DISCLAIMER:  This text is not a verbatim transcript.  Communication Access Real Time Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication credibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings.    >> Thank you for joining us today. We want to let you know about a few items of interest. First, go to our website, firstcolonychurch.org, and go there often. You'll find links to our worship services; Bible study options; online giving; and our podcast, Anchor Point. You can also download our church app. Just search for “First Colony Church of Christ” in the App Store or on Google Play. The app is a great resource where you can stay connected to First Colony Church. Thank you for joining us today. We're glad you're here. >> Thank you for joining us today. We want to let you know about a few items of interest. First, go to our website, firstcolonychurch.org, and go there often. You'll find links to our worship services; Bible study options; online giving; and our podcast, Anchor Point. You can also download our church app. Just search for "First Colony Church of Christ" in the app store or on Google Play. The app is a great resource where you can stay connected to First Colony Church. Thank you for joining us today. We're glad you're here. >> Kevin: Good morning! Happy Fourth of July, everybody! I'm so glad we're here. I'm glad we're in one service together. This will be a great day. We have barbecue afterwards and will be awesome. You are welcome here. My wife says that whenever I walk into somebody else's house, they say, "Hey, make yourself at home." She always says, "Kevin, you do that literally." I pull out the Goldfish, make a drink in the fridge. I make myself very comfortable. Once I got a little too comfortable making myself at home. I was playing basketball with one of my friends and my friend happens to be Max Sacado's son-in-law. Max was gone on a mission trip and had to go to the restroom. I said, "Hey, is the door unlocked?" "I don't know. Go check." I walk to the house, and I'm not sure if the door will be unlocked or not and don't want to set the alarm off. I poke my head through the doggy door and look at the alarm and can't tell what the lights are saying but think "They have a big dog and I'm a small man." I go through the door. I won't set off alarm. I go through the door and make my way around the corner. Boom, sitting there is Max in one of his chairs. He goes, "Oh, heir Kevin." I go, "I crawled through your door. I'm sorry. I have to go to the bathroom." He said, go ahead. He said, you know, the funny thing is I was watching a news channel about burglars coming through doggy doors and heard the rattling and was so tired and thought, "This is my time." You know? "Kevin, you are always welcome in my house. From now on he said "You're welcome through the doggy door." You are welcome in this place and what I mean is YOU are welcome. Who you are is welcome here, which means you don't have to be what you think somebody else is expecting you to be. You get to be welcome here. So as we worship today, if that means being silent in moments and just listening, letting the words washing over you, do that. If you sing at the top of the lungs, who cares what the person in front of you may or may not think. If you want to raise your hands or clap, you do whatever it is that you know you need to do to worship our Lord this morning because you are welcome here. Let's all stand together and praise our God. ("All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" playing) ("O Worship the King" playing) >> Thank you for your worship, church. Let's keep worshiping this morning. ("Mighty is Our God" playing) ("How Great Thou Art" playing) ("How Great is Our God" playing) >> Yes, give a load of praise, church! Amen! Thank you so much for your worship. It is so good to see you today and what might be the largest crowd we've had in about a year and a half. So just look around and see the people that are here, worshiping together on the fourth of July. It's pretty fantastic. We got a kids' song for those of you who are second-service natives. We do a kids' song in first service for all the kiddos here and for the kids that are at home and for the kids at heart. This time we will do "This Little Light of Mine" so let's see your light. This is audience participation, by the way. Hold up your lights. And you know the routine. You have to hide it under a bushel. Remember that? So you have to do all these things, and we will be watching you, got it? (Laughter) I can see all of you, by the way, so I will hold you accountable. This is a fun song. Here we go. ("This Little Light of Mine" playing) >> Last time. Here we go. Let me see them! Give yourself a round of applause, church! Thank you so much for your worship. Let's have a seat together. >> Joel: Well, good morning, everyone! Happy Fourth of July! It's so good to see you all here today. So this is the kids' spot, and those of you watching online, way to go. Now, I do have fireworks so if you're in the first maybe 30 rows -- (Laughter) -- you just might -- no. Okay. I did practice ahead of time. There wasn't a lot of damage that was done. (Laughter) So most likely we'll be okay. All right. Well, how appropriate "This little Light of Mine" and when a kid thinks about the fourth of July, typically they're gonna think about fireworks. Being out at night and seeing something shoot off in the air and not knowing what