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- So it's given me a much deeper love for the Word, and it's given me a much bigger desire to study the
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- Word, to dive into theology, to seek out those secret and amazing things of the
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- Lord that He's hidden in His Word. It's given me a much better desire to seek that out and to find who
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- He is and to know Him and to truly know Him, and as Brandon loves to say, to behold your
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- God and to really seek after that and to try to do that as best I can. So I think one of the best things that I've seen at Heritage that's unique from different churches that I've been to or different churches that I've just visited or been a part of is that everything that we do is completely grounded in the
- 00:45
- Word. There's not one thing that I've seen that is outside of the Word or something that I've seen that is just like a good thing to do but is not technically biblical, but everything we do here is completely grounded and is completely found in the
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- Word. And everything that we do completely points to the Word, points to Christ, and other churches all should point to Christ.
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- This is one of the ones that I've been to that really is founded in the Word and is truly just all completely biblical.
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- There's nothing that's outside of the Word. Definitely agree with the grounding in Scripture. That's something that, you know, you always touch on at other churches, but here my spiritual growth has been exponential.
- 01:31
- I think part of it is being married to him, we're coming on a year of marriage, and so I've been in my Word so much more and that growth is here.
- 01:39
- But the preaching alone, I've never had preaching like it. But I think more than that is just the fact that everyone here, we're so different and yet it's like we know everyone and the family aspect of it, we really are known here and you can see that the relationships that are built are genuine and they're true and you can feel the love of Christ.
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- It's not just like, oh yeah, we're friends, we're family, cool. It's like, no, this is Christ's love for His church and it's poured out from the people here.
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- And that's something that was very, not necessarily new, but definitely refreshing coming here and growing in this church community.
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- I think just the exposition of the Word is something that really stands out too, because other churches, you know, they have like topical preachers or things where you just get like, you never know exactly what's going to be preached that day.
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- You might have an idea just based off of the sermon series or whatever, but here you always know what you're going to be preaching next because it's going to be the next verse.
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- And so that's one thing that I've really loved about this church is that there's never a wonder of what's going to happen or what's going to be preached because, you know,
- 02:56
- He's just, He's marching through the Word. He's just preaching what the text says and that alone.
