1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:04,640 One of those proud grandparents today, uh. 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,720 The uh and then the prayer that Abigail and I had written out, uh 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:13,639 We made a change to it in the back room and I left it on the table back there. 4 00:00:13,639 --> 00:00:18,920 And so uh I don't know who was more nervous, she was or I was 5 00:00:20,220 --> 00:00:24,700 Uh but it's fun to have my grandchildren here. 6 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:29,180 Abigail and Joshua and Michael, you might as well come up front. 7 00:00:29,180 --> 00:00:33,660 You uh I know you helped take up the offering, but you might as well come up here and help a little bit. 8 00:00:33,660 --> 00:00:34,220 Uh 9 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:37,280 Uh where did Sheriff Dan go? 10 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:38,720 I saw him there he is. 11 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:44,160 Uh he's uh been so e exciting all ye all week. 12 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:48,000 It's been fun to to have him as the the sheriff and he's 13 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:57,160 get o gets all of us uh involved and this morning when he saw the title to the sermon he says, Oh yeah, this is the one we've been waiting for. 14 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,000 Oh, that's not what you said. 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,960 I I keep putting words in your mouth, don't I? 16 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:04,720 Um 17 00:01:05,260 --> 00:01:08,860 Yeah, the some of you have been asking about the the holy greeting. 18 00:01:08,860 --> 00:01:15,820 You thought I was going to preach about it several weeks ago when I talked about uh a kiss that occurred in the foyer. 19 00:01:15,820 --> 00:01:18,860 But I called Michael up here to show you what a 20 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,520 Mongolian greeting would look like. 21 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:29,880 If we were were greeting one another in the lobby in the country of Mongolia, it might look like something like this. 22 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:39,920 Now you'll have to notice here, because he is younger than me, his hands are underneath mine. 23 00:01:40,740 --> 00:01:45,619 He is there as a young person supporting the older person. 24 00:01:45,619 --> 00:01:52,900 This is why one of the first things that Asians will ask you is, what is your name? 25 00:01:53,180 --> 00:01:57,979 It's because they have to know, I mean not what is your name, what is your age. 26 00:01:57,979 --> 00:02:01,579 They have to know what your age is so that they know how to communicate with you 27 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:06,720 Because they have words for you for people that are older than them. 28 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,840 They have words for you for people that are younger than them. 29 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,280 They have words for you for people that are the same age. 30 00:02:13,879 --> 00:02:19,000 And so don't think it's rude when they ask you, how old are you? 31 00:02:19,239 --> 00:02:21,239 They need to know this information. 32 00:02:21,239 --> 00:02:22,920 Because if you're the same age 33 00:02:23,340 --> 00:02:28,860 One of you goes under on one side and the other goes under on the other side. 34 00:02:28,860 --> 00:02:31,020 You see that with the hands there? 35 00:02:31,740 --> 00:02:32,860 That's the same age. 36 00:02:32,860 --> 00:02:35,660 Or that can also be for husband and wife 37 00:02:36,340 --> 00:02:38,580 If they are similar in age. 38 00:02:38,580 --> 00:02:42,980 Now, if one is significantly younger than the other, it still goes underneath. 39 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:54,920 But if they are similar in age, there goes one on top, one on bottom, and still it is the holy kiss of sniffing. 40 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:04,160 So you have to make sure that you have bathed. 41 00:03:06,019 --> 00:03:08,900 You may go sit down now. 42 00:03:08,980 --> 00:03:12,819 And there are some other greetings that take place in the culture of Mongolia. 43 00:03:12,819 --> 00:03:19,860 If you are male, you step aside with a male, and they will s slide snuff bottles to each other. 44 00:03:19,820 --> 00:03:20,780 in their hand. 45 00:03:20,780 --> 00:03:27,100 And you have to say the appropriate words that go along with the exchange of snuff bottles. 46 00:03:27,100 --> 00:03:30,220 Now people ask me, well Pastor, what did you do with snuff bottles? 47 00:03:30,220 --> 00:03:32,300 I skipped that part. 48 00:03:32,980 --> 00:03:45,620 I kind of stepped back, and some of them were a little offended by it until I began to explain to them why I withheld from that part of the greeting 49 00:03:46,540 --> 00:03:57,579 When it comes to to greeting one another, when we read these Bible words, I mean when I read these words in Scripture when I was thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. 50 00:03:57,660 --> 00:04:02,540 I was asking the question, why don't we greet people like this? 51 00:04:02,540 --> 00:04:07,580 I thought it would be fun to greet people with a holy kiss. 52 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,960 In early teen class. 53 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,799 You guys are thinking of some of the other greetings. 54 00:04:18,799 --> 00:04:21,200 The greetings of Alaskans to 55 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:25,060 Rubbed noses together? 56 00:04:25,060 --> 00:04:30,980 The reading greetings in Hawaii of giving the lay to individuals. 57 00:04:31,860 --> 00:04:33,620 My clicker disappeared. 58 00:04:33,620 --> 00:04:39,620 Uh there's no clicker up piano, that's what I hear. 59 00:04:39,620 --> 00:04:42,340 Sorry about that. 60 00:04:53,220 --> 00:04:59,380 You think of greetings when you uh go to the the Middle East and how they greet one another? 61 00:04:59,380 --> 00:05:01,620 You think of of uh greetings when uh 62 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:09,879 individuals from government go to other individuals of government and the we normally call it 63 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,480 Protocol. 64 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:21,880 And when you are get into those offices and you are taught how to greet individuals from other countries. 65 00:05:21,740 --> 00:05:24,940 other cultures so that you have the right protocol. 