my mind honestly and I know this is stupid but this is like this is a man for you ladies it's a man I was doing the right thing for my family to prepare us for the future I had no idea that when I allowed one of Amy's friends sorry to drive her home from the hospital that I told you not to judge me hey I'm not up in your business and I got the mic I can get all up in your business in a moment I thank you I thought my kids at least have some great I had no idea no idea no idea what an inconsiderate thing that I done that's why we had six kids five times to make it up I had allotted to house to make up for that and I think you can at least say I never ever ever did that again and and if we can take it a little bit more Amy went so into our baby that I started to feel a little bit neglected like okay using that baby without your big baby over here about this baby and and so I poured myself into work and she poured herself in the first child and it was the first time that we ever had any tension in our marriage and it wasn't because something bad got in the way because so often it's not something bad that ruins of marriage so often it's something good that it's not in the right priority God is my one my spouse is always by two and we have to live according to these priorities if we want to really honor God and what I didn't understand is Amy had a real legitimate jealousy about being being away I was thought jealousy was wrong there is such a thing as legitimate jealousy in fact one of God's name is jealous God is a jealous God there is a sinful jealousy and there's a legitimate jealousy any time we put anything ahead of God he is legitimately and righteously jealous it called an idol if you put anything a head of God he he has the right because of who he is a holy and a righteous God to be legitimately jealous and that's why every now and then you may find yourself in your marriage bill I'm a little bit jealous of your time with the kids because truthfully yes we should have time of the kids but our marriage relationship should be a priority to keep it strong so we can be a blessing to the kids well I'm jealous of your time with your friends I'm jealous your time with your friends there are some cycle people who think you should never have a friend I'm not talking about that but I'm talking about if you're always out doing something else and not making your marriage a priority that's a legitimate jealousy I know some people that are jealous over their spouses phone right next to each other in bed that's all you can come up with the do I mean I've literally heard of people like throwing their phones across it's not just like a legitimate jealousy because your phone is in the wrong place in the in the priorities and so that's why I want to give you one big thought - one simple thought and I want to introduce it with this again it's not always the bad things that destroy marriages it's often good things that are out of place in the relationship one big thought and a big thought is this protect the priorities protect the priorities if you will recognize listen if you're going to get married later on in the future embrace it today God will always be your number one and your spouse will always be your number two my spouse my god is my first priority and my spouse is my second if you're married today and you are struggling in any way I can almost guarantee you you can trace it to this root issue that you're not putting God first you're not putting God first we're not seeking him first you want your marriage to grow serve him in the church together seek him first every single day pray together be centered around God's Word seek Jesus together put him first and then make sure you come together and your your your relationship with each other is number two I'll let me get just real practical let's get real product one of the ways that we did this after I overcame my baby Fiasco okay is when we started producing kids all the time every time I would look at Amy she would get pregnant well you're pregnant you're pregnant you're pregnant for a while we thought that's what causing it later on we figured it out but anyway what I would do whenever I come home is I'd have four or five six these are little kids coming up to me and I always say no no no and they'd be hanging on me I drag them through the house and I always say mama gets the first kiss mama gets the first kiss and I would go up there and give them i'ma kiss mama would actually get a little extra-special chest that nobody else did right you know I'm tellin ya mama get the first kiss mama get the first kiss and then I go and kiss the rest the kids and what I wanted them to understand is is mom actually comes before you in the relationship and since you kind of were mooing at me earlier on I might get up into your business a little dead and tell you some things are going to make some of you mad but it's only because I love you and this is so true do not be child centered in your marriage don't be child centered children are important children are a gift from God but if you want to love your kids prioritize your marriage one of the best ways you can be a blessing to your children is to strengthen your marriage and you all know you've all seen it some of you unfortunately you've lived it your whole life revolves around the kids I love the kids the kids the kids and that's the common interest that keeps you together one days the kids grow up and you look each other and go who are you and what you do with that person I married twenty years ago and suddenly you don't have any intimacy because your whole life is revolved around your children here's