I started this Rant series talking about a special kind of love. The love between a father and his son. And that kind of love is special because when I'm thinking about my son... he's MINE. Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. He looks like me. Walks like me. Talks like me. I see myself in him. And that makes me a proud Poppa. So when we see a verse like 1 John 4:17, "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world," we understand that this is how our heavenly Father sees us! God looks at you and sees Jesus. He looks at Jesus and sees you. There is no difference. No separation. As He is, so are we in this world. He's our true identity. The inner man. The hidden man of the heart. And when we know (and believe) that He's in there... that's when He is no longer hidden. Song of Solomon 4:12 in the Message Bible says, "Dear lover and friend, you're a secret garden, a private and pure fountain." But then a few verses later (4:16), "Wake up, North Wind, get moving, South Wind! Breathe on my garden, fill the air with spice fragrance. Oh, let my lover enter his garden. Yes, let him eat the fine, ripe fruits." When the wind (of the Holy Spirit) blows... we are no longer a SECRET garden. Guys... the secret's out! Christ in you the hope of glory is the hope of REVEALED glory. When you know what's inside it comes out. Naturally. That's why Jesus shined the light of the world on us; to show us that we ARE the light of the world! That's why Jesus showed us the Father; to show us that we are His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. We were trapped in the hampster wheel of relgion. Trying really hard but never getting anywhere. Because that's all the Law can do--it demands perfection without being able to produce perfection. Our perfection doesn't come from an external source. It is a perfect LOVE. And love comes from the heart. God's heart beating with love in our chest. It's His heart. His blood flowing through our veins. It's not what we do that makes us His... it's who WE are, and who HE is. I am His and He is mine. He poured out His Spirit on all flesh. Not so that He could love us--He always has and always will love us--but so that we might be able to RECEIVE His love. Because that's what the Holy Spirit--the Spirit of truth--is. It's our love receptor. It's that still, small voice deep inside whispering, "Daddy loves you." The Holy Spirit leads and guides us into all truth by testifying of Jesus. By testifying of our true identity. Telling us who we are by telling us who God is. God is love. We are loved. We are love. God is Father. We are Son. And that means we are His. Not in the sense of He's our boss and we have to do whatever He says or else. But in the sense of we belong to Him. We are His special possession. The apple of His eye. We are His favorite. And He's responsible for us. Just as any good parent takes care of his child... our heavenly Father takes care of us. Because He loves us. God was literally willing to die rather than be without us. Willing to give His life for us and give His life to us. So that we could have what was His. So that we could experience His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life as He lives it in us, and through us, and as us! It's this love connection that makes living--truly living, which is loving--possible!

There's a song called, "He's Mine." And the whole time the singer's son is doing things that might not necessarily be seen in a positive light. And the whole time the singer is proud as could be to claim him. Because he sees himself in his son. It's not about what you do... it's about who you are. And who your Daddy is. Remember when Jesus was baptized, "And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased" (Luke 3:22). God didn't say, "You've done a lot of good stuff." He said, "You are my beloved Son." A Father's pleasure doesn't come from what His Son DOES... it comes from who His Son IS. Because what you do FLOWS from who you are. Another song lyric, from Daniel Tiger, says it like this, "It's YOU I like... NOT the things you do!" And this is important because people do dumb stuff. People make mistakes. They don't always agree with you or do things you agree with. So if you're judging people based on actions it's going to be like pulling flower petals, "He loves me... he loves me not." And that's not a real relationship. (At least not a healthy one.) If love is conditional, it's not love. Love never fails because it endures. Through the "good" and the "bad." Through it all. Love is the Alpha and Omega. The beginning and the end. And it is also everything in between. The unconditional love of a Father and His Son in whom He is well pleased. And let's flip the script on that: If a Son is afraid that His Father's love comes (and goes) according to His