good to see you all. My name is Mike. I’m one of the pastors here. So we’re church welcome if you’re on the livestream this morning. If you’re new this morning. If you’re not new this morning, welcome the labor Day weekend. This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it and we’ll rejoice for yesterday to yesterday was a good day to, for many of us care about that secondary thing. It’s an honor to be a few today. We’re excited about working through week three of our three weeks series on simply story. It’s our three core values. Things are passionate about things we hold too dearly things that are unique to us as a church. Week one dan looked at gospel culture is an excellent message. If you missed it, you missed the big thing. You need to go back and watch that on our Youtube channel. Week one was Gospel culture. Week two is last week community culture and I had fun. I don’t know if you enjoy the time. I enjoyed the time working through community culture and what that looks like in our context And this is week three. Generosity, culture and I like every pastor who’s ever preached a sermon can give stories of God’s faithfulness, stories of how God has come through and provided in my life. I can tell stories of houses we bought, We bought four and renovated them and cars we’ve bought and cash gifts we’ve given in cash gifts we have received in God’s providence, caring for us and unexpected uncanny ways as we step down and faith. I can do that. But I’d rather tell a different story. I’d like to tell your story as a congregation as a church as we’ve embarked on this generosity journey a number of years ago, Specifically January of 2017 is when we begin this faith story, this this generosity journey as a gathered people, as a church, as a church family. And so let’s pray and I’d like to tell your story. So bow your heads with me. Let’s pray God, I thank you for today. I thank you for the men and women that you’ve brought here from a variety of places, variety of standpoints on life. God, you’ve you’ve your we’re all on a journey and the journey to you knowing you better, those of us who choose to follow. You choose to accept you in our life. We are on this generosity journey that we’re talking about. Lord, I pray that we would all understand you better today. We understand ourselves better today. I pray for people that are far from you, God who don’t know you, that they would somehow be impacted by this message today. To help them respond to you, jesus. We commit this time to you. We commit this passage to you. We commit the stories we’re telling them the look of the examples and illustrations and everything we’re attempting to do today. We committed to you. God appeared to you would squeeze all the glory you can out of our lives as people in jesus name, we pray this. Amen. I want to tell your story because your story is better than my story. Uh, sorry about God has been doing and I want to brag on you. Um, this generosity journey A couple of years ago, we had the opportunity to grandly give to Jesus and his mission as a, as a church, as a people, as a congregation and as a small church made it for primary college singles and young couples who are not known for their income. We had the opportunity to purchase a $1.2 million dollar property. This property you’re sitting in it. I think it’s worth more than that now. But that’s a lot of money, especially if you’re broke, especially if your college single broke young couple broke, your broke broke. And so we’re just buying diapers for babies and stuff back then as a church. And so buying a building seemed like a lot. And so it’s a lot. We don’t have a lot. We didn’t have enough for a down payment. We didn’t have the right correct monthly cash flow to be able to allow…