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 I want to talk to you this morning about building a culture that combats the enemy schemes.

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 Building a culture that combats the enemy schemes.

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 Talked about some of these things, or a lot of these things at Bellicose the last couple weeks.

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 So if you guys heard that, it's going to be some similar stuff, but hopefully specifically to our church, Christ Church.

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 So, essentially, you know, we're in the first few months of this church plant.

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 And a lot of what we're building into it now will be stuff that will be just caught more in the future than it will be intentionally built.

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 Culture is caught.

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 And so there's certain things that when we're intentional to build into our culture now, eventually we won't have to try very hard to build them.

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 And new people will come in and just be, oh, this is normal.

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 This is what you do.

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 And that's the benefit of culture.

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 That's also the drawback of culture.

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 Because when you build the wrong things, people catch the wrong thing.

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 Okay?

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 So, this time of our church life, building into kind of the wet cement of our foundation, is really important that we build well.

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 And that verse says, the one that I preached on when we sent you guys all off, that we should be careful how we build.

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 Okay?

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 Okay?

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 And so, when we're culture building, it's good for us to think, though, too, it's oftentimes we think, oh, the culture of our church will be determined by the culture of our church.

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 Sounds redundant.

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 But really, there's two kind of things that factor into it.

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 One, the culture of our own homes always affects the household of God.

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 Okay?

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 Does that make sense?

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 So, like, the qualifications for an overseer and elder in 1 Timothy 3.

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 He, speaking of an overseer, must manage his own household well, with all dignity, keeping his children submissive.

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 For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care for God's church?

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 Okay?

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 And then he says later in verse 12, when he's talking about deacons, similar thing.

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 Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

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 Later, in verse 15, he says, he speaks of the church as the household of God, which is the church of the living God.

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 Okay?

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 The household of God, which is the church of the living God.

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 And so, oftentimes, we've gotten into this deception that we can separate the household, our own household, from the household of God.

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 When in God's economy, in his scriptures, he's saying, if you can't care for your own household, you can't care for the household of God.

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 And so, ultimately, when we're building into the culture of a church, we're always building on those two fronts.

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 We're building in households and then the household of God.

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 And you can't just build the household of God and not pay attention to your own household.

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 The household, your personal household comes first in divine order, according to 1 Timothy 3,

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 in order for the culture of the household of God to be what it's supposed to be.

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 You can't care for the household of God if you don't care first for your own household.

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 And so, a lot of this starts off with us just saying, okay, we need to make sure we're building these things.

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 There are demonic schemes against us.

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 The devil has a vision to thwart what God is doing.

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 And one of the main ways we combat it is by having a house in order, both our personal house, and then a household of God in order.

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 Does that make sense?

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 You follow me on that?

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 Okay.

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 So, but I wanted to go into a little bit more specific of what the schemes of the devil are that I see really coming at us right now.

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 And I think it's important for us.

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 He's not going to be new to you, but I think when we talk about it together, it kind of opens our eyes to see what we're up against

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 and maybe give us a little bit more sobriety.

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 So, 2 Corinthians 10, I mean, sorry, 2 Corinthians 2, 10 to 11, in the NIV says,

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 Anyone you forgive, I also forgive.

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 And what I have forgiven, if there was anything to forgive, I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake,

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 in order, okay, so answering the question why, in order that Satan might not outwit us, for we are not unaware of his schemes.

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 Okay.

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 The devil has schemes.

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 Okay.

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 We shouldn't be outwitted by his schemes.

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 In other words, we should know what his schemes are.

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 We should not be unaware of them.

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 Ephesians 6, 11 says, put on the whole armor of God.

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 Why?

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 So that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

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 There are demonic schemes that are against us, and we are to stand against them.

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 Okay.

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 So, the way I kind of envision this and see this is that there's three things that the devil has been throwing at us and our culture big time these days.

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 First one is trying to get us, all three of them are isolated, fruitless consumers.

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 Okay.

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 The devil is trying to get us isolated.

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 He's trying to get us to not bear fruit.

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 And he's trying to get us to just only think about consuming.

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 This is kind of an onslaught of our culture.

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 It's coming at us harder than ever before.

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 And if we're not aware of it, it'll come into the church as well.

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 And I'll talk about that in a second as well.

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 So, first one, isolated.

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 You see this all over in kind of our culture.

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 You see it with social media.

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 You can be in the same room with a bunch of people, and everybody's on their phones, right?

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 It just, it isolates us.

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 I'm not saying that means that that's bad in and of itself.

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 In fact, a lot of times what it's really just exposing is what's inside of us rather than the evil of, like, social media.

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 It's really the evil in our own hearts that gravitates towards that isolation.

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 That's the desire of our flesh, to not care about other people, to only care about ourselves.

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 Social media, you see this in what's happening with the government shutdowns that we had with COVID, all isolation, where it's basically built into us now for us to be used to that.

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 It didn't really, there wasn't a whole lot of opposition to it because this is our culture now.

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 You see this in entertainment, with our phones, with the epidemic of loneliness.

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 If you just look up news articles on loneliness, it's at epidemic proportions, where most people are feeling lonely.

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 Most people are feeling isolated.

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 And this is a demonic strategy.

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 This is not an accident.

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 The devil wants you to feel isolated.

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 And it's crept into the church as well.

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 You have people who are part of churches, but they have no friends.

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 That is absolutely asinine and absurd.

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 Like, that makes no sense whatsoever.

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 And that's ipso facto not the church as well, okay?

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 You cannot have a church where you don't have friends.

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 That's not church.

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 You can call it a million other things, but don't call it church, okay?

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 But this is the devil's strategy.

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 Like, yeah, I'm a part of this church.

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 Do you have any friends there?

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 No.

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 What?

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 Right?

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 Like, this is, and you might think, well, yeah, I would never do that.

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 But I'm telling you, in the name of church, this is happening all over the place.

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 Elders who aren't friends.

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 You have pastors and elders who are a team of elders, and they don't have a relationship.

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 They're not friends.

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 They're just, they're professionals.

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 Okay, this, it's, comes into the church where we don't act like family, okay?

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 We're, we're, we want community, so to speak, and that's what everybody says.

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 I've heard so many people that come to church, they say, oh, I'm looking for community.

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 All right?

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 Well, there's nothing distinctly Christian about community.

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 You can get community anywhere.

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 There is something distinctly Christian about the family of God.

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 God creates family.

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 The devil tries to counterfeit it.

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 He's the father of lies.

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 And his version of church is a counterfeit family where we're not friends and where we're not connected and where we're still isolated, but we call it community.

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 That's dangerous.

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 All right?

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 This is the, this is the strategy.

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 We saw this infiltrating the church when the church just played dead and just did whatever the government wanted to do with these government shutdowns and just stopped meeting.

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 You know?

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 The church you guys were sent out of?

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 I mean, I remember multiple people coming to Bellicose Church, and they were coming from other churches.

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 I'm just like, why are these people coming from other churches?

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 What is going on with other churches?

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 And they literally say, I remember people saying, I have not heard from my church in any way, shape, or form for three months.

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 How does that even happen?

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 All right?

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 But again, it's a demonic strategy.

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 Isolated.

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 Get people isolated.

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 Get the church isolated.

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 People who think that church is just an optional thing, that church is, as long as I get a certain level of community or a certain level of preaching, it doesn't really matter what it looks like.

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 And so I can substitute with podcasts and just make sure I get together with people who are my friends here and there.

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 But that's not the church.

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 Okay?

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 The church is specific things.

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 The church is a family, a body, an army, salt, light.

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 The church is a house of prayer.

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 It's many other things.

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 And so we can't just do, you know, kind of our own version of church and say, oh, I have community, and I get some preaching on a podcast, and that's church.

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 That's not church.

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 And you wouldn't find anything like that in the Bible.

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 But again, that is a demonic strategy to get you isolated and think, oh, I'm fine.

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 I have community.

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 I have preaching.

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 Therefore, I have church.

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 You absolutely don't have church if you have that.

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 You do not.

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 And I think the Bible is clear on that.

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 You don't see anything like that in the book of Acts or anything in the epistles.

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 It's people being stuck in the same small group for 20 years, right, where it's like they never get any other people.

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 They've hit their friend limit.

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 They've hit their capacity for who they can know.

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 There's no mission.

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 It's just I want to grow old with this group of people, and our kids grow up together, and there's not a desire to be on mission to lost people.

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 It's a demonic strategy of isolation.

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 This kind of mentality that says I can only get to know so many people.

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 I can't get to know more than that.

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 I only have this certain friend limit that I could get.

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 It's all demonic strategy of isolation.

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 Second, fruitless.

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 We see this in the culture.

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 We see this with the scourge of abortion.

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 You see this on social media.

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 People trumpeting how awesome it is to be a double-income, no-kid family.

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 Saying how great that is, as if not having kids is the new cool thing to do.

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 Fruitlessness.

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 It's less people getting married than ever before.

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 This is the first time in American history where more people don't get married than do.

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 And it's all the demonic strategy of fruitlessness.

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 You see this with the rampant rise of homosexuality.

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 Again, what is it doing?

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 Homosexual couples can't have kids.

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 It's fruitless.

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 It's all a strategy together.

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 The amount of people exalting career over fruitfulness and over family.

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 Exalting making money.

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 You see this even with the trans movement where we're literally, now it's to the point

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 where we're cutting off the actual parts of our body that were meant to bear fruit with

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 children.

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 I mean, think about this.

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 It's a demonic strategy.

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 It's a demonic strategy.

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 And it's crept into the church.

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 It's crept into the church as well.

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 Where the church just becomes attenders and observers.

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 I'm not bearing fruit myself.

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 I just consume the fruit of others.

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 I just attend.

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 I just observe.

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 I don't produce value.

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 I'm not expected to produce value.

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 I'm not expected to bear responsibility.

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 I just come to the dog and pony show, put my money in the plate and leave.

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 I consume things as products.

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 I'm getting to the next point.

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 Stay focused here.

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 Fruitless, right?

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 Not producing value.

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 People who can't be counted on.

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 Not having or valuing kids.

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 Not valuing marriage.

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 Not going after marriage.

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 It's just, it's crept into the church where fruitlessness is becoming more and more normal.

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 Becoming more and more normal.

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 And this is not okay.

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 We can't let this creep in.

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 We can't, we have to fight this with everything within us.

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 Okay?

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 He said to us in Genesis, he said, be fruitful and multiply.

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 He said, bear fruit in keeping with repentance.

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 The church should bear fruit.

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 The church should not be isolated.

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 The church should not be fruitless.

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 And the church should not be marked by consumption.

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 Okay?

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 We see this in our culture.

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 Number three, consumers.

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 Just the selfish, narcissistic kind of culture.

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 Some of you maybe heard me say this before, but there was literally someone, I think, in

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 Europe a couple years ago who married themself.

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 I mean, talk about in the last days, there will be lovers of themselves.

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 Like this woman literally married herself.

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 Don't even know how that is a thing, but it was a thing.

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 Like we've literally reached that point where someone married themself.

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 Okay?

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 This is the pinnacle of selfish, narcissistic behavior and thinking, but it's all demonic

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 strategy to just have consumption be what you exist for.

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 I exist to consume.

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 You exist to consume.

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 That's what the devil's trying to get into our hearts and minds.

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 Okay?

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 Where it's just, I don't exist for another person.

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 I don't even think about marriage.

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 I'm just thinking about what I can consume.

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 You have men, there's women who'd love to marry a guy and these guys are just like, what

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 in the world?

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 Like you literally just exist for yourself.

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 How in the world could I ever marry you because you're so full of yourself?

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 I would never trust you to be someone who could be in a family.

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 And it's the same thing with women as well, where there's men who would love to get married,

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 but women who just are living for their own narcissistic pleasure.

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 Okay?

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 Not thinking about what it means to be someone who gives of themselves.

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 It's kind of a culture of permanent adolescence.

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 We're living in Neverland.

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 Okay?

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 Where nobody grows up.

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 Everybody just continues to stay in this perpetual state of adolescence.

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 We've come up with this new phrase called adultalescence, where it's just basically another excuse for people to live like kids while on into their old age.

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 Right?

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 And this has become normative.

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 A culture basically drunk on entertainment and pornography.

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 Right?

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 We just consume entertainment, consume entertainment, consume pornography.