what you need to understand and remember children are a temporary assignment they're temporary assignment you will have them for 18 19 years unless you have a millennial they may be there for 30 years or whatever I'm just saying I'm just say and I'm just I told y'all poke back X if you poke at me I'll post back at you right you may have them for 30 years but at some point it's healthy to push them out and say you go serve Jesus and you live on your own they're a temporary assignment your marriage is till death do us part it's till death do us part it's not until we're not happy anymore it's not until you're not meeting my needs anymore it's not until something better comes along it's not I'm going to trade you in for a different model it's till death do us part your marriage is a permanent god-honoring commitment and that's why we have to continue to prioritize it even above the children that doesn't mean we don't feed them and don't give them baths and don't put clothes on them especially the boys who would be naked if you didn't but you you honor the marriage in all that you do if you want your children to succeed in marriage show them what a god-honoring marriage looks like show them what a god-honoring marriage looks like I thought that this whole message would be very incomplete unless I had a little bit of help and so we had people present some questions around this topic and I wanted to give a me a chance to respond to some of the most common questions I want to be a great wife right and I really can't do that unless I first and a great follower of Christ and that to me is the key I can't love Craig the way I need to love them I can't be patient the way I need to be patient if my relationship with God isn't strong my pride my stubborn heart can so easily get in a way of helping me to be a good excellent wife that I need to be and so nothing is going to deal with my heart more than me prioritizing that time with God and I want that looks like practically oh gosh you know it's just time with him it's set apart time in the mornings but it's just walking with and throughout the day independence just keep continually acknowledging his presence with me and my need for him just try to be slow to speak and listen for his promptings it's not easy and I don't always get it right but I do get it right when I'm depending on on Christ keeping Christ first doesn't really work together unless we have it individually right first so what what works so well is that we both have real authentic individual relationship with Christ and so it just makes it so much more natural that we're together that you know Christ is our life and it becomes our marriage and it becomes our conversation and and when we're struggling we share those struggles together and we go to God in prayer about those things and and you know he's just one with us in all that we do in our conversations and how we need our family how we want to prioritize our marriage it's just not something that can be separated from who we are as a couple this is a really tough one because I am crazy about my kids I'm crazy about kids but they didn't come first and my marriage did and my kids can't be the wonderful people thriving children of God that I want them to be without my marriage being strong it's not just that I want my marriage to be good so my kids are good but the marriage is the children are expression of of us and our love but to be very practical you've got to do some things you've got to make marriage the priority in the family and the ways that that looks like for us is having date night and that may be that we don't even go anywhere but it's the kids are in a separate room and we have our room we're off limits it may mean that lock on the bedroom door it may mean that a lot of different things it may mean that you just have couch time and they're not there with you but then the kids cannot be first or else the marriage won't won't last let's give a little bit of thank you to so much good with them and I just I just need to publicly say how much I love you and how honored I am to be your man help thankful I am that you're my grown and when I acknowledge for a moment is that there are so many hurting relationships right now and I hurt with you and you know our hearts break what we're talking about today what I want to understand it is it really is simple but it's not easy okay it's really simple meaning we what we do is we put God first not just we say that we do it we do it we do it God is first we pray together we're people of his word we're involved in his church we're seeking to live out his word we're letting the Holy Spirit live through us he's first and then we work hard to protect the priority of the marriage and we have to work hard it to work hard I mean we work harder today at it because there's so many obstacles everything in society pulls us away from each other and so what I want to do is just talk to the men because I feel a little bit more freedom to talk to the guys I'll let a me you know get up in the girls business more but the guys but I want to tell you is if I can just charge you take responsibility to protect the priorities because you're protectors gentleman if someone breaks in your house and it takes attempts to attack your family how many of you will fight back hands down no doubt about it even being your tighty-whitey underwear and you turn into a fierce tiger I got nunchucks baseball bats like a weapons all over the house any room in the house I'll take you out you've messed with my family you may have to kill me but you'll have to kill me to stop me okay I'll protect my family that's easy to do because