it's going to produce and then boom -- it's red; it's green; it's all these cool colors. Well, the fascinating thing is as believers, we are told to let our light shine as we reflect Jesus Christ. In Matthew five, it reminds us that as a believer, you are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bushel. No. Or a bowl. But instead they put it on a stand so that everyone in the house can see. In the same way, let your light shine before men and women, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. Now, I like fireworks, but the thing about fireworks is that -- poof. They're gone. Think about that. So when you watch fireworks tonight and you see something really cool and you're like, "Yeah, that was awesome! Okay. That's gone." Well, as a believer, we're not to go poof and be gone. If I were to call up volunteers and say to a child and say, "Hey, you have a choice. You can either hold a candle or hold a firework. Which one are you going to pick?" They most likely will pick a firework. So I have a benign firework. I know. You're like, "Aw, man!" And yes, it will make smoke, and yes, I did try it in here. Fortunately the alarms did not get set off. But the interesting thing about fireworks is that this one is a longer one, and I do have a drip pan just in case but you know you can put your hand under here -- don't do that at home. (Laughter) Yes, we have this really cool firework, and it's going. And it's going. And it is shining and your eyes are attracted to it and looking up at the smoke saying, "Wow, we have effects. That's awesome! Laser light show coming soon." But then the inevitable happens. It gets to the bottom and it's gone, and that's it. Now, we have a candle here. Now, having not lived in Houston before I moved here, you want candles in your house. (Laughter) Because more than likely you will lose power, and your house will be dark. If you were to say," you know what? I can give you 20 fireworks or I can give you 20 candles," which would you rather have during a power outage? You would rather have the candle. Well, as believers, my challenge to you, whether you're young; whether you're old; whether you're me; whoever it is -- think about that. How do we let our shine? It's not an instant poof and it's gone; but a slow, steady obedience of honoring God and showing people what is going on inside of you in an ever-darkening world. Thank you very much. (Applause) >> Kevin: Thanks, Joel. So today on Independence Day we celebrate independently being ruled from other men; but every Sunday when we take communion, we celebrate the dependence on Jesus Christ. We literally take in His body and blood as a simple to remind us without Him we are nothing so let's get our communion out and the Stricklands will lead us. >> James: Good morning. My name is James Strickland. This is my son Thomason. We're delighted to lead you in the Lord's Table this morning so please bow with me as we get started. Dearest Heavenly Father, we come to You right now praising Your Name and thank you for the many blessings in our lives. Today across our nation, we celebrate Independence Day, a day to appreciate all the freedoms that we have here in America. But more importantly, today is the first day of the week, which we celebrate our freedom from the condemnation of sin. We know that freedom is not free. Hebrews 10 tells us that the blood of goats and rams is not sufficient to take away our sins. Only the Son of God can do this for us. As we gather around the table for this memorial feast, we thank You, Jesus, for the ultimate sacrifice, granting our souls eternal freedom. Thank you, Jesus, for Your body, broken for us, represented by this bread. May we partake in a pleasing manner. Amen. Partake of the bread. >> Thomason: 2 Corinthians 16-18. (Reading) >> James: Let us continues. Continue in prayer, Dear Lord, we so thankful for the blood of Christ that flowed so freely for us on that cruel, cruel cross, washing away our sins. Though they were as scarlet, You washed US white as snow. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You for the blood represented by the cup. May we also partake of it in a meaningful way. In Christ's Name we pray, amen. Partake of the cup, please. ("My Jesus I Love Thee" playing) >> Kevin: Every week we give to the mission of God's kingdom in this world; and we're gonna do that again today. You can do that online easily. We have boxes in the back as you walk out. You can drop that in there. I just want to give you one picture of what that goes to. We got back with from Camp Eagle with our sixth through 12th graders and was amazing. I had conversations with kids who were thought of getting baptized and decided this week it's time. So God is doing things in powerful ways. Yeah, give a round of applause for that. That's pretty awesome. (Applause) God is doing things because of the money we give to make stuff like that possible. It's how He works and chooses to work so I want to encourage you guys the work you do is not unnoticed by God and not even by His church. Let's pray and ask God to continue that work, okay? Lord, thank You for bringing Your kingdom. We don't deserve it at all and yet because of Your love for us, you call us children of God and we find freedom in You because of that. Lord, we give You this money and ask You do with it what only You can do, God, and money go like that firework and come and go. With You, you can make things like