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 It's like, how many shows can I watch?

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 How many movies can I take in?

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 How many podcasts can I consume?

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 How much pornography can I consume?

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 Whatever.

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 It's just me, me, me.

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 Consume, consume, consume.

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 And it's corrupted in the church as well.

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 Basically where you have a primarily receiving, not partnering kind of mentality when it comes to the church.

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 I'm not bearing responsibility and I'm not partnering together.

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 Where it becomes normative to complain about the church, to beat up the church.

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 Everyone thinks it's so fun to say how bad the church is.

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 Well, how about making it better?

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 How about being a group of people that says, I'm not going to complain about the church.

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 I'm going to put my money where my mouth is, so to speak.

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 I'm actually going to get in the ring and do something about it.

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 It's very easy to criticize people from the stands.

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 It's very hard to get in the ring and actually do something about it.

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 Who are going to be the people who get in the ring when it comes to the church?

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 It's the kind of people in the church who are upset with change that makes them uncomfortable.

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 Where worship, preaching, and child care become commodities that you consume.

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 You know, kind of the Holy Trinity of church planting.

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 It's like you have this worship experience that I can consume.

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 And then we say things like, oh, how was worship?

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 Ah, it wasn't very good.

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 You know, it's just like, wait a second.

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 Worship doesn't exist for you.

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 Worship is for the Lord.

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 It's not a product that you consume and determine whether it's good or bad.

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 It's something you give of yourself.

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 Okay?

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 And so we determine whether or not I'm church shopping.

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 I'm looking for a good worship experience, good child care experience, and good preaching.

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 And basically, I'm always rating it to see how it is.

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 Instead of saying, the church is people, and I'm not meant to consume, I'm meant to be someone who bears fruit and provides things of value.

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 And essentially, the church ends up being drunk on the same entertainment and pornography that the world is.

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 This is a three-fold demonic vision.

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 These are schemes that we should not be unaware of.

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 Okay?

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 We're talking about the devil trying to get us isolated, trying to get us not bearing fruit, and trying to be consumers.

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 All right?

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 Basically, sacrificing fruitfulness for our own desires.

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 Don't be so naive as to think that none of this has touched us.

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 All right?

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 Don't be so naive.

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 It's touched all of us.

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 We are in this culture.

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 It affects us.

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 Okay?

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 And so you can't just say, oh, that's not me.

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 You're a fool if you say that.

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 You have to be wise enough to say, this has affected me in some way, and I need to make sure that I am on the offensive as the church.

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 In my own household and in the house of God.

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 All right?

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 Which is why our mission and vision is the kingdom of God and all of life together.

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 Okay?

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 This is basically an assault against these three things.

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 Right?

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 The kingdom of God is about bearing fruit and producing value.

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 All right?

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 Seeking first the kingdom of God, it will have the fruit of the spirit.

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 It will have...

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 When you're seeking first God's kingdom, fruit is normative.

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 Okay?

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 Producing value is normative.

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 The actual substance of Christ is normative.

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 All right?

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 When we seek first the kingdom of God.

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 If we don't seek first the kingdom of God, it won't be.

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 We have to seek God's kingdom first.

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 Secondly, we ought to seek his kingdom in all of life.

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 Which is the kind of combating the selfish kind of mindset.

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 Church gets really weird when Christ isn't all your life.

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 Okay?

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 It doesn't work.

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 It gets convoluted.

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 We start to kind of butt heads.

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 Because everything that God has built into church requires all your life.

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 When you try to function as if Christ isn't your life and that church is living for Jesus

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 is just a part of your life, it's never going to work the way it's supposed to.

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 It's never going to work the way it's supposed to.

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 Most problems in church can be pointed to that reality.

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 That we've made what's supposed to be an all of life thing into just a part of our life thing.

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 And we're just trying to make excuses for it.

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 Lastly, together.

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 The kingdom of God and all of life together.

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 Together.

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 Where we share vision.

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 We share priorities.

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 And we share responsibility.

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 Where we don't let people be alone and isolated.

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 Where we're literally saying, I'm not going to let you go through this alone.

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 I'm not going to let you go through hard times alone.

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 I'm going to seek to make sure that we are seeking the kingdom.

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 We're doing it all of life, but we're also doing it together.

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 It's not, we're seeking the kingdom.

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 We're doing it all of life.

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 But we kind of do it in our kind of compartmentalized separate little worlds.

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 No, we have to do it together.

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 And the language of togetherness is what you see in the book of Acts.

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 Right?

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 So, how do we build this?

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 How do we build a culture that combats the enemy's schemes?

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 Well, we have to take care of what we build.

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 You can build wood, hay, and stubble.

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 Or you can build gold, silver, and precious stones.

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 Right?

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 1 Corinthians 3 says,

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 Let each one take care how he builds upon the foundation of Christ.

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 For if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, and straw,

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 each one's work will become manifest.

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 For the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire.

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 And the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

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 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive reward.

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 If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss.

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 Though he himself will be saved, but only as through the fire.

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 So, we have to ask ourselves, how are we going to build?

00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:32.500
 Okay?

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 How are we going to build?

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 It's a slower pace right now in this small little church plant.

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 Right?

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 It's a little more chill.

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 A little bit more relaxed.

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 Right?

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 Meeting in a...

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 What would you call this?

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 A shed.

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 Shed church.

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 Right?

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 We're meeting in a shed.

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 It's just a little bit more relaxed environment.

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 And there's things that are really beneficial about that.

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 But it's very important that we don't let that be...

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 Like, the...

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 We don't let that keep us from being on our spiritual toes.

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 And that we're not careful how we build.

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 We have to be careful how we build.

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 And we need to build with costly stones.

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 With gold and silver.

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 Not with wood, hay, and stubble.

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 And if we're not intentional in how we build,

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 we won't build things into the culture in these important days.

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 Like, it's not that what we build later won't be important.

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 It's that what you build on the front end

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 is what people are going to catch on the back end.

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 Okay?

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 And so what you're building now,

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 we have to be very careful how we build.

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 And this is the time when it's very easy not to be careful

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 because you think, well, there's just so much less at stake.

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 It's just this small group of believers

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 meeting in a shed and meeting in our homes.

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 It's like, no, you don't understand.

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 That's what the devil would want you to believe.

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 Actually, there's a ton at stake.

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 What you build into the foundation right now,

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 I mean, the church you guys were sent out of,

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 thinking of Bellicose 13 years later,

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 there are so many things that people catch now at that church

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 that were built intentionally in the beginning.

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 You guys are doing the hard work right now

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 of building into the culture

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 what you want to see later on,

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 what God wants to see later on.

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 And we have to be diligent to do those things.

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 So I got, don't worry, I'm going to fly through these,

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 but I got 13 things that I want us to,

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 things to avoid, wood, hay, and straw,

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 and then things to build, gold, silver, and precious stones.

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 Okay.

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 First one, avoid community without mission

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 and mission without community.

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 Avoid community without mission

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 and mission without community.

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 Okay.

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 Community without mission

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 is selfish, codependent, and complacent.

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 Okay.

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 It's not okay for us to just say,

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 oh, this is great.

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 We got our nice little group.

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 We got our little mission communities.

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 We're meeting in homes.

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 They're nice and small.

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 We got our small church.

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 Man, I love small church.

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 It's just nice and intimate and fun.

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 And then we forget that there's lost people out there.

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 It becomes selfish, codependent, and complacent.

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 We cannot have community without mission.

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 All right.

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 That's very important.

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 But also mission without community

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 forfeits one of the greatest apologetics for the gospel.

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 Jesus said, I want to make you fishers of men.

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 What's the net that you're catching those men into?

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 It's community.

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 It's deeper the community.

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 It's the family of God.

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 So we can't just say, oh, yeah, let's be on mission.

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 Let's be on mission.

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 And forget that to be diligent,

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 to cultivate a sense of family in the church

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 so that there's something to adopt them into.

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 God is a father who adopted us into his family

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 through the son, right?

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 And we need to be that family that people are adopted into.

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 Otherwise, we betray the gospel with our very existence.

00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:48.439
 Okay?

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 Got to be both.

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 We need to build mission and community.

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 Mission and community that goes deeper

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 than just community, but it's family.

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 All right?

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 We have to build both.

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 And we have to make sure that some of you

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 are going to be better than others

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 at detecting where we're missing that.

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 And you can't just say, well, oh, someone else will get it.

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 No.

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 If God is putting, if you're seeing that,

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 you have to speak up.

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 You're saying, oh, we have mission,

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 but we're lacking community.

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 We have to, you have to speak up and help insert that.

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 If we have a sense of community,

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 but we're not on mission,

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 and you're kind of angsty about that,

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 maybe that's because God has put that in your heart

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 to make sure that that's there.

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 Don't assume someone else has that.

00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:28.719
 Right?

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 Samir?

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 Avoid community without mission

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 and mission without community

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 and build missional community.

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 Build both.

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 Number two.

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 Okay?

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 Avoid inviting people to your missional community.

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 Avoid inviting people to your missional community.

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 What do I mean by that?

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 All right?

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 You can't invite someone to your missional community.

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 It's not possible.

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 Okay?

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 Because it's not a weekly meeting.

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 Right?

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 It's not a weekly meeting.

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 You can't go to it,

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 and it's not a night of the week.

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 You can invite people to a dinner.

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 You can invite people to a hangout.

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 You can invite people to a bonfire,

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 a men's or ladies get-together,

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 a game night,

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 a Bible or book study,

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 a kids' sports game.

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 You can invite people to play a sport.

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 You can invite people to a park night,

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 a movie night,

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 a camp out,

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 a weekend getaway,

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 a party,

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 a celebration,

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 a missional outreach,

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 but you cannot invite someone

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 to a missional community

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 because

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 a missional community is people.

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 Do you understand what I'm saying?

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 Like you should,

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 as a church,

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 we should,

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 we function,

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 the smaller groups of people

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 in our church,

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 the way we organize the life

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 of our church,

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 where we do counseling,

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 where we do discipleship,

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 where we do the everyday stuff of life

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 with our church together,

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 where we share meals together,

00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:47.480
 where we watch each other's kids,

00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:48.940
 where we pray together.

00:24:50.460 --> 00:24:51.059
 Missional communities

00:24:51.059 --> 00:24:52.299
 are the small family believers

00:24:52.299 --> 00:24:53.720
 where we're doing mission together,

00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:54.519
 all these things.

00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:54.819
 Okay?

00:24:55.159 --> 00:24:56.720
 But you should never invite someone

00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:57.919
 to a missional community.

00:24:58.039 --> 00:24:58.859
 It's not possible.

00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:00.819
 You can invite people

00:25:00.819 --> 00:25:02.419
 to the life of the missional community,

00:25:02.619 --> 00:25:03.720
 and it could be all those things

00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:04.480
 that I just said.

00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:05.799
 Do you understand the difference?

00:25:06.700 --> 00:25:07.599
 It becomes really weird

00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:07.980
 when you say,

00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:08.139
 hey,

00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:09.000
 come to my MC.

00:25:09.419 --> 00:25:09.819
 First of all,

00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:10.519
 you have that weird,

00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:11.000
 like,

00:25:11.220 --> 00:25:12.059
 acronym language

00:25:12.059 --> 00:25:12.879
 that people are like,

00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:14.359
 why are you talking in acronyms?

00:25:14.399 --> 00:25:14.939
 That's weird.

00:25:15.659 --> 00:25:15.859
 Okay?

00:25:15.919 --> 00:25:16.859
 Just talk normal.

00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:18.159
 Why can't,

00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:19.619
 the church just needs to be normal

00:25:19.619 --> 00:25:20.159
 and just say,

00:25:20.220 --> 00:25:20.359
 hey,

00:25:20.539 --> 00:25:21.539
 we're having dinner

00:25:21.539 --> 00:25:22.960
 with some people from my church.

00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:23.740
 You want to come over?

00:25:24.299 --> 00:25:24.500
 Hey,

00:25:24.519 --> 00:25:25.099
 we're all getting together

00:25:25.099 --> 00:25:25.519
 in a park

00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:26.839
 and hanging out together

00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:28.900
 with some friends of ours

00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:30.039
 or some people from the church.

00:25:30.220 --> 00:25:31.160
 Would you like to come?

