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[3085.74 --> 3094.66] We thank you for her witness of you, her true sovereign, and her example of daily faithfulness and service.
[3095.58 --> 3101.08] History shows that there were many monarchs who were despots and had huge moral failings.
[3101.68 --> 3106.46] But we are thankful that our queen has not been a failure, but graceful and loving.
[3107.18 --> 3111.76] We thank you for her seven years of service to her country and also to ours.
[3111.76 --> 3118.48] We pray the new king, Charles III, will acknowledge you and rule with a desire to serve.
[3119.98 --> 3126.66] In grieving the loss of the queen, many speak of how this event also triggers for them memories of those who have passed away.
[3127.74 --> 3132.58] Some too soon, we could say, Dave Alexander and Louise Rezobos,
[3133.06 --> 3136.46] but others later in life who have shaped our hearts and minds.
[3136.46 --> 3141.08] Rika Emmons is coming back after being present for her mom's funeral.
[3142.00 --> 3145.56] We all have memories of loved ones who have gone before us.
[3146.32 --> 3151.50] Remind us each day, Lord, that our times are in your hands.
[3152.46 --> 3158.76] We continue to hear news from Ukraine that is encouraging, but also brutal,
[3159.24 --> 3162.70] in seeing how destructive and inhumane mankind can be.
[3162.70 --> 3166.04] We long to see peace between Ukraine and Russia.
[3166.92 --> 3171.54] We know that from the human heart can come the most despicable atrocities.
[3172.38 --> 3174.56] How long, Lord, must this go on?
[3175.40 --> 3177.90] Even the environment seems out of control.
[3178.72 --> 3182.10] We had our floods last November, and now it's Pakistan's turn.
[3182.10 --> 3187.60] Every year, there's another corner of the world that takes it in the chin with either a flood,
[3188.22 --> 3193.10] a fire, drought, pestilent tornado, or an earthquake.
[3194.18 --> 3200.44] Reminders that the creation groans and that it awaits the day of salvation, as we do.
[3201.38 --> 3204.36] May our actions treat our creation with respect
[3204.36 --> 3209.90] and mitigate through our lifestyle choices the care our natural environment craves.
[3210.80 --> 3213.90] We thank you, our Father, for listening to us.
[3214.68 --> 3216.38] Hear our prayers, O Lord.
[3217.08 --> 3219.04] Incline your ear to us.
[3219.80 --> 3224.68] We desire to grow more deeply into your presence and providence.
[3225.36 --> 3227.04] In Jesus' name we pray.
[3227.70 --> 3228.06] Amen.
[3228.06 --> 3228.18] Amen.
[3234.36 --> 3236.36] Amen.
[3256.36 --> 3263.84] During the month of September, we are in a beginning of the year,
[3263.84 --> 3267.98] a new ministry year series called This Is Our Church.
[3268.08 --> 3270.52] And we are looking at who we are.
[3270.84 --> 3274.58] And as I was reflecting on that this morning, I was reminded of it.
[3275.14 --> 3277.52] I just want to say thank you and bless you.
[3278.24 --> 3281.50] Because this is one of those mornings where it was really clear to me
[3281.50 --> 3284.56] that one of the things we are is a church that loves to sing.
[3285.62 --> 3287.48] And so singing this morning was great.
[3287.60 --> 3289.28] And thank you for blessing me with that.
[3289.36 --> 3290.78] I hope that you were blessed.
[3290.78 --> 3294.42] And we will have a chance to do that again following our worship.
[3294.48 --> 3298.62] I was also reminded this morning as Marguerite came up and as Peter reminded us
[3298.62 --> 3300.60] that we are a church that's doing things.
[3301.16 --> 3301.26] Right?
[3301.30 --> 3302.88] That there's things happening here.
[3302.96 --> 3306.32] We are a church that longs for the safety of your kids as they come.
[3306.42 --> 3308.60] And so we have safe church ministries, which is important.
[3308.72 --> 3311.58] We are a church that has sponsored refugees in the past.
[3311.58 --> 3316.78] And if you didn't catch it in the prayer, there is some good news coming out of the refugee sponsorship team
[3316.78 --> 3321.44] that we do have another family that we've committed to and are in process of.
