Finding Peace in Chaos

Pat Steeves · Tidal Church Moncton · July 20, 2025 · What Do the Miracles of Jesus Mean? series

Pat Steeves explores Jesus walking on water in John 6, with Peter's sinking in Matthew. Storms and doubt are not signs of failure. They can draw us to know Jesus personally, not just know about Him, as He meets us with grace and invitation.

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Topics: Peace, Faith, Discipleship

Transcript

[0:00] I don't know if you've ever had these thoughts of what if Christianity, what if God wasn't real? Jesus just is a fictional character that we've learned about and we've been indoctrinated with in our Western culture. Like maybe you've never said that, but you've had these kinds of thoughts. Like, is this just made up? Like, why do we come to church? Right? I don't see anybody raising their hands, but if you're anything like me, maybe you thought those kinds of things. And just to go a step farther, just a little bit about kind of my childhood. All of us have a story. All of us have an upbringing. And maybe mine was a little bit different than yours, but I was raised in mostly a Christian home.

[0:50] So my parents became born again believers when I was pretty young. And so they were fired up about their faith. They were excited. And so because of that, I experienced an upbringing where we basically only ever listened to Christian music in our house. Often there was preachers and sermons and we listened to that stuff. It was just playing all the time in the background in our home. And my mom, again, so passionate that we would know Jesus. She enrolled us into Christian school called MCA.

[1:37] I don't know if you guys have ever heard of it. Phenomenal, amazing school, by the way. It's right in this building. Shout out to Willie Brownlee and the incredible staff, but she enrolled us into Christian school. Now, this was before private school and Christian school was kind of an anomaly, right? To go there. But she wanted us to have an upbringing of faith and know who Jesus was. And you know, I look back on that and this was back in the day, I see some MCA students. What you may or may not know is they had a dress code, very strict dress code that I had to do. And it was navy blue dress pants with a crisp white t-shirt and a navy blue tie with Canadian flags on this.

[2:32] Like, that's what I had to wear every day of the week. And so that may explain why you very rarely ever see me dressed up in a suit and tie and all that kind of stuff because I had to do this. Not only did we stand there every morning and sing "O Canada," which is incredible, we pledged allegiance to the Canadian flag, but we also pledged allegiance to the Christian flag. And so much so that I still remember it to this day. I would stand there in my navy blue pants, my crisp white shirt, my blue tie with Canadian flags on it, and I would put my hand over my heart and I would pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior for whose kingdom we represent, the only Savior, crucified, living, rose from the dead, for life and liberty for all who believe. I did that every day.

[3:42] And with that, can you believe that doing all those things, I still doubted, is this real? Is God who He said He is? Is Jesus? Is the Bible? I still had doubts after doing all of those things. And so I wanna use that to just kind of a segue into our series that we're doing. If you don't have this devotional book, you are missing out. This series that we are in is all about Jesus. It's all about the stories. It's about the miracles, the things that He has done. And it's my prayer that we just don't hear about the miracles.

[4:28] We don't just hear about the stories all summer long, but that we actually become to get to know and understand who Jesus is. There's so much more to church than just coming, singing songs, hearing a message. But I pray that this summer we would get to know who Jesus is. So much so that it changes the way we think. That changes the way we talk, how we treat people. When we truly become to know who Jesus is, there needs to be something that changes. Are you guys with me this morning? Yes. There needs to be something that changes on the inside of us.

[5:19] And maybe you've heard this, I've heard this, but there's a difference between knowing about Jesus and knowing Jesus. One of my favorite hockey players of all time is Sidney Crosby. Okay? One of the greatest. I know where he grew up, in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. I know his favorite color is blue and I still pray that he becomes a Toronto Maple Leaf one day. I know that he eats a peanut butter and jam sandwich at 3:30 in the afternoon on game day. I know some random things about this guy, but the truth is, if I was to meet him walking down the street, he could probably walk right past me and I wouldn't recognize him.

[6:14] Some. Why is that? Because I don't really know him. I know a lot about him. And the sad truth is, and this is really where some of the conviction in my heart is today, is God. I don't wanna be a Christian that just knows about God and about the miracles and about the stories. I wanna be a person that knows who Jesus is, like I know Him for myself. And so much so that it changes my purpose, my passion, my outlook, the way I treat people, the way I talk, the way I think. And that's the journey that I hope we go on this summer.

