You are invited to take a step of obedience today, trusting that God is responsible for the results when you follow through. As you practice generosity and transparency, your faith will grow and inspire those around you. Start digging deep in your trust, knowing He will provide the harvest.
Welcome to the real church Podcast. Our mission is for you to know the love of Jesus and live out your God given purpose. Now join us and listen in to the latest message from pastor David John Phillips.
Father, I thank you for who you are. Thank you that you are amazing. You do. You care for us. God, I pray that we walk away from this message today with a deeper understanding of who you are, of your nature, Lord, of who we are in you and how to walk in you, Lord God, how to reproduce you in and through our lives so that others see us and they see your love in and through us, Lord God, because a changed life a changed life changes lives.
We love you, father. Amen. So if you were here last week, then you know this, or if you've here been here a few Sundays in a row, then you would know this that I just absolutely love to tell stories. I'm I'm a storyteller, and and and I like it because people grab onto stories. They remember stories.
If, you know, you're thinking back, if you hear a good story, you want to retell that story. And so we talked about a story that showed that God is generous. *Jesus* was generous as he walked the earth. And here's the thing, if we're born again, then we have his life in us, then we are generous as well. And I wanna share a testimony because I love stories.
I wanna share a story of something that happened last Sunday. This amazing lady who is part of our church, she came up to me after the service, and she said, man, *pastor* David, I I just I want you to know that as you were speaking, I felt like God was challenging me with something. She said, I have this neighbor who is she's having some difficulties. She she can't pay. She has about a $100 of her rent that she can't pay every month, so she's short.
And she's going to have to move, and she's stressed out, she's worried about all this. And she said, as you're speaking, you're talking about the disciples and everything, and and and I just felt like God was telling me to pay a $100 a month for my neighbor. And the problem is I don't know where that money will come from. And and so but what I get from your sermon or from what you your your message, what you're saying is is what I should do is I should just by faith trust in what he said and **move forward** in obedience because if he said it, then he's gonna carry it through. Right?
He he's gonna do that. I said, absolutely. I said, that's that's exactly what you do. You you trust him in faith. If he said that, then he's gonna provide.
He's gonna make a way. Just like the disciples. Right? Just like from last week, the disciples had no idea. Jesus told them, you feed the 20,000 people.
Remember, it was 20,000, not 5,000 because it was just 5,000 men. Jesus told them, you feed them. They had nothing, absolutely nothing. Then all of sudden, they had 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, and they took what they had from this boy coming coming across, which still wouldn't feed everything. They gave it to Jesus.
They released control, trusted him. He broke it, blessed it, gave it back, and then they gave it out. Alright? So so she said, well, that okay. That's what I'm gonna do.
So I get a text from her a few days later, so a couple days ago, and she said, look, I just gotta tell you what happened. It was amazing. I I went home and I went to my neighbor. She followed through with what god had told her. I went to my neighbor and I told my neighbor that I wanted to take care of her monthly, the $100 a $100 a month for a year.
And my neighbor knows my financial situation and would not let me do that. And so I but I knew deep down that I needed to do that. And so I'll pick up from her text. She says, 2 nights later, I pick up my Bible and ask God to direct me and guide me, and I randomly flip open my Bible to see where it leads me, and the page opens up to Luke, exactly your last sermon your sermon last Sunday. I had goosebumps to say the least.
Now that doesn't always work. You know, sometimes sometimes it could be bad, but God does use that sometimes. So I had goosebumps to say the least. Then God tells tells me to ask my neighbor to come to work with me the next day. I own a cleaning business and had been struggling, but since I started going to real church, I'm swamped with work.
It's a win win situation to pay her to help me. I've also gotten her dog sitting jobs. While at the cleaning job with my neighbor, got a a a lady texted and offered her a $100 a month $100 a month to dog sit once a week. How amazing is that? She does not have to move now.
She has the money, and I wanna thank you and your wife for your ministry and opening Real Church as it has truly changed my life, and now is changing the people around me. I am beyond grateful and haven't missed a Sunday yet. I need to find out about next steps on Sunday. You know, that is my our prayer. It's been our prayer from from the get go is from day 1 that not only would it change your lives as you grow in your understanding of who Jesus is, but also because as we grow, see this this faith that we have, it's not personal, it's public.