66 00:05:24,940 --> 00:05:27,500 Do you know where protocol comes from? 67 00:05:31,919 --> 00:05:39,600 Traditions the way things used to be, the things that the we we we grew up with 68 00:05:41,460 --> 00:05:45,060 Those things became rule. 69 00:05:45,060 --> 00:05:47,300 Those things became law. 70 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:52,820 Part of the problem we have in the United States is we don't have any protocol. 71 00:05:52,820 --> 00:05:54,500 How old are we? 72 00:05:57,020 --> 00:06:01,660 Yeah, two hundred and fifty years old, and what protocol do we use? 73 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,560 We think we use a biblical protocol. 74 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,280 We like to think we have a biblical protocol. 75 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:12,280 The biblical protocol, 1 Peter 5. 76 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:16,520 14, our scripture reading, says, greet one another with a kiss of love. 77 00:06:16,260 --> 00:06:20,020 Peace to you all who are in Christ Jesus. 78 00:06:20,020 --> 00:06:20,980 Amen. 79 00:06:24,180 --> 00:06:28,820 I'll ask you, did you follow that protocol, biblical protocol this morning? 80 00:06:30,540 --> 00:06:40,940 Now, lest you think I'm I'm I'm I'm just taking something out of out of context here, it doesn't just say it once and I'm preaching on it. 81 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:45,440 Because it says it in one text, but we have this five times. 82 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,039 All the brethren greet you, greet one another with a holy kiss. 83 00:06:49,039 --> 00:06:51,520 First Corinthians 16, 20. 84 00:06:51,820 --> 00:07:01,580 2 Corinthians 13 12 Greet one another with a holy kiss Yeah you're starting to get worried now aren't you 85 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,560 Where is he going with this? 86 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,280 Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss. 87 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:10,680 First Thessalonians 5 26 88 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:17,400 Romans sixteen sixteen, greet one another with a holy kiss. 89 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,240 The churches of Christ 90 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:20,320 Greet you. 91 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,240 That one in in in Romans 16. 92 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,920 That's an interesting because of the context where it is. 93 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,880 You you realize that that Romans is a 94 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:36,780 Oh, do you know where we would be as Christians without the book of Romans? 95 00:07:36,780 --> 00:07:41,900 I mean, we would be hard-pressed as Christians without the Book of Romans. 96 00:07:41,900 --> 00:07:43,659 The book of Romans. 97 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:47,180 Explain so many things to us. 98 00:07:47,180 --> 00:07:52,220 The crux of the matter of Romans chapter 6, chapter 7, chapter 8. 99 00:07:52,220 --> 00:07:54,700 Without those, that that explanation there 100 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,639 Of Romans 6, 7, and 8, we would be powerless over sin. 101 00:07:59,639 --> 00:08:03,080 We would not understand how to overcome sin. 102 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:07,160 We would not understand the victory that we can have. 103 00:08:07,380 --> 00:08:09,220 In Jesus Christ. 104 00:08:09,220 --> 00:08:12,740 Romans six, seven, and eight is is is so powerful. 105 00:08:12,740 --> 00:08:17,780 So in in in that the the book of Romans is is crucial to us as Christians. 106 00:08:17,780 --> 00:08:21,860 And then he gets down to the end of it there in Romans sixteen. 107 00:08:21,060 --> 00:08:25,460 And he says there in verse 16, he says, Greet one another with a holy kiss. 108 00:08:25,460 --> 00:08:32,740 In fact, at the end of the book of Romans, chapter 16, he he he 109 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:38,800 He just spends a lot of time. 110 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,560 Wasted time. 111 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:43,279 Wasted writing, you and I might say 112 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:49,480 It says virtually nothing to improve the theology that we have today. 113 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,720 It is as if Paul forgot what his duty was. 114 00:08:53,760 --> 00:09:02,320 He spends his time there in Romans sixteen, and he says, I commend to you Phoebe, the sister and servant, I ask that you treat her well. 115 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:08,160 And then he says, Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risk their lives. 116 00:09:08,060 --> 00:09:10,620 Greets and the my beloved Epaphria. 117 00:09:10,620 --> 00:09:16,460 He goes through twenty-six names there in Romans 16. 118 00:09:16,460 --> 00:09:18,380 26 names. 119 00:09:18,140 --> 00:09:25,100 He spends time and he tells the people of the church at Rome, he says, greet these individuals. 120 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:30,680 Now remember, Paul had not yet been to Rome. 121 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:35,160 He had not yet met the people in Rome. 122 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:41,200 But he had met some people that were had migrated to Rome. 123 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:49,280 And so he was telling the church there to greet those individuals that he knew from other places. 124 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:53,160 He says, greet those individuals. 125 00:09:53,160 --> 00:10:00,199 And then he adds some people, like in verse 5, he says, likewise, greet the church that is in their house. 126 00:10:00,220 --> 00:10:07,580 So not just those the the the individuals there, Priscilla and Aquila, but he says, greet the church that's meeting in their house. 127 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:20,640 So 26 specific individuals by name, but some individuals that are not named, but referred to, referenced 128 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:26,080 He says to greet them. 129 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:31,839 You and I read these, not one, not two, not three, not four, but five. 130 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:38,920 Instances in the New Testament where we are told to greet one another. 131 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,560 What's the word you like with the holy kiss? 132 00:10:42,060 --> 00:10:43,980 with a kiss of love. 133 00:10:43,980 --> 00:10:47,420 And some of you are thinking, what does that mean? 134 00:10:47,420 --> 00:10:48,300 What does that look like? 135 00:10:48,380 --> 00:10:51,180 I've tried to show you what it looks like in Mongolia. 