we're wired to do it we will die for those that we love God calls you to live for those you love to live for them every single day in fact gentlemen what I hope you'll understand is you are charged by God essentially to live or to give your best to give your best for two things for Christ and to lay down your life for your wife that's what you're called to do protect those priorities in fact I love just the teaching of Paul in Ephesians 5:25 husband's hears your calling love your wives your calling love them serve them on earth of love your wives just as Christ loved the church and did what gave himself up for her protect the priorities at all cost what does that mean gentlemen we keep God first we are people of the church we bring our families to church we serve in church we are people of the word we are daily in God's Word we're modeling this for our kids community is a part of who we are we're in a life group doing life together with other believers God is our priority we make time for each other when everything pulls us away we make guarded time to talk if you don't talk you can't have any intimacy we mean as practical as it is we're going to have a date night we're going to have a little getaway night some of you you're going to tell me you can't afford it you don't have time listen if you're lazy you'll make an excuse if you love you'll make a way let me say it again if you're lazy you'll make an excuse if you love your spouse you will make a way you will make a way you'll make a way you'll put on a video in the other room put on Netflix lock the door give your kid some benadryl put on some romantic music go and lock the door or go on the other room and dance the night away whatever it is you know don't tell me you can't afford to get away if you're in a life group you got free a free babysitter jump them off at their house this weekend next week the party's at your house go get a tent put it up in the backyard light a fire put a candle in there make sure you got water to put the fire out if things get crazy knock it over you can do this when Amy and I were first married and we have any money but I said we're going to go out of town we used to go to hotels so cheap honest-to-goodness for 25 cents you could make the bed vibrate one time the bed got suck my vibrator on my log wow that was a blooded vibrate for a quarter listen hug true story true story and all the people said amen love makes away love makes away love makes away so what are we going to do we protect the priority at all cost we protect the priority why because you never can be fulfilled in life until you finally meet the one you can never be fulfilled in life until you know the Lord God he's your one God is your one and your spouse is your two I will always honor God as my first priority and my wife will always be my second and I'll protect those priorities with everything in and if I start there the foundation will be laid to have a marriage that can truly honor God and that is worth building a life on all of our churches let's take a moment and pray father thank you so much that you're going to equip and empower us to to honor you god I know there are many relationships that are hurting and struggling today we pray God that we can put you first reprioritize our life around that which matters most and find healing through your son Jesus all of our churches those who are not married and want to seek the one while God prepares you for your two would you lift up your hands right now just lift it up those who are married and say even no matter what's going on in my marriage right now it may be great it may be at the lowest point ever with God's help we will make him our one and make our spouse our number two would you lift up your hands I want to pray for you father today I pray for those who would one day be married God that you would give them a foundation of righteousness to build upon that they would seek you with all their hearts today and God as they seek you they'd be conformed the image of your son Jesus becoming more like him as you are preparing them to serve you with their number two God I pray for those who are married today I pray for those marriages that are strong they would be strengthened and protected from the attacks of the Evil One God I pray for those who are just floating along and those that are struggling in a significant way I pray God today that you would rattle them with deep conviction that you are to be their number one that we don't go to church whenever we can or whatever you your house is our priority we don't read the Bible every now and then your word is the bread of life we don't do life outside of the strength of a Christ filled community in a life group we need your people God to strengthen us help us God in our marriage to learn to make you number one then God lead us empower us I pray especially for the men God that you would empower them to protect the priorities God for the conversations that may take place today in the week to come may they be productive and full of grace looking two ways that you can improve our marriage not throwing accusations but God seeking you to change us to become who you want us to be to serve you better with our to bring healing bring intimacy bring strength and restoration as you keep praying today at all of our different churches some of you right now you should feel the weight of what you don't have God wants to be your number one he wants to be number one not in name only but in the way that you live and I hope you'll understand our God is a jealous God when you put anything else ahead of him that is an idol that is a misplaced priority and our