I'm convinced. I'm convinced that there are two kinds of people, uh, in this world I've been thinking about this week. There are two different kinds of people in this world. There's a group of people that enjoy eating hardball, eggs, that's one group. And then the other group, they love Jesus. All right. So there's two groups of people. I'm just kidding. No, there is a group of people that love hardball eggs, and then there's a group of people who don't. Now I would offer caution to those of you who like hardball eggs, cuz that's like a gateway to deviled eggs. see what I did there. Okay. So anyways, there's two groups of people and if you don't know what group that I'm in, I'm in the can't stand hard, boiled eggs. In fact, I just wanna offer you a different perspective for those of you who do like hard boiled eggs.

Um, and just raise your hand if that's you real quick. Okay. So I'm not sure what's happening at Fred at Nyah is 70% of the room, right? So church, we got some work to do today because I wanna offer you a perspective that maybe you don't know about because for those of us who don't enjoy hardball eggs, when you, okay, I'm gonna try not to gag while I say this. All right. But when you are peeling that egg and you take that first bite, like into the middle of the egg and, and it makes a sound, you can hear something that's happening. All I want to do is throw up in my mouth. That's it. I can't stand hardboiled eggs. And, and, and the reason why is, and this is a little bit of my story when I was growing up, my, my mom used to make, and she's watching this more.

Love you, mom. My mom used to make, um, this, this thing for dinner, you know, you know, meatloaf. Right. But she would make this thing that was ham loaf. Someone was like, Ew, I just saw something. Ew. Yeah. It's like ham loaf. And when she was making it, the house, it would have this smell. And it is the same. I, I had to get outta the house cause it smelled so bad. It smelled the same way that hardball eggs smell when you're cooking them. And so whenever I get around somebody, who's got, you know, eating hardball eggs. I immediately go back to growing up in a house where mom was cooking ham loaf and I couldn't stand it. And I just, man, I can't stand it. I'm just on that side. And what's interesting is even, you know, I've been talking about, you're like get on with the message.

I've been talking about hardball eggs for two minutes and already I divided us. I divided us up. There's about 70% of you that like hardball eggs, much higher than I thought. Then there's 30% of us that don't, and this is pretty common in the context of the culture, in which we live. In fact, we are really good at taking a topic and, and, and drawing a line right down the middle and saying, Hey, what side of the line are you on? Are you on the left side or the right side? And what also is true is that once you determine what side of the line you're on, don't you just tend to like the people that are on your side more, you do, you tend to go find information that backs up your point of view or your belief. And, and then you start finding people that believe the same thing that you believe.

And they're easier to find because they're already on your side of the line, church, people really good at ideas. We draw lines, we create division. And if you don't think that's true, you should just drive around town today and just start riding down all the different, you know, denomination of churches you drive by. I mean, there's thousands and thousands. Some studies say there's 40,000 different denominations all around the world. And yet in the book of acts, you know how many churches there are one we're really good at dividing things up and picking us aside. I mean, there's so many polarizing topics in the context of our culture today. I mean, you've got, we're just really like big dividing lines. There's Republicans on one side there's Democrats, there's religious. There's t

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