136 00:10:52,060 --> 00:10:54,460 And you're thinking, what should we do here? 137 00:10:54,460 --> 00:10:57,660 Well, what is our culture? 138 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,240 How would you define our culture? 139 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:12,360 Because I think that there are some things in the Bible, there's a specific structure that is here, but some of it I think is also cultural. 140 00:11:13,140 --> 00:11:17,780 Some of the scripture we have to look at and say, what does the culture mean? 141 00:11:17,780 --> 00:11:22,820 Because even in that culture, everyone did not kiss everyone. 142 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:30,300 So how do we we we take what is what is written here? 143 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:34,780 How do we, if I ask you, how do we greet today? 144 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:41,640 Some of you say, well, we we fist bump. 145 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:43,320 Do any of you do that? 146 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,000 Yeah, a few of you. 147 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,839 Why do you do it? 148 00:11:47,839 --> 00:11:51,920 I know why some of you older do it because you want to look cool like the young people. 149 00:11:54,040 --> 00:12:01,319 I know why many of us do it be after COVID because we don't want germs anymore, so we just fist bump. 150 00:12:02,260 --> 00:12:14,100 Some of us uh uh shake hands in greeting, some of us fist bump because we don't want to shake hands, because we know that if we we shake hands, our hand will hurt afterwards 151 00:12:13,959 --> 00:12:16,600 And so we go back to the the fist bump. 152 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,839 And I asked the question, then why don't we move the other direction to the hug? 153 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,120 You know why we don't move the other direction to the hug, right? 154 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,880 Because we are scared of hugging one another. 155 00:12:32,399 --> 00:12:38,800 We've gotten to the place where where hugs are are we're not sure about hugging each other. 156 00:12:38,820 --> 00:12:42,260 Do we hug or do we not hug? 157 00:12:42,260 --> 00:12:50,900 I mean last week uh we were at someone's home and I noticed that when we were saying goodbye, that the lady got up and uh she gave Cheryl a big hug 158 00:12:51,940 --> 00:12:58,339 And then she came to me and we didn't know what to do. 159 00:12:58,339 --> 00:13:01,300 And so finally the the you know, didn't know what to do. 160 00:13:01,300 --> 00:13:06,180 I say, you know, there's about the uh two minutes of awkward looking at each other, what do we do now? 161 00:13:06,060 --> 00:13:09,100 and uh all of a sudden I stuck my hand out. 162 00:13:09,100 --> 00:13:11,420 And she stuck her hand out. 163 00:13:11,420 --> 00:13:18,300 We we weren't sure how the relationship, where we are in that relationship, whether hugging was 164 00:13:18,980 --> 00:13:22,420 appropriate for us. 165 00:13:22,420 --> 00:13:28,740 And so we we are not sure what to do with well males and males or females and females for sure can hug. 166 00:13:28,740 --> 00:13:32,340 Males and males if you're if you're manly enough you can get away with it 167 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,800 Or maybe if you're manly enough you don't get away. 168 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,880 I don't know how to say that. 169 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:40,600 Get myself in trouble here, don't I? 170 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:45,400 But if it's male and female, we're really not sure how to do it. 171 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:54,920 Because it's it it provides an an awkward situation there. 172 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:57,959 So what do we do? 173 00:13:58,660 --> 00:14:04,180 Well, for those of you that are huggers, I'm going to give you some information here that you may like. 174 00:14:04,180 --> 00:14:08,740 Scientific research says that you need four hugs a day just to survive 175 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,760 Are you hearing me? 176 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:21,680 Those of you that are a little bit older, those of you that know people that are in a home health care facility, those of you that know people that are living alone, 177 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,440 They are not getting their four hugs a day. 178 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,160 You know what that means? 179 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,200 They need somebody to hug them. 180 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:42,780 I I like what I mean Deputy Dan uh I mean Sheriff Dan over here, he had a coin in his pocket that he carries from his wife, and on the back of it it says 181 00:14:44,420 --> 00:14:46,660 This is a pocket hug. 182 00:14:46,660 --> 00:14:48,660 And so he carries a hug with him. 183 00:14:48,660 --> 00:14:54,980 Sometimes you think that hug has to be actually physical arms, but sometimes just sending someone a card. 184 00:14:54,940 --> 00:14:56,300 Giving them a phone call. 185 00:14:56,300 --> 00:14:58,620 That's that's almost as good as a hug. 186 00:14:58,620 --> 00:15:02,940 But notice the second one there says eight hugs for what? 187 00:15:04,020 --> 00:15:05,220 Eight hugs a day. 188 00:15:05,220 --> 00:15:08,420 Are you getting eight hugs eight hugs a day? 189 00:15:08,420 --> 00:15:13,700 But then it says 12 hugs a day if a person is going to what? 190 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:14,839 Grow. 191 00:15:14,839 --> 00:15:23,240 It went on to say that the person is to thrive, to to have a deeper emotional connection. 192 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:25,800 Twelve hugs a day are recommended. 193 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:33,880 This level of interaction can enhance feelings of love and support, contributing to overall happiness and mental health. 194 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,840 Last week I talked a little bit about hospitality. 195 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,240 This one kind of piggybacks on that one. 196 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,960 And I was reminded this week that that I should have taken the opportunity last week. 197 00:15:47,060 --> 00:15:53,540 that hospitality is very close to hospital. 198 00:15:53,540 --> 00:15:59,780 By having acts of hospitality, we act as a hospital 199 00:16:00,420 --> 00:16:02,579 I like that analogy for a church. 