a light that into eternity. We're so grateful for that. It's in Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. We'll have our fellowship greeting so at this point if you're a child, fifth through fifth grade, make your way towards the back and will have Main Street Live. They have Main Street Live in the chapel. Parents, they will help you get them checked in. Why don't you say what your favorite fourth of July tradition is? Greet one another. ("Our God He is Alive" playing) >> Amen, church! Thank you so much for your worship this morning! Let's have a seat together. >> Ronnie: Thank you so very, very much, Kyle and team. Good morning, everyone! So glad to see you today. Welcome to those of you right here in the room. Happy July 4, everyone. To those of you watching online, we welcome you as well and to our Foster Creek campus, good morning to you. And as Kevin said, what a good week for our middle-and high schoolers at Camp Eagle as we welcome you back today also. So today I'd like to talk to you about a different kind of citizenship. Here we are on our nation's 245th birthday, and on this July 4, there will be a number of people who will celebrate our nation. It will be some who will denigrate our nation. Some inbetween. And everyone has the freedom and the right to do so. So I will ask today, how can faith and patriotism mix? Should faith and patriotism mix? Or should they just each stay in their own lane? Hmm. I have four points I'd like to make. Here's the very first one. As believers, WE have a mission to ALL nations. To ALL nations. One of the best statements from Jesus, His marching orders to the church, is as follows. Therefore, you go and you make disciples of ALL nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you. From Revelation 5. Here's a picture in heaven. Because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. Did you see that? From every tribe, people, and nation. That's a picture of the heaven. Everyone, our Christian faith does not teach us to disparage other nations. Neither does it teach us to disparage people from other nations who may now live here. To the contrary. We serve a God who calls to Himself people from EVERY tribe, language, and nation. I believe there's a difference, too, between patriotism and nationalism. I consider myself to be a patriot, and when I say that I love my country, I do not mean by that I do not love other countries. When I say that I want God to bless America, that doesn't mean that I don't want other countries to be blessed. Patriotism, I believe, it's -- you know, I don't picture God wearing an American flag; but I see a good gift and can acknowledge a good gift when I see one. The Bible teaches us that every good gift comes down from God above. I believe our nation has been and can be and still is a very, very good gift. Patriotism simply stated is love and appreciation for where you live, for your country. It's rooted in gratitude. Nationalism, however, is rooted in selfish-pride. Nationalism said "My country is an idol to be worshiped." Patriotism puts love of country in its proper place in our values. We love our country, but our primary allegiance, without any doubt, is to the King of the Universe. To God as Sovereign. Here's the second point: As believers, we embrace a dual citizenship, a dual citizenship. You know, a lot of people carry two passports because they're citizens of at least two different countries. One of the more popular combinations is to be citizens of both the United States and Great Britain, which is ironic to think about on this Independence Day. (Laughter). But you know, you know plenty of people who have dual citizenships. I'm a Christian. I'm also a citizen of the United States of America. I have a dual citizenship. I am a citizen of the USA. More importantly, I'm a citizen in the city of God. Now, I will read a couple Scripture and then show you a video. I want you to listen to Scriptures that talks to about our role as earthly citizens. It's very, very clear. Here we go. 1 Peter 2. Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to EVERY human authority: Whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority; or to governors, who were sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. You live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; you live as God's slaves. Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers; fear God; honor the emperor. Here's saying, you let your faith inform your citizenship because you are part of a citizenship where you live. 1 Timothy 2. I urge then, first of all, that petitions; prayers; intercession; and thanksgiving be made for all people -- listen to this coming up -- for king and all those in authority, so that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all Godliness and holiness. In other words, as a believer, you will be the best of citizens or at least a better one; and your faith informs. It colors. It energizes your earthly citizenship. And we're called to be people of prayer, and prayer is social energy. It is for the public good. And as believers, let's revive going into our prayer closets and praying boldly for our nation and so that our nation will be blessed; our nation then can be a blessing to others. God doesn't need a majority. He can work through a creative, faithful minority to accomplish His purposes. Now, one of the best speeches ever given on July 4 was given in 1939. If you're