In this sermon, Kevin Swanson discusses the concept of a generational church, where grandparents, parents, and grandchildren worship together. He highlights the decline of the generational church due to various factors such as the pursuit of money, migration to big cities and mega churches, and the loss of family discipleship. Swanson emphasizes the importance of honoring parents and grandparents and implementing relational loving discipleship. He calls for an abandonment of wrong values and an embracing of Jesus as the unifying factor across cultural and generational boundaries.

Father in heaven, we thank you for this time together in which we can explore the will of our God for the precious church of Jesus. Father, thank you for what you did, sending your son for a bride, and he died for the bride, and she's a precious bride. And Father, we pray that you would help us to be a part of this and to understand what it is to be a part of this. We betroth this bride to Jesus, and we pray, Father, as far as the world has done damage to the church, that by your grace, we would see a mighty reformation across this world, this country, but even beyond, in order to be well prepared for that wedding feast at the end, in Jesus' name we pray. And everybody said amen.

Well brothers and sisters, it's a vision for a generational church, and I just make it very simple, a church in which the grandparents, the parents and the grandchildren are in the very same church together. Imagine that and realize that we're way beyond that kind of thing in most situations today. That there would be grandparents, great grandparents, grandparents, parents and children worshiping together in the very same church. Now by God's grace we have had our children, our grandchildren worshiping together in our church as well and so that's been a huge blessing for us. I would say that we are just now scratching the surface on this partially because we ourselves have been part of a transient Generation in which we tend to move away from each other over a period of time largely due to economy largely due to the idea that we're all trying to make money, but we have lost a sense of the importance of the older generation connecting with the younger generation.

In fact, at the beginning our church had very little gray hair. Now thankfully it's changing, but partially because the grandparents didn't share this vision either. And so there was always the intention that the younger people would start their own churches, whether that be with something of a reformational feel that would eventually turn more revolutionary, or whether that be just the revolutionary culture that so constitutes the day in which we live. So why is the generational church a thing of the past? Well, one of the reasons is that young families are looking for money.

They're looking for economy, they're going to the university, they leave the farm towns and the idea is that you you're not successful if you've got a family economy or if you're an entrepreneur And so success is to get your kids into college, to get them into a good college. That was the definition of success. Not so much anymore. Both conservatives and liberals now are saying the college is pretty much the biggest ripoff out there. So there seems to be a backing away from college.

In fact, colleges have lost about four million students in just the last 15 years. So we're seeing a huge drift away from college. That's like the closing of about 500 major colleges across America. So why is this generational church a thing of the past? Well, young people have moved out of the farm towns into the big cities, they've moved out of the small churches into the mega churches, and that move has been significant in the last number of years.

In fact, the average attendance or median attendance of the average church in America has fallen off from 150 to roughly 65 in the last 15 years. So In other words, of the some 300,000 pastors in America, about 299,400 of them are depressed. The other 600 are happy because they're mega church pastors and they're doing just fine, Thank you very much. It's just all the other small pastors have lost members to the mega churches and this happens in all sorts of communities around America. It's happening in our communities happening in Little Grants Pass, Oregon where my folks have been part of the same little church for about 50 or 60 years and each generation of children have moved away from the church and they moved into the mega churches and from there often into apostasy.

But that's what's happened in the last 35 to 40 years in Grants Pass, Oregon. So I just take one town as an example. Family discipleship has disappeared and now there are a few traditional churches that are here and there, made up of 20 or 30 old people and one homeschooling family. So that's typically what the churches look like across America today. So if you walk into a church, now remember, if the church isn't crying, it's dying.

Do you ever hear that? And when I heard that this week from somebody, I can't remember who said it, someone just said, if the church isn't crying, it's dying. Someone had just been to a church in which, again, there were 35 older people and there were no babies at all. So the church wasn't crying and I thought to myself, at first when I heard that, I thought, yeah, I mean, conviction of sin, so that's what I was thinking, you know? And so I think there's two applications to that.

I think one of the reasons why the church is dying in America is because there's nobody crying. They're not weeping, and because they're not weeping, there's no rejoicing. And the two biggest problems with the church in America today is very simple. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. There's almost no mourning and there's almost no comfort in American churches today.