200 00:16:02,579 --> 00:16:10,420 The church is a hospital, not just a museum of saints, but a hospital for sinners that are all sick. 201 00:16:11,079 --> 00:16:13,480 How many are sick? 202 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:14,120 All. 203 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,720 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 204 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:20,120 How many of us need healing? 205 00:16:20,860 --> 00:16:22,540 All of us need healing. 206 00:16:22,540 --> 00:16:31,180 That act of hospitality heals not only the person you are being hospitable to, but is an act of healing on yourself as well. 207 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:39,920 So, as a hospital, we need to be more hospitable to one another 208 00:16:44,899 --> 00:16:46,579 Greet one another. 209 00:16:46,579 --> 00:16:51,060 I'm not going to focus so much on the holy kiss part as I am on the greeting part 210 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:58,800 Greeting each other is important. 211 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:06,880 There is something that happens inside of us when we are greeted by other individuals. 212 00:17:08,380 --> 00:17:13,660 I mean sometimes somebody just just comes in the door and I'm back here in my office. 213 00:17:13,660 --> 00:17:14,460 I may be 214 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:24,400 The my office door is usually open, but somebody comes in and but they don't stick their head in the door, they don't do anything, but they just holler in, Good morning, Pastor Dale! 215 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,680 You know what that does when they say that? 216 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,880 Somebody knows I'm here. 217 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,680 Somebody knows I exist. 218 00:17:35,179 --> 00:17:38,460 Somebody has has recognized me. 219 00:17:38,460 --> 00:17:46,620 And if they know that my door is open and that I'm in there, if they have called out that way, I probably know them by their voice. 220 00:17:47,340 --> 00:17:50,139 And I usually respond. 221 00:17:50,139 --> 00:17:52,059 Not necessarily, but usually. 222 00:17:52,059 --> 00:17:55,260 I want you to think about something for just a moment. 223 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,160 This week you get a telephone call. 224 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:06,880 And the telephone call is from one of your relatives or one of your friends 225 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:17,799 The friend that you have been praying for, the friend that you have been in agony for, the friend that you know does not have a relationship with Jesus Christ. 226 00:18:17,919 --> 00:18:23,440 And you have been praying that they would that that they would find Jesus. 227 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:31,679 That the shepherd of the sheep would would find them and and and pull them out of the thicket that they're stuck in. 228 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:37,080 They call you Thursday. 229 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:38,840 You have someone in mind right now. 230 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:44,440 It can be a son or daughter, grandchild, aunt, uncle, parents. 231 00:18:44,679 --> 00:18:48,440 friend that you went to school with, you have someone in your mind. 232 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:54,039 They call you Thursday and they share with you the good news. 233 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:59,360 I'm going to church this Sabbath. 234 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:01,600 I heard your amen. 235 00:19:02,419 --> 00:19:08,260 And you are excited about the fact that they are going to church this Sabbath. 236 00:19:08,260 --> 00:19:13,299 But I'm going to ask the question: what would you pray for now? 237 00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:23,460 I want you to think about it for just a second because my guess is, my guess is 238 00:19:23,919 --> 00:19:38,559 You would pray that the place where they live, the the small area where they live, and they have a small church, my guess is you would be praying that that church has had a a church redecorating. 239 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:46,240 Process and they have redone the lobby, and everything is going to be beautiful when your friend comes into the church. 240 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:48,000 Is that what you're praying for? 241 00:19:48,500 --> 00:20:01,140 My guess, my second guess is, is that you are praying that when they stand up to sing, that the praise leaders that are up front singing, that they will all hit the right notes at the right time. 242 00:20:01,740 --> 00:20:07,020 And that they would have music that was appropriate for the person that was coming in. 243 00:20:07,020 --> 00:20:09,260 Is that what you would be praying for? 244 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,440 Okay, I got a third one. 245 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:20,520 You would begin praying that the pastor would not preach on the topic of the mark of the beast. 246 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:26,520 Or not preach on the topic of stewardship. 247 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,000 Is that what you would be praying for? 248 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,320 Okay, that was three guesses. 249 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,560 So guess number four. 250 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:40,760 My guess is that you would be praying that somebody 251 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:46,120 Would talk to them when they come in the church. 252 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:47,960 That's what you would pray for 253 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,080 You know, that seems to be the burden of people's hearts. 254 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:57,120 When they come to church, they pray that somebody would just 255 00:20:58,260 --> 00:21:09,620 Greet them kindly, would would would respond to them with hope, with encouragement, with with words of kindness and and and respect, would give them 256 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,000 What's that that text there say? 257 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,760 Give them would greet them with a holy kiss 258 00:21:20,980 --> 00:21:28,980 So that they would feel like they are in a place where they belong. 259 00:21:33,660 --> 00:21:37,020 What would happen if they felt like they were in a place where they would belong? 