How do I find meaningful connection and belonging in a world of individualism?

[09:43] Well, good afternoon!

[09:45] Happy Sunday afternoon!

[09:46] Welcome to Crowd Church with me, Matt Edmundson, and the amazing and very talented lady next to me is Sally Birch.

[09:52] Sally, how you doing?

[09:53] Hi everybody, I'm really good, thank you, Matt.

[09:56] Hello everyone, it's lovely to have you with us this afternoon.

[09:59] I've loved seeing all your comments already, so keep those coming.

[10:03] It's absolutely brilliant to have you with us.

[10:06] Isn't it amazing, Matt, the difference it makes when the sun is shining?

[10:08] Everyone's seems a little bit happier, so it feels like there's a little hope there.

[10:14] Spring is coming, and what an amazing feeling that is, Matt.

[10:17] Oh, it is totally— you're totally right, Sally.

[10:19] I was in the park earlier wandering around, and there's a little blue van in the mystery which is run by Nikki and Pam, who are the most adorable sisters who run this little tea coffee shop.

[10:30] Had a little chat with them, and it's amazing how the sunshine has just transformed their business almost overnight, you know.

[10:36] And everyone's out in the park today and obviously socially distancing But it's, it's, it's nice.

[10:42] I'm loving it.

[10:43] I don't get it. I don't get how last week it was freezing and today I'm walking around in just a sweater.

[10:49] How does that work?

[10:50] I don't know. I know, it's amazing, isn't it?

[10:52] It's amazing. We'll enjoy it while it's here.

[10:54] We are Crowd Church.

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[11:00] If you are someone that comes regularly, it's great to see you.

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[11:06] We're a digital online church for those people who perhaps perhaps don't really see the point of church or are asking questions or want to find out more about Jesus, then you are in the right place this afternoon.

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[11:19] Absolutely, a big warm welcome to you.

[11:22] It's great that you're here.

[11:23] Great that we've got Nicola along, Sharon, Gemma.

[11:27] Great to see that Orange House in today.

[11:30] Nicola says she's having pizza and pasta after this.

[11:34] Yeah, she said actually pizza pasta there, Matt.

[11:36] Pizza pasta, is that What's pizza?

[11:39] Is that pasta with pizza toppings, or, you know, how does that work?

[11:42] I can't quite get my head around pizza pasta there.

[11:45] You might need to explain that a little bit more, Nicola.

[11:47] But the oranges are having a roast.

[11:49] That sounds amazing.

[11:51] We're loving the food comments as well, so keep those coming in.

[11:56] Yeah, I am feeling a little bit peckish as well.

[11:58] Yeah, but it's great, great to have all that information.

[12:01] Yeah, it's really good.

[12:02] So should we tell you what's coming up today, Matt?

[12:04] Should we tell everybody what's happening?

[12:06] Let's do that.

[12:07] So today, we are— in just a few minutes we're going to hear from Nick Harding, who is one of the founding pastors of Frontline Church.

[12:15] I've known Nick since I was a teenager.

[12:18] Can you believe it? It was a long time ago.

[12:20] long, long time ago.

[12:23] Me and Noah, dinosaurs.

[12:25] But you know, we're getting, we're getting kind of in the ballpark.

[12:28] Yeah, I just want to point out you're not too far behind me, Bertie.

[12:31] So just— yeah, all right, let's just, let's do it.

[12:33] And whatever the magic is that you've going on, got going on with that camera and that light set up there that takes away all the lines.

[12:41] It's pretty amazing. We need to get that going on over here as well.

[12:44] I love that.

[12:45] Absolutely. Yeah, actually, it's a good point to say as well, you know, Nick is one of the founding pastors of Frontline, and Crowd Church is a part of Frontline Church based here in Liverpool.

[12:52] But via the brilliant digital medium, we can come to you wherever you are in the country or indeed in the world.

[12:58] Wouldn't that be amazing, Matt, if we could hear some from some people who are, you know, in really far-flung places?

[13:03] That would be brilliant.

[13:04] Yeah, absolutely.

[13:05] And, you know, but wherever you are, just say hi in the comments.

[13:08] Always great to connect with new folks and connect with new people.

[13:12] At any point during the service, I'm going to say it now before Sal says it, here is the WhatsApp number.

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[13:21] If you've got any kind of prayer requests or anything going on that you would like to connect with us about, you can connect with us through the WhatsApp number, as I know a bunch of you do with the prayer requests.

[13:31] Thanks for sending those in, always great to pray for people.

[13:33] So if anything comes up today that you would like prayer for, or if you've just got anything you would like prayer for.

[13:40] Even if you've never prayed before and you kind of think prayer is a bit weird, just send us a message.

[13:45] We'd love to pray for you.

[13:46] And, you know, God answers prayer, so why not?

[13:49] Yeah, indeed.

[13:51] We'd love to hear from you.

[13:52] So yeah, do get in touch with us.

[13:54] And if, like Matt said, comments or, you know, via the WhatsApp or via our website as well.

[13:59] We really want this to be for you to feel part of this, so do comment and do his talk, then we're going to have a little bit of worship, and then after that Nick will be coming to join Matt and myself where we can have a little bit of discussion about some of the things that Nick has talked about.

[14:18] So if you've got questions about what he's saying or you want him to expand on a few things or your own thoughts, do put those in the comments because we would love to hear those as well.

[14:28] Yeah, I'm looking forward to the Q&A with Nick later.

[14:30] we'll get to catch up a little bit with Nick, which would be fantastic.

[14:33] So, do stay tuned for that.

[14:35] And like I said, add your questions, add your comments as we go along.

[14:39] Always great to hear from you.

[14:40] And Nick, I'm sure, will be happy to answer any questions within reason that you have today.

[14:45] So do put those in the comments.

[14:48] And so yeah, let me just, you know, anyway, so that's it.

[14:53] That's going to be today's Crowd Church.

[14:56] We're going to be here for about another, I guess, about 45 minutes, 50 minutes, something like that.

[15:01] So So yeah, that'll be that.

[15:03] So you'll see Sal and myself dotted throughout the afternoon connecting the dots together for you.

[15:09] But shall we start with the talk?

[15:13] Let's start with today's topic.

[15:15] This is Nick Holland.

[15:17] Like I said, now let me give you a brief introduction for Nick if you don't know Nick.

[15:22] I've known him, like I said, a very long time, since I was a teenager.

[15:25] Nick and a chap called Dave Connolly, who has been on Crowd Church before, started Frontline Church when I first started university, right?

[15:33] And if I give you a clue as to how long ago this was, it was in the early '90s, right?

[15:37] Let's just leave it there, okay?

[15:40] And so I joined Frontline Church in the early '90s.

[15:42] Nick and Dave were just fresh out of school themselves at this point, and we started— and they started, yeah, yeah, well, you know, and, for many years they run it.