The word of God is not coming, People are not receiving it, their hearts are not being impacted, and there's so little weeping going on in the churches today. And the idea that the pastors should be weeping themselves, or that they should be bringing something of a prophetic message, or a convicting message to the people, has been utterly repudiated in this nation. And they're not interested in a word of God that convicts and brings people to tears. And therefore, they're not interested in the kind of rejoicing with which we should rejoice. We should come out of our conviction of sin and our weeping with a celebration, with a rejoicing, with a shouting that would cause these chandeliers to fall to the ground.

That's the way in which the church needs to operate. The two most crying needs for the church today is that there be weeping and rejoicing. So we need both, absolutely. So that's the way I took it, was interesting, but I think also we can say that a church that isn't crying is dying, and We see that all across America now. I will say, and this is my experience in some of the smaller denominations with which I have been involved over the last, say, 35 to 40 years of my ministry and my active Christian life in the church, And that is that these little traditional churches made up of 20 older people and one homeschooling family, the children from these homeschooling families are soon gone.

And the reason for this is the family sings the traditional hymns and psalms when they're gathered together in the church. But so often their kids are, by the time they're in their teenage years, they rush off into the parking lot, crank up, K-love, and they absorb another culture for the next six days. And by the time they're 20, 22, 24 years of age they have abandoned their parents culture and they've been well enculturated into the popular culture of the day and they're off to the mega church at 22 or 23 years of age. So that's the end of the homeschooling family, the average homeschooling family in America today. So the social revolution has given birth to a cultural revolution and vice versa.

This began, of course, with the fathers leaving the home in the 19th century, and then of course, mothers leaving the home after World War II. And so for generations, for thousands of years, the kind of culture that was maintained in communities around the world, whether that be pagan countries like Japan and China and Korea and places that didn't have access to the Word of God. Typically the culture was set by parents, priests, and pastors. That is, those were the ones that were leading the culture until 1948. So that's the way to happen for a very long time.

Paul was playing the violin while Laura and Mary in Little House on the Prairie were dancing around a little cottage and that's the way they did it for 5,948 years until 1948. In 1948 a man named Frank Sinatra showed up as well as Elvis Presley just a few years after that and that was the year in which about 5,000 teeny boppin little girls showed up into Times Square and was there for about a week while Frank Sinatra performed in that area of New York and they say that was the point at which the Teenage Revolution occurred. It was the first time in all of human history, it was the undermining of a civilization. The mentors became the peers in pop culture. And the Beatles, those upstanding men from Bristol showed up and knocked on the door and said, I want to hold your hand, I want to hold your hand.

Seemed like pretty nice guys in 1962. By 1968, they looked a little different and they were singing let's do it in the road. So that was the sexual revolution came about through the Cultural Revolution, the rise of the Teenage Revolution of the 1930s 1940s which really for the most part centered around large segregated high schools and junior highs that were established in the early part of the 20th century. This is one of the most radical revolutions in the history of the world and as soon as pastors and parents wake up to the revolution it would be a good thing. The youth pastor shows up on day one in front of his youth group and finds that his youth group have a bone through their nose.

What is he going to do? Well, he's gonna have to go get a bone and put it through his nose so he can relate to this group of teenagers. So that's the way in which the culture goes. And the reason why they have the bone in their nose, and the reason why they've absorbed the sort of culture that they have is because of the pop culture icons, which is not CCM. CCM follows the other icons.

They're the Elvis Presley's, the Lady Gaga's of the world that at the very, very top of the pyramid lead the entire culture, and everybody else is submitting to those standards that have been laid out by the pop cultural leaders of the day. So this is the kind of cultural leadership we have today. It's no more parents and pastors that lead the culture, but the pop culture icons of the day. So I think we have to realize this, and the church has followed suit. So therefore you have the traditional service, the contemporary service, the nose ring service, and all the other services that are supposed to appeal to the various generations.

Usually doesn't last very long, and then for a period of time, you establish some contemporary churches, and those contemporary churches fade away within 10, 15, or 20 years. And so this is the way in which the church is dissolving in the 21st century, And the question that I have for you today is this, will the church survive and will there be a church in the year 2035? Now as, well yes, obviously, because Jesus said, upon this rock, that is the testimony concerning himself being the very Son of God, he will build his church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it and that includes pop culture in the 21st century. Nevertheless, I guess the question I want to answer is how will a church survive and what are the things that we need to do in terms of human Responsibility to be faithful to Jesus as we deal with these massive revolutions that have swept through Human civilization in the day in which we live We're dealing with a church in crisis, brothers and sisters. Will there be a church in the year 2035?

