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excited about all of these songs and I can’t wait do, you either can or can’t make it work. This event in Atlanta every year, so we were the only
to see them making their way into the church. year the dates that worked for Mercedes meant thing going in downtown Atlanta this year, and
starting on New Year’s Eve, which is something we were the only people shooting off fireworks
[WM] I love the notion of “ringing in the new we’ve never done before in the twenty-three- of significance at midnight. So it ended up
year” with Passion. It was a gutsy decision to year history of Passion. But I thought, it’s a new being a gift for everyone.
hold such a large New Year’s celebration, and year. It’s a new decade. And what better way to such a healthy alternative to the standard fare ring in a new decade than with the anthem of We opened the conference with a message
of New Year’s parties and their accompanying Jesus on our lips. So, we went for it. It was a from Levi Lusko, and he talked about the
consequences. 2020 marks the 100-year big swing and a gigantic step of faith for us on Dustbowl of the Thirties. Not a typical message
anniversary to what many historians call “The many different levels, but I’m telling you, when for a New Year’s Eve meeting but it really set
Roaring Twenties”. However, today’s students the stroke of midnight hit and Hillsong United us all up well to understand that every choice
might not know that The Roaring Twenties went into the chorus of “Good Grace” singing we make has consequences. Now we’re into
ended catastrophically for the entire world. As “Jesus, our redemption, our salvation is in His a multiple week series here at church called
Christians how can our “roaring” differentiate blood”, it was the lyric that people were singing “Roar”, and we started that series this past
the next decade from its predecessor? as the fireworks were going off from the top of Sunday by dissecting the 20’s mentality. I might
the stadium. That’s a pretty epic moment that teach it again this coming Sunday that the root
[Louie] There’s a lot of things to answer in that I know no one in that stadium will ever forget of it was that credit was born in the 1920’s, so
question, just to back up to ringing in the New for the rest of their life. I’m so glad that we did people could have a false sense of security and
Year, it was not necessarily our intent, but it it and I’m so grateful to God that it worked out think that they were doing great, when actually
was more what we could do. You try to occupy the way it did. the bank owned everything that they had. They
one of these premiere stadiums like Mercedes
didn’t really have a firm foundation under them
Benz Stadium in Atlanta and you kind of get Atlanta incidentally cancelled their big New that could weather the collapse of the bank and
what you can, and the dates fall the way they Year’s Eve Peach Drop event, which is the big ultimately the collapse of all that they had.
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