[15:53] It's now run by John Harding, who is actually no relation to Nick Harding, being, although he now is the pastor of Frontline Church.

[15:59] Nick and Dave handed the baton on to John about 5 years ago, and Nick and Dave have still been doing stuff, church stuff.

[16:07] And Nick currently, goes around churches in the country just helping them, you know, be better churches and help fulfill their missions, which is great.

[16:16] So it's, it's awesome to have Nick join us.

[16:19] Nick, I have heard many times in many years, and I always enjoy listening to Nick.

[16:22] Very wise man, great teacher of scripture.

[16:25] So do enjoy this topic as he talks about meaningful collection and belonging in a world of individualism.

[16:34] So I'm going to press this button on my pad.

[16:36] Here's Nick.

[16:55] Hi folks, my name is Nick Harding, founding pastor of Frontline, now working with churches around the country.

[17:18] And it's my pleasure to speak today on Mark 14:12-25.

[17:27] Now, my title for today's talk is, "How do I find meaningful connection and belonging in a world of individualism?" How do I find meaningful connection and belonging in a world of individualism?

[17:42] Now, it may not be immediately obvious how we're going to get there, but that's where we are landing.

[17:48] Just so you know, that's the destination.

[17:51] But let's first of all read this passage.

[17:53] I'm reading from the New Living Translation, Mark 14:12-25.

[17:59] On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go to prepare the Passover meal for you?" So Jesus sent two of them into Jerusalem with these instructions: instructions: As you go into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you.

[18:22] Follow him.

[18:24] At the house he enters, say to the owner, the teacher asks, where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?

[18:33] He will take you upstairs to a large room that is already set up.

[18:38] That's where you should prepare our meal.

[18:40] So the two disciples went into the city and found everything 'Just as Jesus has said.' And they prepared the Passover meal there.

[18:50] In the evening, Jesus arrived with the Twelve, and they were at table eating.

[18:55] Jesus said, 'I tell you the truth, one of you eating here with me will betray me.' Greatly distressed, each one asked in turn, 'Am I the one?' He replied, It's one of you 12 who is eating from this bowl with me.

[19:13] For the Son of Man must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago.

[19:18] But how terrible it will be for the one who betrays him!

[19:22] It would be far better for that man if he had never been born.

[19:26] As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it, and he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, Take it 'For this is my body.' And he took a cup of wine and gave thanks for it.

[19:40] He gave it to them and they all drank from it.

[19:44] And he said to them, 'This is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and his people.

[19:52] It's poured out as a sacrifice for many.

[19:56] I tell you the truth, I will not drink wine again until the day I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

[20:06] So let's just give a bit of background to this situation.

[20:09] This is one of those annual festivals and feast days that Jews from all over Israel at this time would gather in Jerusalem for.

[20:18] So it was a chaotic scene with people from all different places and even different countries coming to celebrate this most important of all the festivals, the Passover festival, and particularly the meal of unleavened bread.

[20:35] And it sounds almost a little bit sort of secretive and secret agent MI5, you know, go and find a man with a pitcher of water, follow him, he'll take you upstairs to an upper room, that's where we're going to eat the meal.

[20:47] We don't quite know what was behind that.

[20:49] It may well have been friends of Jesus who were lending him that room for the meal.

[20:54] That's quite likely, in fact.

[20:56] But this meal of unleavened bread— and unleavened bread literally means bread with no yeast in, so it would have been bread that was made— it was like a flatbread, basically.

[21:05] It was kind of quite hard and dense.

[21:09] This meal of unleavened bread traces its roots back 1,500 years to when Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt, where they had become slaves.

[21:21] And if you've seen any of the Disney movies about Moses and Egypt, you'll be familiar with the story probably of Moses, who's raised up and finally agrees with God to help liberate his people from slavery.

[21:37] And he has this showdown with the Pharaoh, and after 10 plagues, you know, that have devastated the nation, Pharaoh finally agrees.

[21:46] The final plague is the death of all firstborn, animals and humans.

[21:54] And what God says to the Jews who are in Egypt, He says, "Look, this is what I want you to do.

[21:59] Kill a 1-year-old lamb, take the blood from the lamb, put it on the doorposts and lintels of the house where you're staying.

[22:06] It'll be like a protection for you.

[22:09] And the blood of the lamb on the doorposts and lintels of the house will mean when the angel of death passes across, this city of Egypt, this nation of Egypt, then it will pass over your homes because it will see the blood.

[22:27] And hence the word festival or feast of Passover.

[22:31] It's the passing over of the angel of death.

[22:34] And the following morning, because everything was to happen quickly, Pharaoh finally says, yes, get out of my land.

[22:41] Then the Jews were to move quickly.

[22:43] So Unleavened Bread meant they could just bake it quickly and move off and have it with them, ready to eat on their journey.

[22:50] And this meal was— that they'd have eaten it at was the last meal that they'd have taken before leaving Egypt.

[22:56] And it was forever then a celebration, an annual celebration of this great deliverance that the Jewish nation had from slavery in Egypt.

[23:06] It was the Passover meal.

[23:07] And particularly the meal of unleavened bread.

[23:13] This was probably the most important of all the Jewish festivals, and it was a time of reminder, a time of remembering God's covenant—that word we've heard in that passage—God's covenant with his people.

[23:28] Now, a covenant is simply a binding agreement, one that cannot be broken.

[23:33] Today, you'll generally find it in sort of dusty legal documents on particular land or buildings that, you know, where you can't do certain things because there's a covenant on it.

[23:44] But the covenant here is this binding agreement between God and His people that He will protect them, He will provide for them, He will love on them, He will guide them, He will direct them, and He'll bring them into a promised land, which of course Moses and then Joshua finally leads them into.

[24:05] So this was a very special meal of remembering God's commitment, His binding agreement, His covenant with His people.

[24:16] So fast forward 1,500 years, we're now back in Jerusalem.

[24:20] It's AD 30, roughly, and, you know, it's chaos.

[24:24] There's noise, there's smells, there's Roman Soldiers patrolling the streets.

[24:28] There's the smell of cooking.

[24:31] There's, you know, everybody is trying to look for a room or somewhere to stay because this is the festival season.

[24:36] Bit like in Liverpool when there's a home game on, the hotels are all full, the pubs are full.

[24:42] It's like it's chaos, but it's very exciting as well.

[24:46] And so the disciples are anxious.

[24:50] Note this, they're anxious about where they're going to find a room.

[24:53] Not knowing that Jesus has it all in hand.

[24:57] There's a little aside here.

[24:59] They're anxious.

[25:00] Jesus has it all in hand.

[25:02] And they made the right move.

[25:04] They asked Jesus what to do.

[25:07] Now, we would call that praying, talking to God and asking him what to do.

