Occasionally, people wonder if our greeting time interrupts the spirit of our worship. but I have found over the years that I love stepping into the pulpit and the environment that you create in greeting one another. It is a good and pleasant thing for brethren to dwell together in the Lord, and greeting one another in the Lord is as much an act of our worship as anything else that we do. but we're gonna continue our worship by listening to the Lord, this morning.
So let me invite you to turn in your Bibles to Ephesians chapter 4. Ephesians, chapter 4. And while you're turning, let me just, warn you up front that this sermon will be a little bit different than normal. We'll be looking at Ephesians 4, but we're not going to be exegeting these, these verses maybe the way that we normally do, but there are themes that are touched on in these verses that that harmonize with things that I want to share with you guys this morning.
So just be. be aware of that. And, also, the sermon will be different in the sense that it's, it's more of a family talk, if, if I can say that. we're going to have a family meeting this morning.
That doesn't mean you're in trouble, to put you at ease. I know in our household, when I call a family meeting, my children are immediately on the defense and wondering what, what they did wrong. but it's, it's nothing like that. But there, there are things that I want to say, this morning, in an attempt to represent the thinking and the heartbeat of the elders and speaking those things specifically to, to you, the cornerstone congregation....