[7:01] Are you guys with me this morning? And so we're gonna start in John chapter 6. No, I wanna back up because I want us to just look at John, verse, chapter 20, verse 31. And I wanna set the context of this is what John, the writer of this book that we're learning about all summer long, this is why he wrote the book. This is it right here. He says, "But these are written so that you may believe." Can somebody say, believe? Believe, this is why he wrote this, so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by what?

[7:51] Believing, believing, you may have life in His name. That is simply why he wrote this book, that you may believe that Jesus is the Son of God, the Messiah. And by believing in Him you might have life in His name. Like, that fires me up because we live in a culture where people just don't have much life and much excitement, right? And I believe that when we get this revelation, this belief that we know who Jesus is, we hear stories of what we heard on the platform of teenagers that are living out their faith with such passion and purpose.

[8:44] And I believe that that's what God wants for you. It's what He wants for me. But there is something caught in the middle where there is belief, there's unbelief, there's doubt. And I want us to unpack what this is. There is so much more to Jesus than just knowing about Him. Every miracle, every statement in the book of John is all pointing to Jesus. You see, John, you know, shares these different stories and these different miracles, and it's easy for us to get our focus on Jesus being our provider. Jesus working a miracle for us. Jesus delivering all those things. But actually it all needs to come back to just us getting to know who Jesus is and wanting to be with Him, building a relationship, spending time with Him, and not just about the things that we want Him to do for us.

[9:47] And so John is writing this letter so that we would begin to know and understand who Jesus is. So with that, let's jump into the story that we're gonna talk about today in John chapter 6. Jesus walking on water. So let's take a look at this. We'll put it up on the screen. You can follow along. We're gonna read right down through the story and then we're gonna backtrack. And I believe God's gonna show us some things from this Scripture. Are you guys ready? Say, "I'm ready." I'm ready. We're gonna work on that. Alright, John 6:16, when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat and started across to the sea to Capernaum.

[10:41] It was now dark and Jesus had not come to them. The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near their boat. They were frightened. But He said to them, "It is I. Don't be afraid." Then they were glad to take Him into the boat. I bet they were. And immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going. Alright? And so let's just kind of take some context to this story so that we can kind of understand.

[11:29] Because if you're anything like me, we've grown up in church, we've heard this story told countless times, and sometimes it's easy. Not sometimes, it's easy to lose kind of the wonder and the meaning and the impact of this incredible story. 'Cause I don't know if you've tried to walk on water, okay? But this guy did it. It's a pretty cool story. But here's the context: that evening is where this story picks up. But do you know what happened before that? During the day, that was, as we read, that was when they fed the 5,000, that's when there was thousands of people hearing Jesus teach and they got hungry and there wasn't enough food.

[12:16] And so there was a miracle of the loaves and fishes. We'll learn about that in a couple of weeks in another one of our services. But so the disciples are just cleaning up from this massive event, right? They're washing the dishes, you know, they're cleaning out the baskets, they're tidying things up, like they must be exhausted. How many of you have ever hosted a party for 5,000 people, right? There's a lot involved. They're just wrapping up from this. And Jesus is saying, "You guys need to, you know, head over across the lake to Capernaum." And Jesus, the Scripture says that He kind of left to get away from the crowd just to be away.

[13:03] Now, do any of the introverts here in the room just kind of resonate with what that's like after you've just been with people for so long? You're just like, "I just need to get away by myself to recharge." Alright? I don't know if that's all that Jesus was doing, but He was getting away from the crowd. So the disciples on their own jumped in a boat and they headed across the Sea of Galilee. It says that it was evening time, okay? And I was just kind of checking out the boat online, and it was like, you know, it was like a 16 to 20 foot long boat. So not really big, a fairly small boat. They get in and they're about halfway into the trip.

[13:48] Now here's what's important to know. I don't know if you guys learned this in school, but kind of the Sea of Galilee, the trip that it would've taken them would've been almost identical to the same trip if you were to leave New Brunswick and go to PEI. How many have traveled across Confederation Bridge? Okay, that's about the distance. Alright? Do you ever look at it and you'd be like, "I bet you I could swim across there"? Has anyone ever had that thought? And then you do like two lengths in your swimming pool and you're like, "Yeah, I definitely couldn't swim that far." But that's the distance that they were traveling. And so when they got near the middle, they're exhausted from rowing, the storms, the wind, all that stuff is happening. They are terrified, they're losing hope out there in the middle.

