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Pastor Josh here.

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I would like to give you a
preview of our Sunday morning service

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on January 5th here at
Middletown Baptist Church.

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This will be our first Sunday
of 2025 and we are so excited to

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start another year together in
service to the Lord.

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And we are going to be
starting a three week series looking

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at the goals of a growing church.

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This week we're going to be
talking about the goal of the Gospel.

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What does the gospel mean for
the church?

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How are we supposed to
interact with the gospel?

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What should we believe about
the gospel?

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How can we share the gospel?

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These are all things that
we're going to be looking at here

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this Sunday.

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And we want to launch our new
year with a purpose.

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We want to launch the new year
with excitement and that is all around

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the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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That's why we do what we do.

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That's why we worship on
Sunday mornings.

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And so we encourage you to be
on out here to Middletown Baptist

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Church at 10:30 this Sunday,
we're going to be celebrating the

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gospel.

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We're going to be talking
about how we as a church can have

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the goal of the gospel within
our ministry here in this year.

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And so for the next three
weeks, we're going to look at three

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different goals of a growing church.

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And I think that that'll be a
blessing for all that are there.

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And we know that God has been
so faithful to us over the years

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and we know that he will be
faithful here in 2025.

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And so again, as always, we
will be meeting here in person at

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10:30 on Sunday.

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We'll be live streaming on
YouTube and Facebook and we'll be

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posting this sermon on Sunday
on Monday morning on our podcast

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channel.

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So we encourage you to share
this and we hope that you have a

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wonderful weekend and we look
forward to seeing you or hearing

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from you soon.

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God bless you.

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Have a wonderful weekend.