00:25:31.799 --> 00:25:32.000
 Hey,

00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:32.660
 we're going to hang out

00:25:32.660 --> 00:25:33.799
 and have a bonfire house,

00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:34.839
 make some s'mores.

00:25:35.220 --> 00:25:36.299
 Would you like to come?

00:25:36.980 --> 00:25:37.680
 Or we're going to go,

00:25:37.779 --> 00:25:38.700
 for the next eight weeks,

00:25:38.700 --> 00:25:39.400
 we're going to go through

00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:40.380
 this book of the Bible

00:25:40.380 --> 00:25:41.339
 or we're going to go through

00:25:41.339 --> 00:25:42.220
 this book

00:25:42.220 --> 00:25:43.220
 that someone else wrote

00:25:43.220 --> 00:25:46.240
 with some people from our church.

00:25:46.339 --> 00:25:47.200
 We'd love for you to come.

00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:48.759
 Do you see the difference?

00:25:49.819 --> 00:25:50.759
 You can build this

00:25:50.759 --> 00:25:51.279
 into the culture

00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:52.279
 of our church right away.

00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:53.680
 It's hard for people

00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:54.099
 to get around that.

00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:55.539
 I don't know at what point in time

00:25:55.539 --> 00:25:56.779
 the church became

00:25:56.779 --> 00:25:58.160
 all about inviting people

00:25:58.160 --> 00:25:58.680
 to meetings.

00:25:59.940 --> 00:26:00.099
 Like,

00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:00.539
 look at your,

00:26:00.639 --> 00:26:01.200
 read your Bible.

00:26:01.339 --> 00:26:02.279
 Read the book of Acts.

00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:03.539
 Is there ever a time

00:26:03.539 --> 00:26:04.639
 when someone is inviting

00:26:04.639 --> 00:26:05.440
 someone to a meeting

00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:06.200
 and that,

00:26:07.139 --> 00:26:07.740
 that's what,

00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:09.000
 that's like what the sum total

00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:09.759
 of churches become.

00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:10.259
 Hey,

00:26:10.339 --> 00:26:11.720
 come to a Sunday morning gathering.

00:26:12.399 --> 00:26:12.759
 It's just,

00:26:12.879 --> 00:26:13.399
 it's like we're,

00:26:13.500 --> 00:26:14.480
 we're basically

00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:17.279
 trading personal discipleship,

00:26:17.399 --> 00:26:18.440
 personal hospitality,

00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:20.099
 and personal evangelism

00:26:20.099 --> 00:26:21.119
 for a meeting invite.

00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:23.179
 At what point in time

00:26:23.179 --> 00:26:24.119
 did Christianity

00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:24.879
 just become about

00:26:24.879 --> 00:26:25.539
 meeting invites?

00:26:26.579 --> 00:26:27.679
 What we should be doing

00:26:27.679 --> 00:26:28.579
 is sharing our lives

00:26:28.579 --> 00:26:29.099
 with one another.

00:26:29.579 --> 00:26:29.899
 Paul said,

00:26:29.959 --> 00:26:30.419
 I share with you

00:26:30.419 --> 00:26:30.579
 not,

00:26:30.659 --> 00:26:31.740
 not only the gospel,

00:26:31.899 --> 00:26:32.740
 but our very lives.

00:26:33.619 --> 00:26:34.779
 And so we invite people

00:26:34.779 --> 00:26:35.579
 into our lives,

00:26:35.579 --> 00:26:37.119
 not to just a meeting

00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:38.039
 so that someone else

00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:38.919
 can do the work.

00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:40.419
 You can build that

00:26:40.419 --> 00:26:41.059
 into this culture

00:26:41.059 --> 00:26:41.939
 right from the get-go,

00:26:42.019 --> 00:26:43.559
 or we can get weird

00:26:43.559 --> 00:26:44.079
 and goofy

00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:45.039
 and invite people

00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:46.359
 to acronym language

00:26:46.359 --> 00:26:47.099
 and people are like,

00:26:47.139 --> 00:26:47.679
 what is this?

00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:48.740
 You guys are kind of weird.

00:26:49.299 --> 00:26:49.539
 Like,

00:26:49.620 --> 00:26:50.759
 how about we just be normal

00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:52.120
 and just invite things,

00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:53.680
 people into our lives

00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:55.880
 and get to know people.

00:26:55.960 --> 00:26:56.920
 And then when they do come,

00:26:56.980 --> 00:26:57.460
 and then maybe

00:26:57.460 --> 00:26:58.500
 when they show interest

00:26:58.500 --> 00:27:00.060
 or when they get saved

00:27:00.060 --> 00:27:01.420
 or whatever happens,

00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:03.160
 and then they want to come

00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:03.799
 on a Sunday morning,

00:27:03.860 --> 00:27:04.180
 we can say,

00:27:04.259 --> 00:27:04.580
 oh yeah,

00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:05.279
 come on Sunday morning.

00:27:05.340 --> 00:27:05.620
 You know,

00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:06.700
 so-and-so and so-and-so

00:27:06.700 --> 00:27:07.400
 and so-and-so.

00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:08.360
 You're not,

00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:09.160
 it's not going to be weird

00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:10.180
 and intimidating for you.

00:27:10.320 --> 00:27:11.120
 Does that make sense?

00:27:12.120 --> 00:27:12.980
 Build the people.

00:27:13.620 --> 00:27:14.740
 Don't just build meetings,

00:27:14.900 --> 00:27:15.519
 build the people.

00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:17.180
 This is what we need to do.

00:27:17.180 --> 00:27:18.140
 Number three,

00:27:18.860 --> 00:27:20.460
 avoid a one-home-centric

00:27:20.460 --> 00:27:21.440
 missional community.

00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:22.400
 Okay?

00:27:23.060 --> 00:27:24.140
 It's not a house church.

00:27:24.340 --> 00:27:24.900
 Missional communities

00:27:24.900 --> 00:27:25.860
 are not house churches.

00:27:26.980 --> 00:27:28.039
 Build a happy,

00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:29.080
 joyful hosting

00:27:29.080 --> 00:27:30.740
 among all or most.

00:27:31.460 --> 00:27:32.560
 A community that meets

00:27:32.560 --> 00:27:33.640
 in multiple homes.

00:27:34.180 --> 00:27:35.080
 Not just one,

00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:36.140
 sharing the load with everyone.

00:27:36.320 --> 00:27:37.620
 Not just one homeowner,

00:27:37.980 --> 00:27:39.019
 always willing to go

00:27:39.019 --> 00:27:39.680
 where the people

00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:41.279
 that it's on mission to are.

00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:41.960
 Okay?

00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:43.200
 We don't just want,

00:27:43.640 --> 00:27:44.620
 these missional communities

00:27:44.620 --> 00:27:45.420
 aren't house churches,

00:27:45.420 --> 00:27:46.420
 so it shouldn't just be

00:27:46.420 --> 00:27:47.600
 one home-centric.

00:27:48.300 --> 00:27:49.060
 And you might say,

00:27:49.120 --> 00:27:49.240
 well,

00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:50.440
 my home's not big enough.

00:27:52.120 --> 00:27:53.000
 Think of how weird

00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:53.620
 that would sound

00:27:53.620 --> 00:27:54.140
 to someone

00:27:54.140 --> 00:27:55.200
 who's meeting in the church

00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:57.120
 in some third world country

00:27:57.120 --> 00:27:58.440
 who meets in their home

00:27:58.440 --> 00:27:59.519
 that only is one room.

00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:00.340
 Like,

00:28:00.380 --> 00:28:01.140
 the whole house

00:28:01.140 --> 00:28:01.660
 is one room.

00:28:02.060 --> 00:28:02.900
 Think of how goofy

00:28:02.900 --> 00:28:03.539
 you would sound

00:28:03.539 --> 00:28:04.080
 when you say,

00:28:04.320 --> 00:28:05.539
 I can't meet in my,

00:28:05.660 --> 00:28:06.140
 you know,

00:28:06.259 --> 00:28:07.660
 1800 square foot home

00:28:07.660 --> 00:28:09.180
 because it's too small

00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:10.560
 and because my bathroom's outdated.

00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:11.779
 And their bathroom's

00:28:11.779 --> 00:28:13.039
 in a hole behind the house

00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:13.339
 out,

00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:13.819
 you know,

00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:14.460
 wherever.

00:28:15.579 --> 00:28:16.319
 That's goofy.

00:28:16.619 --> 00:28:18.259
 But that's how we as Americans talk.

00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:19.480
 Don't talk like that.

00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:21.039
 Open up your home.

00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:23.480
 Don't just let one person

00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:24.019
 be the one

00:28:24.019 --> 00:28:24.779
 who's doing that.

00:28:24.980 --> 00:28:25.859
 And by all means,

00:28:25.980 --> 00:28:26.679
 don't say,

00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:28.679
 well,

00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:29.419
 by all means too,

00:28:29.740 --> 00:28:30.859
 be able to meet in multiple homes

00:28:30.859 --> 00:28:32.000
 and train your children

00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:32.799
 to do as well.

00:28:33.159 --> 00:28:34.119
 Sometimes we've trained

00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:34.519
 our children

00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:35.480
 to only be able to meet

00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:35.919
 in our home

00:28:35.919 --> 00:28:36.819
 because we've childproof

00:28:36.819 --> 00:28:37.319
 our home.

00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:38.619
 We haven't taught our kids

00:28:38.619 --> 00:28:39.399
 how to function

00:28:39.399 --> 00:28:40.559
 in someone else's home.

00:28:41.259 --> 00:28:42.099
 That's not good.

00:28:42.479 --> 00:28:42.779
 Again,

00:28:42.859 --> 00:28:43.119
 this is something

00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:44.159
 you can build into the culture.

00:28:44.639 --> 00:28:46.219
 If you can only host people

00:28:46.219 --> 00:28:46.719
 in your home

00:28:46.719 --> 00:28:47.459
 because your kids

00:28:47.459 --> 00:28:48.879
 can only handle your home,

00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:49.739
 you're not training

00:28:49.739 --> 00:28:50.459
 your kids well.

00:28:50.739 --> 00:28:51.299
 You're not training

00:28:51.299 --> 00:28:52.239
 your kids for church

00:28:52.239 --> 00:28:53.099
 and you're not training

00:28:53.099 --> 00:28:54.259
 your kids for hospitality.

00:28:55.259 --> 00:28:56.259
 It's an important thing

00:28:56.259 --> 00:28:57.219
 to get into our kids.

00:28:58.279 --> 00:28:59.659
 And please don't use the excuse

00:28:59.659 --> 00:29:00.939
 while I'm not just hospitable.

00:29:01.899 --> 00:29:03.139
 Romans 12, 13.

00:29:04.419 --> 00:29:04.659
 Okay?

00:29:05.039 --> 00:29:06.139
 Contribute to the needs

00:29:06.139 --> 00:29:06.979
 of the saints

00:29:06.979 --> 00:29:08.559
 and seek to show hospitality.

00:29:09.379 --> 00:29:10.259
 1 Peter 4, 9.

00:29:10.379 --> 00:29:11.000
 Show hospitality

00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:11.659
 to one another

00:29:11.659 --> 00:29:12.219
 without grumbling.

00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:14.019
 This isn't an optional thing.

00:29:14.059 --> 00:29:15.059
 This is for all Christians.

00:29:15.539 --> 00:29:16.199
 We're all supposed

00:29:16.199 --> 00:29:16.979
 to show hospitality.

00:29:17.679 --> 00:29:18.479
 Yes, there's some people

00:29:18.479 --> 00:29:19.619
 with a gift of hospitality,

00:29:19.859 --> 00:29:20.899
 but everybody's supposed

00:29:20.899 --> 00:29:21.619
 to show hospitality.

00:29:22.719 --> 00:29:23.279
 Number four.

00:29:23.739 --> 00:29:24.899
 Avoid study-centric

00:29:24.899 --> 00:29:25.799
 missional community.

00:29:26.159 --> 00:29:27.179
 It's not primarily

00:29:27.179 --> 00:29:28.339
 a Bible or book study.

00:29:28.619 --> 00:29:28.739
 Okay?

00:29:28.819 --> 00:29:30.659
 You can and should do

00:29:30.659 --> 00:29:32.159
 studies in the Bible

00:29:32.159 --> 00:29:32.979
 or in other books,

00:29:33.139 --> 00:29:34.639
 but it can't just be that.