[14:38] And then Jesus shows up. You know, Jesus shows up in the middle, gets in their boat. And again, we don't talk a lot about this. I've never heard a message preached on this. Maybe we'll have time at the end of this to talk about it, but it's neat how the story says that Jesus got in the boat and then they ended up where they needed to be, like instantly, like teleported. Like, no one ever preaches about that. There's a message in that. But we probably won't have time for that today, unfortunately. So there's a lot here that we can talk about. But as I was sort of spending some time thinking about this story, and I'm thinking about how tired the disciples must have been, and I'm like, here they are following Jesus's command to cross the Sea of Galilee after they were tired, after they were exhausted in a busy day of doing ministry.

[15:40] And so if you could just picture them in the boat, there's like, you know how many our disciples, they're in a boat, they don't want to be crossing. And I'm thinking about all this and I'm thinking they're only doing this because Jesus commanded them to do it. They're not doing it because it's comfortable. They're not doing it 'cause it's something that they wanna do, but they're on mission for what Jesus is calling them to do. They are following Jesus. And I just wanna challenge us, and I said this in the first service, but kind of this message, I really hope it was almost like a campfire type conversation where we just kind of sit around a campfire and just share heart.

[16:27] And as a church, as an individual, as a follower of Jesus, I believe that God commands us and is speaking to us individually on certain things in our life. And it's so easy for us to ignore them because it pushes us outside of our comfort zone. We're kind of like where we're at. But when we read these stories of what the disciples did continually: hard work, messy situations. They were true followers of Jesus. They followed Him through the thick and through the thin. And as a church, I believe that God, you know, one of our mission statements is going the distance to bring people to Jesus.

[17:17] And that's not just for this church, this is for us individually. What would it take for us to really believe that and really own that? That I'm going to go the distance to bring people to Jesus? What would that look like? Because I believe there is so much more that God has for you, for me, and for this church. I really truly do. And I know that we've made a decision to have multiple campuses, have multiple locations or multiple services. Why are we doing that? It's not convenient, it's not comfortable, but we wanna make room for more people to come and know Jesus.

[18:03] The last two weeks I was in Miramichi, I was in Shediac, at those campuses, and to be able to see the opportunity that we have as a church, as Tidal Church, to see God move, but we need to be willing. And so I wanna ask you this question. What is it that God is asking you to do? What is it? And I know that there are some of you that God is asking for some big things, and I just wanted to kind of just like have a moment where it's just a reminder of saying, you know what, I need to go back to the last thing that God has asked me to do. And it's not about this church, it's bigger than that. It's about you discovering that God has so much more for you.

[18:53] Do you guys believe that? Do you believe that God has more for you? Do you believe that He has more for this church? I'm telling you, He does have more. And Jesus wants us to follow what He is saying. Jesus isn't about just storm avoidance. You know, the title of this message is Finding Peace in the Storm. And that is part of what Jesus will do. We can find peace in the storm. He is with us in the storm. But even bigger than that, I think that there's more that Jesus wants to do than just give us peace. I believe that Jesus wants to reveal Himself to us in a real way.

[19:43] And it often takes a storm for us to see who He really is. Is there anybody with me this morning? And sometimes we wanna settle for, "God, just give me peace in the storm. God, help me," and He will. But I want you to know that there is so much more than Him just meeting your needs, healing your disease, whatever it is. He wants to reveal Himself to you in such a personal way that far surpasses whatever He could do with us. And I pray that we become followers of Jesus, that we have a revelation of, we know who Jesus is.

[20:33] We are all in on this thing. And we are gonna continue to see stories of life change, of transformation, of people making massive decisions because they want to follow Jesus. And I'm telling you, when we get that understanding, you can't hold us back, baby, the stories of what God wants to do, the testimonies. I'm telling you, life will take on a new meaning at your workplace, in your neighborhood, wherever you go. Jesus is showing up in a powerful way. How many of you ever tried to walk on water? Few of you.

