A vision for bread: a Worshipful church.

(upbeat music) Welcome to Bread. As the summer draws to a close, we look ahead to where we're heading as a church. Over the coming weeks, we're exploring God's vision for bread. What is He saying to us? Where is He leading us? And how do we practically respond? This is the challenge. Are we ready to step up and commit to His plan for His church, so that we might experience all that God wants to do in us and through us? Just before Ben comes to speak, I wanted to give a bit more detail to the context in which we're speaking. This is a series that we're in in the middle of called a vision for bread. And as I've been saying, the vision for any church is really preset. It's set by God. He decides what His church is gonna be and we can read about it in the New Testament. That's the church and we just need to be the church. However, of course, every church has different things that they value in particular and different ways of fulfilling God's vision for the church. And so we've sort of been looking at how we as a church and can fulfill God's vision for us His church. And last week, we introduced the five pillars. There's another religion with five pillars. These are better pillars and so these are the five pillars of bread, good to get that out the way. They are discipleship, worship, service, operations and community, those are the five pillars that we have sort of established as holding up the church here. And last week, Wayne introduced discipleship. And really when Jesus says at the end of Matthew's gospel that he's calling his followers to make disciples of all nations, to make disciples of all people, teaching them to obey everything that he has commanded, that's what it means to be a follower of Jesus. We're called to grow up into Him and we're called to bring others into that discipleship relationship. And we do that to hear through things like this is not an exhaustive list but small groups. Bible study, alpha, leadership development, our everybody gets to pray kind of practicing the power of the Holy Spirit in praying for others that we do as a cause. So that's discipleship. Then we have worship. Paul says that we are to rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances. And by that, I think he means this is what you've become. You have become a worshipper of the living God and Ben's gonna talk more about this. But we do that through things like Sunday services and even song and Holy Spirit nights, our Easter and Christmas big services and of course, kids church. And then we have service which we are all called to serve one another humbly in love as Paul commands us. And there are various ways in which we serve. Community barbecues which we had last week and community potlucks volunteering in any way whether you volunteer in the parking lot or you volunteer in kids church or in the worship team. Serving the city teams which Cat mentioned and partner organizations like Covenant House that we want to engage with and of course in giving, giving our money, our time, our resources. These are always in which we serve. And then the fourth of our five pillars operations. If those other pillars are kind of what we do, the operations is how we do it. Paul says in Colossians chapter three that whatever we do do it as those serving the Lord. Do it with all our heart. And the way we do things is just as important as what we do and how we do it. So we have a board, we have a council, we want to be fiduciarily responsible, we want to do things everything well as well as we possibly can. And we want to be people of integrity, a church of integrity and transparency. So we'll talk more about operations in a couple of weeks. And then finally the fifth of our five pillars community. We heard about Weekend Away. We've heard about the Arts Community Group. We have a whole bunch of different community groups. We run socials, we have Field Day, we have newcomers events. These are just ways in which we can get together and be with one another. The wonder of the church is that it's a full of different types of people. It's the only place where we can sit down with people that in other contexts we would never be able to meet or have a relationship with. And that is the beauty of the church. We want to build a community where there are no fleeks that we're all one because that is what God has made us. So those are the five pillars. And really the vision is that we all grow up into all of them. There'll be some that you find more familiar, more exciting. But we're called to grow into all of them whilst using our particular gifts to serve the whole body. So that's the idea. We're going to sort of flesh out more of the practical ways in which we can get involved in all of these things. But for now, it's Ben. He's going to talk about worship. - Hello, good morning everybody. I just, I don't know why, but I just had a flash of when I was, as many of you know, I'm a pastor's kid. I was about 17. I once wrote a skit, like a short play, that was some kind of salvation message. And I just remember storming in, wearing a suit, holding a briefcase. And I was like acting out some kind of story about God. And anyway, I just had a flash of that. Imagine if I got up here and I was like, I've actually prepared a little one-man show for you all. All right, this is great. I've been given a little bit of extra time because it turns out I'm notorious for talking for a long time. I don't know where I get that from. So we're going to race through. I am today talking about worship. If we are talking about the vision for our church, part of the vision for our church is that