actions... He might try really hard to earn, or keep, that love. But He'll be living in a state of constant fear and torment. And when He inevitably fails He will become frustrated. He will try to run FROM God instead of running TO God. Because even though there IS no condemnation in Christ... when we judge ourselves by our actions we heap condemnation on ourselves. And on each other. When we don't know who we are, we try to be someone else. We swallow the lie that the serpent hissed into Eve's ear. The lie about the knowledge of good and evil. The lie about doing in order to be. Guys, we don't do in order to be. We do BECAUSE we be. You can't earn Sonship. It's not what you do, it's who you are. And when you know who you are you can be who you are EFFORTLESSLY. You can stop trying to finish a work that has already been finished, and you can rest. When you see the finished work of the cross you can rest in the arms of your heavenly Father. He streched His arms out in a loving embrace. He did it all so we could get it all. Because He loves us. Because we belong to Him. I am His. He is mine. I live in Him. He lives in me. There is no flower petal. There is no separation. There is no tree of knowledge of good and evil. There is only the Tree of Life. Only the Fruit of the Spirit--which is love. We eat the fruit, and we share the fruit with those who are hungry. He is the vine and we are the branches. We don't produce the fruit--it's about what HE did, not what WE do--we simply bear it. Because we're just like Him. We were created in His image, and conformed to the image of His Son. We don't have to try to be someone we're not, when we know and believe His love for us. The love of a Father who is well pleased with His Son!

We belong to our heavenly Father. I am His and He is mine. And that doesn't mean He owns me in the sense of I have to do what He says or else. It means He is responsible for me. It means I am His special possession. The object of His affection. It means we have a special bond. The unconditional love relationship that is pictured best in the form of Father and Son. I think we miss this sometimes. I think we focus so much on what Jesus freed us FROM (the bondage of sin and death) that we sometimes miss out on what He saved us TO. And don't get me wrong, both parts are important. But don't get me wrong, BOTH parts are important. Jesus saved us FROM sin and death. Yes. But He saved us TO live. He brought us OUT of Egypt, and INTO the Promised Land. He gave us a new Spirit--HIS Spirit. 2 Timothy 1:7 says it like this, "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." Love casts out fear, right? Before the cross we were afraid that God didn't love us. We were afraid of Him because we thought He was mad at us. It was dark (and we were void and without form) and we didn't know who God was. Because we couldn't see Him clearly. And we didn't know who we were because we couldn't see ourselves clearly. Then Jesus came. To shine the light of the world and show us that we ARE the light of the world. To show us ourselves by showing us the Father. To bring us out and bring us in. To show us where we belong. To show us TO WHOM we belong. To give us a sound mind. The mind of Christ. Which is the heart of God beating in our chests. He cut away the flesh of human effort through the circumcison made without hands. He rolled away the stone. He got rid of all the surface stuff--the external Law that could only demand perfection without producing it--and He revealed things to be in Divine Order. He gave us the Kingdom by showing us that we ARE the Kingdom. Because the Kingdom is where the King rules and reigns. He rules and reigns in us. Again--not in the sense of overruling us. But in the sense of ruling over us. Covering us. Having our backs. Taking care of us. If something is yours, that makes you responsible for it. You have to take care of it. It's not about control. (Even though Christ's love DOES control us.) It's about relationship. It's about knowing and believing that God is not mad AT us, but that He's mad ABOUT us. He's head over heels in love with us. Willing to literally die than be without us. Willing to give us His only begotten Son so that we migh know that we ARE His Son! First making us in His image, then--on the cross--CONFORMING us to the image of His Son. He said He wouldn't give His glory to another. But we aren't another. We're His. He gave us His glory for HIS name's sake. He gave us His name! The white stone with a new name written on it that nobody knows until they receive it. The new name... of Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. That's who we really are. That's our true identity. The inner man. The hidden man of the heart. And if we're His Son... then He's our heavenly Father. We belong to Him. I am His. And He is mine.