00:29:35.239 --> 00:29:35.379
 Okay?

00:29:35.379 --> 00:29:36.559
 We have to build discipleship

00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:37.299
 in all of life.

00:29:38.139 --> 00:29:39.399
 Deuteronomy 6, 6-9

00:29:39.399 --> 00:29:40.859
 is a great way

00:29:40.859 --> 00:29:41.799
 of thinking about this,

00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:42.319
 which it's talking

00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:42.879
 about the family,

00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:43.399
 but it should be

00:29:43.399 --> 00:29:43.940
 about the family

00:29:43.940 --> 00:29:44.740
 of God as well.

00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:45.779
 It says,

00:29:45.899 --> 00:29:46.359
 All these words

00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:47.279
 that I command you today

00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:48.180
 shall be on your heart.

00:29:48.639 --> 00:29:49.460
 You shall teach them

00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:50.740
 diligently to your children.

00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:52.039
 You shall talk of them

00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:53.159
 when you sit in your house

00:29:53.159 --> 00:29:54.720
 and when you walk by the way

00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:56.000
 and when you lie down

00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:57.119
 and when you rise.

00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:58.099
 You shall bind them

00:29:58.099 --> 00:29:59.279
 as a sign on your hand

00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:00.099
 and they shall be

00:30:00.099 --> 00:30:01.559
 as frontlets between your eyes.

00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:02.559
 You shall write them

00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:03.279
 on the doorposts

00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:03.819
 of your house

00:30:03.819 --> 00:30:05.039
 and on your gates.

00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:05.879
 Essentially,

00:30:06.059 --> 00:30:06.460
 it's saying

00:30:06.460 --> 00:30:07.660
 discipleship should be

00:30:07.660 --> 00:30:08.399
 an all of life thing.

00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:09.200
 It's not just,

00:30:09.660 --> 00:30:10.740
 you know,

00:30:11.700 --> 00:30:12.039
 well,

00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:12.920
 we have this little study

00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:13.359
 here and there.

00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:14.420
 We should be looking

00:30:14.420 --> 00:30:15.319
 for opportunities

00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:16.720
 to speak the truth

00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:17.619
 into people's life

00:30:17.619 --> 00:30:19.200
 in the everyday stuff

00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:19.619
 of life.

00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:20.379
 And that's where

00:30:20.379 --> 00:30:21.899
 it's most normal, right?

00:30:22.139 --> 00:30:22.700
 You're going through

00:30:22.700 --> 00:30:23.099
 something and say,

00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:24.180
 Hey, how are you handling that?

00:30:24.460 --> 00:30:25.299
 How's this going?

00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:27.119
 And if that becomes

00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:28.119
 a normative culture,

00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:29.059
 then our church,

00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:30.160
 when people come into the church,

00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:30.960
 they catch that.

00:30:31.560 --> 00:30:31.840
 Oh,

00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:32.540
 you don't just do

00:30:32.540 --> 00:30:34.100
 discipleship in official meetings.

00:30:34.300 --> 00:30:35.620
 You do do discipleship

00:30:35.620 --> 00:30:36.340
 in official meetings,

00:30:36.340 --> 00:30:37.519
 but you're also doing

00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:38.300
 it in the everyday stuff

00:30:38.300 --> 00:30:38.660
 of life.

00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:39.840
 I know I can count

00:30:39.840 --> 00:30:41.040
 on rich conversation

00:30:41.040 --> 00:30:41.940
 in discipleship

00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:43.040
 even when I'm not

00:30:43.040 --> 00:30:43.759
 at an official

00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:45.120
 Sunday morning meeting

00:30:45.120 --> 00:30:45.660
 or such.

00:30:46.340 --> 00:30:47.340
 And that should be normative.

00:30:47.860 --> 00:30:48.860
 You have the opportunity

00:30:48.860 --> 00:30:49.580
 to build that.

00:30:50.019 --> 00:30:50.720
 Will you build that?

00:30:50.800 --> 00:30:51.980
 Will you build discipleship

00:30:51.980 --> 00:30:52.759
 in all of life?

00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:54.279
 Number five,

00:30:54.840 --> 00:30:55.960
 avoid leader-centric

00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:56.880
 missional community.

00:30:57.480 --> 00:30:57.600
 Okay,

00:30:57.600 --> 00:30:58.940
 what I mean by this is

00:30:58.940 --> 00:31:00.040
 missional communities

00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:00.859
 where all the leadership

00:31:00.859 --> 00:31:02.000
 falls on one person

00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:02.759
 or one couple,

00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:04.579
 just the lead partners,

00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:07.480
 where you're almost

00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:08.079
 treating them like

00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:08.799
 mini elders

00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:09.819
 or they're viewing

00:31:09.819 --> 00:31:10.740
 themselves as that,

00:31:10.819 --> 00:31:11.779
 but rather building

00:31:11.779 --> 00:31:12.519
 partnership.

00:31:12.980 --> 00:31:13.639
 Partner-led

00:31:13.639 --> 00:31:14.379
 missional community

00:31:14.379 --> 00:31:15.720
 where multiple people

00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:16.680
 are bearing responsibility,

00:31:16.879 --> 00:31:17.680
 sharing the leadership

00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:19.039
 weight of responsibility

00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:20.539
 among all its partners.

00:31:21.259 --> 00:31:21.379
 Okay,

00:31:21.379 --> 00:31:21.899
 the lead partner

00:31:21.899 --> 00:31:23.059
 is the first among equals,

00:31:23.460 --> 00:31:24.460
 but all the partners

00:31:24.460 --> 00:31:25.720
 carry the weight together.

00:31:26.299 --> 00:31:26.420
 Okay,

00:31:26.859 --> 00:31:27.500
 Philippians 1,

00:31:27.579 --> 00:31:28.079
 3 to 5,

00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:28.819
 I thank my God

00:31:28.819 --> 00:31:29.579
 in all my remembrance

00:31:29.579 --> 00:31:30.059
 of you,

00:31:30.619 --> 00:31:31.599
 always in every prayer

00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:32.240
 of mine for you

00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:33.240
 all making my prayer

00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:34.539
 with joy because

00:31:34.539 --> 00:31:35.339
 of your partnership

00:31:35.339 --> 00:31:36.039
 in the gospel

00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:36.859
 from the first day

00:31:36.859 --> 00:31:37.439
 until now.

00:31:38.220 --> 00:31:39.159
 It should be partnership.

00:31:39.740 --> 00:31:39.879
 Okay,

00:31:40.220 --> 00:31:41.419
 it's so easy to just

00:31:41.419 --> 00:31:42.399
 have a couple leaders

00:31:42.399 --> 00:31:43.179
 leading the church

00:31:43.179 --> 00:31:43.819
 and having all the

00:31:43.819 --> 00:31:44.919
 responsibility on them.

00:31:45.299 --> 00:31:46.119
 And then it's saying,

00:31:46.220 --> 00:31:46.299
 oh,

00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:47.119
 I want community.

00:31:47.419 --> 00:31:48.720
 There is no such thing

00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:49.919
 as community

00:31:49.919 --> 00:31:52.799
 without responsibility

00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:53.659
 and accountability.

00:31:54.299 --> 00:31:55.319
 There's no such thing.

00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:56.299
 You cannot have

00:31:56.299 --> 00:31:57.200
 true accountability

00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:58.339
 or true family life

00:31:58.339 --> 00:31:58.740
 together

00:31:58.740 --> 00:32:00.619
 without shared responsibility

00:32:00.619 --> 00:32:01.879
 and accountability.

00:32:02.899 --> 00:32:04.099
 That has to be there.

00:32:04.159 --> 00:32:05.240
 That's absolutely necessary.

00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:06.599
 What are you going to build?

00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:08.240
 Are we going to build it

00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:09.639
 so we just farm it in?

00:32:09.700 --> 00:32:11.180
 We go to a gathering

00:32:11.180 --> 00:32:11.980
 together with our

00:32:11.980 --> 00:32:12.720
 missional community

00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:13.779
 and we go with

00:32:13.779 --> 00:32:14.680
 nothing to bring,

00:32:15.139 --> 00:32:16.159
 nothing on our hearts,

00:32:16.659 --> 00:32:16.980
 nothing,

00:32:17.180 --> 00:32:18.139
 not spirit-led.

00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:19.000
 We're just consumed

00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:19.519
 with our day

00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:20.379
 and we just show up

00:32:20.379 --> 00:32:20.779
 tired,

00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:22.079
 disinterested

00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:23.000
 and unengaged.

00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:24.539
 We show up on a Sunday morning.

00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:25.000
 It's just,

00:32:25.299 --> 00:32:27.940
 it's the worship team's job

00:32:27.940 --> 00:32:29.940
 and the preacher's job

00:32:29.940 --> 00:32:30.799
 to kind of do everything.

00:32:31.139 --> 00:32:31.920
 I'm just here.

00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:33.019
 I'm just consuming.

00:32:33.160 --> 00:32:33.779
 Are you coming?

00:32:34.099 --> 00:32:35.220
 Led by the Spirit saying,

00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:35.599
 hey,

00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:36.460
 I'm going to cultivate

00:32:36.460 --> 00:32:38.099
 a culture of giving,

00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:40.000
 a culture of shared responsibility,

00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:41.720
 a culture of partnership

00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:42.759
 so that everybody

00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:43.519
 who's in this church

00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:44.220
 going forward

00:32:44.220 --> 00:32:45.019
 will understand

00:32:45.019 --> 00:32:47.039
 this is how you do church.

00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:48.319
 This is normal.

00:32:48.319 --> 00:32:49.919
 For those of you

00:32:49.919 --> 00:32:50.700
 who have never experienced

00:32:50.700 --> 00:32:51.919
 church like that as normal,

00:32:52.259 --> 00:32:52.859
 you can.

00:32:53.939 --> 00:32:54.460
 You can.

00:32:54.779 --> 00:32:56.119
 I've seen it multiple times.

00:32:56.519 --> 00:32:57.339
 I'm not talking about

00:32:57.339 --> 00:32:58.119
 some unicorn here.

00:32:58.159 --> 00:32:58.779
 I'm talking about

00:32:58.779 --> 00:32:59.980
 normal Christianity.

00:33:00.099 --> 00:33:00.799
 This is what it's supposed

00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:01.399
 to be like.

00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:03.599
 Number six,

00:33:03.700 --> 00:33:05.599
 avoid one-person-centric

00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:06.419
 discipleship,

00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:07.480
 primarily one-on-one

00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:08.279
 discipleship,

00:33:08.399 --> 00:33:09.559
 but instead build

00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:10.439
 discipleship for

00:33:10.439 --> 00:33:11.259
 multiple people.

00:33:11.879 --> 00:33:12.039
 Okay?

00:33:13.159 --> 00:33:14.059
 Multiple people

00:33:14.059 --> 00:33:15.319
 through multiple gifts

00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:16.240
 who are in multiple

00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:17.700
 different stages of life.

00:33:17.700 --> 00:33:19.240
 That's how discipleship

00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:19.819
 should be.

00:33:20.140 --> 00:33:20.340
 Now,

00:33:20.360 --> 00:33:21.100
 does that mean you can't

00:33:21.100 --> 00:33:22.019
 do anything one-on-one?

00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:22.440
 No.

00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:23.559
 But it should never

00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:24.700
 just be that.

00:33:25.660 --> 00:33:27.019
 Because 1 Corinthians 12

00:33:27.019 --> 00:33:28.059
 says all the parts

00:33:28.059 --> 00:33:28.640
 of the body

00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:29.740
 are indispensable.

00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:31.200
 If you only have

00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:31.960
 this one person

00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:32.600
 who's quote-unquote

00:33:32.600 --> 00:33:33.600
 discipling you,

00:33:33.799 --> 00:33:34.500
 and you're not

00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:36.039
 gleaning from the rest

00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:36.559
 of the body,

00:33:36.819 --> 00:33:37.840
 you are missing out

00:33:37.840 --> 00:33:38.500
 from things.

