Introduction

My name is Yu Fei, and I'm the youth pastor here in Gospel Light Christian Church. And it's an honor for me to be standing before you sharing this 38th anniversary sermon. And when I look back the 38 years of God's faithfulness in Gospel Light Christian Church, we want to give God all the glory and all the honor that due to his name. In fact, I'm only 37 years old, and Gospel Light have been here for 38 years. And not just we want to give God all the glory that due to his name, we want to also give glory and honor to those of us that have served tirelessly behind the scene for the last 38 years. And especially, I want to take this opportunity to thank our pastors, especially our founding pastors and founding elders, they have laid the ground for us. And I remember…not I remember, I wasn't even born yet. But 38 years ago, Gospel Light was only a small church in a building at 360 Dunearn Road. And 38 years down the road, we are here in this big auditorium, having three services, and we are planning to church plant in the near future as well. And all this is because of God, and all these are because of the faithfulness of God's people laboring behind the scenes. So can we give a round applause to our pastors, elders, deacons, ministry leaders, CG leaders, LOLMD leaders, usher, marshal and so many more, I can't even name all. Thank you for your faithfulness to God, and I pretty sure it's because of what God has done in your life, and you want to give back unto God.
And in this morning, as we look back the 38 years of God's faithfulness, I just can't help myself to think about what will happen 38 years from now. As I was preparing this sermon, and something just stirred within my heart. As we thank God for the faithfulness, how about the next 38 years? Where will we be in this church? A question that comes to my mind is, who will be standing here preaching the word of God? Who will be serving? Who will be doing marshal? Who will be cooking in our kitchen ministry? Most of our kitchen ministry people are slightly older, and 38 years down the road, I hope that they're still around, but I don't think they have the power to go and stir the pot. Where will we be 38 years from now? I know that Pastor Jason looks young. I know that he's about 40 over years old, but he looks like 20, 30. But in 38 years down the road, I'm pretty sure he will not be looking like this. He will probably be looking someone old, and maybe he needs something to hold him to walk. I do not know. But in 38 years down the road, I will be 70 over years old, and many of you here, you will also grow old. What will happen to Gospel Light Christian church? Who will be discipling? Who will be mentoring the next generation? Who will be our children ministry workers? Youth workers? Varsity worker? Who will be? And that is something that bothers me, and that's something that I want to share from my heart to you based on Psalm 78.

Generational Discipleship and Psalm 78

In the book of Psalm 78 is a very beautiful book written by Asaph. And this Psalm is not talking about just what God has done. This Psalm tells us about who will know what God has done. I believe that the health of the church tomorrow and in the near future really depends on God's sovereignty, but also it really depends on how we lead and serve and we disciple today. And that's something that's upon my heart. If you do not know, the mission statement of our church, in fact, that's why this church exists for the last 38 years. We exist to make disciples. We exist to lead different generations into a life changing relationship with Jesus Christ.

I belong to the generation of the ‘cool’ generation, but I want to find out which generation do you belong to. So please entertain me. Can I ask all of you here to stand up first? Just stand up. I will share with you why. I'm a youth pastor. I love to use object lesson to teach the next generation. And I want to see, I want us to help us to see which generation do you actually belong to? The first generation, if you are the baby boomers, you are born before 1965, can I ask you to sit down please? I mean, you need to rest, and don't need to stand so long, right? And these are the mature generation that have actually built this nation from ground up. These are the generation that actually, some of you are even here since 38 years ago, you are here in this church. We thank God for your faithfulness. We thank God that you are still here serving the next generation. Can we give the older generation here a round of applause? Thank you. The next generation is the Gen X. These are the bridging generation, the sandwich generation. They have to juggle elderly parents. They also have to juggle growing troubling teens, and they also juggle a lot of ministry and work. We thank God for you. And if you can, please sit down as well. Okay, Gen Y, this is the coolest generation, because it's my generation. We love coffee, matcha, and all the…or we grout in between the TV, and also all the new gadgets and all the iPhones and Facebook. And we also want to welcome you. Please be seated. Now you see, okay, this the next group I want you to see here. Okay, these are the people of the future, not of the future, you are also present here. But this will be our next generation. My question is, would they still be here with us 38 years down the road? Would they still be serving, loving God? If you are from the Gen Z generation, you grew up in during the Covid, you have the very interesting period of growing up. We thank God for you. Thank God for your presence with us. Please be seated as well. And last but not least, since today, there is no children ministry, and even though you cannot see them because they are not that tall and they are around with us. These are the Gen Z, Gen Alpha, the 13 years old and below. We want to welcome you to this church as well. This generation is a very interesting generation, because they grew up with Six Seven, what skibidi toilet, where the past generation will have no clue what they are, but we thank God for you.