God is a jealous God he is the righteous king of kings and Lord of lords he is a supreme creator of the universe the holy righteous God sitting on the throne and he wants to be first in your life the problem is by Nature we're all sinners we've all we all step away from God we all do things that are wrong and we need to recognize that call it what it is it's not a mistake it's sin and when you recognize that you're a sinner then you'll recognize you need a Savior and this is why God is so amazing because He loves you so much that he became a person like you in his son Jesus God became flesh Jesus perfect in every way died on a cross on the third day he rose from the dead he defeated death hell and the grave why so that anyone this includes you no matter how dark your life is no matter how many sinful mistakes you make anyone who calls on his name would be saved sins forgiven made completely brand-new and all of our churches there are those of you you recognize you need His grace you need his salvation you need His mercy and all of our churches those who say yes today I trust him yes today I give my life to him when you call on him you'll forgive your sins and make you new all of our churches you say yes I make him my one I give my life to him that's your prayer lift your hands high right now all of our churches and say yes I surrender my life to him I see her hands going up at all of our churches Church online you click right below me and would you join your voice with people all around you coming to faith in Christ and pray aloud pray Heavenly Father I give you my life save me from my sins be my Lord and first in my life Jesus saved me fill me with your spirit so I could follow you you are my one thank you for a new life today I give you mine in Jesus name I pray my church would you watch a big worship loud as a buffalo for into God's family at Life Church it's our honor to play even a small part in all that God is doing in and through your life and we would love to continue with you on that journey I know many of you after hearing a message like this much like myself have thought yourself I haven't always done a great job at putting God in that first priority spot one of the best ways to do that is by spending time in God's Word each and every day and one of the biggest honors we've had here as the church is to play a part in enabling millions of people around the world to engage with God's people each and every day everywhere we go through the YouVersion Bible app in fact it's been downloaded over a quarter of a billion times by people in every country around the world some of them reading God's Word for the very first time two of those people Tina and Teddy Campbell are in Los Angeles California and they use God's Word and the Bible app I'm feeling and renewal for their marriage when it was at their worst check it out I am Tina Campbell better known to many people that might be familiar as one half of the gospel group Mary Mary I am a drummer by profession I did The Tonight Show with Jay Leno American Idol I toured with Christina Aguilera Britney Spears Backstreet Boys 98 degrees we went on to about about seven albums and won a few Grammys and won a few American Music Awards and all that kind of stuff we also have a reality show called Mary Mary show on WE tv we have been blessed to have a platform where we can share Jesus with many people who would otherwise not be interested so my relationship with my wife to the time when the overwhelming demands on our life was professional and personal I became aware of indiscretions in my marriage and I thought I was going to lose it it was just our personal struggle at first and then get you ended up being on TV because it was Appeals our reality you know the Bible's playing in my head all these women thought you know they're kids now you can't even saying the gospel because you don't even believe in it in God doesn't love you where every night was a night of torment every day was a day of sadness I didn't know this person that I had to come I screwed up as a man and so in my search of trying to be a better man a better husband everything pointed to Jesus I told God you won't let me die show me how to live no residue a ruminant of what happened to me and so I thought I read the Bible so I opened up the word I didn't just find silence for the devil silence to the noise and torment I found life in every aspect of my existence and all of a sudden I saw a plan that was exactly what I needed and that changed my life so I spend every day of my life on my view version Bible that every day had my phone and I could open up the Word of God and I could find answers and solution and knowledge and understanding I lived on that we do everything together music write songs together produce records together put books out together everything you do together I'd like to think that this app saved my life it made the things of God easier for me to to take in and to understand what people are going to come up to you in heaviness a thank you for being a part of that church that launched one of the most one of the most powerful communication tools ever made if you don't already have the YouVersion Bible app available on your phone you can download it today completely for free from your favorite app store and begin to read God's Word each and every day just like Tina and Teddy do you know here at Life Church it's our mission to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ that single statement drives everything we do here as a church all because we believe whoever finds God truly finds life [Applause] you

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