It's public. We share we don't we don't just come because if you're growing in Jesus and if you're growing in your personal relationship with you, then it's becoming more public. Other people are beginning to see him in and through you in the way that you speak, in the way that you do things. It's flowing out of you. It has to if it's real.
It's just a part of it. I wanna continue reading actually the next text that that she sent me. She said, and I'll start here. She said, I'm beyond astonished of all of the amazing things happening to me right now happening to me right now. I feel beyond honored Jesus used me to help my neighbor, but I did it by listening to him, and I can't even begin to tell you all the amazing things that have instantly been happening in my life.
It's Friday night and normally, I would be wanting to go out, but instead, I'm anxious to know god more. I ordered the Bible for dummies and another book just to try to understand better and imperfectly perfectly content that my Friday night or that this is my Friday night. "God is good" and he is real. I grew up Catholic and learned to fear God, and now I know he is my best friend and it's amazing. Looking forward to Sunday and honored my story will be a part of your sermon and hope it touches people as it is added as it has me because I share it with everyone.
I'd asked her if I could share her her story, and thank you for letting me. So just so you know, *testimony*, all that is a story. It's you sharing your story of what God has done in and through your life. It's very important. Testimony isn't just you sharing when you gave your life to Jesus, which is probably the most 1 of the most powerful testimonies you have, but also what he's been doing in your life last week, this morning, what he's teaching you, what you're learning, what God's showing you in the word, what he showed you in prayer, how he used you in the in the weeks.
As you share your story, you grow by the word of your testimony, and those around you are being strengthened and challenged. Check this out from her story. What I see is faith follows through. Faith follows through. The amazing happened as she followed through.
So I'm gonna say it again, faith follows through and the amazing happens as we follow through. Give you an example of this, and, it's a little off of the generous series, but we'll take a moment. I was talking to my little sister about this last night, and she's just awesome. She has a really cool mind the way things work in her brain, and she's like, so you're saying it's like this? And I said, actually, that's exactly what I'm saying.
I'm gonna use that tomorrow. She said, well, okay. I'll change it up just a little, but let's imagine that I have $3,000,000,000. Okay. I have $3,000,000,000, guys.
Not not really, but let's imagine. And I dig 3 holes in 3 different places, and each of these holes are 8 feet deep, and I put 1000000000 dollars in each hole in these different places, nowhere near each other. I cover them up with the dirt, pack it down, you know, time passes so grass grows over it. It doesn't look like there's anything nothing has been done. It's not like a fresh grave or anything.
Right? And I put a big red x on top of each spot in these 3 different places. I have 3 different guys that go to these 3 different spots. And I meet the first guy at the spot, and I give him a shovel, and I tell him, dig a hole. Dig deep enough, you'll you'll find 1000000000 dollars, and it's yours if you make it.
I go to the second guy, the red x on the thing, and you give him a shovel, and I say, dig a hole. If you dig deep deep enough, you'll find 1000000000 dollars. If you get there, it's yours. And I go to the third guy, exact same thing. Give him a shovel, tell him to dig a hole.
If you dig deep enough, you'll find 1000000000 dollars. You get there, it's yours. Now they have no idea how deep it is. It's 8 feet down. The first guy, what he does is he takes the shovel, he looks at me, kinda gives me a, you know, cockeyed look, looks down and says, hey, there's not 1000000000 dollars right there.
He throws a shovel down and he walks away, never to return. Is that faith? No. Not at all. The second guy takes the shovel, looks at me, is excited.
Oh, he's stoked. He he gets down, he starts digging. You know, and the ground's really hard, so it takes him a while to to get there. So he gets a foot down, and he's still digging. Man, sweat's starting to pour because it's really hot.
It's summertime, you know? So so he gets down. 2 hours, he's 2 feet down. He's digging, and I mean, it just seems like he's never gonna stop. You would think, man, this guy's gonna make it all the way.
3 hours, 3 feet down. He's still digging, sweat's pouring, he's starving, he's hungry. Now he's starting to doubt a little bit, but no. I mean, it looks like on the outside, he's gonna he's gonna keep going. 4 hours, he's 4 feet down.
5 hours, he's 5 feet down. 6 hours, he's 6 feet down. 7 hours, he's 7 feet down, and he looks around. He's flabbergasted. He can't believe he hasn't found anything yet.