[25:12] And if you've never tried praying before, if you've just carried anxieties and worries with you and My goodness, there's plenty of those in this season, aren't there?

[25:22] Then why not try praying, bringing your concerns, your anxieties to God, saying, "Heavenly Father, I don't know what to do about this situation—my job, my health, or my family.

[25:33] I'm just lonely.

[25:34] I'm a bit depressed.

[25:36] Would you take my cares and help me, be with me in them?" If you've never tried praying a simple prayer like that, you'd be amazed how God wants to answer your prayers.

[25:47] And He loves it when we come to Him, when we talk to Him.

[25:49] We're His children.

[25:50] He made us, and He wants us to come to Him and share our concerns with Him, even if you've never prayed before.

[25:58] In fact, if you want a simple 7-day guide to learning how to pray, then let me encourage you to go to a lovely website called trypraying.co.uk.

[26:08] Trypraying.co.uk.

[26:11] There's a wonderful 7-day learning how to pray guide in there, and I recommend it to you.

[26:19] But Jesus had it all in hand.

[26:22] They are— and they end up in this upper room.

[26:25] As I say, it probably belonged to friends of Jesus, and they're seated at this low table.

[26:30] It was a little low, sort of U-shaped table, like 3 sort of benches in a U-shape, and probably was about a foot off the ground, and they would eat from these low tables.

[26:40] They would, they would lie on their left-hand side.

[26:43] There'd be cushions underneath them, and they'd be chatting, and they'd be using their right hand to feed themselves from the table.

[26:49] And it was a, there was a lot of excitement.

[26:51] This was a very special meal for Jesus and his disciples, and it typically had, at the very least, a lamb was slaughtered, and they'd be eating roast lamb, barbecue lamb, They'd be having these flatbreads, these unleavened breads, and bitter herbs, and often other ingredients as well.

[27:10] And there'd be a lot of chat around the table.

[27:13] What they didn't realize, the disciples didn't realize, was that this was going to be the beginning of a whole new understanding of this festival and this meal together.

[27:27] There'd have been 4 special glasses of wine that they'd have drunk through the meal.

[27:31] And there'd have been, you know, the bread would have been distributed.

[27:35] It would be quite normal to break a piece of bread and pass it round to the people at the table.

[27:42] Now we could easily get sidetracked here and talk about the one who was going to betray him that is talked about in this passage, who turned out to be Judas, who we know betrayed Jesus, pointed him out to the Roman guards who then got him arrested.

[27:57] But suffice it to say that if you have ever felt betrayed, Jesus understands that.

[28:07] If you've ever felt rejected and abandoned, Jesus understands that.

[28:13] Not only was he betrayed by Judas, his closest disciples ran away from him when he was arrested.

[28:20] There was virtually none of them at the foot of the cross when he was crucified.

[28:24] This was an intensely lonely time for Jesus.

[28:28] He would have felt very much on his own, rejected, abandoned, and betrayed.

[28:33] And if you've ever experienced those feelings, maybe even today you feel some of those things deeply, be assured Jesus also experienced them.

[28:45] He understands how you feel, and he is wanting to draw close to you right now to comfort you and encourage you and to remind you that when you come near to Him, He comes near to you.

[29:00] And if you invite Him in, He will come in and take up residence in your life, and He will make this covenant agreement with you, this binding agreement, never to leave you, never to leave you lonely on your own ever again.

[29:17] But this meal is the center part of this passage, and we're just focusing on this meal today.

[29:25] And it was pointing towards what was about to happen over the next 48 hours, because from this point on, in natural terms, from human point of view, everything goes downhill.

[29:37] Jesus spends a night alone when his disciples can't even stay awake with him.

[29:42] He's praying, he's agonizing.

[29:44] Because he knows what's to come.

[29:46] He's arrested by the Roman guards.

[29:48] He's taken. He's given a mock trial.

[29:50] He's falsely accused.

[29:52] And finally, he is crucified alongside two common criminals.

[29:58] This was a very difficult time for Jesus, but this meal, in a sense, symbolized what was about to happen.

[30:06] Because Jesus says, when he shares the bread around, he says, This is my body given for you.

[30:13] And when he shares the cup around, he says, this is my blood poured out for you, a reminder of the covenant that I'm making with you.

[30:25] It points towards Jesus' death on the cross, his body being broken, his blood being poured out for each one of us.

[30:35] And this is the amazing thing about This symbolic meal, it reminds us, as we even celebrate it today in a slightly different way, but we celebrate this same meal today when we break bread together.

[30:48] You know, in some churches it's called communion.

[30:51] I tend to like it, I tend to like calling it breaking bread.

[30:54] When we share bread and wine together around a meal table, just as Jesus did with his disciples, it's a reminder of what Jesus did for us.

[31:04] On the cross, where He began, He inaugurated, He started a new covenant, a new agreement, not based on the old keeping of the laws that was true for Moses' generation and for 1,500 years had been the case, but now it was a new covenant based on God's absolutely unconditional love for each of us.

[31:30] Demonstrated through the death of His Son on the cross, through which, in Him taking our punishment for all the wrong things in our lives, we could ask for forgiveness and thank God that Jesus took the pain and the punishment that we deserve so we, the guilty, could go free.

[31:53] And on that cross, He took our guilt.

[31:55] And our shame.

[31:57] And through the cross, we can ask for and receive forgiveness and be made completely right with God, not on the basis of keeping any laws, but just on the basis of asking for forgiveness and welcoming Him into our lives as the boss.

[32:16] The Scriptures call Him the Lord, as saying, "You are now the Lord of my life, and I welcome You." you and your forgiveness into my life.

[32:24] That new covenant we now celebrate through the breaking of bread around the meal table, and it's a precious moment.

[32:35] But here's the thing: when we do that, we are celebrating two kinds of covenant.

[32:41] And this is where I'm coming in to land.

[32:43] Two kinds of covenant.

[32:44] One is the covenant between God and man that he makes through the death of Jesus on the cross, celebrated by the breaking of bread and the pouring of wine.

[32:54] But it's also— there's another covenant going on here.

[32:56] This is so important because we are sharing in that one piece of bread.

[33:02] It's saying we are part of one body.

[33:07] And scriptures talk about God's family as being His body, those who represent Christ on the earth.

[33:14] We are together, we are one.

[33:16] We are called to be this family that represents Jesus, and we're called the body of Christ.

[33:23] So we are one body, and we share— and when we share in that wine together, we're celebrating that we are all rescued by the blood of Jesus in sharing in this one cup, reminding that we are one together.

[33:37] We share in his forgiveness, and also we share in the sense of mission.

[33:43] And calling which each of us are privileged to enjoy as part of His family.

[33:51] You see, we are invited not only into relationship with the Father but into relationships with His family.