[21:22] I don't know if you're the only one, but again, I kind of credit this to my upbringing, but like I can remember hearing this story of Jesus walking on water, and we grew up near the Petitcodiac River. And so I can remember being like, "All right, Jesus, it's just me and You. There's no one else here. I want You to help me walk across this river." Okay? You know how it went. I was like, for one second, I'm like, I think my foot held just a little bit longer on the top of the water, but I don't know if it really did. And then I tried this again when I got a little bit older. When we had dirt bikes, and this was before YouTube, thank God we didn't have YouTube growing up.

[22:11] We would've got ourselves in a lot of trouble. We watched these motocross videos and we would get all jacked up and fired up with some of the things that they were doing. One of the things that we were seeing was water skipping, where you get a big long lead before a body of water and you go as fast as you can with your dirt bike and you try and skip across the body of water. I don't know if anyone's ever tried this, okay? I don't recommend it, okay? But this is what we were doing. And I can remember thinking, God, this is the moment. Like, my friends will know that You are real if I can water skip across this river and no one else can do it, right? And so off I went and down I went under the water.

[22:58] But here is the deal. Here's the deal. We all have this. We wrestle with this tension of belief over here and unbelief here, okay? So belief, we have these moments just like I heard you guys singing this morning. You know, "Christ is my firm foundation, the rock on which I stand." Don't worry, I'm not gonna sing "the rock on which I stand when everything around me is shaken," right? We sing that and those are songs where we have those true moments where things are happening in our life and we're like, "God, yes, You are with me," right?

[23:43] That's the belief side. And Monday or Tuesday rolls around and we've got, like, a flat tire and all these things are going wrong, right? The kids are just like too much and you're like, "God, where are You? God, are You really there? Like, where did You go?" And so we wrestle between belief and unbelief. That's kind of how things work. And in the middle is doubt, and doubt is a real thing. It's a real tension that all of us, whether we want to admit it or not, is a real thing that is there. And I wanna just give some hope to us, and I want us to just kind of park for a few minutes and talk a little bit about doubt.

[24:32] Because for some reason, if I was to ask you, which I'm not going to, okay, but to raise your hand if you've ever doubted God or doubted the Bible or doubted Jesus, if you've ever had doubt, we tend to feel this shame. And you know, especially if you have, like, a Tidal Kids world t-shirt on or you're a volunteer here, like, you're not gonna raise your hand, 'cause we feel like we shouldn't have any doubts, right? We should just believe all the time. And as a pastor on staff, you know, I feel embarrassed to admit that I have doubts, I have disappointments, but I really truly feel like as followers of Jesus, we are going to have those.

[25:23] But here's the deal, and here's what I want us to talk about: doubts don't have to be a bad thing. Doubts can actually drive us to have a deeper, more meaningful relationship with Jesus. And I'll just kind of set the context of this just very quickly. Is in preparing for this message, I seen in Matthew, where I read the same story of Jesus walking on the water, but it's in Matthew's version of the story where he talks about Peter. And not only did Jesus come, I don't know if you guys have read the story, but remember, Jesus walked and then Peter seen Him, and he is like, "Jesus, if that's You, ask me to come."

[26:10] And Jesus is like, "Oh yeah, come, Peter." And so Peter starts walking on the water and then the waves and he gets fearful. He starts to sink and Jesus reaches His hand out to him. And what does He say? "Oh ye of little faith. Why do you doubt?" That's what Jesus said to him. And if you read the New Testament, you can see that Thomas doubted Him. There's numerous accounts of people doubting. And I just want you to know today that if you are doubting, if you are disappointed, if you are feeling, and when you do feel those things, there's nothing wrong with that. All that means is that you are human. It means that you're alive.

[26:56] And doubts don't have to be a bad thing. Are you guys still with me? Yes. I want us to find hope and I want us to find, like, meaning and purpose in this, because I believe it's so helpful because there's so many, it's hard for me to stay focused. I got so many things, but I hear stories like we heard this morning of people, young people that are giving their life to Jesus and stepping out and and I believe that there's a generation that wants such an authentic and real and personal encounter with Jesus that they don't care about anything else. And I'm hearing stories in European countries that there is an uprising of young people that want Jesus so badly, more than anything else.

