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Good Morning. As we start mangle today, I discombobulate a question and you can answer it by a show of hands. How many people in this room establish ever started a project that you knew you in all likelihood wouldnt ever sack? I mean, maybe you thought to yourself, this would be really great and I should do it, but in the back of your mind, if you were being h unitaryst with yourself, you knew that you probably werent going to see it through to completion? So wholly three people out of four hundred? (Pause, laugh) There we go ok, good, Im not alone. Over half of you have started a project that you had no intention on finishing.Me too. When my girlfriend was born, I got into the popular practice of avering her a book before bedtime. We read and read every night. And I realized something. Many of these childrens books are middling not very good. After a few months of reading to my miss I went into my bedroom and said to my wife. Thats it seriously.. Im compose a childrens b ook See had heard this kind of braggadocio from me before. But this time I wasnt joking around, in fact, the attached day, I pulled out my laptop, in an effort to make bedtime a smash experience for every dad in the world and I started writing. At the end of a blistering 2 hour writing posing I had typed three pages intimately a courageous carrot liner his fears. I saved the file and promised myself I would complete it the next day. My daughter is now nine years old and Im however working on completing that fourth page. There is good countersign for all of us that raised our hands though. And that good news is this theology finishes everything that he starts. Today, we start a brand new sermon series called Be The Church and the text edition for today is located in Acts 181-11. When I think about being the c... ... am here to say that he can. He does. Believe it.Last night I accredited a text message at 213am. Now, I eer hesitate before I look at the phone when I recei ve anything after midnight. Its typically never good. It was from my aunt. We were raised in the same home and she is now 48 and she has never believed. Just about everyday of my life for the last 15 years I have prayed for her. That the Lord would fill her with the Holy Spirit, that she would discover Him. Let me read you the text that I received.. Chris, thank you for always praying for me. I woke up in the center(a) of the night and just submitted to Jesus. I want to live my life for Him. give thanks you. Love, Jan.I know Im not the only one in the room that has been praying for a loved one for a pine time. Keep being the church, keep praying and remember that God always finishes what he starts. Amen.