we are a church who worships, who knows what it is to worship, who knows what it means to worship, and who understand the power of worship. It says in John chapter four verse 23, the hour is coming and now is here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father is seeking such to worship him. God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. So we will be a church. We are committed to being a church of true worshipers and understanding what that is. And I help out here in the worship team and you've normally seen me up on stage. Why don't we pray and then we're going to get into it. Also, well, let's pray first and then we'll, and I'll talk more. God, I just pray that this morning, whatever it is that I have to say, ultimately would be your words speaking through me and that I would just be kind of the mouthpiece for you and what you want to share with us this morning. Help us to understand something new about your presence and what it means to worship you. Amen. All right, I would love to, there will be some moments of audience participation. So just be ready for that. Maybe just in your seats now, just do a little shake, just do a little, (imitates singing) okay, I didn't hear any sounds, so maybe just get a little, just a warm up, you've just said you were ready, just a little, (imitates singing) okay, grab, great. I just want to know that you're ready. I am going to talk specifically today, now listen. As Christians, as Ed just said, we are worshipers. Everything in our life is worship, the way we do our jobs, is worship, the way we raise our kids, is worship, the way we spend our money, is worship, great. Figure that out in your selves. What I'm talking about today is the way we play out music and I have talked about this many times before, but I actually haven't done this at church for like a couple of years. So there's a lot of new people that will be maybe hearing some of this for the first time, and then if you have heard this before, that's perfect, 'cause I'm going to get you to help me with some parts of this. I'm going to open with a scripture, and this one I'm going to put up on the screen, this is Isaiah, chapter six, verse one to four. The prophet Isaiah says, "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and exalted, seated on a throne, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him was Saraphim, each with six wings, with two wings, they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying." And they were calling to one another, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, the whole earth is full of his glory." At the sound of their voices, the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke. Hold that image in your mind, that the prophet Isaiah in a moment of inspiration was looking up and had a vision of heaven and saw this throne room around which angels were flying, and it was shaking with the glory of God, and it filled with smoke. And when we get a similar image in Revelation chapter four, Revelation chapter five, and Revelation chapter seven, when John the Apostle also had a vision of heaven, and he saw the same thing. I was trying to, I love a prop, or like a visual representation, often hand-drawn. So I was trying to think of just a visual to give us all this morning. Now these are going to be very crude, and obviously not trying to tell you that this is exactly what it looked like. I like to think it looked a little something like this. Now I believe this is hand-drawn. Guys, Christians love AI, it turns out. If you Google, if you Google the glory throne room of God, let's just say Christians have no problem burning the earth to the ground, creating really awful images of white Jesus on the throne. But anyway, this is what I could find. So I just want to hold this, so the prophet Isaiah, thousands and thousands of years ago, is like having a moment, and whether he was, Who knows if it's a vision or whatever it is he sees heaven. This is what he sees. I like to imagine, is anyone seeing the movie Dr. Strange? You know Dr. Strange? Well, let me paint a picture for you. Dr. Strange is a superhero in the Marvel Universe. And he learns through the power of magic to open portals. He gets this special ring, and he does this thing. He goes, and he, once he masters it, he opens a portal to another dimension. It looks like this. There he is. This is Dr. Strange. That's his, the love of his life. That's a portal. This is all a helpful illustration for us. God is here to open a portal into your life. OK. I like to imagine that Isaiah, when he had his vision, saw something like this. No AI was used in the creation of these images. I just went point out. I did come close, and then I thought, no, I actually have the skill to do this. OK. Hold this image in your mind. The prophet Isaiah has a vision of heaven, the throne room, angels, music, worship, the presence of God. It's so magnificent that smoke fills the air, and the foundations itself tremble. Keep that vision in your mind, as we now talk about why this is relevant to us and the way that we play music in church. This is the part of audience participation. I am about to put a slide up, and we need to move quickly because I love to talk a lot. I'm going to put a slide up. And if you've seen me give this talk before, and you know why I am putting this slide up, I want you to raise your hand, and I will maybe get you to run to the front and tell the class. Are you ready? First slide. That actually might be AI, I'm sorry. I got this one a long time ago. I can't be confident that it wasn't AI, but this is from a few years ago. Does anybody know why I have put this