[34:00] The two go together.

[34:01] You can't separate them.

[34:02] There is no individualism in the family of God.

[34:07] We are family, as the song so brilliantly says and celebrates.

[34:13] We are family, and it's in this family that we find both meaningful connection and belonging.

[34:22] You see where I've come from now and how we're now landing on the main topic of today's talk.

[34:28] It's in this family that we find meaningful connection and belonging.

[34:34] It's not a perfect family.

[34:36] The Father is perfect.

[34:38] And, you know, you may not have had a good experience of an earthly father, but just imagine what a perfect father would be like.

[34:46] Well, God, our Heavenly Father, exceeds that by a long, long way.

[34:51] So even if the people in God's family aren't perfect— and my goodness, you know, if you've been around a while, you'll know that they're not— nevertheless, the forgiveness that He offers us, we learn to offer each other.

[35:02] We learn to live in these relationships of forgiveness, these relationships of love, where we commit to the very best for one another.

[35:13] It's God's heavenly community on earth.

[35:17] And as family, we share meals together, we share belongings, we share this amazing sense of mission.

[35:24] We're called together as his family to make a difference in the world.

[35:29] And it's in discovering something of that mission, something of the things that He's called us to be and do together, that we find meaning and purpose in our lives.

[35:39] That we're not just here for random reasons of atoms colliding, and, you know, we're not just the product of some fertilization of an egg and a sperm.

[35:48] We are here with purpose.

[35:51] We are here with meaning.

[35:52] God calls us into His family and into a sense of shared mission together.

[36:00] Sometimes we describe ourselves as an extended family on mission, and it's the most wonderfully inclusive family.

[36:08] Women and men, people from all ethnicities and social backgrounds, people are welcomed.

[36:14] It's a non-judgmental, accepting, and inclusive family.

[36:18] Everybody is welcome, and everybody has a part to play.

[36:25] When we have this meal together, it's a way of acting out that family reminder.

[36:31] You see, the individualism that we've been sold through our culture is a pale— it pales into insignificance to the sense of belonging and meaningful connection we find in his family.

[36:43] Individualism always sells itself short, thinking we can be the best best person that we can be on our own, thinking that we can find our true selves.

[36:53] It's just not true.

[36:54] It's a lie.

[36:57] It seems attractive.

[36:58] It just doesn't work.

[37:01] We need to be in God's family.

[37:04] That's where we find our true selves as we share our lives with one another.

[37:09] That's where we find our sense of significance and the part that we play in God's purpose.

[37:14] That's what the meal is about.

[37:15] That's what means to be part of God's family.

[37:20] So let's not buy the lie anymore.

[37:22] We've been sold short.

[37:24] Let's come to God and say, 'God, I want you to be my Heavenly Father.

[37:28] I want to be part of your family.' And through most of history, this meal has been celebrated in the church, particularly in the early church, as a love feast.

[37:39] It was called an agape— word for God's sacrificial love— an agape meal where Christians would come together, they would celebrate, they would laugh, they would they would eat, they would— and at the very center of this joy-filled time of eating and being family, they would break bread and they would share wine together as a reminder that they are His and that they belong to each other as a family, an extended family on a mission together.

[38:09] So imagine this mealtime scenario that we've read about today.

[38:15] The smells of cooking and roasting lamb and wine and soldiers parading the streets and people rushing here and there trying to find rooms, trying to find places to eat their meals.

[38:27] Barbecues going all over the place.

[38:30] Imagine the hubbub.

[38:31] Imagine in the upper room there, the low tables and the chatter around the tables, the sense of excitement.

[38:37] And yet Jesus trying to explain to them that something something of incredible significance was about to happen.

[38:45] Imagine where would you put yourself in that upper room?

[38:48] Would you be kind of at the meal, you know, hanging on to Jesus' every word?

[38:52] Would you be maybe in the doorway, just listening from a distance, not quite sure?

[38:56] Or maybe you'd put yourself out in the street, just really not even interested.

[39:01] Maybe after thinking about this today, where would you like to be?

[39:05] Where would you like to be.

[39:07] So here's a couple of questions to think about.

[39:10] Where do you currently get your sense of meaningful connection and belonging from?

[39:17] Where do you currently get your sense of meaningful connection and belonging from?

[39:24] And question number 2: Could the invitation to the father and his family provide something more that you might actually enjoy exploring from this point on.

[39:37] God bless you.

[39:42] Wow, thank you so much, Nick.

[39:44] Loads there for us to think about and for us to chat about.

[39:47] Please do put your questions and thoughts in the comments, and we'll be coming back to have a discussion with Nick after the song.

[39:55] Now we're going to listen to a song.

[39:57] Please feel free to join in if you know it, or just just think about the words, maybe meditate on the words, and it's called King of My Heart.

[40:04] Now, this version that we're playing today has very kindly been done for us by a couple called Mark and Laura Titheridge and their daughter Naomi.

[40:13] Now, these are friends of ours from years and years ago.

[40:17] We go way, way back.

[40:18] I noticed that Matt put a nice comment in there about me having pictures on my wall, posters on my wall of Pat Sharp.

[40:23] I wouldn't have said, Matt, that I was ever a Pat Sharp fan.

[40:26] Maybe more Wet Wet Wet, that's a different discussion.

[40:29] Anyway, Mark and Laura and me and James go way, way back to those times, and they are very, very talented musicians and worship leaders.

[40:37] And their daughter Naomi has the most beautiful voice.

[40:40] So we really hope that you'll enjoy this version of King of My Heart.

[40:44] Now, the words are really important in this.

[40:46] It talks about how good God is and how God will never let you down.

[40:50] You might feel that the people around you in your life let you down, but let me tell you that God will never let you down.

[40:57] And that's what the words of this song are talking about.

[41:00] So after the song, we'll come back and we'll have a discussion with Matt and with Nick.

[41:05] So don't forget, put your questions and your comments in the comments, and we'll come back soon.

[41:24] Let the king of my heart be the mountain where I run, the fountain I drink from.

[41:38] Oh, he is my song.

[41:42] Let the king of my heart be the shelter No matter where I hide, the ransom of my life always is my song.

[41:55] You are good, you're good, oh.

[42:02] You are good, you're good, oh.

[42:09] You are good.

[42:11] You're good, oh, you are good.

[42:17] You're good, oh.

[42:27] Let the king of my heart be the wind inside my sails, the anchor in the waves.

[42:36] Oh.

[42:37] Oh, he is my song.

[42:40] Let the king of my heart be the fire inside my veins, the echo of my days.

[42:50] Oh, he is my song.

[42:54] Let the king of my heart be the fire inside my veins, the echo of my days.

[43:03] Oh yes, my soul, you are good, you're good.

[43:11] Oh, and you are good, you're good.

[43:18] Oh, and you are good, you're good.