And just a little word for pastors and leaders of churches, and that is, brothers, We need to be careful that we're not always reacting, that we're not being so reactive, but that we're being proactive. And we need to build a church for the year 2035. We need to build a church for the year 2045. And This is what I set out to do some 14 years ago. And the way to do it, very simple.

The Bible lays out two things for every church. So if you just wanna go to the pastoral epistles and ask yourself what are the absolute essentials for any church? Anything, there's nothing about Sunday schools, nothing about music programs, it's all fine, but what is the thing that don't leave church without it? You absolutely need this. What are the two things so essential to the church, number one, preach the word in season out of season.

That's number one, 2 Timothy 4, one and two. Number two, disciple the young men, Second Timothy 2,2. Disciple the young men so that they will be ready to disciple others. To disciple others. That's it.

That's what every pastor needs to do. I spend between nine and 13 hours a week with young men, discipling them. About 15 or 16 that I'm discipling right now. Been discipling them for the last 15 years. The young families in our church, and we, somebody came into our church and they were surprised.

They hadn't been there for 10 years. I said, well, what's the difference between 10 years ago and where we are today? And this brother said, wow, so many young families having children. You have so many young families. I don't know, what do we have?

40, 50, 60 little kids in our church. And you know what, these children are being born into families of men that I've discipled over the last 15 years. Brothers and sisters, right now, we are in such desperate conditions in the church. It's disciple or bust. It's disciple or bust.

We will disciple the young men as pastors. We will find the three to four young men that are paying attention. They're concerned about their own spiritual growth. They're ready to lean in and they will be mentored. And we will give ourselves over, bring them into our homes and we will disciple them.

And to this day, we still have young men living with us for sometimes weeks at a time, sometimes months at a time, and as in the case of Chad Roach, he lived with me three days a week for I'm gonna say about five years. So This is what we need more than anything else. If you're a pastor, if you're an older man who have discipled some of your own children and you have a little time to invest in the discipleship of young men, I plead with you today to dedicate the time to do it, or you will not have a church in the year 2035. This is essential. We need it.

And it needs to begin with family discipleship. First with the young men and young ladies in our homes. There they are for 18 years. And then they transfer over increasingly. At least the young men transfer over increasingly to other men in the church.

And that's what happened to my son, as well as so many others. Now, again, it's not just the pastors. Sometimes it's the other brothers in the church. But as I see it, the Titus II mandate for us is not Sunday school. So what are we all about?

What is this all about? The difference between Sunday schools, and I believe the vision that God is bringing out in his word for us, is investment. More so one on one, one on three, and perhaps at times one on 12, but not the mass production approach that the church has embraced. This is an inefficient approach. This is the Jesus approach to discipling the next generation.

So the root cause of what we're dealing with today is a breakdown in worldview, a breakdown in faith, a breakdown in love, and I believe something of a hypocrisy in the parents' generation. We are simultaneously living in a day in which there is a mass migration out of the church. We've seen a decrease of people attending church on a regular basis from 49% to roughly 21%. The numbers go from 19 to 23 or somewhere. But we have seen a fall off and that's over 50 percent of those who were attending church in 2005 are not attending anymore.

This is the largest migration away from the Christian church in the history of the Christian church, largely due to a high degree of hypocrisy, fake faith that existed in American society, and we're seeing the bleed right now. But what will happen in the next generation as we strengthen the things that remain? There is something that's remaining in the church. Now what do we do with it? Do we approach it by programs?

Do we approach it by attracting people with worldly systems? Efficiency systems? Massive presentations from the front of the church building. No, no, no. The answer I believe is discipleship.

But let me leave you with three things, three points that I believe are essential to establish the generational church for the year 2035? What is it? How will we maintain a generational, let me say this, that there is a benefit to a generational church. I don't believe that a church that doesn't have the silver hair in which there is the older women teaching the younger women and the older men teaching the younger men, I don't believe that kind of church can survive. I believe that's the end of the church when there is not the generational connection and the opportunities for a multi-generational discipleship in the church.

So here are the three things that we absolutely need in order to have a generational church. Number one is the honor of parents and an honor of the applications and wisdom offered by parents and grandparents. So without honor, without the fifth commandment, we know that things will not go well with you in your church. We know that things will not go well with you in your marriage. In fact, the number one question I ask, one of the number one questions I ask when it comes to counseling, someone's having marital problems, someone's having problems with their job, somebody's having problems with certain relationships in their life, and there they are in counseling.