260 00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:46,900 The question is, whose responsibility is that? 261 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:49,780 If that is what we're praying for when when 262 00:21:50,419 --> 00:21:55,539 Our relatives, our friends, our acquaintances, the people that we know and love. 263 00:21:55,539 --> 00:22:04,900 If that's what we're praying for when those people visit that church, what are they praying for when those people visit this church? 264 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,320 You know what happens every week, right? 265 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:15,799 It seems like every week we have guests walk through that back door 266 00:22:17,380 --> 00:22:19,620 Yeah, that is an amen. 267 00:22:19,620 --> 00:22:22,020 God is working on people's hearts. 268 00:22:22,020 --> 00:22:23,780 God is working on people's lives. 269 00:22:23,780 --> 00:22:26,900 God is bringing people into this church. 270 00:22:26,900 --> 00:22:28,260 Do you know why? 271 00:22:28,519 --> 00:22:32,039 Because the church is where God saves people. 272 00:22:32,039 --> 00:22:35,960 I mean, God talked to Paul on the road to Damascus 273 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:43,760 He revealed himself there to Saul or to Paul or whatever you want to call him as he was going to Damascus. 274 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:49,040 But when Paul got to Damascus, he sent someone from the church 275 00:22:49,860 --> 00:22:52,820 Because God saves people. 276 00:22:52,820 --> 00:22:55,700 Do we want to say it this way? 277 00:22:56,020 --> 00:22:59,060 God saves people through the church. 278 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:06,360 The purpose for the church is they are the saving agency of Jesus Christ. 279 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:08,920 They are the bride of Christ. 280 00:23:08,919 --> 00:23:17,320 They are the ones that introduce and disciple people to grow up into the relationship of Jesus Christ. 281 00:23:23,140 --> 00:23:27,380 Boy, I sure I'm glad we got greeters at the back of the church, aren't you? 282 00:23:28,260 --> 00:23:30,340 Somebody's responsible 283 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:40,880 Now I'm not picking on our greeters, but I do want to talk about greeters for just a moment 284 00:23:41,980 --> 00:23:43,740 But not our greeters in general. 285 00:23:43,740 --> 00:23:48,780 I want to talk about all greeters in all churches. 286 00:23:48,780 --> 00:23:52,620 We have this idea that greeters, it's their responsibility. 287 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,000 to greet. 288 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:03,280 And I'm not uh arguing or fighting for a terminology difference, a change in terminology. 289 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,680 I'm not I'm not going down that road either 290 00:24:05,919 --> 00:24:13,200 But I want you to think about what is the purpose for the greeters. 291 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,840 Now, in your mind, the purpose for the greeters is to smile 292 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:23,080 And welcome someone to church. 293 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,760 And thirdly, to give them a bulletin 294 00:24:31,039 --> 00:24:34,640 That's what their job description is, correct? 295 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,520 I mean that's what you see them doing 296 00:24:38,740 --> 00:24:42,980 Now, you think about a person that greets someone. 297 00:24:42,980 --> 00:24:44,580 Someone comes to your house. 298 00:24:44,580 --> 00:24:46,419 They knock at your door. 299 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:57,600 You go and you you open the door and there stands two young ladies dressed in a in a uniform, and as the moment you see them, you think, I know what they're doing. 300 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:02,440 They're selling Girl Scout cookies. 301 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,480 You listen to their speech. 302 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,480 You have a tender heart 303 00:25:07,919 --> 00:25:13,120 You say, just a minute, I'll take a box of thin mints. 304 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:14,880 You go and get your money. 305 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,160 You bring the money back. 306 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,640 You you give the money to them. 307 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,040 And then they are gone. 308 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:33,680 And if people watched your interaction with those young ladies, they would think that you were a good greeter. 309 00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:42,500 Because you interacted with them with a smile, you heard what they had to share. 310 00:25:43,140 --> 00:25:46,660 You participated with them in their activity. 311 00:25:46,660 --> 00:25:53,060 But if someone was grading you on your ability of being a host 312 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,040 Your grade might not go so well. 313 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:07,520 While you greet it appropriately, what does a host look like? 314 00:26:09,660 --> 00:26:18,060 If you were a host, or I can even use the terminology, if you were a greeter with a host mentality 315 00:26:19,100 --> 00:26:23,500 If you were a greeter with a host mentality, what would it look like? 316 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:26,380 The knock it comes at your door? 317 00:26:26,380 --> 00:26:33,580 And you are prepared for it because you know someone is coming, because you have invited them to be there. 318 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:41,840 And so you come and you open the door and you invite them to come in because you are prepared for them to be there. 319 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:52,240 As they enter the room, there are certain sounds that you have made evident because you wanted to set the mood a little bit 320 00:26:52,340 --> 00:26:54,820 There are certain smells that are there. 321 00:26:54,820 --> 00:26:57,460 Maybe you have a a candle that is burning. 322 00:26:57,460 --> 00:27:01,140 Maybe you have just baked bread and you like that smell. 323 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,720 You invite them to come in. 324 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,440 There are certain smells that are there in your house. 325 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:13,000 You invite them to come in and you introduce them to the other individuals that are already present. 