We're grateful for you.

Hello, hello, Gateway family.

How are we doing today? It's a great day to be in the house of God.

I want to welcome all of you who are in the room, across all of our campuses, those of you who are watching online.

Hey, you chose a great day to be in the house of God.

I'm so honored to be bringing the word of God to you today.

But before I do, I want to take a moment and just honor a few people.

It's not.

Have some self-compassion

that way.

Right.

Self-compassion all the way through.

It's like a double-edged sword of like when my coping skill then starts to become ineffective.

Like we use the words effective, ineffective all the time as like kind of that replacement for good and bad behaviors.

So like when a coping skill starts to become ineffective, for example, if you're in heavy addiction and you're starting to see consequences of it.

And like, what was that like for you?