You are on the clock as of now, 30 days to get back, and now that you know we have known him since college, you're going to have go like high school or something, When we were in junior high, one time, he. I have no hitch in me about whether or not Lee Lewis can do this job, not just out in Forth Worth, but actually sit among the elder room and have a voice and influence and not be afraid to kind of push a little bit and receive a little bit. He loves his sons well, loves his baby girl well. He is one of our best biblical counselors, has responded to crisis in many of your lives, and there is no hitch in my spirit whatsoever that God won't use Lee mightily out in Fort Worth. I've sat in on a lot of very difficult meetings, not with Lee or because of Lee, but with some of you with Lee. He is a ferocious man of God, has been on staff with us for quite some time. I need you to email me out of 1 Timothy or Titus (which is where the list of what an elder is), and if you know of something in Lee's life that disqualifies him, we need to know.

Now I want to be fair and straight and all of that, not what your gut is, not what you think, all right? That's not what I need you to email me. So per our constitution and bylaws, per our agreement with those of you who are members, I need to present Lee to you and give you 30 days to give me a biblical reason why he's not qualified for the position. In our ecclesiology, and how we do church, if you are a campus pastor, you are an elder, not just over that campus but really a part of the elder board that governs the entire Village Church in its different campuses and in its overall direction and care. That's just what has flowed distinctively out of The Village Church, and so Lee is up here today because Lee is going to be the campus pastor of our Forth Worth Campus. I'm not saying anything of really our work overseas or our work with other churches around the United States. I mean, God really heard that prayer and answered that prayer, and then per your vote, 2-3 weeks ago now, to the tune of 97 percent to move ahead with the Fort Worth Campus, we'll be adding a Fort Worth Campus with dozens of young men now in the pipeline to plant churches in and around Dallas. It's a joy for me to look back now, after 10 years, and see how God has answered that prayer with church plants, really, in Coppell, in Fort Worth, in Keller, in Little Elm, in Frisco, and then our campuses in Denton and in Dallas. Our heart would be for the kingdom of God and not ultimately just to build one big church but to build up the church in the Metroplex and to the ends of the earth.' That really, our heart would be for DFW and not just for ourselves. I had to get my letters right, and then I drew a bunch of lines out from there and said, 'My hope would be God would do something significantly bigger than just this, that we might be used to actually plant a lot of other churches. I picked up a crayon, and I drew a circle and kind of wrote 'HVFBC' on it. If you live in the area, they used to put butcher paper down over their tables, and there were crayons there. They were kind of wondering where I thought we were going and what my heart was, and so we met at The Village Grill, right across the street here. Surprise! I had already, you know, had several meetings with the personnel committee (as it was called), and I was sitting down with the deacons of the church. About 10 years ago, I sat down with the deacons of Highland Village First Baptist Church, which is this place.

I'm going to have Lee Lewis come out here and join me, and I'll explain why.

If you have your Bibles, go ahead and grab them, Galatians, chapter 4.

The galatian book of demons