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Thank you for listening to Community Access. My guest this
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morning is Pastor John Eastwood from Calvary South. Very good morning, Pastor.
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Good morning Alison. Great to be with you today.
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Thank you. You have an amazing event that's coming up
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that we need to tell everyone about. It's called with
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One Voice. Tell me all about it.
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So with One Voice is basically a place of where
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churches in the region are going to get together and say, hey,
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with one Voice, we're going to get together and we're
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going to worship Jesus. We're just going to exalt the
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name of Jesus. We have tried, like you know, getting
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the churches together in different ways in the past, and
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it's a beautiful thing, right, It's a beautiful thing when
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churches get together because it shows that we are actually
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not really divided. I mean we have different flavors, right,
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Every church has a style, Every church has a flavor.
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I mean it's just like you go to an ice
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cream starve, you know, there's lots of different flavors you
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don't want, just want it's all ice cream, right, And
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we're all like followers of Jesus, and so we want
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to do things together. We do, but it's hard logistically
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to do that, like, how do we get people involved,
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how do we get what can we do all together? Well,
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what we can do together is real simple, gather together
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around music. And so that's the idea behind One Voice.
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It's just having multiple churches invite them in, get together,
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have different people from different teams of worship come out,
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join in if they want to be part of it,
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you know, be a musician on and let's just let's
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just worship Jesus together. So that's kind of the idea
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behind it.
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So it's taking place on Saturday the eighteenth, from six
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to eight at Calvary Southbury. How many worship teams do
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you expect to attend?
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Well, the initial one right now, we've heard from about
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five other churches. So this is just the pilot program
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of it. We're going to plan on doing quarterly and
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so we expect over time from more and more churches
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to get involved. But we're expecting different teams or different
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people from each of those churches, possibly each of those churches.
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And what you're saying is we want to break division,
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that we're all united.
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Yeah, you know, Jesus said something that's very pro He
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always said something profound but he said the world will
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know that you're my disciples by your love for one another,
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you know. And so like we want to demonstrate that
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we want to get together worship Jesus together. As we worship,
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we're loving God together. And as we're loving God together,
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it gives a demonstration to anybody who's actually seeking or
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asking or wondering, like they can actually see, look, something
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different is going on there. A lot of people in
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our region have heard the name of Jesus, they know
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about God, at least they know enough about them to
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be inoculated to them. And yet studies show us that
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we have some of the least amount of people that
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actually follow Jesus per capita in the nation, in this
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in this region, so in you know, in Connecticut and
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different counties here, and so like what I believe is
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I believe it's because people haven't actually had an opportunity
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to experience God. And so the worship initiative of just
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getting of just getting churches together and worshiping God, it's
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allowing people to having an opportunity to come in and
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to experience God in music. Like it's not going to
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be lecturares, it's not going to be like a long sermon.
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I mean, somebody might share something in between. Somebody might pray,
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but kind of just music prayer, and like being able
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to just come in and enter into this environment where
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they could actually meet with God, maybe for the first time,
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or if they just have questions, you know, maybe they'll
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experience something that's beyond them where they could say, hey,
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something's going on there that's not anything i've had before.
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And pastor why is worship so important?
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You know, music has a way of uniting people. People
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of all cultures throughout all ages have music and they
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sing together or do different things together. When we can
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bring music in a spot of where we're coming before
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God in worship, something happens. It's unique. Something unique happens, right,
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so you know we get in a philosophy of it.
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But what happens is like there's an opportunity for a
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person to actually get to the core of who they are,
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their heart, and from the heart they start to meet
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with God. And when that happens, things start changing, Transformation
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starts happening in people's lives.
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I mean, I don't know anybody who doesn't leave a
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worship service or a church service and they feel great yeah.
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I mean, that's that's what happens when we encounter God.
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I mean, initially it can be scary, right, because things
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are exposed. I become real, maybe for the first time
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in my life, real with myself, right, getting beyond the
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fault self and getting to who the real self is.
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And when that comes into contact with God. At first
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that's scary. But then when I start to realize, oh,
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he is a God of love and he has mercy
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waiting for me. I mean, this is like the whole
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point of why Jesus came. Once that starts happening, people
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they become they become like well, I mean Jesus said,
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they become born anew like. Something happens within them of
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where the deep of them touches the deep of who
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God is, and all of a sudden they start to
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realize I understand what life is.
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I'm speaking with Pastor John Eastwood from Calvary Southbury. We're
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talking about with one Voice. It's a multi church worship night.
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It's taking place on Saturday, January eighteenth, from six to
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eight at Calvary Southbury.
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Oh.
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By the way, where do people get tickets? Does it
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cost anything?
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No, Allison doesn't cost anything at all. They could just come.
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Like you said, it's on Saturday, This Saturday, they just come.
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There's still be plenty of room.
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This is a safe, non judgmental, loving environment where you
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can come and be with other believers or become a
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believer and just feel the love of God and all
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of his people. Thank you so much for being here
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this morning.