He drops the shovel, and he walks away, never to return. It looked like faith. It looked a lot like faith. I thought this I mean, was it faith? No.
*Faith* follows through. He showed in the end when he quit, when he walked away, that he didn't really believe that there was 1000000000 dollars down. Faith doesn't stop. It keeps going. Third guy.
It's a red X. He takes a shovel. He looks down. He starts to dig. He gets the first little bit of dirt out.
He drops it and walks away. But a couple hours later, he walks back, picks up the shovel, starts digging, makes it 2 feet in 2 hours, says heck with this, drops it and walks away. About a week and a half later, he just can't get it out of his head. He goes back, picks up the shovel, starts digging, makes it 3 and a half feet, gets tired, sweat's pouring off his brow, said this is too much. He throws it down and walks away.
2 weeks later, he comes back, picks the shovel back up, starts digging again, makes it to 6 feet, the longest he's ever made it, throws the shovel right back down and walks away. Is it faith? We don't know yet. He hadn't given up completely. Comes back, picks up the shovel, keeps digging, makes it 7 and a half feet.
He's almost there, throws the shovel back down, walks away. A month and a half goes by. He comes back, picks up the shovel, keeps going. He makes it to the $1,000,000,000, and the $1,000,000,000, the prize is his. Was it faith?
Absolutely. Why? Because he believed the word enough to keep going. He doubted, he struggled, but he kept falling forward, kept going, kept pushing forward, and made it to the prize because he believed enough not to quit. Faith follows through.
If quitting, if it's not following through, then it's good effort, it looks good, but it's not faith. Because those who quit never really believe the word. Does that make sense? Is that clear? Man.
An amazing treasure. Our treasure is in him. Everything that we have is in him, and we have that now because we've given our life to him now, and it's awesome. And so what do we do with what we've been given? Alright.
So we're continuing the series generous. Today is generous church, and let's go to 2 Corinthians-9:10-11. It says, now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in "every way". Everyone say every way.
That's pretty cool. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us, *generosity* will result in thanksgiving. What would it be like, church, what would it be like to be a people who are generous on every single occasion? What would it be like to be a church that is generous on every single occasion? I'll tell you what it would be it would be like.
It would be life changing to everyone around you. It would be life changing to everyone around this church. We would be a church, or we will be a church in this city that if the church were to go away, the city would miss it. Because we will be generous on every occasion. Why?
Well, we're born with a nature as we've talked about before in past messages. We're born with a nature of mine. Let me let me tell you what I mean. Mine. As a 2 year old, right, we've talked about this before, as a 2 year old, as a 1 year old, as a 3 year old, if you have kids or if you've ever had kids or if you've ever been a kid and maybe this is still you, you see something, your kids see something, and they say, mine.
And they hold it close. Why? Because it's natural. It's a nature issue. That's just who they are.
It was bred into them, born into them, passed down from father and mother all the way back down to Adam, a nature of mine. But here's the amazing thing. If you've been born again, if you've given your life to Jesus, then, there's something different. What does it mean to be born again? Review here.
Let's go to John-1. Verse 12. It says, yet to all who did receive him, that's Jesus, to all who did receive Jesus, to those who believed in Jesus' name, Jesus gave the right to become *children* of God. Children not born of a natural descent or of a human decision or of a husband's will, but born of God. Guess what?
If you've accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you have been born of God. Not of a natural descent, not of a human will or human decision, but born again, born of God. And guess what? A child has the nature of their father in them. Therefore, if their father is generous, which God is, then we are generous, and it gives the father great joy to see their son slash daughter, their son or daughter follow in their footsteps.
In Ephesians-5 verse 1, it says, be imitators of God as dearly beloved *children*. Therefore, our lives are no longer mine lives. They're generous lives. Okay? Because that's who we are as children of God.
Now we in order to grow there, we have to see him for who he is, understand who he is, and understand that that's who we are. The more that we know who we are, the more that we live out who we are in him. It's natural now, not unnatural as it was before. So *God, as a generous* God, he has principles in nature, and his the principles of his nature are clearly seen throughout creation, throughout nature. And he has put those principles of generosity, those principles of what that looks like in nature.
So let's look at them. We're gonna discuss 1 of those principles briefly today. The principle of seed, time, and harvest. Seed, time, and harvest. Let's go to *Genesis-8:22* just to show that this is a principle that does not go away.