up on screen? Wow, have I done a really bad job at teaching this in the past? Joe, are you confident? Come on down, everybody. This is Joe. Joe is going to come down and explain to us why. So Joe, what I want you to do is tell us what we're looking at and why I have put it up on the screen in the context of talking about worship. So David had a vision to build-- Oh no, go back, go back, go back. Before David, before David. What is the arc of the cup? Well, the arc of the cup, it carries God's presence. Is that right? That was basically it. Yeah. Great, the arc of the cup, and it carries God's presence. Thank you Joe. In Exodus chapter 25 verse 22, chapter 25 verse 22, God instructs, "Because God's presence is so majestic and mighty and holy and filled with smoke and trembles things. Human beings were not able to stand in His presence because of sin." And so God had to come up with ways to have His presence dwell among us. And so He gave the ancient Israelites this sort of physical-- and I've used this. I've used props and things before. He gave them a physical box where He said, "I can come and dwell among my people." And it says in Exodus 25 verse 22, "After they build it, they're above the cover between the two cherubum that are over the arc of the covenant." There's a picture there in that beautiful photograph. "I will meet with you and I will give you all my commands for the Israelites." So we have another slide. There it is. That is the presence of God. A small little sliver of the presence of God. No artificial-- no robots were used in the creation of this. OK, so this was for a long time how the presence of God, how the throne room presence of God, a tiny pinprick of what was made accessible to human beings. We have another slide. Why is this up? What does this mean? Wow. OK, this is good. This is a good lesson for me to know that I have not taught this very well. Blue, come on down, everybody. Welcome blue to the front. Blue is here to give us a lesson in the tabernacle of Moses. So the outer gate was where they would enter and do their sacrifices to enter into the inner gate where the ark was to enter into God's presence. So once God had given the nation of Israel the Ark of the Covenant, he then created a whole little system for them and put the Ark of the Covenant in a tent that was in like an outer court. And it's where we get a lot of the language of temples and we enter his gates with things, giving and stuff. So there's the outer court. That whole system-- this is the tent that had the holy place, the most holy place. And then the smoke is where, when God would meet with them, when he actually would show up, smoke would appear. And for decades, this is how the ancient Israelites would connect with God, with another slide to show his God showing up. I have no notes for these slides. And it was a very complicated system. It was a very complex. There were lots of rules. There were lots of there was animal sacrifices and things that had to be done. Go and read the Bible, you'll figure it out. Exodus 40, verse 34 and 35. Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. That's the tabernacle. Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. So this-- the cloud keeps showing up as this sort of symbol of the presence of God that when-- what Isaiah had seen in the throne room, this cloud, there was this way to like pull the cloud to earth. But it was just like temporary and occasional and only certain people were able to access it through very complex systems. OK, we have another photo to come up. Why is this? Why am I showing this? I'm going to start picking on people. Tavia, I know that you know the answer this. Come on, everyone, welcome Tavia. God gave David an idea. And it was build another tabernacle. And this time we're going to sing songs to me. Can we be on this? This is your sermon. Oh. Oh. Oh. She said boundaries. That was correct, though. So David, the great worshiper musician, when he becomes King God, gives him a vision to take the most holy part of Moses tabernacle and put the ark of the covenant in its own room. And instead of the complex system of sacrifices and bread and candlesticks and all those things, he actually said, I just want you to play instruments around the ark of the covenant. And in 1 Chronicles 16 verse 4 to 6, it says this. David appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, to install, to thank, to praise the Lord, the God of Israel. Asaf was the chief, the next rank was Echariah and Jazeel, Shamiramoth, Jageel, Matithiah, Eliab, Beniah, Obed Edom, and Jail, flawlessly pronounced. They had to play liars and harps. Asaf would sound the symbols, Beniah, and Jazeel, the priests would blow the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God. So what God gave David was a new system of just, if you stand in front of the ark of the covenant and play instruments of worship and sing songs, I will appear. And there he is, oh yeah. David found that if you worship and play music before the ark of the covenant, it would open a portal to the throne room of God. Eventually, the children of Israel get out of the desert and they have their own nation and they build a temple. And in the temple, they have both the system of Moses and the system of David. And it says that on the day of the inauguration of the temple, in 2 Chronicles chapter 5, verse 13, the trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. We accompanied by trumpets, symbols, and other instruments. The singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and they sang. For the Lord is good and His love and Jews forever. And it says that the temple of the