We belong to our heavenly Father. But not in the sense of having to do what He says or else. That was the perception that the people had under the Law of Moses--even though there was an elaborate system of animal sacrifice in place to protect us from the supposed "or else." We belong to our heavenly Father in the sense of being His special possession. His favorite thing, if I can say it that way. Think about it, what kind of entity would create an entire race just to terrify and torture them? Not a God who IS love. And that's the key. Love isn't just what God does. Love is who God is. And since we are His--literally created in His image in the beginning and then conformed to His image on the cross--that's who WE are! As He is, so are we in this world, right? If He is love, then we are love. Jesus said, "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world" (John 9:5). And He also said, "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid" (Matthew 5:14). It's the same light! Remember yesterday I was talking about Logan? Otherwise known as Mini-me? He walks like me and talks like me. There is absolutely no doubt in anybody's mind that we are father and son. He even looks like me. As I am, so is he in this world. And genetics are a big part of that. I don't think it's nature VS nurture... I think it's nature AND nurture. Second Peter 1:4 says it like this, "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." We are partakers of the Divine Nature. What's inside us comes out, naturally, when we know and believe that it's inside us. But that's where the nurture part comes in. I started this Rant series talking about Logan asking me why I love Him so much. And my answer being, "Because you're mine." But I didn't tell you what HE said when I asked him why he loves ME so much. He said, "Because you love me." I love him because he's my son. He loves me because I first loved him. And I didn't have to show him that in the Bible either. He learned that from experience. Heart knowledge. Which trumps head knowledge. Nurture is what allows us to fill ourselves with what we've been filled with. Nurture is what helps that incorruptible seed grow. Nurture is what brings forth our true nature! When we know (and believe) that we are loved, that's when we can love. You can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. When Logan was going to preschool, I picked him up one day, and when we were walking through the parking lot he saw one of his friends. And he looked at the boy, looked at me, and was clearly flustered about what to say or do. This is what came out of his mouth, "So... um... I love you!" And the other boy seemed a little surprised, but he said it back. His mom kind of laughed and put him in the car. I couldn't get the smile off my face. Because I have the kid who goes to "I love you" as his default. You talk about a proud papa! Alpha and Omega, right? Beginning and end? Start with love, end with love, and you'll start to understand that love is everything in between! We love because we ARE loved. And we ARE loved because we are His!

Sometimes my son, Logan, asks me, "Daddy, why do you love me so much?" And I always answer him the same way: "Because you're mine." And I know this kind of flies in the face of the idea that we are supposed to love everybody equally. I once heard a preacher talk about how his family isn't more important than anybody else's family. But I gotta tell you... something rose up in me when I heard that and it said, "WRONG!!!!" Because Logan is LITERALLY bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. He, in a very real way, is me. He was created in my image. No one ever has any doubt about which one is my son and which one is his father. One of his nicknames is mini-me, and he calls me maxi-me. Now don't get me wrong: I DO love everybody. I just plain and simple love Logan DIFFERENT. He's my beloved son, if I can say it that way. And that's where the rubber meets the road when it comes to our relationship with OUR heavenly Father. We are HIS beloved Son in whom He is well pleased! God has a special love for each one of us. The love that can only be given from Father to Son. (And I always like to point out that I'm not trying to disregard or disrespect a mother's love. Momma carried you inside her for the better part of a year. Without her there wouldn't be you. I'm simply taking what I know from experience and trying to share it. And what I know is being a father and loving a son.) Look at Isaiah 48:11 to begin to understand how important this is: "For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another." I remember my pastor preaching on this verse and he said he was struggling with it until God told him the secret: "You're not another. You're mine." He gave us His glory, not to MAKE us His... but because we were His all along. He did it for HIS sake. He did it so that His name would not be polluted! God wants people to look at us and see Him. Remember what Jesus said about His disciples? He said, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another" (John 13:35). People will know who our heavenly Father is when they see Him IN us, coming OUT of us! We were created in His image. And then, on the cross, we were conformed to the image of His Son. He shined the light of the world in order to show us who we really are. So that we could see HIM clearly, and in that way see OURSELVES clearly. See Him as our Father. See ourselves as His Son. See that we are in Him even as He is in us. See that we are His even as He is ours. That's a bond that can't be broken. The bond of love. When we talk about this idea... mine... we're not talking about possession in the sense of control. We're not talking about "I own you so you have to do what I say." We're talking about 1 Peter 2:9, "But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God's very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light." A SPECIAL possession. The apple of God's eye. Shining that very light He shined on us. Letting what's inside come out simply by knowing and believing that it's in there. Why? Because we are His!