The Role of Each Generation

But I want to say this, isn't this amazing that in this congregation, in this hall, we have five different generations sitting here worshiping God together? And one generation and after another generation, passing the baton down from one to another. And that is the heartbeat of Psalm 78. That discipleship is generational, and that's God's design. Faith has to be first received, and this faith, this gospel that we first received, must be passed on to the next generation. This Psalm is not about what God has done. Psalm 78 like I mentioned, this Psalm is about who will know what God has done. I entitled today's sermon as ‘Leading generation’ taken from our mission statement, ‘Leading generation into a life changing relationship with Jesus Christ’. Our worship leader, Jonathan, just now have read the Psalms for us, and I want to just give you some context of what Psalm 78 is all about.

Psalm 78 is written by Asaph, one of the worship leader commissioned by King David during that period of time. And he has heard stories that has passed down from generation to generation, and he is going to recall to us the history of what actually happened from verse 9 to verse 72. Don't worry, I'm not going to read through all the verses, but I want to give you a highlight. This Psalm is a historical Psalm where Asaph, the worship leader, is going to recount to us how Israel has been unfaithful to God, how Israel, over and over again, missed the mark, how they failed to proclaim the truth, the word of God and pass it down to the next generation, and how Asaph is going to recall how Israel has been unfaithful, but yet how God has been merciful and gracious and has steadfast love, the steadfastness, the loyal love to God's people. And that is the summary of Psalm 78. But I want to just highlight verse 1 to 8, because to me, that is the mission statement of the entire Psalms 78.

The Importance of Receiving and Relaying the Gospel

Number one. I want us to look at this Psalm by looking at this word, ‘receive’. Asaph called that generation to first receive God's words again. It's the same posture when God commanded Israel to come and listen, to pay attention in Mount Sinai. “Give ears”. Asaph said this,

Give ears. O my people to my teaching. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. (Psalm 78:1)

Asaph is trying to say, “This generation, please listen up.” The Hebrew idea here is to lean on, to pay close attention with not a heart that just listens, but a heart that wants to receive God's word, so that they will be able to obey. To listen to what? Remember Asaph is going to recall stories after stories after stories in verse 9 to 72. And if you have your time, in your own time, please go and read those verses yourself. He will open his mouth in parables. He will use those stories in the past to illustrate a spiritual truth. He will utter dark sayings. This dark saying is not referring to the occult practices of witchcraft and sorceries, is totally different. It's just referring to riddles. Riddles are hard to understand, and it takes time and effort to interpret and understand and get the full meaning of it. So what Asaph is trying to say is this, “Listen carefully, pay attention this generation.” These lessons of the old, has been paid with real life. The story of wilderness, the story of how God delivered Israel out of Egypt, the story of how God provide for them in the 40 years of wilderness, how God actually destroyed the wall of Jericho so that God's people can enter into the promised land and so on and so forth. Those stories of the past tells us many, many lessons and what itself is trying to tell the current generation, that generation during the period of time, is that, please don't repeat the mistake of the past generation. And he says this,

Things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. (Psalm 78:3)

You know, in the past, they don't have Bible like us, but they use stories, real life stories, and they pass on those stories from generation to generation, from community to community, from tribe to tribe, from parents to their children, from their grandparents to their grandchildren. That is the culture. That is a intergeneration, multi generational discipleship that we see here because they have heard from the past of what their fathers have told them they want to hand it over. What's the point here? You see, before we can say, I want to lead the next generation. I want to pass the baton of the gospel to the next generation, before even we have that desire, first, we must ask ourselves, are we receiving this message of the gospel firmly into our hearts? Do we know the stories of the Bible? Do we know God? Have we tasted His love, His grace and His mercy? Have we have experiences of answered prayer, of how God deliver us, how God sustain us? You see, each generation is both a receiver and a messenger. Picture like this, every athlete have to run, and for a person to complete the whole race, each person have to pass the baton to the next generation. But before the person can pass the baton to the next generation, that person that runs must hold on tight to the baton. If the person don't hold on tight, he cannot pass to the next person. And if the baton is dropped, the whole race is over.