326 00:27:13,460 --> 00:27:17,060 To make sure that they know who people are. 327 00:27:17,060 --> 00:27:24,420 You explain to them if they need to wash their hands or use the restroom where that facility is. 328 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:36,320 You go through the process of a host, letting people to be informed so that they are comfortable and have the right feeling to be in your space. 329 00:27:37,260 --> 00:27:41,019 You offer them a place to sit at the appropriate time. 330 00:27:41,019 --> 00:27:42,860 You bring them to the table. 331 00:27:42,860 --> 00:27:45,179 You bring everyone there to the table. 332 00:27:45,179 --> 00:27:49,419 And you set them at the table and you tell them where to sit at the table. 333 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:58,440 It's a completely different mindset, this mindset of being a greeter host than simply being a greeter. 334 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:03,240 As a greeter, we smile, we say, what are the words, happy Sabbath. 335 00:28:03,660 --> 00:28:05,100 Welcome. 336 00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:07,900 We hand the bulletin. 337 00:28:07,900 --> 00:28:11,419 They may or may not know where the bathroom is. 338 00:28:11,419 --> 00:28:15,179 They may or may not know where the Sabbath school classes are. 339 00:28:15,580 --> 00:28:19,980 They may or may not know where the children's departments are. 340 00:28:19,980 --> 00:28:22,620 They may or may not know. 341 00:28:22,620 --> 00:28:24,299 You get the idea? 342 00:28:25,340 --> 00:28:28,940 Now, I've already let you know. 343 00:28:28,940 --> 00:28:34,860 We as a church already know that guests come through that door how often? 344 00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:37,980 How often? 345 00:28:39,020 --> 00:28:42,620 Every week. 346 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:45,740 We didn't advertise for that, did we? 347 00:28:45,740 --> 00:28:49,580 Are we paying advertising for guests to come every week? 348 00:28:51,940 --> 00:28:53,860 What brings them to the door? 349 00:28:55,139 --> 00:28:56,260 God does. 350 00:28:56,260 --> 00:28:58,179 Sometimes we advertise through you. 351 00:28:58,179 --> 00:28:59,620 You and br you bring a friend. 352 00:28:59,620 --> 00:29:00,899 You bring a guest. 353 00:29:00,660 --> 00:29:08,340 Guests come through that door every week, and we should be saying hallelujah every time a guest comes through the door. 354 00:29:12,020 --> 00:29:15,220 But are we always prepared? 355 00:29:15,460 --> 00:29:20,900 Sometimes we're we' we're we're seems like we're caught off guard by it. 356 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:23,140 I didn't know we'd have any guests today 357 00:29:24,580 --> 00:29:28,740 I I I don't have my my my welcome packet planned. 358 00:29:28,740 --> 00:29:32,100 Uh where's where's where's where's 359 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,799 Why are we caught off guard? 360 00:29:40,519 --> 00:29:45,720 I'm asking the question as whose responsibility is this? 361 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,720 Who's responsible to utilize the plan? 362 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,800 To let people know where the restrooms are? 363 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:56,680 Who's responsible? 364 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,680 I mean, wouldn't it be nice if the greeters, if there were enough greeters? 365 00:30:00,919 --> 00:30:02,840 I mean sometimes there's not enough. 366 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:13,240 But if there were enough greeters that when somebody came in, they were able to take them and to show them where the children's Sabbath school classes were, to introduce the children to the teacher. 367 00:30:13,519 --> 00:30:24,080 If they could come down to the adult classes or even explain where the adult classes are and tell them this one has a really lively discussion, this one well they're kinda 368 00:30:24,419 --> 00:30:31,140 Uh it's uh the pastor's teaching, so you may not want to hear two sermons, uh so skip that one today. 369 00:30:31,140 --> 00:30:36,820 Uh it helps if you visited the Sabbath school classes, so you kinda know what's going on in Sabbath school classes. 370 00:30:36,660 --> 00:30:41,540 So you can tell people where to go or or what to do. 371 00:30:41,540 --> 00:30:44,980 You you can advise them or what they might like. 372 00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:54,180 And they still might like to sit in the sanctuary class because the pastor's preaching, just because it's a large open space and they won't feel 373 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,880 Confined in any way. 374 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,919 You see, you can you give people the options and tell them what's going on. 375 00:31:03,919 --> 00:31:04,799 What is that? 376 00:31:04,799 --> 00:31:06,399 If we introduce people 377 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:10,120 Bring them to the Sabbath school class, introduce them to someone. 378 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,520 Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful? 379 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:17,000 Wouldn't it be wonderful if the person they introduce them to 380 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:27,700 kind of connected with them and when they came into church, kind of shadowed them and sat either right behind them or right in front of them during church time. 381 00:31:27,820 --> 00:31:32,380 And then during the meet and greet time, well don't you love meet and greet time? 382 00:31:32,380 --> 00:31:36,140 I know some of you are saying, no, I don't like meet and greet time. 383 00:31:36,140 --> 00:31:39,500 Some of you are saying, yes, we need more meet and greet time. 384 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:41,780 It's okay, difference of personality. 385 00:31:41,780 --> 00:31:50,820 But during the meet and greet time, if you had already been introduced to somebody, if you welcomed them again and then introduced them to somebody else. 386 00:31:55,140 --> 00:32:03,539 You know, I one of my big fears is that somebody sneaks in the church and nobody greets them. 387 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:10,919 Now, people that come to church, not everybody that comes to church is like me. 388 00:32:10,919 --> 00:32:15,880 People always complain to me and say, I've been to church and nobody talked to me. 389 00:32:16,019 --> 00:32:17,860 I have a confession to make. 390 00:32:17,860 --> 00:32:23,940 I've been to lots of churches, and in every church somebody has talked to me. 391 00:32:23,940 --> 00:32:26,419 Now, it may be not at their initiative 392 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,640 Sometimes I have to initiate it when I'm the guest. 