It's about unity. Sharing this world that we inhabit. It's NOT about building walls of separation. It's about building bridges of connection. Coming together. Because we are better together. It's not good that man should be alone. It's not good that we isolate ourselves, or each other. Jesus--the New Man of which we are all different parts of His one body--is altogher lovely. Which means WE are lovely all together. There are some things that I can do. And there are some things that I can't do. And that's true for you, too. So when we work together we fill in each other's gaps. Alone, we feel that sense of lack. Together, we are whole. Complete. Connected. And while the surface stuff can try to dictate similarities and differences, and while its easy to let these similiarities and differences define our relationships... there's something deep inside that is much more powerful. The inner man. The hidden man of the heart. The deep calling out to the deep. The Jesus (love) in me connecting to the Jesus (love) in you. And that's how we truly live. To live is to love and to love is to live. We experience life--Jesus's everlasting, eternal, abundant, Resurrection Life--when we love each other. When we refuse to let the surface stuff dictate to us. When we live inside-out instead of outside-in. And really, we always do that anyway. What's inside comes out. Or, more accurately, what we BELIEVE is inside comes out. Your beliefs dictate your actions. That's why it's so important that our first connection is to God. We're not trying to get anything from anybody. We're simply sharing what we've got with everybody! First John 4:19 tells us, "We love him, because he first loved us." And in the New Living Translation it says, "We love each other because he loved us first." Did you catch that? We love Him BY loving each other! BECAUSE He first loved us! We receive and release His love. It comes from Him, and it goes one to another, and in that way it returns to Him! He is the vine. He produces the fruit (of the Spirit, which is love). We are the branches. Connected to Him. Bearing that fruit. Carrying it to those who need it. (Which, by the way, is everybody. Everybody needs what we've got, so we don't need to get stuck trying to judge, and discern, and condemn. We don't need to decide who to share it with. It's an everlasting supply. We can give it to everybody we come into contact with. Without even thinking about it. Naturally. Because loving each other is our nature!) Unity. Working together. Because we're in this together. Everybody is just trying to do the best they can with what they've got. The problem so many times is that people don't know what they've got. They don't know who they are. And they don't know who God is. They run FROM Him because they think they're sinners, and they think He's mad at them. It's our job to show people that God is not mad AT them, but mad ABOUT them! And we do that... by loving people. Because love casts out fear. Love knocks down walls. Love is the glue that holds us together. It is the consuming fire that burns away everything except itself. Purifying everything until only love is left. See? We start with love and end with love. It's all about love...!