In the same way Asaph is calling that generation to hold on, to remember, to receive God's word again. I think in our context, the question that I want to ask is this, do you know the gospel? Have you been receiving the Word of God on a regular basis? Have you been attending services to listen to the Scripture again? How is your attitude when you come and receive God's word? Do you come with a hunger and say, “God, I want to know more about you, your love. What are the things that I need to grow in? What are the sins that I need to fight? What are the promises that I need to cling on to?” How is our attitude when we come to church on a Sunday basis? Not just in the Sunday services, do we join community, christian spiritual community that come and encourage you in the Word of God? Do we? Are we attending CG, DG, LOLMD, shepherds training, or the many means of grace that God has given to us in this church? Are we coming to receive His word? And not just in those platforms, the question that I want to ask us this morning, in our 38 years of anniversary, are we also receiving God's Word on our day to day basis? You will starve if you were to just come on Sunday to enjoy a very delicious meal that Pastor Jason cook for you, it will not be sufficient for you. For your own spiritual life, we need daily food. We need daily bread. Are you in communion with God through the reading of His word and in prayer? Before we can tell the next generation who God is and what God has done, we must first receive God's Word in our hearts. Do our children see us reading the Bible, or do they see us scrolling our phone more than we open the Scripture? How do you receive God's Word? By really meditating, joining the different means of grace that God has given to us. Before we can, before we can relay, we must first receive.

And if you have received, the next thing Asaph called us to do is to relay. The Bible tells us we will not hide them. We will not hide those stories of the past. We will not hide the glory of God from the next generation. We will tell of the coming generation. We will not hide from them. You know, one of the greatest tragedy is not when the world rejects God, but when we as Christians fail to proclaim God's power and glory to the next generation. If we are not intentionally passing the baton to the next, we unintentionally hide God's glory and power from them.

We will not hide…but we will tell…(Psalm 78:4)

And this is a command that God has given the past generation and this generation and the generation to come. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, our forefathers, to teach their children. You see, this is a generational discipleship, and that's God's design for it, community to community, tribe to tribe, fathers to children, grandparents to their grandchildren. That is God's design for that generation, and that's God's design for us as well. To tell them what? To tell the coming generation, to tell the next generation what?

…to tell them what God has done, the glorious deeds of the Lord and His might and the wonders that he has done. (Psalm 78:4)

Asaph called that generation to recount those stories of God's love, faithfulness and steadfast love to Israel, over and over and over and over again to the next. Especially during Passover time, when Israel celebrate on a yearly basis. They will tell their children, “ You know what, we were once slaves in Egypt, and how God deliver us from the Hands of Pharaoh, how he spare us, spare our first born, how he allow, how he asked us to paint, to kill the lamb and to paint over our door, and how the angels of that pass over us, and how we are spared.” Tell them how God is so powerful that he destroyed the walls of Jericho, how God deliver us and bring us to the promised land and so on and so forth. Tell them how God provided for them. Show them God's power.

Of course, today we are not Israelites. We don't celebrate Passover, but today, we have the same story to tell the next generation. We can tell them how God rescue us. We can tell them our salvation story. We can tell the next generation how God has been good to us, how God answers our prayer, how God deliver us and sustain us in the time of pain, in the time of struggle, we tell the next generation. You know, I have been in the youth ministry for close to 20 years, and I have heard many, many stories of the next generation, especially the youth that come across. And it brings me so much joy when I hear youth, tell me and tell our CG leader this. “You know what? Yufei, Pastor Yufei, I'm not yet a Christian. I've been in church for many, many years. I know about all the Bible stories, but I don't think that I know Jesus personally yet. But you know what? I want to find out more. I'm so interested in the God of my CG leader, in the God of my parents, the God of my grandparents.” “Why?” I asked them why. And they said this, it's because they have seen how God has been real in their life. They will share with me that, “You know what? My parents every day will sit down with me and read the Bible to me, though I find it super boring and I'm not interested, but those stories leave an impact in my heart. I see how my parents and grandparents love Jesus with all their heart, soul, mind and strength, and even in their struggles, even in their pain, they are able to look up to God, and I am attracted to the God of that of my parents and grandparents.” I have heard stories of how even grandparents will come all the way from Jurong to come to me and say, “Yufei, can you pray for my grandson? I have been intentionally and actively trying to reach out to my grand grandchildren, and will you pray for them?” I have hear stories of parents wanting to leave a legacy behind, a spiritual legacy behind. And when they are going for a mission trip, they will not just, “Aiyo, these children going to disturb me in my mission trip.” No, they bring them along and to show them God's power and might in the mission trip. Well, when I heard those stories of how parents and grandparents and leaders, they are intentionally passing the baton of the gospel to the next generation, it brings so much joy in my heart. And the question I want to ask all of us in this morning is this, Do your children, your grandchildren and those next generation that you come in contact with, do they know your story? Do they know how you come to faith? Do they know how you struggle, but yet you cling on to God? Do they know, in spite of the cancer or the sufferings or the sickness that you are struggling with, do they see how you are still able to praise God? And one of the greatest joy is when parents, grandparents, leaders, are intentionally sharing God's story. In fact, those stories are not dry doctrine. These are real life stories of God's testament, of God's amazing grace, and they pass it down to the next generation. But one of the saddest thing in the youth ministry that I've served, one of the saddest thing is when I hear youth sharing this with me.