[3321.52 --> 3324.60] And so Peter will give you details of that if you want and ask him.
[3324.70 --> 3326.58] He's going to be in the back following service.
[3326.98 --> 3331.94] And we've got all of those things back there for you to sign up and see and to engage in.
[3331.94 --> 3342.30] It is a beautiful testimony of God at work in us and of you at work in the world for him.
[3342.30 --> 3347.54] As we reflect this morning on what we do and why we do it,
[3347.68 --> 3353.54] it's loosely in these three weeks around the mission statement of our church,
[3353.62 --> 3360.54] which you may know is gather, grow, and go.
[3361.08 --> 3365.48] The exuberance on y'all this morning is just spilling forward.
[3366.82 --> 3368.92] Gather, grow, and go.
[3368.92 --> 3370.50] Last week we looked at gather.
[3370.50 --> 3373.50] This week we're looking at the question of grow.
[3373.82 --> 3378.24] And more particularly, why and how do we grow?
[3378.96 --> 3386.00] Now I was reminded this past summer that sometimes growth is incredibly visible.
[3387.08 --> 3389.28] So I have a daughter, she's nine years old.
[3389.96 --> 3395.74] And we went this summer back to Ontario where we were from to visit family and friends.
[3395.74 --> 3402.88] And my daughter in the last year has grown like a foot and four or five shoe sizes.
[3403.66 --> 3411.02] It is impossible to keep her in clothes for longer than one or two months, it seems.
[3411.12 --> 3412.24] And then she has to get new clothes.
[3412.32 --> 3413.22] Now she loves that.
[3414.62 --> 3416.18] The laundry pile does not.
[3416.18 --> 3418.40] I heard her just say now from the back, yes, see?
[3420.90 --> 3425.56] And when we went to visit people, they were blown away.
[3426.28 --> 3429.98] Oh my, Nora, look how big you've gotten, they would say.
[3430.54 --> 3433.38] Now, sometimes growth is visible too.
[3433.50 --> 3436.82] And I'm going to say this as well, rather to my own shame.
[3436.82 --> 3439.62] But my little niece, who's four, sat in my lap.
[3439.72 --> 3442.74] She poked me in this tummy and said, my, look how you've grown.
[3446.46 --> 3447.96] She's five now, thank you.
[3449.54 --> 3451.32] Point is, sometimes you can see it.
[3452.72 --> 3457.36] Sometimes growth is slower and it's more longer term.
[3457.36 --> 3462.72] And it takes an intentionality to see when it's happening.
[3463.48 --> 3470.20] And yet, we believe that growth has to be happening.
[3470.82 --> 3474.88] And so this morning, as we look at how we grow and how we are grown,
[3475.16 --> 3480.30] we will see both visible and invisible markers of that growth.
[3480.72 --> 3484.18] We're going to do that by looking at a text from Ephesians 4.
[3484.18 --> 3487.42] So if you have a Bible, I'm going to encourage you to open that up.
[3488.10 --> 3489.82] We'll turn to Ephesians 4.
[3490.30 --> 3493.22] For those of you who are new or maybe have not paid attention before,
[3493.30 --> 3495.68] but if you look at the screen, when you see the text,
[3495.76 --> 3497.22] and that little graph along the bottom,
[3497.92 --> 3503.06] that tells you approximately where in your Bible the text we're reading from is.
[3503.34 --> 3505.16] So if you're unfamiliar with Bibles,
[3505.48 --> 3509.12] and you see Ephesians is kind of in the latter, you know, fifth over there,
[3509.16 --> 3511.94] if you open up to the back fifth, you'll be pretty close to where you can find it.
[3511.94 --> 3514.80] So just a little, maybe you've never paid attention to that.
[3515.00 --> 3521.12] Anyway, Ephesians 4, I'm going to read verse 11 through 16.
[3521.46 --> 3524.94] That will be on the screen, but I do always encourage you to have it in your hands
[3524.94 --> 3527.26] because we will refer back pretty regularly.
[3528.30 --> 3531.28] So God's Word for us this morning.