They say opposites attract. And there IS some truth to that. But there's a lot more truth to similarities attracting each other. One of the first things we look for is, "What do we have in common?" We look that for that point of connection. That common ground. We look for something to build on. The Apostle Paul said it like this, "For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is" (1 Corinthians 3:11-13). When we build on the Rock our house will stand. When we start with what we have in common and let that connect us--instead of starting with our differences and letting those separate us--we find that we're really a lot more similar than we think. And don't forget about the fire. You know... GOD (who IS the consuming fire). The fire is love. And love is what try's every man's work and reveals what it really is. So we start with the foundation of Jesus (love). And we build with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble... all of things that we individually bring to the party... and then the fire (love) purifies what we've done. It doesn't DESTROY what we've done. It doesn't burn it to the ground. It simply consumes everything except itself. HE simply consumes everything except HIMSELF. Love feeds on itself and gets rid of everything else. Alpha and Omega. We start with love, we end with love, and we realize that love is everything in between. Love is the glue that holds everything together. The world wants us on opposing sides of any and every issue. The world thrives on conflict and confusion. But God (love) is the God of peace. On the cross Jesus fought the war to end all wars. Which means there are no more wars to fight. Which means we can rest. We can stop trying to make other people in OUR image because we have been conformed to the image of God's Son! We can let what's right with us shine through instead of focusing on what's "wrong." And I'm telling you right now, when the Jesus in me lines up with the Jesus in you... that's when you and I line up with each other. Automatically. Naturally. The foundation (again, love) is strong enough to support all of us. There's room in the Ark, if I can say it that way. The ground at the foot of the cross is level. We're all in the same boat. God poured His Spirit out on ALL flesh. We're all in this together. We don't have to let anything separate us from each other, even as nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. Because love isn't just what we have. Love is what we do. Love is who we are! In a world where it's so easy to feel isolated... so easy to feel like no one understands... we need to stop building walls and we need to start building bridges. When Jesus said in His Father's house are many mansions He wasn't pulling an Oprah and saying, "You get a mansion! You get a mansion! Everybody gets a mansion!" As if we're all in different houses. The word means DWELLING PLACES. Because we all dwell in the same house. Daddy's house. Which is the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of Love. One house. One New Man. One foundation. Once point of connection. L-O-V-E love!

If we can find a point of connection we can build a bridge. If we can stop condemning each other we can start helping each other. The deep calls out to the deep. The Jesus in me is the same as the Jesus in you. And while that love may be buried deep inside... it's there. All we have to do is let it out. And all we have to do in order to let it out is know and believe that it's in there. A light doesn't try really hard to shine. A light shines because it has been turned on. Let me say it another way, "For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness," has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6 NLT). God HAS MADE His light shine in our hearts. He said, "Let there be light" and there was light. And because of that we can shine! Look at Isaiah 60:1, "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee." Thy light IS come. We don't need the light because we have the light. We ARE the light. And do you know what light does? It lets you see things clearly. Lets you see that the finished work of the cross HAS put things in Divine Order. Let's you see that we are all in this together. We don't have to make people jump through hoops in order to love them. We don't have to make people conform to the world--or our version of it--when we understand that we have been conformed to the image of God's only Son. As He is so are WE in this world. WE are all different members of the same body. We are all connected. Whether we want to admit it or not. For whatever reason it seems like we're more willing to build walls than bridges. More willing to destroy things than to build them. More willing to separate than to connect. And I think it comes down to fear. Plain and simple. We fear things we don't understand. We fear things that are different. So we try to control them, and make them conform. But that's not love. There is no fear in love. Fear casts out love! When you know that you're not loving in order to get something, but loving because you have something to give... that makes it simple. And that makes it easy. Don't worry about whatever else is going on. Just share what you've got. It's like a boomerang. What you put out there comes back to you. Things get bigger, and better, and more real when you share them. You have what the world needs. You ARE what the world needs. Because you have love... and you ARE love. THAT is our connection. THAT is how we can be all things to all people. Find that common ground. That shared experience. That place where everything else fades away and only love remains. To live is to love and to love is to live. We connect with each other by loving each other. By helping each other. By edifying each other. We connect with each other Spirt to Spirit, holy to holy. When the Jesus in me lines up with the Jesus in you... that's when we line up with each other!