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“I struggle to believe in Jesus because I just can't see how God is real in my parents' life. I just can't. I want to, but the God that my parents and my grandparents paint to me is a different God that they have been trying to tell me. My parents always asked me to read the Bible, but I have never seen them reading the Bible for themselves. They asked me to pray for the daily bread, to pray, to give thanks to God, to say grace, but I have never heard them pray for any other matters. It's always about self and not about God and His Kingdom and His glory and the needs of others.” Or this strike a nerve in some of our hearts. “My parents always tell me to come to church, come to Sunday school, come to youth ministry, go to varsity, tell me to be connected to a church, but they themselves don't attend a CG, to be called, to be connected, to have mutual encouragement.” And this saddened my heart whenever I heard you share this.

You see each generation is both a receiver and a messenger. We have a story to tell. And I'm so glad that many of us are doing that in our own different space, in our homes epecially when I have two children, three years old and one years old. And whenever they can sing, “Jesus loves me this I know”, when they can sing “Jesus strong and kind” in their own accord, and even though it may sound off tune, well I thank God for those moments. But of course, they are not yet saved, but I want to be intentional to invest in my children and in the next generation, so that the next generation may know them. They may know the stories. They may know the God of Israel, that they will know the amazing love and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. They will know the gospel. In this verse, there are four generations, that generation that will tell that generation, the next generation that will hear and the generation that is not yet even born and the generation that are not yet even born, they will arise and tell their future generation. That is the design for discipleship, generational. And in this 38 years of God's faithfulness, as we want to thank God for 38 years in the past, I want, we want to look forward to the 38 years of what God has in store for us.

You see, if we are not telling them, the world will tell them stories. If we are not telling them the glorious works of our Lord Jesus Christ, how Jesus died on the cross, how God saves us from our sins, the world will fill those void. And the world is already telling the next generation stories through social media, through YouTube, through Tiktok, how to be successful in life, how to don't care, don't bother, how to be a generation that don't follow God. The world is already drawing our children, the next generation, away from God, with its own story, to be independent apart from God. If we remain silent, those voices of the world will fill them up, and I pray that we will be a church that will be intentionally receiving God's word and relaying God's work to the generation to come. So that the result will be they shall, they shall set their hope in God, and not forget about God, about the Words of God, but to keep his command. You see, that is the goal, isn't it? This is the why, why are we doing all these things? It's so that the next generation shall set their hope in God, which means to trust God, to believe in God, to remember the works of God, that they will love God and obey God.

God has given us this duty, the legacy to be to left behind. To leave behind, is not trying to get them to be successful, but to be saved. Not to get them to Harvard, but to get them to heaven. That is our goal. The goal, the great commission that God has given to us, to go and make disciples of all nations. And it starts from our home, with the youth, with the varsity, with the next generation that we have in this church.

And what is so scary is the next verse. The next verse tells us a warning, a sobering reality. If we don't intentionally pass the baton down, the result will be like this.