I ask the question, how is your relationship with your mother and your father? If that relationship is not well, then things will not go well with them in the earth. So this is so fundamental to every part of our lives. So much of the failure in churches has to do with a lack of honor of parents and grandparents. The book of Proverbs speak of binding your parents' law and commandment around your wrist and around your neck and this idea of embracing your parents' applications.

So what is that? I don't believe that that is a one-on-one law of God, but simply the idea of honoring your mother's applications. When your mother tells you children to make your bed, tuck in your shirt, you may come back and say, make your bed. I don't see that anywhere in God's word. I don't see that Jesus ever tucked in his shirt.

You could be a lawyer with your mom and explain the reasons why theologically that just doesn't comport with the laws of God. You know you may come forth with that but but that's not what God is telling you. You say honor your mother's applications. These are the things your mother considered to be important. You may not consider them important yourself, but God considers them important because it is the law of your mother.

This is the commandments of your mother. This is the way in which your mother applies the law of God as best as she can to honor mothers and fathers, to honor others and to love others and be respectful towards others in your interpersonal relationship. So this is her best shot. This is what she believes to be the most important way, the most significant ways, according to the wisdom that God has given her. Now, when you get older, you might add to that a bit.

It's interesting also when it comes to culture that my father gave me certain cultural expressions he felt was appropriate for us. And we had three cassettes that we would listen to while doing the dishes, I remember this, and it would be songs like Home on the Range, and Sons of the Pioneers singing Cool Water, something like that. And then I went off to college, and When you go off to college, everybody brings in their popular culture. It's not so much the folk culture, but always the popular culture. And as the years went by, I found, after I was married and we began to have children, I found myself migrating back to my father's cultural expressions, and I found myself standing on my father's shoulders and even adapting some of the things that he had taught me to hopefully improve upon that.

And so some people say, well my father dealt drugs and He's in a maximum security prison. I said, well, you get up on your father's shoulders. Even if he's flat on his back, if you get up on his shoulders, you're still six inches off the ground. So honor whatever you have. Young people have come up to me before and said, should I be listening to this music, this CCM music or this artist or that artist?

I said, my answer to that is, what do your parents think about it? It's a first question. What do your parents think about it? They say, well, my parents don't like this artist, that artist. They like this song, they don't like that song.

Well, just go with that then. So you see, I believe that honoring parents is essential for building culture. How do you get from Johann Sebastian Bach all the way down to Eminem's rape rap. How does that happen? How do you get the utter destruction of human culture on planet Earth?

How does that devastation occur in modern society? There's only one way I can explain to you how that happens. It happens in the church and it happens in secular society. How do you break down a church? How do you break down a culture?

You break it down by successive generations, usually beginning with roughly Elvis Presley and others, all the way down to Eminem, over a period of three to four generations, that's how you destroy Western culture. That's the way it happens. And the way we build it back will be by successive generations honoring their mothers and fathers. And that's the way it happens in the church as well as in other aspects of culture. So we need to restore a family-based culture.

How do we do this? Well, one of the best ways to do it is to unplug. Do not listen to music with earbuds. I'm giving you a practical example. Now it turns out when it comes to entertainment in God's word or relaxation or any form of rejoicing, the rejoicing tithe, it was always done, number one, before the Lord and in community.

So keep that in mind. When it comes to cultural expressions in the family, it's not like we come into our own cars, turn up the kind of music we like, no. That's the isolating form. That's not the form of culture that's given to us in God's Word. In God's Word, yes, We spend the rejoicing tithe of 10% in a week.

God says blow it in a week. Have a good time But do it number one before me Some people say all pleasure is guilty pleasure That is whatever you're doing by yourself outside of God's view and I'm going to have a good time apart from other people and God's involvement in my life. No, no, no, we always rejoice coram deo, before the Lord. That's essential in our cultural expressions, in our entertainment. We rejoice in gratefulness before God, and we do it in community with the Levite, with the sons and daughters, maidservants, manservants, et cetera, in community, we do it in community.

We gather around the piano, We have a little family band together, much like this. We do it together. I'm there by the piano every day, almost every day playing some hymns and my children are singing with me. That's an almost every day occurrence in my family. So it's unplug the earbuds.

No, no, we can't be isolating ourselves. We do this together. Okay, that's first point is honor your father and your mother. Secondly, relational loving discipleship has to come back into the family and into the church. I mentioned this already, but we need an end to programs and more one-on-one discipleship rooted in love.