00:33:39.059 --> 00:33:39.799
 And if you think

00:33:39.799 --> 00:33:40.740
 that your part of the body

00:33:40.740 --> 00:33:42.720
 is not that important,

00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:43.799
 and you think,

00:33:43.860 --> 00:33:43.920
 well,

00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:44.880
 I don't have the same role

00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:45.380
 as so-and-so

00:33:45.380 --> 00:33:45.940
 who's really good

00:33:45.940 --> 00:33:46.520
 at speaking,

00:33:47.040 --> 00:33:48.100
 but I'm not good

00:33:48.100 --> 00:33:48.640
 at speaking,

00:33:49.420 --> 00:33:50.140
 you don't understand

00:33:50.140 --> 00:33:51.460
 your gift is indispensable,

00:33:51.740 --> 00:33:52.460
 and who you are

00:33:52.460 --> 00:33:53.260
 needs to bear upon

00:33:53.260 --> 00:33:53.840
 other people

00:33:53.840 --> 00:33:54.740
 in the context

00:33:54.740 --> 00:33:55.620
 of discipleship.

00:33:55.980 --> 00:33:56.980
 It can't just be

00:33:56.980 --> 00:33:57.400
 one-on-one.

00:33:57.500 --> 00:33:58.600
 It has to be

00:33:58.600 --> 00:33:59.980
 a shared responsibility.

00:34:00.580 --> 00:34:01.040
 You need to build

00:34:01.040 --> 00:34:01.660
 discipleship

00:34:01.660 --> 00:34:02.680
 from multiple people

00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:04.040
 through multiple gifts

00:34:04.040 --> 00:34:05.040
 who are in multiple

00:34:05.040 --> 00:34:06.320
 different stages of life.

00:34:06.800 --> 00:34:07.500
 It can't just be

00:34:07.500 --> 00:34:08.059
 young people

00:34:08.059 --> 00:34:08.760
 with young people

00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:09.320
 and old people

00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:09.940
 with old people.

00:34:10.300 --> 00:34:10.740
 You've got to mix

00:34:10.740 --> 00:34:11.380
 it up together.

00:34:11.780 --> 00:34:12.660
 There's much to glean

00:34:12.660 --> 00:34:13.280
 from one another,

00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:14.680
 and it goes both ways.

00:34:15.600 --> 00:34:16.080
 Number seven,

00:34:16.220 --> 00:34:17.260
 avoid meeting

00:34:17.260 --> 00:34:18.280
 without meals.

00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:19.460
 That doesn't mean

00:34:19.460 --> 00:34:20.160
 you can't ever meet

00:34:20.160 --> 00:34:20.640
 without a meal,

00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:22.019
 but I'm talking about

00:34:22.019 --> 00:34:23.140
 building a meal-sharing

00:34:23.140 --> 00:34:24.160
 familial culture.

00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:25.800
 It takes more work

00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:26.780
 to share meals together,

00:34:27.100 --> 00:34:27.940
 but you know what?

00:34:28.080 --> 00:34:29.240
 That's what families do.

00:34:29.740 --> 00:34:30.400
 Healthy families

00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:31.260
 eat meals together.

00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:32.180
 There's been study

00:34:32.180 --> 00:34:32.980
 after study done

00:34:32.980 --> 00:34:33.700
 of the difference

00:34:33.700 --> 00:34:34.640
 between a family

00:34:34.640 --> 00:34:35.760
 that eats meals together

00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:36.680
 and ones who don't.

00:34:37.080 --> 00:34:37.800
 That used to be

00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:38.400
 a normative part

00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:38.960
 of our culture.

00:34:39.160 --> 00:34:39.720
 It's something

00:34:39.720 --> 00:34:40.580
 that's going away,

00:34:40.860 --> 00:34:41.420
 and it's something

00:34:41.420 --> 00:34:42.060
 that's gone away

00:34:42.059 --> 00:34:42.900
 from church culture

00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:43.400
 as well.

00:34:44.500 --> 00:34:45.500
 We should eat

00:34:45.500 --> 00:34:46.159
 meals together.

00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:47.340
 Families eat meals together.

00:34:47.500 --> 00:34:48.420
 Jesus ate meals

00:34:48.420 --> 00:34:48.920
 with people.

00:34:49.279 --> 00:34:49.880
 The disciples

00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:50.860
 ate meals together.

00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:52.420
 Acts chapter 2,

00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:53.659
 46 to 47

00:34:53.659 --> 00:34:54.599
 in the CSB

00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:55.500
 says,

00:34:55.500 --> 00:34:56.539
 Every day they devoted

00:34:56.539 --> 00:34:57.500
 themselves to meeting

00:34:57.500 --> 00:34:58.400
 together in the temple

00:34:58.400 --> 00:34:59.799
 and broke bread

00:34:59.799 --> 00:35:00.880
 from house to house.

00:35:01.340 --> 00:35:02.299
 They ate their food

00:35:02.299 --> 00:35:02.980
 with joyful

00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:04.259
 and sincere hearts,

00:35:04.799 --> 00:35:05.400
 praising God

00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:06.320
 and enjoying the favor

00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:07.079
 of all the people.

00:35:07.539 --> 00:35:08.320
 Every day the Lord

00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:09.099
 added to their number

00:35:09.099 --> 00:35:10.219
 those who were being saved.

00:35:10.219 --> 00:35:11.399
 I know it's work

00:35:11.399 --> 00:35:12.239
 to do meals together.

00:35:12.419 --> 00:35:12.980
 I know it's work

00:35:12.980 --> 00:35:13.980
 to share the responsibility

00:35:13.980 --> 00:35:14.980
 of planning a meal.

00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:16.279
 I know it's work

00:35:16.279 --> 00:35:18.019
 to do our once-a-month meals

00:35:18.019 --> 00:35:18.599
 that we're doing

00:35:18.599 --> 00:35:19.359
 on Sunday mornings

00:35:19.359 --> 00:35:19.899
 like today.

00:35:20.799 --> 00:35:21.699
 I know it's work

00:35:21.699 --> 00:35:22.219
 to do meals

00:35:22.219 --> 00:35:22.799
 in your home.

00:35:23.339 --> 00:35:23.899
 I know it's work

00:35:23.899 --> 00:35:25.379
 to feed people.

00:35:25.759 --> 00:35:26.299
 I know it's work

00:35:26.299 --> 00:35:26.959
 to feed people

00:35:26.959 --> 00:35:27.539
 when sometimes

00:35:27.539 --> 00:35:28.899
 they don't clean up

00:35:28.899 --> 00:35:29.219
 after,

00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:30.579
 help clean up

00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:31.039
 and help with

00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:31.619
 the responsibility.

00:35:32.019 --> 00:35:32.919
 That's all work,

00:35:33.139 --> 00:35:35.139
 but meal sharing

00:35:35.139 --> 00:35:35.859
 is a way

00:35:35.859 --> 00:35:37.379
 that helps people

00:35:37.379 --> 00:35:38.079
 feel comfortable

00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:38.779
 and where people

00:35:38.779 --> 00:35:39.579
 can open up their hearts

00:35:39.579 --> 00:35:40.059
 to one another.

00:35:41.900 --> 00:35:42.739
 Very important.

00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:43.960
 It battles

00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:45.380
 that isolation culture.

00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:46.259
 Right?

00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:47.559
 Number eight,

00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:48.860
 avoid heavy,

00:35:49.059 --> 00:35:49.519
 burdensome,

00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:50.380
 missional community.

00:35:50.779 --> 00:35:51.079
 Instead,

00:35:51.259 --> 00:35:51.860
 building joy,

00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:52.400
 comfort,

00:35:52.900 --> 00:35:53.340
 refreshing,

00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:54.179
 and rest.

00:35:54.460 --> 00:35:54.619
 Okay?

00:35:55.019 --> 00:35:55.940
 Oftentimes with church

00:35:55.940 --> 00:35:56.299
 we think,

00:35:56.400 --> 00:35:56.559
 oh,

00:35:56.920 --> 00:35:57.739
 I'm part of a church,

00:35:57.799 --> 00:35:58.400
 that means I've got to

00:35:58.400 --> 00:35:59.199
 add a bunch of things

00:35:59.199 --> 00:35:59.880
 to my life.

00:36:01.019 --> 00:36:01.420
 Rather,

00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:02.299
 what about just

00:36:02.299 --> 00:36:04.279
 actually taking inventory?

00:36:04.420 --> 00:36:05.360
 What are we already doing?

00:36:05.420 --> 00:36:06.539
 What am I already involved with?

00:36:07.299 --> 00:36:07.480
 Like,

00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:08.059
 what are the neighbors

00:36:08.059 --> 00:36:08.960
 I'm already involved with?

00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:09.579
 What are the things

00:36:09.579 --> 00:36:10.199
 I'm already doing

00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:10.980
 with my kids?

00:36:11.260 --> 00:36:12.240
 What are the relationships

00:36:12.240 --> 00:36:13.320
 I already have?

00:36:13.740 --> 00:36:14.940
 What do we already have

00:36:14.940 --> 00:36:15.760
 and how can I just

00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:18.039
 show more gospel intentionality

00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:19.179
 with those things

00:36:19.179 --> 00:36:19.780
 that we have?

00:36:20.139 --> 00:36:20.880
 Instead of adding

00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:21.619
 a bunch of things,

00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:23.760
 are we being intentional

00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:24.559
 to do what we're doing

00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:25.159
 right now

00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:26.579
 with a missional mindset

00:36:26.579 --> 00:36:27.639
 and then doing it together

00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:28.300
 with other people?

00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:30.059
 So often,

00:36:30.240 --> 00:36:30.760
 the church says,

00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:30.880
 well,

00:36:30.900 --> 00:36:31.619
 we've got to add this,

00:36:31.659 --> 00:36:32.460
 we've got to add this program,

00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:33.019
 this program.

00:36:33.340 --> 00:36:33.659
 No.

00:36:34.240 --> 00:36:35.099
 We don't need to do that.

00:36:35.099 --> 00:36:36.400
 We just need to

00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:37.940
 get on mission together

00:36:37.940 --> 00:36:39.360
 in the everyday stuff of life,

00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:40.699
 the stuff we're already doing.

00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:41.799
 You already have neighbors.

00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:43.199
 You already have a job.

00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:45.199
 Your kids might already

00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:46.420
 be involved with certain things,

00:36:46.539 --> 00:36:47.940
 sports or this or that

00:36:47.940 --> 00:36:48.880
 or school stuff.

00:36:49.259 --> 00:36:50.259
 You already have

00:36:50.259 --> 00:36:51.239
 all these things.

00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:52.719
 Why not do them

00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:53.920
 with more missional

00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:55.299
 gospel intentionality

00:36:55.299 --> 00:36:56.319
 and then do it together?

00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:59.820
 That's what the church should be.

00:36:59.940 --> 00:37:01.000
 We need to build that

00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:04.180
 and that's a lot more restful

00:37:04.180 --> 00:37:05.900
 instead of constantly

00:37:05.900 --> 00:37:07.260
 adding more stuff.

00:37:08.140 --> 00:37:09.320
 Philemon verse 7 says,

00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:10.480
 I've derived much joy

00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:10.980
 and comfort

00:37:10.980 --> 00:37:11.660
 from your love,

00:37:11.740 --> 00:37:12.100
 my brother,

00:37:12.160 --> 00:37:13.240
 because the hearts

00:37:13.240 --> 00:37:13.780
 of the saints

00:37:13.780 --> 00:37:14.700
 have been refreshed

00:37:14.700 --> 00:37:15.500
 through you.

00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:17.539
 What if we focused

00:37:17.539 --> 00:37:18.660
 on being a refreshment

00:37:18.660 --> 00:37:19.300
 to one another?

00:37:19.620 --> 00:37:20.920
 Not constantly placing

00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:21.559
 more burdens

00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:22.080
 on one another

00:37:22.080 --> 00:37:22.539
 but just saying,

00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:24.140
 how can we do stuff together?

00:37:24.340 --> 00:37:25.140
 How can we do stuff

00:37:25.140 --> 00:37:25.820
 where we refresh

00:37:25.820 --> 00:37:26.380
 one another?

00:37:26.700 --> 00:37:27.680
 Where we're carrying the load

00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:28.160
 and we're saying,

00:37:28.539 --> 00:37:29.000
 you know what?

00:37:29.100 --> 00:37:30.600
 We already have a lot going on.