They shall not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, anchored in God, whose spirit was not faithful to God. (Psalm 78:8)

It's a scary verse, isn't it? There will come a time if we don't relay and recount the glorious work of God, the gospel to our next generation. The next generation will not know about God. And if we choose to be unfaithful, if we choose to do what we want, if we choose to tell our children, the next generation how to be good in life, to be morally right, but don't tell them the gospel that says we miss the mark. And I pray that as a church, we thank God for God's faithfulness, but let's be faithful in the years to come to look out for the next generation. Every generation will either be a bridge or a barrier to God and the gospel. I want to be that bridge. I want to be showing, modeling the gospel to the next generation. By the way, we are not perfect. The not so nice story just now that I shared isn't here to guilt trip anyone here, but to just paint to you a reality on the ground. And it saddened my heart. And I pray that our church will be intentionally making sure the next generation from Boomer investing in Gen Y, in Gen X, Gen X investing in Gen Y. Gen Y investing in Gen Gen Z. Gen Z investing in Gen Alpha, and so on and so forth, from generation to generation, we are intentionally looking out for the young, for the next generation in our church. The sad reality is this, and to me, this is one of the saddest verse in Judges 2 verse 10,

…then arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the works which He had done for Israel. (Judges 2:10)

Wow, all that God has done, they do not know, they don't care, because that generation failed to pass the baton on to the next. That's a scary thing, right? In a Chinese saying, I know Pastor Jason loves to use, I don't know what is it called, idiom, ‘cheng yu’ or whatever, in a Chinese saying, there is this word called ‘fu bu guo san dai’ What does it mean? I google it, and I realize it means ‘wealth rarely passes beyond three generations’. Why? Because the first generation work very hard for their wealth. They sacrifice with blood and sweat. The second generation will maintain it and preserve it. The third generation will lose it and squander it. And this also can be like the church. The first generation, I am a first generation christian. I receive revival. I know who God is. I love Jesus with all my heart. I've experienced him intimately, personally. I have a relationship with God, and I thank God for that. But when the second generation comes, they will maintain. They will go through the routine.

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And then the third generation. If this is not done right, the third generation will disappear, and they are no longer with us in church and also in the faith.

The Challenge of Modern Discipleship

Imagine with me, thank God that we have a church that is multi generational. Thank God we have a young pastor that invests in the next generation. Thank God we have pastors that are about God's business, making disciples of all kinds. Imagine, with me, a church that older men teaching younger men, older woman mentoring younger woman found in 2 Timothy, isn't it where everyone is a leader of the next generation? Imagine with me, the youth ministry, the children's ministry, the varsity ministry, will be booming because everyone knows that they have a role to play, and everyone is intentionally reaching out, sharing the gospel, sharing God's stories, helping them to know about Jesus. Imagine with me, every family in this room have a consistent family devotion where parents, husband, wife, will sit down with their children, tell them about the Bible, the God of the Bible, and share their experiences. This is the church that is going to be alive for the generation to come.

But can you imagine, with me, if we don't do that, a church, our church, will look something like this. Pastor Jason is still alive. We pray, we hope. We want him to be alive, but he will be old. The congregation will be old. There is no young blood, there is no Alpha generation. There is no Gen Z, Gen Y. It's filled with older, mature people. And if we don't pass the faith down. We don't tell people, tell the next generation about the gospel, about the glorious work that God has done in our life through Jesus Christ, the Church will become a museum, remembered, celebrated, but forgotten. And my prayer is that in 38 years down the road, we will not be like this. We will be about leading generation into a life changing relationship with Jesus Christ.

A Call to Action for Discipleship

How to make disciples? We must first receive personally. We must relay intentionally, and the result we give unto God. And by the way, I know some of you here, you have been intentionally. You have been trying your very best, by the grace of God, to impart the gospel to the next generation. You have been modeling faith to the generation to come, to those that are coming into your contact. I know of grandparents and parents and leaders that are about this business, but as much as you try, the response is the next generation still says, “I don't care. I don't bother. Please don't pull me to church. Please don't tell me about Jesus. I'm sick and tired of him, and I just don't want to know.” You see, salvation belongs to God. We have no control over that. But what God has called us is to be faithful to His Word, to pass the baton down. And God's job, the Spirit's job, is to convict individual heart. We are called to plow, to plant the seed, to water, but it's God that gave the increase. Our job is to be faithful. And I don't think it's coincident, because the two songs that our Filipino worship team was singing just now, it's a call for us to be faithful to God and His command. And I pray that we will leave the result to God. If we have been intentionally, especially in Singapore context, we love to leave behind inheritance. We want to invest in our children. We're sending them to the best CCA or tuition or Mind Champ or whatever we want to send them to the best. But I pray that we will also take the same effort to invest in them spiritually, sharing with them who God is and what He has done for us on the cross.