Lord was filled with what? Smoke, with the cloud of God's glory. As they sang, Dr. Strange was out the back going. The sound of their voices, the playing of their instruments was opening a portal, probably wasn't Dr. Strange. Could have been. And the glory of God came down from heaven. And it says that the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud and the priests could not perform their service because the cloud of the glory of the Lord was so great and it filled the temple. The presence of God was so strong that they couldn't even keep singing and worshipping. We actually have photo evidence of what happened. Look at that, these guys down here. See they can't do anything. Worshiping God with instruments comes from the ancient practice of the Israelites before the ark of the covenant. And it is that simple. When we sing our songs, it is not just because we're the warm up act for preaching, it's not just because it feels good, it's not just the kind of slow pad time for you to get your kids ready and come late. What we're doing is ripping a portal open in the sky of the room for heaven to come and meet with us. Worshiping God opens a portal to his presence. And in his presence, every knee must bow and every tongue confess. Isaiah 45, 22 and 23 says, "For I am the Lord." And there is no other. By myself, I have sworn my mouth has uttered Before me, everybody. Every needle bow and every tongue will swear. The reason that we believe so much as a church in worship is that we know that the greatest place to live as his people is in his presence. And it's kind of that simple. I grew up my parents, musicians, you guys met my parents. They were here for a couple of weeks. And I grew up, I think I didn't fully understand how lucky I was to just grow up around music constantly in the house. My mom and dad were, I don't know if they told their story a little bit, but they were kind of rabid non-Christians and then God showed up in their lives and they became radically converted. And by the time I was born, we would just travel from church to church and they just would sing songs, my dad played guitar, my mom would sing and they would just sing beautiful harmonies together. And I grew up with my siblings sitting and watching my parents just minister to rooms full of strangers and I didn't understand it at the time, but I now understand that what they were doing. And again, I'm going to use this language, obviously this is not in the Bible. But they were opening a portal to heaven. Because the principle is that when we sing songs to the Lord, His presence manifests in the midst of us. And my parents would travel and that's how I grew up, that's why for me singing is like the most natural thing and worshiping in church is the most natural thing. So the question now is, where is the ark of the covenant now? Does anyone have the answer? That inside of us, how, by the Holy Spirit, and by the work of Jesus. So now we don't need a physical spot or a physical location to meet with God. Obviously, once upon a time these were lights had to just, they couldn't just play music anywhere, they had to go and find a location where the ark was and play their instruments in front of that. The ark of the covenant was created for what purpose so that God could be amongst His people. But Jesus came to earth so that God could be with His people. Lucian's two verse nine says, "In Christ, all the fullness of the day He lives in bodily form." So that throne room image somehow existed in Jesus, doesn't make sense to me, but somehow. And now where does Jesus live in us? I'm going to give you three more scriptures. Ephesians 3, 16, "I pray that according to the riches of His glory, He may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with the power through His Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, in your hearts." Galatians 2, 20 says, "I've been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me." Colossians 1, 27, "To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is what Christ in you, the hope of glory." What does this mean? It means that as Christians, that system of finding the ark of the covenant and playing music before it, we don't need that anymore because now with Jesus in our hearts, anytime we sing, anytime we play an instrument in worship to God, we carry it whatever room we walk into. Anytime we open our minds, open our minds, open our mouths to worship, we're opening a little portal. It means that the presence of God can follow us wherever we go. Something happens when we worship. I feel it every Sunday. I don't know if you come in, if you experience this, you come in from whatever kind of week you've had, whatever kind of morning you've had, sometimes you want to kill somebody when you get on your way to church. If you've had road rage, if you've just been through it, if you've gone through incredible grief, then what happens when you come into church and we start singing? Something shifts on the inside. Because we are slowly making our way into the presence of God. My mum just called me yesterday to let me know that this is a frequent phone call that I get from her, but they're in Bali at the moment doing their church things. And they're seeing incredible healings and things happen, not even in the meeting, but just in the worship. Just as people are playing the music, and if you've seen them, you know that their church worship goes for about an hour and a half whenever I go home, I'm always like, but because people there understand that this is how we access the presence of God and access the glory of His throne, their faith is so alive and they are seeing