[43:25] Oh, and you are good.

[43:30] You can't.

[43:31] Oh, and you're never going to let, never going to let me down.

[43:46] And you're never going to let, never going to let me down.

[43:51] And you're never going to let Never gonna let me down.

[44:00] You're never gonna let, never gonna let me down.

[44:07] You're never gonna let, you're never gonna let me down.

[44:13] You're never gonna let, you're never gonna let me down.

[44:20] You're never gonna let, never gonna let me down.

[44:27] You're never gonna let, never gonna let me down.

[44:32] You are good, you're good, oh.

[44:39] You are good, you're good, oh.

[44:45] You are good.

[44:47] You're good, oh, you are good.

[44:54] You're good, oh, you are good.

[44:59] You're good, oh, you are good.

[45:03] You're good, oh, you are good.

[45:07] You're good, oh, you are good.

[45:35] Wow, great version.

[45:37] Hey Matt, love that track.

[45:40] Love that.

[45:41] Love that. Great words.

[45:43] Great version as well.

[45:44] Thanks so much, guys, for that.

[45:45] Yeah, absolutely.

[45:46] I've put a link— I know, Matt, you asked for the YouTube link to that song.

[45:49] I've put the link to the original version, that they recorded, and you can just click that link and add that to your favorites if you enjoy that song.

[45:58] Such a great song.

[45:59] Let the King of My Heart, just brilliant.

[46:02] And I loved— I, I don't know the, the girl's name, sorry.

[46:06] The young daughter, Naomi.

[46:08] Naomi, yeah.

[46:09] What an incredible voice that young lady has.

[46:13] Absolutely astounding.

[46:15] So good on her, good on her.

[46:17] Yeah. and let's get some more of those tracks on Crowd.

[46:20] So now, absolutely, absolutely.

[46:22] Now I told my friend Laura that I was, you know, that we were going to be playing that track today, and, and she said that was fine as long as I didn't share any embarrassing stories of her, because, you know, we go way, way back.

[46:31] So I did say I can't make any promises.

[46:35] So. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

[46:37] And you know what, Laura, if you are watching this, come and join us on the live stream because we would actually love for you to share embarrassing stories about Sal.

[46:46] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[46:47] Just want to put that out there.

[46:49] Yeah. I think we're running out of time now.

[46:50] I think we need to move on to our discussion.

[46:53] I'm loving it.

[46:56] I'm loving it.

[46:57] Right? Oh, no, she just popped up in the comments.

[46:59] Careful, Sal.

[47:00] Yeah, okay, okay, let's move on.

[47:01] Move on quick.

[47:04] Absolutely brilliant.

[47:06] No, definitely write them in the comments.

[47:07] Come on to the show.

[47:08] Well, you contact me separately.

[47:10] We'll get you on. It'll be a nice surprise.

[47:12] Now, that was that great track.

[47:16] And we've had a great talk.

[47:17] So what we're going to do now is we are going to bring on Nick.

[47:20] I'm gonna have a conversation with him.

[47:22] So if you've got any questions about what Nick said, if you've got any thoughts or things you want to share, put them in the comments now if you haven't done so already, because because we are going to be talking to Nick right now.

[47:33] Here he is.

[47:34] Hey Nick, how you doing?

[47:36] Hi, hi, great to see you.

[47:38] Great to be on Crowd Church.

[47:39] Oh, it's great that you're here.

[47:41] Thanks for joining us.

[47:42] Yeah, yeah, absolutely brilliant talk, Nick.

[47:45] Well done.

[47:46] Loved it, loved it, loved it.

[47:48] Yeah, really, really enjoyed everything that you had to say, Nick.

[47:51] There's so much to unpack from that.

[47:52] I feel like we won't have enough time to discuss everything that you kind of brought up, but we will have a look at the comments in a minute.

[47:59] But before we do that, I was thinking about those people who are listening to what you're saying and thinking, yeah, I really want that.

[48:06] I want that connection.

[48:07] I want that family.

[48:08] I want to live like that, but I don't know how to even start.

[48:12] What would you, what would you say to those people?

[48:16] Well, I guess, Sal, it depends on whether they would already think of themselves as someone who's following Jesus.

[48:22] If they're not, that's the first step, because you only get to be part of of God's family when you start to connect with him as Father.

[48:31] And so the first step would be just to come before God and say, Father, I thank you that you love me.

[48:37] Thank you that, Jesus, you died for me, and I want to be connected to you.

[48:42] Because you see, Sal, that's where we get our first meaningful connection from— when we connect with the person who made us, who knows everything about us, who has designed us for a us.

[48:53] That's the first thing.

[48:55] If we've already got that connection, then we need to find the family that he's called us to be part of.

[49:01] And we're so blessed in this country, there are groups and churches all over this country who are— would welcome anybody to join them.

[49:09] But I would say find a small group of Christians that you find you have something in common with, you identify with.

[49:16] If they live nearby, that's ideal because you pop in and out of each other's houses.

[49:20] I'm so blessed because I'm part of a small community of about 20 people who just live in a couple of streets all around us.

[49:27] And, you know, I can just walk down the road in my slippers and, you know, say hi to somebody, take one of my sourdough loaves that I've just baked and drop it off at their house, you know, get a cup of coffee on the doorstep with somebody.

[49:38] You know, it's that kind of closeness helps a lot, geographical closeness.

[49:43] But what's important are the relationships of trust trust, and that takes time to develop.

[49:51] Yeah, trust takes time to develop.

[49:52] And but as we make ourselves vulnerable in the family of God where he's placed us, then we start to get that sense of belonging.

[50:00] And then together we discover purpose and meaning, because when we find the right group of people, we, we find we share a sense of purpose and mission and how we as together as as a part of God's family can make a difference in the world today.

[50:17] That's a great, great point.

[50:19] So do you think it's— yeah, do you think then, Nick, that you talked about when you're in that community, that small community, then you find your, you know, that, that purpose together?

[50:31] so is it a case of the right people around you draw that purpose out of you?

[50:37] They— and they encourage you to walk in that purpose with God?

[50:40] And maybe that's perhaps one of the things that individualism misses out on a massive scale.

[50:48] That's definitely part of it, Matt.

[50:49] I think that when we find the right group of people, we do find a sense of shared mission or shared purpose together.

[50:56] And we discover it by interacting with each other.

[50:59] You know, because of the cult— I use the word advisedly— the culture or the cult of individualism, you know, we tend to think we've got to find all this stuff out on our own.

[51:08] Actually, that's not how God wired us.

[51:11] Even when Jesus was training his disciples, he never sent them out on their own.

[51:15] He never said, okay, you know, Thomas, here's your assignment, you know, Matthew, here's your assignment.

[51:21] At the very least, they went out in twos.