As long as earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. So as long as earth endures, seed time and harvest will never cease. So with this apple then, if I cut it apart, I cut it in half, and I take 1 of the seeds out, and I plant it in good soil, good ground, give some water, you know, it's gonna have some sunlight, it will grow up and produce a tree. Now it takes some time. It's not immediately.
I think a lot of time we plant seed and we don't see an immediate harvest. You know, we we dig 6 6 feet down and get tired and walk away saying this will never happen. But if we would have just waited long enough, there would have been a harvest that was amazing. So we plant the seed, we wait time, the tree grows, and it produces a crop. Maybe it's 1 apple.
Maybe it's 10 apples. Maybe it's 20 apples. Maybe the first crop is is is amazing. It's a 100 apples on this tree. Probably not.
It's it's a little bit of it at a time. But I plant an apple seed, I get what in return? Apples. I plant an apple seed. The result is apples.
Now spiritual principle, which is amazing is the Bible talks about Jesus being the seed. Now that's cool. **Jesus is the seed*. Think about it. Jesus came from heaven to earth, lived a perfect life, and then died on the cross*.
Well, in John-12:24, it says, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it will not produce any fruit. What did Jesus do? Jesus, heaven to earth, and he died on the cross, and then was planted in the ground 3 days later rose again and produced life and produced fruit. Now, that fruit, we are the fruit of his life. That's pretty cool, right?
Spiritual principle there. So the principle of nature, we can clearly see through nature what God's plan is and God his God's story, but also it's all throughout nature as well. Let me explain. Think about it. If I plant 1 seed, 1 apple seed, how many apples do I get out of that seed?
If I plant 1 apple seed, I get a tree that produces apples, multiple apples. In each apple is more seeds or more seeds. I plant those seeds, and I get more trees and more apples. In 1 seed is everything that there there is, everything that is needed for a complete tree and that produces multiple apples and produces multiple more seeds and produces there could be a whole orchard in that 1 1 seed. If we're faithful to plant it.
That's pretty amazing. So there's a principle of multiplication that God has put into nature to show that what happens in the kingdom with generosity, with what when we are faithful to sow what we have been given. So back to the apples. Or no, actually, 2 Corinthians-9:6. Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever **sows generously** will also reap generously.
So now back to the apples. What happens if I cut this apple and I just eat it? I don't sow the seed that is in the apple. Now if I do that, I get the satisfaction in the moment of enjoying everything that is in my hands, but I don't get the benefit of the discipline of sowing what needs to be sown and eating what needs to be eaten. Does that make sense?
So so there is wisdom in not eating the whole apple, but taking what was created in the apple to be sown and and sowing it and giving it releasing control of it, giving it away. But in every apple, there is "meat to eat" and seed to sow. As a matter of fact, the majority of the apple is fruit that we are to enjoy. The results of our the fruit of our labor. In the fruit of our labor, the same principle.
There is meat to eat and there is *seed* to sow. It's part of nature. It's part of how god created things. The crazy thing is, where is the seed in the apple? The seed is at the heart of the apple.
Your treasure is where your treasure is there. Your heart is also. The seed is in the middle of the apple, the most protected place. The it's the part that's hardest to get to get to, the part that's hardest to give up. See, a lot of times, we are meant to sow, our God wants us to sow, He'll challenge us to sow the things that are most valuable to us, not because he's is a greedy god, but because he wants your heart.
He wants all of you. So the times that are most valuable to you or the part of your treasure, the part of your money, the part of your things that are most valuable to you. A lot of times, he'll poke on that area, not because he's a bad god, but because he wants to be lord of your life, and he don't want he doesn't want those areas of your life to be lord of your life anymore. The principle of *seed*, time, and harvest isn't just money. It's time, talent, treasure, everything.
If you look in in Matthew actually, I believe it's Luke. Luke-6:37 and 38. It says, it it talks about actually, let's go there. Let's just go there for a second. Chapter Luke *Luke-6:7* or verses 37 and 38.
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap.
For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. So there's a concept of giving out from you, from what you have, and it's multiplied and given back to you. Let me give you a really practical example that's not money. If you are just a hateful person, I mean, just absolutely hateful to the to 5 people that are around you, you are always hateful to these 5 people. What are those 5 people gonna go do?
