OK, if everybody could, Grab your favorite. Favorite sea Yeah. Glad everybody could be here this morning. Yeah.
Summer's an interesting, there's an interesting phenomenon that happens in summer, and I'm starting to think of it as like the snowbird effect. It's like first surface is, a relatively smaller surface you may have noticed, but as the heat of summer comes on, this surface grows in like July and August, and then once it cools down, it seems like it shrinks a little bit again. But, hope you guys are comfortable in here. Pastor Milton is in, New Mexico.
Actually, he's coming back from New Mexico. He performed a wedding there and, and will be back tonight. And so, I am preaching in his stead. And this morning we're gonna be talking about the new Covenant community.
And this is really, this message is a tack on to the series that we've been doing. If you've been here for the past several weeks, we've been doing a series entitled The Dearest Place on Earth, which is where the church, yeah, if you're in the new covenant, then. it's the dearest place on earth is right here to be gathered with God's people. And as we've looked at that subject, we've noticed that, that we should really love to gather....