incredible healings. I'm going to read us two stories that demonstrate the power of worship and the power of bringing the throne room of God to the earth. And then we are literally just going to finish our morning by singing some songs together. The first one is in Second Chronicles 20 verse 1 to 24, it's a long one, that's a good one. And look, I tell these stories a lot, and if you've heard them, great, welcome to being a Christian. We're going to hear the same stories for the rest of our lives. It's kind of the fun part because then if I do my job right, I don't have to do this again. One of you guys can get up and we can be like, "Cat, come and teach us about worship." So Second Chronicles chapter 20 verse 1 to 24, I want to read you a story about an example of how worship brought heaven to earth. After this, this is from the beginning of the chapter. After this, after what? I don't know, I didn't print it out. After this, the Morwites and Ammonites, with some of the Mayonites, came to wage war against Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat was the king of Judea at the time, he was a godly king. Some people came and told Jehoshaphat, "A vast army is coming against you from Eden." And from the other side of the Dead Sea, it's already in Hasezon tomorrow, alarmed Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the Lord and he proclaimed a fast for all of Judea. The people of Judea came together to seek help from the Lord, indeed they came from every town in Judea to seek him. So to paint the picture of these, this, the nation of Judea were basically being hit from all sides by their enemies and they were completely overwhelmed. Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judea and Jerusalem at the temple of the Lord in the front of the New Courtyard and said, "Lord, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, power and might are in your hand and none can withstand you. Oh God, did you not drive out our inhabitants before your people of Israel and gave us this land forever?" They have lived in it and built it in a sanctuary for your name, saying, "If calamity comes upon us, we'll skip over that bit." Now here are men from Amon, Norib and Mount Sia, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade. They're repaying us by coming to drive us out. God, will you not judge them for you have the power to help us face this vast army that is attacking us? For we do not know what to do but our eyes are on you. So the king stands up in front of Israel, essentially, there's a prayer of desperation and says, "God, we are being overrun and we don't know what to do." All the men of Judea with their wives, children and loved ones stood there before the Lord. Then the spirit of the Lord came upon the prophet, Jahazel, son of Zechariah, the son of Beniah, who's the son of a bunch of other guys. And he said, "Listen, King Jahasafat, an all who live in Judea and Jerusalem, this is what the Lord says to you. Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle is not yours but God's. Tomorrow morning, march against them. They will be climbing by the pass of Ziz. You will find them there. You will not have to fight this battle. Pick up your position, stand firm and see the deliverance that God will give you. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged. Go out and face them tomorrow. The Lord will be with you." Jahasafat bowed down with his face to the ground. All the people of Judea and Jerusalem fell on the ground to worship the Lord. Then some Levites, who were the musicians, stood up and praised the Lord the God of Israel with a very loud voice. Early in the morning, they left for the desert of Takkah. As they set out, Jahasafat stood and said, "Listen to me, Judah and the people of Jerusalem. Have faith in the Lord, your God, and you will be upheld. Have faith in His prophets and you will be successful." After consulting with the people, he appointed men and women, we'll assume, maybe not probably. He appointed people to sing to the Lord and praise Him for the splendour of His holiness as they went out ahead of the army. And they sang, "Give thanks to the Lord for His love and jewels forever." So as they marched into battle, the King, having freaked out the day before, says, "We're gone, believing that God has gone before us." And he employs the strangest battle strategy anyone's ever heard of. He gets his musicians and his singers to stand in front and just all they do is sing. As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes them. against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Sia who were invading Judah and they were defeated. When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, all they saw were dead bodies on the ground. It's an incredible story that we can use to apply to our lives. How many times do we feel overwhelmed by things that we literally have no control over or that we have no possible way of facing, overcoming, defeating, whatever word feels appropriate to you. How many times do we feel completely overwhelmed by things that are coming against us in our lives? And if we just trust in God and worship Him, we can open that portal because when God is the King, everything has to bow its knee and He will go before us. One last story and then we're going to just worship together. This one comes from Act 16 to 40. This is the story of Paul and Silas. While they were going to the place of prayer, they were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune telling. She kept harassing them as she followed them saying, "These men are servants of the most high God." Finally Paul turns around and says, "In