By the way, George Barna called me, his people called me a number of years ago, just interviewed him, by the way, and he's now essentially saying the same thing we're saying now. You should hear that interview I did on Generations with George Barna, he said, family discipleship is the way to go. Without this, we will lose the faith. This is what George Barna is saying. We are so desperate now, it's family discipleship or bust.

Which is really interesting because when George Barna's organization called me about 20 years ago first started the church they said we're very concerned with using the youth 60 70 percent are walking away from the youth groups in the churches and they're gone gone gone so what are you guys doing about it how's your church interacting with this promise massive problem of the youth bleed in the Southern Baptists and other organizations. And I said, well, let me tell you, we're not doing youth camps. What? No youth camps? They said, what about youth groups?

I said, no youth groups. They said, how are your Sunday School programs? He said we're not doing Sunday School programs. What about this or that, all these other programs? I said no, we're not doing that.

He said what's wrong with you people, are you concerned? I mean we're losing 70, 80% and you're not doing anything. Well, What we did is we went into God's word. We got so desperate, we decided to open the word of God. And we went into God's word, we looked up youth groups, couldn't find it, we looked up children, we found a few verses about children, so we thought, well, there's some ministry ideas.

And so we turned to Ephesians six and found something very simple. And it was basically this, fathers, bring your children up in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord Jesus Christ. Teach the word of God to your children, integrate it into life as you sit in your house, as you walk by the way, as you do your family economy, as you do this, as you do that. And then Paul then turns to the children and say, hey, honor him, listen to him, follow him. He guys said, wow, that's unique.

That's in God's word? I said, yeah, it's God's word. And then he said, does it work? I said, yeah. Praise God, it's working.

And I think every pastor in America needs to get that desperate. Do you all agree? I mean, you gotta get so desperate that you're gonna have to go to God's word. And I believe that's where we are now. And when I say relational discipleship, what I'm talking about is one-on-one discipleship rooted in love, love for our children, love for the young men, the young women.

So in fact, we were in a thing on mentorship in the Washington Home School Group, and in the Q&A after my presentation on mentorship, somebody said, what is the key? What's the secret to mentorship? What is it? Give me the absolute essential secret to successful mentorship in all the experience that you have ever applied. I thought just for a moment said, you gotta love these guys.

You gotta really love them. And they have to know that you love them. I mean, that's so obvious, isn't it? Jesus loved his disciples, he loved them to the end, gave his life for them. That's it, moms and dads.

You like your kids, you love being with them? Do you enjoy them, are they a blessing to you? Amen, that's it. Do not underestimate the power of love. Recently I saw a dynamic between a father and a son.

I don't even know their names, but I was with them for a number of days, they were with us in a little conference that we were doing, and there was a huge distance, there was an obvious issue, the son was extremely unhappy, extremely so. And so I sat down with him over lunch, and I said, how's it going? What church are you going to, et cetera? And the son told me, I am not a Christian. But I didn't think that was the issue.

I had a further conversation with him, prayed with him. But as I watched the dynamic between the Father and the Son, I realized they didn't like each other. I could tell the Father didn't like the Son and the Son did not like the Father. That was the issue. Brothers and sisters, we gotta love our children.

Amen? Need a lot of amens right now. We've got to love to be with them. To love somebody is what? To care.

To just love to be with them, to want the very best for them, to be bought into them, to lean into them, to wanna spend the time with them. What is discipleship? It's just truth, time, and love in the context of life. Let me say that one more time. This is it.

You wanna know what discipleship is? It's everything Jesus was all about. It's truth, time, you gotta spend time with them. Absolutely. This is not efficient.

You had a choice between spending 10,000 hours with three people or sharing the gospel with 10,000 people for three hours. And that's all you could do to serve Jesus in a lifetime. That's your ministry. You have a choice between two ministries. Three people, 10,000 hours.

10,000 people, three hours. Which would you go for? And everybody knows you do what Jesus did. You would spend 10,000 hours with three people over the next three to 10 years. Absolutely.

And that's the way in which we disciple, that's how we invest, that's how we spend our lives, that's how we dedicate our lives to the ministry of Jesus. So that's it. Jesus took the time with his disciples. You never get the sense that he was rushed. Jesus brought truth, life integrated truth.