[51:24] And so we're called to be part of community and to be on mission as a community together.

[51:29] I was just reading in the Sunday Times magazine today And it's, it's an article all about the importance of social connection.

[51:38] And this is a great quote.

[51:39] It says this: Loneliness is turning out to be the modern killer disease, replacing the usual candidates like smoking and obesity and all those sort of things, replacing the usual candidates as the commonest underlying factor behind death.

[51:59] Wow. Wow, that's, that's an amazing quote.

[52:02] And the whole article, you know, unpacks all of that.

[52:05] And so we are meant to belong, we're meant to be part of, you know, a group.

[52:09] And because we're made in God's image, he wants us to be part of his family.

[52:13] That's where we find our ultimate purpose.

[52:16] You know, we often, sometimes we come to a group with a sense of what we think we're called to do, and then, you know, we start to interact and that becomes shaped by all the things that together we bring to the table and how we together want to make an impact in the world.

[52:31] Yeah, absolutely.

[52:32] I think that that whole thing that you're saying about loneliness there, that's one of the reasons that kind of Crowd Church came to be, was in this time where even more so now it's harder to connect with people, it's harder, even more people are kind of on their own, aren't they, and lonely, and we wanted to be a church for people who could connect digitally.

[52:50] But we also, that was a kind of a good thing to mention maybe, Matt, our Wednesday night groups that we've got going where if you want to bit more connection, you can become part of a smaller group where we actually discuss discipleship and things like that.

[53:03] And we'll be looking at maybe starting some more of those in the future as well so that you can get connected digitally if you're not able to actually connect physically at the moment.

[53:13] Yeah, it's very good.

[53:14] So yeah, on Wednesday nights, 8 PM UK time, we have a Zoom call where we connect with people.

[53:19] You are more than welcome to come join us.

[53:21] And in fact, I will put on the screen seen the WhatsApp number again.

[53:24] So it's there.

[53:26] If you would like to know more, just reach out via the website, or you can connect with us via that WhatsApp number.

[53:31] And we'll let you know more details.

[53:33] It is a Zoom meeting that we have on Wednesday nights.

[53:36] And the first one is getting quite, quite a good size.

[53:40] So we'll be starting more soon.

[53:41] So do feel like come and join us if you, if you, if you, if you would like.

[53:46] So Nick, I guess As you know, in your talk, there's a lot of stuff.

[53:52] There's always a lot of meat when you talk, Nick, and you've got lots of notes going on.

[53:55] And at the end, you talked to— I wrote it down— individualism.

[54:00] It's not an easy word to say.

[54:01] Individualism always sells itself short.

[54:05] It's attractive, but it just doesn't work.

[54:10] Do you think that individualism is something that we need to guard against as Christians, not just those that maybe aren't inside church, but those actually that are inside church?

[54:21] Do we need to guard against this?

[54:24] Absolutely, Matt, because we live in a culture that is soaked in individualism, and therefore it seeps into our own conscious and subconscious ways of thinking, behaving, acting, and relating.

[54:37] You know, even our nuclear family structures, for those who are blessed enough to have a nuclear that's an aberration.

[54:43] You know, most of the world through most of history experiences life in extended family.

[54:48] And if you like, you know, these small groups of church life, we call them communities, are intended to somehow replicate that extended family.

[54:58] And individualism means we always want to choose to do our thing, our own personal individual thing, over above our together thing.

[55:06] And, you know, whether that's how we order our time, use our money, 'You know, share our home or don't share our home.' Even this thing about our homes, you know, 'An Englishman's house is his castle.' No, let's blow the front doors off.

[55:21] Let's welcome people in.

[55:22] Let's have people around the table.

[55:24] You know, that's how we build community.

[55:26] And individualism, it drives us away into our own personalized little worlds, you know, particularly where we, you know, we just resort to our screens and, you know, the one or two people that we relate to maybe at work or in the neighborhood.

[55:38] You know, that kind of individualism says my privacy, my home is more important than actually sharing what I've got with others.

[55:45] But it's in the sharing that the joy comes, it's in the sharing that the sense of belonging comes, and it's out of the sharing that the sense of meaningful purpose and connection comes.

[55:55] Brilliant, brilliant.

[55:58] Yeah, thank you, Nick.

[56:00] Should we talk about our little tradition that we have here on a Sunday, Matt, of once we've done the sort of deep questions and we've had a bit of discussion, then we usually have another question, often given to us by Nicola, sometimes usurped by other people, but this week Nicola's got in there quickly.

[56:17] So Nicola wants to know, Nick, what's the weirdest thing you've seen at someone else's house?

[56:26] Wow, I really needed notification on that question.

[56:31] We've had some crazy ones.

[56:33] Yeah, we do get crazy questions.

[56:35] I'm trying to think.

[56:36] Okay, I have— that you can talk about at 4 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon.

[56:40] Okay, okay, well, it's not in the house, it's in the garden.

[56:45] Does that count?

[56:46] Yeah, sure.

[56:47] Yeah, so friends who moved in, actually to be part of our missional community, who live just around the corner from us, they bought a, a what was a house that was owned by nuns.

[56:58] Okay, so it might not be a total surprise when I say this, that in the corner of the garden was a little grotto to the Virgin Mary.

[57:05] And, you know, it is permanently there.

[57:08] They can't take it out.

[57:09] Oh, well, so not many— I don't know many houses that have their own private little grotto for the Virgin Mary.

[57:15] And no disrespect to the Virgin Mary, but it is just a bit weird.

[57:19] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[57:20] That's fair play.

[57:21] What about you, Matt?

[57:23] Any weird things that you've seen, Matt?

[57:25] That I can mention?

[57:26] One of the things that appeared a few years ago in my neighbor's garden garden.

[57:33] She has since passed away, bless her.

[57:36] But there was a statue of a naked man which appeared in her garden one day, just— and you, you just opened the curtain and there it— there he was every morning.

[57:48] And so that was pretty weird.

[57:49] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[57:51] Okay.

[57:53] And I can't think of anybody else's— I can't think of something weird from somebody else's, but I can think of a weird present that I was given.

[58:01] Of a pear, a decorative pear somebody gave me for Christmas.

[58:09] Yeah, that was an interesting one.

[58:10] I'm really good at going, "Oh wow, that was amazing, thank you." I struggled as I opened this decorative pear to kind of know quite how, where to go with that.

[58:22] So yeah, so you might come to my house and see a strange decorative pear.

[58:26] Yes.

[58:28] That. Okay, Gemma's put here she's fuming that she doesn't have anything.

[58:33] I'm fuming I have nothing.

[58:36] So, we did— we need to get something weird for Gemma's house.

[58:38] I want to know if Nicola had seen something really weird in someone's house to prompt that question.

[58:42] I mean, that's, that's really the big question, isn't it?

