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"Come and See :: Come, All Who Are Thirsty" | Sunday Service | August 23rd, 2026 · Wesley at FSU & TSC

• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I am glad that you are here this morning.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad that you um you came, you walked out on a limbs sometimes, especially beginning of the year.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's hard to maybe make that first step into going to find a new church, particularly those of you who are new here.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: And so I want to say just say a word of thank you to you for doing that.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: It it's a lot.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: It takes a lot.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I hope that somehow you will meet with the Lord today and that you'll find uh you to be welcomed into the family of Christ in this space.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna start a sermon series today, right off the bat, uh called Come and See.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: It was so cool.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: We put it on all the staff t-shirts.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, because we're gonna talk about the practice of invitation, and we're gonna talk about the way in which God invites us into his story.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: God invites us into the gospel message.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: And this morning, I want to start uh by talking about his invitation to come, all who are thirsty.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: Thirsty.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I have to say this because I'm in a Gen Z room, okay?
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: I know how you all use the word thirsty.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: Can we say that in church?
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: You okay, you know what I'm talking about too.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's not awkward.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, let me just invite you to see this in the biblical way.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna use the term thirsty a lot, and I don't want to have to hear about it on Instagram later.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: So let's let's listen to the biblical way in which Jesus is inviting us in, all who are thirsty.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to center ourselves on John chapter 7 this morning.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: And if you have your Bible, you can turn to that.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna be in verse 37 to begin with.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't, it'll be up on the screen, no big deal.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Hear now the reading of God's word.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, All who are thirsty should come to me.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: All who believe in me should drink.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: And as the scripture said concerning me, rivers of living water will flow out from within him.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus said this concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in him would soon receive.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: They hadn't yet received the Spirit, because Jesus hadn't yet been glorified.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: Let's pray over the preaching of God's word.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh God, your word is a lamp into our feet and a light into our path.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: May it speak to us and speak through us for the establishment of your kingdom on this earth.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: Oh God, as I begin to share, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of all of our hearts be acceptable in your sight and in your sight alone.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh God, you are our rock and you are our redeemer, and we love you.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: We love you because you first loved us.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: We pray this in your holy name.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: I am years old, 39, 30.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: Can you believe it?
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: The big 4-0 coming next year.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm having a midlife crisis.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: When I was a kid, uh we did not carry these things around everywhere.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever noticed that like since the Yeti like blew up the market, right?
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like everybody carries these things around everywhere.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: Everywhere.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: When I was a kid, we had to do this thing.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's crazy to think of right now, but you have to do this thing where every 500 or 1,500 yards it felt like, there would be this metal thing attached to the side of a wall.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: And it was your best bet whether or not it was actually going to hit your mouth or hit you in the face, or if it was going to overshoot it, or if it was going to be ice cold.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, those were the best ones, right?
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: Those of you who remember water fountains, right?
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Remember this, yes.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: They were ice cold, but then that's a lot of them be sitting out there and it'd pee, or like whatever.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: And then you would we would have to do this thing when we were in school, where we would go with our class and line up, and there would be a counter, somebody who was elected by the team to count at the beginning of this.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: And you would sit at the front of the line and you would count to five, and you always hoped that your buddy was like the counter because he'd count slowly, right?
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: So one, two, three, four, five, five seconds of water, and then you got to go about your life.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: We were all dehydrated, like so dehydrated as a community as a people at the time.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, people had water bottles, but not anything like we do today.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: We were so dehydrated.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: Things have shifted.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: I have a six-year-old and an eight-year-old, and things have shifted in this day because my kids not only have a water bottle, that that's just that's just a piece of it.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_00: They have a water bottle system, okay?
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: They have a weekday water bottle, they have a weekend water bottle, you know, the one that's like fancy with your extra stickers and stuff on it, right?
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like you got a weekend car, but like a weekend water.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: They have a nighttime water bottle so that we can wash the weekday water bottle during the weeknight water bottle.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, at this point, honestly, I feel like Awala owes me money, right?
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like these are incredible water bottles, but the amount of our income we have spent on these is crazy.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_00: Dylan is a six-year-old, and I love her to death.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: But we bought her this very nice water bottle, very similar to this.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: How long do you think it took before it fell onto the floor of the van as we got in that first morning onto school?
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: Less than 10 seconds.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: You're right.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, man, we should have bought the used one.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know, but okay, water bottles have changed everything.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I think we are, we were all at that time a little bit dehydrated.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: I've been thinking about this a lot as I'm thinking about this come uh all who are thirsty thing because uh the first time that I ever had a water bottle, I was at camp.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: I was working at the summer camp and they gave us a Nal gene.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: Anybody remember Nal genes?
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Nal genes were these hard plastic water bottles with zero insulation.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like you put the cold water in there, you maybe had 45 seconds until it got hot because it's you know 100 degrees in Florida.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: And but they were amazing water bottles in that you could drive a car over them.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think it'd happen if you told a college student, hey, you could drive a car over this water bottle?