Now Jesus never had a seminary. And I know there's brothers here who go yeah, but you still need a seminary and I get that you need that that you need the truth Absolutely, I said you need the truth, but you need the truth in a context of love if you turn to a seminary professor and you say Do you love John who sits in your seminary every day? You love that man. Have you invested in him? Is he coming into your life?

Is he at your table? Have you spent a thousand hours with him like Jesus would? That seminary professor, by and large, wouldn't say he does that. There are exceptions. There are guys who get it in seminaries, but to me this is the number one problem with American churches.

It's the way in which we prepare our pastors. It's a de-relationalized form of shoving ideas into people's minds without the context of real life. Jesus didn't put the seminary in a classroom with a whiteboard. He put it in a boat, and the boat rocks so much, and the water is splashing so much, you can't do much on a whiteboard. Because the conveyance of knowledge is in the context of life.

And this is the essential element for, for, for discipleship and the whole vision for family-based discipleship versus the academic-minded approach to education, and until we get that difference, friends, you don't understand what Jesus has brought to us as a form of education and the way we need to educate our children in the next generation. Jesus never had a classroom. And right there in the context of life, I've talked to you men about faith, now I want you to get out of a boat and walk on water. Life application right now. Okay, we're just about out of time.

But let me end with the third point. And this is so essential, and this is it, this is effectively it. What we need, I've already talked about discipleship, I've seen the ports of honor, moms and dads, Those are essential for any kind of a generational church. If we're gonna see a reformation of generational churches in America, we're gonna need that. But number three, and this is the most essential point, if you've been asleep the whole time, that's fine, but wake up right now.

At abandonment of the wrong set of values and expectations in the church, and what we need is an embracing of the greatest unifying factor that crosses all cultural boundaries and generational boundaries, and that is Jesus. And I think this is something that's hurting the American church, there's the wokeism, This is all the problems. Fact is, we stand under the same cross. We are receiving the same blood dripping upon all of us is the blood of the very Son of God for our sins. And there's no reason why every cultural difference and every generational difference can stand under the cross of Jesus Christ and receive that mercy.

And if Jesus can cross a universe to interact with prostitutes and publicans, we can cross over the aisle and interact with somebody of a different culture or a different generation, amen and amen. Doesn't matter if that little girl's got purple hair and she's got rings coming out of weird parts of her head. Doesn't matter. If Jesus can cross a universe to interact with us, we can cross the aisle and interact with others of different cultures, and over time, we're going to see a Jesus culture develop out of that. And of course, honor and everything else.

Jesus has reconciled us with God. He has satisfied the wrath of God and made us all children of God. The self-centered worldview in which people can only relate to people who think and act just like them is not Jesus. So if there's a young person who can't interact with a grandfather in a church, that's not Jesus. If there's an Hispanic guy can't interact with a white guy in the church, that's not Jesus.

Whatever you're talking about there, that's not Jesus. And that's not what I'm about, and that's not what you're about. Because we're standing under the same cross and we're receiving the same blood, the same mercy for our terrible sins, Jesus crossed an infinite boundary, an eternal boundary in order to minister to us. We can do the same for others, Ephesians 2, 14. For he himself is our peace, That is Jesus is our peace.

He has made both Jew and Gentile, grandparent and grandson, Hispanic, African, European, whatever, he's made both one. Broken down the middle walls of partition, have abolished in his flesh the enmity that is the law of commandments, contained in ordinances, and that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity, and he came and preached peace to you, who were afar off and to those who were near, for through him we both have access by one spirit in the Father. Bottom line, woke is fragmentation. Modern culture, modern pop culture, fragmentation. Well, nothing to do with it.

Jesus has nothing to do with it. We have nothing to do with any of that. Our Jesus has come to break down the cosmic, and I call it the cosmic infinite boundary or distance between God and man, and if he can do that, he can break down the boundaries between grandparents and grandchildren, the weirdness of pop culture, the woke distance between rich and poor, slave and free, and every other social division in the world. Amen and amen and amen. Let's pray.

Our Father God we thank you for Jesus came to do this. Father there is nothing here that love cannot break through. There is nothing here that you cannot break through. There is nothing here that Jesus cannot break through by bringing his reconciliation as he already has with you, and he has done it that we can break through those barriers between ourselves as well. Father, there is nothing that the gospel cannot penetrate in any of this problem that we have outlined over the last couple of days.

So Father we pray that as we see the future, that we would look to Jesus and know that Jesus will have a church, yes indeed, amen and amen, and the gates of hell will not prevail against this church. Amen. Amen.