[58:45] She's probably seen that pear around at your house.

[58:47] Right, listen, let's bring that conversation to a close.

[58:53] Nick, I have one final question for you.

[58:56] It seems to me that the Bible talks a lot about getting together around food, right?

[59:02] So I'm listening to your talk.

[59:04] There was a meal going on there.

[59:08] Is that, I guess, a way to start not being individualistic, to just start inviting people around your house?

[59:15] Is that a good way just to get going?

[59:17] Come around, have some food, and see where it Absolutely, Matt.

[59:21] I think that's a brilliant way to start because we all eat.

[59:25] It's not like it's taking extra time.

[59:27] And, you know, most of us, even I with my very limited culinary skills, can cook a couple of extra portions of pasta or whatever it might be, you know, to make it possible for others to be around the meal table.

[59:40] Here's an interesting fact, Matt.

[59:41] I'm told that reliably that in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Jesus spent one-third of his time either on his way to a meal, at a meal, or leaving a meal.

[59:54] So that's a huge amount of the Gospels where Jesus is focused around a meal table.

[60:00] And of course, one of the great statements in the Gospels about the Son of Man, talking about Jesus, you know, these great lofty statements it says about him, you know, came to seek and serve the lost, and, you know, didn't come to to be served, but to serve.

[60:14] And the third one, the Son of Man came eating and drinking.

[60:21] And I love the fact that the Gospels include that statement.

[60:25] It clearly was a huge part of the life of Jesus and his disciples, and that's not in the Gospels coincidentally.

[60:31] It's there for a purpose.

[60:32] And I think opening up our meal tables is a brilliant first way to start to break down individualism and welcome others in.

[60:40] Fantastic.

[60:41] Listen, Nick, it has been an absolute treat and a pleasure to have you on Crowd.

[60:45] Really, really appreciate you being here with us.

[60:47] Thanks so much for doing the talk.

[60:50] Really loved it, and judging by the comments, a lot of people got a lot out of it as well.

[60:54] So thank you so much.

[60:56] Yeah, thank you, Nick.

[60:57] Really appreciate it.

[60:58] Brilliant. My pleasure.

[60:59] Thanks for having me.

[61:00] No problem.

[61:01] Thanks very much.

[61:03] Okay, so Nick, wasn't he fantastic?

[61:06] Gotta love that man, he's an absolute legend.

[61:09] Right, Sal, should we do catch-up?

[61:11] Love that.

[61:12] I think we should, Matt. Let's get on with the catch-up for today.

[61:14] Where's Josh?

[61:15] Yeah, let's bring— I don't know where he is.

[61:17] Let me press the button and he'll come up.

[61:18] Here we go, you ready?

[61:20] Hello and welcome to this week's Sunday catch-up.

[61:32] For those of you who don't know me, allow me to introduce myself.

[61:35] My name is Josh Edmundson.

[61:37] I'm a student at the University of St Andrews studying physics, and I'm a member of the team here at Crowd Church.

[61:44] If you've never watched the stream before, welcome!

[61:47] It's great to have you here.

[61:48] Let me just quickly explain what catch-up is all about.

[61:51] Catch-up is the part of the stream where we get pictures and videos in from members of the community and we put them up for everyone to see just so that we get a feel for how everyone is getting on.

[62:03] In usual fashion, I will kick things off with what I've been up to this week.

[62:06] So I've of course had the classic barrage of uni work that I feel like I'm always trying to stay on top of, but also as well as all this university work, you know, I know how to have a good time as well.

[62:41] You are never too old for a good Disney sing-along.

[62:44] There's nothing quite so liberating as just letting it completely go.

[62:47] Let it go. As you yell out the words to "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast, or you know, something from Aladdin, as I was singing yesterday.

[62:57] What do you think about Disney movies, particularly the musical aspect of them?

[63:00] What Disney film do you think is the best to sing along to?

[63:04] Let me know in the comments below.

[63:05] I'm quite interested to see what everyone says.

[63:07] That's enough from me.

[63:08] Let's get on to the catch-up clips.

[63:45] Great, thank you very much for sending those in.

[63:48] I love watching the catch-up videos, we love watching the catch-up videos, so please do send in stuff for catch-up.

[63:55] If you do want to see your picture or your video on the catch-up segment of the stream, you can send it in to the WhatsApp number that you will have seen on the bottom of the screen, or you can use #CrowdCatchUp on Instagram.

[64:08] Thank you very much for watching.

[64:10] That is all from me this week.

[64:11] I will catch you next time.

[64:17] There we go.

[64:18] Brilliant, Josh.

[64:19] Great job.

[64:20] Tell you what, that roll neck says I'm studying physics at university like nothing else there, Matt, doesn't it?

[64:28] Love it, Josh.

[64:29] It does.

[64:30] Josh's new jumper.

[64:31] I saw there was a few comments actually on Josh's jumper in the comments.

[64:35] Very snazzy.

[64:37] I like it.

[64:38] Yeah, yeah. And loving the Disney.

[64:39] I tell you what, I think I've watched the whole of Disney+ since the beginning of lockdown last year.

[64:46] You've seen all the movies.

[64:47] How are you getting on in your Marvel, you know, thing that you're doing?

[64:51] Yeah, we're doing the Marvel timeline, so going through it from, you know, in chronological order.

[64:56] When we're nearly at the end, it's It's, you know, it's a commitment, Matt.

[64:59] I'm not gonna lie, you have to press in, and we're, we're getting there.

[65:03] But yeah, loving it.

[65:05] Absolutely.

[65:06] Laura says here, I want to send stuff for catch-up.

[65:08] So the way you do that, Laura, on the WhatsApp number here, you can send stuff to there and Josh will put it in.

[65:14] Just send pictures or videos, or you can just put it on Instagram with a hashtag #CrowdCatchUp and Josh will get it.

[65:21] Just don't ask Sal what a hashtag is.

[65:24] Ah, you struggled to say it this week.

[65:26] There you go.

[65:27] It was only because the teeth were getting in the way that I couldn't say hashtag.

[65:30] I know what it is.

[65:34] if you don't know what we're talking about, just watch last week's live strum— is at a live strum— livestream.

[65:41] Last week it was me, couldn't get my words out.

[65:45] This week, yeah.

[65:46] And you know what, Matt?

[65:47] We've had no technical issues, so isn't that amazing?

[65:50] No technical issues.

[65:51] It is, it's a beautiful thing that it's working lovely.

[65:54] Absolutely.

[65:55] So let me tell you what's coming up next week.

[65:57] We have James Sloan, who is going to be on next week's Crowd Catch-up, doing the talk next week.

[66:04] James Sloan, who is head of Imagine If Trust, which is the charity which we're always featuring here on the Crowd livestream, if you've not come across that before.

[66:13] He is going to be sharing his infinite wisdom next week.