[27:46] And it's changing and people are just seeing these authentic, genuine moves of God. No programs, no performances, just authentic outpouring of Jesus. And so those are beautiful things that we're hearing, but we're also hearing about people that are leaving the faith. And we hear this word called deconstruction, where people are leaving the faith, and it's a very real thing. But I want us to understand that we are gonna face doubts and disappointments. And some of the doubts that cause people to leave is sometimes they see contradictions in Scripture, where it's like, why did God allow these bad things to happen and why did so many people have to die?

[28:39] And I've had those questions. I legit have had those questions where I'm like, wow, that doesn't sound like a loving God. And sometimes you can watch YouTube and you can, like, hear this, like, professor that's very articulate and all these, like, letters before his name or after their name, I can't remember how it goes, but they're smart people and they will disprove the Bible and it can be very convincing and it can cause us to doubt and question our faith. And maybe some of you that are in university, it's like, or colleges, and and you meet this, like, good looking guy or this pretty girl and and you guys are in a relationship and they tell you, you know, things like, you know what, like, all religions lead to God and things that sound very good and very true and it causes us to question what we believe, or maybe a situation like I've found myself in.

[29:43] And you can go back and listen to one of the other messages where, you know, it's because of, you know, an illness and a close family member that I'm like, "Really, God, why?" And they can cause us to run away from God. And I just wanna give you some encouragement today that you could face all of those things or maybe it's something different for you. But I believe that there is a healthy way that we can deconstruct our faith. I think that there is an unhealthy way where deconstruction can happen in our life, but when we do it in a healthy way, here's a healthy deconstruction. Looks like this. It's a sincere examination of your beliefs.

[30:34] Remember we were talking about believing, we're talking about unbelieving. And I believe that we can face doubts and discouragement, disappointments, but there's a healthy way when we, in a sincere examination of our beliefs, we let go of what is untrue to rebuild what is true. And what I mean by that is I've been a Christian for a long time and I've heard a lot of messages and I've been to a lot of different churches and I'll be honest to say that there are some things that I've learned that were preached that aren't really true.

[31:20] And sometimes those can really mess with like our belief system over here. And the temptation is to throw away everything and be like, oh yeah, church is, you know, church is just made up. Church is not helpful. Jesus isn't real, God is, you know, and we throw away everything. But I wanna encourage you that as you navigate life in your spiritual walk with God, there may be some things that you discover that you no longer believe, but it doesn't mean you throw away everything. It's you build on what is true. Are you guys still with me? Yes. Okay. I use this analogy. I, in the first service where it's like the Atlantic car show.

[32:10] Have you guys noticed all the old cars around town, right? Isn't it amazing? I love just, like, parking and just watching these cars. But here's the deal, most of those cars aren't original, right? They've had to deconstruct, take off some parts that are no longer any good, get it down to something firm, something strong, and rebuild upon that. And when it comes to our faith, when it comes to doubts, when it comes to discouragement, when it comes to people that disappoint us, when it comes to good Christians that mean well, that say things like, "Well, Pat, it sounds to me like you just don't have enough faith.

[32:58] And that's why you don't see the answer or the reason why that happened to you is because you must just have sin in your life." And sometimes good meaning people can really push us away from believing in Jesus. And all I wanna say is let's just set aside those things. Find what is true, find what is good, and build on those. Have you guys ever heard in Sunday school this song, help me out if you can. It goes something like this. The B-I-B-L-E, yes, that's the book for me.

[33:44] I stand upon the Word of God, the B, the B-I-B-L-E. Did anybody go to Sunday school here? You're like, man, you're just too old, Pat, you're just too old. We don't do those songs anymore. The B-I-B-L-E, yes, that's the book for me. I stand upon the Word of God, the B-I-B-L-E. And I want you to know that when it comes to building our faith, when it comes to our belief system, we need to build it on the Word of God. Okay? That's where we start. That's the foundational. And as I said earlier, we do have to be careful because sometimes the way we interpret Scripture or hear it preached isn't always, sometimes it's a biased.

[34:36] It's a biased focus. Where years ago I would read Scripture and think this and, and I was reminded in a conversation recently that I had with a young adult where they were talking to me about lifestyles and some choices that they were making and they were quoting Scripture to me. And I was shocked to see how they got something out of the Scripture they were sharing to back up the lifestyle that they were living. And it dawned on me that I was like, sometimes we can look at Scripture only and form an opinion or form, you know, what we want from it. And so it caused me to think about this. It caused me to think about, as I close on this story of Jesus.