a baseball fan, you know what I'm talking about. Lou Gehrig gave his famous speech in Yankee Stadium in front of 60,000 people on July 4, 1939. In case you don't know who, you know -- you're fuzzy on detail of Lou Gehrig, born in 1903 and died in 1941. He played 17 season in major league baseball and an all-star seven consecutive time and won the Triple Crown. That's REALLY hard to do. He was American League's Most Valuable Player twice, won six World Series championships, obviously in the Baseball Hal of Fame, first player to have his uniform retired by his team. He was a student at Columbia University when the Yankees signed him in 1923 and by the way, to this day, the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award is given annually to the baseball player who best exhibits integrity and character. But Lou Gehrig came down with ALS and forced him to retire at age 36 and claimed his life two years later. ALS is commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease. Here's part of his speech on July 4, 1939. >> First baseman Lou Gehrig played in 2130 consecutive games. Then a fatal disease attacked baseball's iron man. In Yankee Stadium, touched to tears by the tribute, Gehrig made his last public appearance. >> For the past two weeks, you have been reading and don't want to brag. Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. (Applause). When you look around, wouldn't you consider it a privilege to associate yourself with such a fine-looking man as standing in uniform in this ball park today? (Applause). But I might have -- been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. Thank you. >> Ronnie: When you listen to the full text of his speech, it's incredible. friends, for the last two weeks you read about the bad break I got but consider myself the luckiest man on the face in the earth. When we said, when you have a wonderful mother-in-law like I have who actually takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter, that's something. (Laughter). When you have a father and mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body, it's a blessing. When you have a wife who's been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed, that's the finest I know. So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break but have an awful lot to live for." Here's what I want you to hear in all of that. I want you to hear his sense of gratitude in the midst of adversity and difficulty. It's absolutely inspiring. I've told you many times the only gift you'll ever receive in this lifetime other than Jesus Christ is an imperfect gift, and if you can't have a spirit of gratitude, you are going to be absolutely miserable. Just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean it isn't pretty good. Just because something isn't ideal and perfect doesn't mean it's not getting better and better. So when it comes to our nation and our country and our citizenship here, when you're frustrated or angry about what is not right in your country, take a moment to think about the things our nation has done well. To make it easier. I read an article this weekend that said, "Try a marriage trick that John Gottman -- I mentioned him many times. All relationships have negative interaction and the problem is when the negative interactions overwhelm the positive ones." He said in marriage there's a ratio of 5: 1. For every complaint, you make sure you're giving five words of praise. Then the article said this: Why don't you try that with your country? Is our country ideal and perfect? We have had blight in the past, slavery being one. We have a plight right now for the presence of abortion. Some of the most oppressed people in our nation are the unborn. And yet in spite of flaws and imperfections, I believe we can be good and helpful citizens here. But when we give thanks for our blessings, let's make sure we look heavenward and thank God for His role in that. We have a dual citizenship, but not only are we citizens of an earthly nation -- listen to this passage from Philippians 3. But our citizenship is in heaven. He's not denying we have citizenship here, but an ultimate citizenship, and it is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, He will transform our lowly bodies so they will be like His glorious body. We also are citizens of a heavenly kingdom. And listen, everyone: You're born again into that citizenship. You're born into that one by water and the Spirit. And one of the finest action steps you can take to nurture a heavenly citizenship -- listen carefully -- is parenting. When the Israelites were in a new land, what did God do? He said, make sure you give attention to parenting and to investing in your children. "Hey, can I give you a parenting 101 Refresher here?" Five action steps for parents? Here's what we do. We practice intentional teaching. Here are the values we believe. Secondly, intentional intercepting. When messages counter to your values come in, you intercept those. Thirdly, casual teaching and the flow of life. Fourth, modeling. Whatever you want your child or children to do, set that pace by what you say; do; how you treat others. And number five, connecting. You want your children connected to other people who will be reinforcing what you're saying to them along the way. Here's my third major point. As believers, our heavenly citizenship relativizes and qualifies all earthly loyalties. You remember when the Jewish