In time, they will tell all their friends how hateful you are. And guess what? When you get around their groups of friends, now instead of just 5 people, you have their whole group of friends that's being hateful to you because they've heard how hateful you are to their friend. Not just that 1 group of friends of 10 or 15 but times 5. You give out and it's multiplied back to you.
So, that's every aspect of your life. It's a principle of nature that God has created in nature, which is pretty amazing if we know how to use it correctly. Now, God's amazing because he redeems that stuff so we can be forgiven, and then he can take those that those hateful people and then see the love that Jesus has put in our heart, and and it changes their heart and changes them, the seeds of hatefulness that we sowed, changes in the love. God can can do all of that, but also, it's not just with hatefulness. It's not just or kindness.
It's not just with forgiveness, as it says, but it's also with our finances as well. So what does this whole *seed* time and harvest look like practically for you? What does it look like practically for our church? Because today, we're talking about a generous church, which is if it's for you, then it's for the church. If I'm if I'm teaching this principle, then then the church as a whole, real church, better exemplify the principle.
Because if not, then why would I teach people to do it if we're not doing it as a whole? So I'll give you I'll I'll show you what I mean here in just a second. Check this out. *Jesus* talked a lot about money. A lot.
16. Check out. 16 of the 38 parables were concerned with how to handle money and possessions. In the gospel, an amazing 1 out of 10 verses, gospels, deal directly with the subject of money. 1 out of 7 in the gospel of Luke.
The Bible offers 500 verses on prayer, less than 500 verses on faith, but more than 2,000 verses on the money and possessions. Why? Why is money and possessions such a big deal? Because Matthew-6:21 says, where your treasure is, there your heart is also. So if your treasure is all about self, then your heart is all about self.
And if your treasure is all about the things of God, then your heart is all about him. It's not bad for you to have money and possessions. Money and possessions are an amazing thing. God blesses people to be rich and and to be a blessing to all things, and that's a good thing. It's awesome.
But the bad part is when money and possessions have you. It's a heart thing. So what do we do? We are obedient to enjoy the meat, enjoy the fruit, and sow the seed. Exactly as God says.
The fruit of the labor of our hands in today's society, that is finances. In everything that comes in, there is seed to sow and meat to eat. There's a portion to give and a portion to enjoy. So the title of this message is Generous Church. Let me tell you what this looks like for real church, for me.
And I'm not saying this, this is not to brag on what on me or anything like that. This is to brag on what God has done. This is just simply bragging on the grace that he has given. When God spoke this church in existence, very similar to how he spoke to give, you know, the $100 to the neighbor. When God spoke this church in existence, he spoke it.
He said, just like he said to the disciples, you go feed them. He said, you go plant this church. Now there's no way in the world that I can do that. Like, Ark says you have to raise between a 150 and $200,000 to be able to plant a church healthy and strong in order to to be able to really make it. And I'm like, I've never done that before in my life.
I don't know how to do that. And in prayer, God said not to ask people for money. How is that gonna work? I don't get it. ARC actually trains people to fundraise.
And I'm like, okay. So I I began praying, and I have no idea what I'm gonna do. And and then an old pastor friend of mine, I'm calling him asking for wisdom, and he says, David, I just want you to know I believe in you. I 100% believe in in this vision that God has put in your heart, and and we're going to take up an offering at 1 of our services, and we are going to give the whole offering to you. I'm like, wow, that's amazing.
Thank you, Jesus. Wow, that's that's powerful. So so I go and I share the vision. They they take up this offering and it's $4,000, which is the first big offering that we had ever received. And I'm just like, man, praise god and god says, "give it away".
And I'm like, what? Are you serious? It was precious. It was the first 1. It was a big deal to me.
And where are the seeds? They're in the heart of the apple. Right? A lot of times, god will, just like I said, poke, make sure he he finds the heart and says, give it to him because he wants to make sure that he's the lord of your life. So god said, give it away.
And so I I gave it to another church planter who had planted just recently planted a church, and they needed a van. And and so I I I gave it to them. The crazy thing is you sow a seed. I sowed a seed into a church plant. What were we gonna be?
A church plant. Right? Seed produces well, guess what? We ended up having everything that we needed to plant a church. All that you see, all that all that we have was given to us or or or paid for financially, and it wasn't because I went out and begged a lot of people for money.