[66:17] James is always great for a laugh and also some scripture and teaching and Bible understanding, all that good stuff as well.

[66:22] So he'll be here next week.

[66:23] So make sure you join us for that.

[66:27] Yeah, we'll have that.

[66:29] Oh, all of a sudden, Sally's gone.

[66:33] I think the battery may well have run out on Sally's camera.

[66:36] We'll just leave it like this until she comes back.

[66:39] But just so you know, like I say, next week we have got James.

[66:42] Do join us.

[66:43] We livestream at 4 PM every Sunday at Facebook and also on YouTube.

[66:50] Sally is definitely gone.

[66:52] Let me just do this.

[66:54] This might be helpful.

[66:55] Less distracting, as they say.

[66:57] And that was right after Sally said, we've had no technical issues.

[67:04] Oh, the timing could not have been more perfect.

[67:08] And no, before you ask, I did not press anything which cut Sally off.

[67:13] That's just hysterical.

[67:14] Yes, I can see it all in the comments.

[67:16] No technical issues.

[67:18] Oh, Sally's coming back.

[67:19] Hang on, let's bring Sal back on.

[67:22] Hang on, here we go.

[67:24] I just need to assign Sal to a guest.

[67:26] There we go.

[67:27] What happened there, Sal?

[67:29] Oh, well, Matt, it's that Duff camera that you gave me.

[67:31] It's just run out of battery.

[67:34] I think you do these things on purpose.

[67:36] You know, I just literally had finished saying that there were no technical issues.

[67:40] Yeah, and you stitched me up there, haven't you?

[67:43] It wasn't me that stitched you up.

[67:45] I don't know who it was that stitched you up, but But it was very good timing, that's for sure.

[67:50] Love it, love it, love it.

[67:52] It's what makes Crowd a bit more fun and a bit more entertaining.

[67:55] Absolutely. You wouldn't want us to be like completely slick with no technical problems at all, or, you know, not being able to get our words out, would you?

[68:02] It's the reality.

[68:04] We're real, and hopefully you appreciate that.

[68:07] But sorry about that, everybody.

[68:11] Brilliant. Gemma, honestly, I didn't do that on purpose.

[68:13] That was just perfect.

[68:14] Effect on every kind of— part of me thinks, so I'm not gonna lie, God is sitting on the throne right now laughing.

[68:20] I mean, just rolling on the floor laughing.

[68:23] Yeah, yeah, brilliant, brilliant.

[68:25] Definitely got a sense of humor.

[68:27] Definitely.

[68:28] Absolutely.

[68:30] That's awesome.

[68:31] Right, what we're going to do now is we are going to close out Crowd.

[68:34] thank you so much for watching.

[68:37] Thank you for joining us. The way we close out Crowd is we are going to play a couple of worship songs.

[68:42] You're more than welcome to stick around and join in the worship if you would like.

[68:46] Sal and I will be back next week, like I said, with the amazing James Sloan to bring you another Crowd Church online service.

[68:54] And if you're not a member of a local church, we would love it if you'd consider Crowd becoming your online church.

[69:01] We'd love to see you here every week at 4 PM.

[69:03] So do think about that, do get in touch with us, introduce yourself, let us know who you are.

[69:07] It's always great to connect with people And I think that's all from me.

[69:11] So yeah, that's all for me as well.

[69:13] Just, I've loved it today.

[69:14] Thank you so much everyone for all your comments and for joining in and just being part of it.

[69:18] Wouldn't be the same without you.

[69:20] So join us again next week and have a brilliant week, sunshine or not.

[69:24] We hope that you are feeling that spring feeling, that hope is around the corner.

[69:29] Absolutely. Bless you.

[69:30] Have a great week guys.

[69:31] See you soon. Yeah, see ya.

[69:40] God of goodness, anything less than all of you, anything less than your life-giving truth, can never satisfy.

[70:00] My heart never satisfied.

[70:07] My heart, only in you do I have it all.

[70:20] Only in you, Jesus.

[70:25] Only In you too, I have it all.

[70:33] Only in you, Jesus.

[70:40] Only in you, Jesus.

[70:49] God of goodness.

[70:53] Anything less than all of you, anything less than your life-giving truth can never satisfy my heart, can never satisfy my Oh, only in you do I have it all.

[71:29] Only in you, Jesus, only in you do I have it all.

[71:42] Only in you, Jesus.

[71:48] Only in you, Jesus.

[71:59] Oh, Jesus.

[72:12] How great you are, how great you are, how great and beyond measure.

[72:25] How great you are, how great you are, how great and beyond measure.

[72:38] How great you are, how great you are, how great and beyond measure.

[72:51] How great you are, how great you are, how great and beyond measure.

[73:04] You are great and beyond measure.

[73:10] Only in you do I have it all.

[73:19] Only in you, Jesus.

[73:23] Only in Do I have it?

[73:31] Oh, only in you, Jesus.

[73:39] Only in you, Jesus.

[73:50] Only in You, do I have it all?

[73:59] Only in you, Jesus.

[74:05] Only in you, Jesus.

[74:44] All the saints and angels.

[75:10] Bow before your throne.

[75:17] All the elders cast their crowns before the Lamb of God and sing.

[75:31] All the saints and angels Angels bow before your throne.

[75:44] All the elders cast their crowns before the Lamb of God and sing, you worthy of it all.

[76:02] You worthy of it all.

[76:10] For from you are all things, to you are all things.

[76:17] You deserve the glory.

[76:23] You worthy of it all.

[76:26] You're worthy of it all.

[76:31] You're worthy of it all.

[76:38] For from you are all things, to you are all things.

[76:45] You deserve the glory.

[76:52] All the saints and angels bow before your throne.

[77:06] All the elders cast their crowns before the Lamb of God.

[77:17] And sing, you worthy of it all, you worthy of it all.

[77:34] For from you are all things, to you are all things.

[77:41] You deserve the glory.

[77:46] You worthy of it all.

[77:47] You worthy of it all.

[77:54] For from you are all things, to you are all things, You deserve the glory.

[78:13] Day and night, night and day, let incense arise.

[78:24] Day and night, night and day, let incense arise.

[78:31] Day and night, night Day and night, night and day, let incense arise.

[78:38] Day and night, night and day, let incense arise.

[78:45] Day and night, night and day, let incense arise.

[78:52] Day and night, night and day, let incense arise.

[78:59] Day and night, night and day, let incense arise.

[79:06] Day and night, night and day, let incense arise.

[79:12] You're worthy of it all.

[79:18] You're worthy of it all.

[79:25] For from you are all things, to you are all things.

[79:33] You deserve the glory.

[79:41] You worthy of it all.

[79:46] You worthy of it all.

[79:50] For from you are all things, to you are all things, you deserve the glory.