00:37:30.680 --> 00:37:31.340
 We don't need to

00:37:31.340 --> 00:37:32.480
 overwhelm people

00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:33.519
 with all kinds of stuff.

00:37:33.600 --> 00:37:34.620
 Let's just be intentional

00:37:34.620 --> 00:37:35.480
 with what we have.

00:37:36.240 --> 00:37:37.280
 Let's be good stewards

00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:38.039
 of what we have.

00:37:38.720 --> 00:37:39.420
 Number nine,

00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:41.160
 avoid a busy life.

00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:42.000
 Okay?

00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:44.280
 Lazy, indiscriminate,

00:37:44.460 --> 00:37:45.340
 unintentional,

00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:46.720
 the tyranny of the urgent,

00:37:46.900 --> 00:37:47.720
 always busy

00:37:47.720 --> 00:37:49.039
 but never getting done

00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:49.600
 what you want

00:37:49.600 --> 00:37:50.500
 or need to get done.

00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:51.980
 You know what I'm saying?

00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:54.680
 Some of us,

00:37:54.740 --> 00:37:55.380
 this is how we feel.

00:37:55.380 --> 00:37:55.980
 We feel like

00:37:55.980 --> 00:37:57.220
 we're on a hill

00:37:57.220 --> 00:37:57.840
 and we're constantly

00:37:57.840 --> 00:37:58.680
 riding the brakes.

00:37:58.900 --> 00:38:00.440
 Our life is constantly busy.

00:38:00.660 --> 00:38:01.760
 We are constantly

00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:03.200
 doing things

00:38:03.200 --> 00:38:03.559
 and people say,

00:38:03.640 --> 00:38:04.680
 what's going on?

00:38:04.700 --> 00:38:04.860
 It's like,

00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:05.820
 oh, just so busy.

00:38:06.240 --> 00:38:07.200
 Just really busy.

00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:08.420
 What are you busy with?

00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:09.480
 Ah,

00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:11.500
 I don't know.

00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:13.420
 And you can't even say

00:38:13.420 --> 00:38:13.900
 what it is

00:38:13.900 --> 00:38:15.420
 because you're not doing,

00:38:15.900 --> 00:38:16.980
 your life is busy

00:38:16.980 --> 00:38:18.079
 but it's not filled

00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:18.640
 with the things

00:38:18.640 --> 00:38:19.000
 that you,

00:38:19.900 --> 00:38:21.079
 that are your priorities.

00:38:21.220 --> 00:38:22.039
 You go to bed at night

00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:22.400
 thinking,

00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:23.539
 I'm so busy,

00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:24.420
 I'm so tired

00:38:24.420 --> 00:38:25.380
 but I'm constantly

00:38:25.380 --> 00:38:26.019
 feeling guilty

00:38:26.019 --> 00:38:26.719
 that I'm not doing

00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:27.639
 what I should be doing.

00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:29.559
 We need to leave that behind.

00:38:30.279 --> 00:38:30.440
 Okay?

00:38:30.699 --> 00:38:31.219
 We need to leave

00:38:31.219 --> 00:38:32.199
 a busy life behind

00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:32.800
 and instead build

00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:33.519
 a full life.

00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:35.239
 It's not a difference

00:38:35.239 --> 00:38:36.759
 about how much you do

00:38:36.759 --> 00:38:37.960
 but what you do.

00:38:38.820 --> 00:38:40.500
 Not about how much you do

00:38:40.500 --> 00:38:41.779
 but what you do.

00:38:42.219 --> 00:38:42.400
 Doing,

00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:43.460
 being in divine order

00:38:43.460 --> 00:38:44.139
 and doing what God

00:38:44.139 --> 00:38:44.719
 says to do.

00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:45.579
 Tim Ferriss says,

00:38:45.579 --> 00:38:46.679
 lack of time

00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:47.299
 is actually

00:38:47.299 --> 00:38:48.460
 lack of priorities.

00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:49.860
 Being busy

00:38:49.860 --> 00:38:51.420
 is a form of laziness,

00:38:52.340 --> 00:38:53.179
 lazy thinking

00:38:53.179 --> 00:38:54.719
 and indiscriminate action.

00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:56.259
 Being overwhelmed

00:38:56.259 --> 00:38:57.759
 is often as unproductive

00:38:57.759 --> 00:38:58.900
 as doing nothing

00:38:58.900 --> 00:39:00.440
 and is far more unpleasant.

00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:02.380
 In other words,

00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:03.099
 a full life

00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:04.159
 plans priorities

00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:04.880
 so priorities

00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:06.219
 are prioritized

00:39:06.219 --> 00:39:06.880
 and accomplished.

00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:08.299
 Right?

00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:08.920
 A full life

00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:10.039
 plans priorities

00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:11.159
 so priorities

00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:12.019
 are prioritized

00:39:12.019 --> 00:39:12.739
 and accomplished.

00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:13.599
 Right?

00:39:13.659 --> 00:39:13.980
 The Bible

00:39:13.980 --> 00:39:15.099
 asks us

00:39:15.099 --> 00:39:16.400
 commands us

00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:17.139
 to find out

00:39:17.139 --> 00:39:18.000
 what pleases the Lord.

00:39:18.099 --> 00:39:18.759
 Ephesians 5,

00:39:18.839 --> 00:39:19.719
 15-17.

00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:21.259
 Look carefully

00:39:21.259 --> 00:39:22.059
 then how you walk.

00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:23.139
 Not as unwise

00:39:23.139 --> 00:39:23.779
 but as wise

00:39:23.779 --> 00:39:24.779
 making the best use

00:39:24.779 --> 00:39:25.360
 of the time

00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:26.420
 because the days

00:39:26.420 --> 00:39:26.819
 are evil.

00:39:27.380 --> 00:39:27.960
 Therefore do not

00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:28.440
 be foolish

00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:29.319
 but understand

00:39:29.319 --> 00:39:29.759
 what the will

00:39:29.759 --> 00:39:30.519
 of the Lord is.

00:39:31.219 --> 00:39:32.139
 It's very easy.

00:39:32.219 --> 00:39:32.699
 The last thing

00:39:32.699 --> 00:39:33.079
 we want to do

00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:33.420
 we might say,

00:39:33.500 --> 00:39:33.619
 oh,

00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:34.639
 new church plan.

00:39:34.699 --> 00:39:35.779
 It's easy to just be busy.

00:39:36.059 --> 00:39:36.940
 There's not as many people

00:39:36.940 --> 00:39:37.699
 to do the work.

00:39:38.539 --> 00:39:39.339
 So we're just

00:39:39.339 --> 00:39:40.119
 being busy

00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:41.299
 and being with people

00:39:41.299 --> 00:39:41.819
 and trying to get

00:39:41.819 --> 00:39:42.699
 a mission to this person.

00:39:42.839 --> 00:39:43.799
 Busy and overwhelmed

00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:45.420
 and constantly

00:39:45.420 --> 00:39:46.220
 and your life

00:39:46.220 --> 00:39:46.980
 is flying by.

00:39:47.060 --> 00:39:48.039
 Your kids are getting older.

00:39:48.200 --> 00:39:49.600
 Your life is passing you by

00:39:49.600 --> 00:39:50.560
 and all of a sudden

00:39:50.560 --> 00:39:51.280
 you realize

00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:52.900
 am I even doing

00:39:52.900 --> 00:39:53.500
 what I'm supposed

00:39:53.500 --> 00:39:53.940
 to be doing?

00:39:54.460 --> 00:39:55.640
 Am I doing the priorities?

00:39:55.640 --> 00:39:57.880
 Do I have a busy life

00:39:57.880 --> 00:39:58.560
 or a full life?

00:39:58.620 --> 00:39:59.700
 A full life plans

00:39:59.700 --> 00:40:00.680
 your priorities.

00:40:01.260 --> 00:40:02.080
 The priorities

00:40:02.080 --> 00:40:02.720
 that God says

00:40:02.720 --> 00:40:03.180
 are priorities.

00:40:03.320 --> 00:40:04.240
 Making the best use

00:40:04.240 --> 00:40:04.840
 of the time.

00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:06.480
 Okay?

00:40:06.620 --> 00:40:07.640
 That's the difference.

00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:08.640
 It's very important

00:40:08.640 --> 00:40:09.180
 for us

00:40:09.180 --> 00:40:10.320
 not to just be

00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:11.280
 busy consuming

00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:13.120
 but rather

00:40:13.120 --> 00:40:14.060
 be

00:40:14.060 --> 00:40:15.519
 have a full life

00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:16.500
 of planning priorities

00:40:16.500 --> 00:40:17.540
 of how can I

00:40:17.540 --> 00:40:18.320
 be someone

00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:19.460
 who refreshes others

00:40:19.460 --> 00:40:20.900
 gives to others

00:40:20.900 --> 00:40:22.140
 and is intentional

00:40:22.140 --> 00:40:22.800
 with my life

00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:23.740
 so that when I go to bed

00:40:23.740 --> 00:40:24.519
 and I hit the pillow

00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:25.260
 I can say

00:40:25.260 --> 00:40:25.820
 you know what?

00:40:26.580 --> 00:40:27.140
 I did what God

00:40:27.140 --> 00:40:27.880
 wanted me to do.

00:40:28.540 --> 00:40:29.480
 Today was a good day.

00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:31.380
 Number 10

00:40:31.380 --> 00:40:32.100
 avoiding

00:40:32.100 --> 00:40:33.860
 low bar partnership.

00:40:34.260 --> 00:40:34.800
 Partnership is what

00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:35.460
 we call membership

00:40:35.460 --> 00:40:36.200
 in this church.

00:40:36.199 --> 00:40:38.939
 Instead building

00:40:38.939 --> 00:40:39.799
 a high standard

00:40:39.799 --> 00:40:40.919
 of partnership

00:40:40.919 --> 00:40:42.059
 with accountability

00:40:42.059 --> 00:40:43.579
 and shared responsibility.

00:40:44.439 --> 00:40:45.239
 The strength

00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:45.939
 of our church

00:40:45.939 --> 00:40:47.139
 is very much

00:40:47.139 --> 00:40:47.699
 in the quality

00:40:47.699 --> 00:40:48.399
 of our partnership

00:40:48.399 --> 00:40:48.980
 together.

00:40:49.759 --> 00:40:49.899
 Okay?

00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:50.480
 The partners

00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:51.000
 are the people

00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:51.639
 we count on.

00:40:51.919 --> 00:40:53.019
 If we build that

00:40:53.019 --> 00:40:54.039
 into our church now

00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:54.879
 it's going to have

00:40:54.879 --> 00:40:55.259
 benefit

00:40:55.259 --> 00:40:56.960
 that will reap fruit

00:40:56.960 --> 00:40:57.839
 for years and years

00:40:57.839 --> 00:40:58.259
 and years

00:40:58.259 --> 00:40:58.899
 to say hey

00:40:58.899 --> 00:41:00.519
 it's important

00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:01.139
 that I partner

00:41:01.139 --> 00:41:01.939
 well with the church.

00:41:02.399 --> 00:41:03.359
 That I can be someone

00:41:03.359 --> 00:41:04.439
 that people count on.

00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:05.780
 And the quality

00:41:05.780 --> 00:41:06.420
 of our church

00:41:06.420 --> 00:41:07.780
 so many people think

00:41:07.780 --> 00:41:08.420
 oh no the quality

00:41:08.420 --> 00:41:08.860
 of the church

00:41:08.860 --> 00:41:09.440
 that's in

00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:10.220
 how good their

00:41:10.220 --> 00:41:11.220
 worship team is

00:41:11.220 --> 00:41:11.880
 and how good

00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:12.960
 their child care is

00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:13.599
 and how good

00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:14.360
 the preacher is.

00:41:14.460 --> 00:41:15.579
 Those things matter

00:41:15.579 --> 00:41:16.280
 but that's not

00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:16.820
 where the true

00:41:16.820 --> 00:41:17.700
 quality of the church

00:41:17.700 --> 00:41:18.019
 is.

00:41:18.280 --> 00:41:19.059
 Because the church

00:41:19.059 --> 00:41:20.240
 isn't a worship team

00:41:20.240 --> 00:41:20.780
 a preacher

00:41:20.780 --> 00:41:21.639
 and a child care

00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:22.139
 program.

00:41:23.420 --> 00:41:24.200
 The church

00:41:24.200 --> 00:41:24.860
 is the people.