the name of Jesus, I command you to come out of her and this demonic spirit leaves this woman." Her owners realized that their hope of making money were gone. They seized Paul and Silas and they dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities. They brought them before the magistrates and said, "These men are Jews and they're throwing our city into an uproar by advocating customs unlawful for us as Romans to accept our practice." The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas. The magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods and after they were severely phlogged, they were thrown into prison and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. He put them in the inner cell, fussing their feet in stocks. And at about midnight, what happened? At midnight, Paul and Silas were sitting in prison, their feet in stocks, Melinda, what happened? They started singing. They started praising. They were sitting there in prison, in the heart of a Roman prison. It says they were praying and singing hymns to God, and all the other prisoners were listening to them. And as they were singing, something happened, spiritually. Suddenly, there was a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And at once, all the prison doors flew open and everyone's chains came loose. Now, all the prisoners did end up becoming Christians. That does sound kind of scary, like maybe there's some murderers that were like, "Whoo-hoo!" We are a church who believes in worship because we know that the greatest place to be as a Christian as a human being is in the safety of the presence of God. It's that simple. When you come to our church, we will always begin our mornings with thanksgiving, and entering his presence with praise because we know that the best thing we can do as a worship team is drag you, some of you kicking and screaming, some of you I see sitting up the back. But we know, if we can just get you into the presence of God, whatever you're going through, whatever financial situation, whatever terrible life choices you've made during the week, whatever business partner you're a war with, whatever child who refuses to listen to you, whatever bad life choices we know. If you could just bring all of that before the king of glory, good things will happen for you. This is why we believe that even putting out this EP, it's not about us as a church being rich and famous, although it would be nice. It's because we know the power of worship, we know how incredible it is to stand in the presence of God to lift our hands and worship Him. And the songs that are coming out of this church are incredible. They minister to me. That new song that we sing, I have never known love like this, makes me want to cry every time we sing it. It's incredible. And every time we sing those songs, and when we record those songs, our prayer is that they would go out into the world and find whoever needs to find them so that we can be opening up heaven to people wherever they are to experience the goodness of God. So this morning, we're going to get the band back up and we're just going to have a little time of worship. If you are in our church and you would like to join our worship team, if you preferably have some baseline of skill, although I do kind of believe that everyone should be involved if they want on some level. But yeah, if you're sitting out there, I know we have a couple of really talented musicians and singers who feel weirdly shy, probably intimidated because I have such a great voice. I want to encourage you. Join our team. Join our little Ragtag group in helping bring people into the presence of God. The world needs it. We need it as a church. And if you don't join the worship team and you're sitting out there and you're like, no one wants to hear me sing, don't make me sing. I love nothing more. I've grown up in church, I've grown up with singers all my life. I love nothing more than standing next to someone who cannot sing a note. My brother-in-law back in Australia, worst voice you've ever heard. He'd be like, I have never known love like this. There's something so pure and beautiful about standing next to someone who doesn't care what they sound like. That is the kind of church that we're going to be in the way that we worship God. I know we sound incredible. Obviously, that's our job. But when you're out there and wherever you're sitting, you're part of this with us. We're opening heaven. We want to meet with God. We want to come to church to meet with God. Otherwise, what are we doing? Not because the music is great, but so yeah, if you want to join the worship team, I would love to meet you. [email protected] email me or just come and say hi. Otherwise, why don't we all stand? Let's sing, maybe let's sing goodness of God. Oh no, you want to do something? Everyone, hold please. Why don't you stand? Let's just, we're just going to sing together. And I just want to encourage you if you, whatever needs you have in your life or whatever. This is the time to just lay it all down. We're going to enter the presence of God together and we're just going to bring it before him. We're going to fix our eyes on this great God that we serve, that we love, that is so kind to us. And in fact, we're going to believe that he's, whatever our needs are, he'll sort it out. Our only job is to set our eyes on him, to put him above everything else and to give him our worship. Bread is an open-minded, spirit-filled, non-denominational church in Hollywood, California. If you like the talk, join us in person on Sunday mornings at 10.30. You can also learn more about bread online at bread.church.