I love the concept found in 1 Corinthians 9:19-22, "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak; I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." And, really, to me that's what life is all about. I kind of get sick and tired of hearing things like, "Sometimes you have to let other people be sad to make yourself happy." The idea of putting yourself first. And I mean, I can see where that idea comes from. The idea of, "If I don't take care of myself no one will." But that's not love. Love is not about getting. Love is about giving. Love IS giving. And a life worth living is one that you give to others. Putting OTHERS first. Becoming all things to all men. And that doesn't mean pretending to be someone you're not. It simply means finding that point of connection. Instead of letting differences separate us, we can embrace each other BECAUSE of those differences. That's what it means to be different parts of the same body. There are some things I can do that you can't. And some things that you can do that I can't. But when we work together... there's nothing we can't do! And when I stop worrying about myself, and start focusing on you, that's when I can help you. And that's when you can help me. We can fill each other's gaps. We are stronger together. Jesus is altogether lovely. And we (Jesus) are lovely all together! If I can get over myself and stop judging you THAT'S when I can start helping you. And I'm truly convinced that the ONLY time we should EVER look down on someone is so that we can REACH down and help them up. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. And all have been made righteous in Him. He BECAME sin, and TOOK AWAY our sin, so that we could become the righteousness of God. We're all in this other. We all need each other. But we make mountains out of molehills and let the smallest things keep us apart. We find any and everything to fight about. Especially religious folk! Shortly after I got involved in the ministry a preacher said something that changed my entire outlook on what ministry is. He said, "It's not your job to convince people of anything. It's not your job to change people. It's your job to listen to God and tell people what He's saying to you. Period. If the Holy Spirit can't change someone, there's no way you can." And that's how I roll. If you want to know what I think, I'll tell you. But I won't argue with you. I won't let differences of opinions separate me from anybody. I'm not looking for reasons to fight. I'm not looking to condemn you. Or prove you wrong. I'm looking for reasons to love. And there are ALWAYS reasons to love. I'm looking for reasons (and ways) to help. And there are always plenty of those too. Basically the question I find myself asking is, "Hurting or helping?" and if it's hurting I don't do it. Pretty simple. I know we're all unique snowflakes, but in many ways we're all the same. If you're looking for it, you can find that connection. The deep calling to the deep. The Jesus in me connecting to the Jesus in you. It's love!

I've heard it said, and I've even said it myself, "The ground is level at the cross." Which is to say, "...all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). Which is to say we're all in this together. Good and evil are outdated concepts that separate us instead of connecting us. Love is all about connection. It's about finding that common ground. Loving people--not IN SPITE of their differences and flaws--but BECAUSE of them. Celebrating the things that make us unique. Celebrating people for who they are instead of trying to force people to be someone they're not. That's what the Law did. It tried to put us all in a box. But we know the problem with the Law is that it demanded perfection without being able to produce it. It pointed out our sin without being able to do anything about it. That's why Colossians 2:14 tells us that Jesus was, "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross." The handwriting referes to the fact that God wrote the 10 Commandments with His own finger. But they were external rules. They were the standard, but not a standard we could meet. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. And all the Law could do was point that out. But God. Guys, Jesus didn't come to tell us what was wrong with us. He came to tell us what was RIGHT with us. He came to show us who we really are, by showing us who God really is. By shining the light of the world and revealing to us that we ARE the light of the world. He came to get rid of the religious box that we were trying to fit in. And He did that by nailing it to the cross. By cursing the fig tree because it couldn't produce any fruit. To get us out of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and show us that we are connected to the Tree of Life. He is the vine and we are the branches. We don't just eat from the Tree... we are PART of the Tree! And we're ALL part of it. Different branches, yes. Different parts of the body, yes. But it's all One body. One New Man. Jesus. He is all together lovely, and lovely all together. He is we, and we are He. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. And in us He lives, and moves, and has His being. So we ARE connected. By love. Which means we can all connect IN love. I don't have to get you to agree with me about anything in order to love you. I don't have to make you jump through hoops, or fit into MY box. Let me say it like this, "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give" (Matthew 10:8). Freely received... freely give. You didn't have to earn the gift of God. Don't make other people earn it from you. Stop building walls and start building bridges. Stop condemning people and start helping people. The deep calls out to the deep. The Jesus in me calls out to the Jesus in you. And that's where we find that point of connection!