00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:26.599
 And so the quality

00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:27.220
 of the people

00:41:27.220 --> 00:41:27.740
 the quality

00:41:27.740 --> 00:41:28.260
 of the members

00:41:28.260 --> 00:41:29.220
 of the church

00:41:29.220 --> 00:41:30.380
 and their partnership

00:41:30.380 --> 00:41:30.960
 together

00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:31.860
 will determine

00:41:31.860 --> 00:41:32.360
 the quality

00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:32.940
 of the church

00:41:32.940 --> 00:41:34.539
 as a whole.

00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:36.500
 And if you're someone

00:41:36.500 --> 00:41:37.119
 and everyone

00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:37.639
 is someone

00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:38.860
 who can be counted on

00:41:38.860 --> 00:41:39.800
 now we're talking

00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:40.360
 about a church

00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:41.780
 that is going

00:41:41.780 --> 00:41:42.179
 to bear a lot

00:41:42.179 --> 00:41:42.820
 of fruit together.

00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:45.400
 Number 11

00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:46.360
 avoid the illusion

00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:46.960
 of the kingdom

00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:47.380
 of God

00:41:47.380 --> 00:41:48.460
 as part of your life.

00:41:49.019 --> 00:41:49.679
 Instead build

00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:50.559
 an all of life

00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:51.139
 church

00:41:51.139 --> 00:41:51.800
 okay

00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:52.960
 an all of life

00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:53.340
 life

00:41:53.340 --> 00:41:53.880
 where you're

00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:54.360
 saying

00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:55.200
 I'm going

00:41:55.200 --> 00:41:55.480
 to give

00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:56.860
 God everything

00:41:56.860 --> 00:41:57.380
 I got.

00:41:57.720 --> 00:41:57.880
 Right?

00:41:57.980 --> 00:41:58.619
 I said it before

00:41:58.619 --> 00:41:59.380
 church gets weird

00:41:59.380 --> 00:41:59.800
 when Christ

00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:00.860
 isn't your whole life.

00:42:01.420 --> 00:42:02.380
 Colossians 3 verse 4

00:42:02.380 --> 00:42:03.200
 says Christ

00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:04.980
 who is your life.

00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:06.559
 Okay if you ever

00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:07.519
 some of you

00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:08.160
 have had maybe

00:42:08.160 --> 00:42:08.960
 a bad experience

00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:09.559
 of church

00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:10.300
 you've got to

00:42:10.300 --> 00:42:11.039
 ask the question

00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:12.099
 was my bad

00:42:12.099 --> 00:42:12.880
 experience of church

00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:13.640
 because the church

00:42:13.640 --> 00:42:14.180
 was bad?

00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:15.220
 Which could be true.

00:42:16.099 --> 00:42:17.500
 Or was it because

00:42:17.500 --> 00:42:18.820
 Christ wasn't my life

00:42:18.820 --> 00:42:20.619
 and I tried to

00:42:20.619 --> 00:42:21.740
 fit Jesus

00:42:21.740 --> 00:42:22.780
 into my life

00:42:22.780 --> 00:42:23.579
 instead of losing

00:42:23.579 --> 00:42:24.640
 my life for Jesus

00:42:24.640 --> 00:42:25.640
 and therefore

00:42:25.640 --> 00:42:27.220
 the filter

00:42:27.220 --> 00:42:27.660
 with which

00:42:27.660 --> 00:42:28.420
 I determined

00:42:28.420 --> 00:42:29.579
 what church was

00:42:29.579 --> 00:42:30.380
 and how it was

00:42:30.380 --> 00:42:31.200
 supposed to function

00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:32.099
 was off

00:42:32.099 --> 00:42:32.939
 from the get go.

00:42:33.859 --> 00:42:34.099
 Therefore

00:42:34.099 --> 00:42:35.039
 all my church

00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:35.859
 expression

00:42:35.859 --> 00:42:36.839
 and experience

00:42:36.839 --> 00:42:38.339
 was goofy

00:42:38.339 --> 00:42:39.000
 and off

00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:39.359
 because

00:42:39.359 --> 00:42:40.299
 at the end

00:42:40.299 --> 00:42:40.739
 of the day

00:42:40.739 --> 00:42:41.259
 it wasn't

00:42:41.259 --> 00:42:42.039
 maybe as much

00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:42.859
 as that the church

00:42:42.859 --> 00:42:43.480
 was messed up

00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:43.839
 although that

00:42:43.839 --> 00:42:44.619
 can be part of it

00:42:44.619 --> 00:42:45.679
 but that I

00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:46.819
 wasn't believing

00:42:46.819 --> 00:42:47.239
 and living

00:42:47.239 --> 00:42:47.839
 as if Christ

00:42:47.839 --> 00:42:48.480
 was my life.

00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:50.339
 When Christ

00:42:50.339 --> 00:42:51.099
 is your life

00:42:51.099 --> 00:42:51.879
 and the group

00:42:51.879 --> 00:42:52.279
 of people

00:42:52.279 --> 00:42:52.719
 you're meeting

00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:53.480
 with as church

00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:54.519
 Christ is their

00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:55.339
 life as well

00:42:55.339 --> 00:42:56.319
 it changes

00:42:56.319 --> 00:42:56.879
 everything.

00:42:57.659 --> 00:42:58.619
 Things are cohesive

00:42:58.619 --> 00:42:59.819
 things flow together

00:42:59.819 --> 00:43:00.900
 things function

00:43:00.900 --> 00:43:01.319
 the way they're

00:43:01.319 --> 00:43:01.880
 supposed to

00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:02.659
 when you're

00:43:02.659 --> 00:43:03.139
 just trying

00:43:03.139 --> 00:43:04.179
 to fit Christ

00:43:04.179 --> 00:43:05.159
 into your life

00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:05.420
 and you're

00:43:05.420 --> 00:43:05.880
 holding on

00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:06.299
 to your life

00:43:06.299 --> 00:43:07.359
 you lose it

00:43:07.359 --> 00:43:09.599
 you lose it

00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:10.460
 and you got

00:43:10.460 --> 00:43:11.259
 a bunch of people

00:43:11.259 --> 00:43:11.900
 gathering together

00:43:11.900 --> 00:43:12.980
 in the name of church

00:43:12.980 --> 00:43:13.980
 when their life

00:43:13.980 --> 00:43:14.579
 is lost

00:43:14.579 --> 00:43:15.279
 because they don't

00:43:15.279 --> 00:43:15.839
 truly believe

00:43:15.839 --> 00:43:16.559
 and act as if

00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:17.659
 Christ is their life

00:43:17.659 --> 00:43:18.779
 who they've lost

00:43:18.779 --> 00:43:19.539
 their life for

00:43:19.539 --> 00:43:21.139
 then church gets

00:43:21.139 --> 00:43:22.000
 weird really fast.

00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:23.639
 You can determine

00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:24.119
 what that's going

00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:24.380
 to be like

00:43:24.380 --> 00:43:25.059
 in this church

00:43:25.059 --> 00:43:26.059
 you can build it

00:43:26.059 --> 00:43:26.779
 into the foundation

00:43:26.780 --> 00:43:29.420
 1 Corinthians

00:43:29.420 --> 00:43:30.320
 15 58

00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:30.580
 says

00:43:30.580 --> 00:43:31.080
 always

00:43:31.080 --> 00:43:32.440
 give yourselves

00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:33.040
 fully

00:43:33.040 --> 00:43:33.920
 to the work

00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:34.360
 of the Lord

00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:35.160
 how often?

00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:35.880
 Always

00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:36.460
 how much?

00:43:36.720 --> 00:43:37.080
 Fully

00:43:37.080 --> 00:43:37.620
 to what?

00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:38.160
 The work

00:43:38.160 --> 00:43:38.620
 of the Lord

00:43:38.620 --> 00:43:39.400
 1 Corinthians

00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:40.320
 15 58

00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:41.140
 always give

00:43:41.140 --> 00:43:41.519
 yourselves

00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:42.019
 fully

00:43:42.019 --> 00:43:42.820
 to the work

00:43:42.820 --> 00:43:43.160
 of the Lord

00:43:43.160 --> 00:43:43.560
 because

00:43:43.560 --> 00:43:45.640
 you know

00:43:45.640 --> 00:43:46.500
 that your

00:43:46.500 --> 00:43:46.800
 labor

00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:47.440
 in the Lord

00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:48.300
 is not

00:43:48.300 --> 00:43:49.660
 in vain

00:43:49.660 --> 00:43:51.040
 that's why

00:43:51.040 --> 00:43:51.420
 we always

00:43:51.420 --> 00:43:51.940
 give ourselves

00:43:51.940 --> 00:43:52.380
 that's why

00:43:52.380 --> 00:43:52.640
 we give

00:43:52.640 --> 00:43:52.940
 ourselves

00:43:52.940 --> 00:43:53.280
 fully

00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:54.000
 that's why

00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:54.519
 we give

00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:54.800
 ourselves

00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:55.080
 fully

00:43:55.080 --> 00:43:55.440
 to the work

00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:55.740
 of the Lord

00:43:55.740 --> 00:43:56.200
 why?

00:43:57.039 --> 00:43:59.199
 Because your labor in the Lord won't be in vain.

00:44:01.299 --> 00:44:02.179
 It is labor.

00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:03.639
 It is work.

00:44:05.399 --> 00:44:07.059
 But if we give ourselves fully,

00:44:07.439 --> 00:44:09.219
 always to the work of the Lord,

00:44:09.259 --> 00:44:09.919
 it won't be in vain.

00:44:10.899 --> 00:44:13.379
 There's a lot of work in the name of the Lord

00:44:13.379 --> 00:44:14.980
 that is vain because it's not always

00:44:14.980 --> 00:44:15.819
 and it's not fully.

00:44:16.279 --> 00:44:17.019
 And at the end of the day,

00:44:17.059 --> 00:44:18.159
 it's not really the work of the Lord

00:44:18.159 --> 00:44:20.559
 because it's just trying to fit Jesus into our life.

00:44:21.319 --> 00:44:22.539
 And God never meant it that way.

00:44:23.319 --> 00:44:24.559
 And we blame God for that.

00:44:24.619 --> 00:44:26.059
 We say, God, your church is a joke.

00:44:26.199 --> 00:44:27.400
 God, church sucks.

00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:29.219
 And God, you haven't been faithful.

00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:30.779
 When all along what it is is,

00:44:30.779 --> 00:44:33.579
 no, Christianity hasn't been tried and found wanting,

00:44:33.739 --> 00:44:34.980
 but wanted and not tried,

00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:36.840
 as Chesterton said.

00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:38.239
 All right?

00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:39.519
 That's the problem.

00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:41.259
 Well, I tried Christianity.

00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:42.019
 No, you didn't.

00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:43.259
 No, you didn't.

00:44:43.299 --> 00:44:46.579
 You tried some selfish, consumeristic version of Christianity

00:44:46.579 --> 00:44:48.679
 that was not Christianity at all.

00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:50.840
 It's not that Christianity was tried

00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:51.820
 and it was found wanting.

00:44:52.139 --> 00:44:54.279
 It was wanted, but it was never tried

00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:56.120
 because it wasn't your life.

00:44:57.620 --> 00:44:58.460
 Number 12.

00:44:58.940 --> 00:44:59.280
 Two more.

00:45:00.060 --> 00:45:01.820
 Avoid closed hearts, closed homes,

00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:02.860
 and closed schedules.

00:45:03.880 --> 00:45:05.580
 Build open hearts, open homes,

00:45:05.660 --> 00:45:06.640
 and open schedules.

00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:10.980
 1 Timothy 6, 17-19 says,

00:45:10.980 --> 00:45:13.480
 As for the rich in this present age,

00:45:13.900 --> 00:45:15.139
 charge them not to be haughty

00:45:15.139 --> 00:45:17.199
 nor to set their hopes on uncertainty of riches,

00:45:17.719 --> 00:45:18.539
 but on God.

00:45:18.920 --> 00:45:20.900
 Through rich he provides us with everything to enjoy.

00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:22.480
 They are to do good,

00:45:22.799 --> 00:45:24.019
 to be rich in good works,

00:45:24.179 --> 00:45:25.819
 to be generous and ready to share,

00:45:26.359 --> 00:45:28.559
 thus storing up treasure for themselves

00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:30.900
 as a good foundation for the future,

00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:34.480
 so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:36.539
 How do you take hold of that which is truly life?