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: We did many times.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, a lot of us, we drove the Camry over at first, and then we're like, hey, go get your RAM, you know, like uh go get the bigger car.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna drive that over it.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: But that was the first time I ever held a water bottle.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I realized that, like, when you're carrying a water bottle with you, there it's almost this bit of confession that's happening when you're carrying this water bottle.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, I am not enough.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna need to be refilled.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Do you see that?
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I am not, I cannot produce my own water, my own HTO.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not self-sustaining enough.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to need refills.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, I can't power through.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: Thirsty.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: All of us have moments when we are just so thirsty.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: Again, not talking about the Instagram thirst.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: So thirsty.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: Because we're looking for things that we can't self-sustain either.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: We're looking for things like belonging, right?
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: We're looking for things like rest.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: We're looking for anything that might bring us closer to our purpose, right?
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: We're looking for peace in our life, and we are seeking out these things.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's a thirst that we can't quench ourselves.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: So Jesus in that context says, All who are thirsty should come to me.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: And that's our invitation this morning.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: Come and see and come thirsty to Jesus.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: I love this because Jesus' invitation is inviting us to come owning our thirst.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: Owning it with honesty.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: At the time he was talking about this, they were at this uh festival.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: It was called the festival of booths or tabernacles.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: It was one of the Jewish festivals where they celebrate uh how God is being remembered within the people uh and the way in which God had provided for the Israelites in the wilderness.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: Because their ancestors, the Israelites, and in case you've been to Bible study, uh, we talked about this a couple years ago, and we will go back to it.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: We go back to it all the time.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: The Israelites are wandering in the desert and they have no supply.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: They are hungry, they are thirsty, and they're seeking after some sort of thing.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: In the wilderness or in the desert, it's a little bit hard to find the supplies you need, right?
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: The rations are not quite there.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: So they had to rely on God.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: And God, as he always does, comes through for them because he is faithful.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: Say faithful.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, do you believe it?
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: Say faithful.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: Faithful.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: So they didn't have any easy access to food or water, they had no guarantee of what's gonna happen tomorrow.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: An entire generation came through them 40 years before they found the promised land.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: So they're remembering the wilderness provision that God gave them.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: And so when he is there, by the time he's there, there's this imagery of food and water for them.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: And so he's utilizing that as they're remembering the water that was supplied to the Israelites, and he steps in as he's so good at doing, and he says, Hey, if you are thirsty, come to me.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine yourself in the shoes of an Israelite.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: If you are thirsty, where do you go?
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: Well, they went to a rock, not a rock, but a rock.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: They, although a rock, yeah, they come to him.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: That's what he's inviting him to do.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: Find that provision for them.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: All who are thirsty come to me.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: And he starts with that thirst.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: How often is it the case, especially at the beginning of a collegiate career, or especially at the beginning of a new year, where we are not honest about our thirst?
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_00: I don't belonging.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, I'm good.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm good.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: I got my friends.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: You know?
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I purpose?
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm in my third year in a social work major and it's definitely gonna work out, right?
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: How many times do we feel like we have to put on a show?
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: How many times do we have to put on a show for the world?
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't matter your age, it doesn't matter how far in the world you often are really good at covering up your honesty.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know how I know this?
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: Because if I were to walk around and say, How are you doing?
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: What are you gonna say?
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: Good, yeah.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I do this all the time.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: How's it going?
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, it's good.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's busy, but it's good.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: And we are all so guilty of that.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: Some of you had a thirst moment uh already in this week.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe, maybe you showed up here this morning feeling like everybody knows each other, but I don't know them.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: Some of you might have that moment like I I need some sort of sense of place here.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: I need some sort of sense of friendship and community here.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: I need that.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's probably true.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of us have had it because we scrolled those dumb apps and we decided to compare ourselves against other people on those apps, right?
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: And all of a sudden, the the things that we need, we're trying to cover up in our next post.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: How often are we just not honest with the internet about who we are?
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus says, Come, all who are thirsty.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: You know how you have to start there?
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: You have to be thirsty and recognize that you're thirsty.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I would say, verbalize that you are thirsty.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta say, Jesus, I need you.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: Not this like, ah, it's convenient on Sunday morning at 11:03, right?
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: Or, ah, no, it's it'd be it'll be fine.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'll show up on Wednesday and I'll go to the retreat or whatever, and it'd be great.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: They you need to be honest with Jesus in your need for him.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: You have to be.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's one of my prayers for this ministry is that we would not be known as a group that you gotta pretend to be a part of.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to dress a certain way, you don't have to even act a certain way.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_00: Just become thirsty with honesty.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: Come to find the goodness of God there.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: The whole gospel story starts in that moment where you just stop putting on a show, stopped trying to act a different way than you really are, and be your whole true authentic self in a broken space with a whole bunch of other broken people who are in need of the gospel of Jesus.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: That's the invitation.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: And college makes it so bad, dude.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of us here sitting, it's like, I'm not sure who I am yet.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure what I believe anymore, I'm not sure I'm okay, I'm not sure I belong here, I'm not sure I have anything to offer, but I really want to be accepted in the certain place that I need to be.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: I need to be accepted in the group that I want to be a part of.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: I need to be accepted here, I need to be loved here, I need to be liked here.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of us are in that space.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: And inside we're asking those questions.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure that I'm okay.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure that I belong here, I'm not sure that I have anything to offer.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus starts it not demanding that people pretend, but instead beginning with thirst.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: He makes room for you as an honest person, a tired person, a lonely person, a skeptical person, a hopeful person, a person who wants to have a life of faith but doesn't know that first step.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: And there's probably a lot of you here right now, like, ah, I really, I really want to have a life of faith, but I'm just not sure where to start.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: I really want to like have a prayer life, but it feels weird.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: I really want to start reading the scriptures, but have you ever gotten to Leviticus?