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Thanks so much for having me
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Thank you for listening to Community Access. My guest this
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morning is Pastor John Eastwood from Calvary South. Very good morning, Pastor.
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Good morning Alison. Great to be with you today.
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Thank you. You have an amazing event that's coming up
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that we need to tell everyone about. It's called with
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One Voice. Tell me all about it.
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So with One Voice is basically a place of where
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churches in the region are going to get together and say, hey,
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with one Voice, we're going to get together and we're
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going to worship Jesus. We're just going to exalt the
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name of Jesus. We have tried, like you know, getting
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the churches together in different ways in the past, and
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it's a beautiful thing, right, It's a beautiful thing when
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churches get together because it shows that we are actually
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not really divided. I mean we have different flavors, right,
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Every church has a style, Every church has a flavor.
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I mean it's just like you go to an ice
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cream starve, you know, there's lots of different flavors you
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don't want, just want it's all ice cream, right, And
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we're all like followers of Jesus, and so we want
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to do things together. We do, but it's hard logistically
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to do that, like, how do we get people involved,
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how do we get what can we do all together? Well,
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what we can do together is real simple, gather together
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around music. And so that's the idea behind One Voice.
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It's just having multiple churches invite them in, get together,
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have different people from different teams of worship come out,
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join in if they want to be part of it,
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you know, be a musician on and let's just let's
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just worship Jesus together. So that's kind of the idea
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behind it.
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So it's taking place on Saturday the eighteenth, from six
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to eight at Calvary Southbury. How many worship teams do
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you expect to attend?
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Well, the initial one right now, we've heard from about
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five other churches. So this is just the pilot program
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of it. We're going to plan on doing quarterly and
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so we expect over time from more and more churches
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to get involved. But we're expecting different teams or different
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people from each of those churches, possibly each of those churches.
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And what you're saying is we want to break division,
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that we're all united.
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Yeah, you know, Jesus said something that's very pro He
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always said something profound but he said the world will
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know that you're my disciples by your love for one another,
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you know. And so like we want to demonstrate that
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we want to get together worship Jesus together. As we worship,
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we're loving God together. And as we're loving God together,
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it gives a demonstration to anybody who's actually seeking or
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asking or wondering, like they can actually see, look, something
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different is going on there. A lot of people in
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our region have heard the name of Jesus, they know
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about God, at least they know enough about them to
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be inoculated to them. And yet studies show us that
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we have some of the least amount of people that
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actually follow Jesus per capita in the nation, in this
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in this region, so in you know, in Connecticut and
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different counties here, and so like what I believe is
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I believe it's because people haven't actually had an opportunity
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to experience God. And so the worship initiative of just
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getting of just getting churches together and worshiping God, it's
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allowing people to having an opportunity to come in and
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to experience God in music. Like it's not going to
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be lecturares, it's not going to be like a long sermon.
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I mean, somebody might share something in between. Somebody might pray,
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but kind of just music prayer, and like being able
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to just come in and enter into this environment where
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they could actually meet with God, maybe for the first time,
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or if they just have questions, you know, maybe they'll
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experience something that's beyond them where they could say, hey,
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something's going on there that's not anything i've had before.
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And pastor why is worship so important?
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You know, music has a way of uniting people. People
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of all cultures throughout all ages have music and they
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sing together or do different things together. When we can
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bring music in a spot of where we're coming before
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God in worship, something happens. It's unique. Something unique happens, right,
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so you know we get in a philosophy of it.
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But what happens is like there's an opportunity for a
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person to actually get to the core of who they are,
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their heart, and from the heart they start to meet
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with God. And when that happens, things start changing, Transformation
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starts happening in people's lives.
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I mean, I don't know anybody who doesn't leave a
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worship service or a church service and they feel great yeah.
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I mean, that's that's what happens when we encounter God.
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I mean, initially it can be scary, right, because things
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are exposed. I become real, maybe for the first time
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in my life, real with myself, right, getting beyond the
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fault self and getting to who the real self is.
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And when that comes into contact with God. At first
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that's scary. But then when I start to realize, oh,
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he is a God of love and he has mercy
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waiting for me. I mean, this is like the whole
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point of why Jesus came. Once that starts happening, people
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they become they become like well, I mean Jesus said,
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they become born anew like. Something happens within them of
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where the deep of them touches the deep of who
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God is, and all of a sudden they start to
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realize I understand what life is.
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I'm speaking with Pastor John Eastwood from Calvary Southbury. We're
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talking about with one Voice. It's a multi church worship night.
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It's taking place on Saturday, January eighteenth, from six to
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eight at Calvary Southbury.
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Oh.
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By the way, where do people get tickets? Does it
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cost anything?
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No, Allison doesn't cost anything at all. They could just come.
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Like you said, it's on Saturday, This Saturday, they just come.
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There's still be plenty of room.
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This is a safe, non judgmental, loving environment where you
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can come and be with other believers or become a
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believer and just feel the love of God and all
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of his people. Thank you so much for being here
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this morning.
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Thanks so much for having me