393 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:35,080 I'm going to tell you there are some guests that are not like me. 394 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,440 There are some that just like to sneak in and sneak out. 395 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,200 One of my previous churches is I hated it. 396 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,760 They would come into church after we had taken up the offering 397 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,160 Well, we take up the offerings so early here. 398 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,080 You know, we miss a few people. 399 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:55,680 People are always coming in. 400 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,840 It's a good thing we have those boxes back there now. 401 00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:58,080 They 402 00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,920 can just put their offering back there. 403 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:04,800 Maybe we need a sign on those offering boxes because people don't know what those boxes are. 404 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,200 I'm just looking at that now, just thinking about that. 405 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,280 That's that would be a good idea. 406 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:17,200 Some people don't know they can put their offering unless they're Oh man, I just forgot something that I thought of earlier today. 407 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:21,920 Did you guys see that part of the decorations in the sanctuary is missing? 408 00:33:23,100 --> 00:33:25,420 I know at least one person noticed today. 409 00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:30,140 Did any of the rest of you notice that some of the decorations in the church are missing? 410 00:33:30,460 --> 00:33:31,340 Didn't notice. 411 00:33:31,340 --> 00:33:33,660 You were involved with the Wild West, huh? 412 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:36,140 The scissor lift is gone. 413 00:33:36,679 --> 00:33:38,120 Go ahead, turn around and look. 414 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:39,960 The scissor lift is gone. 415 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,639 The owner of the scissor lift came and took it this last week. 416 00:33:43,639 --> 00:33:45,559 Did any of you miss that today? 417 00:33:46,540 --> 00:33:52,300 No, it had been decoration in our church for three months now, four months. 418 00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:53,420 It was out. 419 00:33:53,420 --> 00:33:55,740 That's where it belonged now. 420 00:33:55,740 --> 00:33:57,660 Just barely missed it. 421 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:06,480 Sometimes in in church we get used to things being the way they are and we for forget about what what what our purpose is. 422 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,600 Why why we're here. 423 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,119 And I that threw me off. 424 00:34:09,119 --> 00:34:10,960 I don't even know where I am anymore 425 00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:15,799 People coming in late. 426 00:34:15,799 --> 00:34:24,919 People would come in after the offering, and then they would sneak out as soon as I quit preaching. 427 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,200 You know what that did to me as the pastor? 428 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,200 Oh something in my side of me just said 429 00:34:33,420 --> 00:34:35,180 I didn't like it. 430 00:34:35,180 --> 00:34:37,820 Somebody sneaking in after. 431 00:34:37,820 --> 00:34:42,700 You know, usually they'd come in just during the special music and go out just as I finished preaching. 432 00:34:42,700 --> 00:34:44,540 I told the elder of the day. 433 00:34:44,559 --> 00:34:52,399 I said, look, elders, I want whoever the elder of the day is, I want them in the lobby before I finish preaching. 434 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,360 I don't want anybody to be able to sneak out. 435 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,360 I want you to camp out there. 436 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:05,400 I want you to listen to the sermon while you're out there, but I want you to greet people on their way out. 437 00:35:07,580 --> 00:35:13,100 And if possible, get their name. 438 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:14,700 Find out something about them. 439 00:35:14,700 --> 00:35:16,380 Introduce yourself to them 440 00:35:19,940 --> 00:35:24,099 Why did I do that? 441 00:35:24,099 --> 00:35:27,940 We don't have a lot of opportunities to meet people. 442 00:35:29,140 --> 00:35:35,220 I mean we took and we I say we that's an awfully big word, isn't it? 443 00:35:35,620 --> 00:35:37,540 I I don't see him here today 444 00:35:38,740 --> 00:35:44,420 Two weeks ago we had uh some flyers for our vacation Bible school and our ice cream social. 445 00:35:44,420 --> 00:35:47,860 We took 200 flyers to the communities around us. 446 00:35:47,860 --> 00:35:49,140 We did that. 447 00:35:49,140 --> 00:35:51,620 And by we I mean Dan Watson. 448 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:57,280 Okay, it was nice of him to take those flyers and to and to go around there. 449 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:04,000 It didn't cost us a whole lot, just a little bit on printing and whatever the paper was and things. 450 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:04,720 But uh 451 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:14,080 We didn't got a lot of we didn't get a lot of people to come and eat ice cream. 452 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,520 Does that surprise you 453 00:36:19,220 --> 00:36:26,900 Not enough notice, not enough advertisement, you know, not various places, usually advertisement. 454 00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:27,940 It's not just one place. 455 00:36:27,940 --> 00:36:30,820 It has to be five or six or places. 456 00:36:33,220 --> 00:36:35,060 How do we get people to come in? 457 00:36:35,060 --> 00:36:43,780 When people come here, when God sends them here, we need to be taking advantage of it. 458 00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:47,700 Who's responsible for that? 459 00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:50,020 I know what you're thinking. 