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like I think a lot of us are in that spot where we're like, I don't know what to do, and so I'm just going to fake it.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: And he says, no, come thirsty.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't hear anything else this morning, may I ask just one favor of you?
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Even if you're going to reply tomorrow morning to whoever you meet in your classes, uh, hey, how's it going?
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: Good.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: Even if you're gonna do that, okay?
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do that with the Lord.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do that with the Lord.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: He already knows your heart, he already knows your soul.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do that with the Lord.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: The good news about our thirst is that Jesus can and does quench it.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: He talks about having the river of life come over him.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: He talks about the river of life being so in our to our soul.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: He says, not only come thirsty, but he says, come and then drink.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, by uh your thirst can be quenched in who I am.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I I think a lot of times our religious spaces fall into the pretending again.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: And instead, like, who what if they were to be known as a place where the river of life flows?
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: What if they were to be known not as a place that like expects something or has any sort of like expectation there, but it just is a place in which if you just come, you'll just be filled up over and over and over and over again.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: People ask me all the time why we do holy communion every week.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: And it's because I am a sinner and need a grace.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: And if I could take it twice a day, I would.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: Because I need the goodness of God over my life.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: Because in this holy meal, God meets us in a river of life.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: In our brokenness, in all of our fakeness, he meets us in a river of life.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: If we come thirsty, if we're honest about it, he promises that he will overflow your cup.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: One of the things I love that we do here at Wesley is we have a residential staff.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: They they live in the building over here and they help set up the chairs and the tables and all of the things.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: They do a ton of work.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: They're absolutely amazing human beings.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: We could not do anything without that.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I have learned over the years that oftentimes they will keep pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring out of what?
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: An empty cup.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: And so one of the things that we we mandate for them to do is that they have to come to their own worship service.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's not quite as involved, but like, you know, we come and we pour into them so that they may feel the river of life.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: I found that in my own life as a pastor.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: It is so hard because you continually pour out to people, and oftentimes I have to remind myself, I need to be poured into as well.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: I need mentorship, I need somebody who's going to take over me.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: I need to feel the river of life that Jesus promises.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: I have to come to Jesus every morning over the scriptures that I might be filled, that I might not pour from an empty cup.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: Your first invitation is to admit it.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: I need you.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: And your second invitation is to receive.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: Receive.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Don't try to throw up barriers.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: Receive.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: In our tradition, we celebrate at the table what we call an open table.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: That means that you don't have to be a member of this church.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: We don't even have a membership, but like, you know, you don't have to be a member of this church.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to be a member of any church.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: This could be your thousandth time in church, or you could be your first time in church.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: And the grace of Jesus Christ is available for you in this meal so that your river would overflow.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the invitation that you would come to an open table.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: So those of you who are like, man, he said communion, I don't know what to do.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'll walk you through it.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: We got a whole guideline system, you know.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: But like the first thing is that you're willing to come receive.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: Man, Jesus is willing to meet you there.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: When I think about Wesley, do you mind?
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: When I think about Wesley, I don't want to be the 1994 Bryant who's in second grade.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: Second, yeah, second grade, having to wait to count to five to get my like a dog lap up this water from a water fountain.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: Have you crazy how crazy it is like the way we try to drink out of water fountain?
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: And all kinds of germs and diseases happening through it.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: I want to be like that.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: I want to be a place where we carry the bottle, where we provide the bottle, where we work through the bottle with each other, where we provide that same sort of grace and mercy that Jesus does to our own community, so that we would not be dehydrated when the river of life is overflowing.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's my hope and my prayer for us as a ministry.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: So if you find yourself wanting to fill up your cup, if you find yourself thirsty, perhaps the invitation at the beginning of a school year when you're just getting started is an invitation back to the basics.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: Come to worship.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: We're here every Sunday morning at 11 a.m.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: Come, the music's dope, the sermons are mid.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: Come to the table every week.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: Some of you might feel like it's not special.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: Oh boy, the grace of Jesus is special every time you take it.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: I would say um come to Bible study.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: Come to a meal on Wednesday nights when we feed you.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna feed you this Wednesday night, by the way, the most delicious barbecue.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: We start uh smoking the pork at 4 a.m.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: If anybody wants to come, you're welcome to come.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and we're gonna smoke the pork out there.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be amazing.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: This Wednesday night.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have a barbecue.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Come be in community there.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Come find friendship there.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: Go back to the places where grace meets you.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: This is not hard stuff.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: Just come and come thirsty.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: Be honest with the Lord about where you're at and find a community that will raise you up.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: The work of the spirit is going to overflow in your life.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: If only he would let it.