leaders told the apostles to stop preaching in the name of Jesus? Here's what Peter had to say, the same Peter, by the way, who wrote that passage earlier about honoring the king and the emperor and being good citizens. Acts 5:29. Peter and the other apostles replied, we must obey God rather than human beings. And when the Romans tried to get Christians to burn pin sense to Caesar and Caesar is Lord, this is simply an act of unity saying, Hey, everyone, we're under the same umbrella here. Christians could not bring themselves to say Caesar is Lord. The Roman government said you can worship -- you have a Pantheon of Gods. Worship your God but also say Caesar is Lord. Christians said, we cannot go there. Jesus Christ is our absolute Lord. HE has our allegiance and no one else. And all other commitments are qualified and relativized by our commitment to Jesus Christ. And though our earthly citizenship, though it's not ultimate, yes, it is important. Chuck Colson has written about a pastor in Nepal that he regards as the finest model of Christian patriotism he's ever met. He said this pastor/preacher in Nepal served time in prison for preaching the Gospel in a land where it was against the law to do so. But his preacher friend said, "Mr. Chuck, of course I must obey the Lord and spread his word." That's what you expect to hear. But that Nepalese pastor/preacher went on to say, "Even though we're persecuted, we are Christians; and we who are Christians in Nepal, we pride ourselves on being the absolute best citizens our king has. We love our country, but we love our God more." And Colson said, it's precisely THAT careful ordering of God and country that explains how faith and patriotism mix. You know, earlier the Stricklands were reading and praying over us and they mentioned freedom. The final thing I want to say today is that as believers in Christ, we have a unique kind of freedom. I'm grateful for our freedoms that we enjoy here in the USA. I am ultimately grateful for the freedom that we enjoy in Jesus Christ, and as believers -- listen, we have a freedom FROM and we have a freedom FOR. They are both wonderful. A freedom FROM, in summary -- what's Christian freedom? My friends, it's a freedom from fear. That's what it -- a freedom from fear: From the fear of sin and the law and death and being alone, Because of Jesus Christ, because of Jesus Christ. You need not fear of being permanently stained. Your sins can be forgiven. Because of Jesus Christ, the law of God -- it's not this tyrant standing over you, saying, "You'll never measure up." Actually, it's a guide to a good life. Because of Jesus Christ, death is not a step into darkness. It's eternal glory. It's a pathway to eternal glory and to eternal reunions; and you will never be alone. Never. Though you're absent in the body, you will be present in the Lord, and He will never leave or forsake you. I'm not saying you will never feel any fear, but you have the promises of God that your faith can lean into and step into. We are FREE in Christ. We have freedom from fear of those things that can ultimately harm us. They cannot in Christ. But we also have a freedom FOR, and we've got this beautiful privilege of doing, you know -- we were singing about it earlier -- Rodeo? No. Let your light shine. We have the freedom FOR a faithful, loving Presence. We get to do that. Listen to what Galatians 5 is worded. You, my brothers and sisters, you're called to be free -- but listen -- but do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh. Do not use your freedom just to be a myopic self-absorbed person. Rather, you're free FOR. You have a freedom TO BE a faithful presence for Jesus. Serve one another in love. Do you remember God's people in the Old Testament when they were taken into Babylonian captivity? I'm waving at my youngest granddaughter back there. (Laughter) Sorry. I got -- (Laughter) I got distracted there. Remember when God's people were taken away into Babylonian captivity and here was the advice. While you're there -- here's what I want you to do -- you seek the peace and the prosperity of the city to which I've carried you into exile. And you pray to the Lord for it because if it prospers, you, too, will prosper. My citizenship is in heaven. Yes. But God has you here now for a few more years, and you get to be a faithful presence here; and you're motivated not by fear. We're free in Christ. But here we are -- and it's not selfish to pray for the prosperity of our nation, for the prosperity of our city. It's not wrong to pray that people will have enough; and quite honestly, I pray for abundance and prosperity because when people who have abundance tap into their Holy Spirit-inspired generosity, everybody wins; and good things happen. My friends, I believe one of the most patriotic things you can do for your country is to lead a Godly life. The most helpful thing you can do for your nation is to honor Jesus Christ in your everyday life. You want to help make this country stronger? Live a life of integrity. Go to work on time; do an honest day's labor; be faithful to your spouse; love and discipline your children; live within your means; pay your bills on time; file your taxes honestly; be kind to your neighbors; guard your speech, whether in person or online; attend church; give generously to the needy; honor God. Russell Moore said it so well -- I loved his statement. "We can be Americans best when we're not