Examples of Faithful Discipleship

I want to end with this story. This is a story of Susanna Wesley. Many of you may not know who she is. It's an amazing story of a woman of faith, a woman of faithfulness to God and His command. She has nineteen kids and she lived in the 16th and 17th century. Okay, different time from now. But she has nineteen kids, but nine of them passed away, and she have left with ten children. She stays in a very small house to the point that even when she wants to spend time alone with God, she has no space to go about it. And she will use her apron, and she will put the apron over her head, and she will pray then and then, and spend time with God. And when the children see what the mom is doing, when she put the apron on, they will know that, okay, mother is praying to God, we cannot disturb mother. And that's the kind of legacy this mom has left behind for the children.

Every day, she will set aside time for the children to have devotional time together. Every week, she will spend at least one on one time, one hour for every 10 children every week, one on one time with every children, consistently for years, to tell, to share with them about their struggles, their sin, and to nourish their souls and to share with them, to catch up with them, to impart the Gospel to them. And you know what? Just because of her faithfulness, came two children. One of them is called John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement. The other Charles Wesley, the one that wrote hundreds of famous classic hymns, and the songs the hymns is “Can it be?” We all know the song and “Hark the Herald Angel Sing”. You see, just because of this lady, she don't have a big platform, she don't have youth ministry or children ministry or ministry to serve in. The platform that God has given to her at that season is her home. The ten children that God has given to her, she invested. She left a spiritual legacy behind, and she leaves the result to God. And because of her faithfulness to God, came John Wesley and Charles Wesley. This story reminds us that she first must receive and love Jesus, then she wants to relay the works and the Word of God to the next generation, and she left the result unto God.

The Future of Gospel Light Christian Church

And I pray that we as a church, as we look to the next 38 years to come. I pray, as a church, we will be about our Father's business. We will be intentionally making disciples, followers of Jesus in the different platforms that God has given to us. Some of you may be your grandchildren, your children, or even the youth and the varsity and the children ministry of this church. I pray that we will be about our Father's business. I pray that as a church, we will be making disciples, and that's the call that God has given to us as every believer, because of what Christ has done for us on the cross, isn't it? The reason why we can give our life to the next generation is because God first gave his life for us. And if you are not yet a Christian in this room, and I want to tell you something, that the reason why we are able to do that is because we know who Jesus is, this God that we serve, it really is because of what he has done for us on the cross. He died for us on the cross to save us from our sins. We are redeemed, we are reconciled, we are forgiven because of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. And if you are not yet a Christian, I want to tell you something. Every religion points you to a skill where you need to do good in order to and the less things you do, the bad things, the lesser bad things you do, the more good works you do, you earn your way to heaven. But the Bible, Christianity is not about a skill, but about a cross, a cross that Jesus said he paid it all. It is finished. Our sins has been forgiven, that we can stand reconciled to a holy God. And if you are interested about what this Jesus, who this Jesus is, I beg you, please stay back after the service, go to the connection corner, and our connection team will be more than willing to share the gospel with you, to help you to start your journey of faith. For the rest of us, let's be about our Father's business leading generation into a life changing relationship with Jesus Christ. Let's bow with a word of prayer.

God, we thank You for Your word. Thank you for reminding us again of the gospel that we first receive, but I pray that this gospel that we receive will not just be stored, will not just be something that we remember, but it will be something that we communicate, to tell, to proclaim to the future generation to come. I pray that you will help us. God, it's a daunting task. It's a task that is really laying our life down on the cross for your sake. Is a task that the desire that we give our five loaves and two fishes. Is a task that is allowing us to really give our body as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto you, which is our reasonable service. God, it”s hard. But God, you have called us to and I know that when you call, you enable. And you say in your word, right, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe whatsoever I commanded you. And lo and behold, you said your promise is this, you will be with us always, even unto the ends of the earth. Thank you that you are a God that is not just about this generation. You are a God of all generations and the generations to come. So help us, God, to be faithful. Thank you. We commit the rest of this time onto your hands. In Christ's name, we pray, Amen.