Some people, god woke up in the middle of the night and told them to give me 10,000. I'm serious as a I mean, it's amazing. God is miraculous because when he speaks and we are obedient to do what he says to do, he's responsible for taking care of what he said to do. Period. Like, it's awesome.
*Seed, time, and harvest*. So in the course of time, we have up into the the time that we planted this church, we have given, you know, in in Matthew-28, Jesus is talking to the church to go and make disciples in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. Right? So in your city, in your in your state, nation, and to all the nations. In the course of time, we have not only we've sown in into local churches in the Clearwater area before we even planted the church.
We've sown into churches outside of the Clearwater area before we planted the church, and we've sown I was in India June, and from the real church, the things that God has given for real church, to plant a church, we built a church, we paid to build a church, which is a lot cheaper than here, by the way. A lot. But praise God, we we built a church. We paid to build a church in India with my friends that are over there. Planting churches locally, nationally, and internationally.
If you can't tell where your treasure is, your heart is, God's called me a church planter, and I believe that God's gonna produce multiple churches out of this church, where we're gonna plant churches throughout the city, we're gonna plant churches throughout the nation, and internationally. Why? Because that's the heart. Do you know why did we we give to other churches in Tampa Bay, in in Clearwater? Because Jesus prayed in John-17, father, make them 1 as we are 1 so the world may know that you sent me.
The most effective form of evangelism is unity. So, man, if we grab the arm of other churches that are preaching Jesus, Forget about the don't sweat the big stuff. I mean, the small stuff. Just sweat, hey. I've been preaching Jesus for my brother in Christ.
Let's "win this city together". That's effective. Sow into 1 another and help 1 another. So transparency is a core value of real church. It just is.
It's it's a core value of my life. You can ask anybody who's met with me. You can ask me anything you want. I don't care. I'm just gonna be open.
1 is because secret sin only grows more dirty, and I don't wanna do that. And number 2 is because relationships are built on transparency. The more transparent and you are with who you are with another person, the closer you can become in relationship. Same with Jesus. You open your heart to him and it initiates relationship.
So I wanna be transparent from the stage, from every aspect of real church. 10% of everything that comes in, at least 10% will be given and has been given to ministries outside of real church. Why? Because I believe in this principle. There's meat to eat, *seed* to sow.
We're gonna reap a *harvest* that's gonna "change the world". Number 20% of everything that comes in will be for ministries in and through real church. In and through real church. Why? Because God's called us to minister, to *pastor* you guys, this people, and this city.
It's gonna be amazing. 3, transparent. 35 of everything that would come, comes in, would be for salaries, which is low compared to most churches. Go look. Here's the crazy part.
Here's how radically amazing God is. Because we're not self sustaining yet. Like, we're not there, but God is good, and we're getting close. Nobody we were not using that 35% yet. Nobody here is on staff at real church.
Nobody's being paid by real church. There's other churches. There's our sending church from Louisiana is paying my salary, and other people have randomly said, God told me to do this, which is crazy. Our sending church is paying Jade Fulford. All this production and the media and stuff you see on Facebook, dude's amazing.
That's crazy. An outside donor randomly came up and said, hey, I had these worship leaders in Texas. And we met him and he said after they accepted that this was a God thing, they're gonna move here. After that, they found out that he donated their salary for a full year. Like, God takes care of when you move forward in what he says.
Regardless of how outlandish and how crazy it is, when you move forward with what he says, he's responsible for the results because he's the 1 who spoke it. We're just supposed to "keep digging". Isn't that cool? So that money, the 35% that's supposed to be for salaries is actually being allocated to help pay for rent, to help pay for for *ministry* and and everything. And then the last 35% is for facilities, which is low as well compared to everybody else, but that's going to so that we can have this facility and everything too.
So so there's transparently. That's a generous church. That's who we are. That's how we do it. And that's why we're sowing seed.
That's how we're sowing seed into locally, nationally, and internationally, knowing that that seed is gonna produce a harvest because we're gonna be consistent. We're not gonna stop. We're gonna keep digging and keep digging and keep digging because I know that what God has spoken will come to pass. We're not just gonna get tired and sweaty 6 feet down and run away Because God loves me, God loves us, God cares, and God has a future for us. That's amazing.
So let's pray.
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