460 00:36:50,020 --> 00:36:56,260 The greeters, the deacons, the elders 461 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:02,420 The pastor's wife. 462 00:37:03,220 --> 00:37:05,620 You wouldn't say that, would you? 463 00:37:05,620 --> 00:37:07,460 No, we shouldn't say that 464 00:37:08,579 --> 00:37:15,859 I said that because she's the one that remembers people's names when introduced to them. 465 00:37:15,859 --> 00:37:19,140 But sometimes we think somebody else is supposed to do it 466 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:33,160 They tell us that when people come into a church or come to a new place to visit, that in the first two minutes, the first two minutes, they make the decision whether or not they're going to return. 467 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:45,200 They do it based upon how welcoming the lobby is, how welcoming the greeters are. 468 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,320 Two minutes 469 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:54,079 That's not very long, is it? 470 00:37:54,079 --> 00:37:56,960 The research tells tells us 471 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:02,640 But in church, it doesn't matter what kind of music you have. 472 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:12,160 You can have contemporary music, you can have southern gospel music, you can have gospel music, you can sing hymns, you can sing psalms, you can sing any kind of music. 473 00:38:12,220 --> 00:38:20,220 The music is not going to make much difference unless there's a lot of different churches around that they can shop at 474 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,760 How beautiful the lobby is. 475 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,599 It's not going to make a lot difference. 476 00:38:26,599 --> 00:38:28,760 Now it makes a little bit. 477 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:35,000 They said, even if the pastor preaches fantastic biblical sermons. 478 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,280 It's not gonna raise the bar much at all. 479 00:38:41,359 --> 00:38:43,520 Do you know what raises the bar? 480 00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:49,820 Somebody talks with them. 481 00:38:49,820 --> 00:38:52,859 Somebody befriends them. 482 00:38:52,859 --> 00:38:55,260 They have that place of belonging 483 00:38:57,660 --> 00:39:00,300 So what do you do when somebody gets past the greeters? 484 00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:06,700 What do you do when the greeters have to to escape and and are taking people down and introducing them to other places? 485 00:39:06,460 --> 00:39:15,340 We we need reinforcements to make sure the greeters are are are well stocked, to make sure we don't have the the the greeters going places. 486 00:39:15,340 --> 00:39:19,420 We have additional greeters to to take people to the Sabbath school classes. 487 00:39:20,300 --> 00:39:25,260 What do we do when somebody gets in at special music time? 488 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:36,600 Because you know we have some that came in after the offering. 489 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,480 We have one last chance. 490 00:39:48,020 --> 00:39:50,900 Yeah, I said I passed that up, didn't I? 491 00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:57,780 Gospel Workers, that book, Gospel Workers, it says Jesus left heaven and came to our world to save souls. 492 00:39:58,140 --> 00:40:07,180 You must come close to those for whom we labor, that they may not only hear your voice, but shake your hand. 493 00:40:07,380 --> 00:40:12,500 Learn your principles and feel your sympathy. 494 00:40:16,020 --> 00:40:16,660 There you go. 495 00:40:16,660 --> 00:40:17,299 You can 496 00:40:18,380 --> 00:40:23,579 They greet one another with a holy handshake. 497 00:40:23,579 --> 00:40:27,020 You have one last chance to make a last impression 498 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,839 I'll share with you I have a little dream. 499 00:40:32,839 --> 00:40:40,839 It would be wonderful in my mind's eye if at the end of the benediction, every week, if we would stand 500 00:40:42,299 --> 00:40:53,020 I mean, I know we're standing at that benediction, but if we would stand and shake hands to the three families that are closest to us, that may be f you know 501 00:40:53,820 --> 00:40:55,500 Alan, I'm gonna pick on you here. 502 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:56,780 It looks like you're there by yourself. 503 00:40:56,780 --> 00:41:03,980 You've scared everybody away, so you're gonna have to go to three families far away from you. 504 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:10,200 But uh find three people that are are around you and greet them. 505 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,240 And it's okay if it's people that you know. 506 00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:20,800 It's okay if it's it's people that you have worshipped with that you don't know their names. 507 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:25,119 But friends, if it's somebody that you don't know their names, get their names 508 00:41:26,140 --> 00:41:30,380 Because there may be others in the church that don't know their names. 509 00:41:30,380 --> 00:41:35,180 Pull that card out of the pew there and say, can I write this down? 510 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:47,880 Introduce yourself and make sure that they we don't want people to leave the Mesa Palms Church without receiving a holy greeting 511 00:41:48,839 --> 00:41:53,880 We want them to know that they are welcome in this place. 512 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:02,800 We have one last opportunity to make a first. 513 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,400 I don't want to say a first impression. 514 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,680 We have one last opportunity to make a last impression. 515 00:42:08,339 --> 00:42:19,859 Let's make sure that last impression is to know that even though the sermon was so-so, even though Sabbath school class was good, 516 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:27,880 This is a place where we greet one another with a holy greeting. 517 00:42:32,299 --> 00:42:42,619 It's not just hospitality, but it is greeting one another, as Scripture tells us to greet 518 00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:48,960 After the benediction today, I encourage you to try it. 519 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:57,680 Turn to two or three people around you, two or three families around you, and greet each other and say happy. 520 00:42:57,059 --> 00:43:03,700 Happy Sabbath and get to know each other by name if possible. 521 00:43:03,700 --> 00:43:05,940 By name if possible 522 00:43:06,859 --> 00:43:10,779 Our closing hymn today is Wonderful Peace. 523 00:43:10,779 --> 00:43:14,220 We invite you to stand as we sing together.