[35:28] And so I want us to go back to Peter. Jesus asks him to come out to the water and to start walking. Jesus sees him. Peter starts to sink, okay? And as I said before, Jesus' words were this, "Oh you of little faith. What was His last phrase? Why did you doubt?" And I'm talking about how things have shifted in my life in how I view Jesus. And I used to think of that. I used to hear that and I used to sound like this. "Oh, you know, why did you doubt?"

[36:16] It was kind of like Jesus was like angry. He was disappointed at Peter. "Oh, you of little faith. Why did you doubt?" That was the voice. That was how I used to hear that communicated. And just recently I've begun, as I've read through the New Testament, I've begun to understand who Jesus is, that He's full of love, grace for people with doubts. And it changed the tone in how I hear that verse. Here's how I hear that now: "Peter, why do you doubt?" Instead of an accusation, it's an invitation where He's saying like, "Peter, do you not see the life transformation that's happened?

[37:16] Like you are not the same person that you were. Peter, have you not seen the miracles that you've been a part of? The stories that we've just seen and heard from people. Tell me, Peter, why are you doubting? Why are you doubting?" And that is such a shift. And I believe that as followers of Jesus, if we are going to reach a generation, if we're gonna reach our community, if we're gonna reach our family, we need to make sure that our tone has shifted to how Jesus is. We are full of grace, full of love, full of mercy. This sounds good.

[38:03] This is very hard to do when you're disappointed, when you're frustrated in somebody, to be able to say, "Just tell me more. Why? Why do you doubt? I wanna hear the reason behind that." And I don't know if you've experienced this, but you've kind of leaned in and taken some time with somebody and they begin to tell you, "This was my church experience," or "This is what happened to me when I was young," or "This is how I was let down." And it opens up a conversation where we can just share kind of the goodness, share the faith, share the grace, share the love of Jesus, and bring people up from their drowning, from where the situation is that they find themselves in today.

[39:01] And so I just wanna challenge us with this story again. Jesus wants to bring us peace. He wants to bring us all these things in our life, but I want us to know that the storm may be able to reveal who He is more than anything else. And I wanna close with this last thought. The disciples were doing what they were called to do, what Jesus had asked them to do, and they found themselves in a storm. Think about that. You may be doing what God's called you to do. You may have moved here feeling God has led me here, or you have taken on a job, whatever it may be, and you are finding yourself in a storm and you're like, "This is the most bizarre thing. I thought when I obeyed God, there would be no more storms."

[40:05] We may be in full obedience of God and still experiencing some difficulty. I wanna remind you today, don't give up. Don't run away from God. Don't quit on God. Simply change your posture and say, "God, show me who You are in this situation." And I'm telling you, you will grow from here to here as you shift your perspective and say, "God, show me who You are." Would you join me as we pray? Holy Spirit, You know each and every person in this room.

[40:56] You know what they're going through. You know the doubts, the disappointments, and how close some people are from walking away from You or giving up on You. Or maybe it's an individual, a family member that has walked away and they're so disappointed about that. God, I pray that this understanding, this revelation, God, of an invitation, that they would be invited back into the conversation and they would be able to have a conversation with such mercy, such grace and love, that the reality of You would become real to them and to the person that's been hurt.

[41:52] I pray that we would have a revelation this morning, God, that there is so much more to You than what we have right now. This is not it. There is more that You have for us, God, than what we have right now. But I believe it hinges on us being willing to get in the boat and say, "Jesus, I'm going to do what You've asked me to do." God, I pray that there'd be a stirring in us, a challenge in us, God, to lay aside what's comfortable and say, "God, we wanna seek You with all of our heart, with all of our soul, with all of our mind." May we find ways to make You more of a priority today than we did yesterday in just small little things.

[42:43] God, and I ask that You would meet us there. I know that You will meet us there. I ask that You would give people hope that are finding themselves in a storm right now. God, I pray that they would be able to see that You are giving them a hand up. You're not mad at them, You're not disappointed at them, but God, You wanna help them and pull them up out of that storm that they are in. May we be a church, God, that pulls people up out of their situation and introduces them to a God that loves them and a Jesus that can transform and change their lives. Give us a passion and a vision, God, of what that looks like for us and how we play a part in it.

[43:32] In Jesus' name we pray. Everybody said amen. Amen.