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Hey, welcome and thanks for being a part of the program today. I'm so excited. I have so many things to

share and not much time to do it, so I need to jump right in. Let me say this at the outset. This is not part

three of the series that we've had the last two weeks, but it is definitely connected to it and

sort of naturally grew out of it, as I will explain today. So I do want to take just the briefest

amount of time to remind you of what we covered the last two weeks. If you've not had a chance

to check them out, I highly

encourage it. It was derived from a series of online articles by Wilson Adams, documenting 12

shifts in thinking among Christians who are millennials and Gen Z. That is to say, faithful followers

of Christ who are teenagers up through their early 40s.

I got so much good feedback from that directly and also on social media, and I shared much of

that with Wilson.

But if I made one glaring mistake with regard to that list and those episodes, it was recording

them before I had a chance to meet with the young adults here at Lendale to walk through that

list with them and just ask them what they thought. So I was able to do that this past Sunday night.

We had a good group of them come over to my house and I handed them out the literature and we read

through the 12 things and had open discussion all along the way. Here was a group of

committed believers age, maybe 17 to 30, and they're hearing these representations of their

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