Americans first. We can be Americans best when we are Christians, disciples, followers of Jesus Christ first." So we have a different kind of citizenship. It's a dual citizenship, but our ultimate allegiance is to God. But I pray for my nation. I have no problem saying and singing "God Bless America." When I say that, I'm not saying "God Bless America but don't bless anyone else." In that moment I'm saying, bless our nation. When I pray for a friend of mine who's going through a difficult time and I say, "God bless so-and-so," I don't mean don't bless anyone else. In that moment I'm praying for that person. When I pray for you, God bless these people; I'm not saying "Now, don't bless anyone else." But in this moment, I'm praying for you. God bless you, my friends. Just know that our leaders here, we love you and we care. If we can help you, reach out to us. When you're ready to take your next step of Christian baptism, we are eager to help you act on your faith. I want to close my time by playing a little, one more little video; and this is a video of two Boston police officers singing a prayer. "God Bless America." >> What note is that? >> I think it's like a “G”? >> (Singing) God bless America Land that I love Stand beside her And guide her Through the night with a light from above From the mountains To the prairies To the oceans white with foam God bless America My home sweet home From the mountains To the prairies To the oceans white with foam God bless America My home sweet home God bless America My home sweet home >> Open mic. Open mic. Happy Fourth of July. >> Happy Fourth of July. >> Gonna be a good day. >> Let's stand and sing this together. >> Thanks for singing, church. Let's have a seat together. >> Troy: Thank you, Ronnie, for a wonderful, wonderful message. Some of my favorite Scriptures were in that message this morning. I'm just going to close us out with prayer, if you guys would pray with me this morning. Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your Word this morning; Lord, that it is ever active and present and relevant to our lives, God. We thank You for the freedom that Ronnie talked about this morning, not only in this country but also the great freedom that we have as children of the Living King. Lord, I ask that You would bless everyone here in attendance and also those watching from home; that we would be able to leave this place this morning and take some of this message with us out to the world and not hide our faith under the bushel but let it shine for all to see. Also, I want to thank You this morning, God, for the talented people outside cooking us lunch, and I pray all of us who are gonna stay and eat would be blessed by that food and would be good for the nourishment of our bodies amen. >> We have a special baptism that will be coming behind us. This is Philip and harper Houston. After the baptism, we will go crazy in celebration for them and just so you know, kids are always watching so we will find out whether you like baptisms or sports more so get ready to celebrate when this is over. Take it away. >> Good morning. This is a happy day for me and my wife Heidi as our middle daughter Harper he has made the important decision to be baptized. Harper has been preparing and studying and talking about this moment for a long time so we know she is ready and couldn't be more excited and more proud for this decision. Harper, you know there is lots of family and friends here today. There's lots of family and friends that aren't here today, and there's lots that are in heaven looking down right now and rejoicing and all celebrating with this milestone and big step you're taking in your faith. I will ask you a few questions. Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God? >> Yes, I do. >> Do you believe that He lived on this earth a perfect life, died on the cross for your sins, and rose on the third day? >> Yes, I do. >> Do you accept Him as your Lord and Savior? >> Yes, I do. >> Now I will baptize you in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for the forgiveness of your sins and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Applause) >> All right! Congratulations, Harper! A couple of announcements. If you're interested in becoming a new member here, we have an info session online. They will tell you how to get plugged in to our church and you can find that on our website. Also, Camp 1010 for our elementary school kids is coming up. Information is halls on the website. Our Holley Elementary School drive is beginning today in the lobby. And then big thing is next week when all of our adult Bible classes start up so at 9:45, join a campus group and will get those rolling. If you came in a different door, we have some awesome barbecue and ice cream food truck. After service is over, we will walk outside and is $10 for a plate and then if you want ice cream, that's separate as well. You get pulled pork and all the sides and some water. It's really awesome. Sammy's takes cash and credit cards. He said he doesn't take Bitcoin unless it's a full Bitcoin. Besides that, it will be an awesome time. We will eat inside the gym with nine square and cornhole and will be really awesome time. How about we stand together and sing one more song? ("A New Anointing/This is the Day" playing) >> Amen, church! Thank you so much for your worship today! Have a blessed fourth of July and hope to see you at lunch. We are dismissed.