00:45:36.760 --> 00:45:38.260
 You're generous and willing to share.

00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:40.059
 And if you're saying,

00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:41.059
 well, that's not for me

00:45:41.059 --> 00:45:42.340
 because I'm not the rich in this world.

00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:42.659
 No.

00:45:42.820 --> 00:45:43.760
 If you're in this country,

00:45:44.380 --> 00:45:47.900
 you're wealthy beyond measure,

00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:49.440
 and if you live in the time you do,

00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:50.740
 which you do because I see you

00:45:50.740 --> 00:45:51.579
 and I know you're alive,

00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:54.099
 this is the richest time in all.

00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:56.320
 Kings weren't as rich as we are.

00:45:57.179 --> 00:45:57.260
 Okay?

00:45:59.099 --> 00:46:01.000
 2 Corinthians 6, 11-13 says,

00:46:01.099 --> 00:46:02.519
 We've spoken to you freely, Corinthians.

00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:04.440
 Our heart is wide open.

00:46:04.980 --> 00:46:06.599
 You are not restricted by us,

00:46:06.759 --> 00:46:09.159
 but you are restricted in your own affections.

00:46:09.340 --> 00:46:11.619
 In return, I speak as to children.

00:46:11.759 --> 00:46:12.719
 This is Paul speaking.

00:46:13.259 --> 00:46:14.400
 Widen your hearts also.

00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:15.500
 And then in verse 2 he says,

00:46:16.139 --> 00:46:17.960
 Make room in your hearts for us.

00:46:18.820 --> 00:46:21.019
 The life, wisdom, and power of God

00:46:21.019 --> 00:46:23.659
 is exchanged through open hearts.

00:46:24.139 --> 00:46:24.820
 Open hearts.

00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:26.699
 Jesus dwells in your heart through faith.

00:46:26.940 --> 00:46:28.460
 How do you experience Jesus together?

00:46:28.780 --> 00:46:30.239
 It has to be through open hearts.

00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:32.179
 And some of us have closed our hearts

00:46:32.179 --> 00:46:33.500
 because we've been burned by church

00:46:33.500 --> 00:46:34.839
 and we've been burned by other Christians,

00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:36.539
 and we want to get help,

00:46:36.619 --> 00:46:38.159
 but you can't open your...

00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:40.679
 The same openness that allows you to be helped

00:46:40.679 --> 00:46:43.279
 is the same openness that creates the possibility

00:46:43.279 --> 00:46:43.899
 of being hurt.

00:46:45.139 --> 00:46:47.039
 You can't open yourself to be helped

00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:48.819
 if you don't first open yourself to be hurt.

00:46:50.299 --> 00:46:52.379
 And know that when you close your heart

00:46:52.379 --> 00:46:53.379
 to other people,

00:46:53.479 --> 00:46:54.559
 it's not just the other people

00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:55.559
 you're closing your heart to.

00:46:55.619 --> 00:46:56.939
 You're also closing your heart to God.

00:46:56.940 --> 00:46:59.179
 Because Jesus lives inside of other people

00:46:59.179 --> 00:47:00.840
 and his love, wisdom, and power

00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:02.539
 is exchanged through open hearts.

00:47:02.659 --> 00:47:04.119
 And when you close your heart to people,

00:47:04.460 --> 00:47:05.920
 you're also closing your heart to God.

00:47:06.980 --> 00:47:07.760
 And at the end of the day,

00:47:07.820 --> 00:47:08.720
 you have to ask the question,

00:47:08.820 --> 00:47:09.820
 can Jesus be trusted?

00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:12.220
 And can he be trusted in his people?

00:47:12.860 --> 00:47:14.599
 And you don't get one without the other.

00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:15.500
 That's not how it works.

00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:16.039
 You can't say,

00:47:16.139 --> 00:47:17.099
 well, I just want...

00:47:17.099 --> 00:47:17.940
 Just give me Jesus.

00:47:18.059 --> 00:47:18.920
 I don't want the church.

00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:19.740
 Just give me Jesus.

00:47:19.860 --> 00:47:20.700
 I don't need the church.

00:47:21.619 --> 00:47:23.300
 Take the church out of the New Testament

00:47:23.300 --> 00:47:24.039
 and what do you have?

00:47:24.059 --> 00:47:24.780
 You got nothing.

00:47:24.780 --> 00:47:28.080
 There's no context for all of these epistles

00:47:28.080 --> 00:47:29.780
 and for the life of God

00:47:29.780 --> 00:47:31.700
 in the New Testament without the church.

00:47:31.980 --> 00:47:32.760
 You can't say,

00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:33.900
 I just have Jesus.

00:47:34.019 --> 00:47:34.400
 I'm fine.

00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:34.920
 I've been wounded.

00:47:35.019 --> 00:47:35.460
 I've been hurt.

00:47:35.680 --> 00:47:36.300
 I got Jesus.

00:47:36.420 --> 00:47:37.080
 That's good enough.

00:47:37.240 --> 00:47:38.220
 You can't say that.

00:47:38.860 --> 00:47:39.700
 That's not biblical.

00:47:39.940 --> 00:47:40.500
 It's not right.

00:47:40.560 --> 00:47:41.840
 It's not in any way, shape, or form

00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:42.460
 what God wanted.

00:47:43.820 --> 00:47:45.500
 Lastly, number 13.

00:47:46.040 --> 00:47:48.000
 I actually think this is a strength

00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:49.820
 of this church right from the get-go.

00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:51.300
 And I encourage you to keep it that way.

00:47:51.300 --> 00:47:52.740
 I actually rebuked

00:47:52.740 --> 00:47:54.320
 Bellicose Church last week

00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:55.780
 because I've noticed that

00:47:55.780 --> 00:47:57.440
 ever since you guys got sent out,

00:47:57.620 --> 00:47:59.019
 the prayer meeting on Sunday morning

00:47:59.019 --> 00:48:00.180
 has gotten really skimpy.

00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:03.080
 I showed up there the other day.

00:48:03.100 --> 00:48:04.300
 I'm like, where the heck is everybody?

00:48:04.900 --> 00:48:06.640
 And I realized that all the people

00:48:06.640 --> 00:48:07.260
 who were coming

00:48:07.260 --> 00:48:09.120
 are the people who got sent out

00:48:09.120 --> 00:48:09.840
 for this church.

00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:11.780
 And I was like, good grief.

00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:13.519
 These guys need to get praying.

00:48:14.080 --> 00:48:15.100
 Those Christchurch people

00:48:15.100 --> 00:48:15.920
 were the ones who were doing

00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:16.660
 all the prayer work

00:48:16.660 --> 00:48:17.440
 and now they're gone.

00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:18.160
 Who's going to pray?

00:48:18.160 --> 00:48:18.240
 Okay.

00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:19.860
 So I'm saying,

00:48:20.220 --> 00:48:21.760
 avoid low-priority prayer

00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:23.620
 and build high-priority prayer.

00:48:24.220 --> 00:48:25.140
 Which I think you guys are doing.

00:48:25.240 --> 00:48:26.040
 You guys value prayer.

00:48:26.300 --> 00:48:28.280
 And there's many ways

00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:29.620
 that Bellicose has felt

00:48:29.620 --> 00:48:31.840
 the loss of you guys.

00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:33.300
 But one of the things

00:48:33.300 --> 00:48:34.440
 I didn't anticipate

00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:35.160
 and didn't see

00:48:35.160 --> 00:48:35.840
 but I've noticed it

00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:36.960
 on those Sunday mornings is,

00:48:37.380 --> 00:48:39.020
 where'd everybody go?

00:48:39.680 --> 00:48:41.120
 And it's because it's you guys.

00:48:41.940 --> 00:48:43.680
 And that's encouraging.

00:48:44.020 --> 00:48:44.920
 Please keep that.

00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:46.940
 Keep prayer as a priority.

00:48:47.780 --> 00:48:48.620
 Jim Symbolus says,

00:48:48.619 --> 00:48:49.679
 Prayer cannot be taught

00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:51.039
 by principles and seminars

00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:52.139
 and symposiums.

00:48:52.219 --> 00:48:53.159
 It has to be born

00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:54.199
 out of a whole environment

00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:55.119
 of felt need.

00:48:55.739 --> 00:48:57.259
 If I say I ought to pray,

00:48:57.380 --> 00:48:58.199
 I will soon run out

00:48:58.199 --> 00:48:59.259
 of motivation and quit.

00:48:59.659 --> 00:49:00.880
 The flesh is too strong.

00:49:01.099 --> 00:49:02.519
 I have to be driven to pray.

00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:04.920
 Essentially what he's saying

00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:05.960
 is Matthew 5, 3,

00:49:06.259 --> 00:49:07.480
 Blessed are the poor in spirit.

00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:09.000
 You have to be poor in spirit.

00:49:09.099 --> 00:49:10.159
 You have to see that you're needy.

00:49:10.420 --> 00:49:10.940
 You don't pray

00:49:10.940 --> 00:49:11.659
 because you ought to.

00:49:11.719 --> 00:49:12.380
 You pray because

00:49:12.380 --> 00:49:14.039
 you know that you need to.

00:49:15.019 --> 00:49:16.599
 And so, Christchurch,

00:49:16.699 --> 00:49:17.579
 keep your neediness.

00:49:17.579 --> 00:49:19.340
 Let's build into the culture

00:49:19.340 --> 00:49:20.819
 a neediness in prayer.

00:49:21.219 --> 00:49:21.659
 People say,

00:49:21.739 --> 00:49:22.340
 I need God.

00:49:22.500 --> 00:49:23.460
 We sing our songs

00:49:23.460 --> 00:49:24.179
 and say, I need God.

00:49:24.259 --> 00:49:25.579
 We seek counsel and say,

00:49:25.739 --> 00:49:26.460
 I need God.

00:49:26.500 --> 00:49:27.239
 And then we don't show up

00:49:27.239 --> 00:49:27.840
 at the prayer meeting.

00:49:28.940 --> 00:49:30.299
 Let's not be a people like that.

00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:31.000
 Let's have prayer

00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:32.099
 always as a high priority.

00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:33.279
 Let's make sure that

00:49:33.279 --> 00:49:35.920
 his church is a house of prayer.

00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:37.219
 Okay?

00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:38.519
 And you might have been,

00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:40.480
 and especially all the more so,

00:49:40.539 --> 00:49:41.239
 living in a city

00:49:41.239 --> 00:49:42.099
 where all the weirdness

00:49:42.099 --> 00:49:42.679
 with IHOP

00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:43.239
 and all the stuff

00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:43.940
 that's happened there.

00:49:44.259 --> 00:49:44.539
 Listen,

00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:46.239
 don't let that keep you

00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:46.739
 from praying.

00:49:46.739 --> 00:49:48.379
 Don't let that burn you out

00:49:48.379 --> 00:49:48.859
 from praying.

00:49:48.979 --> 00:49:49.779
 Don't let that make it

00:49:49.779 --> 00:49:50.679
 less of a priority

00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:53.079
 because some sinful behavior

00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:54.939
 happened in a prominent ministry

00:49:54.939 --> 00:49:55.579
 in our city.

00:49:56.039 --> 00:49:56.839
 Don't do that.

00:49:57.659 --> 00:49:58.839
 It needs to be a priority.

00:49:59.479 --> 00:49:59.679
 Amen?

00:50:00.899 --> 00:50:01.299
 Amen.

00:50:01.579 --> 00:50:03.059
 This is our opportunity

00:50:03.059 --> 00:50:04.000
 to build into the culture

00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:04.579
 of this church.

00:50:05.099 --> 00:50:05.579
 Some of this stuff

00:50:05.579 --> 00:50:06.659
 you've heard me say before,

00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:08.119
 I'm going to keep saying it

00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:08.959
 over and over again

00:50:08.959 --> 00:50:10.839
 because it's so important now

00:50:10.839 --> 00:50:11.739
 to build into the culture

00:50:11.739 --> 00:50:12.359
 of our church.

00:50:12.579 --> 00:50:12.759
 Amen?

00:50:12.759 --> 00:50:12.899
 Amen.

00:50:13.399 --> 00:50:13.839
 Amen.